Chapter XXVI: Part 1: of the book gives Preliminary notes; Part 2, Notes on training

and organisation. There are seven diagrams by way of illustration.

E

=EARLE, RALPH.= Life at the U.S. naval academy; the making of the American naval officer. il *$2 (4c) Putnam 355.07 17-10208

The purpose of this book is “to explain the methods adopted at the
United States naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to give the
midshipmen of our navy a thorough theoretical and practical grounding
in the knowledge of the many subjects that the naval profession
demands.” (Preface) Contents: Historical sketch; The candidate; The
new midshipman; Organization; Academic work; Examinations; Practical
instruction and drills; Religion, discipline, morale; Physical
training and medical care; Athletics; Recreation; The practice
cruises; The postgraduate; Grounds and buildings; The ensign. Courses
of study, etc. are outlined in appendixes. The author is head of the
Department of ordnance and gunnery in the Naval academy, and the book
has an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of
the navy.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:375 Je ‘17

“An interesting, graphic, and well-illustrated account.”

+ =Ath= p464 S ‘17 100w

“Clear and accurate, but not calculated to arouse in boys an
enthusiasm for this arm of the service.”

+ — =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 30w

“The parent or guardian will be particularly impressed by Chapter 8,
Religion—discipline—morals.”

+ =Nation= 105:294 S 13 ‘17 950w

+ =New Repub= 10:385 Ap 28 ‘17 150w

“The prospective candidate for admission to the academy will find the
volume of especial value.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17

“The book describes the midshipman’s training in all its aspects and
its value is heightened by appendices of special value to the
prospective candidate for admission and an ample index.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w

“Particularly attractive are the author’s descriptions of the athletic
life and recreations of the midshipmen, their games and sporting
contests with other bodies. Another chapter which will be widely
appreciated is that in which an outline is given of the midshipmen’s
activities during the practice cruises which the upper classmen in the
academy make annually.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p377 Ag 9 ‘17 500w

=EASSIE, R. M.= Odes to trifles, and other rhymes. *$1.25 Lane 811.08 17-30067

A member of the Canadian expeditionary force makes some humorous
observations among the grim happenings of war. He immortalizes the
ration biscuit, satirizes the kultur that could so evilly betray its
birthright by the “lachrymatory shell,” and eulogizes a pair of sheets
but briefly enjoyed on short leave. There are nursery rhymes which
parody Mother Goose and there are limericks. The book should not fail
to be found in the camp libraries.

“Let me say at once that these ‘Odes to trifles,’ are the very finest
things of the sort this war has produced. This Mr Eassie of the
Canadian expeditionary force is a humorist of the highest order, is an
absolute artist in touching upon the inconsequential of a grim and
agonizing piece of business—war.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 280w

+ =R of Rs= 57:105 Ja ‘18 30w

“Every stanza gets well home, written with a refreshing air of
conviction and a real wit which scintillates the more sharply because
not a word of it could be spared.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 150w

=EAST, ANNA MERRITT.= Kitchenette cookery. il *$1 (7c) Little 641.5 17-14966

Cooking in small quarters is the subject of this book. The first
chapter considers the utilization of space and the planning of work in
a small kitchen. Other problems of apartment house living—getting
meals in a limited time, etc., are given attention. Recipes accompany
many of the chapters. Contents: Fitting shelves to space and service;
The pots, pans, and containers; The first bill of groceries; Counting
costs; Breakfast on a time limit; Lunches at home and by box; Dinners
for self and friends; High-pressure dinners; Experiments tried on
friends; A bite to eat at bedtime; Half-a-can recipes.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 60w

=Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 10w

“Business women who are loth to give up the privileges of housekeeping
will find much helpful planning in this intensive study.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 40w

“The volume is made the more fascinating by its attractive pictures of
the two-room and kitchenette apartment, whose story it is telling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 14 ‘17 160w

=EASTMAN, MAX.= Journalism versus art. il *$1 Knopf 814 17-26314

“Four provocative essays republished from the Masses, Vanity Fair, the
New Republic and the North American Review, respectively. The initial
essay ‘Magazine art’ ‘reflects the feeling and in some places even the
thought and language of the artists of the Masses in criticizing the
art of the popular commercial magazine.’ Speaking thus for his
associates Mr Eastman finds that the monotony of magazine
illustration, and its subjection to the ideals of the business office
combine to keep this work out of the realm of true art.”—Cleveland

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:341 My ‘17

=Cleveland= p34 Mr ‘17 220w

“Mr Eastman, as an editor, would never think of giving the public what
it wants, and he sets himself here to show how journalism, which is
only a very democratic and shaggy kind of literature, is corrupting
our taste in letters and art.”

=Dial= 62:108 F 8 ‘17 450w

“The papers on magazine writing and lazy verse are but witty remark
and schoolboyish platitude and superstition. The others, on magazine
art and English spelling, over-expressive of radical opinion,
under-expressive of what those opinions clearly mean and marred by a
quite shameless preciosity of style and half-way philosophizing, are
still healthily stimulating.”

– + =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 50w

“The only thing wrong with this new book by the editor of the Masses
is the title. Magazine writing and illustrating is not popularly
called journalism, and that is what a great part of the book is
about. ... And, by the way, the book is liberally illustrated with
some real pictures, most of them from the Masses.” C. M. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 F 4 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:193 Mr ‘17

+ =Pratt= p6 O ‘17 30w

“In his new book Mr Eastman plays the rôles of radical and
conservative, or, as he calls them, ‘red’ and ‘white,’ with equal
facility. The fact that he uses radical language to enforce
conservative truths need not concern us overmuch, for every writer
must be allowed some consideration for his normal or abnormal ‘squint’
at life. At all events, Mr Eastman is conservative in most of the
theories he advances, or restates in this book.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 750w

=EASTMAN, REBECCA LANE (HOOPER) (MRS WILLIAM FRANKLIN EASTMAN).= Big little person. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-24397

Arathea Manning, beautiful but deaf, once rich but when the story
opens comparatively poor, is a little woman with a big heart and an
undaunted spirit, who lives with her mother in the artists’ colony,
just off Third avenue, New York. There is a mystery about Marion
Beemis, the friend who saves Arathea’s life on Fifth avenue, and who
has plenty of money, but refuses to tell what her occupation is. Two
mysterious men also figure in the story; the “Kantwearout man,” who
writes newspaper advertisements for a living and letters to Arathea,
whom he refuses to meet, for the joy of it; and Gerald Staples, “a
dynamo for energy,” with “extraordinary eyes” of a “warm brown,” and
hair that “looked as if splendid clean winds had always been blowing
through it.” Staples is an inventor who cares nothing for money and
does not know who his parents were. He loves Arathea, and so does
Arthur Endicott, whose parents have “brought him up in the smartest
society and given him more money than is good for anybody.” The story
solves all the mysteries and leaves everybody happy in the end.

“Fanciful, idealistic fairy-tale sort of a story with a very charming
girl as heroine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w

“The author has a sprightly manner of writing which carries us through
many situations which told less attractively would immediately
proclaim their unreality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 22 ‘17 300w

“She is a brave and sweet-tempered heroine, while nearly all the other
characters in the book are pleasant people, though, like the plot,
they belong to fairy tales rather than to real life.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 230w

“The sentiment, if of a stereotyped order, is always appealing and is
employed with restraint and in good taste.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 210w

=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= Green trails and upland pastures. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 917.4 17-29641

“To my mother whose hand first led me out among the flowers and whose
plea was the first I heard in defense of the wild folk of the woods.”
This is the dedication of a book that in turn leads the reader out
among the flowers and into the haunts of wilderness inhabitants.
Sympathy with nature’s every mood and the language to reproduce it
delicately or grandly but always atmospherically—this is the secret of
the alluring quality of the book. The illustrations are noteworthy,
particularly those that catch and hold the spirit of King Frost.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“For those who love hills and fields and wood paths and all the
delights of nature’s green trails, the book is a treasury of exquisite
landscapes painted with words in place of the brush.” A. M. Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:336 N ‘17 350w

“A nature-lover’s record of ‘Glacier park wild flowers,’ ‘Neighbors of
the winter night,’ ‘Trees,’ ‘Bridges,’ ‘Old boats,’ etc., described in
a way to make one see a series of pictures rather than share the
author’s moods.”

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

“Walter Prichard Eaton has written of the world out of doors with all
the pictorial charm of a Thoreau.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 160w

“The sympathetic tone of the book is well maintained in the colored
illustrations of Walter King Stone.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 8 ‘17 530w

=EBENTHAL, HILDEGARDE.= Tragedy of a throne. il *$3.50 (4c) Funk 17-24316

The author states in her foreword that she had written this life of
Ludwig II of Bavaria “largely with the help of letters and manuscripts
the authenticity of which is indisputable,” but she gives no list of
authorities used, and there are no references in foot-notes. She tells
us that “Ludwig’s association with Wagner will be related in these
pages in its true light for perhaps the first time, as will many other
episodes”; also that had Ludwig been allowed to do what he wished, “it
is more than probable that Europe would have been spared the colossal
disasters due to the ambition of that Prussia which he hated
throughout his life, and whose victim he became.” There are
photogravure portraits of Ludwig II, Richard Wagner, Empress Elizabeth
of Austria and Prince Luitpold, regent of Bavaria.

“The writer, who appears to be well conversant with the enigmatical
reign of Ludwig II of Bavaria, is evidently a person of strong
prejudices, one of which is directed against Wagner, and another
favorably toward the King. ... That he was more unfortunate than
blameworthy she makes quite apparent. ... But we do strongly suspect
her judgment of Wagner. Her invective is too vehement to be quite
impartial. He is pictured as a demon of almost unbelievable evil. ...
Her book is written somewhat too sensationally for serious history.
The result of her research and her speculations is interesting.” R. M.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 980w

“Supreme value to the student of history. If the details revealed in
this book be true, which it seems highly probable that they are, we
are furnished with another proof of the thoroughness and the
all-embracing character of the Prussian plans for world-dominion and
of the menace that they held toward all forms of democracy, for that
Ludwig, unbalanced and autocratic as all his tendencies were,
represented the real feeling of his countrymen better than did the
alien group that brought about his ruin seems fairly certain.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 490w

=ECKLES, CLARENCE HENRY, and WARREN, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Dairy farming. (Farm ser.) il *$1.10 Macmillan 637 16-25254

This book discusses breeds of cattle, their selection, management,
feeding and ailments; the dairy barn; milk and its products; systems
of farming on dairy farms; methods of renting; cost of production;
methods of marketing; etc. Mr Eckles is professor of dairy husbandry
in the University of Missouri, and Mr Warren, professor of farm
management in the New York State college of agriculture, Cornell
university.

“Good general, popular treatment from the economic point of view, and
the only work to cover this particular field.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

“The modern farmer will find much that will interest him in this book,
particularly in view of the changing conditions in our country at the
present time. It is, however, chiefly as an aid to the teacher that
this book is to be strongly recommended.”

+ =Nature= 99:383 Jl 12 ‘17 270w

“A good text for high schools, written by authorities.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 9w

=EDDY, SHERWOOD.=[2] With our soldiers in France. il *$1 Assn. press 940.91 17-26978

“This volume is the first book by an American dealing with the
American army on the other side. Sherwood Eddy, its author, has just
returned from France, where he made a survey of the battle front and
ate, slept, worked, played, and marched with General Pershing’s troops
in camp, on the road, and in the trenches. And he has written this
work, fresh from his actual observations, to set before American
readers the plain facts about what the conditions and surroundings of
our army in France are and will be, what are the physical and moral
dangers our men will have to face, and what is being done and planned
to help them pass through the dangers, trials, and strains of the
conflict with credit to themselves and to their country. Mr Eddy is
connected in an important position with the field work of the Young
men’s Christian association and before the war had made an extended
tour for work among students in the Balkans, Russia, Turkey, and
Germany.”—N Y Times

“‘With our soldiers in France’ preaches a manly religion.”

+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 230w

“Mr Eddy’s book is deeply interesting, for it bears the glowing touch
of the actual and its message comes straight from trench and camp to
home. It ought to have telling effect in bettering American support of
the Young men’s Christian association.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:541 D 9 ‘17 580w

“This is the best kind of book to give to the man who will soon be
fighting. It will show him what he ought to avoid and it will offer
him a welcome at the sign of the red triangle.” Frank Fitt

+ =Pub W= 93:222 Ja 19 ‘18 330w

=EDER, MONTAGUE DAVID.= War-shock; the psycho-neuroses in war psychology and treatment. *$1.75 Blakiston 615.8 (Eng ed SG17-242)

“Dr Eder has earned for himself the right to speak with authority in
connection with war shock. For some time he was an officer in the
Royal army medical corps, and was medical officer in charge of the
psycho-neurological department at Malta. The material for this book is
the first 100 consecutive cases of psycho-neurosis encountered.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p306 Je ‘17 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p239 My 17 ‘17 170w

Edith Cavell nurse from Massachusetts. il 60c (5c) Butterfield 940.91 17-14687

As a result of a memorial meeting held in Boston, December 11, 1915, a
fund was raised for the purpose of sending an “Edith Cavell nurse from
Massachusetts” to serve with the British expeditionary force in
France. The nurse sent, Miss Alice L. F. Fitzgerald, gives an account
of her first year of service in the form of extracts from diary and
letters. The remainder of the little book, about one half, is given up
to an account of the imprisonment, trial, and death of Miss Cavell.

“Will interest most readers, we fancy, less for Miss Fitzgerald’s
record, interesting as it is, than for the vivid account of the
imprisonment and the events following the imprisonment of Miss Cavell.
There is a crisp brevity in this relation which reflects the ominous
rapidity with which things moved from the moment when the English
nurse was put to trial.”

+ =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 270w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 30w

=R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 10w

=EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.= Vanished halls and cathedrals of France. il *$6 (8c) Penn 914.4 17-30884

“This American artist and tourist long familiar with the ravaged
regions of northern France ... describes and pictures the now vanished
glories of Reims, Noyon, Arras, Léon, Verdun, St Quentin, and many
other towns and villages of which we have been hearing so much, and in
so tragic a way, of late. The great tower of Senlis, old St Pierre of
Noyon, Gerbeviller’s historic hall, and the keep of Coucy-le-Château
are among the vanished splendors that live again under Mr Edwards’s
pen and pencil. The volume is printed on specially made paper and
richly bound.”—Lit D

=Boston Transcript= p8 D 5 ‘17 630w

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 120w

+ =Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 60w

“This is a gift book to bring delight to the eyes—and an ache to the
heart.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 350w

“We may well be thankful that an artist of Mr Edwards’s skill has
preserved in this book the memories of happier days. Both for pictures
and text the volume will prove a most welcome holiday gift to any
lover of France.”

+ =Outlook= 117:520 N 28 ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 70w

=EEKHOUD, GEORGES.= New Carthage (La nouvelle Carthage). *$1.50 (1½c) Duffield 17-17971

The “New Carthage” is Antwerp; Georges Eekhoud is a Flemish novelist,
and this novel of his has been crowned by the Belgian Academy. The
translation from the French is by Lloyd R. Morris, who also writes an
introduction dealing with Eekhoud and his writings, and who says of
him: “Like that other great Belgian artist, Constantin Meunier, he
celebrates the modern beauty of labor and of the crowd.” “The novel is
essentially a record of the life of the whole city. Its protagonist is
Antwerp itself, or, more definitely, the proletariat of Antwerp as its
life is experienced by Laurent Paridael. The novel is largely
autobiographical; Laurent, like Eekhoud himself, is left an orphan at
the age of eleven and committed to the care of a wealthy uncle, who,
like Eekhoud’s uncle, is a manufacturer of candles.” (Introd.) “Here
in this factory, Laurent saw the ugly side of ‘that prosperous
industrialism’ of which his exquisite cousin Gina both knew and
embodied only ‘the radiant and brilliant aspect.’ It was what he saw
in this factory that placed Laurent forever on the side of the
laborer. ... This sympathy with the proletariat and his passion for
his cousin Gina were the two determining yet to a great extent
contradictory factors in his career, uniting absolutely only at the
very last, when they joined to bring about the vengeance and the
tragedy with which the book ends.” (N Y Times)

“Despite its formlessness and exaggeration it is largely redeemed by
its tropically splendid word-pictures and its expression of the social
philosophy of a section of the working class which before Eekhoud had
been without a spokesman.”

+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 90w

“He has a great theme, and he knows his city through all its turbulent
layers. But he does not fuse the life really into artistic form. One
thinks of ‘Germinal,’ and one misses the power and deep reference and
social orientation of Zola. One thinks of ‘Pillars of society’ and one
misses the cold, cutting subtlety of Ibsen in his exposure of that
greed of the capitalist which sweeps away all human consideration. And
one thinks of ‘Pelle’ and misses the palpitating mass-life with its
hunger, and its pathetic struggle against its masters and the
elements.” Randolph Bourne

– + =Dial= 63:343 O 11 ‘17 700w

“The personal side of the story is told with a robust emotionalism
that staid persons will find a bit intense and overpowering.”

+ — =Ind= 93:128 Ja 19 ‘18 280w

“If the civilization it depicts was as represented, it is a blessing
that it has ceased. Perhaps out of the holocaust of war will come a
decenter existence. Nevertheless, we must wonder at the smug
Anglo-Saxon prudishness of the translator, who has deleted certain
passages because of their frankness. Perhaps the book as a whole
should have been deleted.” Clement Wood

— =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 400w

“In this very capable translation we are given a novel of exceptional
interest, the work of the man who stands at the very head and front of
Belgian novelists. ... There is a certain robust quality, a certain
careless and splendid prodigality, about this novel which reminds one
just a little of Dickens and of the authors of that Elizabethan age of
which M. Eekhoud has made an especial study. ... It is not, on the
whole, a flattering picture which the author has drawn of his native
city. Yet beneath all this turbulent life, beneath all the rioting and
scheming and money-grabbing and ruthlessness and sensuality, one sees
here and there something finer, something akin to the heroism and the
loyalty we have learned to associate with the name of Belgium.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:285 Ag 5 ‘17 1550w

=EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).= Fairy tales from Brazil. il *$1.25 (6c) Dodd 17-25892

A publishers’ note says, “As wife of the superintendent of schools
in Bahia, the author made a collection of Brazilian folk-lore tales
as told by the children themselves during the story-hour at her
boarding-school, and by the servants of her household. Many of these
stories originated with the Indians of Brazil. A few are the
Brazilian versions of stories from the Portuguese. Many others are
African in descent and are much after the style of Uncle Remus.” The
titles—How night came; How the rabbit lost his tail; How the tiger
got his stripes; Why the lamb is meek, etc.,—show that we have here
a familiar type of folk tale, but the point to the story in most
cases is new and fresh. Some of them have appeared in Little Folks,
Kindergarten-Primary Magazine and other papers, and they are well
adapted to story telling purposes.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18

=EGERTON, HUGH EDWARD.=[2] British foreign policy in Europe to the end of the 19th century; a rough outline. *$2 Macmillan 327.4 17-30066

“The object of the book is to show the motives and purposes which have
guided British foreign policy and to do so as nearly as possible in
the words of the men who have had most influence in shaping the
policy. It contains therefore numerous extracts, especially from the
speeches and letters of statesmen and diplomats in which they have
urged or defended their ideas. ... It is a chronological index to the
sources where will be found the best and most authoritative statements
of intention and motive made by the men who determined events in this
field. ... In the second place the object of the book is frankly a
defense of British foreign policy. Professor Egerton is marshalling
the evidence which shows ‘that the policy of the country on the whole
has been singularly honest and straightforward.’”—Am Hist R

+ =Am Hist R= 23:429 Ja ‘18 580w

“There are indications of haste in the compilation of the work, and
the reader may sometimes desiderate a clearer discussion of the
principles and issues at stake; but the book is useful for the proper
understanding of the historical problem now in process of solution.”

+ — =Ath= p520 O ‘17 140w

“The author has produced a readable, interesting, and useful work, but
it is not likely to add to his fame as a historian. The book is to a
large extent a compilation and gives evidence of somewhat hurried
preparation, as is true of so many of the ‘timely’ books that have
been published since 1914.”

+ — =Dial= 64:71 Ja 17 ‘18 600w

“The method which he has adopted has gone far to spoil the interest in
his story. He splits up his subject into sections, and constantly
harks back chronologically.”

+ — =Spec= 119:270 S 15 ‘17 550w

“Mr Egerton’s sketch of British policy derives a special value from
his plan of using, as far as possible, the ‘ipsissima verba’ of
statesmen, which gives it an authority it might otherwise seem to
lack. The system of extensive quotation has its inevitable drawbacks;
there are times when we feel that the uninstructed reader will not see
the wood for the trees; and our general impression is that it will be
found most useful and instructive by those who already have a fair
knowledge of the outlines of European history. It fulfils its purpose,
however, excellently well; its tone is impartial, moderate, and wise,
and in our opinion it deserves a very wide public.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 11 ‘17 1700w

=ELBIQUET, pseud.= Supplementary magic. il *$1.25 Dutton 133

“A handbook intended to follow the author’s ‘Textbook of magic,’ and
postulating a familiarity with the rudiments of the art as explained
in the earlier book. The ‘true secrets’ comprise five principal
devices: Repetition, inspection, explanation, intentional errors and
abstraction of the attention. ... The early pages are devoted to an
explanation of the science of conjuring, and there follows a
presentation of new or improved methods of performing sleights. Part 3
is an entertaining discussion of Indian conjuring with a short study
of the native conjurer’s methods and a selection from his favorite
tricks. ‘A few tricks for all occasions’ are explained at the end. The
book is amply illustrated.”—Springf’d Republican

“Well written and fully illustrated. The most interesting chapters are
devoted to the Indian conjurer.”

+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 170w

=ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.= Herbert Spencer. il *$2 (3c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26315)

This volume in the Makers of the nineteenth century series is a
biography of Spencer and a critique of his philosophy. “Whatever may
be thought to-day of the value of Spencer’s writings, no one who
wishes to understand the thought of the nineteenth century can neglect
him,” says the general editor. The author treats his subject in the
following chapters: Life; Character; Philosophy; Introduction to
Spencer’s social writings; General summary of “The principles of
sociology”; General summary of “The principles of ethics”; Metaphysics
and religion; Evolution; Biology; Psychology; Education; Conclusion.

“A sympathetic introduction, with indication of the main positions in
the system, and with a plot of the traps that guard those positions,
is the most serviceable addition that could be made to Spencerian
literature. Mr Elliot has admirably satisfied these requirements.” A.
W. Small

+ =Am Hist R= 23:157 O ‘17 1150w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17

=Ath= p203 Ap ‘17 90w

“To obtain a clear idea of the Spencerian philosophy is not difficult
for the reader who follows its course in the series of epitomes given
by Mr Elliot. He has prepared a notable contribution to the history of
English philosophy.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 10 ‘17 1350w

+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 40w

“Mr Hugh Elliot has produced a notable work, notable as a biography,
notable in its current appeal, notable in the perspective it
establishes for viewing a remarkable intellectual career.” Joseph
Jastrow

* + =Dial= 63:146 Ag 30 ‘17 2050w

“There is included a helpful bibliography, a chronological table and
an index. The frontispiece is from the Burgess portrait.”

=Ind= 91:32 Jl 7 ‘17 200w

=Lit D= 54:1076 Ap 14 ‘17 350w

“The chapters on Spencer’s philosophy and works are as distinctly
mediocre as the earlier chapters are extraordinary. The last mentioned
are fit to rank high among the best efforts at the portrayal of
personality, while the former are no more than a faithful résumé
disfigured by incompetent and futile criticism.”

+ — =Nation= 104:578 My 10 ‘17 1200w

“A vigorous and discriminating account of Herbert Spencer’s
contributions to modern intellectual development.”

+ =Nature= 99:163 Ap 26 ‘17 320w

“It is in the perspective of the nineteenth century that Mr Elliott
has endeavored to set him. ... But he has not mastered the task that a
book of this kind must attempt. All that he has to say of Spencer’s
life and character he says with admirable vigor. ... It has, indeed,
every claim to be considered the best account of its kind as yet in
existence. But when Mr Elliott leaves the narrative and comes to a
critical statement of doctrine, the volume is of a different
calibre. ... His epitome of Spencer’s teaching is not full enough to
be useful and too full to be brief. His criticisms rarely go to the
root of the matter he discusses. ... One has the conviction that Mr
Elliott grew tired of his subject in the second half of his book and
simply wrote to finish a work to which he was pledged. ... And I
should guess that when Mr Elliott drew up his bibliography he just
cast a glance at his shelves and wrote down the titles that he saw
there.” H. J. L.

* – + =New Repub= 11:224 Je 23 ‘17 1600w

“Mr Elliot prefaces his examination of the details of Spencer’s
scientific and sociological work with a brief and interesting study of
the English thinker’s life and character. ... His book is thoroughly
interesting as well as valuable, a study of importance from beginning
to end.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 1100w

=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 130w

“The volume is a welcome and worthy addition to the extremely useful
series ‘Makers of the nineteenth century,’ which is being published
under the general editorship of Mr Basil Williams. Our readers will
remember the earlier volumes: Sir E. Cook’s ‘Delane’ and Lord
Charnwood’s ‘Abraham Lincoln.’”

+ =Spec= 118:614 Je 2 ‘17 1600w

“This account of Spencer’s life and writings, while sound in judgment,
is a vivid, unhackneyed study, so lucid and genially readable, that
even the person who knows little about Spencer and cares less about
his philosophy will find himself interested in both Spencer’s life and
thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 1350w

“What Mr Elliot admires, and with justice—what his valuable study
impressively reveals—is the heroic element in this independent lonely
thinker, his steadfast adherence to the search of truth, his courage
and faith, his love of liberty, his emancipation from all forms of
authority.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p109 Mr 8 ‘17 1450w

=ELLIOTT, CHARLES BURKE.= Philippines; with prefatory note by Elihu Root. 2v il *$9 Bobbs 991.4

v 1 17-25734
v 2 17-23950

“The author of these two stout volumes ... was well fitted for his
task. From a seat upon the Supreme bench of Minnesota he was
transferred to that of the Philippines. Later he became a member of
the governing body of the archipelago, the Philippine commission, and
still later was secretary of commerce and police in the government of
the islands. ... The two volumes discuss the two important phases of
Philippine history. The first brings this history down through the
military régime, and includes the record of the operations of the
American fleet under Dewey and the capture of the archipelago and the
occupation of the city of Manila by the American forces. The second
volume takes up the narrative at the close of the military régime and
continues to the end of the commission government.”—Boston Transcript

Reviewed by C: H. Cunningham

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 12:129 F ‘18 1650w

“Judge Elliott attempts no fine writing, he draws no thrilling picture
of that early morning battle in Manila bay. Plain, unadorned facts are
recorded, without ornamentation, or attempt at picture writing. He has
drawn the material for his narrative, quite evidently, from official
records and not from the popular accounts of the battle published in
the newspapers of the day.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 1100w

“The extent of the field covered in these two volumes is remarkable.
The author’s statements of fact and estimates of character are
measured and definite. Dr Elliott is fair to all parties. It is well
that this definitive history has become available at the time when it
may exercise a real influence upon the shaping of policy.”

+ =No Am= 206:954 D ‘17 950w

“Judge Elliott’s work is a permanent contribution to the history of
the United States.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:637 D ‘17 750w

=ELLIOTT, F. HAWS.= Trench fighting. il *$1.50 (7c) Houghton 355 17-31265

The author, a captain of the British expeditionary force, covers his
subject in the following chapters: History and preliminary
entrenching; Styles of trenches and strong posts; Wire entanglements
and obstructions; Organization of trench system for defence; Attack in
trench warfare; Trench raids; Poison gas and liquid fire; Trench
routine: standing orders for the trenches; Trench hygiene; Billeting
and training of troops in rear of line; Syllabus of training; Morale.
The diagrams are grouped at the end, and an appendix gives a list of
officers’ equipment advised for France.

+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w

=ELLIOTT, FRANCIS PERRY.= Lend me your name! il *$1.25 (3½c) Reilly & B. 17-16728

“The hero is a young Englishman of title temporarily resident in New
York. He is bored with his position and his manner of living;
moreover, he harbors a wholesome fear of his strong-minded wife, who
holds a tight rein over him however far he wanders from her. During an
unsought visit to his bedroom by a famous burglar, the Englishman
suggests a change of positions with the yeggman.” (Springf’d
Republican) The rest of the book deals with the various amusing
complications consequent upon the change.

“If one is willing to abandon consideration of probability and
improbability much enjoyment may be found in following these
adventures of a noble gentleman in the guise of a burglar. ... The
author has a knack of characterization and a very pleasant feeling for
summer romance in the open.”

+ =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 100w

“An amusing, if not exactly probable, little farce.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 280w

“All the characters, the situation, and its path of development are
decidedly ‘stagey.’ ... The burglar is slangy and unconsciously
humorous, the girl delightful, and the Englishman, while molded
according to the stage type Britisher, is naive and likable.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 280w

=ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.= Brazil today and tomorrow. il *$2.25 (2½c) Macmillan 918.1 17-10576

The author is literary editor of the Pan-American Magazine. This book,
she says, “is the fruit of seven years’ travel in and study of Latin
America, and two years’ special work on and in Brazil, where seventeen
out of the twenty states were visited.” A survey of the history of
Brazil is followed by a chapter of immense interest to the United
States on Colonization in Brazil, dealing with the systematic method
of inducing and regulating immigration and with the mixture of races.
Other chapters take up Social conditions, Transportation, Industries,
Currency, The world’s horticultural and medicinal debt to Brazil,
Brazil’s exterior commerce. There are a number of illustrations,
several maps, a glossary of Brazilian terms and an index.

“Not a travel book, but one which will interest men about to establish
or promote business in South America.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:397 Je ‘17

“As a general account of the country—its geography, its history, its
people, its industries, its commerce—it has much to commend it, but it
very plainly has the common fault of over praise. The book is written
to please.” G. B. Roorbach

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:233 S ‘17 100w

Reviewed by T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 45:319 My ‘17 250w

“Its arrangement of material is admirable and a great deal of patient
study and research is evident in its pages. There is also an ample
consideration of the arts and letters of Brazil that will satisfy the
student of these particulars.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 46:607 Ja ‘18 130w

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 650w

“The book is remarkable for its fairness and kindly tone.”

+ =Cath World= 105:824 S ‘17 200w

“The author’s analysis of the results of colonization is particularly
illuminating in view of the present crisis in the provinces of the
south, where Teutonic influences predominate.”

+ =Dial= 63:278 S 27 ‘17 350w

“The Brazilian point of view is given by much reference to native
papers. Maps and excellent illustrations complete a valuable book.”

+ =Ind= 92:261 N 3 ‘17 70w

“Miss Elliott has a notable faculty for presenting closely condensed
material in modest space and at the same time making it
interesting. ... Miss Elliott’s book will increase the growing
interest in South America. It is copiously illustrated from
photographs.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:101 Mr 25 ‘17 700w

+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ‘17 330w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:184 Je ‘17 70w

=ELLIS, HAVELOCK.= Essays in war-time. *$1.50 (2½c) Houghton 575 (Eng ed 17-13565)

Mr Ellis calls these essays “further studies in the task of social
hygiene.” Many of the subjects treated are those on which he has
already written much and with which his name is chiefly associated,
among them, War and eugenics; War and the birth-rate; Feminism and
masculinism; The mental differences of men and women; The conquest of
venereal disease; Eugenics and genius; Marriage and divorce; The
meaning of the birth-rate; Civilisation and the birth-rate. In many
but not all of these, the question of the effects of the war enters
into the discussion.

“Readers not familiar with Havelock Ellis’ writings, especially his
‘Task of social hygiene,’ will find this a stimulating, although a
somewhat choppy volume. To others the book will neither add to nor
detract from Mr Ellis’ reputation as a keen and constructive critic of
modern social problems. ... The essay on Birth control is eminently
sane and well considered, and is, together with the proposal for the
nationalization of medical service, the real contribution of the
book.” A. B. Wolfe

+ =Am Econ R= 7:426 Je ‘17 130w

=A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17

Reviewed by F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:183 Ap ‘17 360w

“The sheaf of essays is bound by a continuity of interest and a
consistency of point of view which may be described as a scientific
radicalism, challenging the established beliefs when these rest upon
tradition rather than upon cogent argument and experience.”

+ =Dial= 62:191 Mr 8 ‘17 230w

“The immediate urgency, as well as the profound intrinsic importance
of the subjects of these ‘Essays’ should ensure them attention and
discussion; and the writing is delightful in its subtlety and
distinction, its wealth of suggestion and implication, and deep quiet
humour. The three concluding articles on Birth-control and the
close-packed little essay on ‘Marriage and divorce’ are particularly
fine, in their characteristically unflinching and beautiful treatment
of sexual subjects. ... The essays dealing with the war, though
admirable in tone, are less clear and sure in touch than the rest.” F.
W. S. Browne

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:406 Ap ‘17 200w

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 300w

=N Y Times= 22:46 F 11 ‘17 700w

“German theories that war is a ‘biological necessity’ have been
demolished before now and what Mr Ellis has to say on this subject is
neither original nor fresh. It has, however, the much greater merit of
being sound and may be read with profit in this country. ... On
various questions of eugenics and sexual morality Mr Ellis has much to
say. ... While his views are often debatable, his purpose is ethical
and not unduly individualistic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 9 ‘17 600w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 850w

“‘War and the birth-rate’ is a disappointing study. ... The essay
throws no clear light upon the momentous question of fact. ... In the
essays on ‘Civilisation,’ ‘The birth-rate’ and ‘Birth control,’ Mr
Havelock Ellis expounds his militant Malthusianism. We will only say
of them that they dwell too much on a few aspects of a many-sided
subject.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p578 D 7 ‘16 850w

=ELLIS, OLIN O., and GAREY, ENOCH BARTON.= Plattsburg manual. il *$2 Century 355 17-10212

A work designed as a handbook for federal training camps. The authors
are two officers in the United States army who acted as instructors in
the Plattsburg training camp in 1916. Contents: General advice;
Physical exercise; School of the soldier; School of the squad; School
of the company; Fire superiority; The service of security; Attack and
defense; General principles of target practice; Practice march or
“hike”; Officers’ reserve corps. In addition there is a supplement
with six chapters for “advance work.” The book is fully illustrated
and is indexed.

“Simple directions, well illustrated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:375 Je ‘17

“For officers and men, and for all citizens who would see just what
learning to be a soldier means.”

=Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 20w

“Preparatory manuals are more or less alike, in this if in no other
respect, that they all have as their aim one and the same result. The
road to this result is shortened by the employment in this book of
illustrations showing not only the right, but also the wrong, way of
doing certain things. Many of the diagrams, too, will prove helpful,
and the text is clear, direct, and simple.”

+ =Nation= 104:636 My 24 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Br Lib News= 4:67 My ‘17 110w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ap ‘17 160w

+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 190w

=Pittsburgh= 22:276 Ap ‘17

“One of the most timely publications of the spring. ... It is the most
elementary and at the same time the most readable guide thru the
intricate earlier stages of soldiering that we have seen. The 155
illustrations, mostly from photographs, are an important feature.” R.
L.

+ =Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 150w

=St Louis= 15:189 Je ‘17 20w

“The work was written primarily as a textbook for army training camps,
but its usefulness has increased manifold since it was written.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 16 ‘17 180w

=ELLMS, JOSEPH WILTON.= Water purification. il *$5 McGraw 628.1 17-13569

“The book begins very logically with water in its relation to public
health and comfort. Next, the various means of purification are
discussed, and progress in filter construction—particularly, rapid
sand filters—is described. The methods of storing and applying
chemicals are treated, and there is a chapter on power-plant and
miscellaneous equipment. The work also contains chapters relating to
the cost of construction and operation of rapid sand filters, etc. ...
In the appendix are twelve tables useful to operators of
water-purification plants. ... A large part of the work is the result
of the author’s own experience. The remainder consists of quotations
from published articles, for which there are references, mostly
American, at the end of each chapter. Much of the material is new, and
the illustrations are modern. ... The use of the book would be greatly
facilitated if the index were amplified.”—Engin News-Rec

“The author’s twenty-five years’ experience, beginning in the
laboratory of the Massachusetts State board of health and extending
through many years at the Louisville and Cincinnati water-works and
elsewhere, has qualified him for his well-performed task of writing a
treatise on water purification. ... As a whole, the book impresses one
with sincerity of purpose and reliability of data. It will be of
invaluable assistance to the designer and operator of
water-purification plants.”

* + =Engin News-Rec= 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 500w

“The arrangement of the descriptive matter in logical order, so that a
clear idea may be had of each process as a whole as well as in its
details, has been carried out very successfully, and the descriptions
are full and clear without being profuse.”

+ =Municipal Journal= 42:805 Je 14 ‘17 380w

“The reading references at the chapter endings are especially
noteworthy.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 60w

=ELLWOOD, CHARLES ABRAM.= Introduction to social psychology. *$2 (2c) Appleton 301 17-11579

Society is defined by Professor Ellwood as “that form of collective
life which is carried on by means of mental interaction.” It follows
from this definition that the psychological element is fundamental in
any study of social life. It is from this point of view that he
approaches his subject in this book. Contents: Social psychology, its
relations and methods; Organic evolution and social evolution; Human
nature and human society; The nature of social unity [two chapters];
The nature of social continuity; Social change under normal
conditions; Social change under abnormal conditions; Instinct and
intelligence in the social life; Imitation and suggestion in the
social life; Sympathy and consciousness of kind in the social life;
Social order; Social progress; The nature of society.

“There is a catholicity about the author’s thinking that will be a
wholesome corrective for one-sidedness in teacher or students; there
is not only a willingness to see strength as well as weakness in
divergent opinions but also a desire to gain the strength of each in
some inclusive conception. The real limitation of the book for
teaching purposes is its abstractness.” W. H. Heck

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:839 D ‘17 400w

“These chapters [chapters 4-8] are easily the best part of the volume
and furnish an excellent presentation of social psychology proper. The
third division, the remaining chapters, seem more like appendixes
explaining and amplifying certain topics of the volume, but in
themselves they form no unity and do not carry forward to a conclusion
the main argument of the work.” J. Q. Dealey

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:255 S ‘17 450w

=A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17

“In a study of the forces which unite society, Professor Ellwood has
not overlooked consciousness of kind, or imitation, or sympathy, or
any of the factors which have been put forward by certain writers as
alone able to account for the cohesion of social groups. In his system
he has made a niche into which each one of these forces finds its
place. It is this broad-minded treatment of the subject which makes
this volume so well fitted for the needs of the student in the social
sciences who wishes a broad outlook upon this field.” W: B. Bailey

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:770 N ‘17 270w

“Throughout the author sanely holds that the intellect is the supreme
instrument of adaptation in the social life; and as instruments the
intellect and its ideas are the means by which social progress can be
rationally planned.” Archibald Henderson

+ =Bookm= 46:276 N ‘17 250w

“Thoroughly adequate when judged by classroom standards, the volume
can hardly be said to be notable. Yet it is generally unfair to
criticize textbooks by the standards of notable contributions.”

+ =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 250w

“A simplification of Professor Ellwood’s Sociology in its
psychological aspects.’”

=Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 60w

“We can recall no other contemporary sociological work of the
psychological order which makes a saner and clearer presentation of
its case. The criticism here to be passed does not concern form or
detail: it has to do with the general matter of leaning so heavily
upon psychology. ... The pretensions of psychology, as here set forth
or implied, make one think of the historian who claimed for history
everything man had ever done on earth—astronomy, bacteriology, and all
the rest.”

* + – =Nation= 106:68 Ja 17 ‘18 1200w

“A competent and scientific, but rather dull book.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup20 N 17 ‘17 140w

“It is written in a sedate, leisurely style, and luckily the author
has not succumbed to the manner that has invaded even psychology of
playing for the snappy phrase, the thrill of paradox.” F. M.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 280w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17 10w

“The book will repay careful reading. It is exact and careful of
statement, and is in all ways a suggestive and constructive study of
social psychology.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 31 ‘17 320w

“Professor Ellwood’s book, however, will remain rather for the special
student of psychology and sociology than for the general reader.” M.
M. Davis, jr.

+ — =Survey= 39:272 D 1 ‘17 400w

=ELMER, MANUEL CONRAD.= Technique of social surveys. *$1 World co., Lawrence, Kan. 309.1 17-18991

“This book devotes itself to two main questions: the kind of facts to
be gathered in social surveys and the use to be made of them, the
greater and more valuable part of the publication being devoted to the
former. This includes discussions and questionnaires relating to a
rather wide range of topics having to do with social welfare, the more
important among them being population and vital statistics,
educational agencies, recreation and amusement, industry and labor
conditions, disease and health measures, housing, public utilities,
transportation and storage, distribution of wealth, political
organization, taxes, charities, courts, childcare, defectives,
juvenile and adult crime, and religious activities.”—Survey

“The author has made his book thoroughly practical and it will be of
distinct usefulness to those for whom it was written.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 90w

“While the book has the weakness of many others on the same subject,
namely, its dwelling too briefly upon the purpose in and reasons for
collecting the mass of facts called for, and of instructing too little
in the interpretation and methods of using the facts, it nevertheless
has suggestions for the surveyor and will be of use to individuals,
clubs and other groups of citizens who wish, perhaps, not so much to
make a survey as to become intelligent upon social conditions in their
own community.” S. M. Harrison

+ — =Survey= 39:271 D 1 ‘17 320w

=ELY, RICHARD THEODORE,[2] and others.=[2] Foundations of national prosperity. *$2 Macmillan 338 17-30136

Four college professors, three of political economy, and one of
geology, have collaborated in this work whose sub-title is “studies in
the conservation of permanent national resources.” Part 1, by
Professor Ely, deals with the more general aspects of the subject,
bringing it particularly into relation to economic theory, and
terminating with a consideration of conservation policies. In part 2
Prof. Ralph H. Hess discusses the relation of conservation to economic
evolution and shows that each stage in economic evolution must have
its own conservation policies. Part 3, by Prof. Charles K. Leith,
deals with minerals which present peculiar problems in conservation.