Chapter XXVII: Part 4: , contributed by Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver, deals with the human (1)

resources, for which natural resources exist.

“In part 4, Professor Carver approaches the subject from several new
and unexpected angles.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 170w

“Prof. Carver has produced a clean and vigorous chapter, as has Prof.
Leith. Their hard facts are balanced by the progressive theorizing of
Prof. Ely and Prof. Hess. One cannot but feel that it would be more
valuable as a treatise had its scope been confined to conservation in
the directly material sense in which we use the term when we speak of
conservation of natural resources.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 28 ‘18 530w

=ELY, RICHARD THEODORE, and others.= Outlines of economics. 3d rev ed *$2.10 Macmillan 330 16-19484

“The third edition of Professor Ely’s much used text is now available.
The past eight years have been fruitful of changes in economic thought
and in economic activity. It was to take account of these that the
present revision was undertaken. This has involved the rewriting of
many parts of the work. The discussion of underlying principles has
been expanded; two chapters—on Business organization and on Economic
activities of municipalities—have been omitted as such; one on Labor
legislation has been added, and the sequence of others has been
altered. All of these changes make for greater unity of treatment in a
work that already showed distinctively serviceable qualities.”—Ann Am
Acad

“The meager index of the second edition is very much enlarged and
correspondingly more helpful. The ‘references’ appended to chapters
have been revised and account taken of recent literature. But the
lists of questions are often unchanged or are shortened. ... Final
conclusions from reviewing this book are that the text while
maintaining its identity has yet grown not in size only but in
character and maturity; that it has been successful in including a
vast amount of new material, in taking account of recent developments,
and in thoroughly revising all sections. If not up to date today, it
is as near being so as we can expect in these days of rapid
development. Criticisms are due to the inclusion of controversial
matter; to the attempt to be all inclusive; to a strain of
revolutionary philosophy; and to the fact that the text is written
from the standpoint of the subject and of scholarship rather than with
an eye single to the student and the class-room.” C: E. Persons

* + =Am Econ R= 7:98 Mr ‘17 2050w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:273 Mr ‘17

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:326 Mr ‘17 90w

+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 270w

“It differs from the older editions in that its scope is much wider,
and it includes, in addition to the theoretical considerations, a
great deal of what goes under the name of applied economics. In this
it resembles Professor Taussig’s work on the same subject published a
few years ago. Both books mark the departure from the old college
textbooks in economics, which dealt exclusively with theoretical
considerations of the problems of production, distribution and
exchange. ... The volume is well arranged for teaching purposes.” A.
L. Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 4 ‘17 600w

“It is a sign of the times when such a standard and authoritative book
as this requires such revision for its third edition that it was not
possible to use the old type.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:488 N 12 ‘16 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 7 ‘17 160w

=EMBURY, AYMAR.= Livable house—its plan and design. il *$2.50 Moffat 728.6 17-14400

“The book contains 100 photographs of different types of houses,
together with many detail drawings of interior plans of the same,
which demonstrate, as they are intended to do, that a high standard of
architectural merit is possible in a small house when good taste and
good judgment prevail.”—Springf’d Republican

“An interesting and suggestive ‘first book.’”

+ =Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 50w

“The book is both attractive and suggestive.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w

“Since the cost of building material and labor have advanced by leaps
during the past year and a half, Mr Embury’s statements of cost prices
require revision.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 350w

=EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO.= Henry Thoreau as remembered by a young friend. il *$1.25 (6½c) Houghton 17-19701

The author is a son of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau had the run of the
Emerson house, and was to the children “the best kind of an older
brother.” Twenty-seven years ago, Dr Emerson tells us, he was moved to
write a lecture on Thoreau, because of “the want of knowledge and
understanding, not only of his character, but of the events of his
life,” and of “the false impressions given by accredited writers who
really knew him hardly at all.” Lowell’s essay on Thoreau is mentioned
as “having unhappily prejudiced many persons.” This book is the
outgrowth of that early lecture, and is based, not only on Dr
Emerson’s own youthful recollections, but on the recollections of the
Concord people whom he, as a physician, has had the opportunity to
know.

=A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17

“Of Thoreau’s experience as a teacher, of his work in the
pencil-making industry founded by his father, of his life in Concord
and acquaintance with its people of greater and less celebrity and of
no celebrity at all, we learn much in Dr Emerson’s few and
unpretentious pages. ... They solve many puzzles about his life, his
doings and his character.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 1350w

“These illuminating glimpses of a strongly marked and splendidly
independent but too often misunderstood personality are a welcome
addition to the rather meagre literary product called forth by the
Thoreau centennial. In this little book Thoreau the idealist stands
justified for his refusal to devote the best years of his life to
pencil-making and money-getting.”

+ =Dial= 63:401 O 25 ‘17 200w

“In these few pages we see the author of ‘Walden’ at his best and, we
feel convinced, as he really was.”

+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w

“It is a long way from the stoical Thoreau of Emerson’s ‘Memoir’ to
the ‘simple, gentle, friendly, and amusing’ Thoreau of his son’s
‘Henry Thoreau as remembered by a young friend.’ ... If the point of
view is slightly distorted, at least there is compensation in the
really winning personality that rises into life as we read these
pages.”

+ — =Nation= 105:205 Ag 23 ‘17 300w

“A rather muddled sketch of Thoreau’s life, with a wealth of
significant incidents that throw a more human halo about that rich
personality.” Max Lustig

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 320w

+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 80w

“Dr Emerson succeeds in demolishing common misconceptions of Thoreau
as an idler, misanthropist, and rather inconsistent fanatic ... and
demonstrates that he deserved the pretty general love and respect of
the Old Concord with which this little book credits him.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 AS 16 ‘17 430w

=EMERTON, EPHRAIM.= Beginnings of modern Europe (1250-1450). maps $1.80 (1c) Ginn 940.4 17-25735

The period which is the subject of study in this volume is the
transition period between the time when Europe was committed to
feudalism and the Roman church, and that of the modern Europe of
independent national states and religious toleration. The thread of
the narrative aims to be the working out, consciously in literature
and unconsciously thru social and political conflict, of the idea that
individuals or bodies of men voluntarily united in a common interest
might, if they pleased, speak and act for themselves. Slight emphasis
is put upon theological aspects, political, social and intellectual
movements being the main consideration. Contents: The principle of the
modern state; The new empire; The new papacy; The rise of a middle
class; The Italian republics to 1300; The Hundred years’ war; The age
of the councils; The age of the despots in Italy; The renaissance in
Italy; The northern renaissance.

=Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 210w

“Nothing but praise can be said of this most admirable treatment of
European history. Professor Emerton avoids the bizarre which is so
tempting to some of the popular writers on medieval history and
institutions, and he will be found a safe and sound guide thru a
fascinating field.”

+ =Educ R= 54:529 D ‘17 70w

“If one is looking for a masterly treatment of the transition from
mediaeval to modern times, such will be found in this book. His method
involves a certain amount of repetition, which, by the way, is
beneficial rather than detrimental in this case by showing the close
interrelation of the historical movements considered. The book
contains a number of valuable colored maps.”

+ =School R= 26:69 Ja ‘18 380w

=EMPEY, ARTHUR GUY.= “Over the top.” il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 940.91 17-15575

An account of trench warfare “somewhere in France” by an American who
served for a year and a half in the British army as bomber, machine
gunner, etc., until he fell wounded and after four months in the
American women’s war hospital in England, was discharged as physically
unfit for further war service. Empey says: “I have tried to tell my
experiences in the language of Tommy sitting on the fire step of a
front-line trench on the Western Front—just as he would tell his mate
next him what was happening at a different part of the line.” “Tommy’s
dictionary of the trenches” (unofficial) fills the last thirty-five
pages.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17

“Through it all there breathes the spirit of buoyancy and optimism
that is characteristically American. It is all an unconscious piece of
quite wonderful writing.”

+ =Cath World= 106:258 N ‘17 330w

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 70w

“For once the publisher’s urgent description does not exaggerate; for
in this unpretentious volume is caught at last the soul of Tommy
Atkins.”

+ =Dial= 63:114 Ag 16 ‘17 480w

“One of the very best soldier books of the war.”

+ =Ind= 91:184 Ag 4 ‘17 400w

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 190w

“There have been several such books, but this is different from them
all and one feels that for the average fighting man, it is truer than
the others. ... In no other book that has come from the front has
there been so much of soldier humor. ... Prospective soldiers can
learn here pretty nearly just what is awaiting them, in both incident
and sensation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:239 Je 24 ‘17 1000w

“Many of our readers must have heard Captain Empey tell his war
experiences from the platform. He writes exactly as he talks—clearly,
incisively, in the language of the trenches.”

+ =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 10w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

“Few personal records of service have given us so much genuine
pleasure as this one—whether for the overflowing cheeriness and the
simple intimacy and the keen humour of its style, or for the real
feeling which beats all through it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 20 ‘17 270w

Empire and the future. *75c Macmillan 325.3 17-15171

“A slim volume containing a series of lectures delivered in the
University of London, King’s college. Mr Steel-Maitland contributes an
introduction. Dr M. E. Sadler deals with ‘The universities and the
war.’ Sir Charles Lucas treats of ‘Empire and democracy.’ The Master
of Balliol discourses on ‘The people and the duties of empire.’
‘Imperial administration’ is in the capable hands of Dr H. A. L.
Fisher. Mr Philip Kerr is on his own ground, dealing with
‘Commonwealth and empire.’ The volume is fittingly closed by Mr G. R.
Parkin’s address on ‘The duty of the empire to the world.’”—Ath

“There is no single work we would more strongly recommend to those
interested in the future of the British commonwealth than this little
volume. Indeed, we regard it as an excellent introduction to the study
of the problems of imperial reconstruction. It contains no
cut-and-dried schemes; its value lies rather in providing a background
for schemes of reconstruction.”

+ =Ath= p88 F ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17

=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 10w

“From one important standpoint it is a book to be welcomed: it comes
from men who are profoundly in earnest, and who wish to grow into the
needs of a most difficult new time. Their desire is to educate
themselves, as well as to help those who know less than they do. On
the other hand, they do not yet know how to coax great subjects
through the prejudices of uneducated middle-age. ... It is a book for
political clubs and for university students. The subjects chosen are
too widespread to be generally useful at the present moment.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:509 N 25 ‘16 1350w

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

+ =Spec= 117:656 N 25 ‘16 1600w

“These lectures are anything but academic. Throughout they are the
live words of men who speak of great things to listeners as keenly
interested as themselves.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p543 N 16 ‘16 1000w

Empty house. il *$1.40 (2½c) Macmillan 17-17515

“The theme of this novel is the need of sex-fulfilment for the
American wife, through motherhood. The wife in evidence, who is her
own witness and judge, has grown up, under the example of her own
mother’s fate, in the fear of maternity. She dreads marriage for what
it threatens, and will not marry until it is understood that she is to
have no children. Between herself and her young husband exists a
possible basis of friendship as well as that passionate relation which
is to go through the inevitable phases. ‘The need of a world of men’
asserts itself for the husband: the wife is left to her own resources,
her clothes, her bridge, her idle-restless occupations of the
servanted and childless city-woman. Her husband remains her
preoccupation, while his work more and more absorbs him. In her will
to possess him, she begins to prey upon him; in the end, by her
exactions and by her secret and disastrous interference with his
career, she brings about his ruin and his death. And it is all
traceable to that ‘over-sexed’ condition of the American woman which,
according to the German scientist of the story, condemns her, in
default of motherhood, to destroy her mate.”—Nation

“These people have the breath of life in them, are real as the action
is real, however slightly both may be outlined.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:96 S ‘17 540w

“With her abstract theories of married life the writer of ‘The empty
house’ gives us all food for discussion. But like many novels with a
purpose it is totally one-sided. ... Were we to surmise concerning the
writer of this novel we might say that she is herself unmarried. The
days of her childhood are described convincingly, but the
post-matrimonial discussions lack conviction and sincerity.” D. F. G.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 490w

“It is a vivacious story with an air of determination to speak out
and tell the truth. What it tells is interesting. But after all it
does not tell very much. The manner is sometimes irritating, if the
reader is over-sensitive to literary manner. In trying to sound
human and natural the author makes an unnecessary sacrifice of
sentence-construction.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 120w

“A special plea, if you like, but vigorously embodied in a tale well
told.”

+ =Nation= 105:247 S 6 ‘17 310w

“We are almost tempted to say that it is many years since we have read
anything so trivial published by a reputable house. ... The style is
scrappy and lacking entirely in any literary qualities.” M. G. S.

— =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 250w

“Notwithstanding the irritating style and the wearying repetitions,
the author contrives to put a good deal of emotional suspense and some
dramatic situations into the story. But it really wasn’t necessary,
for the convincingness of the tale, to make the teller of it seem
quite such an uncurbed fool.”

— =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 730w

“An incisive yet moving study of feminine tendencies—some limited and
morbid, others general and human. There is bitterness in the
exposition of one type of American women, described by a foreign
scientific observer.”

=Outlook= 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 70w

=ENDELL, FRITZ AUGUST GOTTFRIED.= Old tavern signs; an excursion in the history of hospitality. il *$5 Houghton 394 16-24700

“Mr Endell confesses in his ‘Old tavern signs’ that his love of the
subject is his only apology for his bold undertaking of writing about
it. First it was the filigree quality and the beauty of the delicate
tracery of the wrought-iron signs in the picturesque villages of
southern Germany that attracted his attention; then their deep,
symbolic significance exerted its influence more and more over his
mind, and tempted him at last to follow their history back until he
could discover its multifarious relations to the thought and feeling
of earlier generations. ... Poetical and political signs are treated
at length, and the English sign and its peculiarities are fully
described. Not the least interesting part of the book are the
pictures, some of them copies of old prints. The author has added a
bibliography and index to make his work complete.”—Boston Transcript

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 700w

“A notable book of a rather unusual kind, ... which the author himself
lavishly illustrated with drawings of much quaintness and charm. ...
The edition is limited to 550 copies.”

+ =Dial= 61:544 D 14 ‘16 130w

“If it were not for the date in the imprint and a few scattered
allusions, one would almost swear that this book had been composed in
the eighteenth century. It seems to be pervaded by the kindly,
unworldly sentiment of the vanished Germany of little states, such as
Thackeray hardly caricatured in Pumpernickel, and Stevenson made the
scene of Prince Otto’s adventures. Over all is the atmosphere one
feels in the illustrations to Hans Andersen. Nowhere is the modern,
scientific spirit.”

+ =Nation= 104:372 Mr 29 ‘17 550w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17

“A book at once erudite and whimsical, entertaining in its style and
illuminating in its account of the social life of former times.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:131 F ‘17 30w

=ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.= Complaint of peace. *50c (2½c) Open ct. 172.4 17-14169

“This translation of the ‘Querela pacis’ of Erasmus is reprinted from
a rare old English version. It is probably the 1802 reprint of the
translation made by T. Paynell but published anonymously.”
(Publishers’ preface) Erasmus, even in the sixteenth century, pictures
Peace as seeking a refuge in vain with the common people, with kings,
with scholars and with the religious. He dwells upon the
incompatibility of war with Christianity, and argues that “there is
scarcely any peace so unjust, but it is preferable, upon the whole, to
the justest war,” but states that he is to be understood as speaking
of the unjustifiable wars that Christians wage with Christians, and
not of the purely defensive wars necessary to repel the violence of
invaders.

“The essay is noteworthy as an appealing presentation of the arguments
for peace.”

+ =Ath= p589 N ‘17 200w

“Every argument that has been advanced by the lovers of peace against
militarism and its attendant horrors is cogently stated in this quaint
document.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 100w

“This translation is welcome for other things than its abstract
wisdom. It is welcome for its gentle irony and for the modulated
richness of the English. The book would be admirable for reading in
the schools.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 6 ‘17 1100w

“What Erasmus has to say is still not only readable, but worth
reading. War is the most disastrous of human crimes and follies, and
anything that helps us to understand that is good and useful. Provided
that we also understand—what Erasmus only shows for one moment a
glimpse of understanding—that it may be the most urgent of human
duties.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 S 20 ‘17 1550w

=ERICHSEN, ERICH.= Forced to fight; the tale of a Schleswig Dane. *$1.25 (3c) McBride 940.91 (Eng ed 17-15580)

The author tells this story as it was told him by a young soldier
returned from the war. “He told me,” says the author, “sometimes
calmly and sometimes with excitement, about all those experiences that
had whitened his hair and worn out his body, and made him an old man,
though he had not yet completed his twenty-seventh year. I am telling
his story as he told it to me. The words are mine but all that gives
life to them, the moods and thoughts, the hopes and sufferings, the
abasement of the soul and the horror of the mind—all these are his.”
It is the terrible story of one who endured all of the horrors of war
without any of the sustainment of a conviction of right. After the
invasion of Belgium, in which he took part, the narrator was
transferred to East Prussia, a region similarly devastated. The book
is translated from the Danish by Ingeborg Lund.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17

=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 40w

=ERVINE, ST JOHN GREER.= Changing winds. *$1.60 (1c) Macmillan 17-9813

The mettle of the young men who are giving their lives in this war and
the irretrievable loss suffered by any nation that goes to war are
brought home by this novel. It is the story of four boys, friends from
schooldays. It is a story filled with the joy and eagerness and tragic
seriousness of youth, with its big ambitions and easy achievements and
its plans for the reformation of the world. War does not enter into
these plans. The war is something that happens; but it cuts across
every other claim and takes the four, one after the other. The war is
a calamity that breaks suddenly, but the Irish revolution which also
enters into the story, gives warnings of its approach. There is hardly
a phase of the complicated Irish problem that is not touched on in the
course of the novel. Henry Quinn, one of the four, is Irish and it is
to him that events are most closely related, but the most vital
personality in the group is Gilbert Farlow, killed in Gallipoli. The
book is dedicated to the memory of Rupert Brooke.

“One of the women and the sex interest she arouses will be disapproved
of by some readers, though few such would read the book.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17

“The character-drawing throughout is of a high standard, but the chief
interest of the book lies in the discussions between the quartet of
young men, which range over nearly all the questions of the day. ...
the position of labour, the war, Irish affairs, including the
rebellion, etc. ... The book will appeal mostly to the
unsophisticated.”

+ — =Ath= p253 My ‘17 210w

“A story of uncommon range and power.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:411 Je ‘17 670w

“Despite Mr Ervine’s chaotic methods, despite his annoying habit of
playing havoc with the passing of time, despite his rapid shifting
backward and forward through the years and his consequent
chronological disorder, despite the wordiness and trivial episodes in
a story that for its full effect should be brisk and compact, he has
written in ‘Changing winds’ a novel that demands attention and that is
certain to arouse discussion. We do not regret its length and we do
not hasten towards its end. ... Anyone who has read ‘Mr Britling sees
it through’ will be eager for another view of the English attitude as
reflected in Mr Ervine’s agile mind.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 1400w

“A monument of industry rather than talent. ... ‘Changing winds’
suggests the book of a writer who has attempted to immerse himself in
his subject, but has not absorbed its implications. It is the work of
a man who does not quite feel the life he portrays.”

— =Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 91:183 Ag 4 ‘17 200w

“An interpretation full of insight, and rich in human sympathy.”

+ =Nation= 104:601 My 17 ‘17 570w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 130w

“So far, then, as Mr Ervine has allowed his discipleship to H. G.
Wells to lead him into discussing universal military service, factory
organization, machine industry, etc., he has been badly bamboozled.
You have to be a Meredith or at any rate a Wells to overflow into
these =creative fictional discussions=, and where Mr Ervine has
attempted this he is tin painted to look like steel. ... The
utilization of contemporary personages and contemporary events gives
‘Changing winds’ an excitingness that has a sort of suggestion of
genius. There are certain tricks about the book, however, that impair
this impression. ... Though not written in the first person, ‘Changing
winds’ is hot from =first-hand= experience, an empiric version of
reality.” F. H.

* + – =New Repub= 10:326 Ap 14 ‘17 2100w

“Mr Ervine’s new book is by all odds the biggest piece of work he has
done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 550w

“The author has one pervading purpose, namely, to make his readers see
Ireland and Irishmen as they are. ... The picture of the recent Irish
revolution included in the story is admirably done, and is both
touching and dramatic.”

+ =Outlook= 115:710 Ap 18 ‘17 140w

“The title was taken from the sonnet, ‘The dead,’ by Rupert Brooke, to
whom the author has dedicated the story.” M. A. S.

=St Louis= 15:184 Je ‘17 20w

“‘Changing winds’ may perhaps be not unfairly described as a set of
variations on the theme of Mr St John Ervine’s book, ‘Sir Edward
Carson and the Ulster movement,’ in which there was very little about
Sir Edward Carson but a great deal about Ulstermen, young and old. ...
The pictures of life in London are enlivened by some caustic
portraits, under thin disguises, of well-known figures in the world of
letters.”

+ =Spec= 118:567 My 19 ‘17 530w

“The most interesting modern Irish novel that we can remember. ... The
Londoner and the Dubliner, particularly the former, will have no
difficulty in recognizing numerous real people in the thinnest
disguises, many of them hit off with amusing malice. ... The book is
all youth and enthusiasm, and it is written by a man who obviously
loves Ireland and loves England too. That is what makes it so good a
presentation of the issue between the two countries.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p187 Ap 19 ‘17 600w

=ESENWEIN, JOSEPH BERG.= Writing for the magazines. *$1.50 Home correspondence school 808 16-26010

“The Writer’s library already contains books on short story writing,
photo play writing, writing for vaudeville, verse writing and play
writing. Its manifest object is the compiling of a series of helpful
and practical textbooks which shall answer the numerous questions
which writers want to ask and which no one has time to answer for
them. Four things Mr Esenwein considers essential to success in
writing—having something to say, knowing how different editors wish it
said, knowing how to shape material and knowing the markets.”—Boston
Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 13:161 Ja ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 200w

“‘How to do it’ books are always slightly amusing, but in ‘Writing for
the magazines’ J. B. Esenwein gives intelligent practical advice as to
what the editor wants.”

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 30w

+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:56 Ja ‘17

=ESENWEIN, JOSEPH BERG, and STOCKARD, MARIETTA.= Children’s stories, and how to tell them. (Writer’s library) *$1.50 (2½c) Home correspondence school 372.6 18-781

Professor Esenwein is head of the literary faculty of the Home
correspondence school, Springfield, Mass., and Miss Stockard is
connected with the Wilson normal school, Washington, D.C. The authors
attempt to give “a clear statement of the various methods used
successfully by story-tellers,” and, from these methods, to deduce
certain simple foundation-principles “so as to help the student of the
art to understand the material he has to work with, the forms in which
it may be cast, various successful methods of presentation, the
limitations of his hearers, and the ends he is justified in seeking to
gain.” (Foreword) All this is covered in the eleven chapters of part
1, each chapter being followed by “Suggestions for study and
discussion.” Part 2 consists of “Fifty stories to tell to children.”
These include among others animal, Bible, patriot, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and hero stories. Part 3 gives eight suggestive “Reading
and reference lists,” such as “Source-books for the storyteller,”
“Books on literary study and its value,” etc. A list of publishers’
addresses is given.

“Now, the important and joyous thing about this excellent new book is
that it indicates a reiterated faith on the part of the authors and
publishers that story telling is an important factor in life.”

+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:422 D ‘17 30w

=ESSEN, LÉON VAN DER.= Invasion and the war in Belgium; with a sketch of the diplomatic negotiations preceding the conflict. il *15s T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-17104)

“‘Our aim,’ writes Professor van der Essen, ‘has been to give for the
first time a connected account and a complete survey of all the events
of the German invasion and of the war in Belgium from the attack on
Liège till after the battle of the Yser. ... We have always referred
to our sources to enable the reader to control our evidence.’ ... The
account of the military operations is drawn chiefly from three
sources—the official report of the Belgium general staff; a
compilation by a Belgian officer entitled ‘Les pages de gloire de
l’armée Belge’; and reprinted articles from the newspaper Le XXme.
Siècle.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The author was professor of
history at the University of Louvain.

“The fullest and best account of the invasion of Belgium that we have
yet seen. ... This book shows in detail what the Belgians did. ... The
author gives a clear and dispassionate account of the siege and fall
of Antwerp.”

+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 270w

“The translation falls below the ordinary standard of translations
from the French. It is about upon a level with them; but that level is
not high. ... We must confess to some disappointment with the critical
methods of the author. We cannot always share his confidence in his
authorities. ... Professor van der Essen is also very loose in his
reckoning of casualties. ... From a military point of view, therefore,
we cannot regard this book as of any great value; and yet we welcome
it and commend it heartily to the English reader.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 My 24 ‘17 1200w

=EVANS, CARADOC.= My people. 4th ed *$1.35 Duffield (Eng ed 16-20112)

“Mr Caradoc Evans’s tales have a comparatively novel setting as an
addition to their many purely literary merits. ... The peasants of
West Wales are the characters and the neighborhood centring around
Capel Sion the scene of all these stories. ... Many of the tales in
this volume are sketches, perhaps, rather than stories, but they are
every one of them interesting. The quaint dialect is fascinating, the
whole point of view of these people redolent of the soil of which they
are practically a part.” (N Y Times) The first English edition
appeared in 1915.

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:74 My ‘17

“This is not in any way what can be called a pleasant book. It is
realism, grim and stark. Realism of that type one usually associates
with Russian fiction. ... Yet because he is a genuine and not a pseudo
realist, every here and there appears some individual through whose
character there runs a thread of pure gold. ... The tales are not
without touches of comedy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:222 Je 10 ‘17 620w

=Pittsburgh= 21:483 N ‘16

=EVERSLEY, GEORGE JOHN SHAW-LEFEVRE, 1st baron.= Turkish empire: its growth and decay. il *$3 (2c) Dodd 949.6 (Eng ed 17-29198)

“In the course of his long life Lord Eversley has witnessed the
greater part of the events which have resulted in the expulsion of the
Turks. So far back as in 1855 and 1857, he spent some time at
Constantinople, and travelled in Bulgaria and Greece, and later, in
1890 and 1895, he revisited these countries and was able to compare
their condition with what he recollected from his former visits. In a
single volume, in a compact and popular form, he has given not a
complete history of the Turkish empire, but a description of the
processes by which it was aggregated, under the first ten great
sultans, and has since been in great part dismembered under their
twenty-six degenerate successors. In the latter part of his volume,
Lord Eversley has drawn from his own experience, and puts on record
his conversations with Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and the Ex-Sultan
Abdul Hamid.” (Publishers’ note) The book is divided into two parts:
The growth of empire, and The decay of empire. There are three maps.

“Lord Eversley knows Turkey well, and is therefore able to write
informatively upon the causes which led to the rise of that once great
and flourishing nation, and to its subsequent decline and
dismemberment. This is a book which should be widely read, especially
at the present period.”

+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 90w

“This very readable and interesting book was written to meet the need
of a clear-cut historical interpretation of the forces of
disintegration in Turkey. Intentionally of secular rather than
academic appeal, it is not the result of independent research, but is
based mainly on the great work of von Hammer, the German historian,
although many other authorities have been drawn upon for new
historical evidence.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:576 D 23 ‘17 550w

“Lord Eversley’s intention to be fair is evident on every page; but,
knowing nothing personally of the Asiatic side of Turkey, he has given
too much faith to English writers with a grudge against it, who in
their turn have given too much faith to eastern Christian writers of a
bygone age. Lord Eversley is fairer in his judgment of the Turks, it
may be said at once, than any other British author of his standpoint.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:309 O 20 ‘17 1100w

+ =Spec= 119:716 D 15 ‘17 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p467 S 27 ‘17 70w

“The Turk has been a failure, and Lord Eversley’s book enables the
reader to review with comparative brevity the career of this idle
apprentice among the nations. It is interesting and useful to have the
main points of Ottoman history with some garnishment of picturesque or
arresting detail set forth so handily as in the present volume, but
the reader could wish that more attention had been given to the
spelling of names and the identification of persons; nor should the
capture of Athens and the subsequent strangling of Franco degli
Acciajuoli, the last reigning Duke of Athens and Lord of Thebes, be
represented as the destruction of the last spark of Greek
independence.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p471 O 4 ‘17 1900w

=EWERS, HANNS HEINZ.= Edgar Allan Poe; tr. by Adèle Lewisohn. *60c (7c) Huebsch 17-2710

This essay on Poe is translated from the German. Its author was born
in Düsseldorf in 1871 and he has, the translator tells us, lived in
almost all the countries of the world. He spent some time in India,
finding himself deeply in sympathy with its mysticism. The translator
says, “At a time when Poe was comparatively little understood Ewers
was his most sympathetic German interpreter. He is able to mirror the
soul of Poe because they are intellectual kinsmen.”

Reviewed by H: B. Fuller

=Dial= 62:433 My 17 ‘17 1200w

“The swift, delicate, precise sentences give no sense of
translation. ... Ewers’s enthusiastic study, rather his pean in praise
of Poe, is a distinct contribution to our growing critical literature
on the poet.”

+ =Ind= 89:115 Ja 15 ‘17 100w

— =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 220w

=St Louis= 15:119 Ap ‘17

“Only a German could allow a criticism of Poe to degenerate into a
vitriolic attack upon everything English. This is just what happened
to Hanns Heinz Ewer’s essay on Poe.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 400w

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=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Insect adventures; selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs entomologiques,” retold for young people by Louise Seymour Hasbrouck. il *$2 (3c) Dodd 595.7 17-31000

Fabre was a French school-teacher of whom an English critic said: “He
is the wisest man, and the best read in the book of nature, of whom
the centuries have left us any record.” Chapter seventeen of the
volume gives an interesting sketch of his early years and incidentally
shows what problems the French pedagogue had to meet back in the last
century. The book makes a big appeal to the young imagination in such
expressions as the caddis-worm “pirates,” the “insect submarines,” and
the “spider’s telegraph wires.” His life stories of familiar insects
will prove fascinating because he touches into life the human quality;
because instead of ripping up an animal and turning it into an object
of horror and pity in the dissecting room he studies it alive “under
the blue sky to the song of the cicadas.”

“After reading what he has to say about the mysteries of the spider,
we feel as we did after reading Maeterlinck’s incomparable ‘Life of
the bee.’ His books should be received with the appreciation they
deserve. They are written by a great lover of nature who happened to
be a great scientist as well.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 140w

“Will give young people a new interest in the natural life around
them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:571 D 23 ‘17 50w

“The great virtue of Fabre as an author for children is that he
teaches the habit of patient and precise observation. There should,
then, be a welcome for ‘Insect adventures.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 80w

=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Life of the grasshopper; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 595.7 17-9824

The translator says, “I have ventured in the present volume to gather
together, under the somewhat loose and inaccurate title of ‘The life
of the grasshopper,’ the essays scattered over the ‘Souvenirs
entomologiques’ that treat of grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and such
insects as the cicada, or cigale, the mantis and the cuckoo-spit, or,
to adopt the author’s happier and more euphonious term, the foamy
cicadella. They exhaust the number of the orthopterous and homopterous
insects discussed by Henri Fabre.” Some of the chapters have appeared
in a translation by Bernard Miall, published with the title “Social
life in the insect world.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17

+ =Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 290w

“This volume attests his delicacy of observation, his humor of
description, his unequaled and astonishing patience.”

+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 90w

“It goes without saying that we have here, once more, all the
sincerity, sagacity, keen sight and insight, and the ripe ‘human’
flavor that have already made a half-dozen volumes of Fabre popular in
translation.”

* + =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 100w

“In this book, as always, Fabre’s interest centers in instinct; but
here as elsewhere, in spite of the accumulation of accurately
determined data, he makes no contribution to the solution of the
problem of the essential nature of instinct. One loves Fabre for his
inveterate aversion to the intricate panoply of modern scientific
research, but one sees him as the last of his race.” E. S. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:165 S 8 ‘17 950w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ‘17 220w

=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Story-book of science. il *$2 (2c) Century 504 17-25300

This volume, translated from the nineteenth French edition by Florence
Constable Bicknell, is one of a series of elementary science works
written by the eminent French naturalist in the belief that the truths
of nature could be made more interesting than fiction to young people.
The translator says, “The identity of the ‘Uncle Paul,’ who ... plays
the story-teller’s part, is not hard to guess; and the young people
who gather about him to listen to his true stories ... are, without
doubt, the author’s own children, in whose companionship he delighted
and whose education he conducted with wise solicitude.” The stories
are not limited to the insect life which engrossed so much of the
author’s attention. The wonders of the rocks, the planets, the flowers
and fruits and of the sea are disclosed to the children’s eager minds.

“Delightful for reading aloud as they will interest grown folk as well
as some of the older boys and girls.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:497 D ‘17 110w

“The author’s wide grasp of scientific facts has been no barrier in
making a book for young readers that endows these facts with the
witchery of fairy lore.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

“It should prove an invaluable book for growing children: a book of
reference in answering intelligently numerous and constant queries of
childhood.”

+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 190w

“Curiosity and the love of story are here blended in just proportions.
Miss Bicknell has furnished a competent English translation and the
Century company has done its share by publishing it on good paper in
admirably clear type.”

+ =New Repub= 13:104 N 24 ‘17 170w

“We owe a debt of thanks to translator and publisher who have put into
our hands in English words Fabre’s stories of sciences for children.
For to his well-known charm of style and his knowledge, Fabre adds an
understanding of the child’s mind.” Maud Thompson

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 550w

=FABRE D’OLIVET, ANTOINE=, tr. Golden verses of Pythagoras; done into English by Nayán Louise Redfield. il *$3 (3½c) Putnam 182 17-9234

Fabre d’Olivet, an eighteenth century philosopher, translated the
“Golden verses of Pythagoras” into French, with “a discourse upon the
essence and form of poetry among the principal peoples of the earth”
as a preface. He also wrote a more extended “Examination of the golden
verses,” which was first published in 1813. For the present volume
Miss Redfield has translated both these discourses, and she presents
also, in addition to the Greek and French versions, an English
translation of the “Golden verses.”

“In the ‘Golden verses of Pythagoras’ Fabre d’Olivet illustrates at
the same time a philosophical insight which amounts to genius, and a
self-centred frenzy of purpose which touches genius on the one hand
and insanity on the other. The general effect of self-hypnosis is
furthered by a fluency and warmth of style in the original which Miss
Redfield admirably succeeds in retaining in her translation.” R. W.

=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 31 ‘17 450w

“Fabre d’Olivet died in 1825. At no time have orthodox scholars taken
him and his attempts to recover what is called the ancient wisdom
seriously. His theories, however, have been popularized by M. Édouard
Schurer in his cinematic survey of religions, ‘Les grands initiés,’
and have had considerable success.”

=Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 340w

+ =Lit D= 55:38 N 3 ‘17 300w

— =Nation= 104:765 Je 28 ‘17 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

“The translator has preserved a capable, selective vision and
sympathetic understanding of the high content and beauty of the
Pythagorean teachings.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 450w

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 22 ‘17 70w

=FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS.= Laugh and live. il *$1 (3c) Britton pub. 174 17-13235

These nineteen essays in the vein of Pollyanna are by a popular star
of the “movies,” who chats cheerfully on such topics as: Building up a
personality; Cleanliness of body and mind; Physical and mental
preparedness, etc.

+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 50w

“Mr Fairbanks talks his honest heart out in this book. He takes you
into his confidence, talks to you as man to man, quite like Billy
Sunday chatting with God. ... Success is his god, a sleek, smiling
fetish. He voices and radiates the desire of America. ... His is the
quintessential creed of a society that perhaps nothing short of war
and calamity can galvanize into a realization of the swollen
hollowness of its egotism.”

— =New Repub= 12:113 Ag 25 ‘17 650w

“As for success, he sums it up: ‘We find that a sound body, a good
mind, an honest purpose, and a lack of fear are the essential elements
of success.’ That is a large order, certainly! But just as certainly
it is sane and wholesome. That is where the merit of Mr Fairbanks’s
book lies for his readers; he puts a tremendous amount of breeziness
into excellent platitudes.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 700w

=FAIRCHILD, HENRY PRATT.=[2] Outline of applied sociology. *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan 302 17-50

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The larger contribution of Professor Fairchild’s book to the textbook
literature of sociology is in its clear presentation of the
relationships between wages, working conditions, efficiency, housing,
and the more specific aspects of the problem of living standards and
social welfare. No other general textbook goes so fully into these
matters, and yet they are not here discussed from a merely descriptive
or analytical standpoint. Conclusions and implications are most
carefully drawn from the data presented.” L. L. Bernard

+ =Am Econ R= 7:601 S ‘17 460w

“As to weaknesses, the reviewer finds only those which naturally might
be expected to follow from the tremendous size of the task which the
author has undertaken. It is a contribution to a comprehensive
consideration of social life and progress on the part of the person
who is beginning a scientific study of society.” E. S. Bogardus

+ =Am J Soc= 23:269 S ‘17 500w

“A fresh and independent treatment, developed in a scholarly yet
popular way, and suggestive to students in connection with other books
on the subject, though the theoretical background, to some critics,
seems quite inadequate.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 13:288 Ap ‘17

“The esthetic life is scantily treated. To the intellectual life are
allotted barely two pages on education, while science, the most
powerful intellectual force, is entirely ignored. Religion, by which
the author seems to mean Christianity, is treated from the
conventional, up-to-date Christian point of view. Much emphasis [is
put] upon the abnormal and pathological aspects of social life. The
principal defect of this book is that it utterly ignores biology and
psychology.” Maurice Parmelee

– + =Ann Am Acad= 72:243 Jl ‘17 400w

+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 70w

“An excellent text for the college classroom. The student will find in
it unevasive information or controverted questions, and a commonsense
guidance at every turn. It is a book, nevertheless, that will make
intellectual trouble. Every teacher that uses it will ask, and in his
own way will answer, the question, whether the subject-matter here
presented is in any proper sense sociology, either pure or applied.”

+ — =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 620w

“The style is simple, clear, and thoroughly readable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:58 F 18 ‘17 250w

“His treatment of specific topics may be regarded as more summary than
that of other writers in this field, but there is a compensating
advantage in the emphasis placed upon the analysis and classification
of social facts, each in its relation to a comprehensive whole.”

+ — =R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 160w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 16 ‘17 320w

“In ignoring the separate treatment of cross sections of human
experience and action, and in compassing the sphere of man’s whole
human environment, this text-book is distinctive. The book is
noteworthy for its inclusion and very direct dealing with so many
pressing phases of present social development. Its references and
supplementary readings, together with a good index, add to its value.”
Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 310w

=FALES, JANE.= Dressmaking; a manual for schools and colleges. il *$1.50 Scribner 646 17-1600

“Part 1 presents the development of costume from the standpoint of
history and design. Part 2 considers the materials which are used in
dressmaking, and discusses the economic value of various fibers and
fabrics. Part 3 treats design and technique in pattern-making and
dressmaking.”—School R

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Open Shelf,
Cleveland)

“Contains more material on costume and on textile manufacture than
Baldt’s ‘Clothing for women,’ and less instruction on the more
elementary details of garment construction. Both books have much
material on pattern drafting and the use of commercial paper patterns.
An unusually complete bibliography and index add to the usefulness of
the book.”

+ =Cleveland= p41 Mr ‘17 70w

“Will be valuable to home dressmakers as well as to class students.”

+ =Ind= 91:267 Ag 18 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17 10w

=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w

“The author is director of the department of textiles and clothing in
Teachers college, Columbia university.”

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 16w

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 100w

“The text is a distinct acquisition to the literature of home
economics.”

+ =School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 50w

=FALL, DELOS.= Science for beginners. (New-world science ser.) il $1.20 (1c) World bk. co. 502

A first book in general science intended for intermediate schools and
junior high schools. It is based on the principle that, to gain the
best results, the pupil must collect his own material and learn to
draw his own conclusions. “The teacher is asked to keep in mind that
the chief purpose of this book is not to give the pupils a large
amount of information, but rather to introduce them to a method
through the use of which they will acquire the habit of gaining
information for themselves.” (Preface) The first chapter discusses
Science and the scientific method; the second, What the young
scientist must learn to do. These are followed by chapters on: Matter
and its forms; Some properties of matter; Changes in matter; Oxygen:
the active element; Hydrogen and its compounds; A study of water, etc.
The author, now professor of chemistry in Albion college, was formerly
state superintendent of public instruction in Michigan.

“The first half of this volume treats of elementary chemistry, the
latter part of elementary physics. There is a smattering of biological
material treated from the standpoint of chemistry. Chapter nineteen,
on ‘The potato,’ is the only one with a title suggestive of living
things. The book has many good features. It attempts drill in the
scientific method of thinking, and some of the exercises are in
problem form, though most of them are demonstrations of facts stated
in the text and afford little opportunity for reflective thinking. The
book impresses one as an attempt on the part of an enthusiastic
chemist to pre-empt some time in the first year science for his
favorite subject.”

+ – — =School R= 26:67 Ja ‘18 550w

Fall of the Romanoffs.[2] il *$5 Dutton 947 (Eng ed 18-540)

“This new volume, by the anonymous author of the remarkably opportune
‘Russian court memoirs, 1914-16,’ published last March on the morrow
of the revolution, purports to show how the ex-Empress and Rasputin
between them were responsible for the downfall of the autocracy.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup) “Believing that the weakness of the Czar and
the evil influence of the Czarina made the downfall of the royal
family inevitable, the writer still holds that a greater effort should
have been made to avoid actual abdication, and that even if the
Romanoffs themselves were banished a reformed monarchy would be the
proper and wise form of government for Russia. ... The writer deplores
the fall of Milukoff and laments the rise of the Social Democrats with
Kerensky—although expressing admiration of that leader himself.” (N Y
Times)

“Written frankly from the monarchist’s point of view, the book offers
none the less most interesting information, and no little food for
thought. The book devotes a good deal of space to the recital of
superstitions, and it is impossible to avoid suspicion that the
anonymous author is markedly prejudiced. No one could call the volume
authoritative. But it is exceedingly interesting from beginning to
end.”

+ — =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 130w

=FALLON, JOHN TIERNAN=, ed.[2] How to make concrete garden furniture and accessories. il *$1.50 (5c) McBride 693 17-17213

The preface traces the history of concrete as a building material,
showing that its use dates from early antiquity. The seven chapters of
the book are devoted to: The selection and testing of material; How to
proportion and mix the materials; Making forms and placing the
concrete; How to make garden walks, steps and other simple utilities;
How to make sundials, benches and swimming pools; Bird baths,
lanterns, pottery and water gardens; Making concrete garden frames and
garden rollers. There are nineteen half-tone plates and numerous
illustrations in the text.

“Deals in general with more elaborate construction than most other
books on the subject.”