Chapter XXVIII: Part 4: , contributed by Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver, deals with the human (2)

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=FALLS, DE WITT CLINTON.= Army and navy information. il *$1 Dutton 355 17-29353

The author, an officer of the New York national guard, has brought
together information relating to the uniforms, organization, arms and
equipment of the warring powers. The book is illustrated with six
colored plates and thirty line cuts by the author.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18

“This timely and useful little reference book is something no one can
afford to do without today.”

+ =Cath World= 106:555 Ja ‘18 40w

“As a handy reference, this book will be found serviceable to
civilians as well as soldiers, and all those who write about the war.”

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 50w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 50w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 60w

=FANNING, CLARA ELIZABETH=, comp. Selected articles on capital punishment. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and rev ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 016.343 17-12266

This is the third edition of a debaters’ handbook published first in
1909. The second edition was issued in 1913. The explanatory note
says, “The third edition varies from the second in two parts. The
bibliography has had references inserted in all its divisions to bring
it up to date. New pages have been added at the end of the book with
selected articles grouped as general, affirmative and negative. Since
the arguments have undergone no material change in three years, the
chief service of this section is in making accessible several magazine
articles and pamphlets not found in the average library.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 180w

+ =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Old roads out of Philadelphia. il *$4 Lippincott 917.48 17-28890

“It would be hard to find anywhere in America roads richer in
historical interest than those that lead out from Philadelphia, and
John T. Faris in his book has told the story of them well. He takes
his readers along the King’s highway to Wilmington, over the Baltimore
turnpike, the Gulph road, the turnpikes to Westchester and Lancaster,
the old Germantown road, the road to Bethlehem, the Ridge road to
Perkiomen, the old York road, and that to Bristol and Trenton. On each
one he tells about the famous historical events that happened along
its way, the important men and women who have traversed it, points out
the features of local interest both now and during former times, and
mentions its beauties of landscape.” (N Y Times) “A photographer went
with him on many of his journeys of exploration, providing the
illustrations, one hundred and seventeen in number, which accompany
the text.” (Lit D)

“So far as relates to the eleven roads and their surroundings, Mr
Faris has done his work well. The writer of this review has lived in
part of this territory since his boyhood and can testify to the
substantial accuracy and, in general, the judiciousness of the
selection of material for his descriptions.” I: Sharpless

+ =Am Hist R= 23:439 Ja ‘18 430w

=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 350w

“With much curious lore has the subject been enriched, showing
diligence and no little original research in the treatment.”

+ =Dial= 63:528 N 22 ‘17 160w

“The book will add immensely to the pleasure and interest of
Philadelphians who motor and walk in the neighborhood of their city,
and it will have its appeal also for lovers of the historical and the
picturesque everywhere.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 160w

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:824 D ‘17 30w

“A good companion volume to Mr Lippincott’s book [’Early
Philadelphia’].”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w

“There are many pleasant discoveries for the traveler along these
roads out of Philadelphia with Mr Faris as guide.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 700w

=FARMER, FRANK MALCOLM.= Electrical measurements in practice. il *$4 McGraw 537.7 17-17201

“The author is the head of one of the best-known commercial testing
staffs in the country, and throughout the book the topics are
presented from the practical standpoint of the tester. Descriptions of
instruments and methods of employment alternate.” (Engin News-Rec)
“The book is divided into sixteen chapters dealing with the following
subjects: Introductory, galvanometers, continuous emf. measurements,
continuous-current measurements, alternating emf. measurements,
alternating-current measurements, resistance reactance and impedance
measurements, power measurements, energy measurements, maximum-demand
instruments, inductance measurements, capacitance measurements,
frequency and slip measurements, wave-form determinations, magnetic
measurements, curve-drawing instruments.” (Elec World) The book has
230 illustrations and diagrams.

“Mr Farmer’s descriptions are concise and clear, but he does not
compare the several methods of making any one of the numerous
electrical measurements as fully as might be desired. The book will,
however, be useful to anyone who has electrical testing to do, in
furnishing him with several practical plans for making any desired
measurement.”

+ — =Electric Railway Journal= 50:44 Jl 7 ‘17 140w

“This is an excellent and timely text and reference book on electrical
measurements from the industrial viewpoint. There are various
excellent treatises available on the principles and physical relations
of electrical measurements, but there are very few which deal with
electrical measurements as they have to be made in electrical
engineering laboratories for the purposes of the industry. ... The
treatment is clear, thorough, practical and up to date. The chapter on
maximum demand instruments is particularly timely.”

+ =Elec World= 70:312 Ag 18 ‘17 140w

“The particular audience addressed by Mr Farmer is of course largely
composed of electrical engineers. But his book is of considerable use
in the libraries of a larger group of engineers, particularly those
dealing with hydroelectric work, because ultimately the performance of
their generating and transmission installations have to be tested by
well-tried instruments and practices of the electrical test
laboratory, more or less modified to suit field conditions. ... The
sections on power and energy measurements and on maximum-demand and
curve-drawing instruments are of conspicuous merit.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 130w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Jl ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17

=Pratt= p22 O ‘17 40w

=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Definite object; a romance of New York. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-15972

Geoffrey Ravenslee was suffering from the boredom of too much money.
Life offered him a variety of diversions but no definite object. A
young amateur burglar, attempting to break into his house, brings the
needed change. Geoffrey decides that instead of turning young Spike
over to the authorities, he will accompany him to his home in lower
New York and see something of life from another angle. He finds all
that he has been looking for,—adventure, of course, and with it
romance; for Spike, the would-be burglar, proves to be the adored
younger brother of a very lovely sister.

=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

+ — =Ath= p527 O ‘17 130w

“Nothing could be more unreal in the midst of realities than Mr
Farnol’s latest novel. Although its scene is New York, although its
characters are New Yorkers, although its time is the present, its
atmosphere is the atmosphere of ‘The broad highway,’ ‘The amateur
gentleman’ and ‘Beltane the smith.’ ... It need not, however, be
imagined for an instant that ‘The definite object’ is any the less
diverting because we cannot believe a word of it. ... But readers will
not be disappointed, for they will find in it a romantic world of the
same element and variety that have made the appealing charm of all his
other novels.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 1250w

“Some of the character drawing—the pompous butler Brimberly, the
loquacious Old ‘Un, and the shrewish Mrs Ann Angelina Trapes—is as
good as Dickens at his best.”

+ =Cath World= 105:837 S ‘17 160w

=Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w

“Mr Farnol, his publishers inform us, knew the New York slum life at
first hand, during the time of his obscure activities as a
scene-painter, ere fame found him. One may say enough of this book,
perhaps, in saying that it shows the sort of fidelity to detail and
falsity of color and perspective which are still to be found upon the
flies and backdrops of melodrama.”

— =Nation= 105:15 Jl 5 ‘17 330w

“The book is romance, not realism, and very delightful and
entertaining romance, too, with plenty of incident, any amount of
ardent lovemaking, more than one hairbreadth escape, and several fist
fights of the most energetic, not to say violent character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 750w

“Mr Farnol’s knowledge of New York slang is astonishingly accurate and
up to date. Frankly, his characters would be more agreeable if they
were not so voluble—one cannot see the story for the words. But Mr
Farnol has a large following of readers, and they will find fun and
action in this romance, despite this criticism.”

=Outlook= 116:198 My 30 ‘17 60w

=Sat R= 124:373 N 10 ‘17 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 S 6 ‘17 400w

=FARRAR, GILBERT POWDERLY.= Typography of advertisements that pay. il *$2.25 Appleton 659 17-18351

This book “discusses type and combinations of type, blank spaces in
which cuts and text appear as islands or peninsulas, the various kinds
of effective illustrations, serious and comic, and it reproduces
dozens of more or less effective examples, ... distributed according
to a general classification as the Forceful educational, the Passive
educational, the Hand-lettered, the Poster, the Character and the
Comic, the Small space, the Mail order and the Department
store.”—Boston Transcript

“Takes up the mechanical side of advertising and goes into more detail
than Sherbow’s ‘Making type work’ in that it discusses the picture and
engraving side, hand lettering and borders. Has many more examples
than Sherbow.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17

“Mr Farrar’s book is admirably adapted to classroom work because of
its good arrangement, well-chosen illustrations, and its simple manner
of presenting technical material. A peculiar virtue of the book is
that the type faces are placed in close relationship to the
advertisements that employ them. An excellent chapter is that entitled
Putting the advertisement together. The chapter on Making the message
quick and sure is a most excellent treatment of the employment of
types for the essential purpose of making clear what you have to say.”
J. W. Piercy

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 250w

“Full of excellent suggestions, wise advice, and practical help.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w

“There are few firms that could not improve their advertising—and
their sales—by observing some of the principles of lettering and type
set forth in this useful book.”

+ =Ind= 91:441 S 15 ‘17 120w

“This useful volume supplies a very definite need among advertising
men and printers.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:366 O ‘17 30w

=FARRER, JAMES ANSON.= Monarchy in politics. *$3 (3c) Dodd 942.07 (Eng ed 18-388)

“An impartial inquiry into the actual practical working of
constitutional monarchy in England during the reigns of George III,
George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria, as illustrated by the
evidence of the letters, memoirs, diaries, and speeches of
contemporary statesmen, and especially of the letters of those
sovereigns themselves to their ministers, or others, in respect of the
chief foreign and domestic problems of their reigns. The writer’s
endeavour has been to glean from as wide a field as possible of the
best contemporary sources the chief evidence that bears on the
position of the crown in our system of government.” (Publisher’s note)
A three-page bibliography of the chief works consulted is included in
the front of the volume, following the table of contents.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

+ =Ath= p671 D ‘17 360w

“Mr Farrer has demonstrated to foreign students of British government
a fact which they are too prone to disregard, namely, that while the
legal powers of the monarch may have dwindled down to almost nothing,
the personal influence of a strong-willed sovereign may still prove to
be a factor of great consequence. No student of modern European
history or of English government can afford to overlook this volume.”

+ — =Nation= 106:93 Ja 24 ‘18 800w

“There are one or two inaccuracies of names and dates; but we can
recommend the book to serious readers, who wish to examine
historically the exercise of kingly power by the house of Hanover. The
part of Mr Farrer’s book to which most readers will turn with greatest
attention is his account of the intervention in politics of Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert.”

+ =Sat R= 124:483 D 15 ‘17 1550w

“Mr Farrer has chosen the method of telling an almost consecutive
story out of the letters and memoirs of the chief actors, and done it
with no little skill, for his book contains a quantity of information
which, though not new, was well worth bringing together, while it is
at the same time quite entertaining.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p548 N 15 ‘17 850w

=FARRÈRE, CLAUDE, pseud. (CHARLES BARGONE).= Man who killed; tr. by Magdalen C. Schuyler. *$1.50 Brentano’s 17-29736

“Pera, where the Orient apes European streets and shops and
manners, ... and across the Golden Horn, Stamboul, its minarets and
domes rising like white bubbles over the grass-grown Turkish
cemeteries. In this curious setting is enacted the little drama, whose
principal characters are a French military attaché, an English
‘Director of the Ottoman debt,’ his wife, his Scotch mistress, and a
secretary of the Russian embassy. ... M. Farrère has written his
narrative as though it were a group of notes from the journal of the
attaché, the chief protagonist. ... His journal presents both his
fascinating personal adventure and his reaction to the apparently
placid and actually fermenting life about him.”—N Y Times

“M. Farrère has what so many of our contemporary writers
lack—intellectual sophistication and good taste. Dramatic reserve,
intelligent characterization, and an exotic background, painted with
beauty and understanding, make a strange tale plausible and worth the
reading.”

+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 180w

“The impressiveness of the story is created not so much by the
plausibility of the situation as by a style which even translation
does not destroy. The title alone seems unfortunate, for it might be
the caption for any cheap thriller, but the novel is the work of a
clever technician and a well-informed teller of tales.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:452 N 4 ‘17 350w

=FAULKNER, HAROLD UNDERWOOD.= Chartism and the churches; a study in democracy. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.25 Longmans 16-25225

This work “is a study of the attitude of the churches to Chartism, and
of the attitude of the Chartists toward the churches, particularly
toward the Established Church of England, which in the early days of
the Chartist movement was, as a national institution intended
primarily for the service of the people, at its lowest ebb. ... Mr
Faulkner’s book is a venture into a field that hitherto had been quite
unexplored either by English or American writers.”—Ind

“The work reveals most extensive use of the voluminous literature of
the subject, is interesting and free from bias. The indexing is
inadequate. The chief defect of this study is in its failure to make
connection with anti-ecclesiastic and anti-clerical influences which
in the period preceding Chartism had come to be widespread through
Owenism.” H. E. Mills

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:607 S ‘17 250w

“A book of which the full value is not stated when it has been said
that it is an excellent, almost indispensable companion volume to
those of Messrs Rosenblatt and Slosson. It is a distinct contribution
also to the history of the Established church, the Roman Catholic
church, and the Nonconformist or free churches of England and Scotland
in the first ten or fifteen years of Queen Victoria’s reign. It deals
with an aspect of organized Christianity in Great Britain which has
been generally ignored by church historians, and scarcely mentioned by
the general historians of the nineteenth century.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Hist R= 22:651 Ap ‘17 250w

“There can be no complete understanding of the unbroken success of
the trade union movement, the coöperative movement, and the friendly
societies movement in England, or even a full realization of the
causes which have combined to give England the most politically
independent and the best politically educated working-class of any
country in the world, without some knowledge of the Chartist
movement, of the type of men who were its leaders, and of the
influences—political, social and industrial—that were bred of the
long working-class agitation of the middle years of the nineteenth
century.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w

“A book that is more than a contribution to political history. It is a
book that has its value and its obvious lesson for organized
Christianity in the United States and Canada as well as in England.”
E: Porritt

+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 120w

=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w

“Gives a lively picture of the give-and-take of the free-thinking
Chartists and the ultra-conservative middle-class churchmen. How the
‘Christian socialists’—Frederick Denison Maurice, Charles Kingsley,
Archdeacon Hare, Thomas Hughes and their associates—put a sort of
bridge over the chasm by encouraging popular education and practical
philanthropy is interestingly told.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 220w

“It may confidently be asserted that no serious student of the social
and economic history of Great Britain during the nineteenth century
can afford to miss any one of these three books [on Chartism].” I. C.
Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 200w

=FAULKNER, HERBERT WALDRON.= Mysteries of the flowers. il *$2 (4½c) Stokes 581 17-12041

In simple, untechnical language the author explains blossom structure,
using the wild flowers of the eastern United States as his examples.
The adaptation of structure to cross fertilization by means of insects
is his central theme. There are chapters on: Pistillate flowers and
staminate flowers; Perfect flowers; Floral mechanisms; Orchids; The
wind and the flowers; Self-fertilised flowers; Effort and
accomplishment; Seed sowing. The illustrations are from drawings and
paintings by the author. A number of them are in color.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17

“His study is, however, deeper than merely botanical and presents the
flowers as being living, breathing personalities, striving as do human
beings to attain what is to each the ultimate of life. Through his
sympathetic study and rare insight, we also see their ‘intimate daily
life,’” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 600w

+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 130w

“It is the intimate relation between author and subject that attracts
the reader in this vivified botany, which is as good for the lay
reader as for the student and interesting to both.”

+ =Lit D= 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 150w

“The ‘study’ is made so attractive, and the book is so thoroughly
readable, that both children and grown folk will delight in the pages
that have in them so much, not only of botanical lore, but of the
actual vitality of the plants’ being.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 80w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 90w

=FAXON, FREDERICK WINTHROP=, ed. Annual magazine subject-index, 1916; including as pt. 2, The dramatic index, 1916. *$8.50 Boston bk. 050

“This, the tenth volume of the Magazine subject-index, follows the
same plan as the previous annuals, and furnishes a subject-index to
the less common American and English periodicals.” (Preface) New
periodicals added are: American-Irish Historical Society Journal;
International Review of Missions; Trail and Timberline, and Biblical
Review. The magazine index constitutes part 1 of the volume. Part 2
contains the Dramatic index for 1916, to which is added an appendix
giving a list of Dramatic books and plays (in English) published
during 1916.

=FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA.= Library of Christian cooperation. 6v *$5; ea *$1 Missionary education movement 206 17-10987

The reports of the third quadrennial meeting of the Federal council of
the churches of Christ in America, held in St Louis in December, 1916,
are presented in these six volumes. Volume 1, The churches of Christ
in council, prepared by Charles S. Macfarland, general secretary, is a
general report, giving the official record of the proceedings of the
Council. Volumes 2 and 3, prepared by Mr Macfarland and Sidney L.
Gulick are devoted to The church and international relations,
presenting the report of the Commission on peace and arbitration. The
activities of the Commission on peace and arbitration, the independent
peace activities of the constituent bodies and other religious groups,
and the activities of the Church peace union and other cooperating
bodies are covered, and volume 3 closes with discussions of The duty
of the churches of America in the light of national and of world
conditions. The subject of international problems is continued in
volume 4, with the report of the Commission on relations with Japan.
Volume 5 is devoted to Christian cooperation and world redemption and
consists of the reports of several special committees. Volume 6,
prepared by Henry H. Meyer, deals with Cooperation in Christian
education.

“As a record of proceedings the volumes are cumbered with much matter
which is of little interest to the ordinary reader, or even to the
student of social and ecclesiastical movements. Volume 5 carries the
largest measure of value to the ordinary Christian worker and the
church.” A. W. Anthony

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:623 O ‘17 500w

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Any comparison of the relative importance of the books would be
unfair, for each has its own remarkable value. As unique and
significant as any is the report on Christian education. The set makes
a permanent contribution to the history of American Christianity.”

+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 200w

“The fourth volume [on Japan] is a very able and frank discussion of a
delicate question.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 330w

“The second, third and fourth volumes contain a splendid summary of
the peculiar problems facing the American church because of the war in
Europe, and are a thrilling call to the proclamation of the gospel of
peace.”

+ =Ind= 91:513 S 29 ‘17 240w

=FENOLLOSA, ERNEST FRANCISCO, and POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Noh; or, Accomplishment; a study of the classical stage of Japan. *$2.75 Knopf 895

This volume includes translations of fifteen examples of the “Noh” or
classical drama of Japan, which arose in the fifteenth century of our
era, came near to perishing at the revolution of 1868, and is now “the
pride and pleasure of the cultivated element of Japan.” “In a
prefatory note the English author states that the ‘vision and the
plan’ are the late Ernest Fenollosa’s, that in the prose portion of
the book he (Mr Ezra Pound) has ‘had but the part of literary
executor,’ and that in the plays his work has been ‘that of translator
who has found all the heavy work done for him, and who has had but the
pleasure of arranging beauty into the words.’” (Ath) Mr Fenollosa, who
served as Imperial commissioner of arts in Japan and was in close
touch with Mr Umèwaka Minoru, the official hereditary master of Noh
ceremonies in the Shogun’s household, contributes a concise essay on
the origins and development of the Noh drama. “In the appendixes and
elsewhere are numerous details concerning the care and selection of
costumes, the masks used, and the like; and at the end of the book is
an attempt to record some of the music of one of the plays.” (Ath)

=Ath= p100 F ‘17 250w

“Mr Pound, in his notes and comments, writes with his usual
unceremonious directness. ... And as the volume is made by the Clarks,
of Edinburgh, a ‘serious’ house, one notes, with gratification, an
almost complete suppression of Mr Pound’s tendency toward
typographical willfulnesses and eccentricities.” H: B. Fuller

=Dial= 63:209 S 13 ‘17 900w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:135 S ‘17 50w

“When we have read ‘Noh; or, Accomplishment,’ our first feeling is
that of gratitude to Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound for bringing this
remote but serious and beautiful art so close to us. On Fenollosa’s
part it meant the devoted labor of more than twenty years. Ezra Pound
has given a shorter term of labor, but he is one with Fenollosa in his
loyalty to the spirit of ‘Noh.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:576 D 23 ‘17 850w

=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 100w

“A curious thing about the plays is their diction. We know not if it
be because Mr Pound is steeped in the works of Maeterlinck, the school
of Synge, and the poetry of Mr Yeats, but certain it is that in
phraseology and dialogue they continually remind one of these
authors. ... We in the West are not in a position, with the data
available, to arrive at a full appreciation of ‘Noh.’ ... But we may
gain some perception at least of the delicacy, the lofty idealism, and
the noble hopefulness which are among the essential qualities of an
art that, in Fenollosa’s words, ‘has been a purification of the
Japanese soul for 400 years.’”

* =Sat R= 123:527 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Pound describes the Japanese classical drama as in form
approaching most nearly to the Greek plays. But it is, we think, a
very slight resemblance, and certainly in spirit and expression it is
peculiarly individual. There is about it a simplicity such as is to be
found in a Hans Andersen fairy-tale, a wealth of imagery reminding us
of the Celtic drama, and again a dignity of imagination which is like
nothing so much as some of the work of the Hebrew poets. ... Mr
Pound’s translation is admirable in most respects, but we wish that he
did not show a tendency to be influenced by the vocabulary of the
Celtic drama.”

+ — =Spec= 118:543 My 12 ‘17 750w

“The uninitiated foreigner is enabled by Mr Pound’s mastery of
beautiful diction to appreciate the alternately wistful and proud
appeal of these ghostly masterpieces. ... Two points of cardinal
interest are emphasized and driven home by this vivacious rendering of
archaic compositions—their intense humanity and their indifference to
realism.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p41 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w

=FERBER, EDNA.= Fanny herself. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-25431

Fanny Brandeis, like Miss Ferber’s Emma McChesney, was a successful
business woman. Her mother, Molly Brandeis, who, after her husband’s
death, ran Brandeis’ Bazaar in the little middle western town of
Winnebago, was also a good business woman, but she died of pneumonia,
brought on by overwork, when Fanny was twenty-four. Then Fanny, swayed
by “a bitter sorrow, and ambition, and resentment” made up her mind to
crush out sympathy and unselfishness and the artistic impulse in
herself, and to mold herself into “a hard, keen-eyed resolute woman,
whose godhead was to be success, and to whom success would mean money
and position.” She went to work in the Haynes-Cooper mail order house,
where she made good, and in a few years was earning her $10,000. Then
she had to choose between a still greater business success with
Michael Fenger, former manager of the Haynes-Cooper concern, and a
chance to develop her talent as a cartoonist and to marry Clarence
Heyl, who had loved her for years, and who did not see the real values
of life in terms of cash. Other characters are Father Fitzpatrick, the
Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove
department of Haynes-Cooper; and Fanny’s brother, Theodore, the young
violinist, to secure whose musical education Mrs Brandeis and her
daughter had made such sacrifices. Emma McChesney also plays a very
slight part in the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 70w

“An element in the story which we are seldom allowed to forget is the
racial one. With all the recent emphasis upon the Jew in literature,
it is hard to call to mind a story which so fully developed those
distinctly higher attributes of the Jew. ... Fanny Brandeis becomes,
as we read the story, something more than an individual character. She
becomes typical of that slaying of the ideal for the material which is
going on day after day in thousands of Fanny Brandeises all over the
United States.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 1000w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w

“The most serious, extended and dignified of Miss Ferber’s books. Its
first half, in particular, is quite the best work that the creator of
Emma McChesney has done.”

+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 260w

=Nation= 105:431 O 18 ‘17 400w

“It is Molly Brandeis who, with the little town of Winnebago, Wis.,
makes this story of ‘Fanny herself’ worth while.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 800w

“A notable advance in the author’s previous fiction work.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 70w

“Yet there were here and there discerning readers who failed to find
in them [the Emma McChesney stories] a fulfilment of the promise
offered in ‘Dawn O’Hara.’ For this reason there should be much
rejoicing over Miss Ferber’s new volume and second novel. And the fact
that she has produced her effects out of practically the same
well-worn, almost shabby stage properties of her earlier stories, is
perhaps the most conclusive evidence that she has this time arisen
from mere talent to something containing a lurking spark of what, for
lack of a better word one may call genius.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 93:208 Ja 19 ‘18 360w

“Fanny’s mother is a striking creation, and her personality goes a
long way toward lifting the story above the commonplace.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w

=FERGUSON, JOHN DE LANCEY.= American literature in Spain. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 810 17-263

“Systematic study of the European reputations of American authors is a
thing of recent date,” says the author. His purpose in this book is to
make such a study with respect to Spain. The chief source of knowledge
of American literature in Spain, he finds, has been France. There have
been a few exceptions in which communication between the literatures
of the two countries has been direct, notable among them the case of
Irving, whose relations with Spain were personal. Another way of entry
has been thru Spanish America. Chapters of the book are devoted to
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prescott, Emerson, Whitman. The
bibliography is pronounced by the author the most important part of
the work.

+ =Cath World= 105:107 Ap ‘17 350w

“Regarding his work as a dissertation for the doctorate, one is
disposed to be severe upon this contribution to scholarship: it deals
chiefly with the exuberant and bombastic opinions of men whose words
are without value; it is devoid of philosophical conclusions; further,
we do not recall reading a dissertation whose body was so compactly
made up of quotation.”

— =Nation= 104:552 My 3 ‘17 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 450w

=FERNALD, ROBERT HEYWOOD, and ORROK, GEORGE ALEXANDER.= Engineering of power plants. il *$4 McGraw 621 16-24435

“To the worthy treatises on power-plant engineering of Gebhardt,
Hutton, Hubbard and others, these eminent authors have added an
equally worthy volume. The new book is of great interest to
industrial-plant owners and engineers, as the treatment is both by
description and discussion and introduces specific data at every
turn. All kinds of power are touched on, though steam and
internal-combustion plants are naturally given the most space.”
(Engin News-Rec) Of the two authors, the first is professor of
dynamical engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, the second
is a consulting engineer in New York city.

“Useful in connection with Gebhardt (4th ed. Booklist 10:80 O ‘13) but
will not replace that standard work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:204 F ‘17

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 70w

“Is a happy medium of practice and theory that has been greatly
lacking in books of this nature. ... Does not cover details of design
or operation of the different parts of power plant equipment ... but
considers the power plant as a whole from the standpoint of economical
power production.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:451 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from National
Engineer p149 Ap ‘17)

=FERNAU, HERMANN.= Coming democracy. *$2 (2c) Button 940.91 17-24321

Herr Fernau, a German democrat and pacifist and author of “Because I
am a German,” published the original German version of his present
book in Berne, Switzerland, under the title “Durch!... zur
demokratie,” before the Russian revolution and the entry of the United
States into the war. “The whole of this new book is devoted to the
thesis that war now, as always, springs from a false and perverted
form of internal government—a form of government to which he gives the
name of a ‘dynasty’; the form under which the whole welfare of the
people is subordinated to a small ruling caste or family; external war
has always been and will always remain the chief weapon by which the
dynasty maintains authority over its own people, and the only means by
which it can be overthrown is defeat in war.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup) Herr Fernau preaches “Germany for the Germans,” and hopes for a
defeat of the German arms as the best way of realizing this. “For what
would happen if we Germans emerged victorious from this war? Our
victory would only mean a strengthening of the dynastic principle of
arbitrary power all along the line. Those of us who bewail the
political backwardness of our Fatherland must realize that a ‘German’
victory would prolong this backward condition for centuries. And not
only Germany but the whole of Europe would have to suffer the
consequences.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18

“He writes rather in anger than in sorrow; and, since he is a German,
he would be more conciliating and convincing if he were less vehement
and intemperate in his language.”

– + =Ath= p517 O ‘17 250w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w

“The author clearly shows what indeed only a native German could show,
the very strong differences and opposition between the German people
and their rulers.”

+ =Cath World= 106:389 D ‘17 400w

“He sincerely believes, in common with many Americans, that wars will
cease with the disappearance of dynasties. If his book will enforce
this illusion, its present value is questionable.” V. T. Thayer

— =Dial= 63:515 N 22 ‘17 1050w

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 130w

“There is little that is new, in these bitter and even cynical pages,
for the reader who has kept moderately well abreast of the anti-German
literature of the war. Moreover, destructive criticism, especially
when forged in great heat, may easily go too far. Indeed, a reading of
the book suggests the extremely useful service that would be rendered
if some one who knows Germany and its people as well as Mr Fernau does
would point out just what the Germans could do, under their existing
constitution, to bring about the régime of popular government which
President Wilson, for example, believes to be a prerequisite to
peace.”

– + =Nation= 105:516 N 8 ‘17 330w

“Herr Fernau has given us a most remarkable work, a most powerful and
convincing analysis of past German history.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w

“‘The coming democracy’ is an astounding book, so unexpected is it to
find such clear, keen insight into German conditions, such fearless
presentation of facts, such merciless, sardonic, biting humor in
statements coming from a German source.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1050w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 90w

“For the most part, Fernau’s logic is inexorable, but here and there
he is guilty of a curious fallacy, as when, for instance, he holds
dynasties exclusively responsible for the horrors of war, and also
declares that the ideal of fighting for a fatherland perished with the
Greeks.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:229 S 22 ‘17 1050w

“Hermann Fernau is a true patriot, a passionate lover of the German
people and of the old German fatherland. ... A considerable part of
his book is given up to showing, as only a German brought up under the
system can appreciate and show, how a small ambitious group of men
may, by means of it, control absolutely the souls, minds, and bodies
of a great nation. ... His analysis of the German constitution should
be studied by those who still believe that the German people have any
active share in the government of their country.”

+ =Spec= 119:217 S 1 ‘17 1850w

“The book is one of the most important contributions to the literature
of the war. The subject and matter, is, indeed, not new, but it is put
in a new light. ... The translation is excellent.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w

=FERRI, ENRICO.= Criminal sociology. (Modern-criminal science ser.) *$5 Little 364 17-13931

This book by “the first of living criminal sociologists,” is divided
into four parts: Data of criminal anthropology; Data of criminal
statistics; Positive theory of penal responsibility; Practical
reforms. “Signor Ferri, who belongs to the so-called positive school
of criminology, is a scientific socialist; moreover, he utterly
demolishes the orthodox theory of freedom of the will. He regards all
crime as a social disease which must be treated as every other disease
is treated: clinically. Mild forms need only a change of diet or
environment with very little if any medicine of the law; the
contagious cases must be isolated as we isolate smallpox and
diphtheria until there is a perfect cure or until it is proved that
there is no cure possible. He recognizes that many criminals are
insane, hopelessly insane. His own belief is that the penalty of death
is advisable in the instances where an insane criminal is dangerous to
society; but that is immaterial. Protection of the community in which
criminals are found is the one vital thing.” (Boston Transcript) The
book, first published in Italian in 1880, is translated by Joseph I.
Kelly and John Lisle; edited by William W. Smithers; and has
introductions by Charles A. Ellwood and Quincy A. Myers.

“An important book for college and special reference libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

“This volume gives one of the best pictures of the changes through
which criminal sociology has passed in the last half century.” W: B.
Bailey

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 240w

“No one today can make a pretense of familiarity with the modern
sciences of criminology who has not read this work. If criticisms are
to be made of the Italian school, they should be made on the basis of
the ideas here set forth. The American institute has rendered a great
service to English civilization by the translation of this book.” J.
P. Lichtenberger

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:303 N ‘17 380w

“It may be that the author of this volume is (as certainly he makes it
abundantly evident that he thinks he is) the greatest living authority
on criminology, but he is so rambunctiously controversial that he
overloads his treatise with a vast mass of perfectly unnecessary
arguments directed against every person who has ever dared to enter
this great field. ... It is much to be desired that a greatly
shortened summary of Signor Ferri’s constructive philosophy of crime
might be extricated from his bulky volume, eliminating entirely the
controversial portions and leaving only the pure gold of his admirable
doctrine, based on his actual observations.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 1150w

“Enrico Ferri, is a positivist of the Italian school, who holds that
crime is a biologic and social abnormality, produced in part at least
by extra-social forces. ... His hatred of religion breathes on every
page. ... We regret very much that the American institute cannot find
American scholars to write on these topics objectively, instead of
translating works nearly forty years old of anti-Christian bigots.”

— =Cath World= 105:548 Jl ‘17 300w

“This book still remains the most distinguished general contribution
to the subject of criminology, though much of its data and some of its
conclusions are now out of date.” L. L. Bernard

+ =Dial= 63:338 O 11 ‘17 1000w

+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 500w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w

“One of the most valuable volumes in a useful series. Ferri’s
classification of criminals appears to us now somewhat overlapping and
difficult to establish in given cases by practicable tests.” K. H.
Claghorn

+ — =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 350w

=FETTER, FRANK ALBERT.= Economics. 2v v 2 *$1.75 Century 330

=v 2= Modern economic problems.

“A year ago there appeared a book by Professor Fetter dealing with the
broader economic principles of value and distribution. This is now
followed by a volume entirely devoted to the treatment of practical
problems which furnish concrete illustrations and applications of the
principles developed in the earlier volume. These are grouped under
the following heads: Resources and economic organization; Money and
prices; Banking and insurance; Tariff and taxation; Problems of the
wage system, and Problems of industrial organization. The two books
are intended to cover a complete course in economics, but they are so
arranged that they may be used separately.”—R of Rs

“The sentiment of the book is thoroughly modern and progressive, but
the policies advocated are based upon scientific principles throughout
rather than upon the popular reform policies of the hour. The wisdom
of confining references to other works, and bibliographical material
in general, to a separate manual, may be questioned. Many readers of
the text will, presumably, never see the ‘Manual’ but still will need
guidance to further study of those problems in which they are
particularly interested.” W. I. K.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 230w

“The reviewer knows of no other economic text book where the
application of principles to practical problems is more successfully
made. The result is that much merely confusing descriptive material is
eliminated, and what remains is solid and stimulating. From this point
of view, the book will probably make a strong appeal to the teacher,
to the student and to the general reader.” E. E. Agger

+ =Educ R= 54:90 Je ‘17 780w

“This work is, in a sense, a sequel to a book published by the same
author a year ago. ... It will repay careful study because it dispels
a number of popular fallacies and because, as has been said, it offers
an excellent introduction to the more modern method of dealing with
economic phenomena.”

+ =Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 180w

“Professor Fetter’s discussion is clear and well-informed, and his
conclusions are temperate and suggestive.”

+ =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 100w

=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 100w

=FICKE, ARTHUR DAVISON.= April elegy. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-12484

“An April elegy,” the poem that fills the first half of this book, is
a verse narrative, telling the story of two lovers who fail ever to
recapture the passionate beauty of their first meeting. The remainder
of the book is taken up with three groups of poems: Seven Japanese
paintings; Lyrics; Café sketches. Some of the poems have appeared in
the Little Review, Poetry, Century, Midland, and other magazines.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

“Unlike some of his fellow poets of the new school, however, Mr Ficke
has a genuine gift of poetic expression; he has, too, a disciplined
metrical skill that shows to advantage in his handling both of the
ordered verse forms and of free verse; finally, he always has
something to say and says it intelligibly. ... In all his work it is
when Mr Ficke is most purely lyrical that he is most delightful.” R.
T. T.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1000w

“The poems mingle bald realism and free verse with imaginative and
lyric beauty. In intellectual content, they are subtle and at times
difficult of interpretation. Mr Ficke is best known from his ‘Sonnets
of a portrait painter’ and as an interpreter of Japanese art.”

=Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 80w

“The whole-hearted sentimentalism of ‘An April elegy’ will certainly
recommend it to many, though scarcely to those readers whom Mr Ficke’s
real powers and previous performance fit him to address.” Odell
Shepard

– + =Dial= 63:341 O 11 ‘17 380w

“In eight sonnets of his new volume the proud and sombre note of Mr
Ficke’s ‘Sonnets of a portrait-painter’ is audible in renewed vigor
and beauty. Next in merit to these poems, I should place, I think,
‘Seven Japanese paintings.’ ‘An April elegy’ is equally unworthy of
its associates and its parentage.” O. W. Firkins

+ – — =Nation= 105:245 S 6 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 60w

“Full of impassioned beauty, rich restraint, and romantic appeal.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 300w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 80w

“Verily, this is a book for a diverse public or for a single reader
with very catholic taste. Mr Ficke at times reaches the Pierian hights
of the old school, and at times approaches the gutter depths of much
of the new.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w

=FIELD, CLIFTON COUTARD.= Retail buying. (Harper’s retail business ser.) *$1.25 (2½c) Harper 658 17-21788

The author, recently instructor in merchandizing in the University of
Wisconsin, has also held positions with Marshall Field & Co., of
Chicago, and James McCreery & Co., of New York. His book aims to give
“a simple and readable explanation of what is best to-day in buying
principles and practice.” (Editor’s introd.) Contents: The merchant as
a buyer; Merchandise; Buying practice; Stock systems.

“A book list of descriptive material issued by manufacturers will be
suggestive to librarians who wish to build up a working trade
collection.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 20w

“Gives many convenient hints as to kinds and qualities of commodities,
especially in the clothing trades.”

+ =Ind= 91:441 S 15 ‘17 60w

“The style is matter of fact, almost laconic. There is an element of
stiffness and bluntness in it that appears to arise from lack of
practice in writing. The discussion, however, is clear and usually
simple. The real contribution in this book is to be found in part 3,
entitled ‘Buying practice.’ It is just here that an undeveloped field
was entered.” C. S. Duncan

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1053 D ‘17 1200w

=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 40w

“Instructive reading for any one connected with retail buying or
selling.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w

=FIELD, LOUISE MAUNSELL.= Little gods laugh. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-23975

In this story of New York society Miss Field has given us a picture of
the development of a high-minded young woman of good family, who, bred
to position and ease, finds herself obliged to make her own way in the
world. The refreshing side of the story is in its normality. Nita
Wynne, through the interest of friends, uses and develops her natural
abilities and though she, of course, loses leisure, she does not in
any way lose her proper position. But her experiences do teach her to
view life whole rather than from the narrow angle of her girlhood.

“The story is told with dignity and charm.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“There is some clever characterization, but that is not a sufficient
excuse for the addition of one more novel to the already overlong list
of American mediocrities.”

– + =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 50w

“It is a real achievement of the author that Nita is never a prig. In
her most intolerant moments there is something likeable, and very
human, about her. The characters and incidents of the book are
interesting and its theme is thoroughly wholesome and sane.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 450w

Fifes and drums; a collection of poems of America at war. (Vigilantes books) *$1 Doran 811.08 17-18155

“The Vigilantes’ headquarters are in New York, its members are
authors, artists and other professional workers, and its purposes are
thus described: ‘To arouse the country to a realization of the
importance of the problems confronting the American people. To awaken
and cultivate in the youth of the country a sense of public service
and an intelligent interest in citizenship and national problems. To
work vigorously for preparedness, mental, moral, and physical.’”
(Boston Transcript) “These poems, written under the immediate stress
of great events by the Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the
emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight
preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war.”
(Foreword) Some of the contributors are Amelia Josephine Burr, Don
Marquis, Clinton Scollard, Wallace Irwin, Edith M. Thomas, George E.
Woodberry, Cale Young Rice, Theodosia Garrison, Percy MacKaye and
Hermann Hagedorn.

“Their literary excellence is very high. It would be easy to forgive
much under the circumstances, but there is nothing to forgive. ... To
single out a single poem in any collection as superlatively the best
is usually futile and an invitation to violent argument, but we have
no reluctance to place Miss Garrison’s ‘April 2nd’ at the head.” E. F.
E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1000w

“The whole anthology carries a glowing atmosphere of enthusiasm, every
page breathing the wide range of high human emotion which is brought
into being during the stress of wartime.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 260w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 180w

=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Some defects in English religion, and other sermons. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1 (3½c) Young ch. 252

The defects in English religion to which the author devotes the first
four sermons in this book are Sentimentalism, Legalism, Cowardice, and
Complacency. This series of sermons was preached in Grosvenor chapel,
Mayfair, in August, 1916. Among the other sermons in the volume is a
group on The mysteries of love, preached as a Lenten series.

“A master of the philosophic ideas of history, and equally at home
with Bernard Shaw or Nietzsche and the significant movements of today
in letters, Dr Figgis is a preacher of an unusual sort.”

+ =Sat R= 123:260 Mr 17 ‘17 370w

=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Will to freedom; or, The gospel of Nietzsche and the gospel of Christ. *$1.25 Scribner 193 17-15172

“Dr Figgis, who is a member of the Community of the Resurrection, a
religious order of the Church of England, was invited to deliver the
Gov. Bross lectures at Lake Forest university in Illinois in 1915, and
made the German philosopher his subject.” (Springf’d Republican) “In
the lectures he aims at correcting some prevalent misconceptions as to
Nietzsche and his influence in Germany. The six lectures deal in turn
with ‘Nietzsche the man,’ ‘The gospel of Nietzsche,’ ‘Nietzsche and
Christianity,’ ‘Nietzsche’s originality,’ ‘The charm of Nietzsche,’
and ‘The danger and the significance of Nietzsche.’ In particular Dr
Figgis insists that, unlike Stirner, Nietzsche did not teach egotism,
but rather a religion of valour involving the sacrifice of immediate
desire to an ideal of nobility; egotism being, indeed, in direct
opposition to some of Nietzche’s most important principles, such as
natural asceticism, the sacrifice of ages in order to speed the
superman, the raising of the type of man. But while endeavouring to
set before us a reconsideration of much of Nietzsche’s position in a
more favourable light than the controversialists of recent years
generally allow, Dr Figgis protests equally against those who argue
that because Nietzsche in his later years held and loudly expressed
anti-Russian views therefore modern Germany was not deeply influenced
by him.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

Reviewed by W. C. A. Wallar

=Am J Theol= 22:150 Ja ‘18 650w

=A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p462 S ‘17 180w

“There may be, however, some doubt whether many who call themselves
Christian would accept Dr Figgis’s statement that they ‘assert the
will to freedom.’ That is the weakness of the book; for it is only too
easy to make out that anything that is true or good is Christian.”

+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 550w

“For the reader who has not time for the writings of Nietzsche but who
would like to know what it is all about, this is the book.”

+ =Bib World= 50:254 O ‘17 700w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 30w

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w