Chapter III: Front Matter (3)

“Andreyev’s genius for analysis attains an intensity at times that is
fairly hypnotic. ... But the analysis is not all. There are moments of
great poetic freshness—pages of lyric beauty with accents exultant or
despairing, as in the vivid pictures of springtime in Petrograd, or
the moonlit city, still and mysterious and fearful, or the scene in
the depot where the wounded soldiers arrive.”

+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 280w

=Pratt= p50 O ‘17 20w

“This diary of a non-combatant increasingly touched by war is one of
the most remarkable books the war has produced.”

+ =Sat R= 123:207 Mr 3 ‘17 720w

“There is no purpose or propaganda here. All Andreyeff wants is to be
honest, and he leaves you to make what you like of it. ... This
honesty is what makes the book so absorbing, that and two other
things; first, the extraordinary skill with which, in the simplest
words, Andreyeff creates his little man and the splendid wife and the
jolly children and the rest; and secondly, the fact that Ilya
Petrovitch Dementev is a universal type. Even a brief, terrible
description of how some women were tortured by Turks—Andreyeff’s one
lapse into the ghastly—cannot altogether dismay you, for even here
there is more pity than horror.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p92 F 22 ‘17 950w

=ANESAKI, MASAHARU.= Nichiren, the Buddhist prophet. il *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 294 16-17131

“This study is a kind of foreword to the author’s forthcoming work on
the ‘Religious and moral development of the Japanese.’ The teachings
and influence of Nichiren have played a large part in the present
religious attitude of the Japanese nation. He has been called the
‘Nietzsche of Japan.’ ... His teachings, which unified religion and
ethics, rescued pure Buddhism from the contamination of spurious
beliefs and restored it to the purity of its original high ideals and
to the worship of one Buddha (Buddha Sakya-muni), the Lord of the
universe. To the restored purity of the Buddhist faith can be
traced—at least in part—the great vitality of the Japanese nation.”—R
of Rs

“This sketch, written under the inspiration of Professor Royce and his
own experiences as professor of Japanese literature and life at
Harvard, will help to an understanding of Japan.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:196 F ‘17

=Dial= 63:411 O 25 ‘17 200w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:403 Ap ‘17 70w

“Though he never converted the rulers of the land he gathered a
considerable following and founded a sect which is to-day enjoying a
notable revival. Nichiren, moreover, was not only a preacher, but a
writer of real power, and Dr Anesaki has wisely given us many extracts
from the ‘prophet’s’ essays and letters.”

+ =Nation= 104:24 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

“This brief, clear exposition of Nichiren’s personality and teachings
is a distinct contribution to the literature of religious psychology
and a clearly cut portrait of a man western scholars will indeed be
glad to know.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:105 Ja ‘17 270w

“The author is professor of the science of religion at the Imperial
university of Tokio.”

+ =St Louis= 15:94 Mr ‘17 15w

“Undoubtedly the most complete history of the thoughts and acts of
this remarkable man that has ever been published in the English
language.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 330w

Annual of new poetry, 1917. *5s Constable & co., London 821.08

“Thirty pages, and more, of this volume are occupied by ‘dramatic
reveries’ from Mr Gibson’s ‘Livelihood.’ Seven other poets are
included. Two, Mr Davies and Mr Drinkwater, furnish barely twenty
pages between them. There remain Mr Sturge Moore and Mr R. C.
Trevelyan, who contribute each a single long poem, Mr Robert Frost, Mr
Gordon Bottomley, and Mr Edward Eastaway.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p309 Je ‘17 80w

“Perhaps the most interesting contributions to this volume are those
by Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], whose poetic impulse was
stimulated by the example of Robert Frost ... and who now lies dead on
a French battlefield.” E: Garnett

=Atlan= 120:373 S ‘17 210w

“Mr Trevelyan’s drama is pretty enough but has none of the wit and
brilliancy of his best work. ... Mr Gordon Bottomley contributes
several beautiful little poems, all full of the pressure of life and
death and of the greatness of to-day as coming out of yesterday and
travelling to to-morrow. ... Mr Frost’s poems are just little bits of
fact or incident which he has observed, sometimes more or less
interesting, sometimes defiantly commonplace. ... Mr Eastaway is a
real poet, with the truth in him. ... He has no instinct of selection.
Several of his pieces here are not so much poems as notes out of which
poems might have been made. But he has real imagination.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 29 ‘17 2000w

=APUKHTIN, ALEKSIEI NIKOLAEVICH.= From death to life; tr. from the original by R. Frank and E: Huybers. il 60c R. Frank, 15 E. 40th st., N.Y. 17-15469

“This first volume in the Gems of Russian literature series is a
little book of sixty-odd pages containing a novelette by A. Apukhtin,
Russian poet and novelist, who died in middle age a quarter of a
century ago. The novelette might be called an essay in reincarnation,
for it chronicles in the first person the thoughts and emotions of a
man, a member of the Russian nobility, from the moment of his death
until, on the day of his funeral, his individuality enters life again
in the new-born infant of his wife’s maid. This brief shadow time is
filled with intimations of previous existences which waver in and out
through the dead man’s consciousness of what is going on around him,
and it is ended by a passionate longing for life which fills him as
his soul is born again into the body of the infant just entering the
world.”—N Y Times

“The extravagance of the central idea in no way detracts from one’s
enjoyment of the piece. The prose is simple and direct—and the images
are poetic.”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 150w

“Such a trifle might seem memorable if stumbled on or more humbly
presented, but for the first of a number of Gems of Russian literature
it is scarce more glowing than artful glass.”

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“The eerie conceit is told with such simplicity and sincerity that it
carries the air of absolute truth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:260 Jl 8 ‘17 300w

=ARCHER, WILLIAM=, comp. Gems (?) of German thought. *$1.25 Doubleday 940.91 17-15965

Extracts from over eighty books and pamphlets, of which the full
titles and dates of publication are given in every instance, showing,
“the dominant characteristics of German mentality,” and arranged under
the headings: “Deutschland über alles”; German ambitions; War-worship;
Ruthlessness; Machiavelism; England, France, and Belgium—especially
England. Mr Archer states in his introduction that the great majority
of the quotations are taken direct from the original sources, and adds
that “it will be found by anyone who puts the matter to the test that
in no case is there any unfairness in taking these brief extracts out
of their context. The context is almost always an aggravating rather
than an extenuating circumstance.” There is an “Index of books and
pamphlets from which quotations are made,” and an “Index of authors,”
with brief notes placing the different writers in the public life of
Germany.

=A L A Bkl= 14:17 O ‘17

=Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 70w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:264 S 27 ‘17 1300w

=Nation= 105:153 Ag 9 ‘17 330w

“Mr Archer has done an important service, as ingenious as it is real,
to the cause of truth and of sober realization of the fundamental
causes of the great world war by the compilation of this volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:247 Jl 1 ‘17 870w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 140w

“It is unnecessary to insist upon Mr Archer’s qualifications for the
task. As a literary and dramatic critic he has always been
distinguished for independence, honesty, and a remarkable freedom from
all insular bias. ... And his knowledge of continental literature is
based upon first-hand acquaintance with the originals. The method he
has adopted in this book is what might be expected from so well
equipped and conscientious a writer.”

+ =Spec= 118:672 Je 16 ‘17 1700w

“They are meant to amuse us—as they do, except when we stop to reflect
that a certain blindness in the German mind, which they exemplify, and
which is much more a lack of humor than of humanity, has been a trait
that helped to make the war possible.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w

=ARCHER, WILLIAM.= God and Mr Wells; a critical examination of “God, the invisible king.” *$1 Knopf (*1s 9d Watts & co., London) 201 17-24674

“Mr Archer is concerned about what the men of the future may think of
Mr Wells, and accordingly writes what is certainly a witty and
exhilarating, and the publisher calls a ‘complete and crushing,’
rejoinder. ... The critic’s point of view is that of the grave and
respectful rationalist, who believes in the tendency of human progress
towards good, but declines to be persuaded, by what he regards as ‘a
mere system of nomenclature,’ into the belief that Mr Wells has found
a new religion, a new God—in other words, the ‘key to the mystery of
existence.’”—Ath

“As a literary effort, Mr Archer’s book is clearer, more humorous, and
much more convincing than the book that evoked it. We say this without
intending any adjudication on the issues at stake.”

=Ath= p406 Ag ‘17 130w

Reviewed by W: L. Phelps

* =Bookm= 46:723 F ‘18 950w

“Not much is left of Mr Wells’s glowingly imaginative creation after
Mr Archer has devoted a hundred searching pages to its consideration
but a large number of brightly colored shreds and tatters. Mr Archer
has enjoyed himself very much in the making of them and the reader has
equally enjoyed the process. But Mr Archer has not been simply
destructive. As he goes along, and in a score or more of pages at the
end, he modestly outlines a basis for man’s attitude toward the
mystery of the universe and of himself that is austere almost to
grimness but is simple, manful, and reasonable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 750w

=Pittsburgh= 22:769 N ‘17 80w

“In the latter part of his book Mr Archer extends his criticism from
Mr Wells’s theology to Christian theology, and then he strikes us as
no less ineffectual, because no less ignorant, and considerably less
amusing, than Mr Wells when similarly engaged.”

— =Spec= 118:92 Jl 28 ‘17 550w

“Mr Archer is, it seems, an agnostic, and the destructive force of his
Scottish intellect makes havoc with Mr Wells’s confident and bustling
attempt to discover a God in the universe.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 1 ‘17 910w

=ARMSTRONG, HAMILTON FISH=, ed.[2] Book of New York verse. il *$2.50 Putnam 811.08

An anthology of New York verse, fittingly introduced and concluded
with selections from Walt Whitman and celebrating both the ancient
glories and the modern beauties of the city. The early poems in the
collection are arranged in order of events. We have: Verrazano in New
York harbour; Hudson’s last voyage; Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant; When
Broadway was a country road, etc. The later poems are arranged loosely
by locality: Central park; Brooklyn bridge; Washington square;
Broadway. Among the modern poets represented are Sara Teasdale,
Chester Firkins, Dana Burnet, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, James Oppenheim,
and Edward Arlington Robinson. There are over sixty illustrations,
many of them from interesting old prints.

+ — =New Repub= 13:322 Ja 12 ‘18 210w

“In spite of its considerable bulk, this book of New York verse is
hardly ever monotonous. The whole possession of the city’s past is
suggested in the earlier pages, and no reader will leave them without
a keen appreciation of Manhattan nomenclature.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:6 Ja 6 ‘18 620w

=ARNDT, WALTER TALLMADGE.= Emancipation of the American city. *$1.50 (2½c) Duffield 352 17-18177

“Home rule appears to the author to be the first step toward a
solution of the many problems of the modern city. Not only is the
achievement of this step necessary to enable the city to direct its
affairs in its own interest, but it is indispensable to the training
of its citizens in moral self-direction. Concentration of business and
political responsibility through commission government (or its
equivalent), the short ballot, separation of local from national
political issues, the substitution of independent for partisan
tickets, an adequate and irreproachable civil service, the regulation
and curtailment of public-utility franchises, the rationalization and
standardization of the finance methods of the city within the limits
at least of solvency—these are some of the most important reforms
explained and urged.” (Dial) There are seven appendices dealing with
city charters, preferential voting, etc., and a two page bibliography.

“In not a few paragraphs the language, whether of criticism or of
praise, is stronger than a dispassionate analysis of the facts would
support. Nevertheless the book will make an effective appeal to those
who like to drink their potions of reform propaganda with some ginger
mixed in it.”

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:789 N ‘17 150w

“Careful and illuminating study of the principles underlying home
rule.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 130w

“The viewpoint of the author is decidedly sane and progressive, and
the book may be trusted to hold the interest of the average reader.”

+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 200w

“One of the best recent studies and discussions of American municipal
government in the present age of reform.”

+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 100w

“It might be said that Mr Arndt has made available in the most
readable way all the best thought of the intelligent business class
and their unconscious academic allies on municipal government
reform. ... Here, it seems to me, lies the value of the book for us.
It is a compact and handy guide to recent useful political inventions,
some of which it will pay us well to appropriate for our own purpose.
There is, however, abundant evidence in this work of an utter failure
to understand the heaviest burdens to which our cities have fallen
heir.” Evans Clark

+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 14 ‘17 1150w

“One would have welcomed a more detailed account of the beginnings of
municipal reform in this country, with some comment on the pioneers of
the movement.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 160w

“The best field for the book is probably among those newly
enfranchised women who desire a simple, straightforward account of
current reform efforts as an aid in understanding public questions.”
R. S. Childs

+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 180w

=ARNOLD, SARAH LOUISE.= Story of the Sargent industrial school at Beacon, New York, 1891-1916. il Sarah L. Arnold, Simmons college, Boston 640.7 A17-1514

An intimate account of the founding, growth and success of the Sargent
industrial school at Beacon-on-Hudson. To establish a home school for
girls, without an institutional aspect, where culture and refinement
abound, where house-keeping and home-making are efficiently taught,
where the community spirit is nourished—this was the original hope of
the founder. She began her work in 1878 and from that time to the
present has trained more than ten thousand girls. The program provides
courses in sewing, dressmaking, embroidery, cooking, house-keeping,
laundry work, physical training, singing and drawing. The influence of
the school upon the community is a valuable aspect of Mrs Sargent’s
success.

=ARNOLD, THOMAS JACKSON.= Early life and letters of General Thomas J. Jackson, “Stonewall” Jackson. il *$2 Revell 17-241

“From earliest childhood, Mr Arnold (who is a nephew of General
Jackson) tells us, his memory is very clear as to the personal
appearance of General Jackson, ‘and from that time forward I knew him
quite well as a boy would know a man.’ ... In later years, Mr Arnold
knew intimately General Jackson’s boyhood companions, and from them
gathered much unpublished interesting information. In addition, he
recently came into possession of more than one hundred letters from
General Jackson’s private correspondence. Of all this material he has
made good, judicious use, producing what seems to the reader to be a
new, and certainly a true portrait of the famous Confederate
chieftain.”—Lit D

“These evidences of Jackson’s growth and inner life are both
enlightening and characteristic, although it must be said that they do
not materially qualify the picture we have in Dabney’s ‘Life and
campaigns’ or Henderson’s remarkable portrait of more recent years. Mr
Arnold has done his part of the work well and acceptably, without
parade or undue hero-worship.” W: E. Dodd

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:413 Ja ‘18 1150w

=A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 470w

“The domestic qualities of Stonewall Jackson are traced in a biography
by his widow, the military qualities, in the standard biography by
Henderson. Neither Mrs Jackson nor Henderson, however, was fully or
accurately informed about the early life of the great soldier.
Information regarding these formative years has been gathered
carefully by Mr Thomas J. Arnold, Jackson’s nephew, and is now
published. ... For those who would become thoroughly acquainted with
either the exact details of Jackson’s life, or the fulness of his
character, an acquaintance with Mr Arnold’s work is indispensable.”

+ =Dial= 62:250 Mr 22 ‘17 250w

“A somewhat new and very personal view of the Confederate leader.”

+ =Ind= 89:421 Mr 5 ‘17 160w

+ =Lit D= 54:260 F 3 ‘17 850w

=R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 80w

=ARONOVICI, CAROL.= Social survey. (Bu. for social research of the Seybert inst. of Philadelphia) il $1.25 (2½c) Harper press, 1012 Chancellor st., Philadelphia 309.1 16-17518

This work has been developed from a pamphlet that was published as
Bulletin no. 20 of the department of social and public service of the
American Unitarian association. Parts of the book have also appeared
in newspapers and magazines. Its purpose is to suggest lines of
inquiry for those contemplating a local survey. Contents: The meaning
of the survey; General considerations; Character of the community; The
city plan; Local government; Suffrage; Industry; Health; Leisure;
Education; Welfare agencies; Crime; Statistical facts and the survey;
Social legislation and the survey; The facts and the people; A social
program. A list of Social agencies of national scope is given in an
appendix and there is a bibliography of thirty-six pages.

“The volume gives evidence of rather hasty composition. Its
workmanship is distinctly inferior to the grade which the writer has
maintained in special articles. Current platitudes too frequently
appear as substitutes for clear thinking. ... The book gives little or
no evidence of any utilization of the numerous reports of social
surveys. A noticeable deficiency is the absence of even a brief résumé
of the social survey movement. The merits, rather than the
deficiencies, of the book are likely to impress the majority of its
readers. The section on housing is an exceptionally good piece of
work. Well-selected charts provide striking illustrations. ... The
bibliography is of service not only for its representative enumeration
of surveys, but also for the classified selection of books. There is,
however, no acknowledgment of the author’s evident indebtedness to the
‘Bibliography of the social survey,’ published by the Department of
surveys and exhibits of the Russell Sage foundation.” E. W. Burgess

=Am Econ= R 7:424 Je ‘17 420w

“Based on the author’s wide experience as director of the Bureau for
social research, Philadelphia, this book furnishes a good, usable text
for civic clubs and classes or communities which are contemplating a
survey.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:243 Mr ‘17

“Closes with an excellent bibliography.”

+ =Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17 60w

“A useful introduction to the subject for the general reader, as well
as a convenient manual of reference in regard to the important surveys
already completed. The work is characterized thruout by an active
appreciation of the value of facts as a guide to conduct, and of the
value of vision in guiding research.”

+ =Ind= 90:217 Ap 28 ‘17 120w

“It is not a handbook for social surveyors, but it is a first-rate
introduction for the average citizen to the problems of his
community.” R. E. Park

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:752 Jl ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:131 F ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 14:428 D ‘16

=ARTSYBASHEV, MIKHAIL PETROVICH.= Tales of the revolution; tr. by Percy Pinkerton. *$1.50 (1½c) Huebsch 17-26653

There are five stories in this book: Sheviriof; The blood-stain;
Morning shadows; Pasha Tumanof; The doctor. All are stories of men and
women who sacrificed themselves for the revolution. It appears a
hopeless cause, in which a few helpless individuals hurl themselves in
futile rebellion against an invincible power, but the stories, dark as
they are, will be read with a different feeling now, when it is known
that the sacrifice was not in vain.

=A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

“Characterized for the most part by a grim realism.”

=Ath= p253 My ‘17 10w

“This writer never lays himself open to criticism on the ground of
inconsistency or of producing horror merely for horror’s sake. The
emotions that he describes are justified by the situations which
produce them, and these in turn by his characters, who are undoubtedly
real to his experience. ... Personally we read him with mingled
feelings—a deep admiration for his power and a feeling of the futility
of its expenditure.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 400w

“Artzibashef was a very young man when he wrote some of the stories in
‘Tales of the revolution,’ but they show little sign of
immaturity. ... We may not like the Russia he shows us, we may even
profess to disbelieve in its existence, yet he himself is the best
proof that it does exist. It is a Russia that we must take into
account in the present crisis, and in spite of Artzibashef’s black
pessimism, by no means as a factor altogether evil. For it is an
honest and a straightforward and an unsentimental Russia, and even in
its hopelessness it keeps on striving.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

=ASH, SHOLOM.=[2] Mottke, the vagabond (Mottke ganef); tr. and ed. by Isaac Goldberg. *$1.50 (1½c) Luce, J: W. 17-30731

This novel, translated from the Yiddish, is a story of life in a
Jewish village in Russian Poland and in the underworld of Warsaw.
Mottke is born into an overcrowded household. His mother, who gave
birth to a child each year, earned her living and that of her family
by nursing other people’s children, her own being left to survive or
die, as it happened. Mottke, who early shows a tenacious grasp on
life, survives, to grow up an unkempt, unlettered lad, the terror of
his village. At fourteen he had experienced all the sensations of
life—except murder. And that follows not long after. In turn Mottke is
a blower in a glass factory, a member of a troupe of wandering
acrobats, and keeper of a brothel. He is torn between his love for two
women, is moved to reform himself for the sake of one of them, is
betrayed by her, and in the face of the other’s efforts to save him,
gives himself up to defeat.

“The story has the usual characteristic of Russian literature,
frankness, but also a certain wide humanity which makes it
distinctive. In the great conflict of passions running through the
book decency inevitably triumphs. The descriptions of Jewish life,
told in nervous, vivid style are arresting.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 22 ‘17 780w

“The people throughout are well drawn, and the realism with which the
life of the underworld is given makes it at once more pitiful and less
alluring than most authors dare to present it. It is a sordid enough
story, as far as its scenes go. Thieves, vagabonds, outcasts figure in
it very largely. But they are not stereotyped, and therefore they have
those moving qualities which belong to life in all its confusion of
beauty and misery.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 1000w

=ASHBEE, CHARLES ROBERT.= American league to enforce peace; with an introd. by G. Lowes Dickinson. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 341.1 17-24821

“Mr Ashbee, who was one of the few Englishmen present at the
inauguration of the American League to enforce peace, interprets in
this book the tendencies of modern American opinion; and emphasizes
the significance of that movement, which passed almost unnoticed in
England until President Wilson’s speech in June, 1916. Like Mr
Brailsford and others, he considers the adhesion of America to a
League of nations would bring this project into the sphere of
practical politics; and he is alive to the value of the United States
as a counter-weight in the European league; for the United States,
within its own borders, is solving by fusion some problems of
nationality.”—Int J Ethics

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w

=Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 100w

“If Mr Ashbee does not later prove a true prophet, he has at any rate
written a stimulating and incisive analysis of recent American public
opinion towards international problems.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 170w

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 80w

=ASHLEY, ROSCOE LEWIS.= New civics; a textbook for secondary schools. il *$1.20 Macmillan 353 17-11359

“Part 1 is devoted to the topic, ‘The citizen and society,’ and
contains chapters on citizenship, the education of the citizen, the
American nation, civic organization, and the American home and family.