Chapter XXX: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (1)

metamorphosis of the land question into the rent question; of the
equal right to land into the joint right to the rent of land, etc.”
The authors represented in this progression are, Adam Smith, John
Stuart Mill, Patrick Edward Dove, Edwin Burgess, Sir John Macdonell,
Henry George, Rev Edward McGlynn and Thomas G. Shearman. For each of
these a biographical sketch with an estimate of the man’s importance
to the single tax movement is provided. Part 2 has chapters on: A
burdenless tax; Land; Taxation and housing, etc. The preface says,
“While this volume is a revision and enlargement of ‘A single tax
handbook for 1913,’ which it was thought might reappear at intervals,
it is issued with the idea of permanence, as representing the best
authorities, early and late, upon the development of the idea.”

“The book will prove a very useful single-tax document, and Mr
Fillebrown has performed a real service to economists in calling
attention to the need for a redistribution of emphasis in discussing
certain aspects of the single tax. As is perhaps to be expected, where
the material has been gathered from scattered sources, an occasional
slip in statement has crept in.” R. M. Haig

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:894 D ‘17 350w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17

=Ann Am Acad= 73:236 S ‘17 240w

“For a full exposition of the subject, we have seen few books equal to
Mr Fillebrown’s latest effort.” Alexander MacKendrick

+ =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 1050w

“The second part of Mr Fillebrown’s book contains the kind of polemic
for the single tax with which readers of his former publications, and
of single-tax propaganda generally, are familiar. There is much in it
that is plausible, much even that is sound; but there is also a great
admixture of shallow assumption as well as an ignoring of vital
difficulties.”

+ — =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17 30w

“Particularly interesting chapters are ‘The professors and the single
tax,’ disclosing incidentally how much the professors are like the man
in the street in missing the essential point of the doctrine, and ‘A
catechism of natural taxation,’ carefully revised by the best
authorities to meet the inquirer’s questions with the best possible
answers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 380w

=FILSINGER, ERNST B.= Exporting to Latin America; with a foreword by Leo S. Rowe. *$3 Appleton 382 16-17440

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Two qualities in Mr Filsinger’s book stand out as noteworthy: it is
specific and it is comprehensive. When to this statement I add that it
is distinctly a business man’s book, written by a business man who
still has the student’s knack of covering a subject fully and
expressing himself clearly, it may easily be understood that this is
one of the best publications on Latin America that has been placed on
the American market. ... Among the many writers on Latin American
trade Mr Filsinger seems to be almost the discoverer of the effective
work being done by the Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, to
which he devotes considerable, but by no means excessive, space. ...
It would certainly pay every prospective exporter to have a copy not
in his library but on his desk for constant reference and study.” E.
E. Pratt

* + =Am Econ R= 7:122 Mr ‘17 1050w

“An especially interesting chapter is that on Export commission houses
and agents. ... Mr Filsinger’s outline of the function of the export
commission house is followed with the chapter on Traveling salesmen,
general and local agents, which is of particular interest to
manufacturers desiring to market their product by direct
representation overseas. This includes suggestions as to obtaining
foreign agents by correspondence. ... This book is a valuable addition
to a quite substantial bibliography developed by the painstaking work
of Hough, Aughinbaugh and other students of Latin-American trade
problems.” R. H. Patchin

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 650w

“Of unusual practical value is the appendix. This contains, besides
other important information, a detailed description of each of the
Latin American countries, including language, newspapers, currency,
with American equivalents, weights and measures, postage, location,
area, and physical characteristics, population, purchasing power,
railways and transportation, resources, industries, mines, principal
cities, best methods of canvassing the country and the articles most
needed. In another part of the appendix he gives the typical
advertising rates in Latin American export journals, the principal
directories of the Latin American republics, and the principal banks
of the large cities.”

+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 1350w

“Manufacturers and merchants anxious to discover and improve foreign
trade opportunities will find of particular interest the chapters on
Latin-American correspondence, Banking documents, Credits, Catalogues
and quotations, Parcel post and mail order business, but the subjects
covered extend to practically all the questions that business men are
compelled to ask in advertising new lines.”

+ =New Repub= 11:167 Je 9 ‘17 400w

“The work of a man who is president of the Filsinger-Boette shoe
company and consul of Costa Rica and Ecuador in St Louis, and who was
formerly president and commissioner to Latin-America of the
Latin-American foreign trade association. Incidentally Mr Filsinger is
the husband of Sara Teasdale, the poet. ... The book is plainly the
most valuable of its kind that has yet been published.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 23 ‘17 200w

=FINCK, HENRY THEOPHILUS.= Richard Strauss; the man and his works. il *$2.50 (3c) Little 17-26876

A carefully prepared life of the first great realist in music who “has
done for programme music what Wagner did for the opera.” Besides the
story of Strauss’s life and a number of reliable anecdotes, there is
an estimate of his place in the history of music, and a full
description, with critical comments, of his more important
compositions including all the tone poems and operas which have been
launched with so much interest and success. A sympathetic appreciation
of “Richard Strauss: seer and idealist” is contributed by Percy
Grainger who sees the inborn effortless greatness of a man who is a
genius of the purely inspirational order.

“Stimulating to musicians who do understand Strauss; and, for mere
bewildered music lovers who do not, it will serve to foster at least
an ‘intelligent ignorance.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17

“This is a useful survey of the external facts touching the life and
musical compositions of Richard Strauss. But it does not, on the
whole, suggest that it has been a labor of love. Mr Finck makes it
abundantly clear that his reason for writing the book was rather the
fact that Strauss is considered one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, of living composers than that he himself considers him to be
such. And the general tone of Mr Finck’s book is blasé, sometimes
yawningly so.” E: Sapir

+ – — =Dial= 63:584 D 6 ‘17 1900w

“Not only the biggest but also the most interesting and the most
valuable work on this composer yet produced in English. If the book
contained only this sort of intensely personal dislike, paraded as an
attempt to determine Strauss’s place in the history of music, it would
be of small worth. But it contains a deal of more profitable matter.”

+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 350w

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 240w

“It is a big book in more senses than one. ... To be sure, all the
thrice-familiar Finckian critical stigmata are present; his Wagner
worship and the clamorous praise of Rubinstein, Grieg, Paderewski,
Liszt, MacDowell, and Percy Grainger. ... Mr Finck’s musical
enthusiasms are always exhilarating, and while his study of Strauss is
not as significant as his ‘Life of Wagner’—the best biography in
English—we must remember the difference in the career of the two men.
Wagner’s life, like his music, was dramatic. The life thus far of
Strauss has been almost commonplace.” J. G. Huneker

+ — =Nation= 105:462 O 25 ‘17 1550w

“This biography of Strauss the composer has the quality of
sprightliness to an exceptional degree—partly, no doubt, because of
its subject.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 150w

=FINDLATER, MARY, and FINDLATER, JANE HELEN.= Seen and heard before and after 1914. *$1.50 Dutton 17-26479

“There are six stories in this book—the stories of Scottish life that
the Misses Findlater know so well how to tell—and the coming of the
war divides them square in half. This in itself gives the book added
value as a picture of the conflict’s far reactions. For the war came
to the Scotch villages of the Highlands and changed the face of life
for the village folk. And the things that were ‘seen and heard’ after
Aug. 1, 1914, were very different from the Highland happenings of the
hills and villages in the months before. ... The first story is of the
wandering tinkers of the Highlands, and of the claim of their gypsy
life upon all the tinker ‘clan.’ ... The second story is a strange bit
of Highland pathos. ‘When Johnny comes marching home’ is a human
little tale of a village ne’er-do-well, who lost his chance of
manhood, but the second war story is full of whimsical humor and
sweetness. Jane Findlater has written all the tales but one—the last,
‘Real estate,’ longer than most of the others, and rich in human
understanding and charm.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17

“The stories are written with the same feeling for words and
situations which has previously distinguished the work of these two
authors. They show life within a very narrow radius, but the stamp of
truth is on all they write.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 1250w

+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w

+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 60w

“Jane Findlater’s writing has the charm of an older time. ... What we
really get in ‘The little tinker’ is more like the scene of a Dutch
master, incident and atmosphere and character projected upon a tiny
canvas, with sympathy but without sentimentalism. The stories written
after the war are less happy.”

+ =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 180w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w

“A lovable, human book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 300w

+ =Spec= 118:175 F 10 ‘17 1600w

“As always with these writers, it is not the story in itself but the
shrewd and intuitive handling of its elements which gives marked
individuality to the work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 570w

=FIRTH, JOHN BENJAMIN.= Highways and byways in Nottinghamshire. (Highways and byways ser.) il *$2 Macmillan 914.2 (Eng ed 17-7460)

“To an excellent series this is a most readable addition. Mr Firth
writes well and has accumulated a mass of curious information. The
chapters on Nottingham and Newark and the parts they played on
opposite sides in the civil war, the account of Southwell and its
ancient minster, the elaborate description of the dukeries—Welbeck,
Clumber, and Thoresby, all set in the remains of Sherwood Forest—are
the chief features. Robin Hood is cautiously handled. Byron in poverty
at Southwell and in transient splendour at Newstead is another
picturesque figure.”—Spec

“Gives fewer descriptions of scenery than other books in this series.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:397 Je ‘17

+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 130w

“The book is crammed with information, yet it is written with an ease
and grace that any novelist might envy.”

+ =Nation= 104:373 Mr 29 ‘17 190w

“The book is profusely and beautifully illustrated, and the
large-scale maps will be invaluable to the explorer of the byways of
Nottinghamshire.”

+ =Nature= 99:4 Mr 1 ‘17 300w

“Especially interesting in its relation to several of the best-known
families of England.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 40w

“There has scarcely been a better book in the series, and one can
often dip into his ‘Nottinghamshire’ with pleasure and relief. It is a
book to enjoy, and the hours given to it will not be wasted. Mr
Griggs’s illustrations are often delightful too. Some of his drawings
of domestic architecture—notably of old houses in the city of
Nottingham—are very nearly as good as Prout, and we much like his
Southwell minster, west front.”

+ =Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 150w

=Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 140w

“For Americans no other town of Nottinghamshire can have so great
appeal as Scrooby. For Scrooby was the home of William Brewster, the
Pilgrim father, and the little band of Brownists met usually at
Brewster’s house. ... Mr Firth’s spirited pen traces the features of
Nottinghamshire towns, and revives much entertaining local history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 1350w

“A book like this brings strongly home to the reader the tides of
change which have helped to mould the most placid English landscapes.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p53 F 1 ‘17 1300w

=FISH, ADA Z.= American Red cross text-book on home dietetics. il *$1 Blakiston 641.5 17-6350

“The author of ‘Home dietetics’ has emphasized the means of avoiding
illness rather than the ways of catering to it. She has suggested very
concisely the important principles involved in the cooking of food,
and so far as possible has illustrated these principles by directions
for the preparation of common articles of diet.”—Survey

=A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17

“A unique and valuable feature of the book is the emphasis placed on
the importance of hygiene which should be observed in the handling of
food to prevent the spread of disease.” L. H. G.

+ =Survey= 38:75 Ap 21 ‘17 120w

=FISHER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.= Francis Thompson; essays. il $1 (15c) Franklin pub. co., Canton, O. 821 17-17070

A short sketch of the life and an appreciation of the poetry of a rare
spirit whose genius is the nacre covering the grains of hardship as a
pearl was produced for poetry. While after years were kinder to him
than the early period of cruel hardship, he was broken in health and
died at the age of forty-eight. The late Benjamin Fisher was a
sympathetic student of Thompson’s poetry and hoped thru his essays to
interest many in the clear quality of Thompson’s poetical gifts.

“Students of Francis Thompson’s poetry will find interest in this
attractively bound little book.”

+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 170w

“Of flowery and figurative language, this tiny book possesses real
critical grasp, and has itself real beauties of phrase that make us
curious to see that earlier work, ‘Life harmonies,’ praised of Alice
Meynell.”

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w

=FISHER, DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) (MRS JOHN REDWOOD FISHER).= Understood Betsy. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 17-23050

“Betsy has been brought up from infancy by her Aunt Frances, a maiden
lady past her first youth who has deluged the child with love and
anxiety and determination to ‘understand’ her. And so at the age of
nine she has been ‘understood’ into an anaemic, morbid, neurotic,
egotistic condition that saps her rightful enjoyment of childhood and
undermines the promise of useful womanhood. ... A sudden upheaval in
Aunt Frances’s family makes it necessary for Betsy to be sent along to
relatives who live on a farm in Vermont. And there life takes on a
very different complexion. Nobody tries to ‘understand’ her, nobody
pays attention to any of the things that caused Aunt Frances to cuddle
and care for her as if she were an infant. Instead, they put
responsibilities upon her for herself and others, expect her to amuse
herself and in general to be an upstanding, self-reliant little
girl.”—N Y Times

“Published in St Nicholas.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

“The one girls’ story of the season which seems to have the qualities
that make for permanence—Miss Alcott’s qualities, say, of warm
feeling, golden common sense, and ease and simplicity of style.” J:
Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 120w

“Betsy is the concrete example of so much that Mrs Fisher has written
on child training, that we are obliged once again to remark the skill
with which a true story teller can reveal her morals while she is
telling a thoroughly interesting story.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 1250w

“The book is intended primarily for children, but Mrs Fisher with her
usual insight has touched upon a modern tendency in education with an
irony that will be appreciated by their elders.”

+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

“It is a story for a child—or for the child-lover with many
suggestions in child-development and training quite suited to a
teacher.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 210w

“Dorothy Canfield is always extraordinarily likable, even if she has
grown troublingly wistful, and doubtful about cities. ... Her
wistfulness for pioneer conditions saps a necessary confidence in
cities in a way her Montessori mother did not. But is it, after all, a
book for children? Would it not be, of itself, just a little bit of an
Aunt Frances?”

+ =New Repub= 12:166 S 8 ‘17 300w

“It has ostensibly been written for children, but we should be sorry
for any adult who could not enjoy it. ... As a gift to a little nine
or ten year old girl who reads easily, we cannot recommend anything
more charming and worth while than ‘Understood Betsy.’” M. G. S.

+ + =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 340w

“This story about a little girl will be read with pleasure by people
who are small and young, while people who are larger and older also
will read it with pleasure combined, if they have humor and sense,
with profit. ... The scene is that section of New England where Mrs
Fisher has made her home for a number of years, and the people are the
same sturdy Vermonters whom she has put into her short stories about
‘Hillsboro people.’ She interprets the New England character with
truth and verve.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w

“A charming and entertaining little story.”

+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 170w

“As a story pure and simple, it is delightful, a mine of fun, wisdom
and common sense.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 150w

“A most delightful narrative. The reader feels an impulsive affection
for Aunt Abigail, Uncle Henry and Cousin Ann.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 230w

=FISHER, GEORGE JOHN, and BERRY, ELMER.= Physical effects of smoking; preliminary experimental studies. *$1 Assn. press 613 17-12837

Dr Fisher is connected with the International committee of the Y. M.
C. A., and Professor Berry is professor of physiology in the
International Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass. Professor
Berry states that “the material here brought together represents an
effort to secure definite experimental data regarding the effects of
smoking,” that the work, covering researches conducted 1914-16, has
been done as graduation theses under his direction, and that it is
presented as “entirely preliminary and tentative.” The subjects were
“normal, healthy, athletic fellows between the ages of twenty-one and
twenty-five.” The experimenters returned results remarkable for their
uniformity and general consistency, showing that smoking raises the
heart rate and blood pressure, that it markedly delays the return of
the heart rate to normal after exercise, and that it impairs the
neuro-muscular control as indicated by delicate finger exercises and
gross muscular coordinations. There is a bibliography of eight pages.

=A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17

“With rare good judgment the authors refrain from conclusions, and
rest their case upon a simple statement of recorded facts, not
claiming infallibility but presenting their results so that the reader
arrives at his own conclusions. The book is an excellent short story
to put into the hands of school teachers and high-school boys.” Haven
Emerson, M.D.

+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 400w

=FISHER, MARY.= The Treloars. *$1.35 (1c) Crowell 17-13953

“The scene is California. The Treloars, who live in the country near
Berkeley, are a family of high cultivation and of warm humanity. The
father is a brilliant man who has ceased to be a parson because he can
no longer conform to the creed of the church. ... Hard by lives his
friend, who is also a detached philosopher—of another school. Their
chief recreation is in controversy. Treloar has three grown children.
One of the daughters, Catherine, has brains enough only for the hard
and selfish part of the modern feminist practice. Margaret, the other,
is a woman of intellect and character. Her brother Dick holds the
centre of her stage, and responds to her devotion. We meet her at the
moment when Dick is about to try his fledgling wings at journalism. In
the city he presently meets an enchantress, an actress of none too
savoury past. The wrecking of his sister’s happiness and a luckless
marriage are the result. He is released before the total crippling of
his life, and after an illuminating experience [at] the war-front,
achieves a real union with the girl he should have married in the
first place; to Margaret also the chances of war have brought a
fitting mate.”—Bookm

“A book of scope and power by a hand fresh at story-making. Readers
who like swift action may find the conduct of the narrative too
leisurely. By others, the digressions and discussions which fill so
many of these pages may be regarded as the cream of the book.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:209 O ‘17 370w

“What a godsend the war has been to lazy or unimaginative novelists!
With it they can cut every Gordian knot.”

— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 140w

“The book’s fault is talk, tho much of it is Interesting enough and
clever. But there is too much of it.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w

“A book of uncommon flavor: to begin with, its style instead of
falling in with modern fashions of briskness or nonchalance, takes its
own time and goes its own way, with a faint suggestiveness, perhaps,
of George Eliot rather than any later writer. It is the medium of an
intelligence both sympathetic and scholarly, interpreting character in
the light of present conditions.”

+ =Nation= 105:371 O 4 ‘17 350w

“‘The Treloars’ belongs to a class of novels written not because the
author has a story to tell, but because he has views to ventilate,
theories to expound, a fund of information of which to disburden
himself. ... Although well written, showing wide reading, and
expressing forcible opinions upon nearly all the subjects now
agitating the public mind, ‘The Treloars’ does not take hold of the
reader. The characters seem to have been created to hold long
conversations upon every conceivable topic, ... while certain of the
situations are almost amusing in their improbability.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

=FISK, EUGENE LYMAN.= Alcohol. *$1 Funk 178 17-20843

“A non-scientific discussion for the general reader of the deleterious
effect of alcohol. Divided into three parts, it discusses its relation
to life insurance, to physiology, and human efficiency. Supplementary
notes give views of Great Britain, Russia and France and the attitude
of the American medical profession.” (A L A Bkl) The contents appeared
first in the form of articles in the Atlantic Monthly.

=A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17

“Modest and yet most important volume. It would be a good thing for
America and the world if his pages could be carried in the knapsack of
every soldier, at home and abroad, and studied by every citizen of our
country.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 1 ‘17 280w

“It is too slight, too dogmatic, and too evidently written to maintain
a theory.”

— =Outlook= 117:285 O 24 ‘17 60w

=FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN (MRS HARRISON GREY FISKE).= Mrs Fiske; her views on actors, acting, and the problems of production; recorded by Alexander Woolcott. il *$2 (6c) Century 792 17-29247

Witty, spontaneous, unconventional bits of theatre wisdom dropped over
the tea cups by one of the foremost producers, directors and actresses
of the present day and recorded out of the long memory of the dramatic
critic of the New York Times. The seven chapters set forth Mrs Fiske’s
theory of the theatre,—a theory which has been evolving thru years of
honest, sincere progress towards the goal which the world has seen her
brilliantly achieve. Deductions are interpolated with interesting
comment on the portrayal of certain of her well known rôles. The book
is full of inspiration and food for thought and study for young
actors, while for the theatre goer who never misses a Fiske play it
will serve as a review of her successes.

“Expensive for its value to the average library.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:118 Ja ‘18

“Mr Woolcott is an adept prompter; he usually sets the scene
piquantly; fills the pauses neatly; gives Mrs Fiske her head, as it
were, while his memory sits elastic in the saddle; and generally
conducts himself as a beaming Boswell, save for a tendency to the
simpering and airy phrases of literary and artistic youth at tea in
the college across the Charles. As for Mrs Fiske herself, she courses
through the conversations like Delilah in Milton’s chorus, ‘bedecked,
ornate, and gay.’”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p12 O 24 ‘17 2800w

“No one could doubt the authenticity of these repeated conversations,
for they are so consistent with her life and seem so possessed of her
personality as to make one see the lift of her head, the whimsical
light in her eye, and visualize the touch and gesture of her
personality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:50 D 1 ‘17 170w

“Woolcott expresses the hope that some day Mrs Fiske will write her
own book. It is here seconded, for it must be admitted that there is a
feeling, especially in the opening chapters, that just when the
actress is about to say something really vital, the writer interrupts
her train of thought.” L: Gardy

+ — =NY Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 580w

“The book is full of interesting exposition, nuggets of wisdom,
conclusions clearly thought out and forcibly presented. No one who is
in the least interested in the theatre can fail to find the book
fascinating and stimulating.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 360w

+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w

“The public needs not be told that Mrs Fiske is no ordinary theatrical
celebrity, and there will be general expectation that a book of her
views, if authentically reproduced, will be an individual and
entertaining book. It is.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 550w

=FITCH, GEORGE.= Twenty-four; where I took them and what they did to me. il *$1.25 (5c) Little 17-1930

George Fitch once went to Europe with twenty-four girls, winners in a
newspaper circulation contest, in his charge. As he puts it, “Some
reporters go to war, some have to jump out of balloons in patent
parachutes, and some have to take parties of young and beautiful girls
to Europe. It’s all in the game.” In this book he has given his own
humorous version of the expedition.

“Appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

“As a ‘cheer-up’ story to amuse girls of sixteen, we recommend the
book heartily. For older readers it is a little too thin, and the
situation is a bit overworked. ... The end drags.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17

“Very amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:13 Ja 14 ‘17 300w

“The story emphasizes the loss sustained in the death of the kindly
humorist.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 200w

=FITZMAURICE, GEORGE.= Five plays. *$1.25 Little 822 (Eng ed 15-5685)

“‘Five plays,’ by George Fitzmaurice, the Irish folk-dramatist, carry
one into the midst of life in the Irish countryside. They are ‘The
pie-dish,’ the story of an old Irishman who worked twenty years
molding a fine pie dish and died cursing God because he wouldn’t let
him live long enough to finish it; ‘The country dressmaker,’ ‘The
magic glasses,’ ‘The dandy dolls,’ and a strong play, ‘The
moonlighter,’ which pictures the peculiar conditions that nurture
violence and revolutions in Ireland. The scene is the period of the
agrarian revolt. Peter Guerin, the leading character, is a splendid
type of an old Fenian.” (R of Rs) The book was first published by
Maunsel (London and Dublin) in 1914.

=A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17

“Mr Fitzmaurice is a connecting link between the earlier and the later
writers of the Irish dramatic movement. In his technique, he is a
contemporary Irish dramatist; in his simpler point of view and freer
imagination, he is a true son of the pioneers. His vivid dialogue and
character-drawing surpass most contemporary work. For sheer beauty,
either of thought or expression, he does not equal his predecessors.
As a realist, he writes in the modern vein; as a fantast, in the
spirit of the earlier men. ... These ‘Five plays’ justify the hope
that, if only the Abbey theatre will cease trying to be a Hibernian
branch of Drury Lane, it can still produce real Irish dramatists.”
Williams Haynes

+ — =Dial= 63:208 S 13 ‘17 820w

+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17

“Fitzmaurice’s dialect has a richness of idiom that surpasses the
familiar and monotonous Kiltartan, a gusty blowing freshness that is
typically Irish, yet unlike that of Synge, or Colum, or the work of
any other Irish folk-dramatist.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w

=FLANDRAU, GRACE HODGSON.= Cousin Julia. *$1.40 (1½c) Appleton 17-22295

This is the story of a family in a middle western town. “Cousin
Julia,” wife of a successful business man, is a social climber with
two beautiful daughters, Virginia and Louise. Virginia, the finer and
cleverer of the two, is, though she herself is ignorant of the fact
for many years, an adopted daughter. Other characters are Félix de
Lorme, a French marquis, who marries Louise, but falls in love with
Virginia; Tom Collingsworth, a rich and rather commonplace young
business man, who is Virginia’s other lover; Frau von Ernst,
Virginia’s elderly friend; and Bob Tillinghurst, in the United States
diplomatic service, and his wife Violet.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

“A painstaking care for details of characterization distinguishes
‘Cousin Julia.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 700w

“Yet the book is more than readable; its charming pictures of the
Middle West and its sardonic understanding of the Cinderella
background of ‘les nouveaux’ help to point a shrewd moral.”

+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 150w

“Written with sincerity. ... Interesting, principally because of the
well-drawn figure of Julia. The Frenchman, Félix de Lorme, ‘an amateur
of everything, of letters, of science, of love’ is also well done, and
so is the small-natured and commonplace Louise. ... The picture of
middle western society is amusingly presented.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w

=FLEAGLE, FRED K.= Social problems in Porto Rico. $1 (3c) Heath 917.29 17-17543

A collection of data on the social problems of Porto Rico which the
author brought together in the course of his work in rural sociology
in the University of Porto Rico. Contents: Population; The jíbaro;
Overpopulation; The family; Rural housing conditions; Woman and child
labor; Industries; The land problem and unemployment; Poverty;
Sickness and disease; Crime; Intemperance; Juvenile delinquents; Rural
schools; The school and the community; Relation of the teacher to the
community; Present-day rural school movements; Physical development
and longevity.

=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 40w

“This book is a specific and not a general picture, and by no means an
attractive one. But it satisfies a thirst for information that has
been growing with those who hear constantly of the great poverty in
Porto Rico. ... It may also assist some in a position to do so to set
their shoulders to the task of amelioration—a task that needs more
American shoulders.”

+ =Nation= 105:430 O 18 ‘17 1300w

+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 140w

“‘Social problems in Porto Rico’ is short and to the point, almost to
the extent of being dogmatic. It is well worth reading.” S. B. Grubbs

+ =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w

=FLECKER, JAMES ELROY.= Collected poems. il *$2 Doubleday 821 17-26316

James Elroy Flecker was a young English poet who died in 1915. J. C.
Squire, who was with him at Oxford has edited his poems, contributing
a biographical introduction to the volume. He had published four books
of verse: “The bridge of fire,” 1907; “Forty-two poems,” 1911; “The
golden journey to Samarkand,” 1913; “The old ships,” 1915. It is from
these volumes that the present collection is reprinted, with twenty
new poems added. The poems are arranged in two groups, Juvenilia, and
Later poems, and they follow roughly a chronological order.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:341 My ‘17

“It has been the fate, and perhaps the happy fate, of many English
poets to die young. ... Great as was the promise of Middleton and
Brooke, it is the death of Flecker that is perhaps our most grievous
loss.”

+ =Ath= p527 N ‘16 1300w

=Boston Transcript= p7 F 24 ‘17 300w

“Poems of a young Englishman who died in 1915 at the age of thirty,
and who belonged to the so-called Parnassian school—a group of seekers
after perfection of form and the objective interpretation of beauty,
represented in France by de Heredia and Leconte de Lisle.”

+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 210w

“His achievement in verse is consistently high, but no single poem
stands out as specially memorable.” Odell Shepard

+ =Dial= 63:19 Je 28 ‘17 180w

“He is almost the only upholder of art for art’s sake who can justify
his practice to the unbeliever.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 450w

“His family was Austrian, and perhaps it was because of such
affiliation that he was attracted to eastern romance. ... He did a
thing more difficult than the bringing back of an eastern glamour—(the
glamour is there in The ballad of Iskander, and The golden journey to
Samarkand)—he brought into contemporary poetry metres that suggest and
may actually be derived from oriental verse. ... Except James Clarence
Mangan no other poet has been able to weave English into such exotic
patterns.” Padraic Colum

* + =New Repub= 10:sup12 Ap 21 ‘17 1250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17

“There are a hundred interesting aspects of the man and his work which
space forbids us to attempt. Like Rupert Brooke, he greatened to the
last.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:77 Mr 4 ‘17 850w

+ =Sat R= 122:485 N 18 ‘16 1400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 800w

“His achievement is unlikely to occupy the industrious commentator, or
to become the esoteric nucleus of a learned society. If it live, it
will be because beauty created in words cannot easily die.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p457 S 28 ‘16 3600w

=FLEMING, GUY.= Diplomat. *$1.50 Longmans

“A picture of early 19th-century social and political life as seen in
the family of a Yorkshire squire rich in sons who follow various
careers, and a daughter who becomes a countess. But Guy Fleming, a
novelist of considerable gifts, concentrates mainly on the career of
the fourth son, which culminates in a long residence in a foreign
capital. Upon his journals the story is supposed to be based.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

“Written in the leisurely Trollope manner.”

+ =Dial= 62:482 My 31 ‘17 120w

=Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 40w

“There are sundry crimes, all vividly depicted, but leaving the reader
disposed to wonder why it was worth while to write—and to write so
well—a novel containing no character enlisting much sympathy and with
but one scene that really touches the heart; a novel which, with all
its merits, leaves the reader cold.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 70w

“Mr Fleming is so interesting that it is a pity his unweeded
rhythmless style should make him so difficult to read.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 580w

=FLEMING, GUY.= Off with the old love; a war story. *$1.50 (2c) Longmans 17-21972

“Though toward the end the scene of the story is shifted to France, to
the trenches, and the hospitals, it is at Ravenscroft [in England]
that most of the action takes place, and very many of the numerous
characters live. ... The plot is an intricate one, with a lost
daughter, a murder, an elopement, and no less than three love stories,
not to mention several past romances, to increase its
complications.”—N Y Times

“There are touches of comedy and two or three amusing characters in
the book ... while the author’s intermittent comments are usually
clever, often pungent, sometimes satiric, and always entertaining. The
quiet restrained style has a good deal of charm. ... There is too much
of the pleasantness and placidity in the book; at the end, one feels
that persons such as the author has drawn, placed in situations such
as those in which he has chosen to place them, would have been a good
deal less comfortable than his various characters finally were.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 580w

“Mr Fleming makes all the people in his new book subject to a great
variety of coincidences, and when it is all over one feels that they
and their surroundings have been a good deal wrenched to make them fit
his little stage. ... The war does little to influence the course of
the plays except that it provides a fanciful background for a series
of coincidences and a target at which Mr Fleming aims a number of
rather inapposite and bitter sayings.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p316 Jl 5 ‘17 450w

=FLETCHER, ALFRED CHARLES BENSON.= From job to job around the world. il *$2 (3c) Dodd 910 17-25257

Mr Fletcher, a graduate of the University of California, tells in this
book how he started with his fare paid from San Francisco to Honolulu
and a five dollar gold piece in his pocket, and worked his way around
the world in three years. He visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the
Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England,
Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally crossed the Atlantic to
America. Mr Ralph J. Richardson, who was equally short of funds, was
the author’s traveling companion on part of the trip, and took the
photographs from which the book is illustrated. The narrative was
originally published in the Wide World Magazine.

“A buoyant, high-spirited account of personal adventure, with graphic
pictures of places and people. Illustrated with good photographs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

“A very entertaining story he spins, not only about the world, or such
considerable portions as he visited, but also about the calm assurance
and readiness of American boys to make themselves at home in strange
places and under remarkable conditions.” A. M. Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 90w

“His account of his adventures comes, in vivacity and shrewd
observation and humorous description, a close second to Mark Twain’s
Innocents abroad.’” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 520w

“Boyishly light-hearted but rather crude narrative.”

+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 70w

=N Y Evening Post= p1 O 13 ‘17 1800w

“Most of the traveling was done third class or steerage, a fact that
affords interesting reading because so few American travelers choose
to go in this fashion.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 300w

=St Louis= 15:430 D ‘17 10w

=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= New Pacific; British policy and German aims; with a preface by Viscount Bryce, and a foreword by the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes. *$3 Macmillan 325.3

“‘The new Pacific’ is an Australian’s review of British and German
dealings in the Pacific ocean, a lucid exposure of German methods and
German designs, a statement of Pacific problems present and future,
and an account of some representative Britons who have shaped history
in those southern seas. The author, Mr Brunsdon Fletcher, is a leading
journalist in Australia, associate editor of the Sydney Morning
Herald.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“In this volume, to which Lord Bryce and the Prime minister of
Australia have contributed some introductory pages, the author gives a
clear and interesting exposition of German policy and aims in the
Pacific, and of the long-growing misgivings on the part of Australians
respecting the aggressive tendencies of their German neighbours.”

+ =Ath= p247 My ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w

“His indictment of German aims amounts to very little. ... None the
less, the book deserves the attention of American students of the
whole political situation. The United States has large interests in
the Pacific.”

+ — =Nation= 105:42 Jl 12 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17

“We advise every one who wants to understand what Australia looks for
in the terms of peace to read this book.”

+ =Spec= 118:590 My 26 ‘17 1300w

“Mr Brunsdon Fletcher has had access to first-hand information,
written and oral, from the best sources; he has presented and arranged
his facts with practised skill, grouping them round well-known
characters; and the result is a book of singular interest and
substantial value. ... If ‘The new Pacific’ had no other
recommendation, it would be valuable as illustrating very forcibly and
with much picturesqueness the great and much underrated influence
which missionaries have had upon the onward movement of the British
empire.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 2100w

=FLOURNOY, THÉODORE.= Philosophy of William James; auth. tr. by Edwin B. Holt and W: James, jr. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 191 17-6639

The author of this interpretation of William James’s philosophy is a
professor in the faculty of sciences at the University of Geneva. The
book itself is based on lectures which, delivered in 1910, were
intended, in a way, as a memorial. In his first chapter the author
makes some interesting observations on the importance of James’s
artistic temperament. “He was a born psychologist and a psychologist
of genius precisely because of this artistic insight, which in him, by
a rare exception, was combined with the exact scientific spirit.” The
chapters that follow take up in turn: Early environment; Rejection of
monism; Pragmatism; Radical empiricism; Pluralism; Tychism; Meliorism
and moralism; Theism; The will to believe; Summary and conclusion. A
review of “The varieties of religious experience,” from the Revue
Philosophique, is reprinted in an appendix.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17

“This study of the philosophy of James is admitted by many to be the
best that has been written upon the philosopher and is now translated
into English by two men who personally and professionally are
especially well fitted to be just both to James and to Professor
Flournoy. ... It reminds us of the work of James himself in its very
readable character.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w

“It is clearly and simply written and furnishes an admirable
introduction to the study of William James—quite the best that we have
seen. And it is, moreover, a book that will be read with equal
pleasure and profit by those already familiar with his work.”

+ =Nation= 104:462 Ap 19 ‘17 1000w

“Written in so simple a style that even those unversed in
philosophical technology need not feel doubtful concerning it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 270w

=St Louis= 15:135 My ‘17 14w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 290w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Ag 9 ‘17 1750w

=FLOWERS, MONTAVILLE.= Japanese conquest of American opinion. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 325.7 17-3170

The author believes that the Japanese are carrying on a systematic
campaign to win over American public opinion. The objects to be gained
are: “The removal of restrictions on immigration; the rights of
naturalisation, American citizenship, and of intermarriage with the
white race; the overthrow of all anti-Asiatic land legislation in
western states; the rapid acquisition of those lands; and all that
follows.” The book is issued as a warning to America and as an offset
to the writings of Sidney Gulick, H. A. Millis and others, deemed by
the author vicious. The book consists of three parts: The Japanese
problem; Forces and methods of the Japanese conquest; Bases of
opinion, old and new.

“Will be useful in debate work.”

=Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 30w

“The temper of Mr Flowers is not altogether admirable. He is sometimes
narrow and often vituperative; but he is, as we have noted, sincere
and his contribution to the discussion of the ‘Japanese problem’ is
worthy the careful attention of those who differ most widely from
him.”

=N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 650w

“His discussion is valuable solely as a presentation of an extreme
point of view held by a number which, it may be supposed, increases
geometrically as the Pacific coast draws nearer.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 130w

“We have heard much of Mr Flowers and his diatribes against the
Japanese and his dreadful arraignment of such men as Sidney L. Gulick,
Hamilton Holt, the late H. W. Mabie, the present reviewer and
others. ... The pith of Mr Flowers’ argument is in an outcry against
amalgamation. His peculiar ideas as to philosophy, history and
ethnology are largely his own. ... He should have furnished an index
for students of his closely printed and rather bulky work, so rich in
fallacies.” W: E. Griffis

— =Survey= 37:699 Mr 17 ‘17 200w

=FOERSTER, NORMAN, and PIERSON, WILLIAM WHATLEY=, eds. American ideals. *$1.25 Houghton 815 17-25284

Under the heads of Liberty and union, State and nation, American
democracy, American foreign policy, and Foreign opinion of the United
States, are brought together certain essays, addresses and state
papers that express ideals of statesmen and of men of letters from
Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, from Alexis de Tocqueville to
Alfred J. Balfour. The authors refer to the collection as “expressions
of our national and international conscience” on ideals, policies and
political tendencies of our country.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Ushered in by Mr Woodbury’s splendid sonnet, ‘Our first century,’
these selections challenge as well as inspire.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 270w

“The purpose of the volume is evident and praiseworthy. It might well
be adopted as a school reader. But for the public at large, outside
the schools, it is valuable, for it brings together the finest
utterances on a theme of vital importance, many of them not easily
accessible.” J. B. Landfield

+ =Educ R= 55:75 Ja ‘18 600w

“The selections are judiciously made and we believe that the book
should prove useful in the inculcation of a thoughtful and intelligent
patriotism among the rising generation.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 60w

=FOGARTY, KATE HAMMOND.= Story of Montana. il *$1 (1½c) Barnes 978.6 16-16737

This story of Montana was written “to meet the demand for a suitable
textbook for schools, and also for the many lovers of Montana who wish
to become familiar with the main facts of its early as well as
present-day history without having to consult many separate volumes.”
(Preface) The book is made up of ten chapters: Early explorers in
Montana; The Indians; The fur trade; Visitors to the posts; The
missionaries to the Indians; The first settlers; The soldiers in
Montana; Development of the state; Transformation of the Indians;
National problems in Montana. The national problems treated in this
last chapter are Irrigation, Dry-land farming and Forestry.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 110w

“Intended as a text-book for the public schools, ‘The story of
Montana’ also makes its appeal to the adult reader.”

+ =R of Rs= 54:683 D ‘16 50w

=FOOTE, JOHN TAINTOR.= Dumb-Bell of Brookfield. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-6535

“One need not be an enthusiast about hunting dogs or dogs in general
to appreciate and thoroughly enjoy half a dozen stories, all related,
that are grouped in this volume. Dumb-Bell appears first as a runt of
a puppy, the son of the late champion setter, but so insignificant as
to be ‘a stone despised by the builders, that is made the head of the
corner.’ His anonymous triumph puts him instantly on the throne of his
father, as told in the first story. Later chapters have to do partly
with his own career and partly with his owners and other people and
dogs at Brookfield.”—Springf’d Republican

“Full of pathos and humor, they show a complete understanding of dogs
without making them in the least human. Good for reading aloud.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 150w

“Somewhat out of the ordinary. Appeared in American Magazine.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 20w

=FOOTE, MRS MARY (HALLOCK).= Edith Bonham. *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 17-8582

The friendship between two women is the foundation of this story. One
of them marries and goes out into the unknown West. (The time of the
story is fully a generation ago.) Here the other, Edith Bonham,
follows her some years later, intending to make her home there and to
help in caring for her friend’s children. She arrives just in time to
learn of Anne’s death. For the sake of the children, she remains,
resolved to make up as best she can for their loss. She at first
wholly misunderstands her friend’s husband, a quiet man of deep
feeling and few words. But in time a sympathetic understanding breaks
down the barriers and they are drawn together.

“Distinctly a woman’s book, one of the few which interpret the best
American types.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17

“The reader may find himself (if not herself) in a rather impatient
mood before all the misapprehensions and mystifications of a fairly
simple situation are permitted to be cleared up. Mrs Foote’s style, as
always, with its quiet clarity, offers grateful refreshment to ears
which may be a trifle weary of the din and ‘punch’ of the current
literary mode.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:648 Ag ‘17 350w

“Will probably be considered her most appealing novel. Mrs Foote
writes with the method of the great novelists of an earlier
generation. There is nothing of sketchiness in her literary product.
Her characters are limned with delightful attention to details.” H. S.
K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 550w

“A detailed leisurely story with a few excellent characterizations but
with what seems to be a wilful and superfluous piling up of barriers
between the two chief characters.”

+ — =Cleveland= p63 My ‘17 50w

“Mrs Foote is one of our veteran novelists and she knows her business.
I ask, however, with due respect whether the book should not end on
page 321, whether the postscript is not superfluous.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 100w

“So much for the crude substance of the book: its merit lies
elsewhere, in the quiet and sure rendering of that substance by a
delicate womanly hand.”

+ =Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 500w

“The story has the human appeal and sure touch in dealing with life
found always in Mrs Foote’s work.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 50w

For France; ed. by C: Hanson Towne. il *$2.50 Doubleday 940.91 17-29466

Tributes to France in story, poem and song, from the hearts of a
notable group of America’s authors, painters, musicians, sculptors and
actors. The offerings are all short, with a note of deep loyalty and
affection for the people who from ‘76-‘83 sent us their money and
their men under the leadership of their Lafayette and Rochambeau. The
chapters, full of sympathy, and of the sense of debt we owe, have a
heartening message for the heroic, dry-eyed patriots who have been
shaken to the depths with sorrow; while for Americans they serve as a
new spur to fight the harder for justice, humanity, liberty,
democracy.

Reviewed by Albert Schinz

+ =Bookm= 46:292 N ‘17 150w

“While there is much repetition of sentiment in it, and while some of
the writers are so emotional and temperamentally strung that they are
unable to give vision to their words, there are, nevertheless, a
number of notable and significant contributions. Such, for example, is
Mr Owen Wister’s address in French. But from the standpoint of
literary permanence the volume is sorely lacking.”

+ — =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 140w

“It is amazing simply as a collection of names, if nothing more. The
volume strikes a lofty note as a work of art—art with a purpose,
certainly. A peculiarly rich and beautiful tribute to France.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:476 N 18 ‘17 850w

“It appears to us that the theme has appealed to the writers and
artists and that there is little or nothing in the volume that is not
inspired by very genuine feeling.”

+ =Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 410w

For the right; essays and addresses by members of the “Fight for right movement.” *$1.50 Putnam (*5s T. Fisher Unwin, London) 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3139)