Chapter XXXIII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (4)

“In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not
know quite the like of Mr Garland’s story of his life, and I should
rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. ... As you
read it you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order
of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of
such mood and make as has not been imagined before.” W: D. Howells

+ =N Y Times= 22:309 Ag 26 ‘17 3200w

“Nothing could be more American than the mingling of practicality and
idealism that is felt everywhere in the story. Nothing could be more
wholesome in these times than the lesson of intellectual honesty and
large sympathy which is implicit in it.”

+ =No Am= 206:796 N ‘17 480w

“An autobiography with the fascination of romance, and in a measure
the form of fiction. ... It is a book well worth reading and
rereading.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 60w

“Those who lived in rural Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas during
those days will remark the striking fidelity of the picture. There
were so many Garland families in the border movement of the ‘60’s,
‘70’s, and ‘80’s of the last century!”

+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 140w

“Mr Garland has written a book deserving of a wide reading, and likely
to get it by virtue of the style in which it is written. The narrative
flows easily—a little diffusely, in fact—with a great fund of
incidents, keen observations and incisive, albeit idealized portraits
of character. Perhaps the best work in the last of those categories is
the picture of his mother. She represents a memorable type of American
womanhood—tender mother, brave, uncomplaining pioneer woman and
splendid wife.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 3600w

=GARRISON, MRS THEODOSIA (PICKERING).= Dreamers, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-28183

This is a collection of lyrical poems previously printed in seventeen
different periodicals. Seven Irish poems are given at the end of the
book, under the title “Songs of himself.”

“The verse of Theodosia Garrison is restful; it is a retreat, a haven
from the tumult of today’s singing. She invites you to partake of her
quiet dreams and unpretentious fancies, much as a friend invites you
to the hearthside to pass a tranquil evening. If one is not thrilled,
one is at least soothed by her hospitality. Little by little you
become aware of something in the experience that has a fineness and
distinction of its own.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 630w

Reviewed by Conrad Aiken

— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w

“In her ‘Dreamers, and other poems’ Theodosia Garrison has given us
some of her best work.”

+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 5 ‘18 200w

=GARVIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, ed. Canadian poets and poetry. il *$3 Stokes 811.08 17-10982

An anthology of Canadian verse with brief biographical sketches of the
fifty-one authors represented. The editor says of these authors: “Many
of their poems are indigenous to the soil,—vitally, healthfully
Canadian; others are tinged with the legendary and mythical lore of
older lands; but all are of Canada, inasmuch as the writers have lived
in this country, and have been influenced by its history and
atmosphere at a formative period of their lives.” Among those whose
names are somewhat widely known outside their own country are: Charles
G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, William Henry Drummond, Isabel Ecclestone
Mackay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Arthur Stringer and Robert W.
Service.

“About twenty of these poets are not included in the ‘Oxford book of
Canadian verse’ (Booklist 10:385 Je ‘14), which includes the work of
one hundred poets from earliest colonial days down to the present.
Libraries having the ‘Oxford book’ will not need this unless there is
special interest.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:390 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17 140w

+ =N Y Times= 22:124 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

=GATES, ELEANOR (MRS FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE).= Apron-strings. *$1.35 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-29731

The two central figures in this story are Mrs Milo and her daughter
Sue. Mrs Milo is the type of mother described by the author in a
prefatory note: “The kind that does not plan for, or want, a child,
but, having borne one, invariably takes the high air of martyrdom
feeling that she has rendered the supreme service, and that,
henceforth, nothing is too good for her.” Her demands on her daughter
have kept the girl from marriage, and as a woman of forty-five, Sue is
finding what satisfaction she can in mothering an orphanage. In the
end she finds a more intimate happiness in adopting one of the
children for her own.

“As a character study, built around the leading character, the book
presents reasonable claim to favorable notice. Mrs Milo, the managing
and domineering mother, is a real literary creation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 260w

“Miss Gates’s theme is an interesting one, but she treats it
sentimentally and thereby fails to give it the effectiveness which is
its due.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 470w

=GATES, HERBERT WRIGHT.=[2] Recreation and the church. (Principles and methods of religious education) il *$1 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 261 17-15665

There has been started a strong movement in the direction of making
churches social centers. The experiments enlarged upon in this volume
show the value of the wider use of churches. The writer who is
director of religious education in the Brick church institute,
Rochester, N.Y., contends that there is no more potent influence or
favorable approach to the inner life of childhood and youth than is
found in recreational interests and activities. He shows the religious
educational value of play, shows how to go about studying the
recreational needs of a community, offers a constructive recreational
program, gives some typical church programs and devotes a chapter to
equipment and organization.

=A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18

“A bibliography of play and recreation enhances the value of this very
useful handbook, which cannot fail to increase the efficiency of
educational and recreational workers in the church and elsewhere.” G.
T.

+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 240w

=GAUTIER, JUDITH.= Memoirs of a white elephant; tr. from the French by S. A. B. Harvey. il *$1.50 (3½c) Duffield 16-23442

Judith Gautier, who was joint author with Pierre Loti of “The daughter
of heaven,” is an authority on oriental lore. She has written this
book for children, allowing “Iravata,” the white elephant, to tell his
own story.

“Well told and unaffected.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:269 Mr ‘17

+ =Lit D= 53:1562 D 9 ‘16 100w

“The excellent illustrations are the work of L. H. Smith and S. B.
Kite.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:102 Ja ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 160w

=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS.=[2] Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 822.3 18-3

The writer says: “In this period of conflict, the sternest that the
world has known, when we have joined heart and hand with Great
Britain, it may profit Americans to recall how essentially at one with
Englishmen we have always been in everything that counts. That the
speech, the poetry, of the race are ours and theirs in common, we
know—they are Shakespeare. But that the institutions, the law and the
liberty, the democracy administered by the fittest, are not only
theirs and ours in common, but are derived from Shakespeare’s England,
and are Shakespeare, too, we do not generally know or, if we have
known, we do not always remember.” The chapter headings suggest how
the writer has pursued his novel idea: The foundations of liberty in
America; Shakespeare and the liberals of the Virginia company; The
tempest and an unpublished letter from Virginia; The leader of the
liberal movement—Sir Edwin Sandys; Richard Hooker and the principles
of American liberty; Shakespeare’s views of the individual in relation
to the state; Shakespeare and Hooker; The heritage in common: England,
America, France; The meaning for us today.

“His association of Shakspeare with these ideas [suggested by chapter
headings] of course takes it for granted that whenever any of his
characters speak in the plays, there speak also the inmost thoughts
and beliefs of the dramatist. This is a supposition too often made to
prove that a dramatist or a poet is first of all a propagandist or a
preacher when as a matter of fact he is neither. It overlooks the
first principles of imaginative writing—that a poem, a play or a novel
is a work written to present a certain phase of life in artistic form
and not to promulgate a theory. If Shakspeare was preaching democracy
in his plays then so much the less Shakspeare he. Despite the
undoubted ingenuity and historical interest of Professor Gayley’s
arguments there are many of us who will remain perfectly willing to
look upon Shakspeare as a man who wrote his plays with no other
thought than to have them receive the approval and applause of the
Elizabethan public.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p11 D 12 ‘17 830w

=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 90w

=GEARY, BLANCHE.= Handbook of the association cafeteria. il pa 50c Y.W.C.A. 642 17-20661

This handbook gives the purpose of a Y.W.C.A. cafeteria and outlines
its organization, including committees, selection of premises, general
equipment, staff and employees, menu, service and cleaning. It treats
of business administration and under the heading Points in policy
advises on such subjects as Emergency fund, Eight hour day, Outside
business, etc. The book is compiled by those who know the needs of the
workers whom the cafeteria is to serve and can detail clearly methods
for meeting them.

=GEHRS, JOHN HENRY.= Productive agriculture. il *$1 Macmillan 630 17-14154

“The purpose of this book is to meet the need and the demand for a
text that will standardize seventh- and eighth-grade agriculture. ...
Topics relating to productive agriculture and not topics about
agriculture are given chief consideration. ... The book contains a
section of from four to eight chapters in length on each of the
following big topics: ‘Farm crops,’ ‘Animal husbandry,’ ‘Soils,’
‘Horticulture,’ and ‘Farm management.’ There is also a brief
bibliography of material relating to each of these large topics. The
laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter ... can be done with a
minimum amount of schoolroom equipment, the farm itself furnishing the
requisite laboratory.” (School R) The author is associate professor of
agriculture of the Warrensburg State normal school, Warrensburg, Mo.

+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 16 ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17

“Anyone interested in texts in agriculture adapted to grades seven and
eight or to the junior high school will be well paid for the time and
effort required to give this book a careful consideration.”

+ =School R= 25:532 S ‘17 180w

=GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD.= Birds of Shakespeare. il *$1.25 Macmillan 822.3 (Eng ed 17-13372)

“In this charming essay the veteran geologist collects Shakespeare’s
references to birds, of which he names at least fifty species, and
shows once more how intimate a knowledge of wild nature he had
acquired in the woods and lanes of leafy Warwickshire.”—Spec

=Ath= p432 S ‘16 90w

“It is all that it claims to be, and will fill a vacant place on the
shelves of those who do not possess Mr J. E. Harting’s standard work.”

+ =Nature= 98:147 O 28 ‘16 480w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:40 Mr ‘17

=Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 120w

“Twenty excellent woodcuts from Saunders’s ‘Manual of British birds’
illustrate the book.”

+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 70w

“This little book is enticing; one to be read by all who love either
birds or Shakespeare or both.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 S 7 ‘16 1300w

=GEIL, WILLIAM EDGAR.= Adventures in the African jungle hunting pigmies. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-8202

This book for boys is one of the volumes of “The true adventure
series.” The author is an explorer of note and the story is based on
first-hand acquaintance with Africa. Billy Benson, a boy of about
sixteen, accompanies his uncle on an exploring expedition into the
heart of Africa. Their object is to discover a band of pigmies,
supposed to inhabit a part of the jungle. Lions, leopards, elephants
and other natives of the African forest play a part in their
adventures. The young hero is refreshingly boyish. No feats of
impossible prowess are attributed to him, and never does he outdo his
uncle, the noted explorer, in sagacity or achievement.

=GENEVOIX, MAURICE.= ‘Neath Verdun; tr. by H. Grahame Richards. *$1.60 (2½c) Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26253)

The author of this book was a second-year student at the École
normale, Paris, in 1914. His book is a day-by-day account of the first
months of the war, from August to October, 1914. Ernest Lavisse says
in his introduction: “He supplies us with an invaluable picture of the
war. In the first place, the writer is endowed with astonishing powers
of observation; he sees all in a glance, he hears everything. The
intense power of concentration he possesses enables him instantly to
seize upon all essentials of a particular incident or scene, and so to
harmonize them as to produce a picture true to life.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 250w

“His book is one of the real contributions of the war’s writing. For
here, for us to read and learn from, is something of the war itself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 600w

“Perhaps it is well that the ghastly side of the war should not be
tucked away as though it did not exist. Horror is treated here with a
French power of rhetoric and insistence.”

+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 150w

=GEORGE, HEREFORD BROOKE.= Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history. 5th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Oxford 929.7 16-22139

“The ‘Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history’ first
published by the late Rev. Hereford B. George more than forty years
ago have long acquired and deserved an established position as a work
of reference. They now appear in a fifth edition, revised and enlarged
by Mr J. R. H. Weaver. The enlargement consists mainly in the
continuation of the reigning houses down to their last changes and the
insertion of their younger members; there is also added a list of the
presidents of the United States of America.”—Eng Hist R

“The size of the print and the general openness of the tables make
them easy to consult and the book should enter upon a further career
of usefulness.”

+ =Am Hist R= 22:435 Ja ‘17 200w

“The work of correction has been carefully done: we have looked for
facts omitted in the earlier editions and have found them duly
inserted. ... In the first three editions the tables were folded and
mounted on guards, and the book was easy to handle; now that the
tables are bound up flat and the book requires 2 ft. 8 in. of space to
open out, it cannot be described as convenient for practical use.” R.
L. P.

* + =Eng Hist R= 31:660 O ‘16 450w

=GEPHART, WILLIAM FRANKLIN.= Principles of insurance. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 368 17-2500

“A discussion of life and fire insurance offered for classroom use in
schools and colleges. ... The author has had experience in the
insurance business and in association with insurance organizations, as
well as in teaching.” (R of Rs) “There are two volumes, devoted,
respectively, to Life insurance and Fire insurance, the former
replacing the author’s well-known earlier work, devoted mainly to life
insurance, which has now been thoroughly revised, amplified, and
brought down to date. The volume on fire insurance contains twelve
chapters in which are treated such pertinent topics as the economics
and business organization of fire insurance, hazards, rates and rating
problems, the nature of the contract, adjustment of losses, fire
protection, and the relation of the state to insurance.” (Nation)

“Mr Gephart has well met the problem. His book is simple and readable
and yet broad, and adequate to give not only an understanding of the
fundamental principles but a great deal of the practical business
side. The book avoids a difficulty which sometimes occurs when those
outside of the business attempt to write about it: namely, the
difficulty of supporting theories which, for practical reasons, are
unworkable. The arrangement is a little unfortunate.” W. M. Strong

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:670 S ‘17 1100w (Review of v 1)

“It would be too much to claim that the author has entirely mastered a
subject of which the depths have by no means been sounded by those who
spend their lives in the work or that all of his statements would pass
without challenge from underwriters, but it is certain that he has
written a clear, interesting, and admirably balanced study of the
principles of fire insurance.” W. E. Mallalieu

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:672 S ‘17 900w (Review of v 2)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17

“The volume on life insurance is on the whole a contribution to the
subject, the various topics being carefully arranged and the
exposition clear. One may seriously object, however, to the issuance
of a revised edition which does not follow the progress in the
business in certain directions. The volume on fire insurance appears
to possess certain serious defects as well as commendable features.
The strongest criticism which can be advanced, viewing it in the light
of a text, is its seeming lack of plan and arrangement of chapters.
Prior to his work no adequate description of some of the more recent
developments of the business was available. He has therefore rendered
a service in producing a relatively up-to-date textbook. Secondly, he
has incorporated to a greater degree than any other writer a
discussion of fire insurance from the social viewpoint.” Robert Riegel

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:296 N ‘17 400w

“Though adapted to the purposes of the general reader, the business
man, and the student, the volumes will, in all probability, find their
chief use as textbooks, for which they seem excellently adapted. At
the close of the various chapters are lists of references covering the
main topics treated, and each volume contains a carefully selected
general bibliography, including the standard works on both life and
fire insurance.”

+ =Nation= 104:245 Mr 1 ‘17 230w

“Those seeking and those selling insurance would profit by this
conservative statement of principles which fit the reader for his
individual decision of moot points, which are frankly indicated and
argued fairly.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 180w

“Heretofore it has been difficult to obtain material on this subject
in convenient form for educational purposes. Most of it has been
confined to government documents, official reports of insurance
companies, published addresses, and pamphlets.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 70w

“The author is professor of economics in Washington university.”

=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 9w

“There are interesting chapters on the economics, business
organization and, last but not least, the immense historic development
of the insurance business.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 110w

=GÉRALDY, PAUL.= The war, Madame ...; tr. by Barton Blake. *75c (5c) Scribner 17-8886

This little story is merely an account of one day in the life of a
French soldier who, after thirteen months of service, returns to
Paris. His sensations on again finding himself in his loved city are
described, and in conversations with two of his women friends scenes
from the front are pictured.

“A lively, graceful, quite irresponsible and unreflecting narrative of
a young soldier’s last day of leave in Paris before returning to the
front to be killed.” C. M. Francis

+ =Bookm= 46:451 D ‘17 140w

“As we read his pages, we understand more clearly than ever before how
it is possible for men to go through the ghastly struggle and not come
out thoroughly embittered. ... This account seems to approach nearer
to the probable mean of reality than any of the many war books that
have already been written.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 770w

“So different is it from the France and the Paris of which
correspondents and returning war-workers of one sort or another have
told us that, since it is written by a Frenchman, one marvels and
wonders whether he is a better observer and a truer reporter than
they.”

=N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 300w

=St Louis= 15:314 S 17 30w

=GERARD, JAMES WATSON.= My four years in Germany. il *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-25143

The late ambassador to the German imperial court has written this
account of his four years experience to prove to America that “we are
in this war because we were forced into it,” and that “unless Germany
is beaten the whole world will be compelled to turn itself into an
armed camp, until the German autocracy either brings every nation
under its dominion or is forever wiped out as a form of government.”
(Foreword) Mr Gerard tells us about the political system in Germany,
German militarism, German commerce, the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and
various high officials of the government, and about his own diplomatic
work, though he is necessarily silent on many things connected with
this work. Some of the chapters are: Psychology and causes which
prepared the nation for war; At Kiel just before the war; Prisoners of
war; War charities; and The German people in war. There are a number
of illustrations and several facsimile reproductions of documents,
among them one of the much discussed telegram which the Kaiser gave
Ambassador Gerard for transmission to President Wilson. The material
of the book has appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger and the New York
American.

“One must remember that the author has written for a large audience.
From this point of view, Mr Gerard’s light treatment is quite
justified, as are also the journalistic, popular style, the frequent
use of the personal pronoun, and perhaps even the reproductions of
court invitations. For such a presentation will appeal to millions who
would ignore a more formidable treatise. Unfortunately the mechanics
of the book are poorly handled.” B. E. Schmitt

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:398 Ja ‘18 1650w

=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17

“His book is a candid, unadorned, and convincing account of what has
been going on in Germany during the war. His record is welcome in this
permanent form.”

+ =Ath= p683 D ‘17 190w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w

+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w

+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 230w

“From a literary point of view the book is a queer mixture, much of it
the sort of thing that ordinary tourists turn out by the volume, part
of diplomatic secrets of the highest importance which nobody else
could have known. The book is poorly composed and carelessly revised,
but that does not detract from its importance as a historical document
of the first order.”

+ — =Ind= 92:486 D 8 ‘17 1250w

“It is in every respect an important historical document, despite the
chatty and easy style in which it is written, and throws an
illuminating light upon many dark places in European diplomacy and
modes of thought. His book will furnish convincing proof, if any
American still feels the need of proof, of the sinister intentions of
the ruling powers in Germany, and of their utter disregard of all
recognized conventions, ethical or political, in an effort to attain
their ambitions.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 27 ‘17 1800w

+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 250w

“We think the telling of this story was a service to the American
people; and at a time when there is so much to be read that this is
distinctly one of the books to be chosen. The description of German
government and institutions is excellent; it would be difficult for
the ordinary reader to find anywhere a better popular account. The
most important chapters relate to diplomatic affairs, and to the
attitude of Germany towards the American people.”

+ =Nation= 105:484 N 1 ‘17 1750w

“In Mr Gerard’s remarkable book there is an enlightening chapter which
reveals, to some extent, how organised capital in Germany, aided by
the state, is still seeking to dominate the world.” T. E. Thorpe

+ =Nature= 100:361 Ja 10 ‘18 1900w

“All this variety gives the book, inevitably, a certain scrappiness of
effect, but vastly increases its interest and value as a report upon
another nation. Its report, by necessity, is one of superficial
observation. Mr Gerard nowhere makes pretense of profound study of the
German people or their affairs.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:378 O 7 ‘17 1000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w

“Considering its source and timeliness, such a book would in any event
have real significance, but there is a danger that the general reading
public will seek that significance in the wrong place. The real value
of what Mr Gerard has to tell us lies entirely aside from the personal
equation. ... Spicy as this book is, it leaves a somewhat tantalizing
impression that the author has reserved a good deal of his most
piquant matter for publication some time in the dim future.” F: T.
Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 600w

“The volume carries with it its own justification. ... There is a
straightforward sincerity about this book that must impress all
readers. While it condemns Germany, it does not appeal to the spirit
of hatred.” A. S.

+ =R of Rs= 56:528 N ‘17 800w

+ =Spec= 119:572 N 17 ‘17 170w

“The book is of more value from a historical viewpoint than as mere
literature. The author has something to tell that the public wants to
know and in such case substance takes precedence of form.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 800w

“To English readers the most interesting pages in the book will
probably be those in which the ambassador relates his efforts to
alleviate the lot of British prisoners.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 15 ‘17 950w

German deserter’s war experience; tr. by J. Koettgen. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 940.91 17-13674

The author is a German Socialist and anti-militarist, who after
fourteen months of fighting in Belgium and France escaped into Holland
and came to America. His story was first published in the New Yorker
Volkszeitung. He describes the entry into Belgium, the advance and
retreat at the Marne, the beginning of trench warfare, the famous
Christmas truce, etc. The translator says, “The chief value of this
soldier’s narrative lies in his destructive, annihilating criticism of
the romance and fabled virtues of war.” The author, in concluding,
says, “Today I have recovered sufficiently to take up again in the
ranks of the American Socialists the fight against capitalism. ... A
relentless struggle to the bitter end is necessary to show the ruling
war-provoking caste who is the stronger, so that it no longer may be
in the power of that class to provoke such a murderous war as that in
which the working-class of Europe is now bleeding to death.”

“Written with a strong anti-militarist and socialist bias.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17

“The writer’s deep hatred of war and all its works, not only the
actual bloodshed and cruelty, but also the unnatural and humiliating
relations of men to officers in the German army itself, speaks in
every page. The whole story is told with the vividness that comes of
recent deep and indelible impressions of soul-stirring experiences.”

+ =Dial= 63:401 O 25 ‘17 160w

“He accuses his officers of both deliberate cruelty and cowardice,
giving instances in the advance on the Marne, and flight from it, to
sustain his charges. This part of his book is an astounding
revelation. He asserts on several occasions the men refused to obey
orders to shoot wounded enemy soldiers and helpless civilians, and
were more tortured than punished for such insubordination.”

+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 200w

“It will rekindle our determination not to become swamped in the war
to the point where we forget our chief purpose—not defeat of Germany
so much as defeat of war as an institution. ... ‘A German deserter’s
war experience,’ with its directness and almost clumsy sincerity, is a
chastening and thrilling book for all of us, but it is as a symbol of
revolt that one will not wish to forget it.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 11:193 Je 16 ‘17 1050w

“The volume is the output of a very keen observer, a man who kept his
wits about him in every possible situation and was able to recount
what he saw afterwards. ... The volume is one of the best descriptive
works that we have yet seen on this subject. ... Much praise is due
the translator, Comrade J. Koettgen, for a careful and yet spirited
account of war as seen through the eyes of a Socialist participant.”
J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 1050w

=N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 40w

“The writer is a man of the people, a foreman miner, and tells his
story straightforwardly, intelligently and without conscious art. ...
Of widest interest are the detailed descriptions of the advance thru
Belgium, the battle of the Marne and the retreat. There have been
numerous accounts of these events by French witnesses and by newspaper
men who have repeated the tales of participants, but, except for the
official German account, this book is the first to come from that
side.”

+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 150w

=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w

“Whether true or not—and the balance swings in favor of the
affirmative, it is an absorbing story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 13 ‘17 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 D 6 ‘17 650w

=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Peter Sanders, retired. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-11709

When his gambling house in New York was closed down, Peter Sanders
became a wanderer. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and a lover of
books, with a leaning toward the classics. He meets adventures in
various parts of Europe, but his inclinations call him back to
America, even tho his return means the hiding of his identity under a
false name. Accompanied by his faithful servant, Henry, he becomes
familiar with corners of his native land before unknown to him. He
makes new friends too and comes to think better of his fellow men than
he had in the old days when he saw them only thru a gambler’s eyes.
Finally when he is reinstated in New York, it is to find that he has
become a new man and that the old ways no longer hold any charm for
him.

“A leisurely tale ‘gay without vapidity and adventurous without
sensationalism.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“What we assist at is a gradual change in point of view and emphasis
rather than a radical change of character.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:410 Je ‘17 650w

“This Mr Silcox is a very credible old gentleman. ... The thing that
is not quite believable is Peter Sanders. ... We feel sure that,
although many a novelist has done worse, Mr Gerould could have done
far better.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w

“Thoroughly to enjoy it, one should know that Mr Gerould is a college
professor; his interest in ex-gamblers gains piquancy from this fact.”

+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“The story (which is not, we suspect, without its foundation in fact)
is in its way a romance, and long before we are done with him we have
formed a proper romantic affection for its stout and aging hero.”

+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 350w

“The novel is written with a sense of irony which gives it a certain
pungency.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w

“The story is well written and gently humorous. The resemblance of Mr
Sanders to a noted New York gambler lately deceased is striking.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 400w

=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Change of air. il *$1.25 Scribner 17-25861

“The book opens with a scene in the drawing rooms of Miss Cordelia
Wheaton. Miss Wheaton, a rich woman, had a very large number of poor
friends, and she had sent for them all to come to her house on a
certain day. There they sit at the beginning of the first chapter;
‘and they waited, unprotesting; for they were all poor.’ At last, when
the rooms are full, Miss Wheaton appears and makes the surprising
announcement that she has decided to divide the greater part of her
fortune among them at once, instead of doing it in her will. Each is
to receive a certain sum—how much no one of the others will ever know.
She carries out her plan, and the effect of this ‘windfall’ upon the
lives and characters of some few of her beneficiaries, and ultimately
upon Miss Wheaton herself, form the theme—or perhaps it would be
better to say the themes—of the book.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18

“To Walter Leaven we owe the story’s rescue from bitter comedy to a
finale of exquisite romance. It is his figure, treading devotedly
towards its goal of self-realisation through self-devotion, that makes
a story out of what might otherwise have been a mere group of
satirical episodes.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 590w

+ =Nation= 105:695 D 20 ‘17 220w

“Though there are frequent fine penetrations in her account of people,
and a sharp wit to clinch the penetration, she has a constant tendency
to substitute the values of polite society for the values that a
genuine artist would discern. Her bristling smartness, her
complaisance, her snobbishness, are difficult traits to tolerate in a
novelist of manners.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:223 D 22 ‘17 650w

“The book is very short, very clever, very cynical.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 800w

“A good story idea only moderately well carried out.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 50w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:749 N ‘17 30w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 280w

“It is all very brilliant, but one shudders to see life chiseled with
such delicate scalpels and with so sure and unashamed a pagan touch.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 480w

=GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY.= Sex-hygiene; a talk to college boys. (Present day problems ser.) *60c (8c) Badger, R: G. 612.6 17-13326

“In 1911 there was given to Bowdoin college a fund the income of which
was to be devoted to the instruction of the students in the proper
relations of the sexes. As a part of this instruction the following
lecture has been given to the freshman class of each succeeding year.
It has been given, also, in a number of other institutions for the
education of young men and boys.” (Preface) The lecturer is professor
emeritus of surgery at Bowdoin college, and author of several standard
medical books.

=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 50w

“One of the most useful books of its kind. ... It is plain and direct
and is without an excess of detail. ... Bowdoin college has announced
that it is going to give a copy to every member of each freshman class
from now on.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 130w

=GERSTENBERG, CHARLES W., and JOHNSON, WALTER SEELY.= Organization and control. (Modern business, v. 3) il Alexander Hamilton inst. 658 17-1816

“‘Organization and control’ deals not with the internal management and
control of business units, but rather with the external organization
and ownership of industrial enterprises and the control of their
business policies. In other words, this is not a work on business
management, but on the structure of the business unit. ... The book
approaches the subject largely from the legal standpoint, although
there is nothing of a technical legal nature in the content. ... The
closing chapters deal with the questions growing out of concentration
and combination in business. In them the author examines the causes
that have led up to the present high degree of centralized control,
traces the evolution of the ‘trust’ through the various forms which it
has taken and outlines the advantages resulting from industrial
consolidation. Illegal combinations are discussed and the book closes
with a history of the law of monopolies and an analysis of recent
legislation on the trust question.”—Am Econ R

“It presents the subject in a remarkably clear and readable manner,
illuminates the material with a number of well-selected business
forms, and arouses interest by suggestive questions on hypothetical
corporate problems.” F. E. Armstrong

+ =Am Econ R= 7:648 S ‘17 380w

=Pratt= p23 Jl ‘17

=GERSTER, ARPAD GEYZA CHARLES.=[2] Recollections of a New York surgeon. il $3.50 Hoeber 17-29633

“Born in Hungary in 1848, Dr Gerster came to this country in 1873 and
settled for practice in New York city. His family origin was Swiss and
his forebears were sturdy peasants or burghers, who did not fail to do
their part in freeing Europe from the feudal subjection to the
Hapsburg and Burgundian overlords. ... He writes of the public service
of his ancestors—of John Gerster of Kaufbeuren who held various
offices in the Basel city government prior to 1532, when he was
pensioned, of Ottmar Gerster, who commanded the peasant army in the
war waged against Abbot Ulrich VIII of Sankt Gallen to gain liberation
from the overlordship of the monastery. ... In 1866 Gerster entered
the University of Vienna as a medical student. There he remained seven
years and went through all the experiences of student life, including
the duel requirements. ... His surgical practice in New York began in
a very humble way, and for some years was confined to work among the
very poor. Later he won renown and wealth. The closing section of his
book is devoted to ‘diversions.’”—Boston Transcript

“And he writes delightfully of music, sketching, wood-carving and
etching.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 650w

“Throughout the book there is evident a genial, eager personality
whose keen interest in the world and all its people, in nature and all
her manifestations, has filled the days of his life with enjoyment.
Particularly wholesome reading will the book be for young medical
students and practitioners.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 480w

=GIBBONS, MRS HELEN DAVENPORT (BROWN).= Red rugs of Tarsus. *$1.25 (3c) Century 956 17-10364

An account of the Armenian massacre of 1909. The author, with her
husband, Herbert Adams Gibbons, was spending the year 1909 in Tarsus
and teaching in a mission school. Since then she has tried to put the
experience of that year out of her mind. “But,” she says, “recent
events in Armenia brought it all back again. My indignation, and a
sense of duty and of pity, transcended all personal feelings. I lived
again that night in Tarsus, when we—seven defenseless women, our one
foreign man ... and 4,800 Armenians waited our turn at the hands of
the Kurds.” The story is told from the letters written at that time to
her mother in America.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“She gives bright and humorous descriptions of her new experiences,
which, however, soon cease to be merely amusing. The horror of an
Armenian massacre converts the airy narrative into a grim recital of
terrible deeds.”

+ =Dial= 62:447 My 17 ‘17 200w

“Unfortunately many of these letters to Mrs Gibbons’ mother contain
information which must have interested her mother greatly, but which
will seem irrelevant to the public, or trivial, when thought of in
relation to such great happenings.”

=Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 150w

“A fine and significant book. ... Of the moments of her own peril Mrs
Gibbons has written with a simplicity, almost an unconsciousness, that
is magnificently fine and dramatic to read, now that it is all over,
and she and her husband were saved. But the record as a whole,
including those terrible hours with the rest, is one of stark, close,
immediate realities, known and faced. The book will give the American
reader food for more than one kind of thought.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 500w

“A very vital, realistic, graphic portrayal of one of the terrible
tragedies of modern history.”

+ =Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:527 Je ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

“The deposition of Abdul Hamid and the triumph of the Young Turks
occurred while the family was at Mersina, and the popular impression
that the new régime was more tolerant is contradicted by what Mrs
Gibbons writes of the early days of its intolerance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 450w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East; problems of peace. *$1 (3c) Century 940.91 17-21742

“These chapters were written as a series of articles for the Century
Magazine. At the time of the Russian revolution and the intervention
of the United States, the chapters on Poland and Constantinople had
already been published and the others were in print.” (Foreword) Mr
Gibbons treats some events in outline only, and makes references that
assume the reader’s knowledge of modern European history. His chapters
all deal with the wrongs of small nations, whom he shows to have been
ill-treated by the Entente allies as well as by Germany, and with the
way the small nations should be treated to secure a durable peace.
Despite his “horrors and detestation of what Jews and Poles and
Armenians and Belgians and Serbians are being made to suffer,” he does
not think that the punishment of and a change in the political status
of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary would prevent the
renewal in the very near future of wrongs inflicted upon small and
weak nations, but believes the formula for the readjustment of the
world to be “government by the consent of the governed.” He therefore
argues that the reconstituted Polish state must not be subject in any
way to either Germany or Russia and that its boundaries must be
determined by ethnological, economic and political, rather than
historical, considerations; that Constantinople must be considered “in
the light of principle and not as a pawn”; that the peace conference
must prove the intention of Europe to put “local Mohammedan interests
ahead of European interest in Mohammedan countries”; and that the
Entente powers must “guarantee the Balkan peninsula to the Balkan
peoples,” as otherwise “Germany will keep the hegemony in the Balkans
that she has already won.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17

“The book interprets for us the passionate racial desires for freedom,
and the inalienable right to enjoy that freedom, of all the minor
weaker states now in the whirlpool of war.” S. A.

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 410w

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w

“The author writes from long and intimate knowledge of eastern
European politics, and his suggestions are worthy of the earnest
attention of statesmen and diplomats.” F: A. Ogg

+ =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 520w

=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 250w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w

“The attitude of the writer is rather that of a thoughtful observer
than an incisive critic. He has no definite solution to offer for any
of the problems which are sure to plague mankind after peace
negotiations shall have begun.”

+ — =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 500w

“Mr Gibbons is the author of two recent and very valuable works, ‘The
new map of Africa’ and ‘The new map of Europe.’ In the present work he
departs from his special forte of describing what has happened in the
way of territorial changes to suggest changes that may happen in the
future. ... The value of the work consists far more in the information
given regarding the past status of these countries than in what he
suggests for the future. ... In his past work he was on sure ground,
in this it is unavoidably different.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w

“Mr Gibbons gives a lucid and vigorous presentation of the issues at
stake in Poland and the Near East, pointing out that if the war is to
continue in the character of a struggle for democracy against
autocracy, the issues must be defined to meet the requirements of
democracy. .... In his point of view he is accurately representative
of American nationalism.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 540w

“A useful work of historical reference and suggestion. It should have
an index.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 360w

=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 90w

“An important contribution to the literature on American foreign
relations emphasizes that the principles of American policy concerning
the Near East are fundamentally and necessarily different from those
of our allies. ... The author sets right misled public opinion in this
country concerning the nature of Panislamism and the Islam conception
of the state.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:550 S 22 ‘17 720w

=GIBBONS, JAMES, cardinal.= Retrospect of fifty years. 2v *$2 (1½c) Murphy, J: 282 17-88

These two volumes contain a selection from the essays and sermons of
Cardinal Gibbons. His introduction expresses the belief that they may
be of historical importance as a record of the times in which he has
lived. He says “I have lived a long time, and I have lived through a
very critical time. Not only have I held office many years, but I have
held office during a time of transition, when the old order was
changed.” A large part of the first volume is devoted to the Vatican
council (1869-1870), of which Cardinal Gibbons is the last surviving
member. Other miscellaneous papers of general interest included in the
two volumes are: The Knights of labor; The church and the republic;
Irish immigration to the United States; Patriotism and politics; Will
the American republic endure?

“The reader will not find in this book any aids to an exact knowledge
of historic facts, nor will the non-Catholic find any arguments to
persuade him to join the church, but he will feel that the country has
been very fortunate to have had a man of broad sympathies, of generous
temper, of great patience and Christian charity at the head of the
Catholic church in America during the last fifty years.” H: D.
Sedgwick

=Am Hist R= 22:887 Jl ‘17 1050w

“Of interest to both Catholics and Protestants alike.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:285 Ap ‘17

“He was already a priest during the Civil war, followed Abraham
Lincoln’s body in procession when it was brought to Baltimore, and has
been personally acquainted with most of the American presidents since
Lincoln’s death.”

+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 120w

“The essay on the Knights of labour is one of the most important, as
the part played by Cardinal Gibbons in their behalf is one of his
noblest achievements. ... In every essay, the character of the man is
unconsciously made clear. And one arises from such reading with the
conviction that this man is greater than any of his writings or deeds,
and that such a man is one of the greatest assets of a nation or a
church.” F. P. Lyons, C. S. P.

+ =Bookm= 45:193 Ap ‘17 1000w

“Many of the papers and addresses embraced in the ‘Retrospect’ deal
with civic affairs. .... In these we get an ineffaceable impression of
the distinguished author as the type of the militant citizen who
rebukes the wrong and defends the right, and yet through all retains
an unshakable faith in his country and its institutions which glows
like a torch to guide all who call themselves Americans.”

+ =Cath World= 104:689 F ‘17 800w

+ =Lit D= 54:911 Mr 31 ‘17 950w

=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 80w

=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Secret witness. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-22296

“The author, in an explanatory final chapter, seems to claim that some
evidence exists of the truth of the incidents described in the novel
as preceding the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo.
According to this theory, the German Kaiser and the Archduke had
formed a secret alliance in which, after the death of Emperor Francis
Joseph, they were to divide between them Austria, Serbia, Poland, and
other territory, the Archduke to hold the eastern section and to found
a dynasty through his children, whose right to succeed him was denied
by Austria. The story gives an Austrian origin to the plot and
assassination. The secret interview between the Kaiser and Archduke is
overheard by a young Austrian countess and a young English diplomat
who are in love with each other and who conceive it to be their duty
to report the matter—one to the Austrian emperor, the other to the
English ambassador. Out of this naturally come plots and counterplots
and adventures of startling character.”—Outlook

=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 300w

“Not so skillfully written as Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle,’ but of similar
interest.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w

“A technically adroit, plausible and attractively written story.”

+ =New Repub= 12:226 S 22 ‘17 200w

“There is plenty of variety in the scenes which are laid in many and
very different places, including a Turkish harem and an ancient,
supposedly abandoned castle high up in the Tatra range of the
Carpathians. ... A swift-moving, entertaining story with an ingenious
plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w

=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 160w

=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w

“A second ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ in its headlong pace, picturesque
situations, adventure and love interest.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w

=GIBBS, PHILIP.= Battles of the Somme. *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-3464

This is Mr Gibbs’s second war book. “The soul of the war” was written
while he was a free-lance journalist in France and Belgium. He is now
an officially accredited correspondent with the British armies in the
field. In this book he has brought together articles written in the
three months following July 1, 1916. He is one of the most brilliant
men writing from the front. He kept close to the fighting forces, and
makes the daily life of the men in action very vivid. There are two
folding maps.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17

“Mr Gibbs’s book is the war. ... The reader sees and senses the horror
and the nastiness and the incredible folly of it all; but, shining
through the sombreness, the glory of those golden lads who, knowing
the war and hating it like the hell it is, went steadfastly forward
into the flames with smiling eyes and a jest on their lips.” A. R.
Dodd

+ =Bookm= 45:196 Ap ‘17 600w

“No man who writes from the front writes more sensitively than does
Philip Gibbs. ... His best pictures are of men.” W. A. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 950w

+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 140w

+ =Lit D= 54:1708 Je 2 ‘17 550w

+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w

“If Mr Gibbs can see the saving humors in the warring days, he can see
the hideousness, too, and the fineness, and the tenderness that so
often goes hand in hand with the heroism. It is because he can see all
of these things—and makes us see them—that his book is so good.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 500w

+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 20w

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 600w

“The two excellent maps appended to the book, while they fulfil the
purpose of their insertion by recording the progress made in the early
weeks of the battle, are of no use in following the present movement.
The Germans have been backed clean off them.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 550w

“His record appeared from day to day, in either the Daily Telegraph or
the Daily Chronicle. ... On the tanks Mr Gibbs speaks with a certain
guarded enthusiasm. ... ‘If we had enough of them—and it would be a
big number—trench warfare would go for ever and machine-gun redoubts
would lose their terror.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 25 ‘17 700w

=GIBBS, WINIFRED STUART.= Minimum cost of living. *$1 Macmillan 331.83 17-10221

“This work is based on a methodical study of the food habits, as
compared with the scientifically-estimated food requirements, of a
number of New York families cared for by the Association for improving
the condition of the poor; this study seems to have succeeded in
multiplying the effectiveness of the money spent in relieving want,
and as an unintentional byproduct food economies are suggested which
are undoubtedly feasible on a larger scale. The contribution of the
book to present needs lies in these statistics of food use and food
needs.”—Springf’d Republican