Chapter XXXV: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (6)

“Apart from the foreword, the book deserves recognition as a striking
indication of the fact that before the revolution the leading Russian
writers were overwhelmingly in favour of the total abolition of the
shocking disabilities to which the Jews had long been subject in
Russia. Unfortunately neither Mr Walling nor any one of the
distinguished Russian editors has thought of informing us when the
various articles that make up this little book were written. The book
gives us no word as to the actual position today.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 13 ‘17 970w

=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$3.50 Macmillan 17-12487

The only memoir of Swinburne that had been published before the
appearance of this volume was the sketch contributed by Mr Gosse to
the “Dictionary of national biography” in 1912. This sketch has been
used as the basis for this more complete work. Much new material has
come to the author’s hands however, and he says, “My narrative is
therefore not merely much fuller than it would have been in 1912, but
in various respects more accurate.” Contents: Childhood—Eton
(1837-1853); Oxford (1853-1859); Early life in London (1859-1865);
“Atalanta in Calydon,” “Chastelard”; “Poems and ballads” (1866); Songs
of the republic (1867-1870); The middle years (1870-1879); Putney
(1879-1909); Personal characteristics. Additional letters are given in
appendixes. The illustrations are worthy of special note.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17

“Mr Gosse has written a discriminating and worthy biography of a great
poet, and has created a strikingly vivid picture of one who might
truthfully be described, without irreverence, as an illustrious
oddity. ... The book is biography, not criticism; but we are given
particulars relating to ‘Atalanta in Calydon,’ ‘Chastelard,’ ‘Poems
and ballads,’ ‘Songs before sunrise,’ ‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ and much
of Swinburne’s other work, which will be read with interest by every
admirer of the poet.”

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 170w

“Excellent as is his very careful and most interesting account of
Swinburne’s life and character and work, there are in it here and
there such evidences of personal bias and even of bitterness as are,
at least, surprising. This is the more deplorable since there was no
one so well equipped as Mr Gosse for the writing of a full and
authoritative biography of Swinburne.” G. I. Colbron

+ — =Bookm= 45:290 My ‘17 450w

“The reader will receive from Mr Gosse’s biography a clear series of
impressions of both Swinburne and his work. But it leaves so much
unsaid, it refers so vaguely to so many significant episodes in
Swinburne’s career, that the real and complete biography of him
remains to be written.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 2250w

“Will probably remain the standard life of Swinburne.”

+ =Cath World= 106:259 N ‘17 600w

“An extraordinarily vivid and many-sided characterization, with some
tantalizing reticences and many features of unique interest, such as
the chapters on Swinburne as a parodist and as a poet of children.”

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 80w

“Mr Gosse’s volume is chronological and anecdotal, there is hardly a
page that is not enriched by some delightful incident or jest
concerning Swinburne’s time and associates. ... The work speaks from
the atmosphere of intimacy, and in that position one can
sympathetically understand the instinctive ‘reticence, tact and
diplomacy’ for which the English reviewers are so heartily praising
him. But as an ‘authentication’ of the sacred legend the volume is not
wholly successful. For, in spite of biographer and reviewers,
Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first
series of ‘Poems and ballads.’” B. I. Kinne

=Dial= 63:21 Je 28 ‘17 1800w

=Ind= 92:65 O 6 ‘17 300w

“The biographer has succeeded in presenting a substantially truthful
as well as a vivid picture. He succeeds in conveying the right
impression, that is to say, the impression which seems to have been
formed by nearly every one who knew Swinburne intimately, that he was
a sort of ‘lusus naturæ.’ ... The record of his life which has now
been given to us does not seem likely to be superseded.”

+ =Nation= 105:201 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w

“One of the most interesting volumes of biography to come from the
presses in a long time. ... Mr Gosse’s attitude toward Theodore
Watts-Dunton, with whom Swinburne spent the last thirty years of his
life, seems unfair, at the very least.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:181 My 6 ‘17 1700w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 320w

“Mr Gosse’s ‘Life of Swinburne’ is a brilliant affair in which the
results of long and careful study come out as easily as if he had been
at no pains to delve here and there to clear up the difficulties which
usually attend the careers of men of letters, and to put casual
misconceptions straight. ... He has not found room to supply an
estimate of Swinburne’s comparative place in literature, and
particularly in the history of poetry, but his comments on the various
poems as they pass under review are usually sound and always neat. The
volume includes some excellent portraits.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 Jl 7 ‘17 1350w

“As a friend of thirty years’ standing, a poet, and an accomplished
critic and man of letters, Mr Edmund Gosse comes to his difficult task
with an equipment which raises high expectations, largely fulfilled by
the result. He has given us an extremely interesting and skilful
memoir of an extraordinary man, and though the limitations necessarily
imposed on him prevent it from being a complete picture, it is not
likely to be superseded for a good many years to come. These
limitations are due to a regard for the living as well as the dead.”

* + =Spec= 118:462 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w

* + =Spec= 118:490 Ap 28 ‘17 1900w

“A concrete, well-balanced portrait, the more entertaining for the
judiciously selected anecdotes and incidents, and the more valuable
for the authentic glimpses of contacts with other very interesting
people.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 4 ‘17 1200w

“You cannot glance at this book without reading it through; and having
read it you will wish to read the poems again. ... There is in his
book that real reverence which does not fear to tell the affectionate
truth.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p169 Ap 12 ‘17 1500w

“Mr Gosse has condensed the last thirty years of the poet’s life into
a single chapter, and has devoted the bulk of his volume to the years
before 1879. He has made his hero a vital if not a very admirable
figure. He has given us clear sight, though not always full sympathy.
This vitality of portraiture is likely to be the abiding value of Mr
Gosse’s book. Faults it has: it is quite too fragmentary to be a
definite biography; it leaves too much unsaid; there are many passages
in the life of the poet which are obviously glossed over.” C. B.
Tinker

+ — =Yale R= n s 7:195 O ‘17 900w

=GOUDGE, HENRY LEIGHTON=, and others. Place of women in the church. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1.15 Young ch. 396 A17-1510

The American edition of a volume which was brought out in England and
to which eight men and women have contributed chapters strongly
opposing the right of women to exercise any official ministry in the
churches. Contents: The teaching of St Paul as to the position of
women; Ministrations of women in church; The ministry of women and the
tradition of the church; The claim of the priesthood for women; The
ordination of women; The medical ministry of women; The religious life
for women; Younger women and the church.

“The longest and most important is from the pen of Canon Goudge, who
deals with ‘The teaching of St Paul on the position of women.’ It is
an instructive exposition of the Apostle’s teaching, but it scarcely
does justice to the plea of those who urge that the Apostle’s
arguments and directions deal with circumstances altogether different
from those of the twentieth century. This volume will be welcomed by
those who desire to know how it is proposed to meet the arguments of
Canon Streeter and Miss Picton-Turberville and Mr Allworthy in which
they plead for some extension, under proper safeguards, of the
ministry of women in the church.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 540w

=GOUDIE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Steam turbines. il *$4 Longmans 621.1 17-14113

“A text-book for engineering students [which] describes clearly the
various types of land and marine types now on the market (including
the Ljungström); expounds the theory underlying design and action;
gives calculations on consumption, efficiency, and the various sources
of loss; and the design of typical turbines of the various classes,
including a set of marine turbines of 18,000 shaft horse-power. The
allied subjects of condensers and condensing plants, however, are not
included. Clearly illustrated, also well supplied with mathematical
and steam tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w

“‘Altogether this is an excellent treatise, well gotten up, and
published at a very reasonable price, and although it is described as
a text-book for engineering students, it should prove of great value
to the marine engineer, to whom a knowledge of the steam turbine is
becoming of increasing importance. We can recommend it with the utmost
confidence.’”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ap ‘17 130w (Reprinted from
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record F 22 ‘17)

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17

=GOUGH, GEORGE W.= Yeoman adventurer. il *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-26322

A tale of adventure in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Master
Oliver Wheatman is a young Staffordshire farmer who, in spite of
bookish tastes, yearns for a life of action. The fate that keeps him
tied down to his ancestral acres, while his chum Jack Dobson goes off
to fight for the king, seems most unkindly. Then the adventure for
which he longs is brought into his life most unexpectedly with the
advent of Mistress Margaret Waynflete, and he finds himself enlisted
in the Jacobite cause. Exciting incidents follow thick and fast and
Master Oliver, the yeoman turned soldier, has no longer cause to
complain of inactivity, and when at the end, he returns to his home,
he does not come alone.

=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17

“The characters are all delightfully modern, both in speech and in
action; consequently they are thoroughly lifelike, the bad as well as
the good, instead of being mere puppets dressed in the costumes of
1745.”

+ =Ath= p195 Ap ‘16 80w

“The author has been unusually fortunate in the way in which he has
succeeded in making the period real to his readers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w

“Told with an unflagging zest.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w

“A rather commonplace tale in which youth and beauty play the leading
parts. ... As a narrative it is neither better nor worse than most of
its sort.”

=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 90w

“A costume story, if you like, an affair of pleasant superficial
illusion, but of illusion which, one feels, the author himself
cheerfully and spontaneously shares.”

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 250w

“An unusually good specimen of the old-fashioned semi-historical
romance.”

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w

“As this is a first novel and is of remarkable promise, we may perhaps
be allowed to advise the author to avoid making use of ‘types’ in his
characters, and to describe rather ‘hungering, thirsting men.’”

+ — =Spec= 116:555 Ap 29 ‘16 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 120w

“Mr Gough is so intent on his tale that he has little time to spare
for much artistry, but he keeps Oliver’s view-point steadily before
him and merits a big share of the praise due to his hero’s robust and
tireless efforts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Ap 6 ‘16 350w

=GOURVITCH, PAUL PENSAC.= How Germany does business. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 382 17-31429

An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with
chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits;
Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s
effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial
factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and
counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc. The author writes with
particular reference to the business relations of Germany and Russia.
The book has a preface by Dr B. E. Shatsky, of Petrograd.

“It is written with a manifest prejudice against Germany, and hence
cannot be taken as an entirely reliable survey of German business
methods in foreign trade. ... This book should be of interest to
American exporters. However much we may disagree with Germany’s
motives in trade development and with certain of her export practices
we acknowledge that she built up a remarkable foreign trade and we may
profit by the adoption of many of the principles here briefly set
forth.” H. T. Collings

+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:102 Ja ‘18 710w

+ =New Repub= 13:258 D 29 ‘17 450w

“Outside of trifles which we dare say will be corrected in future
editions, the work is on the whole well written, and both interesting
and instructive.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 540w

“The author of ‘How Germany does business’ appears sometimes to be
disingenuous—or, at least, if he is not that, he is either lacking in
information (which seems improbable) or takes the complaisant view
that whatever succeeds is right. ... Especially blind, ethically, is
the opening chapter on the general question of Germany’s commercial
expansion in recent years.”

– — =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 650w

=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w

=GRABO, CARL HENRY.= Amateur philosopher. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 204 17-7480

“As introduction to his book the author says: ‘Because I believe the
construction of a philosophy to be the chief end of man, I have made
bold to write the following pages.’ ... ‘The amateur philosopher’ is
the personal record of one man’s search for a philosophy of life in
this present complex day. Dr Grabo was born and brought up in a middle
western town, conservative, comfortable, orthodox. He was educated at
an American college. He is now a professor in an American university.
It is highly probable that thousands of Americans, reading his book,
will chuckle or sigh over moments of what amounts to pure reminiscence
from their own lives. ... The writer is old enough, too, to possess
both perspective and tolerance, while he is essentially young in the
sense of being, not an eager youth who thinks the world can be set
right by the wish for upheaval, but an active, forward-thinking
worker, ‘in the prime of life,’ in the world of today.”—N Y Times

“It has been criticized as being ‘destructive in tone, without the
substitution of anything better.’”

=A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17

“Most of the deep emotional experiences of life were unknown to him.
And so the value of the book is in the author’s account of the way he
found a place for the spiritual realities in his scheme of things.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 600w

+ =Cleveland= p66 My ‘17 80w

“His critique of the college is forceful and true. ... In these first
chapters full of charm, Mr Grabo details his universal experience.
Then suddenly, as if stung with modesty, he slips into an impersonal
outline of his matured philosophy. The result is not happy.” R. B.

+ — =New Repub= 10:383 Ap 28 ‘17 450w

“It is in response to the average American’s need that his book is
unique and valuable. ... In all the fourteen chapters of ‘The amateur
philosopher’ there is not a word of dogmatism, intolerance, arrogance
of thought or faith. The book is written with a freshness, a sanity, a
sympathetic understanding of human need that give it a well-nigh
universal quality.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 900w

=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w

Reviewed by Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 91:592 F 17 ‘17 600w

“Mr Grabo is a trifle disappointing in that he fails to live up to his
interesting title. Still for one unfamiliar with the terminology of
philosophers, Mr Grabo’s book will be very welcome. His style is
simple and clear.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 210w

=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= William Penn. il *$2.50 Stokes

“The present work, by the principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester, is
adapted for the English reader; and no ‘Life’ in the usual sense has,
so Mr Graham states, ever been written by an English Friend.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book comprises extracts from Penn’s
voluminous writings, controversial and other; an interesting
description of the trial of Penn and Mead at the Old Bailey, where the
accused gloriously defended and asserted the liberties of Englishmen;
an account of the foundation of Pennsylvania; a sketch of the
enlightened system of government established in the province, and of
Penn’s delightfully humane relations with the Indians; and many
details of the anxieties, trials, and misfortunes which beset the
founder in his later years.” (Ath) “It is not a book which represents
original research, but it is a well-written, sympathetic biography,
and one of moderate scope; with bibliography and many illustrations,
notes about which are given in an appendix.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup)

+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 290w

“Having access to all available material and possessing a strong
biographical sense, the author has presented interestingly and
concisely one of the best stories of the Quaker colonizer extant.” F.
P. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 5 ‘17 780w

“In style the book is a trifle disconcerting, but it offers an ample
reward to the reader that approaches it with an open mind.”

+ — =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 500w

“Mr Graham’s style is fluent and unpretentious. He arranges his
narrative clearly and tells it vividly. He lets his hero speak for
himself where possible, and where he has to summarize or assign
motives, we have no doubt he correctly interprets Penn’s attitude.”

+ =Spec= 118:91 Jl 28 ‘17 1400w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 My 24 ‘17 140w

“The writer, indeed, is at home with his reader and addresses to him
many asides bearing upon the interests of the present hour, as for
example upon the Society for psychical research and the maxims of
George Bernard Shaw. But the interest of the book will centre for most
readers in the account of the ‘Holy experiment’ in Pennsylvania, where
an attempt was made to order a society on the generous and humane
principles which Penn laid down.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 1500W

=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Priest of the ideal. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 17-25855

A piece of fiction that has drawn largely upon the imagination of the
writer rather than upon the world of facts. It represents the clash
between modern material greed and early church mysticism. An American,
representing a syndicate with some billions of dollars to spend,
approaches the English in this state of mind: “As a result of the
expense of war you English are now much poorer, we Americans are rich.
You must be ready to sell certain things to raise money.” His hope is
to buy out of England’s superfluity of castles, abbeys, monuments,
historical buildings, etc., enough to serve as a much needed
background for the new American race. In company with a wandering
priest the American visits objects of his quest, learning meantime
from the lips of this idealist that “there is nothing in England which
has been outlived and which, therefore, could be sold or given away;
that it was futile to covet the spiritual background of England, the
only way to acquire material things that symbolize ideals is to fight
for the ideals.”

“We hardly think the author has hit upon the literary form appropriate
to his idea or his own capacities.”

— =Ath= p596 N ‘17 80w

“In a sense, Mr Graham’s ‘priest of the ideal’ is merely another of
those pseudo-Christs whom every modern novelist seems to feel free to
create in his own image; and the action in which he is concerned is
very tenuous and impalpable indeed.” H. W. Boynton

– — =Bookm= 46:600 Ja ‘18 700w

“In Mr Graham, there is a voice as fearless if not as exceptional as
Tolstoy’s. His book is, in fact, a review of England through Russian
eyes, in Russian terms.”

+ =Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 470w

“Some of the descriptions are well done, but the book as a whole is
tiresome, and its religious mysticism is more than slightly touched
with hysteria. There is not a single character in it who is real for
an instant, and while there are a few interesting bits of comment,
they are not numerous.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 370w

“The romance repays perusal if only for the exquisite delicacy of
style and the high level of its spiritual perception.”

+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 60w

“The strength of the book lies, not in the actuality of its characters
or in any exciting stir of incident, but in its handling of the vital
problem which is ever present and never completely solved—the conduct
of our daily lives. We have one very minor and incidental point to
urge against Mr Graham before we finish: he owes it to himself to pay
more attention to the rhythm of his style. Some of his most impressive
passages are spoiled by the suggested lilt of a verse metre.”

+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1500w

“In its sluggish, eventless speculativeness, it is a Russian kind of a
book. Only a Russian would have done it far better. It is Mr Graham’s
first novel—if, indeed, it can be classified as a novel—and, one
believes, his first complete failure.”

– — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 700w

“A book into which the author has poured his thoughts and feelings as
they came to him, with more care for their immediate expression than
for the form of the whole. Yet the reader may fairly ask himself how
much of his dissatisfaction—his sense of having looked up and not been
fed, but swollen with wind and mist—may be due to some lack of time
and opportunity which compelled Mr Graham to be careless of the
whole. ... If it is inconsistent, self-contradictory, vague, and here
and there (doubtless owing to that lack of time and opportunity at
which we have hinted) nothing else than flabby, it is bright with
beautiful thoughts and warm with a passion for beautiful living.”

+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 18’17 820w

=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Russia in 1916. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 914.7 17-6752

The author believes that the people of the two allied countries, Great
Britain and Russia, should keep in touch with one another, and
publishes this little book of impressions in the interests of a better
understanding. He writes of: A journey to Ekaterina; The dark haven;
The new Archangel; The cost of living; Life in the country; A Russian
countess; Russian literature in 1916: Without vodka, beer, or wine,
etc.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17

“There is neither insight nor foresight in this ‘little book of the
hour.’” Abraham Yarmolinsky

– — =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 160w

“A slender volume of less than two hundred pages, but it reveals, as
always in everything Mr Graham writes, the ability to understand
Russia and a skill at making her understood by the people of other
nations.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1350w

“The information contained is of precisely the sort that the average
reader is most eager for.”

+ =Cath World= 105:536 Jl ‘17 470w

Reviewed by L: S. Friedland

=Dial= 63:265 S 27 ‘17 500w

“Slight, but based on three seasons’ personal observations.”

+ =Ind= 90:269 My 12 ‘17 30w

“There is nevertheless much here which the practical reader will find
of uncommon interest. The descriptions of Ekaterina and Archangel are
admirable. The world has been waiting for just the kind of knowledge
regarding Russia’s new Arctic port that Mr Graham gives us.”

+ =Nation= 104:430 Ap 12 ‘17 1550w

“Discount the politics and the war prophecies, and much that is
genuinely revelatory and illuminating does emerge. ... His picture of
the mood in which Russia accepts the war will endure. Even at the risk
of displeasing the western political radicals Mr Graham should not be
frightened from his attempts to convey to us the religious background
of Russia. He can bring out the shadows and spiritual chiaroscuro of
the thrilling panorama of revolution.” H. S.

+ — =New Repub= 11:165 Je 9 ‘17 950w

“When Stephen Graham splutters: ‘The Russia which Gorky attacks is
just that which is spiritually interesting to us in England—the
mystical and impractical Russia,’ he reveals himself a downright
dilettante, an epicurean, an ‘intellectual’ gourmand.” D: Rosenstein

— =N Y Call= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:108 Mr 25 ‘17 850w

“An entertaining record of his experiences, although naturally it is
hardly a work of permanent value.”

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:374 O ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 110w

“He belongs to that class of English writers who took it upon
themselves to whitewash the Russian autocracy and so misrepresent all
those who had fought against it for more than half a century. I do not
believe that anybody cares to know now anything about the devotion of
the Russian people to Czar Nicholas II, or about his angelic
disposition and his artistic soul.” H.

— =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 420w

“Mr Graham’s style, often slipshod and careless, occasionally, under
the inspiration of deep feeling, rises to a height of real beauty.” W:
L. Phelps

+ — =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 200w

=GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE, and HARPER, HARRY.= Air power; naval, military, commercial, il *$3 Stokes 623.7 (Eng ed War17-85)

“The authors regard the greatest lesson of the war as being that in
the future a nation which dominates the aerial highways will dominate
also those of the land and sea, and that a dominion of the air must
mean, ultimately, the dominion of the world. They illustrate this view
in a series of chapters dealing with the war in the air, problems in
construction, after-war policy, factors of safety (the phrase is used
in more than the engineering sense), popularizing travel by air, laws
of the air, and the commercial era of flight. They draw an alluring
picture of the time when a man will be able to dine one evening in New
York and the next in London, and when aerial excursions will be
possible at rates which will put them within the reach of all.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17

“The programme outlined is scarcely ever outside the bounds of
possibility, but views on aviation will have changed greatly long
before the programme is completed.”

+ — =Nature= 99:481 Ag 16 ‘17 670w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Jl ‘17 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p192 Ap 19 ‘17 130w

=GRANT, ARTHUR.=[2] On the wings of the morning. *$2 Dutton 828

“Echoes of George Borrow, of Gilbert White, of Richard Jefferies sound
forth from the pages of Mr Grant’s book of essays. As he journeys ‘On
the wings of the morning’ into the heart of historic Britain he sees
there the glory of her past and the beauty of her present. ... Every
corner of the island whence has arisen a mighty empire contains its
historic scenes, and in every hill and valley is to be found something
quaint, something picturesque and something of alluring grandeur. Much
of all this Mr Grant has witnessed and much of it he records in his
book. And through it all runs an undercurrent of thought that reflects
the spirit of the day in which it is written, that reveals how
constantly in all our minds is the present fighting of Britain and her
many Allies ‘for God and the right, for a world-peace that can only
come through sacrifice.’”—Boston Transcript

“His book should be received with appreciation by those familiar with
the places named and their literary associations, and attract many
others to enjoy them.”

+ =Ath= p524 O ‘17 90w

“The linking of people with places, and of places with people, gives
to Mr Grant’s essays one of their principal charms.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 1200w

=GRANT, MADISON.= Passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history, maps *$2 (4c) Scribner 572 16-22372

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The book contains much solid scientific and historical truth set
forth with dignity and clearness, although often with a lack of
coherence. It affords evidence of minute and careful study, even
though the author never cites his authority for particular statements
and supplies but a limited bibliography in the appendix. ... But the
‘Passing of the great race’ is not so much an objective scientific
treatise as a carefully reasoned argument in support of preconceived
convictions. ... The argument of the book must stand for what it is
worth. To the present reviewer it is unconvincing, partly because it
rests on debatable assumptions, partly because the method of the
argument seems itself unsound. ... His determinations often rest on
the most questionable evidence. ... Mr Grant’s book can hardly be
regarded as an important contribution to historical science. Its
dogmatic assurance and its partizanship impair its value to learning.
Its main thesis is not established, and, in the present state of
scholarship, is not capable of establishment. For guidance in matters
relating to European race problems American students of history will
continue to depend, as they have done for nearly twenty years, on
Ripley’s solid and discriminating ‘Races of Europe.’” A. B. S.

– + =Am Hist R= 22:842 Jl ‘17 850w

“Brevity often forces a more dogmatic opinion than the author probably
holds, but so many extreme statements are made that the reader often
wonders what evidence there is. Little mention is made of other
writers, and even in the bibliography the names of Ammon, Lapouge,
Reibmayr, Schallmaier, who have advocated similar claims, and
opponents like Finot and Novicow, are omitted. In spite of many
defects the position of the author has much to commend it. The volume
should be studied by all who are interested in the future of our own
country and in democracy at large.” C. K.

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 180w

“The migrations of the three races during different periods are
illustrated by a series of striking maps.”

=Ath= p250 My ‘17 190w

“We had thought that this species of race ecstasy, this enthusiasm for
laying stress on the racial basis of European history, with which the
name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain is associated, was going out of
fashion, even in Germany. But that a writer in democratic America
should give currency to these doctrines is passing strange.”

— =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 650w

“Mr Madison Grant echoes the absurdities of Mr Houston Chamberlain.”
H. M. Kallen

— =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 920w

“Mr Grant’s account of the distribution of the different races is
interesting and no doubt as accurate as such speculations can be made,
but the superstructure of theory and policy which he builds thereon
must be judged by each reader for himself.”

– + =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 180w

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 160w

“We do not recall any other single work which presents, within the
limited space of one volume, so comprehensive a survey of heredity,
eugenics, racial characteristics, ruling dynasties, and the steady
elimination of the unfit.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 450w

“Three brief chapters present a résumé of our knowledge of prehistoric
man in the stone and bronze ages. It is interesting to note that the
detailed treatment begins where Professor Osborn’s recent monumental
work on ‘Men of the old stone age’ leaves off, and in certain ways may
be regarded as directly supplemental. ... Slight reference is made to
the European war, but the application of all the data which Mr Grant
has assembled to the causes, psychology, and ultimate results of this
conflict is plainly evident. This and the intelligent attention which
is directed to the unparalleled mixing of races in our own country are
the two most potent memories of a perusal of this volume. ... A
bibliography and thorough index round out a volume of marked
originality and considerable interest.”

+ =Nation= 104:466 Ap 19 ‘17 770w

=Nature= 99:502 Ag 23 ‘17 620w

“For our part, we should like to have the facts examined with much
more care than Mr Grant has paid them before accepting his doleful
predictions as true, or even probable.”

— =Spec= 119:385 O 13 ‘17 1550w

Reviewed by E. G. Balch

— =Survey= 39:262 D 1 ‘17 550w

“All that can be said of some of the statements brought forward by Mr
Grant as scientific evidence of his thesis is that they are
incorrect.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 My 3 ‘17 1450w

“Many readers will question Grant’s conclusions, and some will resent
them. ... Yet his statement of the problem demands serious
consideration, and his sketch of the development and expansion of the
Nordic races is an excellent historical résumé. ... The whole lesson
of biology is that America is seriously endangering her future by
making fetishes of equality, democracy, and universal education. They
are of great value, but only when they have good hereditary material
upon which to work. The books of Morgan, Conklin, and Grant all show
that we must drastically revise our immigration policy and must strive
even more diligently to perpetuate the rapidly diminishing type of
strong-willed idealists who have been the country’s chief leaders.”
Ellsworth Huntington

+ =Yale R= n s 6:670 Ap ‘17 400w

=GRAY, VIOLET GORDON.=[2] Margery Morris. il *$1.25 (1½c) Penn 17-29733

Margery Morris, the young heroine of this story for girls, comes from
California to spend a summer with her grandfather in a small Quaker
village in New Jersey. An unknown boy cousin meets her at the train
and tells her that her grandfather is away. Margery, who is something
of a little snob, finds it necessary to adapt herself to the simple
living of a plain old-fashioned farm house. She learns to like the two
boys who call themselves her cousins; makes friends with two jolly
girls, and only later learns that thru confusion of names she has come
to visit in the wrong house. Other books in the series are promised.

=N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 70w

=GREEN, JOHN RICHARD.= Short history of the English people; rev. and enl., with epilogue by Alice S. Green. maps *$2 Am. bk. 942 16-18300

“The present one-volume edition now given to the public contains all
the material except the illustrations in the four-volume edition of
1887 and, in addition, some modifications in the history of Ireland
which Mrs Green believes her husband would have incorporated had he
been living. They are due to new material discovered in the last
thirty-five years since the ‘Short history’ was published.”—Outlook

“The ‘Epilogue’ is a summary written with a fervid eloquence which
makes it in its own way singularly attractive. But the fervour
sometimes leaves the facts obscure; for instance, no one who did not
know the sequence of events could extract the truth from the summary
of the Crimean war; whilst an account of the mutiny which does not
mention John Lawrence and has but a bare reference to his brother can
only be described as a curiosity. The ‘Epilogue’ is not indeed a
‘history,’ and as a review it is written with a definite outlook,
which if stimulating and suggestive, makes it hardly suitable for
instruction to those who are not already fairly familiar with the
facts.” A.

=Eng Hist R= 32:149 Ja ‘17 250w

+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 200w

“In the latest reprint Mrs J. R. Green has added an epilogue of one
hundred and seventy-two pages covering the century from 1815 to 1914.
A spirited sketch of the social changes and of the imperial and
foreign problems which have confronted us, it is as dogmatic, as
biassed, and almost as entertaining as J. R. Green’s own work, though
he might not have given so much prominence to the so-called Celtic
influence in British politics. He would certainly have described the
causes of the war more clearly and more accurately, instead of veiling
Germany’s direct responsibility for the conflict. An historian of the
English people ought, we think, to be perfectly definite about this
important matter. Mrs Green handles it gingerly, as if she doubted our
good faith and our intense desire to keep the peace.”

=Spec= 117:348 S 23 ‘16 140w

“The keenest-eyed literary critic would find it difficult to determine
from internal evidence where J. R. Green laid down the pen and Mrs
Green has taken it up. There is the same picturesque style, the same
gift of epigrammatic expression and faculty for seizing the essential
detail, the same command of apt quotation, the same imaginative
intuition, broad outlook on human affairs, and sympathy with national
and democratic movements.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Ag 3 ‘16 600w

=GREEN, LILIAN (BAYLISS) (MRS ALBERT RANDOLPH GREEN).= Effective small home. il *$1.50 McBride 640 17-8603

The author was formerly editor of the Little house department of the
Ladies’ Home Journal. To help those who live on small incomes and in
small quarters is her aim in this book. Part 1 is personal. In it she
writes of her own varied experiences in housekeeping. Part 2 is
amplified from material prepared for the Ladies’ Home Journal, and has
chapters on: Suggestions for furnishing, Lighting fixtures, The
hanging of curtains, Floor coverings, etc. In addition there are
appendixes giving suggestions for cleaning, recipes, etc. There is a
short bibliography and an index.

“The book is full of personality, has some charm and many suggestive
ideas. It makes a contribution in regard to the treatment of
apartments and very small rooms. It contains no principles or
standards by which to decorate, and is a record of ingenuity and taste
rather than of principles and artistic standards.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17

“A practical book for young housekeepers of moderate means.”

+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w

“A pleasantly personal tone pervades Mrs Green’s contribution.”

+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 10w

“The work points out many short cuts for women who are anxiously
striving for beauty in the home.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ‘17 110w

=GREEN, MARY, pseud. (MRS MARIETTA [MCPHERSON] GREENOUGH).= Better meals for less money. *$1.25 Holt 641.5 17-13798

“It is the plan of this book,” says the author, “to include a variety
of (1) recipes which require only a small amount of meat; (2) recipes
for vegetable dishes which can take the place of meat; (3) recipes for
the economical use of cereals, dairy products, and other common
inexpensive foods; (4) recipes for breads, cakes, and desserts
requiring only a small amount of butter and eggs; and (5) recipes for
a few relishes, condiments, and other accessories which lend variety
and interest.” The first chapter is devoted to General suggestions for
economy.

“The general suggestions for economy are useful but the title is
rather misleading as no meals are planned and the book is just another
good cook book of selected recipes, well indexed, with an appendix
which gives tables of weights and measures, temperature, caloric
values, time tables for cooking and a list (2p.) of government
publications on foods and cooking.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17

+ =Cath World= 105:412 Je ‘17 110w

=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 90w

“Not intended as a complete guide to cookery, this new book, so
admirable in form and contents, presupposes an elementary knowledge of
the care and preparation of food, and imparts much knowledge that is
not elementary.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 120w

“Altogether this little book is indispensable for owners of small
kitchens.”

+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 330w

“We have personally tested many of the recipes for salads and puddings
and found them excellent. The author preaches a sort of sensible
economy which the housewife can practice with much profit.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 80w

=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 40w

“The preface gives general suggestions for economy—the kind a sensible
housewife can really practise.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 90w

“Another good point about the book is the binding, which is of the
practical kind that may be handled without soiling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 14 ‘17 250w

=GREENE, CARLETON.= Wharves and piers; their design, construction and equipment. il *$3 McGraw 627 17-9604

“The book is frankly a catalog of standard designs. There appears
little attempt to expand theory, but as a catalog, using that word in
its best sense, there is little to be wished for. The main section, is
devoted to the structure of the piers and wharves themselves. The
following and less exhaustive part takes up the design of sheds for
wharves and piers and a final and still less ambitious section is
devoted to cargo-handling machinery. Finally, a number of detail costs
afford some general information on that important subject.”—Engin
News-Rec

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w

“In no branch of engineering have there been so many strides forward
in the past decade as in the design and construction of wharves and
piers for harbors. ... In spite of this great advance, or perhaps
because of it, the literature on the subject is most meager.
Practically everything that can be found on recent wharf and pier
construction must be sought in the files of technical magazines and
society publications. Mr Greene has, therefore, done a considerable
service for the profession in collecting the many types which appear
in his new book.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:325 Ag 16 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

“The drawings, most of them dimensioned, are clearly executed.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ap ‘17 70w

“‘The subject of pile-driving has not been treated at length in this
book.’”

=Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the
Western Society of Engineers p122 F ‘17)

=Pratt= p19 Jl ‘17 40w

=GREENE, FREDERICK STUART=, ed. Grim thirteen. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23978

Edward J. O’Brien, editor of “The best short stories of 1916,” in his
introduction, tells us that six people, four writers, two critics and
a publisher, talking over the short story became convinced that “a
grim story, no matter whether it was a literary masterpiece or not,
was hoodooed.” They then decided to select and publish in book form
thirteen good stories that had been repeatedly rejected by American
magazines. All of these stories were praised by editors who rejected
them. Contents: The day of Daheimus, by Vance Thompson; Rain, by Dana
Burnet; Old fags, by Stacy Aumonier; The head of his house, by Conrad
Richter; The Abigail Sheriff memorial, by Vincent O’Sullivan; Easy, by
Ethel Watts Mumford; The draw-keeper, by Wadsworth Camp; The razor of
Pedro Dutel, by Richard Matthews Hallet; Knute Ericson’s celebration,
by Robert Alexander Wason; The parcel, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; Back o’
the yards, by Will Levington Comfort and H. A. Sturtzel; The end of
the game, by William Ashley Anderson; The black pool, by Frederick
Stuart Greene.

“They form a protest against the commercial standards which have shown
these writers that ‘some of their finest imaginative work could not
achieve magazine publication without sensible modification.’ Not
written for immature minds.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“Capt. Greene has proved all he has undertaken to prove and suggested
very potent reasons for the freeing of our creative literature from
the shackles at present imposed upon it.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 26 ‘18 1000w

“There is not one story in the volume that is mechanical, mediocre, or
of the merely competent order that suffices for our monthly fiction.
And what is similarly surprising is the distinguished style, the
poetic perception, the high literary quality revealed in most of the
rejected thirteen.” L: Untermeyer

+ — =Dial= 64:70 Ja 17 ‘18 1150w

“There is not a story with the indubitable touch of genius to lift it
from the ‘grim’ to the tragic. Half of them are written in the same
style, the American Magazine or, let us say, Saturday Evening Post
style, and might have been written by the same brisk, ingenious hand.”

— =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 370w

“The circumstances under which the book is spun out at the public over
the heads of the rejecting editors are an indictment of the magazine
editors of the whole country. ... And it is a mighty good thing that
somebody has had the spirit and the confidence in the American public
to make such a test of its intelligence. ... Some of the thirteen
stories reach a much higher level of literary quality than do others.
For it is easy to see, with some of them, that gruesome theme or
unhappy ending was not the sole reason for their untoward fate in
magazine offices. But some of them are so true in their picturing of
life, so fine in their artistry, and so high in their literary quality
that one marvels at their continued rejection.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w

“In tone and atmosphere the stories must be classified with that
grimly imaginative school of which Poe was the master. Still each plot
is distinctly original. Each one is vivid, thrilling and direct, and
many of them display a keen intuition and a sense of psychological
values.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 360w

=GREENE, HARRY PLUNKET.= Pilot, and other stories. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan 16-22978

“Pilot,” the longest of the six stories in this book, is the story of
a dog. Pilot is an English dog with a fondness for poaching, and his
adventures are many and amusing. The remaining stories are about
children and animals; among them there is one story for fishermen.
Bight of the illustrations are in color.

+ =N Y Times= 22:41 F 4 ‘17 80w

“Our notice must not end without a few words of praise for the
admirable illustrations of Mr H. J. Ford, so long and honourably
associated with the fairy books of the late Andrew Lang. Here,
however, he shows a range and versatility for which we were hardly
prepared, and has collaborated with the author with most delightful
results, whether his aim has been realistic, grotesque, or fantastic.”

+ =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 700w

“The story of his doings is so entertainingly and humorously told that
the book should prove interesting to readers of all ages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 D 14 ‘16 350w

=GREENE, HOMER.= Flag. il *$1.25 (2c) Jacobs 17-22701

In a school-boy snowball battle, one of the two leaders wraps himself
in the American flag as a means of protection in an assault, but his
opponent, Penfield Butler, tears it from him and it is trampled and
torn under their feet. Made to feel that his act was unpardonable,
called “Benedict Arnold” by his companions, Penfield is forced to
leave school. Thereafter he goes branded, is refused admission to the
national guard, but finally takes part in the European war and thereby
regains his good name.

“Marred by sentimentality.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18

=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:840 D ‘17 50w

“A wholesome story of military patriotism for boys told in a manly,
straightforward style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 80w

=GREENE, KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM.= Little boy out of the wood, and other dream plays. *75c Lane 822 16-23242

A collection of fanciful little plays for reading. The titles are: The
little boy out of the wood; Night watch; The poppy seller; The first
Christmas eve; The vision splendid; The princess on the road; The two
bad fairies. A note says, “Of the plays that form this book only
one—‘The two bad fairies’—was written for a stage. The other six are
dreams.”

“Recalling in the delicate allegory Olive Schreiner’s ‘Dreams’ comes
‘The little boy out of the wood.’ These are ‘dream plays,’ tragic and
comic, and exquisite in workmanship.”

+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:21 F ‘17 30w

“Arranged for reading aloud.”

=R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 70w

=GREENOUGH, CHESTER NOYES, and HERSEY, FRANK WILSON CHENEY.= English composition. il *$1.40 Macmillan 808 17-15557

“Professor Greenough and Mr Hersey have prepared a most interesting
text-book on ‘English composition,’ What they term ‘mechanics,’ that
is troublesome points of grammar, punctuation, spelling are touched in
short final chapters. The main chapters are on exposition, argument,
description, narration, structure, with clear and suggestive
discussion of the topics, and fine examples. The first chapter on
gathering and weighing of material is especially to be noted, for it
gives the pupil all sorts of practical, helpful hints that students
must usually work out for themselves slowly at great waste of time or
never work out at all.” (Ind) Dr Greenough is professor of English at
Harvard university.

“Occasionally a volume appears which from its preface onward towers
above the jumble of its competitors. Such a volume is this ‘English
composition.’ The arrangement of the contents is unexceptionable.
Better even than the arrangement, however, is the excellence of the
presentation.”

+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w

+ =Ind= 91:235 Ag 11 ‘17 100w

“If a criticism were to be made it would be that the authors treat
composition as chiefly an exhibition of cleverness. They send a chiel
out into the world notebook in hand and eye alert chiefly for the
technical tricks of the trade. ... Beyond such technical matters a
book on composition is perhaps not bound to go: within this field it
would be difficult to find one that functions more efficiently; it
makes one cast about at once for a sharp pencil. An interesting
concession to the present interest in the spoken word, the book
contains a rather prim little chapter on pronunciation.”

+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 220w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17

“The first work of its kind to bring the student ample descriptive
extracts from famous writers illustrated with photographs of the
actual scenes described by them.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 290w

=GREGOR, ELMER RUSSELL.= White Otter. il *$1.35 (2c) Appleton 17-8586

A sequel to “The red arrow.” White Otter is the young Sioux who was
the hero of that tale. In this story he is again pitted against his
tribal enemies, the Pawnees. In a great battle his grandfather, the
Sioux chieftain, is taken prisoner and White Otter, following on the
enemy’s trail, sets him free. It is a story of Indian life before the
coming of the white man.

=A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17

=N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w

=GREGOROVITSH, DIMITRY.= Fishermen. *$1.50 (1½c) McBride

Dimitry Gregorovitsh was a contemporary of Tourgeniev. Angelo S.
Rappoport, in the introduction to this novel, says that he is rightly
considered one of the best exponents of the life of the Russian
working people. The present story, here translated into English for
the first time, centers about the family of Glyeb Savinitsh, a
fisherman. Vania, Glyeb’s youngest son, and Grishka, an adopted child,
are boys of the same age who grow up together, sharing alike in the
family fortunes. Indeed, in spite of his shortcomings, Grishka seems
to hold first place in the affections of the father. Knowing that
Dounia, the girl both young men come to love, has given herself to
Grishka, Vania takes his foster brother’s place as conscript in the
army. Grishka, left free, marries Dounia and wrecks her happiness as
he does that of the family that has sheltered him. An evil influence
in the story is that of Zakhar, a product of the factory system,
which, at the time that the book was written, was only beginning to
invade the rural villages of Russia.

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“Grigorovich lacked deep psychological insight; he was more of a
careful landscapist and an ethnographic observer than a vivisector of
the human soul. Only in exceptional cases did he succeed in depicting
a boldly outstanding character, as, for instance; in the old fisherman
Glyeb.”

+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 330w