Chapter IV: Part 2: deals with ‘Government and the citizen’ and is made up of a (1)

chapter on each of the following topics: suffrage and elections, other
means of popular control, civil liberty and public welfare, public
finance, city government, state and country government, the national
constitution, and the national government. Part 3 is on the general
topic, ‘Some public activities.’ Public health and welfare, labor and
industry, commerce, other business activities, territories and public
land, and foreign relations are the subjects considered. The appendix
contains an outline of a course on civic problems. ... At the end of
each chapter there is a list of general references on the material
considered in the chapter, a series of topics for special
consideration with exact references on each, a group of studies which
contain material for brief daily reports, and, finally, a number of
questions based, for the most part, on the text. Besides the foregoing
aids the book contains some sixty-four well-selected illustrations and
eight maps and charts.”—School R

“Equipped with excellent notes and teaching aids. The book has been
recommended to teachers of citizenship for adults in the extension
department of the Cleveland schools.”

+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 90w

“If books like this could be placed in every school it is no rash
prediction that the electorate of the next generation would view
political issues more sanely and thoughtfully than this.”

+ =Ind= 91:235 Ag 11 ‘17 70w

“Singularly free from any partisanship. Written as a text for high
schools, it may well serve as a handy reference to the general
reader.” A. D.

+ =St Louis= 15:322 S ‘17 24w

“From the standpoint of teaching aids the book has much to commend
it. ... There is also an abundance of marginal notes as well as
footnotes. On the whole the book is a decided improvement over the
traditional text on civics.”

+ =School R= 25:532 S ‘17 280w

=ASHLEY, W. B.=, comp. Church advertising; its why and how; papers delivered before the Church advertising section of the twelfth annual convention of the Associated advertising clubs of the world. il *$1 (4c) Lippincott 260 17-19521

“A series of lively discussions of church advertising and publicity
methods by authorities on the subject, who presented their views at
the first national conference on church advertising held in
Philadelphia in June, 1916. Seemingly nothing has been omitted in the
way of church advertising, from the out-of-door devices, steeples,
bulletins, etc., to moving pictures and newspaper publicity.”—R of Rs

+ =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 100w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:125 Ag ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 90w

“This volume gives many useful suggestions for the church which is
looking for ideas. Hesitating churches will likewise get inspiration.
Tell the world about the gospel and do it in the 20th century
way—advertising. That seems to be the burden of these exhortations.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 1 ‘17 250w

=ASHMUN, MARGARET ELIZA.= Heart of Isabel Carleton. il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-25745

A sequel to “Isabel Carleton’s year,” one of last season’s popular
books for girls. The early scenes of the story are laid in London in
the fall of 1914. Isabel and her cousin, Mrs Everard, who have been
traveling on the continent, reach England just as war is declared. The
second part of the story takes her back to Jefferson. She is joyfully
received by her family and enters the state university with every
promise for a bright future. But there is a dark cloud in her sky, for
between herself and Rodney Fox, always her best and most understanding
friend, there seems to be a barrier. But this situation is adjusted
and Isabel is further made happy by the opportunity to do a service in
memory of her friend, Molly Ramsay, whose death had been the tragic
incident of the year before.

“Distinguished by its wholesome simplicity and its emphasis on natural
interests and companionships. Not as sentimental as its title.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18

+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 70w

“An agreeable story for girls.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 140w

=ASHTON, HELEN.= Marshdikes. *$1.40 Brentano’s

“Marshdikes is the house on the coast of England where Michael and
Celia Dittany have made their home, and where they each do their
writing. In different ways each has a sincere fondness for Francis
Harland and a deep desire to bring more happiness into his life, as
well as to give him some real interest in existence. For this reason
they invite him to Marshdikes, hoping that this intimate glimpse of
their own happiness may bring him nearer to falling in love with
Michael’s young half-sister Letty, who imagines herself tremendously
in love with Harland. Through a series of clever chapters, Francis
evades their efforts, always fearful of where they may lead him and
always content with his rather superficial life. The way in which
Celia gains her end, only to discover at last that she has made a
mistake, is cleverly managed.”—Boston Transcript

“A certain gift of brilliant dialogue is the largest attraction of
this novel by a new writer.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 320w

“The story, which begins simply as a gay and sparkling tale, becomes
more serious as it proceeds.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 250w

=ATHERTON, MRS GERTRUDE FRANKLIN (HORN).= Living present. il *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 940.91 17-18157

Mrs Atherton spent several months in France in 1916 studying the work
of French women. She devotes the major part of her book to the work
they are doing to help win the war and to the changes that the war
seems to be making in French life, especially in the re-action of the
French woman to life. The last five chapters, under the caption
“Feminism in peace and war,” discuss the present and probable future
status of woman in the United States as well as in Europe.

=A L A Bkl= 14:17 O ‘17

“One gets a feeling of impressions caught at lightning speed and given
out all the more personally for not having been mulled over and
reasoned out.” Edna Kenton

+ =Bookm= 46:343 N ‘17 830w

“A distinctly valuable sociological contribution as well as a vivid
record of contemporary women.” D. F. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 920w

“The second part of the present volume is worthless; but the first
part where the author states facts, and does not attempt to
philosophize, is interesting and even inspiring.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:124 O ‘17 570w

“Strongly tinged with Mrs Atherton’s personality and feministic views,
the book is readable and provocative of thought.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 50w

“Mrs Atherton’s book, we believe, would have been more delightful, had
she confined herself to portraiture and narrative, instead of
undertaking, rather superficially, an abstract discussion of values.”

+ — =Dial= 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 400w

=Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 200w

“Her book is a curious although intriguing jumble of prejudice, keen,
swift insight, merciless observation and a good deal of perhaps
unconscious snobbery. Only Mrs Atherton could have written it without
misgivings.”

+ — =New Repub= 12:310 O 13 ‘17 450w

“She writes with frank and astonishing one-sidedness.” C. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 180w

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 950w

“Of some of the ideas she strikes out, one can say only that they show
ability, not that they are inherently sound. The notion, for example,
that there is among woman an instinctive tendency toward a return to
the primeval matriarchate, though none too seriously advanced, is yet
advanced with more seriousness than it probably deserves. Inherently
sound ideas are, however, not lacking.”

+ — =No Am= 206:635 O ‘17 950w

+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 90w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 40w

“Her speculations as to the bearing of the war on the future course of
feminism in France are also provocatively stimulating.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 N 29 ‘17 770w.

=ATKINSON, ELEANOR (STACKHOUSE) (MRS FRANCIS BLAKE ATKINSON).= Hearts undaunted; a romance of four frontiers. il *$1.30 (2c) Harper 17-31031

This story follows the forward movement of the frontier from northern
New York to Chicago. The heroine, Eleanor Lytle, spends her childhood
as a captive among the Indians. As a little girl of three, she
attracts the attention of Chief Cornplanter, who kidnaps her and makes
her an honored member of his tribe. She is grown to young womanhood
before she is returned to her sorrowing mother. To make up to her for
the years of suffering, Eleanor marries the man who is her mother’s
choice, but later, after his death, she marries one she loves and goes
westward with him, as a pioneer to the new frontier.

“Of limited appeal.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:168 F ‘18

“Despite its interest, and the fact that it is based on historic
truth, the book does lack the element of realism. It is glossed over
with sentimentality; heroism and nobility are unrelieved by any mere
human failing. It is, however, much more entertaining than the average
romance, and the stressed historic note gives it an added interest.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 400w

=ATWOOD, ALBERT WILLIAM.= How to get ahead; saving money and making it work. *$1.25 (2c) Bobbs 331.84 17-6557

“The purpose of this book is to help young men and women of moderate
earning capacity to save and invest money. Incidentally its aim is to
show the advantages of thrift. The main purpose is the practical one
of explaining actual, workable methods of saving and investment.”
(Introd.) The author writes on: Money—its use and abuse; Real and
unreal wants; Personal finance; Family finance; Saving on small wages;
Making money work; Owning a home; Different kinds of desirable
investments, etc.

“Author is a lecturer on finance at New York university.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:329 My ‘17

“There is not much in recognition of those ideals of life which are
higher than money making and money saving. But there are a few
reminders that many wage-earners are failing to make the most of their
opportunities.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 40w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:43 Mr ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:135 My ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:347 S ‘17

=AUMONIER, STACY.= Friends, and other stories. *$1 (2½c) Century 17-23334

“Stacy Aumonier, author of ‘Olga Bardel,’ is an Englishman well known
in London as a landscape painter as well as a writer. This book
contains three of his short stories, of which ‘The friends,’ which
gives title to the volume, appeared in the Century Magazine. ... The
other two, ‘The packet’ and ‘In the way of business,’ are similar in
theme and treatment. ... All three deal with business men in London,
salesmen and department managers of furniture or dry goods houses, and
the central theme of all of them is the immense amount of alcohol
these men consume by way of facilitating the conduct of their
affairs. ... One of the stories, ‘In the way of business,’ deals with
the business career of a hard-working, upright, morally fastidious man
who does not like alcoholic drinks and to whom they are physically
ruinous. The story tells how, notwithstanding his struggles, he cannot
make a living for his family until, little by little, he comes round
to the methods of the others, and what happened to him afterward.”—N Y
Times

“The initial story is by far the best of the three. ... There is no
air of preaching about it, no attempt to draw a moral. It is just a
story told with such fine realism, such artistic and impressive
selection and arrangement of incidents that it becomes wholly
convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 470w

=AUSTIN, FRANK EUGENE.= Examples in battery engineering. il $1.25 Austin, F. E., Hanover, N.H. 621.3 17-20028

“‘Battery engineering’ is quite distinct from the subject of the
chemistry, or chemical reactions accompanying the operation of
batteries. The latter subject is not given extensive consideration in
this book; it being deemed expedient to devote the discussion to those
features that are of importance in the efficient industrial operation
of any and all types or kinds of cells and batteries. ... The
arrangement of the subject matter in lessons under important subject
headings adapts the book for use as a textbook, while the discussion
of the application of theory to practice renders the book useful to
electricians, operators of submarines, and of automobiles.” (Preface)
The author is a professor in the Thayer school of civil engineering
connected with Dartmouth college.

=AUSTIN, FRANK EUGENE.= Preliminary mathematics. $1.20 Austin, F. E., Hanover, N.H. 512 17-11117

“This book is designed by its author, a professor in the Thayer school
of civil engineering connected with Dartmouth college, to serve as a
connecting link between the study of arithmetic and the study of
algebra. The subject matter up to page 77 is suitable for pupils in
the eighth grade and below, while the remaining portion of the text
will prove of assistance to pupils in the high schools. ... Many
points are explained herein that are passed over in ordinary text
books. The chief object of this book is to show how to solve
problems.” (Preface)

“Useful to one who has not had the advantages of school and wishes to
take up arithmetic and algebra by himself.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:443 My ‘17 100w (Reprinted from Telephony p46
Ap 7 ‘17)

=Railway Mechanical Engineer= p175 Ap ‘17

=AUSTIN, MARY (HUNTER) (MRS STAFFORD W. AUSTIN).= The ford. il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-11466

California is at once the scene and the theme of this novel. Steven
Brent, one of those men who have an instinctive feeling for the soil,
who are meant to be its tillers, has nurtured his ranch, Las
Palomitas, till it is on the point of paying, when he yields to the
persuasions of his wife and the promises held out by the speculators
and goes into oil. But men of his calibre are not built for
speculation. Financial failure and the wife’s death come together. The
story thereafter is concerned with the two Brent children, Anne and
Kenneth, whose dream it is to buy back Las Palomitas. In the end it is
Anne who accomplishes it, for Anne proves to have the business sense
that those two lovers of the soil for its own sake, Kenneth and his
father, lack. Anne is the new woman at her best.

“Well written and more interesting for its atmosphere and character
drawing than for its plot.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

“A story of fine feeling and (to use a wooden term) exceptional
workmanship. Its four women might be taken as a microcosm of the
modern world of women.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:412 Je ‘17 550w

“The great social and commercial plot behind these children is
strongly handled and conveys more than any other American fiction
since Frank Norris of what Mrs Austin calls the ‘epic quality of the
west.’” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 380w

“The story is interesting, and yet it disappoints us in some way not
easy to describe. There is a vagueness which allows the mind of the
reader to wander and his interest to flag. ... Words cloud the plot
and befog the issue.”

+ — =Lit D= 54:1858 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“In this book is a substance worthy of Mrs Austin’s rich and finished
style.”

+ =Nation= 104:601 My 17 ‘17 680w

“Brooding deep beneath the ferocious animosities of capitalist and
homesteader, Mary Austin has wrought in her still pastoral something
of almost Biblical beauty. Some few novels of the year may offer as
good construction; fewer as clear, racy diction; none a more
satisfying picture than little dripping Kenneth with the drowned lamb
in his arms.” T. D. Mygatt

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 600w

+ =N Y Times= 22:157 Ap 22 ‘17 650w

“Industrial conditions, business intrigue, social reactions, and the
temperaments of individuals are all constantly involved among the
motives of this remarkable tale, and all are treated with knowledge,
with insight, and with feeling. It is one’s final impression, however,
that the story as a whole fails to attain a quite sufficient unity and
strength. ... The reader is roused as by an impassioned plea; he is
stimulated to the point of being ready to change his whole outlook
upon life and yet in the end he cannot tell whether the thing that has
so impressed him is Providence or the brute forces of life or the
spirit of California. ... One must marvel at the degree of success
which Mrs Austin has attained in treating a broad and complex theme
both comprehensively and minutely, both psychologically and epically.”

+ =No Am= 206:132 Jl ‘17 1050w

“The description is clear and strong in its picture of industrial
conditions. There are also charm and romance in the life of the young
people. The plot and development are not as closely woven as one could
wish.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“Stands without a peer among recent books of fiction as a thoroughly
characteristic portrayal of a typically American community of the
West.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 470w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 500w

=AYDELOTTE, FRANK=, ed. English and engineering. *$1.50 McGraw 620.7 17-4324

A collection of essays for the use of English classes in engineering
colleges. “A quotation from the introduction is the fullest
explanation of Professor Aydelotte’s endeavor, and an index of the
pedagogic value of his work: ‘To train the student to write by first
training him to think—to stimulate his thought by directing his
attention to problems of his own profession and of his own education
and to the illumination of them which he can find in literature: these
two tasks may be performed together—better together than
separately—and with that double aim in view this collection has been
made.’” (Engin Rec)

=A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17

“An admirable collection of essays with a breadth and keenness of
selection that certifies the right of its compiler to occupy the chair
of English in one of our greatest engineering schools. Also a most
commendable introduction whose ideas are unassailable and remarkably
illustrated. ... In no sense can it be taken as a handbook. It needs
the attrition of the class to make its somewhat hidden gold to
glisten. To any except those who know writing and its methods, the
collection of essays would prove a bewilderment.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:275 F 17 ‘17 450w

“If this book is designed for use in a course in freshman composition,
it has too limited a scope, if it is to be used for the specific
purpose indicated above, as a part of a broader programme, it is an
admirable volume.”

=Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:204 Mr ‘17

“‘Collection of selected essays, some by famous authors and some by
others of lesser note. ... A most interesting collection of good
writings that any man will profit by reading, and it should find a
welcome on the shelf of every technical man who aspires, as he should,
to evaluate the place that his profession occupies in the affairs of
the world.’” D. S. Kimball

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:332 Ap ‘17 60w (Reprinted from American
Machinist p440 Mr 8 ‘17)

“The author is professor of English in the Massachusetts institute of
technology.”

=St Louis= 15:117 Ap ‘17 12w

=AYDELOTTE, FRANK.=[2] Oxford stamp, and other essays. *$1.20 Oxford 378 18-390

“A group of essays forming the ‘educational creed of an American
Oxonian’ is brought together in this volume whose writer is Professor
Frank Aydelotte of the Massachusetts Institute of technology, and they
are the fruits of his residence and study at the English university as
a Rhodes scholar. ‘The holder of one of these appointments,’ he says,
‘who on his return from Oxford engages in university teaching in this
country, inevitably makes comparisons, and looks at many of our
educational problems from a new point of view. Much in the work and
atmosphere of an English university is strikingly different from the
adaptations of German university methods which have prevailed in our
higher education for half a century. In the hope that this point of
view may interest students of our educational problems, these essays
are put together.’ Among their titles are ‘The Oxford stamp,’
‘Spectators and sport,’ ‘The religion of punch,’ ‘A challenge to
Rhodes scholars,’ ‘English as humane letters,’ and ‘Robert Louis
Stevenson darkening counsel.’”—Boston Transcript

“Rarely before has the complex English college system and the unique
English college life been described so clearly and so briefly.” E. F.
E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 29 ‘17 950w

=AYSCOUGH, JOHN, pseud. (BP. FRANCIS BROWNING DREW BICKERSTAFFE-DREW).= French windows. *$1.50 Longmans 940.91 17-24699

The author of this book, the chapters of which originally appeared in
the Month, an English periodical, was for the first eighteen months of
the war attached to the British expeditionary force as chaplain to a
field ambulance. The book does not describe military operations, but
consists mainly of conversations with various French and British
soldiers. Though John Ayscough is known as a writer of highly
imaginative fiction, he assures us that every character and episode in
these pages is taken from life, and that his first-hand impressions
have not been retouched.

“It sounds like a contradiction of terms to speak of a charming war
book; yet this is exactly what John Ayscough’s new volume is—a book of
the war, written in the very heat of the war and out of its turbulent
heart, throbbing with its deepest feelings, and yet charming beyond
words. Whatever of self-revelation the soldier himself in this war may
write, we can never again quite so penetratingly see into it as John
Ayscough makes us see.”

+ =Cath World= 106:683 F ‘18 210w

=Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 60w

“The book is always sympathetic, often heart-breaking, almost always
tender, and not easy to forget.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:558 D 16 ‘17 430w

“Episodes and characters are drawn from reality and each conversation
is a portrait and a history.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 70w

“Some of the conversations are of so intimate a character that it
almost seems indecent to have recorded them. Humour and pathos jostle
one another in these fugitive pages. John Ayscough seems to realize
that if things are tragic enough they are funny. Insight and
understanding are in this book, and, in spite of a tendency to
occasional gush and rhapsody, it has a value of its own. It reveals
the simple greatness of the English soldier.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 100w

“The point of view is that of a man of fifty-six, a Roman Catholic
priest singularly devoid of any sectarian bias; one who, though not
French, loves every field of France as if he had been born on it, and
speaks her language fluently, if not idiomatically; a lover of his
kind, ‘half priest and half poet’; and above all a thinker who looks
at everything ‘sub specie æternitatis’, and even in the darkest hours
remains undismayed and unshaken in his faith. ... This is a book which
differs from most war books by reason of its aim. It shows that amid
all that makes for brutalization and misery and despair in modern
warfare, there are exultations as well as agonies, and that man’s soul
remains unconquerable.”

+ =Spec= 118:61 Jl 21 ‘17 1650w

“Mr Ayscough evidently inspires affection in the young soldiers with
whom he lives; he betrays his natural pleasure thereat, with
undeniable egotism and he records far too categorically the terms in
which that affection is conveyed.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p197 Ap 26 ‘17 320w

=AZAN, PAUL JEAN LOUIS.= War of positions; with a preface by Brigadier General Joseph E. Kuhn, U.S.A.; tr. at Harvard university. *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 355 17-22880

“The author of this little book is one of the group of officers sent
over here by the French government to assist in the training of
officers for our new American army. As chief of the military mission
which was sent to the Officers’ reserve training camp at Harvard, he
worked there all spring and summer, arousing the greatest of
enthusiasm among the hundreds of men who were in training under
him. ... The same principles of warfare which he expounded to his
pupils there he has explained in this book. ... In part one the author
considers the present war, its general characteristics, the different
forms of warfare it has developed, the fronts, attrition, principles
of offensive and defensive, the rôle of a high command in an
offensive, the functions of the different arms of the service. The
second part deals with ‘Positions,’ their organization, trench duties
and relief, while the third and fourth parts develop the principles of
attack on a position and defense of a position.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

“While written primarily for the instruction of American officers who
are going abroad it is full of interest for the student of military
history or for any intelligent reader.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:789 N ‘17 170w

“The book ought to be of the greatest value to all officers and
non-coms of the new American armies and of their privates as well. In
his capacity as director of officers’ schools in France, Colonel Azan
has trained a large part of the French officers up to and including
the rank of major. He has, therefore, learned how to teach.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:453 N 4 ‘17 450w

=St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 20w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 N 22 ‘17 50w

B

=BACHELLER, IRVING ADDISON.= Light in the clearing; a tale of the north country in the time of Silas Wright. il *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-11215

A story of northern New York state in the first half of the nineteenth
century. Much of it is woven about the career of Silas Wright, an
early governor of the state. It is told in the first person, however,
by Barton Baynes, a boy who came under Wright’s protection early in
his career and who was inspired by the older man’s encouragement and
example. The early chapters, telling of Barton’s boyhood, spent with
stern-faced Aunt Deel and big-hearted Uncle Peabody, give a good
picture of the life of the times.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:401 Je ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:408 Je ‘17 650w

“Readers Mr Bacheller will have for his latest novel, and plenty of
them, but it will not be long in passing into the dim obscurity of
contemporary fiction. It is thoroughly out of date. It is not even a
good example of the desirable things of the past, of those departed
forms of fiction whose death we sometimes regret. It is distinctly the
survival of the unfittest. Yet it is entertaining in its way.” E. F.
E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 1350w

+ =Cath World= 105:554 Jl ‘17 100w

“Told with simplicity, kindly humor, and genuine understanding.”

+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w

“Excellent as are Mr Bacheller’s other works—‘Eben Holden,’ ‘D’ri and
I,’ and the ever-popular ‘Keeping up with Lizzie’—none of them equals
this story of the forties, either in artistic finish or in breadth of
spirit. It is a book we would like every American girl and boy to
read.”

+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w

“The book is amusing and certainly uplifting in its influence, but
sometimes a trifle artificial.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1856 Je 16 ‘17 210w

“‘The light in the clearing’ takes us, yet again, upon a sentimental
journey, in a very good sense of the term, into the past. ... Mr
Bacheller has the knack of making one’s throat swell with simple,
homefelt emotion for the golden rule and other tritenesses which, for
the most part, we are ready enough to abandon to the movies, literary
and other.”

+ =Nation= 104:581 My 10 ‘17 560w

“Very different in method and purpose from any of his previous
stories, Mr Bacheller’s new novel must be accounted, at the outset, as
quite the most important piece of fiction he has put forth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 850w

“‘The light in the clearing’ is an exact complement to ‘Eben Holden,’
as unmistakably good, less idyllic, but stronger. The two together
would seem in themselves to assure their author a considerable and
permanent place in American literature.”

+ =No Am= 205:947 Je ‘17 1200w

“Sturdy American ideals are wholesomely offered to admiration and
emulation.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“It is a story of simple, homespun life, full of wide, out-door
freedom, and the healing, balsamic breath of a cleaner, younger
world.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 91:1316 Ap 21 ‘17 550w

“While the story is episodical, it is skilfully knit, and the reader’s
attention never relaxes until the final page is turned. The book will
have a host of contented readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 650w

“The continual exaltation of commonplace virtues makes it a wholesome
but somewhat tiresome story.”

+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 13:221 Jl ‘17 40w

=BACON, CORINNE=, comp. Children’s catalog of thirty-five hundred books; a guide to the best reading for boys and girls. (Standard catalog ser.) *$6 Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-17986

The first edition of the Children’s catalog, a 1,000-title list, was
noted in the Digest in 1916. The 3,500-title list includes a few books
in French and German; also a few 1916 books published too late for
inclusion in the 2,000-title list. 700 volumes have been analyzed.
“The editor has been fortunate in securing the advice and cooperation
of Miss Agnes Cowing, of the Pratt institute free library; Miss Alice
I. Hazeltine, of the St Louis public library; Miss Hatch, of the
Cleveland public library, and of the staff of the Carnegie library of
Pittsburgh. ... The numbers in parentheses after titles indicate
approximately the grades for which the books are suitable, and have
been taken for the most part from various library lists. Two of the
collaborators also made suggestions as to grading.” (Preface) The
1,000 list, buckram bound, sells for $2; the 2,000 list, for $4; the
3,500 list for $6. These catalogs are also issued in paper covers
printed on light-weight paper for quantity use. These are for sale
exclusively to those who have previously purchased at least one bound
copy. They are sold in lots of ten or more at 15c, 25c, and 40c per
copy.

=A L A Bkl= 13:272 Mr ‘17

“This compilation, by one whose work in other lines gives assurance of
more than usual merit, is based on many selected lists, and is the
result of the advice and co-operation of children’s librarians and
others familiar with literature for children.”

=Bul of Bibliography= 9:112 Ja ‘17 170w

“All workers with boys and girls, and especially those who have to do
with school and public libraries will be grateful to the compiler for
the infinite pains she has taken to make sure of a wise selection of
really good, wholesome books for young people. Parents will do well to
consult the catalog in the public library which they patronize. It
goes without saying that every public library will make available this
unsurpassed list, without which no library can be said to be properly
equipped.” F. H. P.

+ =Education= 36:660 Je ‘17 140w

“The author and publisher of this important book has done a great
service to teachers in every grade of the elementary school. As the
title indicates, the list is large enough to include the best in all
of the more important fields of knowledge.”

+ =El School J= 18:77 S ‘17 350w

“A most valuable bibliography of elementary-school children’s books
and books about such books.”

+ =English Journal (Chicago)= 6:207 Mr ‘17 20w

“It is needless to say the advice is trustworthy and of immense value
to librarians, teachers and book purchasers.”

+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 60w

“Every school and every home needs it in order to buy books
intelligently.”

+ =Journal of Education= 85:702 Je 21 ‘17 120w

“The catalog containing 2,000 titles and analyticals for 447 volumes
has been practically tested in our children’s room and found to answer
most of the demands, although for large collections the 3,500 list now
[April, 1917] in preparation will of course be more satisfactory. ...
The questions now asked by school children demand indexes that will
lead directly to up-to-date reliable facts. How well this demand has
been met may be judged by a few titles taken at random from the 2,000
catalog. ... The profession owes a debt of gratitude to Miss Bacon for
supplying so indispensable a tool that will lessen the present
duplication of effort and promote greater efficiency.” N. M. De
Laughter

+ =Public Libraries= 22:148 Ap ‘17 400w

“The list will be useful to librarians for selection and for
cataloging. The subject headings conform in the main to Miss Mann’s
‘Subject headings for use in dictionary catalogs of juvenile books.’
It will be useful at the librarian’s desk if checked with books in the
library and used as a printed catalog. ... Extra copies would be
useful for the public, for special use of teachers, or for
catalogers.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:18 Ja ‘17 270w

=BACON, CORINNE=, comp. Prison reform. *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 365 17-4496

This volume in the Handbook series is designed to give the reader a
general knowledge of prison reform in the United States. The material
of the book, a selection of the best articles from the literature on
the subject, is arranged under nine headings: History of prison
reform; Conditions and methods in prisons and reformatories; Sing Sing
and Warden Osborne; Psychopathic clinics and classification of
prisoners; Convict labor; Indeterminate sentence; Probation and
parole; Jails; Centralized control of penal institutions. The
bibliography, which is unusually full, follows a similar arrangement.
A paper on “The prison of the future” has been written for the volume
by Thomas Mott Osborne.

=A L A Bkl= 13:288 Ap ‘17

=Cath World= 105:835 S ‘17 140w

“There is an excellent bibliography.”

+ =Cleveland= p39 Mr ‘17 80w

“A timely and much-needed work.”

+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 20w

“It is a compilation of over 90 articles by students and experts
covering almost the entire field of penology. ... In addition to the
300 pages devoted to the various aspects of reform within the walls,
there is a valuable bibliography of 24 pages, listing books,
pamphlets, reports, periodicals and many articles dealing with the
general subject. ... We take pleasure in commending this book to all
students and readers of penological problems.”

=Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy= n s 56:43 Mr
‘17 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 180w

Reviewed by Philip Klein

=Survey= 38:46 Ap 14 ‘17 120w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:59 F ‘17 60w

=BACON, GEORGE WASHINGTON.= Keeping young and well; annotated by W: T: Fernie. *$1 (3c) Clode, E: J. 613 17-24683

The author of “Health and longevity” packs these new chapters full of
valuable matter which aims at a maximum of utility with a minimum of
words. A long study of personal hygiene and a life-long practice of
what the writer preaches give authority to his undertaking. Contents:
Health hints for the home; Bodily organs and their functions; Our
food, and errors in diet; The drink habit; Light, pure air and
ventilation; Respiration and deep breathing; Cheerfulness and
happiness; Exercise and rest; Sound sleep and its benefits; Vital
energy—conserved or wasted; A long and healthy life; Fifty maxims and
rules for the aged; Colds: causes, prevention, remedies; One hundred
ailments—cause, prevention and home remedies; Our foods and their
medicinal values; Medical glossary.

=BADLEY, JOHN HADEN.= Education after the war. *$1.25 Longmans 375 (Eng ed E17-671)

“The author has been for many years a leader in British education,
especially in the Workers’ educational association, but he is best
known for the demonstration school which he has maintained for
twenty-four years at Petersfield in Hampshire. ... Mr J. H. Badley was
trained at Rugby, at Cambridge and in Germany. He was interested with
Cecil Reddie and Edward Carpenter in the opening of Abbotsholme, but
turned from this work to the establishment of his old experimental
school primarily because of his interest in coeducation. ... The book
contains a careful consideration of the needs of each stage of life
from the nursery up. The differentiation of workers and professional
groups is well thought out. The plan for training for national service
gives consideration to the claims of militarism.”—Springf’d Republican

“Mr Badley rightly says that all subjects will be equally narrowing in
their influence if the value of any kind of work be judged by the
direct help it will give to the earning of an income. He proposes that
special work required for professional training should be begun during
the last two years of the suggested longer school course, with the
object of relieving the university of much of the preliminary work
which now usually occupies the first year of its course. Stress is
laid upon the value of research to university students.”

+ =Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 200w

“Of especial interest to Americans are the plans for training for
national service. A positive program is given in detail but possibly
of equal importance is the very clear showing of what is not essential
to this training.” F. A. Manny

+ =Educ R= 54:191 S ‘17 600w

“America has much to learn from what he offers.”

+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 100w

“Those who have followed the author’s work will not be surprised to
find the outline and details of this post-war program suggestive at
many points for American needs.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 400w

=BAGWELL, RICHARD.= Ireland under the Stuarts and during the interregnum. 3v v 3 *$5 Longmans 941.5

=v 3= 1660-1690.

“There are now six stately volumes written by Mr Bagwell, and in them
he narrates the fortunes of his native land from the days of the
Tudors to the fall of the Stuarts at the battle of the Boyne. ... In
the larger part of the present book he has no other historian to fear,
for he is the first to describe the reign of Charles II at any length
or with any proper sense of the importance of its opening years. ...
From measures to men there is an easy transition. The historian is
quite at home in drawing the characters of men like Lord Robartes,
Lord Berkeley, Essex, and Clarendon, who were the real governors of
the country. ... Another prominent man is Tyrconnel, and a
consideration of his strange career introduces quite naturally the
revolution in Ireland. ... In the concluding chapters Mr Bagwell has a
short account of the three churches and the social state of the
country from the restoration to the revolution.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) For volumes 1 and 2 of this history, consult Digest annual
volume for 1909.

“The first adequate account of Ireland during the restoration. That,
in a sense, is the chief contribution of this present volume. ... From
his pages are eliminated that passion which has made most Irish
history all politics, and that memory of wrongs which has made most
Irish politics all history.” W. C. Abbott

+ =Am Hist R= 22:645 Ap ‘17 1000w (Review of v 3)

“Though Irish by birth, Mr Bagwell is probably of Anglo-Irish stock.
In politics he is a Unionist of the more positive type. This fact is,
of course, sufficient to render his work unacceptable to a large part
of the reading public in Ireland; for in spite of his almost painful
effort to do justice to both sides in the controversies of Britain, it
is quite clear that Mr Bagwell regards the union of Ireland with
England as one that is necessary to both countries. Critics generally
have, however, found much to praise in Mr Bagwell’s histories. His
evident fairness, his judicial attitude, his restraint in drawing
conclusions and in framing statements have been remarked upon by many
reviewers. For his literary style there is very little to be said: it
is clear but prosy and bald.” L. M. Larson

+ =Dial= 62:354 Ap 19 ‘17 1600w (Review of v 3)

“The first two volumes of ‘Ireland under the Tudors’ appeared in 1885.
It was hailed in this Review as inaugurating ‘a new departure in Irish
historiography,’ by its ‘judicial tone’ and its unprejudiced method of
treating the political and ecclesiastical controversies of the
sixteenth century. At the same time the complaint was made that ‘he
crowded his canvas with too many facts to enable the student to
realize quite distinctly the salient features of his subject.’ The
present volume deserves the same praise, but is not open to similar
criticism. Mr Bagwell’s six volumes (including in the total the three
on ‘Ireland under the Tudors’) are a monument of well-directed
industry, and he has gained in mastery of his materials as his work
proceeded.” C. H. Firth

* + =Eng Hist R= 32:296 Ap ‘17 500w (Review of v 3)

“Ireland, more, almost, than any other land, demands the candor of
impartiality in those who would narrate its history. To have achieved
this with such splendid thoroughness is Mr Bagwell’s peculiar triumph.
The period under consideration is one of the most crucial in all Irish
history. ... To read intelligently the history of the nineteenth
century in Ireland one must understand and appreciate the results of
this distribution of territory in the seventeenth. ... The book is
provided with helpful notes and a useful index.”

* + + =Nation= 105:128 Ag 2 ‘17 330w (Review of v 3)

“He does not describe the war after the Boyne, perhaps because Dr
Murray has done this so thoroughly in his recent book. The chapters on
social conditions and the churches are excellent but very brief. Dr
Bagwell is reserved to a fault, but his history—the work of a whole
generation—is the best and almost the only impartial account of Tudor
and Stuart Ireland.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup533 N 4 ‘16 130w (Review of v 3)

“Since the death of W. E. H. Lecky, Mr Richard Bagwell is the foremost
Irish historian. ... No one could adequately review a book like that
lying before us, and hope to do full justice to its many-sidedness.
All we can say is that we have been steadily using its two
predecessors in the course of our work on the Stuart period and that
the more we use them the more we admire them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p496 O 19 ‘16 1700w (Review of v
3)

=BAILEY, EDGAR HENRY SUMMERFIELD.= Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or, The chemistry of water, air and food. 4th ed rev *$1.60 Macmillan 660 17-13814

“Prof. E. H. S. Bailey’s ‘Sanitary and applied chemistry’ appears this
year—the eleventh since its first publication—in a fourth, revised
edition. Its persistence in recurring editions is testimony to the
place it has won for itself in our colleges. Designed for students who
have already had a course in general chemistry, it deals with the most
important applications of chemistry to the life of the household,
without attempting to cover the whole field of what may be called
‘chemistry in daily life.’ An important feature of the book is the
introduction of directions for performing many well-chosen
illustrative experiments. In this latest edition, the text has been
corrected and much of it rewritten and brought down to date; and
chapters on Textiles and on Poison and their antidotes have been
added, increasing the contents by about sixty pages over the last
previous edition of 1913. A good index enhances the working value of
the text.”—Nation

“The chapters on the Purification of water and Sewerage have been
revised and brought up to date. ... There is no bibliography in this
edition.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:455 Jl ‘17

“It is not only an excellent textbook, but is written in such a clear
style that it should prove valuable to housewives wishing a work of
general information and reference on their everyday problems.”

+ =Ind= 91:264 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

+ =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 160w

=St Louis= 15:393 N ‘17 20w

“Throughout the text there are distributed 197 well selected
experiments which will greatly help to fix important facts in the
student’s mind.” W. P. Mason

+ =Science= n s 46:540 N 30 ‘17 100w

=BAILEY, HENRY CHRISTOPHER.= Highwayman. *$1.50 Dutton (Eng ed 15-19412)

“The hero of ‘The highwayman’ is of the type that the Baroness Orczy
delights in drawing—imperturbable, expressionless, of an ironical turn
of mind, and possessed of depths which a woman’s charm alone can stir.
In the generation of Harry Boyce these qualities cried out for
adventure and romance, for it was also the generation of the ‘good’
Queen Anne, of the Pretender, and of the great Duke of Marlborough.
With all these did our hero have dealings, but more especially was he
lured by the charms of the wayward Alison, whom fate and the impulse
of a moment had given him to wife.”—Dial

“We should have been glad to see more of the historical characters
introduced by Mr Bailey, for he succeeded in creating a fascinating
illusion of their presence and speech. Praise is due to the excellent
style of the novel, which is undoubtedly the work of an accomplished
and conscientious draftsman.”

+ =Ath= 1915, 2:174 S 11 200w

“His wit is more after the manner of Fielding or of Wycherley than of
the later and the modern historical sentimentalists. ‘The highwayman’
is a good brisk story for those not too squeamish.”

=Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 120w

“Piquancy is the chosen note, and the performer thoroughly enjoys
being piquant. ... There is great play of wit in these pages, as well
as the play of swords; the author especially loves, and liberally
presents, the naughtiness of polite humor in the reign of Queen Anne.”

=Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 200w

+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 250w

“An over-mannered and not altogether agreeable tale of Queen Anne’s
time.”

— =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 10w

“A story most spirited, as is always Mr Bailey’s work, of the open
road.”

+ =Spec= 115:513 O 16 ‘15 20w

=BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE.= Standard cyclopedia of horticulture. 6v v 6 il *$6 Macmillan 634 (14-6168)

=v 6= “The last volume extends from S through Z. In addition there is
a complete index to the six volumes, a finding list of binomials, a
cultivator’s guide and a supplement of additional species which have
been introduced to cultivation in this country since the first volumes
were prepared. The list of collaborators contains the names of the
most prominent men in horticulture and allied sciences in this
country.”—Springf’d Republican

“It is to be expected that the nomenclature of this work will be
adopted so far as possible by all nurserymen and landscape architects,
so that there will be some uniformity. A finding-list is intended to
accompany volume six, giving the various more important common and
botanical names of plants, with a reference to the name under which
the plant appears in the cyclopedia. A committee of the American
society of landscape architects, the Ornamental growers association,
and other bodies interested, is now working upon the subject of the
standardization of the names of plants, and the finding-list will have
the benefit of their labors to the date of its publication.”

=Landscape Architecture= 7:100 Ja ‘17 230w

=N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 80w

“The sixth volume in every way upholds the high standard set by the
preceding volumes. ... The cyclopedia is a work containing items of
interest to the practical man as well as the scientist. Every group of
plants is treated from both the practical side and the botanical
viewpoint. ... It is of interest to the florist, market gardener,
nurseryman, botanist, landscapist and all lovers of plant life. ...
While there are many changes in nomenclature, they are such as have
been recommended by the highest authorities in the country.”

+ + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 220w

=BAILEY, TEMPLE.= Mistress Anne. il *$1.35 (2c) Penn 17-11213

“Mistress” Anne Warfield was a young Maryland school-teacher with
clear ideals and a belief in the dignity of work. She was also the
granddaughter of Cynthia Warfield, an aristocrat of the older South.
So when the quiet of the little southern village was invaded by a
popular novelist, a New York doctor and his mother (who, however, were
of the South), and some brilliant society women, Anne’s innate good
breeding overcame her inexperience and comparative poverty and she
found her place among them. The scene changes from the quiet Maryland
riverside to fashionable New York and three love-stories run to a
comfortable conclusion.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

“It is written in the same vein as its successful predecessor,
‘Contrary Mary,’ but is neither so quaint nor so touching nor so
piquant as the earlier book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 170w

=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 20w

+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 250w

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:116 My ‘17 150w

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 20w

“Even more praiseworthy than the story itself is the atmosphere of the
book. Avoiding the flippant optimism, which has of late been so
heavily exploited, Miss Bailey employs a more sane and convincing
treatment.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 91:1319 Ap 21 ‘17 420w

“While it is primarily a wholesome love story, beneath the surface is
a call to service in the great army that work for public weal. Anne
Warfield is one of the most delightful heroines of the year’s novels.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 70w

“The author pictures the loyalty of southern folk to their ancestral
homes and their spirit of noblesse oblige.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 330w

=BAIN, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Livery of Eve. il *$1.50 (5½c) Putnam 17-14951

Another fairy tale in imitation of the Hindu. The tale is told by the
Moony-crested god to the Daughter of the Snow, and at the end of it he
propounds a conundrum. The tale is of Aparájitá, whose beauty was such
that the only rival she had to fear was her own reflection in the
pool, and of Kámarúpa, the barber, who was unrivaled for ugliness, and
of Keshawa, the king, who cared nothing for women, altho he
unfailingly attracted their love. To gain her own ends, Aparájitá
makes use of the spell by means of which the soul may enter another
body. The soul of the handsome king takes on the ugly body of the
barber, and the ugly one finds himself enshrined in the body of the
king. The conundrum at the end has to do with the old problem of
women’s wiles.

“No other European writer gives us such a sense of being absolutely at
home with the Pundits. Kipling, in comparison with the author of ‘A
digit of the moon’ or ‘A draught of the blue’ or ‘Ashes of a god,’
seems to be a Cockney interloper.”

+ =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 370w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17

“We assure those who have read ‘A digit of the moon’ and ‘The ashes of
a god’ with amusement and joy, that they will find equal pleasure in
‘The livery of Eve.’”

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 150w

“Mr Bain shows us, with all his wonted mastery of picturesque simile
and phrase, that the old Hindu spirit and imagination survive, after
countless generations of foreign rule. He displays a Hindu literature,
subtly blended with and purified by western poetic sentiment and
western ethics. ... He has been more successful than most in creating
in western minds the atmosphere of Indian romance.”

+ =Spec= 118:567 My 19 ‘17 1250w

“While rich in local color, the book is not by a great deal so rich as
‘A digit of the moon.’ One looks almost in vain for the telling
phrases, the subtly cultivated rhythms which in the first work brought
the exotic beauty of tropic nights and days home to us.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w

“We do less than justice to this book if we do not read it aloud, for
each syllable has been hammered into place and is taking thrust and
strain as in poetry.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p223 My 10 ‘17 1450w

=BAINVILLE, JACQUES.= Italy and the war; tr. by Bernard Miall. *$1 (1½c) Doran 945 (Eng ed 17-26484)