Chapter XLIII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (14)

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 45:289 My ‘17 1000w

“His story is well known as one of the most romantic in all literary
biography. It is told by Mr Ingpen in all its variety with little
skill and with a straightforward marshalling of facts old and new. The
two volumes contain many valuable additions to authentic Shelleyana,
and in an appendix of almost one hundred pages are reprinted a series
of documentary texts, and facsimile pages of Shelley’s note-books
rescued from the boat that carried him to his death.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 1460w

“His work is too bulky for a supplement to Dowden’s and too scant for
a successor. He deserves much credit, however, for assembling a
variety of information which has been accumulated since Dowden’s time.
He deserves still more credit for original contributions to our
knowledge of Shelley.” Garland Greever

+ — =Dial= 62:521 Je 14 ‘17 1800w

+ =Lit D= 54:1425 My 12 ‘17 430w

“The object is frankly to complement the standard biographies
(particularly Dowden’s). Manifestly the work must be judged on its own
basis. Taken alone, it is incomplete and has the misfortune, so far as
mere interest is concerned, of dealing largely with controversial and
subordinate issues. But it is a scholarly and, for its own end,
well-constructed narrative. By all odds the most important new matter
presented by Mr Ingpen is a considerable series of letters that passed
between William Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor) and the various
members of the Shelley family.”

+ =Nation= 105:123 Ag 2 ‘17 950w

+ =N Y Times= 22:61 F 25 ‘17 1750w

=Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 100w

“The new material, of which Mr Ingpen makes a very workmanlike use,
was discovered by the lawyers who succeeded to the business of
Whitton, the solicitor of Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father.”

+ =Spec= 118:338 Mr 17 ‘17 1750w

“Here is a book which, on account of the scarcity of paper, has grown
to the dimensions of a college dictionary. The publishers were forced
to divide the sheets into two sizable volumes, which are now issued in
uncut paper label style, and which, notwithstanding their weight, will
be found very much worth while if you are a lover of Shelley and of
the England of his day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 24 ‘17 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 22 ‘17 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p115 Mr 8 ‘17 750w

“The book will be indispensable to the real student of Shelley, but it
does not aim to be a self-sufficient biography for the general reader.
The author has so rigorously ‘refrained from moralizing, or attempting
any detailed criticism of Shelley’s literary work,’ that his narrative
is at times colorless.” C. M. Lewis

+ — =Yale R= n s 7:433 Ja ‘18 760w

=INGRAM, ELEANOR MARIE.= Twice American. il *$1.35 (2c) Lippincott 17-28801

David Noel was called the “Twice-American” because Brazil, on account
of services rendered the state, allowed him to become a Brazilian
citizen without surrendering his United States citizenship. When David
was a lonely, poverty-stricken boy of eleven, a little five-year-old
girl gave him her white shoes to sell so that he could replace his own
worn out ones. The money received for her shoes, gave him his start in
life. He followed the sea for years, then settled in Brazil where he
became rich and honored, a general and a statesman. The palace where
he lived was known as the “House of the little shoes.” The latter part
of the story deals with “Dom David’s” search for and courtship of his
“lady of the little shoes,” about whom hangs a mystery; and with the
treachery of Jacinto Meyer, his pro-German enemy. “Dom David’s”
secretary, Nilo Valdez, and Corey Bruce, an American engineer,
released from prison on parole, play prominent parts in the story.

=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 80w

“This novel is described as a romance, and if the word is another term
for incredible narrative it has been given an apt name.”

— =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 260w

Reviewed by R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 340w

=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 220w

=INNESS, GEORGE, jr.= Life, art, and letters of George Inness; with an introd. by Elliott Daingerfield. il *$4 (7½c) Century 17-26890

America’s greatest landscape artist receives intimate and sympathetic
treatment from the son who was his comrade and pupil. To write into
these chapters the dynamic energy of his father’s studio hours and the
quiet absorption of his out-of-door preparation has been a congenial
task for the son. “He has given us a picture of his father, the man
and his habits, and with this has told to us incident and story, many
of them new, all reflecting most clearly the ingenuous nature of the
man.” He attributes Inness’s great success to his honesty and
simplicity. The volume is fully illustrated, there being many
reproductions of Inness’s paintings.

“An interesting and very appealing picture of a great man. Reading his
life cannot fail to give the Inness lover new reverence for his work
and it must introduce many who may not know it.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17

“The book comes most opportunely at the present stage of our artistic
development, and it ought to serve, in some measure, as a corrective
for some of the fantastic, distorted, barren ideas concerning art that
have sprung up and spread offensively during recent years.” F. F.
Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 300w

“There is an interesting selection from Inness’s letters, throwing
light on his religious opinions and on his own art and that of his
contemporaries.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w

+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 120w

“The reader does not need to be a student or even a great lover of art
in order to enjoy this vivid and intimate picture of the greatest of
our landscape painters. The son who tells the story was his father’s
pupil as well as congenial companion, and yet he is able to look at
the artist’s work in a detached, impartial manner, and to describe it
in a way to make the book very valuable to students.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 100w

International military digest annual, 1916. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 355 (17-14742)

“‘The international military digest’ summarizes the contents of
eighty-odd periodicals on military science in fourteen languages. It
is published monthly as a magazine and in this annual volume the
material of the twelve separate issues is rearranged and re-grouped
under common heads so as to make a complete, accessible record of the
progress in each branch of military science during the year.”—Pub W

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w

“There isn’t six inches of superfluous matter in the six hundred and
thirty pages of double column contents of this book. The type is clear
and easy to read. Whether a man be in the regular army, a member of
the Officers’ reserve corps, or merely one who is trying to follow the
events of the war intelligently it is hard to see how he can afford to
overlook this work.” A. B. Guernsey

+ =Pub W= 91:1322 Ap 21 ‘17 600w

=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Mask. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-24816

The mask referred to in the title is the one which the author assumes
that we all wear to hide our thought and feelings. Elsa, Alison and
Gertrude Terry are the daughters of a father who is a clergyman and a
mother who is “a dodger of real issues.” The girls lead a sheltered
life in the town of Coningsboro, and grow up innocent and
inexperienced. Alison inherits money from an aunt, marries a
temperamental young author, Phil Howland, and goes with him to New
York. Her husband proves to be selfish, lazy, a gambler, and
neglectful of his wife. The way in which Alison bears everything, even
the loss through Phil’s carelessness of her baby, how she succeeds as
an author, how she remakes her husband, body and soul, form the main
theme of this story of married life. The handling of one episode in
the book between Alison and a friend of Phil’s recalls the descriptive
powers of Mr Theodore Dreiser.

=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w

=N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 200w

=IRWIN, GRACE.= Brown-eyed Susan. il *75c Little book pub. 17-9254

Susan Yorke was a pretty little girl whose mother’s original ideas as
to clothing her caused the child much suffering. The story carries
Susan “through childhood to girlhood, through the normal school to her
first position as teacher.” (Boston Transcript)

“‘Brown-eyed Susan’ is a pretty little story of everyday humanity. It
will not have a reader who will not long to put it in the hands of at
least one person of her acquaintance that some sensitive child may
thereby be spared the ordeal of being conspicuously unlike her mates.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 200w

“The little volume, which is the first book of a young author, should
be welcomed as enjoyable in itself, and as a pleasing promise of
future work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:190 My 13 ‘17 200w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 17 ‘17 160w

=IRWIN, INEZ (HAYNES) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY IRWIN).= Lady of kingdoms. *$1.50 (1½c) Doran 17-25510

A village on Cape Cod is the scene of the early part of this story and
two young women who have grown up in its repressive atmosphere are
joint heroines. Both in the words of Matt Hallowell, the village
philosopher, are “waste women.” Southward Drake is a beautiful,
flashing girl who early exhausts the opportunities Shayneford offers.
Her friend Hester Crowell is colorless and uninteresting, her latent
qualities remaining undeveloped. A party of New Yorkers who spend a
summer in camp in the neighborhood bring contact with the outer world.
The two girls visit New York and are introduced to its many sidedness.
Southward ultimately marries, and Hester, breaking through the
barriers of reserve that have held her, deliberately chooses the
difficult way of unmarried motherhood as the solution for her problem.

=N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 400w

=IRWIN, M. E. F.= Out of the house. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran (Eng ed 17-15549)

The time of this story is the nineteenth century, but little Carolin
Pomfret, who is its heroine, is brought up in an atmosphere that
belongs to the century preceding. Left an orphan at five, she comes to
live with her relatives Great-aunt Catherine, who had been a belle of
the Regency, Great-aunt Lucilla, and her elderly daughter Lavinia, and
elderly Cousin James. She is brought up on family history, given
family memoirs to read, and because the Pomfrets hold that no Pomfret
should marry outside the family if it can be helped, she is all but
married to one of them, her weak-willed cousin Antony. But fortunately
a big man from Ireland appears in time to take her away, out of the
house of Pomfret, to a new life, which altho it does not offer safety
and security, yet promises something of freedom and joy.

“The tale as it is told is convincing and very charming.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 720w

“The book has finish and a certain dainty and deliberate
artificiality, but the same things are described, the same ground gone
over so often, that it presently becomes more than a little tedious,
losing much of the charm it might otherwise have had.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w

“The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have
figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.”

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w

=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH.= Pilgrims into folly: romantic excursions. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16317

The author of the “Letters of a Japanese schoolboy” here gives us
seven short stories, mainly serious in character. “You can’t get away
from your grandfather,” “What became of Deegan Folk?” and “He shot the
bird of paradise” were published in McClure’s Magazine for April,
1914, February and September, 1915, respectively. Other copyrights are
held by the Short Story press corporation and P. F. Collier & Son.

=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17

“Perhaps one can best recommend Mr Irwin’s first collection of short
stories by saying that it is likely to give equal pleasure to the
casual and to the analytical reader.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 350w

“One story, ‘He shot the bird of paradise,’ stands out from the rest.
It has subtlety and suspense, and is marred only by a touch of
amateurishness—a criticism that applies to the entire volume. Mr Irwin
is still a little uncertain of his powers, but the present book has
definite promise.”

+ — =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 110w

“Mr Irwin’s versatility is nothing less than astonishing. ... The
writer of ‘Random rhymes,’ etc., whose name is suggestive of smiles,
presents in his new volume seven short stories, of which pathos,
sometimes deepening into tragedy, is the most striking characteristic.
They are told with exquisite art, and with a sincerity which makes
even impossibilities, as in ‘The highest,’ credible.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 110w

“The final tale, ‘The ideal gentleman,’ may be voted the best of the
group. It is a pathetic story of a waiter’s efforts to make of his son
a ‘gentleman’ in the English sense of the term.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w

=IRWIN, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL IRWIN).= Latin at war. *$1.75 Appleton 940.91 17-26656

“Mr Irwin’s book on ‘The Latin at war’ makes a connecting link between
the French and the Italian soldiers and nations. The first chapter,
‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take
the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the
fighting men in the high Italian Alps. Afterward he returns to France
and carries the reader with him along the French front, where he
describes the work of the American ambulance service, and tells of his
observations and experiences in the war-swept zone. In the last
chapter there is perhaps the most comprehensive and accurate account
of the French army, how it is formed, why it is democratic, what are
its peculiar qualities, and whence they are derived that has been
offered to American readers. The chapters dealing with the work of the
Italian army are graphic and full of human interest.”—N Y Times

“A vivid, very readable account of the author’s experiences on the
French and Italian fronts in 1916. Some have appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 60w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 60w

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 70w

“The present book should be cut down to half its size. The author is a
good observer, he has had excellent opportunities to see the French
and Italian armies, and he paints some graphic scenes; but his pages
are cluttered up with long descriptions of things that do not count.”

+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 500w

“No correspondent ‘at the front,’ during this war, has found more of
human interest in his experiences than has Mr Irwin. He knows how to
find it, and how to record it. His style is terse and graphic. He
makes you visualize while you read, because he visualized while he
wrote.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 S 15 ‘17 280w

“His pages may lack the charm of the first-hand narrative of poilu or
ambulance driver, but they contain a good deal of intelligent
reflection, and there is no bluff and not too much rhetoric.”

=Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 220w

“Mr Irwin has remained fundamentally American and naïve and curious to
know what the whole thing means in human values to everyday men and
women. He is not the professional war correspondent. His human values
have remained steady—although convinced of the basic justice of the
cause of the Allies, he has not maligned the enemy.”

+ =New Repub= 12:225 S 22 ‘17 650w

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 60w

+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 280w

=IZOR, ESTELLE PEEL.= Costume design and home planning. il 90c Atkinson, Mentzer & co. 646 16-17166

“The purpose of this volume is to help establish in the minds of girls
‘a sane sensible well-balanced attitude toward dress,’ and towards the
home as ‘the vital center of all life’s activities.’ ... The book is
the result of experience in teaching.”—School Arts Magazine

“Elementary enough for children to read.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:249 Mr ‘17

“The best book so far available on elementary costume design and home
planning.”

+ =Cleveland= p155 D ‘16 60w

=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17

“Well written, captivatingly illustrated. ... It is without doubt the
best single volume for teachers who are required to teach costume
design to junior high school pupils. It will prove helpful, however,
to upper grammar and high school teachers everywhere who have to help
young people to think seriously about their own personal relation to
clothing and shelter.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:89 O ‘16 150w

J

=JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR.= Turkey and the war. 6s T. Fisher Unwin, London

“The author begins by attempting to define the objective as
distinguished from the subjective aims of the present war, the aims
inherent in the situation. ... The destruction and partition of Turkey
may be considered the real aim of the conflict because its
accomplishment is essential to a durable peace. ... Discussing the
various controversial points of the scheme of partitioning the empire,
Mr Jabotinsky points out that the present Germano-Turkish alliance
would imply the presumably independent Sultanate of Anatolia as the
natural field for German commercial expansion, and that the policy of
excluding Germany from any such natural expansion must inevitably lead
to another war, especially if the proposed plan of an annexation of
German markets in allied countries is carried through. He concludes by
emphasizing the importance, for its psychological effect, of an allied
conquest and military occupation of the great market represented by
Asiatic Turkey,”—N Y Times

“M. Jabotinsky pins no faith on a self-controlled, self-directed or
stable Ottoman kingdom. In his lucid and somewhat cynical book,
brilliant in its exposition, he discloses the salient defect of
Turkish rule, or rather of the Young Turks’ rule. ... It comes from a
false theory of nationality.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:24 Ag 4 ‘17 1250w

“This essay by the military correspondent of the Moscow Russkia
Vedomosti represents some original thinking on the Eastern question.
Briefly, it is a more than usually straightforward application of the
‘est delenda’ to the Ottoman empire, supported by a convincing series
of facts and arguments.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 520w

=JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL.=[2] Life and letters of Stopford Brooke. 2v il *$4.75 Scribner 17-27957

“The facts of Brooke’s life are probably well known. Born in 1832, the
son of a poor but well-born Irish clergyman, he was ordained in 1857,
was curate at Kensington from 1859 to 1863, took the lease of St
James’s chapel in 1865, and left the Church of England in 1880.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup) “From the moment of his leaving the church
Brooke became formally what he had temperamentally been for many
years, an independent. ... He was a preacher and a teacher, a poet and
a lecturer, and he was interested in science and art, painting being
among the joys and recreations of his later years. He wrote many books
in addition to the little volume by which he is best known [“A primer
of English literature”]. ... Dr Jacks’ biography is throughout a near
view of the man in all his aspects. The biographer married Brooke’s
daughter and he draws freely upon the letters which in themselves
represent clearly the progress of the great preacher’s intellectual
life.” (Boston Transcript)

+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘18 1750w

“To give us a self-revelation of Stopford Brooke is what Dr Jacks
strives to do and succeeds in doing. Although he knew his subject so
intimately, he practices self-effacement except where the personal
recollections and the personal touch are necessary to color and
emphasize his story.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 12 ‘17 1500w

“Well worth reading because of its faithful depiction of a sweet,
wholesome and beautiful nature expressing itself in manifold
activities through a long and busy life.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 780w

“An adequate and appreciative account.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 30w

“Fascinating volumes.”

+ =Sat R= 124:464 D 8 ‘17 1650w

“This biography has one quality at least which makes it very unlike
the usual biography. It has the quality of growth. It is the record of
the things that change rather than of the things that happen. The
result is a book not of revelations or confessions in the usual sense,
but of spiritual development which carries the art of biography a step
further in the most interesting direction now open to it—that of
psychology.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p581 N 29 ‘17 2050w

=JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE (SNOW).= Silverheels. il *$1 (4½c) Doran 17-30276

Silverheels is a gray horse. His young master, Bob Hughes, is a waif
who has run away from the brutal farmer who has mistreated him, taking
Silverheels, his one possession, with him. Silverheels is a
wonderfully intelligent horse, and it is he who helps Bob find a home
with kind people who turn out to be the boy’s own relatives. The story
was published in St Nicholas in 1916.

=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

“A nice human story of a horse who is much better than some humans and
a first-class hero for a story.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:384 O 7 ‘17 30w

“Although this book is not written for the very youngest readers, they
will enjoy it as well as those a little older.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 100w

=JACKSON, J. WILFRID.= Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture. (Manchester univ. Ethnological ser.) il *$2 Longmans 572

This book consists of a report of the preliminary survey in the field
of research suggested by the title. It is made up of a reprint of four
papers, first published in the Proceedings of the Manchester literary
and philosophical society. The first of the four on The geographical
distribution of the shell-purple industry, is concerned with the
utilization of shells in the manufacture of the famous dye, “Tyrian
purple.” Subsequent chapters take up Shell-trumpets and their
distribution in the old and new world; The geographical distribution
of the use of pearls and pearl-shell; The use of cowry-shells for the
purposes of currency, amulets and charms. Additional data that has
come to light since the first printing of the papers is given in
appendixes. In his introduction G. Elliot Smith, dean of the faculty
of medicine in Manchester university, discusses the magic properties
attributed to shells. The book is provided with index, maps and other
illustrations.

“Professor Elliot Smith and his colleagues, Mr Jackson and Mr Perry,
cannot be praised too highly for their method. Admiration for
Professor Elliot Smith’s ingenuity must not blind us to the extremely
hazardous character of his theoretical affiliations.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:530 D 29 ‘17 1400w

“Professor Elliot Smith agrees with the author in thinking that so
laborious an industry as the preparation of this purple from
shell-fish could not have been invented in more than one district, and
that its occurrence in eastern Asia and America points to a migration
from the Mediterranean. It is a plausible theory, but it is not
proved.”

+ — =Spec= 119:301 S 22 ‘17 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 20 ‘17 140w

“If there is some lack of arrangement, if the trees, not to mention
the shrubs, do obscure the view of the wood, if the index whenever
appealed to affords no clue, still we cannot but admire the diligence
and wide reading of the author.”

+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 O 18 ‘17 1650w

=JACKSON, MARGARET TALBOT.= Museum: a manual of the housing and care of art collections. il *$1.75 (3c) Longmans 708 17-14148

“The object of this little book is to put before those interested in
the administration of collections the result of several years of study
of the museums of Europe and America. It cannot claim the distinction
of bringing new ideas to a field where so many men of genius have long
been working; it can only hope to call attention to the results of the
constant experiments being made by those already in the field.”
(Preface) The list of museums visited, given in an appendix, shows how
extensive have been the author’s studies. Contents: The situation of
the museum building; The architectural plan; Preparation for the
collections; The formation of collections; The preparation of objects
for exhibition; Official questions. The seven illustrations have been
chosen to fit the text. The volume is without an index.

=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“As a pioneer in its field this study of the museum is a noteworthy
book.”

+ =Dial= 64:74 Ja 17 ‘18 280w

“Nothing would more make for the education of those public-spirited
laymen who are our museum trustees than a careful perusal of this
volume.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 100w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 20w

=Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17 30w

“Save for its unforgivable crime of having no index, her book is
extraordinarily good.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 N 29 ‘17 420w

=JACKSON, ORTON PORTER, and EVANS, FRANK EDGAR.=[2] Marvel book of American ships. il *$2.50 Stokes 359 17-31922

An informing revelation of the secrets of big ship building. The
reader is taken to the ship yards and gets an inside idea of how
undersea fighters, superdreadnoughts, all around battle ships,
destroyers, sea liners, and all sorts of lesser craft are built. There
are accounts of dramatic sea happenings such as sea battles, gun
firing and signaling, deep-sea diving and certain tragedies of the
seas. Notable features of the book are its more than 400 illustrations
from photographs, the chart of the flags used, the signal code and the
chart of funnel types and company flags by which ships can be
recognized at a distance.

+ =N Y Times= 23:25 Ja 20 ‘18 110w

“A reliable informational book.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 140w

=JACKSON, SIR THOMAS GRAHAM, 1st bart.= Holiday in Umbria. il *$3 (7c) Holt 914.5 (Eng ed 17-21517)

Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, who is architecturally responsible for the
restoration and addition of so many of the beautiful buildings of the
great English universities and public schools, has here given us a
second book of travel. It is “a book of historical, architectural, and
literary interest, originating in two visits, in 1881 and 1888, to a
part of Italy comparatively unfamiliar to British travellers. Ancona,
Rimini, Gubbio, Urbino, Pesaro, and other places are described; there
is a particularly detailed account of the ducal palace at Urbino; and
many pages are devoted to extracts from ‘Il cortegiano’ (’The
courtier’), by Count Baldassare Castiglione, ambassador from Duke
Guidobaldo I to King Henry VII. These excerpts present a pleasing
picture of life at the ducal court.” (Ath)

“The book is very readable, and the illustrations are good.”

+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 100w

“The author’s contribution to the literature of travel is a valuable
one.”

+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 120w

“One of the chief sources of information concerning this history is
Castiglione’s ‘Il cortegiano,’ and an abstract of this forms the
longest and not the least interesting chapter in Sir Thomas’s book,
which is made additionally attractive by reproductions of some of his
own sketches and a few photographs.”

+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 190w

“The book is beautifully produced and illustrated.”

+ =Library World= 19:273 Ap ‘17 130w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w

“Books of travel appeal to two classes of people—those who have seen,
and those who plan to see. This one will interest especially the first
class.”

+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 50w

“Distinction and insight are the leading characteristics of Sir Thomas
Jackson’s contributions to the literature of his art, and they are not
lacking in this volume. ... In describing the humours of the road he
selects exactly the right sort of experience to lay before his
readers; but in the historical scaffolding he raises around the cities
and structures he went to see he is less happy.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1050w

=JACKSON, WILLIAM WALROND.= Ingram Bywater. *$3 Oxford 17-28095

This memoir of the Oxford scholar, Ingram Bywater—the undergraduate
with Walter Pater at Queen’s, the fellow of Exeter, the college tutor
and reader in Greek, and finally the successor to the chair of regius
professor of Greek left vacant by the death of Professor Jowett—is
written by an intimate friend and fellow Oxonian, the former rector of
Exeter college. “Incidentally Dr Jackson tells us all that needs to be
told about Bywater’s personal circumstances and surroundings. But
essentially the book is a well-balanced appreciation of Bywater’s aims
and achievements as a Hellenist of the best and most catholic type.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“A biography which will be read with attentive interest by all who
have at heart the intrinsic value of the scholar’s life. ... There is
something sound and stimulating in the fellowship of one who seems
never to have suffered from the disease so rife to-day among
university men—the feeling of despondency over the value of
scholarship in and for itself and over the intrinsic dignity of the
scholar’s life.”

+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 250w

“Those who do read the book can be assured, for two hours, at least,
of a perfect haven of rest. It is a happily short book. It has the
kind of virtues one associates with a good common-room at Oxford,
half-a-dozen flashing epigrams, some good anecdotes about the
incomparable Mark Pattison, and the heavy mellowness of old college
port above it all.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:278 O 6 ‘17 1550w

“Dr Jackson’s memoir is written in choice, good English, but seems a
little formal. Here it may be characteristic of his subject.”

+ =Sat R= 123:482 My 26 ‘17 1000w

“Dr Jackson’s memoir reveals Professor Bywater as an attractive human
being and illustrates the permanent value of his scholarship.”

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 140w

“An admirable little monograph on one of the most learned and
brilliant Hellenists that modern Oxford has produced. ... We cannot
doubt that all who have known Oxford and its academical life during
the later decades of the last century and the first decade of this
will heartily welcome the book and read it with keen appreciation. Dr
Jackson is singularly well qualified for the task he has undertaken.
He has produced a masterpiece of its kind.”

* + + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1850w

=JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK.= Castaways. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-2478

Mr Jacobs’s new story takes place half on land and half on sea. He has
adopted one of the seven, or is it eleven? original plots as a
starting point. A modest and unpretentious bank clerk of quiet tastes
inherits a fortune. The diversion from type is furnished by Mr Jack
Knight, an irresponsible and audacious young person who is not averse
to using Mr Carstairs’s good fortune to further his own ends. His ends
happen to concern the niece of Lady Penrose. Mr Carstairs is induced
to buy a country house in Lady Penrose’s neighborhood where Mr Knight
can be a frequent guest. Later Mr Carstairs is induced to charter a
yacht and take the whole party, including Lady Penrose and her niece,
Mr Knight and his friends, for a cruise. A prearranged mutiny which
takes an amusing and unexpected turn brings on the climax.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17

“His fun turns invariably either on practical joking or its verbal
counterpart of repartee. Perhaps that is why he is, as I believe,
almost exclusively a man’s author. ... It is all good fun for the
reader who likes the Jacobs kind of thing.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:98 Mr ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 91:205 Ja 20 ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 D 7 ‘16 450w

=JACOBY, HAROLD.=[2] Navigation. il *$2.25 Macmillan 527 17-28810

The author has aimed to make this a book complete in itself, “so that
it should be possible to navigate a ship in any ocean not very near
the north or south pole without other books or tabular works,
excepting only the nautical almanac for the year in which the voyage
is made.” No formal mathematical and astronomical knowledge has been
assumed on the part of the reader. The author is professor of
astronomy in Columbia university. Contents: The fundamental problem of
navigation; Dead reckoning without logarithms; Dead reckoning with
logarithms; The compass; Coastwise navigation; The sextant; The
nautical almanac; Older navigation methods; Newer navigation methods;
A navigator’s day at sea.

“Useful for those who must study without a teacher and convenient for
the advanced student.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18

“Nothing more in the way of books is required by young navigators,
who, doubtless, will welcome it as warmly as it deserves.”

+ =Nation= 105:670 D 13 ‘17 250w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 40w

=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w

=JAFFRAY, JULIA KIPPEN=, ed. Prison and the prisoner. il *$2.50 (6c) Little 365 17-31780

This symposium, to which fourteen specialists contribute, is edited by
the secretary of the National committee on prisons and prison labor.
In the discussions the point of view of the lawyer, the doctor, the
psychiatrist, the social worker, the educator and the prison official
is expressed, each contributing something to the new ideals of prison
reform. Contents: The prisoner and the courts, by William H. Wadhams;
The prisoner himself, by Bernard H. Glueck and Thomas W. Salmon; The
prisoner—ward or slave? by Karl W. Kirchwey; The control over the
prisoner, by George Gordon Battle and E. Stagg Whitin; Self-government
by the prisoner, by Thomas Mott Osborne and E. Kent Hubbard; The
prison officer, by Frederick A. Dorner; Industrial training for the
prisoner, by Arthur D. Dean; The prisoner in the road camp, by Charles
Henry Davis; The union man and the prisoner, by Collis Lovely; The man
who comes out of prison, by R. J. Caldwell; The community center and
the delinquent, by John Collier.

“The joint authors of the book place the emphasis rightly ‘not on the
place from which the man has come but on that to which he is going.’”
R M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 12 ‘17 670w

“A valuable and inspiring, if somewhat formless, work by a dozen
authors with more or less expert knowledge as to our prisons.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 70w

“A more satisfactory book would have been produced if fewer writers
had collaborated, those being left out who either have little to say
or who haven’t stuck to their text.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 10 ‘18 470w

“The book obviously aims to meet with specific suggestions, in some
instances with programs even, some of the pressing tasks set society
by the man in prison. With a few striking successes it scores several
dismal failures.” W. D. Lane

– + =Survey= 39:369 D 29 ‘17 800w

=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Arizona, the wonderland. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 979.1 17-29202

“The scope of the present work is set forth on the title page as
follows: ‘The history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined
pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions,
trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels,
topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its
industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and
science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the
automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker.’ Fortunately the
pages are large, so the above subtitle leaves also space for the
announcement of a map and sixty plates of which twelve are in
color.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“A volume valuable as a record, as well as attractive to those in
search of timely gift-books.” A. A. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 800w

“Too bulky for a guide book, too discursive for quick reference, the
work nevertheless, makes pleasant and often informative reading.”

+ =Dial= 63:644 D 20 ‘17 350w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w

+ =Outlook= 117:518 N 28 ‘17 50w

“His style is so easy that the uninitiated will imagine that the book
could almost write itself. But there is a vast amount of research
behind this orderly parade of friars and cowboys, Indians and
explorers and politicians.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 11 ‘17 520w

=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Reclaiming the arid West. il *$3.50 (3½c) Dodd 631 17-31554

The author has written of the work of the United States reclamation
service from the standpoint of the layman and homeseeker. In the early
chapters he describes the work of the “army of peace,” which within
the past twenty-five years has been carrying out the great plans
conceived by Major John Wesley Powell. In the chapters that follow he
takes up the projects, one at a time, tells something of the
difficulties encountered, the engineering skill that surmounted them,
and of the resulting opportunities offered to settlers. The story of
the text is supplemented by very excellent photographic illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18

=JAMES, HENRY.= Ivory tower. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-29022

Had it been finished, this work would have added one more to the
author’s list of international novels. Graham Fielder is brought fresh
from a European background to Newport, to be made the inheritor of his
uncle’s millions. The story as it progressed was to have concerned
itself with the young man’s reactions to the situation and to his new
American environment. As it now stands the fragment has a claim to
completeness in its unforgettable picture of the two old men, Mr Gaw
and Mr Betterman, business rivals and enemies, each waiting for the
death of the other. Appended to the three completed parts of the novel
are the notes in which the author had amplified the idea of the book
as it first took possession of him.

=Ath= p527 O ‘17 300w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:690 F ‘18 430w

“The texture of this story gives me the impression of a firmer and
more precious weaving than in any of the novels of the master. The
book is a fragment as it stands, but a glorious fragment.” W: S.
Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 31 ‘17 1300w

“Artistically, the book reaches the high water mark of James’ genius.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 90w

“‘The ivory tower,’ if a great thing, is great in the smallest ways
associable with its author. The story probes shrewdly into some
aspects of our American social scene. But it belongs among such late
and relatively little things as ‘The outcry’ and ‘The sacred fount,’
without the beguiling farce of the one or the uniquely confessional
purpose of the other.” Wilson Follett

– + =Dial= 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w

“Not since 1909, when Ibsen’s preliminary studies made their
appearance, has any book thrown such interesting light on the literary
process.” Q. K.

+ =New Repub= 13:119 D 1 ‘17 1500w

“In the vast world tragedy this story must have seemed to its author
trivial; and trivial it is, whether it seemed so to him or not. The
style is full of unusual difficulties, even when compared with most of
its author’s later works. Real characters there are, too—I have never
seen a better presentation of that modern figure, known only too well
in modern affluent homes, the trained nurse; but, on the whole, the
failure to finish this story cannot be regarded as a literary
disaster.” W: L. Phelps

– + =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w

“Yet it is worth while to persevere with Henry James’s tortuous
sentences, clinched so often with a touch of slang as if the literary
language had in the end failed him, for they build up, little by
little, strange modern characters such as one does not find elsewhere
in fiction.”

+ — =Spec= 119:299 S 22 ‘17 600w

“Impressive and interesting as are these posthumous fragments, their
interest is immensely enhanced by the plans or schemes for their
completion. They are things quite unique in literature, intimate
glimpses into what Henry James has elsewhere called ‘the closed
chamber of an artist’s meditations.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w

=JAMES, HENRY.= Middle years. *$1.25 Scribner 17-31066

“With this small volume, which brings us down to about the year 1870,
the memories of Henry James break off. It is more fitting to say that
they break off than that they come to an end, for although we are
aware that we shall hear his voice no more, there is no hint of
exhaustion or of leave-taking. ... We recognize, if not directly then
by hearsay, the old world of London life which he brings out of the
shades and sets tenderly and solidly before us as if his last gift
were the most perfect and precious of the treasures hoarded in ‘the
scented chest of our savings.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The
volume is the third of Henry James’s reminiscences, following “A small
boy and others,” 1913, and “Notes of a son and brother,” 1914.

“Unfortunately a mere fragment. Comprised in its pages, however, are
some interesting recollections of George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and a few
others, as well as memory-impressions of the London of mid-Victorian
days.”

+ =Ath= p682 ‘17 50w

“I am glad it has been published, there are things in it one would on
no account have missed, portraits in different scales of Swinburne,
Renan, Browning, Lewes, George Eliot, Tennyson, Mrs Greville, Lady
Waterford. But it makes me feel that Henry James took with him to
England, as a young man of twenty-five, a state of mind which would
have been forgivable if it had been temporary, and which lasted
forever after.” P. L.

– + =New Repub= 13:254 D 29 ‘17 1400w

“Henry James is not at his best in the fragment called ‘The middle
years.’ These few chapters were dictated in the autumn of 1914, when
he was thinking of something else—the war. We ought to remember that
they were never revised by the author, and that he dictated without
notes. The book is a model of the publishers’ art, in its clear type,
its dull paper, and its exquisite lightness.” W: L. Phelps

+ — =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w

=Outlook= 117:652 D 19 ‘17 70w

“A series of impressions or memories, which must have been a torture
to write, as they seem to be dug out of the novelist’s memory by
exquisite toil. ... We are far from saying that these impressions of a
distinguished novelist are not worth giving to the world. But we think
that they might have been conveyed in a simpler, more vivacious, and
shorter form.”

– + =Sat R= 124:396 N 17 ‘17 210w

“It contains little or none of the personal gossip ordinarily to be
found in books of reminiscences, but there are, instead, some
unforgettable impressions of mid-Victorian worthies. ... Our only
complaint against this ultimate fragment of his work is a complaint
against the inevitabilities—that he did not live long enough to
complete it.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup548 N 17 ‘17 880w

“He comes to his task with an indescribable air of one so charged and
laden with precious stuff that he hardly knows how to divest himself
of it all—where to find space to set down this and that, how to resist
altogether the claims of some other gleaming object in the background;
appearing so busy, so unwieldy with ponderous treasure that his
dexterity in disposing of it, his consummate knowledge of how best to
place each fragment, afford us the greatest delight that literature
has had to offer for many a year. And this book of memories sounds to
us like a superb act of thanksgiving.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 18 ‘17 3700w

=JAMES, HENRY.= Pictures and other passages from Henry James; comp. by Ruth Head. *$1 Stokes 813

“Henry James himself set the seal of his approval on Miss Head’s
proposed plan of making an anthology from his writings, but did not
live to see the completed work. It is divided into five chapters with
sections under the headings: The seasons, Nationality, America, France
and Paris, Switzerland, Italy, London, Country England, Country
houses, Gardens and parks, The world of art, Interiors; Men, women,
and their rooms, Passions; Portraits of women, character, feminine;
Portraits of men, character, male; Moralities and aphorisms, Similes
and metaphors.”—Boston Transcript

“The style of Henry James, building up complex impressions by minute
sensitive touches, is more pictorial and more epigrammatic than one
realizes until one has his portraits and pictures separated and
individualized in such an anthology as this. ... The editor might with
advantage have arranged his extracts chronologically, at least within
the subsections.”

+ — =Ath= p542 N ‘16 100w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 1 ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p34 O ‘17

“Those who want to appreciate Henry James should read his books—there
is no other way of appreciating an artist.”

– + =Sat R= 122:304 S 23 ‘16 310w

“This method of extracting representative passages and grouping them
under headings enables the reader to appreciate at once the range and
the limitations of Henry James’s genius. He is least happy when
dealing with the primitive—the seasons, the passions, the
countryside—and is seen at his best when writing of men and women, and
the civilization they have made.”

+ =Spec= 117:554 N 4 ‘16 600w

=JAMES, HENRY.= Sense of the past. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-28794

One of two novels that remained incomplete at the death of the writer.
The other is “The ivory tower.” The central character is a young
American who, from the English branch of the family, inherits an old
London house. He goes to England, seeks out his new possession, and
shuts himself away from the world for a night while he wanders from
room to room, yielding to the spell of the past that is cast about
him. He sees himself in an old portrait of 1820. A compelling sense of
the past slips him out of the year 1910 back into 1820. Comfortably at
first, and then uneasily he reacts to the people and conditions of the
world into which he is projected. He experiences the thrills and
embarrassments of two successive love affairs. The story breaks off at
the end of the first. But some seventy pages of notes reveal the plan
of the writer, his deft scheme for extricating his hero and bringing
him back to 1910 and to Aurora Coyne who sent this lover of hers from
her for the sake of his development; who grows impatient at the time
it takes and hurries to London to find out the cause.

=Ath= p527 O ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:690 F ‘18 190w

“One inevitably thinks of ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ and the dream life there
so exquisitely portrayed, in reading ‘The sense of the past.’ In a
sense, too, the story of Ralph Pendrel’s experience is a dream one,
though Henry James has touched it with innumerable hints and
suggestions of forces deeper and more measurable scientifically though
more elusive.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 31 ‘17 1500w

“An exquisite fragment of a novel in James’ most matured style.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 70w

“It alters the shape, pushes out the bounds, of the whole Henry James
world, adds a substantial figure to the sum of imaginings,
achievements, beauties, perfections. ‘The sense of the past’ promised
all the rich, full orchestral resonance of novels such as ‘The
ambassadors’ and ‘The wings of the dove’; yet, in its entire
dissimilarity from anything else that even James could have written,
it is as isolated and self-sufficing as ‘The great good place’ or ‘The
Madonna of the future’ or ‘The turn of the screw.’” Wilson Follett

+ + =Dial= 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w

“‘The sense of the past’ is undoubtedly a work of genius; the old
inspiration came back abundantly for the swan song. The English style
of ‘The sense of the past’ is a glory in itself, like a mediaeval bit
of architecture; the result of quiet, leisurely, devoted, loving
industry, founded on genius. Fragment though it be, it is an
imperishable addition to the work of one of the great masters of
English fiction.” W: L. Phelps

+ + =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w

=Sat R= 124:sup5 S 29 ‘17 1650w

“We can gather from the notes how Henry James wanted to complete it,
but as the transition from 1910 to 1820 is not very satisfactorily
contrived, we question whether the bringing back of the hero to his
own time could have been an artistic success.”

+ — =Spec= 119:299 S 22 ‘17 600w

“How this passion is adumbrated and suggested, how it grows and glows
to a brightness of almost insane intensity, is sufficiently given to
us in this fragment to make us sadly aware of our loss of a complete
masterpiece. It would surely have been, we feel, the greatest of ghost
stories.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w

=JAMES, HERMAN GERLACH.= Municipal functions. (National municipal league ser.) *$2 (2c) Appleton 352 17-10893

“Municipal advance in a democracy can be achieved in only one way,
namely, by the realization on the part of the citizenship of what
should be the ideal of municipal government,” says the author. His
book is addressed, not to city administrators, but to citizens. His
purpose is to give “a simple but comprehensive survey of the whole
field of municipal endeavor.” This is done in chapters on: The growth
of municipal functions; Public safety; Public health; Public
education; Public morals; Social welfare; City planning; Public works;
Public utilities; Municipal ownership; Municipal finances—revenues;
Municipal finances—debts, budget and accounting. The author is
associate professor of government and director of the Bureau of
municipal research at the University of Texas.

=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17

“It is popular in style, practical in aim but scientific in method,
and will give the general reader an excellent perspective of the
modern problems of city government. Among the most important chapters
are two entitled ‘Public morals’ and ‘Social welfare.’ As regards the
saloon and liquor problem, he comes to the rather regrettable
conclusion that this issue should be decided locally.”

+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w

“In one respect this work differs from most books of its class. The
author approaches the discussion from the standpoint of the smaller
community rather than the metropolis.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:322 S ‘17 10w

“Though perhaps not directly intended as a text-book, it has the
special values of being fundamental and clear, so much required and so
seldom found in text-books. For the beginner who would acquire the
point of view of the municipal statesman there is probably nothing
better. There is one disappointment in the book. The reader is left
with the impression that the housing problem cannot be solved.” E: T.
Hartman

+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 270w

=JAMES, WILLIAM.= On vital reserves. *50c (4c) Holt 131

A little volume containing two of the essays of William James, one
reprinted from “Memories and studies,” one from “Talks to teachers on
psychology.” The first, “The energies of men,” is a study of “the
phenomena of second wind.” The second, “The gospel of relaxation,” is
based on the Lange-James theory of the emotions, which sometimes
expresses itself popularly in the statement that we are afraid because
we run. We are a tense, nervous and over-strained people, argued
Professor James, because by habit we assume attitudes of tensity. Our
mental state is the result of our habit of life, not vice versa.

“The practical side of the Professor James’ books has always given
them a wider public than is usually supposed to belong to the
philosophical or psychological writer. In the two essays of this book
he sums up the best ways in which young men and women—all men and
women in fact—may realize their powers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 230w

“Both statements are models of expression. They deserve the wider
circulation which, in this form, they promise to attain.”

+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 110w

+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:771 N ‘17 40w