Chapter XLIV: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (15)

“The gift of making psychology read like an adventure story came to
William James as to few, if any others. His gingery essays ‘On vital
reserves’ are therefore well worth the while of the Henry Holt company
in re-publishing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 27 ‘17 200w

=JAMISON, EVELYN MARY, and others.= Italy, mediaeval and modern; a history. (Histories of the belligerents ser.) *$2.90 (2c) Oxford 945 17-19811

The present volume, covering the period from the barbarian invasions
to 1915, has been written to supply the need for a general sketch of
Italian history which should serve as an introduction to more detailed
studies. The authors “have devoted considerable space to political and
ecclesiastical history ... have called attention to the more
remarkable achievements of the Italian spirit in the fields of art and
philosophy and science, and the historical conditions which made these
achievements possible, [and] finally, have traced, so far as it is
possible to do so in a textbook, the working of those instincts ...
which from age to age promoted or retarded the cause of national
unity.” (Preface) Appended are an eight-page bibliography, tables of
genealogies, and a list of the popes.

“The appended lists of books, and other subsidiary matter, will be of
great service to students; and the volume is well provided with maps.
The index might with advantage have been fuller.”

+ — =Ath= p366 Jl ‘17 80w

“Of the quartet of authors to whom we are indebted for this rather
uninspired but extremely learned, sound, and valuable history of
Italy, the last-named, Professor Terry of Aberdeen university, is the
best known. ... There should certainly have been a chapter or a
section to deal with literature since Goldoni, with music since
Palestrina, with sculpture since Canova, with the novel since
Boccaccio. ... The book answers the question, Why Italy entered the
war. The authors are true philosophers of motives.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 820w

“In Italy, more perhaps than in any other European country, the
national history is interwoven with that of the church, and cannot be
fairly presented unless church history receives its meed of studious
attention and just judgment. These the authors of the present work
have not seen fit to give it. Hence, while the work may have its
partial uses as a reference book, it cannot be recommended as
accurate, authoritative or comprehensive.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:267 N ‘17 160w

“It may be doubted, however, whether they are correct in the reasons
which they tentatively assign for the Libyan war; their bibliography
of this period is not up to date; and no adequate attempt is made to
fill the greatest blank in Italian history—that since 1870.” W. M.

+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 50w

“A clear outline of the subject. ... Each period has been treated by
its author with full knowledge, and with a sympathy that secures the
interest of the reader. ... The story of the foundation of the kingdom
apparently written by Professor Sanford Terry, is a brilliant piece of
work.”

* + + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 My 31 ‘17 1600w

=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russian poets and poems. 2v v 1 *$3.50 Longmans 891.7 17-27782

This volume, to which Dr Jane Harrison of Newnham college contributes
the preface, is by the author of “The Russians and their language.”
“Madame Jarintzov first discusses the subject of Russian
versification; and she compares the poverty of what she calls the
‘small squirrel’s wheel’ of English rhymes with the wealth of rhyming
words in Russian. Many convincing examples are given in the
introduction. For the most part biographically, but to some extent
critically, the author then deals with the Russian poets I. A. Krylov,
V. A. Jukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, A. V. Koltzov, M. Y. Lermontov, F. L.
Tutchev, Alexei Tolstoy, N. Nekrasov, and A. A. Fet. Of their works
Madame Jarintzov furnishes numerous examples, translated by herself;
and in her renderings she, as a Russian, has endeavoured to carry over
into English the Russian spirit, and, as far as possible, the Russian
manner.” (Ath) “In a second volume it is intended to treat the modern
poets in the same manner.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 140w

“A fairly good biographical and critical essay on Nekrassov will be
found in Mme N. Jarintzov’s ‘Russian poets and poems.’ In spite of her
theory, which we cannot take seriously, Mme Jarintzov succeeds in
producing some good translations. Nevertheless, her experiment in
rendering Russian poetry, ‘along new lines’ can hardly be considered
successful.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

– + =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 320w

“These poets, Pushkin and Lermontov excepted, are almost unknown to
the average English reader. ... Upon the difficulty of rendering the
spirit and the rhythm of Russian verse in English Madame Jarintzov
writes with feeling and eloquence as one who has herself attempted the
impossible. Yet in a high degree she has attained to it. ... Her work
forms a valuable link between two great literatures.”

* + – =Sat R= 124:88 Ag 4 ‘17 1800w

“We can bear witness to the accuracy of such of the versions as we
have compared with the originals, and the Russian metres are
reproduced with really astonishing success. Unfortunately we must add
that the English reader knowing no Russian will too often be impressed
by the queer un-English turns of phrase rather than by the poetic
merit of the selected pieces.”

+ — =Spec= 119:331 S 29 ‘17 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Jl 19 ‘17 380w

“These poets use the same metres as we do, with some remarkable and
pervading differences. To many Russians, even when they know our
language well, English poetry does not seem to be poetry at all,
because they miss the double rhymes. ... A second difference is the
Russian avoidance of equivalent feet. ... Mme Jarintzov thinks it of
capital importance to reproduce these peculiarities of her
originals—the double rhymes and the exact syllabic correspondence. ...
But she goes much farther than this; she attacks the established
theory of translation.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Ag 2 ‘17 1850w

=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russians and their language; with a preface by Nevill Forbes. *$2.50 (6c) Kennerley 491.7 (Eng ed 17-10234)

The author is a Russian woman who has lived in England and who writes
in English. It is her belief that much of the bewilderment experienced
by the English reader on first attempting to read Russian literature
in translation is due to differences in language. In her introduction
she discusses some of the problems of pronunciation and
transliteration. The remainder of the work represents an attempt “to
show the national character of the Russians as reflected in their
language.”

“Every time Madame Zharintsova publishes a book, she has a new way of
spelling her own name. ... For the student of Russian there is much
that is suggestive in this book. All the words used are given in an
appendix in Russian with the proper accent. For those that love Russia
there is much that is interpretive in her dispositions on slang and
diminutive and word-play.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 800w

“A good deal in this book will doubtless mean little to one who knows
nothing of the language; however, anyone interested in Russia may
glean therein much of interest on its life, literature and
psychology.”

+ — =Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 110w

“Books by amateurs in any subject are not likely to be marked by
accuracy, proportion, or solid judgment, but they often express points
of view and shrewd comments on details for which specialists may be
grateful. All this is true of ‘The Russians and their language.’ The
writer has no knowledge of phonetics, so that her chatter about
Russian pronunciation and transliteration is of the sort that darkens
counsel.”

– + =Nation= 105:265 S 6 ‘17 310w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:71 My ‘17

“One very interesting feature of this little study is the
interpretation of Russian literature from an accurately balanced
Russian standpoint. Readers who have taken the younger authors
overseriously as typically Russian will be surprised to learn that an
average Russian after speaking about them feels inclined to take a
deep breath of fresh air.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 550w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:536 Je ‘17 60w

“The intelligent student of Russian will be fascinated by this clever
book—the work of a Russian lady who knows English extremely well, and
is therefore able to interpret with quite exceptional fidelity the
character of the Russian language. ... Mme Jarintzov’s comments on the
great authors are most illuminating, though all too brief, and her
hints on pronunciation are invaluable.”

+ =Spec= 117:479 O 21 ‘16 160w

“There is a section on pronunciation and transliteration, but we do
not think (and here Mr Nevill Forbes, who supplies a preface, seems to
agree with us) that much light is thrown on either of these dark
regions. Russian sounds can be learnt only from the living voice. ...
The merits of the book, which are great, lie elsewhere. ... The author
takes a large number of linguistic facts, and shows from them that the
Russian language is a true reflection of the Russian character.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p414 Ag 31 ‘16 900w

=JASPER, MME.= Flemish system of poultry rearing. il *$1.50 Scribner 636.5

“The Belgian poultry-rearing industry has attained great dimensions;
and in this volume Mme Jasper (who possessed at Tongres a large
establishment for the breeding and management of poultry for table
use) describes wherein Flemish methods excel those customary in
England. The distinctive feature of the Flemish system is that the
birds are sheltered from cold and damp, provided with plenty of air
without any draught, kept in a mild and carefully regulated
temperature, and put to sleep in a clean and spacious brooder.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p429 S ‘16 200w

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 117:417 O 7 ‘16 400w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 D 14 ‘16 900w

=JASTROW, MORRIS.=[2] War and the Bagdad railway. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott 940.91 18-1122

A timely presentation of one of the most important single factors
contributing to the present war. Because the full import of the
railroad venture is made clear in the light of the history of Asia
Minor, the author traces that history and its relation to the
civilization of antiquity thru the period of Greek, Roman, Parthian
and Arabic control down to the conquest by the Ottoman Turks. Then he
proceeds with the story of the railroad thru which he follows the
growth of hostile rivalry among European nations terminating in the
great war. Step by step the writer follows the change in the project
from a commercial scheme to a political one in which Germany
ambitiously aims to get the mastery of the East. The solution offered
is to throw open the road to the East but urges that its control be
neither German nor British but international.

“Of all the books that have come to our notice, works dealing
primarily with the problem of Bagdad, Professor Morris Jastrow’s ‘The
war and the Bagdad railway’ with its illustrative map, is
unquestionably the best.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 930w

+ =Lit D= 56:36 F 9 ‘18 1350w

“Professor Jastrow is hard to match for brevity and clearness,
although he adds little that is new to the discussion of the present
problem.” A. J.

+ — =New Repub= 13:257 D 29 ‘17 1000w

“Not from the patriots with their hands over their ears, nor from the
pacifists with their hands over their eyes, but from such accurate
thinkers as Dr Jastrow do we make the first patient beginnings in the
unsnarling of the war problem. It is not easy these days to write as a
student of history and not as a partisan, but it would be difficult to
doubt the justice of Dr Jastrow’s claim to this position.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 93:215 Ja 19 ‘18 550w

“Professor Jastrow is a high authority in the field of Semitic
languages. ... His studies of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor and
Mesopotamia have been extended to an accurate knowledge of the present
peoples and conditions. He has thus been able to give us a remarkable
valuable account of the recent rivalries of the great European powers
in Asiatic Turkey, and in his newest book he tells the story of the
Bagdad railway more instructively for American readers than any other
writer has yet done.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 170w

=JATAKAS.= Jataka tales; selected and ed., with introd. and notes, by H: T: Francis and E: J. Thomas. il *$2.50 (1½c) Putnam 398.3 (Eng ed 17-18045)

“Jataka tales” are Hindu folktales. They are commonly referred to as
“Buddhist birth-stories,” but Mr Thomas in the introduction points out
that their origin is pre-buddhistic. This introduction considers also
the relation of the tales of those of Aesop. The aim of the editors
has been to bring together the stories “of most interest, both
intrinsically, and also from the point of view of the folklorist.” The
translations are taken from the complete edition translated under the
editorship of Prof. E. B. Cowell, Cambridge, 1895-1907.

“The Jataka stories included in the present collection exhibit many
features of interest to the student of folk-lore; and at the same time
the English renderings run so smoothly that readers who seek merely
entertainment will find plenty of it here.”

+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 150w

“From one point of view their work is of an encyclopædic character,
from another it is thoroughly human composition. They have retold
stories of the world’s childhood in such vigorous prose that the
children upon whom the ends of the world are come will read with
avidity what they have written.” Bishop Frodsham

+ =Sat R= 123:sup5 My 19 ‘17 520w

“Type and page are of excellent size, the editing is entirely
trustworthy, and the illustrations are taken from the representations
of the Jataka tales carved on the Stupa of Bharhut, discovered by Sir
A. Cunningham in 1873 and dating from 250-200 B.C. ... To this day
there is no book so beloved by humble eastern folk as this book. There
is a mighty, enthusiastic audience for the recital of it at this very
present in Ceylon. For us of the West it gives us glimpses of the
permanent life of the people such as is seldom afforded us in other
Indian literature.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1900w

=JEFFERSON, CHARLES EDWARD.= Land of enough; a Christmas story. *50c (9c) Crowell 17-24813

The moral lesson of this little book is effective because it is
presented with a saving touch of humor that removes it from the
“Sunday-school” type of story. Max and Madge never had enough of
anything. Max always wanted more time to play, more time to sleep,
more of something to eat. Madge wanted more clothes and more of a
dozen other things that girls of seventeen do want. And it was quite
in vain that her mother compared Madge’s wardrobe with her own when
she was a girl, for, as the author says, “there are comparisons which
are odious, and this is one of them.” And then suddenly the “Land of
enough” is really achieved, and is found to be a quite barren country.

“An effective sermon on the Christmas spirit.”

+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 170w

+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 20w

=JEKYLL, GERTRUDE.= Annuals and biennials; with cultural notes by E. H. Jenkins. il *$3 Scribner 716 17-15076

“This addition to Miss Jekyll’s garden books, always acceptable to the
aesthetic gardener, consists on pp. 57-156 of an alphabetical list,
with description of culture, of the best annuals and biennials;
following introductory chapters on various sides of the subject,
including one by Mr Jenkins on ‘Raising annuals in green-house or
frame.’ At the end is a chart of colour and height and a list of
selections for various purposes and aspects. The book is fully
illustrated by full-page photographs and some coloured plates.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

=N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 70w

+ =Spec= 118:49 Ja 13 ‘17 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 D 14 ‘16 90w

=JENKINS, BURRIS ATKINS.= Man in the street and religion. *$1.25 Revell 17-11447

“A stimulating and virile book by the chaplain of a regiment in the
Missouri militia, who is also pastor of a church of 2000 members in
Kansas City, and a keen sportsman. He believes everybody of all
conditions and classes is religious, and he makes a series of appeals
to this unconscious faith.”—Springf’d Republican

“An exceptionally readable and suggestive demonstration of the
proposition that everyone is religious at heart, coupled with a
delineation of the kind of Christianity which will appeal to the
average man.”

+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 70w

“The book is brightly written, and abounds in anecdote and quotation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 130w

=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Bindle; the story of a cheerful soul. *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 16-22980

Joseph Bindle is a furniture-mover by profession, a calling which is
“fraught with many vicissitudes and hardships.” Of Bindle himself, we
are told: “Two things in life he loved above all others, beer and
humor (or, as he called it, his ‘little joke’); yet he permitted
neither to interfere with the day’s work, save under very exceptional
circumstances.” Of Mrs Bindle, her husband says, “She thinks too much
o’ soap an’ ‘er soul to make an ‘owlin’ success o’ marriage.” The
story consists of a series of episodes from the life of Bindle.
Herbert Jenkins, the author, is the British publisher of that name.

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p480 O ‘16 120w

“Those who like Charlie Chaplin—and his popularity must have a very
genuine foundation—will thoroughly appreciate Bindle. There is nothing
illusive, nothing subtle, about his style of humor. It is as general
in its appeal as was the earlier work of Mark Twain, and it possesses
something of the same quality of humanness.”

=Bellman= 22:441 Ap 21 ‘17 230w

“The humor of the book is slap-stick comedy and sometimes it is too
obviously planned, but parts of it are entertaining.”

=Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 50w

+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 350w

=Sat R= 122:395 O 21 ‘16 150w

“For the most part very good fun.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 21 ‘16 300w

=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.=[2] Night club. *5s Herbert Jenkins, London

“Bindle, ‘J. B.’ to his friends, was responsible for dignifying as The
night club the weekly gatherings of several totally unlike men who had
formed a habit of meeting in the flat of one of their number for a
smoke, a drink and a yarn. ... A story being the principal business of
the evenings, the author has ingeniously woven those that were told
into a humorous account of several adventures of the members, their
families and friends. ... The actors include principally, first and
foremost Bindle; his wife and her brother, both afflicted with a
peculiar sort of religion; Angell Herald, the publicity agent who
dreamed that he had been asked by the prime minister to be minister of
publicity; ‘The boy,’ who had won his D.S.O. early in the war, but who
didn’t like to hear about it; Gimp, the actor, whose story was
surprisingly better than he or his acting; the old general who
considered it a privilege to talk to the men of the new army; and Miss
Sallie, who did what the whole German navy had failed to do—tricked
the British navy.”—Boston Transcript

“Bindle is the central figure, though he does not give his name to the
book, and his genial shrewdness and candour win our appreciation as
they did that of the very varied membership of the club.”

+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w

“The present volume is happily conceived in that it may be taken up
and enjoyed in spare moments or read through at one sitting; in either
case the reader will be filled with a sense of the warmth of its
geniality and wit.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 5 ‘18 450w

“A large percentage of readers will close this volume with a sincere
wish that they, too, might become members of ‘The night club.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 500w

“The stories should amuse a larger circle; for they are unfailingly
lively and show much fertility of idea.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 8 ‘17 100w

=JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.=[2] Trust problem; 4th ed., enl. and completely rev., with the collaboration of Walter E. Clark, diags *$2 (1c) Doubleday 338.8 17-28340

This so-called “Bible on industrial combinations,” by the director of
the division of public affairs, New York university, becomes
practically a new book in its fourth edition. “Some new chapters have
been added. Chapter 1 on the Evolution of business, the very large
additions made to Chapter 9 on Prices, Chapter 10 on Trusts and the
working man, with the new facts that they contain, aid materially in
the discussion of the economic principles involved. Chapter 12 on
Industrial combinations in Europe gives us a basis of wide experience.
The new chapters on State and federal trust legislation in the United
States, and the one on Trusts and the federal court, showing the
development of legislation during the last few years, likewise serve
to strengthen the economic foundation of the discussions, since the
course of legislation has, to a considerable degree, clearly been
based upon the principles brought out in the theoretical discussions.”
(Preface to fourth edition)

“In our judgment, no other single volume on the subject of industrial
combinations, their development, structure, and problems, equals this
one for compact information, breadth of view, and the variety of facts
presented. The book bears evidence of careful planning and patient
work, and is suggestive of the systematic and exhaustive work with
which German scholars are credited.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 260w

+ =R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 70w

=JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA.= Street of the blank wall, and other stories (Eng title, Malvina of Brittany). *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 16-23590

The first story in this collection of six is a tale of mystery in
which the real truth about a murder is brought to light fifteen years
after its commitment. The second story “Malvina of Brittany,” the
longest story in the book is also the lightest. Malvina is a fay or
pixie transported from the pages of old English romance to modern
Britain. Each of the four that follow, His evening out, The lesson,
Sylvia of the letters, The fawn gloves, represents a different type of
short story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17

“Altogether, it is not a particularly rewarding volume.” F. I.

– + =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 480w

“Mr Jerome writes with sincerity, with feeling for reality, with some
insight into the deeper possibilities of life, with a feeling for what
is lovely as well as of good report. And that sort of thing is in
itself good, better, I should say, than a striving for virility.” E:
E. Hale

+ =Dial= 62:190 Mr 8 ‘17 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 550w

“The stories doubtless have been written at wide intervals and add
little to Mr Jerome’s reputation.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 100w

“Most of these stories are written at greater length than is
necessary, and part of what is superfluous is also irrelevant; we
should infer, indeed, that Mr Jerome is too preoccupied with
edification to take much thought for form. No such criticism, however,
is applicable to ‘The fawn gloves.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 450w

=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Secret bread. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20670

“The story tells how a bastard was elevated above his legitimate
brethren, and surmounted his difficulties by the help of a fine-minded
pastor; and in addition we have most graphic and intimate studies of
[English] farming and the improvements that a progressive landowner
introduces.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“The abiding impression left by the book as a whole is of a large and
sympathetic interpretation of human experience, though set in a minor
key.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:486 D ‘17 600w

“‘Secret bread’ is a narrative at heart starkly chill. As a whole, it
is undubitably powerful, with many pages of prose of the first rank.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 19 ‘17 330w

“It gratefully lacks the famous brilliancy of the ‘younger British
school’ of novelists. It has solidity, not only in its portraiture,
but in its embodiment of a truth, or, if you will, a moral, as
contrasted with the expression of an ‘idea’ in the Wellsian sense.
This is a book of rich texture, both in form and in substance.”

+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 580w

“The story is written with a wealth of detail and a great number and
variety of characters. All the people in it, notwithstanding their
strongly marked differences of social position and mental endowment
are delineated with subtility and truth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 550w

“The author shows great sympathy for the very young and the old. ... A
little reserve of force would have been more telling than the almost
camera-like detail in which she prefers to indulge—detail that is
sometimes wearying, and often coarse and offensive.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 300w

“The book is very generously planned, like the English novels of an
earlier day. And now and then we find Miss Jesse straying a little too
widely from her main theme.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p272 Je 7 ‘17 670w

=JOHNS, CECIL STARR.= With gold and steel. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-28765

A romance of France in the time of Henry of Navarre. The hero is
François Le Pouldu who comes to Henry with a tale of treasure that he
is ready to devote to the king’s service. On a lonely coast he has
come upon a wrecked Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and
arms. The king furnishes the outfit necessary for salvaging the cargo
and François starts on his adventures. Denise de Marmont, sister of
one of Henry’s enemies, early enters the tale to give it the required
feminine element.

“We congratulate Mr Johns on his ability to get out of the beaten
track of the average novel of sword and cloak into the field of fresh
plot.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 14 ‘17 210w

“Those who like stirring, old-fashioned historical romance, served
with something of the dignity and leisurely manner of the Stanley
Weyman novels, will enjoy this story by Mr Johns. ... The characters
all do a great deal of talking, but it is conversation that helps to
carry on the story, which it does with brightness, vivacity, and
humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:571 D 23 ‘17 330w

=JOHNS, ORRICK G.= Asphalt, and other poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811 17-13553

Mr Johns’s poem “Second avenue,” which was awarded a prize in a poetry
contest a few years ago, is included in this collection of poems. The
book takes its title from the group of street ballads with which it
opens. The remaining groups that compose its contents are: Country
rhymes; The city; Old youth; Three women; Ebb sand and stars.

“Nothing could afford a better illustration of the fact that poetry
which addresses itself to current issues or social conditions will
grow passé, like a last year’s garment, than the lack of interest
which one feels now in a poem like ‘Second avenue.’ The same criticism
applies to the opening section of ‘Asphalt,’ to the street ballads, in
gutter dialect, through which Mr Johns hits off social conditions.
‘Country rhymes,’ whose title must not mislead one into thinking they
are rustic verses, take one captive from the start. They are full of
charm and whimsicality, but something much deeper is in them, too.
‘Asphalt’ demonstrates the fact that Mr Johns has versatility and a
poetic gift of no common order.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:578 Ja ‘18 750w

“One could wish that he had omitted the dialect poems at the beginning
of his book, but in reading many of the lyrics which compose the rest
one experiences little but delight. Not only has Mr Johns a very
seductive gift of melody, but at times he has what is rare among
contemporary American poets, charm,—which is only one degree removed
from magic.” Conrad Aiken

+ =Dial= 62:476 My 31 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17

“On the whole, ‘Country rhymes,’ and the section called ‘Old youth,’
contain the best poetry of the book, the other portions seeming to us
not so much absolute achievement as clever experiment or good
promise.”

=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 150w

“Has melodic freshness and contains much essential poesy.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 80w

“Orrick Johns reveals himself as a young poet of considerable
individuality but little poetry.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 270w

=JOHNSON, BURGES.= Well of English and the bucket. *$1.25 (5½c) Little 808 17-26881

A collection of essays on the writing of English. The author is
assistant professor of English at Vassar college and he writes from
the point of view of one who has tried to break away from the stilted
academic traditions in English teaching. Some of the essays are
reprinted from Harper’s and the Century. Contents: The well of English
and the bucket; Grammar, the bane of boyhood; Impression and
expression; Essaying an essay; The right not to laugh; The everyday
profanity of our best people; Ethics of the pen.

“Seven essays, written clearly, convincingly and with a touch of
humor.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:79 D ‘17

“This writer is interesting; he puts old views freshly, he urges new
ones with effect.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 280w

“The author is able not only to teach the students in his English
classes how to write but he can give them good models from his own
light, lucid and vigorous pen.”

+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 380w

=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 70w

“‘The well of English and the bucket’ is a thoughtful piece of work
with a very clever title. Its author has pondered much upon the
educational and practical problems of writing without missing their
difficulties, and, at the same time, without representing the
situation as altogether hopeless.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 250w

=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= New England; a human interest geographical reader. il *$1 Macmillan 917.4 17-8898

“The aim of the author is to furnish interesting and valuable
supplementary reading material for the upper elementary grades. The
facts are drawn from geology, nature, history, industry, biography,
literature, legend, and humor, and are selected with the idea of
entertaining and instructing the reader. The general plan of treatment
is first to devote a few chapters to New England as a whole and then
to treat each of the six states separately. In dealing with each state
the plan is to devote a chapter or two to historical beginnings and
the remainder to industries, natural scenery, and famous people and
places. There are about two hundred well-selected illustrations.”—El
School J

“Beautifully illustrated geographical reader. ... The author betrays
his prejudice by absolute silence regarding all things Catholic.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:693 Ag ‘17 60w

=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w

=Educ= 56:174 F ‘18 40w

“Outside of New England the book will be of little practical value as
a supplementary reader. If such material is used in school, it should
treat of the community in which it is studied. The great value of Mr
Johnson’s book to communities outside of New England is to indicate
the types of local material which can be utilized in a study of one’s
near or immediate locality.”

=El School J= 17:773 Je ‘17 220w

“Thru all the descriptions runs a personal touch that appeals to
children. The pictures are most helpful.”

+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 50w

“His methods are somewhat unique, and include a combination of the
historical and the descriptive.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 380w

=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.= Peril of Prussianism. *75c (1c) Putnam 940.91 17-22576

This is “the substance of an address delivered by the associate
professor of physiography in Columbia university before the annual
convention of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines on June 14,
1917.” (Foreword) His argument is that the American ideal and the
Prussian ideal of government “are mutually antagonistic, and cannot
long exist in the world side by side,” because the “very existence of
the Prussian ideal depends upon an aggressive militarism.”

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 20w

“One of the most interesting features of the book is a series of
historical maps showing the area controlled by the Hohenzollern
dynasty in succeeding centuries, from the origin of the Brandenburg
monarchy to the present day.”

+ =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 80w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 50w

“A vigorous indictment of Prussian methods.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 60w

=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.=[2] Topography and strategy in the war. il *$1.75 (3c) Holt 940.91 17-27768

An analysis of the topography of each of the most important theaters
of war, together with a summary of the principal campaigns, pointing
out how military operations have been influenced by the surface
features of the country. One object is to emphasize the relationship
between inanimate nature and the science of war. Another is to place
before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall
enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the
movements of our own and our allied troops. Good maps, diagrams and
illustrations generously supplement the text.

“A remarkably suggestive book with few technical terms, which will
need to be consulted by future historians of the war.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 80w

=Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 40w

“An excellent beginning has been made in the treatment of this rather
difficult subject and additional chapters will be demanded as new
campaigns bring other regions within the area of active warfare.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 120w

=JOHNSON, JOSEPH ESREY, jr.= Blast-furnace construction in America. il *$4 McGraw 669.8 17-9602

“The author of ‘Blast furnace construction’ has been a student of the
blast furnace on both the theoretical and the practical side for a
number of years, and has given to the furnace-man many valuable and
instructive papers bearing on the operation and control of this most
complex of all metallurgical processes. The present volume deals fully
with the construction of the furnace proper, from an early date up to
the present time, and considers in detail all the adjuncts that play
an important part in the production of pig iron.”—Nation

=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“This comprehensive work, based partly upon investigations by the
author, fills a long felt want in metallurgical literature. ... Of
especial note is the chapter on the dry blast.”

=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 100w

+ =Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 50w

“The chapter on distribution of stock in the furnace proper is well
worth the price of the book, as probably more troubles in
blast-furnace operation are traceable to poor distribution than to all
others combined. The chapter on washing and cleaning gas could well
have been enlarged in scope. ... The intention to amplify this work by
another on blast-furnace operation will be awaited with interest by
the producers of pig iron and allied products.” C: E. Lehr

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 300w

“There seems to be nothing of importance upon which Mr Johnson has not
touched from the laying of the foundation to the last detail in the
completion of a modern blast furnace. His book will be indispensable
as a work of reference in every metallurgical establishment in the
country.”

+ =Nation= 104:766 Je 28 ‘17 230w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Very useful work on arrangement and construction, and to some extent
on mechanical features of operation. Not concerned with metallurgical
problems. For this subject see Robert Forsythe’s ‘Blast furnace and
the manufacture of pig iron,’ 1909.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:423 My ‘17 30w

“The series of articles on blast construction and operation which
appeared in several numbers of Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering,
is a thorough covering of the subject in the compass allowed by the
405 pages utilized.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:456 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Blast Furnace
and Steel Plant p190 Ap ‘17)

“Authoritative treatise.”

+ =Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17

=JOHNSON, LIONEL PIGOT.= Religious poems. *$1 Macmillan 821

“This selection from the most directly religious poems of the late
Lionel Johnson has been made by Mr George F. Engelbach, and Mr Meynell
contributes an appreciative and sympathetic preface to a volume which
will be welcomed by many admirers of the poet.”—Ath

“‘Friends,’ ‘Winchester close,’ and ‘A dream of youth’ are specially
appealing and sympathetic.”

+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘17 60w

“Johnson’s poems, written after his admission into the Catholic
church, are resonant with faith and tender with devotion.
Nevertheless, there is not in them that ring of anguish, of personal
need, of mystical rapture that arrests us in the poetry of Francis
Thompson.”

+ =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w (Reprinted from the Dial)

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17

=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17

“It is, perhaps, a question whether these selected poems have not the
effect of rendering somewhat too definitely a ruling temperament. ...
Many might prefer to meet this singer’s most directly religious poems
amid the lighter environment out of which they have been taken. Of the
attractive quality of their nobility, fervour, and sincerity there can
be no doubt. Only—they present the austere outlook on gifts of earthly
joy.”

+ =Sat R= 123:577 Je 23 ‘17 900w

“A series of poems of personal aspiration, and a series devoted to the
celebration of friendship both reveal a striking kinship of spirit
with the religious verse of Digby Markworth Dolben, recently edited by
Mr Bridges, and in both cases constitute the poet’s main contribution
to the not very large body of English sacred poetry of a high order.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p66 F 8 ‘17 1050w

=JOHNSON, ROSSITER.= Fight for the Republic. il *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam 973.7 17-5857

The subtitle calls this “a narrative of the more noteworthy events in
the War of secession, presenting the great contest in its dramatic
aspects.” It does not aim to be a complete history of the Civil war.
As the author defines his purpose, it is “to set forth clearly such of
the greater events as either constituted turning-points or distinctly
advanced or retarded the general movement toward the end.” There are a
number of folding maps, and several portraits.

“In 1910 the author published ‘A history of the war of secession,’ the
military chapters of which are now reprinted under a separate title.
The present volume excludes practically everything except military
history, and on this side presents little that is not found in the
former volume. Students of the war period will find nothing new in
‘The fight for the Republic,’ while for those who are taking up the
subject for the first time the book is not to be recommended because
it is too one-sided.”

— =Am Hist R= 23:222 O ‘17 250w

“Facts are well backed up by figures. ... A valuable feature of the
work is found in the illustrations. There are sketch maps of all the
principal battlefields.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 380w

+ =Cath World= 105:409 Je ‘17 170w

“The limitations of the work are considerable. ... It is hardly
possible to write, in this day, a valuable history of the Civil war
without devoting some attention to the non-military aspects of the
period, but for Mr Johnson these matters evidently have little
interest. For one who wishes to get a brief description of a battle or
a campaign as seen from the Union side, this work will serve well; but
he who wishes to read understandingly of the fight for the Union must
go elsewhere—for example, to Mr Rhodes—for a more comprehensive
account.”

+ — =Dial= 62:318 Ap 5 ‘17 300w

+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w

“It cannot be recommended to students familiar with the work of
Burgess, Rhodes, Ropes, Wood and Edmunds and Formby, but will be
useful to any one making a beginning in the field.”

=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w

“Rossiter Johnson has long been recognized as a historian who builds
dramatically on a foundation of well-verified facts. This—his third
important book on the Civil war in America—seems to leave little more
to be said on a subject not easily exhausted.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 1500w

+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 100w

“The facts concerning the nation’s great struggle can always be
portrayed in a new way, and that is what Rossiter Johnson has done.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 12 ‘17 220w

=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America and the great war for humanity and freedom, il *$1.50 (2c) Winston 940.91 17-17290

“Eight chapters of this book review the antecedents of the war, and
the stories of the different states which entered the war in 1914. The
six following chapters describe the war as fought in the different
countries and upon the sea and in the air. Three chapters give the
story of America’s relations with Germany while she tried to be
neutral. Then follow some chapters which describe the resources,
actual and potential, of the United States, discuss how modern wars
are waged, etc. Among these are brief chapters on women and war work,
universal military service, the Monroe doctrine, and the flag. The
book is illustrated with photographs and maps.” (Boston Transcript)
The author is honorary professor of the history of American foreign
relations in New York university.

“The author has been for many years a student of American history,
especially in its foreign relations, and he has carefully followed the
progress of the war from the beginning. The results of his study have
appeared in the Transcript and other papers, and now he has gathered
them together in this volume which is one of the most enlightening
which have appeared up to the present time.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 550w

“For those who like to have a popular ‘vade mecum’ of narrative,
argument, and statistics, opening with the ‘Battle hymn of the
Republic’ and closing with the ‘Star-spangled banner,’ the volume
should prove serviceable. The hundred and more maps and illustrations
are, as a rule, well executed.”

+ — =Nation= 105:322 S 20 ‘17 150w

“One of the important works of reference on the war. Of great
timeliness to the student of current events.”

+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 110w

=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America’s foreign relations. 2v il *$6 (2c) Century 327.73 16-9786

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Although rarely brilliant, the style is at all times clear, while
some chapters, notably those on Hawaii, Samoa, and Far Eastern
relations possess a fascination to be found only in really fine
historical writing. ... The index is adequate; the book has neither
footnotes nor bibliography. ... Most of the errors made by the author
are of minor importance in themselves, but taken together perhaps show
an uneven grasp upon all parts of the subject, and at times an
inadequate background of political and constitutional history. ...
Despite these and numerous other inaccuracies, and the limitations,
from the scholarly viewpoint, imposed by its ‘popular’ character, Mr
Johnson’s book is the most complete, most readable, and altogether the
best account that has been given of America’s foreign relations.”
Ralston Hayden

* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:156 F ‘17 1400w

“The book is readable, and at the same time weighty, and, on the
whole, remarkably accurate and impartial. ... The determining factors
of American foreign policy are presented to us, correctly, as governed
not by theoretical but by practical considerations. It is this which
will give it its peculiar value in educating American opinion. ... At
the present time when it is of capital importance that the British
public should realize what are the really determining motives of
American policy, this book should be read by every one who is capable
of understanding it. Mr Johnson’s account of America’s attitude from
the beginning towards the question of ‘the freedom of the seas’ is,
alone, of great educative value.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p62 F 8 ‘17 1550w

=JOHNSTON, MARY.= The wanderers. *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 17-24277

From the woman of the tree-folk who discovered fire and the uses of
the long stick, down thru the ages, Miss Johnston traces the progress,
now forward, now back, of women. The cave woman who taught the
wanderer man that it is good for two to be together, Gata of the long
house, who disclosed the mystery of paternity, Vana who gave away the
mother-right and established inheritance thru the male line, Lindane
the Amazon, Myrina the courtesan, Valeria the Roman wife, and Alleda,
the Goth who brought Christianity to her people, are some of the
figures who stand out in the narrative, which, loosely constructed as
it intentionally is, is held together by the thread that follows the
gradual strengthening, refining and sweetening of the love tie that
binds man and woman. The story approaches modern times only so far as
the French revolution.

=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17

“An impressive departure from the author’s usual field.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 50w

“It is due to the really fine art of the author that she makes the
reader become wholly interested in each of her nineteen sets of
characters, though only the space of a single chapter is allotted to
any one set of characters. Remembering that each one of these chapters
has to be built up about some phase of the same subject, we gain some
realization of the breadth and difficulty of the task. ... The book is
unusual and only an author of the deep insight and the dramatic
intensity of Miss Johnston could have made it so revealing.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1250w

“The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest, without a
sufficient disguise for its purpose to be successful. In other words,
the artist in Miss Johnston has been pretty thoroughly stifled here by
the feminist.”

— =Cath World= 106:400 D ‘17 280w

=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w

“Miss Johnston’s new book shows the same primary weakness that we have
found in all her work. This is the weakness of the long face. We
suspect that Miss Johnston’s later work has bored a good many people
who have approached it with the best intentions. It has no light and
shade; it is all done with the down stroke. ‘The wanderers’ is
uncommonly hard reading.”

— =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 450w

“It is a grindstone for the feminist axe. ... The love stories are in
themselves typical and appealing, though on the whole monotonous and
unvaried by any insight of the depths and chasms between lovers. This
does not mean that there are no tragedies, but only that the attitude
between lovers is that of lovers in a book—when they are happy it is
as protagonists, and unhappy, as tragic exemplars. They exult in terms
of uncritical idealism, and they die as badly.” J. L.

– + =New Repub= 13:289 Ja 5 ‘18 430w

“The idea is an interesting and a very ambitious one, and though the
book as a whole would be more effective were it not so extremely long,
many of the tales are interesting in themselves, containing color and
a good deal of drama.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 550w

=Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w

“They preserve to an extraordinary degree the atmosphere and probable
perspective of life of the periods they represent.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 90w

“The book is a fine piece of imaginative writing—a landmark in the
season’s fiction—and enhances Miss Johnston’s already conspicuous
position in American letters. ... It is a book for the
discriminating.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 430w

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= “Limpy,” the boy who felt neglected. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-7454

He had a good home, a kind father, a sympathetic mother and two
brothers who did their best to be thoughtful, but he wasn’t happy. His
nickname, “Limpy,” explained why, for he wore an ugly iron brace and
couldn’t run or fight or play games like other boys. Then he made
friends with an old Civil war soldier who had only one leg. Their
common bond drew them together, and reassured by this new friend,
Limpy found courage to go on bravely till the time came when a
surgical operation cured his lameness and made him like other boys.

– + =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17

“Mr Johnston has achieved a task as delicate as difficult. He has
disclosed the heart of a boy with a tenderness which has no trace of
sentimentality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 280w

“Huck Finn and Penrod have, between them, made all the other boys of
fiction seem a little tame. Were it not for them, ‘Limpy’ would be a
capital boy story. As it is, it runs a close second in places,
although its hero exhibits something of the lamentable ‘glad’ mania
that has recently affected all the little girls of fiction.”

+ =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

Reviewed by R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 450w

“Unfortunately, the book lacks the humor that one associates with
stories about boys; but its naturalness, both as to speech and action,
goes far to compensate for this deficiency.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 300w

=JOIRE, PAUL MARTIAL JOSEPH.= Psychical and supernormal phenomena, their observation and experimentation. il *$3 (1½c) Stokes 134 (Eng ed 17-9817)

Dr Joire is a professor at the Psycho-physiological institute of
France and president of the Société universelle d’études psychiques.
“This book deals with such subjects as multiple personality,
‘motricity,’ haunted houses, telepathy, crystal-gazing, levitation,
materialization, automatic writing, and the like. It is claimed that
psychical phenomena have not, for the most part, been subjected to
sufficiently serious observation and scientific analysis; and that
their verification, though extremely difficult, is not impossible.”
(Ath) The book is translated by Dudley Wright.

=Ath= p473 O ‘16 50w

“To the student of psychology this work should prove of some value.
The subject, in its most elementary as well as advanced form, is here
dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and the usual adverse
criticisms of psychical phenomena, criticisms which in many cases, to
the lay mind at least, seem only too well founded, are tackled by Dr
Joire in an able and impartial manner.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 630w

=JONES, DANIEL.= English pronouncing dictionary (on strictly phonetic principles). (Dent’s modern language ser.) *$3 Dutton 423 A17-1345

“The object of this dictionary—it gives no definitions—is to record
with as much accuracy as is necessary for practical linguistic
purposes the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation by cultivated
southern English people. ... The system used for representing
pronunciation is that of the International phonetic association,
which, in the opinion of the author, is the best as well as being the
most widely used of the existing phonetic alphabets. ... Special
features of this dictionary are the inclusion of proper names, all
plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives, and the
inflected forms of verbs. ... The pronunciation is recorded of 49,690
words, exclusive of inflected forms.” (Springf’d Republican) The
author is reader in phonetics in the University of London.

“Here is material for much warm-weather discussion, and to such
disputants, of whom this topic counts its millions, there could be
recommended no better guide than Mr Jones both for industry and
accuracy in collecting his facts and for open-mindedness in the
presentation of them. For, apart from a few striking dialectical
peculiarities, such as the glide before r in hero and the like, the
language which Mr Jones describes would pass as good and by no means
peculiar English wherever educated people meet together.”

+ =Nation= 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 620w

=N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 80w

Reviewed by W. H. Chesson

+ =Sat R= 123:551 Je 16 ‘17 1400w

“The book will be of much service to Americans as informing them of
what is probably the best English usage as to the pronunciation of
ordinary words and will be very illuminating to them on the
pronunciation of English place names and on the English usage as to
other proper names.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 450w

=JONES, EDGAR DEWITT.= Fairhope; the annals of a country church. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-16185