Chapter XLVI: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (17)

The two authors are members of the United States food administration
and the book has an introduction by Herbert Hoover. Part 1, devoted to
The problem and the solution, has chapters on: The food situation of
the western allies and the United States; Food administration; How
England, France and Italy are controlling and saving food; Food
control in Germany, and its lessons. Part 2, The technology of food
use, has chapters on: The physiology of nutrition; The sociology of
nutrition [two chapters]; Grain and alcohol. In conclusion there is a
brief chapter on Patriotism and food.

+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 29 ‘17 230w

“Their volume is so replete with facts and cogent, lucid reasoning
that it is indispensable to all who write on this problem for
newspapers and magazines. Particularly instructive, psychologically as
well as economically, are the results of a study of conditions in
Germany made in these pages.”

+ =Nation= 105:606 N 29 ‘17 1100w

“The present admirably clear book will make the patriotic reader
rather painfully conscious of the enormous difficulties in our food
situation.”

+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 450w

“The book is specially remarkable because of its comprehensiveness,
the amount of space it covers in its two hundred-odd pages, and for
the clarity of its discussion.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 700w

“The second section of the book gives a popular exposition of the most
widely adopted modern theory of nutrition such as every speaker and
writer on food conservation should carefully study to guard him from
pitfalls. Altogether, this section is full of new and revised
judgments even for those, not specialists, who may claim a general
acquaintance with the subject. The only item in the detailed
recommendations to which the reviewer finds it difficult to assent is
the advice to those of means to subsist as far as possible upon the
‘rare, expensive goods, delicacies, if you please,’ in order to
release more of the cheaper foods for the poorer classes and for
export.” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 570w

=KELLY, RUSSELL ANTHONY.= Kelly of the Foreign legion. il *$1 (4½c) Kennerley 940.91 17-28641

“The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from
Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The
letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun,
were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly
their original form except for the omission of strictly personal
matters.” (Preface) The letters date from November 25, 1914 to June
15, 1915. After the engagement around Souchez on June 16 their writer
was officially recorded as “missing.” Their helpfulness lies in their
naturalness in the recording of daily happenings. The last chapter of
the book gives an interesting history of the Foreign legion, dating
its existence back to the fifth century under Clovis.

“One could wish nothing better for our boys ‘over there,’ and on the
way, than that their records may be as honorable as that of ‘Kelly of
the Foreign legion.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 230w

“The book differs from many others of its kind in an apparent absence
of emotion in the performance of a hated but inevitable task.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 50w

=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w

“That he enjoyed the experience is manifest in spite of his repeated
assertions that war is asinine and his ridicule of the theory that war
is grand. It is an interesting human document.”

+ =New Repub= 13:28 N 3 ‘17 140w

“Kelly makes the soldier’s life stand out vividly in these letters.
The book is a good side light on the war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 5 ‘17 220w

=KELSEY, CARL.=[2] Physical basis of society. *$2 (2c) Appleton 304 17-274

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Two things especially are worth noting about this book. One is the
great mass of data which has been assembled. ... The second important
feature of the book is that it symbolizes very markedly some of the
newer tendencies in the development of sociology.” L. L. Bernard

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:600 S ‘17 500w

“The defects, as far as there are any, are essentially those which are
related to the use of the survey method. The extensive character of
the facts which are given would seem to justify more personal
induction than one finds in the book. A few inaccuracies occur. ... A
splendid and original service has been performed by Professor Kelsey
in selecting, bringing together, organizing, and presenting in one
volume such a fund of concrete material upon the physical bases of
social progress. Students undertaking sociological studies, and the
busy reader alike, will find the book of increasing usefulness.” E. S.
Bogardus

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:270 S ‘17 310w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:289 Ap ‘17

“From the writings of the specialists on geography, natural history,
biology, ethnography and criminal anthropology, he has gleaned,
arranged and intelligently interpreted experiments and observations
not easily accessible to the student. The style is clear and
interesting, the treatment concrete and summary, the attitude
objective and the spirit impartial. The author shows open-mindedness
and sound judgment, and, in dealing with controverted matters, takes
pains to give the evidence on both sides.” E. A. R.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:240 My ‘17 220w

“A work that widely read would do much toward bridging the gap between
the older generation and the new.”

+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 370w

“Dr Kelsey gives us little more than a compilation of the best thought
of authorities on the subjects he discusses. If Dr Kelsey has anything
original to tell us, it is only the most assiduous reader who will be
able to find it. His two most original chapters are those wherein he
discusses ‘Social institutions’ and ‘The nature of progress.’” Harry
Salpeter

– + =N Y Call= p14 My 13 ‘17 650w

“The book gives all appearances of having been too hastily written,
and thus furnishes grounds for the criticism that the work of
sociologists is superficial. This is all the more deplorable because
the general plan and logic of arrangement of the book are excellent.”
F. S. Chapin

– + =Science= n s 46:215 Ag 31 ‘17 510w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

=Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 210w

=KEMMERER, EDWIN WALTER.= Modern currency reforms. diags *$2.40 Macmillan 332 16-25102

“Beginning with the Indian monetary reform of 1893 five important
currency adjustments have been consummated. The other four comprise
those perfected in the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Straits
Settlements, and Mexico—although some may doubt the efficacy of that
of the last-named country. Professor Kemmerer has assembled data of
these five reforms covering the conditions which preceded them, the
causes, the plan of readjustment, and the results, presenting it in a
volume of unusual value and interest to students of finance.” (Boston
Transcript) “Professor Kemmerer was financial adviser to the
Philippine government, and during that service drafted the currency
legislation for the Straits Settlements. He had especial opportunities
for information regarding the establishment of a new standard of value
in Porto Rico.” (N Y Times)

=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17

“Barring the title, the book is quite satisfactory, from table of
contents to index, both inclusive. ... No man, surely, is better
fitted than Professor Kemmerer to write such an account. The author
himself made so much of the history here chronicled that his book must
have for every reader an unusual quality of finality. ... Is not
adapted to use as a textbook for American college classes.” G: R.
Wicker

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:356 My ‘17 220w

“Professor Kemmerer needs no introduction to students of money and
credit. His contributions in this field have been numerous and of a
uniformly high order. He and Professor Irving Fisher are generally
recognized as the two foremost exponents in the United States of the
modern form of the ‘quantity theory’ of money value.” E. E. Agger

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 350w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 390w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w

“Every day enhances the value of this work. ... It is safe to say that
attempts at currency reform will play no small part in the finance of
the coming years, and the laboratory experiences which Professor
Kemmerer here describes will be of inestimable value to the world. To
be sure, these experiences are related to fluctuating silver moneys,
whereas the great problems of the future will relate to depreciated
paper currencies. Yet a depreciated currency is a depreciated
currency, whether it be metal or paper.”

+ =Nation= 105:92 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w

“No one wishing to be abreast in the state of the art and science can
afford to be ignorant of these object lessons of how prices, taxes,
wages, and contracts of indebtedness are affected by such reforms.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 180w

=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 100w

=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Rib of the man; a play of the new world in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of an afternoon in the fulness of days. il *$1.30 Harper 822 17-8757

The theme of Mr Kennedy’s play is the coming of a new day in which a
new relation will be established between men and women and in which
there will be no war. “If we depend upon war to end war, we are lost
indeed,” says Diana Brand, “No! War will end by the advent of
something mightier than itself! It is here, now! At the door!” The
scene is an island in the Ægean, the time, toward the end of the
European war. Scene and action are arranged to correspond somewhat
with the situation in the Garden of Eden.

=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17

“With all these elements which would seem to remove it far from any
sense of reality, the dramatist does the seemingly impossible, and
gives us actual people, doing real things in a natural way.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 170w

=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 110w

“Part of the dialog is witty; once or twice the plot of the play
proper begins to sound very interesting. As for Diana, she is a very
real and very wonderful woman, and deserves a better vehicle for her
power, beauty and humor.”

– + =Ind= 92:489 D 8 ‘17 330w

“It will be caviare to the general and a stumbling block to some of
his stanchest admirers. To the cynical and skeptical it will appear
the work of a rhapsodical sentimentalist and visionary. Only those in
sympathy with his sturdy apostolic faith will recognize the inspiring
spirituality of his main themes, and even they will regret that high
ideals, so eloquently and forcibly expressed, should be blurred by
much that is extravagant or intemperate.” J. R. Towse

+ — =Nation= 104:608 My 17 ‘17 900w

“Had Mr Kennedy not enlisted the aid of symbolism that simplicity of
his program might perhaps have been quarreled with, but he envelopes
the issues in such allegorical vagueness that realistic standards are
inapplicable.”

=New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 180w

“The fervor, humanitarian aspiration, glorious conception of a
spirit-free world, loyalty to true art, occasionally beautiful turn of
phrase and daring presentation do not rescue this play from frequent
triviality and occasional overwhelming dullness. ... It will leave
most readers merely indifferent.” Frank Macdonald

+ — =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 270w

“A vein of satire runs through it, for Mr Kennedy delights in satire,
and the character study is delicately done. Of action the play has
little; it moves in the realm of thought.”

=N Y Times= 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 650w

“His people, save for his superman and superwoman with their
conception of the new world, are all more or less caricatures,
illustrative of present-day types. Indeed the superman and superwoman
themselves are tremendously overdrawn, as they must perhaps be in an
allegorical play, yet drawn for all that with force and feeling. They
express radical doctrines. They utter lines that are ultra-modern,
occasionally blasphemous—a compound of Wells and Shaw—and yet it is
impossible to escape the lofty thought that animated the
poet-dramatist in writing. ... The situations possess true dramatic
forcefulness and the lines many times rise to genuine poetry.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 680w

=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER.= Social teachings of the prophets and Jesus. *$1.50 Scribner 220 17-12971

“The discovery that the great prophets and founders of Judaism and
Christianity were above all else social teachers and reformers is
rapidly revolutionising the study of the Bible,” says the author. “The
Hebrew prophets and Jesus speak to us to-day more directly and
convincingly than they did even to their contemporaries, for we are
far more keenly alive to the importance of the social problems which
they were seeking to solve. To appreciate fully the social principles
which they laid down it is necessary first to become acquainted with
the personality of each of these prophets and with the immediate
political and social conditions with which they were dealing. Studied
in the light of their historical background, these teachings can then
be readily interpreted into universal terms and used as a solvent for
the social problems of today.” In this paragraph both the purpose and
method of Professor Kent’s book are summed up. It is divided into four
parts, treating of: The social ideals of the pre-exilic prophets; The
social ideals of the exilic and post-exilic prophets and sages; The
social ideals of Jesus; The social ideals of Jesus’ followers. There
is a five-page bibliography.

“Dr Kent’s conception of Jesus is well known from his earlier works,
and reappears here with still sharper emphasis on the ‘social service’
aspects. ... The objections to this point of view hardly need
recapitulating. All this is in no way meant to say that Dr Kent has
not written very much of very great value. The weakness is a weakness
often to be found in writings of the ‘social service’ school—a desire
to obtain results too directly, a constant implication that the
biblical teachers spoke with modern problems in modern phrasing ever
before their minds. Good method requires that we determine the content
of such teaching in the light of its own day. The appendix contains an
excellent bibliography, an elaborate list of subjects for
investigation and discussion, and a brief classified index of biblical
passages.” B. S. Easton

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:470 Jl ‘17 800w

=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17

“The book will not solve all present-day social problems by the
teachings of the Bible. It is not intended to do this. It is meant
primarily to be a source book; and when used as such it will be found
to be a most excellent one.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 23 ‘17 500w

“It is not so much his social principles that are objectionable, which
are one sided rather than false, but his implicit rejection of
supernatural religion without which those principles have little
force. Traditional Christianity is the most tremendous assertion ever
made by man. It is worse than futile to hold, as does this writer,
that it matters little or nothing whether it is true or not. That is
the one thing that really does matter.”

– + =Cath World= 106:401 D ‘17 580w

=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 30w

“Will be of much assistance to Christian preachers and teachers.”

+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w

“This is the work of a man saturated with the broader subject which
includes that of the book. Those who are wondering what to teach
advanced classes in a church school will find a good course in this
college textbook.” L: A. Walker

+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 150w

“Dr Kent, who is Woolsey professor of Biblical literature in Yale
university, is well known to Bible students for his work in religious
history and modern criticism. ... Dr Kent is in the main a
conservative as regards social theory, but he seeks merely to arrange
the social utterances and expand them as nearly as possible in
accordance with their original meaning. The book is carefully
compiled, and is a valuable and timely contribution to the Christian
interpretation of modern social problems.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 210w

=KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT.= How to read. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 028 16-22768

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17

“This is a most suggestive book. It should lead many to realize the
mental indigestion from which they suffer, and help them to order
their reading so as to make it useful.”

+ =Ath= p248 My ‘17 30w

“Mr Kerfoot is the literary critic of Life; and he has brought into
his essay that journal’s distinctive tone: the brilliant and piquant
passing into the flippant, and occasionally degenerating into the
slangy. But the principles for which he argues are old friends of
psychology, applied to reading. ... The principles upon which Mr
Kerfoot dwells are by no means new in themselves, but they may well be
new to many. The author’s method is certainly novel.”

+ =Cath World= 105:121 Ap ‘17 420w

“There may have been a more fascinating exposition written in some
language, at some time, on some subject, than Mr Kerfoot’s book; but
one is permitted to doubt it.”

+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 430w

“It is all interesting, but we wish he had made some of his statements
with more directness and fewer explanations.”

+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 150w

“It is not a humorous book, but it sparkles from the first page at
frequent intervals clear to 297. Going to such a school is
delightfully rewarding if one will not expect the teacher to do it
all. Reaction to the Kerfoot stimulus is not difficult, but it must be
seriously experienced, not too much at once, if this book is to be a
veritable ‘open sesame’ to literature.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 1 ‘17 350w

=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= In good company. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 920 17-15319

A volume of personal reminiscences of distinguished men. Five of the
papers that compose the contents deal with Theodore Watts-Dunton. The
other papers are: A. C. Swinburne; Lord Roberts; When Stephen Phillips
read; Edward Whymper as I knew him; Oscar Wilde; S. J. Stone, the
hymn-writer.

+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 140w

“A miscellany of excellent personalia, somewhat inflated in manner but
intimate in its revelations of the inner world of literary London.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 6 ‘17 370w

“Mr Kernahan’s book, like all good company, is stimulating and
provocative. It is too often dull; it is marred by mysterious hints at
things the author might tell an he would, and by a very wearisome and
embarrassing—an almost servile—self-depreciation. And yet the glimpses
that it affords of such ever-interesting figures as Swinburne,
Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, and the mountaineer and scientist, Edward
Whymper, who are the subjects of the best of the sketches, are
amazingly lifelike.”

+ — =Dial= 63:347 O 11 ‘17 490w

“The Wilde essay has some things that had better have been left
unsaid.”

+ — =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 250w

“Mr Kernahan, in his pictures of his friends, reveals his own
stature—a man big enough to forget his own importance in a study and
appreciation of his friends and fellow craftsmen.”

+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 280w

“This collection of ‘personal recollections’ superficially resembles
but essentially differs from the abundant chirping books and articles
about the celebrities of the day. It differs from them in containing a
number of deliberately executed literary portraits, composed and
finished with a clear consciousness that portrait painting is a fine
art with a technique beyond the reaches of the cheerful chatterbox.”

+ =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 950w

“In his circle Mr Kernahan moves with appropriate kindliness and
dignity and attentiveness. Of his three graces the best is undoubtedly
the last. He has a fine faculty for remembering and recording what
people actually said, or what sounds actual.” B. H.

+ =New Repub= 12:309 O 13 ‘17 650w

+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 100w

“He pays a fine tribute to Lord Roberts, in whose campaign for
national service he took part. Like every one else who came into
contact with that great man, Mr Kernahan was profoundly impressed with
his courtesy, his patience, and his abounding energy.”

+ =Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 70w

“One of the most interesting because least familiar sketches in Mr
Kernahan’s book is that of S. J. Stone, the hymn writer, author of
‘The church’s one foundation.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w

“We have enjoyed Mr Kernahan’s book so much that we find ourselves
asking what the reason can be. ... He succeeds very singularly in
making us feel that to all these men life was a rich and remarkable
affair. ... The average person is chiefly struck by the eccentricities
of the great; Mr Kernahan, on the other hand, bears witness to the
fullness, sincerity, and passion with which great men live compared
with lesser men.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1050w

=KERR, SOPHIE.= Blue envelope. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-5983

When she is nineteen, Leslie Brennan learns that she must earn her own
living. It had been her father’s wish, her guardian informs her, that
she adopt some gainful occupation and support herself for two years.
The transition from a well-established social position in a small city
to a business college and boarding house existence in New York is a
sudden one but Leslie adapts herself to it. She finds a position with
a red-haired, irascible chemist, and it is when her employer sends her
to Washington with an important formula intended for the War office
that exciting events begin for Leslie. It is thru them that she proves
her mettle, learning at the same time how affairs stand between her
and the red-haired chemist.

“Light, good for reading aloud, and has made a good ‘movie.’ Appeared
in Woman’s Home Companion.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17

“The story is told with vivacity and skill. A considerable fault is
the not infrequently reviewed recital of happenings for the benefit of
persons in the story not as well informed as the readers of the book.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 330w

+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 270w

“There is a delightful vein of humor throughout the tale, and, while
the pictures of difficulties encountered by working girls are vivid
and serious, the story is quickly diverted to a more romantic and
improbable course.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 270w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w

=KERRUISH, JESSIE DOUGLAS.= Miss Haroun Al-Raschid. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13954

“Rathia Jerningham, heroine and narrator of the tale, has led a very
unusual kind of life. Her mother, Rathia Khan, of Abasside descent,
having died when she was but a baby, her father married a courageous
English lady who went with him on all his expeditions. It was often
very dangerous, for Sir Horne Jerningham was a really great
Assyriologist; as his daughter grew up, she shared his work and became
herself an expert. But before this Lady Jerningham the second had also
died, several years had been spent in England, and Rathia had a year
in society before she returned to Asiatic Turkey, leaving her
half-sister, Evelyn, and two brothers to be educated in England. The
novel begins with the coming of this half-sister to Constantinople,
whence she insists upon accompanying her father and Rathia to their
home in Mosul. Through Kurdistan and Mesopotamia the story takes us
into Armenian villages, among the Chaldean Christians, and into the
hold of a Kurdish mountain chief. ... There is a love story interwoven
with it all. ... The period is the early nineties, when Victoria was
still on the throne of England, and the Armenian massacres were
brewing.”—N Y Times

“The author apparently knows well the life of which she writes, for
her novel contains an abundance of illuminating and interesting
detail.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 650w

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w

“This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry
of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture
of Mesopotamia given us by the author. The part of the book which
deals with Assyriological excavations in the Land of the two rivers
furnishes most timely reading, and incidentally affords much detailed
information as to the conditions under which our troops are fighting
in that theatre of war.”

+ — =Spec= 118:544 My 12 ‘17 80w

“An exceedingly well-told tale, full of color, excitement, and solid
information. The last named is so smoothly merged with the element of
fiction, however, that it never transcends the imaginative atmosphere
surrounding the narrative.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 460w

“Miss Kerruish’s story has won the first prize in her publishers’
thousand-guinea novel competition, and both the authoress and her
judges are to be congratulated on a decision with which her readers
will have good reason to agree.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Ap 5 ‘17 790w

=KESTER, PAUL.= His own country. *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-17972

“The plot of ‘His own country’ centres around the personality of
Julius Cæsar Brent, whose blood is but one-eighth black. While still a
boy he goes to Montreal, becomes in time a physician, marries twice,
in each case a white woman. He has three children, a son and two
daughters. In middle age the call of his native Virginia rings loud in
his ears, and having acquired a competence, he purchases an old estate
by correspondence and without revealing his identity as a former slave
boy who once dwelt in a cabin in the very district of tidewater
Virginia to which he returns. ... He is denied all social recognition.
Against the appeal of his wife, he decides to remain, subjecting her
and his children to a degrading humiliation even greater than his own.
The months and the years pass. He becomes a national figure, lectures
far and wide on the race question, heads a great movement to make the
negroes a permanent political and financial power, and finally brings
upon himself and two of his children the doom of death. A thousand and
one details of his association with his fellow Virginians of both
races add to the length and substance of the story, and numerous plots
and counterplots in it increase its persistent sensationalism.”—Boston
Transcript

“The book is long, rather unpleasant, and will have a limited appeal.”

— =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“The hand of the playwright betrays itself in the series of dramatic
or melodramatic episodes upon which the story hinges. ... As a tract
this book, prophesying as it does a great struggle to the death
between the black race and the white, may do more harm than good; as a
story, with all its touches of realism, it amounts to a skilful
melodramatic contrivance on a great scale.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 45:647 Ag ‘17 800w

“His facts run away with him, and his imagination plays havoc with
them. ... His story becomes a veritable chaos of ill-constructed
incidents. It is the wildest sort of sensation. ... Its pictorial
quality is unquestioned, its creation of both black and white
character is remarkable in its truth to life, it contains many
incidents strong in their realism, its dialogue abounds in shrewd
human touches, but the story as a whole falls far short of reaching
the dignity of its theme and of achieving the sincerity of the
novelist’s purpose.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 800w

“As a novel, the story is interesting; as a psychological study and as
a thought-provoking introduction to more serious consideration of the
future of the colored race in America, it deserves attention. To
offset the prolixity and occasional stiffness there is a sincere and
wholesome study of conditions and atmosphere that cannot fail to
impress the reader.”

+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 110w

“We are all thinking first of the war. But we must not forget the
problems of democracy facing us at home, and no one of these is more
important than the problem of right and justice in our relations with
the colored people. ... The story does not offer any solution for the
race problem but it does present the tragic situation fairly and
humanly.”

+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 280w

“Fully and strongly as the case for ‘the nigger’ is put by Brent in
speech, it is all belied by Brent in action. He can go so far and no
farther towards greatness, fails always to meet the supreme tests. ...
This theory of his essential inferiority by reason of the ‘black drop’
in him emerges as the dubitable idea underlying this elaborate and, on
the whole, melodramatic narrative.”

– + =Nation= 106:148 Ag 9 ‘17 700w

“Dr Brent is not a tragic figure, nor one that wins the reader’s
sympathies. He is not even convincing. The whole story reads much as
if Mr Kester meant it to be a warning of the dangers of negro
progress.”

— =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 850w

“With very considerable talent, and with more than average knowledge
of his subjectmatter, he has written a strange and wonderful
melodrama, at times verging on power, at times so crude as to be
scarcely tolerable.”

– + =No Am= 206:797 N ‘17 850w

“So far as it discusses race problems it would be a better book if the
author showed evidence of the slightest knowledge about the effort
made by Booker Washington, Hampton and Tuskegee, and their friends,
North and South, black and white, to make a good man and a good
citizen out of the negro. He seems to have the idea that the friends
of the negro are chiefly occupied in advocating miscegenation and
negro supremacy.”

– + =Outlook= 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 200w

“Mr Kester is neither academic nor melodramatic. The ethics of the
question are presented without weakening the dramatic and emotional
elements inherent in the tale. It is a very long, but at no point,
tedious book. ... which makes a deep impression on the reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w

=KETCHAM, EDWARD AUGUSTUS.= Fire insurance. $2.50 E: A: Ketcham, Madison, Wis. 368 16-11610

“The author has been for ten years an examiner in a state insurance
department and his purpose in writing this book is stated to be ‘to
place in convenient form the essential elements relating to the fire
insurance business ... for the student.’ The following chapters occupy
218 of the 301 pages and constitute the important part of the book:
History of fire insurance (two chapters), Rating of risks, Fire
insurance accounting, and Examination of a fire insurance company.”—Am
Econ R

“The book is almost wholly descriptive, with much detail in parts of
it. The style is good, but there is a lack of unity and logical
arrangement, each chapter reading as if it had been prepared as a
paper or as an address. There is little discussion of the fundamental
principles underlying fire insurance or of the concrete problems which
arise in the conduct of the business. ... No index is provided; and
this in a book lacking unity, and almost wholly descriptive in
character, becomes a more than ordinarily serious defect.” W: F.
Gephart

=Am Econ R= 6:934 D ‘16 800w

=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 10w

=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.= Poems and parodies. *$1 Stokes 821 (Eng ed 17-17077)

The author, late professor of Irish economics in the National
university of Ireland, was killed in France in 1916. This little book
of his poems has an appreciative foreword by William Dawson. The poems
themselves are grouped as: Personal; Early poems; Translations;
Miscellaneous; Political; War poems.

“They are the reflection of a mind quick and free, rich in subtle
ironies and tendernesses, but most frequently—since it was the mind of
an Irish patriot—full of a brilliant indignation.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:393 D ‘17 340w

“Those who are interested in following the careers of the men who have
made the big concern of their lives the political emancipation of
Ireland will no doubt be interested in this volume, but it has no
particular claim to one’s attention as straight poetry or parody
though it is all quite clever.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 290w

“The charm and the finest quality of Kettle’s poems come out in the
dreaming. He fought the Germans for a dream, as he had fought England
for a dream; and however uncomfortable it may be for the politicians
and rulers of the Empire when this power is expended upon politics,
this heroic dreaming is the source of all good Irish literature.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w

=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.=[2] Ways of war; with a memoir by his wife, Mary S. Kettle. *$2.75 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28917)

“Barrister-at-law, poet, literary stylist, patriotic Irishman,
eloquent speaker, member of Parliament, journalist, professor of
economics, and finally a soldier, giving up his life at Ginchy on
Sept. 9, 1916, ‘at the post of honour, leading his men in a victorious
charge,’ Kettle was a man of the loftiest ideals. ... The memoir by
his wife is followed by a sequence of chapters which constitute the
apologia of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to
offer up his life in the war for the freedom of the world. The first
section of the book, ‘Why Ireland fought,’ includes chapters upon ‘The
bullying of Serbia’ and ‘The crime against Belgium.’ In the early days
of the war Kettle was in Brussels, and had opportunities of visiting
Termonde, Malines, and other places. A striking chapter of the book
deals with the soldier-priests of France.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p507 O ‘17 970w

+ =Ath= p525 O ‘17 200w

“The book will help to fill a small and solitary shelf in the big
library this world-conflict is creating; for it is rich in two of
literature’s prime essentials, a lucid and beautiful style, and a
fervor in expression that is well-nigh that of the mystic who is a
zealot.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 590w

“The volume is composed of various papers, all bearing the marks of a
rare style and scholarship. There are pungent and vivid pages on the
scenes he witnessed in Belgium, and on various phases of life at the
front, a scathing study of Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Treitschke in ‘The
gospel of the devil,’ while the ‘Rhapsody on rats’ is typical of
Kettle’s racy wit.”

+ =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 470w

=New Repub= 13:256 D 29 ‘17 1850w

=N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 900w

“Read this book that you may receive comfort and confidence from the
unquenchable spirit of the new France. Read the memoir, written simply
and movingly by Kettle’s widow, that you may come to love the man for
what he was and the country which begat him.”

+ =Spec= 119:297 S 22 ‘17 1300w

“The book contains some brilliant little sketches of life at the
front.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 860w

=KILMER, JOYCE.=, ed. Literature in the making. *$1.40 (3c) Harper 810.4 17-13416

Mr Kilmer reports interviews with a number of contemporary men and
women of letters. He says in explanation of his purpose: “How eagerly
would we read an interview with Francis Bacon on the question of the
authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, or an interview with Oliver
Goldsmith in which he gave his real opinion of Dr Johnson, Garrick,
and Boswell! A century or so from now, some of the writers who in this
book talk to the world may be the objects of curiosity as great.”
Among the subjects discussed with various authors are: War stops
literature—William Dean Howells; The joys of the poor—Kathleen Norris;
National prosperity and art—Booth Tarkington; Romanticism and American
humor—Montague Glass; Commercializing the sex instinct—Robert Herrick;
Literature in the colleges—John Erskine; The new spirit in poetry—Amy
Lowell. The interviews were written up first for the New York Times.

=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17

“Much sense and much nonsense will be found, as might be expected, in
these interviews.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 480w

“A book of fascinating quality and wide appeal.”

+ =Cath World= 105:681 Ag ‘17 280w

“The titles of the interviews really promise more than the interviewer
accomplished but some interesting things are said with point and
humor.”

+ — =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 100w

Reviewed by G: B. Donlin

— =Dial= 62:519 Je 14 ‘17 250w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 180w

=Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 300w

“A genial, human, gratifying, and readable book. ... A brief
biographical paragraph in the table of contents after each author’s
name gives an outline of his life and work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 500w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 110w

“The interviews by Joyce Kilmer which have appeared in the magazine
section of the Sunday New York Times may be said to have outlived
their usefulness. The papers in collected form are a veritable
hodge-podge. ... It must not be inferred that Mr Kilmer ‘writes down,’
that he is inept, or that he distorts; he is too good a newspaper man
and too honest a writer for that. The papers were not intended to have
permanent form, and that is why they appear to such disadvantage in
it.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 280w

=KILMER, JOYCE.= Main street, and other poems. *$1 Doran 811 17-28181

Mr Kilmer is now an officer in America’s new army, and six of the
twenty-eight poems in this volume are about the war. “The white ships
and the red” deals with the Lusitania, while “The cathedral of Rheims”
is from the French of Émile Verhaeren. Nearly half of the remaining
poems deal with religious subjects.

“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of
the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he
might sag.” C. D. M.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1000w

“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’
It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but
in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its
variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little,
infinite thing, the human heart.’”

+ =Cath World= 106:405 D ‘17 670w

“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”

+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 110w

“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young,
an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it
from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are
oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly
accepted.” Conrad Aiken

— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w

“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s
work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious
fervor, in his new volume of verse.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 N 24 ‘17 1350w

“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new
collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has
published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although
it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain
friendly, human feeling.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 360w

=KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.=[2] Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il *$1 Appleton 355 17-31017

This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers,
attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training.
Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up
exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company,
Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and
signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.”
Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in
an appendix. The book is indexed.

“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w

=KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL).= Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il *$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244

The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is
indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort
Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and
the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New
Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war
with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly
illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C.
Gorgas.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17

“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of
the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the
historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not
include.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 190w

+ =Nation= 105:539 N 15 ‘17 1400w

=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

=KING, BASIL.= High heart. il *$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285

“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born,
who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost
penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter,
who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the
extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her
as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh
Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the
family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an
autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix
with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with
the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish
the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into
the latter part of the story.

=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17

“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in
which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great
European conflict.”

+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 130w

=Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w

“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which
moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every
character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”

— — + =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:750 N ‘17 40w

=Spec= 119:682 D 8 ‘17 20w

“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking
characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or two minor
persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches
of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or
‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth
the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be
evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral
principles are one and the same.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 900w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 140w

=KING, BASIL.= Lifted veil. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203

The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled.
She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again
three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation
rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda
Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a
sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his
love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry
him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is
when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth
from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.

“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully
handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their
conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17

“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It
offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 450w

“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and
arriving nowhere in particular.”

— =Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 350w

“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not
altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in
the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large
audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything
else: a means of escape, not of access.”

— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 180w

“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come
from his pen.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 570w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 400w

=KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL.= Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il *$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108

The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a
patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for
two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths
from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin
to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only
treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this
“book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental
scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant
inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of
disinfectants.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17

“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion
of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The
book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a
wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every
public library in the land.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 190w

“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for
popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile,
chiefly drawn from army life.”

+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 250w

+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 250w

“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for
tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a
certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view,
however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many
tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs

+ =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 250w

=KING, HENRY CHURCHILL.= Fundamental questions. *$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741

The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some
of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which
are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these
problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of
prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental
decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of
Christianity as a world religion.

“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling
statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must
find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and
heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is
superb.”

+ =Bib World= 50:255 O ‘17 270w

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:678 Jl ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p7 Jl ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w

“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by
Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President
King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be
helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and
the greatness of its problems.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 250w

=KINGMAN, HENRY.=[2] Faith of a middle-aged man. *$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597

“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the
author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares,
that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the
chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental
heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The
ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal
of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life
as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of
the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon
“The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine
outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming
under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending
fellowship.

“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral
reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 120w

“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the
lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in
the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life
where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been
attained by stern heroism.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 490w

=KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON.= All aboard for Wonderland. il *$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718

A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful
day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and
city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another.
Tired and happy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their
train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for
Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India
and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find
themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream
story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully
into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in
color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ — =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 50w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w

“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the
several illustrations in color add to its charm.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w

=KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY).= Neighbors *$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704

The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the
village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to
Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes”
and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to
enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the
munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye
who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two
young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who
has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a
new baby.

=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17

“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for
making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment
of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 260w

“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in
Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 300w

=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Clothing and health. (Home-making ser.) il *65c Macmillan 646 16-18558

“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which
precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile
materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured
ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the
use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are
discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and
textiles.”—Springf’d Republican

=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17

“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300
pages, as excellent as its mate.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 50w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 50w

“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons
and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the
home.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 40w

=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il *80c Macmillan 640 17-3475