Chapter XLVIII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (19)

“The third edition of the guide is based, in the main, upon the second
edition, 1908, and the two supplements for 1909-10 and 1911-13, but
the many changes in reference books and developments in reference work
and teaching since 1908 have necessitated many changes from the
earlier edition. The general plan and arrangement of the second
edition have been followed and Miss Kroeger’s introduction has been
kept intact except that one section, ‘How to study reference books,’
has been made slightly more detailed. The lists of reference books,
however, have been changed very materially and the annotations have
been rewritten and much extended, so that this latter feature of the
guide is practically new throughout, only a few annotations having
been carried over from the second edition, although somewhat more have
been retained from the two supplements. Aside from the new annotation,
the revision of the lists of reference books has consisted principally
of (1) excision of older titles and editions now superseded by more
recent material, (2) addition of new titles including not only the
recent books listed in the two supplements and later titles through
1916, but also a very considerable number of earlier titles,
principally foreign or more special works not hitherto included in the
guide, and (3) the addition of some entirely new lists, such as those
on Constitutions, International law, Romances, Historical source
books, English public documents, etc. ... In general, information
included goes through 1916, and does not cover changes, additions,
etc., for 1917.” (Preface) Miss Mudge is reference librarian of
Columbia university.

“A new edition of the guide, which is everywhere recognized as the
foremost ‘guide to reference books,’ has been demanded by librarians
in all parts of the country for the past five years, and the A. L. A.
publishing board have been fortunate in securing for this important
work the services of Miss Mudge, than whom there is no better judgment
on the subject of reference books anywhere in the country. ...
Absolutely necessary for all libraries making any pretensions at doing
reference work, and recommended for purchase for all libraries having
5,000 volumes or more.”

+ =A L A Bkl= O ‘16

“The new guide lists over one and a half times as many titles as the
old edition and the notes are much more critical and minutely
descriptive.” M. E. H.

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:243 O ‘17 210w

=KROPOTKIN, PETR ALEKSIEEVICH, kniaz.= Mutual aid: a factor in evolution. *$1.25 Knopf 301 A17-1635

A reprint of a work published in 1902. “At the beginning of the war in
1914, Prince Kropotkin determined to prepare a reprint of his ‘Mutual
aid.’ He put it forth as evidence of his belief that the constructive
forces of men are at work in spite of the destructive influences of
the war, and that these will lead to a better understanding between
men and eventually among the nations. In his discussion of the subject
of mutual aid, he begins with the evidence of it to be found in
animals, and he then proceeds by evolutionary stages through its
aspects as found in the social lives of savages and barbarians, in the
mediæval city, to its culmination in the modern state and community.”
(Boston Transcript)

“As we read these pages it seems impossible that a man capable of such
argument and discussion should have been imprisoned behind stone walls
as a danger to his country. It was, however, not his country, but its
autocrats that feared him and kept him in an exile that is now ended.
Prince Kropotkin is at last free to return to Russia and to take part
in the government that by his voice and his work he has succeeded in
establishing.” E. P. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 700w

=Dial= 64:32 Ja 3 ‘18 160w

“Those who are old enough to read, and to think seriously, should read
this book. Those who are old enough to have read it already, should
read it again.” B: C. Gruenberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 3 ‘17 670w

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 160w

“This sociological study of Prince Kropotkin’s, so full of the
generosity and humaneness of the Russian temperament at its best, is
in many ways valuable for its instruction, and will be found not
lacking in inspiring qualities even by those who think it unduly
neglectful of the egoistic instincts and who regard its conception of
progress as one-sided; though, of course, the author might reply that
individual achievement, such as Plimsoll represented, or Lord
Shaftesbury, may be gained by the dedication of exceptional powers to
the common good.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ‘17 680w

=KRYSHANOVSKAYA, V. I.= Torch-bearers of Bohemia; tr. from the Russian by Juliet M. Soskice. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-11467

This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia.
The time of the story spans the last years of John Hus, from 1401 to
1415. John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the
story, altho its plot is built about the figure of Rugena, a young
girl betrothed from childhood to Count Vok of Waldstein. This
betrothal is brought about by Bishop Brancaccio, in whom the
corruption of the church of the time is exposed at its lowest depths.
By lying and forgery he represents the marriage as the will of the
girl’s father, whom he has murdered. The two reformers, Hus and
Jerome, both play a part in the girl’s later history.

“The novel certainly deserves recognition, if only for the fact that
it is perhaps the only work of fiction dealing with the period of John
Hus. It has the romantic fascination of the past, and the English
reader will find a familiar atmosphere in the book, owing to the
excellent translation which has preserved the peculiarities of the
epoch through a masterly use of old English and of the traditional
methods of Scott and Reade. The author has been true to historical
facts.”

+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 170w

“‘The torchbearers of Bohemia’ differs from the novels of Henryk
Sienkiewicz only by greater condensation, a kinship that may be a
distinction, but which fails to satisfy those whom modern Russian
literature has trained to expect less of a surface treatment. ...
Considered solely as a conventional historical novel, the book is
vivid enough.”

+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 170w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17

“The author has made the theme of this book a round denunciation of
everything German in the great days of Hus. ... Miss (or Mme)
Kryshanovskaya has done a tremendous amount of historical reading for
the artistic and historical touches that lend an air of verisimilitude
to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.” W. M. F.

— =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 300w

“In the light of the present situation in Russia, it is peculiarly
interesting to note the fire and sympathy with which the struggle for
national and religious liberty in Bohemia is depicted by a Russian
writer. The splendid personality of John Hus dominates the volume, and
gives us an illuminating portrait of that great martyr.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 380w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 40w

=KUELLER, JO VAN AMMERS.= Young lion of Flanders; a tale of the terror of war; tr. by C. Thieme. il $1.50 Stokes (Eng ed 17-10166)

“The book tells what happened to a peaceful, well-to-do Belgian
family, one of the daughters of which had married a German. The
principal character, the ‘Young lion of Flanders’ himself, is
sixteen-year-old Léon Casimir. An expert motor cyclist, he becomes a
dispatch rider in the Belgian army, and distinguishes himself at
Marbeke, winning the approbation of the hero-king, Albert of Belgium.
He has more than one narrow escape from death, and is very nearly shot
with a number of other prisoners.”—N Y Times

“It is told as much by suggestion as by direct description. For
appalling as is its revelation of German ‘frightfulness’ and perfidy,
it is remarkably restrained.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 440w

“It is not exclusively juvenile readers who will be held by this
stirring story, of which the translation is exceptionally fluent and
satisfactory.”

+ =Cath World= 106:548 Ja ‘18 310w

“Léon’s adventures will thrill young readers, but the sad and bitter
tone of the book puts it into the adult class.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w

“The story, the author tells us, was written that her own children
might learn thru reading it the horror and futility of war. It seems
more probable that the prowess of the boy Leon, and his thrilling
adventures would appeal to the heart of youth as glorious.”

— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w

“It is all quite dreadful enough—unbelievably dreadful, we would have
thought it a few years ago. But in the light of our present knowledge
we are inclined to feel that in his evident effort not to overstate
the author has rather understated his case.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 400w

“The four pictures by Raemaekers with which it is illustrated are even
more illuminating than the text.”

+ =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 30w

=KUENZLI, FREDERICK ARNOLD.= Right and duty; or, Citizen and soldier; Switzerland prepared and at peace a model for the United States. il $1 (2c) National defense inst., Tribune bldg., N.Y.; for sale by Stechert 355.7 16-25197

The author, a native of Switzerland now living in the United States
and acting as assistant appraiser at the port of New York, describes
the Swiss system of military training and urges its adoption in
America. The text of the military constitution of the Swiss federation
is given at the close of the book. There is neither table of contents
nor index.

=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 10w

“The preparedness discussion has brought out a number of articles and
books expository of the Swiss military system, but this interesting
volume is perhaps the most comprehensive and most illuminating of them
all.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 22 ‘17 400w

=K’UNG YUAN KU’SUH.= Judgment of the Orient. *60c (6c) Dutton 940.91 17-10431

“Some reflections on the great war made by a Chinese student and
traveller, edited and rendered into colloquial English by Ambrose
Pratt.” (Title-page) Brief observations as to the characteristics of
the different peoples of Europe as they impressed him in his travels,
are followed by the author’s discussion of the sex of nations. A
nation, like a human being, has a soul, and the soul of the nation
like that of the human being has sex. Germany has a female soul. He
says, “The psychological genesis of the war between Germany and Europe
is sexual. It is a war between the femininity of Germany and the
masculinity of her neighbors—especially the masculinity of England.”

“Here is food for thought for the wisest.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 130w

“The opinions recorded have a rapier-like penetration and cannot fail
to be a source of satisfaction to those who have the cause of the
Allies at heart.”

+ =Dial= 62:153 F 22 ‘17 180w

“It is certainly an ungallant theory as regards woman. ... It is
nevertheless an exceedingly curious and interesting speculation, and
from the Chinese point of view, certainly does not lack arguments to
support it.” J. W.

=N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 580w

=N Y Times= 22:28 Ja 28 ‘17 480w

“If, in the flood of foolish writing about the war, more nonsense has
anywhere else been packed within the narrow limits of seventy-two
small pages, it has not been the reviewer’s ill fortune to see the
work.” H. R. M.

— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 180w

=KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Rings for the finger. il *$6.50 (6½c) Lippincott 391 17-7933

Dr Kunz, author of “The curious lore of precious stones,” has prepared
another valuable book drawing on his wide knowledge of jewels and
ornaments. In this book he has treated of “Rings for the finger, from
the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the
origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for
affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative,
mourning, etc.” (Title-page) The titles of the chapters are: The
origin, purposes and methods of ring wearing; Forms of rings and
materials of which they are made; Signet rings; Some interesting rings
of history; Betrothal (engagement) rings, wedding (nuptial) rings, and
love tokens; The religious use of rings; Magic and talismanic rings;
Rings of healing; Ring making. There are 290 illustrations, some in
color.

+ =Cath World= 105:125 Ap ‘17 100w

+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 120w

“In his registry of pretty ‘posies’ he revives delightfully a bit of
seventeenth century sentimentality.”

+ =Ind= 90:37 Ap 2 ‘17 50w

“No review could indicate all the information in this exhaustive study
of rings.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 250w

“The illustrations to the book are, from the point of view of
reproduction, of exceptionally high quality, but they appear to have
been selected a little at random.”

+ — =Nature= 99:522 Ag 30 ‘17 950w

“Will have permanent value as a reference book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w

“Contains bibliographical foot-notes.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 3w

“A veritable encyclopedia of fascinating lore. Reproductions of
paintings of persons wearing rings are included in the 220
illustrations in color, double-tone, and line.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 150w

“The student and the collector will find the clear and well-arranged
plates of great value, while other readers will look with interest at
the reproductions of portraits showing the rings as they were actually
worn by their owners.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup469 N 3 ‘17 1300w

“Dr Kunz has the vantage point of the Metropolitan museum of New York,
with which he is connected, as an initial source for his studies and
his rank as an authority on this and kindred subjects is now
established.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 250w

“Dr Kunz has drawn on the most diverse sources for his materials, and
has brought together an extraordinary amount of curious learning. He
has not, however, the gift of lucid order. ... If the reader tries to
find a connected answer to any question that suggests itself, such as
the development of the ring forms, he finds himself baffled by wealth
of matter and insufficient method.”

+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 1050w

=KUPRIN, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH.= Bracelet of garnets, and other stories; with an introd. by W: Lyon Phelps. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13619

In his selection of stories for this volume, Leo Pasvolsky has had the
advice of the author. In a letter from Mr Kuprin, eight of the stories
here translated were named as among those he considered “most
successful.” “There is wholeness about Kuprin as a writer, which
breathes of the strength and power of Russia herself,” writes Mr
Pasvolsky. This quality, he says, is brought out best in the longer
stories, of which “The bracelet of garnets,” is one. Another side of
Kuprin’s art is shown in the very short story, also represented in the
volume. In addition to the title story the book contains: The
horse-thieves; The Jewess; Anathema; The Læstrygonians; An insult; The
park of kings; An evening guest; A legend; Demir-Kayá; The garden of
the Holy Virgin. The translator is editor of the Russian Review.

=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

“The book as a whole, however, while no less searching in its
psychology and no less unsparing in its truth, than ‘The party’ and
‘The eternal husband,’ has an atmosphere of normality and restraint
which make a stronger appeal to Anglo-Saxon minds.”

+ — =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 170w

“This cheerful note rings through all Kuprin’s works, and places him
quite apart from his pessimistic contemporaries—Andreyev, Sologub, and
Artsibashev. But he falls far behind them as an artist; he lacks their
intensity and reserve. The excellent translation of Mr Pasvolsky does
not redeem the platitudinousness of the allegories placed in the end
of the book.”

+ — =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 350w

“Brilliant little studies in character or atmosphere, some compressed
into half a dozen pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w

“Two volumes of collections of the short tales of one of the most
eminent of living Russian novelists, Alexander Kuprin, have recently
been translated, ‘A Slav soul’ and ‘The bracelet of garnets.’ Scarcely
any duplication appears, although the biting satire, ‘Anathema,’ is
seen in each volume. ‘The garden of the Holy Virgin,’ is a noble
illustration of the poetic beauty of Kuprin’s style, when he deals
with an exalted theme.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 140w

=KUSER, JOHN DRYDEN.= Way to study birds. il *$1.25 Putnam 598.2 17-15688

A small book for beginners in bird study, meant to serve as a guide to
the identification of the more common species. It is adapted to the
vicinity of New York city. Part 1, Prerequisites, has chapters on:
Method of study; Twelve abundant permanent residents; Note-keeping;
How to use a key and learn five songs. Part 2 is devoted to the birds
of summer, with chapters on: The fifteen most abundant summer
residents; The fifteen next in abundance; Nests. Part 3 consists of
two chapters on fall and spring bird study; Transients, and Migration
data. Part 4 is devoted to winter, with chapters on Winter residents
and Winter feeding. Part 5 gives supplementary data, including a
bibliography. There are nine colored plates.

“Directions for keeping notes, recording migrations, and learning bird
songs, a partial list of books and a note on preservation and
propagation of our native birds widen the usefulness of this valuable
ornithological primer.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w

“Despite the ever-increasing number of books designed to teach the
beginner how to study birds, it is doubtful whether, after all, the
short cuts are not, in the end, long cuts. The way is made easy—and
unprofitable. This is in large measure true of ‘The way to study
birds.’ With its nine plates, the book is, of course, no substitute
for the amply illustrated manuals by Chester Reed and others.”

— =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 140w

“A bird book of convenient pocket size and of sufficient
comprehensiveness to be of actual use.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 140w

“Arranged especially for the students of New York city and immediate
neighborhood, but serves equally well for the southern New England
states.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 200w

=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Webster—man’s man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25126

The hero of this romantic tale is a mining engineer, and the heroine,
whom he first meets on a western railroad train, is the daughter of
the former president of the Central American republic. The story is
brim full of action, most of which takes place in the volcanic little
republic, which is on the brink of a revolution.

“An extravagant yarn, lively and entertaining.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w

“‘Webster—man’s man,’ by Peter B. Kyne, belongs to the familiar and
ever popular type of the soldier-of-fortune novel, with all the
inevitable stage properties and situations in which the late Richard
Harding Davis delighted. The surprising thing about the book is that
in spite of this there is a freshness and a certain spontaneous
sincerity that makes one forget the triteness of its theme. ... Its
people are alive, individual, and intensely appealing.” Philip
Tillinghast

+ — =Pub W= 92:807 S 15 ‘17 500w

“A rollicking story of love and adventure which, even in its most
thrilling moments, preserves the humorous, devil-may-care atmosphere
that characterizes it from the outset.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 200w

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=LAGERLÖF, SELMA OTTILIANA LOVISA.= Queens of Kungahälla, and other sketches; tr. by C. Field. *5s T. Werner Laurie, London

“‘The queens of Kungahälla’ is a cycle of episodes, woven together in
a manner highly characteristic of Miss Lagerlöf; the English
translation before us supplements it with six short tales which are
quite independent. ... The most complete and characteristic is ‘Saint
Catherine of Siena.’ ... ‘Old Agneta’ is a mysterious dream of lost
souls, tortured with frost on a Norwegian glacier, whose sufferings
are mitigated by the efforts of a solitary woman. ‘The fisherman’s
ring’ is woven around a description of an Adriatic storm breaking over
Venice. ‘The bird’s nest’ alone among these stories is mildly
humorous; it describes how a pair of wagtails built a nest and hatched
their young in the hand of a hermit who had made a vow not to shift
his position. ‘God’s peace,’ which is a sort of appendix to the novel
of ‘Jerusalem,’ recounts a terrific incident in the life and death of
Ingmar Ingmarson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“An enchanting revel of fancy.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w

“Kungahälla is a locality unknown to the guide-books and, we think, to
the historians. ... But Miss Lagerlöf gives her fiction such an air of
reality that we hesitate to say that this city is wholly fabulous. ...
The English reader of ‘The queens of Kungahälla’ will find himself
constantly reminded of William Morris’s late prose romances. ... This
arises from a similarity in the approach of both authors to the
medieval civic life which attracted each of them. ... Miss Lagerlöf
has greater vigour of narrative than her English precursor; she leads
us more vividly on a more intoxicating revel of fancy, but her
essential attitude to the middle ages is the same. She sees the scenes
in pure and brilliant colour, like the miniatures in a Book of
hours. ... Mr C. Field is often adequate and sometimes excellent,
although his text would bear further revision.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w

=LAJPAT RAYA.=[2] England’s debt to India; a historical narrative of Britain’s fiscal policy in India. *$2 Huebsch 330.954

A companion volume to the author’s “Young India” which reviewed
British rule in India from the political standpoint. The present
discussion is from the economic point of view, and is supported by the
best British testimony, official and non-official. The chapter
headings indicate the scope of the work: A historical retrospect;
India and the British industrial revolution; “Tribute” or “drain”; How
India has helped England make her empire; The cotton industry of
India; Shipbuilding, shipping, and minor occupations; Miscellaneous
industrial, agricultural, and mining operations; Agriculture; Economic
conditions of the people; Famines and their causes; Railways and
irrigation; Education and literacy; Certain fallacies about the
“prosperity of India” examined; Taxes and expenditure; Summary and
conclusion.

“But, even granting all of the author’s statements and argument,
passing over his unwillingness to recognize and give just appraisal to
all that England has done for India, the fact remains that
understanding of the great issues just now at stake and of loyalty to
that civilization in which the future welfare of India as well as of
the rest of the world is bound ought to have led Lajpat Raya to wait
for the presentation of his plea until the greater issues,
comprehensive of India’s own, are settled.”

— =N Y Times= 23:51 F 10 ‘18 600w

“This author’s manner is as eloquent as his matter is interesting.
Readers may not agree with all his conclusions, but they will, we are
sure, appreciate the wealth of information given concerning the
economic conditions in India.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 120w

=LANCHESTER, FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Flying-machine from an engineering standpoint. diags *$3 (9c) Van Nostrand 629.1 (Eng ed 17-13807)

This book contains the James Forrest lecture which the author
delivered before the Institution of civil engineers three months
before the outbreak of war. It has been reprinted in more permanent
form in answer to the many requests for copies. The author says,
“Since the outbreak of war, from considerations of national secrecy,
very little, indeed, of a technical character has been added to the
stock of public information, and thus the position existing
immediately prior to the war has become a matter of more permanent
interest than the author anticipated at the time his lecture was
prepared.” He has also added “A discussion concerning the theory of
sustentation and expenditure of power in flight,” a paper presented at
a meeting of the International engineering congress in San Francisco
in 1915.

=Nature= 99:241 My 24 ‘17 1000w

“For a lengthy review see Engineering, April 6, 1917. Also reviewed in
Automobile Engineer, Jan., 1917; Mechanical Engineer, Jan. 19, 1917.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ap ‘17 110w

“An excellent, accurate and interesting lecture on the flying-machine
for those familiar with the subject.” E. W. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17 30w

=LANE, ANNA EICHBERG KING (MRS JOHN LANE).= War phases according to Maria. il *$1 (4c) Lane 17-6332

Two of these war phases are reprinted from “Maria again.” They are
included here to make complete the record of Maria’s most noteworthy
activities between 1914 and 1916. The subjects of the new sketches
are: Zeppelin dangers; Maria’s political opinions; Maria on
submarines; On the new equality; Cardboard friendship; War hens;
Margarine and society; War notice. The book is cleverly illustrated by
A. H. Fish.

“We do not find Maria more than moderately amusing.”

+ — =Ath= p596 D ‘16 30w

“Maria on the subject of everything under heaven from war hens to
submarines is a genuine comedy character.”

+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 130w

+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 300w

“A book not to be missed in these times.”

+ =Sat R= 123:42 Ja 13 ‘17 350w

“Mrs Lane’s gifted satirical pen might more profitably be turned to
other phases of society than those connected with Maria’s
personality.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 450w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 30 ‘16 80w

=LANE, ROSE WILDER.= Henry Ford’s own story. il *$1 E. O. Jones, Forest Hills, N.Y.; for sale by Baker 17-2686

“The American public, says the writer of this book, has made a hero of
the big business man. But Henry Ford, she adds, is not a big business
man; he is a big man in business. She tells, in this book, the very
simple and very interesting story of Henry Ford’s life, ‘how a farmer
boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost
touch with humanity.’ ... Her record stops shortly after the outbreak
of war; it does not include the peace party. But it tells in a good
deal of detail about his wage scale and other experiments with his
men.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

“A very human book. If it were just plain fiction it could not
interest one more. ... To read it is to get a new realization of what
work means, what persistence will do, on what efficiency must build,
and of the tremendous power in unselfish will.”

+ =Lit D= 55:45 Ag 4 ‘17 210w

“The platitudinousness and naïveté, the well meaning but sophomoric
approach to a problem that are revealed in Mr Ford’s utterances on all
subjects not relating to engineering are almost incredible. Such
intellectual infantilism would be impossible any grown man in any
other civilized country—as would Miss Lane’s ecstatic admiration of
it. But the story of Henry Ford does not end there. Against his
contempt for the amenities of life and the finer cultural
satisfactions may be set his hatred of poverty and wretchedness. In
that balance, who can say that the admiration of Miss Lane is
misplaced?”

=New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 370w

“A most unusual piece of biography and exceedingly well written.” J.
W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:404 My ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w

“Some day, as has been said, Mr Ford will have a real biography;
before that time comes there will be plenty of studies, personal,
economic, sociological. Miss Lane’s account is purely popular,
colorful, newsy, and it portrays the man.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 13 ‘17 650w

“If sympathy with one’s subject is the sine qua non of biographers
this should be the perfect biography. Miss Lane’s enthusiasm for her
subject colors the entire book and surrounds him with a halo of
glory.” Henrietta Walters

+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w

“Written in extremely popular and simple style, it is specially
adapted to the uneducated or young reader.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 50w

=LANGE, DIETRICH.= Lure of the Mississippi. il *$1.25 (2½c) Lothrop 17-28332

During the period of the Civil war, Minnesota was the scene of several
Indian uprisings, the Sioux seeing in the preoccupation of the white
man with a war of his own, an opportunity to regain their lands. One
of these outbreaks is described by Mr Lange in this story for boys.
The young heroes are two southern boys who have come north with an
uncle. Driven out by the Indians, they try to rejoin their parents in
Vicksburg, traveling down the river with an old trapper and a friendly
red man. Vicksburg is under siege and the boys find that they have
exchanged one kind of danger for another. But in time they find their
parents and the entire party makes a safe return journey to what is to
be their permanent home on the northern prairies.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 30w

“Yet the story is not unduly melodramatic, but abounds in good
pictures of life on the great river.”

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

=LANGENHOVE, FERNAND VAN.= Growth of a legend. *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 940.91 16-25175

The “legend” of the title refers to the stories without foundation
that are common in all countries in time of war. The author has
examined some of these legends which have been current in Germany. He
calls his book “a study based upon the German accounts of
francs-tireurs and ‘atrocities’ in Belgium.” The work has been
translated by E. B. Sherlock, and is published with a preface by J.
Mark Baldwin.

+ =Ath= p259 My ‘17 180w

+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 60w

“Written to defend Belgium against unjust accusations, the book also
gives the human background of many so-called German ‘atrocities’ which
otherwise would seem inexplicable.”

+ =New Repub= 9:251 D 30 ‘16 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17

“M. van Langenhove writes with restraint and painstaking care of the
sociological investigator. His book is marked by its absence of
invective, of excited denial. ... The book is one of the valuable
contributions to the library of war documents.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:3 Ja 7 ‘17 300w

=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17

“A dispassionate work, compiled in the impartial spirit of scientific
research. Rhetorical expressions of indignation are hardly to be found
in its pages, though they abound in Mr Baldwin’s preface.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w

=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= Your part in poverty. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 331 17-26891

George Lansbury is a member of the Church of England, the Church
socialist league and the Independent labor party, has been for thirty
years in active political life, and has served on the London county
council and the Royal commission on the poor law. He writes this
“appeal to men and women of the comfortable classes,” not from the
point of view of an economist or a philanthropist but from that of an
“ordinary person,” to make clear to them “what Labor asks and what, in
his judgment, on Christian principles, Labor ought to have.” Mr
Lansbury believes that land values should be taxed, that the wages and
profit system should be abolished, that we must substitute cooperation
for competition, and that the workers must “join together in great
industrial unions or guilds, representative of particular industries.”
After an introductory chapter, the subject is dealt with under five
headings: Workmen; Women and children; Business; Churches; What we
must do. There is a preface by the Bishop of Winchester.

=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17

“Specifically, we are exhorted to join the more advanced section of
the working class movement, the section which aims at the complete
control of the great industries by the workers in each industry. ...
The difficulties which would confront such a system are lightly
brushed aside by the author in a spirit of simple faith.”

— =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 350w

“There is broad charity in Mr Lansbury’s criticism of those who
possess and an earnest appeal to the innate love of man for man. Even
in his chapter on business, a sermon on the text, ‘business is
business,’ he offers sympathy for the overwrought business man.”

+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w

“No one who wishes to understand the labor movement in England can
afford to miss this book; few who read it can fail to be captivated by
its charm. It is not a program; it is not a treatise. It is simply the
expression of an attitude to life which is growing rapidly in
importance in every section of the English working classes.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:25 N 3 ‘17 1800w

“Mr Lansbury’s indictment of society, the church, and the state is
confused, and his suggested remedies are very vaguely indicated. But
we are impressed by the sincerity of his wondering indignation, and we
feel that the book, at any rate, reflects the doubts and fears of many
intelligent workmen.”

– + =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w

“He seldom lets his feeling get the better of him. Consequently nearly
all that he says has force. ... For the sake of symmetry in the
argument Mr Lansbury ought perhaps to show that the ‘liberated’
working class—to use the word ‘liberate’ in the sense in which he uses
it—would represent a higher standard of probity, self-restraint and
disinterestedness than is exemplified by the prosperous elements in
society to-day.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 11 ‘17 1150w

“Mr Lansbury has written a penetrating statement. But it is written in
such a kindly way that one must wonder at his moderation. He knows the
poor and their problems, and he knows where the trouble lies. But he
does not attack those who are responsible.”

+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 430w

=LANUX, PIERRE DE.=[2] Young France and new America. *$1.25 Macmillan 327.73 17-31439

“Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. They
deal with the present events and those from the near past, but their
expression is first inspired by the thought of the near future, that
is to say, the period that will begin when this war ends.” (Foreword)
The writer sums up what the Franco-American co-operation will mean in
the years to come, how the war has opened the way to a better
understanding of each other and cemented loyalties. To the Frenchman
who thought of the American as a millionaire pork dealer and the
American who looked upon the Frenchman as a “fussy, nervous gentleman
who wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole” the experiences of the past
three years have been fraught with revelation.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 680w

“I think M. de Lanux writes about us with too obvious a will to be
kind. What he says of America’s coming influence upon French art,
literary and plastic, may be true or may be mistaken, but certainly,
to my taste, it is written by too glad a hand. Other parts of his
book, however, are wholly free from this taint.” P. L.

+ — =New Repub= 13:350 Ja 19 ‘18 1430w

“The author’s notably keen and understanding observations and
conclusions in the United States show him to be a trustworthy student
of life. Without doubt, M. de Lanux’s book will receive the attention
and the interest it deserves. The people of this country are ready for
its message and they will welcome both its spirit and its practical
suggestions.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 780w

=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 110w

“Told with an amplitude of apt quotation and with a charm which makes
this contribution to the literature of foreign relationships a real
source of inspiration.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 200w

=LARNER, RING W.= Gullible’s travels, etc. il *$1.25 (3c) Bobbs 17-5401

Perhaps the narrator in these five tales is the original Tired
Business Man. His account of “Carmen” would seem to entitle him to
that distinction. His second experience of opera is described in the
next sketch, and in the third, from which the book takes its title, he
relates experiences at Palm Beach. The two stories that follow are in
like vein. First copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company.

=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 250w

“Amusing but excessively slangy short stories.”

=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 6w

“Underneath the funny narratives of narrow views and man-handled
English, there is a layer of shrewd common sense that punctures the
provincialism of the snug middle class and the humbug of our so-called
exclusive society. ... A broadly farcical volume.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

=LASKI, HAROLD J.= Studies in the problem of sovereignty. *$2.50 Yale univ. press 320.1 17-8598

“The problem of sovereignty which Mr Laski discusses is whether the
seat of authority in society is single or manifold. In other words,
whether a sound political theory is monist or pluralist. He argues in
favor of the pluralist view, and maintains that a society is a
‘person’ in reality, not merely by a legal fiction; for the law merely
recognizes and regularizes a preëxistent fact. He supports this
argument by an appeal to the evidence supplied by three ecclesiastical
and religious movements in the nineteenth century in Great Britain—the
Scottish disruption, the Oxford movement, and the Catholic revival—and
by the careers of Le Maistre and Bismarck on the Continent.”—New Repub

“It is an example of painstaking and rather brilliant historical
writing, and may justly be classed, both as regards the subject-matter
with which it deals and its scholarly method of treatment, with the
studies of Mr J. N. Figgis, and particularly his ‘From Gerson to
Grotius’ and his ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... When Dr Laski
leaves the field of history and enters upon a discussion of the nature
of sovereignty he is less happy, and critics who will attribute to him
an imperfect understanding of the real character of sovereignty are
not likely to be wanting.” J. W. Garner

+ =Am Hist R= 22:844 Jl ‘17 2200w

=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17

“An important contribution to the literature of that brilliant school
of political writers who are forging for us a new and more
satisfactory theory of the nature of the state. It should be read
especially in connection with Maitland’s classic introduction to
Gierke’s ‘Political theories of the middle ages,’ and Figgis’s
‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... Not only does [Mr Laski’s
doctrine] mean an abandonment, or at least a serious impairment of the
theory of the sovereignty of the state, but it involves the revival of
the eighteenth century doctrine of natural rights, now, however,
attached to group-units instead of to individuals. Whether in every
particular these ideas will withstand the effect of criticism, there
is no doubt that they offer in some respects a much better explanation
of contemporaneous political tendencies and movements than the
Hegelian theory that the state is an all-inclusive metaphysical
organism, which governs the practical politics of modern Germany.” W.
J. Shepard

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:582 Ag ‘17 550w

“Throughout, the style is as incisive and clear as the temper is
judicial, and everywhere sympathy is combined with a rare detachment.”
C. H. McIlwain

+ =Dial= 62:436 My 17 ‘17 2700w

“The book is marked by a certain agreeable scholarship. This
scholarship in respect to concrete historical happenings, is however,
set in a philosophical frame which is most unbecoming and which must
in all frankness be ascribed to the author’s very superficial
knowledge of political theory and to his failure to understand or to
appreciate some of the most fundamental distinctions of political
science. Even if Mr Laski’s assumptions were not of this superficial
character, his practical teaching would destroy itself thru its very
absurdity.” N. M. B.

– + =Educ R= 54:513 D ‘17 1050w

“Mr Laski has done his part both in making clear his own tentative
ideas and in presenting the historical data upon which they are based.
This book, moreover, is not to be his last word on the subject.”

+ =Nation= 105:671 D 13 ‘17 280w

“Possibly he assumes at times too great a knowledge of the facts for
American readers, and writes in an unduly allusive style, but to the
mind of any one who comes from Oxford and has lived in its atmosphere,
so permeated with the tradition of the Oxford movement and Catholic
revival, the story seems excellently and sympathetically interpreted,
for Oxford, though it gives an artificial mannerism which soon dies,
gives also a real inspiration, which quickens as well as lives; and Mr
Laski belongs, I think, to those whom Oxford has taught to see life
whole, as well as to study it in detail.” K. L.

+ =New Repub= 11:25 My 5 ‘17 1650w

“The London Times, with visions of conscientious objectors rampant,
finds much in the book that is ‘disreputable and even dangerous,’ and
one cannot forbear to suggest that the Times is more agitated about
the alleged disrepute of Mr Laski’s theories than their danger. But
after the indispensable ‘word of warning’ has been meted out, one
cannot fail to appreciate that the truth of Mr Laski’s reasoning
overtops the danger.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 820w

“Mr Laski is an Englishman, but he bears a historic Polish name. He
should study, from the point of view of that pragmatism to which he
makes frequent appeal, the effects of the liberum veto in the old
Polish constitution. It still has its defenders as the last word in
the assertion of the moral liberty of the citizen. ... Though there is
much in this volume which we consider disputable and even dangerous,
there is also much that is sound and illuminating; and though his
presentation of his subject is too often involved and obscure, it
rarely fails to stimulate thought.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 My 17 ‘17 2250w

“He has given us a scholarly and invigorating historical review of the
significant events and theories which he selects as background for his
discussion. He has also given timely warning to us, as citizens, of
the dangers of an implicit acceptance of a certain grim Hegelianism
which has swept us unprotestingly on into the vortex of a great All
which is more than ourselves.’” C: Seymour

+ =Yale R= n s 7:443 Ja ‘18 1250w

=LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT.= Development of China. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 951 17-8745

“Mighty changes are taking place in China. It is undergoing a
transformation whose results no man can foresee. ... It is certain,
however, that the outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. ...
If Americans are not to blunder, if they are to make to the new China
the unselfish contributions of which they are capable, if they are not
to stumble into unnecessary conflict with Japan, if they are to share
to the utmost in the trade and the industrial development of the new
China, they must know her and must know her better than they do now.”
(Introd.) The author, formerly of the College of Yale in China, has
written this book for college students and for the general public. His
aim has been to present in the light of modern scholarship a sketch of
the essential facts of Chinese history and development and of the
historical setting for its present-day problems.

“The characteristic feature of this book is successful
condensation. ... The book is well written, well printed, and should
prove very valuable for the purpose for which it is intended. It
brings together within brief compass a variety of essential
information which will greatly facilitate the work of classes in
oriental history and contemporary politics. In producing this work
Professor Latourette has rendered a distinct service both to student
and to teacher.” S. K. Hornbeck

+ =Am Hist R= 22:857 Jl ‘17 670w

“Bibliography (7p.) with useful descriptive notes.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17

“Will serve as a valuable textbook to the student of Chinese history.
It should meet with even greater favor from that class of general
readers who, without the drudgery of technicality and details, desire
an unconventional introduction to the civilization of the Far East.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 250w

=Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 150w

“Perhaps a dozen brief histories of China are available in English.
Some of them are hastily written and untrustworthy. Some are
prejudiced. Some are overloaded with dynastic details. ... There is,
therefore, a place for Mr Latourette’s ‘Development of China,’ which
is carefully written, fair, and free from excessive technicalities.”
F: A. Ogg

+ =Dial= 62:524 Je 14 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Latourette is the first writer of a serious work who has
accurately set forth the character of the late Yuan Shi Kai. He has
furnished also a readable statement of the progress of events since
1894. ... Those interested at all in the Far East will find the volume
worth reading and rereading.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 Jl 14 ‘17 170w

“It furnishes a splendid background to just such a study as Professor
Hornbeck’s. While lacking the vitality and the temperamental felicity
of such life-long writers on China and her history as Giles, for
instance, and Little and Martin, Mr Latourette does nevertheless cover
the ground that these more rugged writers have covered before him; and
he covers it with a precision and a scholarship that perfectly adapt
his book to the college classrooms for which he has designed it. ...
He further adds to the value of the book as a basis for instruction by
a voluminous index and an extremely serviceable and well-chosen
bibliography.”

+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 330w

“An introductory sketch like Mr Latourette’s, notable for the
scholarly absence of inflation of facts, for its sense of proportion,
and for the understanding it gives of the larger features of China’s
development and of the historical setting of present-day problems,
meets a real need.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 500w

“He is fair to the Japanese, fair to the British about the so-called
opium war, fair to the missionaries and entirely appreciative of all
that is best in China’s glorious past. By far the best part of his
book is that which deals with present-day problems.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

=LAUCK, WILLIAM JETT, and SYDENSTRICKER, EDGAR.= Conditions of labor in American industries. *$1.75 Funk 331.8 17-13561

“The present volume is designed to meet a practical need for a compact
collection of the results of the large number of investigations and
studies of conditions under which the American wage-earner and his
family work and live. It is presented merely as a summarization of the
principal and fundamental facts that have been ascertained during the
past decade and a half; it is not intended to be a critical discussion
of those facts, or to be an argument in favor of or against any
partizan conclusion, or any remedial program.” (Preface) These
summaries are presented in nine chapters; The labor force; Wages and
earnings; Loss in working time; Conditions causing irregular
employment; Working conditions; The wage-earner’s family; Living
conditions; The wage-earner’s health; The adequacy of wages and
earnings. Mr Lauck is author with J. W. Jenks of a standard work on
immigration. Mr Sydenstricker wrote one of the reports for the
Commission on industrial relations.

“The statistical data presented—most of which was gathered for the
United States Commission on industrial relations—are quite
extensive. ... There is very little new material in the book. Its
purpose, on the contrary, was to make easily available existing
material, and this the authors have done in a painstaking manner.
Particularly valuable are the discussions of unemployment, its causes
and effects: family income; and the health of the worker. The chapter
on working conditions is less satisfactory. It is unfortunate that so
little attention is paid to unionism and collective bargaining.
Perhaps the chief weakness of the book is the tendency to dogmatize
from insufficient data.” J: A. Fitch

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:649 S ‘17 1150w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:151 F ‘18

“The book is intelligently planned, is designed to answer those
questions which so frequently arise in the mind of the legislator, the
teacher, the general reader, and the newspaper editor. ... While
replete with statistics, it is interesting throughout. It deserves
careful study and a wide circle of readers.” J. T. Young

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:234 Jl ‘17 570w

=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w

=Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 220w

“A valuable reference book for educators, social workers, and all in
any way engaged in handling employment problems.”

+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by Nathan Fine

=J Pol Econ= 25:851 O ‘17 760w

“No reflective business man, no thoughtful workingman, no social
worker, no trade unionist, no student of industrial problems, can
study the situation here revealed without realizing how fundamental to
our national life these facts must be, and how thoroughly they deserve
consideration.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 3 ‘17 430w

“To some extent the ‘American labor year book,’ published under the
editorship of the present reviewer, attempted to accomplish the same
purpose. The present volume is more inclusive. As a reference volume
on present-day industrial conditions the book should prove valuable to
those who have no opportunity to consult original sources.” Alexander
Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 430w

+ =N Y Times= 22:296 Ag 12 ‘17 650w

“The data are largely those relating to conditions between 1900 and
1914 or 1915, since which time many changes have taken place. These,
however, are noted, and such facts as are obtainable concerning them
are reviewed. The authors appear to have succeeded remarkably well in
keeping up with a constantly and rapidly-moving procession of
industrial events.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ‘17 870w

“The book is devoted, in the main, to an examination of the income of
the American wage-earner and a consideration of its sufficiency. The
chapters that deal with that subject are worth reading. One may not
always agree with the conclusions—based as they are on statistics that
are anywhere from four to sixteen years old and some of them
questionable too—but the discussions are illuminating and the figures
are the only ones we have. ... The book is full of little errors of
varying degrees of importance, from misspelled names to misstatements
of fact. Dates get mixed, words are omitted, pages at one point are
incorrectly inserted. These are minor matters. But there are other
errors that are more serious.” J: A. Fitch

+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 600w

=LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH.= Heart of Her Highness. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-25586

A romance of Flanders in the fifteenth century. The heroine is Mary of
Burgundy, orphaned daughter of Charles the Bold. With her young
step-mother as her only sympathetic counselor, Mary is beset with many
troubles. In her childhood she had been betrothed to the young son of
the emperor of Germany, but the proposed alliance had all but been
forgotten, and Louis of France wished to force a marriage with his
son, while her own people urged a marriage equally distasteful. Mary
herself has given her heart to an unknown youth, and while it looks
for a time as tho love must be sacrificed to her country’s needs, the
two claims are in the end discovered to be identical.

=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 70w

“Begins like a novel and ends like a fairy tale. There is more than
one vivid passage; and if the dialogue is too conventional to be
convincing, it is suggestive of those firelight stories that were
always too good to be true.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 230w

“Miss Laughlin is to be commended for telling her story in present-day
English and avoiding the practice of some historical romancers of
attempting to reproduce archaic forms of speech.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 220w

=LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAURENCE.= Latter-day problems. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 330.4 17-3490

The three last chapters of the first edition, dealing with money and
banking, have been omitted from this revised edition. In their place
the author has added five chapters on: Women and wealth; Monopoly of
labor; Capitalism and social discontent; Business and democracy;
Economic liberty. The omitted chapters may be included later in a
volume dealing with monetary problems.

=A L A Bkl= 13:275 Mr ‘17

“The tone of Prof. Laughlin’s dismissal of the case for the working
class makes a liberal suspect him. ... The best thing to be said for
‘Latter-day problems’ is that it makes a very creditable attempt to
solve 20th century problems with 18th century formulæ.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 270w