Chapter XLIX: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (20)

=LAVIS, FRED.= Railway estimates, design, quantities and costs. il *$5 McGraw 625 17-14018

“The author, a special lecturer on railway engineering at Yale
university, presents in one volume all that is necessary in estimating
the probable cost of a proposed railway and the design of general
features, together with a complete analysis of details not hitherto
available in any single publication.” (Pittsburgh) “The book is more
than a development of chapter 8 of the author’s ‘Railway location,
surveys and estimates.’ It is an expansion of that chapter and a
setting forth of the timely subject matter in a manner that carries
weight and impresses the reader with the author’s broad and practical
knowledge of the subject.” (Engin News-Rec)

“It is a pleasure to note that the author, in handling chapters 3 to
11 inclusive—the principal classified cost elements—has, as is his
custom, confined himself to the practical illustrative essentials and
avoided wordy expansions of irrelevant features. One would have been
glad to find in the text three or four chapters instead of three or
four pages on the subject of electrical operation and electrification
of steam roads.” M. P. Paret

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 580w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 50w

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=LAY, WILFRID.= Man’s unconscious conflict; a popular exposition of psychoanalysis. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-9481

The author offers an interpretation of Freud which will be more
acceptable to American readers than many that have preceded it. He has
adopted a nomenclature that is more in accordance with our common
usage and modes of thought, thus eliminating much of the seeming
offensiveness of the Freudian theories. The treatment is popular. His
purpose is “to show the unconscious operating in every act of our
lives, not merely in the actions ordinarily known as unconscious or
automatic, but in that part of our activity to which we attribute the
most vivid consciousness.” One important chapter, on a phase little
touched on heretofore, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to
education. The author suggests that most if not all the faults of the
present system of instruction in schools is due to ignorance of the
function of the unconscious.

“Fascinating and very practical book.” L. M. Field

+ =Bookm= 45:417 Je ‘17 550w

“Dr Lay, for all the qualities of his argument that look like
prepossessions, lays out this difficult lore with a clarity, a charm
and a high moral force, that point his book with every power to
instruct and improve. No science is so immediately devoted to human
service as psychology, no person with his own or society’s welfare at
heart can afford to neglect it, and few writers have laid bare its
main principles with happier effect than Dr Lay.” B. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1000w

“A coherent and systematic account, in simple terms, of the
fundamental principles and conceptions that are implied in the
discoveries and hypotheses of Freud and his school. This is in itself
no small achievement. ... It is a pity that Dr Lay still defers so
much to the rather inconclusive and therapeutically as well as
theoretically useless generalization of sex; that he underestimates,
if he at all considers, the importance of the ‘self-regarding
instinct’; and that he offers hasty prescriptions to teachers.”

+ — =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 230w

“It gives one a fair idea, in an easy and entertaining style, of what
it is all about—and incidentally enables one to measure the depths of
psychoanalytic credulity.”

+ — =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p7 O ‘17 50w

“Valuable book, which should be in the hands of all parents and
educators.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 110w

=LAZARILLO DE TORMES.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. *$1.50 (4c) Kennerley 17-12486

This version of the first picaresque romance is “done out of the
Castilian from R. Foulché-Delbosc’s restitution of the editio
princeps, by Louis How.” (Sub-title) “The “Life” was probably in
existence in some form or other, perhaps for some time, before 1554,
the date from which our earliest editions reach us. But the numerous
English editions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early nineteenth
centuries are not widely current in these days, and they are all
filtered through French translations.” (Dial) There is no plot.
Lazarillo’s experiences with his many masters form a satire on society
in sixteenth century Spain. After a prologue, the narrative proper is
divided into seven treatises or chapters. “The first deals with the
early life of Lazarillo and his peregrinations as guide of a blind
beggar. In the next four he appears as the servant of a priest, an
impoverished petty noble, a friar and a pardoner. In the sixth and
seventh he serves a painter of tambourines, a chaplain and a
constable, and finally becomes a town crier of Toledo, ... and settles
down as the complacent husband of a maidservant of the archpriest of
San Salvador parish. Most of the action passes in Toledo or in its
immediate neighborhood.” (Introd.) The historical introduction of
forty-four pages, and the notes, are by Charles Philip Wagner.

=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w

“Mr How has attempted a literal version; he goes so far as frequently
to sacrifice smooth English in his effort to keep the construction of
the original. The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing, but
too often the reader misses the craftsmanship of the anonymous author.
The notes, by Mr Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to serious
students of Spanish. Some of the latter will doubtless wish to quarrel
with Mr How over a few of his renderings.”

+ — =Dial= 63:216 S 13 ‘17 290w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

“Should serve greatly to widen the circle of readers of the tale. We
think such who come to it afresh will enjoy the series of anecdotes
through which Lazarillo passes with the perfect effrontery of the
mediæval rogue.”

+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 200w

=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.=[2] Frenzied fiction. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 827 18-768

To “Nonsense novels,” “Further foolishness” and other humorous works,
Mr Leacock now adds a work of “Frenzied fiction.” It opens with the
author’s “revelations as a spy,” quite as solemnly ponderous and
neither more nor less revelatory than many of the supposedly authentic
confessions. Other pieces in the book are: Father Knickerbocker—a
fantasy; The prophet in our midst; Personal adventures in the spirit
world; The cave man as he is; The new education; Back from the land.

“The book is the work of a warmhearted and joyous spirit, a friendly,
gentle soul that pokes good natured fun at our ridiculousness, our
pretensions. He makes you like him and he makes you laugh. It is
much.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 1500w

“This is Leacock at his best, and this best is better than others of
his recent books. The fun is sly and penetrating; the burlesque
quality is sustained; the writing is that of a humorist, not that of a
mere jokesmith.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 40w

=LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE.= Enforced peace; proceedings of the first annual national assemblage. 50c (1c) League to enforce peace 172.4 17-697

A volume containing the proceedings of the first annual national
assemblage of the League to enforce peace, held in Washington, May
26-27, 1916. An introductory chapter is devoted to the organization of
the League. Its principles and proposals are given in an appendix.
Among the papers reprinted are: The League to enforce peace and the
soul of the United States, by Edward A. Filene; The League program,
preparedness, and ultimate reduction of armaments, by Hamilton Holt;
Constitutionality of the proposals, by William H. Taft; The Monroe
doctrine, by George Grafton Wilson; The European nations and the
League program, by John Bates Clark; American labor and a constructive
settlement of the war, by Samuel Gompers; American agriculture and the
League to enforce peace, by Carl Vrooman.

=Cath World= 104:839 Mr ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:135 F ‘17

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 160w

=LEAMY, EDMUND STANISLAUS.= My ship, and other verses. *$1 Lane 811 17-30423

Many of the poems in this book were inspired by travel in far
countries. The author is the son of an Irish patriot, and Katharine
Tynan in her foreword says of him: “His father’s adventure was the one
upon which so many have embarked, will embark—the great adventure for
the Dark Rosaleen. The son’s adventure carries him over oceans and
continents, but he has always the faithful, the untravelled heart that
belongs by right to his father’s son.”

“Full of the spirit of youth and glowing with adventure.”

+ =Lit D= 55:62 D 8 ‘17 350w

“Mr Leamy sings sweetly his unaffected songs of gentle and kindly
sentiment, old memories, wandering and the home-spirit, seen tenderly
through mellowing mists of revery and dream.” M. T.

+ =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 30w

“A collection of verse that seeks to translate the emotions aroused in
the American by America herself.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 350w

=LE BAS, SIR HEDLEY FRANCIS=, ed. Lord Kitchener memorial book. il *$2.50 Doran (*3s 6d Hodder and Stoughton, London) (Eng ed 17-12259)

This record of Lord Kitchener’s life is largely pictorial, altho
tributes by men who were his friends and associates are included, also
a complete record of his own speeches made during the progress of the
war. The profits from the sale of the book go to the Lord Kitchener
national memorial fund, which is devoted to the relief of disabled
soldiers.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 21 ‘17 450w

“This is not a biography, and yet in speech and picture it records the
life of Kitchener from his boyhood until as field marshal his life
ended.”

+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 300w

“The volume’s first value is pictorial. The second value is personal.”

+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w

=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 110w

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w

=LE BLANC, MAURICE.= Golden triangle; the return of Arsène Lupin. il *$1.35 (1½c) Macaulay co. 17-2342

It is April, 1915, and Paris has her share of maimed soldiers. She
also has still in her midst spies and plotters. It is around the
efforts of one of these soldiers, Captain Patrice Belval, to free the
woman he loves from the fate that threatens her that this story turns.
But the plot is too intricate for the honest, impulsive captain to
unravel. For “Little Mother Coralie” of the hospital wards is wife to
the scoundrel financier, Essarès Bey, a Turk passing as an Egyptian
and a naturalized Frenchman. The wealth of France is at stake.
Therefore Arsène Lupin, under an assumed name, again appears upon the
scene, and under his marvellous skill, the tangled web is made
straight.

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 40w

=Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 270w

“The entire atmosphere is always tense, but so confused at times that
there is difficulty in determining just what is what and who is
who. ... The characters of the story are well done.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 320w

“One flaw in the story I must point out. It contains too much crime.
Does Le Blanc confuse us connoisseurs with drunkards of crime who must
have their dose increased in size with each chapter?” M. A. Hopkins

+ — =Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 450w

“It must be acknowledged that the book is more entertaining before
Arsène Lupin appears like a god out of the machine to smooth all
difficulties in almost too easy a manner.”

=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w

=LE BON, GUSTAVE.= Psychology of the great war; tr. by E. Andrews. *$3 Macmillan 940.91 (Eng ed 16-23099)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Only for libraries making a very complete collection of war
material.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17

“The reader will find M. Le Bon’s argument saturated with loyalty, but
not blindly; he will find running through it a sanity of comprehension
that may lead to irrelevance but not to injustice; and he will observe
a sincere objective intent. ... In view of the peculiarly meagre
contributions that in any way illuminate the psychology of the war,
and equally of the fact that so many writers admit and emphasize that
the psychological causes are the significant ones, the essay of M. Le
Bon attains an importance which his reputation presages and his
performance confirms.” Joseph Jastrow

* + =Dial= 62:182 Mr 8 ‘17 1700w

“The title of this book does not convey a correct idea of its scope.
It would probably be impossible for any living man to write a
scientific psychology of the war, partly because psychology is not at
present provided with the necessary principles and methods and partly
because sufficient data are not yet available. ... This must not be
taken to imply that the book is not valuable. It would be valuable if
it were only as a collection of excerpts from newspapers, interviews,
letters, and state papers. But it is more than this; it is an
informing and stimulating book. I mean only that it is not what the
author seemingly intends it to be, namely, an explanation of the war
in terms of psychological laws. The author adds nothing in the present
book to what he has already said on the collective mind.” R. B. Perry

+ — =J Philos= 14:527 S 13 ‘17 1400w

“What Gustave Le Bon writes is always worth reading. No man living
knows more about the facts of social psychology, or builds more
plausible hypotheses when facts are wanting. ... If the author could
have written with scientific impartiality, he would have produced the
most important rational work on the war that has yet appeared.
Scientific impartiality, however, is not to be expected from a patriot
whose country is agonizing under invasion. ... The scientific value of
the first third of the book is sadly impaired by mystical
contamination of rational conceptions.” A. S. J.

+ — =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 1450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17

=LEDOUX, LOUIS VERNON.= George Edward Woodberry: a study of his poetry. (Contemporary American poet ser.) $1 Poetry review co., 12 Chauncy st., Cambridge, Mass. 811 17-18966

“An interesting biographical essay on this great modern New Englander,
on the influences that have governed him and made his poetry what it
is, thoughtful, philosophical, cultivated and also very acutely felt.
The book includes a good bibliography of all of Mr Woodberry’s
writings.” (Ind) Mr Ledoux is vice-president of a firm of mining
engineers and has published several volumes of poetry.

=Ath= p469 S ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 90:553 Ja 23 ‘17 70w

+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 620w

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 40w

=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Songs of peace. *3s 6d Jenkins, London 821

“Last July there fell, fighting for world freedom in the ranks of the
Royal Inniskilling fusiliers, the Irish poet who more than any other
of recent years has won for himself a unique place in Irish (and
incidentally English) letters. ... His work was introduced to the
world by Lord Dunsany, who wrote the foreword to ‘Songs of the
fields,’ a friendly office which he has again performed for ‘Songs of
peace,’ Ledwidge’s last book. ... The poems in the new volume are more
self-revelatory than those of ‘Songs of the fields.’ ... The influence
of outward events is shown, not only in the tone of the poems, but in
the names of the sections into which the slender volume is divided—At
home, In barracks, In camp, At sea, In Serbia, In Greece, In hospital
in Egypt. Despite stirring times and deeds, the poet’s thoughts turn
constantly to Ireland, and his song is most often of her. For this
reason Lord Dunsany names the new volume ‘Songs of peace,’ ‘in spite
of the circumstances under which they were written.’”—Boston
Transcript

+ =Ath= p593 D ‘16 60w

“Ledwidge is before all else the poet of Irish landscape. ... Not only
does he give the physical appearance of Ireland, but the true
inwardness of her landscape—the color, the scent, and the sound of his
beloved land, that the Gael may feel a catch in his breath as he
reads, and find his brain flooded with many memories. ... As a poet of
nature, Ledwidge has imaginative power linking him with the great
poets of the past. ... Yet he is in no sense imitative, he belongs to
his own day and has a personality of his own.” N. J. O’C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1200w

+ =Pratt= p34 O ‘17 30w

“This is Mr Ledwidge’s second book, and it shows happily, if anyone
doubted it, that his gifts and endowments are of the lasting order. He
is a genuine poet; he raises common things above their commonness; he
has the vision which perceives and makes beauty.”

+ =Sat R= 123:162 F 17 ‘17 520w

“Last week brought the news that the author of these ‘Songs of peace’
has been killed. ... No one can say what he would have been if he had
lived. One cannot be confident about the promise of the queer tender
beauty in these poems. ... But of the beauties there can be no doubt.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w

=LEE, JAMES MELVIN.=[2] History of American journalism. il *$3.50 Houghton 071 18-292

A comprehensive and authoritative history of American journalism
prepared by the head of the New York university school of journalism.
The text which runs through the following chapters is illustrated with
reproductions of famous papers and cartoons: Precursors of American
newspapers; The first American newspaper—the Boston News-Letter;
Beginnings in colonies; Colonial period, 1704-1765; Revolutionary
period, 1765-1783; Period of early republic, 1783-1812; First dailies
and early party organs; Party press period, 1812-1832; Beginnings in
states, 1783-1832; Beginnings of the penny press; Transition period,
1832-1841; Beginnings in states and territories, 1833-1873; Mexican
war to Civil war period, 1846-1860; Civil war period, 1860-1865;
Reconstruction period, 1865-1880; Period of financial readjustment,
1880-1900; Period of social readjustment, 1900-; Journalism of to-day.

“Unfortunately, Mr Lee thinks it necessary to belittle the work of his
predecessor. Were Mr Lee’s own work absolutely flawless, this harsh
judgment upon the work of his fellow journalist might be pardonable,
but under the circumstances it seems peculiarly unnecessary and
inconsiderate. The vast amount of information gathered by Mr Lee makes
his volume undeniably of great value as a storehouse of facts. But as
a history it contains many defects of arrangement and style. Its index
is so incomplete as to be absolutely worthless.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 1150w

“He has performed his task con amore, as his comprehensive work
attests.”

+ =Lit D= 56:44 F 9 ‘18 370w

“A book of prime importance to all newspaper men who take an
intelligent interest in their profession, of decided interest to the
general reader on account of its lively style, and of real value to
the student of American life because of its comprehensiveness and its
presentation of the ethics as well as the annals of its subject.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w

=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Green jacket. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-24273

This is an unusual kind of detective story. Millicent Newberry, a
small woman with gray eyes and hair, who dresses in gray, and whom
anyone passing in a crowd would not have noticed particularly, tired
of detective work as done in Tom Corbin’s detective agency, because
she came to see that “It isn’t commonsense to go on catching folks and
locking them up forever, or for a little while—and then letting them
run loose.” So she set up an agency of her own and took no cases
except with a signed agreement that she should say what should be done
with the criminal she caught. Milly solved the mystery of the Mason
emeralds which had for two years baffled other detectives. It was her
custom to knit when on a case, and the book takes its title from the
green jacket she was knitting while she pondered on the mysterious
disappearance of the emeralds.

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“This story of Millicent Newberry is largely a thing of atmosphere,
for it is the subtler realm of atmosphere that Mrs Lee finds the
surest way to make her heroine real to us.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1150w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

“Altho the author leads the reader to expect miraculous sleuth work on
the part of Millie Newberry, one is sadly disappointed. The story is
rather well constructed but there is not sufficient suspense to hold
the interest.”

– + =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 60w

+ =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w

+ =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 300w

=LEE, ROGER IRVING.= Health and disease; their determining factors. *$1.75 (1½c) Little 613 17-8216

The author is professor of hygiene at Harvard university and this book
on preventive medicine is the outgrowth of lectures delivered to his
classes. It is intended for the layman, whose duty it is to cooperate
intelligently with health authorities in the prevention and control of
disease. Dr Lee’s purpose is to give him a summary of the knowledge
that has been gained by medical science, not omitting to point out the
things that science has not yet learned and the fields that are still
to be explored. There are chapters on: Heredity; Food; Air; The skin;
Exercise and work; Light and the eyes; The hygiene of the teeth and
the upper air passages; The hygiene of the mind and the nervous
system; The communicable diseases; The air-borne diseases, etc. There
is also a discussion of Occupational diseases and a chapter on The
function of the board of health.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“Concise and easily readable. ... The volume constitutes a summary
knowledge gained from scientific medicine in recent years, but there
is an utter absence of technical matter so unwelcome to the layman.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 370w

+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“There is nothing in the nature of ‘every-man-his-own-physician’ about
this book. On the contrary, the reader of books like this will be very
likely to learn when to send for the physician. ... There is a good
index and the book is well printed.”

+ =Ind= 90:515 Je 16 ‘17 200w

“Now, as never before, such a work may helpfully serve employers who
would understand the wisdom and gain of solving the health problems of
their employees. It may even assist medical practitioners who would
like a summary of preventive remedies.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 370w

+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 90w

“It is a misfortune to use this phrase [’The air-borne diseases’] in
any sense. ... Specially to be commended are the chapters on Alcohol,
tobacco and the habit-forming drugs and on the Venereal diseases and
sex-hygiene. ... It is to be most cordially recommended to the lay
reader and might find a useful place as a text in a general elementary
college course in hygiene and sanitation, and should certainly be on
the desk of every teacher of biology and hygiene.” C. M. Hilliard

+ =Science= n s 45:463 My 11 ‘17 350w

“Sane, comprehensive, interesting and up-to-the-minute. One feels
that, at last, the subject is set upright, solid, and on its feet.” G.
S.

+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 200w

=LEFEVRE, EDWIN.= To the last penny. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-10667

Tommy Leigh, newly graduated from college, is faced with the necessity
of earning a living. Having grown up in the belief that his father is
a rich man, the discovery that he must fend for himself comes as a
shock. The severity of the blow, however, grows out of the suspicion
that his father is not an honest man, that he has taken advantage of
his position as a trusted bank employee to appropriate the funds that
paid for his son’s education. Tommy’s first job takes him out to
Dayton, Ohio, where he enters the employ of the Tecumseh Motor
Company. The chief interest of the story is centered in Thompson, the
head of this company and his business methods. At the end there is an
adjustment between Tommy and his father and an explanation of the
father’s motives.

“A good clean story. ... Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“A mechanical piece of work.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 40w

“The story has already appeared serially in one of the well-known
weeklies and will be a welcome addition to the summer library of
novels. ... It is a book to help one as well as to amuse him.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 220w

“Entertaining, and exceptionally ingenious.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 270w

=LEGGE, THOMAS MORISON, and others.= Origin, symptoms, pathology, treatment and prophylaxis of toxic jaundice observed in munition workers. *$2.50 Longmans 615.9

“Since the war a new occupational disease has been listed in the
British factory inspection reports and has been added to those for
which compensation can be claimed under the law. This is toxic
jaundice, a form of poisoning caused by contact with the explosive
trinitrotoluol, or triton, or TNT, to give it all its names. ... In
1916 there were reported in Great Britain 181 cases of toxic
jaundice—the severe form of TNT poisoning—with 52 deaths. Milder forms
need not be certified, but they are said to number about 30 times as
many (some 5,400). ... As our output of munitions increases, TNT
poisoning will inevitably increase unless we adopt the means of
prevention worked out in England. This book is a mine of interesting
information concerning this new and important industrial
disease.”—Survey

“While much of it is very technical and of value only to physicians,
there is a great deal for the lay inspector or welfare worker.” Alice
Hamilton

+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 350w

=LE GRAND, PHILIPPE E.= New Greek comedy; with an introd. by J: Williams White. *$4.50 Putnam 882 17-21776

“Professor Legrand’s ‘Daos, tableau de la comédie grecque pendant la
période dite nouvelle’ appeared in 1910 and immediately commanded the
favorable consideration of classical scholars. Now Mr James Loeb, who
had already translated Decharme’s ‘Euripides and the spirit of his
dramas’ (1905) and Croiset’s ‘Aristophanes and the political parties
of Athens’ (1909), has put us still further in his debt by providing
an English version of Legrand as the concluding member of a trilogy of
French works dealing with the history of ancient drama. ... With the
idea of securing the attention of a wider public, not a little which
would be of interest primarily to specialists has been omitted in the
present edition. The translator’s preface states that the selection of
passages for omission was made by the French author and that the bulk
has thus been reduced by almost one-third.”—Class J

“Between the author and the translator every effort has been made to
recommend this book to the general reader without taking away any part
of its accuracy or its importance to the scholastic world.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 900w

“One would be greatly mistaken if he concluded that the present
version were rendered altogether suitable for the general reader, for
Greek and Latin words, phrases, and sentences are left standing in the
text with such frequency as to present a serious obstacle to all but
the classically trained. ... It would have added considerably to the
value of the book if the author or translator could have brought the
bibliographical references quite up to date. ... I have tested the
translation at numerous points and have found it uniformly
accurate. ... The original edition had no index, but Professor Capps
has supervised the compilation of an extensive index for the
translation. ... The French edition was competently reviewed by
Professor Prescott in Classical Philology, V (1910), 377ff.” R. C.
Flickinger

+ =Class J= 13:77 O ‘17 1350w

“Although Legrand’s book is unquestionably the best available
description of New comedy, it is at times tedious reading, in its
English form, for the general student of literature. It is often
unnecessarily profuse in arraying examples of a given phase of comedy;
the French author’s style of exposition is sometimes clumsily
mechanical; and in general a clear succinct statement of the essential
features of content and form, described from the standpoint of a
modern reader of ancient comedy, would serve much better the needs of
the audience to whom Mr Loeb addresses his translation.” H: W.
Prescott

+ — =Class Philol= 12:442 O ‘17 220w

“This book will be not only indispensable to the conscientious student
of literary history, but of genuine interest to the intelligent
general reader who might be repelled by the mass of technical
material, wisely omitted in this case, which so many writers on
classical subjects seem to think it ignominious to spare him.” E. D.
Perry

+ =Educ R= 55:73 Ja ‘18 900w

“The ‘Daos’ of Prof. Legrand, which Mr Loeb now gives us in an
excellent version, has not the characteristic French gift of brilliant
generalisation. It is rather a book which appeals to the main trend of
American scholarship, which is to gather up laboriously an infinite
amount of small detail. ... It will be a bit stiff for the general
reader who is in view, for it is thickly spread with the names of
plays, which are usually fragments of plays, and dramatis personæ.”

+ =Sat R= 123:578 Je 23 ‘17 1350w

“M. Legrand is happy alike in his opportunity and in the use that he
has made of it. ... To the general reader the omissions are no loss,
while Mr Loeb’s English version shows that he himself is a master of
the art which he has done so much to encourage.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p220 My 10 ‘17 2150w

=LEIGHOU, ROBERT BENJAMIN.= Chemistry of materials of the machine and building industries. il *$3 McGraw 660 17-11589

“A text-book for technical schools considering from the standpoint of
the user the chemistry of water, fuels, refractory materials, iron and
steel, nonferrous materials and alloys, foundry sands, building
stones, lime and gypsum products, cement, clay and its products,
paints, varnishes, lubricants, glue, rubber, insulating materials,
etc.” (Cleveland) The author is associate professor of chemistry in
the Carnegie institute of technology.

“The bibliographical footnotes and the lists of books and periodical
references at the chapter endings make this an excellent reference for
both the technical and the public library.”

+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w

“There is a curious admixture of the scientific and the popular
methods of treatment. The references are many and interesting, though
it is to be doubted whether the technical student will be other than
bewildered by their number, or the user of materials, seeking detailed
information, will be less than exasperated by the glossing of facts
indicated by their unceasing recurrence.”

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 150w

“Intended for students who have a knowledge of elementary general
chemistry. ... An excellent reference for both the technical and the
public library.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ap ‘17 90w

“Useful work, including a wide range of materials and giving concise
information much of which is not easily available elsewhere.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 40w

=LEONARD, MARY FINLEY.= Ways of Jane; a story with which the wise and prudent have no concern. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 17-8350

This is the story of Jane and her friends on Sycamore street and of
certain other people who live in the more aristocratic Kenton place.
Jane is seven years old and she lives with Angela, her aunt, who is
young and lovely and who writes reviews of books to help with the
family living. Jane has a part in the reviewing, too, placing large
blue penciled R’s on the paper jacket of each book as it leaves
Angela’s hands. Jane’s best friend is Miss Goldie, the little
dressmaker who shares her belief in fairies and ogres. Her next best
friend is David. David is a young man who lives in Kenton place, but
Jane does not recognize class distinctions and this does not interfere
with their friendship. There are other pleasant people in the story
and before the end of it Jane’s faith in fairies, yes, and in ogres,
too, is vindicated.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17

“A very slight, rather pleasant and somewhat long-winded little
story.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 140w

“Although Jane is a juvenile, the book is not.”

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

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w

=LEONARD, STERLING ANDRUS.= English composition as a social problem. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (2c) Houghton 808 17-5148

The idea that lies back of this monograph is expressed by Dr Suzzallo
in his Editor’s introduction: “Most self-expression is for the purpose
of social communication. We express ourselves in the presence of other
people to gain appreciation or stimulation and to influence and
control others. Our whole use of language has a social setting.” The
author has worked out this idea in a plan for composition teaching in
grades and high school. Four chapters discuss: The sources of
composition projects in child-activities; The social group as an agent
in expressional development; The organization of ideas; Evolution and
attainment of expressional standards.

=A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17

“Stimulating, somewhat technical.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 My ‘17 70w

+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 180w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:46 Mr ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:646 O ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 60w

Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ =School R= 25:606 O ‘17 90w

=LESLIE, SHANE.= Celt and the world. *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940 17-7029

The present war is termed a Teutonic family split. The real point at
issue is, Which of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic family
shall rule the sea. The theme of the book is the relation of Celt and
Teuton in history, with special reference of course to the relation of
England and Ireland. Between Germany and Ireland, there can be little
in common is the author’s conclusion. “The fortunes of Ireland are
with the Anglo-Celtic empire, though the reactionary English element
has by unwisdom obscured the path.” Contents: The Aryans and their
religion; Celt and Teuton; The conversion of the Celt; The holy Aryan
empire; The Aryan dispersion; A view of Irish history; The Teutonic
family split.

“Not only from the standpoint of history is his book interesting, but
he has built up an argument which is certainly thought-provoking.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 220w

“Though entertainingly written and abounding in literary charm, the
study will prove a disappointment to most readers. They will naturally
expect an illuminating study of the influence of one of the world’s
great races on its general trend of events, but they will find instead
an opportunist brief born of the present war.”

=Cleveland= p81 Je ‘17 80w (Reprinted from America)

“Pre-supposes a ‘well-read’ reader and a receptive mind. To many the
sketch of Irish history will be the most interesting thing in the
book; and the praise heaped upon the Celtic hero, Daniel O’Connell,
will find few critics. Mr Leslie surely knows his subject.”

+ =Cath World= 105:823 S ‘17 340w

“An essay on European development from an unusual angle—from the angle
of a student who remains rather aloof from the achievements of the two
imperial branches of the Teutonic stock—the German and the
Anglo-Saxon. Mr Leslie’s ideal of European union is one from which
Europe seems to have decisively departed—a union under the presidency
of pope and emperor. ... Now that the dominant Aryan people, the
Teutonic, are wasting themselves in fratricidal conflict, the menace
of Asia becomes more positive, more immediate. That is the thesis of
‘The Celt and the world.’” Padraic Colum

=Dial= 62:435 My 17 ‘17 900w

+ — =Nation= 105:73 Jl 19 ‘17 400w

“Both learned and brilliant—a rare combination today.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 400w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w

Letters from a French hospital. *$1 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-15442

A series of letters written to her people at home by an English girl
nursing in France. They range in date from July 31, 1915 to September
17, 1916. For the most part they are concerned with the every day
duties and routine of hospital service, but now and again there is a
reflective sentence that reveals the writer’s character. “I never for
a moment wanted the Boches to win, but I just can’t want them killed,”
she writes. At another time she tells that she has just motored over
to the Spanish frontier where she stood on the border and “looked
longingly over into peace.”

“American women who are looking forward to hospital service during the
war cannot fail to be interested in these unusual letters.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 30w

“The letters are an interesting revelation of all the unconscious
little heroisms that are part of the daily life near any great
fighting front.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 220w

“Pictures conditions similar to those described in ‘Mademoiselle
Miss,’ and the writer displays many of the same qualities, which led
to success despite her lack of training.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 50w

=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Hallow-e’en, and poems of the war. *$1.25 Dutton 821

“Most of the war poetry has had in it more or less of the clangor of
battle, the exaltation of spirit that fills the soldier at the firing
line, the gay comradeship of the march. But these poems are mostly
from the point of view of the home-staying ones and are full of the
tender reverence of these for the soldier fighting and dying, of
compassion for the bereaved at home, and of admiration for the courage
with which they bear their losses and sorrows.”—N Y Times

“A somewhat different touch marks these war poems in comparison with
most of the war poetry the last two or three years have brought
forth—a touch that perhaps can be best described as the priestly touch
of understanding and compassion and healing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 530w

“Contains many fine poems, several of which have received praise on
previous publication in English magazines. ‘Hallow-e’en, 1915,’ ‘He
prayed,’ and ‘The spires of Oxford,’ have a rare quality and deserve a
place among the best expressions of the war spirit in poetry.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 50w

“Miss Letts never strikes a wrong note or plucks needlessly at our
heartstrings, and if there is little gaiety in her new volume, there
is no wantoning with sorrow.”

+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 200w

=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Spires of Oxford, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 821 17-24170

“The majority of the poems in this volume were published in 1916 under
the title ‘Hallow-e’en and poems of the war.’ The verdict of the
public, as shown by continual requests for permission to republish, is
that ‘The spires of Oxford’ is the most important poem in the
volume—and therefore in issuing a new edition with several new poems,
we bow to this verdict and give ‘The spires of Oxford’ its place in
the forefront of the volume.” (Publishers’ note) Contents: Poems of
the war; Ad mortuum; Miscellanea.

“They have a felicity of expression, variety, distinction, a touch of
dramatic fervor and a genuineness of feeling which make them
appealing.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

“These war poems one may read through with responsive interest, but
with no keen poignancy, except on one occasion. That exception is in
the verses called ‘What reward?’ ... The poems in the other two groups
of Miss Letts’s volume show her, I think, in a better poetic
light. ... The work is always clear, sometimes vivid, always cleanly
wrought.” W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 500w

+ =Cath World= 106:402 D ‘17 90w

“Contains some poems on the war which we should be sorry to have
missed.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w

“There are many noble war-poems in Miss Letts’s book, but the part of
it which impresses us most is that containing poems personal in theme.
Miss Letts’s chief claim—and a strong claim it is—upon the affections
of those who care greatly for poetry is the group of poems called ‘Ad
mortuum.’”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 6 ‘17 850w

“They are primarily poems—buoyant with beauty, full of fresh visions
of loveliness, warm and human and sweet. The war poems are dignified
and reveal an occasional flash of understanding that is all too
unusual in war verse.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 470w

+ =N Y Times= 22:566 D 16 ‘17 230w

“The poem from which the book takes its title is an outstanding
example of war verse, notable for its simplicity and feeling. ...
Almost equally affecting is ‘Halloween, 1915.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 24 ‘17 280w

=LEUBA, JAMES HENRY.= Belief in God and immortality; a psychological, anthropological and statistical study. *$2 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 218 17-54

The author says, “In an earlier book [’A psychological study of
religion,’ 1912] I have considered the origin, the nature, the
function, and the future of the belief in what I have called
‘personal’ gods. The present volume is a similar study of the belief
in personal immortality.” Part 1 treats of The two conceptions of
immortality: their origins, their different characteristics and the
attempted demonstration of the truth of the modern conception. This
part also includes an examination of the studies of the Society of
psychical research. Part 2 presents a statistical study of the belief
in a personal God and in personal immortality in the United States.