Chapter V: Part 2: deals with ‘Government and the citizen’ and is made up of a (2)

The author’s purpose is “to show Italy as the war has revealed her.”
He says, “The Italian state is one of the most original and one of the
most vigorous elements of modern Europe, and one of the richest in
future promise. The war came at one of the most favourable moments of
its growth and evolution. Italy was able to seize upon this moment,
and to-morrow, we believe, she will count in the world for more than
she counted yesterday.” He writes of: Italian opinions and intentions;
The adaptations of the House of Savoy; The nationalist tradition;
Italy is no longer the country of the dead; The Quirinal and the
Vatican; From the Triple alliance to the Quadruple entente; The
historic month in Italy; The future. The author is a Frenchman who has
seen long service as a correspondent in Italy.

=A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17

“M. Bainville’s work is of peculiar interest, and gives some idea of
inner Italy, as well as of the motives which led to her intervention
in the war.”

+ =Ath= p36 Ja ‘17 100w

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 300w

Reviewed by H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 30w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 15 ‘17 450w

“For us, his book is admirably informative.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 750w

=Pratt= p44 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 24 ‘17 430w

=BAIRNSFATHER, BRUCE.= Bullets and billets. il *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 940.91 17-3729

Bruce Bairnsfather is a cartoonist whose drawings picture the humor of
trench life. In this book he has written of the early days of the war,
illustrating the account with some of his own sketches. Modern warfare
appears to be a muddy business, but the good humor of the
author-artist and his pals seemed to be proof against all physical
discomforts.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:393 Je ‘17

“Among the trivial books growing out of the war, this one found its
place abroad and it will amuse a certain (or uncertain) number here.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 70w

Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 170w

“Unfortunately for us our officer-author gets him a man servant
shortly after the book begins and moves out of the picturesque mud—had
he seen less of his own class and more of his men this might indeed
have been a book to rival ‘Kitchener’s mob.’” Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 91:213 Ja 20 ‘17 200w

“This volume is not in the least literary, but it bubbles over with
laughter and a very human enjoyment of rare comforts. ... It is well
illustrated, too.”

+ =Sat R= 122:580 D 16 ‘16 450w

“The drawings of Captain Bairnsfather have become so much of an
institution in the army that they scarcely need an introduction.
Personally we are not convinced that some type might not have been
found equally comic yet standing less questionably for all that the
war means to a democracy that goes forth to fight. ... The book before
us shows how much Captain Bairnsfather has in him. His jokes are
spontaneous, and, when he tries, they fit the drawings perfectly. He
has, moreover, firmness and a power to charm when he pleases.”

+ — =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 300w

“Here we have an army officer who invariably depicts his men (to whom
his book is dedicated) as the very type which the army is anxious to
suppress. ... It is not with Captain Bairnsfather’s humour that we
quarrel, for his situations are invariably amusing. It is because he
standardizes—almost idealizes—a degraded type of face.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 D 21 ‘16 450w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 80w

=BAKER, HARRY TORSEY.= Contemporary short story; a practical manual. $1.25 Heath 808.3 17-1356

“In the course of six chapters the author outlines in a lively manner
the essentials of the American short story from both the editor’s and
the reader’s point of view, drawing largely for his material upon his
own personal editorial experience. ... ‘This volume,’ he says,
‘accordingly aims to teach promiscuous young authors, whether in or
out of college, how to write stories that shall be marketable as well
as artistic. It attempts to state succinctly, and as clearly as may
be, some fundamental principles of short-story writing. ... Each
chapter is followed by a series of suggestive questions for beginners
in fiction, and at the end of his book are printed lists of American
fiction magazines, books on the short story, and titles of
representative short stories by English and American writers.’”—Boston
Transcript

“The chief criticism has been that he forgets the ideals of the
masters and preaches ‘popularity and financial success at all
hazards.’”

=A L A Bkl= 13:301 Ap ‘17

“Its author’s qualifications for his task are set forth after his name
in these words: ‘Instructor in English in the University of Illinois,
formerly special reader of fiction manuscripts, International magazine
company, publishers of Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazar, etc.’ ... It
is obvious again and again, as we turn the pages of Mr Baker’s book,
that his knowledge of what sort of short story will be profitable runs
far in advance of his critical faculty.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 20 ‘17 650w

“Mr Baker’s drawback is that he has only one market in mind—the market
represented by the American magazines that pay highest. ‘It pays,
therefore,’ he writes ‘to find out in advance what American editors
dislike’ ... But what is required is another standard altogether, not
the raising of the commercial standard. A few editors might be induced
to consider what discriminating minds approve of.” M. M. Colum

=Dial= 62:347 Ap 19 ‘17 500w

“Brief and ‘snappy’ book on manuscript salesmanship. ... If the author
had only refrained from occasional references to art and artistry his
little volume would have been wholly justifiable. For there is no
reason in the world why short-story writers should not ply their trade
for money. ... Only, when they do so, they should stop talking about
art.”

=Nation= 104:548 My 3 ‘17 420w

— =New Repub= 10:108 F 24 ‘17 1350w

“There is a really illuminating chapter on ‘How magazines differ,’
followed by a description of a magazine office from the inside.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 500w

“A commonsense little volume that should find an audience despite the
fact that it is an addition to a long list of books whose excellence
varies with their number.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 260w

=BAKER, ORIN CLARKSON.= Travelers’ aid society in America; principles and methods. *$1 (6½c) Funk 910.2 17-14808

This little book, published under the auspices of the Travelers’ aid
society of New York city at the close of the thirtieth anniversary of
active travelers’ aid work there, deals with the “protection from
danger and prevention of crime for travelers, especially young women,
girls and boys traveling alone.” (Sub-title) The appendix gives
Instructions to agents.

=BAKER, RAY STANNARD (DAVID GRAYSON, pseud.).= Great possessions. il *$1.30 (3c) Doubleday 17-28078

A slender volume which nevertheless can lure one for a brief respite
away from the strident noises of a care-troubled world into a realm
where loafing with one’s soul is encouraged. It is another adventure
in contentment, Grayson leading the way this time to the country where
he points out the well-flavored things of garden and field—the smells,
sights, sounds, touches and tastes, two of which, the sense of taste
and the sense of smell, having been shabbily treated, he thinks, in
the amiable rivalry of the senses. Other essays in the group delve
down to the wealth of love to be found in the hearts of humble men.

“Pleasant essays in the author’s familiar vein.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

Reviewed by A. M. Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:336 N ‘17 250w

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w

“A fitting successor to ‘The friendly road’ and ‘Adventures in
contentment.’ A word should be said for Thomas Fogarty’s delightful
drawings, which are entirely in harmony with the text.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 110w

“What we dislike chiefly, perhaps, is the complacency of his mellow
hieratic chant, with its double appeal to those who incline to go
‘back to the land,’ and to those who are determined to be ‘glad,’
according to the current fashion (in fiction).”

– + =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 510w

=Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 20w

“It is a privilege to come in contact with the type of mind here
represented. He is eminently restful, and his attitude promotes a
readjustment of values.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:1379 O 20 ‘17 450w

“It is a delightful book; rich in its wisdom, redolent of nature, and
bespeaking a love for humble things and men of gentle will.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 370w

=BAKSHY, ALEKSANDR.= Path of the modern Russian stage, and other essays. il *7s 6d Palmer & Hayward, London 792 (Eng ed 17-17074)

“In these essays the author is largely concerned with the problem of
representational versus presentational stage performances. Should
illusion be carried to its furthest limits? Should the play be
represented, as at the Moscow art theatre, as ‘an independent entity
existing side by side with’ the observing audience? Or should it be
presented through the medium of the stage? Other matters dealt with
are the advantages and disadvantages of ensemble-acting, and long-run
plays. The concluding essay treats of ‘The kinematograph as art.’”—Ath

=Ath= p541 N ‘16 70w

“Valuable is the author’s essay on living space and the theatre, and
his criticism of Mr Gordon Craig’s theories. But abstraction seems
pushed to the point where words become abstracted from meaning in the
essay on a poet-philosopher of modern Russia, the whole sustained in
the Nietzschean jargon of the mythic opposition between Dionysus and
Apollo. In more than one sentence the old opposition of the classic
and romantic spirit is all that is implied.”

+ — =Int Studio= 61:99 Ap ‘17 250w

“The impression left by Mr Bakshy’s very interesting book, which is
full of suggestive remarks and illuminating criticism, is that there
is very little future for naturalism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p487 O 12 ‘16 1300w

=BANCROFT, GRIFFING.= Interlopers. il *$1.50 Bancroft co., 156 5th av., N.Y. 17-20421

“A study of the ‘yellow peril,’ as the subtle and irresistible
absorption of California by the Japanese, whom the law has excluded
from citizenship, but has failed to keep off the land. ... The central
figure of the story is that of a young eastern-bred doctor, who makes
himself an outcast among the ranchers in Eden valley by being friendly
with the Japanese. In the event, he wins his lady and reëstablishes
himself in the world by discovering a serum for Asiatic cholera. But
he does not solve, or even help to solve, the problem of the
Californian and his Japanese rival. Not all the white man’s law and
gospel can dislodge the yellow man when he has once set foot in Eden
valley—an interloper destined in no long time to be acknowledged as
master of the premises. The Jap, in fact, is the lustier pioneer, and
with a backing of oriental gold and oriental cunning more than a match
for the western-born.”—Nation

“Though as a novelist Mr Bancroft still has something to acquire in
coördinating the scenes of a story and in making his characters
appealing, the book takes on a certain reality from the author’s
extensive and affectionate knowledge of the country, and from his not
altogether unsuccessful attempt to weave an interesting tale around
his comment on the conditions introduced by the Japanese settlements.
It is this last element that will make the book worth reading as
evidence in a problem that is not without its possibilities as an
international question.” F. I.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 750w

“The matter of the story is better than its manner: the characters
have an air of struggling against the language the author puts into
their mouths; for he makes them all talk like a book. The action is
impeded by various dissertations on fruit-ranching, Japanese customs,
or Asiatic cholera—very interesting in themselves.”

=Nation= 105:247 S 6 ‘17 320w

“The plot is merely a thread on which the author has hung a rather
interesting essay on the Japanese in California.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 350w

=BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE.= In these latter days. $2 Blakely-Oswald co., 124 Polk st., Chicago 304 17-25254

Mr Bancroft is a historian with a long list of volumes to his credit.
He has for some time made his home in California, so it is natural
that many of the papers in this new book should deal with the problems
of the Pacific coast, notably with questions of Asiatic immigration.
“Contents: A problem in evolution; Apocalyptic; Infelicities of
possession; Germany and Japan; The still small voice; Life’s complex
ways; The psychology of lying; China and the United States; The
autocracy of labor; Municipal rule and misrule; The declination of
law; Fallacies and fantasies; The economics of education; The
mysterious history of the spirit creation; Spiritual and rational
development; Ab ovo; As others see us; Spirit worship of today; The
new religion; The war in Europe; Crystallized civilization; Why a
world industrial centre at San Francisco bay? Revival of citizenship;
The initiative; Assurances for the future.” (Pittsburgh)

=Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 400w

=N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:687 O ‘17 90w

“This work of Mr Bancroft’s reveals the author’s pungency and
individuality of mind, but reveals also signs of age. Mr Bancroft is
eighty-five. Considering this fact, it is easy to understand his
overwrought denunciations of current American life.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 2 ‘17 270w

=BANG, JACOB PETER.= Hurrah and hallelujah; a documentation; from the Danish by Jessie Bröchner; with an introd. by Ralph Connor. *$1 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-10428

Dr Bang, of the University of Copenhagen, has collected excerpts from
German poems, sermons, etc. His title is taken from a book of poems
issued by a German pastor. His purpose is “to show, on the one hand,
to what a pitch the contempt and hatred for things foreign has been
carried, and, on the other hand, how widely the overestimation, not to
say the worship, of things German has spread in Germany.” There are
chapters on German prophets, German war poetry, The war in sermons,
Speeches by German professors, etc. The book was prepared for
publication in 1915.

=A L A Bkl= 13:393 Je ‘17

=Dial= 62:256 Mr 22 ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:263 S 27 ‘17 1100w

“We do not know among modern books any one volume which will give to
the English reader in so brief a form so clear a reflection of the
militaristic spirit which seems to possess, not only the military
leaders, but the teachers of every description in Germany.”

=Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 100w

“Those who have any lingering doubts as to the wisdom of the present
course taken by the government will find in ‘Hurrah and hallelujah,’ a
collection of documents edited by Dr J. P. Bang, of the University of
Copenhagen, a terrific arraignment of Germany out of the mouths of her
own poets, prophets, professors, and teachers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 130w

“Prof. Bang, in his chapter on ‘The trend of German thought,’ makes
the absurd mistake—or else the translation does—of classifying
Nietzsche with Treitschke and Bernhardi as prophets of German
world-power. Otherwise his observations are apparently correct. ...
The numerous examples cited give the book its value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 2 ‘17 950w

“Dr Bang, who is a professor of the University of Copenhagen, and
himself a distinguished theologian, has done well to publish this
book. ... It is a valuable supplement to Professor Nippold’s book on
German Chauvinism, which appeared shortly before the war, and to the
similar collections made by Mr Alexander Gray in his three pamphlets,
‘The new leviathan,’ ‘The upright sheaf,’ and ‘The true pastime.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p630 D 28 ‘16 1200w

=BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK.= Half hours with the Idiot. *$1.25 (5c) Little 817 17-14182

“Readers of Bangs are familiar with the boarding house of Mrs Pedagog
for single gentlemen, where the Idiot, the Doctor, the Poet, the
Bibliomaniac, and Mr Brief, the lawyer, assemble daily for
refreshments. Over the waffles each morning the Idiot discourses of
some theme of timely interest, like Christmas shopping, the income
tax, medical conservation, etc.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

“Not quite so spontaneous in their humor as the breakfast-table talks
in ‘Coffee and repartee.’”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“Mr Bangs gives no intimation in this volume that his humor is in
danger of going stale or ceasing. It is in his usual style, only more
so, which is good enough for most of us.”

+ =Springf’d= Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 160w

=BARBEE, LINDSEY.= Let’s pretend. il. 75c Denison 812 17-19694

A book of fairy plays for children, provided with notes on costume and
properties, stage directions, etc. Contents: The little pink lady; The
ever-ever land; When the toys awake; The forest of every day; A
Christmas tree joke; “If don’t-believe is changed into believe.” In
some of the plays the number of characters is large, making them
suitable for school entertainments where many children take part.

+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w

“A book of delightful children’s plays. ... They are merry and
whimsical and carry their little sermons unobtrusively.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 40w

“The value of these plays is increased by practical directions for
costuming, by stage directions and by other helps to production.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 80w

=BARBER, CHARLES H.= Besieged in Kut and after. *5s Blackwood, London 940.91

“Major Barber records his journey from Basra up to Kut, then the
return of the army from Ctesiphon, the long-drawn siege, the hopes and
disappointments, the surrender, life as a prisoner in Baghdad, his
exchange, and the passage down the river again to the familiar lower
reaches—familiar, but already transformed by the preparations for the
new advance—and then the farewell to ‘the desert land where we had
left only two good years of our life, measured by the standard of
time, but a good ten by those of our feelings.’ What those feelings
were it is easy to guess, though the author wraps them all in their
wonderful natural cover of the soldier’s courage and hopefulness and
kindness.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =Sat R= 124:312 O 20 ‘17 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 130w

“Major Barber’s book is a little epic. ... And it is none the less an
epic for being in form an impersonal and matter-of-fact record of
daily events. The sub-title might be ‘Endurance.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p374 Ag 9 ‘17 780w

=BARBER, FREDERIC DELOS, and others.= First course in general science. il *$1.25 Holt 502 16-17507

“This book is written for the American school child. It opens with the
statement that ‘the primary function of first-year general science is
to give, as far as possible, a rational, orderly, scientific
understanding of the pupil’s environment to the end that he may, to
some extent, correctly interpret that environment and be master of it.
It must be justified by its own intrinsic value as a training for
life’s work.’ Setting out with this idea, the authors take the various
phenomena with which the child is likely to be confronted, and deal
with them in a manner calculated to arouse his interest.”—Nature

“It covers somewhat the same field as Caldwell and Eikenberry
(Booklist 11:299 Mr ‘15), but is, perhaps, more technical, fuller on
physical science, heat, light, ventilation, and refrigeration, and
contains less on biology and physical geography, has problems and
exercises as well as more illustrations. ... A revision and
enlargement of the author’s ‘Elements of physical science,’ published
in 1906.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:379 Je ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:264 Ag 18 ‘17 120w

“Its facts in regard to physics and vital phenomena are carefully
stated, and the many applications of elementary principles to human
welfare are ingeniously and clearly presented.”

+ =Nation= 104:560 My 3 ‘17 150w

“Probably the best use of the book is as a teacher’s guide to give him
‘copy’ which he can work up and adapt to his own class.”

+ =Nature= 98:348 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

=BARBER, HERBERT LEE.= Story of the automobile; its history and development from 1760 to 1917; with an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industry. il *$1.50 (2½c) Munson 629.2 17-16907

As one reads the sub-title of this book he wonders what Franklin had
to do with the automobile. Specifically, the author accords Franklin,
as the discoverer of electricity, the credit for the electrical
automobile, and, in a more general way, shows that in his teachings of
frugality and thrift he laid the cornerstone, 150 years ago, on which
the superstructure of the automobile business has been erected. The
250 pages tell a concise story of the mechanical and commercial
evolution of the automobile, its popularity and its democratization by
Henry Ford. What will particularly interest makers and dealers is the
analysis of the industry from a financial and investment standpoint,
contributed by the Business Bourse International, Inc.

=BARBUSSE, HENRI.= Under fire; the story of a squad; tr. by Fitzwater Wray. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 940.91 17-23984

This book was first published in France, December, 1916, under the
title, “Le feu,” and received the prize offered by the Académie
Goncourt of Paris for the best book of the year. It has had a wide
sale in France. The author is a French soldier who does not hesitate
to relate the grim and sickening details of life at the front. He
quotes a fellow-soldier as saying: “If you make the common soldiers
talk in your book, are you going to make them talk like they do talk,
or shall you put it all straight—into pretty talk?” And Mr Barbusse
answers that he will not “put it all into pretty talk.” He has kept
his word. The book is “not a chronicle, still less a diary, but
combines pictures of men in masses, and of individual types,
moralisings, impressions, observations, episodes, into a sort of epic
of army life from the point of view of a private soldier.” (Bookm) And
the soldier’s point of view on the war seems to be that while war has
turned him and his fellows into “incredibly pitiful wretches, and
savages as well, brutes, robbers, and dirty devils,” that, because
they are fighting “for progress, not for a country; against error, not
against a country” they must fight on until the spirit of war is
slain, and, “there’ll no longer be the things done in the face of
heaven by thirty millions of men who don’t want to do them.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“Its realism is carried to the extent that some passages are more than
merely painful to the reader: they are repellent. There is so much
insistence upon the dirt, the vermin, the stench, and the sordidness
in the battle zones, and so wrapped in a charnel-house atmosphere are
many pages, that we think the artistry of the book has suffered in
consequence. However, it is, we repeat, a remarkable production: and
it must be admitted that this tale of soldiering in its grimmest and
grimiest aspects is well worth reading.”

+ — =Ath= p470 S ‘17 170w

“The sub-title, the ‘Life of a squad,’ is somewhat misleading. There
is much more than the life of a squad in this brilliant and varied
narrative, which records or divines wide areas of experience.” F. M.
Colby

+ =Bookm= 46:90 S ‘17 1250w

“In contrast to his book, the others seem like documents, or pious
memorial volumes, or collections of extracts from the average war
articles in the magazines. Whether this difference will appear to
those who read it only in the present English version it is hard to
say, for the translator has come down upon it rather heavily.” C. M.
Francis

+ — =Bookm= 46:451 D ‘17 150w

“But a short time ago it would have been thought impossible that the
war’s abominations could be restated with such force and vividness as
to make them appear almost new to us, yet this is what has been
accomplished here by a master hand exercising extraordinary gifts of
expression with unrestricted freedom. The book is an achievement that
will endure. If it reaches the huge sales here that are recorded of it
in France, much credit will be due to the translator, who has done his
work extremely well.”

+ =Cath World= 106:409 D ‘17 850w

“He is magnificently indifferent to the curious editorial taboo which
results in the frigid brevity of the war dispatch and the inhuman
abstractions of Mr Frank H. Simonds. To a man tremendously in earnest
who wanted to make those at home see and feel the war—yes and smell it
too—any squeamishness would naturally be a simple irrelevance. It
would not be thought of, and M. Barbusse hasn’t thought of it. The
result is a book of terrific impact, a horrible and fascinating
document that brings one nearer to the desolation and despair of No
Man’s Land than anything else I have read.” G: B. Donlin

+ =Dial= 63:455 N 8 ‘17 1550w

“Barbusse has the essentially French ability of creating atmosphere.
The action moves in vivid patches and flashes of color against a gray
background of mud and drizzling rain.”

+ =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 630w

“It is unnecessary to have been at the front to judge of M. Barbusse’s
veracity. It is a book that is no more to be questioned than the diary
of Captain Scott or the deathless pages of Tolstoy.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 12:358 O 27 ‘17 1700w

“‘Under fire’ is an example of genre art, crude often, as Rodin’s
casts are crude, as Millet’s paintings are crude. ... The greatest
chapter in the book is the last called ‘The dawn.’” B. H.

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 25 ‘17 1550w

“M. Barbusse has succeeded in giving an unforgettable impression of
the war as it exists, and in offering us a new point of view from
which to consider it and its fighters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 60w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 70w

“Makes most other war books—barring perhaps Hugh’s letters from the
trenches in ‘Mr Britling’ and Donald Hankey’s ‘Student in arms,’ first
series—seem flat and soulless—merely pictorial, a kind of motion
picture. We laugh with Empey in ‘Over the top,’ but here one doesn’t
read to laugh.” Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 93:213 Ja 19 ‘18 600w

=BARCLAY, FLORENCE LOUISA (CHARLESWORTH) (MRS CHARLES W. BARCLAY).= White ladies of Worcester. *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-29023

A novel which views such mediaeval matters as cloisters, feudal pomp
and chivalry in the light of our twentieth century breadth of view.
The hero possesses all the qualities of the knight of chivalry, its
heroine is a cloistered maiden who humbly relinquishes her religious
vows for love. But here is the modern note. The Bishop of Worcester
not only brings the lovers together but in so doing voices the
following sentiment: “Methinks these nunneries would serve a better
purpose were they schools from which to send women forth into the
world to be good wives and mothers, rather than storehouses filled
with sad samples of nature’s great purposes deliberately unfulfilled.”
The setting and atmosphere are true to the twelfth century.

=A L A Bkl= 14:129 Ja ‘18

“The book, which is overloaded with sentiment, does not carry
conviction.”

— =Ath= p679 D ‘17 90w

“Except for an occasional ‘methinks,’ and incidental allusions to
palfreys and battlements, the cumbersome trappings of mediaevalism,
the battles, the conclaves, the obsolete language, are absent from the
book. It is rather in the substance of the story that the spirit of an
earlier day is felt.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:1375 O 20 ‘17 450w

“The story has an excellent plot, and is told with commendable
restraint, and without the cloying sentimentality and wearisome
artificialities characterizing so many of the author’s stories
heretofore.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 300w

“A pleasing, sentimental romance. ... The whole is too obviously
conceived in a modern spirit: we feel the medievalism is but stage
scenery and the sentiments those of the twentieth century.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p530 N 1 ‘17 280w

=BARKER, ERNEST.= Ireland in the last fifty years (1866-1916). pa *1s 6d Oxford 941.5 (Eng ed 17-14126)

“The author begins with a survey of the period to which his book
relates, and proceeds to discuss the Irish church and education, the
agrarian question, and the government of Ireland. The latter part of
the book deals with Ireland to-day. Mr Barker regards the rebellion of
1916 as ‘a rebellion of those extremists who have, during the last
fifty years, found their enemies no less in the Home rule party of
Ireland than in the British government.’”—Ath

=Ath= p203 Ap ‘17 70w

“This well-written pamphlet gives a dispassionate account of Irish
affairs during the last half-century. ... We must demur to Mr Barker’s
suggestion that the Unionist party has accepted Home rule. He should
have explained more clearly the position of protestant Ulster, which
is imperfectly appreciated by those who do not know Ireland and her
history.”

+ — =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 90w

“Nor does he stop with the Church and Land acts—he goes on to discuss
in some detail the whole agrarian problem in Ireland as the long
series of Land acts has left it, with a peasantry relieved of
‘landlordism’ and turning to a variety of boards, departments, and
associations for help and guidance in the new problems that confront
them. This is the really valuable part of Mr Barker’s book, and it can
be heartily recommended to all who wish to understand the present
economic situation in Ireland.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 650w

=BARKER, GRANVILLE.=[2] Three short plays. *$1 Little 822 17-30424

“Rococo,” the first of the three plays, written in 1912, is a
farce-comedy with scene laid in an English vicarage. “Vote by ballot,”
dated 1914, is a comedy of English politics. The third “Farewell to
the theatre,” written in 1916, is a conversation between two persons,
a man and a woman, the second of whom is leaving the stage after a
long career.

“These plays are tempered with the thin, keen edge of Barker’s
fastidious intellectualism. ... In this trifle [’Farewell to the
theatre’], hardly a play, Barker is more the poet, or the symbolist,
of ‘Souls on Fifth’ than the dramatist.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 190w

=BARKER, HARRY.= Public utility rates. *$4 McGraw 658 17-10566

“A discussion of the principles and practice underlying charges for
water, gas, electricity, communication and transportation services.”
(Sub-title) “After eight years of collection, comparative analysis and
study the author has brought to fruition his effort to present “a
comprehensive discussion of (1) such corporation and municipal
activities as affect service and rates, (2) the trend of public
opinion and court and commission decisions, and (3) the most important
engineering and economic problems involved.” This he has done ‘in the
hope’ that the mere presentation, in one volume, of the diverse phases
of rate making may be of service in provoking thought—‘in spite of the
inherent shortcomings of the text.’” (Engin News-Rec)

“Perhaps the most orderly and generally comprehensive of the many
engineering treatises on valuation and rate making. ... The discussion
is carefully balanced, and it offers many excellent criticisms and
suggestions. The author appears public-spirited, with possibly an
over-confidence that his own state of mind is that of public service
corporation officials. If space permitted, many minor points might be
profitably discussed or criticized.” J: Bauer

+ =Am Econ R= 7:636 S ‘17 140w

“In its good style and thoroughly readable quality, the book reflects
the author’s experience as an editor of one of the most successful
technical weeklies (Engineering News). Though it treats a highly
technical subject, it does so in a manner to command the interest of
the reader, introducing him with a brief and pertinent historic sketch
to a logical presentation of the subject, adding breadth and
perspective by a discriminating analysis of the essential differences
in the rate-making problem of different utilities. Its chief value
lies in the comparison of the differences in the nature and past
solutions of the problem. ... It should be particularly helpful to the
young student.”

* + =Engin News-Rec= 79:322 Ag 16 ‘17 1450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17

“‘What is needed to save the observer from being swamped with facts in
decisions and froth in partisan theories is just such a clear and
unbiased analysis as Mr Barker’s work. ... The volume is the result of
painstaking editorial observation over a period of eight years. ...
Where there are two sides to a question each is given a fair
statement.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:444 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Municipal
Journal p539 Ap 12 ‘17)

=Pratt= p27 O ‘17

=St Louis= 15:171 Je ‘17

=BARKER, W. H., and SINCLAIR, CECILIA=, eds. West African folk-tales. il *7s 6d Harrap & co., London 398.2

These thirty-six tales are “based upon the folk-lore of the natives of
the Gold coast.” (Ath) “The subject-matter has been obtained largely
from native school teachers. ... Different versions of the same story
have been collated, spurious additions discovered and discarded, and
the common framework isolated and established. We are told that all
the material thus collected will be available eventually for the use
of the student of folk-lore; but in the meantime the authors have
contented themselves with trying to interest a different and wider
public in the subject by retelling the original basic stories as
simply and directly as possible. ... [The book includes] the primitive
version of a classic story which the negro slaves took with them
across the Atlantic, and which emerged from the mouth of ‘Uncle
Remus’ ... as the immortal adventure of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.”
(Spec)

“A curious feature of the Gold coast folk-stories is the number of
Anánsi or spider tales.”

+ =Ath= p463 S ‘17 150w

“The tales are mostly of the explanatory ‘Just-So’ type which Kipling
popularized, and although they have none of Kipling’s wonderful power
of personification or triumph of linguistic invention in the telling,
they are quite as ingenious and convincing in substance. ... The
illustrations are delicately and imaginatively drawn, and exactly
right to convey the spirit of the letterpress and to stimulate the
curiosity of a child.”

+ =Spec= 119:247 S 8 ‘17 800w

“These West African stories do not ‘grip’ as some others of their kind
succeed in doing. ... They are not as dramatic as some, nor are they
so surprising. ... The human element is lacking to them also; they
throw little light on the manners and customs of the story-teller and
his friends. ... A word may be said in appreciation of the
illustrations. Their white outline on black ground is most effective.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p388 Ag 16 ‘17 900w

=BARNARD’S= Lincoln, the gift of Mr and Mrs Charles P. Taft to the city of Cincinnati. il *50c (6½c) Stewart & Kidd 17-21909

The most interesting contribution to this little volume is that of the
sculptor, George Grey Barnard, who tells what the statue means to him
and what he tried to make it express to others,—“Lincoln, the song of
democracy written by God.” In addition the book presents various
documents connected with the unveiling of the statue in Cincinnati: a
poem by Dr Lyman Whitney Allen, the presentation address of William
Howard Taft, and the speech of acceptance by George Puchta, mayor of
the city. There are five illustrations from photographs, and one from
an etching by E. T. Hurley.

=Ind= 92:384 N 24 ‘17 400w

=N Y Times= 22:476 N 18 ‘17 580w

“Mr Taft’s address is a broad and true appreciation of Lincoln’s
character.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 650w

=BARNES, JOHN BRYSON (O. N. E., pseud.).= Elements of military sketching and map reading. 3d ed rev il *75c (5c) Van Nostrand 623.71 17-14002

“The publication of this book was undertaken with a view of providing
a textbook suitable for beginners in the subject of military
sketching. To the original book has been added chapters on map reading
and landscape sketching.” (Preface) The book is illustrated with
diagrams and sketches accompanying the text and folding maps are
provided in a pocket at the end.

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p13 Jl ‘17

=BARNETT, GEORGE ERNEST, and MCCABE, DAVID ALOYSIUS.= Mediation, investigation, and arbitration in industrial disputes. *$1.25 (6c) Appleton 331.1 16-23810

“The book is based on a study of the activities of the American
national and state agencies of mediation and arbitration. The elements
of weakness in the present system are analyzed, and the necessary
conditions for the successful working of such systems are set forth.
After giving due consideration to the experience of other countries in
dealing with the problem of industrial disputes, particularly to the
Canadian experience under the law for the compulsory investigation of
such disputes, the authors present a plan for the reorganization of
the existing systems.”—N Y Call

Reviewed by E. L. Earp

+ =Am J Soc= 23:559 Ja ‘18 300w

“Authoritative study. Useful for debates.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17

“The attitude of the authors is impartial and practical, and the
treatment of the subject is scholarly. It might be wished that the
results of the last three years be included in the book. The
appendices contain the Newlands act and the recommendations of the
Industrial commission on mediation, arbitration, etc.” J. T. Y.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:230 My ‘17 200w

=Engin N= 77:108 Ja 18 ‘17 130w

+ =Ind= 89:508 Mr 19 ‘17 150w

=N Y Call= p14 D 10 ‘16 80w

“This volume is one of rather more than ordinary value. ... As a
historical study and book of reference, trade unionists and Socialists
should find this book a valuable addition to their material on the
highly important and timely subjects of which it treats.” C. M. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 300w

“The book is timely and useful, particularly in its tendency to
convince the unions that they are too successful for their own
interests in some respects. Partisanship may win a battle or two, but
fairness is needed to win the campaign for public sympathy and
support.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 620w

=Pratt= p11 O ‘17 10w

“The authors of this book, who hold chairs, respectively, at Johns
Hopkins and Princeton, submitted a report in June, 1915, to the United
States Commission on industrial relations. The present volume is based
on that report but illustrated material has been added and the
statements have been brought down to date. In this form it is the best
available discussion of the subject in English.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

“The classifications in the book are admirably arranged, and its
conclusions and recommendations are clearly set forth. It is somewhat
unfortunate, however, that a book dealing with such an important
problem does not contain more vitality. On the whole, the monograph is
to be heartily recommended to everyone interested in social
readjustments for its careful analysis and its timely suggestions.” H.
W. Laidler

+ — =Survey= 39:45 O 13 ‘17 740w

=BARR, MRS AMELIA EDITH (HUDDLESTON).= Christine, a Fife fisher girl. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-22293

The scene is laid in the little fishing village of Culraine, Scotland,
some seventy years ago. Christine’s parents are hard-working, upright,
shrewd, deeply religious fisher-folk, whose great ambition is to
educate their son, Neil, as a dominie. With the help of Christine, who
is intellectually the abler of the two, Neil prepares for the
university, but chooses the law instead of the church, and while
taking from his parents and Christine all that they can give, grows
more and more forgetful and neglectful of them. The tragedy of the
ungrateful son is balanced by the love story of the dutiful daughter,
whose chief admirers are Angus Ballister, a gentleman, and Cluny
Macpherson, a fisherman. The end of the story leaves her not only a
happy wife, but a successful authoress.

=A L A Bkl= 14:129 Ja ‘18

“A love story of characteristic sweetness and charm.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w

“Age can not wither nor custom stale Mrs Barr’s infinite variety. Her
writing days have spanned many generations yet no more vigorous
character has been given novel readers this year than her Christine.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 3 ‘17 270w

“One carries away from this story a pleasant impression of fresh
breezes, of a people strong and upright and generally goodhearted.
‘Christine: a Fife fisher girl,’ is a novel which will be warmly
welcomed by Mrs Barr’s many admirers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 700w

“As heretofore, the story betrays a high moral tone, which makes her
novels well-nigh unique among the light fiction of the present day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 220w

=BARR, MRS AMELIA EDITH (HUDDLESTON).= Joan. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-3151

“Mrs Barr has gone to the mining region of Yorkshire for her latest
novel, and has drawn a clear and convincing picture of the mining folk
and the industry. A very different affair is Yorkshire mining from
mining here in America, and in a foreword Mrs Barr explains the root
of this difference. It lies chiefly in the fact that the miners in
England are sons of the soil, men who have grown to maturity in the
neighborhood in which they work, and who have followed their fathers
‘down pit.’ ... There is plenty of romance in the new story by a born
writer of love stories, Joan being a winsome lass, with spirit and
courage and beauty. Her fate is a man some years older than herself,
and there is wealth and splendor, too, and many happy occurrences.
Each character is well visualized; there is a human directness in Mrs
Barr’s writing that becomes more pronounced as time passes.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:401 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 500w

“Pleasing in its freshness and sincerity and especially interesting as
the work of an author in her eighty-sixth year, who in this book is
depicting the scenes with which she was familiar in her girlhood.”

+ =Cleveland= p33 Mr ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:59 F 18 ‘17 650w

=BARRETT, SIR WILLIAM FLETCHER.= On the threshold of the unseen. 2d rev ed *$2.50 Dutton (*6s 6d Kegan Paul, London) 134 17-29365

“Sir William Barrett, who was for many years professor of experimental
physics in the Royal college of science for Ireland, was one of the
principal founders of the Psychical research society in 1882, and his
interest in and close attention to the subject has been continuous for
over forty years. In 1908 he published a book (written many years
previously) containing his critical investigations under the title ‘On
the threshold of a new world of thought.’ His present publication is
in the nature of a new edition of that work, including fresh evidence
(obtained independently of any professional mediums) as to survival
after death. The book is in six parts. It opens with general matter on
psychical research and the objections of science and of religion. Part
2 discusses ‘the physical phenomena’—rappings, levitations, &c. ...
Canons of evidence, mediumship, the subliminal self, &c., are then
discussed. Part 4 collects particulars of apparitions, automatic
writing, and other evidence of survival. Part 5 deals with
clairvoyance, trance phenomena; considers difficulties; and advances
various corrections and suggestions; and in Part 6 the deeper aspects
of the matter are explored—the lesson of philosophy in the
interpretation of nature; the mystery of personality; reincarnation;
the implications of telepathy.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Sir
William Barrett is also the author of the volume on “Psychical
research” in the Home university library.

=Ath= p406 Ag ‘17 50w

“It seems impossible for any reasonable man to dispute the case for
further study, philosophic and scientific, of the evidence so far
collected, and admirably presented in the volume here reviewed.” T. W.
Rolleston

+ =Hibbert J= 16:172 O ‘17 1700w

“The author has passed the psalmist’s warning milepost of threescore
and ten, but his handling of evidential matter and his discussions in
this volume show that his mind is still keen and fresh and has lost
none of its habitual scientific method and temper. ... He discusses
most interestingly his idea of an unseen world evolving in harmony
with our own. This idea, it is apparent, is closely akin to that of a
finite, evolving God which has been developed by philosophical writers
from Kant down to William James and has just had forceful presentation
by H. G. Wells. But Sir William nowhere intimates perception of the
kinship of the two ideas.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 1150w

“What is of most immediate interest at the present moment is his
account of certain very recent personal experiments conducted with
well-known amateurs.”

+ =Spec= 118:612 Je 2 ‘17 1150w

“The present short volume presents evidence and considerations on the
spiritualist side with a welcome absence alike of credulity and of
rhetoric.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 300w

“The chief interest of this book, primarily a clear and temperate
presentation of the case for scientific spiritualism, is its
suggestion that there is such a thing as a scientific
spirituality. ... It is another matter when we can feel that the slow
patient gropings of science are inspired by a spiritual aim. ... It is
this that Sir William Barrett, like Sir Oliver Lodge, does not
neglect. He keeps the reader aware that psychical research is the
beginning of an attempt to test an intuition of reality. This is a
real meeting ground for discussion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p280 Je 14 ‘17 950w

=BARRIE, ROBERT.= My log. il *$2 Franklin press 17-22077

“Robert Barrie was fortunate in having a father able to give him
advantages in youth that many never attain to. When he was nearing the
age of twenty-one he had his heart set on a bigger boat than those he
had been sailing, and ‘the governor’ had the $2000 ready for it, but
asked the boy to go around the world instead. He accepted on condition
that his brother of seventeen should go with him, and that trip, which
lasted well past a year, is the main part of ‘My log,’ written thirty
years later for a birthday gift to ‘the governor.’ ... Paris bulks
large in the later chapters, the Paris of the studios.”—Springf’d
Republican

“He brings back a life, seemingly as far removed from us today as that
of the moyen age. A life whose freedom from wars and rumors of wars
seems now well-nigh incredible. Of those moyen days Mr Barrie is
delightfully reminiscent, rambling along from one subject to another,
in the friendliest of ways which renders negligible any ‘barrier of
limit,’ and makes the reader a ‘comrade of the road.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 12 ‘17 450w

“The book has its entertaining aspects, but as a whole belongs to the
class of autobiographies which are more interesting to the author’s
own personal friends and to himself than to the public at large.”

– + =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 40w

“Mr Barrie is a good raconteur and while his father and friends will
appreciate the book more than anyone else, it has merit and style; and
its make-up is such as one might expect in a gift from one maker of
fine books to another.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 11 ‘17 180w

=BARRON, CLARENCE WALKER.= Mexican problem. il *$1 (4c) Houghton 917.2 17-20844

Mr Barron, for ten years reporter on the Boston Transcript, is now
manager of the Wall Street Journal, Boston News Bureau and
Philadelphia News Bureau. He is also the author of “The audacious war”
and “Twenty-eight essays on the Federal reserve act.” He went to
Mexico to study the oil situation and found in that situation the
solution of the Mexican problem, which he had “failed to find in
railroad, agricultural or mining development.” The result of his
observations is embodied in this book, the greater part of which “is
devoted to an account of the development of the oil industry in
Mexico, to its various conflicting interests, and to the influence and
work of Edward Doheny, the man who ‘has always stood by’ and who is as
much concerned with the social as with the commercial problem of
Mexico.” (Boston Transcript) There are a number of illustrations from
photographs, and, at the end, a map showing the lands of the Mexican
petroleum company. The preface is by Talcott Williams.

=Am Econ R= 7:840 D ‘17 30w

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:794 N ‘17 40w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 450w

=Cath World= 106:392 D ‘17 200w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 40w

“Granting that all the facts are so stated by Mr Barren, that he is
not far out of the way in his deductions, and that his little book is
worthy of attention, he but touches the surface of the Mexican problem
as it exists to-day.”

– + =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 450w

“Mr Barron writes himself down as 100 per cent plutocratic, and even
Prussian in his outlook upon life. ... Mexico is a great country. Mr
Barron looks at it only as a means of getting oil for American and
foreign capitalism. Mexico has been in disorder for years. He wants
tranquility. And he has written this book as a means of arousing
American public opinion to consent to intervention in the unhappy
nation to the south.” W: M. Feigenbaum

— =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 480w

“Mr Talcott Williams’s preface is only some twenty-five pages in
length, but it compacts the thought and experience of a lifetime by a
man with peculiar opportunities for a just judgment upon conditions
like Mexico’s. ... Both Mr Barron and Mr Williams draw an attractive
picture of the Mexican people.”

* =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 1350w

“Supplies fresh and valuable information on the petroleum industry in
the Tampico-Tuxpan oil fields.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:759 N ‘17 60w

“This book supplies fresh and valuable information concerning one
major economic interest in Mexico—petroleum. But quite outside its
purview lie four others—agriculture, mines, rubber, henequen. It
surveys with some degree of intimacy five to ten thousand square miles
of territory. Mexico has over 750,000. No reader of the volume can
afford to forget these limitations. Within them it is an excellent
piece of work. ... Mr Barron is sympathetic in his attitude toward the
Mexican people ... but rather sharp with the Mexican government. He is
also impatient with Washington.” G. B. Winton

+ =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 410w

=BARROW, GEORGE ALEXANDER.= Validity of the religious experience. *$1.50 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 201 17-13311

As a preliminary study in the philosophy of religion, the author makes
an examination of religious experience. He accepts religious
experience as a fact, as something which happens. He says, “In raising
the question of validity, whatever we may mean, we do not mean to
question the fact of its existence or what its existence includes. We
do not ask whether any given case of religion is or is not a true
religious experience. We are concerned only with the form of the
religious experience and the questions we ask are questions of
possibility and of implication. Our analysis is therefore to be an
analysis of concepts.” The book consists of seven lectures delivered
originally at Harvard university. Contents: The problem of a
philosophy of religion; Religion real and unique; The source of
religion; The test of religion; Human and superhuman; Personality; A
foundation for theology.

“His work will satisfy the scholar, but it is too ponderous and heavy
for the average reader. If his thesis could be set forth in half the
words and in more popular style it would insure itself of wider
reading.” G. F.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 470w

“The effort, unusual in these days, to determine the real by analysis
of the mere form of experience, produces here, as it has so often
done, abstractness of treatment and dryness of style.” G: A. Coe

– + =Educ R= 54:523 D ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:117 Ag ‘17

=BARRY, WILLIAM FRANCIS.= World’s debate; an historical defence of the Allies. *$1.25 Doran 940.9