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immortality and in a personal God. The author is professor of
psychology at Bryn Mawr college.

“The author presents a somewhat detailed study of the belief in God
and a future life as it appears in primitive religions and in the
modern world of educated men and women. The treatment is extremely
suggestive and illuminating. The conclusion is that these beliefs,
having in the minds of people today little or no relation to the
conduct of life, may well be discarded in favor of more practical
moral teachings. The book deserves careful reading on the part of all
religious and social workers.” Irving King

+ =Am J Soc= 23:129 Jl ‘17 550w

“It is a pleasure to find, as one does in Leuba’s work, a really fresh
presentation and something like an original point of view. Professor
Leuba has put in his debt all those who have the welfare of religion
at heart by showing them that the situation is really much more
serious than most of them had supposed.” J. B. Pratt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:629 O ‘17 1650w

=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p94 F ‘17 100w

“Rarely, if ever, has the distinction between two quite different
conceptions of personal immortality been so successfully elaborated.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 150w

“There are few subjects as to which statistics can be more
meaningless, and that is saying a great deal.”

— =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 40w

“The book is exceedingly interesting, but far from convincing, when
one realizes that the conclusions are based merely upon questionnaires
sent to interested persons of the college world.”

=Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w

“The reader of this study can but be impressed with the fact that in
this book is discussed with the fair spirit of critical inquiry a
subject that in recent literature has been even unscrupulously
handled.” J. R. Kantor

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 500w

=Nation= 104:496 Ap 26 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:41 Mr ‘17

=LEVI, N.= Jan Smuts; being a character sketch of Gen. the Hon. J. C. Smuts, K. C., M. L. A., minister of defence, Union of South Africa. il *$2.50 Longmans 17-15584

“General Smuts, leader of the British forces against the Germans in
German Southeast Africa, has gone to England as a member of the
British Imperial war cabinet. ... He is one of the really interesting
personalities of this far-flung war. And in a book, written by a South
African neighbor, presumably for South African readers in the first
place, and then for Britons in general, the author of the present
volume has offered a real contribution to the knowledge of the world
at large. ‘Jan Smuts’ is, as the title page states, a character sketch
rather than a biography. It is written with great simplicity, out of a
heart-felt admiration, with the utmost sympathy and the most intimate
knowledge both of the man himself and of the circumstance and the
events of his life.”—N Y Times

“The work gives one the flavor of South Africa. It is not only the
racy English idiom enlivened with fresh South African phrases, nor the
imagination that loves to play with odd figures of speech drawn from
the author’s own experience; it is the insight into the Boers, the
sympathetic insight of a man who has seen a wider world only to
estimate his own better. Few men in their lifetimes have been so
fortunate in their biographers as General Smuts.” Wallace Notestein

+ =Am Hist R= 23:434 Ja ‘18 450w

+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 330w

“Seems to lack those picturesque features and that broader humanity
with which we associate General Botha.”

+ — =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 150w

“It is exceedingly interesting. ... The last sentence is all the more
interesting in connection with a statement quoted from A. G. Gardiner
of the London Daily News that Jan Smuts is ‘the most considerable
figure in Greater Britain.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 520w

“His biography is doubly worth while; it describes both an interesting
individual character and the recent development of South African
economic, social, and political conditions.”

+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 70w

* =Spec= 118:365 Mr 24 ‘17 1500w

“His style is dreadful. ... Yet Mr Levi has his merits. He is
ingenuous and kindly. His knowledge of facts is accurate, his judgment
of political opponents not usually overharsh, his reverence and
affection for General Smuts himself very genuine and very obvious. His
book, at least, comes pat to the moment. ... People in this country
might do much worse than get it and read it. It will, at least help
them to understand the elements of South African politics and the
position of the Botha government.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 430w

=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Russian revolution. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 947 17-15056

This work by the foreign news editor of the New York Tribune has
chapters devoted to: A century of struggle for freedom; Russian
autocracy and the great war; Russian democracy and the great war; The
birth of social Russia; The Duma and social Russia; The
democratization of the army; The rule of Goremykin; The dark forces;
Working for Prussianism; A traitor to democracy; The crisis; Rasputin
and Protopopov; The revolution; The fall of czarism; The new Russia;
The future. Summarizing the contents, the author says, “The first six
chapters of this book give a general survey of the forces that
underlay the revolution. The following six chapters deal with the
events in the thirty months preceding it. The last four chapters cover
the revolution proper and its possibilities.”

“Very interesting and compact.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p530 O ‘17 200w

“A clear-cut and sober analysis.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w

“It is a thrilling story and it is so well presented on the whole that
one forgets the aberrations of the author’s English style.” N. H. D.

+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 850w

“Presents information which is not easily obtainable elsewhere.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w

+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w

“Although he has leavened the mere literal record with competent and
sometimes illuminating interpretation, Mr Levine does not attempt to
give more than a hasty journalistic summary. Yet even in so slight a
book the author is compelled to devote over two-thirds his space to an
analysis of the governmental disorganization, chicanery and almost
open treason which made the drama of March, 1917, inevitable.”

+ =New Repub= 12:56 Ag 11 ‘17 600w

“The book as a whole is fascinating. But one chapter of it, because of
its unusual character, may be mentioned, that dealing with Rasputin.”
Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 600w

“Tells in crisp, journalistic style, and with a full sense of its
amazingness, this latest romance of human freedom. The author draws
from a full and deep knowledge of Russia; he is able to sum up the
salient facts leading gradually and surely to the revolution without
wasting time or losing the reader’s attention.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 1500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 70w

+ =Pratt= p44 O ‘17 10w

“By all odds the most journalistic and vivid of the presentations of
the motives and forces that are energizing the Russian national
movement. ... Mr Levine’s terse and graphic narrative of Petrograd’s
days of transition from absolutism to modern democracy can hardly be
surpassed.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 250w

“Much of what he says should be common knowledge, and if it is not his
book should help in making it so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 100w

“The personalities of Sturmer, Rasputin, Protopopov, the Tsaritsa, and
other pro-Germans are clearly brought out.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Ag 30 ‘17 950w

=LEWIN, PERCY EVANS.= German road to the East. *$2.50 Doran 327.4 (Eng ed 17-9488)

“An account of the ‘Drang nach Osten’ and of Teutonic aims in the Near
and Middle East. It discusses the political and economic causes which
underlie the Eastern question, the problems of the Balkan states and
Russia, the position of Persia and the probable result of British
occupation of Bagdad.”—A L A Bkl

“Interesting in connection with Naumann’s ‘Central Europe’ (Booklist
13:247 My ‘17) and Gibbons’ ‘New map of Europe’ (Booklist 11:258 F
‘15). Well documented with a selected classed bibliography (8p).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

“Mr Evans Lewin’s book lacks the personal knowledge and individual
feeling that give originality to Sir Thomas Holdich’s writing. Its
strongest feature is its bibliography, and, indeed, the whole book
smells somewhat of the lamp; yet the standpoint from which it is
written fatally deprives it of authority and permanence. A history of
German penetration in the Near East would be an intensely interesting
sociological study; but Mr Lewin is not writing a history, he is
making out a case. ... There is a great deal of excellent geographical
analysis and solid historical information in Mr Lewin’s book.”

– + =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 650w

“An excellent and painstaking study of the Berlin to Bagdad project,
the fullest and perhaps best balanced account of Pan-Germanism, which
has so far appeared.”

+ =Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 50w

“A scholarly and important contribution to the literature of the war
and its causes.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 15 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17

“The study throughout is comprehensive and penetrating and authorities
are given for all important statements.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 150w

“In this useful book Mr Lewin examines in detail the development of
Germany’s ambitious designs on the Near East, typified in the phrase
‘from Berlin to Baghdad.’ Every one, we suppose, now understands the
German desire to absorb the whole heritage of the ‘Sick man,’ but it
is convenient to have the diplomatic and economic history of the
German schemes during the last twenty years set forth in this readable
form. Mr Lewin, we think, exaggerates English ignorance of
pan-Germanism.”

+ — =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 250w

“Mr Lewin is already known by his useful volume on the Germans in
Africa; he has many qualifications for the task he has undertaken; he
has great industry and wide reading, and, in particular, has a very
thorough understanding of British colonial aims and interests. This
latter quality is shown in the volume before us; by far the most
valuable chapters are those on Asia Minor, and particularly on
Persia. ... While, therefore, the book is of great value as regards
the events in Asia, for an explanation of the real influences and
character of German policy at home it is inferior to other recent
works such as those of Dr Rose, or Dr Prothero’s very useful pamphlet,
‘German policy before the war.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p482 O 12 ‘16 2000w

=LEWINSKI-CORWIN, EDWARD HENRY.= Political history of Poland. il $3 Polish book importing co., 83 2d av., N.Y. 943.8 17-19703

“The author has sketched the history of the Polish state from its
early beginnings to its disintegration, and has followed the fortunes
of its scattered remnants down to the present day. The chapter on The
Polish question and the great war contains information on the Polish
legions and on the present attitude of Polish patriots towards Russia,
Germany, and Austria not easily obtainable elsewhere. ... Dr
Lewinski-Corwin believes that a free and republican Russia will make
the reconstruction of Poland, as an independent state, in
confederation with Lithuania and Ruthenia, a political
possibility.”—Nation

=A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“A chapter on the Polish legions and the attitude of the ‘patriots’
toward Austria, Germany and Russia is illuminating and gives
information not easily accessible elsewhere.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w

“The last two chapters, however,—dealing with ‘constitutional Russia
and the Poles’ and ‘the Polish question and the great war,’—have
decided value, not alone because they bring the story up to date, but
because they show an unusually keen insight into the perplexities of
the contemporary Polish problem.” F: A. Ogg

+ — =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 670w

=Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 280w

“Fully familiar with his subject. ... The interest of the volume is
enhanced by numerous illustrations. ... The book might have gained in
value by more careful proof-reading.”

+ — =Nation= 105:298 S 13 ‘17 240w

“A great deal of space is given to the many efforts of Poland to free
itself from Russian serfdom.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 370w

=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17

“If due allowance is made for these limitations, Dr Lewinski-Corwin’s
book takes its place as the best and most authoritative brief history
of Poland now on the market.” C. J. H. Hayes

+ — =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 800w

=LEWIS, BURDETTE GIBSON.= Offender and his relations to law and society. (Harper’s modern science ser.) il *$2 (1½c) Harper 364 17-10887

A work on prison reform and modern correctional methods by the
Commissioner of correction for New York city. The book is made up of
two parts, the first, Society and the offender, is a study of methods
actually in use in various institutions. There are chapters on: The
court and the offender; Classification of the offender; Probation and
parole; The indeterminate sentence; Autocratic government and
discipline; Other systems of government and discipline, etc. Part 2
deals with the prevention of crime and considers the different social
forces which can be used to that end. There are several appendixes
presenting interesting matter relating to prison practice, including
among other items a Plan for the rational treatment of women convicted
in the courts of the County of New York prepared by Katharine B.
Davis.

“The book is open to criticism because of the inadequate development
of part 2 on the prevention of crime. The common-sense point of view,
the thoroughly socialized legal attitude, and the new illustrative
material from the author’s experience are the strong points.” E. S.
Bogardus

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:553 Ja ‘18 180w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 550w

+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 60w

“Neither reactionary nor sentimental.”

+ =Ind= 91:292 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

“The great merit of this book is the humanity and intimacy, the
familiarity of detail and truthfulness, with which it treats of four
complicated aspects of society’s dealing with the wrongdoer.”

+ =Nation= 104:734 Je 21 ‘17 1700w

“Mr Lewis combines idealism with common sense. ... The volume is sound
in its philosophy, shows in the author both a practical familiarity
with present methods and an intelligent reading of history and is to
be heartily commended to all those who are interested in the problem.”

+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:533 Je ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w

“It is refreshing to find an administrator so alive to the modern
scientific study of the individual delinquent and to the need for
individual treatment. Mr Lewis’s approach to his subject is for the
most part liberal and scientific; his information goes far beyond the
files of his own department. ... The book is not as fluent in style as
Wines’ ‘Punishment and reformation,’ but it supersedes that volume for
the student of penology today.” W. D. Lane

+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Innocents. il *$1.25 (3c) Harper 17-24286

The author calls this “a story for lovers,” “a tale for people who
still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry, and love old people and
children.” (Introd.) It is the story of the later years of Mr and Mrs
Seth Appleby, who, though they were born in New York city, and had
lived there upward of sixty years, were “rustic as a meadow-ringed
orchard.” After their daughter has married a prosperous druggist in a
small New York town, “Father,” who has clerked for many years in
Pilking’s shoestore on Sixth avenue, decides to give up his job, and,
with the help of “Mother,” opens a tea-room in an old farm house on
the cliffs at Grimsby Head, Cape Cod. Why the venture fails, how the
old couple take to the open road and how they finally make a place,
and that no mean one, for themselves in Lipsittsville, Indiana;
instead of living with their eminently respectable daughter who is
always trying to make them over, is sympathetically told by Mr Lewis.

“An entertaining and amusing variant of the typical love story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“It is in spite of his ingenuity, not because of it, that the reader
keeps on believing in Father and Mother, the devoted and the
irrepressible.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 170w

“The characterization rings true, but the adventures, especially the
long tramp from city to city, are pleasantly improbable.”

+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“The facile smartness of phrases, the essential flimsiness, of Mr
Lewis’s latest book presents a spectacle made all the sadder by the
traces of a better self revealed in it.”

– + =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 550w

“We wonder if the publishers really agree with the notice-writer that
the book is ‘a tender romance of an American Darby and Joan?’
Sentimental farce would come nearer the mark.”

— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 260w

“Preposterous but rather amusing story.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w

“In some of his former stories Mr Lewis has shown a peculiar
understanding of the gray, limited lives of the small work people of a
big city and of the meaning to them of their possible pleasures,
dreams, and temperamental expressions. In ‘The innocents’ he gives
full rein to this faculty, with the result that the intimate and
full-length picture of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, otherwise ‘Father’ and
‘Mother,’ is very touching, very charming, and so simple and true in
all its essentials that even when the story is at its most audaciously
romantic pitch it is still plausible.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w

“The story as a whole is a delightful picture of mutual love and
courage, that floats like a fresh breeze over the reader’s
consciousness, jaded with the conventional romances of the day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 310w

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= The job. *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6323

A story of modern business and of a woman’s place in business life.
Una Golden, who comes from Panama, Pa., to New York, is an ordinary
girl, with blond hair and eye-glasses. The story covers ten years of
her life, from 1905 to 1915, from the age of twenty-five to
thirty-five. In that time she studies at a “commercial college,” holds
various jobs, and lives the life of a working girl, in boarding house,
“home,” and light-housekeeping flat. Midway in this period she finds
the job getting on her nerves, and takes the way of escape offered,
marriage. But marriages made from that motive start with a handicap,
and Una’s is a failure. She returns to the job with new resolution,
determined to conquer. She does, becomes a successful business woman,
and then begins to consider the possibility of a second marriage in
which conflicting claims of home and a career are both to be
satisfied.

“Some of the episodes of her unfortunate marriage may be considered
too frank and sordid but they are not the main interest, while the
story leaves one with more confidence in the women who are beginning
to realize the possibilities of ‘the job.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17

“What justifies the book, in the end, is not its ‘idea,’ or its
incidental cleverness, which is notable, but its portrait of a woman.
Una Golden is—herself.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 405:316 My ‘17 750w

“To say that Mr Lewis’s novel is aggressively modern is not to say
more than truth. It expresses the American spirit of this very day and
hour.” E. F. E.

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w

=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

“One may discern here a sermon preached, a plot more or less arranged.
But there is no escaping the sincerity and originality of the central
portrait. As a person, theories apart, Una Golden rings true.”

+ — =Nation= 104:433 Ap 12 ‘17 470w

“Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. ...
He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central
figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without
sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos. He has kept the spotlight
of the novelist on her without giving her a spotlight-life.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 10:234 Mr 24 ‘17 1250w

“The story of the girl who for one reason or another goes into
business has been told many times; but very, very seldom indeed with
even one-half the convincingness which this author has managed to give
to his history of Una Golden. ... Sane, generous, well balanced, above
all, real, it interprets by presenting this world as it is.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 1050w

“The story is a serious, if gloomy, study. It has no light phases. ...
In its main details the story rings true, considering the character
concerned, but it is unpleasant.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 27 ‘17 450w

“The story reads like a true one but is hardly pleasing enough to
attract the ordinary novel-reader.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 70w

=LIBBY, WALTER.= Introduction to the history of science. il *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 509 17-8227

“This book is intended as a simple introduction, taking advantage of
the interests of youth of from seventeen to twenty-two years or age
(and their intellectual compeers) in order to direct their attention
to the story of the development of the sciences. ... It is a
psychological introduction, having the mental capacity of a certain
class of readers always in view, rather than a logical introduction.”
(Preface) Contents: Science and practical needs—Egypt and Babylonia;
The influence of abstract thought—Greece: Aristotle; Scientific theory
subordinated to application—Rome: Vitruvius; The continuity of
science—the medieval church and the Arabs; The classification of the
sciences—Francis Bacon; Scientific method—Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey,
Descartes; Coöperation in science—the Royal society, etc. The closing
chapter is a discussion of science and democratic culture. The author
is professor of the history of science in the Carnegie institute of
technology, Pittsburgh.

“A little book on a big subject in excellent English. [The relations
of science] to other fields of man’s life—education, war, religion,
industry, travel, philosophy, art, ethics, and democracy—are well
touched upon, and the closing chapter deals chiefly with Matthew
Arnold and Nietzsche. It contains many interesting facts that will be
new to most persons, and also a number of passages that set one
thinking. Many history teachers might broaden their view of the past
by perusing this volume.” Lynn Thorndike

+ + — =Am Hist R= 23:125 O ‘17 720w

=A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w

+ =Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 600w

“Breathes on every page the tolerant, generous, objective spirit of
science. But Dr Libby is no narrow champion of scientific as opposed
to literary culture, and he recommends systematic teaching of the
sciences in relation both to the daily work and to their historical
and cultural antecedents.’ It is on account of its broadening and
stimulating cultural influence that this fine work of Dr Libby’s is to
be recommended. It should find a place, if not always in the
curriculum, certainly in the library, of every high school, normal
school, and college in the land.” Cephas Guillet

+ =Educ R= 54:192 S ‘17 600w

+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 80w

“We have long needed a systematically organized and clearly written
history of science for the college student and the layman who is not
taking active part in the development of any one of the sciences.
Professor Libby’s new book is probably the first contribution in this
field.”

+ =El School J= 17:610 Ap ‘17 350w

“Professor Libby has divided his purpose in such a way as to obscure
and to break the thread of his subject. He, apparently, tries to
compress into one small volume a résumé of the history of all the
sciences from the earliest times. In addition to this almost hopeless
task, he wishes to attract and to influence the youth by showing the
nobility of science. He also wishes to exalt the national spirit, and
he does it by devoting whole chapters to Franklin and Langley, which
compels him to compress or to omit many of the really great
achievements in science. As a textbook, the work is of value in spite
of this confusion. In the first place, there are almost no others
available, and in addition Professor Libby has been accurate and his
style is readable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 500w

“One of the most effective pieces of scientific popularization it has
ever been my good fortune to read. Prof. Libby has a power of
presenting clearly ideas often difficult from their inherent
abstractness that has rarely been equalled save by men of genius like
Huxley and Galton. He has obviously an intimate acquaintance with his
subject, and he has a singular success in communicating his
enthusiasm. His book is, on the whole, conceived in admirable
perspective. It has exactly the right amount of biographical material
to give it the genuine touch of living personality.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:23 Ag 4 ‘17 2000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 130w

“With an undercurrent of philosophical speculation, the treatment is
rather biographical, typical scientists being selected to illustrate
the attitude and the methods of the scientists, as well as the
principles developed and applied.” B. C. Gruenberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 40w

=LIDDELL, ROBERT SCOTLAND.= On the Russian front. il *8s 6d Simpkin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-15304)

“Mr Liddell saw the great Russian retreat of last summer in a double
capacity: he was a member of the seventh group of Polish Red cross
volunteers, and also the correspondent of the Sphere; that is to say,
he took part in the events described in the book, and he recorded them
before his impressions became blunted. ... It is a depressing story
that Mr Liddell has to tell—a story of crippled men, of gutted
buildings, and of refugees, flying one with his drawing-room suite on
a cart, another with a couple of canaries in a cage, several with
nothing but some potted plants. But the Russian soldier is not
depressed; his comment is ‘Neechevo’—‘It is nothing.’”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16

“Every page in this book was written amid the routine of danger, a
battle thundering quite close at hand, and a drama of mingled sweat
and blood and dirt coming with the stricken, whose uncomplaining
courage was an awful monotony of silent anguish.”

=Sat R= 122:299 S 23 ‘16 1200w

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

=Spec= 117:551 N 4 ‘16 1600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 6 ‘16 650w

=LIEBKNECHT, KARL PAUL AUGUST FRIEDRICH.= Militarism. *$1 (2c) Huebsch 172.4 17-26892

A fearless arraignment of autocracy which cost Liebknecht his freedom
and resulted in the suppression of his book. It is a clear statement
of the principles and convictions of the man who has so courageously
led the struggle against militarism in Germany. He points out that
militarism in its four-fold development is the offspring of
capitalism; “militarism for abroad,” navalism, colonial militarism and
“militarism for home.” He shows that all of the policies of the
militaristic system serve the exploiting interests of the ruling
classes of capitalism instead of furthering economic development in
conformity with the duties and interests of civilization. Militarism
obstructs class consciousness, turns the army into a handy, docile
effective tool, while distorting the reason and narcotizing the soul.
Thruout the discussion the point of view of the proletariat is kept—of
the under-dog against whom the army is a weapon along the path of
economic struggle.

=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17

“Herr Liebknecht assails the past record of militarism socially,
politically, economically, historically, and statistically, with true
German thoroughness.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w

=Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 620w

+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 160w

“The book is chiefly of historical interest, since the world war is so
changing world ideas. ... But the book is interesting and timely for
the light it throws on the pre-war Germany and for the illumination it
makes of the character of Karl Liebknecht.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 900w

“The fact that Dr Liebknecht’s ‘Militarism’ was suppressed and the
author put in prison for his daring criticism of the German military
system would assure it a cordial welcome in the United States even
were the book not so abundantly able to stand on its own bottom. ...
Yet be warned that Dr Liebknecht measures us along with other
countries and finds us, well, not absolute perfection. He lists us and
our methods along with other nations and their methods with a horrid
impersonality that intimates that we are just like other folks.” M. A.
Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 92:811 S 15 ‘17 850w

“While the book perhaps overemphasizes the part played by the class
struggle in creating modern armaments, its words deserve the most
careful heeding.” H: Neumann

+ — =Survey= 39:471 Ja 26 ‘18 630w

“Interesting at the present time, but not essential in small
libraries.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 50w

=LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.= Uncollected letters; now first brought together by Gilbert A. Tracy; with an introd. by Ida M. Tarbell. il *$2.50 Houghton 17-28895

Three hundred letters which Lincoln wrote for the greater part from
1858 to 1861 most of which have never been published before. Tho many
of them are brief each has the stamp of Lincoln individuality; and
covering, as they do, a great range of interests they furnish a
sidelight on the character of Lincoln which no student can overlook.
There are legal letters, letters that bear upon the period when
Lincoln was competing with Douglas for the senatorship, and letters
that reflect his life and relations with friends, all of them giving
ample illustration “of his cleverness, his fairness and continued zest
in the political game.” The collector of the letters was a clerk in
the War department from 1863 to 1868 during which time he grew to love
and revere the great emancipator. “Mr Tracy has crowned his life long
devotion to Abraham Lincoln with a noble gift to the people of the
country.”

Reviewed by L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 330w

“In spite of the scarcity of allusions to his domestic life it is
profitable to get such glimpses as are revealed in the collection. ...
It must be said that a considerable portion of these letters have no
connection with the great service and life of Lincoln, but relate to
commonplace and routine matters. Many are not worth preserving except
for their autographs. It is regrettable that classification and
topical headings are lacking, though the index is complete and
satisfactory.” H. S. K.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w

“That many are inconsequential does not discount the value of the
entire collection. As a whole they shed strong light upon Abraham
Lincoln’s life.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 110w

+ =Nation= 105:569 N 22 ‘17 950w

“Many of the pieces are of little moment, except that, as Miss Tarbell
says in her preface, ‘Nothing that he wrote is without importance’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 1050w

+ — =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 110w

=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Extricating Obadiah. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-25818

Cape Cod, of course. A simple story scheme that runs something like
this: Obadiah Burgess inherits a house and twelve thousand in cash. He
had formerly been a cabin boy and had gone to sea with Captain Noah
Newcomb. At the time of his prosperity his old captain, now retired,
is touring Cape Cod and is laid up for motor repairs in Obadiah’s town
of Trumet. Obadiah had indulged in a good deal of talk about his
wealth and excited the cupidity of a dealer in antiques who begins a
systematic and apparently successful campaign to relieve Obadiah of
his wealth. Worried, Obadiah appeals to his old friend. After the
captain finds that about a dozen are taking part in weaving a net
around Obadiah he turns to a task quite similar to putting together a
picture puzzle. He lists his pieces, gets their number, and puts them
together to the amazement of Obadiah and the discomfort of his
culprits.

“Full of Cape Cod dialect and humor.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w

“The author’s versatility is equal to any difficulty and he evolves
plots, inner plots, and counter-plots. He makes impossible and
exaggerated facts seem quite plausible.”

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 210w

“The simple little story is familiar and commonplace but it is a
fairly entertaining tale, nevertheless.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w

“Again we have racy dialogue, honest fun, and clever situations.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w

“The plot is not a very heavy one, but who reads a Lincoln novel for
the plot alone! One reads it for genial old tars like Captain Noah,
for rascally old skinflints like Balaam Griggs, for Serepta Hatches,
keeping tabs on how many times Mary Barstow’s beau calls, for salt
water vocabularies, for glimpses of Cape Cod’s sandy marshes and for
mental whiffs of stiff sea breezes.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 450w

“In the new story there is a well-sustained plot in addition to a new
group of familiar character types. The story is in Mr Lincoln’s best
vein, which spells unadulterated diversion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 350w

=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Nameless man. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24163

“Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of
murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between
California and Washington, in diplomatic circles and social life, the
mystery runs, implicating white men as well as Japanese. And mingled
with the adventure of seeking the fomenter of plots and murderer of
innocent men is the never-failing love interest, as troubled as it is
true.”—N Y Times

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w

“Abundant thrills mark the progress of the tale.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 160w

“Although the facts as they are ultimately disclosed seem incredible,
and the characters are stereotyped ones, the excitement of unraveling
the tangled threads and of having the sport of detection keeps
interest awake.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 170w

“If the reader dismisses the mischievous political innuendoes he may
enjoy a diverting mystery tale.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 110w

=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Chinese nightingale, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25832

The first collection of Mr Lindsay’s poems to appear since the “Congo”
volume. There are five groups: The Chinese nightingale, awarded the
Levinson prize in 1915, is alone in the first group; in the second are
a half dozen poems under the heading, “America watching the war”; the
third includes poems grouped under “America at war with Germany”; the
fourth is a collection of “Tragedies, comedies and dreams”; while the
fifth is a group of “Poem games” all of which have been successfully
illustrated in pantomime. The aim of the poem game is to abolish
orchestra and piano, replacing them with the natural meaning and
cadences of English speech which, the author claims, can convey poetic
ideas faster than musical feeling.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Whatever Vachel Lindsay does, one feels the sincerity and the strong
native impulse back of it. He is a vitalising force in modern poetry,
having at once the social vision and the knowledge that it cannot be
realized apart from beauty. Technically he has widened the outposts of
poetry, and we may look to him to annex a still wider demesne.” J. B.
Rittenhouse

+ =Bookm= 46:576 Ja ‘18 590w

“It is disappointing to regard Mr Lindsay in ‘The Chinese nightingale
and other poems,’ taking an attitude below the ‘Congo’ volume, and
levelling, in the group, the ‘General William Booth’ column. ... In
‘America watching the war’ ‘The tale of the tiger tree’ finely
illustrates the tapering of Mr Lindsay’s imaginative power into a
mannerism; it is all here, the kind of incisive exploration in vision
which Mr Lindsay takes to particularize a simple and impressive fact,
but the kind of familiarity which envelopes it, takes away the thrill
of emotion that we do feel in ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ and in the
poems of the two earlier volumes. Mr Lindsay can never fail to be
interesting, seductively arresting, exhilarating, in his own strange
and individual way. ... The new art, or combination of arts, which Mr
Lindsay has devised in ‘The poem games,’ is, apart from ‘The Chinese
nightingale,’ the most interesting feature of this new book.” W. S. B.

– + =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w

+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 90w

“Any admirer of Lindsay will observe with distrust this growing
insistence on the sermonizing feature of his work.” L: Untermeyer

– + =Dial= 63:633 D 20 ‘17 1050w

“Of all the American poets to whom the epithet ‘modern’ has been
applied Nicholas Vachel Lindsay has struck the most distinctively
American note.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 1000w

=New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 60w

“The book does not lift his place in American poetry; its crudities
are more noticeable, as this is a third book; but the spontaneous
soil-taste of some of the poems cannot be gainsaid, nor his ability to
weave garments of fantastic wonder, to please childlike hearts
forever.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 670w

“For beauty and vigor the title poem is unsurpassed in modern poetry.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 80w

=LINTIER, PAUL.= My .75; reminiscences of a gunner of a .75 m/m battery in 1914; from the French; with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard. *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-24670)

A dramatic story of France from the days of mobilization to the
battles on the Aisne. The author, twenty-three at the time of his
death, has not only furnished the world with a first hand account,
clear and gripping, of the important events ending at the Marne and
the Aisne but has prepared a human document which will show the ages
to come the heroism of souls as they reacted to the stupendous demands
of the field of honor. “The admirable patience, the great good humour,
the intelligent cleverness and heroic devotion together with the
plain, simple courage, all the deep-rooted, undreamed of qualities of
the French race, are to be found within its covers, making it a
monument to stoic virtue.” (Preface)

“It is the work of a fine, eager spirit and it is well done, clear,
vivid, unpretentious. No one can deny that he had the gift of
narration. But it is promise, not fulfilment, after all.” C. M.
Francis

+ — =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 270w

“The book is an important document because the two qualities of the
French race are here found, intellectual cleverness and simple
courage.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 330w

“Amongst the appalling number of war books ‘My .75’ stands out.
Plainness of language and matter of fact descriptions go to make the
book distinctive.”

+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 100w

“There is pathos, romance, and history in the proper degree. There is
just enough of each to make the work comprehensive. Paul Lintier has
that fine combination of delicacy and strength, so characteristic of
Balzac, De Musset, and Bordeaux. It is an exceptional book and should
live in the hearts of those who love France and in the minds of those
who love good literature.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 140w

“It is the work of an acutely observant and sensitive mind. On one
page the author puts down horrors and outrages with downright realism;
on another he reveals the power of rumour or the glory of a country
luxuriant in natural beauty. ... The candour of the writer is
remarkable.”

+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 400w

=Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 100w

“His book should live, however, for a long, long time, because of its
single truthfulness and sincerity, because of its vivid pictures of
the French army in the early part of the war. The spirit shown by
Lintier in his diary was the spirit of his comrades—of France. Every
detail, no matter how ghastly, bears the stamp of truth.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 300w

=LIPPINCOTT, HORACE MATHER.= Early Philadelphia; its people, life and progress. il *$6 Lippincott 974.8 17-28902

“This book endeavors to name and describe all the leading characters
and the various social, financial, and patriotic organizations, giving
portraits and reproductions of people and places, buildings and
bridges and parks, in such a way as to offend none and please all, at
least all whose names and interest are included. It is a sort of book
of heraldry for all the substantial and socially fit of the present
day. If you are a Philadelphian and have ancestors who counted in the
city of Franklin, this book will give you name, business, and
standing.” (Dial) “Mr Lippincott begins with a sketch of and tribute
to the founder of the city and carries the record down to and beyond
the middle eighteenth century.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Other little matters of this sort might be found, but so many errors
have been contained in other books about the times (notably ‘Hugh
Wynne’), concerning Quaker traits and local geography, that these seem
trivial, and one gets a very fair picture of old scenes and manners
from Mr Lippincott’s book. The style is clear and the selection of
subjects well proportioned.” I: Sharpless

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:416 Ja ‘18 530w

+ — =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 350w

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 60w

“Naturally and logically, a great part of the volume is devoted to a
description of the Philadelphia Quakers. Other elements in the city’s
growth receive due attention, and there is an interesting treatment of
the German and Scotch-Irish migrations into what was then the
wilderness.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w

“Mr Lippincott has not written a classic account of Philadelphia life.
But his sketchy pages are readable and informing and are suitably
flavored with quotations from contemporary documents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 550w

=LIPPMANN, JULIE MATHILDE.= Mannequin. *$1.30 (3½c) Duffield 17-12389

A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this story. A rich and
idle young woman is taken for one of the mannequins in a dressmaking
establishment. The mistake is made by Mrs Jerome-Jarvis, an autocratic
society leader, who had engaged the real mannequin as a companion on a
yachting trip. Elizabeth Tiernan finds herself hustled without
ceremony aboard the great lady’s yacht, and thinking it a joke that
can be explained in the morning, she keeps silent. But by morning the
joke has been carried beyond her control. She scents a mystery, and by
making a few errors in judgment on her own account, adds to the
confusion.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w

“This new book by the author of ‘Burkses’ Amy’ and ‘Martha-by-the-day’
is one of those tales which, being possessed of an utterly
preposterous plot, require the lightest and deftest kind of handling.
Such stories need wit, and debonair, irresponsible gayety; they must
froth and sparkle, if they are not to be merely silly. And ‘The
mannequin’ reminds one very much of lukewarm ginger ale—entirely flat
and insipid.”

— =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w

“The situation develops into a hilarious farce, with ludicrous
misunderstandings and cross purposes. The heroine is always charming
and sprightly, and the story affords amusement.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

=LIPSON, EPHRAIM.= Europe in the nineteenth century; an outline history. il *$2 Macmillan 940.9 (Eng ed 17-859)

“The author, already known by his ‘Introduction to the economic
history of England: middle ages,’ now provides a history of Europe
from the fall of Napoleon to the present time.” (Ath) “In the preface
to the book now under review Mr Lipson lays claim to a certain
originality, at least of presentment. He has, he says, ‘discarded the
traditional method of writing European history from the standpoint of
international politics in favour of a method of treatment which gives
a concise and connected account—analytical rather than narrative—of
the internal development of the chief European states after the fall
of Napoleon.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The brevity of the book, as compared with other recent discussions of
the same subject has been brought about by some notable omissions.
Substantially no space is given to England or to minor states like
Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries; the
industrial revolution and, in general, the social and economic parts
of the story, are given only slight attention—much less than in most
of the later books; little emphasis is placed upon European history
since 1870, except as connected with the outbreak of the war. ... An
extremely pleasant characteristic of the book is the calm, historical
temper with which Mr Lipson approached those parts of his subject that
deal with the present war. ... As an example of the book-maker’s art,
the volume reflects war conditions in the unsubstantial character of
the binding. There are no bibliographies and the index is inadequate.
The maps do not compare favorably with the best of recent publications
on nineteenth-century Europe.” C: R. Lingley

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:852 Jl ‘17 650w

“Of particular importance are the chapters on ‘The reform movement in
Russia, 1815-1916,’ and ‘The growth of the German empire,
1815-70.’ ... Mr Lipson gives a clear account of the achievement of
the political unity of Italy. ... The maps in the volume can be
commended. Altogether, Mr Lipson has produced a valuable summary of
modern European history, treated in a somewhat novel manner.”

+ =Ath= p437 S ‘16 250w

“The chapter on the Balkan States will probably be the most valued by
the ‘general readers’ for whom the book is intended.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:157 Ja ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17

“From the point of view of the general reader one capital defect of Mr
Lipson’s method is that it necessarily takes too much knowledge for
granted. ... In general, apart from this defect, the chapters dealing
with the internal developments of the states are clear and accurate,
though following in the main conventional lines. ... His chapter on
the Reform movement in Russia is particularly interesting, especially
the account of the effects of the industrial revolution which followed
the emancipation of the serfs and the introduction of railways. But
here again the bias that makes him defend the Commune makes him less
than fair to autocrats. ... Not all the chapters reach the high level
of that on Russia. The least satisfactory perhaps is that on the
Balkan States.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 5 ‘16 1300w

=LISTER, CHARLES ALFRED.= Charles Lister; letters and recollections. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-13304

“This volume, which serves as a memento to his son, Lord Ribblesdale
has compiled out of letters written to his family and friends by
Charles Lister, to which are added a memoir by the father, and
recollections of the son by Sir Rennell Rodd, under whom the young man
served in the British embassy at Rome before the war, and others.
Charles Lister took part in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was
wounded three times, and died from the effects of the last wound in
August, 1915, at the age of 28. ... The letters begin five years
before the opening of the war and relate his doings, observations, and
thinking during a holiday in Germany, his two years of service at Rome
with the British embassy, a trip to India and Constantinople, and then
take up his experiences on the expedition to the Dardanelles. These
last compose the bulk of the book.”—N Y Times

“Unusually readable letters.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 118:45 Ja 13 ‘17 1500w

“There is never a trace of the junker spirit, never a word about the
glory of war. There is hardly any self-consciousness. The book is a
continuous revelation of charm, high spirits and character: also of a
young man’s alert-minded and fruitful reaction to the various phases
of his experience in the 20th-century English world.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 1150w

“Lord Ribblesdale has done his work as editor with detachment and
restraint. With abundance of material, he has managed to keep the book
comparatively small and altogether interesting.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1150w

=LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO.= Song of the sirens. *$1 Putnam 811 17-11825

Ulysses is made the hero of this poem. In rhymed couplets and regular
measure the author tells the story of the perilous passage of the
Sirens’ rock, with Ulysses lashed to the mast and vainly demanding
release from his unheeding seamen. One of these is singled out from
the rest, the youngest and least of the rowers, who suffers in his
master’s agony.

“The book stands out among this season’s volumes of verse as a work of
much more than passing interest and value. It is unfortunate that none
of our magazines had an editor sufficiently enlightened to discover
‘The song of the sirens’ and print it as a serial.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1861 Je 16 ‘17 750w

=LIVESAY, FLORENCE RANDAL=, tr. Songs of Ukraina; with Ruthenian poems. *$1.50 Dutton 891.7 17-26397

“This collection of the songs of the essentially poetic and musical
‘Little Russian’ people is divided into parts according to
subject—Cossack songs, Wedding songs, etc., the longest section being
Folk songs; and the poems by Fedkovich (1834-1888) having a place by
themselves.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p543 N ‘16 60w

“The translations, though not ideal, are lively and spirited. It is a
book which every lover of poetry will prize.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 800w

=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 90w

“The translations into English are excellent.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 150w

“The translator is a Canadian—her home is in Winnipeg. ... These folk
songs of the ‘forgotten kingdom of Ukraina’ have come down through
singing centuries and hold in them the history of the most artistic of
Slav people.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 60w

“The gloom and toil of the Russian peasant pervades these poems, and
it must be said that in some cases they seem hampered by faulty
translation.”

=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 40w

=LIVINGSTONE, RICHARD WINN.= Defence of classical education. *$1.40 (2c) Macmillan 375 (Eng ed 17-12623)

“A main contention, in this able defence of the humanities in
education, is that a nation can be ‘scientific,’ though compulsory
classics are the staple of its secondary education, and though the
majority of its youth is trained in classical schools. Particulars are
given to show that German secondary education is far more classical
than ours. A caution is conveyed against the mistake of supposing that
we are simply suffering from the predominant position of classics in
our public schools, and that we have only to expel them in favour of
physical science and modern languages ‘to be cured of all our ills.’
It is admitted by the author that we need more physical science in
industry and elsewhere; but it is pointed out that our real weakness
is a national indifference to knowledge. Cogent presentations of the
case for Greek and the case for Latin are embodied in chaps. 3 and 4;
and an effort is made later to combat the idea that the classics can
be studied satisfactorily in translations. The last chapter contains
suggestions for reforms.”—Ath

“The title of the book may, we fear, militate against its usefulness
and have the tendency of warning off the general reader, who may
regard it as the work of a specialist. ... ‘A defence of classical
education’ is admirably adapted, by its absence of technicalities, its
infectious enthusiasm, and its clear and graceful style, to appeal to
that growing public which is ready to know more of this new learning.”

+ =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 1050w

+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 170w