Chapter LI: Part 3: treats of the present utility of the beliefs in personal (2)

“This book is, unfortunately, based upon two misconceptions, both of
which are common amongst classicists. ... The title of the book is a
misnomer, for the work is not a defence of classical education at
all. ... As a plea for the retention of classics in a general scheme
of education, the book is excellent. Where Mr Livingstone is dealing
with facts he is on safe ground, and the majority of the work is a
‘hymn of praise’ which is wholly admirable. His assumptions, however,
are nearly always erroneous, and his conclusions illogical; one cannot
help thinking that a little knowledge of scientific method would have
saved him from many pitfalls.”

– + =Nature= 99:1 Mr 1 ‘17 900w

“The questions most frequently asked are these: Why should the
classics have a place in our education? Why should they not be
confined to a few specialists? Why should they not be entirely
replaced by our own and other modern languages, literatures, and
history? To these inquiries Mr Livingstone wisely devotes the greater
part of his book. ... We are glad to see that Mr Livingstone ends with
some excellent suggestions for reform in classical teaching, more
attention to ‘realien,’ and less prominence for the purely linguistic
side.”

+ =Sat R= 123:41 Ja 13 ‘17 1100w

“Mr Livingstone has written a charming book. The beauty and solid
worth of the best Greek and Latin authors are admirably described in
his main chapters. But while we sympathize heartily with his reverence
for the classics, we cannot help remarking that he does not really
face the question whether they can be read with profit in
translations.”

+ =Spec= 118:174 F 10 ‘17 900w

“Among these fixed points which are emerging, the central one, and the
most important, is the growing conviction that the aim of education is
neither literary culture nor scientific acquirement, neither technical
skill nor commercial aptitude, but the creation and diffusion of
citizenship in its full sense. ... Mr Livingstone’s volume is a
statement, satisfactory in its fullness, excellent in its sanity and
moderation, of the reasons for holding that, here and now, the study
of the classics has a necessary and important place in such an
education.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 18 ‘17 2650w

=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Mary Slessor of Calabar: pioneer missionary. 6th ed il *$1.50 Doran 16-22663

“The heroine was a Scotch girl born amidst the humblest surroundings
and conditions, which made her at fourteen and for fourteen years a
millworker in the city of Dundee. ... From her early childhood she was
interested in the missionary efforts along the old Calabar coast, and
here from 1876 until her death in 1915 she carried on, often alone and
in the midst of danger, a pioneer work for the reclamation of the
savage tribes. This well written memoir, based chiefly upon her many
letters, gives the reader a striking picture of the barbarous life and
customs of the natives of Calabar and shows the uplifting power of
civilization.”—Ind

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17

=Cleveland= p106 Ag ‘16

“One of the most fascinating missionary biographies ever written. It
has the romance of heroism and adventure, the vitality of vigorous
achievement, the freshness of pioneering in a land of strange peoples
and weird customs.”

+ =Ind= 88:327 N 20 ‘16 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:91 Je ‘16

“Has had the unusual experience for a biography—and especially that of
a foreign missionary—of being among the ‘best sellers.’ In its first
months it is already in its fourth edition, and well it may be, for
rarely has a life been lived so full of romance, of heroism, and at
the same time of absolute sincerity and simplicity.”

+ =Outlook= 115:194 Ja 31 ‘17 2750w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p45 Ja ‘17

=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Story of Mary Slessor for young people; a true story of adventure, heroism and faith. il *$1 Doran 17-4476

“The natives of Africa knew the heroine of this true story by the name
of ‘The white queen of Okoyong.’ Her real name is Mary Slessor, and
this is her biography. It is written for children, and tells the whole
life history of the brave Scottish missionary whom the Presbyterian
church sent out to Africa in 1876. From that date until her death in
1914 Miss Slessor acted as friend, teacher, minister, doctor and
officer of the law to the savages in the then uncharted wilds of
Calabar.” (Boston Transcript) Mary Slessor is one of the “Heroines of
service” about whom Mary R. Parkman writes in her book of that title.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:454 Jl ‘17

“This book ought to fire the imagination and direct the activities of
boys and girls until they shall become in turn such workmen as Mary
Slessor was in the realm of unselfish service.”

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 90w

“The account throws many sidelights on African customs and
institutions.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 160w

=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Red planet. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-26481

Grief-stricken with the sudden news of the death in action of his only
son, Sir Anthony Fenimore turns to take his place as chairman of a war
committee with the words: “The boy didn’t shirk his duty. Why should
I?” This opening incident is the keynote of the book, which is a story
of England in war-time, a story of high courage and of homes made
desolate. It is told by Major Meredyth of the regular army who,
invalided since the Boer war, could, at first, only watch those
activities in which he longed to join. But, in the end, he, too, finds
his place and can say: “I, too, am a man of the great war. I have
lived in it, and worked in it, and suffered in it. So long as one’s
soul is sound—that is the great matter.” His work had been the helping
to keep sound the souls of those about him in the little south of
England town in which he lived, and, in particular, to aid as only a
brother officer could, Leonard Boyce, in his tragic struggle between
his better and his lower nature. It is this struggle for self-mastery,
fought out in South Africa, in England, in the trenches, that forms a
background for the incidents of the book, and it is Betty Fairfax,
type of all true women in the war, who gives charm and heart to the
tale. Locke, the romancer, is no longer romancing. He is telling
spiritual truth.

“Well written, full of good character sketches and will be popular.
Appeared in Good Housekeeping.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 110w

“‘The white feather’ might have better suggested its central motive,
for the chief figure in the action is an English officer with a
lifelong strain of cowardice to fight down and conceal. ... A piece of
clever claptrap. Any war might have served as the background.” H. W.
Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:645 Ag ‘17 650w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1300w

“Written with much skill, timely to the very minute, and full of human
appeal. Mr Locke has succeeded, in his portrayal of Boyce, in giving a
living character to literature. The conclusion is an artistic blunder,
as well as distasteful from the moral point of view.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:110 O ‘17 600w

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 110w

“It is the astonishing combination of the modern and the mid-Victorian
that fascinates the reader of ‘The red planet.’ A well-ordered globe
is Mr Locke’s, an England rubber-tired and ball-bearing, not the dusty
and irresponsible country of Mr Britling. And we are not sure that
Boyce is not one of the most virile men that Locke has ever drawn.”

+ =Dial= 63:162 Ag 30 ‘17 270w

“A thoroly interesting story crisply and entertainingly written.”

+ =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 400w

“For all its clever and amusing detail, there is little sincerity in
this book: even the great war is used merely as an off-stage
convenience for the development of an essentially commonplace and
artificial plot.”

– + =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 450w

“We cannot even pretend to believe in these people. They are pallid
and patriotic and dull. They do not really exist.”

— =New Repub= 12:82 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“Mr Locke has always shown remarkable skill in making interesting,
even heroic or lovable, figures out of most unpromising material, such
as that of his ‘Beloved vagabond,’ and none of that skill deserts him
as he unfolds this story through the pen and personality of Major
Meredyth, almost helpless paralytic though his leading character
is. ... We can come into touch with the struggle only through the
spirit. But his spirit flames and mounts, and in it one sees the
spirit of England.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Locke is always better in character rendering than in plot, and
even more so than usual in this novel.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 50w

+ — =Sat R= 124:335 O 27 ‘17 500w

“Skilfully constructed and worked out to a dramatic close.”

+ =Spec= 119:330 S 29 ‘17 950w

“While presenting but a tiny corner of the war drama, he makes the
reader feel the spirit and far-reaching effects of the struggle.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 600w

“It may be that recollections of ‘Lord Jim,’ and perhaps of ‘The four
feathers,’ make Mr Locke’s analysis of Leonard Boyce seem a little
confused and shallow.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 20 ‘17 600w

=LODGE, HENRY CABOT.= War addresses, 1915-1917. *$2.50 (3c) Houghton 308 17-14032

A collection of addresses made between 1915 and 1917. Among them are:
Mexico, a speech delivered in the Senate, January 6, 1915; Force and
peace, the Chancellor’s address at Union college, June 9, 1915;
France, delivered before the Franco-American Republican club of
Massachusetts, September 6, 1915; National defence, delivered before
the National security league at Washington, January 22, 1916; Armed
merchantmen, delivered in the Senate, February 18, 1916; The failure
of the Executive to vindicate American rights, delivered in the
Senate, February 24, 1917; and War with Germany, delivered in the
Senate, April 4, 1917.

=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“Some of these addresses are of great interest and value to students
of public affairs. All of them deal with topics of present day
interest and all are of sufficient merit to warrant their preservation
for readers of a future generation.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 90w

“All the attributes of a sound statesmanship based upon a thorough
knowledge of the past, a clear understanding of the present and a
prophetic insight into the future are to be found in the volume of
Henry Cabot Lodge’s ‘War addresses, 1915-1917.’” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 770w

+ =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 120w

“Naturally, Mr Lodge’s addresses in the Senate and elsewhere, during
the years 1915-16, were those of a Republican senator criticizing a
Democratic administration; and some of his criticisms were very keen.
Yet even then, he was often in accord with President Wilson.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 450w

“Mr Lodge’s shift from advocacy of a league of nations to opposition,
coming coincidentally with Mr Wilson’s new emphasis and the raising of
the question as an immediate practical issue, is the most important
fact that ‘War addresses’ records. ‘War addresses’ is an exceptional
book for its directness. But it leaves the impression that Mr Lodge is
progressive where progressiveness matters least, and reactionary where
the opportunity for liberalism is most bright.” C. M.

+ — =New Repub= 13:221 D 22 ‘17 1500w

“There is a kind of luminous simplicity and earnestness in the
statement of plain truths and sound ideals that hardly ever fails of
its effect. This kind of eloquence is possessed in no small degree by
Senator Lodge. ... The more controversial parts of the political
speeches, too, will delight any not too unsympathetic reader who
appreciates caustic criticism, subtle sarcasm, and argumentative
skill.”

+ =No Am= 206:136 Jl ‘17 480w

=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 120w

=R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 80w

“The ‘War addresses’ are hardly important except as political
documents—using political in the partisan sense. Of course Mr Lodge’s
polished phrases give his speeches a superficial distinction which the
oratory of the Senate frequently lacks. But no consistent application
of principle is manifest in this collection and no fundamental policy
besides the gaining of political advantage.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 2 ‘17 450w

=LOEB, JACQUES.= Organism as a whole. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 575 16-25201

Individual physiological processes are readily explained on a
physiochemical basis, but how, from this point of view, is the fusion
of individual processes into a harmonious whole to be accounted for?
This is the problem to which Dr Loeb of the Rockefeller institute
addresses himself in this volume. The book is based on his experiments
in recent years and consists of chapters on: The specific difference
between living and dead matter; The chemical basis of genus and
species; Specificity in fertilization; Artificial parthenogenesis;
Determinism in the formation of an organism from an egg; Regeneration;
Determination of sex; Mendelian heredity and its mechanism; Animal
instincts and tropisms; The influence of environment; Adaptation to
environment; Evolution; Death and dissolution of the organism.

“Scientific and accurate in details and should be read by all
individuals interested in a mechanistic philosophy of living things.”

+ =Nation= 104:494 Ap 26 ‘17 850w

+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w

“The volume is a valuable addition to the science series—a series in
which so many subjects have been treated—and is one that will appeal
strongly to anyone who has the rudiments of a zoological training.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 300w

“Gifted with strong scientific imagination, Professor Loeb is one of
those who go on, making the most of the facts we have, imperfect
though our comprehension be.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p461 S 27 ‘17 2200w

=LONDON, CHARMIAN KITTREDGE (MRS JACK LONDON).=[2] Our Hawaii. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 919.69 17-27941

A book that has grown out of the experiences of the Londons in the
“little space of Paradise ... that is so beautiful and restful and
green.” One of Mrs Jack London’s evident desires is that the journal,
in addition to its descriptions of Hawaii, may reveal something of her
late husband’s personality and manner of living. The journal covers a
few months spent in Hawaii a decade ago and concludes with a résumé of
experiences there in 1915-1916. Mrs London says, “I have tried to limn
a picture of the charm of the Hawaiian Islander as he was, and of his
becoming, together with the enchantment of his lofty isles and their
abundant hospitality.” Maps and illustrations accompany the text.

“There are several reasons why ‘Our Hawaii’ is an exceedingly
interesting book.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 650w

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

“Her desire to express the spirit of Hawaii in the written word has
made her book in some places resemble the attempts of a schoolgirl
intent on writing a theme full of ‘atmosphere.’ In spite of being
badly written, the book derives some interest—though not much—from its
exuberant impressions and also from the biographical facts revealed
about the author’s husband.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 200w

=LONDON, JACK.= Human drift. il *$1.25 Macmillan 818 17-6354

A collection of miscellaneous papers and sketches reprinted from
various magazines. The human drift is an essay on the movements and
migrations of peoples in their search for food, and the rise and fall
of races. Following this come four sketches drawn from Jack London’s
own experiences on land and sea. The introduction written for “Two
years before the mast” is reprinted, and the book closes with two
short plays.

=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17

+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 430w

=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 70w

+ =Nation= 104:583 My 10 ‘17 350w

“London has not attempted much in the dramatic field. A reading of the
two sketches included in this volume is enough to show that, with all
his power of dramatic description and narration, the dramatic form
itself is beyond him.” D: P. Berenberg

=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 430w

“Lovers of Mr London’s work will probably find him at his best and
most individual self in the essay on ‘Small boat sailing,’ which will
be a very enjoyable bit of writing for all devotees of that sport.”

=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 300w

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17

“London voices no new thought in his philosophical sketch, ‘The human
drift,’ but he does present old ideas in a new and vivid garb.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 740w

=LONDON, JACK.= Jerry of the Islands. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-12393

Jerry is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of
the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called
Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat
engaged in “nigger-running,” the trade by means of which labor is
supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous
one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a
head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance
saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But
unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The
yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan Jerry
finds two gods worthy of a dog’s worship.

=A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“As a protracted dog yarn, the story is quite pleasant reading.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 80w

“Jerry and his tale are more plainly fiction than that great dog
story, ‘The call of the wild’; but what a story-teller this man was!”
H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 430w

“His knowledge of and sympathy with his subject is unbounded, and his
imagination plays with all its customary vigor and variety over a
multitude of scenes in which men as well as the dog hero have an
important part. ... It is good, too, in his last novel to find Mr
London a story-teller and not a propagandist.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w

“While ‘Jerry’ is not in any sense one of London’s best works, it is
yet worth reading.” D: P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 300w

“The story suffers a good deal from excess verbiage. ... This fault is
at its worst and more discouraging in the early chapters, before the
reader’s interest has been awakened. But if, by dint of hope and
skipping, he goes on he will be well repaid.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 630w

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w

“The book is effectively written in a way, yet tediously full of the
traders’ variety of pigeon-English called bêche de mer, which serves
as a medium between white man and black. The home-staying white of
this country will find it not easy to understand.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:251 S 29 ‘17 530w

“In this last story of his Mr London has struck a new note. He has
sought to express the gentler emotions—the love of the dog for the
master and the love of the master for the dog.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 26 ‘17 700w

=LONDON, JACK.= Michael, brother of Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-29517

Like Jerry, Michael was a dog of the South seas, and like Jerry he
could make himself quite as much at home on slippery decks as on dry
land. Michael’s first master is Captain Kellar of the Solomon islands,
but after he is stolen by Dag Daughtry he comes to love that
none-too-honest, beer-drinking steward with all a dog’s devotion. It
had been Daughtry’s intention to sell the dog, but having given much
loving patience to his training, he finds that he cannot part with
him. Circumstances, however, take Michael away from this considerate
master and he falls into the hands of a noted animal trainer and
enters the life that Jack London calls an animal hell. “Cruelty, as a
fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal
world,” he writes in a foreword. Michael is rescued in time by Harley
and Villa Kennan, but he is never the same dog again.

=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Jack London was the founder of a school of writers in fiction whose
work will outlive his own, but which is not likely to catch the trick,
the magnetism—call it what you will—that distinguishes his own above
the rank and file.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 400w

“Red tears and bloody sweats!—these are the tributes Jack London loved
to wring from the torn hearts (as it were) of his auditors. If the
reader would put his finger on some special item in proof of this, let
him read the description of the fight between Michael and a quite
casual man which takes place after Michael has been rescued from the
torment of the trained-animal world, and which is therefore clearly
introduced on its own merits.”

– + =Nation= 105:666 D 13 ‘17 350w

“If the picture drawn by London of the training of animals for the
circus and the stage is a true one, then the quicker we act to
eliminate animal performances the better. It is to be hoped that
‘Michael’ has a wide circulation.” D. P. Berenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 380w

“It is, of course, scarcely necessary to say that much of this book is
anything but pleasant reading. If, however, what it tells be indeed
the truth, then it is reading which people should have forced upon
them. Michael himself will appeal to all dog-lovers, and Dag Daughtry
is well drawn.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 1100w

=LONG, HAROLD C.= Plants poisonous to live stock. (Cambridge agricultural monographs) il *$2 (5c) Putnam 581.6 (Eng ed Agr17-863)

The author says, “As in the case of a previous volume ‘Common weeds of
the farm and garden,’ the preparation of this handbook was undertaken
because of the great lack of readily available and reliable
information on the subject in English scientific literature.” An
introductory chapter discusses such matters as What is a poisonous
plant? Harm done by poisonous plants, etc. The remainder of the book
is given up to descriptions of plants and of the symptoms of
poisoning. There is a chapter devoted to Plants suspected of being
poisonous and one to The effects of plants on milk.

“A handy work of reference in a subject on which the literature is
remarkably scattered. The author has brought together many facts from
numerous technical reports and journals, and the compilation will be
of great value to those responsible for the care and treatment of
animals.”

+ =Nature= 99:501 Ag 23 ‘17 430w

“Mr Long has filled a gap in scientific literature with a monograph
which shows wide knowledge. The bibliography shows the extent of his
gatherings.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup7 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Outlines of English and American literature. il $1.40 (1c) Ginn 820.9 17-14159

This “introduction to the chief writers of England and America, to the
books they wrote, and to the times in which they lived,” is based on
the author’s earlier works, “English literature” and “American
literature.” It is a work however in which “the material, the
viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers” are entirely new.
The author’s aim here has been to relate literature to life. He says,
“The only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is
its vitality.” For each literary period a brief historical survey and
a review of literary tendencies are given. These are followed by
biographical sketches of authors and discussions of their principal
works. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography.

“Histories of English literature and histories of American literature
are many, but rarely if ever has the one subject been compressed
within the pages of a single volume in a way to show their unity and
alliance. Dr William J. Long has, however, done this with exceptional
skill. ... Attractively printed and bound, illustrated with many
portraits and scenes, Dr Long’s book gives incentive to a study of
literature. It is elementary, to be sure, but it contains much that is
profitably enlightening to readers who are fully acquainted with the
subject.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 800w

“Excellent illustrations.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 70w

“Written with much vivacity and charm. The latter third of the book is
given to an uncommonly well balanced review of American letters.”

+ =Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 120w

“The opening chapters excellently combine a view of the development of
the language along with an account of the literary monuments. There is
no attempt to bring American literature into relation with English; we
have frankly two volumes in one. The story does not come beyond
Stevenson and Ruskin, and Howells is the only living American author
treated at length.”

+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 100w

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

+ =School R= 25:610 O ‘17 70w

“William J. Long, the well-known nature writer, could be pardoned a
few heresies, for the author discloses considerable freshness in his
impressions and his style; but the book is too full of erroneous
statements and erroneous judgments to be accepted as an introduction
to English letters.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 500w

=LONGACRE, LINDSAY BARTHOLOMEW.= Prophet of the Spirit. *75c Meth. bk. 224 17-23303

“The sub-title of this book is ‘A sketch of the character and work of
Jeremiah.’ In his preface Professor Longacre says: ‘The following
brief study of the prophet Jeremiah has been made in the belief that
attention to the distinctions of time and circumstance leads to a
discovery of God’s methods of self-revelation. The purpose has been to
portray a man rather than to expound a book.’” (Boston Transcript) “A
preliminary chapter on the literary history of the book leads to a
study of ‘The man his neighbors knew,’ and with this key in our hands
we pass through his various struggles with king and people, and no
less with himself and his God, till we emerge to the clear sunshine of
the New covenant of spirit and life.” (Bib World)

“An admirable little book. It is excellently written and well adapted
to the purpose for which it was written. The prophet Jeremiah is made
to appear like a real man working among his fellow-men.” J. M. P. S.

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:634 O ‘17 230w

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 190w

“Professor Longacre’s conception of the character of Jeremiah is
admirably carried out.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w

=LONGMAN, W.= Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers and book-makers. il *$2 (9½c) Longmans 737

The practice of issuing “tokens” in lieu of small change grew out of
the scarcity of coins of small denominations. A “token” issued by a
tradesman corresponded to a promise to pay the amount stamped on the
face. The author, a collector of these curious examples of coinage,
has brought together all the information he has at his command
concerning tokens issued by booksellers and others connected with the
book trade of the 18th century, including authors, publishers,
engravers and paper makers.

“The descriptions of the various tokens are accompanied by interesting
notes on the life and history of their issuers. These include notably
Eaton, Spence, and others who suffered on behalf of the liberty of the
press at the close of the eighteenth century.” E. T. L.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:317 Ap ‘17 100w

“A delightful account written by a collector who knows his
subject. ... It may be recommended to collectors of tokens, and to
those for whom the history of booksellers, printers, etc., is
attractive, as well as to any one investigating political opinions of
the period.”

+ =Nation= 104:636 My 24 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 60w

=LONGSTAFF, FREDERICK V., and ATTERIDGE, A. HILLIARD.= Book of the machine gun. il *$3.50 Dodd 358 (Eng ed 17-7941)

This work by two British officers consists of chapters on: The
evolution of the machine gun; Machine guns in battle: The evolution of
machine gun tactics; Matériel; Machine guns in the British army;
Machine guns in Germany and Austria; Machine guns in various foreign
armies; Tactics; Training. In addition there are appendixes giving A
bibliography of unofficial works; List of some British patents; and
Extracts from Colonel Mayne’s works. At the close of the book,
following the index, are grouped a series of illustrations, arranged
chronologically to show the development of the machine gun.

=A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18

+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 30w

“Timely and complete.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w

“Written with professional knowledge.”

+ =Pratt= p14 O ‘17 10w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 20w

“An authoritative work.”

+ =St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w

“So far as skill may be learned from a book, it may be learned from
this volume.”

+ =Spec= 118:104 Ja 27 ‘17 350w

=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Adirondacks. il *$2.50 (3½c) Century 917.47 17-25281

“There are but two kinds of travelers; those who enjoy the road, and
those who think they shall have enjoyment at the end of it. To the
latter pass the time of day good-naturedly enough, but reserve the
former for your company.” (Preface) So two friends walked, motored,
canoed, climbed, sailed and camped in every part of New York state’s
natural park. This volume is the outcome of their wanderings which in
addition to generous guide-book material gives an account of the early
settlement in the Adirondacks of Napoleon’s brothers, tells of the
different Indian tribes and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson,
Dewey, Warner and others whose names are associated with the region,
and of the present-day work of the state’s conservation commission.
The illustrations, reproduced photographs, show the grandeur and
loveliness of the region at their best.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

“Written in a pleasant style and well illustrated.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w

“Mr Longstreth is not a Thoreau, but he is a first-rate observer and
an amusing raconteur.”

+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 90w

“Mr Longstreth is a schoolmaster who has occupied his holiday time for
many seasons in open-air living and journeying. He has spent more than
one summer in the Adirondacks. ... The result is a book that is at
once the record of a jolly summer, a history and description of the
Adirondacks, and a succinct guide to those who would learn of its
beauties and enjoyments at first hand. Mr Longstreth’s leisurely style
has real charm—a quality not always to be found in a book so full of
information as this.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 710w

“Mr Longstreth’s book is most informal, sprightly, and vivacious, yet
abounding in matter-of-fact detail of the sort most needed by the
tourist.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 130w

=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= By the waters of Africa; with introd. by Douglas Sladen. il *$3.50 Stokes 916.7 (Eng ed 17-31878)

“A woman traveler’s account of what is going on to-day in British East
Africa—how the settlers and government officers live and go about, and
how the country is being slowly developed. An interesting feature of
the book is the description of the famous African lakes, Victoria
Nyanza and Albert.”—R of Rs

“Perhaps the homeliness of home-letters adds to the charm of the book,
which, in spite of its faults of style, does tell of the common things
which a man would have never thought of describing.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 850w

“Great praise is due this lady who, in spite of many dangers, has done
such remarkable exploring and given us such interesting information
about it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 370w

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 60w

“Miss Lorimer in her light-hearted pages from a diary gives perhaps a
truer picture of daily life in these great colonies than we find in
more serious works.”

+ =Spec= 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 100w

“Unfortunately, she has accepted every piece of casual gossip about
the history of the country without investigation. Those who will bear
this in mind, and want merely an easily digested story of a woman’s
experiences and adventures in both the towns and the back-veld of this
amazingly interesting colony, will find Miss Lorimer an entertaining
guide.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 450w

=LOTI, PIERRE, pseud. (LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD).= War; tr. from the French by Marjorie Laurie. *$1.25 (2c) Lippincott 940.91 17-18154

A book of war sketches written between August, 1914, and April, 1916.
Among them are: Two poor little nestlings of Belgium; A gay little
scene at the battle front; Another scene at the battle front; An
evening at Ypres; At the general headquarters of the Belgian army; At
Rheims: All-souls’ day with the armies at the front; At Soissons; Two
Gorgon heads.

“The book is interesting throughout, and the translator’s share has
been well done.”

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 90w

=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w

“In the perusal of this new volume by Loti, it is brought home to one
again how inexplicably and beautifully his manner and matter are
fused. He treats of the usual subjects, but in the atmosphere of this
book, one sees everything bathed and refreshed.”

+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 330w

“In this book Pierre Loti is at his literary best, plus a tender
genuine sympathy for his countrymen and their Belgian neighbors and a
bitter scorn and hate for the German spirit that has outraged Belgium
and France. Yet he seeks to maintain at least a mask of artistic
restraint.”

+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 250w

“His pictures of the men in the trenches, the wounded, the refugees,
etc., are indeed trivial and pallid compared with the narratives
written by dozens of men who, before the conflict, were quite unknown
to literature. The prevailing note is somewhat effeminate, strident,
and hysterical.”

— =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“It is not a coherent book, it is episodic, a scrap-book, a
hodge-podge of emotions, judgments, reports. And this constitutes the
book’s special charm and value. It is a glimpse into the mind of a
highly sensitive and perhaps overcivilized man who has been deeply
shaken by the tragedy of his native land and all the world. ... This
is the war’s book—the war has made use of the delicate and sensitive
instrument that is the mind of the author of ‘Pêcheur d’Islande.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl I ‘17 470w

“Those familiar with his rather dreamy and saccharine descriptions of
Turkey, Palestine, Japan, and the South Sea islands will be a little
surprised, we think, at the comparative terseness of phrase in this
volume. The descriptions are of war especially as it affects little
children, the Sisters of Mercy, the wounded soldiers, and the exiled
rulers.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 110w

“M. Loti’s book by virtue of the almost feminine fineness of
perception, the exquisiteness of imagery and the sympathetic
tenderness by which his pages are graced, will make an impression on
the reader’s memory. The only occasions on which Loti is unworthy of
himself are when he permits himself bitter and scurrilous personal
attacks upon the Kaiser and the Crown prince.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w

=LOUGH, WILLIAM HENRY.= Business finance. *$3 (1½c) Ronald 332 17-14250

“This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day
financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view
taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an
enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions
and financial practice in the United States, it includes many
references also to the experience and practice of other countries
which may yield suggestions of value to American business men.”
(Preface) The book is made up of five parts: Finance and business;
Capital; Securing capital; Internal financial management; Financial
abuses and involvements. The author is president of the Business
training corporation, New York city. He is also author of a work on
“Corporation finance.”

“Compactly conveyed information.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w

“A book which takes rank as one of the important accounting books of
the year. Its subject is not new, of course, as it treats of problems
which arise every day in private business concerns, but it is a
pioneer work in that it is the first attempt we have seen to assemble
and co-ordinate data relating to methods of financing business
enterprises and from such data to deduce proper and scientific
procedure. ... The chapter on financial standards is of decided
interest in connection with the proposed statistical library to be
established under the endowment fund of the American institute of
accountants. ... Not the least interesting feature of this book is the
manner in which Mr Lough has driven home his points by numerous
illustrations taken from famous (or infamous?) failures in commercial
history. Concrete instances are worth many pages of theory to clinch
an argument.” W. H. L.

+ =Journal of Accountancy= 24:153 Ag ‘17 1100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 30w

=LOVAT-FRASER, JAMES ALEXANDER.= Henry Dundas, viscount Melville. il *$1.10 Putnam (Eng ed 17-13682)

“To portray a personality rather than to describe a political career,
to delineate a character rather than to unfold a history, J. A.
Lovat-Fraser has written a slender volume dealing with the life and
activities of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.” (Boston Transcript)
“The shrewd Scottish lawyer was for long the friend and chief
colleague of the younger Pitt, ruled Scotland and India, managed the
great war for some years, and was first lord of the admiralty till six
months before Trafalgar.” (Spec)

“Mr Lovat-Fraser has written a discriminating and interesting
biography of Dundas as a parliamentarian, as the holder of various
offices of cabinet rank, and as a figure in social life in London and
Edinburgh. But Dundas ranks with Newcastle and George III, as one of
the three great political bosses of the eighteenth century; and
despite Mr Lovat-Fraser’s book, we are still waiting for adequate
studies of the methods and achievements of all these three bosses.” E:
Porritt

* + – =Am Hist R= 23:212 O ‘17 520w

“To tell the full story of the life of Henry Dundas, first Viscount
Melville, is at present impossible. Numerous documents at the Public
record office and in other quarters await investigation before a
complete account of Melville’s career can be attempted. The author’s
object, therefore, is, from the materials now available, ‘to delineate
a character rather than unfold a history’; and he may fairly be said
to have been successful.”

+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 70w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser’s volume is a concise summary of his life, although
it scarcely succeeds in presenting a character and personality rather
than a political career.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 880w

“J. A. Lovat-Fraser’s excellent description of parliamentary political
corruption in Scotland in the eighteenth century explains how it was
that Dundas was able to rise and then to hold such autocratic power
north of the Tweed that he was commonly known as ‘King Harry the
ninth.’”

+ =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser resents Mr Fortescue’s denunciations of Dundas as one
of the worst war ministers we have ever had, but he attempts no
definite reply to the charge, presumably because it cannot be
disproved. Dundas believed in scattering small bodies of troops over
the whole theatre of war—a policy which cost us dearly in blood and
treasure, especially in the West Indies. In this respect, and in
others, he was Pitt’s evil genius.”

=Spec= 117:810 D 23 ‘16 200w

=LOW, SIDNEY JAMES MARK.= Italy in the war. il *$1.75 Longmans 940.91 16-24919

“Our knowledge of Italy’s part in the war has been limited. We have
the more reason, therefore, to welcome a book that holds the promise
of a notable enlargement of that acquaintance and understanding. ...
It outlines the history of the country, political and military, since
August, 1914. It makes plain the hope of the Italy of the future. It
presents the problems and the circumstance of Italy’s part in the
world conflict. ... In his study of the progress of the war Mr Low not
only points out the necessary differences between the Italian battle
lines and methods of fighting and those in France and Flanders, but
shows where the Italian strength has been and where its weakness,
where its mistakes have been made and lessons learned, and describes
in detail the various steps in the conflict.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17

“More than the majority of war books his seems to offer worthwhile
information.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 250w

“So far, this is the most informing book from the Italian side.”

+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w

“A comprehensive study of Italian conditions, strategy, fighting. ...
An interesting feature of his book, too, is the information that Mr
Low has to give us about Austria and the Austrian part in the war. ...
The book is illustrated, too, with excellent photographs from the
Italian headquarters photographic department.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 380w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

=LOWE, CORINNE MARTIN.= Confessions of a social secretary. il *$1.25 (1c) Harper 17-5813

Those who delight in reading of the private affairs of that limited
section of the social body that is labeled Society will find much to
interest them in this book. It gives what appears to be an honest
account of the inner workings of the households of a society leader,
including town house, country house and Newport cottage. There are
details regarding the management of servants, the arrangement of house
parties, the planning of dinners, etc. Society, if this be a true
picture, must be a deadly dull affair! There is a slight thread of
fiction in the story of the rich young girl who chose to marry a real
man. The title of the serial publication of these confessions was
“This is the life.”

“The book is written in a humorous, readable manner, with more than
one touch of real character drawing and a moral in the futility of the
life that strives for nothing better than social pre-eminence—and
attains it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 170w

“One must be curious indeed about the doings of this set to be
diverted by the detail of their domestic arrangements; these details
Miss Lowe presents with photographic candor.”

=Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 170w

“Its thread of fiction is not without charm, but its interest and its
conspicuousness alike are due to its authenticity. There is nothing
fictitious about this record; the anecdotes are true stories; the
people are real and may, with no great effort, be identified if one
knows enough; the descriptions are photographic.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 400w

=LOWELL, AMY.= Tendencies in modern American poetry. il *$2.50 Macmillan 811 17-25828

Amy Lowell, herself a leading exponent of the new in poetry, writes of
six fellow poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robert Frost; Edgar Lee
Masters; Carl Sandburg; “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher. In her
preface Miss Lowell says, “What sets the poets of to-day apart from
those of the Victorian era is an entire difference of outlook. Ideas
believed to be fundamental have disappeared and given place to others.
And as poetry is the expression of the heart of man, so it reflects
this change to its smallest particle. It has been my endeavour in
these essays to follow this evolution, in the movement as a whole, and
also in the work of the particular poets who compose it. I have tried
to show what has led each of these men to adopt the habit of mind
which now characterizes him, why he has been forced out of one order
into another; how his ideas have gradually taken form in his mind, and
in what way he expresses this form in his work.” A bibliography of the
works of the poets represented closes the book, and there is an
interesting photogravure portrait of each.

“An excellent critical estimate.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 70w

“In her ‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ Miss Lowell is
emphatically ‘there’; there in heart, mind, and spirit: there with her
faith and her reasons for it; there with her polemical aptitudes and
her full employment of them; on the spot, up to date, with her eye on
the poetical clock, to the last second of the latest minute.” H: B.
Fuller

+ — =Dial= 63:444 N 8 ‘17 1500w

“To meet the ordinary extraordinary ignorance about poets and poetry
nothing could be more useful and valuable. When Miss Lowell is not
busy with amateurish ethnology and ‘atavism’ and evolution and
pseudo-science, she is one of the best expositors that modern poetry
could have. And it is for her sympathetic exposition of the things she
likes rather than her ineffectual announcement of a system and a
touchstone that her book deserves to be read.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 13:52 N 10 ‘17 1800w

“The outstanding fault of the book lies in the fact that Miss Lowell
has cast herself into double and conflicting rôles—those of critic and
propagandist. It becomes a certainty that she is not looking at her
subject from an unbiased standpoint, but, instead, that the book is
written to bolster up the case for imagism.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 N 25 ‘17 1400w

“‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ is a book that needed to be
written, and it is doubtful if any one else in America besides Amy
Lowell could have written it. She has brought to the task not only
critical insight and independence of spirit, but a personal
acquaintance with the poets she has discussed. This has served to
enlarge her view, not to guide her judgments.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:481 N 18 ‘17 1900w

=LOWNDES, MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC) (MRS FREDERIC SAWREY-LOWNDES).= Lilla: a part of her life. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10163

A story based on a possible situation growing out of the war. Lilla is
a delicate, reticent woman whose marriage to Robert Singleton has been
uneventful and colorless, altho not unhappy. Making her home with his
people, she has found it necessary to repress her own personality
until she hardly knows what strong emotion can mean. It is after the
report of her husband’s death early in 1914, while she herself is
taken up with war work, that she meets Dare Carteret. They are married
a short five weeks after their first meeting. Lilla, to whom love had
been unknown, has learned its meaning. Then in the midst of her great
happiness Robert Singleton returns. The story closes with Lilla in
France and with one of the two men involved in her tragedy starting
out with Kitchener on his ill-fated voyage.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 1250w

“It is disappointing to find the introduction of characters wholly
extraneous to the subject in hand and not even indirectly promoting
the action, yet in whom the author attempts to create an interest by
long explanations concerning their earlier lives.”

– + =Cath World= 106:106 O ‘17 550w

“There are many vivid pictures of London in war time, especially
dramatic and thrilling being that of the first Zeppelin raid. The
story moves quietly and rapidly, through emotional climaxes of many
kinds that are always tense and gripping and incidents that would be
bizarre against any but their fateful war background, to its tragic
conclusion. But out of the mangled and smashed human happiness upon
which it closes there rises the note of spiritual triumph.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 480w

“The book is ably and sincerely written, and there is a dignity in Mrs
Belloc Lowndes’s handling of her characters which gives them both
interest and stability.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 350w

=LOYSON, PAUL HYACINTHE.= Gods in the battle; tr. from the French by Lady Frazer; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. *3s 6d Hodder & Stoughton, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-25626)

The author is the son of Père Hyacinthe, the great preacher, and was,
before the war, “a rational pacifist” and the editor of Les Droits de
l’Homme. Since 1914, he has devoted himself to speaking and working in
the cause of the Allies in France, England, Holland and elsewhere.
“This collection of ‘Open letters’ to a great variety of persons
appeared originally under the title ‘Étes-vous neutres devant le
crime?’ A considerable portion of the book, however (104 pages), is
devoted to ‘The Roman Rolland case’—appeals and criticisms and other
matter connected with the attitude towards the war of M. Rolland, as
shown in his ‘Above the battle’ and elsewhere. ‘Notes’ on the contents
of the book at the end occupy 45 pages. Neither author nor translator
receives any benefit from the sale of the volume; M. Loyson’s fees for
the rights of translation has been given by him to the British Red
cross fund.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 40w

“No Englishman could have written this book, but we must get our
insular minds to realise that there is more than one way of doing a
thing. The popular style of to-day in England rather tends to
telegraphese than to sustained efforts of argument, irony, and
rhetoric. ... M. Loyson fortifies his statements throughout with notes
and references, especially regarding the case of M. Rolland. ... M.
Rolland, on the evidence here set out at length, is clearly convicted
of dodging and paltering.”

+ =Sat R= 123:503 Je 2 ‘17 680w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 80w

“We do not write in M. Loyson’s manner, or, if we do, we do it ill.
But M. Loyson does it well, for it is his natural way of expressing
himself. He can make the grand gesture without becoming absurd. ...
With all its fire it is never spiteful even against the German people.
M. Loyson is still a pacifist and a gentleman. The translation is all
the more successful because Lady Frazer, herself a Frenchwoman, has
not tried to make it too English.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p123 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w

=LUCAS, SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD.= Beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire. *$2.90 Oxford 382 17-20009

“There has been much study and writing on special periods in the
history of the English chartered commercial companies, but almost no
attempt to give a continuous narrative of the whole career of any one
of them. The work of Sir Charles Lucas, which endeavors to tell the
story of three of the earliest companies, is therefore a welcome and
important contribution to the literature of the subject. These three
are the Merchants of the staple, the Eastland merchants, and the
Merchant adventurers. The first is perforce, for lack of materials,
very brief, and the second a slight, almost an outline sketch; the
work is therefore practically a history of the Merchant adventurers of
England from their obscure origin in the Netherlands in the fourteenth
century to their dissolution, after at least four centuries of
continuous existence, at Hamburg in 1808.”—Am Hist R

“It is written with the ability and mastery of the trained historian.”
E: P. Cheyney

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:381 Ja ‘18 890w

+ =Nation= 106:16 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

“Their story as unfolded in Sir Charles Lucas’s concise but weighty
monograph, is not only illuminating as regards the past but pregnant
with lessons for the future after the war. The ‘Beginnings of English
overseas enterprise’ is a real and important contribution to that
history which is ‘philosophy teaching by examples.’”

+ =Spec= 118:38 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 5 ‘17 1900w

=LUCAS, ST JOHN WELLES LUCAS.= April folly. *$1.50 Dutton