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

“In ‘April folly’ Mr St John Lucas continues the story of Dennis Yorke
which he began some years ago in ‘The first round.’ The central theme
of the first part was the relation of Dennis, a wayward boy and an
artist, to his father, ‘The Apostle of the respectable.’ This sequel
begins with the funeral of Mr Yorke and the return of Dennis to his
artistic friends in Chelsea,—Tellier, and Sandys, and others. Now that
the death of his father has set him free to develop his musical genius
Dennis’s artistic progress is great; but he is still very much in the
making, serious with that immense seriousness of youth which Mr St
John Lucas can describe so accurately and sympathetically, drawn one
way by his art, another by the cold rectitude which he has inherited
in the very fibres of his being.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Lucas’s version has the merit of quietly humanising materials
which have been so often merely galvanised for an easy public.” H. W.
Boynton

=Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 530w

“After a decidedly well-told story, in progress, the reader suffers
the anti-climax at the end with rebellion and dissatisfaction.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“A first-rate analysis of calf love in London Bohemia. The only
difficulty lies in the comparative slimness of the subject; it does
not draw out the novelist’s resources. The whole group of Chelsea
musicians is well sketched and we should have preferred following
their adventures rather than turning to the sordid, pathetic little
tragedy to which the story finally devotes its course.”

+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“His adventures in sex take us along none of those miry ways to which
the bold young school have now wonted us. Nevertheless, they would
have seemed desperate enough if we had been regaled with them at the
time of their alleged occurrence, a quarter of a century ago. ...
‘Yes, but what of it?’ is the mood in which this kind of story,
however nicely done, has a way of leaving us.”

=Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 350w

“The musical and artistic environment in which this drama of human
relationships is played out to its pathetic and ironic conclusion is
delightfully sketched.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 450w

“Mr St John Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers,
to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian
verse and his graceful original poems. ... He avoids the monotony of
uniform cleverness which marks the dialogue of some excellent
novelists. He is judicious, too, in skating over thin ice, for you
cannot write of Bohemia without touching on its squalid fringes as
well as its hearty camaraderie. We may note in conclusion that while
the story is written by an artist, with a lively sympathy for artistic
ideals, he is so impartial in dealing with normal and even Philistine
people that we come away with a heightened respect for them.”

+ =Spec= 117:418 O 7 ‘16 800w

“The story is told with a gentle penetration and judgment which give
it charm; and the friends who are grouped together both in Chelsea and
at Hampstead move and act with the pleasant ease of real companions;
their comments on their arts are vivid and faithful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 430w

=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Other Brown. il *$1.35 Century 17-23048

“A story of dual personality ... [by the author of ‘The curious case
of Marie Dupont’]. It adds to its psychological interest, a murder, a
mine in Mexico and a love story ending in New York.”—Ind

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w

+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w

“The story is unnecessarily complicated with endless twists and
tangles. ... It is a mediocre story.” C. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 110w

“‘The other Brown’ is well able to baffle and enthrall the most astute
reader, and the personalities taking part in it are altogether
charming.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 300w

“The author handles her plot with sufficient skill to keep the reader
mystified—which is the only requirement of fiction of the sort. ...
The conclusion is not entirely easy and natural.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 190w

=LUTZ, RUFUS ROLLA.= Wage earning and education. diags 50c (1c) Cleveland foundation. Survey committee; Russell Sage foundation 370.91 16-26854

This is a summary volume of the Cleveland survey series, presenting a
synthesis of the results of the survey as a whole. Part 1 has chapters
discussing some of the general phases of the subject, among them: The
industrial education survey; Forecasting future probabilities; The
wage earners of Cleveland; The future wage earners of Cleveland;
Industrial training for boys in elementary schools; The junior high
school; Trade training during the last years in school, etc. Part 2 is
given up to summaries of the special reports.

“The risks of such an assumption of static social and economic
conditions are already apparent. ... The experiences of the nations at
war, as well as developments in older American communities, raise some
doubts about the advisability of confining the vocational training of
women to retail selling, to the sewing trades and to limited fields of
the more mechanical forms of office work. The least satisfactory
portion of the report is that dealing with vocational guidance and
school placement.” Lucile Eaves

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:903 D ‘17 370w

=El School J= 17:525 Mr ‘17 600w

“The volume contains independent and illuminating comment. The chapter
on vocational guidance is one of the sanest in the whole field.”

+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Stranded in Arcady. il *$1.35 (3c) Scribner 17-14177

Neither Donald Prime nor Lucetta Millington knows how they happen to
find themselves alone in the northern woods on the shore of an unknown
lake. Each tells a story of preceding events that ends in haziness.
That they have been separately drugged, kidnapped and left together in
this lonely place is the only explanation. But the story has to do not
so much with this mystery as with the adaptation of two sophisticated
young people, one a novelist, the other a teacher of domestic science,
to primitive conditions.

“Appeared in Scribner’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“Ingenious and unusual.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 160w

+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 100w

“There was a time when it seemed as though the author of ‘The
honorable Senator Sage-Brush’ might intend to use his very marked
gifts as a story teller for the serious presentation and
interpretation of certain phases of our American life, but Mr Lynde
has apparently decided instead to devote himself to a lighter kind of
fiction. However, this little romance is interesting, amusing, and
well written, and will prove a very pleasant means of whiling away a
few idle hours.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 330w

“So well told that one is willing to forget mere improbability.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 70w

+ =Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w

“This story is different from and less spontaneous than the bulk of Mr
Lynde’s other work. Still the action is rapid and a spirit of
comradeship and good nature pervades it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 230w

=LYNDON, LAMAR.= Hydro-electric power. 2v il v 1 *$5; v 2 *$3.50 McGraw 621.31 16-23566

“The work, as may be inferred from the title is quite general in
scope, covering both the hydraulic and electrical phases of design.
Volume 1 is entitled ‘Hydraulic development and equipment,’ and volume
2 is entitled ‘Electrical equipment and transmission.’ However, it
should not be concluded that the two volumes are entirely independent
of each other. As the author puts it in the preface to volume 2, ‘this
volume forms a companion to, and is, in fact, a continuation of volume
1. There is no definite point of division between the two volumes, and
this treatise was divided into two sections solely to make it less
cumbersome and more convenient for reference.’”—Engin Rec

=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w

“Vol. 1 of this work is about the most concise treatment of hydraulic
engineering from the standpoint of design and construction that is now
available. ... The work is notable for its completeness rather than
the newness of material presented, since it incorporates fundamental
and standard formulas that have been used in the design of water-power
developments. In interpretation of this information lie the practical
difference and usefulness of the book as compared with other works
available. ... Vol. 2 forms a very good supplement to the first volume
but cannot be considered an adequate treatise on the electrical design
and installation of station equipment or on transmission systems.”

+ =Elec World= 69:665 Ap 7 ‘17 350w (Review of v 1 and 2)

“Students and practising engineers interested in the design of
hydroelectric-power plants will wish to add this book to their
libraries. ... On the whole, it may be said that the author’s work is
well done. In scope the book is excellent; it touches on almost all
phases of plant design and defines the principles governing design
very well. ... A number of very good charts and diagrams are included.
The illustrations are excellent, and the publishers have done their
part well.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1 and 2)

=LYNN, ETHEL.= Adventures of a woman hobo. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 17-15672

The author tells of a trip from Chicago to San Francisco taken in
company with her husband in 1908. She was threatened with
tuberculosis, and looked on a return to California, her native state,
as her only salvation. Lacking funds for the journey, they started out
to work their way, using a tandem bicycle as a means of travel. Midway
across the plains, the tandem was abandoned. They traveled for a time
in a prairie schooner, and finally completed the last stages of the
journey on freight trains. The experiences described are varied and
interesting. At the close the author reports that her health was fully
restored and that her view point had been modified. She says, “My
belief in the inherent kindliness and unselfishness of the human heart
has been strengthened. ... Never again will I think it necessary to
change human nature before we can improve social conditions.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

=Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

“This book is worth the reading of all Socialists. It is a clarifying
description of why the stranger you meet would rather knock you down
than bid you the time of day.” L. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 500w

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 110w

=LYTTELTON, EDITH SOPHY (BALFOUR) (MRS ALFRED LYTTELTON).= Alfred Lyttelton. il *$4 Longmans 17-15058

This life of Alfred Lyttelton, who died in 1913, is a particularly
intimate biography. It is written by his wife, who says in the preface
to part 2, “Alfred’s unique position among his contemporaries was due
not so much to gifts of intellect as to gifts of character. His life
was not full of adventure, nor, if measured by some standards, even of
achievement. What he was, rather than what he did, needs to be
portrayed. In trying to draw the picture of a man’s character, his
affections must be described, and as truthfully as possible.” Alfred
Lyttelton entered Parliament in 1895, was sent to South Africa as
chairman of the Transvaal concessions commission in 1900, and in 1903
was made secretary for the colonies.

“Few biographies offer more chapters of constant and varied interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 650w

+ =Sat R= 123:sup3 Mr 31 ‘17 1450w

“An unusually intimate record of the man as he revealed himself to his
family and friends. What his loss meant to his friends has already
been declared by the tributes paid to his memory by Mr Asquith in the
House of Commons; by the address delivered by Mr Balfour last August
at the unveiling of the memorial tablet in St Margaret’s, Westminster;
and by the appreciations contributed by Lord Curzon and Lord Midleton
to the Times at the time of his death. He made fresh friends all his
life, but never lost his older ones.”

+ =Spec= 118:388 Mr 31 ‘17 1600w

“Alfred Lyttelton was not a great man, yet his widow has written an
extraordinarily interesting and fascinating biography of him. Mr
Lyttelton married two remarkable women, first, Laura Tennant, sister
of Mrs Herbert H. Asquith, and on her death, the author of the present
volume, who was Edith Balfour.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 950w

“She has executed her labour of love both with skill and judgment,
throwing the strong lights in her picture upon Alfred Lyttelton’s
incontestable splendour of character and charm of disposition, and
leaving his ministerial rank and political achievement to furnish just
the drapery and the background of the figure.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1050w

M

=MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT.= Fruits of the spirit. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd 204 17-13307

A collection of essays that have appeared in the Outlook during the
past ten and more years. The preface says, “It is significant that the
latest essays, written in 1916, during a period of great physical
depression, are concerned with the fundamentals of faith, action and
achievement.” A few of the titles are: The practice of immortality;
The ultimate companionship; The prophecy of love; The larger plan; The
child and the world; Lodgings and homes; A secret of youth; The wisdom
of youth; The long view of life; Meeting life squarely; The test of
courage. There is an introduction by Lyman Abbott.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17

“Ethical in content, hortatory in spirit, they are unexceptionable in
matter and form and also quite undistinguished.”

– + =Nation= 105:351 S 27 ‘17 120w

“The essays will be found spiritually valuable, not only to the
individual reader, but to groups, and even to congregations,
especially in the summer when opportunity to attend ordinary church
service is often denied.”

+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 120w

=MCADIE, ALEXANDER GEORGE.= Principles of aërography. il $3 Rand 551.5 17-19384

“‘The principles of aërography’ deals with the most recent advances in
meteorology. ... The purpose and scope of the book are summarized in
the opening sentence of the preface, ... to present this new knowledge
[of about the last ten years] in a convenient form even if
considerably condensed.’ ... The successive chapters are: ‘A brief
history of meteorology; units and symbols; temperature scales;
thermodynamics of the atmosphere; stratosphere and troposphere; the
circulation of the atmosphere; the major circulations; the minor
circulations; forecasting storms; the winds; the water vapor of the
atmosphere; condensation; dust and microbes; atmospheric electricity;
precipitation; floods and notable storms; frosts; [and] solar
influences.’”—Science

“The book is well printed on paper calculated to make the
illustrations appear at their best. In fact, the illustrations are one
of the chief charms of the book, for they are refreshingly new. The
treatment of the clouds is especially good and well illustrated. The
long chapter on atmospheric electricity, which is devoted almost
entirely to the consideration of the thunder shower and lightning, is
again an excellent one. ... Judged as a textbook, and thus the first
book to be used by a student or general reader, it has many
shortcomings. The material is not well arranged; there are too many
omissions and not enough elementary detail in the treatment of many
subjects.” W. I. M.

+ — =Astrophys J= 46:301 N ‘17 1100w

“All teachers of meteorology and physical geography owe a deep debt to
Professor McAdie for this helpful volume.” F. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 10 ‘17 750w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 O ‘17 130w

“Well illustrated and indexed.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 30w

“Unfortunately, coherence and clearness seem to have been sacrificed
to brevity in the attempt to make the book a college text. The volume
will probably be of greatest value as a reference accompaniment to a
well-ordered course in meteorology. As a reference book for the
advanced student, however, it is lacking in footnotes or bibliography,
but it offsets this with its wealth of tables computed only with
difficulty, and of illustrations and diagrams drawn from valuable,
inaccessible sources.” C: F. Brooks

+ — =Science= n s 46:264 S 14 ‘17 950w

=MCARTHUR, JOHN CAMPBELL.= What a company officer should know. (Harvey military ser.) il $2 Harvey 355 17-16323

“The officer will learn how to maintain discipline without becoming a
martinet, to foster in his men those absolutely essential requirements
of cleanliness and sobriety, initiative within proper restrictions,
cheerfulness under hardship, and last but not least how to make
thoroly understood that the good conduct and comradeship of each
individual is responsible for the well being of the whole command. Of
these, examples are given by way of personal anecdote, which assist in
pointing the author’s instruction.”—Ind

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17

“It is not too much to state that every reserve officer should provide
himself with this handy guide. ... There is an excellent appendix of
military forms and abbreviations but one wonders why a little book so
cheaply bound and printed should cost so much.”

+ — =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w

=MACAULAY, MRS FANNIE (CALDWELL) (FRANCES LITTLE, pseud.).= Camp Jolly; or, The secret-finders in the Grand Cañon. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24510

A story of the Grand Canyon. Three Kentucky boys, Billy Hargrave, and
his cousin Teddy, and Rags, a young colored boy, accompany Billy’s
father, an eminent geologist, on an exploring trip thru the canyon.
Under the guidance of Wildcat Pete, they have many adventures, and
Rags, with his droll comments and his amazement at everything he sees,
furnishes much merriment for the party.

“Well written.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17

“The record is a pleasant and mildly exciting one.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 20w

=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 90w

“A good open-air story for younger boys.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 70w

=MACBETH, MRS MADGE HAMILTON (LYONS).= Kleath. il *$1.35 (1½c) Small 17-24097

Christopher Kleath who comes to the Klondike in the early days of the
gold rush is something of a mystery. He is engaged as a linotype
operator on the first newspaper published in Dawson. But he gives
evidence of many other talents, and his manner and social bearing give
the impression that he is, or has been, a man of the world. Then too,
on one occasion, he shows a surprising skill in picking a lock. Clare
Meredith, the wife of the big, fine Klondike doctor, early shows an
interest in Kleath, but he proves impervious to her wiles. On the
other hand, while he is plainly in love with little Goldie Meadows, he
never tells her so. The secret of his past is dramatically explained
in the trial scene, after he has been accused of robbing the bank.

“It is regrettable but true that we could not lose a heart-beat during
the course of this innocuous story.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 230w

“Her tale is mingled of humor, pathos, and sensationalism, with an
unbecoming leaning toward dare-deviltry. It carries a certain air of
conviction and will serve for readers whose imaginations accept the
printed page as probable truth.”

=Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 80w

“The story is a fairly good specimen of the particular class of
fiction to which it belongs, and is sufficiently interesting to hold
the reader’s attention.”

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 270w

“The picture of conditions in Dawson city at the height of the
Klondike gold rush is more restrained than is sometimes found in
novels of the type.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 290w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Pope’s favourite. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 17-14139

Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, Fra
Savonarola and other historic personages appear in the pages of this
novel. The author says, “I have chosen a period so rich in colour, so
instinct with turbulent life, and so well known to us, that
imagination had not a laborious task. I have put a little blood into
the veins of the great dead figures of the Borgia period and restored
the missing threads of the worn historical tapestry.” Giulia, the
pope’s mistress, is drawn sympathetically. She appears as a young
girl, accepting unquestioningly the customs of her time and deeply
puzzled by Savonarola’s preachments. Lucrezia Borgia is presented in a
new light, a weak rather than a vicious woman.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:650 Ag ‘17 330w

“It is not all of equal merit, but at least in the figures of this
beautiful Giulia and of her ‘Cousin’ Cesare he has made us see a real
man and woman of much more than ordinary fascination. He has made for
us a brilliant historical picture.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 1100w

“Historically accurate but not very full-blooded story.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 30w

“If the title cause the reader to expect a book that he will conceal
behind a magazine in public, he will be misled. It is hardly ‘pour les
jeunes filles,’ neither is it for the sensation seekers. It is simply
a good historical novel—one of the best that it has been our luck to
see in a long time.”

+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 190w

“The picture is rich in detail, colorful, yet described with a certain
cool aloofness, a curious lack of vitality. The reader finds himself
calmly admiring the author’s scholarship rather than excited or
enthralled by his narrative.”

=N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 400w

“The author succeeds in making Pope Alexander a living character, but
Cesare Borgia is only a shadow.”

+ — =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 30w

“Mr McCabe, who writes so trenchantly on so many subjects of religion,
history, science, and biography, here turns his busy pen to the task
of writing a romance of a period to which he has devoted special
study.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 60w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Romance of the Romanoffs. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd 947 17-29048

In his first chapter the author sketches the primitive democracy of
the early Slavs as it existed before the “inevitable military chiefs”
had fastened their hold on the people and established the beginnings
of autocratic government. He then proceeds with the ugly story of
Moscovite and Romanoff rule. There is irony in his title. He says,
“This is not a history of Russia, but the history of its autocracy as
an episode. ... To a democratic people there can be no more congenial
study than this exposure of the crime and failure of an autocracy. To
any who find romance in such behaviour as kings and nobles were
permitted to flaunt in the eyes of their people in earlier ages the
story of the Romanoffs must be exceptionally attractive.” The story is
carried down to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.

“He takes visible delight in exposing the vices and crimes of Russia’s
rulers and he revels in exploding time-hallowed historical
reputations, for instance, that of Peter the Great. Although this
denunciatory and iconoclastic tendency has its drawbacks, particularly
in a historical study, it should be welcomed as a wholesome reaction
against the complacencies and shams of official Russian
historiography.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:484 D ‘17 200w

“Mr McCabe’s book would be more useful, and the story of the Romanoffs
could be followed more easily and intelligently, if he had appended a
family tree of this not too familiar line of monarchs, or if he had
even given a chronological list of the Romanoff czars.”

+ — =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 270w

=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Happy: the life of a bee. il *75c (2c) Harper 595 17-12824

The autobiography of a bee. The author’s purpose is to set forth the
life of the hive, the perils, joys and adventures of honey gathering,
in attractive story form. The book has attractive illustrations and
decorations by Clement B. Davis.

“A true story, its incidents being as scientifically exact as they are
interesting.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w

+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w

“For young readers this nature story does something like that which
Maeterlinck’s famous book on the bee did for older people.”

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 60w

=MCCANN, ALFRED WATTERSON.= Thirty cent bread; how to escape a higher cost of living. *50c (3c) Doran 641 17-14406

The author says, “With regulation, now, we can have all the food we
need for home use and export to our allies, 200,000,000,000 pounds.
Without regulation, we shall have bread cards and soup kitchens within
a year.” He discusses the situation with regard to various foodstuffs
and offers suggestions for their conservation.

=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w

=New Repub= 12:280 O 6 ‘17 260w

“His book goes into a number of interesting details on several phases
of the ‘food problem,’ such as the classification of and speculation
in eggs, the conservation of grain, and the preservation of
vegetables.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w

=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w

“A simple, convenient argument.”

+ =St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 20w

=MCCARTER, MARGARET (HILL) (MRS WILLIAM ARTHUR MCCARTER).= Vanguards of the plains. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-29178

A story of Kansas and the Santa Fé trail and of the part played by
peaceful commerce in the upbuilding of the prairie empire. On one of
his early trips over the trail between Kansas City and Santa Fé,
Esmond Clarenden, a pioneer merchant and trader, takes the three
children who are his wards with him, feeling that they are safer with
him than they would be if left alone. This is early in the ‘forties,
when the journey is fraught with grave perils. The youngest of the
three children, Gail Clarenden, tells the story and in following its
development from his childhood to manhood, gives a panoramic picture
of the growth of the West. The story has elements of historic
interest, adventure and romance.

“A good story of adventure, intrigue and mystery to which the
historical background lends an added interest.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:169 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 70w

“No American can read [this book] without a keener realization of what
that security, which has been ours from our birth, means.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 560w

“The story as a whole is thrilling enough to hold any reader’s
attention. But the value of the book lies in its pictures of early
life on the plains and its pages from the book of the Middle West’s
development.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 650w

=MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON.= Mexican war diary. il *$1 (5c) Princeton univ. press 973.6 17-11694

This war diary begins with McClellan’s departure from West Point in
1846 and is continued thru the battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847. The
editor, Professor Myers of Princeton, is at work on a life of General
McClellan, and this diary forms a part of the collection of manuscript
material in the Library of Congress which he is using as a basis.

“This diary was decidedly worthy of publication. The true character of
our ‘citizen soldiery’ is presented with a tinge of prejudice but
essentially in colors true to the original. And much interesting
information is given in reference to certain episodes of the Mexican
war—particularly the march from Matamoros to Victoria and Tampico (pp.
21-50), the siege of Vera Cruz (pp. 53-73), and the battle of Cerro
Gordo (pp. 79-90). In his account of this battle McClellan makes a
distinctly important contribution to the history of Pillow’s
operations.” J. H. Smith

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:220 O ‘17 370w

“Well worth publishing, for it gives a perfect picture of the young
army officer who was to become in the Civil war the idol of the Army
of the Potomac.”

+ =Cath World= 105:407 Je ‘17 280w

“Besides containing a remarkable revelation of General McClellan’s
much debated personality, and graphic pictures of the march on Mexico
City from Vera Cruz, fully explains, at that early date, the unwisdom
of employing raw volunteer forces in active military operations.”

+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 70w

=Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:531 Je ‘17 60w

“Gives vivid glimpses of the campaign of 1846 and makes clearer than
ever the failure and futility of the ‘volunteer system’ as a national
reliance in time of war.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 60w

“From it we gain an intimate view of the Mexican war not to be found
in ordinary books of history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 300w

=MCCLENDON, JESSE FRANCIS.= Physical chemistry of vital phenomena. il *$2 Princeton univ. press 541 17-13355

A work for students and investigators in the biological and medical
sciences. The author is assistant professor of physiology in the
University of Minnesota and the work is based on lectures and
laboratory work given to graduate and advanced medical students in
that institution. “The purpose of the book is not to go far into
physical chemistry but to develop a tool for physiological research.
Lengthy discussions of debated questions are avoided by tentatively
accepting the hypothesis which fits the most facts, until a better one
appears. For further discussion of any subject the reader is referred
to the literature list and index.” (Preface) The literature list is
extensive, occupying thirty-six pages, with a subject index (to the
list) of seven pages following. There is no index to the text.

“If the reader of this book, as is certainly advisable, has had a
course in physical chemistry, he will find occasion to use marginal
question marks, or to make corrections, in a number of places. Defects
of the sort pointed out are, however, only slight and somewhat
excusable misadventures in the first edition of a volume which has so
much to commend it, and which is a noteworthy and valuable
contribution to scientific literature.”

+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 550w

“As a whole the book exhibits the defects as well as the merits of its
extreme brevity and condensation. The author evidently wishes to be as
concise as possible, and largely for this reason his discussion and
statements of fact frequently appear dogmatic and lacking in much
needed qualifications. Certain explanations are incomplete or
otherwise open to criticism.” R. S. Lillie

+ — =Science= n s 46:565 D 7 ‘17 1250w

=MCCLINTOCK, ALEXANDER.= Best o’ luck. *$1 (4c) Doran 941.5 17-28776

Tells how a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain’s king and a
D.M.C. He was a sergeant in the “Canadian overseas” and rendered
conspicuous service during a raid on the enemy’s trenches and, later,
in rescuing wounded men at great risk. Contents: Training for the war;
The bombing raid; “Over the top and give ‘em hell”; Shifted to the
Somme; Wounded in action; A visit from the king.

“Told in the picturesque style of the better class of sporting
writers, abounding in humorous, pathetic and thrilling incidents, the
story is sure to gain large favor with those who wish to understand
war as it is.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 280w

“A random set of reminiscences, a trifle wordy, but sincere.”

+ — =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 170w

“Though less comprehensive than Empey’s ‘Over the top,’ it deserves a
place beside that genial chronicle, because of its absolute honesty,
its utter realism, and its unabashed humor. There are several chapters
devoted to his training as a bomb thrower. These pages are of
particular interest and value because of the fact that the American
troops in France are being specially trained for bombing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 550w

“Narrated in simple style by one who ‘don’t lay claim to being much of
a writer,’ but who has a story to tell.”

+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 620w

=MCCLUNG, MRS NELLIE LETITIA (MOONEY).= Next of kin; those who wait and wonder. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-30691

Mrs McClung is an Alberta woman who, from the public platform thruout
our states, is telling the story of Canada in suffrage and war. “Times
like these” had its leader of the herd, Mike, who planted his feet
firmly in the watering trough and kept the other cattle from drinking.
Here was a clearly drawn prototype of the political leader who blocked
women in their struggle for the ballot. “Next of kin” has a little
no-breed hen, a philosopher with personality, in spite of frozen feet
and lack of pedigree. “She went down to her death with a smile,
hustling and cheerful to the last.” It is so with the throng of
obscure war-mothers whose hearts are wrung as they see their young
sons cheated out of boyhood to assume men’s burdens on distant
battlefields, yet who heroically make the sacrifice. Pervading every
page is the mother spirit, triumphant in giving “bread and blood as
the sacrament of empire.”

“Gives a splendid idea of the effort which Canada has made, especially
the women’s part.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“Several times this reaction of a woman to wartime conditions in
Canada gives promise of some understanding of this conflict and the
causes that underlie it, and of wars in general and their motivating
forces. But no sooner are our hopes raised by such a suggestive flash
than she plunges us down into the depths of sentimental maunderings.”
C. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 20 ‘17 150w

“The book is a curious mixture of sound sense and nonsense, of wit and
banality, of sympathetic understanding and sentimental sophistry.
Withal it is marked by that sincerity which one finds in so many
pseudo-public documents, such as the letters written by the farm women
of the United States in response to a governmental inquiry. The sense
of cheer which makes the interspersed verse reminiscent of that of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, should give it a large vogue; while the
smoothness of the style and the simplicity of the stories can only
serve to contribute further to its popularity.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 370w

=MCCLURE, SAMUEL SIDNEY.= Obstacles to peace. *$2 (1½c) Houghton 940.91 17-8588

The obstacles to peace are of two kinds, says the author. First there
are the questions of territory, access to the sea, etc.; second, the
states of mind of the peoples at war. Of the second he says, “I have
tried to describe the extraordinary hatreds, contempts, and horrors
that divide the warring nations; so I have given much space to the
records of alleged atrocities. The most important single fact in
Europe today is the feeling caused by belief in these records. This
feeling constitutes the greatest single obstacle to peace.” The most
important “obstacle” of the first group is Turkey. “The fate of Turkey
is the issue of this war.” The author presents many original documents
and writes from personal experience in the warring countries.

“Mr McClure also presents a summary which covers the crises of the
decade that followed 1904 and appends a discussion of Anglo-German
relations after 1912. From the historian’s point of view this is the
most important portion of his work. The book is primarily designed for
the general public, but every teacher of recent European history will
be glad to have it on his shelves.” C: Seymour

+ =Am Hist R= 23:214 O ‘17 430w

=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17

“On the editorial side of this book, its most important quality is Mr
McClure’s keen understanding of the fact that war is first of all a
state of mind ... engendered, made possible and carried on by states
of mind. ... A truer, more deeply fundamental thing was never said.
And yet Mr McClure’s book is one of the very few books about the war
in which this truth has been emphasised, and in which it is made the
cornerstone of all argument.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 45:321 My ‘17 1250w

“The Belgian invasion and atrocities have left Mr McClure under no
illusion as to German procedure, and his most interesting comment
bears upon the hypnotic national illustration of that people. This is
perhaps the striking contribution which Mr McClure gives us in all his
500 pages.” B. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

“Mr McClure has many faults. He is an incurable gossip. He writes with
astonishing carelessness. He continually obtrudes his own personality
into events where it has no place. But, again and again, he has some
useful document to transcribe, some valuable fact to record; and for
these alone his book would be worth reading. As an attempt at
analyzing the real aims of the belligerents the book is a failure.” H.
J. Laski

+ — =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 430w

“A war book which, in certain aspects, is one of the most deeply
impressive works we have had on this greatest human drama.”

+ =Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 290w

“In respect of its contents this book is probably the book of the year
in the field of the literature of the war.”

+ + =Nation= 105:38 Jl 12 ‘17 1950w

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 420w

“Perhaps the most conspicuous feature of the book is the emphasis
which Mr McClure gives to the matter of Turkey. He found, and in this
book he makes public for the first time, the details of the
Anglo-Franco-German agreement of 1914 with regard to Asia Minor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“A book of great historic value; a book for editors and
librarians. ... The contrast between Georg Brandes’s ‘The world at
war’ and S. S. McClure’s ‘Obstacles to peace’ is interesting and
suggestive. Georg Brandes, the pacifist, gives us his conclusions
without facts to support them; S. S. McClure gives us facts and leaves
the reader to draw his own conclusion.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 130w

“The book strives to be and is eminently fair, but the result is a
stirring arraignment of Prussian militarism. This is trenchant in
itself, and is also interesting because Mr McClure has been accused of
pro-Germanism by certain sympathizers with the Allies.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 330w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:554 S 22 ‘17 600w

“Its value is enhanced because it deals not only with these matters
from the point of view of the Allies, but from time to time gives us
some indication of the German point of view. Perhaps the most
attractive chapters are those towards the end, dealing with France,
and one entitled ‘Heroic voices.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 29 ‘17 1000w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 70w

=MCCLURE, WALLACE MITCHELL.= State constitution-making. $3 Marshall & B. 342.7 16-17760

“Though designed especially as a contribution to the problem of
revising the state constitution in Tennessee, [this work] will
nevertheless have a wider field of usefulness. Parts 1 and 3 give a
history of constitutional development in Tennessee and a discussion of
peculiar Tennessee problems, but part 2, entitled ‘Current thought and
action upon constitutional problems,’ will be found serviceable by all
students of state government. The author brings together in convenient
form the state constitutional provisions on such subjects as
elections, organization of state governments, the short ballot, the
budget, municipal and county government, organization and procedure of
the legislature, direct legislation by the electorate, etc.”—Pol Sci Q

=Cleveland= p131 N ‘16 70w

“Mr McClure’s effort is worthy of high praise. He presented to his
fellow-citizens a history of constitution making in this country and
an analysis of our federal and state constitutions which should have
convinced them that the constitution of their own state was in sore
need of revision.”

+ =Nation= 104:606 My 17 ‘17 370w

“He has succeeded admirably in concealing any partisan bias, if he has
one, and has presented opposing views with a clarity and fairness that
are greatly to be commended.”

+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:661 D ‘16 160w

“There is probably no other volume in print that contains so much of
this material systematically digested and arranged.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 120w

=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.=[2] God’s meaning in life. *75c (3½c) Harper 231 17-25739

Man’s need of God is the central thought in this book of short essays.
Especially, the author holds, is this need making itself felt at the
present time. The chapter titles are: “Do we need God?” God and our
ideals: God the great companion; God and regeneration; God—person or
principle? Christ’s idea of God; Conversation with God; Can a “finite
God” satisfy? The discovery of God.

“The book is small, a companion to the volume on Prayer and faith by
the same author but its viewpoint is large and the benefits of its
reading should be great. Dr McComb is well-known in Boston because of
his work on psychotherapy while at Emmanuel church, and this book
bears evidence of that training. Not that it expounds or even
advocates the movement, but through the emphasis which is constantly
laid on the definition of God as a Power.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 12 ‘18 350w

=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.= New life; the secret of happiness and power. *50c (3½c) Harper 248 17-5701

A series of essays on the spiritual life. The author finds the secret
of modern unrest in the lack of spiritual satisfaction in individual
lives. Social and civic activities, however worthy, do not fill the
soul. A new attitude toward God that will bring man into harmony with
His law is what is needed. Contents: The need of a new life; Should a
man worry about his sins? The real meaning of sin; The need of
conversion; Is conversion possible? Sudden versus gradual conversion;
The regeneration of character; The power of the new life; The Christ
ideal; The sociological value of the new life; The new life atoning
and optimistic.

=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 20w

“The book is written in simple language, and is intended for the
average reader. It will prove of great value to every pastor and
social worker. Dr McComb writes in a happy, hopeful vein, and his
discussion of these old questions is fresh and modern. The book has a
positive message, but is undogmatic in its tone.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 110w

=MCCONNELL, JAMES R.= Flying for France with the American escadrille at Verdun. il *$1 (4½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-6754

The author of this little book went to France in 1915 to drive an
ambulance. After some months in this service he resigned to join the
flying corps. The book is made up of four chapters: Verdun; From
Verdun to the Somme; Personal letters from Sergeant McConnell; How
France trains pilot aviators.

=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17

“It is this note of a spiritual awakening which lifts Mr McConnell’s
book out of the class of the adventure narrative.”

+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 110w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is a short book, of little more than 150 pages—and with large
print and wide margins at that—but it has a deal of interesting matter
in it. It is both exciting and informative. And its record is
something of which, as Americans, we can all be proud.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 250w

“Vivid and interesting account of the daily work of the American
escadrille of the French flying corps, particularly over Verdun and on
the Somme front.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:458 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Aviation and
Aeronautical Engineering p141 Mr 1 ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 20w

“Not the least interesting portions of the little volume are the
touching tributes which Sergeant McConnell pays to his comrades who
fell before him.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:549 My ‘17 300w

“Written in simple, but gripping style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 130w

“Slight but very readable account.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

=MCCORMICK, FREDERICK.= Menace of Japan. *$2 (2c) Little 327 17-9690

“When the determination of the immediate question of the future of
Europe comes to conference, the fate of America’s interests and the
future of the United States in the Pacific will be determined by Japan
and the winners of the world war. ... The only hope for American
honor, international justice, protection of commerce and trade, and
other American interests in East Asia in future will be either the
triumph of an European-American treaty coalition over
Japanese-European Prussianism, or a triumph of the military forces of
the United States over those of Japan, and a mastery in Washington in
the management of foreign affairs.” These are some of the conclusions
voiced in the final chapter, “Back to the guns.” “The sword, which
Providence and Wisdom commend to China, they also commend to America,”
is its last word. The author has been a journalist and war
correspondent in the Far East since the Boxer uprising.

“A book which no thoughtful reader could for a moment take seriously.”

— =Am Hist R= 22:905 Jl ‘17 430w

– + =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17

“Distinguishing between fact and fiction in books upon the politics of
the Far East is no easy task, even when the author cites his sources
of information; in this book it becomes impossible, except to the
expert student; for Mr McCormick informs us in his preface that ‘many
things contained herein ... cannot be publicly ascribed to their
sources ... many are simply extracts from my own journals and private
records.’ The author’s rabid anti-Japanese bias casts suspicion, if
not upon his facts, at least upon the soundness of his judgment. As
the reader passes from one chapter to another he becomes convinced
that he is in the presence of a propagandist, not a sober historical
writer.”

– + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:593 Ag ‘17 530w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 730w

“Mr McCormick, although at times unjustifiably violent in his
rhetoric, has without any doubt made out a clear case against Japanese
diplomacy and our own inaction.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:249 My ‘17 1050w

“Many of his assertions are too sweeping, and his conclusions are
sometimes palpably unsound. With due allowance for journalistic dash
and patriotic fervor, his book can be read profitably. It contains a
good deal of interesting information on the ins and outs of world
diplomacy since the Russo-Japanese war. It is, however, almost wholly
lacking in documentary citations, and the careful student will often
be uncertain what to accept at face value and what to discount.” F: A.
Ogg

– + =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 450w

=Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w

“The author was for years an Associated press correspondent in China,
and in recent years he has been secretary of the Asiatic Institute.
His personal acquaintance with the events he describes dates from the
Boxer rebellion. His style is decidedly journalistic, but in places is
commendably vivid. The book is essentially a study in imperialism.
Whether the conclusions are sound is a question that admits of
debate.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 400w

“A thoroughly mischievous work. Mr McCormick’s judgment and language
are not marked by diplomatic restraint, nor does he sift evidence with
care or display profound knowledge of the complicated matters with
which he deals.” H: R. Mussey

— =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 1750w

=MCCORMICK, HAROLD FOWLER.= Via pacis; how terms of peace can be automatically prepared while the war is still going on. 60c (9c) McClurg 940.91 17-5546

This suggestion for a means of determining peace terms was written in
December, 1915, issued privately in July, 1916, and is now put forward
for consideration by the public. The author asks that the belligerents
“enunciate the objects for which they are fighting and place their
peace terms in precise and concrete form in the hands of selected
neutral countries—whose role would be, not that of mediators but of
custodians and ‘transfer agents.’ The terms thus deposited could be
changed periodically in accordance with the varying fortunes of the
war, the resulting benefit being that each side could know at a given
moment precisely what the other was demanding and could examine his
own assets, chances and hopes accordingly.” (Foreword)

=Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 28 ‘17 420w

=MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH=, ed. To mother; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. il *$1 Houghton 821.08 17-13752

This “anthology of mother verse” is arranged under the headings: The
young mother; Mothers of men; Christmas mother poems; Lullabies; The
joy of motherhood; Old-fashioned mother poems; Sonnets on motherhood;
Tributes to mothers. It includes poems by Wordsworth, Tennyson,
Coventry Patmore, Eugene Field, Jane and Ann Taylor, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich and other English and American poets. Masefield’s “C. L. M.”
and Henley’s “Matri dilectissimæ” are not included. There is an
imaginative introduction by the editor, about a child and a garden;
and indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors.

=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17

“The collection shows both discrimination and wide reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 160w

=Cleveland= p90 Jl ‘17 40w

“A collection of verse that contains neither the sentimental nor the
banal, nor does it ever descend to doggerel however well intentioned.
A book that one need not apologize for sending to anybody’s mother.”

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

=MCCULLOUGH, ERNEST.=[2] Practical structural design. il $2.50 U. P. C. bk. co. 624 17-29163

“A text and reference work for engineers, architects, builders,
draftsmen and technical schools; especially adapted to the needs of
self-tutored men.” (Sub-title) The book is an outgrowth of a series of
articles that appeared in the numbers of Building Age from 1914 to
1916, with the title “Design of beams, girders and trusses.” Before
writing the articles the author had used the subject matter in evening
classes where it was presented to the type of “self-tutored” men for
whom in particular the book is planned. Contents: External forces;
Internal forces; Problems in design of beams; Girders and trusses;
Joints and connections; Graphic statics; Columns and structures. The
author is a member of the American society of civil engineers and is a
licensed structural engineer and licensed architect of the State of
Illinois.

“If in our college days one of us had dared to tell our professor of
mechanics or structures that a really comprehensive text could have
been written without the use of calculus or algebra, he would
certainly have been classed with the heretics. The writer has always
felt, however, that such a thing could be done and now his belief is
realized in Mr McCullough’s admirable work. Although containing only
293 pages, it is difficult to find a phase of structural engineering
such as is likely to be encountered in the city practice of a
designing engineer which is not covered in a satisfactory manner.” W.
S. Edge

+ + =Engin News-Rec= 80:128 Ja 17 ‘18 500w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Green fancy. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23981

Green fancy is a strange hidden house on the American border of
Canada. In and around it royal personages, third-rate actors, a New
York man of the world, a beautiful woman, an Irishman of fortune, an
international crook, all play their parts in an exciting drama of
European intrigue.

“The narrative gallops along at a rapid rate, with plenty of dramatic
incidents and exciting situations, while the author garnishes
characters, incidents, and narratives with touches of humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 290w

“It is a light romance, but the element of mystery is well sustained
after the manner of such writers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 240w

=MACDONALD, ALLAN JOHN MACDONALD.= Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East; with an introd. by Harry Johnston. *$2 Longmans 266 16-22960

“This able book won the Maitland prize at Cambridge for an essay on
the thesis, ‘Problems raised by the contact of the West with Africa
and the East, and the part that Christianity can play in their
solution’—one of the fundamental questions, that is, which confront
the Empire and cannot be evaded. The chapters on the liquor traffic in
West Africa and in Ceylon are very painful reading. ... Mr Macdonald
discusses the difficult question of mixed marriages, and concludes
that ‘the Eurasian, so long as he exists ... must be treated, if not
as a social equal by the members of either dominant race, at least as
a man and a brother in the great Christian community.’”—Spec

=A L A Bkl= 13:245 Mr ‘17

=Ath= p475 O ‘16 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17