Chapter LIII: Part 3: treats of the present utility of the beliefs in personal (4)

“Sir Harry Johnston, who is rated an authority on English colonial
matters, contributes an interesting introduction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17 100w

“From first to last Mr Macdonald seeks after truth in such a temperate
manner that his book will be read with pleasure even by those who will
differ from some of his views.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup8 N 4 ‘16 1550w

“Sir Harry Johnston’s introduction is a remarkable tribute to the
Christian missionary.”

=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 160w

“An extensive, detailed, and able review of labour and liquor problems
in Africa, India and China.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p455 S 21 ‘16 140w

“While one may not be convinced by Mr Macdonald’s argument, and there
are slips in his ethnological statements ... his book is valuable for
its full and impartial account of the difficulties between Europeans
and natives as they exist at the present moment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p520 N 2 ‘16 1100w

=MACDONALD, GEORGE.= Evolution of coinage. (Cambridge manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 332 17-8356

The introductory chapter gives in brief the early history of coinage.
Subsequent chapters take up: Coinage and the state; The material of
coinage; Form, and methods of production; Types; Legends; Dates, and
marks of value; Key to the plates. Select bibliography and Index
follow. Eight plates illustrate the volume.

“An account, admirably written and illustrated, of the development of
coinage in its technical and general aspects. The economic history of
the subject is not included in the author’s plan.” C. D.

+ =Am Econ R= 7:413 Je ‘17 50w

“It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to
numismatics.” H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ap ‘17 90w

“His illustrations are excellent.”

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 100w

=MACDONALD, J. RAMSAY.= National defence. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 172.4

“In this small book Mr MacDonald concentrates his attention not on the
peace problem of the moment or on post-war international policies, but
on a criticism of ‘militarism’ as a principle and as a means of
national defence. He does not, that is to say, here attack the war
spirit and compulsory military service on humanitarian or sentimental
grounds, but on grounds of national defence as the most likely means
to promote what it is supposed to prevent; ‘created to give a sense of
security and to defend, whereas its very existence keeps fear alive
and adds to danger.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p106 F ‘17 130w

“A chapter on ‘A democratic Germany and peace’ is a significant
warning to those who expect the Germans to translate military defeat
into a pacific democracy. The Germans may rid themselves of their
reigning house, as the French rid themselves of Napoleon III in 1871,
without wishing to forget the war.” M. J.

=Int J Ethics= 27:529 Jl ‘17 430w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 50w

=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 F 1 ‘17 100w

=MACDONALD, JAMES ALEXANDER.= North American idea. (Cole lectures for 1917) $1.25 Revell 18-273

“A course of lectures delivered in the early part of the present year
under the auspices of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn.,
by the editor of the Toronto Globe. ... The North American idea which
the author sets forth, is a recognition of the law of the world’s good
will as an infinite and immutable law of the ordered life of human
society and as the law of the world’s good will. This law of good will
never is broken. No more than the law of gravitation can ever be
broken. The world’s good will is law for all nations. Its
transgression makes inevitable Germany’s undoing. ... ‘Already the
leaders of world-opinion, at all the battle fronts of the world’s mind
have learned the truth of the Christ dictum in the realm of world
politics, that no nation can live to itself or can die to itself
alone.’ An internationalized world is to be the outcome of the present
world conflict of ideas. North America must play her part in the great
conflict of ideas. Her preparedness must be that of the American mind,
consciousness and will. ‘Service is the measure of our civilization.
Service for others is the keynote of our democracy.’”—Boston
Transcript

“Dr Macdonald has gained an international reputation, which the
present volume will surely enhance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 360w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 30w

=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 80w

“Of prominent importance is Dr Macdonald’s enlightening review of
United States history, and that of the Dominion. Of the latter he
exposes great ignorance among us. Startling is his exposure of General
Bernhardi’s secret mission hither in 1913 to prepare Germans for
mischief among us in the coming war.”

=Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 180w

“The reader is, perhaps, led to share the speaker’s zeal for democracy
and internationalism. But as an exposition of North America’s attitude
toward these greatest of causes the book is altogether inadequate.
Comparatively little of the political achievement of either Canada or
the United States is presented by the speaker.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 200w

=MCDOUGALL, GRACE.= Nurse at the war. il *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 940.91 17-20977

This is the story of the “F.A.N.Y. corps” in Flanders and France, told
by the Scottish nurse who started the work in September, 1914. The
corps has now over 50 members working in the zone of the armies, and a
few more in a convalescent camp in the center of France. They are
doing motor ambulance, first aid, base hospital, and convalescent
canteen work.

“Here is one of the most modest books to have grown out of the war.
The author’s name does not even appear upon the title page. ... Among
the most inspiring parts of the narrative are those which tell of
struggles against early official refusal to accept women’s service,
when male prejudice and mistaken kindness prevented and delayed the
entrance of woman to one of her truest and noblest fields of
activity.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 300w

“‘Graphic’ the publishers term it, and the word is none too strong.
Besides being graphic, it has an air of hurry that suits well the
incidents that it relates. She does not parade horrors, but her
buoyancy is so irrepressible that neither does she shrink from letting
them appear in all their ghastliness.”

+ =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w

+ =N Y Times= 23:344 S 16 ‘17 90w

=MCDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER.= Good ministers of Jesus Christ. (Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching) *$1.25 Abingdon press 251 17-15666

“Dr McDowell is a bishop in the Methodist church. ... [In this book]
he divides the work of the Christian ministry into eight divisions,
using the work of Christ as a basis and guide for these aspects. He
terms them revelation, redemption, incarnation, reconciliation,
rescue, conservation, co-operation and inspiration.”—Springf’d
Republican

“The lectures have large-mindedness as to practical problems of
religion and wisdom in dealing with men. Every page has suggestions
for the preacher.” A. S. Hoyt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:633 O ‘17 340w

“Bishop McDowell is, in our judgment, strongest in his chapters on
redemption and rescue. The terseness and beauty of the style is an
outstanding feature of the lectures.”

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 70w

“Assuming that his hearers intended to enter the ministry of the
Christian church, he has tried to show them in these eight lectures
how they may become good ministers of Jesus Christ. He speaks as one
who has had thorough training for and long experience in the Christian
ministry.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 830w

“The style is clear and incisive, the substance rich with accumulated
wisdom and instinct with passionate earnestness.”

+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w

“In the long series of these annual lectures this last is inferior to
none. It is characteristically inspirational and vitalizing.”

+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 140w

“The book is an interpretation of the ideals of Wesley’s followers in
the light of modern needs and modern thought. ... It is interesting to
note the many divergencies of thought from the very excellent series
of lectures delivered on the same foundation [Lyman Beecher
foundation, Yale university] in 1915, by President Hyde of Bowdoin
college, entitled ‘The gospel of good will.’ The two series, read
together, give one an admirably-balanced view of the religious needs
of men and women to-day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 400w

=MACE, ARTHUR C., and WINLOCK, HERBERT EUSTIS.= Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht. il *$10; pa *$8 Metropolitan museum of art 913.32 17-2044

“The first publication of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan
museum is this handsome quarto volume by the assistant curators of the
museum’s department of Egyptian art. The work of the expedition was
begun in the winter of 1906-07 on the site of the pyramid-field of
Lisht, which includes the pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senusert I, of
the twelfth dynasty, with ‘royal’ cemeteries surrounding them. ...
Text and drawings, photogravures and colored plates present and
describe the site and the tomb, the clearing of the tomb, the coffins
and canopic box, the jewelry, ceremonial staves, and pottery.
Appendixes contain notes on the mummy, by Dr G. Elliott Smith, and an
index of names of objects from the painted coffins. Mr Albert Morton
Lythgoe, curator of the department of Egyptian art, is general editor
of the publications of the expedition.”—Dial

“A careful index makes reference easy. And the book, a royal quarto,
printed in clear large type, is a credit to the institution that made
it possible and to the authors whose wealth of learning makes one gasp
with astonishment.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 850w

+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“It will be seen that the volume under discussion is part of a large
and comprehensive plan of archæological work, which neglects neither
science nor the public, but has considered the needs of all with real
scientific statesmanship. ... The jewelry, which is very fully
presented in color plates, photographs, and drawings, makes the volume
of importance to all students of the goldsmith’s art.”

+ =Nation= 105:95 Jl 26 ‘17 1500w

“Highly specialized as it is, the record contains a good deal of
general interest, and may be read with enjoyment by a wider public
than that concerned merely with the results of the archaeological
expedition’s work. ... It need scarcely be pointed out that the plates
which illustrate the great volume—there are thirty-five of them, as
well as eighty-five ordinary figure illustrations—are of the finest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 500w

=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Honest lawyer. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-6331

A provincial neighborhood in Dorset a hundred years ago is the scene
of this story. The hero is a young attorney who has just succeeded to
his uncle’s practice. The heroine enters the tale in a most startling
way, by sending a proposal of marriage to the lawyer-hero, who has
never seen her. Just why beautiful, haughty and much sought after
Quenride Chideock should have done this remains a mystery for some
time. The answer involves a forged will, the foiling of a particularly
black villain, a trial for felony, and a pardon obtained under unusual
and romantic circumstances.

“Rather sensational tale.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w

“The events of the story are improbable, not to say impossible; it is
romance pure and simple, wholly removed from realism. ... An adherent
of Mr Howells is not likely to care for the strange incidents and
unheard of situations of ‘The honest lawyer’; but to those who wish to
be taken out of themselves into a wholly different world from any they
have known, Miss McFadden’s ingenious and well-told story may be
heartily commended.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:152 F 11 ‘17 200w

=MACFARLANE, ALEXANDER.= Lectures on ten British mathematicians of the nineteenth century. (Mathematical monographs, no. 17) il *$1.25 Wiley 925 16-14318

“This posthumous publication contains most interesting biographies of
ten of the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth century in Great
Britain, namely, of George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William
Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford,
Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton
Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter. These sketches are a part of the lectures
given by Dr Macfarlane at Lehigh university during the years
1901-04.”—Science

“Should appeal to all students of human nature. It is, however, of
more special interest, because not only are the personalities drawn,
but the work and achievements of these men are presented and discussed
in considerable detail.”

+ =Engin N= 77:112 Ja 18 ‘17 500w

“The list is truly representative.” G. B. M.

+ =Nature= 99:221 My 17 ‘17 1700w

“The author’s personal acquaintance with some of these men, and with
intimate friends of them, enabled him to add personal touches which
will be relished by the reader. Particularly gratifying are the
details about Boole and Kirkman, concerning whom little had previously
appeared in print. The future historian of mathematics during the
nineteenth century will find the booklet full of interesting
material. ... Carelessness in the proof-reading is noticeable.”
Florian Cajori

+ =Science= n s 45:88 Ja 26 ‘17 680w

=MACFARLANE, CHARLES.= Reminiscences of a literary life; with an introd. by J: F. Tattersall. *$3.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-19702)

“A man who met Shelley at Naples and introduced him to Pompeii, who
saw Keats in Italy, who talked with Hartley Coleridge at Grasmere, and
who knew all the London wits of George IV’s day is a very welcome
acquaintance. Charles MacFarlane, whose reminiscences have been
discovered in manuscript in a country bookshop, was a prolific author
now forgotten save, perhaps, for his historical novel, ‘The camp of
refuge,’ which may have inspired Kingsley’s ‘Hereward the Wake.’ In
later life he had to seek refuge in the Charterhouse as a Poor
brother, and there, before his death in 1858, he finished dictating
the two stout quartos which he meant for his son as an heirloom—and
probably for the public as well. The son, an Indian officer, died in
1872, and the memoirs have been preserved by some happy chance, to be
published at last by the descendant of MacFarlane’s old friend, the
John Murray of Byron’s time.”—Spec

“He is an extremely lucid chronicler of events and a caustic analyst
of character. ... Among the many picturesque personalities brought by
MacFarlane into his book is Thomas De Quincey, whom he handles without
gloves. ... It seems altogether likely that these reminiscences were
never completed, or that if they were the final volumes are lost or
still undiscovered.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 1850w

“MacFarlane was a man of cultivated mind, was a fit associate of the
varied personalities with whom he had contact. The chief value of his
book lies in his reaction to those personalities. And along with his
easy-going chatter about them goes an instinct for discerning the
things which are characteristic, revealing.” Garland Greever

+ =Dial= 63:518 N 22 ‘17 1300w

“One of the most entertaining books of the sort published in many a
day.”

+ =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 270w

“Full of engaging details of the literati and dilettanti of the first
half of the nineteenth century, as well as some well-known Italians
and Anglo-Indians. ... Writing casually, MacFarlane was not always
accurate.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 1150w

“He hated Radicals, loathed Miss Martineau and De Quincey, and bore a
seemingly justifiable grudge against Charles Knight, for whom he wrote
‘The pictorial history of England’ and other popular books; but there
was no real malice in his nature. ... His meeting with Shelley fills
the first, and best, chapter in the book. ... MacFarlane’s serious
books are forgotten, but his reminiscences will be read and quoted for
a long time to come.”

+ =Spec= 118:643 Je 9 ‘17 2300w

“He is as honest as a very determined and rather prejudiced old
gentleman may be. Down go his likes and dislikes, all pat; and since
he took care to know a good many of the interesting people in the
first half of his century, writes about them honestly, and engagingly
‘gives himself away’ in so doing, his book is lively from start to
finish.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Ap 5 ‘17 1750w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLA (CANFIELD).= Boys and girls of many lands. il *$1.25 (3c) Crowell 17-25294

It is the author’s purpose to tell for American children something of
the every day lives of boys and girls of other countries. A little
African boy, Carl of Australia, Our playmates in Austria, Jaurez, a
lad of the Amazon, A little maid of old Quebec, Boys and girls in
China, are the titles of a few of the twenty and more chapters. There
are sixteen illustrations from photographs. Mrs McFee is author of
“Outlines, devices and recreations in United States geography,”
“Studies in American and British literature,” and other books for
school use.

=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Soldier songs. *$1 Dutton 821 17-20683

“In his third book of the war, Mr MacGill turns from prose to verse.
As his ‘Songs of the dead end’ were written out of the life of his
youth in Ireland, so these ‘Soldier songs’ are the lyrical expression
of the sights and sounds he encountered a few years later in the midst
of ‘war’s orgies of carnage.’ To him war has a charm, but it is merely
the charm of adventure that adds to the joy of living and that gives
him a theme for writing. ... In a dedicatory letter addressed to ‘My
dear H. J.’—which initials undoubtedly represent his London publisher,
Mr Herbert Jenkins—Mr MacGill responds to a request for information
about the favorite songs of the soldier on active service.”—Springf’d
Republican

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“In all these poems there is never absent that strong sense of the
part played by nature in man’s life which is always conspicuous in Mr
MacGill’s prose as well as in his verse. He responds eagerly and
vigorously to the scenes amid which he is suddenly placed.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 26 ‘17 1600w

“The easy dialect of the trenches predominates, but in spite of this,
literary quality is not lacking in many of the poems. ‘Marching’ and
‘Before the charge’ are fine bits of verse.”

+ =Cath World= 106:408 D ‘17 120w

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 90w

=Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

“Noteworthy for its hearty rhythm, its sturdy originality of phrasing,
and for the courageous spirit which permeates it. By a strange
paradox, this poet has found in battle the sanity of outlook not
noticeable in the work he wrote in times of peace.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 Jl 7 ‘17 350w

“We recommend to all who look upon war as something worth all its
ghastly horrors in the ‘purifying’ results it bestows on mankind the
poems entitled ‘After the war,’ ‘Out yonder,’ ‘Red wine,’ ‘The
return,’ ‘A vision,’ ‘The everyday of war,’ and particularly
‘Letters.’ Be it remembered that these poems are the testimony of a
man who finds a justification for this war.” D: P. Berenberg

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 240w

“Like everything of MacGill’s, they are ‘different’ from anything
else. They are, besides, a genuine contribution to the few specimens
of real poetry produced by the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 620w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w

“Make somewhat grim reading, but they are not as harsh as his prose,
and now and again a note of unexpected and delicate tenderness is
heard. ... It is indeed a signal proof of versatility that the trench
poems written in the crudest slang and the reverent and dignified
lines on the crucifix in Givenchy church should have come from the
same pen.”

+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w

“Criticism of the songs as works of art, beyond allowing their
metrical passability, would show them to fall between two stools,
since they are not poetry on the one hand, not spontaneous expression
of crude emotion, on the other.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 420w

“These songs seem perhaps more than any verse of so strictly
‘soldierly’ a type that has come from the trenches to bring home to us
something that is really alive—to ‘get there,’ if the expression may
be allowed—more truly and easily, and without a touch of jingling
bravado.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 400w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Luck of the Irish; a romance. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-25084

William Grogan, born in New York, thrown upon the streets at nine, a
journeyman plumber at twenty-four, is the kind of hero who, like “the
Hindu Yogi, could set his body grinding corn, take his soul out and go
visiting with it.” For three years from his cellar shop window he had
seen the same two shapely feet, sensibly shod, trip lightly by.
Saturdays minus and the gap of July and August led him to the
conclusion that she was a school teacher. He had never seen her face.
“There were lots of homely women with pretty feet. He hadn’t many
illusions left, this young philosopher of the soldering-iron, and he
wanted to keep this one.” The wheel of fortune turns. A part of the
pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is dumped into his lap. He puts
himself aboard a ship for a trip around the world. The pair of feet is
on the same boat. Mystery with plenty of treachery spices the story
which must be left to the reader.

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

“A lively tale, the interest of which depends almost entirely upon its
plot, and, though in the climax at Singapore it does seem as if the
author might have managed to concoct a more plausible excuse for the
delay which enabled William to arrive in the very nick of time, the
story as a whole is amusing.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 430w

=MACHARG, WILLIAM, and BALMER, EDWIN.= Indian drum. il *$1.40 (1½c) Little 17-25511

It was an Indian superstition—that the drum, hidden somewhere in the
woods at the northern end of Lake Michigan, tolled the passing of
every soul lost on the lakes. Twenty years before, when the freighter
“Miwaka” had gone down with all on board, the drum had beaten short.
Twenty-five was the number of the lost, but the drum made the count
twenty-four. And there were those who had waited many years for the
return of a rescued man. The story opens with the disappearance of
Benjamin Corvet of Chicago, veteran ship owner and best known man on
the lakes. Coincident with this is the arrival in Chicago of young
Alan Conrad of Kansas, who had been summoned by Corvet. Henry
Spearman, youngest member of the firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman,
insists that the senior partner is dead, but Constance Sherrill
refuses to be convinced and encourages Alan in his search for the
missing man. The mystery shrouding Alan and his relationship to
Corvet, together with the explanation of the connection between Corvet
and Spearman and the lost “Miwaka” is cleared away with the wreck of
Carferry 25, when the count of the Indian drum is again one beat
short.

“An unusually good mystery story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“The tale is clearly and pleasantly told, the characters acceptably
real, and the solution eminently satisfactory.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 230w

“The plot is painstakingly worked out and the book is better written
than most plot stories. The power and tragedy of the Great Lakes in
time of storm form an impressive background.”

+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 70w

“The big scene on the lake steamer when the cars get loose recalls the
place in ‘Ninety-three’ where the gun breaks loose between decks and
begins to batter the ship to pieces. The incident is as thrilling as
anything short of Flanders.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 370w

“The story, despite the obviousness of its dramatic struggle, is
skilfully constructed, its air of mystery being well sustained.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 280w

=MACHEN, ARTHUR.= Terror. *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 17-25086

An ingenious mystery story, impossible, fantastic, yet with a moral
that sets thoughtful people musing. Rural England which is the scene
has a succession of strange deaths. Workers in munition factories,
miners, farmers, tourists and laborers are stricken down, some
apparently asphyxiated, others victims of inexplainable violence. The
theory is suggested that the Germans, before the war, undermined the
earth, and, from hidden vantage points, are making use of some deadly
ray to destroy the people. In the end it is revealed that the terror
had been due to a mute uprising of the brute creation against their
human masters who, in descending to the plane of beasts to conduct
warfare, had released their spiritual hold over the animal creation.
The subjects revolted because their king abdicated his throne. Hatred
is contagious. The animals under its spell turned on man to destroy
him.

=A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“‘The terror’ is a pure tour de force in diabolism. With its haunting
unreality, its many passages of real beauty, its passages of
description of Welsh scenery, no little pleasure may be derived from
its chapters.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 130w

=Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 60w

“Artfully does the story-teller establish his fiction upon an
indubitable fact, fresh in every reader’s mind. The British were
inactive; we all wondered why at the time, and here, says our
deponent, with his crisp reporter’s air, is the answer.”

+ =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 550w

“The horrors that mark the animals’ sudden war upon mankind seem
isolated from their cause, and do not convince one of any real terror
at the root of them. In spite of the disappointment, and the defect of
a good idea not vigorously carried out, ‘The terror’ is a
distinguished book, and bears the mark of a strangely original mind.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:158 D 8 ‘17 150w

“The fancy is an excellent one, and on the whole well worked out,
though, naturally, there are many things left unexplained, and some
that do not hang very well together. But as ‘A tale of terror’ it
certainly qualifies, and we should conjecture that the book has not
been published in England, though it, no doubt, will be after the
war.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 530w

=N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 320w

“Daring, ingenious tale.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:808 D ‘17 50w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p70 F 8 ‘17 80w

=MACIVER, ROBERT MORRISON.= Community: a sociological study. *$3.75 (3c) Macmillan 301 17-17545

“A small portion of this work has already appeared in the Sociological
Review and other quarters. The greater portion is concerned with what
are believed by the author to be the fundamental laws of social
development. Prof. Maciver declares that social science, in order to
advance, must cease to be subject to the methods and formulæ of
physical and biological science. It has a method of its own; and
social relations cannot adequately be stated quantitatively, nor
understood as expressions of quantitative laws. Of militarism the
author remarks that it has been the enemy of modern social
development, and that, if it cannot be overcome, ‘in all we do to
build a greater civilization we are preparing greater offerings to the
powers of destruction.’”—Ath

“This is easily the most notable book of the year in sociology. ... It
is impossible to outline in a satisfactory manner the argument of a
book so fertile in ideas. The only fair thing that the reviewer can do
is to urge all interested in social science to read the book. It is
far easier, however, to criticise the work, and in certain respects it
deserves criticism. It is doubtful, for example, if the author has
rendered sociology a service by adding another terminology to the many
already in existence. ... Finally, Professor Maciver’s attempt to make
psychology purely a subjective science, the science of ‘the knower’
(p. 60), and thereby divorce the social sciences quite entirely from
it, will scarcely meet with approval on the part either of
psychologists or of a large number of sociologists. These are,
however, on the whole, minor defects in a work whose substantial value
nearly all students of the social sciences will heartily recognize.”
C: A. Ellwood

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:598 S ‘17 950w

“It strikes one as a serious omission that almost no reference is made
to the contributions of earlier writers to the same theme. ... On the
other hand, the author shows no particular familiarity with the
sociological tradition. For that reason the terms used in this book
are more or less improvised, consequently lacking in precision, and
the whole volume is vague, thin, plausible, and innocuous.” R. E. Park

— =Am J Soc= 23:542 Ja ‘18 550w

Reviewed by L. L. Bernard

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 770w

“What makes Dr Maciver’s volume so helpful is the fact that it was
written before the outbreak of war and is published unaltered. It is a
masterly book, characterized by a firm grasp of principles, and it is
about principles that we want clear thinking at the present time. ...
The volume is refreshing in that it is neither doctrinaire nor
dogmatic. The lack of pretension about the book does not, however,
hide the fact that it is written with a thorough knowledge of the best
work in modern psychology and philosophy.”

+ =Ath= p235 My ‘17 1650w

=Ath= p248 My ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w

“It suffers from a certain abstractness. Again and again one needs the
apt illustration which will serve to drive home the point that has
been made. It is a well-arranged book; and a student who is acquainted
with the literature of which it is a part can read it with interest
and profit. It is, indeed, here that its main value lies. It is
nothing so much as an encyclopædia of the problems involved in the
fact of human organization. ... It is permissible to suggest that
future work of this kind will be the more useful and suggestive in so
far as it is written from the standpoint of historical experience.” H.
J. Laski

* + – =Dial= 62:517 Je 14 ‘17 1850w

“Dr Maciver has done valuable service not only in providing us with a
summary analysis of acquired results, but also reminding the
specialist of the immense value of a wide outlook. The author disarms
criticism by acknowledging that the subject is too vast for any
adequate survey to be made in the present state of our knowledge. On
the whole Dr Maciver’s book is completely successful.” C. D. Burns

+ =Hibbert J= 16:175 O ‘17 680w

“Remarkable book—remarkable for the vigour, originality and precision
of the views presented. ... Of the two appendices, A is a very
masterly criticism of neo-Hegelian identification of the state with
society. It is, perhaps, in this illuminating criticism of authorities
such as Professor Bosanquet in this appendix and of M. Durkheim (p.
87), Mr William McDougall (p. 79) that Dr Maciver is at his best.” M.
J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:292 Ja ‘18 340w

=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 340w

“We may express our gratitude for so able and suggestive a plea for
the value and importance of individual human personality in the life
of community, a plea more deeply significant against the background of
present-day happenings.” W. L. S.

+ =Nature= 100:124 O 18 ‘17 1000w

“While there is no question that what he has written is of high
ability, Mr Maciver has yet certain defects of outlook and method
which detract from the value of his thought. His thesis is
over-elaborated. ... What is more serious is the unreal atmosphere of
the book. Again and again it becomes difficult to grasp the vital fact
that of this community we are ourselves part. There is missing the apt
historical illustration which would lend point to the argument. ...
Not the least serious defect in Mr Maciver is his seeming ignorance of
vital tracts of human experience which are essential to his theme. ...
If this is for the most part a criticism that is adverse, it is
because Mr Maciver has written what is an indispensable book.” H. J.
L.

+ — =New Repub= 11:283 Jl 7 ‘17 2200w

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 40w

“A very able and penetrating analysis of communal development in the
broadest sense.”

+ =Spec= 119:331 S 29 ‘17 120w

“We needed this book badly. Of the thousands who lightly talk about
‘national reconstruction,’ how many question the issues involved? This
book provides a real preparation for the task.” A. H. Burnett

+ — =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 540w

“This book, the work of a Canadian professor, is one of unmistakable
originality. ... In precision of language, in accuracy of definition,
in the expulsion of indefinite phraseology, Mr Maciver’s volume
contrasts, to his advantage, with the bulk of sociological literature.
Certain pages are in the best style of philosophical exposition. But
Mr Maciver does not wholly escape the besetting sin of
sociologists—diffuseness.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Ap 26 ‘17 1500w

=MACKAY, CONSTANCE D’ARCY.= Little theatre in the United States. il *$2 (3c) Holt 792 17-29335

Aims to give a complete survey of one of the “newest, freest, most
potent and democratic forces in the art of the American stage.” The
author shows that the idea of little theatres came from Europe. In
Paris in 1887 the first experiment was launched by André Antoine. In
America the movement is new, dating from 1911-12. The “arch-foe of
commercialism,” this great promoter of common interest has grown
rapidly in America. The chapters describe the contributions and
achievements of the more important little theatres of the United
States and tell of the work going on in the laboratory theatres of the
universities. There is also a word on the cost of little theatres, on
repertory theatres, and on little theatres that have failed.

+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w

“A crisply written informational volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:107 Ja ‘18 480w

“The author has done little more than bring together trivial notes and
opinions. ... And the information is frequently inaccurate.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 330w

“Meets a real need to satisfy requests for the history of the
little-theater movement.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 80w

=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Journal of small things. *$1.35 (2c) Duffield 940.91 17-8206

The author writes of France in the early days of the war. The preface,
by W. L. Courtney, says: “Those who have read Mrs Mackay’s book which
she entitled ‘Accidentals,’ will know exactly what to expect from her
new book ‘Journal of small things.’ Like the early one it consists of
a series of little sketches more or less in the form of a diary,
vignettes taken from a very individual angle of vision. ... The
precise quality of them is that they are extremely individual and
intimately concerned with the little things—episodes half observed,
half forgotten, which cluster round a big tragedy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:396 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 570w

“The writer’s intense sympathy with the sufferings she records is
unmarred by emotionalism, and permits her to produce an account
objective enough to be valuable; and, although Mrs Mackay is
apparently not a Catholic, the ‘Journal’ is full of a beautiful
reverence for the religion of the French people.”

+ =Cath World= 105:838 S ‘17 250w

“This is the record of a spiritual development, and it is by far the
most impressive, the most poignant which this reviewer has yet found
in the mass of war literature. It is a volume to be read and reread,
and always to be kept near at hand.”

+ + =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 230w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 40w

“It stays with one, with its heartache and its beauty; not for
themselves and their lost homes, but over and over again—‘Sauvez la
France.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 600w

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w

+ =Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 190w

“The book is sad, it cannot be otherwise, but it is truthfully sad and
is informed with a delicate sentiment which is never sentimental and
which gives to her sketches contrasts of light, shade, and
atmosphere.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 400w

=MACKAY, MRS ISABEL ECCLESTONE (MACPHERSON).= Up the hill and over. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10164

A little village in Canada, very amusingly described, is the scene of
this story. Dr Henry Callandar, of Montreal, seeking mental rest and
change of scene, finds both in Coombe, where he buys out the practice
of old Dr Simmonds. Well-wishers inform him that old Dr Simmonds
really has no practice to sell and that Coombe is an unprofitably
healthy town, but all this fits in perfectly with Dr Callandar’s
plans. He comes into town on foot, like a tramp, and his first
encounter is with Esther Coombe, the young school mistress. What
promises at first to be a very pretty love story is interrupted by the
meeting between Callandar and Esther’s stepmother. Callandar and Mary
Coombe had known one another in the long past and there is that
between them that throws the shadow of tragedy over the awakening of a
new love. But the shadow lifts, making for the story a sunny ending.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 350w

“The rather melodramatic plot is redeemed by skillful character
drawing.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w

+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“A book with which we are glad to have made friends.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 350w

“An unusual novel of Canadian life by a Vancouver writer. It is
admirably written and very interesting. There is truth, humor, and
charm in the pictures both of the place and the people, while the
construction is exceptionally good and the plot well and logically
developed.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:119 My ‘17 150w

=MACKAY, LUCY GERTRUDE.=[2] Housekeeper’s apple book. *75c Little 641.5 17-29531

The author classes the apple among the most essential foods and gives
over 200 recipes for its use. Apple sauce and apple salads, baked
apples and fried apples, apple puddings, pies, cakes and dumplings are
all here, with many variations. The book is indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 70w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Canterbury pilgrims. *$1 Macmillan 812 17-403

Percy MacKaye’s play “The Canterbury pilgrims” was published in 1903.
This operatic version was prepared in the summer of 1914. With music
by Reginald De Koven it was given its first performance at the
Metropolitan opera house in New York during the season of 1916-17.
Geoffrey Chaucer himself is one of the characters, together with the
best known of the pilgrims, the Knight, the Squire, the Friar, the
Miller, and so on, not forgetting the Wife of Bath.

“That Mr MacKaye’s comedy has been out of print for some time gives a
fresh interest and appeal to this operatic version. ... Long regarded
as one of the finest of Mr MacKaye’s poetic dramas, it has now
achieved the highest recognition in this country.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 10 ‘17 400w

“Rare among librettos in English, it is readable. ... Where Chaucer
has failed him is in the matter of plot, and the effort to supply the
deficiency is not so fortunate. ... In the play, as it was published
in 1903, there was more opportunity to seek safety in an entirely
appropriate discursiveness. The condensation necessary in an opera
makes the incongruity of the plot only the more apparent.”

+ — =Nation= 104:411 Ap 5 ‘17 250w

“With the possible exception of the Prioress, the characters are
convincing portrayals. The whole affords relaxation for the student of
Chaucer and satisfaction for the lover of good stories.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 22 ‘17 350w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Community drama; its motive and method of neighborliness; an interpretation. *50c (10½c) Houghton 792.6 17-17646

The substance of this book was “delivered as a lecture before the
American civic association in 1916. ... Mr MacKaye considers community
drama the ‘ritual of democratic religion.’ Also by offering a dramatic
channel for social consciousness he would convert the mentality of
competition into the mentality of coöperation, and foster the growth
of the international mind, thus making end to war.” (R of Rs) The
appendix gives newspaper comments on the production of “Caliban” in
New York in 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17

“As Mr MacKaye admits, there are other excellent ways of attaining the
‘international spirit,’ there are other ‘substitutes for war,’ but no
one who reads this little book can deny that he proves his own scheme
to be at least worth the trying. ... Little attention is given to the
rather important subject of the effect of this new amateur ‘community
drama’ on expert and professional acting and authorship.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 110w

“It is too slight to be of much value to the student of sociology or
of the drama, nor specific enough to be of service to those interested
in the practical aspects of the pageant or community play, and too
emotional—too sentimental—to carry conviction to the intellectually
aware.”

— =Dial= 63:277 S 27 ‘17 280w

— =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 130w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Sinbad the sailor. *$1.25 Houghton 812 17-10549

The tales of “Sinbad the sailor” and “Beauty and the beast” have been
fused to make this “lyric phantasy” in a prelude and three acts. A
note says that music for the play has been composed by Frederick S.
Converse.

“An extravagant but entertaining phantasy. ... Full descriptions make
the play effective for reading aloud.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17

“The dialogue consists of sprightly nonsense on the Gilbertian order,
and there are some good lyrics. The settings and transformations, the
work of Joseph Urban, seem, as described, to be the last word in
modern lighting and stagecraft.”

=Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w

“Percy MacKaye proves himself more the poet than the dramatist for
‘Sinbad’ ends with all its ‘first line frenzy’ of inspiration, fancy,
visualization, lyricism, naïvete, whimsicality in dramatic structure
gone, lost in dull verbiage, vanished in its middle act.”

+ — =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17

“If Mr MacKaye were an unknown, struggling author, one could offer him
at least the gift of silence. But for a man of his standing in the
world of literature and the drama to put forth such a ‘lyric phantasy’
as ‘Sinbad’ is calculated to make the judicious grieve.”

— =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 200w

+ =Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

=MCKELLAR, K. B.= Machine gun practice and tactics for officers, N. C. O.’s and men. *90c Macmillan 358 17-18610

A concise manual on methods of organization and machine gun units and
sequence of training which has grown out of three years of experience
at the front and in instructing men for active service in the present
war.

=A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 30w

=MACKENNA, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Adventure of death. *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 218 17-15977

Chapters on The great adventure; The fear of death; The painlessness
of death; Euthanasia; What life gains from death; Does death end all?
by a British physician who “has enjoyed exceptional opportunities of
studying the state of mind and demeanour of those who are at the point
of death, and of gathering and collating the experiences of soldiers
who have faced the perils of war.” Dr MacKenna believes that a normal
man in perfect health has “in some degree a salutary fear of death,”
but that “when his hour comes, in almost every case the fear is lost,
that a physician has no right to end the life of an apparently
hopeless sufferer; that death in itself is painless, and that there is
nothing inherently impossible in the survival of personality.”

“No one is likely to find the slightest difficulty in following the
argument of ‘The adventure of death,’ for it is very clearly written.
Its chief blemishes are the over-abundance of quotations from the
poets and philosophers—some of which seem to have more sound than
relevance—and an extraordinary gaudiness of style.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 530w

=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 20w

“A beautifully and simply written little book whose perusal ought to
do away entirely with the fear and horror of death that lurk in the
minds of most normal people who have never been brought into much
close connection with it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 710w

“His little essay is eminently sane and comforting, and that without
being a tract.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ‘17 700w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Sonia; between two worlds. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20668

“Mr McKenna elects to call his novel ‘Sonia’; but Sonia Dainton,
charming if turbulent, plays in reality but a small part in it. The
story is mainly concerned with the doings and development of George
Oakleigh, who acts as narrator, and his two friends, Lord Loring and
David O’Rane, from their schooldays at Melton—the famous English
public school that stands ‘like a group of temples on a modern
Acropolis’—down to the first years of the great war.”—Spec

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:205 O ‘17 650w

“Should the social historian of the future wish to find a convincing
picture of one stratum of pre-war Britain he can do no better than
read Stephen McKenna’s novel, ‘Sonia.’” F. I.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1000w

“A substantial as well as absorbingly interesting novel, worth the
time it takes to read.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“An excellent example of those novels of school and college life which
only the English know how to write, perhaps because the English are
the only ones who know how to live that life. But it is more than
charming narration and delineation; it has a sense of the traits in
British character which make it survive.”

+ =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 190w

“Of course, Mr McKenna has chosen to write ‘Sonia’ in the bald
narrative vein for purely artistic purposes. By making the everyday
life of an aristocratic order that is passing so homely and friendly,
by avoiding any quick, hot anger at the impeccable and stupid
extravagance of silly routine, Mr McKenna can vivify O’Rane’s
contrasting point of view more enduringly than by dramatic rant.” H.
S.

+ =New Repub= 13:103 N 24 ‘17 820w

“The novel is well written, done conscientiously, and with infinite
care. A great deal of it is interesting, but unfortunately a great
deal of it is excessively tiresome. It is a great pity that this
should be so, for the book is in many ways excellent, an intelligently
thought-out and carefully produced criticism of certain phases of
English life as it was before the war.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:332 S 9 ‘17 500w

“By a member of the recent British commission to Washington. The best
part of this book, both for quantity and quality, consists of a review
of the actions and thoughts of people in the years just preceding the
war, beginning with the hero’s schooldays in 1898, and some account of
the modifications which the war has brought about. We congratulate the
author on much shrewd discernment and considerable wit, as well as on
his attitude towards social problems. We wish we could as heartily
commend his characterization, but here, especially in the case of the
girl whose name figures in the title, his failure by comparison is
very marked.”

+ — =Ontario Library Review= 1:119 My ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 100w

+ =Spec= 118:416 Ap 7 ‘17 970w

“The description of life in Mr Oakleigh’s London in the year of fate
is really brilliant, an odd frenzied London, where an eager
humanitarianism, showing itself in the sincere pursuit of social
reform and international understanding, could mix with senseless
personal indulgence. ... It is Mr Oakleigh’s vivid impressionism as a
whole, rather than its details, that gives to this book its great
interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 800w

=MACKENZIE, CAMERON.= Man who tried to be it. il *$1 (5c) Doran 17-7928

From Wellesville, where he had been general manager of a small
business concern, John Hadden was called to Chicago to become
president of the Consolidated shoe corporation. John Hadden was
accounted a successful business man. He had power and driving force
and he looked on the Consolidated as just another and wider field for
the exercise of his abilities. But he failed at it, failed because he
tried to do too much and because he treated his subordinates as
subordinates and tried to make of them mere machines subject to his
will. He failed because he tried to use in the big business methods
that had been successful in the small business.

=A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w

“Tersely and interestingly told, and its ‘moral’ deserves a wide
reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 280w

“The author displays considerable insight into the organization and
conduct of a big corporation, and the story is an illuminating
reminder of how far co-operation in the management of present-day
corporations has supplanted the ‘one man’ control of a not distant
day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 280w

“Capital character study of business men. ... No romance and rather
unpleasant.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=MACKENZIE, DONALD A.= Stories of Russian folk-life. *2s 6d Blackie, London

“This volume of the ‘Story and legend library’ contains seven short
stories of Russian life, both ancient and modern, and an introduction
in which the author gives us an interesting sketch of a few of the
most prominent facts of the geography and history of the country. Some
of the stories are traditional, and in one we have an exciting and
tragic encounter with wolves, while in the last, and in some ways the
best, there is an account of the actual moment of transition for the
peasants from serfdom to liberty.”—Spec

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 30w

+ =Sat R= 123:68 Ja 20 ‘17 150w

+ =Spec= 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 50w

“‘Stories of Russian folk-life’ is a cheerful volume, and the pictures
are good. But the title does not indicate the contents very clearly.
The book is apparently not translated, and it is not the retelling of
old tales. Mr Donald Mackenzie’s effort appears rather to have been to
tell certain stories in the folk-lore spirit.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 170w

=MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.= African trail. il 50c Central committee on the united study of foreign missions. West Medford, Mass. 266 17-10203

“A textbook on the approach of the Gospel to primitive peoples was
ordered of this experienced missionary, after her striking letters
under the title ‘Black sheep’ had appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in
1915. The present work is the result, and is a unique and valuable
contribution to the literature of missions.” (Boston Transcript) “For
here is far more than simply an account of religious work among the
Bulus. It is a poetic, impassioned setting forth of the great romantic
endeavor of the messengers of the ‘tribe of God’; a description in few
words of the effect on the white man of life among strange peoples; a
remarkable analysis of the first results of the ‘technique of
Christian living,’ the ‘ten tyings,’ on the heathen mind.” (Ind) A
brief reading list is appended.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 220w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 50w

“The book is full of original and enlightening expressions, of keen
psychology, of human sympathy. It stands beside Keable’s beautiful
‘City of the dawn,’ tho broader in scope and deeper in thought. It may
be a good textbook. It certainly is literature.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 170w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

“There is not in existence any other missionary text-book that
presents with such power the underlying psychology of certain African
tribes.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 220w

=MACKINTOSH, HUGH ROSS.= Immortality and the future. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 218 A17-1602