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“Professor Margolis tells his story interestingly, in an easy, flowing
style; he writes in a judicial and moderate spirit, with an evident
desire of fairness, and if he lays more stress than is usual upon the
work of Jewish scholars, it is because his little book is intended
chiefly for Jews and aims to give the Jewish point of view. ... He
appears to be unacquainted with the claim, made by Cardinal Gasquet,
of a Catholic origin for the first translation of the Bible into
English; nor does he know, apparently, the influence of the Douay
version upon the authorized King James. His whole chapter on the age
of the reformation is too much influenced by the traditional
Protestant view.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:117 O ‘17 200w

“Special emphasis is laid upon the work that has been done by Jewish
scholars from the days of Saadya, Rashi and David Kimhi down to the
present time.”

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Marion, by the author of “Me.” il *$1.35 Watt

“Marion, one of the eleven children of an English artist settled in
Hochelaga, the French quarter of Montreal, tells her own story.
Endowed with beauty and brains, and not endowed with a single shred of
discretion, nor with the apparently almost extinct quality that used
to be known as womanly reserve, she fares forth into the world of
Bohemia, to earn her bread as actress, artist’s assistant, model—any
unconventional and hazardous thing that comes to hand. ... Marion
passes through many compromising situations, thrilling adventures,
hairbreadth escapes from both want and infamy.”—N Y Times

“That it is written with vivacity and skill needs not to be said to
those who have enjoyed its predecessor. The dominant feeling, however,
with which one closes the book is ‘the pity of it.’ ... The interest
of the story is greatly enhanced by its profuse and unusually
beautiful illustrations, every one of which has the rare merit of
really illustrating the text.”

=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“The most interesting portions of her revelations tell of her
sensations as a model and of her rather lurid experiences in
studios. ... There is no pretense at style in the book and little
humor, as the author has been chiefly occupied in presenting a human
document.” F. M. Holly

=Pub W= 90:2071 D 9 ‘16 430w

=MARKS, JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS.= Three Welsh plays. *$1 Little 812 17-7561

The first of these plays, “The merry, merry cuckoo,” gives a tender
and touching little picture of the sympathetic devotion between a
married pair who have lived long years together. The remaining two,
“The deacon’s hat” and “Welsh honeymoon,” are comedies. The first was
published in the Dramatist, and in the Metropolitan, and the third in
Smart Set. All have been played in various places thruout the country,
in little theatres, by drama societies, etc. The author was awarded
one of the first prizes of the Welsh national theatre in 1911.
Application for permission to produce the plays should be made to the
author, in care of the publishers.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17

“She will do surer work than this, but her dialogue has emotional
shading and her effects are subtle.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 90w

“They have been acted a number of times and proved their validity on
the stage.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 180w

“Such folk plays as these of Jeannette Marks give the touch of life
the play world needs.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

“Only a very blind critic could fail to see the excellent human
quality of the plays contained in this volume, and only a very cold
one could withhold admiration. Charm these plays have in abundance. It
is a simple charm compounded of genuine feeling, childlike thinking,
and quaint unaffected expression. The localism of the plays is novel
and taking; the dialect is used with discretion, and is manifestly the
speech of the heart. ... They are delightful to read and perhaps
dramatic enough to hold an audience.”

+ =No Am= 205:630 Ap ‘17 750w

“For sheer loveliness, humor, and the revealing of eternal wisdom
through human nature, these plays easily surpass most of the one-act
plays offered to the public.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

=MARRIOTT, JOHN ARTHUR RANSOME.= Eastern question; an historical study in European diplomacy. *$5.50 (3c) Oxford 949.6 17-15969

The author, who is a fellow of Worcester college, Oxford, states that
he knows of no other book “identical in scope and purpose” with his
own. He aims to give a “systematic and continuous account of the
origin and development of the Eastern question.” “There is an
introductory outline, then after a chapter on the geography of the
Balkans and its influence on the politics of the Near East, the
history of the Ottoman empire is narrated, giving much space to
Napoleon and Greek independence, until the Crimean war. A very full
chapter is devoted to this war. ... The last six chapters deal with
contemporary history.” (Boston Transcript) The last chapter covers the
years 1914-16. There are three appendices and nine maps, one of these
being an ethnological map of the Balkan peninsula. A list of
authorities is appended to each chapter. Some of the material has been
utilized for articles recently contributed to various English
magazines.

“The few blemishes detract little from the great positive value of the
book, which like much of the work of Englishmen succeeds remarkably
well in preserving the true historical spirit in a time of warlike
passions.” A. H. Lybyer

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:390 Ja ‘18 700w

“The author has supplied a real need in English historical literature.
It comes at a very opportune time. It is the work of a genuine
scholar, learned and free from conscious bias.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 580w

+ =Cath World= 106:388 D ‘17 450w

“One of the most illuminating chapters in this invaluable book is that
entitled ‘Physics and politics,’ and future negotiators may take to
heart the suggestions made at p. 33 that any settlement of Balkan
affairs must originate from within.” Ernest Satow

* + =Eng Hist R= 32:435 Jl ‘17 1450w

“A clear, scholarly, and accurate account of Balkan problems.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 900w

“It is an able and scholarly book, such as we should expect from so
well known a member of the Oxford school of modern history as Mr
Marriott, and it brings together in an orderly narrative many episodes
that lose their significance in the ordinary European histories.”

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 220w

“It is a very small book for so large a subject; and, though it
probably contains as much as the ordinary reader is likely to digest,
and that in a digestible form, it still leaves room for a work based
on exhaustive research. Mr Marriott has earned our thanks by giving
us, at the cost of no slight labour, a study which has long been
needed and should certainly be widely read.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p267 Je 7 ‘17 2000w

=MARSH, RICHARD.= The beetle. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-3888

The story is told in the first person by four of the characters, a
London clerk, a scientist, a young society woman, and a detective,
each of whom in turn gives his own version. The mystery is well
sustained thruout the four narratives. There is an element of hypnosis
in it, and one of oriental magic, in addition to the element of sheer
physical horror, the horror one instinctively feels of creeping
things.

“This is an absorbing narrative of fantastic horrors that should be
read only by those of unimpaired nervous system and then preferably in
broad daylight.”

=Bellman= 22:279 Mr 10 ‘17 170w

“Is it a purely critical affectation to feel that these books are not
good because they lack reality, because they do not try to convey the
impression of life, but are content to give an idea or to tell a
story?... Is it a dry-as-dust pedantry that says the idea is good or
the story is good, but that the book is not good from the critical
standpoint? I think not,—naturally.” E: E. Hale

— =Dial= 62:146 F 22 ‘17 700w

“Mr Marsh does not know how to create character; his young chemist is
especially unconvincing. The attempts at humor are clumsy indeed; Mr
Marsh ought not to bother his head about providing comic relief. He
has a powerful imagination and he knows how to tell a story, and these
powers have enabled him to write a book guaranteed to give an hour’s
excitement to every one healthy enough occasionally to enjoy horror.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:52 F 11 ‘17 200w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Abington abbey. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-25863

“‘Abington abbey’ details in 388 leisurely pages, how the family of
George Grafton, banker, moves from his London home and settles in the
newly purchased Abington abbey, a delightful old country place. ... Mr
Grafton is a rich widower, with three beautiful daughters, and a son
at school. These, with the ‘Dragon,’ the girls’ governess, constitute
the family.” (N Y Times) “The story as a whole cannot be
satisfactorily summarized, for, although its sequence is uninterrupted
and its events hang together closely, its effects are almost wholly
atmospheric.” (Boston Transcript)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:490 D ‘17 470w

“It is an intimate revelation of the English temperament, the English
tricks of thought, and the English way of living. ... Interwoven into
the story is the personality of one of those clerical characters
without whom no story of English life seems complete. ... And it is
solely through the novelist’s account of this clergyman’s persistent
interest in the affairs of his parishioners, of his determined
intrusion into their home life, and of the quiet rebuffs that he met
from the Graftons and others, that a humorous aspect is given to the
novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 1200w

=Nation= 106:94 Ja 24 ‘18 600w

“It is almost startling to come across a book, published in 1917,
which, for all reflection it gives of the time in which it was
written, might have come from the pen of Jane Austen or Anthony
Trollope.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:412 O 21 ‘17 750w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Upsidonia. *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 17-26182

Upsidonia is not pictured as a utopia; it is merely a country where
everything usual to us is turned upside down. The poor are more highly
respected than the rich, servants give orders to masters, prisons are
places of comfort and luxurious ease. The story is told by a young
Englishman who inadvertently wanders into this strange country. His
first act is to toss sixpence to a beggar, who turns out to be a
person of power and influence. Amazing complications follow.

=A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17

“The ingenuity of all this is unquestionable, its satiric import is at
times easily discernible, but it is very obviously not the sort of
fiction with which Mr Marshall is most thoroughly at home.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 1200w

“No one who read that superb story ‘Watermeads,’ would suspect Mr
Marshall of so commonplace a mind as is revealed in this thoroughly
uninteresting story of a fictitious country. ... It is a barren tale
of unpleasant people, without humor or originality or reason.”

— =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 150w

“A breezy, amusing story, cleverly told, although not always quite up
to the possibilities of its theme.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 550w

“Mr Marshall’s latest book would make a delightful short story; or it
might well serve as the foundation for a more complicated fantasy. But
in forcing it to the fashion of a six-shilling novel Mr Marshall has
doomed it to failure. ... There are, here and there in the book,
touches of humour of a far finer kind especially in the solemn
footnotes regarding the politics, customs, and literature of
Upsidonia.”

– + =Spec= 116:24 Ja 1 ‘16 220w

=MARSHALL, HENRIETTA ELIZABETH.=[2] This country of ours. il *$2.50 (1c) Doran 973 17-31892

This is an English writer’s story of the United States, told for young
people. It follows “Our island story,” “A history of France” and other
similar works by the author. The contents are arranged as follows:
Stories of explorers and pioneers; Stories of Virginia; Stories of New
England; Stories of the middle and southern colonies; Stories of the
French in America; Stories of the struggle for liberty; Stories of the
United States under the Constitution. This final section brings the
story down to the present time. There are ten illustrations in color
by A. C. Michael.

“The book appears to be in the main historically accurate. It is
noticeable that while the days of discovery and colonization receive
very thorough treatment, the period following the Civil war is put
into about forty pages—a condensation which gives the reader the
impression of being out of proportion in a work of 612 pages.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 350w

=MARTIN, EDWARD SANDFORD.= Diary of a nation; the war and how we got into it. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-28643

A brief record of the formation of American opinion for the student of
the war who wishes to go back to the beginning of it and
chronologically run thru the comment, from this side of the water,
from August, 1914, to the time when the United States entered the
conflict. The observations are selected from articles that appeared in
Life and “are concerned with the war in Europe and with American
politics as affected by it. By what processes of sympathy and
indignation, thru what vicissitudes of diplomacy, delay and almost
despair, we came after two years and a half to the breaking point with
Germany, may be traced in a measure in the chapters.”

“Full of shrewd common sense.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 40w

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 230w

“In calling attention to this inspiriting and aptly named volume we
may recall what we said of the previous reprint of articles from New
York Life. They stand for a type of editorial comment for which there
is no parallel in British journalism—unconventional, colloquial, but
trenchant and often intensely serious though appearing in what is
nominally a comic paper.”

+ =Spec= 119:648 D 1 ‘17 1700w

=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Those Fitzenbergers. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-7923

Little Liddy Fitzenberger had led a strangely isolated life. For some
reason, unknown to her, no one in Virginsburg would associate with
“those Fitzenbergers.” Her father, glum and morose, never speaks to
her, and between her stepmother and herself there is open dislike. Her
only friend is Elmer Wagenhorst, and Elmer insists that their meetings
must be kept secret. The coming of the new minister and his wife to
Virginsburg makes a big difference in the life of Liddy, and the time
comes when she and Elmer find their positions reversed.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 420w

“We hardly blame the Pennsylvania Dutch for their dislike of Mrs
Martin, for she pictures them as stupid, mean, unforgiving and
immoral. ... The humor of the story is irresistible.”

=Cath World= 105:267 My ‘17 120w

“All these are very real people. There is, however, a trace of
bitterness in the author’s characterization that the book would be
better without. There must be more than a little humor in such a
settlement as Virginsburg There always is. Mrs Martin too rarely shows
her ability to catch its gleam.”

+ — =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 280w

“The dialect is true to type, and the story holds the reader’s
interest to the end.”

+ =Ind= 90:86 Ap 7 ‘17 100w

“Each new novel by Mrs Martin shows distinct progress in fictional
art, and this one excels most of her other books in the vitality of
its plot, the variety of its characterization, and the briskness and
humor with which its action moves. Mrs Martin is developing especially
in her handling of conversation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 400w

“The quaint talk is capitally rendered and the characterization is
good; but the author in the latter part of the story yields to the
temptation to make her now educated girl and boy talk too elegantly,
while the plot becomes ridiculous.”

+ — =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY=, ed. Progress and history. *$3.75 Oxford 901 17-19164

“‘Progress and history’ is a series of essays arranged and edited by
F. S. Marvin and published in 1916 and is a sequel to ‘The unity of
western civilization,’ published the year before. It was originally a
set of lectures given in Birmingham. Where the former collection aimed
at a statical view of the permanent unifying factors that have held
western civilization together, the present one exhibits a dynamical
view of these forces in growth. The idea of progress covers the
conception of increase of knowledge, increase of power, and ‘increase
in our appreciation of the humanity of others. The first two thoughts,
harmonized and directed by the third, may be taken to cover the whole
field, and this volume to be merely a commentary upon them.’” (Nation)
“The contributors are Mr L. P. Jacks. Mr Clutton Brock, Mr R. R.
Marett, F. Melian Stawell, the Rev. H. J. Carlyle, Baron F. von Hügel,
Mr A. E. Zimmern, Professor J. A. Smith, and the editor.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup)

“It must attract the attention of the educated public not only by the
present actuality of its appeal, but by the good and often brilliant
style of the writers, and generally by their known competence to deal
with the several subjects that fall to the share of each.
Unfortunately, as in most works written in indefinite combination, the
unity of purpose becomes less clear in some parts of the book
(generally speaking, perhaps, in this case after the fifth essay), and
the result is a certain nebulosity, which is not inconsistent with
suggestiveness.” Alice Gardner

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:302 Ap ‘17 950w

“In ‘Moral progress,’ Dr L. P. Jacks abandons the historical mode of
treatment. He gives a keen analysis of the notion of progress and of
the flattering assumption that we are progressing morally. His essay
is pure gold throughout, and no analysis can do it justice. But anyone
who believes the things he sees daily in his newspapers should read it
about once a week for his sanity’s sake.” F. C. S. Schiller

+ =Hibbert J= 15:511 Ap ‘17 2300w

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:138 O ‘17 310w

+ =Nation= 104:559 My 3 ‘17 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w

“Throughout the book there is a kindred aim, with excusable
differences as to detail in certain problems. And this aim is
idealistic, spiritual, with all possible stress laid upon the factor
of betterment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 2300w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Locked chest; and The sweeps of ninety-eight. *$1.25 Macmillan 822 16-21746

Two of John Masefield’s early plays, written in 1905 and 1906. They
were brought out in a limited edition in 1916 and are now issued as
one of the volumes of the regular edition of Mr Masefield’s works.
“The locked chest” is based on one of the Norse tales in the
Laxdaelasaga. “The sweeps of ninety-eight” is a play of the Irish
rebellion of 1798.

“Written with a considerable amount of humor, and though little likely
to add to Mr Masefield’s fame, the plays are thoroughly readable and
capable of presentation.”

+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 180w

“Both are one-act plays, vivid, dramatic, and with sharply drawn
characters. ... ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ is of another Irish
insurrection, and has Irish humor in its grim comedy. But ‘The locked
chest’ is tense with emotion and tragedy, its simple action revealing
long years of life, and supprest, unrecognized passions. Such a play
stands forth like a Rodin figure, stripped of all unessentials.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 100w

“Mr Masefield’s reputation as dramatist will not be enhanced by these
two one-act plays.”

— =Nation= 105:296 S 13 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:185 D ‘16

“If ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ was signed Douglas Hyde it would be
thought that this distinguished poet and Gaelic scholar had gained a
new intensity of feeling and sense of dramatic construction. Surely Dr
Hyde never wrote anything more Irish than this play of Mr
Masefield’s.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:142 Ap 15 ‘17 520w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 14:438 D ‘16

“The little plays are pleasant reading. Incidentally they should
appeal to amateurs in search of short, lively, actable pieces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 190w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lollingdon Downs, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-10980

“Mr Masefield’s new volume contains more than fifty sonnets, forming a
long cycle, but broken by a few interludes, descriptive, allegorical,
dramatic, narrative, or lyrical.” (Spec) “The volume also contains a
long narrative poem, ‘The blacksmith,’ a strange piece of fantastic
imagining, a brief little war play, ‘The frontier,’ and several other
immaterial verses not without pictorial appeal.” (N Y Times)

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 80w

“This volume has a singular and intriguing unity, a unity broken up
by interludes and by a succession of changes in the angle of
approach, and in time and place. ... It is panoramic, rich in
perspective—passing all the way from lyric and reflective sonnets to
terse poetic dialogues and narrative lyric almost ugly in its
bareness. It would be idle to pretend that Mr Masefield is a
philosopher. He is not intellectual except in the sense that he is
tortured by an intellectual issue; he is neither subtle nor
profound. But he feels this issue intensely, and even more than
usual he strikes music and beauty from it.” Conrad Aiken

* + =Dial= 63:55 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w

“In ‘Lollingdon downs’ we ask for food, and he shares with us—his
hunger. A powerful dramatic sketch of a tremulous and tingling
imperial ‘Frontier’ is the best performance in this brief and rather
baffling work.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 170w

“By this very reason of the depth of the author’s thinking, there is a
possibility that the verses in ‘Lollingdon Downs’ may not have the
wide reach of his other volumes. Mr Masefield’s work now is all
intellect purged of the more human and earthly appeal; it addresses
itself primarily to those who appreciate the metaphysical in its
superabundant and alluring aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 400w

“His present volume is at once a withdrawal and an advance. ... There
is no single piece here so good as his lines on his mother printed in
the ‘Oxford book of English mystical verse.’ But he has largely laid
aside those scenes of violence couched in defiantly bad language which
seemed to be his favourite matter a while since.”

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 1100w

“The subject-matter of the sonnets reminds us alternately of Lucretius
and FitzGerald’s paraphrase of Omar Khayyám—though the treatment lacks
the composure of the one or the serenity of the other—and we cannot
resist the conclusion that the difficulties of the task have been
increased by the form adopted.”

=Spec= 118:614 Je 2 ‘17 500w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lost endeavour. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan A17-398

An adventure story of the seventeenth century. Charles Harding, a
school boy walking home from Deptford with one of the masters, a
Spaniard known as “Little Theo,” is waylaid and kidnapped and put
aboard a vessel bound for Virginia where he is to be sold into
slavery. His companion meets a like fate but for a time their ways are
separate. One goes to a life of hardship in Virginia, one to romantic
and desperate adventure in the West Indies. When the two meet again
they unite in an effort to establish a kingdom on one of the islands.
This is the “lost endeavour” of the title, but it is no less a
thrilling adventure for all that. The English edition of this book was
published by Nelson in 1910.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“The reader who could not warm to ‘Captain Margaret’ or to Masefield’s
other experiments (too clearly experiments) in prose romance may find
something more spontaneous and genuine here.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:312 My ‘17 450w

“John Masefield’s ‘Lost endeavour’ as a swashbuckling yarn is too
poetic, too literary, for adolescents, and too lacking in all
consideration that such a fact as woman’s existence might sometime
conceivably enter into even the minds of pirates, for adults. Also,
its Indians are too grotesque and its plot too plotless. But certain
remarkable bits of characterization and certain flashes of pure poetry
make it all as surely Masefield as any page of Kipling is surely
Kipling.”

– + =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 80w

“Whatever advantage it may seek from costume and atmosphere is a minor
affair; the narrative is well capable of standing on its own feet. ...
The tale lacks the sort of ending to satisfy a boy’s heart—the
Treasure Island ending; but whatever it loses thereby as a boy’s book
it gains as a man’s book. It is very much that.”

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 350w

“To have endued, as Mr Masefield has done, the threadbare romance of
Aztec ruins and Indian magic with true romantic bigness and
persuasiveness is a considerable triumph of the imagination. The chief
quality of the thing—apart from its poetic realism as a sea story—is
its extraordinary blending of the dreamlike with the actual. ... If
this tale fails wholly to satisfy, its failure will not be due to any
lack of power or artistry on Mr Masefield’s part, but to the reader’s
feeling that a fictional power that is perhaps capable of producing
results like those which Joseph Conrad achieves has been spent upon a
rather flimsy theme.”

+ =No Am= 205:629 Ap ‘17 630w

“Masefield’s description of the old ship navigated by the pirates has
the same vivid lyrical quality as his amazing description of a vessel
in ‘Captain Margaret.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 110w

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

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.=[2] Old front line. il *$1 (4c) Macmillan 940.91 17-27866

A description of “the old front line as it was when the battle of the
Somme began.” It is written for days when the marks of the battlefield
are gone, when “Centre Way, Peel Trench, Munster Alley, and these
other paths to glory will be deep under the corn, and gleaners will
sing at Dead Mule Corner.” The town of Albert is taken as the central
point of reckoning distances. From Albert four roads lead to the
battlefield of the Somme—one to Auchonvillers and Hébuterne, one to
Authuille and Hamel, another to Pozières and a fourth to Fricourt and
Maricourt. Mr Masefield locates the defenses of both the enemy and the
Allies, going into details of boundaries, topography, places of
greatest weakness and strength. To relieve the account of possible
monotony there are poetic allusions to natural loveliness and dramatic
references to the terror of the happenings along the Somme.

“A vivid piece of descriptive writing. It has the charm of a veteran’s
reminiscence wherein the setting is hallowed by the action.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:161 F ‘18

“We could wish that Mr Masefield would visit the other scenes of
momentous conflicts, and furnish the topographical data indispensable
to a proper understanding of the military events.”

+ =Ath= p51 Ja ‘18 50w

“Nothing less than the endowment of poetic sensibility and the gift of
a flexible style would have sufficed to make his narrative other than
monotonous. But its interest is keen and continuous.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 750w

“More than any other writer, Mr Masefield has given us the feeling of
the curious blind world of the trench fighter.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 170w

“With its well-chosen photographs and trench map, this admirable
little book will be of permanent value.”

+ =Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 120w

“His book, it need hardly be said, is not an ordinary guide. Its
design is to be useful, and there are, indeed, signs of the task: a
certain forced quietness and contraction of the style, broken by
outbreaks and pulsations of language as a duty is passed: business
first, and then Dalilah. We could not miss these excursions, for
Dalilah is beautiful though a temptress; but sometimes we remember
that she was not true.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Poems. *$1.60 Macmillan 821 A17-1381

The eighteen poems in this collection, which is published with the
consent of Mr Masefield, were selected by Henry Seidel Canby,
Frederick Erastus Pierce, and Willard Higley Durham, of the English
department of the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university. The
copyrights run from 1911 to 1916. Contents: A consecration; The
everlasting mercy; Dauber; Biography; Cargoes; Sea fever; Spanish
waters; An old song re-sung; The west wind; On Malvern hill;
Fragments; Tewkesbury road; Sonnets; August, 1914.

“‘Dauber,’ ‘Biography,’ ‘Cargoes,’ ‘Fragments,’ ‘Tewkesbury road,’
‘Spanish waters,’ ‘Sea fever,’ ‘The west wind’ and ‘An old song
re-sung’ appeared in ‘Story of a round house’ (Booklist 9:330 Ap ‘13),
‘Consecration’ and ‘On Malvern hill’ appeared in ‘Salt water ballads’
(Booklist 10:314 Ap ‘14), ‘The everlasting mercy’ was published
separately in 1912 by Macmillan at $1.25. All but one of the sonnets
appeared in ‘Good Friday’ (Booklist 12:373 My ‘16).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

“From the wild, lawless, vulgar, often carelessly written narrative
telling of the fight between Billy Myers and Saul Kane, to the last
poem in the book, the elegiac stanzas of which, hinting at the changes
brought about by the great war, are cast in the quiet dignity and
mellifluous flow of Gray’s ‘Elegy,’ there is an immense advance in
technique.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 360w

=Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 140w

“The ease of the procreation of books in our shifty era is illustrated
in the selection from Mr Masefield’s poems. Apart from this useful
glossary [a glossary of sea-terms], a clever student in an industrious
afternoon, if he knew Masefield, could virtually have compiled this
volume which has absorbed the convergent energies of three Ph.D.’s.”
O. W. Firkins

— =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 110w

=MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY.= Four corners of the world. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-25588

This is a collection of twelve stories and one play, which have been
copyrighted from 1909 to 1917. The play, “Under Bignor hill,” deals
with the Roman occupation of England. Two stories, “One of them” and
“Peiffer,” deal with the European war. Most of the others deal with
murder, ghosts or suicide. “The crystal trench” tells how Mark
Frobisher’s body was lost in a crevasse and how his wife saw the
glacier yield it up after twenty-four years.

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“They are very enjoyable, these stories; and if writers like Conrad,
Thomas Burke, and H. G. Dwight had not projected into the short story
a quality that gives it vitality and endurance, we should perhaps be
fully content with the temporary satisfaction to be got from ‘The four
corners.’ According to the standard created by these writers, Mr
Mason’s work is flat. According to the standard of the average, it is
most excellently good.”

+ — =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 190w

“England has no more ingenious or versatile tale-maker than the author
of ‘The four corners of the world.’ We do not imply that Mr Mason’s
work is feebly imitative, but it is derivative and representative and,
rarely, individual, rather than ever really original. There are no
dull or ill-written stories in this volume, and they should satisfy
that very large constituency which responds to the short story as a
clever contrivance.”

+ — =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 220w

“All the stories are interesting and well written, even though no one
of them is particularly remarkable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 650w

+ — =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 10w

“Among the grim stories ‘North of the tropic of Capricorn’ is very
successful; the tragedy is vivid because not too much is said. ...
Among the longer stories ‘Green paint’ is a successful venture into
the realms of an undefined South American republic, governed by the
unscrupulous and plausible strong man.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 4 ‘17 550w

=MASON, CHARLES FIELD.= Complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U.S. army and navy, and national guard and naval militia. 4th ed rev il *$4 Wood 355 17-5986

“The fourth edition is stated to have been carefully revised and
brought up-to-date, with considerable new material relating to nursing
and pharmacy. Describes the organization of the sanitary troops in
post and field, briefly outlines human anatomy and physiology, gives
instruction in first aid and nursing, mess management and cooking,
materia medica, pharmacy, post and camp sanitation, riding, packing
and driving, minor surgery, and clerical work. Part 9, dealing with
the army regulations and the Manual of the medical department, has
been completely rewritten to agree with the latest editions of these
documents.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) The work was first published in
1906 under the title “A complete handbook for the hospital corps.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w

=MASON, WILLIAM PITT.= Water supply (considered principally from a sanitary standpoint). 4th ed rewritten il *$3.75 Wiley 628.1 16-24713

“For the present edition a large amount of the text has been entirely
rewritten and suitable amount of new material added. The tables have
been brought up to date and new photographs introduced. ... The
chapter on Drinking water and disease has been strengthened by the
addition of many pages devoted to typhoid fever. ... Newly developed
methods of water purification, particularly processes aiming at
disinfection, come in for consideration, as do certain newly found
factors influencing natural purification in streams and stored waters.
The use of chlorine ozone, ultra-violet light and copper sulphate
receive attention. There is considerable discussion of various phases
of the pollution of drinking water supplies and the care of
watersheds.”—Science

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

=Engin N= 76:1181 D 21 ‘16 80w

+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 150w

+ =Nation= 105:97 Jl 26 ‘17 800w

“Although this can not be called an exhaustive treatment of the
subject it is one of the most interesting and suggestive treatises on
water supplies published since the old book of the same title by
Professor William Ripley Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute of
technology.” G: C. Whipple

+ =Science= n s 45:240 Mr 9 ‘17 250w

=MASSEY, EDWARD.= Plots and playwrights. *$1 Little 812 17-23583

This comedy was originally produced at the “47 workshop,” Harvard
university, under the direction of Prof. George P. Baker. It was
afterwards produced by the Washington Square players, at the Comedy
theatre, New York city, in 1917. In the prologue, Caspar Gay, the
“dollar dramatist,” looking for an inspiration for his new play, meets
Joseph Hastings, writer of short stories, who undertakes to show him
drama on every floor of an Eleventh street lodging house. The three
scenes in part 1 give these three dramatic episodes. In part 2, Gay
and Hastings meet again. Gay tells Hastings that he has only found
material for drama, but that it is material which can be turned into
“a big Broadway success.” Then follows a “burlesque of a crook play,
in which the characters of the three episodes take the parts.”

=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH.= Paul the dauntless, the course of a great adventure. il *$2 Revell 220.9 17-58

“This admirable story of the life of St Paul has for its basis an
accurate presentation of all it is possible to know about the life of
the great apostle. ... Taking as the skeleton of his story the scanty
facts known of Paul’s life and journeyings, Mr Mathews himself
followed in the footsteps of all his wanderings, studying the scenes,
the people, the life, not only as they are at present but as history
describes them to have been in the early years of the Christian
era.”—N Y Times

“Written in a spirited style and abounds in picturesque descriptions
of scenery and thrilling adventure. A large number of illustrations in
color as well as in black and white from drawings and photographs add
interest to a very delightful and stimulating book.”

+ =Ind= 89:117 Ja 15 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16

“At once historically accurate and absorbingly interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 300w

“Well worth reading. The author has covered much of the ground
traversed by St Paul in his wonderful journeys, and has profited by
the researches of Sir W. Ramsay and Principal George Adam Smith and
other scholars, so that though his narrative is cast in a popular form
with a good many imaginary conversations, it is solidly based on
facts.”

+ =Spec= 117:738 D 9 ‘16 60w

=MATHEWS, MRS GERTRUDE (SINGLETON).= Treasure. il *$2 (4c) Holt 918 17-9241

A story of gold hunting in Dutch Guiana. The author has set it down as
nearly as possible in the words of the man whose adventures she
relates. He is a mining engineer who confesses that his first interest
is not in metals. It is his love for the primitive and the wild life
of the bush that takes him into out-of-the-way places. In the
adventures recorded in this book he left Paramaribo to go into the
interior in search of a mythical lost mine. His pictures of the
tropical forest and stories of his native companions, together with
the revelation of the attractive personality of the narrator, make it
an unusual book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

“The life of the ‘bush’ is well portrayed by a nature lover and it is
a pity that a somewhat unique coinage of words mars the style.”

+ — =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“It is exceedingly interesting on several counts. It is an out-and-out
story of a search for gold. It is full of curious happenings, strange
places. Its few characters are delightfully alive. And the personality
of the man himself, his love for beautiful things, and his power to
make the bush live in his picture of it, are all unusual and vastly
worth reading about.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 600w

=MATHEWS, JOHN MABRY.= Principles of American state administration. *$2.50 (1½c) Appleton 353.9 17-1515

A book based in part on college courses in state administration given
at Princeton university and the University of Illinois and in part on
researches carried on for the Efficiency and economy commission of
Illinois. The author says, “No attempt has been made to describe
exhaustively all of the multifarious activities and functions of the
American states. ... The aim has been rather to select for description
those services and functions which appear most to deserve attention,
either because of their intrinsic importance or because of their
suitability for illustrating the general principles of state
administration.” Part 1, the introduction, discusses general
principles; part 2 is devoted to The organization of the
administration, with discussions of the duties and powers of the
governor and other state officers; part 3 takes up The functions of
the administration, including taxation, public health administration,
etc. A conclusion considers the reorganization of state
administration.

=Am Econ R= 7:419 Je ‘17 40w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“There is no single volume which brings together so much first-hand
material concerning the structure and functions of the state executive
departments. The facts are well-chosen and effectively presented. The
treatment of the office of governor is especially detailed and
judicious. The author necessarily treads frequently on controversial
ground. His discussion of open questions is always suggestive, though
it is not to be expected that the reader will accept all his
conclusions.” A. N. Holcombe

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:346 My ‘17 630w

“This admirable description of the machinery and activity of state
administration is the first separate treatment of the subject which
has appeared. It sets a high standard for later works in this
field. ... The author’s conclusions as to the modern tendencies in
administration are sound and well reasoned. He offers also a goodly
number of references for collateral reading and chooses these from
works representing different standpoints. The reader is in this way
given a broad view of state problems. There is a good concluding
chapter on reorganization. ... The book deserves and should find a
wide field of usefulness among the colleges and universities.” J. T.
Young

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:238 My ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 360w

=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 130w

“The book is written in clear, non-technical language and should be of
use, not only to students of state government, but also to delegates
who this year and next will be engaged in drawing up new
constitutions.”

+ =Dial= 63:71 Jl 19 ‘17 250w

“A noteworthy production.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w

=Ind= 90:252 My 5 ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 240w

=Pratt= p9 Jl ‘17 30w

“The entire work will be found helpful to legislative committees and
other bodies interested in making the executive arms of our states
more efficient.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:109 Ap ‘17 10w

“One of the commendable features of the work is the simple and
understandable style which the author uses in setting forth the
organization of the executive branches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 16 ‘17 320w

=MATHEWS, SHAILER.= Spiritual interpretation of history. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 904 16-25174

“The William Belden Noble lectures in Harvard university for 1916 were
delivered by Dean Shailer Mathews of the divinity school of the
University of Chicago. His subject was ‘The spiritual interpretation
of history.’ ... In the first lecture he considers views which more or
less explicitly belittle or deny spiritual forces in history, and
endeavors to show that they overlook or underestimate data for which a
spiritual interpretation is demanded as a working hypothesis. In the
remaining lectures up to the concluding one he attempts to show that a
study not only of these data but of the historical process itself
discovers a tendency which compels the recognition of spiritual
forces, if not a spirit, in social development.”—Springf’d Republican

“The final lecture on the Spiritual opportunity in a period of
reconstruction, though practically helpful, is less compelling than
could be wished, and betrays the benumbing effect of trying to combine
science and religion in one discussion.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:124 O ‘17 500w

“While the author surveys a large field in a small volume, the
treatment is far from truncated. On the contrary, the style is lucid
and attractive throughout; and the conclusions are based on an
unusually rich and varied mastery of the field of human experience.
The author shows fine justice and sanity in dealing with conflicting
theories, each of which is given its due place in the synthesis of the
whole.” J: E. Boodin

+ =Am J Theol= 21:624 O ‘17 1050w

=A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17

=Bib World= 49:312 My ‘17 370w

“Professor Mathews’s rational tendency is a hybrid between Tennyson’s
purpose which runs through the ages, and Spencer’s impersonal Unknown,
Bergsons’s ‘élan vital,’ Hegel’s ‘weltgeist,’ and Lotze’s ‘purpose.’
The layman is merely confused by this metaphysical fog, while the
theologian finds it too illusive to damn as heresy. But the man who is
seeking an escape from the mechanistic conception of life and wishes
to remain loyal to the scientific spirit of the time receives no
genuine help from this doctrine.” V. T. Thayer

— =Dial= 63:200 S 13 ‘17 750w

“The well-balanced tone and insistence on practical efforts towards
social ideals are commendable and ought to prove stimulating.” A. G.

+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:627 O ‘17 110w

“A valuable contribution toward the working out of a worthy philosophy
of American life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“These interesting and timely lectures strikingly exemplify the
author’s remarkable facility for brilliant generalization.” G. T.

+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 280w

=MATHEWSON, CHRISTOPHER.= Second base Sloan. il *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 17-13076

The scene of Mr Mathewson’s latest baseball story is a small town in
Pennsylvania. Here Wayne Sloan, from Georgia, with his loyal friend,
Junius Brutus Bartow Tasker, and his dog Sam, finds himself stranded.
Wayne, who is now forced to make his way in the world, is handicapped
by lack of training. Back home he had been brought up to be a
gentleman. But he has pluck, and, much to the horror of his faithful
colored friend, who has strict ideas as to social propriety, is ready
to accept anything that offers. Finally June is established as
bell-boy in a hotel and Wayne finds a position in a freight office.
From playing ball with the men in the railroad yards, he advances to a
place on a Y. M. C. A. team, and ultimately is offered an opening in
professional baseball. The advisability of entering on this career is
very carefully weighed before the step is taken.

=Pratt= p51 O ‘17

=MATTHEWS, BRANDER.= These many years. *$3 (2½c) Scribner 17-25853

In this volume, Brander Matthews, critic, playwright, and professor of
dramatic literature in Columbia university, who says that he “was born
contented as well as cheerful,” tells the story of his life of almost
sixty-five years, setting down “only the pleasanter memories.” The
first chapter, The point of view, gives us some interesting
reflections on autobiography. Some other chapters are: New York in the
early seventies; Parisian memories; Early London memories (two
chapters); and Criticism and fiction. In the last-mentioned chapter,
Prof. Matthews expounds the underlying principle of the art of
book-reviewing. There is no index.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18

“I fear that the author of ‘These many years’ has succumbed
occasionally to the fallacy of assuming that the general reader was
prepared to contribute to the consideration of his pages an exercise
of visual imagination which is not necessitated by the facts set down.
But the book, as a whole, is highly satisfactory.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 46:357 N ‘17 3000w

“Unending delight is to be found in every line of this delightful
autobiography.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 80w

“If the reader is envious of the author’s fortune in knowing so many
men of distinction, at least he may be glad that the privilege fell to
a man who could write so charmingly about them.”

+ =Ind= 93:42 Ja 5 ‘18 600w

“‘These many years’ is every bit worth while reading.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 680w

“Mr Matthews has never lost the enthusiasm, the impressionability, the
precipitancy, or the occasional tenacity of youth. These
characteristics give the stamp of individuality to his pages.” J. R.
Towse

+ =Nation= 105:639 D 6 ‘17 1100w

“Our autobiographer is first of all an American, then a New Yorker,
then a cosmopolitan, but he is all these, and charmingly and
convincingly, but least winningly a New Yorker. All the more because I
say this, I must add that the chapters on New York literature and its
members are of such unique value as to constitute an incomparable
contribution to our literary history. It is such as no one could have
written except one who was part of it and saw it all, and who with his
greater love of literature still makes us realize that in New York it
has always been not the superior but subordinate of journalism. That
is saying it too rankly, and yet not unjustly.” W: D. Howells

+ =N Y Times= 22:405 O 21 ‘17 2450w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 117:640 D 19 ‘17 2200w

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 130w

“But the work is a worthy memorial of a useful literary career. It is
modest and unpretending, and is redolent of that graciousness which
the literary world of New York has now seemingly lost.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 1150w

“Good reading for the young aspirant in authorship, both for content
and style.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 100w

=MAUPASSANT, HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE.= Second odd number; thirteen tales. *$1.25 (3½c) Harper 17-13186

Contents: Tony; Decorated; The colonel’s idea; The jewels; Fear; Two
friends; Relics of the past; A question of diplomacy; Mademoiselle
Perle; The madman; The home-coming; Passion; Grave-walkers. “The
opening sketch of this volume, called ‘Tony,’ is quite noisome, and
can amuse only the lovers of horseplay. ... ‘Two friends’ and ‘The
colonel’s idea’ vividly record events and feelings of the German war
of 1870, but they might have been the events and feelings of the
German war of the present, they fit so well the facts now occurring.”
(Introd.) Ten of the tales were translated by Charles Henry White and
three by Virginia Watson. The introduction is by William Dean Howells.

“The translation is spirited but too much in the United States idiom.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 80w

“‘The second odd number’ is bound to cause some disappointment. ...
Three or four of the stories now given—‘The jewels,’ ‘Grave-walkers,’
‘Passion,’ perhaps ‘Decorated’—may have been excluded from the earlier
list because of the greater reluctance to deal frankly with sex
matters, but most of them were probably omitted for other reasons as
well. ... Perhaps the tale that in proportion and restraint comes
nearest to ‘The necklace,’ ‘The coward,’ and ‘A piece of string’ is
‘Two friends.’”

+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“The present ‘Odd number,’ issued by the same publisher, has been made
to match the original as to color and size and the design of its back.
It has even an amiable and slightly perfunctory introduction by Mr
Howells. But of the thirteen tales only two or three are worthy to be
placed among that first thirteen. ‘Two friends,’ ‘Relics of the past,’
and ‘Mademoiselle Perle’ are touched with human sympathy; the rest
have the acrid flavor, the brutal or fleering tone of the unfortunate
genius who, not soon enough for his own comfort, found his own way out
of a despicable world.”

+ — =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 30w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

=MAVOR, JAMES.= Government telephones. *$1 Moffat 384 16-24693

“In ‘Government telephones’ Prof. James Mavor of the University of
Toronto gives a history and critical examination of the experience of
Manitoba, Canada, with the public ownership and operation of the
telephone system of the province. The early development of the service
was promoted by the Bell company, beginning about thirty-five years
ago. The government purchase was made in 1908 and Prof. Mavor contends
that his thorough examination of the government’s work shows
indubitably that the public ownership has been a practical
failure.”—Ind

“One cannot but wish that he had outlined something of a constructive
program. Beyond indicating faith in regulation and private ownership,
and condemning public ownership, in general terms, he does not point a
way out. And the Manitoba which he pictures needs help.” H. B.
Vanderblue

=Am Econ R= 7:406 Je ‘17 730w

=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

“In view of the fact that he cites only the figures most favorable to
his contention, and neglects to mention the others, it is hard to
avoid the conclusion that he is more interested in making out his case
against public ownership than in making known the whole truth. In
short the book as a whole, regarded as an argument against public
ownership, is unconvincing; but it is not without value as a record of
certain mistakes which governmental telephone administrations, like
private companies, would do well to avoid.” A. N. Holcombe

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:357 My ‘17 820w

“The study of this one experiment should prove enlightening to all who
are personally or academically interested in the problems of state
ownership.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 20w

“Although notably one-sided, the general impression created by the
book is that, measured by business standards, government telephones in
Manitoba were a failure. Whether there were any compensating
advantages, such as are alleged by many to result from operating a
postal service at a loss, the method of the author is not of the sort
to show.”

=Engin News-Rec= 78:361 My 17 ‘17 280w

“Strangely enough, the author holds that these defects cannot be
eradicated. They are necessary accompaniments of government ownership!
A surprising induction without confirmation.”

=Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 130w