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=MONTESSORI, MARIA.= Montessori elementary material; tr. from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

In this book the Montessori principles of education are applied to the
needs of children above kindergarten age. It consists of seven parts,
devoted to: Grammar; Reading; Arithmetic; Geometry; Drawing; Music;
and Metrics. The English work is in part a translation and in part an
adaptation of the original. So far as grammar is concerned an effort
has been made to take account of differences between the two
languages, and new illustrative material has been substituted. A
number of the illustrations are from photographs taken in Montessori
schools in operation in the United States.

“Here is a book which the average parent and teacher will really
read. ... It is not at all certain, however, that the book as it
stands quite meets the needs of American schools.” H. T. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

=MONTESSORI, MARIA.= Spontaneous activity in education; tr. from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 (2c) Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

This work is a general discussion of all the principles that underlie
Dr Montessori’s system of education. It consists of chapters on: A
survey of the child’s life; A survey of modern education; My
contribution to experimental science; The preparation of the teacher;
Environment; Attention; Will; Intelligence; Imagination. The book is
without an index, a lack partly supplied by an analytical table of
contents.

“It covers much of the ground already gone over. Its contribution,
then, to current educational literature is of no unusual value.” H. T.
C.

– + =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

=MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).= Anne’s house of dreams. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-22301

This is the same Anne who was the heroine of “Anne of Green Gables”
and “Anne of Avonlea,” and the scene is still Prince Edward’s Island.
Anne marries in the fourth chapter and goes to live in her “house of
dreams” at Four Winds Harbour. The book brings in some of her old
friends and a number of new ones.

=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

=N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 350w

=MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).= Watchman, and other poems. *$1.25 Stokes 811 17-30917

A volume of poems by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” and other
popular stories. “The watchman,” from which the title of the book is
taken, is a narrative poem, relating an incident at the time of the
crucifixion. “Songs of the sea” and “Songs of the hills and woods”
follow, and the remainder of the book is taken up with miscellaneous
poems.

=MONTGOMERY, ROBERT HIESTER.= Income tax procedure, 1917. *$2.50 Ronald 336.2 17-2659

“This work, by its author’s own profession, is not a treatise on the
income tax but rather a reference manual for the individual, company,
or trustee who wishes authoritative guidance in the actual reporting
of income as required by the amended income-tax law. The various
provisions of the law are set forth under convenient headings;
Treasury department rulings are cited; and the interpretations and
criticisms of the author, who is both an attorney and an accountant,
are appended.”—J Pol Econ

“The work will be helpful to those not familiar with the preparation
of income tax returns, but it will not take the place of a lawyer and
an accountant where the problems are complex. The author does not
hesitate to uphold the law and related rulings where he deems them
justifiable, nor to criticize where he thinks they are not what they
should be. Most of the criticisms are well taken, but not all of them
are expressed conservatively and judiciously.” R. G. Blakey

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:238 Jl ‘17 270w

+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w

“This book is, notwithstanding, a serviceable compilation, even though
it hardly makes good Mr Montgomery’s hope that it will ‘answer about
98 out of 100 anxious questions.’”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:408 Ap ‘17 120w

“It seems probable that the taxation of incomes will continue for a
long period; and until it ceases, or the law authorizing it is better
understood, this work must be indispensable in the preparation of
returns and to save needless overpayments. Its advice is definite and
down to date.”

+ =Lit D= 54:570 Mr 3 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17 40w

“Mr Montgomery’s claim to distinction is that he does not hesitate to
try both the makers and administrator of the law by the principles
established by the courts.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:239 Je 24 ‘17 370w

“The author is a certified public accountant.”

=St Louis= 15:109 Ap ‘17 7w

=MOORE, CLIFFORD HERSCHEL.= Religious thought of the Greeks from Homer to the triumph of Christianity. *$1.75 Harvard univ. press 292 16-22750

“This volume is in the form of lectures. Eight lectures given before
the Lowell institute in the autumn of 1914 are combined with material
from a course delivered at the western colleges with which Harvard
university maintains an annual exchange. ... Beginning with Homer and
Hesiod the development of Greek religion is traced through more than a
thousand years to the triumph of Christianity. In addition to a
treatment of the better known periods of classical literature, there
are chapters on Orphism, Pythagoreanism and the mysteries, on Oriental
religions in the western half of the Roman empire, on Christianity,
and on Christianity and paganism.”—Am Hist R

“It represents what, I venture to think, may properly be called the
new humanism of classical ownership. Without attempting universality
or completeness it offers a treatment of Greek religion which is at
once interesting and significant. Teachers of the history of thought
should welcome for their pupils such an excellent organization of the
more important aspects of the subject, while classical students will
profit by the philosophical insight with which it is treated.” W. G.
Everett

+ =Am Hist R= 22:621 Ap ‘17 700w

=Ath= p302 Je ‘17 120w

“The essential lack of unity in the book and the inappropriateness of
the title should be apparent from the chapter-headings in the table of
contents when the book is first opened. But the reader becomes more
convinced of these things and more regretful when he has discovered
how ably and how successfully the author has handled his proper theme.
The Protestant cult of the Old Testament has warped the conception of
Christianity in the popular mind, and Professor Moore has done a real
service in setting forth clearly and dispassionately the vast debt
which Christianity owes to the enlightened thought of Greece and the
West.” I. M. Linforth

+ — =Class Philol= 13:99 Ja ‘18 2650w

“The learning exhibited in the book is solid and unimaginative, the
style too much that of the class-room, dull but informing.”

+ — =Dial= 63:467 N 8 ‘17 220w

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:680 Jl ‘17 70w

“From more special, technical, partial, and possibly more brilliant
presentations the reader who seeks instruction rather than a new
thrill may sometimes turn with relief to this lucid, sober,
well-proportioned exposition.”

+ =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 230w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17

“The study is orderly and methodical, not perhaps brilliant or
original, but a responsible volume, such as one can turn to with
confidence, and a worthy and useful popularization of knowledge.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 19 ‘17 450w

=MOORE, EDWARD.= Studies in Dante, series 4. *$4.20 Oxford 851 17-19159

“This last contribution by the late Dr Moore to the study of Dante,
which has been seen through the press by Dr Paget Toynbee, contains
seven studies. Four are reprinted from periodicals: three—on ‘Dante’s
theory of creation,’ an ‘Introduction to the study of the Paradiso.’
and ‘Sta. Lucia in the “Divina commedia”’—are now published for the
first time. But the most important contribution, occupying nearly half
the volume, consists in the ‘Textual criticism of the Convivio,’
giving Dr Moore’s reasons for emendations many of which were embodied
‘sub silentio’ in the 1904 text of the Oxford Dante.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

+ =Ath= p199 Ap ‘17 80w

“For specialists the new and exhaustive treatise on the textual
criticism of the ‘Convivio’—as that singular prose work should be
called instead of ‘Convito’—will be of chief importance. More general
interest attaches to the reprinted paper on Dante’s tomb at Ravenna.”

+ =Spec= 118:369 Mr 24 ‘17 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 15 ‘17 70w

“It is twenty-one years since the ‘first series’ of Dr Moore’s
‘Studies in Dante’ was issued, and each member of the succession, now
closed by the present volume, has been an important event for
scholars.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p124 Mr 15 ‘17 1350w

=MOORE, ERNEST CARROLL.=[2] Fifty years of American education. 80c Ginn 370.9 18-2690

The publishers issue this book as an anniversary memento of their own
fifty years of activity in the educational field. Dr Moore sketches
briefly the progress of education from 1867 to 1917, or from the close
of the Civil war to the present. There are three chapters: We live in
a period of change; Education at the end of the Civil war; Some
changes since the Civil war. A brief bibliography, listing about
fifteen titles, is added.

“Professor Moore has given us a thumb-nail sketch of this golden era—a
sketch replete with facts and figures, and serving the very definite
purpose of letting us know just how far we have advanced in an
important field of human endeavor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 90w

+ =School R= 26:146 F ‘18 250w

“Dr Moore, whose work is concise and impartial, treats of the
development of theory as well as the material progress during this
period.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ‘18 130w

=MOORE, GEORGE.= Confessions of a young man. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s

“The ‘Confessions’ has long been known and liked; it is not likely to
be forgotten. ... Mr Moore says that the book is ‘a sort of genesis;
the seed of everything I have written since will be found therein.’
The present edition contains some songs and ballades written in French
that belong with the period of the book, and which are well worth
recovering.”—N Y Times

“There is very little that is durable about ‘The confessions of a
young man.’ Mr Moore compares it to Rousseau. It is much more
comparable with the work of George Sylvester Viereck. ... To improve
with age a book should not have been written with an eye to the
immediate audience in front. The trouble with the ‘Confessions’ is
this preoccupation. ... About Degas and others of the Nouvelle
Athènes, about Shelley and Gautier and Balzac and Pater, about Emma in
the London boarding-house—George Moore continues to be engaging in
this juvenescent book. But it remains the book of a man to whom art
had not yet given the unity that he craved; and who did not quite
understand or acknowledge his divided soul.” F. H.

— =New Repub= 10:300 Ap 7 ‘17 430w

“A 1917 person will have to overcome a strong distaste before he can
get the good out of the ‘Confessions of a young man.’ ... Old vices
are a thousand times worse than old virtues. George Moore had money
and played the prodigal in Paris of the early 80’s, the Paris of
Verlaine and Mallarmé. Homer and Chaucer are our contemporaries,
Shakespeare belongs to yesterday, but the Paris of Verlaine and of
Mallarmé is prehistoric.” W: E. Bohn

— =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 520w

“Probably no more vivid and entertaining set of sketches, impressions,
adventures, understandings, and realizations of life lived in an
environment with which Mrs Grundy has nothing in common, were ever
written. ... Naturally these books are for sophisticated readers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 250w

=MOORE, GEORGE.= Lewis Seymour and some women. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s 17-3153

“In his preface to the new version of ‘A modern lover,’ which now
bears the title of ‘Lewis Seymour and some women,’ Mr Moore tells how
he did not revise this book, finding it to be, he exclaims,
‘jargon ... beyond hope of revision.’ Instead he rewrote it entirely,
and the book is a new book, except for the plot, or anecdote. As Mr
Moore describes it, ‘This anecdote was so true and beautiful that it
carried a badly written book.’”—N Y Times

“It is written with all the consummate art, the seeming-careless
carefulness, the ripe humor, the power in the depiction of character
that have made Mr Moore a master, and the delight of every reader to
whom these great qualities appeal. The story lends itself easily to Mr
Moore’s genius.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 700w

“Of ‘A modern lover’ it may at least be said that it possessed the
saving grace of youth. There was spring in it. The new novel, for all
its fluent facile writing, has not the same fire. ... We can forgive
the one, the other is not so pleasant a spectacle.”

— =Sat R= 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 Mr 22 ‘17 180w

=MOORE, HARRY HASCALL.= Youth and the nation; a guide to service; with an introd. by S: McCune Lindsay. il *$1.25 (4c). Macmillan 174 17-19844

“This book is an attempt to arouse a wholesome interest among young
men and older boys of college and high school age in modern social
evils, to show them how men have combatted these evils and to suggest
vocational opportunities in the warfare against them.” (Preface) In
the October, 1917, number of the Educational Review the author, a
professor in Reed college, presented the results of the investigation
which led to the writing of this book. Questions put to 827 junior and
senior high school boys brought home to him their ignorance of the
modern problems of poverty, the social evil, and industrial unrest.
Under the heading Enemies of the nation he discusses Disease,
Feeblemindedness, Juvenile delinquency and crime, Commercialized
prostitution, Child labor, Unemployment, The inequitable distribution
of wealth, etc. As Defenders of the nation he lists the physician,
teacher, lawyer, engineer, minister, forester, journalist, and others,
and tells something of the lives of men who in these various fields
have earned that title. In a final chapter the youth is called to
action in the field of service. There is a brief selected list of
books at the end.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“Five chapters, called ‘Defenders of the nation,’ contain short
biographies of men who have achieved success in vocations. This is an
original idea, well carried out.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 280w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 130w

=MOORE, JOHN HOWARD.= Savage survivals. il $1 Kerr 170 16-923

“This book is an excellent presentation of the concepts of organic and
social evolution adapted to the intelligence of children. The material
was originally part of a series of lectures on ethics given in the
Crane technical high school of Chicago. The important part played by
the principle of selection among wild and domestic animals is shown,
and the many apt illustrations of vestigial structures, vestigial
instincts, and vestigial social forms serve to impress the young mind
with the evolutionary concept of gradual change and continuity. The
relatively modern idea of the vast period of prehistoric human
evolution is well developed.”—Am J Soc

“It is doubtful whether the pedagogical value of Morgan’s
anthropologically obsolete nine stages of society is sufficient to
justify its use even in a popular work which in so many respects is
admirably scientific.” F. S. Chapin

+ =Am J Soc= 22:693 Mr ‘17 160w

=Ind= 87:390 S 11 ‘16 50w

=MOORE, LESLIE.= Antony Gray,—gardener. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-11702

A sudden whim puts into the mind of Nicholas Danver the desire to see
his last will and testament in operation. With the assistance of his
friend Doctor Hilary, he becomes officially dead, and Antony Gray, his
heir, is called home from South Africa to hear the conditions of the
will. They are rather unusual, requiring that the young man shall live
on the estate for one year as an undergardener. The fulfillment of
this condition is made more difficult for Antony by the presence in
the neighborhood of the woman he loves. At the crisis in affairs,
Nicholas comes forward from his retirement to set matters straight.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“Charm, lightness, deft love-making, delightful descriptions of ‘the
nice, fresh, cool, clean country’ are combined into a delicate pot
pourri of a book.”

+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 60w

“A pleasant little story, rather nicely told, with some pretty
descriptions of the English countryside and a delightful puppy named
Josephus. Trix’s aunt is fairly amusing, and the tale as a whole will
be found to provide very mild entertainment for an idle hour.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 250w

“The opening chapters promise a lively interest, but later the story
becomes very tame.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 220w

=MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY.= Railway nationalization and the average citizen. *$1.35 Dutton 385 18-2686

“Canada is seriously concerned over the position of her railways—so
seriously that she recently invoked the services of three eminent
experts in railway finance and operation, to make a study of the
situation and advise as to the future. This commission by a vote of
two to one proposed an elaborate plan involving a trusteeship which
seems to approach closely to the substance of government ownership
without the form. William H. Moore, a vigorous opponent of government
ownership, feeling that the ‘average citizen’ has been misled by the
‘platitudinarians’ and the ‘doctrinaires,’ contributes his attempt
towards the education of the electorate in a book entitled ‘Railway
nationalization and the average citizen.’ He states that he has been
in railway service during the period under review. ... His interest
lies mainly in the history of the Canadian Northern and its
unfortunate financial experience.”—Nation

Reviewed by O. D. Skelton

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 12:144 F ‘18 400w

“He has written a tract rather than a convincing, well-balanced essay.
His arguments from foreign experience are fragmentary and
unsatisfactory.”

— =Nation= 105:572 N 22 ‘17 230w

“It is written so that the average citizen can understand, if he is
open-minded, or rather so that he cannot misunderstand unless he is
resolute to do so.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 800w

=MOOREHEAD, WARREN KING.= Stone ornaments used by Indians in the United States and Canada. il *$3.75 Andover press, Andover, Mass. 970.6 17-6240

“Since his boyhood days, Mr Moorehead has been an active student of
everything pertaining to American archæology.” (Boston Transcript) In
this book he describes “certain charm stones, gorgets, tubes, bird
stones and problematical forms” (Sub-title), which were apparently
used by the Indians as ornaments, amulets or charms. One chapter
describes the author’s methods of study and classification. “There are
nearly three hundred illustrations, an excellent index and full
bibliography.” (Boston Transcript) “Arthur C. Parker, New York state
archeologist, has contributed an excellent discussion, while Prof.
Edward H. Williams, Jr., and Benjamin L. Miller have made a study of
the problem of patina and weathering.” (N Y Times)

“Probably every museum in this country has some specimens of these
ornaments and to study them and collate the information about them has
required a prodigious amount of work which has been performed in the
scholarly fashion characteristic of the author, making this volume
invaluable to the student of archæology. Many of the specimens are not
readily accessible and to have them thus listed is most helpful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 600w

+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 120w

=Lit D= 54:1429 My 12 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

“Classification and minute study are Mr Moorehead’s field. As a
collector and a statistician he is one of the finest in the
archeological field. But when he attempts speculation, his imagination
leads him often into strange paths. ... For one thing, however, Mr
Moorehead deserves all praise. He has offered a complete and working
classification for ornamental and problematical forms, illustrated by
excellent pictures of specimens.”

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 500w

=MORAN, THOMAS FRANCIS.=[2] American presidents; their individualities and their contributions to American progress. *75c (3c) Crowell 923 17-25276

A chance remark to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt lacked the
attributes of the “typical president of the United States” started the
author on the inquiry that resulted in this little book. He has found
that there is no “typical president,” and he aims to set forth the
characteristics of each of our presidents in a way that will emphasize
his individuality. The book consists of four chapters: From Washington
to Jackson; From Jackson to Lincoln; From Lincoln to Wilson; The
ethics of the presidential campaign. The author is professor of
history and economics in Purdue university.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 40w

“In showing up wherein some of our greatest men have failed to measure
up to great heights, Dr Moran has produced a readable little book. His
judgments in some cases have gone against popular impressions and
traditions, which is a recommendation. But he is conventional enough
to find some good to record of all of the presidents.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 29 ‘17 470w

“These sketches show well-balanced judgment, but they might with
advantage have been somewhat more extended. It is impossible
adequately to portray the character of a great political leader and
discuss his relation to his age in a paragraph or two of comment.”

+ — =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w

=MORETTI, ONORIO.= Notes on training; field artillery details. il *$2 Yale univ. press 355 17-16557

This material was prepared under the direction of Captain Robert M.
Danford, professor of military science and tactics at Yale university,
from notes kept by himself, Capt. E. L. Gruber, and Capt. Moretti
while on duty as instructors in the course for non-commissioned
officers at the School of fire for field artillery, Fort Sill,
Oklahoma. It was designed for the immediate use of the field artillery
unit of the Reserve officers’ training corps at Yale. The contents
include Map reading, Military sketches, Elementary field artillery
gunnery, Firing data records, Communication, Scouts, couriers, and
route markers, etc. The plates, for the most part, are from drawings
made by Sergeant Ivar W. Wahren, Field artillery, on duty as assistant
instructor at Yale university. Captain Danford draws particular
attention in his preface to the “Principles of fire, part 6 chapter 2”
concerning which he states that they are “those which were enunciated
by the School of fire as the result of the most careful and
comprehensive statistical studies. Their importance to field artillery
men of all grades cannot be overestimated.” The three appendixes show
Range tables, Common errors in firing, and Problems given at the
School of fire. The book was issued in May, 1917 and reached a second
printing in July.

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 100w

=MORGAN, JAMES MORRIS.= Recollections of a Rebel reefer. il *$3 Houghton 17-11810

“The author was a boy midshipman when the Civil war began. The most
interesting period of his service under the confederacy was on the
cruiser Georgia, mate to the famous Alabama. His adventures afterwards
in the reconstruction period and as an officer in the Egyptian service
are told with animation and gusto.”—Outlook

=A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1400w

=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w

“His narrative is frank and relieved with humor, and the breadth of
outlook it displays gives it value as a historical document.”

+ =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 300w

“Few men could possibly set down such a record of their activities as
this book affords. Not every man would care to tell so freely all his
escapades as Mr Morgan has told his. Taken as a whole, his story may
not inspire the reader to nobler ambitions or a loftier purpose, but
it is a positive change from the customary ‘Recollections’ and
‘Reminiscences’ that so many have written, and it reads almost like a
romance.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 340w

“Mr Morgan here discloses a personality as interesting as the life
adventures which he tells so well. The exaggerated sentiment which
mars so many of the books relating to the South of this period is
happily absent.”

+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 700w

“One of the best of recent books of reminiscence, because its
narrative has spirit and a sense of humor.”

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p45 O ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 100w

“Throughout Mr Morgan enlivens his book by witty anecdotes mostly
concerning persons famous during the Civil war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 27 ‘17 520w

=MORGAN, JAMES OSCAR.= Field crops for the cotton-belt. (Rural textbook ser.) il *$1.75 Macmillan 633 17-2193

In this volume, planned as a college text, the author has endeavoured
“to present clearly and accurately the science and art of field-crop
production in the south. As the art of crop production is based
primarily on the sciences of botany and chemistry, the aim has been to
give to these subjects their proper application.” (Preface) Cotton and
corn, the two leading crops of the south, have been given first and
most extended attention. Other crops given consideration are oats,
wheat, rye, barley, rice, the sorghums, sugar cane and the peanut. The
book is illustrated and provided with an index. The author is
professor of agronomy in the Agricultural and mechanical college of
Texas.

=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 30w

“Prof. Oscar Morgan’s contribution worthily upholds the reputation of
the series, and is likely to be accepted as having a value
considerably beyond the sphere of usefulness very possibly
contemplated for it by its author. ... The book will be appreciated by
cotton-growers throughout the world. In that light it is perhaps
unfortunate that so much elementary science was thought necessary. The
first principles of the physiology and chemistry of plant life might
have been left to the lower school text-book. A glossary of terms
would have got over any difficulty presumed to exist.”

+ — =Nature= 99:342 Je 28 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:44 Mr ‘17

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 120w

=MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT.= Critique of the theory of evolution; lectures delivered at Princeton university, February 24, March 1, 8, 15, 1916. (Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation) il *$1.50 (6c) Princeton univ. press 575 16-22585

This work by a professor of experimental zoology in Columbia
university, is an examination of the older evidence on which the
theory of evolution was based in the light of later evidence. In his
preface he furnishes a synopsis of the contents of his book: “In the
first lecture an attempt is made to put a new valuation on the
traditional evidence for evolution. In the second lecture the most
recent work on heredity is dealt with, for only characters that are
inherited can become a part of the evolutionary process. In the third
lecture the physical basis of heredity and the composition of the germ
plasm stream are examined in the light of new observations; while in
the fourth lecture the thesis is developed that chance variation
combined with a property of living things to manifold themselves is
the key note of modern evolutionary thought.”

“Scholarly yet popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:384 Je ‘17

“Very searching and illuminating exposition.”

+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w

“When we look to the present summary for some statement of what
important progress in our conception and understanding of inheritance
is to be reported, we are reluctantly driven to the conclusion that
what Prof. Morgan calls ‘a satisfactory solution of the traditional
problem of heredity’ is only a restatement of the problem in terms of
invisible ‘factors’ associated with chromosomes. The existence of such
‘factors’ is not a new inference, but has been a feature of theories
of inheritance both before and since Darwin’s treatment of the
subject.” E. R. Lankester

* =Nature= 99:181 My 3 ‘17 1500w

Reviewed by A. E. Watson

+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 370w

“The illustrations are copious and very instructive, and are drawn
very largely from flies.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p24 Ja 11 ‘17 60w

Reviewed by Ellsworth Huntington

=Yale R= n s 6:667 Ap ‘17 750w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Parnassus on wheels. *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 17-24508

“R. Mifflin is the ‘Professor’s’ name, and he has built a book-van in
which he travels over the country, selling books to farmers and their
families, to people in small towns, wherever he can get an audience
and interest people in the joys of literature. ... But the little
man ... has decided that he wants to sell his ‘Parnassus on wheels,’
and Helen McGill, housekeeper on a New England farm for her brother,
who, from being a farmer has blossomed out into a David-graysonish
kind of author, decides that she wants an adventure herself. So she
buys the van and she and the ‘Professor’ ... set off together. He is
going to ride with her for a day and show her how, and then he is
going to Brooklyn to live for a while and write a book. The story is
concerned almost wholly with their adventures, which are many and
varied and entertaining.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“It is graceful in style, light in substance, merry in its attitude
towards life, and entertaining in every aspect of its plot and insight
into character. It is both a story and an essay. ... It is real, yet
it is fantastic; it is fantastic, yet it is real. And, best of all, it
has an original idea in it that is carried just far enough.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1400w

“A story of quaint and spicy flavors.”

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 100w

“Mr Morley combines genuine understanding of the ‘bookish’ temperament
with humor that is irresistible.”

+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 90w

“A delightfully absurd little book, whose quaint whimsies make
excellent reading aloud for winter evenings.”

+ =Ind= 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w

“A bit of true romantic comedy.”

+ =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 170w

“It is a droll, engaging story, but it is so much more than just a
droll story that one needs to read it to find out how many other kinds
of things a droll story can be at the same time.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 550w

+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 60w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 92:803 S 15 ‘17 270w

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 500w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Songs for a little house. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-29993

Bayberry candles, A charm for our new fireplace, Six weeks old,
Reading aloud, The milkman, The cedar chest, Washing the dishes, and
The furnace are some of the “Songs for a little house” that constitute
the first group of poems in this book and give it its title. “A
handful of sonnets,” and a series of poems on the war, followed by a
group of humorous verses, “Hay fever, and other literary pollen”
complete the volume.

“‘Songs for a little house’ are very delightful and cheery and
intimate; very simple, but fresh and bright and musical, in
expression. In the other groups Mr Morley shows how versatile are his
poetic gifts. He shows it in his themes and interests rather than in
his style, though this has a distinction in spite of its common
patterns that is full of charm. At trifling, in the light familiar
vein, he is a rare performer. In the group of ‘Hay fever, and other
literary pollen,’ he is in humorous and witty vein, quite the best of
our younger poets who affect light verse.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 730w

“A home-book in every sense of the word. These poems of Mr Morley are
written with a very delicate touch—simple and with an air of
spontaneity that takes them direct to the heart.”

+ =Lit D= 55:61 D 8 ‘17 570w

=MORLEY, JOHN MORLEY, viscount.= Recollections. 2v *$7.50 (5c) Macmillan 17-29196

This is not a work of biography, for the author does not present
intimate details of personal life, and a chronological order is not
followed in the arrangement of material. The chapters that compose the
two volumes are grouped into six books: The republic of letters;
Public life; Three years in Ireland; Policies and persons; A short
page in imperial history; A critical landmark. A short passage from
the introduction will serve to indicate something of the temper of the
work: “Much of my ground obviously involves others; deeply should I
regret if a single page were found unfair, or likely to wound just
sensibilities. More deeply still should I deplore it, if a single page
or phase or passing mood of mine were either to dim the lamp of
loyalty to reason, or to dishearten earnest and persistent zeal for
wise politics, in younger readers with their lives before them.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18

“His book was bound to be in some degree an apologia, and I notice
that more than one critic has condemned its complacency. My own
disappointment is on other grounds. I had expected a full length
autobiography, and what we have been given is at most a torso. ...
Perhaps politicians will welcome what I regret. Yet I cannot help
feeling that the book would have gained if it had been a little more
intimate, and—though it is on the borders of blasphemy to ask this
from Lord Morley—a little more indiscreet.”

+ — =Ath= p659 D ‘17 340w

“A book which contains a wealth of portraiture, wisdom, quiet wit, and
what the public loves best of all—‘secret history.’ Here, assuredly,
is both a book to praise and a man to praise.”

+ =Ath= p662 D ‘17 1300w

+ =Ath= p682 D ‘17 240w

“For an abstract and brief chronicle of the later nineteenth century
times in all their British aspect, the reader of the future will
unquestionably turn to these recollections of Lord Morley.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 1700w

“Never has the intellectual beauty of the Victorian age been more
truly and eloquently defined, ever has it been more brilliantly and
sympathetically exemplified than by Viscount Morley’s
‘Recollections.’” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 64:16 Ja 3 ‘18 2700w

“One of those works that appear hardly oftener than once in a decade,
books indispensable for all students of modern history and social
life, and the public affairs of our own age.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w

“Writing with entire freedom of the political events in England of
thirty years past, in which he played so worthy a part, Morley betrays
no secrets, sets down no bitter verdicts. His serenity and restraint
are out of the common. ... Only an occasional and incidental reference
is made to the great struggle, and that without irritation or
bitterness. Yet we cannot help thinking that Morley intended this work
of his to have its significance as bearing on his attitude towards the
war. Without directly condemning it, he sets forth the ideals of
statesmanship which would have prevented it. It is a record of
enlightened and consistent liberalism which he puts before his
readers, leaving them to draw the moral.”

+ =Nation= 105:568 N 22 ‘17 1500w

“The book is essentially a simple one. There is absent from it the
personal, eager fling of definiteness that made de Tocqueville’s
‘Memoirs’ the pleasantest of arm-chair comforts. It has nothing of the
almost dazzling splendor that made of Meredith, to whom he gives some
shining pages, a comet across the sky. It is the revelation of life in
its two deepest interests that Lord Morley offers—what he has known of
literature and of politics. It is the portrait of the world as it
dawned upon the vision of one who gave his days to thought; and
curiosity is stilled at the deliberate reservation.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:286 Ja 5 ‘18 2800w

“It is not too much to say that Lord Morley does not mention one
prominent figure of his time—scarcely one person—without giving the
reader a living picture of the man. What he has to say of Gladstone,
especially of the failure of his last cabinet, is as vivid as it is
valuable. ... As a piece of writing, ‘Recollections’ is
charming—charming in the fine, large, literal sense of holding,
pleasing, delighting, the reader’s mind.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:489 N 25 ‘17 1650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 120w

“The outstanding work of its kind of the year.” Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 480w

“Lord Morley’s style as writer and speaker has the merits of
clearness, point and logic. It is so plain as to be, if not bald,
certainly cold, and it is unrelieved by wit or humour.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:417 N 24 ‘17 1250w

“His attitude has dignity, and frees the book from anything resembling
party passion. ... Lord Morley’s book abounds in interest.”

+ =Spec= 119:568 N 17 ‘17 2500w

+ =Spec= 119:600 N 24 ‘17 2600w

“The quotations with which the work is embellished are only such as
could come from one who had ‘taken all knowledge for his province.’ On
every page there is substance to delight the thoughtful reader as well
as to instruct him, for a very high quality of charm is attained in
this chronicle of serious persons and serious events.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 3450w

“It is a book of immense interest, stimulus, even inspiration; not one
of companionship, still less one of equality. There is more of
ordinary humanity in two pages of Boswell or Lockhart than in these
two large volumes. Lord Morley is no confessor. We get no weaknesses
here except that of a somewhat complacent quality akin to vanity,
which contemplates all his doings with a self-assured serenity of
approval, but without which the book would have lost some of its best
pages.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p561 N 22 ‘17 4400w

“In many libraries the work will have a very limited reading, but if
possible it should be at the disposal of those few who will find in it
food for thought and discussion and a better understanding of the
British people and their problems.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 120w

=MORRIS, LLOYD R.= Celtic dawn; a survey of the renascence in Ireland, 1889-1916. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 820.9 17-4807

“‘The Celtic dawn’ is a study of the several movements which, although
having their foundation in a single consciously expressed philosophy,
have labored in widely varied fields to produce a new social synthesis
in contemporary Ireland.” (Foreword) As the five movements of major
importance the author names those which have been concerned with
literature, with the drama, with the revival of Gaelic, with economic
and social reform, and with political thought. These are treated in
six chapters as follows: The forces at work; Critical theories of the
renascence; Poetry of the renascence; The drama; The novel, folk-lore,
and other prose; Movements for social and economic reform. The last
chapter includes a treatment of the Sinn Fein and the rebellion of
1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“His survey is the best proportioned, though not in detail the most
complete, which we have yet received. ... There are, however, a few
particulars in which the book might be improved. ... Mr Morris has
failed to indicate the exact problems and the position of the Catholic
church in relation to this movement. ... But of all these faults,
which are, after all, only minor ones, the worst is the exasperating
absence of a usable bibliography. Mr Morris is a good critic, of that
we have no doubt, but scarcely a thorough and exact scholar.” Elbridge
Colby

+ — =Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 650w

“Boyd’s ‘Ireland’s literary renascence’ is perhaps a better all around
treatment, especially as the present volume is not provided with an
index.”

=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 110w

“Mr Morris is particularly happy in his characterizations of A. E.
Synge, and James Stephens, but we miss that recent remarkable
apparition James Joyce.”

+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w

“The last chapter is a sound and valuable piece of work and a most
serviceable outline of the various movements in the social and
political life of the last generation in Ireland.”

+ — =Nation= 105:74 Jl 19 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“After dealing adequately with the fiction, the novel and folklore of
the Gael, Mr Morris enters with the greatest intelligence into a
discussion of the social and economic reforms undertaken in Ireland by
Sir Horace Plunkett and ‘A. E.’ The guild organization inaugurated by
Plunkett after his return from North America, and inspired by the
agricultural banking reforms of Germany, has produced such prosperity
and advancement in the country and village life that it may be said to
have revolutionized Irish conditions and given new phases to the
national political questions. ... ‘The Celtic dawn’ is a work for the
shelves of every library that desires a statement of the latest and
most significant movement in English literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 680w

=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17 10w

=MORRIS, LLOYD R.=, comp. Young idea. *$1.25 (4c) Duffield 810.4 17-13546

“An anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of
contemporary American literature.” When the plan of this book was
formulated by the author, he sent out letters to representative
writers among the younger generation of authors asking for opinions on
the new movement in literature. A compilation of the replies received,
with introductory and concluding essays by Mr Morris, make up this
volume. Some of these replies are brief and of interest chiefly as
expressions of personal opinion; others, of more extended length,
constitute genuine contributions to criticism. Mr Morris has arranged
the contents in five parts: The empiricists; The romanticists; The
idealists; The pessimists; The traditionalists. The discussion has
chiefly to do with the revival in poetry.

“Good for club papers.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“The volume constitutes a criticism and interpretation of modern
American poetry as it appears to its creators and furnishes the best
basis for a comparative study of these poets of any book yet
published.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 130w

“If you examine the various credos contributed by such poets as Miss
Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Louis Untermeyer, Max Eastman,
and Miss Monroe, you will hear them all repeating in one form or
another the conviction that what chiefly marks off our period is the
passion for emancipation. ... But the thing that strikes one as, after
all, strangest about these various passionate confessions of faith is
that there should be felt to be so pressing a need to defend the
claims of truth on our attention. ... How much more persuasive is the
innocence of the Russian, who never thinks of apologizing for telling
the truth and has always regarded his everyday adventure as the stuff
out of which to fashion the most profound and strangely beautiful
creations of the modern mind.” G: B. Donlin

=Dial= 62:520 Je 14 ‘17 1150w

“‘The young idea’ represents a variety of revolutionary spirits. One
is willing to grant that most of them would prefer to revolt by
writing verse than by telling how they do it.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 15 ‘17 260w

=MORRIS, SIR MALCOLM ALEXANDER.= Nation’s health; the stamping out of venereal diseases. *$1.25 Funk 616.95 SG17-260

“As a member of the Royal commission, Sir Malcolm Morris has written
this admirable little book to drive home the lessons of the report. He
describes, the history and nature of venereal disease, showing
incidentally that it is more prevalent in towns than in the country.
He lays stress on the difficulties in the way of compulsory
notification, and still more of compulsory treatment. He regards the
old policy of regulation, still followed on the Continent, as a
complete failure. ... In a final chapter he says some plain words on
the increase of the plague caused by the war and the urgent need of
dealing with it more thoroughly.”—Spec

“A very admirable little book, written by one who is thoroughly
conversant with the subject and entitled to speak to the British
public as a great authority. It would be well if copies could be seen
in every library in the kingdom.” L. C. P.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:460 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Journal of the
Royal Sanitary Institute sup p1 Mr ‘17)

+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 120w

“While it deals with conditions in England, it is almost equally
applicable to our own situation in America, and will not only be
useful to those who are directly interested in the public health
problems of venereal disease, but will also be valuable to any reader
who seeks a clear and simple statement of the facts.” J. H. Foster

+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 510w

“It is written with judgment and discretion, as well as with technical
mastery of the subject. ... Sir Malcolm Morris has a chapter on
‘Spreading the light,’ which we view with considerable misgiving.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 500w

=MORRISON, EDWARD, and BRUES, CHARLES THOMAS.= How to make the garden pay. *75c (2½c) Houghton 635 17-18831

A manual for the intensive cultivation of home vegetable gardens
written to tell both novices and experienced gardeners how so to
cultivate a small area as to increase as much as possible the home
food-supply. The authors have had experience as home gardeners and Mr
Brues is assistant professor of economic entomology at Harvard
university. Contents: Right planning; Profitable methods; Alphabetical
list of vegetables with directions; Insect enemies and diseases (Those
of the cabbage take three pages of text). The appendix gives tables
showing the Food value of fresh vegetables and other foods and dates
for garden-planting, also a Home gardener’s calendar for the northern
states. The book is indexed.

+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w

“An excellent, business-like, little handbook.”

+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“By far the most valuable little book on vegetable gardening for the
novice as well as the more experienced that has come under our purview
this season.” S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:665 O ‘17

+ =St Louis= 15:365 O ‘17 30w

“The garden novice can profit greatly by frequent consultation of this
manual.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 160w

=MORSE, EDWARD LELAND CLARK.= Spanish-American life; a reader for students of modern Spanish. (Lake Spanish ser.) il *$1.25 Scott 468 17-12482

“A reader consisting mainly of extracts from Central and South
American newspapers. Our southern neighbors are thus made to describe
themselves. These selections are easy, well chosen, and interesting.
The editor has travelled much in New Spain and observed closely. His
attitude is as sympathetic as could be desired. The annotations are
original and refreshingly unpedantic. The copious illustrations are
taken mostly from Mr Morse’s own photographs.”—Nation

“No better presentation of South American civilization has yet
appeared in textbook form.”

+ =Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 90w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17 30w

=MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER.= Japan day by day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. il *$8 Houghton 915.2 17-28348

“Professor Edward S. Morse, the genial, ambidextrous director of the
Peabody museum at Salem and expert curator of Japanese pottery at the
Boston art museum, set out for Japan forty years ago for the sole
purpose of studying brachiopods. ... The newly founded Imperial
university of Tokio discovered this enthusiastic young fisherman hard
at work and captured him. He was carried off triumphantly and made
professor of zoölogy.” (Boston Transcript) He held this position
“during a very interesting period in the early years of the
transformation of Japan and witnessed some of the throes of the
struggle of occidental and oriental ideals from the vantage-point of a
government official, with an outlook from the capital city. It was,
however, the daily life of the people, their quaint and curious and
clever ways and devices, so different from our own, and their social
customs and industrial methods which most interested him. ... This
book is a narrative abstracted from his daily journal.” (Dial)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“It is a book of great enthusiasms and conveys a whole world of
curious information not to be found in any guide-book.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 1800w

+ =Dial= 63:591 D 6 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by Poultney Bigelow

+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 970w

“The present work is encyclopedic in that it furnishes concrete
information of the most intimate and detailed character on native life
in Japan a generation ago, yet with all the interest of personal and
connected narrative.”

+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 400w

“With the multitude of thumb-nail sketches which form an integral part
of the record, the general effect is that of a casual illustrated
lecture—undeniably vivid in spots, but often disconcertingly abrupt in
its transitions from subject to subject, and not infrequently naive in
its generalizations.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:451 N 4 ‘17 1200w

“Mr Morse writes with adequate responsibility and in a scholarly
spirit. His book is authoritative, detailed, comprehensive; it is also
zestful, almost ‘larky.’”

+ =No Am= 206:959 D ‘17 500w

“A record in which the freshness of daily impression is preserved.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 110w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:824 D ‘17 80w

“The unique history of this inimitable record of a traveler’s
impressions is suggestive of nothing so much as some rare old vintage
which has mellowed for decades in the wood before being finally
decanted to delight the palate of a younger generation. Yet, in a work
dealing confessedly with the social conditions of a nation in a
transition state, one wishes that either the author himself or perhaps
some one better informed as to present day conditions in Japan, could
have indicated on the one hand the customs which have passed away, and
on the other those which still endure.” Calvin Winter

+ — =Pub W= 92:1381 O 20 ‘17 750w

=MORSE, FRANCES CLARY.=[2] Furniture of the olden time. new ed il *$6 Macmillan 749 17-27766

A new edition of a standard work that was first published in 1902.
There are over a hundred and twenty new illustrations and a new
chapter on “Doorways, mantels, and stairs.” There has also been added
a glossary of terms employed by cabinet makers.

“A new edition of a standard work that has made itself almost
indispensable to people of taste in matters of household equipment.
This is a book to make the reader feel proud of the workers and
workmanship of the old days.”

+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 2 ‘18 60w

“It is indispensable to the collector and has a special interest as
well for the cabinet maker, the art student, and the student of
domestic history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 100w

=MORTIMER, MAUD.= Green tent in Flanders. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-24525

These sketches from the war zone appear to be extracts from the daily
record of a volunteer nurse. The author is an American woman who
served for a time as an assistant in one of the field hospitals. With
a somewhat milder and gentler pen, she draws pictures that are not so
different from those of Ellen LaMotte in “The backwash of war.” Parts
of the book have appeared in Everybody’s and other magazines.

“It is made vivid by the human touches in the glimpses of the poilus
as they come and go and in the heroism or littleness of the nurses and
doctors.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“Of all the books on the war we have yet seen, this is by far the most
appealing because of its fine quality of style, its restrained
handling, and the intimate, sympathetic view it gives of human nature
under the stress of terrible events.”

+ =Cath World= 106:390 D ‘17 370w

“The entries are fragmentary and the harrowing details of field
hospital work continually intrude, but suffering, heroism and humor
appeal to the author’s human side and she has the artist’s vision.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w

“The wounded soldiers who pass under Miss Mortimer’s care are
portrayed with graphic, sympathetic touch, and the numerous anecdotes
could only have been told by an acute observer with a sense for the
picturesque.”

+ =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 90w

“All unconsciously, it would seem, she has struck an immortal chord
vibrating thru the silence of mortality, and by it lifts her book out
from its haunting shadows into that white light by which many may find
faith restored and grief comforted.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 220w