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“The artistic vision, the philosophic tendency of mind, and the quiet
humor make it all as different from an ordinary chronicle of hospital
service as a statue is different from a block of marble.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:463 N 11 ‘17 480w

“The author has illustrated her own book with little pen and ink
sketches usually but not always serving as chapter headings, and quite
as effective as more finished pictures.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 300w

=MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON.= Memoirs; ed. by Charles Wells Russell. il *$3 (3½c) Little 17-25282

In every war, says the introduction, there are figures which, “through
intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action” raise themselves
above their fellows and achieve a picturesqueness that is commonly
associated with characters in fiction. Such a figure was Colonel
Mosby, one of the most daring of the Confederate raiders. “In the
South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the
‘lost cause.’ In the North he was painted as the blackest of
redoubtable scoundrels.” Colonel Mosby, who lived to the age of
eighty-five, had all but completed his memoirs before his death in
1916. These have now been edited for publication. After the war he
became one of Grant’s personal friends, and the book closes with two
chapters devoted to: My recollections of General Lee, and My
recollections of General Grant.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

“The story as Mosby has written it is full of deep interest and one,
in the reading, soon loses sight of the fact that this is the
narrative of one who was doing his utmost to destroy our common
country, and becomes absorbed in the delight of the narrative and the
vigor of the telling.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 800w

“The narrative of the war is lucidly and interestingly written and his
defense of General Stuart’s strategy is a valuable contribution to the
military history of the times.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w

+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 400w

“Colonel Mosby seems to have had almost as enjoyable a time in raiding
the weak places in Lee’s inaccurate report of the Gettysburg campaign,
in Longstreet’s Memoirs, and in the numerous biographies of Lee and
other writings by his staff officers as he had during the war in
descending upon the trains, camps, and cattle herds of the Union
armies in Virginia. ... The lively narrative of Mosby’s own exploits
sometimes fails to be sustained by other evidence.”

+ — =Nation= 106:147 F 7 ‘18 1150w

“A very valuable addition to Civil war literature. The only adverse
criticism that can be made is that they contain rather too many
quotations from official reports and family letters which have but a
faint interest to the reader of to-day.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 1200w

=MOSES, MONTROSE JONAS.= American dramatist. new rev ed il *$1.75 Little 812 17-17744

“A second edition of ‘The American dramatist,’ has been revised and
enlarged to contain a history of the progress of the motion-picture
industry and the advance of American drama since 1910. Mr Moses
presents the drama largely in its sociological aspects, and his
character sketches of dramatists have a biological trend. ... Among
the latter is a study of Percy MacKaye and his father, Steele MacKaye.
There is a chapter on ‘little theaters.’ ... The closing chapter
discusses the privileges and duties of the dramatic critic.” (R of Rs)
A “Bibliography of the American dramatist” is found on pages
[379]-394.

=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

=Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 290w

“The author apparently thinks that his task of ‘revision’ is fulfilled
by covering the six years that have passed since his work originally
appeared with a number of extra chapters here and there. He seems to
have left his original work almost untouched, and as the later
chapters are not specifically indicated, we are often quite unable to
tell whether the author is looking back from 1911 or from 1917. The
result is a good deal of muddle. ... There is about ‘The American
dramatist’ a lack of enthusiasm, an over-critical note that suggests a
quite undue pessimism; a scarcity of constructive criticism.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 220w

“It is, all in all, an excellent book, yet it does not give enough
attention to individual plays; gives too much attention to
conventionalized ideas, and gives too little credit to ‘the movies,’
to the little theater and to those dramatists of excellent ‘moments,’
who by their very failures to construct model plays best exemplify the
American drama’s real trend.”

+ — =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 150w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED.= Trench warfare. il $1.25 Banta pub. 355 17-17084

“Major Moss ... is a member of the United States army, and bases his
handbook on private and official British publications which set forth
the best methods, as developed by experience, of training and
instructing officers and men in trench warfare. The first chapter, on
‘Tactical fortifications,’ deals with the work of making intrenchments
and other field fortifications; the second taking up, under the
heading, ‘The service of the trenches,’ such matters as routine of
duty, billeting, sanitation, the different methods of offense and
defense, and the responsibilities of the platoon commander. Other
chapters deal with sniping, grenades and grenadiers, gas warfare,
bayonet fighting, machine guns, and various features of the offensive.
A complete set of questions for every chapter adds to the value of the
book for purposes of instruction in training camps. It is very fully
illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken at the front.”—N Y
Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

“A good guide book for the soldier.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 20w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Jl ‘17 60w

“Major Moss’s presentation of the methods of warfare that have been
developed during the last three years is perhaps the most exhaustive
that has been made.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 210w

=Pratt= p14 O ‘17 30w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Military training for boys; intended to develop body, character and patriotism. il 50c Banta 355.07 17-16556

This volume was prepared by two officers of the United States army,
joint authors of “Self-helps for the citizen soldier,” for the use of
the National school camp association. The purpose is defined as
follows: “First, to give the boys of this country a clear idea of the
part that military preparedness and training play in the life of a
nation; second, to teach them some of the A.B.C.’s of military
training; third, to make clear to the American youth that the drills
and maneuvers of military training, while necessary, are only one
side—the mechanical side—of the soldier’s work, and that the lessons
of patriotism, loyalty, discipline, frugality, physical and moral
sturdiness, self-reliance, self-control, determination and respect for
the law, all of which enter into the training of a soldier, are
qualities which will help them to be better citizens and more
successful men in every walk of life, and that they may, every day of
their lives, while training themselves for their work in life, at the
same time, train themselves in the qualities which the soldier must
have; fourth, to impress upon our boys the fact that in the future, as
in the past, we must depend upon the citizenry of the country to
defend it.” (Prefatory note)

=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 30w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Our flag and its message. *25c Lippincott 929.9 17-14035

This little booklet is by two officers of the United States army. “In
the compass of less than thirty pages they give the story of ‘Old
Glory,’ explain its symbolism and present in addition the President’s
appeal for unity at the opening of hostilities between our country and
Germany.” (Cath World) “America” and “The Star spangled banner” are
printed in full.

=Boston Transcript= p16 S 26 ‘17 60w

“One of the most attractive leaflets we have seen among the host of
such publications the war has brought forth.”

+ =Cath World= 105:846 S ‘17 90w

=MOULTON, FOREST RAY.= Introduction to astronomy. new and rev ed il *$2.25 Macmillan 520 16-23571

“The necessity for a new edition has given Dr Moulton an opportunity
to rewrite his manual, with the addition of some new material and an
altered organization. The first chapters in the new edition deal with
the earth and its motions, and aim in general to ‘illustrate the care
with which scientific theories are established,’ and the chapters on
the sun and the evolution of the solar system follow the treatment of
the moon, planets and comets.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:276 Mr ‘17

+ =Ind= 30:382 My 26 ‘17 40w

“The popularity of Prof. Forest Ray Moulton’s ‘Introduction to
astronomy’ is attested by the fact that there have been seven reprints
since the first appearance of the textbook ten years ago. ... There
are nearly 200 diagrams and photographic illustrations. Dr Moulton is
professor of astronomy in the University of Chicago and research
associate of the Carnegie institution of Washington.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

=MOXCEY, MARY ELIZA.= Girlhood and character; introd. by G: A. Coe. (Manuals of religious education for parents and teachers) *$1.50 Abingdon press 173 16-23594

“For leaders, teachers, and parents of girls this is an analysis of
the problems of adolescent girlhood, from the standpoints of
physiology, psychology, and growth of character through formal and
informal education. Divided into four parts, taking up the problem as
the older generation sees it, early adolescence, middle, and later
adolescence.”—A L A Bkl

“Has been criticized as bordering on sentimentalism and attempting too
varied a field.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:374 Je ‘17

“The author makes clear that the moral education of the emotions
begins not with prescribing or proscribing acts for young people, but
in self-knowledge, reverence and control.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

“A full bibliography of books relating to girls and women is a
valuable addition.”

+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:700 O ‘17 40w

“Personal service rather than hearty cooperative endeavor becomes the
character factor. This lack in the book is counterbalanced by the
suggestive treatment of certain other points.” K. T.

+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 200w

=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Ayesha”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (3c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-4203

The landing squad of the “Emden” was sent on shore at the Keeling
Islands to destroy a wireless station. While they were so occupied,
the “Emden” became engaged in action, and Lieutenant von Mücke with
his men, unable to overtake her in their small motor boat, were left
stranded. To stay on the island meant capture by the British, and
taking possession of a small sailing vessel, a none too seaworthy
craft, that lay in the harbor, they made their escape. This was the
“Ayesha.” It is interesting to note that the Englishmen on the island,
to whom the “sporting side of the situation” made an appeal, helped
the Germans in their departure. As an exciting narrative the tale of
their adventures is worthy of the commendation that the translator in
her preface and Lieutenant Klein of the United States navy in his
foreword give it.

=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 80w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is interesting in the first place as a record of gallant and
perilous adventure, in more ways than one a veritable wonder-voyage.
And it is interesting as a personal narrative, for the gayety, humor,
and briskness with which the story is told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:530 Je ‘17 70w

+ =St Louis= 15:134 My ‘17 10w

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

=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Emden”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (4c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-13489

Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, first officer on board the Emden, gives an
account of that ship’s adventures in the fall of 1914. News that
Germany was at war with Russia and France was received on August 2,
and the Emden, then in the Indian ocean, was immediately made ready
for action. The first chapter contains a brief and positive statement
of the causes of the war from the German point of view, but in the
remainder of the book the author confines himself quite strictly to
his narrative. As he has related in “The Ayesha,” he had gone ashore
with the landing squad at the time of the Emden’s last fight, so he
can only describe that event as witnessed from a distance.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:32 Jl 7 ‘17 350w

“If this were a primeval struggle, with no cables, wireless, or
correspondents to keep the world informed of its minutest
fluctuations; if only a few incidents rose out of the haze of rumor to
stand clear in the light of fact, the Emden might then be the central
theme of an Iliad in which its Capt. von Mücke was Achilles.
Unfortunately the narrative, appearing as it did at about the time
America declared war, cannot hope for as large an audience as it might
have won in a better day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 270w

=MUIR, JOHN.= Cruise of the Corwin. il *$2.50 (5½c) Houghton 919.8 17-31765

When the “Thomas Corwin” put out from San Francisco in 1881 in search
of the “Jeannette,” lost somewhere in the Arctic, John Muir, already
distinguished for his glacial studies in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska,
was a member of the expedition. The objective of the expedition was
Wrangell Land, then unexplored, for which it was believed De Long of
the “Jeannette” had been headed. In the introduction to this volume it
is stated that “so far as known, the first human beings that ever
stood upon the shores of this island were in Captain Hooper’s landing
party, August 12, 1881, and John Muir was of the number.” A second
relief expedition touched on the island shortly after, but between
that time and the wreck of Steffánsson’s flagship the “Karluk,” in
1914, the region was unexplored. This gives to John Muir’s record a
unique value. It was the first, and remains practically the only
scientific account of this part of the arctic regions. A series of
letters contributed to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin,
supplemented with extracts from his journal, forms the basis for this
volume. It is edited by William Frederic Badè.

“Not as interesting as his other books to the general reader.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“A worthy and interesting supplement to his book of explorations in
Alaska. ... It is by no means a dry and technical scientific treatise.
While he observed and recorded scientific facts he was deeply
interested in the human life around him, was keenly alive to the
characteristics and ways of the Eskimos.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 600w

“The joy he found in the voyage and its experiences is evident on
every page of his journal or his articles. The picture he gives of
that desolate world and of its inhabitants, of the wild seas and the
bitter weather or the glory of the short summer, is a picture vivid
and compelling and human. The editor has done his work excellently,
and has contributed a valuable introduction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 1350w

“Every admirer of John Muir and every lover of Arctic adventure will
rejoice in this book.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w

=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Expansion of Europe; the culmination of modern history. maps *$2 (3½c) Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-15578)

The author, who is professor of modern history in the University of
Manchester, “surveys the origins and nature of the process by which,
during the past four centuries, the world has been subjugated by
European civilization; he discusses the relations of this process to
the problems of the war, and endeavours to analyse the nature of the
share in the work taken by the chief European peoples who have
participated in it. The meaning and motives of imperialism are
discussed, and the successive periods of European imperialism are
considered in order of time: the period of ‘Iberian monopoly’; the
period of Dutch, French, and English rivalry; the era of revolution,
covering the severance of the American colonies from Britain, and the
establishment of British rule in India; the period of the
transformation of the British empire, 1815-78, and the growth of
self-government in the colonies; the era of the world-states and the
partition of Africa, 1878-1900; and the recent period, covering the
campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan, the war with the Boers, and
Germany’s ‘great challenge’ to the world.” (Ath) There are a number of
serviceable black-and-white maps. “The essay was originally designed
as one of a set of four, to be included under the general title ‘The
culmination of modern history.’ Two of these have been already
published under the title of ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’”
(Preface)

“While it is perfectly obvious that in any account of the expansion of
Europe the British empire must be accorded the largest share for both
size and achievement, the tale could have been unfolded with much less
national self-glorification. Perhaps it might have been desirable not
to intimate quite so strongly that ‘force and fraud’ were
characteristics of the modes of securing colonial territory by all
European countries except Great Britain. ... The chapter on the
transformation of the British empire between 1815 and 1878 is easily
the best in the book. Here the reasons for the tolerant attitude that
Great Britain adopted toward its colonies, and notably toward those of
the self-governing type, are summarized with much skill and cogency.”
W: R. Shepherd

– + =Am Hist R= 23:387 Ja ‘18 710w

=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

=Ath= p366 Jl ‘17 170w

“A simply and clearly written essay, well put together, emphasizing
the essentials of the subject and sparing the details. ... Prof.
Muir’s brief account of the various modern empires—French, Russian,
American, German, as well as our own—does not really do justice to
their characteristics. ... Even such important facts as the
reactionary change in French colonial policy in 1892 are not
mentioned. ... The account of Italian and American colonial
experiments is also very perfunctory.”

+ — =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 1150w

“The book may be read profitably by persons who desire a rapid résumé
of the colonial and commercial rivalries of the great powers; more
serious students will find it of little value.”

+ — =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 280w

— =Ind= 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

“Professor Muir’s historical survey is sound and full, yet without any
unnecessary multiplicity of detail; but in the last stages, where the
great challenge to the greatest of the new composite world states, the
British empire, is dealt with there is a polemical note, and his
references to America throughout are acid and grudging.” M. J.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 240w

=Lit D= 55:38 S 29 ‘17 380w

“It is to be regretted that the facts are presented with such a blend
of national self-glorification, of small and unnecessary boastings, of
bland superiority to the other nations of the world. ... Professor
Muir is both at his best and his worst in writing about his own
country. ... It is worthy of note that Professor Muir makes an evident
effort to be entirely just to the point of view of Germany. It is
impossible not to feel that he does not make that effort in writing of
America.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 1000w

=Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 160w

=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 60w

“We do not find quite the same freshness in the present work as in his
‘Nationalism and internationalism.’ Nevertheless the summary of the
workings of a reasonable imperialistic spirit in ‘The expansion of
Europe’ is a very lucid survey of the facts, and it has great
instructive value.”

+ — =Spec= 118:37 Jl 14 ‘17 1400w

“A scholarly and most readable essay. The point of view is
aggressively British and the opportunity to do a patriotic bit by the
writing has plainly appealed to the author, but this at least has not
affected the clarity of his exposition or his excellent style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 580w

“The first 150 pages cover a survey of the expansion of Europe down to
the year 1878. These are, as we should expect, well written, well
arranged, the work of an experienced teacher and a competent
historian; written as they could not but be, on the lines of Seeley’s
‘Expansion of England,’ they form a useful compendium or
text-book. ... The chapters which deal with the events since 1878 are
not on the level of his ordinary work. The arrangement is defective,
there is a good deal of repetition. ... This is, we suggest, the key
to the book; it is written too soon.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p254 My 31 ‘17 1600w

=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Nationalism and internationalism; the culmination of modern history. *$1.25 Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-11913)

“The author’s object is to trace in broad outline the development of
two of the most powerful factors in modern history, namely, the
nationalist and internationalist movements.” (Ath) “He writes from the
standpoint of one who sees a steady growth towards a reign of law in
European relations; who believes in the necessity of organizing states
on a national basis; and who finds in this kind of national system the
sole basis for an international system.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The author is professor of modern history in the University of
Manchester.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:429 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p539 N ‘16 70w

+ =Ath= p578 D ‘16 800w

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 20w

“These are not the only cases where Professor Muir obscures truth by
his eagerness for broad conclusions. His theory of nationality, his
interpretation of medieval cosmopolitanism are both of them brilliant
pieces of journalism, but they are brilliant journalism only because
they represent an unnatural simplification of complex facts. They take
no account of exceptions, or else they regard them as easy jests.
Professor Muir has written a book that is useful for the purposes of
dinner-table conversation. But it is not profound enough in its
acquaintance with the real issues at stake to be more that a skilful
piece of political persiflage.” H. J. Laski

— =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 530w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:686 O ‘17 100w

+ =Pratt= p38 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17

+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 160w

“Professor Muir’s essay does not suffer from lack of balance, but it
is distinctly marred by an overstatement of certain tendencies and an
understatement of others which at times give his interpretations, seen
at a distance, the color of extreme partisanship. ... This is the more
regrettable because Professor Muir, in the same short volume, gives
some definitions and leading lines of thought which are of surpassing
interest and light up whole centuries of happenings with
understanding.” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 38:74 Ap 21 ‘17 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 O 26 ‘16 120w

“Vigorous, eloquent, well-arranged pages. ... The book before us has,
to begin with, one great merit. The author knows precisely what he
wants to say, and he says it. ... It is a book which should be read by
all who wish for a sane, virile, courageous, and clear-sighted
interpretation of the issues of the great war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 N 2 ‘16 1100w

=MUKERJEE, RADHAKAMAL.= Foundations of Indian economics; with an introd. by Patrick Geddes. il *$3 Longmans 330

“The author, who has been a research student of Calcutta university,
and who has for some time been investigating the economic organization
of modern India, collects in this volume his scattered studies, and
provides a comprehensive and useful survey of the conditions of
production in that part of the British empire. The book sketches the
economic influences of the Indian system of family, caste and
religion, presents detailed studies of the principal cottage and
village industries, describes the rural system of trade and credit,
and discusses the future of the organization.” (Am Econ R) Professor
Mukerjee believes that “India’s economic salvation lies not in bodily
taking over the industrial system of the West, but in developing and
modernizing her own industrial system which, because it fits the
environment, will most assure a prosperous, progressive and contented
population.” (Ann Am Acad)

“Will appeal to the interests of students of economic history as well
as to those particularly concerned with the problems of modern India.”
Clive Day

+ =Am Econ R= 7:613 S ‘17 220w

Reviewed by G. R. Roorbach

=Ann Am Acad= 73:237 S ‘17 330w

=Ath= p584 D ‘16 60w

“In order to readjust our knowledge of the Orient, books like
Professor Mukerjee’s are extremely valuable. ... He is typical of the
new school of Indian thinkers. ... The only defect in his book is the
absence of a glossary for native names and expressions.” W. G.
Tinckom-Fernandez

+ =Dial= 63:203 S 13 ‘17 1150w

“Professor Mukerjee has performed a great service in taking stock of
the vestigial remains of India’s ancient economies as they survive
to-day in the traditional arts and crafts preserved by the universal
caste and guild systems. He is at considerable pains to show the
effect of western institutions on these survivals. ... Most
illuminating is the careful description and illustration of the
various hereditary trades and their processes of production and
distribution.”

+ =Nation= 105:99 Jl 26 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17

“The importance of Professor Mukerjee’s work lies in his ideas and
proposals. ... The book is marred by the writer’s limitation of
view. ... The great questions of protection (as against free imports),
labour, and capital should have been more fully discussed. ... But his
work will repay perusal to those concerned with Indian economics, as
showing the views of an educated Indian, which many compatriots
possibly share.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 820w

=MULLER, ROBERT ENRIQUE.= United States navy. il $1 Rand 359 17-13461

“One hundred and forty-three reproductions of our superdreadnoughts,
dreadnoughts, battleships, armored cruisers, and submarines, and life
aboard them; also the work of laying mines, discharging torpedoes,
etc. ... Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske furnishes a foreword.”—Wis Lib
Bul

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17

“A convenient book for boys interested in the navy and those enlisting
in its service.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 50w

=MUNDAY, ALBERT H.= Eyes of the army and navy; practical aviation. il *$1.50 Harper 623.7 17-29812

A handbook on aviation. The author is a flight-lieutenant in the Royal
naval air service, and his book is planned “to meet the requirements
of the layman with a moderate education who wished to obtain a
practical knowledge of flying and the fundamental principles of
construction, aero-engines, and various other aeronautical subjects.”
(Foreword) Contents: Aerial navigation; Theory of flight; Map-reading;
Cross-country flying; Charts; Meteorology; Construction; The care and
maintenance of aeroplanes; Aero engines; Aeroplane and airship
instruments; Wireless telegraphy and semaphore; Aerial photography;
Bombs and bomb-dropping; Night flying; Artillery observations from
aircraft; Aerial fighting; Lighter than air; Medical supervision of
aviators. An appendix gives definitions of terms and tables for the
metric system.

=Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 20w

=MUNDY, TALBOT.=[2] Winds of the world. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-30041

“Here, by the author of ‘King, of the Khyber Rifles,’ a man who knows
his India well, is a hair-raising tale of adventure, intrigue, peril,
uncertainty, that centres in the loyalty of an Indian regiment and the
failure of German ‘diplomacy.’ The chief of characters in the book are
three: Kirby, the English colonel of a Sikh regiment; Risaldar-Major
Ranjoor-Singh, whom Kirby trusts as he trusts himself; and Yasmini the
dancer, to whom the winds of the world have whispered their
secrets. ... With these three as chief characters, and a group of
German ‘merchants’ weaving their web of plottings, the story runs its
exciting course.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 170w

“Kirby and the dancer the author has drawn in a conventional fashion,
winning the reader’s attention by obvious means enough. But
Ranjoor-Singh’s capture of our sympathy is more subtle; it is, as a
piece of work, the best thing in the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:555 D 16 ‘17 320w

“There is abundant mystery and adventure in this lively tale, and the
reader’s pleasure and entertainment is enhanced by the author’s
humor.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 260w

=MURDOCH, W. G. BURN.= Modern whaling and bear hunting. il *$5 Lippincott 639

“In 1892 Mr Burn Murdoch took part in a whaling expedition to the
Weddell sea in Antarctica. He went as an artist, but became so
attracted by the fascinations of whale-fishing that he formed a small
company, fitted out a motor-driven whaler in Norway—the ‘St Ebba’—and,
accompanied by a Norse crew, ranged over northern and southern seas in
pursuit of the dangerous but highly profitable Finner. This book tells
us how he fared.”—Spec

“This is a story of actual adventure, even more vigorous and
entertaining than any fiction could be. More than a hundred
illustrations from drawings and photographs add greatly to the value
and interest of the book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 250w

“The interesting personality of Mr Burn Murdoch is a welcome
embellishment to the subject-matter of his book. On the practical side
he is a genuine whaler, in the business for the profit which it
offers, with a keen eye for efficient methods in its prosecution, and
yet with that larger outlook that would have his own success only an
element in the success of all. But he has also in his make-up a
well-developed aesthetic element which finds in the sea something more
than the whales which are to fill his oil vessels and thereby fatten
his bank account.”

+ =Nation= 105:669 D 13 ‘17 900w

=R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 90w

“Mr Burn Murdoch’s descriptions are always effective, because of their
simplicity and sincerity. His English is sometimes shaky, but we never
fail to grasp his meaning. There could be no greater refreshment to
the war-weary mind than the perusal of this book.”

+ =Spec= 119:526 N 10 ‘17 1650w

“Mr Burn Murdoch is by no means so easy to read as he well might be if
he had taken a good model—say, for instance, Darwin’s ‘Cruise of the
Beagle.’ It is a pity, because he knows his subject, which is good.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 13 ‘17 900w

=MURPHY, CHARLES JOSEPH.=[2] American Indian corn (maize); a cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food; rev. and ed. with additions of many new recipes and a foreword by Jeannette Young Norton. *75c Putnam 641.5 17-23804

“The data, gathered by Mr Murphy, formerly food commissioner of
Nebraska, is even more valuable today when it was collected for the
illumination of the great food convention, held in Paris in 1889. ...
This edition holds many new recipes. And besides those for general use
is a series suitable for invalids. Prefacing these rules for the
making of ‘the very best foods’ from Indian corn is a brief history of
its growth and use.”—Boston Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 330w

=Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 80w

=MURPHY, THOMAS DOWLER.= Oregon, the picturesque. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 917.95 17-28901

The sub-title calls this book a “book of rambles in the Oregon country
and in the wilds of northern California; descriptive sketches and
pictures of Crater and Klamath lakes, the Deschutes river canyon, the
new Columbia highway, the Willamette and Rogue river valleys and the
cities and towns of Oregon; also of the little-known lakes, rivers,
mountains, and vast forests of northern California, to which is added
a trip to the Yosemite and to the Roosevelt dam and the petrified
forest of Arizona, by motor car.” (Library of Congress card)

=A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“In addition to Mr Murphy’s text the reader has a map before him for
guidance and a series of half-tone illustrations to justify the
author’s enthusiasm over the scenic wonders he visits.” A. A. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 900w

“The author fails to invest the open road with the charm that it has
in this region, while his portrayal of the major scenic marvels lacks
the power of conveying even a modicum of the reactions produced by the
originals.”

+ — =Dial= 64:71 Ja 17 ‘18 590w

=Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w

=MURRAY, ARTHUR MORDAUNT.= Fortnightly history of the war. maps *$3 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-16101)

“Not many serial criticisms of the war are worth republication, for
most criticisms offered in reviews and newspapers fall out of date as
information accumulates. Colonel A. M. Murray’s history of the war
written month by month in the Fortnightly Review is, however, a
distinct exception. It is true that he has amended and amplified his
remarks, but in substance they remain. ... Sir Evelyn Wood in a short
introduction expresses his admiration, and also his dissent on certain
points.” (Spec) “The present volume takes us from the beginning of the
war down to July 18, 1916.” (New Repub)

“The outstanding feature of this voluminous work is its really
splendid set of seventy maps that illustrate, with a scrupulous
detail, the campaigns and the battles in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Colonel Murray writes with a soldierly regard of strategy and tactics.
To our mind the French defence of Verdun and the antecedent
epoch-making battle of the Marne deserve more analysis than he
grants.” S. A.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 420w

“Colonel Murray has written an accurate, terse and shrewdly perceptive
military history of the war during its first two bloody years.”

+ =New Repub= 13:156 D 8 ‘17 210w

“A very clear military exposition of events.”

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 190w

“As it stands, it is, perhaps, more valuable as a history of the
evolution of expert opinion than as a ‘précis’ of the military
operations. The account of the operations of the Belgian army is very
vague: and there are some notable omissions.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 880w

=MURRAY, GILBERT.= Faith, war, and policy. *$1.25 (1c) Houghton 940.91 17-23769

These thirteen essays show the reaction of the mind of “a fairly
representative English Liberal, standing just outside the circle of
official politics” to the European war. “Beginning with ‘First
thoughts on the war,’ an article printed in October, 1914, [in the
Hibbert Journal] they come down through the three years of war, taking
up various questions concerning it, and end with an address delivered
March, 1917, before the Fight for right league on ‘The turmoil of
war.’ Included is a section on ‘Ireland,’ in three parts, one on the
Dublin insurrection, one on the execution of Casement, and a
consideration of the future of Ireland written the middle of last
March. Two of the papers deal with America in her relation to the war
and to England, both of them preceding our entrance into the
conflict.” (N Y Times) Several of the essays were first printed in the
Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Review, Westminster Gazette, etc. The
essay entitled “How can war ever be right” was printed as Oxford
pamphlet no. 18.

=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 100w

“Professor Murray’s book affords a wise and statesmanlike view of
complicated problems, and not the least of its merits is the temperate
spirit with which these problems are discussed.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:266 N ‘17 490w

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w

“What stands out most sharply and incongruously in the book is
Professor Murray’s complaisance in transferring the problems raised by
the war to the shoulders of those very diplomats and statesmen whose
inadequacy is sufficiently demonstrated by the present débâcle. In
discussing the British foreign office, Professor Murray adopts a tone
which is nothing less than smug. This fatal complacency extends to
everything British.”

– + =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 390w

“One of the most persuasive defenses of British foreign policy ever
written. ... Gilbert Murray not only performs perfectly the easy task
of showing the manifold fallacies of non-resistant pacifism but
courageously ventures to discuss the most questionable phases of his
case, such as the suppression of the Dublin revolt, British
interference with neutral trade, and the secret diplomacy of the
British foreign office.”

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 210w

“The sentiments of these utterances should get before the minds of all
of us Americans, and in particular into the minds of those
incomprehensibles who talk of ‘those blood-thirsty Europeans’ who will
not compromise, or declare that none of the warring nations know what
they are fighting about.”

+ =Nation= 105:408 O 11 ‘17 500w

“There is a Gilbert Murray writing in this volume who fulfills a high
expectation. ... There are flashes throughout these pages of a
personal intensity of experience. ... But his propaganda is not
altogether a pleasant thing to contemplate. ... It is difficult not to
be continually reminded in this volume of the poorer sorts of
patriotism that make the chauvinist and the jingo. ... Mr Murray beats
the German dog with the stick of self-righteousness, failing
altogether to account for the less immediate and less nationalistic
issues that now are emerging through the conflict, and that propose a
revision of the whole structure of monarchical Europe rather than the
redemption of the status quo from the nationalistic collision.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 12:138 S 1 ‘17 2000w

“It is not that the matter is not informative; its lack of backbone,
its inconclusiveness is the most striking feature. In almost
everything, this Liberal ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ tells us that ‘much
can be said on both sides,’ and to do him justice, he says it, and
says it particularly well.” J. W.

– + =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w

=N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 560w

“Although many of the papers contained in this volume were written so
early in the war as to have lost the appeal of timeliness, there is in
the views expressed a permanent rightness that gives the book lasting
importance.”

+ =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 720w

“Especially to be commended to students of ethical aspects of the
war.”

+ =Outlook= 117:309 O 24 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w

“It was a little unfortunate that Gilbert Murray’s ‘Faith, war and
policy’ should fall into the hands of an anti-English reviewer in the
New Republic and an anti-Russian reviewer in the Evening Post. For
their assaults on the book were not quite without prejudice. They
hardly did justice to Prof. Murray’s fundamental liberalism. Yet for
their irritation there is some excuse. Prof. Murray does claim a good
deal for his country. ... He is too ready to put to the back of his
mind a less liberal and lofty England, not many years in the past, and
by no means suppressed in the present. ... Not all that he has to say
about America will be pleasing to American readers. ... There is in
the book much fine feeling and brilliant writing; though, as a whole,
it is not above the status of controversial, perhaps one may even say,
propagandist literature, however much it may be above the average
level of that literature.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 19 ‘17 860w

“The finest testimony, perhaps, to the worth of the author’s political
and moral philosophy is the fact that there is no great contrast
between his reaction to war at the beginning and that after three
years of it.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 550w

=MUSPRATT, EDMUND KNOWLES.= My life and work. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 17-3731

These memoirs cover a long period of time, the author having been born
in 1833. He is the son of a manufacturing chemist of Liverpool and he
has been closely associated with the public life of that city. As a
young man he was sent to Germany to study with Liebig, and his German
experiences and friendships are the subject of the early chapters. He
visited the United States in the year of the centennial and devotes an
interesting chapter to his impressions. Other chapters are concerned
with travels on the Continent and with the men and women of note he
has known.

+ =Ath= p238 My ‘17 1100w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 850w

“We gain a vivid impression of German university life and of the
condition of German society in the early fifties of last century. It
is not without its lights and shades. ... The book is written in a
simple, unaffected manner, with no pretensions to literary style.” T.
E. Thorpe

+ =Nature= 98:325 D 28 ‘16 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 60w

“Mr Muspratt is well known in Liverpool as a good citizen, with a keen
interest in higher education, art, and other worthy causes. He is
known more widely as a strong Liberal and Free Trader, and rendered
much service to his party in the past by his ‘Financial reform
almanack.’ At the age of eighty-three, he has written his
reminiscences of a happy life, with notes on his travels, and his many
friends will find the book interesting.”

+ =Spec= 117:774 D 16 ‘16 70w

“A book with something on every page to interest the humane
reader. ... In these pages we hear of persons whom literature has made
famous in the guise of fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 950w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 N 16 ‘16 230w

=MUSSON, BENNET.= Turn to the right. *$1.35 (3½c) Duffield 17-18357

A novelized version of the play by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard
that had so great a run in New York last year. Without letting his
widowed mother know, Joe Bascom had served time in Ossining for
another’s guilt. Free again, but penniless, he arrives home to find
his mother well caught in a snare spread for her by a respected deacon
of the town. The deacon’s hold on her is thru a debt of a hundred and
twenty-five dollars which Joe is trying desperately to raise when two
fellow prisoners drop down upon him. They learn of Joe’s plight, make
a journey to the deacon’s grocery, take the needed money from the
safe, and give it to Joe without explaining the manner of getting. The
deacon is paid, but the pals relieve him of the sum and put it back
into his safe. One humorous situation follows another. On the serious
side, the deacon’s plans are foiled, the pals “turn to the right,” a
way is found for the mother to make her peach orchard pay handsomely,
and there is more than the ordinary amount of marrying and living
happily forever after.

“The transposition into book form of even the finest play is seldom
successful. And the drama from which this novel was written was not of
the class mentioned, no matter how ‘successful,’ may have been its
run. The combined result is obvious.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 300w

“The little tale is of a somewhat sugary quality, but in justice to Mr
Musson, the novelizer, it must be said that he has done his work
nicely, and that the superabundance of sweetness in the whole is no
fault of his. The plot has some dexterous twists which enable it to
hold the reader’s interest.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 210w

“The transformation is done with greater care and skill than is
generally found in work of this order. The story is sentimental, but
contains enough colloquial humor to palliate the other element.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 140w

=MUTZENBERG, CHARLES GUSTAVUS.= Kentucky’s famous feuds and tragedies; authentic history of the world renowned vendettas of the dark and bloody ground. *$1.25 (2½c) Fenno 976.9 17-18067

The author has been at pains to discover the truth about some of the
famous Kentucky feuds and to separate legend from authentic history.
His investigations have led him to the conclusion that these long
standing and tragic feuds have had their origin primarily in the
failure of legal machinery. In addition to inefficient and corrupt
officials, the lack of healthy moral sentiment, of proper education
and religious training and the illicit trade in whisky are named as
contributing causes. The clannish spirit of the mountaineers is
accounted for by the fact of their descent from the highland clans of
Scotland.

“His viewpoint is of course all very well if you care to look at
everything from a restrictedly moral eminence. Few people who know the
mountains probably will care for it, for it is strongly
misrepresentative.” R. M.

— =Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 550w

“Kentucky’s feuds are, in any large sense, over. ... Their history
illuminates the character of the present-day ‘citizen’; it does not
afford justifiable grounds for a polemic against his ancestors who
made their own law and abode by it.”

=Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w

“As a literary product, this volume has little to commend it. A
needless multiplicity of detail, doubtless intended to give it weight
as an indictment, swells it to burdensome proportions.”

— =Nation= 105:318 S 20 ‘17 850w

“While undoubtedly true in every particular, Mr Mutzenberg’s book in
some places reminds one of a dime novel. It is a long record of
lawless crimes, murders and outrages. Such a condition of affairs has
almost passed away, and, it is to be hoped, will never return.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 320w

=MYERS, GUSTAVUS.= History of Tammany Hall. 2d ed rev and enl *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 363 17-31564

“A history of Tammany Hall has long been wanted. There had been one,
and only one, that we know of, issued some sixteen years ago. For the
last few years it has been practically impossible to procure a copy,
which gives color to the belief that the volume has been undergoing a
quiet but effective suppression. At any rate, copies were always held
at a high premium. But now the same work has been issued in a second
edition, and the history brought down to the present day. ... The
matter which was added to the work since its first appearance sixteen
years ago is unusually full and complete.”—N Y Call

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:157 F ‘18 90w

“His book should be as useful to the college student of political
science as to the voter.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 100w

“The book is not a homily, but a sober recital of cold facts, which it
behooves every one who would retain his faith in popular government to
ponder deeply.”

+ — =Nation= 105:640 D 6 ‘17 480w

“Where the course of the organization became particularly spectacular,
as under the leadership of ‘Boss’ Tweed, Croker, Murphy and others,
the narrative is particularly copious, but eminently fair as a recital
of fact. ... It is not a recital of ‘original sin’ or ‘inherent
depravity,’ though most of the acts chronicled will of course bear
that bourgeois interpretation. What we can perceive is the workings of
‘economic determinism,’ the constant struggles of an organization to
adapt itself to its environment.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 1700w

“Mr Myers, not being a politician, has gone at his job like a
historian. He has gone to his sources, old newspapers, city hall
records, not forgetting criminal court minutes, with no more partisan
passion than would be expected of a man getting ready to write a
history of the dynasty that built the pyramids.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 1950w

N

=NADAL, EHRMAN SYME.= Virginian village, and other papers; together with some autobiographical notes. *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan 814 17-7187

The author has collected a number of papers and essays originally
contributed to magazines. The one from which the book takes its title,
“A Virginian mountain village,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in
1909. At the request of the publishers he has prefaced the whole with
some autobiographical notes. “They say the book represents me as being
in so many places and doing so many things that the effect upon the
reader is confusing,” he explains. This autobiographical sketch,
discursive and enriched with anecdotes, forms a pleasant introduction
to the papers that follow. Among these are: Southern literature; A
horse-fair pilgrimage; Impressions of Lincoln; Impressions of Lowell;
Contrasts of English and American scenery; Cumberland Gap; Lincoln and
Stanton; Virginia women.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

“Although so very much has been written of Lincoln, it still remains
true that the impressions of Lincoln incorporated into this book are
likely to be read with more interest than almost any of the other
pages. Mr Nadal’s style is interesting and he presents his impressions
so well that they are likely to be remembered.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w

+ =Lit D= 54:1084 Ap 14 ‘17 1000w

“Seldom indeed does one pick up a more seductive volume for an idle
hour.”

+ =Nation= 104:603 My 17 ‘17 270w

“He laments that he spent so much of his youth sitting on a fence-rail
looking at the landscape, but this occupation seems to have borne its
literary fruit: he has a genial responsiveness to the moods of nature.
Then he has humor, and what is even more essential to an essayist, a
keen observation of men and manners which expresses itself in both
portraiture and social analysis. The chapters that analyze southern
society and literature are particularly interesting.” E. S. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:81 Ag 18 ‘17 1000w

+ =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 520w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w

+ =Pratt= p37 O ‘17 30w

“These papers of Mr Nadal’s have appeared in leading American
magazines and newspapers, but are well worth reprinting. They make a
charming, readable and informing volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 1050w

“A variety of reminiscent sketches, some of them charming in
themselves, others of general interest. The author, though a Virginian
born and bred, as a cosmopolitan of the outer world sees the South as
it really was and is.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 900w

=NAIDU, SAROJINI.= Broken wing; songs of love, death and destiny, 1915-1916. *$1.25 Lane 891.4 17-6890

“The bird of time” and “The golden threshold,” two earlier books of
verse, have introduced this Hindu woman poet to western readers. The
third volume is made up of poems grouped together as Songs of life and
death, Memorial verses, The flowering year, The peacock-lute: songs
for music, and The temple: a pilgrimage of love.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

“As a whole the volume shows that the Indian woman of to-day is
conscious how large her share is destined to be in the guardianship
and interpretation of the triune vision of love, faith, and
patriotism.”

+ =Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 90w

“If we seek the material India in her verses we shall find it as truly
as we do the India of the spirit. ... Her love songs are delicately
beautiful. The rhythms are western, but the spirit is all of the east,
a spirit of tropical intensities, mingling with brooding certainty of
eternal things which is so truly eastern.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 800w

+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 130w

+ =Lit D= 54:1071 Ap 14 ‘17 480w

“Songs of love, death, and destiny. They are saturated with the magic
of the East, exquisite in verbal beauty and eloquent with spiritual
comprehension.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 80w

“It is the fourth division of Mrs Naidu’s book, her love songs, which
perhaps best illustrates the difference between occidental and eastern
verse. In these love songs she permits herself an abandonment that is
truly oriental, and that to an Anglo-Saxon reader contrasts rather
unpleasantly with the elevation of thought and charm of such poems as
Mrs Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 450w

=NANDIKESVARA.= Mirror of gesture; tr. by Ananda Coomaraswamy and G. K. Duggirala. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 792

“This translation is based upon a Nagari transcript of the second
Telugu edition of Nandikesvara’s ‘Abhinaya darpana.’ ... Among the
gestures dealt with are movements of the head, the brows, and the
hands. The last-named receive elaborate treatment. Numerous
illustrations and a bibliography follow the text.”—Ath

“Will be useful as an introduction to Indian dramatic technique and to
oriental acting in general.”

+ =Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 90w

=Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 360w

“The little book is dedicated ‘to all actors and actresses,’ but it
will interest as well (or more) all students of the drama.”

+ =Nation= 104:716 Je 14 ‘17 570w