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“Easy, graceful English. ... The translator would have helped us more
if he had done two things, if he had supplied an index, and had
commented on some one complete picture.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p199 Ap 26 ‘17 1100w

=NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN.= Mr George Jean Nathan presents. *$1.50 (2½c) Knopf 792 17-24680

A collection of papers on the theater. Mr Nathan is a dramatic critic
in New York city, and plays recently produced on the New York stage
give him the starting point for discursions on the art of the theater,
play making and producing, the shortcomings of American audiences,
etc. He is a very sophisticated person, with a cynical outlook and not
much hope for the future of American drama, but for much of the sham
and sentimentality of current theatrical production he offers an
effective antidote. He writes of The Hawkshavian drama; The American
music show; The commercial theatrical mismanager; The case for bad
manners; America’s most intellectual actress, etc.

“A volume as gay and impudent as its title.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 320w

“A man cannot live—live exclusively and consciously—in a realm of
unworthy make-believe without suffering for it; and Mr George Jean
Nathan, in some of his phases, is calculated to cause regrets. He
opens up some wonderful, sudden vistas for the playgoer, and shoots a
number of penetrating epigrams; but his taste and discretion are not
equal to his brilliancy.”

– + =Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 340w

“This is a book of serious criticism of the New York theatre. Mr
Nathan is self-possessed, cynical, urbane, smart and sometimes
flippant. He confounds one with his knowledge of the drama of the
United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. He gives us facts
running over. He loves to shatter legends. His book is refreshingly
honest because refreshingly severe.”

+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 230w

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w

National year book, 1917. maps 50c Hammond & co. 317.3

“A book of facts, figures and general information, together with a new
and complete gazetteer of the United States and non-contiguous
territories.” The book contains nearly 150 pages of useful information
on miscellaneous subjects, with many statistical tables, maps, etc.

=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17

=NAUMANN, FRIEDRICH.= Central Europe; a tr. by Christabel M. Meredith from the original German. *$3 Knopf 327 17-8207

A translation of “Mittel-Europa,” a German work outlining a plan for a
permanent union of the Central European nations. “The nucleus of the
organization is to consist of the German empire and Austria-Hungary.
To this nucleus will be added the Balkans, Turkey, and the present
neutral states to the north of the empire. Thus a combination will be
effected that comprises a great stretch of territory through the heart
of Europe, binding the members together with ties of common interest.
At the same time the enemies of the empire will be separated. The
major part of the book is taken up with discussion of the difficulties
in the way of a union of the empire and the dual monarchy. The author
realizes that the sovereignty of each state must be preserved; and
that that may be done, works out a scheme of joint commissions which
shall carry out the wishes of the several governments. The tariff
problem is recognized also.” (J Pol Econ)

+ =Am Econ R= 7:113 Mr ‘17 130w

“Important because it expresses imperial Germany’s political and
economic claims with fervid enthusiasm, but with authority. Classed
bibliography (17p.) of German and Austro-Hungarian books designed to
further a mutual understanding: does not list translations.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17

“The author, who is well known on the continent for various earlier
books on political questions began his career as a Lutheran pastor and
evangelist of socialism. He sprang into notice through several
publications of radical propaganda, and entered journalism and
politics. In the Reichstag, under the wing of the Liberal Socialist
party, he has been long an exponent of Christian socialism and the
world-wide mission of German kultur. In the present instance, Naumann
does not view the war with the optimism of the German-American press.
For him it is a cause of reflection.” R. W.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 800w

=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 70w

“His book, which has had the good fortune of finding a translator
whose version reads like an English original, is indispensable to all
who would form a concrete idea of the present working of the German
mind, and it is a mine of information for everyone who wishes to gain
an insight into the intricate problems of German economics and
politics at the hand of a guide who has them at his fingers’ ends, and
who is imbued with a living knowledge of German history.” Vindex

+ =Dial= 62:390 My 3 ‘17 2000w

“It should be read by all who want to see for themselves, rather than
thru enemy glasses, just what Germany is striving for.”

+ =Ind= 90:592 Je 30 ‘17 1600w

“All the oratory and the enthusiasm that have marked his rise to his
present position as one of the most-read political authors of Germany
today have been brought by Herr Naumann to his present task.”

=J Pol Econ= 25:213 F ‘17 300w

“As a ‘formulation of current German thought’ the volume deserves the
closest reading. And that reading will, by the way, illumine one of
the Allies’ exprest conditions of peace—the partition of the Dual
empire.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1430 My 12 ‘17 260w

“His book is really a long pamphlet summoning the people of middle
Europe to union. It is argumentative, amiable, painfully tactful,
shrewd, sentimental. It is skilful journalism, wheedling, exhorting,
threatening, appealing to pride, to vanity, to historical tradition,
to economic interest, to fear, to ambition. ... Naumann’s real effort
is to establish the idea, rather than to solve the problem. ... The
lesson for those of us who are, I think, justly suspicious of the
mid-European project is fairly evident. Its most powerful support is
external pressure. The more Central Europe is isolated and boycotted
the easier will it be to create Mid-Europe.” W. L.

=New Repub= 9:357 Ja 27 ‘17 2650w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17

=N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 450w

“It must be remembered that the economic questions inherent in the
doctrine of ‘Central Europe’ come up automatically for some sort of
settlement at the end of this year. Then the commercial treaties, not
only between Germany and Austria-Hungary, but between Austria and
Hungary, will lapse, and if there should merely be a continuance of
the present arrangements so long as the war lasts there will
nevertheless be indications of what the new economic policy is to
be. ... It is not astonishing that Herr Naumann’s book should have
made a deeper impression on Germany than any book of recent times. The
author writes for everybody; he has enough learning and distinction to
satisfy the well-educated and enough clearness and breeziness to
attract the common mind. As an old Social Democrat, he understands how
to make the most cunning kind of democratic appeal when he is in fact
exalting Kaiserism.”

=Spec= 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1250w

“The most famous book to which the war has given birth.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1650w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

=Survey= 38:359 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w

“Naumann says that he conceived the plan of his book in April, 1915.
Fortune favored him in the great eastern offensive that followed; and
his book had its great vogue in the full flood of success against
Russia which encouraged Berlin to lose no time in opening fiscal
negotiations with Austria and Hungary, and even attempting to ‘solve’
the problem of Poland. The English reader who now sees the book for
the first time should bear the conditions of its production in mind.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Ag 10 ‘16 850w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 120w

=NEILL, ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND.= Dominie dismissed. *$1.25 (3c) McBride 828 E17-785

A sequel to “A dominie’s log.” The school master whose original
experiments in education were described in that book is dismissed from
his position and a representative of the old type of teacher is put in
his place. The dismissed dominie goes to work on a near-by farm and
watches his successor break down all that he has built up. A small
group of the children, however, cling to him, and there are many
delightful out-of-school conversations recorded. The educational
questions discussed are pertinent to the times. The author warns
against the danger of over-emphasis on technical education after the
war, and, in a conversation with an American visitor, comments on some
of our educational experiments.

“We may justly complain of the careless statements, the false
premises, the disputable facts which mar the argument. These help to
make Mr Neill’s views on education and sociology unconvincing. All the
same, the reader can count on an extremely agreeable picture of school
life in a Scottish village, uncompromising in its attitude, but
absolutely without malice; and a handbook on socialism into the
bargain.” J. F. S.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 500w

+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 190w

“However we may dissent from many of the author’s opinions, he has
written a most original and suggestive volume, filled with sayings
racy and to the point: a humorous story as well as one packed with
theories which make the reader ‘sit up.’”

=N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 570w

=NEILSON, WILLIAM ALLAN.= Robert Burns: how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-13543

Chapters on: Biography; Inheritance: language and literature; Burns
and Scottish song; Satires and epistles; Descriptive and narrative
poetry, make up this study of Burns. The author wisely recognizes that
the best way to know Burns is to read him and quotes over one hundred
of the poems. The author is professor of English at Harvard
university.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17

“He gives us an interesting and truthful sketch of the poet’s life.”

+ =Cath World= 105:841 S ‘17 380w

+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 70w

“William Allan Neilson has a trifle too much subtlety and coolness in
his method to ‘do’ Burns, the romantic poet, drinker, and lover, with
any great amount of enthusiasm; it is Burns the Scotchman whom he
really warms to.”

+ — =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 110w

“William Allan Neilson, to judge just from his ‘Burns, how to know
him,’ is, first of all, a man of breadth, and only secondly a digger
in booklore. Humor of word, as well as humor in a critical sense and
understanding of the poet’s and the man’s heart, pervades these
well-printed pages. A first class practical idea is that of the
glossary. Properly limited to just the really troublesome Scottish
dialect words it runs along the margins, instead of being tucked away
off somewhere in the back of the book.”

+ =Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 510w

“Will delight every lover of poetry.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 1 ‘17 210w

“It is certainly saying nothing against the book to say that the firm
impression it makes is mainly produced by the poems, well chosen and
well arranged and, with the marginal glossary, easily read. Their
effect, however, is reinforced by a skilful, compact biography, a
clear, thoroughly informed chapter on Burns’s language and his
literary antecedents, a running commentary on the selections, and a
critical summary.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 400w

“An excellent introduction to Burns, giving a very sympathetic yet
just view, both of the biographical and analytical sections.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:219 Jl ‘17 30w

“There is one perfectly obvious duty, a duty which cannot be too
carefully performed, which Mr Neilson—like almost all his predecessors
in the editing of Burns—has scanted. We refer to the elucidation of
Burns’s dialect. Mr Neilson follows the method of the centenary
edition of the poet. He gives fairly numerous glosses in the margin.
He does this rather more freely than the centenary editors, and
occasionally his gloss is more correct than theirs. Nevertheless he
leaves a good deal undone which might easily have been done. The
selections from Burns are very judiciously made, and give an
exceptionally adequate idea of the poet’s quality and value.” H: B.
Hinckley

+ — =Yale R= n s 7:220 O ‘17 650w

=NEKRASOV, NIKOLAI ALEXEIEVICH.= Who can be happy and free in Russia? tr. by Juliet M. Soskice; with an introd. by Dr D: Soskice. (World’s classics) *45c Oxford 891.7 17-23320

Nicholas Nekrassov was born in 1821 and died in 1877. In Russia he is
called “the poet of the people’s sorrow” and in the introduction to
this first English translation of his greatest work he is pronounced
“the sole and rightful heir of his two great predecessors, Pushkin and
Lermontov.” The prolog to the poem describes the meeting on the road
of seven peasants who dispute over the question that forms the title,
Who can be happy and free in Russia? One says only the priest, one
says the landowner, another thinks the tsar’s chief adviser may be the
happy man, while another declares that only the tsar himself has the
right to freedom and happiness. To find the answer to their own
question they wander about the country, and in the tale of their
adventures we are given a picture of the tragedy and comedy, the
sorrows and joys of Russian life.

“It will be very acceptable to English readers as the magnum opus of
one of the foremost Russians of his time, ‘the poet of the people’s
sorrow.’ The Oxford press deserves thanks for making such a work
accessible at a price within the reach of every one.”

+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 80w

“It is a veritable peasant Odyssey. ... In spite of the fact that the
English version of the poem does not preserve the peculiar musical and
stylistic quality of the original, the translator has made every lover
of good literature her debtor.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 170w

“No one is likely to forget Nekrassov who reads Juliet M. Soskice’s
translation, the first into English, of ‘Who can be happy and free in
Russia?’ ... No extracts can give more than a hazy notion of the
freshness and abundance of Nekrassov’s pictures of Russian life. The
poor verse of the translation cannot spoil them.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 11:163 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“It differs sharply from all other national epics. ... It might be the
joint product of the Russian parallels of Burns, Villon, Synge; it is
native, kin to the earth, endemic. It is full of simple vices and
virtues, problems and passions; and this very simplicity makes it
universal and of eternal importance.”

+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 520w

“Mrs Soskice’s metrical version, mostly in an easy unrhymed measure,
is fluent and readable. Dr Soskice prefixes a short Life of the poet—a
picturesque and attractive figure.”

+ =Spec= 118:594 My 26 ‘17 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Ap 12 ‘17 40w

“Nekrassov may now be claimed as chief and most beloved of Russian
poets; popular and national, devotedly singing the sorrows and social
wrongs of the humble multitude with such vigour and fire that his
influence upon the youth of the last generation and of this is
unbounded, and singing with such simplicity of concealed art that the
poorest of schoolchildren learn page after page of him by heart.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p222 My 10 ‘17 2000w

“Full of vivid pictures of peasant life in village and country, this
long poem, if taken in small doses, not more than a chapter at a time,
is bound to produce a powerful impression.”

+ =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 70w

=NEVINS, JOSEPH ALLAN.= Illinois. (American college and university ser.) il *$2 (2c) Oxford 378 17-13973

“This is the first history of the University of Illinois, and the
first volume on a state institution in Professor Krapp’s American
college and university series.” (Nation) The author tells us in his
preface that it has “seemed necessary to throw a much greater emphasis
upon the record of the past than upon the tendencies or
characteristics of the present, and that even in the four final
chapters, nominally not historical at all, will be found much
historical matter.” There are eight appendices.

“This book has a special significance only for those interested in the
educational development of a middle western state. It contains more
information than the other volumes in the series but lacks to a large
degree the literary charm of most of its predecessors.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 110w

“The book, pleasingly written, has also the more substantial merits of
careful historical detail and a comprehensive grasp of its subject. It
is a needed and useful contribution to our educational history.”

+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 510w

“Portraying his alma mater with the insight of a son and the
dispassionateness of a stranger, Mr Nevins has made a book, which,
while of peculiar interest, no doubt, to Illinoisians, holds its
subject steadily at the level of all who are concerned with higher
public education. ... He seizes upon the development of the
institution in relation to the state as the unique and commanding
aspect of his subject, and he collects and arranges his material to
illustrate it.”

+ =Nation= 105:226 Ag 30 ‘17 1200w

=NEVINSON, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE.=[2] Modern war; paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson; with an essay by P. G: Konody. *$3.50 McBride 940.91 17-8608

Mr Nevinson interprets the war thru the medium of one of the newer
forms of art. He has found it “impossible to express the scenic and
mechanical spirit of this twentieth century war with the languishing
or obsolete symbolism of mediaeval or classic art.” “As you look at
these paintings of Nevinson’s you reach a very obvious conclusion
about modern war, namely that the individual soldier does not exist.
All the actors on the scene, the soldiers serving the machine guns, or
marching on in endless columns, the wounded writhing in pain, are not
men but mannikins, gaunt conventionalized creatures, veritable slaves
to routine and machines. ... The subject, for instance, of the
painting of the field hospital ‘La patrie’ is not so much wounded
soldiers as it is gestures of agony.” (Masses)

“The only way to reflect this war truthfully in all its baleful
manifestations, is to intellectualize it, to sublimate it, as it were,
to transform its macabre into organized graphic representation. It is
only through symbols that man can play with infinitudes. Just because
he has attacked the problem in this way, C. R. W. Nevinson has been
one of the first to react creatively to the reality of modern war.”
Carl Zigrosser

+ + =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 820w

“Mr Nevinson is a cubist, though, as we understand from the essay
introducing him, a cubist who wears his cubes with a difference. For
ourselves, we should not care if he were ten times more the child of
the T-square than he is so long as he can produce pictures like those
we are criticizing.”

+ =Spec= 118:367 Mr 24 ‘17 1050w

“His pictures are pictures not because they represent what he has
seen, but because they give us ocular experience of his emotions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p63 F 8 ‘17 900w

New manual of bayonet training and practical bayonet fighting. il *75c National military pub. co. 355

The publishers state that this little book is compiled from the
regulations in force in the new armies of the Entente Allies, adopted
at Plattsburg and other American camps. The first part “Bayonet
training, 1916 (Provisional) gives reasons for and practical lessons
in bayonet fighting.” The second part “Practical bayonet fighting”
“does not purpose to be of assistance in training men for competition
fighting, although it may be of some use for individual instruction,
but it is hoped that it will be of service to officers and N. C. O.’s
when training a squad or a company.” (Foreword)

=A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 70w

=NEW REPUBLIC.= New Republic book; selections from the first hundred issues. $1.50 Republic pub. co., 421 W. 21st st., N.Y. 320.4 17-4463

“Sixty-seven of the best articles which have appeared in the New
Republic for the last two years are brought together in this
convenient and attractive volume. According to the preface, ‘it is a
collaboration and makes no attempt at complete unanimity or logical
consistency. It aims to give in compact and available form a sample of
the liberal opinion in the United States as expressed from 1914 to
1916 at the suggestion of events.’”—Am Pol Sci R

“Bound in boards; will not last.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“As an aid in developing a responsible, well-informed public opinion
‘The New Republic book’ should render considerable service.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:364 My ‘17 150w

=Masses= 9:28 Ap ‘16 1600w

“‘The New Republic book’ shows physically, a tendency to go to pieces
under close examination. ... ‘Spiritually’ it exhibits as much
coherence as could fairly be expected in a numerous group of men and
women animated by a desire to destroy ‘the old crusted folkways’ and
to break up ‘the cake of intellectual custom.’ ... Their jaunty
attitude towards the past—it is never au revoir but always
adios—produces an exhilarating impression of timeliness. One with less
spacious faith in the promise of the future might say—the timeliness
of sailors who, to profit by a spanking breeze, throw the cargo
overboard.”

— =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 400w

“The solid political articles based on broadly democratic principles,
and expressing a true aspiration after social progress and
international security, have given a leading to many minds and became
of much value in the recent political campaign. In the literary
articles the paper has been less satisfactory.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 250w

=NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED.= Newark anniversary poems; winners in the poetry competition. $1.25 Gomme 811.08 17-23312

This volume is published under the auspices of the Committee of one
hundred on the 250th anniversary celebration of the founding of the
city of Newark, New Jersey, May to October, 1916. It includes
introductory chapters on Newark, on “Early Puritan poetry,” on “Civic
celebrations as a community force,” and “A plan for a national
anthology of American poetry,” by Henry Wellington Wack, editor of the
Newarker; the official “Celebration ode,” by Lyman Whitney Allen; the
poetry of the Newark pageant and masque, by Thomas Wood Stevens; the
thirteen Newark prize poems; and “Other Newark anniversary poems,
grave and gay,” which appeared in the Newarker, the Committee’s
official journal, published from November, 1915 to November, 1916, as
a record of anniversary events. Appendices give biographies of prize
winners, names of the Committee of one hundred, etc.

“The poetry included in this anthology of Newark is much above the
average level of anniversary verse and forms a worthy tribute to the
great city. Our chief criticism is that so many of the bards celebrant
found it necessary to apologize for their task.”

+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 350w

“Competitions in the arts are noteworthy for the fact that little good
work is produced by them. This rule was not broken in the Newark
contest. Nine hundred entries were submitted, and of all those
published in the collection at hand only one touches greatness. By a
coincidence not often met with in competitions, this great poem was
awarded first prize. We refer to Clement Woods’ ringing glorification,
indictment and prophecy!” D: P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 460w

=NEWBERRY, PERRY.= Castaway Island. il *$1.75 (2c) Penn 17-23974

The Galapagos islands, cut by the equator, lie out from the coast of
Equador. They have never had a native population, and altho the Panama
canal has increased their value, they are still sparsely settled. The
island on which Bob Trevlin and Jeffers Stimson are wrecked is quite
uninhabited. Bob Trevlin is a young San Francisco boy who is about to
take passage for home when he meets Stimson, a soldier of fortune. The
two plan to travel together, but a tropical storm drives them out to
sea. The island on which they are landed has no human inhabitants, but
they find on it a strange collection of wild domestic animals, the
descendants, they suppose, of the animals left by earlier colonists.
Chickens, dogs, cows and horses are among these, and their
re-domestication is one of the occupations of the two castaways. Their
adventures on the island cover about six months and include very real
perils.

“Brimful of exciting adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w

“It is a story full of interest. Attractive illustrations by F. A.
Anderson, some of them in color, add much to the book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 120w

=NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY JOHN.= Book of the happy warrior. il *$1.75 (2c) Longmans 18-300

The author has retold some of the old heroic tales for boys, with two
final chapters linking the past with the present. Contents: The song
of Roland; Richard Cœur de Lion; St Louis, king of France; Robin Hood;
Bertrand du Guesclin and the Black prince; News from Poitiers, 1356;
France v. Gentlemen of England; The Chevalier Bayard; The old English
school; Chivalry of to-day. The illustrations by Henry J. Ford include
a frontispiece and several colored plates.

“A book of scholarship and charm by a lover of the classics of
chivalry.”

+ =Ath sup= p688 D ‘17 220w

+ =Ath sup= p694 D ‘17 60w

“Good reading, particularly in these days, a book from which older as
well as younger readers may get a thrill, is ‘The book of the happy
warrior.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 460w

“He has a fine sense of the chivalries of the past as well as the
present. He spares no pains with his excellent prose; he shuns alike
the modern preciosity which spoils the old stories and the slipshod
sentimentality which distorts virtue, a word which in older days meant
the essential qualities of manhood. The title of the book in itself is
a specimen of his felicitous taste.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 540w

“Sir Henry Newbolt has written another excellent book for boys—and for
their sisters too.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 360w

“The stories are told in clear, simple language and as far as possible
in that of the original chroniclers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 D 13 ‘17 460w

=NEWCOMER, ALPHONSO GERALD=, and others, eds. Three centuries of American poetry and prose. *$1.75 Scott 810.8 17-24531

A book of selections intended to meet the same need as that filled by
“Twelve centuries of English poetry and prose.” In their selection of
poetry the aim of the editors has been “to place between the covers of
a single volume the greater part of what will remain permanent in
American poetry from its beginnings down to the end of the first great
production period in American literature.” With regard to prose, so
comprehensive an aim was out of the question, but the editors say,
“Whenever possible we have used wholes; when this was not possible we
have made selections that would show the author’s purpose in the
whole, and have above all tried to avoid the scrappiness and
ineffectiveness of mere fragments.” Historically American literature
is divided into two periods: the Colonial period and the National
period, the latter closing about 1890. Chronological table, Index to
notes and glossary, and Index to authors, titles and first lines are
provided at the close.

=Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w

=NEWMAN, HORATIO HACKETT.= Biology of twins (mammals). (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il *$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 575 17-11116

“Dr Newman has made a serious study of the problem of twins among
mammals—especially armadillos, which have a way of producing multiple
offspring as a regular thing. He has also gathered up the results of
other people’s studies and has presented them in a very interesting
way. ... Newman’s studies introduce several new factors into the
speculations and interpretations of the problems. ... The bulk of the
book is devoted to the armadillos, first because the author has made
an extensive study of this group of animals, and second because these
studies furnish the largest mass of direct evidence on the
problems.”—Ind

“Brief, concise résumé of present knowledge.”

+ =Cleveland= p79 Je ‘17 6w

“The book is necessarily technical in parts, but the portions of
concern to the general reader only can be read by a judicious skipper
with great interest.”

+ =Ind= 92:69 O 6 ‘17 400w

“The essential points obtained by investigators to date have been
placed in a single small volume where, appearing in a not too
technical dress, they are readily and conveniently available, not to
zoologists alone, but to the thinking public in general.” H. H. W.

+ =Science= n s 46:486 N 16 ‘17 1450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 190w

Newspaper press directory and advertisers’ guide; seventy-second annual issue, 1917. *2s Mitchell, London 072

“This directory contains particulars of every newspaper, magazine,
review, and periodical published in the United Kingdom and the British
Isles; the newspaper map of the United Kingdom; the press of the
British dominions overseas, the Indian empire, the continent of
Europe, America, and the Far East; and a directory of the class papers
and periodicals. During the past twelve months 69 newspapers suspended
publication in the British Isles, and 165 increased their price. In
view of such changes as these, it will be evident that the
seventy-second annual edition of Messrs Mitchell’s well-known and
valuable work of reference must be particularly useful and important.
The volume contains special articles dealing with the trend of the
modern press, the legal year in its relation to the press, the
commercial opportunities offered by the overseas dominions, and other
topics.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p245 My ‘17 110w

“The old-established trade record is a guide to the world’s press that
we have always found to be accurate.”

+ =Spec= 118:465 Ap 21 ‘17 110w

=NEWTON, JOSEPH FORT.= Ambassador; City Temple sermons. *$1 Revell 252 17-293

“Dr Newton’s call to the City Temple, London, from his pastorate in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has called general attention to him as a preacher.
This volume contains fifteen sermons, eleven of which were preached at
the City Temple while he was visiting there, before his final call and
acceptance. The remaining sermons were delivered in America. The
dominant note in the sermons preached in England is Christian
good-will. The subjects are concerned with the Christian life and
doctrine in their general relations, emphasizing the fundamental
problems of God and the relations of men to Christ.”—Bib World

“He does not make his sermons from the last book he has read, but
great books often give him his suggestion and point of contact and the
most telling illustrations of truth. He is a fine example of what
noble literature, especially poetry, may do for the preacher. The
sermons speak especially to cultivated minds, yet through their
simplicity and naturalness and humanness they make the universal
appeal. Here is their real power.” A. S. Hoyt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:475 Jl ‘17 900w

“Dr Newton has a message for the age. It is strongly put, but there
are too many blemishes in its form.”

+ — =Bib World= 49:314 My ‘17 250w

“Though the sermons deal with different themes, they have a unity of
spirit, as they have one passion and purpose, to make vivid the truth
as it is in Jesus, deeper than all dogmas, larger than all creeds,
equal to every emergency, whether in peace or war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

“It is hard to discover in them just what appealed to the audience in
that great center of English nonconformity. They are hardly original
in conception and at times are very discursive, being chiefly
distinguished by an ornate rhetoric which garnishes many platitudes.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 90w

=NEXÖ, MARTIN ANDERSEN.= Pelle the conqueror: daybreak; tr. from the Danish by Jessie Muir. *$1.50 (2c) Holt 17-16731

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:92 Mr ‘17 900w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1250w

“There is a simplicity and a steady focusing of the main issues in
‘Pelle.’ There is also—and this is one of the most admirable qualities
of the book—a right proportion between the personal and the social;
the two strands are kept going back and forth and wrought firmly into
a unified design. I except the last volume, and it is curious to see
how the pressure of social fact squeezes out there much of the
reality. In the last volume there is a suggestion of externality. ...
Taken all in all, ‘Pelle’ is a fine achievement in democratic art, the
most satisfying novel of the labor movement that I have read.” G: B.
Donlin

+ =Dial= 62:309 Ap 5 ‘17 1650w

“To this final volume is appended a note about the author by Professor
Jespersen of the University of Copenhagen. It seems that Nexö was very
little known in Denmark when the first part of ‘Pelle the conqueror’
appeared, some ten years ago. He was a teacher in Copenhagen who had
done a little travelling and a little writing—chiefly some short
stories which a few people had recognized as exceptional. Copenhagen
was the place of his birth (1869); its circumstances were of the
humblest. ... Such a work of imagination as this, with its deep humor,
its deep humanity, brings home to us, as nothing else can, the
artificial nature of those boundaries which language and custom set
between one race and another. It is a book for the world; one cannot
lay it down without a sense of quickened emotion and enlarged vision.”

+ =Nation= 104:241 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“To Nexö there are no reticences; there is nothing clean or unclean.
Brought up himself in the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, and working,
like his own Pelle, as a shoemaker’s apprentice on the secluded island
of Bornholm, he relives that elemental life through this book. There
is in him something of the old Rabelaisian flavor, which we are now
far too sophisticated to get pleasantly from that old literature. He
brings to our sympathy that rich, earthy, immemorial strain of sex and
hunger and primitive necessities, gives it a modern embodiment that is
all charm and sincere feeling. ... Surely ‘Pelle’ is one of the great
novels of the world.” Randolph Bourne

+ + =New Repub= 10:sup8 Ap 21 ‘17 1700w

“The book is international; it might have been written of Berlin, or
Naples or London, or Calumet, as well as of Copenhagen. We can recall
no American labor novel which begins to have its sweep and
effectiveness; ‘The jungle,’ perhaps, comes closest, although it did
not make the differentiation which this book (and the progress of
industry) has made between the unskilled and the skilled laborer. It
may be that we have the answer here at hand; the subject is being
considered by all Socialists and labor leaders. Whether or not the
future development of the strife follows the main outlines mapped out
in this book, the story will have played its large part in the
result.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 1 ‘17 670w

“Side by side with Pelle is the portrait of his wife Ellen, a portrait
of charm, which has a certain intimate symbolism which Mr Andersen
Nexö handles with grace; and around them are the children and the old
librarian Brun who are conceived with something of that simplicity
which we associate with another Andersen, and which is the more
lovable for that.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 800w

=NICHOLSON, DANIEL HOWARD SINCLAIR, and LEE, A. H. E.=, eds. Oxford book of English mystical verse. *$2.50 Oxford 821.08 17-17649

“From Richard Rolle of Hampole to Mr Harold E. Goad some 150 poets are
represented, the most prominent being Herbert, Crashaw, Traherne,
Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Francis
Thompson, A. E. Waite, and Bliss Carman.” (Ath) There is an index of
authors and one of first lines.

=Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w

“‘The Oxford book of English mystical verse’ maintains the standards
set by its predecessors. ... The distribution of the poems in point of
time is interesting. Five-sixths of them—more than five-sixths, if we
count Blake among the nineteenth century poets—are the product of that
nineteenth century which its own prophets denounced as materialistic
and skeptical beyond all previous epochs, of this twentieth century
which, we were told before the war, was wholly given over to fads and
superficiality. ... The most remarkable feature of most of the poems
in this collection is their clarity. Their mystical quality is due to
elevation of thought, not to woolly-mindedness.” J. DeL. Ferguson

+ =Dial= 63:207 S 13 ‘17 900w

“In spite of laxities, however, the novelty of the enterprise gives
the book a real value.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 90w

“When we come to Matthew Arnold we find some variations from his
proper text, due, perhaps, to slips in transcribing or to the use of
earlier editions. Whatever the reason, we expect to find a great poet
in the form which he chose to be remembered. ... The editors have a
deficient sense of proportion: that is clear. Their volume, well over
600 pages, includes some examples unworthy of preservation in a
first-rate anthology. It might have been a smaller one, more
definitely mystic, or, in view of its wide scope, they might have
gathered for their posy some lasting flowers which are not of
yesterday.”

– + =Sat R= 123:186 F 24 ‘17 1350w

“It will delight every poetry-lover. ... It is the modern men whose
work we are most interested to see. To us, at present, the unexpected
mysticism of the man of the world, the man of letters, the man of
action, the unbeliever, even the sinner, is of the deepest
interest—because it is along mystic lines that the religious world is
now feeling after assurance. ... But when we have drunk the new wine
we turn back to Vaughan and Donne and Crashaw and George Herbert and
Traherne, and say: ‘The old is better.’ We are, however, not the less
grateful to Mr Nicholson and Mr Lee for giving us to drink of the new
also.”

+ =Spec= 118:303 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w

“A book in which a hundred or so poems, not all mystical but all fine
and true, the work of poets, are buried in a wilderness of respectable
religious verse which is only sometimes mysticism and hardly ever
poetry.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 Mr 1 ‘17 900w

=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Madness of May. il *$1 (5c) Scribner 17-11468

Billy Deering is in a tight place, very much worried about himself and
his future, when a picturesque stranger, introducing himself as R.
Hood, takes possession of him. Much against his will at first,
thinking his companion is either an escaped lunatic or a crook, young
Mr Deering accompanies the stranger on what turns out to be a series
of fantastic adventures in which a girl who calls herself Pierrette
plays a part.

“Appeared in Collier’s Weekly.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of
whimsy.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:408 Je ‘17 260w

“It is so absolutely incredible that the perfectly plausible
explanation of the whole situation in the end is positively irritating
to the unsuspicious reader, who has not cared to come out of clouds.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 150w

“It is just long enough to entertain a reader in the mood for a trifle
that is not trash.”

+ =Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 140w

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

“A trifle of delicious quality—a confection, if you will, of the
purest and soundest materials.”

+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 400w

“A dainty, fluffy bit of most irresponsible foolery.”

=N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 230w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w

“It’s just pure fun, and one only wishes the story were longer.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w

“Very light, improbable, and amusing.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 40w

=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Reversible Santa Claus. il *$1 (6c) Houghton 17-28188

Billy the Hopper, ex-crook, is the hero of this Christmas story. The
Hopper, now proprietor of a chicken farm, is leading a blameless life
when temptation assails him in two-fold form. To make the matter
worse, it is Christmas eve. One of his falls from grace results in the
extraction of a bill-book from a fellow passenger’s pocket, an act of
which he is heartily ashamed, for petty larceny is far below the level
of his talents. The other slip is the stealing of an automobile. Out
of this act grow complications. The machine has an occupant—a sleeping
baby. It is while attempting to return the child to his parents that
the Hopper is persuaded to play the part of a reversible Santa Claus,
one who takes things away from people for their own good.

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“It is burlesque, its quite impossible action moves swiftly; to see it
pass once across the screen may divert an idle hour.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 320w

“‘A reversible Santa Claus,’ gives free scope to his humorous fancy.
It would be preposterous if it did not concern a fairy world.”

+ =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 170w

“It is with relief that it is found to be a most diverting tale, its
more or less necessary Yuletide cheer well mixed with real gayety and
humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 350w

“Original and amusing.”

+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 180w

“Will hardly answer to the demand for a Christmas story, and is
perhaps not worth the small library’s purchase.”

– + =Wis Lib Bul= 14:32 Ja ‘18 50w

=NICOLAS, RENÉ.= Campaign diary of a French officer; tr. by Katharine Babbitt. *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 940.91 17-10365

A diary covering three months of the war, from February to May, 1915.
The author says, “When I visited America recently I came to realize
the widespread interest in the European war shown by the citizens of
the new world. ... The many questions I have been asked, and the
earnest attention accorded to my accounts of the war, are my excuse
for publishing this journal. ... Except for a few trifling omissions,
this book reproduces exactly the notes I took at the front. ... The
story is a true one, lived and lived intensely. In this fact lies the
little merit the work may posses.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

“The book is of especial interest in comparison with the more off-hand
accounts of Ian Hay and the member of ‘Kitchener’s mob.’”

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 90w

“His book is everywhere simple, frank, humane. ... One cannot suppose
that M. Nicolas’s experience or his fortitude is at all unusual. Such
daily horrors must be the very stuff of life to thousands. To read of
them, thus calmly set down, is to realize once more what an adaptable
creature man is and to be filled with wonder that the mere threat of
hell should have tortured his imagination for ages.”

+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 120w

“He who would gain an idea, not only of what war means, but of what
France means to those who love her, should read this book.”

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:315 S ‘17 30w

“For vividness it would be hard to match this brief story of the
front, because it is a genuine diary. ... The printed book is quite as
realistically thrilling as if it bore the scars of the original.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 250w

=NIEMEYER, NANNIE.= Stories for the history hour; from Augustus to Rolf. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd

“These stories are written solely for the purpose of being told,” says
the author in her preface. “They are not intended for children’s
reading, but for teachers’ telling. ... These are stories which I
wished to tell, and of which I could find no satisfactory version. ...
I have avoided all stories of which numerous good versions exist.” The
author is an English woman and the stories are planned to fit courses
of study in Great Britain. The period from 50 B.C. to 900 A.D. is
covered. Contents: Augustus; Onesimus; Trajan; Pliny; Cornelius;
Alaric; Geneviève; Clovis; Columba; Cuthbert; Sturmi; Charles the
Great; Charles and Alcuin; Ingiald; Eudes; Rolf. A list of authorities
is given at the end.

“There is, fortunately, a growing movement in the direction of giving
history a meaning and interest for children such as cannot be
compassed by formal lectures and text-books. A good example of the
kind of thing that is being done, and done successfully, is ‘Stories
for the history hour.’” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 170w

=NOBBS, GILBERT.= On the right of the British line. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-24723

Captain Nobbs was five weeks on the firing line on the Somme, four
weeks mourned as dead, and three months a prisoner of war in Germany.
He describes vividly how he planned the attack of his company under
fire, brought his men into position, directed the charge, and fell,
wounded in the head and blinded for life.

“One of the most moving of the personal accounts.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 70w

“This is not a great book. It is so unpretentious, indeed, that one
wonders why one has finished it at a single sitting. But as a graphic,
moving picture it will hold any reader.”

+ =Dial= 64:72 Ja 17 ‘18 240w

=Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w

“A simple and interesting personal narrative.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 20w

=NOBLE, EDWARD.= Outposts of the fleet. *60c Houghton 17-17081

“That heroes of the merchant marine should, as a rule, receive but
scant recognition seems very unjust to Mr Edward Noble. ... To the
ordinary perils of the deep are now added the risks and the terrors of
war, as is vividly brought out in such tales as ‘Torpedoed’ and
‘Homeward with grain,’ which, with seven other short pieces, make up
the contents of the book. Most, if not all, of these sea-yarns have
already seen the light in various British journals. ... They are new
to American readers.”—Dial

“Nine graphic short stories which show a keen insight into the
character of the British seaman and a wide knowledge of his life.
Printed on very poor paper.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“As full of the marine spirit as sea water is full of salt.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 300w

+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w

=R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 40w

Noontime messages in a college chapel. *$1.25 (4c) Pilgrim press 252 17-30764

Sixty-nine short addresses to young people by twenty-five well-known
preachers of different denominations. The college is not named, but
the preachers represented belong to Boston and its vicinity. Among
them are: George H. Hodges, Charles F. Dole, Paul R. Frothingham,
Daniel Evans, Samuel M. Crothers, and Raymond Calkins. The addresses
are very brief and are in the nature of intimate talks.

“May be suggestive to ministers and leaders of religious
organizations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18

“The thought itself, while sometimes brilliant and suggestive, is more
often tame and commonplace.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 26 ‘18 110w

“All are characterized by freshness and insight.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 90w

=NORRIS, EDWIN MARK.= Story of Princeton. il *$2 (3c) Little 378 17-28880

This story of Princeton has been written by the editor of the
Princeton Alumni Weekly. It is based on well-known sources, and aims,
in addition to giving the essential historical facts, “to present and
preserve some of the more characteristic traditions and anecdotes that
through two centuries have gathered about the name of Princeton.”
(Preface) Contents: When we lived under the king; Princeton’s part in
the making of the nation; The reign of terror; Depression and
reconstruction; The great awakening; The university. The illustrations
are from drawings by Lester G. Hornby.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 40w

=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w

“The book tells its story well. It is indexed, and the drawings are
numerous and good.”

+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 190w

“A worthy volume to set beside Arthur Stanwood Pier’s similar study of
Harvard. The volume is for the undergraduate and the alumnus in
business, not for the man who has a professional or otherwise strongly
developed interest in higher education and academic history. It is
simply a bright sketch, made possible by Professor Collins’s recent
exhaustive book, and frank in its shortcomings.”

+ — =Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 320w

“Mr Norris is particularly happy in depicting the great personalities
among the presidents of bygone days.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 320w

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 80w

=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 40w

“The only defect of his entertaining sketch of the university’s
history is a tendency to gloss over some of the ‘intellectual’
battles—if they were wholly intellectual—that were waged over
questions of policy. ... Mr Norris’s book as a whole is pleasant and
unpretentiously informing.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 1050w

=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Martie, the unconquered. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-22088

Martie Monroe, a girl of strong individuality and much ambition,
brought up in a little California town, escaped from her family who
economically and socially were on the down-hill grade, by marrying
Wallace Bannister, a third-class actor. The Bannisters went to New
York, where a son was born. As Wallace was constantly away, and failed
to support his wife, she took charge of the boarding-house in which
she lived. After her husband’s death, she returned to California to
live in the old homestead with her father, her sister Lydia and her
son Teddy, and to work in the Monroe public library. After she had
accepted an offer of marriage from Clifford Frost, a leading citizen
of Monroe about twice her age, John Dryden, who had known and loved
her in New York, followed her to California; but Martie, being a
Catholic, refused to marry Dryden because he was a divorced man, and,
breaking her engagement to Frost, returned to New York to work in the
office of a magazine for which she had written some successful
articles. Her career is contrasted with that of her sister Sally, who
married a poor boy and had four children whom she brought up on an
allowance made her by “Dr Ben,” an old physician who believed in the
endowment of motherhood.

“Published in the Pictorial Review.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 80w

“To touch unobtrusively and incidentally upon moral questions of the
hour has been Mrs Norris’s object in the writing of all her novels,
and never has she succeeded so well as in ‘Martie the
unconquered.’ ... As a novel with its basis the problem of woman, it
will make its strongest appeal because it is not a problem novel. ...
There is little of the polemic in it, except as life itself is
polemic. It contains much of reality and truth as they are faced by a
young woman who is unable to remain amid the placid conditions of her
birth. And best of all it is free from the morbid sentimentality that
has too frequently obtruded itself into Mrs Norris’s other novels.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1650w

“The book is readable, and much of it is well written; but it fails to
carry out the author’s evident intention to picture the triumph of a
dauntless spirit over adverse conditions.”

– + =Cath World= 106:555 Ja ‘18 160w

“The author’s handling of character and her power of rendering the
details of village life are worthy of attention. The picture of
Malcolm Monroe’s household, dominated by the suspicions of a petty
tyrant, is an excellent bit of domestic comedy. Bonestell’s drugstore,
where the young folk of Monroe gather for pink sodas; the library
steps where they meet and shyly depart on Sunday afternoon walks; the
drab existence of New York boarding-houses and flats; the dull reality
of the mediocre actor’s days and nights,—these scenes and this youth
are part of our American life and they are sketched with a skill that
is really notable.”

+ =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 170w