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A tribute to the French, written on the occasion of the visit of the
French mission to America by a well-known war correspondent who has
marched with the armies of France, and who wishes those of his
country-people who have not had the same opportunity as he of knowing
the French “to understand what manner of men are these our brothers in
arms.” He does for our relations with France what Captain Ian Hay
Beith has done for our relations with England in “Getting together.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“The first twenty pages is fulsome in style. The writer is so eager to
excel in description that his work becomes monotonous and devoid of
interest. Beginning with the twenty-ninth page comes a change. Mr
Powell swings into his best stride.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

=Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w

“Might suitably serve as a memorial of the visit of Marshall Joffre
and the other French commissioners to this country. Moreover, it is
worth reading on its own account.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Italy at war and the Allies in the west. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14525

This is the author’s third book on the war. “Fighting in Flanders” and
“Vive la France” have preceded it. The first four chapters are devoted
to Italy’s part. He says, “It is no exaggeration to say that not one
American in a thousand has any adequate conception of what Italy is
fighting for, nor any appreciation of the splendid part she is playing
in the war.” Contents: The way to the war; Why Italy went to war;
Fighting on the roof of Europe; The road to Trieste; With the Russians
in Champagne; “They shall not pass”; “That contemptible little army”;
With the Belgians on the Yser.

“More descriptive of actual fighting conditions and less of a
political interpretation than Bainville (Booklist 13:442 Jl ‘17).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 90w

“He has a talent for collecting interesting scraps of information and
adapting technical details of artillery or aviation to the
comprehension of the uninitiated.”

+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 270w

“If his visits to the Champagne, Verdun and the Somme front are less
impressive, it is because what is comprized within the title of his
book, ‘Italy at war,’ today is the best first hand record of that war
region.”

+ =Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 150w

“The chapter on ‘Why Italy went to war’ is of particular value. For
that question is perhaps the one of the whole war concerning which
Americans in general have felt most uncertainty and about which they
had the least information.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 180w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w

=POWELL, OLA.= Successful canning and preserving. (Lippincott’s home manuals) il *$2 Lippincott 664 17-26659

This is a “practical handbook for schools, clubs and home use,” by an
assistant in the home demonstration work of the United States
Department of agriculture. It covers the history of scientific
canning, the equipment, canning in tin and glass, the description of
the processes necessary for canning fruits and vegetables, with
suggestions for their use in the diet, the drying of fruits,
vegetables and herbs, the preservation of meat, canning club
organization, the business side of canning, teaching canning and
related activities. Questions and bibliographies are given at the ends
of the chapters. The appendix gives an “Address list of state
institutions from which agricultural extension work under the
Smith-Lever act is directed” and an “Address list of firms furnishing
supplies for canning and preserving.”

“The most complete manual to date, for a textbook or for scientific
canning at home on a small or large scale.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“The title does not do full justice to the extent and value of the
information contained.”

+ =Cath World= 106:268 N ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 50w

“With the help of many illustrations, proper preparation and equipment
are presented. The unfortunate part of it is that few can afford such
a complete and adequate paraphernalia as is here advised.”

+ — =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 130w

“The author has done a remarkably thorough bit of work.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 210w

“The directions for each method are carefully given and the recipes
varied.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 360w

=POWELL, MRS SOPHIA HILL (HULSIZER).= Children’s library; a dynamic factor in education; with an introd. by J: Cotton Dana. *$1.75 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-13388

A discussion of the relation of the children’s library to the school
from the modern educational point of view. As the author points out in
her first chapter, the attitude of modern educators toward the place
of books in the child’s early school life has undergone a change. She
writes of: The place of books in education; Early libraries for
children; The elementary-school library; The high-school library; The
library resources of country children; Public library relations with
public schools; The public library an integral part of the public
education; The children’s room; The children’s librarian and her
training; Aids to library work with children; Book selection; Some
social aspects of library work with children. An extensive
bibliography follows. John Cotton Dana in his introduction says, “A
careful study of the relations of children’s reading to teachers,
parents and librarians has long been needed, and this is precisely
what Mrs Powell has given us.” The author is a graduate of the Pratt
institute library school, and her library experience has included work
in Cleveland and New York.

“This book is unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking. An
example of the critical method of the author is her discussion of the
much-lauded children’s room, which, it appears upon careful
examination, neither meets an otherwise unmet educational need nor
does it properly meet a real recreational need. The last chapter, on
‘Some social aspects of library work with children,’ suggests a number
of possibilities for the library in a wider social field.” F. F.
Bernard

+ =Am J Soc= 23:276 S ‘17 720w

“Sensible, interesting, compact and inclusive—should be used in every
library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:422 Jl ‘17

“A book which all school administrators and those charged with
instruction in English ought to read.”

+ =English Journal= 6:513 S ‘17 50w

“A study of its sane pages will help both teacher and librarian, and
thereby, incidentally, the children.”

+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

“Some well-considered and apparently sound conclusions concerning the
place of reading in education and the use of cultural books in
elementary schools are set forth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:338 S 9 ‘17 60w

“A revelation of the development and the possibilities of this
educational agency. All who are interested in the possibilities of the
library will find the entire book very helpful and the bibliographies
highly useful.”

+ =Religious Education= 12:395 O ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 10w

“This book deserves the attention of all who direct the study of
English in either elementary or high school.”

+ =School and Society= 5:711 Je 16 ‘17 90w

“The book under review will do much to unify the work of the public
school and the public library. The book is certain to find an
important place in all libraries as a general-reference book and as a
text in library-training schools.”

+ =School R= 25:533 S ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 220w

=POWERS, HARRY HUNTINGTON.=[2] America among the nations. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.73 18-669

In some sense a sequel to the work published a year ago, “The things
men fight for.” The aim of the writer is to furnish an historic
interpretation of our national character and our relation to other
nations; to supply the “family point of view” from which America was
obliged to look forth when she entered the war and so became a member
of the European family. The first part of the text is devoted to a
consideration of “America at home,” including among the chapters: The
first Americans, The struggle for the Pacific; Despoiling the Latin,
The break with tradition, The aftermath of Panama, and
Pan-Americanism; the second part treats “America among the world
powers,” with chapters on: The great powers, The Mongolian menace,
Greater Japan, The unfeared Powers, The background of Europe, Germany,
the storm centre, The storm area, The greatest empire, The great
fellowship, and Forecast.

=PRATT, HENRY SHERRING.= Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects. il *$3.50 McClurg 592 16-17348

“As the author remarks in his preface, there has been no lack of
manuals relating to the common insects, but hitherto a person wishing
to identify animals of the other invertebrate groups has had to go to
technical papers and treatises which, in many cases, have been
inaccessible to all except specialists. Professor Pratt’s manual
follows that of Leunis’s ‘Zoologie,’ a standard German work dealing
with the animals of Europe; it is intended especially, for use in the
eastern and central portions of the United States and Canada.”—N Y
Times

“Needed only in large, school, and college libraries.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:338 My ‘17

“It will be a useful book for the reference shelves of biological
laboratories, for general libraries, and for students of zoology. It
does not replace special monographs.”

+ =Dial= 62:109 F 8 ‘17 200w

“There is a good glossary and a thorough index. The thousand-odd
illustrations are all familiar line cuts of textbook style, well
chosen and clearly reproduced. The faults are almost altogether those
due to the condensation necessary to the limits of a single volume.
The uncoated paper does away with extra weight. The most serious lack
is the absence of all common names, except in the case of groups.”

+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 430w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16

=N Y Times= 22:8 Ja 7 ‘17 80w

“The author is professor of biology in Haverford college.”

=St Louis= 15:12 Ja ‘17 9w

=PREEV, ZINOVY N.= Russian revolution and Who’s who in Russia. *2s Bale & Danielsson, London 947 (Eng ed 17-20023)

“This little book, by the editor of the Twentieth Century Russian and
Anglo-Russian Review, contains first an account of the revolution
(19pp.) and then a ‘Who’s who,’ not confined to persons but containing
explanations of phrases like ‘Constitutional Democrats,’
‘Intelligentsia,’ ‘Zemstvo union,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The brief biographies, beginning with the Tsaritsa, speak freely
about the persons they deal with.”

=Sat R= 123:604 Je 30 ‘17 230w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p239 My 17 ‘17 40w

=PREVITÉ ORTON, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Outlines of medieval history. maps *$2.75 (2c) Putnam 940 (Eng ed 17-21845)

A history of medieval Europe, embracing the period from 895 to 1492
A.D. The author says, “In the choice of events to narrate I have been
guided by their far-off results, rather than by their immediate éclat
in their own time, and have tried to indicate how in the middle ages
were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude
to life of modern times.” Contents: The barbarian migrations; The
Eastern empire and the Saracens; The fusion of races in western
Europe; The development of feudalism; The papal monarchy; The East and
the crusades; The fall of the Western empire and of the papal
theocracy; France and England; The councils and the Italian
renaissance; The East and the Turks; The despotic monarchies.

“Mr Orton fairly accomplishes his aim of indicating ‘how in the middle
ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and
attitude to life of modern times.’ As this involves some loss of local
colour and a style which, though clear and well balanced, is usually a
little bare and restrained, the book will probably be more appreciated
by older than younger students, but this must be accounted a defect of
its quality.” J. T.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 280w

“This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no
means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with
the fifteenth century. ... Mr Previté Orton has to deal with masses of
facts and dates, but he writes very well and is full of ideas, so that
his book is easy to read.”

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 200w

“The want of a satisfactory guide to medieval history has long been
felt. Hallam’s work is no longer adequate, and more recent books
dealing with the subject do not cover the whole ground. Students have
been thrown back, therefore, on treatises having a wider range, such
as Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale,’ of which medieval
history forms only a part. Mr Previté Orton’s ‘Outlines’ satisfies the
conditions desired by giving within reasonable limits a comprehensive
survey of the middle ages as a distinct historical subject. The
success he has achieved in this difficult task is very great.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 1150w

=PRICE, CHARLES MATLACK.= Practical book of architecture. il *$6 Lippincott 720 16-24966

“The purpose of this handsomely made and compactly written volume is
simple but very much worth while; to state in untechnical language the
sources of our present day architecture. Not so much regarding the
details of classic architecture as it appears in the Parthenon or the
mysteries of Gothic architecture woven into a fabric like Notre Dame;
but rather a clear statement of just what distinguishes classic and
Gothic architecture respectively, how much of its ‘indicia’ are
practically applicable to the needs of to-day. ... Most interesting
perhaps are the two chapters on Native American architecture and on
such special topics as ‘l’art nouveau’ and ‘modernist’ architecture,
as well as the office building, modern hotel and railroad
terminal. ... The second part of the book, ‘A practical guide to
building,’ discusses sanely such questions for the prospective house
builder as the selection of site, style and materials to be used, the
choice of and relations with the architect, comparative costs of
various styles and materials, and plans and interior details.”—Pub W

“A popular treatment of interest to those intending to build, to
beginners in the study of architecture, and to the general reader.
Covers the subject fully as an art and a science and yet may be
understood by the layman. ... Has excellent illustrations, many of
modern work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:254 Mr ‘17

“The illustrations, 255 in number, are particularly good.”

+ =Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 90w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 300w

+ =Cath World= 105:836 S ‘17 210w

“The reader gets unusual delight from the illustrations, which are
mainly chosen from well-known buildings in big cities, thereby making
them more vital and understandable.”

+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Times= 22:58 F 18 ‘17 200w

“Like Mr Talbot Hamlin’s book, which also appears at this time, Mr
Price’s makes its own individual, educative appeal. Surely the man in
the street as well as the trained critic should find much of practical
value in such volumes.”

+ =Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:120 F ‘17 50w

“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.”
Fremont Rider

+ =Pub W= 91:211 Ja 20 ‘17 350w

=R of Rs= 55:218 F ‘17 90w

“Mr Price gives a great deal of extremely sound instruction and
advice, and that with convincing point and clarity. Admirable theories
or principles are eloquently argued or presented; but the unworthy,
and even second-rate, examples with which he sometimes seeks to
illustrate them, tend rather to damp one’s latent enthusiasm and to
check one’s conversion. His English ‘typicals’ are for the most part
peculiarly ill chosen and unfortunate.”

+ — =Spec= 119:14 Jl 7 ‘17 1700w

“A work which aims at and renders a service popular rather than
professional. ... The public has been slow to realize that
architecture is the one art from which it can not escape even if it
desires to do so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 19 ‘16 450w

=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= Six months on the Italian front. il *$3.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-88)

“Mr Price’s book deals with the operations of the Italian army from
the Stelvio to the Adriatic (1915-1916). Mr Price is the wellknown war
artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, and he had the
privilege of following the Italian armies all along their five hundred
miles long front in the period which might be rightly called
preparatory in their hard war.” (Sat R) “He was actually present at
the capture of Gorizia and Monfalcone in 1916.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 50w

“This book is wholly reportorial and free of discussions of
international questions. ... The illustrations can be endorsed without
quibbling as among the best of the war yet published, when the giving
of true ensemble is considered. They are rich in minutely faithful
sketches of the equipment of the Italian army, and frequently achieve
marked excellence in their graphic portrayals of the troops of Cadorna
scaling precipitous Alpine cliffs.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“It is journalistic and impressionistic in the bad sense. It is a pity
to waste such excellent yellowish white thick paper and fine type,
when the few really great books of the war are huddled into their
cramped volumes with myopic print.”

— =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 250w

“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the
difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 500w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w

“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”

+ =Sat R= 123:413 My 5 ‘17 850w

“Mr Price is primarily an artist, not a journalist. ... He is quite
frank about his qualifications as a war correspondent: an amateur at
the game, knowing no Italian, not even enough to venture on an Italian
phrase in his book without stumbling. ... There are a certain amount
of tirades in this book against Austrian ‘frightfulness.’ ... This
continual search for evidences of what we have learnt to call ‘kultur’
results often in the digging up of facts which, judged by any
reasonable standard of a man accustomed to the necessities of modern
warfare, are no more evidences of ‘frightfulness’ than our similar
methods are evidences of excessive ‘humanity.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p188 Ap 19 ‘17 450w

=PRIESTLEY, HERBERT INGRAM.= José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain (1765-1771). il $3 (2c) Univ. of Cal. 906 A16-1488

José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain, 1765-1771, and later
appointed minister of the Indies, was, says the author “with the
possible exception of the second Revillagigedo, the most able
representative of the Spanish crown in New Spain during the eighteenth
century. He certainly was the most competent minister of the Indies
during the Bourbon régime.” This study is limited to his years of
service as visitor-general, since it was in this period, the author
points out, that he gained the practical knowledge that shaped his
later policy as minister. The author is assistant curator of the
Bancroft library, University of California, and the work is issued as
one of the University of California publications in history.

“The author has made ample use of new sources from the archives of
Spain and Mexico and, in addition, has made available in English much
material already published in Spanish. The volume shows a vast amount
of painstaking labor and is readable and interesting throughout. It is
a valuable contribution to the study of Spanish colonial
institutions.” R. R. Hill

+ =Am Hist R= 23:199 O ‘17 550w

“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under
Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:459 Jl ‘17 230w

“A sketch map that might profitably have contained more names, the
instructions to Gálvez, a full bibliography, and adequate index
complete the volume, and with ample footnotes make it a desirable
contribution to Latin-American institutional history.”

+ =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 410w

“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history
and Spanish colonial administration.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 500w

=PRIESTMANN, EDMUND YERBURY.= With a B.-P. scout in Gallipoli; a record of the Belton bulldogs; with a foreword by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2d ed il *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 17-21842

“This is a collection of letters written home by a scoutmaster serving
as a subaltern who was killed in action in November, 1915. There is
much humor in the book, and the author’s quick perception of the
grotesque is evidenced by many of his drawings, which are reproduced
in connection with the text.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 140w

“A bubbling sense of humor characterizes them throughout and he has
always a keen eye for interesting little incidents, whether comic,
pathetic, or tragic, and a clever pen in describing them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w

“The little sketches of life on the bloody peninsula are written with
a sureness that commends the book to a far larger audience than the
intimate one for which they were intended.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 110w

“The racy, cheery letters home which make up this volume show the Boy
scout ideal at its best. ... The book is full of clever humorous
little drawings by Lieutenant Priestmann himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 110w

=PRINCE, JANE.= Letters to a young housekeeper. *$1.35 (6c) Houghton 640 17-4601

Housekeeping ways and means are here discussed in the form of letters.
The letters are in fact essays on the following subjects: Economy in
the household; The budget; Servants; Maid of all work; Weekly
cleaning; Family meals; Duties of servants; Behind the scenes at a
dinner.

“The chapters on duties of servants and serving a dinner are specially
good.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17

“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not
only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which lifts
housekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking.
There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 50w

“This little volume contains facts—general and particular—on household
economy and the household budget. ... and finally the vexing matter of
a ‘dinner party.’ It is a readable and valuable book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 180w

“Even to the woman who has no servants and who may be disposed to
class the book as useless in her circumstances, there is more or less
of helpful suggestion in matters like table arrangements, how to sweep
a room properly, etc. Type and binding add to the attractiveness and
value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 200w

“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be
unreservedly recommended for every library.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 70w

=PRINGLE-PATTISON, ANDREW SETH (ANDREW SETH).= Idea of God in the light of recent philosophy. *$3.50 Oxford 201 17-24221

This volume is based upon the Gifford lectures delivered in the
University of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1913. The author is professor of
logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In philosophy he
is an idealist. “The twenty lectures are grouped in two series.
Beginning with commentaries upon Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning natural
religion,’ the author proceeds to discuss critically and fully the
views of Kant, Ritschl, Locke, Berkeley, Comte, Spencer, William
James, Bergson, Prof. Bosanquet, and many others.” (Ath) “Most of the
chief points of metaphysics and ethics come under review.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup) Dr Pringle-Pattison concludes, among other things,
that “for a metaphysic which has emancipated itself from physical
categories, the ultimate conception of God is not that of a
pre-existent creator but, as it is for religion, that of the eternal
redeemer of the world.”

=Ath= p246 My ‘17 180w

“In the use he makes of the principles of continuity of process and
the emergence of real differences, in his insistence on the reality of
appearances and his account of the finite individual in relation to
the Absolute, in his treatment of the idea of creation and his
elucidation of teleology as a cosmic principle, Professor
Pringle-Pattison has made an illuminating advance in the study and
discussion of his subject.” R. Latta

+ =Hibbert J= 16:153 O ‘17 4850w

“The chief criticism upon Professor Pringle-Pattison’s work is rather
the vagueness with which he almost invariably expounds his position.
On the majority of the issues of contemporary philosophical
controversy relevant to his subject it is well-nigh impossible to say
exactly what his position is. ... In spite of these shortcomings
Professor Pringle-Pattison’s book will be of considerable value to all
interested in the perennial problem of the Divine and the human.”

+ — =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:139 S ‘17 100w

“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century
philosophy from biology.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 120w

“An able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of
Christianity. ... We may draw attention to his sensible and—if we may
use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 120w

“The reader will feel a deep delight in Prof. Pringle-Pattison’s
ability to handle ideal clearly, in the breadth and eclecticism of his
speculation, in his feeling for the realities of poetry, and in his
determination to impart to philosophy a human and practical aspect as
well as metaphysical consistency.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1300w

“Dr Pringle-Pattison’s volume will find readers in classes which in
the so-called ages of faith would have turned away from it either
because discussion of it seemed profanation or—what was more often the
explanation of the mood of estrangement—because it was not for them a
living, ever-present question. ... Each age desires its own
‘Théodicée,’ and ours is still unwritten. It will borrow, when it is
composed, not a little from the pages of Dr Pringle-Pattison. ... We
miss in this volume a certain unity of purpose. The author strays here
and there according as the thought of the moment suggests. But, if too
much a collection of episodes, the book is what it claims to be,
constructive.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Ap 19 ‘17 2250w

=PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER.= German policy before the war. *$1 Dutton 327.43 (Eng ed 16-13631)

“An address given before the Royal historical society, Jan. 21, 1915.
It is concerned (1) with the ideas and principles, the ambitions and
motives which have produced in Germany a state of mind favorable to
war; (2) with the historical events and the economic conditions which
have strengthened this tendency; and (3) with the course of
international politics which rendered an armed conflict difficult to
avoid.” Condensed from introductory note—Pittsburgh

“Interesting but highly inconclusive is the author’s development of
the militaristic theory of the state. ... In spite of its fairness of
tone, the work bears the marks of special pleading, and is, as was
perhaps inevitable, a partizan interpretation of history. ... The
weakest point is the author’s failure to appreciate the German
attitude toward the alliance with Austria.” R. H. Fife, jr.

– + =Am Hist R= 22:200 O ‘16 320w

=A L A Bkl= 13:261 Mr ‘17

+ — =Eng Hist R= 21:674 O ‘16 370w

“The introductory chapter contains the best brief statement we have
seen of the development of German philosophic thought and teaching
into potent ideas which are believed to influence Germans at present.”

+ =Nation= 103:444 N 9 ‘16 1150w

=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 21:508 N ‘16 70w

“Where changing circumstances and personalities in power count for so
much, it is impossible to assert positively that this or that policy
was dominant at all times, and probably Mr Prothero, to prove his
case, lays too much emphasis on the consistency of German intentions.
He might have expanded his brief remarks upon the social and financial
conditions inside Germany, and we should have welcomed his fuller
views on some other points; for instance, the effects of Italy’s
Tripolitan war. But he has certainly given us a concise and most
readable and informing chapter of absorbing European history.”

+ =Spec= 117:160 Ag 5 ‘16 880w

“While the analysis as a whole is sound enough without being
particularly new, it is open to weighty objection just at the points
which seem most fatal to Mr Prothero’s ‘main thesis.’ That applies
perhaps most of all to the treatment of the question of Morocco, and
of Franco-German relations generally.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 My 25 ‘16 1100w

=PROUD, EMILY DOROTHEA.= Welfare work: employers’ experiments for improving working conditions in factories: with a foreword by D: Lloyd-George. *7s 6d Bell, London 331.8 (Eng ed 17-4011)

“An ably written volume, dealing with means of preserving the health
and promoting the happiness of workers in factories. ‘Welfare work’ is
defined as consisting of ‘voluntary efforts on the part of employers
to improve, within the existing industrial system, the conditions of
employment in their own factories.’ Factory welfare departments and
the duties of a welfare secretary are described.”—Ath

“The treatment of the subject is practical and sympathetic. Especially
interesting chapters are those dealing with the industrial
environment, wages and hours, and incidental aids to welfare, such as
the provision of baths, gymnasia, means of recreation, and the like.”

+ =Ath= p427 S ‘16 100w

“The matter is well and methodically arranged, with copious foot notes
containing extracts from both American and English authorities, and
has an excellent index. There is, however, no bibliography. This would
have been a valuable addition. ... Together with Mr Lloyd-George we
warmly commend this book to employers, factory superintendents, and to
all members of the general public interested in the future and well
being of their respective countries.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:250 Ja ‘17 600w

“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of
the subject which has yet appeared.”

+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 210w

“The author is an Australian of wide experience in factory
investigation both in Australia and England. At present she is
connected with the British ministry of munitions.”

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17 10w

“Miss Proud is certainly moderate as a radical economist, dealing with
things as they are, and trying to be a peacemaker in her chapters. But
yet her radicalism shows itself, and takes her away from some
questions of essential importance.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:229 S 2 ‘16 1350w

=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 130w

“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to
a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter

=Survey= 37:671 Mr 10 ‘17 550w

“Her treatment of the subject is dispassionate and scientific without
being cold or dry. The weakest point is the comparatively small range
of observation which forms the basis of her study. It is confined to
Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. We congratulate Miss
Proud on a pioneer book of high quality and real value.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Ag 31 ‘16 1250w

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