Chapter LXVII: Part 1: of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile (1)

Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias
Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre
party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and
Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an
account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an
appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic
centre.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 300w

=Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 80w

“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution
of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”

+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 550w

“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if
his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which
have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German
imperialism and all its works.”

+ =Outlook= 116:198 My 30 ‘17 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 190w

=PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE.= Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)

This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public
affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing
house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is
outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting
and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete
assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor,
social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service
carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the
bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the
distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired
by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the
collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The
Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual
volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings
of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles,
etc.) indexed during the year.

=PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von.= Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il *$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173

This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of
landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a
series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,”
says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an
introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life
and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape
art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a
park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings;
Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks,
meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and
plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks;
Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive
of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.

“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and
estates.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18

“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful
extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old
idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves
nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where
city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out
of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become
more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1300w

“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be
continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between
the appearance of the first two volumes.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:752 O 18 ‘17 220w

“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the
translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the
subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry
and academic treatises.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w

“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:812 D ‘17 90w

=PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE.= Pétain, the prepared. il *50c (9c) Revell 17-26783

The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded
the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General
Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to
meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story is given a
wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by
Major-General Leonard Wood.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of
strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading.
Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”

+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 1 ‘17 50w

=PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL.= Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732

“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical
way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United
States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has
felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he
has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and
women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse
vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the
chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses
under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New
York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the
Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers;
Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well
illustrated.

“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent
administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of
faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr
Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and
personnel is also a model.”

+ =Am Hist R= 22:906 Jl ‘17 350w

=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is
the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word
(up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1100w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w

“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:563 S 20 ‘17 120w

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:37 N 3 ‘17 290w

“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether
the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers
the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the
scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable
mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on
lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the
author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without
taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority
of those who were likely to read it.”

+ — =Nation= 105:406 O 11 ‘17 950w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Jl ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:663 O ‘17 10w

“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain
this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure
with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to
all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and
life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this
admirable record.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 250w

“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the
difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers
and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and
annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 320w

=PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN.= Life of James J. Hill. 2v il *$5 Doubleday 17-15184

“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the
name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them
all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at
the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the
best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write
the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and
diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the
purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his
surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note
Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him
concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it
plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times

“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the
letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic
dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history
for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of
Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its
own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:196 O ‘17 650w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17

=Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 400w

“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as
the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and
also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting
endeavor, and high ideals.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 Ag 4 ‘17 920w

“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He
has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters
connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a
‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is
only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a
task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not
have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”

+ — =Nation= 105:344 S 27 ‘17 1400w

“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat
from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the
life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its
interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought
to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James
J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he
rendered his country was beyond valuation.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:237 Je 24 ‘17 1800w

“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography,
which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young
American.”

+ =Outlook= 116:521 Ag 1 ‘17 680w

=Pittsburgh= 22:671 O ‘17 70w

“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to
select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his
theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this
biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular
consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts
of it seem needlessly long.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 1100w

=PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY.= Papers from Picardy. *$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)

Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects
of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were
written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the
summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience
gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and
in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part 1, Rev. T. W. Pym
writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects
of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to
war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction;
Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of
war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s
dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due;
In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 80w

“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and
human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly
in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to
meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we
have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture
dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal
appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:133 S ‘17 80w

“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their
conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w

Q

=QUICK, OLIVER CHASE.= Essays in orthodoxy. *$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306

“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of
Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing
leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic.
His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of
misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of
the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are
treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but
as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its
Anglican outlook.” James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:677 Jl ‘17 150w

=Int J Ethics= 27:543 Jl ‘17 130w

“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain
not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and
conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their
perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr
Quick is, we think, less successful.”

+ — =Spec= 118:518 My 5 ‘17 1350w

“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right
method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the
influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 230w

“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ...
These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the
book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the
numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately
this volume has a special claim to consideration.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p64 F 8 ‘17 1000w

=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS.= Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship. *$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157

The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the
University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in
some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a
playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching
him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no
disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously
been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it
salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the
poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include
Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it,
and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of
Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry
VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.

“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt
if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed
by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 1500w

“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college
students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if
used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any
Shakespeare lover.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 90w

“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the
conversational flavor of their original form.”

+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 70w

“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is,
of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that
there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest.
We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine
critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”

+ — =Nation= 105:458 O 25 ‘17 1150w

“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating
knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir
Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote
his plays.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 170w

=QUIN, MALCOLM.= Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism. *$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690

“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the
operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war
this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to
that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom.
After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said
to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is
selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism,
however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then
disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be
informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics

=Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 60w

“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in
relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns

+ — =Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and
social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as
outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer

+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 600w

=QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON=, ed. Representative American plays. il *$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225

“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country,
that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the
present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of
the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting
detail.” (R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The
prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The
contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as
William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and
George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel
Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s
‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in
dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the
theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell,
Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon
and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)

“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily
accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:302 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 17 ‘17 620w

+ =Cath World= 105:106 Ap ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p52 Ap ‘17 250w

“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and
Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s
‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s
‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and
Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is
excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better
than curiosities.” Brander Matthews

* + =Educ R= 54:84 Je ‘17 300w

“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American
literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and
typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with
discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a
bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of
industry minus judgment.”

+ =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 850w

“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative
plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on
the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last
century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R.
E. Rogers

+ =New Repub= 10:sup10 Ap 21 ‘17 2000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:42 Mr ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and
value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:184 Je ‘17 20w

“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays,
which will enable the student to follow the development of the
American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the
Drama league is promoting this year.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Drama League
Monthly)

=QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON=, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il *$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356

This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the
world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made
to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel,
Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty,
Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two
modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are
“The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two
stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s
hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.

“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful
for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 70w

“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are
direct and simple.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w

R

=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA) princess.= Germany under three emperors. il *$4 Funk 943 17-30068

“This account of Prussian diplomacy makes public for the first time
much information regarding the Kaiser, his two immediate predecessors,
and their great minister, Prince Bismarck. The author tells us how the
first emperor was influenced by the great chancellor in the upbuilding
of the imperial German plan, how the Emperor Friedrich, who might have
modified this plan considerably, was rendered impotent by disease, and
how Bismarck, ignoring his wishes, set about instilling the doctrines
of militarism into the willing mind of the heir apparent. The story,
as it unfolds, shows how the pupil outran the master and how the
present Kaiser at last dismissed his aging chancellor and took over
control of affairs himself. All this, together with the plots and
counterplots that brought Europe several times to the brink of war, is
set forth.”—Lit D

=Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

“Princess Radziwill is by birth a Russian and, after her marriage to a
Pole, she lived much in Berlin. In both countries her associations
were with the court and diplomatic circles, and she knew personally
many of the men and women who made the history of Europe during
Bismarck’s half century of public life. Her book, however, is in no
sense the gossipy chronicle which that fact might imply, but a very
capable getting together and interesting arrangement of the facts of
Germany’s political history since the middle of the last century, told
with the vivifying touch of personal contact.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p335 Jl 12 ‘17 90w

=RAE, HERBERT, pseud.= Maple leaves in Flanders fields. *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10673)

“In ‘Maple leaves in Flanders’ a Canadian soldier, who hides his
identity under the nom de guerre of ‘Herbert Rae,’ gives a breezy
description of the recruiting of a Canadian regiment dubbed by the
author ‘The pompadours,’ and what the regiment has done in the war.”
(N Y Times) Admiral Markham writes the introduction.

=N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 300w

“Written in an informal style, that is full of humor. ... The work is
easy and delightful reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 21 ‘17 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 60w

=RAEMAEKERS, LOUIS.= Kultur in cartoons; with accompanying notes by well-known English writers. *$5 Century 940.91 17-31662

Louis Raemaekers is conceded to be the “only great genius who has been
brought out by the war”; who is “worth two army corps to the cause of
the Allies.” This is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ cartoons”
published last year. To this cartoonist the war is not a “topic,” not
a “subject for charity” but “a vivid, heartrending reality.” There are
over a hundred drawings whose artistic appeal is subordinated to the
appraisal of them as political documents and as historic records of
crimes and barbarities “which the civilized world must not be
permitted to forget lest the horrors of the past three years descend
upon us again.” Each cartoon is faced with a paragraph of description
and interpretation by an English writer.

+ =Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w

“There is little artistic finesse about Raemaekers’s work. His is of
the blunt pencil rather than the Spencerian pen; yet force and action
are added to his drawings in ratio to the thickness of his pencil. His
vigor is crushing—well-nigh brutal. But his subjects demand the
brutality he throws into his work. Despite this fact, however, he has
light moments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 500w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Yukon trail; a tale of the North. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-13621

Gordon Elliot, an agent for the government, is sent to Alaska to
investigate the valuable coal claims of Colby Macdonald. Macdonald is
the big man of the North, and, while recognizing his brutality and
ruthlessness, the North admires him and, in general, upholds him
against the government. But Gordon Elliot comes representing a new
order and a new social conscience which demands the conservation of
natural resources in place of the reckless exploitation Macdonald
stands for. The paths of the two men cross early. Elliot meets
Macdonald on the boat going up. Sheba O’Neill is on the boat too, and
the girl at once becomes a factor in the struggle.

=A L A= Bkl 14:28 O ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“It will be all the same to you whether you read this novel or any one
of half a dozen of the same variety of the present season. It is a
fairly plausible, well-planned yarn that clings to the traditions of
its type and its setting.”

+ — =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

“No one will question Mr Raine’s first-hand acquaintance with his
ground and the zest with which he handles the theme, even if the
rather narrow trail has been trodden frequently before.”

+ =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 170w

“The plot is put together in a workmanlike way, and contains plenty of
incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 300w

“An echo of the famous Ballinger conservation scandal of several years
ago is found in ‘The Yukon trail.’ ... It is a wholly entertaining
tale which moves at a rapid, virile pace against a background of
rugged mountains, wide spaces and untamed nature.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 200w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: selections from his “Historie of the world,” letters and other writings; ed. with introds. and notes, by G. E. Hadow. il *$1.40 Oxford 900

“This book contains, besides extracts from the first edition of the
‘History’ (1614), as well as some of Raleigh’s letters to his wife and
others, the text of ‘The last fight of the Revenge at sea,’ issued
anonymously in 1591. A biographical introduction, followed by
commentaries on the texts, and ample notes, will be found in the
volume.”—Ath

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 60w

“The extracts from the ‘Historie’ show what Raleigh thought on many
questions of military science and statesmanship—some of them analogous
to questions before us to-day, such as Spain’s aim at securing the
hegemony of Europe, the contrast between the English and Spanish
treatment of native races, the Spanish method of spreading false
reports of victories in neutral countries, the best means of repelling
an attempted invasion of England, the futility of trusting to a river
or a mountain-range to stop an army, the method of dealing with
ambassadors who plot against the country to which they are
accredited. ... Miss Hadow’s notes are rather meagre. A short glossary
of words used in obsolete senses would have been useful to the general
reader or the young student. ... Attention is not called to Raleigh’s
interesting use of ‘Armado’ of a ship, and ‘Armada’ of a fleet. ...
The book is beautifully produced. The word ‘ingentes’ is, however,
misprinted on p. 102.” G. C. M. S.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:456 Jl ‘17 550w

“Miss Hadow and the Clarendon press have done a sound service to the
cause of English history and English letters. ... They have made
accessible the essential wisdom and the considered judgment of one of
the keenest-edged spirits of Elizabethan times. ... The book has a
peculiar interest for the Englishman to-day.”

+ =Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“In this little book the indispensable part of Raleigh’s writing is
preserved.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1750w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: “the shepherd of the ocean”; selections from his poetry and prose. il *50c Macmillan 820.8 16-25284

“The finest and most moving poetry and prose by Sir Walter Raleigh has
been edited in particular for students of literature by Frank Cheney
Hersey of Harvard college. ... The selections include, aside from the
introductory sketch of his life, twenty-six selections, those
popularly known and others difficult to find, such as The 21st book of
the lost poem, ‘Cynthia,’ written in praise of Queen Elizabeth, pages
from ‘The discovery of Guiana,’ ‘A relation of the Cadiz action,’ and
‘A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores.’
Portraits of Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville and cuts from old
paintings and drawings illustrate this volume.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 50w

“A tercentenary offering. The selections are almost equally divided
between Raleigh’s verse, in which he was always a gentleman, and his
prose, in which he was not seldom a poet. In portions of the latter
the editor has, wisely for the flavor’s sake, kept the old spelling.
To include extracts from Raleigh’s trial was a happy stroke.”

+ =Nation= 104:546 My 3 ‘17 120w

+ =R of Rs= 55:214 F ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 150w

=RAMSOWER, HARRY CLIFFORD.= Equipment for the farm and the farmstead. (Country life education ser.) il *$2.25 Ginn 630 17-12148

The author, professor of agricultural engineering in the College of
agriculture of the Ohio State university, has prepared this book
primarily in the interests of “the farmer of the present who is
seeking information as to ways and means of making his work easier and
his burdens lighter.” The book is also adapted for use as a college
text. The author points out that the subject is one which has been
given little attention, since the agricultural colleges, experiment
stations, etc., have been so largely concerned with crop yields and
the improvement of live stock. He devotes chapters to: Some principles
of mechanics; Transmission of power; Materials of construction; Cement
and concrete; Laying out the farm; Farm fences; Farm buildings; The
farmhouse, etc., with special chapters given up to the principal items
of farm machinery, The plow, Seeding-machinery, Grain-binders, etc.

=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 120w

=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:821 D ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p24 O ‘17 10w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 60w

=RANDOLPH, THOMAS.= Poems and Amyntas; ed., with an introd., by J: J. Parry. il *$2 Yale univ. press 821 17-7487

“Professor Parry believes that there are external reasons for the
oblivion that Randolph [1605-35] has suffered. ... One reason why he
believes Randolph has been unread is that, after his death, his
brother made the mistake of publishing all of his works which he
could find together. For this reason the reader has to wade through
even the school exercises of Randolph in order to discover his
mature work. ... To remedy this, Professor Parry has reprinted about
one-third of the extant works in this volume. He has tried in every
sense to avoid the errors of Hazlitt. He has made no changes of his
own in the text, relying in large part upon the fact that most of
the readers of such a book would be those who were familiar with
seventeenth century literature and able to read the early texts with
no difficulty.”—Boston Transcript

“At the present time, it is too hard to find an edition of Thomas
Randolph. He may be read only in rare early editions or in the faulty
Hazlitt edition, which is itself long out of print. ... Professor
Parry’s introduction to the volume will aid in making it of great
interest to students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 500w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

“Randolph, like so many other of the earlier poets, would find his
most enthusiastic readers in those under twenty. Their minds are more
impressionable and they are not so apt to question. If you begin to
question and criticise too deeply, it is a wasted task to read him.
‘Amyntas’ is juiceless, and scarcely repays reading. Dr Parry’s
editorial work is finely done, and his introduction is a model.” Frank
Macdonald

=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 200w

=RANSOME, ARTHUR.= Old Peter’s Russian tales. il *$2 Stokes 17-26894

“The twenty-one stories in the book are such as Russian peasants tell
their children and each other. ... The author says that the stories
selected for this volume are ‘not for the learned nor indeed for
grown-up people at all. No people who really like fairy stories ever
grow up altogether. Their reading will convey some idea of the mental
processes of the race inhabiting the broad plains and distant forests
of half-mysterious Russia, and throw light on the Russian peasant’s
interpretation of natural phenomena and the abode of his mythology.’
The principal illustrations are the work of a Russian artist, Dmitri
Mitrokhin.”—Springf’d Republican

“Well told with humorous touches.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

“They seem every bit worth while in their folk-lore quality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 210w

“He tells his tales with the skill belonging to an experienced man of
letters.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 140w

“The book is a unique contribution to the holiday output.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

“The tales, though they are second-rate literary matter, should read
aloud well. The feeling is that the author is having a pleasant
relaxation.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 70w

=RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER.=[2] Theology for the social gospel. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 230 17-31090

An elaboration of four lectures delivered in 1917 on the Nathaniel W.
Taylor foundation before the annual convocation of the Yale school of
religion. The main proposition is that we have a social gospel and
what we need is a systematic theology large enough to match it and
vital enough to back it. In the first three chapters the author shows
that a readjustment and expansion of theology, so that it will furnish
an adequate intellectual basis for the social gospel, is necessary,
feasible, desirable and legitimate. The remainder of the book offers
concrete suggestions how some of the most important sections of
doctrinal theology may be expanded and readjusted to make room for the
religious conviction summed up in “the social gospel.”

“The book is brave and direct and gathers together in lucid statement
much that has been thought out in theology in the past decade. It is a
combination of beautiful thought, of keen insight and of one-sided and
restricted views. The social aspect of the gospel has its
all-important place, but other sides of the question need to be
considered in a completely philosophical work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 15 ‘18 420w

=RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI.= American in the making. *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-28804

The young Rumanian who writes this “life story of an immigrant” tells
us that they who know only America cannot really know America, that
“only from the humble immigrant” can they learn “just what America
stands for in the family of nations.” And so he tells us his story
from his boyhood in Vaslui, Rumania, to his sophomore year at the
University of Missouri. Mr Ravage came over in 1900 and settled among
his country-people in the “Little Rumania” of New York city. He began
to earn his living as a peddler, and after working in a bar-room, and
a sweatshop, he succeeded in educating himself sufficiently to enter
the University of Missouri, though the sweatshop, he tells us, was his
first university, and his fellow toilers there gave him the first
stimulus towards reading books and the first introduction to radical
thought. “Nothing in the way of thought-interest was too big or too
heavy for this intelligentzia of the slums.” His first year in
Columbia is a lonely one, save for one friend. He goes back to New
York for his vacation and lives “through the last and bitterest
episode in the romance of readjustment.” One year in Missouri has made
him a stranger to the East side ghetto and when he goes back to
college he finds that at last the barriers are down between him and
his classmates—that he is no longer “a man without a country”—he is an
American.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17

“Mr Ravage’s story of how he became an American and why the process
took so long is of especial interest and value because he brings out
the non-material reasons for the difficulties in the Americanising of
our newly come peoples. He makes clear the mental and spiritual
non-adjustments, the constant strong pull of the old world soul. And
that is something which we, with our so different heritage, find it
difficult to realise.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:330 N ‘17 450w

“But not as a portrayal of the Jewish spirit nor as a recognition of
its leaven, not as a study in Americanization is this book primarily
arresting. It is a remarkable sketch indeed of contacts between
diverse cultures, but it is not alone an ethnological sketch; it is a
picture of the life of the spirit, it is literature. In its ironic
restraint and subtle interpretation the book is unsurpassed, it seems
to me, in the literary art of this country.” E. C. Parsons

+ =Dial= 64:107 Ja 31 ‘18 2700w

“Gives the impression of being not only a more searching but a more
honest account of the process of being Americanized than has been
presented by any one else.”

+ =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 440w

“Mr Ravage’s story is full of spiritual adventure. Where have we a
more illuminating picture of the motives, the pathos and the fantasy,
that bring people from their remote countries to America?... Surely we
have had nothing like this story of the assimilation of an eager,
idealistic, floundering Rumanian youth into the light, hearty life of
a mid-western state university. ... In such a career we see something
vital being done to America by the immigrant, as well as something
vigorous being done to the immigrant by America.” R. B.

+ =New Repub= 14:30 F 2 ‘18 900w

“There is food for thought in ‘An American in the making.’ And always
there is keen interest.”

+ =N Y Time=s 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 1350w

=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 50w

“The value of this autobiography lies in the fact that the author did
achieve Americanization, and from this vantage point could look back
over his heartrending struggles with an eye that fully appreciated
what he had lost and gained. The humor and clear-sightedness of the
author, to say nothing of the colorful and stimulating style, make the
book one of the most interesting products of the season.”

+ =Springf’d= Republican p8 N 13 ‘17 1050w

“[His experiences] are depicted with a remarkable command of English
idioms and American sense of humor.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 130w

=RAWLINGS, GERTRUDE BURFORD.= British museum library. il $1.25 (2½c) Wilson, H. W. 027.5 17-11000

The author says: “This essay traverses some of the ground covered by
Edwards’s ‘Lives of the founders of the British museum,’ and the
Reading-room manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print. But it
has its own field, and adds a little here and there, I venture to
hope, to the published history of our national library.” (Preface) The
chapters take up: Steps toward a national library; The Cottonian
library; The Sloane bequest; The early days of the British museum;
Anthony Panizzi; Later days of the British museum; Recent history of
the library; Accessions by gift, bequest or purchase; Accessions
through the copyright acts; The catalogue; The subject index; Some
treasures of the British museum library. The appendix gives lists of
some of the official catalogs and other information.

+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘17 190w

=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 20w

+ =Sat R= 123:15 Ja 6 ‘17 900w

“An attractive and scholarly account of the rise and progress of the
great library. ... Some of the principal treasures are well
described.”

+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 100w

“Without being in any sense a guide the book provides readers with a
brief and well-arranged survey of the contents of the national library
and of the methods of obtaining access to them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 700w

=RAWLINSON, HUGH GEORGE.= Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome. il *$2.25 Putnam 930 (Eng ed 16-19470)

“Professor Rawlinson has chosen a romantic subject for his book, and,
within the limits he has proposed to himself, has done justice to it.
Academic India is at present very busy studying the records of the
earliest periods of Indian civilization, and is discovering with just
pride and pleasure that the Hindu culture had much in common with the
origins of the polities of western nations. ... The old Hindus were
certainly daring navigators, keen traders, and colonists in distant
lands. They were skilled administrators, and possessed a copious
literature dealing with all the affairs of men in organized society,
and lacking only in historical accounts of their own doings. The
suggestion is natural that the West may owe larger debts to India than
have hitherto been recognized.”—Spec

“Needed only in large or special libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17

“The author endeavours to give a succinct account of his subject,
which has never been dealt with as a whole in any English work,
although the material has been handled by a host of writers. ... The
book is useful as a compendious summary, and probably may reach a
second edition, when corrections such as those noted can be inserted.
Others are needed.” V. A. S.

+ =Eng Hist R= 31:661 O ‘16 600w

“With much learning, but in a readable and agreeable style, Professor
Rawlinson has pieced together our fragmentary knowledge from the
foregoing and other sources. His volume is a handbook, not a
compilation of original documents like the tomes of McCrindle. The
extent of his citations and the account that he takes of recent
studies in this by no means neglected field gives it, however, much
value for reference purposes as well as for passing perusal.” E: P.
Buffet

+ =J Philos= 14:442 Ag 2 ‘17 950w

“Those interested in the relations of East and West revived by the war
will find Professor Rawlinson’s book a useful and entertaining guide
to a necessary and picturesque background. ... The few errors in the
book are due to the inaccessibility of a good library in India, where
the author holds a chair in an Indian college.”

* + =Nation= 104:134 F 1 ‘17 950w

+ =Pratt= p41 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 10w

“Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even
more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian
history. The book is an admirable continuation of its author’s
excellent ‘Bactria: the history of a forgotten empire.’”

+ =Spec= 117:106 Jl 22 ‘16 430w

“If its facts were all known before, they were dispersed in a variety
of books, and to bring them together into one cover is to do a service
to a large number of people who would like to know the general results
arrived at by research with regard to the relations of ancient India
and the West, and who would be unable to consult the various books
from which Professor Rawlinson draws.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 8 ‘16 2000w

=REED, EDWARD BLISS.= Sea moods, and other poems. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-25111

A handful of verse, most of which is introspective reaction to the
varying moods of the sea. The writer depicts the depression of fog,
the exhilaration and tonic of the blue sea, the caprice of the sea and
its freedom and romance. The writer for the time being is “fisherman,
hunter, and sailor, playing with dreams by the sea.”

“These poems are well done, often very well done; the finish is
complete, but they are illuminated from within. They have not the
spontaneity, the abandon of an overflowing impulse. They tread a bit
heavily their proper metres, overladen with a too literal expression
rather than with the sense and emotion and imagination of the subject.
The author rises to a higher perfection in verse than in poetry. Thus
what we want is not verse about the sea, but the poetry of the sea.”
W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 300w

=Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 30w

=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Memorial day, and other verse (original and translated). *75c De Wolfe & Fiske co., 20 Franklin st., Boston 811 17-23580

A little volume whose profits are to be devoted to the work of helping
soldiers blinded in battle. It contains in the first part several
patriotic pieces, among them “Your country and mine,” “The Harvard
regiment,” “The Grand army passes” and “A Canadian trooper to his
horse.” The second group is made up of lighter verse for children. The
third division includes some well-known odes from Horace.

“Sincere and varied verse, unpretentious and pleasing.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 720w

“Miss Reed is not a poet of the highest flights, nor does she profess
to be, but this book is thoroughly entertaining. Her expression is
consciously confined; when she does write swingingly the results are
less happy. Her verse is not free from faults of rhyme and meter. But
the diversity of subject matter bears witness to breadth of mind.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 280w

=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Serbia: a sketch. il $1 (5c) Serbian distress fund, 555 Boylston st., Boston 949.7 17-59

A letter from the author says that the book “aims to give the average
reader a clear and concise account of Serbian history from the
earliest times, with some attention to the present war.” The headings
for the five sections of the book are: Serbia: starting; Serbia:
singing; Serbia: seaward; Serbians; Serbia: sighing. The book was
written for the benefit of the Serbian distress fund, and was first
put on sale at the Allied bazaar in Boston. All proceeds from the
general sale of the book also go to the relief fund.

“The book will be useful to all interested in the causes of the war.
Its sale will help the Serbian fund, and it is a pleasure to recommend
it most heartily, as both well-written and generally accurate.” N. H.
D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 16 ‘16 550w

“Useful, for all its slightness, for the information it gives and the
sense of personality it manages to convey.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w

=REED, HOMER BLOSSER.= Morals of monopoly and competition. *$1.25 Banta pub. 338 17-13289

“The author is primarily concerned in describing the evolution now
taking place in the business world, ‘one of the outstanding features
of which is the change from private and competitive morality to public
and co-operative morality.’ He first attempts to explain why private
competitive morality has been found unsatisfactory, by a detailed
account of its results under the practice of railroad discriminations
in the case of the Standard oil company. Secondly, he describes the
solutions proposed as evolved in the court decisions concerning
railroad rebates and a fair rate of return for public-service
companies. Thirdly, through a criticism of these decisions, he
attempts to set forth the principles established to meet the new
conditions. Then, turning from public callings to private callings, he
follows a similar plan in the case of the large industrial
corporations. ... The general conclusion is that industrial
combinations which are doing business under the law of private
callings ought to be regulated under the law of public callings.”—J
Pol Econ

“The author predicts that the large industrial combinations will in
the course of time come to be recognized as public service
corporations, and will be subjected to regulation in much the same way
that the railroads now are. But he does not make his point.” Eliot
Jones

— =Am Econ R= 7:643 S ‘17 600w

“Students of business ethics will find the new book of interest as an
outline of the changes which have taken place within a comparatively
few years in that field. It explains the trend of the times, and is
probably more or less prophetic of future changes in the matter of the
regulation of business competition.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 160w

=Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 160w

“Offers a clear and simple statement of the significant change that
has occurred in our attitude towards ‘big business.’” B. H. Bode

+ =J Philos= 14:613 O 25 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by C. W. Wright

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:628 Je ‘17 570w

=REED, THOMAS HARRISON.= Form and functions of American government. il *$1.50 (1c) World bk. 353 16-24343

“This book is the result of nine years’ experience in teaching
government and a lifelong interest in politics. It is intended
primarily for that great majority of high-school pupils who go no
farther on the road of formal education and aims to deal with the
principles of governmental organization and activity in such a way as
to be a suitable basis for the most thorough high-school course in
preparation for citizenship.” (Preface) The book is divided into six
parts, preceded by an introductory chapter on Government, and why we
study it. The six parts take up: The background of American
government; Parties and elections; State government; Local government;
Government of the United States; The functions of government.

“The author has shown remarkable skill in being brief without being
misleading. A most commendable feature is the evolutionary or organic
viewpoint, which finds consistent expression throughout.” A. B. Hall

+ =Am J Soc= 23:267 S ‘17 410w

“Usefully illustrated; full bibliography at chapter-ends.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17

“The subject is treated from an historical point of view, but in the
main each topic is brought up to date and the views are progressive
throughout. ... Several errors—of fact rather than interpretation—may
be noted. ... This book was in press during a period of unprecedented
federal legislation, so various facts concerning the Philippine
government, preparedness, military and naval academies, and the income
tax are already out of date. Also, the shipping board, the farm loan
board, the tariff commission, prohibition of child labor, and the
inheritance tax have come into existence since the book went to
press. ... There is an excellent bibliography at the end of each
chapter.” F. A. Magruder

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:164 F ‘17 800w

“An admirably stimulating text book.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 70w

“Teachers of civics who desire to make their instruction practical in
the best sense of the word should not overlook this volume, for
besides having the notable merit of definiteness Professor Reed’s
volume is inclusive, well-proportioned, accurate, and readable.”

+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 120w