Chapter LXVIII: Part 1: of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile (2)

“The author of this handbook came to his task with a rather unusual
equipment. A graduate of Harvard university and of the Harvard law
school, he was successively a member of the bar of Massachusetts and
of New York, and in 1908 was appointed to a professorship of
government in the University of California. For six months in 1911 he
held the office of executive secretary to Governor Johnson and in 1916
secured a leave of absence from the University to assume the duties of
city manager of San José, Cal. His book, therefore, has a background
of practical experience in governmental affairs.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w

“Among the many volumes recently put out on citizenship for school
use, it is clearly one of the ablest, both in its careful preparation
and clear writing. In its real appeal to the natural civic interests
of the high-school student it stands alone.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 37:616 F 24 ‘17 250w

=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on immigration. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 325.73 17-6882

Changes in this second edition of the debaters’ handbook on
immigration consist of: a revision of the bibliographies on European
and Asiatic immigration, with the addition of references bringing them
down to date; a revision of the section on The European war and
immigration, with the addition of new reprints, and the addition of a
group of references on Americanization.

=A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 40w

=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on minimum wage. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 331.2 17-6881

This volume is an outgrowth of a pamphlet issued in 1913 in the
Abridged debaters’ handbook series. Like other volumes in the series
it contains briefs, bibliographies and selected reprints presenting
both sides of a debatable question. The explanatory note says, “An
attempt has been made to choose wisely such articles as would present
the question from many points of view, that of the employer, the trade
unionist, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, etc.” Among
those who argue for the minimum wage are Margaret Dreier Robins,
Florence Kelley, John A. Ryan, Walter Lippmann, Sidney Webb and Louis
D Brandeis. Among those opposed are John Bates Clark, F. W. Taussig,
J. Laurence Laughlin, Rome G. Brown and Helen Marot. The volume is
indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17

=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 40w

“An excellent handbook giving all the latest data and discussion.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 20w

“The introduction, a brief sketch of the history of the minimum-wage
movement, shows the compiler to be strongly in sympathy with it and to
be capable of sharp criticism as regards its various phases; but the
selection of articles is marked by impartiality as well as by good
judgment. ... The 200 pages, including a bibliography and a good
index, will be interesting and helpful not only to prospective
debaters, but to the general reader desiring to get a fair impression
of the considerations that have been brought to bear on this subject
by representative thinkers and writers.”

+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 180w

“In her introduction to the volume the compiler makes a few very
interesting observations. ... The literature on the subject is very
extensive, and the compiler made use of the best that has been
published. General bibliography as well as references to the material
used, and a well arranged index, are included in the volume which
makes it very convenient for the reader.” A. L. Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 530w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17

“In all cases the material is selected with impartiality and with
obvious intent to do full justice to both sides of a question.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by Henrietta Walters

+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 100w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w

=REEMAN, EDMUND HENRY.= Do we need a new idea of God. *$1 (3c) Jacobs 211 17-18044

The Rev. Edmund H. Reeman is a Unitarian minister and is at present
pastor of the First Unitarian church, at Trenton, N. J. He states in
his preface that “there is need for a reinterpretation of life and a
restatement of religious faith in the light of democratic outreach and
impulse.” His book is an attempt to turn our “thoughts away from the
old ideas of God as a king upon a monarch’s throne, the remote and
transcendent creator and ruler of the world and life, to the thought
of God as the God of all the struggle and outreach of life—the real
Life-Force of the universe and the eternal toiler in the universe,—a
God who needs our strength and grit and will and courage far more than
He needs our tears and our penitence.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 20w

“This book makes good. ... There is a striking difference between this
book and the most prominent current pronouncement on the same
subject—H. G. Wells’s ‘God, the invisible king.’ Both books are good
on the destructive side, with the balance decidedly in favor of Wells.
Constructively, however, the British writer seems, in comparison,
vague, truistic, naive, and dogmatic. ... Both writers conceive of God
as finite, holding up men’s hands and being held up by them, but Mr
Wells is vague in differentiating God from the Life Force and
maintaining his personality, while Mr Reeman is perfectly clear in
identifying the two and in giving the doctrine of divine immanence a
modern pragmatic meaning.”

+ =Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 600w

“Like many other dissatisfied souls, the author finds it much more
easy to point out the inadequacy of the old than to lead into positive
notions of the new, but his attempt is a worthy one.”

+ — =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 330w

“Much that the author says is well said, and has been said as well by
leaders in scientific theology. ... Evidently he has not studied the
New Testament, or seen its Revised version.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 130w

“This conception of God as the master spirit of struggle, the ‘eternal
toiler’ of the universe, is shown to be in line with the facts of
modern experience.”

=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 120w

=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.=[2] Adventuress. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-30121

Marshall Maddox, head of “Maddox munitions, incorporated,” is murdered
and the model of the telautomaton, a wonderful war invention is stolen
from his safe. Craig Kennedy, “scientific detective,” well known to Mr
Reeve’s readers, is put in charge of the case. Several other members
of the Maddox family enter into the story. The adventuress is Paquita,
a little Mexican dancer in whom Marshall Maddox has been interested.

“From the very first page, where the story opens with the crack of a
revolver shot, the reader is taken along through mystery, exciting
adventures and deep-laid plots. The story is interesting from its many
human aspects.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 310w

=N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 340w

=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.= Treasure train. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-15286

A dozen stories, adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective,
who, by means of chemical analysis or some curiously and delicately
devised instrument, gets at the truth of a crime and rounds up the
criminal. The crimes uncovered by his laboratory methods of
investigation are of the subtlest order. Some involve the use of
deadly toxins,—muscarin, digitalis, and abrin from the Hindu
prayer-bean which resembles snake-venom. Some cases introduce deadly
gas, deadly germs and dum-dummed poisoned bullets. For every mystery
there is a quick and sure solution, the way to which comes
spontaneously forth from the laboratory-trained mind of this calm,
clear-headed detective.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w

“When one considers how closely the author follows the same general
formula in constructing each story, the amount of variety in them is
rather surprising.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:238 Je 24 ‘17 180w

=REEVES, FRANCIS BREWSTER.= Russia then and now, 1892-1917. il *$1.50 Putnam 914.7 17-13230

In 1892 the author was sent to Russia in charge of the cargo sent by
the Philadelphia relief committee to the famine sufferers. In this
book he gives an account of his mission, illustrating it with
photographs taken at the time. To give contrasting descriptions of
modern Russia, he quotes from the writings of others, including two
articles by Margaret Wintringer on the abolition of vodka.

“The book takes on the nature of a pleasing memorial of a worthy
charity and is hardly more than that.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 220w

“Mr Reeves has made a pleasant and appropriate memorial of an incident
in the friendly relations that have long existed between the United
States and Russia, but he leaves unsatisfied those readers who expect
any analysis or interpretation of Russia, or the Russians, then or
now.”

– + =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 180w

“It is in the appendix to the book that we find the most useful
information concerning conditions in Russia since the war began and
before the Czar’s abdication. This for the most part consists of
extracts from newspaper articles by other hands, and gives a fairly
complete basis for contemporary judgment. Of these articles the most
valuable is the paper on ‘Russia’s future needs for capital,’ by
Samuel McRoberts, vice president of the National city bank of New York
city.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 350w

“The book contains nothing of consequence about Russia now, and the
author saw, or at least realized very little about the bureaucracy of
Russia then.”

=Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 80w

=REID, FORREST.= Spring song. *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8741

Four of the Westons were ordinary children. First there was Edward,
something of a fop, then Barbara, a trifle priggish, then Ann, always
out of breath, but so warm-hearted and kind, and last, there was Jim,
a jolly little boy with a fondness for riddles. It was Grif who was
different. Grif sees and hears things of which the others are never
aware. He is sensitive to influences that never touch his brothers and
sisters. In this story he is brought to the verge of a mental and
physical breakdown by contact with a morbid and unbalanced mind. The
nature of Grif’s illness puzzles everyone, but his healing is finally
brought about most simply and beautifully.

“The children are well drawn, but the book will have only a limited
appeal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 350w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 570w

“A heart-breaking little tale. ... And its poignancy lies in the
fineness and restraint of feeling that differentiate it from the
coarsely and slushily sentimental child-literature which so often
appears to be ‘what the people want.’”

+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 450w

“Very moving and imaginative study of the most moving of all living
things: childhood laid upon the rude sacrificial stone of adolescence,
and quivering to its death.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“The descriptions of the English countryside are very lovely, and the
story holds the reader’s interest firmly from beginning to end. There
is about it nothing slovenly or unfinished; the author has the
artist’s instinct, the artist’s loving care, and the result is a book
of distinction and charm.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 400w

“More than half of Mr Forrest Reid’s story is a pure delight: the rest
makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary
sadness. ... The story of the clouding of an innocent but highly
strung mind is not as horrible as that of ‘The two magics’, but it is
painful.”

+ — =Spec= 118:48 Ja 13 ‘17 450w

“There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic
height of ‘The spring song.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 380w

“There are a number of very amusing scenes in the book, and the
children’s characters, especially Jim and Ann are delightfully
drawn. ... But the author’s intentness on the pursuing nightmare robs
the later part of the book of some balance, until Grif’s delusions
appear real against a rather shadowy background.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p536 N 9 ‘16 400w

=REID, SIR GEORGE HOUSTON.= My reminiscences. il *16s Cassell & co., London

“Scottish by birth and ancestry, an emigrant to Australia in 1852, and
later a successful barrister, prime minister of New South Wales,
premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, first high commissioner for
the commonwealth and now independent imperialist member of Parliament
for St George’s, Hanover square, the author of this autobiography has
had an active, eventful, and distinguished career, and has rendered
many valuable public services. Much of the volume is concerned with
Australian politics. ... The author relates several amusing
incidents.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p313 Je ‘17 250w

“As a summary of leading figures and measures in Australia it is of
value, but outside of politics it is dull.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:437 My 12 ‘17 500w

“Of Lord Kitchener he says: ‘When he spoke his words were few and
distinct. Some thought him cold-hearted, and so he was when he was
dealing with incompetents and offenders. But his was a warm heart, all
the same. He was the only man in England who used to greet me with,
“Hullo, old man!” I used to feel that such a greeting meant that he
thought me fit for my job.’”

+ =Spec= 118:519 My 5 ‘17 1750w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Ap 26 ‘17 60w

“It contains too many technical and statistical passages to be read
eagerly by the untraveled Englishman. It has no pretension to be a
history of Australia; but it presupposes in the reader a considerable
familiarity with that history, for it is mainly concerned with the
mechanical progress of political measures and not with the physical
and social conditions that made them opportune or expedient.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1100w

=REINHARDT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students. 14th ed rev and enl il *$1 Van Nostrand 745 17-8375

“More than twenty years of use under all sorts of conditions have
proved the value of Reinhardt’s ‘Lettering.’ ... In the preface to the
first edition the author stated that, while there were then many books
that dealt with ornamental lettering, there was none which treated the
art ‘from a purely practical viewpoint.’ To make good so great a lack,
he set forth simply and clearly a very practical method of producing
most effective results in freehand lettering of working drawings. ...
The present edition has been given ‘a more rounded aspect,’ to quote
from the preface, by supplying such apparent omissions as an analysis
of the Greek alphabet, methods of laying out and constructing titles
and by adding some practice sheets.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 150w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:463 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:396 My ‘17 120w

=REISS, RODOLPHE ARCHIBALD.= Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia; English tr. by F. S. Copeland. il 5s Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20123)

“This is a translation of the report submitted to the Serbian
government by Dr R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne. This
material is said to have been gathered on the spot during the months
of September, October, and November, 1914.”—R of Rs

=Ind= 88:284 N 13 ‘16 80w

=R of Rs= 54:573 N ‘16 40w

“The publication in this country of the work entitled
‘Austro-Hungarian atrocities’ is calculated to give a severe shock to
those Englishmen who, whilst condemning and regretting Austrian
policy, still preserve feelings of friendship towards the Austrians.
It is a chronicle of horrors no less ghastly than that recorded by the
responsible authorities of France, Great Britain, and Belgium who have
inquired into the conduct pursued elsewhere by the ruthless and
treaty-breaking ally of Austria.” [Earl of] Cromer

=Spec= 117:583 N 11 ‘16 2150w

=RELTON, HERBERT M.= Study in Christology; the problem of the relation of the two natures in the person of Christ. *$2.50 Macmillan 232

“In ‘A study in Christology’ Dr H. M. Relton sets out the various ways
in which men have attempted to describe the person of Christ, giving
prominence to a theory propounded by Leontius of Byzantium in the
first half of the sixth century. His contribution to the
Christological problem is found in the doctrine of the
Enhypostasia. ... Leontius offered the theory that the human nature of
Christ was not without hypostasis, but became hypostatic in the person
of the Logos. ... Dr Relton sets out the implications of this way of
accounting for the person of Christ, and pleads that it answers to the
demands of modern thought more successfully than various recent
theories. ... The second part of the treatise deals with the analysis
of human nature in the light of modern psychology and the analysis of
the divine nature as manifested in revelation. The author then
considers the relationship between the human and the divine as
revealed by religious experience, and shows how this helps us to
penetrate deeper into the mystery of the person of Christ. The third
division of the book considers various modern attempts at
Christological reconstruction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17

“As we should expect in a thesis approved for the D.D. degree in the
University of London, the work is a learned and technical study in
theology; but the problems discussed are stated with precision and
clearness, and no reader interested in the subject with which it deals
need fear that he may not be able to follow with advantage the
arguments of the author.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 580w

=RENDALL, VERNON HORACE.= London nights of Belsize. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-20181

This story deals with “the unraveling of mysteries and the detection
of crime by the non-professional expert,” but “Christopher Belsize was
much more than a criminal investigator. He was a millionaire, to begin
with. He was also a scholar, deeply versed in oriental lore; a
collector, bibliophile, and a purchaser of libraries, who kept his
purchases dark; and, for the rest, a young man who loved to play the
part of Haroun-al-Raschid, and was possessed with a faculty of
accurate and precise deduction which was indistinguishable from
clairvoyance. He was recklessly generous, magnanimous, and
(incidentally) benevolent. ... Being destitute of ordinary ambition,
Christopher’s motive was rather the desire to ‘live dangerously.’ He
asked for trouble, but he was so magnificently equipped that he seldom
came to grief. Besides, on the advice of his eccentric uncle, he had
practised revolver-shooting to good purpose, and—also on the advice of
that mysterious relative—he had made a devoted slave of his body
servant, Smith, an ex-burglar and pugilist.” (Spec)

+ — =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“The good detective story is never out of style, but ‘The London
nights of Belsize’ is even better than good, for it is different.”

+ =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 410w

“The author has a wit and originality of his own. His book is
ingenious, imaginative, whimsical. Conceived on popular lines, it is
written with the fastidious taste of a scholar.”

+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 650w

“‘Belsize as a commentator’ is a tour de force of ironic criticism at
the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But, on the whole, we like him best
when he is most irresponsible, as in the delightful extravaganza of
‘The young man and the “happy” shop’—an admirable satire on the
gullibility of the reading public and the methods of reviewers; or
‘The post-prandial peculiars,’ in which Belsize, disguised as a
working man, is entertained by a millionaire. ... Mr Rendall has
proved that the charm of sensational fiction is greatly enhanced when
the author possesses style, scholarship, and wit. The stories in
themselves are not above the comprehension of the average reader, but
the literary bravura of their presentation will attract an esoteric
audience. In fine, Mr Vernon Rendall has killed two birds with one
stone.”

+ + =Spec= 118:645 Je 9 ‘17 900w

“He becomes too much of the detective and too little of the adventurer
and taster of life. ... Belsize is too good for the work to which Mr
Rendall has put him, difficult and dangerous though that may have
been.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 460w

=RESSÉGUIER, ROGER MARIA HERMANN BERNARD, graf.= Francis Joseph and his court. il *$2.50 (2½c) Lane 17-30309

The author of the memoirs from which Mr Herbert Vivian has made
selections is the son of Francis Joseph’s court chamberlain. His
mother had been a lady in waiting to the Empress Sophia, mother of
Francis Joseph, and some of her stories of earlier court life are
embodied in these memoirs. The tragedy of Maximilian I and the
mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph are among the subjects covered.

“Those who had previously retained any optimistic illusions about the
high family of Hapsburgs, of which the Emperor Francis Joseph was the
decorative head, are doomed to lose them after reading the data Mr
Vivian has selected.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 770w

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 70w

Retreat from Mons. *50c (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-19810

This brief but detailed and somewhat technical account of the “Retreat
from Mons” is apparently the first of a series of little books on the
Operations of the British army in the present war. Field-Marshal
French, in his preface, points out that the demoralization which
usually accompanies a retreat was conspicuous by its non-existence.

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“The author has been careful to put down as fact only what has been
proved upon reliable authority to be true. In this way he leaves the
controversy which rages concerning the early weeks of the war, to the
controversial, and his summary of the facts will not be inconsistent
with history as it is finally written.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w

“Beneath the superstructure of official facts one glimpses heroism and
sacrifice the details of which will never be known, but which
distinguish the retreat above many engagements that history will note
more carefully.”

+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w

“The semi-official little volume admits records are still clouded
concerning the actions of Maroilles and Le Cateau.”

+ — =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 100w

“It is solely a military history and so makes no account of
picturesque incidents or pathetic or tragic happenings.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 440w

=St Louis= 15:418 D ‘17 10w

=REY, JEAN ALEXANDRE.= Range of electric searchlight projectors; tr. by J. H. Johnson. il $4.50 Van Nostrand 623.731 ES17-91

The translator in his preface points out that there is no modern and
original work in English treating the subject covered by this book.
The present importance of the subject has induced him to make a
translation of this French work for the benefit of English readers.
The author’s introduction says, “I have endeavoured to sum up the
methods for range measurement, and, with the assistance of much
information not previously published, the solution of the problem if
not entirely elucidated, is at least advanced from a practical point
of view.” The subject is treated in two parts: Illumination by
electric searchlight projectors; Range of electric searchlight
projectors. The French bibliography is included and the work is
indexed.

“The book will not be found particularly easy for the untechnical
reader, but the charts and tables are of exceptional value, although
their use is not always quite obvious without pretty careful study of
the text. The volume is certainly a most timely one and should prove
invaluable to students of artillery practice.”

+ — =Elec W= 70:1062 D 1 ‘17 570w

“Altogether this is a very valuable and practical book. ... Mr Johnson
has done his work of translation well.”

+ — =Engineer= 124:59 Jl 20 ‘17 1400w

“The work will prove of great value to engineer officers.”

+ — =Nature= 99:402 Jl 19 ‘17 420w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 80w

=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Castle to let. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-23550

A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story.
Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a
school friend. It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one
tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable
disappearance of a party of guests. There are weird tales afloat of a
dragon—and there is an old prophecy concerning a fair-haired dragon
slayer that seems about to be fulfilled. These mysteries fascinate
Camiola, and as she is mistress of her own fortune, she promptly
leases the ancient mountain castle that has stood empty for years,
invites to it a party of her friends, and starts to investigate the
mystery. The fair-haired young guide who acts as her companion in her
search begins shortly to have for Camiola a personal interest. She is
amazed at herself, and ashamed—but all this, as it happens, is part of
the working out of the prophecy.

“The book is well written, the descriptions of scenery are good, and
there is plenty of interest in the characters.”

+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w

“It is a book entirely of incident—a thriller for the movie-minded.”

+ — =Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 80w

“A delightfully romantic story.”

+ =Spec= 119:331 S 9 ‘17 30w

“Mrs Reynolds very skilfully balances the reader’s interest between
the romance, which is of the conventionally unconventional sort, and
the other elements of the situation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 170w

+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 110w

=RHODES, JAMES EDWARD.= Workmen’s compensation. *$1.50 Macmillan 331.25 17-18174

“This book sets forth in a style which can be easily understood by any
intelligent reader the development, in this country, of the movement
for compensating workmen who suffer accident in industry. It describes
also the basic principles underlying compensation insurance. Inasmuch
as the problems resulting from industrial accidents arose in Europe
much earlier than in this country, a summary is presented, at first,
of the distinctive features of the English and German methods of
handling the question. This is followed by a discussion of the
development of the agitation in the United States, covering the first
decade of the twentieth century. ... In the appendix is found an
outline of the history of the movement which resulted in the laws of
New York state, the standards for sound workmen’s compensation laws
recommended by the American association for labor legislation, and a
brief digest of the various laws in force in each state at the end of
1916. At the close of each chapter there is a list of references
covering the literature upon the main topics discussed, and at the end
of the volume is a general bibliography of ten pages.” (Nation) “The
author is a claim examiner in the compensation and liability
department of a large insurance company.” (R of Rs)

“The demand for a concise and logical account of the movement for
workmen’s compensation, and of the principles involved, is not
adequately met by this volume; though its excellent forward-looking
spirit, its satisfactory index, and its pretty full bibliography
combine with the presentation of much material of interest and value
to offset in a large degree the defects noted.” L. D. Clark

* – + =Am Econ R= 17:908 D ‘17 1150w

“Because of the simple non-technical presentation of the subject the
book is well suited both for the student who wants a general survey of
the history and principles of workmen’s compensation without too much
local and detailed study, and for the special student who needs a
guide for further reading and research.” R. W: Foley

+ =Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 250w

“No better or more readable summary of the whole subject can be found
anywhere than that which this volume places at the disposal of its
readers.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 110w

“This book presents a careful statement of the background and
fundamentals of compensation and of its present status in the United
States which should be useful as a basis for more detailed study or
for a general survey of the problem. Particularly valuable are the
illustrative cases and the brief digest of the essential points of
laws now in force.” R. H. B.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 110w

“The book will be found extremely useful by the reader who desires to
get a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the essentials of workmen’s
compensation. Chapter 6 on the constitutionality of compensation
legislation is a good example of the author’s ability to present
clearly within a brief compass all the important elements of a complex
situation.”

+ =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w

“The book is carefully documented in relation to legal decisions.”

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 40w

Reviewed by E. S. Gray

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1049 D ‘17 380w

“The book is a most timely contribution to the literature of workmen’s
compensation, and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers,
including business men, students, and teachers of insurance, and
intelligent general readers, as well.”

+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 420w

“The book can be heartily recommended to any serious minded
wage-worker who wants to get a clear idea of the possibilities of
social legislation as demonstrated in one, perhaps narrow, branch of
it.” R.

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 700w

“One valuable chapter deals with the social aspects. This will appeal
to the non-technical reader by its method of treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 150w

“Mr Rhodes takes an extremely broad subject and skilfully condenses it
into compact form.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w

“Mr Rhodes has filled a timely need. ... However, in valuing his
discussion of state and stock company insurance, the author’s
insurance connections must be borne in mind.” Irene Sylvester

+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 300w

=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the Civil war, 1861-1865. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 973.7 17-30046

Not a condensation of the author’s three volumes on the Civil war in
his “History of the United States” but a fresh study which makes use
of the large amount of material on that period which has come to light
in recent years. Good maps and an index are included with the text.

“An excellent and readable history.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

“The student of war politics and of mid-century American diplomacy
will find much to interest him in several of the chapters, for the
volume is not, as its title might imply, a mere narrative of military
operations. It is a discussion of national life in all its phases
during a great and critical period of American history.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 100w

“Like its predecessors, it is unusually well provided with a list of
the best authorities, an ample table of contents, and a very complete
index. In general, Mr Rhodes’s historical work has the distinction of
frequent citations from the sources interwoven with his text, and a
style uniformly clear, dignified and familiar.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:592 Ja ‘18 1750w

“Dr Rhodes here and there writes of certain episodes in greater detail
than before; but in other places his lack of such detail is
disappointing.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 570w

“The necessity of compression in putting the history of the Civil war
into a single volume has made impossible the extensive use of [the
method employed in his larger work]. But the author’s notable faculty
of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color
of events, and the fact that he wrote out of a reservoir of knowledge
of just such intimate revelations of the life of the time infuse his
narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he
writes.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:494 N 25 ‘17 1350w

“We now have in one volume of moderate compass, handsomely printed, a
work on the Civil war which contains precisely what every American
should know, presented with scholarship and yet always in readable
style and manner.”

+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 110w

“The author everywhere shows the most absolute impartiality. ... Mr
Rhodes writes in his usual clear and pleasing style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 500w

=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE).= Calvary alley. il *$1.35 (1½c) Century 17-26784

Nance Molloy lived with Mr and Mrs Snawdor, her step-father and
step-mother, in Calvary alley, near the cathedral. The book tells how
she grew up, how she became successively a “finisher” of pants, a
factory hand, a companion to an old lady, a chorus girl, a
stenographer, and a trained nurse, and how she fell in love with one
of the two men who cared most for her—Dan Lewis, the factory hand, and
“Mac” Clarke, whose father owned the bottle factory. Two older men who
influence her life are Uncle Jed, her self-appointed guardian, and old
Mr Demorest, who played the violin and taught Nance to dance.

“A pleasing story, with nice human touches that will make it popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w

“Not since Mrs Wiggs has Mrs Rice given us a book so rich in her warm
humanity, her whimsicality and her catholic fondness for varieties of
types as we find ‘Calvary alley.’ Yet it hints of bigger things than
did Mrs Wiggs.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w

“The story is interesting, wholesome, and very likable.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 270w

“While ‘Calvary Alley’ has no very serious pretensions and is written
in a light and entertaining style, it does sincerely reflect a certain
phase of American life.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 F 9 ‘18 270w

“Mildly humorous, less crude, in its optimism than is most of its
author’s work, and has quite a good deal of variety in its scenes and
characters. Mrs Snawdor, Nancy’s stepmother, is a real and
entertaining person.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 600w

“Once in a great while one runs across a truly vital heroine in
fiction—a girl who lives and moves like a real being. Such a heroine
is Nance Molloy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 360w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 130w

=RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Trails sunward. *$1.25 Century 811 17-10356

This new volume of poems has a brief preface in which Mr Rice
discusses recent trends in poetry. “Never has poetry tried so hard to
be prose as at the present time in America,” he says, and he adds that
the apparent revival of interest in poetry may be of brief duration.
“No poetic public will long give attention to a realism which makes
the mistake, common to all shallow realism, of neglecting passion,
imagination, charm and nearly all the permanent qualities of any true
poetry.” Among the poems included in the collection are: The trail
from the sea; The chant of the Colorado; Mountains in the Grand
Canyon; Hafiz at forty; a group of Songs to A.H.R., and a group of
“Metaphysical sonnets.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

=Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

“Even in our day Mr Rice has the eccentricity of writing like a
gentleman. ... I rarely use the term ‘sublimity,’ yet in touches of
‘The foreseers,’ particularly in its cavern-set opening, I should say
that Mr Rice had scaled that eminence.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 380w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 470w

“The years have increased his power to write exceptionally beautiful
lyrics of perfect melody.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

“In a day of petty heresies, Mr Rice stands forth as a declared
champion of orthodoxy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 200w

=RICE, GRANTLAND=, ed. Boys’ book of sports. il *$2 (1½c) Century 796 17-25763

The selections in this volume have been chosen “from the best sporting
stories that St Nicholas has produced in the last twenty years.” They
include descriptive articles, among them a series on baseball by Billy
Evans, a special article on pitching by Christy Mathewson, articles on
football by Parke H. Davis, golf by Francis Ouimet, and tennis by J.
Parmly Paret. In addition there are short stories by Leslie W. Quirk,
Ralph Henry Barbour and others.

=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18

“Boys of ten to any age will enjoy this collection.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 40w

“It is an encyclopedia, a treasury of outdoor tactics and
accomplishment. Everything you want to know about things in the open,
from fishing to aeroplaning, is here.”

+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. B. Nagler

+ =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 290w

=RICE, GRANTLAND.=[2] Songs of the stalwart. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29998

The author who is known as a writer on outdoor sports appears in this
book of poems in a new guise. Songs of somewhere back; Songs of
courage; Songs of the off-trail; Songs of the game; and Songs above
the drumfire, compose the contents. There is an appreciative foreword
by Irvin S. Cobb.

“One would almost say that his art, simple, glowing and precise as it
is, was altogether too fine for some of his themes and subjects; but
this is not so, because nothing is too common for the spirit of poetry
to light and reveal. This book is literature, an honor to the man who
made it, and a delight to the reader who receives it. And Mr Rice
stands quite alone in his achievement.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 430w

+ =Lit D= 55:30 D 22 ‘17 140w

“Irvin Cobb writes: ‘One of these days they are going to elect a
successor to the late James Whitcomb Riley as the most typical writer
of homely, gentle American verse. I have my candidate picked out. His
name is Grantland Rice.’”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 11 ‘18 350w

=RICE, WILLIAM NORTH.= Return to faith, and other addresses. *75c Abingdon press 16-23597

“This slim little book, five addresses in all, taking title from the
first, [does not present] the return to faith as due to many
remarkable verifications in newly found records, of old traditions,
nor to geological evidence that the biblical order of creation,
interpreting a ‘day’ as this or that number of thousands of years, is
now found scientific, nor to any similar finding of pseudo-scientific
abracadabra. The return to faith is due to a belief in the man
Jesus.”—Dial

“Dr Rice represents the higher religious convictions of most liberal
Christians. His book is remarkable for the unconditional and
intelligent acceptance of science with all its implications. There is
no string either to his science or to his religion.”

+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 240w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

=RICHARD, PAUL.= To the nations. *$1 (8c) Pond 172.4 17-10558

This little book, translated from the French, with an introduction by
Rabindranath Tagore, sets forth a view of the war as a conflict which
the old social order is waging against itself. “The war has a purpose,
even if the belligerents have none. It has a purpose to which none of
them would care to attain, but which all will be forced to realize at
last. This purpose is very simple: the old evil must be destroyed down
to its root, the old foundations of the life of the people must be
torn up, and replaced by the foundations of a better and truer
civilization.” Revolutions are predicted for every country in Europe,
altho the author hesitated to say which would be first. In the second
part of the book he discusses the new ideals that must guide the
reorganized nations.

=RICHARDS, H. GRAHAME.= Shadows. *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd

The novel ends under the shadow of the war, and the later chapters are
in striking contrast to the peaceful scenes of the beginning. A quiet
neighborhood in Wales is the setting. A small group of children, with
Hilda and Gwaine Brennan and Ronald Clinton as its center, are the
characters. Hilda is the beautiful one of the two, but Ronald never
wavers in his devotion to Gwaine, his little comrade. There is a long
separation, however, when, after a disagreement with his grandfather,
he goes to London to earn his living as a writer. The war comes and he
enlists as a private and the reconciliation with his grandfather and
his return to Gwaine come only after the fierce and bitter experiences
of the first months of the war. These scenes are made very real, and
Hilda’s fate, a minor incident in the tragedy, helps bring home the
far-reaching consequences of war.

“In later chapters of the book we have some of the most vivid
descriptions of battle which have found their way into fiction. It is
first hand description, we imagine.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 16 ‘17 250w

“One of those books which just fail to attain excellence—and only
just. A few improvements and it would become a really notable novel.
There is in it much of charm, of feeling, of human quality. ... But
every now and then comes a false note, a note which jangles, jarring
upon the reader’s every nerve.”

=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 500w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).=[2] Abigail Adams and her times. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-30245

“Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and hence the first
mistress of the White House. But even if she had never had a part in
official life, she was one of the most interesting women of her time
and well deserves a biography. Mrs Richards tells the story of her
childhood and later life from the diaries and letters that were
written by her, and which deal with much of the real history of the
period. Mrs Richards is a daughter of the late Julia Ward Howe.”—R of
Rs

=Lit D= 56:35 Ja 12 ‘18 270w

+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 80w

“A fascinating story of colonial times; fascinating to those who are
interested in the details which make up the major part of all human
lives, but are absent from most histories. The author has shown both
skill and discretion in keeping herself in the background and
composing her story mostly of the diary of the husband and the letters
of the wife. The biography is almost an autobiography.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w

=R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 80w

“The book is offered as of special interest to girls; it surely has
the qualities of a successful appeal to a far larger constituency.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 1 ‘18 290w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Elizabeth Fry—the angel of the prisons. il *$1.25 Appleton 16-19822

“How Elizabeth Fry by the simplest beginnings wakened England at the
commencement of the last century to the horrors of the prison system
is told by Laura A. Richards in a short life written for girls. The
‘angel of the prisons’ was one of a noted family, the Gurneys of
Earlham, ‘gay Quakers’ whose household of young folk was a merry one.”
(Ind) “The book is largely composed of extracts from the journals of
Elizabeth Fry and her sisters, which account for the vividness of the
picture it gives.” (Survey)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:270 Mr ‘17

“The pleasant style of the connecting narrative and the vitality and
humor of the original material will establish this biography as a
rival of the author’s ‘Florence Nightingale’ in its interest for young
people.”

+ =Cleveland= p160 D ‘16 50w

“An inspiring book.”

+ =Ind= 88:405 D 4 ‘16 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 14:441 D ‘16

“The utter inability of the reader to tell how much of this book is
fact and how much is Mrs Richards’ is its chief defect. My guess is
that it will entrance many a child and tell him absorbing things that
he will not learn in his school history.” W. D. L.

+ — =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 230w

“A popular, entertainingly written biography, designed for young
girls. It is, however, less suitable for the youthful than for the
adult mind because of the introspective nature of Mrs Fry’s journals,
and the unfamiliar people and customs to which there is frequent
reference.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 30w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Pippin, a wandering flame. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-9251

“Pippin is, indeed, a queer name for a boy, but, inasmuch as he has
never known any other, that is the only one he is called. His story is
the unusual one of an orphan boy, brought up in the underworld,
instructed in all its vices by expert teachers, and his ultimate
imprisonment for three years. The larger part of the book is concerned
mostly with Pippin after his release from prison, where he has gotten
religion and ‘found the Lord.’ His genial personality, brought out by
the humane and intelligent prison chaplain, and his beautiful singing
voice win for him many kind, helpful friends and a lovely bride. The
story ends just as it should, with Pippin and his bride sitting down
with friends to a merry wedding breakfast.”—N Y Call

“Pleasant and harmless.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

“Of Mrs Richards’s many charming stories none is more so than this.
Its unquenchable optimism and sincerity warms one’s heart.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w

“While this book may be read and appreciated by adults, we feel
reasonably sure that it will appeal greatly to thirteen or fourteen
year old youngsters, who will follow the experiences and successes of
the hero, Pippin, with much interest.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 190w

“The book is cheery and sweet without being sentimentalized. It is a
‘story,’ of course—not a piece of ‘gripping realism.’ But as a story
it is wholesome and often unusual, and it is thoroughly readable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 420w

“The spirit of moral uplift runs riot in ‘Pippin.’ The story is told
in a partly illiterate jargon that frequently wearies the reader, and
with an excess of sentimentality. But Pippin’s adventures have a
measure of interest, and his optimism is engaging.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 280w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Pilgrimage: Backwater. *$1.35 Knopf

“In ‘Backwater’ Miss Dorothy Richardson continues the life story of a
young English girl which she began in ‘Pointed roofs.’ Miriam
Henderson was then—many years before the war—a teacher in a German
school in Hanover. She is now home in England. She is just eighteen,
‘has put up her hair to-day’ in preparation for her career as a
resident governess in a school for the daughters of gentlemen. ...
Miriam’s is not a very large world, with its family of sisters, their
chaff and slang and raptures, their music and books and friends and
lovers. ... Nor is there much incident in it—the last gay little dance
before the crash, the few weeks’ seaside holiday at Brighton, the
visit to the Crystal palace on firework night, and the raw, noisy,
suburban routine at Wordsworth house. ... Miss Richardson’s tacit but
essential assumption is that life is an intensely real and rich, a
desperately complex and wonderful, experience, however commonplace its
circumstances may be.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Miss Richardson promises to be a writer of unusual power, a little
too consciously clever, perhaps, but one to whom we may look for work
of real value.”

+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w

“Our interest in the book, which is considerable, would be increased
if it were more coherent. The author has a curious gift of vision, and
it is this that makes her heroine real and attractive, in spite of
whimsies. ... The author’s subtlety is over-strained now and again,
but it includes some acute criticism of life.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:138 Ag 5 ‘16 320w

“This novel is a piece of the purest and, in a sense, barest
impressionism. If in its steady obedience to its chosen truth it
fails, as we think it will sometimes fail, to convince its readers of
its verisimilitude, then so far that impressionism has defeated
itself. ... But such systematic sincerity as Miss Richardson’s is a
profound and affecting thing to share in.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p358 Jl 27 ‘16 500w

=RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL, pseud. (MRS JOHN G. ROBERTSON).= Fortunes of Richard Mahony. *$1.50 (1c) Holt 17-23332

“This is a study of a man of reserved, though lovable disposition. We
first meet him as a storekeeper in Ballarat [Australia] during the
gold craze. Later he makes a success as a doctor; and finally we leave
him on his way to England, still in search of an environment suited to
his character.” (Ath) “The English edition, issued by William
Heinemann, who has evident and steadfast faith in this writer,
indicates that Henry Handel Richardson is the author of ‘Maurice
Guest’ and ‘The getting of wisdom,’ and that ‘The fortunes of Richard
Mahony’ is only the first novel in a series; Book 1 of ‘Australia
Felix.’” (Bookm)

“Good descriptions of Australia sixty years ago.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p47 Ja ‘18 60w

“‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ are two books
that discriminating readers should know, and ‘Henry Handel Richardson’
is a name that, long since known on the continent, through the various
translations of ‘Maurice Guest,’ should not any longer be unknown to
America.” Edna Kenton

+ =Bookm= 46:580 Ja ‘18 1850w

“The faults and merits of ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony,’ are so
evenly balanced that it is not nearly so distinguished as if it were a
little better or a little worse. ... There are few stories beyond
those of the ‘Boy bush-ranger’ type which deal with life on the
Ballarat goldfields in the ‘50s; so Mr Richardson’s treatment of this
subject in the manner of the twentieth century realist is by no means
unacceptable on the score of novelty. Richard Mahony is himself a
creation to be proud of, a character but never a caricature.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 700w

“As a satire, in historical perspective, on the pedestrian soul of the
mid-Victorian young gentleman, it would be fairly amusing. But its
author is not satirical.”

– + =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 480w

“It is a strictly realistic piece of work, conscientious, carefully
wrought; of plot it has very little, and there is no very especial
drama of character. ... They are real people who move through Mr
Richardson’s pages, and the events which occur are simple and
natural. ... It must be admitted that at the end one has the feeling
of having traveled a long way without getting anywhere in particular.
But the road has its attractions.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 480w

“The author reminds us again and again of the late William de Morgan,
with his inconsequence, his eye for the apparently trivial that counts
for so much in life, his flashes of humour, and his occasional
fragments of excellent narrative. ... He shows wonderful insight into
character, and he describes the Australian scenery and the rude
conditions of those days as vividly as if, like Richard Mahony, he
hated them. ... In Mahony’s circle Mr Richardson gives free rein to
his comic sense.”

+ =Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 900w

“Takes one or two daring plunges into the slough of naturalism. These
spots remain red on the memory of the reader in rather unpleasant
contrast to the sleepy flatness of the rest of the tale. ... As a
series of character sketches, ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is
excellent. Indeed, Mr Richardson is often successful in arousing that
sense of exasperation which is the test of good character drawing.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 530w

“Very long, never for a moment exciting, and continuously
interesting. ... The novel gives the impression of a large grasp on
life and a steady hand.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 480w

=RICHARDSON, ROBERT CHARLWOOD.= West Point. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 355.07 17-25795