Chapter LXIX: Part 1: of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile (3)

This “intimate picture of the National military academy and of the
life of the cadet” is by the late assistant professor of English at
West Point, now a captain in the United States army. The first two
chapters give a brief history of the academy. The appendix, which is
reprinted from the Official register of the United States military
academy, 1916, gives information relative to the appointment and
admission of cadets. There is a foreword by Major-General Hugh L.
Scott.

=ALA Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“Mr Richardson does not give all his pages to war. The peculiar charm
of life at West Point is not forgotten, and traditions and customs
receive ample space. The beauty of the buildings, the loveliness of
the setting, are competently handled. The illustrations are many and
well chosen.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 450w

“Exactly the book for the boy seeking an appointment.”

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 30w

=Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 100w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w

“This interpretation, drawn from the author’s own experience and from
many conversations with cadets of to-day, is exceedingly well done,
and makes the book valuable to all loyal Americans.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 130w

“It is regrettable that the author makes no mention of the important
contribution of West Point to engineering and scientific education. It
is perhaps not generally known that for twenty-two years (1802-24),
the Military academy was the only technical school in this
country. ... Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most
of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals,
lighthouses, and public buildings. ... A more intangible want will be
felt in reading the book by those who know the academy well. ... The
graduate will not quite feel that it breathes the living, exultant,
fighting spirit of his Alma mater.” S. C. Godfrey, Major, Corps of
engineers

+ — =Pub= W 92:813 S 15 ‘17 670w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 380w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Brown study. il *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 17-11704

The minister of a rich and aristocratic church, ordered to take a
rest, does so in an out of the way corner of the city, where he can
live in close neighborliness to the poor and lowly. The story tells of
his life among his new friends, of his decision to remain with them,
and of the choice a beautiful girl makes between her love for him and
a worldly career.

=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

“A pretty and measurably conventional romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 110w

“The little story is told in rather a disjointed way, and lacks the
charm and the suggestion of homelike, everyday life which made certain
of Mrs Richmond’s books such pleasant reading. The whole thing seems
forced. ... However, it has some agreeable touches.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Red Pepper’s patients; with an account of Anne Linton’s case in particular. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-24403

The masterful, quick-tempered, kindly, red-headed doctor who figured
in “Red Pepper Burns” and “Mrs Red Pepper” has become the most popular
physician and surgeon in a small suburban town. Some of the patients
whose stories are interwoven with his are his old friend, Gardner
Coolidge, a starving young Hungarian violinist; Anne Linton, the
book-agent with hair to match “Red” Pepper’s own, who has a bad attack
of typhoid fever, and about whom clings a mystery; Jordan King, badly
hurt in an automobile accident; and “Red’s” old enemy, Dr Van Horn.

=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w

“As usual, Mrs Richmond makes all her people handsome and interesting
and angelic, such paragons of beauty and behavior that they seem
hardly to belong in the naughty world that most of us know.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 360w

“Romantic and likely to be popular.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 330w

“This is the third volume Mrs Richmond has devoted to the far-reaching
services of the auburn-haired doctor, but as yet the tone of
artificiality which so often appears when a single character is made
the center of a series of stories is conspicuously absent.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 300w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Whistling mother. il *50c (11½c) Doubleday 17-22303

“Mrs Richmond puts her little tale into the mouth of a boy who has
enlisted in the army. He tells in engaging boyish style just what
happened when, having decided he must go, he left college, where he
was in his junior year, and went home for twenty-four hours to say
good-bye. ... And through all the trial of the visit home and the last
good-by his mother was ‘a thorough sport.’ ... He was in the habit of
calling her his ‘whistling mother’ because she could whistle ‘like a
blackbird,’ and they had a whistling call for each other of which the
music and the words form the heading of the little story.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w

“Exceedingly well written.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 250w

“Artistically, it is the best thing Mrs Richmond has ever done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 220w

=RICHMOND, MARY ELLEN.= Social diagnosis. *$2 Russell Sage foundation 361 17-13224

This book for social workers is a study of methods of case work as
applied by various charity organization societies. The author’s aim
has been to make some advance toward a professional standard. She
believes also that the methods devised in social work, as here set
forth, will be of value in other fields, such as medicine, education
and industry. Part 1 deals with Social evidence, with chapters on:
Beginnings, The nature and uses of social evidence, Testimonial
evidence, etc. Part 2 takes up The processes leading to diagnosis,
considering The first interview, The family group, Outside sources,
etc. Part 3 is devoted to Variations in the processes, with chapters
given to certain special cases, the blind, the feebleminded, etc.
Special tables have been prepared for the volume, and there is a
bibliography and a good index.

“The questionnaires [part 3] represent the experiences of many experts
and will probably set the standard for a great deal of such work in
the future.” W. H. Heck

+ + =Am Econ R= 7:899 D ‘17 970w

“It is the only comprehensive textbook on social work in relation to
the individual or family ever written. The book dignifies all social
work and marks its first steps on the road to becoming a profession.”
Amelia Sears

+ + =Am J Soc= 23:261 S ‘17 680w

“It should form the basis for intelligent study even in small
communities and will be invaluable to the individual engaged in case
work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“Some workers would be spurred to greater efforts from reading this
book. Others, and particularly beginners, might throw up their hands
in despair. There is no case worker who could not be helped from the
reading of this book. He will realize how far he still has to travel.”
W: B. Bailey

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:771 N ‘17 440w

“A valuable contribution to social literature. It is rich with
suggestions but is too long drawn out. It could have been just as
‘meaty’ with fewer pages and certainly it would have been more
readable and more read.” G. F.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 90w

“She has produced a book remarkable for the accuracy of the methods
outlined for the social worker and for the detail and thoroughness
with which she has gone into the subject of measurements in one phase
of life,—the pathology of social adjustment.”

+ =Dial= 63:458 N 8 ‘17 260w

“The author is remarkably successful in holding a proper balance
between generalization and example. But it is a thousand pities that
the most valuable of these examples are tucked away in pages of type
so small that a considerable body of readers will probably skip them
altogether. ... Miss Richmond has felt it best to exclude a study of
the client’s religious life. She has felt that one could adequately
diagnose and serve the needs of a human being without knowing just
what his religion or irreligion means to him. In my opinion this is an
impossible attempt.” R: C. Cabot

+ — =Ind= 91:348 S 1 ‘17 1000w

“With this book social welfare work has ceased to be a mere body of
traditional practices and is in a way to become a science. Although it
was written primarily for a special class of social workers, ‘Social
diagnosis’ will interest every student of the social sciences who
believes that sociology is ever to be anything more than a philosophy
of history or an appanage of social psychology.” R. E. Park

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:952 N ‘17 960w

“No social worker who hopes to rise in the profession ought to be
without this book; and no student of applied sociology should fail to
pore over it.”

+ =Nation=104:717 Je 14 ‘17 330w

“Miss Richmond has given authoritative and exhaustive treatment to a
vexed problem in its fundamental aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 20w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w

“The book is nothing if not concrete, and in the preliminary fields to
which it has confined itself it is exceedingly comprehensive.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 280w

“This is an admirable book, which deserves to be read and pondered far
outside of the circle for which it was immediately intended.” Roscoe
Pound

* + =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 1000w

“Every social worker in towns of 10,000 should either own it or be
able to consult it in the library.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 60w

=RIDDELL, WALTER ALEXANDER.= Rise of ecclesiastical control in Quebec. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.75 Longmans 277.1 16-22304

“The book tells how the economic, ethnic, and political conditions
which have prevailed in the province of Quebec led up to and made
possible the strategic position of the Roman Catholic church in
Canada. The aim of the author, to use his own words, is ‘to present
sufficient source material to afford the general reader a basis upon
which to form an adequate judgment of the sociological and historical
origins in Quebec which have been responsible in a large part for the
present racial situation in Canada as a whole ... and to show their
relation to the growth of the church itself.’”—J Pol Econ

“The author has examined the marriage registers in more than eighteen
hundred cases and finds that the colonists, so far as these records
give indication, came with a fair degree of evenness from all over
France. This is data which the historian of the future cannot afford
to overlook. The real service of the book is performed in the last two
chapters, where there is more attention to history and less to
sociology. The early rise of church influence in the affairs of New
France and its later decline during the first half of the eighteenth
century are traced out with care and clearness. The position of the
church when Quebec passed into British hands ... all these things are
explained fully and with judicious temper. While Dr Riddell has used
good materials, the tendency to be inaccurate in little things is a
serious blemish.” W: B. Munro

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:720 Ap ‘17 650w

“This book throws much light on the present socio-political situation
in Canada. The barrier that has grown up between the English- and
French-speaking people, largely through the instrumentality of the
church, promises to be one of the most serious control problems which
the dominion government has to face.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:636 Je ‘17 500w

“Even in a field adorned by the brilliant pens of Parkman and Fiske
the work before us must take a very high place from its sound
scholarship, abundant references to authorities, and good writing. ...
Dr Riddell’s book can never be ignored by any serious student of the
history of this continent.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 280w

=RIDDELL, WILLIAM RENWICK.= Constitution of Canada in its history and practical working. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 342 17-15183

“An interesting study of the constitution of Canada in its historical
and practical aspects. ... A full comparison of the Canadian
constitution with that of the United States shows very clearly the
differences between the two systems. The book is written with as
little technical language as the nature of the study permits.”
(Ontario Library Review) “Each of the four lectures has a full and
valuable appendix, containing much material which the requirements of
the lecture platform apparently prevented from being included in the
body of the work.” (Springf’d Republican)

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

“So far as his own land is concerned the author is on sure ground; but
his knowledge of constitutional law as administered by the courts in
this country is by no means of the same high order.” W: B. Munro

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:781 N ‘17 480w

“The brevity of the book is such that only an outline of historical
development is possible. Furthermore, the subject is treated with a
nonlegal audience always in mind. The student of history and
government, as well as the student of law, will gain little from the
volume. Generalizations are indulged in with much freedom, and some
are open to question.”

+ — =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 180w

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:109 My ‘17 50w

“Justice Riddell is to be thanked for his painstaking and highly
simplified summary of Canada’s history and present government. It
begins where the majority of educated Americans will find a beginning
desirable—at very elementary facts. Students of jurisprudence will be
particularly interested in Justice Riddell’s views on the decision of
the Supreme court in the Dartmouth college case, which are quoted in
full in an appendix.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 2 ‘17 830w

=RIDER, BERTHA CARR.= Greek house; its history and development from the Neolithic period to the Hellenistic age. il *$3.25 Putnam 722 16-24977

“The excavations of recent years in Crete, Asia Minor, Delos and other
islands, and the Greek mainland, have brought to light a wealth of
material for the study of house-planning in Greece both prehistoric
and historic. Unfortunately, this material is least abundant for the
period when we most of all desire it—the classical epoch of the fifth
and fourth centuries B.C. On the other hand, it is remarkably copious
in the period which begins with the dawn of civilization in the
Aegean, and ends on the threshold of the Homeric age. ... Miss Rider
has endeavoured to embrace within her grasp the whole of this
material, and to bridge the central gap by means of literary
evidence.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =Dial= 61:482 N 30 ‘16 130w

“The chapter on Homeric palaces is of especial value to the student,
with its discussion of Homeric terms and phrases.”

=Lit D= 54:204 Ja 27 ‘17 250w

“The principal value of the book lies not in its advocacy of a theory,
but in the excellent summary which it presents of a large special
literature, mostly scattered in periodicals. ... Miss Rider shows the
specialist’s fondness for technical terms, which may occasionally
prove an obstacle to the non-professional reader. On the whole,
however, the book is extremely well written. ... We must register one
protest—against the price of the book, which seems excessive for a
volume of this size, illustrated only with line cuts.”

* + =Nation= 104:191 F 15 ‘17 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17

=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 20w

“By no possibility can it ever be a popular book; it is far too
specialized and technical in its scope and treatment. ... There can be
no question about the research and scholarship that have gone to its
making. ... Miss Rider is doubtless writing for fellow archæologists
as learned as herself—for the already converted, to whom her unadorned
statements of fact will seem more excellent than any charm of style.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup607 N 18 ‘16 400w

“Her presentation of the facts is clear and accurate, and the plans
with which her text is illustrated are well chosen, nothing essential
being omitted.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 7 ‘16 850w

=RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.= Madame Prince. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-24204

Madame Prince is a dressmaker in a London suburb. She is a capable and
level-headed business woman and the mother of four children. We are
told something of her early struggles, but these are past when the
story opens. The three girls are old enough to act as their mother’s
assistants in the shop and Richard, the boy, is finishing school. The
cares that meet Madame Prince as the story progresses are those of the
mother of grown-up children, and they spring largely from the
unconscious selfishness of youth. But there are joys that compensate.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17

“A superfluity of detail is noticeable, and there are some trivial
incidents; but a bright tone predominates, and much of the book is
true to life. The novel is amusing, and a good example of the author’s
style.”

+ =Ath= p481 O ‘16 70w

“Quiet as the humor of the book is, it is also compelling.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 400w

“Mme Prince wins and holds the reader’s sympathy, holds it from the
first page to the last. ... The story is related with a good deal of
humor and charm. ... It is life as a very, very great number of
people—the majority, perhaps—know it, which is portrayed so deftly and
so veraciously in these pages.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 450w

“We see Madame Prince clearly, she is the mother woman existing only
for her children. The children exist only for her, but in another
sense; we do not see them clearly, because the author confines himself
to describing such actions of theirs as throw light on the mother’s
character, without confining himself further to such as are mutually
consistent. ... Mr Pett Ridge has another bait in addition to his
story, and that is his gift for writing crisp dialogue.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 400w

=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Militant America and Jesus Christ. *65c (8c) Houghton 172.4 17-31542

The author of “The Syrian Christ” has written this book to show that
Jesus Christ would not have been a non-resistant in the present war.
He says, “I do not so know Christ. I do not believe the New Testament
presents such a hopelessly and helplessly neutral Christ.” Such
pacific sentiments as “Blessed are the peacemakers” were the
utterances of normal times and are no more to be taken as an
expression of an attitude toward war than were the pacific sermons and
baccalaureate addresses common in America a decade ago. These later
authors have now been put to a test which Jesus was never called on to
face, since no such crisis as the present arose in his day. The author
feels that after an examination of other New Testament passages, “even
a pacifist must see that while our gospel is a message of peace, it is
not a message of helpless submission to rapacious aggressors.”

“A vigorous answer to those pacifists who seek to entrench themselves
behind the teachings of Jesus.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 110w

“It bears eloquent evidence of the value of much in little. Mr
Rihbany’s book is eloquent and convincing. If converts are possible,
it will make them.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 1600w

“In his eagerness to make our divine Saviour the more human and the
more understandable to others, Mr Rihbany appears to have thrown up a
lot of Syrian dust through which it is not always easy to see clearly
the Christ who is divine. His interpretation of Christ lacks
authority; the Christ he pictures for his readers lacks authority. And
of what use to soldiers or to anyone else, to men seeking the light,
is a Christ who lacks authority, who cannot lead or command.”

— =Cath World= 106:687 F ‘18 160w

“One of the most convincing answers that has been made to the belief
that Jesus was a pacifist.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 360w

=RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.= Name of Old Glory. il *$1.25 Bobbs 811 17-17072

A collection of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems of patriotism, with an
appreciation of the poet by Booth Tarkington. Only three of the twenty
selections are in the familiar Indiana dialect—“The old man and Jim,”
“Thoughts on the late war,” and “Decoration day on the place.”

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

=RILEY, W.= Way of the winepress. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam

“This is the story of the firm of Messrs Middleton, weavers, in a
Yorkshire town and in a village of the Dales; but, though the
vicissitudes of the business are vividly told as from a personal
experience, yet the core of the chronicle is in the inner vicissitudes
of David Middleton and those who by fate or his own impulse have been
gathered round him. Chief amongst these are the story teller, Louis,
and the slum girl, Victoria Smith, both of whom are characters well
worth studying, and both form contrasts not only to each other but to
the stern impetuosity of David. ... David, tender and even quixotic at
heart, accepts every reverse as a direct discipline from God. ... ‘The
way of the winepress’ must be passed unaided and alone, and no human
counsel of affection dare soften it. Contrasted with this disciple of
the wrath of God is the unorthodox disciple of the love of God,
Truman, who opens the doors of learning to Louis and Victoria, and in
the end opens the door of love to David.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
The action takes place more than thirty years ago.

“‘The way of the winepress is the way of loving sacrifice,’ and it
becomes, if the author is to be believed, a way of joy for all who
tread it.”

=N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 270w

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:120 My ‘17 70w

“The background of the book, wherein a number of simple and some very
delightful characters have their place, is full of reflection. The
plot is small and at times almost oddly simple, but there is an
unstrained human interest in the characters and their setting which
gives to the whole some of that gentle dignity which the writer has
found amongst the ample hills and woods and streams where his scenes
are laid.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 500w

=RINDER, FRANK=, comp. Royal Scottish academy, 1826-1916. il *42s Maclehose & sons, Glasgow 708.2

“The chief part of this massive volume consists of a complete list of
works by Raeburn and by members (honorary included) and associates of
the Royal Scottish academy exhibited between the years 1808 and 1916
at the exhibitions held by the institutions which preceded the academy
and those of the academy itself from 1827 onwards, and in this list a
special note is made of any works that have passed into public
galleries. The list has been compiled under the direction of Mr Frank
Rinder with the sanction of the president and council, and a narrative
filling nearly a hundred pages, tracing the origin and development of
the academy, is contributed by Mr W. D. McKay, one of its principal
officers.” (Int Studio) Mr Rinder also contributes an essay.

“If Mr Rinder’s task does not evoke from the living all the gratitude
which its accomplishment deserves, he may be sure that in years to
come there will always be some who in profiting by his labours will
not fail to acknowledge their indebtedness.”

=Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 300w

“It is a pity that this useful book could not have been produced in a
more convenient form. A quarto of nearly 500 pages is difficult to
handle.”

* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 600w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Altar of freedom. *50c (12c) Houghton 355.7 17-14707

An appeal to mothers to sacrifice their sons willingly on “the altar
of freedom.” “Personal service,” the author says, “is not rolling
bandages for the other woman’s son.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“She has herself been to the war countries and was allowed to see far
more than most Americans have seen of what war has meant. ... She
writes emphatically of the necessity of proper training for the
soldier.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 250w

“Mary Roberts Rinehart writes whereof she knows when in ‘The altar of
freedom’ she tells the mothers of this land why and how their sons
must enter this war. One of her sons has gone, the other two will go
if, when they are old enough, they are needed. She has seen the war
close at hand and her unflinching words are born not of theory and
imagination, but of facts.”

+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

“The book is very direct, very quiet, very moving. And it is simple
and patriotic and brave.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 270w

“Article in the Saturday Evening Post April 21, but more usable in
this little book form.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:213 Jl ‘17 50w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Bab: a sub-deb. il *$1.40 (2c) Doran 17-14952

Bab, the sub-debutante, tells her own story, describing most
touchingly the sorrows of a girl whose family still looks on her as a
child. Coming home for her Christmas holidays, Bab, who is seventeen,
realizes the tragic position of a younger sister. She is snubbed and
patronized, until, moved by desperation and a desire to make herself
seem of importance, she invents a lover and a love affair, with
violets addressed to herself and a photograph of an unknown young man
to give a touch of reality to the fiction. The results are all that
she desires, and more. This is the first episode of the book. There
are five in all, including extracts from Bab’s diary.

“Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read a little at a
time.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“An attempt to picture in a humorous manner the young American girl of
the same age as Mr Tarkington’s hero. But it is not nearly so simple,
so subtle or so true to life as its prototype, and the pleasant
domestic charm of ‘Seventeen’ is absent from its pages. ... You feel
the lack of a pleasant attitude.” J. F. S.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 470w

“The stilted English in which she expresses her ‘lofty thoughts’ while
amusing lends a touch of artificiality to the stories.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 70w

“This is a book that mothers and fathers of girls ought to read, for
it will help to enlighten them. Also, they, and all others, will find
it the most clever and amusing of all Mrs Rinehart’s books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 670w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w

“A lively and often humorous, but artificial picture of the adolescent
school girl.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 250w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Long live the king! il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-24814

This romantic tale reminds the reader both of Hope’s “Prisoner of
Zenda” and of Mrs Burnett’s “Lost prince.” Prince Ferdinand William
Otto, the ten year old hero, is a dear little boy, whose three great
desires when he becomes king are that he may have a dog, that his
cousin Hedwig may marry the man she loves, and that he, Ferdinand
William Otto, may be “a good king like Abraham Lincoln.” The love
interest in the story is supplied by the Princess Hedwig, Lieutenant
Nikky Larisch, and Karl, king of Karnia. A mild revolutionary flavor
is given by the “Committee of ten.”

“Exciting, wholesome and will be popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w

“The essential touch which makes the charm of the story lies in the
character of the little Otto.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 630w

+ =Cath World= 106:552 Ja ‘18 130w

=Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 110w

“There has never been a better picture of the cruel contrast between
court life and the heart of youth than this tale of a prince in a
petty European monarchy who tries to extract a little boyish fun from
a choking atmosphere of foreign intrigue, Nihilist conspiracy,
ceremonious etiquet and cold-blooded statecraft. ... All of the
characters of the book are real human beings.”

+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 340w

“It may be described as a Zenda story ‘with a difference.’ It lacks
the usual conquering Anglo-Saxon, his nearest representative being a
small American boy who inadvertently gives a happy turn to affairs at
the critical moment. Here is a tale of humor as well as sentiment:
towards the end it imposes a somewhat larger burden upon the
good-humored credulity of the reader than the traffic need be called
upon to bear.”

+ — =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 340w

“The tale is highly romantic, it possesses a complicated plot, there
is much and constant action, and if there is little humor, its loss is
made good by much sentiment. ... The author has written a story that
is different from any of the others of that sort, and has made it
plausible, interesting, and appealing. The figure of the Crown Prince
is particularly appealing in its wistfulness, its lovableness, and its
real manliness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 710w

“Otto is a natural and friendly chap even if he is a prince, and his
adventures with his American boy acquaintance are jolly.”

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w

“An engaging but rather pathetic story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 270w

=RIVES, HALLIE ERMINIE (MRS POST WHEELER).= Long lane’s turning. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-22567

Henry Sevier, the brilliant young southern lawyer, knew that his
besetting sin was his dependence upon stimulants at times of crisis.
Only one other knew this—Cameron Craig, the head of the liquor trust
and Sevier’s rival for the hand of Echo Allen. Craig had another
weapon—an old letter, the publication of which could bring scandal
upon the Allen family. How Craig trades upon these two secrets and
enmeshes Sevier in a net, how Sevier wins out both from his own
weakness and the ruthlessness of his rival, is told in a series of
vivid chapters.

“Published in the Red Book under title, ‘The heart of a man.’”

=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

“Drink is the theme underlying the somewhat artificial structure of
‘The long lane’s turning.’ It is a story of romantic contrivance based
upon the working out of a preconceived idea. ... Yet whatever
flimsiness may be discerned in the plot there is none in the style.”
H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:98 S ‘17 300w

“A melodramatic temperance novel, so far as its style and
characterization are concerned. ... The story moves at a brisk pace,
and is entertaining.”

=N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 220w

“Melodrama with a vengeance.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 290w

=ROBBINS, EDWARD J.=, comp. Universal drill manual. il *$1 Sherwood co. 355 17-16555

A complete résumé of the really necessary and important points which
should be the common knowledge of every private, compiled from
strictly official sources by a captain in the Major officers reserve
corps, with illustrations from the same sources.

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 50w

=ROBERTSON, ERIC SUTHERLAND.= Bible’s prose epic of Eve and her sons. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 222 (Eng ed A17-80)

The author has made a study of those parts of Genesis attributed to
the authorship of “J.” The opening of Genesis is the work of “P.” J’s
narrative breaks in with the fourth verse of the second chapter. Mr
Robertson says, “The writer known as J has a narrower outlook on the
cosmos than P, but it is a more human, a more sunny outlook. This
writer or editor is, like Herodotus, a gatherer of legends at old
shrines.” The text of the “J” narrative is given in an appendix.

“What we know is that the book tells us what would have been Mr
Robertson’s mind if he himself had written the ‘J’ document. And that
is enough to make the book like a charming work of fiction.” G. LaP.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 900w

“On reading the book, one gets the impression that all this
paraphernalia of scholarship is merely a passport to recommend the
book to modern readers, while the author’s real interest lies in
moralizing and exegesis of the time-honored variety which allows one
to deduce anything under the sun from no matter what text.”

– + =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 500w

“There is no doubt that the book is very good reading, partly, we
think, because Mr Robertson writes so very well. The story as he tells
it reminds us very much of the Bible, partly again because of the
identity of the names.”

=Spec= 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 650w

“Mr Robertson brings to bear on his task an alert and unconventional
intelligence.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p323 Jl 6 ‘16 180w

“Literary criticism should welcome in this book an original, gallant,
and successful attempt to turn to the account of poetry some of the
results of scholarship in a field where it has been said science was
destroying everything spiritual and inspiring. ... Mr Robertson brings
out the inherent romance and the inherent primitive theology in these
old tales. We get from his book a sense of geographical values which
readers of the Bible too seldom feel. ... He has based his
speculations upon sound scholarship.” G: M. Harper

+ =Yale R= n s 6:415 Ja ‘17 700w

=ROBERTSON, LIONEL, and O’DONNELL, THOMAS CLAY.= Healthful house. il $2 Good health pub. co. 640 17-16902

“The authors of this book have not confined themselves to details of
hygiene and sanitation, as these terms are commonly understood. They
have attempted rather to emphasize ‘the health importance of beautiful
colors and beautiful lines and masses, beautiful wall and floor
coverings, equally with fresh air and light—in short, to present to
the reader a house that is healthful because it satisfies the demands
of hygienic and esthetic sense alike.’”—R of Rs

“The discussion of interior fitments is sane and informative.”

+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 220w

=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 70w

+ =St Louis= 15:369 O ‘17 20w

=ROBINSON, CYRIL EDWARD.= Days of Alkibiades; with a foreword by Prof. C. W. Oman. il *$1.50 Longmans 913.38 (Eng ed 17-26255)

“One of the criticisms most frequently made on the teaching of Greek
and Latin is that it teaches the pupil to deal very cleverly with
words, but tells him nothing about things. ... Mr Robinson’s book
represents an attempt—and a surprisingly successful attempt—to provide
the modern schoolboy and general reader with the background of things,
for lack of which classical teaching in the past has so often been
dull and dead. ... The result is a series of sketches of the various
phases of Greek life which are not only lightly and charmingly
written, but also embody on innumerable points of detail the result of
the latest researches.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 13:311 Ap ‘17

“The book is an entertaining mixture of known facts and acknowledged
romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 250w

“The book reads like a romance. A boy will learn more from these
sketches, as the author modestly styles them, than from many a
ponderous, old-fashioned textbook.”

+ =Cath World= 105:410 Je ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

“Gilds the pill of Greek antiquities more attractively, than does
Bekker’s ‘Charikles’ or the ‘Alkibiades’ of C. H. Bromely. Out of
actual or possible scenes from the life of Alcibiades he has composed
a sequence of readable chapters that covers the chief topics of
Athenian private and public life strung on a thread of story that adds
interest without distracting the reader’s attention. ... Many of the
descriptions are admirably clear and vivid. ... The illustrations
based on the author’s sketches, whatever their artistic merits, are
well adapted to the purpose of visualizing and schematizing precisely
the information that the reader needs and the student may remember.
They cannot, of course, take the place of the two-hundred and
sixty-three authentic reproductions from the monuments in Professor
Gulick’s ‘Greek antiquities.’ The book is one of the best companions
to the reading of the Greek classics that we have met in many a day.
It makes Greek life ‘seem real.’”

+ =Nation= 105:266 S 6 ‘17 500w

=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 40w

“He is sound in scholarship; he bases his scenes on actual events and
anecdotes. ... His style is agreeable, but a little elaborate.”

+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 220w

“Our only serious criticism of his book is that, while unconventional
in his scheme, he is almost too conscientious in the use of his
material.”

* + =Spec= 117:478 O 21 ‘16 1100w

“Mr Robinson is not only a very careful and well-read scholar, but he
has made the rare imaginative effort to realize his knowledge; and he
has laid the reader under an additional obligation by being modest
enough not to flaunt it. ... A volume like this is a challenge, not a
‘work of reference.’ The value of the book is enhanced by some skilful
pieces of translation and a series of drawings.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 450w

=ROBINSON, EDGAR EUGENE, and WEST, VICTOR J.=[2] Foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917. *$1.75 Macmillan 327.73 17-31893

The aim of the authors has been “to present an account of the
development of the policy followed by Woodrow Wilson in dealing with
the foreign relations of the United States during the years 1913-1917,
and to provide in convenient form the more important statements of the
president and his secretaries of state in announcing and carrying
forward that policy.” The authors point to a fuller understanding of
the president’s policy to be gained from an examination of the earlier
period of his administration and furnish ample excerpts from his
speeches and messages. The three divisions of the subject treated are:
The development of the policy; More important events in American
foreign relations; More important utterances of the administration.

“The treatment of the subject is both comprehensive and detailed. It
is also clearly reasoned and judicially presented. For the book is in
no sense the work of uncritical, enthusiastic admiration. ... The book
must be especially recommended to those casual readers and superficial
thinkers who allow themselves to be unduly influenced by headlines in
newspapers and the flippant comment of ‘the man in the street.’ The
work deserves every praise, also, for the clear succinct logical
manner in which its analytical discussion is carried on. Every help is
afforded the reader for intelligent investigation of the subject.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:1 Ja 6 ‘18 1950w

“The work is an admirable piece of bookmaking, and its reference value
is great.”

+ =Outlook= 118:114 Ja 16 ‘18 100w

=ROBINSON, EDWARD LEVI.= 1816-1916; one hundred years of savings banking. 50c Am. bankers’ assn. 332 17-13470

“This little volume, comprising twenty-nine pages of text and sixty
pages of bibliography, has been prepared under the direction of the
Savings bank section of the American bankers’ association. The text is
written by Mr Edward L. Robinson, vice-president of a savings bank in
Baltimore, and the bibliography prepared by Marian A. Glenn, librarian
of the American bankers’ association [and Ina Clement]. ... The topics
covered by the bibliography are as follows: Thrift and savings;
Individual thrift; Domestic thrift; Evidences of thriftlessness;
Economics of thrift; Industrial thrift; Business thrift; Banking
thrift; National thrift; International thrift; Thrift agencies;
Nation-wide thrift movement inaugurated to celebrate centennial
anniversary of savings banks in America.”—J Pol Econ

“The volume is chiefly valuable for the extensive bibliography.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:760 Jl ‘17 160w

“This is a timely little book. The bibliography, covering the whole
subject of thrift and a number of allied topics, is not altogether
successful.” B. L.

+ — =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 360w

=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Merlin. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-8576

Mr Robinson has retold the story of Arthur, Merlin and Vivian,
altering the outlines of the traditional tale very little, but reading
new meanings into the situation. He has chosen for the time of his
narrative, the eve of the downfall of Arthur’s court. Merlin, after
the ten years spent with Vivian in Broceliande, has returned with the
purpose of again lending Arthur his counsel, but in thinking out the
problem he comes to see that he must turn back without seeing the
king, leaving him to the fate he has prepared for himself.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“His people are as strongly individualized and speak as naturally as
though their author had been putting them into a novel instead of into
a narrative poem of mediæval setting. This brings their problems much
closer to the reader. ... Mr Robinson has always deservedly been
placed by critics among the few of our really great poets. He is a
very complete master of his art.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 31 ‘17 550w

“On the whole, in spite of Mr Robinson’s literary power, we prefer the
terrors of ‘mid-Victorian morality’ and the symbolism of the ‘Idylls
of the king.’”

+ — =Cath World= 106:255 N ‘17 400w

“One must feel it was a malicious elf that suggested Arthurian romance
as a subject for Mr Robinson’s pen. The subject is new to him, but his
method and manner are unchanged. Subject and method do not harmonize.
Upon a style which has shaped itself in the delineation of modern
types of mind—complex, eccentric, intensely individualized—is laid the
task of depicting certain very unmodern characters which throughout a
long and august tradition have been treated as simple, conventional,
naïve. The result, in less skilful hands, would have been
burlesque. ... Mr Robinson resembles his own Merlin, who has much to
say about what he has seen and known without giving much notion of
what it is, and who seems to rely upon our remembrance that he has
been impressive in other scenes.” Odell Shepard

– + =Dial= 63:339 O 11 ‘17 1500w

“It is pleasant to take up Merlin and read as one reads mere
poetry. ... Mr Robinson in ‘Merlin’ has plainly felt his work in
Tennyson’s quality. It is clear at once that the style, and often the
quality, are very like Tennyson’s. In ‘Merlin’ there is more
smoothness, more expected proportions, leisure and fluency [than in
much of Mr Robinson’s] previous work and less of that effect of rather
trenchant rhythm, of brusque acumen and passionate shrewdness, and of
a kind of analytical excitement for the mind, that have made a
distinguishing quality in his poetry.” S. Y.

+ =New Repub= 12:250 S 29 ‘17 1650w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:78 My ‘17

“It is not a great poem, though its failure is not intrinsic in its
subject. The subject simply betrays more openly than a modern one
certain defects in the author. He has neither the singing magic of the
old school nor the swift, egotistic vitality of the new. He is a
respectable poet, but he is heavy.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 490w

“The state of the modern world is subtly symbolized in this fine poem,
which has amazing beauty of texture and ventures a new philosophy.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 90w

“Of all our modern writers, Mr Robinson most resembles Meredith, never
in his technique or in his choice of subjects, but in the solidity of
his work and in the sense of intellectual force. Much of our
contemporary verse is painfully thin; here the foundations are dug
deep. ... Each volume of Mr Robinson’s deepens the conviction that he
is our foremost American poet.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 6:863 Jl ‘17 350w

=ROBINSON, HARRY PERRY.= Turning point; the battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-18381

“This account of the battle of the Somme is written by the official
correspondent of the London Times. In preparing it he has used his
dispatches to his paper as a basis, and so has made a consecutive
narrative of the operations of the British troops in that action. He
explains that he has made only incidental reference to the
co-operation of the French troops because he was not sufficiently
familiar with their share of the battle to write about it. His
narrative covers the four and a half months from the 1st of July,
1916, to the middle of November.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18

“Mr Robinson has here told the story of the British part in it as well
as it has yet been done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 260w

“He strikes his own note, which is a more matter-of-fact note than
that sounded by Mr Gibbs. ... He can tell either a plain or an
exciting story lucidly, picturesquely, eloquently, and thrillingly
when the need is; and where he has to speak of the larger issues, he
judges soberly. ... The book is full of good stories in all veins, and
will take its place as a most satisfactory popular history of one of
the most important episodes of the war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 700w

=ROBINSON, LAWRENCE EUGENE.= Domestic architecture. il *$1.50 Macmillan 728 17-12502

This book tells how to plan, build and furnish a house and how to
arrange the grounds. It is illustrated with diagrams, gives a glossary
of architectural terms, and at the end of each chapter, references for
further reading.

=A L A Bkl= 13:437 Jl ‘17

=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w

“A non-technical, well-balanced treatment.”

+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 50w

“An elementary book, useful to those building or remodeling their own
homes.”

+ =Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w

“This book has to do almost altogether with the simple, every-day
things about the house, and its suggestions are meant as much for the
owner and builder as for the professional architect.”

=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 10w

=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Plunder. il *$1.35 (2c) Bobbs 17-9706

The three richest men in the United States meet together in one room.
One controls coal, one transportation, one the food supply. An
agreement is drawn up and their signatures are added. A gust of wind
flips the paper out of the window! By chance it falls first in

“The tale is more commonplace and not nearly so ingenious or
interesting as are ‘Loot’ and ‘Plunder,’ but it is entertaining.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 320w

“A sensational story, exciting, but not as carefully wrought out as
one or two of the author’s previous books.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 40w

“Mr Roche displays much intimacy with the technic of the track and the
betting ring, and ingeniously bares the methods that may be employed
in turning racing and betting into dishonest channels. Altogether, it
is one of the best racing stories that have appeared in a long time.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 320w

=ROCKWELL, FREDERICK FRYE.= Around the year in the garden. il *$1.75 (1½c) Macmillan 635 17-24266

“A seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and
flowers, and under glass.” (Sub-title) Altho the author begins with
the first of January and follows the year around, week by week, he
insists very strongly that gardening can not be done according to any
such set scheme and warns the reader against following the directions
of the book blindly. “Let the gardener, then, read this book with a
diligent eye for such advice and suggestions as he can apply to his
own problems; ... for the real work, like the profit there may be and
the pleasure there is sure to be, must belong to the gardener, and
cannot be put between the covers of a book.” (Introd.) The book is
designed for the busy man and woman who garden in the spare time
afforded between other occupations.

=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w

“The clearest and most helpful kind of information for the busy man or
woman who wants to get ready for next year’s gardening.”

+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 70w

=ROGERS, ALLEN=, ed. Elements of industrial chemistry. il *$3 Van Nostrand 660 16-23460

“This volume is an abridgment of a larger book entitled ‘Manual of
industrial chemistry,’ a work which was written by forty eminent
specialists in chemical engineering. In its almost 500 pages of text
it covers widely, but perhaps not deeply, the whole field of
industrial chemistry.”—Coal Age

=A L A Bkl= 13:277 Mr ‘17

“The book will be of value chiefly to those who have not affiliated
themselves with any particular industry and who want a generalized
view of the whole field.”

+ =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 350w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 30w

“The matter is descriptive and not detailed enough to be of value to
the works chemist, but would be understandable to the average reader
interested in the subject. ... Dr Rogers is in charge of industrial
chemistry, Pratt institute, Brooklyn.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w

=ROGERS, ALLEN.= Laboratory guide of industrial chemistry. 2d ed il *$2 Van Nostrand 660 17-25806

“In presenting this thoroughly revised edition, the author has
endeavored to make the laboratory experiments touch more closely upon
present-day problems than was possible in the first edition. ... In
many instances, it will be noticed that the methods are those in
common use at the present time, and, whenever possible, actual factory
practice has been followed.” (Preface) Contents: General processes;
Inorganic preparations; Organic preparations; Dyeing of textile
fibers; Pigments and lakes; Driers, varnishes, paints and stains; Soap
and allied products; Leather manufacture; Wood fiber, pulp and paper;
Useful data.

=ROGERS, JULIA ELLEN.= Trees worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 582 17-13206

The introduction is addressed directly to the beginner in tree study,
for whom this book has been prepared. Part 1 is a discussion of The
life of the trees, and the remainder of the book is devoted to
descriptions for purposes of identification. There are sixteen
illustrations in color and numerous others in black and white.

“A compromise between the author’s comprehensive ‘Tree book’ and her
small ‘Tree Guide,’ recently published. Of a convenient size to carry
about for purposes of identification.”

+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 200w

=ROGERS, LINDSAY.= America’s case against Germany. *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 17-19161

“A good, brief account of the origin and development of the
controversy which became the immediate cause of war between the United
States and Germany. The author furnishes in this book a chronological
record of the Wilson policy. His method is narrative and explanatory,
not critical or defensive. ... He treats the points of international
law involved, briefly and untechnically, particularly with regard to
the submarine as a new weapon, the status of armed merchant ships, the
problem of munition exports, and the difference between the English
and the German ‘blockade.’”—R of Rs

“Clear and non-technical, it explains many misjudged and
misrepresented points at issue.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

“The author of this volume is convinced that there is a real need for
the average loyal American to understand that the legal grounds of our
contentions with Germany are as much of the code of international law
as the moral grounds are of the ethical code of Christendom. ... The
book is written in untechnical language, but the case is argued with
the care of one who has mastered international law, and the result
that our position is legally correct is fully proved.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 580w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

=N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 800w

=Pittsburgh= 22:764 N ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 110w

=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Hand of Fu-Manchu (Eng title, Si-Fan mysteries). *$1.35 (2c) McBride 17-14178