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=BELL, JOHN KEBLE (KEBLE HOWARD, pseud.).= Smiths in war time. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-30282

This story, by the author of “The Smiths of Surbiton,” “The Smiths of
Valley View,” etc. is written in a lighter vein than most of the
novels dealing with England in war-time. It tells us how Mr Smith,
aged seventy-three, and his devoted wife, tried to help their country;
how they rented their pleasant villa at Surbiton and attempted to live
in a cottage; how they decided to dismiss Edith, one of the three
maids who kept them so comfortable; how Mr Smith tried to observe a
meatless day and fell into temptation; how he tried to drill for home
service; and how “young George,” the Smith’s idolized grandson, was
“reported missing” but returned in safety by aeroplane to his anxious
relatives.

“The book is written with a thoroughly delightful mixture of humor and
pathos; if we laugh at Mr Smith, it is very tenderly, and we are all
the fonder of him for his whimsies and absurdities, just as his wise,
sweet wife was. They are people we are glad to know, quiet, simple,
human, ‘ordinary,’ and very lovable people, with something big and
fine in them underneath it all.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 550w

“A charming story; an epitome of the spirit that is making the
sacrifices and upholding the nation’s determination that the
sacrifices shall not be in vain.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 300w

=BELL, RALPH W.=[2] Canada in war-paint. il *$1.25 Dutton 940.91 17-13337

“‘Canada in war paint’ is a series of sketches, mostly of the humorous
type, of the Canadian forces across the water. Its author, Capt. Ralph
W. Bell, dedicates its pages to the ‘officers, N. C. O.’s and men of
the 1st Canadian infantry battalion, Ontario regiment,’ of which he is
a member. He has striven to portray types rather than individuals, or
as he himself puts it in the preface to give ‘vignettes of things as
they struck me at the time, and later.’”—Springf’d Republican

“Among the brightest and most cheerful of the war stories from the men
at the front is this crisp and relishing offering. Only a small
portion is devoted to the rough and cruel side.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 150w

“Captain Bell writes light-heartedly, and makes the best of the
everyday events of life in the war zone, in the somewhat fragmentary
jottings which he calls ‘Canada in war paint,’ but there is pathos,
too, intermingled with the humor of his book.”

+ =Sat R= 123:556 Je 16 ‘17 310w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 130w

=BELLAMY, FRANCIS R.= Balance. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-4706

The author has told the true story of S. Sydney Tappan, playwright,
who in the later days of his fame was made the subject of an adulatory
biography. To the author, the hero is always Sammy Tappan, never S.
Sydney. He was always Sammy to Carrie Schroeder too. When Sammy went
to New York to win fame, Carrie remained at home in Melchester, but
because she was a modern young woman, requiring a purpose in life, she
went into a settlement. In the settlement Carrie came face to face
with reality. She learned many things, one of them that men do not
throw dynamite for the fun of it. From this background she goes to see
Sammy’s first play, his brilliant, shallow and suggestive “Lady in the
lion skin.” The shock of this play to her newly awakened social
conscience and the hopelessly diverging viewpoint which it discloses
leads to the break between her and Sammy. It is not bridged until
Sammy, thru suffering and defeat and personal contact with the
monster, Poverty, learns to see things as she does and to use his
talent for better ends.

“Above and beyond the story itself, it is the fine spirit of humanity
pervading the book that makes it notable. It is free from didacticism
and sermonizing; it presents no programme, but it is lighted with the
flame of a great conviction and charged with human sympathy and
emotion.” J. T. Gerould

+ =Bellman= 22:160 F 10 ‘17 600w

“The book is full of charm and as a whole rings true.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:95 Mr ‘17 550w

“If his first novel is any index of those to come, he is an author who
bids fair to make his mark in American fiction.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 300w

“You will rarely find in the writers of this country such poise, and
justifiable assurance, and true sense of proportion. ... The finest
thing about this exceptional novel is the masterly way in which the
author has evolved his characters through the actions and incidents
rendered inevitable by those characters themselves. It is this
conviction of truth that remains to exhilarate, long after the story
has been finished.” Ruth McIntire

+ =Dial= 62:102 F 8 ‘17 1150w

“The story is logical and true to life.”

+ =Ind= 90:256 My 5 ‘17 190w

+ =Nation= 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 350w

“Mr Bellamy has, indeed, a decided gift for character drawing,
and most of his people are clearly sketched, definitely
individualized. ... ‘The balance’ is a first novel, and the plot
is not always well handled.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:24 Ja 21 ‘17 500w

“Mr Bellamy has something serious to say, and at the same time he
writes a story which will probably attract a large market.” Joseph
Mosher

+ =Pub W= 91:207 Ja 20 ‘17 450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 500w

=BEMAN, LAMAR TANEY=, comp. Selected articles on prohibition of the liquor traffic. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d and rev ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 178 17-12265

A second edition of the debaters’ handbook on Prohibition containing
new material. The first edition was published in 1915, since which
time prohibition has made great gains. Among the new reprints are
articles for the affirmative by Arthur Capper and William J. Bryan and
articles for the negative by John Koren and Rev. J. A. Homan.

=A L A Bkl= 13:456 Jl ‘17

=BENAVENTE Y MARTINEZ, JACINTO.= Plays; tr. from the Spanish, with an introd., by J: Garrett Underhill; authorized ed. *$1.50 Scribner 862 17-14040

“The plays chosen are not the best known. But they are well selected
to show the author’s wide range. They are all recent and illustrative
of Benavente’s latest manner. The first, ‘His widow’s husband,’ is a
farcical depiction of social and political life in a provincial town.
‘The bonds of interest’ is an ingenious, modern adaptation of the old
Italian comedy of masks. Crispin, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon
discourse airily on important themes. ... ‘The evil doers of good’
flagellates the busybodies of a small village, who, under the guise of
philanthropy, work harm with their meddlesome interference in the
affairs of others. ... ‘La malquerida’ is not a thesis-drama like the
rest, but a peasant play after the manner of Guimerá.”—Nation

“Well selected to represent the author’s wide range and latest
manner.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:119 Ja ‘18

“Mr Underhill does yeoman’s service in the cause of the Spanish stage,
showing us how very much we have to learn in America from dramatists
already popular in Spain and South America.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 46:607 Ja ‘18 100w

“Mr Underhill’s translation is fluent and generally satisfactory.
Occasionally he uses ‘misery’ where ‘poverty’ seems to be the word—a
common mistake in translating French and Spanish words. There are a
few passages where the sense seems to be somewhat misinterpreted. ...
But for the most part one forgets that one is reading a translation.”
N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 750w

“Had Mr Underhill presented us with only two of the four plays that
are in this volume—with ‘The bonds of interest’ and ‘La malquerida’—we
should have been inclined to accept his high estimate of the dramatic
power of Jacinto Benavente.” Padraic Colum

— =Dial= 63:393 O 25 ‘17 750w

“His psychology is more brilliant than profound, and the great
passions are beyond his power to portray. He is preëminently a
satirist. ... But tho his satire is cynically keen, it is never
bitter, and never constructive. ... The volume commends itself to a
frequent reader of printed plays for one rare virtue. These are
absolutely free from the ponderous mass of descriptions, suggestions,
interpretations and stage directions which encumber the text of so
many modern dramas. Neither characters nor settings are described at
all, and no directions are given. One is not even told the heroine’s
age. ... His peasants are not real peasants, but members of le grande
monde masquerading in poor clothes. The roughnesses and brutalities of
life are as foreign to his genius as are the great emotions.”

+ + — =Ind= 91:183 Ag 4 ‘17 460w

“Jacinto Benavente is the central figure among contemporary Spanish
dramatists, the continuator of Galdós and Echegaray. Like Galdós, he
is interested in social reform, but presents his message with a
delicate irony of which that ponderous declaimer is incapable. And if
he is less of a stage technician, in the narrow sense, than Echegaray,
he interests by his very departure from theatrical convention. In his
lightness of touch he is akin rather to Bretón de los Herreros than to
either of his more immediate predecessors. His range is surprisingly
great. He has attempted nearly every kind of play with scarcely a
failure to mark his course. ... He is chiefly known as the satirist of
modern social conditions in Spain. ... It is exceptionally difficult
to render into English an author so subtle as Benavente, one whose
effects depend so much upon lightness. Imagine Shaw in German! But Mr
Underhill has been more than successful. One detects no trace of
foreign idiom in his English. His biography of Benavente and critical
estimate of that writer’s work is the best yet attempted in English.”

* + + =Nation= 105:264 S 6 ‘17 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 260w

“Benavente is a prolific and versatile writer and it would be
impossible fully to represent his accomplishment with four plays, but
those selected for this volume are sufficiently varied in theme and
treatment to suggest the inclusiveness of his talent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 3 ‘17 380w

=BENECKE, ELSE C. M., and BUSCH, MARIE=, trs. More tales by Polish authors. *$1.50 Longmans A17-369

The first volume of “Tales by Polish authors” appeared last year. “Two
of the names that appeared in the first volume are to be found in the
second also—Adam Szymanski and Waclaw Sieroszewski; and Szymanski’s
two newly translated tales and Sieroszewski’s one take us again to
Siberia. In Szymanski’s ‘Maciej the Mazur’ and ‘Two prayers,’ the
engrossing topic is the home-sickness of the Poles in Siberia. Perhaps
the ache of home-sickness has never been so ruthlessly forced home as
it is in ‘Two prayers.’ ... The other stories are taken from authors
not included in the first volume. The longest and the most striking is
‘The returning wave,’ by Boleslaw Prus, whose real name seems to be
Alexsander Glowacki.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

=Cath World= 105:553 Jl ‘17 130w

“The short stories in ‘More tales by Polish authors’ grip from the
first to the last page by their earnestness and the power of their
different authors to portray characters quite out of the ordinary. The
style is exceptionally free from the abruptness so common in Slavic
translations.”

+ =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w

“Unfortunately, half of the first volume is taken up by a tale of
Sienkiewicz, ‘Bartek the Conqueror,’ which was already accessible.
Chief in merit among the pieces here rendered for the first time are,
perhaps, the three Siberian sketches by Szymanski. The English of the
translators is excellent, with only the very smallest traces of
foreign idiom.”

+ =Nation= 105:93 Jl 26 ‘17 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 1100w

=BENÉT, WILLIAM ROSE.= Great white wall. il *$1 Yale univ. press 811 16-24833

“Timur, the Tartar, has long been a favorite subject for literary
treatment. Marlowe wrote one of his best plays about this great,
barbaric nomad, and later Rowe made him a dramatic hero. In ‘The great
white wall’ William Rose Benét seizes upon this ancient and cruel
autocrat for the central figure of a singularly thoughtful narrative
poem. It is the story of Timur’s attack on the great wall of China,
and the story is mostly a series of pageants.”—Springf’d Republican

“In Mr Benét’s inimitable rhythmic flare.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Bookm= 45:435 Je ‘17 30w

“Elements of fantasy are happily combined with the epic story.”

+ =Ind= 89:235 F 5 ‘17 50w

“Benét, equally with Vachel Lindsay, is restoring the chant to its
proper place in modern poetry; his work is always interesting and
frequently completely successful.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 170w

+ =St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17 20w

“There is a wealth of descriptive verse here, as well as insight into
moral truths.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 24 ‘17 250w

“The poet’s metrical gifts have the fullest play here, and the verse
must be heard to be fully appreciated. Mr Benét’s powers of
description were never better used than in this tale of far-off things
and battles long ago. The book is original in its workmanship, full of
vivid description, and interesting in the life and animation that
pervades it. It is Mr Benét at his best.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 120w

=BENNETT, ARNOLD.= Books and persons; being comments on a past epoch, 1908-1911. *$2 (4c) Doran 824 17-21768

“The contents of this book have been chosen [by Hugh Walpole] from a
series of weekly articles which enlivened the New Age during the years
1908-1911, under the pseudonym ‘Jacob Tonson.’ ... Mr Frank Swinnerton
approved the selection and added to it slightly. In my turn I
suggested a few more additions. The total amounts to one-third of the
original matter. ... I have left the critical judgments alone, for the
good reason that I stand by nearly all of them, though perhaps with a
less challenging vivacity, to this day.” (Prefatory note) Some of the
authors included are: Wordsworth, Joseph Conrad, W. W. Jacobs, Anatole
France, Swinburne, Tchehkoff, Trollope, Brieux, Henry James, and Mrs
Elinor Glyn. There are also essays on such topics as “French
publishers,” “The book-buyer,” “Middleclass,” “Censorship by the
libraries,” etc.

“Librarians will be interested in the papers on censorship by the
libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17

“The strife about the six-shilling and the sevenpenny novel, the
attempts to censor certain novelists, and the stupid animosities of
the middle class, are considered from the point of view of a
wholehearted disciple of the great French realists.”

+ =Ath= p467 S ‘17 220w

“With entertainment as his special aim, and sportiveness as his
deliberate manner, Mr Bennett rambles hither and thither among the
books and writers of the three-year period during which he posed as
Jacob Tonson.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p7 O 10 ‘17 600w

“I think the book is chiefly interesting as a record of the casual
judgements—casual in form only—of a tremendous expert on his
fellow-craftsmen.” G: B. Donlin

+ =Dial= 63:523 N 22 ‘17 1500w

“The volume is always readable, it is often ‘intime,’ and it is nearly
always baffling. ... His judgments seem often to issue from a mind
that is constitutionally fussy rather than judicial.”

+ — =Nation= 105:671 D 13 ‘17 300w

“Mr Bennett knows what he is talking about in respect of Dostoievsky,
as in respect of Conrad, Henri Becque, François de Curel, Tchekoff,
Wilfred Whitten. But here as elsewhere he is dealing in stimulant, not
criticism. He is imposing his will. ... Only when he is writing of H.
G. Wells is he sufficiently moved by his subject to lose the coolness
of a shrewd and judicious informant and become a passionate
critic. ... In regard to W. W. Jacobs and Rudyard Kipling and Conrad
and Henry James and Meredith there are exceedingly pertinent
discriminations, but absorbed or inspired interpretation in no case
outside Mr Wells.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 12:332 O 20 ‘17 1150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:181 D ‘17 190w

“In the main neither sufficiently important in theme nor sufficiently
careful in treatment to be worthy of permanent publication in book
form.”

– + =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 30w

“When Mr Arnold Bennett appears as a critic of men and books many of
his judgments strike us as irrational, or partial, sometimes to the
point of absurdity. His infatuation about Mr H. G. Wells may be the
fruit of friendship, but it is not justifiable on literary grounds,
not even on the grounds advanced by Mr Bennett. ... Surely Mr Bennett
is paradoxical when he praises Mr Henry James for clarity.”

— — + =Sat R= 124:49 Jl 21 ‘17 1350w

“Of mid-Victorian novelists he has a poor opinion. ‘There is not one
of them that would not be tremendously improved by being cut down to
about one-half’; moreover, ‘they are incurably ugly and sentimental.’
Some of us will wonder to find the author of ‘The old wives’ tale’
casting this reproach in particular at Thackeray and Dickens,
Charlotte Brontë and Mrs Gaskell; but it is only Mr Bennett’s humor.”

=Spec= 119:301 S 22 ‘17 130w

“This book of literary causeries is a collection of articles published
in 1908-1911 in a socialist journal of somewhat exasperating and
provocative type called the New Age. They are mostly skits. They are
not literary criticisms, though they often reflect literary
opinions—rather opinionated opinions, it may be said. ... They have no
importance and for American readers no interest at all. ... The one
thing that gives flavor outlasting the ephemerality of the subject is
Mr Bennett’s pointed journalistic style and pungent choice of epithet.
Those who are engaged in the author’s trade and are familiar with the
journalists and critics of London may, therefore, read these records
of a ‘past age’ with some interest. But of sound instruction or
authentic inspiration they have little. To a limited extent they are
diverting.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 1300w

“Mr Arnold Bennett is one of the few who can catch their sayings
before they are cold and enclose them all alive in very readable
prose. That is why these aged reviews (some are nearly ten years old)
are as vivacious and as much to the point as they were on the day of
their birth. They have another claim upon our interest. They deal for
the most part with writers who are still living. We do not think this
is a book of first rate criticism; but it is the book of an artist.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p319 Jl 5 ‘17 1150w

=BENNETT, HELEN MARIE.= Women and work; the economic value of college training. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 174 17-11904

A study of the place of the college-trained woman in the modern world.
In the past half century the type of girl entering college has
changed; rather, many types now enter where once there was but one.
The standards demanded of women have also changed, and, to some
extent, college curricula have been modified to meet the new demands.
All these matters are taken into account by the author, who, as
manager of the Chicago Collegiate bureau of occupations, writes from
the vocational expert’s point of view. She writes of: The
inflorescence of the new education; College training and working
efficiency; The problem of the college girl; The problem of the
vocational adviser; The psychology of the girl as related to her
occupation; The physiology of the girl as related to her occupation;
The girl with the dramatic temperament; The philosophic temperament;
The scientific temperament; The interdependence of occupations; The
college girl—her own employer; The college girl and women.

“There is a specially good chapter on the problem of the vocational
adviser.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:426 Jl ‘17

“A suggestive book for women in and out of college, and for the
college faculty as well.” Edna Kenton

+ =Bookm= 46:345 N ‘17 280w

“Packed with common sense.”

+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

“She has made a mistake in adopting a more pretentious title for her
work than the results of her efforts warrant. The book falls far short
of being an adequate discussion of ‘Women and work.’”

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:856 O ‘17 200w

“Those parts of the book which deal with the specific problem of
finding jobs are interesting and valuable, but when the author
attempts to characterize human traits or to give the results of
psychology and philosophy she shows a plentiful lack of knowledge. ...
The reader of the book is likely to be exasperated by the inexcusable
irregularity of the style.”

+ — =Nation= 104:739 Je 21 ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:532 Je ‘17 70w

=Pratt= p16 O ‘17 20w

“With its sociology Miss Bennett’s book has combined some helpful
information for the college graduate who is intelligently trying to
choose work to fit her abilities.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 10 ‘17 480w

“Written in entertaining style, and useful not only to the girls
themselves but to any one helping to educate or ‘place’ them.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:153 My ‘17 80w

=BENNETT, HENRY EASTMAN.= School efficiency; a manual of modern school management. il $1.25 (1c) Ginn 371 17-21650

The author is professor of education in the College of William and
Mary, Virginia. He has had in mind, in writing this book, the average
community school of medium size, and the teacher of average ability.
“It is the only book that has come from the press in recent times
which presents in non-technical language a discussion, both of the
specific problems of instruction and of the broad questions of
administration and supervision. The book is really a treatise on the
principles and practice of education.” (El School J) The book includes
a consideration of the school plant and two chapters deal with
“Community coöperation” and “School extension.” “Problems” and
“Readings” are appended to the various chapters.

“While the style of the book is distinctly non-technical the author
presents the content of the most recent scientific investigations in
the various fields of education.”

+ =El School J= 18:72 S ‘17 450w

=BENNETT, ROBERT JOSEPH.= Corporation accounting. (Ronald accounting ser.) il $3 Ronald 657 16-25224

“This is much more than a book on corporation accounting; it is more
properly a treatise on organization from the legal, industrial,
financial and accounting standpoints. It appears in seven parts: Part
1 describes the process of organizing a corporation, discusses the
different classes of capital stock and shows the purpose of the
various corporate meetings; Part 2 takes up the special books and
records required by corporations, and analyzes the distinctive
corporate accounts relating to capital stock, bonds, surplus,
dividends and reserves; Part 3 is devoted to special descriptions and
accounting entries relating to stocks, dividends and processes of
incorporation; Part 4 treats bond issues, including a description of
the different classes of bonds, their security, methods of issue,
amortization of discounts and premiums, sinking funds and redemption;