Chapter 5: groups the general plant problems—handling materials,

keeping cleaned up, fire protection, proper steam and water lines,
keeping a good boiler house, etc. The final chapter discusses
calorimetry and photometry, and an appendix gives miscellaneous useful
tables.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“Simple and clear instructions for operating standard types of
apparatus usually found in small or medium sized gas works.”

+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 20w

“The growing use of manufactured-gas fuel in industrial plants and the
increase in number of gas-works owned by manufacturing concerns have
brought home to a wide circle of engineers outside the gas industry
the lack of concise, easily read treatises on gas-works construction
and operation. There has been of course the ‘catechism’ of the Gas
institute, but this has not apparently been much utilized outside of
the industry. Mr Russell’s book fills at least half the void, although
not written with the industrial-plant engineers particularly in view.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 180w

“It is stated that the operations described have all been successfully
tried out upon a commercial scale. The most recent developments,
however, in mechanical operation, mass carbonization, and water gas
operation have been omitted.”

+ — =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 110w

=Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 40w

“Author is manager of the Emporia gas company.”

=Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 50w

Russian court memoirs, 1914-16; with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war. il *$5 Dutton (12s 6d Jenkins, London) 947 (Eng ed 17-12739)

“The author writes as an avowed monarchist, and he completed his work
long before the recent upheaval; but he was intensely alive to the
dangers arising from the widespread belief in the existence of German
influence in court circles, although he regarded the extent of that
influence as being much exaggerated by popular rumour.” (Spec) “Among
the topics discussed in the fifteen chapters that make up this volume
are:—‘The Tsar and his family,’ ‘The Tsar and his generals,’ ‘The
imperial court,’ ‘The Russian foreign office,’ ‘Society of Petrograd,’
‘Russian women during the war,’ and ‘The press.’” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)

“The book contains many good portraits.”

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 70w

“Filled with anecdotes, malicious and foolish, about the private life,
public appearance, and toilette of these great ones. Gossip of this
type collected and placed on the market enables us to gauge the
intellect of the pseudonymous writer, and to ask with regret who are
the members of the English public who appreciate the fare thus
provided.”

— =Ath= p343 Jl ‘17 190w

Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky

— =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 190w

“Some books are like the manna foddered to the Jews in the wilderness,
good at night but spoilt the next day. Such is this anonymous book.
The Russian revolution put it as completely out of date as if it had
been written a hundred years ago.” N. H. D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 650w

“The author makes us see why the Czarina was unpopular and how she has
been misunderstood. As a court picture, the book is comprehensive; as
a political prophecy it is of far less importance.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 210w

“There is a good chapter on Russian women during the war. ... Our
author claims that the Czar was in no way responsible for the war—that
he did everything in his power to avert it. ... ‘Russian court
memoirs’ is not a literary document. It is gossip, gossip that
occasionally has a back-stairs flavor. As a journalistic report of a
past era it is of intense interest. The book is sincere, faithfully
told from the writer’s viewpoint—and the novelty of that viewpoint
makes it all the more readable.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1150w

“There is a sympathetic sketch of the ex-Czar and his children, but
the former Czarina is criticized for her association with wandering
monks. The illustrations give added interest to these piquant pen
sketches.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 200w

“He has a wealth of information and a good deal of pleasant anecdote
about all the prominent figures in Petrograd society during the period
he covers; but unfortunately his anonymity detracts, to some extent,
from the value of his book as an historical document. We cannot give
full credence to his version of the subtler influences at work beneath
the surface of politics without knowing how much of what he says is
genuine ‘inside’ knowledge, and how much is merely what was currently
believed at the time.”

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 220w

“Whatever may be the author’s social or other position in Petrograd,
the information at his or her disposal is by no means of the
back-stair variety. Not its least agreeable feature is the absence of
any tendency to dogmatize or to prophesy.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 850w

Russian year-book, 1916; comp. and ed. by N. Peacock. *10s 6d Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 314.7

“The sixth issue of this standard work of reference. It contains much
new matter of value in connexion with the war—a résumé of the economic
condition of Russia since the beginning of the war; the new Customs
tariff in full detail; the 1916 budget, and much else; with a diary of
the war on the Russian front.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 50w

=RUTLEDGE, MARICE, pseud.= Children of fate. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 17-9707

A story of the European war and of Paris in war time. Two lovers, a
young French architect and an American girl, are separated by the
first call to arms. Pierre, a high-strung, sensitive youth, finds the
idea of killing loathsome. To nerve himself up to the task before him,
he is forced to make himself believe that he is engaged in a war
between good and evil, that he is battling for civilization. Natalie
encourages his belief, but even at the moment of parting she has begun
to doubt it, and as time goes on she comes to feel more and more that
war cannot save civilization, that war cannot end war, that militarism
is a hydra-headed monster, that if one of its heads, Germany, be cut
off today, another will have grown up tomorrow. But of this she can
say nothing to Pierre who depends on her encouragement. Their second
parting, after he has been wounded, brings on a crisis in which the
girl is forced to tell him the truth about herself and her
convictions.

“One observes here the ‘certain condescension’ of complacent feminism
toward the dull and errant male, and the somewhat shrill note of the
special pleader. But whatever may be thought of this book in its
character of tract or brief, its dignity and moving quality as a story
are beyond question.” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:315 My ‘17 400w

“The book is a piece of passionate special pleading but is well worth
reading as such and as a story.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 170w

“This is a book of passionate sincerity, an honest plea, but a special
plea; and it does not escape the partiality or even altogether the
shrillness, of its order.”

=Nation= 104:490 Ap 26 ‘17 1150w

“This ardent pacifist lays the crime of war at the door of woman,
holding that without her sanction the world would not have the deadly
recurrent spectacle of the ‘maleness run riot’ (to use the phrase of
another feminist), which is war.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 60w

— =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w

“While the book brings out vividly some of the more distressful phases
of the great war, particularly as regards France, the very fact that
France is fighting in defense of her life should preserve that country
from the sentiments which the author put in the mouth of his
heroine. ... The story is excellently and even powerfully written. It
contains germs of thought that will flourish and grow stronger in more
peaceful times.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 600w

=RUYSBROECK, JAN VAN.= Adornment of the spiritual marriage; The sparkling stone; The book of supreme truth; ed. with an introd. and notes by Evelyn Underhill. *$1.75 Dutton 242

“The manuscript of these papers was translated from the Flemish by C.
A. Wynschenk-Dom. It presents three of the most important works of the
great Flemish mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. He was born in 1273 at the
village of Ruysbroeck, between Brussels and Hals, and lived during his
entire life in his native province Brabant.” (R of Rs) “As in other
works of this kind, the author is concerned with the qualities of the
divine nature and with absorption of those qualities into the nature
of the devout man. ... ‘Ecstatic absorption in God,’ says Miss
Underhill, ‘formed only one side of Ruysbroeck’s religious life. True
to his own doctrine of the “balanced career” of action and
contemplation as the ideal of the Christian soul, his rapturous
ascents toward divine reality were compensated by the eager and loving
interest with which he turned toward the world of men.’” (Springf’d
Republican)

“An excellent rendering into English of three of the finest writings
of Jan of Ruysbroeck, which have never been fully accessible in our
own language. Miss Underhill, in an admirable preface, touches on his
life and times, and sums up his teaching with great clearness and
insight. Ruysbroeck was one of the great constructive mystics who
represent and sum up the spiritual knowledge of their own and other
times, transfusing and co-ordinating, in the light of their own rich
experience and personality, the universal vision of God and of man’s
relation to Him. ... The translator has done a great service in
opening out to us the experience and teachings of one of the most
lofty and spiritual minds of the Christian era.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:135 O ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16

“For the student of spiritual philosophy this book is a treasure of
undeniable worth.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 170w

=St Louis= 5:47 F ‘17

“Ruysbroeck is one of the better guides for the modern mystics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 400w

=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Distributive justice; the right and wrong of our present distribution of wealth. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 331 16-22456

In this volume Father Ryan, author of “The living wage,” “discusses
the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is
distributed, considering the moral aspects of distribution with
reference to the four classes—landowners, capitalists, business men,
and laborers. The rights and obligations of these four classes
constitute the main subject of the work, while an effort is made to
propose reforms that would remove the principal defects of the present
system and bring about a larger measure of social justice.” (R of Rs)

“One might, perhaps, criticise other minor features of this excellent
book, but such criticism would not detract from its great merit as a
logical and lucid exposition of a most important subject, pervaded by
a spirit of sweet reasonableness that charms even when it may not
convince.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Am Econ R= 7:377 Je ‘17 1950w

=A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17

“One of the most important books that have appeared within the last
decade. Many thoughtful Americans, already well acquainted with the
socio-political theories and programs of socialists, of single-taxers,
of syndicalists, and of classical economists, have been ignorant of
the tendencies of Catholic social politics. Dr Ryan’s book is not a
history of Catholic social politics—such a work is still to be
written. Rather, it is a painstaking critique of the morality of
private land-ownership and rent, of private capital and interest, of
profits and wages; and its significance lies in the fact that the
morality in question is the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic
church and that the thoughtful American who reads it has no longer any
excuse for being ignorant of the meaning of Catholic social politics.”
C. J. H. Hayes

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:766 N ‘17 1750w

“Typical of his argument is an omission of any discussion of the
population question, evidently upon the ground that numbers are not,
or should not be, subject to human control. In fact, despite elaborate
arguments, it is evident that the real questions at issue are all
contained in his assumptions. The volume bears the nihil obstat and
imprimatur of the church.” W. H. Hamilton

=Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 230w

=Ath= p38 Ja ‘17 160w

“Not merely the layman, but even more acutely, the student of ethics
and moral theology has long desired a competent treatise on the
Catholic doctrine of property, applying the traditional principles of
our authorities to present day problems and conditions. ... Hence this
volume is a very valuable contribution to our ethics library.”

+ =Cath World= 104:545 Ja ‘17 350w

“The author is associate professor of political science at the
Catholic university of America.”

=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 80w

“The book is written from a Christian standpoint and makes use of the
whole realm of literature bearing on the subject. ... And if it adds
but little to the body of economic doctrine, but impregnates economic
theory with an ethical ideal, it deserves most hearty commendation.”

+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 350w

“From the author of ‘The living wage’ one has learned to expect
scholarship and sincerity, and sympathy for the tribulations of
ordinary folks. Dr Ryan’s new book ‘Distributive justice,’ is
nevertheless a genuine disappointment. The author has set himself the
ungrateful task of demonstrating the justice of an industrial system
and at the same time, the injustice of its operation.”

— =Ind= 90:435 Je 2 ‘17 220w

“In the main his views are those held by economists of liberal views.
The essential elements of the present system of distribution—private
ownership of land and capital—are defended against single taxers and
socialists. The novel thing about Professor Ryan’s book is the unusual
method by which he reaches his conclusions. Natural rights, chiefly as
set forth by the Christian Fathers, form the base from which the
argument proceeds, but there is a large admixture of purely economic
considerations. The book will be useful as a careful résumé of the
chief economic reforms which are at present under consideration. As a
piece of philosophical inquiry it is curious rather than interesting.”

+ — =Nation= 105:269 S 6 ‘17 270

“The most comprehensive and dignified existing treatise on the ethics
of economic reform.” A. S. J.

=N Y Br Lib= News 4:8 Ja ‘17

+ =New Repub= 10:79 F 17 ‘17 1050w

“Making use of Father Ryan’s favorite word, ‘justification,’ it may be
said that his book affords ample justification to any person who
succeeds in amassing property no matter what the human suffering was
that the laborers endured.” Frank Macdonald

— =N Y Call= p14 F 11 ‘17 900w

“His book is solid, learned, well argued. His intent commands
sympathy. Only the malicious and uncharitable could condemn or dissent
without reserve. But after passing his four hundredth page he surmises
that his readers will be ‘disappointed and dissatisfied’ that his
labors have produced nothing better. His rules of justice and
proposals for reform are confessedly complex, indefinite. ... It may
be doubted whether books like these help progress much, for all their
good intentions.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:65 F 25 ‘17 650w

=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w

“John A. Ryan is associate professor of political science at the
Catholic university of America.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w

=RYAN, MARAH ELLIS (MARTIN) (MRS S. ERWIN RYAN) (ELLIS MARTIN, pseud.).= Druid path. *$1.35 (1c) McClurg 17-4311

Six stories told in the spirit of old Irish legend. Only the last, a
story of the recent revolution, is modern and in this also the author
has succeeded in suggesting the atmosphere of the old tales of the
heroes. The titles are: The druid path; The enchanting of Doirenn;
Liadan and Kurithir; Dervail Nan Ciar; Randuff of Cumanac; The dark
rose. The book has decorations and endpieces designed by Will
Vreeland.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w

“It is unusual to find in an American writer the quality which
distinguishes the work of Fiona Macleod, but the same poetic mysticism
which haunts those imaginative tales is to be found in ‘The druid
path.’ The author has infused her characters with such reality that
they become living men and women, whose passions lay violent hold upon
the reader. ... The publishers have produced a book which is
typographically worthy of the exceptional literary merit of the
stories.”

+ =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 250w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w

S

=SABATINI, RAFAEL.= Snare. *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-29537

This novel pictures “an incident of Wellington’s campaign against the
French in Portugal. Wellington was out to save Portugal, but there
were traitors in high places secretly opposing his methods and playing
the spy for the enemy. ... All depended on secrecy and unity of
action. Suddenly the drunken blunder of a young English officer gives
the plotters their chance to upset the delicate balance. Their
influence causes the Portuguese council of regency to demand that the
culprit be made a scapegoat. He is at large, and it falls to his
brother-in-law, O’Moy, British adjutant-general at Lisbon, to promise
that he shall be shot when taken.” (Bookm) The disentangling of the
coil of circumstances developing from this situation occupies the
remainder of this romantic narrative.

“Mr Sabatini shows his quality by giving his personæ enough
characterisation to lift the performance from the early status of the
cheap thriller to the celestial plane of romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 300w

“An absorbing and well-characterized romance.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“Swift-moving, picturesque, and well told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 70w

“Mr Sabatini vividly recreates local color and revivifies the distant
scene. The characters are broadly sketched, particularly that of the
‘Iron duke.’ It is a story in which fact and fiction are delightfully
blended and one that is entertaining in high degree from first to
last.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 550w

“We sometimes forget how good a tale he has set forth in reflecting
how much better it might become in the hands of a playwright of
genius. It has all the essentials of a moving play.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 600w

=SABIN, ALVAH MORTON.= Industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish. 2d ed thoroughly rev il *$3.50 Wiley 667 17-115

“The book opens with a section of definitions and brief fundamental
descriptions, such as how varnish is made; what linoxyn is; what
pigments and paints are. This is followed by a discussion of the
history of paints and varnishes, introducing the original quotations,
Greek and Latin, about the earliest processes. The author leads up to
the technology of varnish by a discussion of linseed oil; after
finishing with varnish, he runs off into japans, driers, rosin,
shellac and the other spirit varnishes, cellulose and celluloid
coatings, etc. There is after this a most informing section on
paint. ... The rest of the book is devoted essentially to the
engineering application of paints and varnishes and materials intended
to serve the same purpose of protection or ornamentation.”—Engin N

=A L A Bkl= 13:278 Mr ‘17

“The man who reads for entertainment as well as instruction will
appreciate this book. It is a technical work in the true sense of the
word; but it is written with the rare style of a classical scholar,
and humor is not lacking. It is labeled a second edition, but it is
virtually a new book—due to the development of the art and the changed
affiliations of the author—he is now a paint and not a varnish man.”

+ =Engin N= 77:437 Mr 15 ‘17 450w

=SACHER, HARRY=, ed. Zionism and the Jewish future. maps *$1 (1c) Macmillan 296 17-95

The purpose of this volume is to “set before English-speaking readers
the meaning and achievement of Zionism.” The introduction to the
volume is written by Dr Charles Weizmann, who says that the Jewish
problem, while it has different aspects in different countries, is
essentially the problem of “fitting into the modern world a national
group which has survived from ancient times without the ordinary
attributes of nationhood.” Among the contributions to the book are: A
century of Jewish history, by H. Sacher; Anti-Semitism, by Albert M.
Hyamson; The Hebrew revival, by Leon Simon; The history of Zionism, by
R. Gottheil; The Jews and the economic development of Palestine, by S.
Tolkowsky. The work was prepared in Great Britain but the authors
represent several countries, including Palestine.

=A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17

“A book written from the Zionistic viewpoint and frankly propagandist,
but presenting an excellent brief summary of the movement today.”

+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 20w

“Its editor is a distinguished British journalist; among the
contributors to its pages are civil servants of the British
government, Jewish religious leaders, and American college
professors.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 62:60 Ja 25 ‘17 750w

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:221 Mr ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

+ =Spec= 117:187 Ag 12 ‘16 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ‘16 400w

“Weak from the point of view of propaganda, strong as literary
efforts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 S 21 ‘16 1700w

=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON=, A Vagabond’s Odyssey. il *$2.50 (1c) Dodd 910 (Eng ed 17-14533)

“This is another pleasantly written volume of unconventional travel,
by the author of ‘Sailor and beachcomber,’ who describes it as the
second instalment of his autobiography. The book is filled with
variety, and brings before us with vividness and ‘sparkle’ some of the
writer’s experiences and adventures in many lands—among them the
United States, Samoa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Spain, and the
south of France. During an earlier visit to Samoa the author became
acquainted with Stevenson, of whom some reminiscences are
included.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 130w

“This ‘Odyssey’ might have been written by a man who never stirred
outside his study, so curiously unconvincing is the impression left on
the reader’s mind. The moralizings, reflections, and would-be eloquent
descriptions are shallow and tawdry.”

— =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 100w

“The South Seas made a vivid impression on the author, and the poet
continually surges uppermost in him when he swings into one of his
frequent descriptions of the land and its beauty. A valuable feature
of Mr Safroni-Middleton’s book is found in its picture of Robert Louis
Stevenson. It is neither long nor deep in analysis, but it is
picturesque.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:369 S 30 ‘17 600w

“Mr Safroni-Middleton is rich in prejudices and one-sided views as
well as good stories; but we can forgive him the former in view of the
latter.”

+ =Sat R= 123:111 F 3 ‘17 1500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 25 ‘17 1000w

Sainte Séductre; an inner view of the Boche at bay, by Exile X; American ed., rev. and ed., by R: Wilmer Rowan. *$1.25 Liberty pub. assn., 110 W. 40th st. N.Y. 17-16312

Sainte Séductre is a narrative in the form of a drama, with eight
scenes or “Dialogues.” The scene is laid “somewhere in Germany,” at
the headquarters of certain German commanders and in the huts of the
starving Belgian and French exiles. “It revolves about a scheme
originated by General von A—— to save Germany, already defeated, by
the adoption of a pretended democratic form of government, which shall
secure her friends among all the nations composing the final Council
of peace.” (Boston Transcript)

“To bring about a better understanding of the internal conditions of
Imperial Germany today; to bring especially to public opinion in the
United States a warning too little heeded, if at all understood, and
to emphasize that ‘at present it is the duty of every true American to
acquaint himself thoroughly with each particular element of the
“Teutonic peril”’ was this story of ‘Sainte Séductre’ translated, and
revised to render it more compelling for American readers.” F. B.

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 880w

“It offers material which ought to be borne in mind in whatever
discussions of peace the future may see. The book was written in the
white heat of intellectual conviction, rather than passion.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 250w

=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 130w

=SALES SERVICE COMPANY.=[2] Selling your services. *$1 (6c) Sales service co., 101 Park av., N.Y. 658 17-11356

Other titles for the book might be “How to secure a position,” or,
more colloquially, “How to get a job.” The authors believe that, by
following its suggestions, “the average man will improve his chances
of getting a hearing and, finally, of securing the job for which he is
best suited.” The chapters are very brief and each is devoted to some
special item. Many sample letters of application are presented.

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 10w

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:604 Je 21 ‘17 120w

“Well worth the reading of anyone seeking a position.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:476 Mr 24 ‘17 60w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 60w

=SALTER, WILLIAM MACKINTIRE.= Nietzsche the thinker. *$3.50 (2c) Holt 193 17-25449

This book, by the author of “First steps in philosophy,” “Anarchy or
government?” etc., is “a contribution to the understanding of
Nietzsche.” Mr Salter limits himself to Nietzsche’s “fundamental
points of view—noting only in passing or not at all his thoughts on
education, his later views of art and music, his conception of woman,
his interpretation of Christianity and attitude to religion.”
(Preface) The book was in substance written before the present
European war, and the author does not find Nietzsche “touching it in
any special way” except as “a diagnostician of the general conditions
which appear to have given birth to it.” Three introductory chapters
cover Nietzsche’s relation to his time, his life and personal traits,
some characteristics of his thinking, etc. The author then divides
Nietzsche’s intellectual life into three periods, and considers it by
period. Mr Salter believes that Nietzsche, far from reflecting the
age, is “a force antagonistic to the dominant forces about us”; that
“he has changed nothing, whether in thought or public policy”; and
that “even in Germany ... his counsels and ideas have been far more
disregarded than followed.” Nevertheless Mr Salter believes Nietzsche
to be so important that perhaps in the near future “we shall be
speaking of a pre-Nietzschean and a post-Nietzschean period in
philosophical, and particularly in ethical and social analysis and
speculation—and that those who have not made their reckoning with him
will be as hopelessly out of date as those who have failed similarly
with Kant.”

“It is evidently the result of wide reading and deep study of his
subject; but unfortunately the attempt, not merely to restate
Nietzsche’s thoughts, ‘but to rethink them, using more or less my own
language,’ is not helped by some clumsy construction and faulty
punctuation.”

+ — =Ath= p41 Ja ‘18 70w

“Scholarly exposition of Nietzsche’s doctrines.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ — =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 60w

“Interpretations of Nietzsche are many, but usually they are nine
parts comment to one of exposition, whereas Mr Salter effaces his own
opinions and lets Nietzsche explain himself by placing in logical
relation to each other the thoughts which Nietzsche sprinkled at
random over his works.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 110w

“Mr Salter has done the English reading public a large service, for he
has given them what is easily the best book in English and what will
rank well among the best in other languages on a man, who before the
war was much misunderstood and misrepresented and since the war has
been flagrantly criticized and abused. ... In a way that may be said
even to make further study and exposition unnecessary, at least for a
long time, he has presented and explained the philosophy itself, but
its importance as possibly contributing significantly to the
philosophy of an era, and so its place in the history of philosophy,
he has not duly considered.” A. H. Lloyd

+ — =J Philos= 15:103 F 14 ‘18 3450w

“Whatever merits the book may have must be dug for by studious readers
who are more adept at these mystical numbers than we are. If Mr Salter
has really intended a generalization, we can only regretfully say that
he has not ‘got it across’ to us, though that may not be his fault,
but our own stupidity. But for those who love interminable preaching
there is surely here an inexhaustible mine from which to dig
problematical nuggets of wisdom, which they can—if able—assort and
assay for themselves.” J. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 800w

=Outlook= 118:131 Ja 23 ‘18 730w

“It is—broadly speaking—an altogether new Nietzsche who emerges from
the pages of this expository critique.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 110w

=SALTYKOV, MICHAEL EVGRAFOVICH (SHCHEDRIN, pseud.).= Family of noblemen; tr. by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.50 (1c) Boni & Liveright

“Saltykov, author of ‘A family of noblemen,’ famous in Europe as a
satirist, is one of the very recent [Russian authors] to claim
attention. ... This novel was published in 1880. ... It deals with the
lives and fates of the members of a family of the small landed gentry
of Russia through three generations, beginning before the abolition of
serfdom and covering space of time of perhaps twenty-five years. ...
Saltykov surveys the disintegration of a family upon which hereditary
traits, weak wills, paucity of interests, and vodka work
destruction.”—N Y Times

“Russia has produced few books of a greater psychological depth and a
more intimate realism. Unless all signs fail Saltykov has come to stay
in English literature.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 270w

“In many ways ‘A family of noblemen’ is a masterly piece of work,
especially through the first half. In the latter part the author’s
method falls below the artistic standard he has set in the first
half.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 870w

=SAMSON, REBECCA MIDDLETON.= Schoolgirl allies. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23653

The title suggests a war book, but the scene of this story for girls
is laid in the Belgium of old days. “Tad” and “Sherry,” two American
girls become pupils in the Pensionnat Van Pelt in Brussels. Their
schoolmates are girls from many countries, including France, Russia
and the British Isles. Sherry tells the story of their new
experiences, and tells it with all a schoolgirl’s zest and love for
exaggeration and dramatic effect.

“It is good to be reminded that there were once happy days in
Belgium. ... The few pictures make us wish for more.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 40w

“It is a long and interesting story, telling in detail the life of the
girls of the pensionnat, so different from a school of the same class
in this country.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 250w

“The two American girls, Adelaide and Sherida, are well portrayed, and
the different foreign girls at the school are carefully
differentiated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w

=SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN.= Life of Henry David Thoreau; including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 17-13644

Frank B. Sanborn was the last surviving member of the Concord group.
His life of Thoreau was completed but shortly before his death in
February, 1917. In his preface the author calls attention to the
growing fame of Thoreau. “It now appears,” he says, “that a
considerable part of the present fame of Concord in literature grows
out of the life and writings of Henry Thoreau, whose writings had
little circulation before his death in 1862.” There is more comment of
this kind in the last chapter, where the author says, “My purpose in
this volume has been to show how he coöperated in his own posthumous
fame; how he built himself up in literature from boyhood, and that
without becoming a pedant, or trying to form a school, or even a
class. Along with this conception of him may go likewise what I
personally feel, that there was a religious and a moral element in his
nature which awaits the future for its full development.” Among the
special chapters are two in which early essays are reprinted and
others devoted to: Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen; Thoreau
as man of letters and of affairs; Thoreau as author in prose and
verse. A catalog of Thoreau’s library is given in one of the
appendixes.

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

“The extent of Mr Sanborn’s personal knowledge of Thoreau, his command
of the resources of information about him, his possession of
manuscripts and other records, placed ready at his hand a large amount
of material for the making of a notable biography. But unfortunately
Mr Sanborn possessed none of the skill of the biographer that would
enable him to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of the progress
of a man’s life. ... The result is, therefore, an excellent Thoreau
biography in substance but not in form.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 1550w

“Sanborn had the gift that novelists envy, of presenting his hero
living and real before the mind’s eye of his reader without blurring
the figure by over-emphasis.”

+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 670w

“The volume is not well arranged and coherent, however, and the
author’s style is stilted even in his lapses into familiar anecdote.”

+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 130w

“A feature of the book too important to be ignored is the
illustrations, mostly reproductions of old family pictures, which to
those who can interpret them are far better than pages of letterpress
in giving an idea of the Thoreaus and their kin.” W: B. Cairns

+ — =Dial= 63:59 Jl 19 ‘17 1200w

+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w

=Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 290w

=Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 80w

“No one else could have done the work in just the easy, familiar, and
reminiscent manner that marks it, and that gives it a peculiar value.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:205 My 27 ‘17 1950w

“As compared with earlier memoirs—with Salt’s ‘Life’ of Thoreau, with
Channing’s ‘Thoreau, the poet naturalist,’ and even with Mr Sanborn’s
first biography of Thoreau, published in 1882—this new ‘Life’ by the
late Frank B. Sanborn justifies itself as a needed and definitive
work. So thorough has been the search for records and manuscripts that
it is unlikely that there will ever be further discoveries of
importance. It is a little to be regretted, perhaps, that the ‘life’
as a whole is not more consecutively interesting; yet the materials
contained in it, if presented rather dryly and with many digressions,
are handled with skill and uniform good taste.”

* + — =No Am= 206:308 Ag ‘17 1650w

“Mr Sanborn’s posthumous contribution to the world’s knowledge of his
friend will probably furnish his own surest claim to remembrance in
the future. It will certainly be indispensable to the student and
lover of the rarely individual man of genius whom it seeks to
portray.”

+ =Outlook= 116:301 Je 20 ‘17 1100w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 90w

“Sanborn’s ‘Life’ is less satisfactory than Henry Salt’s, which has
the virtue of proportion, emphasis, focus, definite purpose; is less
satisfactory, in some respects, than the earlier book by Sanborn. Yet
it is far from superfluous. Of little use to one who does not know
Thoreau, it is a treasury of Thoreauisms to those who already know him
well.” Norman Foerster

* + — =Yale R= n s 7:430 Ja ‘18 1400w

=SANBORN, HELEN JOSEPHINE.= Anne of Brittany. il *$2 Lothrop 17-25141

“A book which tells the life story of a duchess of Brittany who was
twice crowned queen of France. Miss Sanborn, whose untimely death
occurred while the book was in press, devoted much of her later life
in securing knowledge of Anne of Brittany and her times. The
introduction is by Professor Katherine Lee Bates, of Wellesley
college. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations show us the Duchess
Anne’s country and her famous castles.”—R of Rs

“The reader has a sense of personal intercourse, a quality as rare as
it is uncommon in biography, and one whose appeal is irresistible.” F.
B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 500w

“The descriptions of her gowns, jewels, and the quaint ceremonies and
festivals of court and castle are very interesting, but it is the
woman herself who absorbs the reader.”

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 90w

“Many illuminating glimpses of the age and the country are given in
the course of the narrative.”

+ =Ind= 92:361 N 3 ‘17 40w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 70w

=SANDAY, WILLIAM, and WILLIAMS, NORMAN POWELL.= Form and content in the Christian tradition. *$2 Longmans 230 17-14538

“‘Form and content in the Christian tradition’ is ‘a friendly
discussion’ between W. Sanday, Lady Margaret professor of divinity at
Oxford, and N. P. Williams, chaplain-fellow of Exeter college,
Oxford. ... Both men write as members of the Church of England. This
will lessen the appeal of the book to many American Protestants, for
the reason that the Protestant sects do not accept the ecclesiastical
tradition which has developed along with what may be called the
religious tradition. Their Christianity is derived from the Bible, not
from the church. But on the theological side Mr Williams, who states
the traditional view, will have many supporters in the Protestant
sects; as, on the other hand, will Dr Sanday, who stands for the
liberal interpretation of scripture which has been growing in favor in
the past half century.”—Springf’d Republican

Reviewed by E. A. Cook

* =Am J Theol= 22:145 Ja ‘18 1150w

“It is impossible, however, for an Anglican to defend the
infallibility of a church which rests solely on the insecure
foundation of private judgment or opinion. We can pardon Mr Williams
his fling at ultramontanism and the inquisition in view of his strong
though courteous indictment of modernism or rationalism in the Church
of England of our day.”

=Cath World= 105:260 My ‘17 220w

“This will be a most interesting book not only to the student of
theology, but to the student of human nature. ... The usefulness does
not seem to us to lie in any results arrived at, but in the statement
and restatement by each side of their principles; and hardly less in
the exhibition of the temper of mind which accompanies those
principles respectively.”

+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 5 ‘17 1550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 1050w

=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Egotism in German philosophy. *$1.50 Scribner 193

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The passages just transcribed and the other passages cited hardly do
justice to the brilliancy, the incisiveness, and the cruelty of this
remarkable book. ... The work is really too sketchy and too abstract
and its tone too biting and passionate to carry the conviction that is
due the truths it expresses. ... It should be supplemented with John
Dewey’s ‘German philosophy and the war.’ The two together will give a
fairly adequate idea of the influence of philosophic thinking on the
motives and institutions of men.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:64 Jl 19 ‘17 920w

“Very suggestive but somewhat irritating book.” A. Fawkes

=Int J Ethics= 27:380 Ap ‘17 650w

“The author would have been wiser, if he had depicted the supposed
English or French characteristics discovered in German philosophy as
well as the supposed German characteristics discoverable in English or
French philosophy, as it is really possible to do. ... Sometimes he is
virtually passing judgment on non-German philosophy no less or even
more severely than on German philosophy. ... For the qualities
responsible for the condemnation are common to both, or are
outweighing in non-German philosophy.” Kojoro Sugimori

=Int J Ethics= 27:381 Ap ‘17 1000w

“The argument is obscure, and scarcely convincing. Mr Santayana’s
characterization of the German national genius is witty, apt, and
irresistibly quotable. In the judgment of the present writer it is
substantially true; as true, perhaps, as any such sweeping
generalization can hope to be. Nevertheless, there are omissions and
exaggerations in the account that are so obvious as to suggest
caricature rather than criticism.” R. B. Perry

– + =J Philos= 14:637 N 8 ‘17 1150w

+ =Lit D= 54:776 Mr 17 ‘17 370w

“Dr Santayana has long enjoyed the distinction of being the Shaw of
the philosophers, supremely skilful as an artificer of phrases and
diabolically clever. In this book he surpasses himself. It is fairly
dazzling. ... It is true that the author continually yields to the
besetting sin of the clever writer in sacrificing accuracy on the
altar of wit. ... The reader should study the sketches in the same
spirit in which he would examine a volume of sketches by a clever
cartoonist. If he reads the book in this fashion, not taking it too
seriously, he will be highly entertained, if sometimes irritated.
Questions of accuracy, of fidelity, are irrelevant. ... As a
discussion of German philosophy, this book must not be taken
seriously.”

=Nation= 104:339 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w

“The philosophical views of Prof. G. Santayana need to be taken into
account in considering his new book. For the work, besides being a
trenchant attack on German thought, must be regarded to some extent a
polemic in behalf of a particular point of view. Prof. Santayana, like
the man in the street, distrusts metaphysical idealism.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 1100w

=SAPPER, pseud.= No Man’s Land. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 17-23333

This book is by the author of “Michael Cassidy, sergeant” and “Men,
women and guns.” Part 1, “The way to the land,” describes the
experiences of an officer bound for the front; Part 2 “The land,” and