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=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$2 (4c) Putnam 17-13753

This volume is made up largely of extracts from the letters of
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Mrs Disney Leith’s recollections of her
cousin, amplified from an article that appeared in the Contemporary
Review in 1910, serve as an introduction. The letters date from 1855
on, but are not arranged in strict chronological order, as the editor
has endeavored to arrange them somewhat by subject, grouping together
those relating to distinguished persons, foreign travel, his work,
etc. Many of them are family letters addressed to his mother and
sisters.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 1400w

“A first feeling of disappointment comes when one discovers, at page
38, that the recollections are finished. The disappointment is a
compound of surprise at their short length and mild anger at their
lack of interest. ... The remaining 218 pages are given to letters of
little or no interest, which contain no particularly valuable
references to people or events. The whole volume contains practically
nothing that Mr Gosse has not presented in his recent biography.”

— =Dial= 63:275 S 27 ‘17 240w

=Ind= 92:64 O 6 ‘17 850w

+ =Nation= 105:206 Ag 23 ‘17 200w

“It is his devotion to his mother that seems to have been the
sustained absorbing passion of his life. ... The Swinburne that Mrs
Leith’s volume reveals is an altogether lovable sort of being, as
different as possible from the traditional caricature that passes for
a genuine portrait of the poet.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:240 Je 24 ‘17 1100w

“It seems as if the letters, in particular, had been selected partly
with a view to counteracting any conception that the general public
may still retain of Swinburne as a morbid, hyperaesthetic or
extravagantly eccentric man. ... But if one is unaffected by the
mythical and anecdotal view of Swinburne—if what one chiefly wants is
greater insight into the poet’s art and his ways of thinking and
feeling, the present volume may prove unsatisfying.”

+ — =No Am= 206:314 Ag ‘17 800w

“Where may one begin or stop in the attempt to convey some idea of the
contents, the interest, and the charm of so wholly delightful a book?”

+ =Sat R= 123:392 Ap 28 ‘17 800w

“Mrs Disney Leith’s reminiscences of Swinburne in boyhood, and the
letters to his mother and sisters extending over a period of nearly
fifty years, form a most valuable supplement, and to a certain extent
a corrective, to Mr Gosse’s memoir.”

+ =Spec= 118:491 Ap 28 ‘17 550w

“A very delightful volume and a necessary supplement to Edmund Gosse’s
recent biography.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1100w

“The letters, just because they are so unexpected, help us to
understand him. He was a boy to the last.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 830w

“It is hardly fair to compare the personal recollections of Mrs Disney
Leith with the work of an experienced biographer like Mr Gosse; but,
if the blunt truth must be told, her account of the poet in his family
relations is both thin and dull, and adds nothing to our
knowledge. ... Under her cautious shears everything that might make
the poet a vital figure is shorn away.” C. B. Tinker

— =Yale R= n s 7:195 O ‘17 850w

=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Posthumous poems; ed. by Edmund Gosse and T: James Wise. $2.50 P. R. Reynolds, 70 5th av., N.Y. 821 17-22667

“In his preface Mr Gosse tells us that the earliest of these poems was
written in 1857, the latest in 1907. Among them are eleven Border
ballads, written probably in the early ‘sixties,’ and these are the
most interesting part of the book. Mr Gosse explains why they have not
been published before. ... Mr Gosse prints the poem on The discovery
of the North-west passage, with which Swinburne competed for the
Newdigate in 1858, but did not win it. ... There is also a long ode to
Mazzini which Mr Gosse proves to have been written early in 1857.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The remaining poems included in the
collection reflect various aspects of Swinburne’s genius and
character. None is devoid of interest, some are curious, and several
are beautiful.” (Spec)

“There is much in this volume which lovers of English verse would not
willingly have let die.”

+ =Ath= p362 Jl ‘17 150w

“The ballads, take them all in all, are interesting bits of work, and
they alone would have made the volume worth publishing. Of the
miscellaneous poems which occupy the rest of the volume, two or three
are parodies, and one—‘Pope Celestin and Count Giordano’—is an
extremely clever imitation of Robert Browning, not a parody, for there
is no exaggeration in it, but a piece of good Browingesque work. ...
Among the shorter pieces there are several of considerable charm, such
as ‘Echo,’ ‘Evening by the sea,’ and ‘Æolus.’”

* + – =Nation= 105:345 S 27 ‘17 2350w

+ =Sat R= 124:sup4 Jl 7 ‘17 570w

+ =Spec= 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1350w

“There is no poem in the book as good as his best; but the ballads
reveal a power in him which was not fully revealed even in ‘A
Jacobite’s exile.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p295 Je 21 ‘17 1100w

=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= Chaste wife. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-3573

There are some very pleasant and amusing people in this novel of
English life. Its underlying theme is serious, concerning as it does
the problem of adjustment between married lovers. Stephen Moore had
known hardships and privation. His home life had been unhappy and he
had carried the burden of support for his brother and sister and a
good-for-nothing father. He had struggled upward to a position of
prominence as a journalist and critic when he married Priscilla.
Priscilla’s life had been one of sunshine and ease. In Stephen’s love
for her there was an element of worship and in his mood of grave
wonder and exaltation, it does not occur to him to tell her of the one
dark incident in his past. It is not such a very dark incident either,
but to Priscilla, with her simple and austere code of morals, it seems
so. Sympathy and affection, and a sincere willingness to understand,
help to solve her problem.

+ =Bellman= 22:442 Ap 21 ‘17 300w

“Mr Swinnerton writes so close to life itself that in our memory of
his book it is not the story as a whole that stands out, but rather
scenes, details and characters that beckon us irresistibly. It is the
people rather than what they do that absorbingly interest us.” D. L.
M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 1150w

“Since the publication, a couple of years ago, of ‘The happy family,’
Frank Swinnerton has had a place on that comparatively brief list made
up of the novelists who really count. This new story, however, is
better than the earlier one, clever as that was.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 850w

=SWOPE, HERBERT BAYARD.= Inside the German empire, in the third year of the war. il *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-3466

A book based on a series of articles written for the New York World in
1916 during a three months’ stay in Germany. The author had visited
Germany soon after the beginning of the war and he gives interesting
contrasts between the two periods. At the time of the first visit the
German motto was “Siegen” (conquer); now it is “Durchhalten” (stick it
out). He does not predict an early peace. Germany may be able to
“stick it out” for an indefinite time to come. He writes of: The four
ways toward peace; The war’s objectives as Germany sees them;
Liberalizing Germany; The spirit of the beleaguered empire; German
hatred of America: its causes; The menace of the U-boat; Germany and
the American president; Business behind the battle line; Captive
Belgium and northern France, etc. In few books written on the war has
neutrality been so admirably preserved.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:309 Ap ‘17

“Though many of his opinions must be discounted by the Russian
revolution and America’s entry into the war, his book deserves
thoughtful scrutiny.”

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 150w

“In reading both Mr Swope and Mr Curtin one feels that they tell the
public what in their opinion the public wants to know. The result is a
somewhat onesided picture, though it is a fascinating one.”

+ — =Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 330w

“His conclusions about Belgium we must regard, at best, as hasty. But
of Germany herself, Mr Swope is in a position to be well informed. ...
Mr Swope has much to tell that is interesting and new to us—about
public opinion, internal organization, the trends of political
thought, and the probable leaders of the future. His point of view may
not always be accurate in detail, but it is evident that he is a
shrewd observer, and a fair judge of the signs of the times.” R. M.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 650w

“The tone of his writing is dispassionate and without bias.”

+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 80w

“It gives Americans a view of the German people, which in vision, lack
of bias, and kindly feeling could hardly be surpassed.”

+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 450w

“Questions, of immense interest to the rest of the world, are answered
in this highly interesting, well-written volume by a trained American
journalist.”

+ =Lit D= 54:418 F 17 ‘17 500w

“It has been many a day since the appearance of so vital an account of
contemporary German life and thinking as Herbert Bayard Swope offers
in his book. ... Most promising for the future is his conviction that
the war will permanently liberalize German social and political
conventions.”

+ =Nation= 104:244 Mr 1 ‘17 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:30 F ‘17

“Always bearing in mind the presence of the censor—for the author made
his notes during a residence in Germany undertaken for that very
purpose—we have here the sanest and most reasonable appearing digest
of conditions in the German empire that has yet been made public.” J.
W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 F 18 ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:210 Mr ‘17 60w

“Some useful information, mingled with much that is doubtful, about
the state of Germany during last autumn may be found in Mr Swope’s new
book. ... Yet the book is of interest, especially as a warning that
Germany is by no means exhausted or penitent and that the Allies have
a very great deal more to do before they conquer.”

+ — =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 650w

“Conceiving that the office of a reporter is to report and not to
judge, he diligently repeats what he has been told by Herr Zimmermann
and others and gives us the official German picture of contemporary
German conditions. There is no evidence that he has observed anything
for himself, or even that he has read the German papers. From a file
of Vorwärts, or even the Berliner Tageblatt, one could easily refute
his propositions in detail. ... ‘Rich and poor,’ writes Mr Swope,
‘fare alike.’ That also is untrue. The Socialists arise and say so,
giving chapter and verse for their statements, as often as the
Reichstag and the Landtag meet.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p170 Ap 12 ‘17 580w

“Rather expensive for the small library considering that the
conditions described are transitory.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w

=SYMONS, ARTHUR.= Figures of several centuries. *$3 Dutton 804 17-13498

“The ‘figures’ in this collection of thoughtful and discriminative
studies range from St Augustine to Baudelaire, from Villon and Donne
to George Meredith and Sarojini Naidu, and from Flaubert and Ibsen to
Charles Lamb and Emily Brontë.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“Mr Symons writes, as ever, with a deep sense of the seriousness of
art as an expression of personality and the meaning of life, and with
as deep a sense and appreciation of beauty. His devotion to beauty of
style leads him astray sometimes in his relative appreciation of prose
works and poetical works. Thus Ibsen and Whitman, in our opinion,
scarce get their due in comparison with poets who were not their
peers.”

+ =Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 110w

“Few things more acutely critical than the nine pages that he modestly
calls ‘A note on the genius of Thomas Hardy’ are to be found in modern
criticism. ... He gives us no less emphatic a view of the other
writers. It is, however, no injustice to him to rest his case as a
critic upon this brief glimpse of his insight into Hardy.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 1500w

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 40w

“Though Mr Symons is constantly bringing out books, none of the
reviews and literary essays in the present one date within the past
ten years; many of them are older than fifteen; one or two date back a
quarter of a century; and some of them are early things recently—or
less recently—retouched.”

=Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 250w

“His most unsympathetic essay treats of Ibsen. ... His most elaborate
study is of the metrical accomplishments of Swinburne. The most
subtle, penetrating, and intimate deals with John Donne.”

=Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 370w

“The reason why Mr Symons, one of the most sensitive among living
critics, does not rank with the great critics, is easily found. His
impressions are always recorded with exactness, and often with sober
beauty. But they are the impressions of a critic who undervalues mere
mind, who is not enough disturbed by its absence—see his essay on
Swinburne—and who is deficient in moral insight—see the essay on
Ibsen.” P. L.

+ — =New Repub= 10:379 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w

“It is eight years since the last publication in this country of a
book by Arthur Symons. These random essays are not all of equal
interest or value. But the book has in it much of loveliness, much of
analysis, much of fine appreciation. It is to be welcomed heartily.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 500w

“In the study of Thomas Hardy, in a brief half-dozen pages, Symons has
dissected and analyzed the novelist as story-teller, philosopher and
psychologist in a piece of memorable and distinguished criticism.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 160w

+ =Sat R= 123:161 F 17 ‘17 1950w

“Sensitive Symons is, but not always sensible. At his best, when he is
compact and restrained, he attains a combination of fresh insight and
feeling expression that makes criticism a delight. In this collection
he is often at his best. ... But Mr Symons in some of the later essays
becomes the mere ‘enthusiast.’ And when he does he simply slops over.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 1200w

“These papers are for the most part short; but they are aimed so
directly at the heart of the subject that in each case they seem to
show us something we had missed before. And it is always done as the
poet knows how to do it. ... Naturally we do not accept all that Mr
Symons says; but we must consistently pay homage to the spirit in
which he approaches these different writers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 D 21 ‘16 1800w

=SYMONS, ARTHUR.=[2] Tristan and Iseult. new ed *$1.25 Brentano’s 822 17-13960

“One of the oldest themes in literature engages the pen of Arthur
Symons in his poetic drama, ‘Tristan and Iseult.’ The subject has been
popular in all countries in all ages. It has appeared in Irish folk
legends, in the English Arthurian cycle, and in the minnelieder of
Gottfried von Strassburg.” (Springf’d Republican) The story is here
presented as “a blank verse tragedy [in four acts] of the love
triangle of Iseult of Brittany, Iseult of Ireland and Tristan the
harper.” (Cleveland)

“The lines make an emotional appeal but are not equal in beauty to the
prose of Symons’ essays.”

+ — =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w

“The finest piece of imaginative work that we have ever had from
Arthur Symons. It has an enchantment that is hard to analyze. ‘Tristan
and Iseult’ is ingenious and subtle; it is imaginative, too, and above
all it has a personal soul.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:559 D 16 ‘17 930w

“Pleasant and skilful as is Mr Symons’s sensuous verse-making, neither
emotionally nor in beauty of diction does the play attain the hights
of which the theme is capable.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 220w

“In his effort to keep his characters ‘natural’ Mr Symons has robbed
them of some Attic grandeur; in his respect for their grandeur he has
robbed them of some Elizabethan humanity. For all that, he is too fine
a critic and too subtle a craftsman in poetry not to have made a thing
of beauty.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 D 20 ‘17 890w

=SYPHERD, WILBUR OWEN.= Bibliography on “English for engineers.” *25c Scott 620.7 16-15643

“[This is] a useful list of articles on technical writing arranged
under such headings as the importance of good English, the teaching of
English to engineering students, and the composition of various kinds
of technical papers, reports, and contracts, with an appendix
containing suggestions for the formation of a technical library. The
bibliography does not pretend to be exhaustive; ... it does index a
mass of material that the ordinary English teacher would have
difficulty in finding.”—Nation

“The list of recommended engineering books includes no titles later
than January, 1916. The compiler’s ‘Handbook of English for engineers’
(Scott, Foresman, 1913) is one of the best of its type.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:329 My ‘17

“In scope it is limited strictly to technical composition in the
narrower sense, in which sense the word ‘English’ in the title is to
be understood. Perhaps the most valuable sections are those referring
to material on the use of technical terms and on the writing of
specifications. ... If a second edition is called for, the compiler
could add immensely to the value of the bibliography by including,
with the same admirable organization, some scientific material such as
that in the tentative, wholly unorganized, and yet valuable
‘Bibliography of scientific and technical writing,’ published February
1 by Professors Raymond, Atkinson, and Starbuck of the Iowa State
college of agriculture.”

+ =Nation= 105:261 S 6 ‘17 320w

=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 40w

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=TABER, SUSAN.=[2] Optimist. *$1.30 (2c) Duffield 17-22703

Twelve short stories on modern themes. Contents: The optimist; Two
feminists; The spoiled child; The sword; His brother’s story; The
winter of her discontent; The patriot; Alethia; The wedding veil; A
legacy; Easter morning; Alice in wonderland.

“The author has remarkable ability in setting forth the meaningful
episodes in her characters’ lives. In her economical use of material,
too, she is skilful, giving in considerably less than the usual space
illuminating glimpses into the past and clever characterizations
besides.”

+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 100w

“Stories neither especially good especially poor in quality, make up
this new volume by Susan Taber. Several of the tales are based upon
rather clever ideas, but they are not very well developed.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w

=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Cycle of spring. *$1.25 Macmillan 891.4 17-6670

This play, which in its original Bengali was presented by the boys of
the poet’s school at Bolpur, makes use of the device of a play within
a play. A king who has just discovered his first gray hairs is
overcome with the melancholy of old age. He neglects his affairs of
state and chooses as his only companion a pundit who preaches the
doctrine of resignation. Then a poet who sings the joy of life
persuades him to witness a play he has written. This play is a merry
allegory in which fleet-footed Youth pursues Old Age, unmasks him and
finds him a sham. Age is only Youth disguised.

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“This reads throughout so obviously as a translation—we would almost
say of the untranslatable—that it fails to give pleasure, and leaves
but a vague impression. The translation of a mystical work calls
specially for lucidity and exactness of phrase, and the translation of
a poetical work also calls for dignity of style: this gives neither.”

— =Ath= p200 Ap ‘17 80w

“Like Tagore’s other plays, the volume contains many charming lyrics.
It is pungent, too, with a growing spirit of irony; and one notes the
passionate praise of activity, which is as essentially the Bengali
poet’s message to the East, as contemplation and repose may be said to
sum up his message to the West.”

+ =Cath World= 106:247 N ‘17 160w

“Charm and buoyancy the play undoubtedly had in the original, the
reader feels, but also that the qualities were too elusive to catch
and fix in an English translation.”

+ — =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 90w

“Tagore’s greatly overestimated wit, wisdom, mysticism, pleasantness,
cast again their glamor. Considered as a play ‘The cycle’ lacks,
however, complicating forces, and, therefore, development,
characterization, interest, climax. It is chaotic art. Considered as
poetry its lyrical interludes are mostly imperfect, meaningless, or
prosy.”

— =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 160w

“I am not imperceptive of its cunning and winning ways; I am alive to
something half-celestial in the daintiness, the sleekness, and the
pliancy of its wavy and murmurous English. But my heart remains hard;
I do not like books that put up their mouths to be kissed.” O. W.
Firkins

— =Nation= 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

— =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 150w

“Not only do brightness and gayety inform the spirit of the book, but
humor bubbles through it, and every now and then it sparkles with wit,
wit that sometimes is sharply barbed for a thrust at some meanness in
human nature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:87 Mr 11 ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:409 My ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 60w

“The Indian poet dramatist at his happiest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w

=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= My reminiscences. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 17-12485

This book does not pretend to be a complete biography. The author
says, “It is as literary material that I offer my memory pictures. To
take them as an attempt at autobiography would be a mistake. In such a
view these reminiscences would appear useless as well as incomplete.”
Most of the reminiscences are drawn from boyhood and early youth. The
translator says that they were written and published in the author’s
fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and
America in 1912.

=A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17

“Intrinsically interesting as a record of a life mostly passed amid
surroundings unfamiliar to most European readers, and of the mental,
moral, and literary development of a distinguished man, these
reminiscences have an intrinsic charm, due to the felicitous lightness
of the style—for which a share of the laurels must in fairness be
awarded to the translator—and to the shrewd aphorisms and touches of
gentle irony scattered over Sir Rabindranath’s pages.”

+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 550w

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 54:2008 Je 30 ‘17 250w

“The book, though somewhat elusive in manner, presents an interesting
picture of a boy’s life in a large household before European customs
had encroached on the native manner. It permits one to understand also
the sort of intellectual and moral atmosphere that enveloped the
budding poet.”

+ =Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 470w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 130w

“If the book is not very illuminating to a critic, it is perhaps for
the majority of persons the most surely rewarding of Tagore’s books,
and it is capable of casting a spell upon the imagination even of
those who care little for the author’s poetry. ... The whole narrative
is marked not only by poetic qualities but by a spirit of kindness,
gayety, and humor, the adequate expression of which in literature is
as rare as are successful flights of fancy.”

+ =No Am= 206:135 Jl ‘17 600w

“Interesting, mystical, dreamy; but as a biography not satisfactory.
One wants to know about Sir Rabindranath’s school and its methods,
about his principles of education, his view of English civilization
and the English people, his judgment on the relation of the English
government to India; but on these subjects, the author is absolutely
silent. The chief value of the book is as a self-revelation of an
oriental mind.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w

+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:376 O ‘17 20w

“The volume is the history of a mind which seems to us excessively
self-centred in introspection. We think the translator might have
added to the explanatory notes. Only towards the end of the book, does
he come to that mystical revelation which lifts the cover of
triviality from the everyday world and suppresses the ever imminent
sense of self. To some the pages describing this experience will seem
idle, mere dreams from the ivory gate; to others they will be the most
significant in the book.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:67 Jl 28 ‘17 800w

“Well worth a place in literature. ... In the frankness of its
self-revelation and the naïveté combined with the latent vigour of the
style, it reminds us of Yoshio Markino’s ‘When I was a child’; but
there the resemblance ends. ... It contains much to attract even those
who are not interested in the psychological aspects of literature:
quaint character sketches of teachers, friends, and fellow-students,
vivid pictures of Indian habits and scenery, analyses of child
mentality done with extraordinary insight and sympathy.”

+ =Spec= 119:191 Ag 25 ‘17 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p379 Ag 9 ‘17 2500w

=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Nationalism. *$1.25 (5½c) Macmillan 327 17-22891

“A nation, in the sense of the political and economic union of a
people, is that aspect which a whole population assumes when organized
for a mechanical purpose.” It is in this sense that Rabindranath
Tagore finds the nation inimical to the good of humanity. India offers
a concrete example of humanity suffering under the mechanical
efficiency of the nation. His criticism is not directed against the
British nation as such but against the ideal of the “western nation.”
He distinguishes between the spirit of the West and the nation of the
West. The spirit of the West has much to give to the East that would
be willingly received. The “western nation” is held responsible for
the world war. The first essay, Nationalism in the West was prepared
for delivery as a lecture in the United States. Essays on Nationalism
in Japan; Nationalism in India, and a poem: The sunset of the century,
complete the contents.

“He has produced a thoughtful book, and one that western people will
be the better for reading.”

+ =Ath= p522 O ‘17 220w

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 70w

=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 40w

“His lectures are well worth reading, but they do not furnish
leadership.”

+ — =Outlook= 118:222 F 6 ‘18 140w

=Pittsburgh= 22:830 D ‘17 90w

“We need not perhaps take too serious a view of a poet’s whimsical and
partly humorous incursion into a field with which he is not familiar.”

— =Spec= 119:386 O 13 ‘17 1400w

“If we do not think the poet’s view fair, we may allow that, from his
standpoint it is explicable. ... As to immediate practical problems,
the book does not give much guidance. ... It is enough that he
indicates evils and dangers in the present system. It is for us to
recognize those evils and dangers, and consider the way of salvation.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p435 S 13 ‘17 2200w

=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Personality. il *$1.35 (3c) Macmillan 891.4 17-13755

“The text is composed of half-a-dozen lectures in which is developed
the idea of art as a spontaneous expression of personality, and of
meditation as a passive surrender of the soul to the influx of the
world.” (Nation) Sir Rabindranath also gives an account of his school
for boys, and sets forth his views on woman, who will, he thinks, find
her true place when we get a civilization based “upon spiritual ideals
of reciprocity, and not upon economic ideals of efficiency.” Contents:
What is art; The world of personality; The second birth; My school;
Meditation; Woman. There are six full-page pictures of the author.

=A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17

“In a somewhat lighter vein than Sãdhanã and permeated with the same
ideas of individualism, mysticism and optimism.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 30w

“Tagore is true to the mystical type. ... As an example of how
differently the thing may be done, one turns to Samuel Butler’s
argument in his ‘God the known and God the unknown.’ ... Butler’s
little volume should be read with Tagore’s ‘The world of
personality.’ ... The chapter entitled ‘The second birth’ is not only
clear and coherent where the preceding chapter is muddled and
topsy-turvy, but is a well-sustained study in place of a hodgepodge of
dubious, more or less related observations.” M. C. Otto

+ — =Dial= 63:269 S 27 ‘17 1250w

“The reader who succeeds in entering at all into the spirit of these
discussions will not fail to see that in all of them the author is
saying something about where the true life of personality lies. His
ruling conception is clearly not the familiar one. He is as far as
possible from identifying personality with that in a man which is
peculiar and exclusive. Personality is not that which breaks out in
the foibles and eccentricities of an individual. ‘Living one’s own
life in truth,’ Tagore says, ‘is living the life of all the world.’
And in that phrase we have pretty much the focus of his vision. The
lectures are greatly taken up with the task of showing what is
personal in man and in the universe. The universe is a person. It has
a soul.” J. W. Scott

+ =Hibbert J= 16:160 O ‘17 2650w

=Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 50w

+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w

=Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 300w

=R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 150w

=St Louis= 15:373 O ‘17 30w

“The whole tenor of Tagore’s book is deeply religious, but everywhere
he protests against formalism in religion, as against formalism in
thought.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 25 ‘17 450w

“Personality, if we can imagine it made the subject of an actual
painting, as, let us say, motherhood has been, is here handled in
Botticelli’s manner rather than in Murillo’s—as, primarily, an act of
faith rather than as a piece of truth.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p259 My 31 ‘17 1450w

=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).=[2] Sacrifice, and other plays. *$1.50 Macmillan 891.4 17-28833

Includes the four new plays. Sanyasi or The ascetic, Malini, Sacrifice
and The king and queen. The title play’s underlying theme is the wrong
to life in slaying animals for sacrifice. When King Govinda beholds
the grief of a beggar girl whose goat has been slain for sacrifice, he
orders that no more blood be shed in the temple “from to-day forever.”
Then priests rise up with the time worn sentiments on their lips,
“That which has the sanction of ages, do you have the right to remove
it?” and “He has defied you and me, all scriptures, all countries, all
times.” The king typifies the spirit of knowledge and understanding
fighting its way to freedom against superstition and blind faith.

“While the technic of these plays closely resembles that of the
previous collection, the teachings are more forceful, and emerge from
the philosophy of the East in sharp, definite outlines which are
satisfying to the western mind.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 160w

=TAKEDA IZUMO.= Pine-tree (Matsu). il *$1.25 Duffield 895 16-25134

“The pine-tree,” the Japanese drama presented here, is a version of
the play produced by the Washington Square players of New York city
during the season of 1916-17 under the title “Bushido.” It is a play
based on the Japanese ideal of loyalty. The play itself is preceded by
a discussion of the Japanese theater by M. C. Marcus, with chapters on
Some glimpses of old Japanese literature; The elements of Japanese
drama; Early tragedy and comedy; Development of the drama; The
classical period—Takeda Izumo and his “Pine-tree”; and Theatrical
customs. The version of the play presented is an adaptation, not a
translation.

“The genius of the Japanese dramatist triumphs. He has conceived the
central situation with such vividness and power, he has shown us the
passion of loyalty with such reality, that we accept for the moment
the Japanese ethical doctrine alien as it is to our own.” H. E.
Woodbridge

+ — =Dial= 62:67 Ja 25 ‘17 650w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:151 O ‘16

“It can safely be said that one of the greatest achievements in
dramatic art for many years was the presentation by the Washington
Square players of ‘Bushido,’ one act taken from a Japanese play by
Takeda Izumo, a famous dramatist who lived during the first half of
the eighteenth century. ... ‘The pine tree’ (Matzu), is another name
for ‘Bushido.’ ... This little volume, with its artistic make up,
consisting of a liberal sprinkling of Japanese drawings copied from
the British museum, its illuminating and very readable essay on the
Japanese drama and then the play itself makes a book really worth
owning and reading many times.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p14 F 18 ‘17 400w

“The most interesting part of this little volume is the dissertation
on Japanese literature and drama which it includes.”

+ =Outlook= 115:114 Ja 17 ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p31 Jl ‘17 10w

=TALBOT, NEVILLE STUART.= Thoughts on religion at the front. *80c Macmillan 17-18383

“Mr Talbot arrives at the conclusion that ‘on the whole there is not a
great articulate revival of the Christian religion at the front.’ As
one of the causes, he admits, as an Anglican, that ‘religion as taught
by the Church of England has a feeble grip on the masses,’ and, taking
a wider view, he does not think that ‘Christianity as at present
expressed and presented to men in the church (in the wider sense of
the word) is prima facie that which can win and possess them.’ Too
much emphasis is laid on things not characteristically Christian;
while the ecclesiasticism of ‘Catholic Christianity’ and the
subjectivism of ‘Protestantism’ both interfere with the appeal of
Christianity through the church.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p95 F ‘17 130w

“It contains barely a hundred pages of large type, but every page is
full of matter. ... For Mr Talbot has a rare gift of insight and an
unusual candour; and his study of the religion of the British soldier,
officer and private, has given him an idea of the strength and
weakness of British religion generally,”

+ =Spec= 118:543 My 12 ‘17 340w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 370w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup)

“A sincere and candid little book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 F 1 ‘17 230w

=TALBOT, WINTHROP=,[2] comp. and ed. Americanization. (Handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 325.7 18-1496

“This volume on Americanism and Americanization is offered as a means
for further clarifying our national thought in regard to present vital
problems.” (Explanatory note) The book consists of selected reprints,
including both prose and poetry, arranged to form three parts:
Principles of Americanism; Essentials of Americanization; Technic of
race assimilation. In part 3 attention is given to the part played by
school, home, library, labor union, etc, in the Americanization of the
immigrant. A classified bibliography of forty pages is a feature of
the volume.

“A useful book for any one interested in the problem of making a good,
clean amalgam out of the heterogeneous contents of our racial
melting-pot.”

+ =Outlook= 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 50w

“The editor has succeeded in elucidating by a sufficient number of
quotations and extracts those phases of that process which just now
hold public attention and permit of rapid progress in spite of war
conditions.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 150w

=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. new ed 2v il *$5 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25788

The scheme of things that made Lincoln a leader of democracy more than
fifty years ago takes on new meaning and interest as we try to throw
light on the scheme of things that has forced another great president
into similar leadership. Especially timely, therefore, is the
reappearance of this Lincoln biography, published first in 1900. A
twenty-page preface points out the notable new material that has bean
added to the collections of Lincolniana in the past seventeen years;
and shows both that these recent contributions enlarge Lincoln and
clear up our view of him and that, in putting down the strength and
the weakness of him over and over again, we know him better and can
judge him more fairly both as man and leader.

“In the present crisis of the nation I do not know any better
biography, any better book, indeed, any more encouraging, more
illuminating, than the story of the life of the greatest of all
Americans. And no one has told that story in a better, more informing
way than has Miss Tarbell.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:325 N ‘17 1100w

“The seventeen years since the first publication of this book have
strengthened the verdict then given that it is one of the most vivid
and authentic biographies ever written of ‘the first American.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 250w

Reviewed by L. E. Robinson

=Dial= 64:148 F 14 ‘18 1750w

“One of the most authoritative and reliable biographies of the
martyred president. ... There is a report of what is known as the
‘Last speech,’ a most important contribution in itself.”

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 150w

“The twenty-page new preface which she writes for this edition is
notable for its very able summing up of the influence which recent
publications exert upon our conception of Lincoln and for its firm
envisaging of Lincoln in the light of this new knowledge.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 500w

=TARLEAU, LISA YSAYE.= Inn of disenchantment. *$1.25 (8c) Houghton 814 17-24509

Contents: The princess and the dragon; The true story of Bluebeard;
Facts; The eidolon; The new leaf; Cheering a lady; Sousa; Questions;
Spring; Grand’ma Ninon; Psychical research; The irrational lady; These
degenerate days; Magic advertisements; Arcadia.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18

“Anyone cherishing the belief that a charming and perfect style should
be the characteristic of the essay and taking up ‘The inn of
disenchantment’ would find in the very first sentence some color for
thinking that instead of being an inn of disenchantment it was a book
of disenchantment. Yet that is the end of our censure. The fifteen
essays are quite delightful. The humor is subtle.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 550w

+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w

+ =Nation= 105:724 D 27 ‘17 150w

“Fifteen little essays, ... written, nearly all of them, in a minor
key. ... Disenchantment, the charm of the unattainable, life’s
compromises—these form the bases of the themes. A delicate touch, a
feeling for the values of words, makes them unusually attractive,
though at times they become a little too precise.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ‘17 200w

=TASHIRO, SHIRO.= Chemical sign of life. (Science ser.) il *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 577 17-8224

The author is instructor in physiological chemistry in the University
of Chicago. “This little book by the inventor of the biometer tells of
the discovery of a chemical method of distinguishing living from dead
tissue and of measuring the quantity of life, and explains the modus
operandi.” (Boston Transcript)

“Of great value to the student; the public in general will care only
for results.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 S 12 ‘17 120w

+ =Nation= 104:561 My 3 ‘17 450w

+ =Nature= 100:186 N 8 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17 10w

=TATLOCK, JESSIE MAY.= Greek and Roman mythology. il *$1.50 Century 292 17-3155

“Miss Tatlock, the author of the present volume of mythology, is a
teacher at Miss Spence’s school in New York City. Both for brevity and
simplicity she has tried only to include the best-known and most
attractive of the classical myths. In her index she makes mention of
many which space has forbidden to her to include. In order that the
student may be able to retain as much as possible of the subject, Miss
Tatlock has tried to mention only the important names in telling the
stories. Moreover by cross reference and reiteration she has striven
to impress these names on the minds of readers, so that they will
remain fixed.”—Boston Transcript

“In no way supplants Gayley as a comprehensive reference manual; but
its simplicity of language, clearness of arrangement and distinctness
of print make it especially attractive as a text book for the younger
student and for the general public seeking a pleasant acquaintance
with the subject. Both illustrations and quotations are taken entirely
from Greek and Roman sources, and Greek names are used in preference
to Roman. Thus it has more unity and is more Greek in feeling than
Guerber, although gives more details.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:4 O ‘17

“In every way an admirable textbook for the use of students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 190w

+ =Ind= 91:231 Ag 11 ‘17 60w

“Appendices give the pronunciation of names and a list of poems and
dramas based on the myths. Ninety-nine illustrations add to the
value. ... The publishers have used calendered paper throughout and
provided a neat and substantial binding. The volume is valuable alike
for classes and as a reference-book in the home for those who have no
dictionary of mythology.”

+ =Lit D= 54:269 Ap 28 ‘17 280w

“There are many people who do not believe that children should be
allowed to read these myths, because they are not considered as
conducive to a high standard of morals. This book easily dispels such
fears, for any boy or girl of high school age can read and enjoy all
of the stories without any danger to his or her morals.” J. G.
Glassberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 29 ‘17 600w

=N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 50w

“These versions of the most famous and interesting of the stories of
Greek mythology are brief, simple and readable.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 40w

“The chief merit of this book, which places it above the Guerber and
Gayley textbooks on mythology, is its unity. ... The appendixes are
extremely valuable for general reference. The pictures of standard
works of art are worthy of favorable comment.” Adaline Lincoln

+ =School R= 25:301 Ap ‘17 270w

=TAUBENHAUS, JACOB JOSEPH.= Culture and diseases of the sweet pea; with an introd. by Melville T. Cook. il *$1.75 Dutton 716 17-16080

“In the preface the announcement is made that this book is primarily
intended to be a practical treatise for use by both growers of sweet
peas and investigators. ... The first eighty-nine pages are devoted to
explicit cultural directions which have been prepared for the author
by specialists. The following ninety-five pages are given to a
consideration of greenhouse and field troubles, including nine
diseases of fungous origin, one of bacterial origin and a brief
summary of the several insect pests. Due space is given in the closing
chapters, in a clear, concise manner, to methods of prevention and
control of these maladies.” (Science) “The author is a plant
pathologist and physiologist in charge at the Experiment station of
the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.” (R of Rs)

=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

Reviewed by M. T. Cook

+ =Bot Gaz= 65:194 F ‘18 160w

=Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 40w

“Prof. Melville T. Cook, of Rutgers college, commends the book as both
practical and scientific, equally useful to the layman, the commercial
grower and the scientist.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 100w

“The person of less than collegiate training would find himself
hopelessly lost if he attempted to wade through certain paragraphs in
this book. ... The book is well and amply illustrated, is unusually
free from typographical errors and gives the impression of being
condensed yet complete.” F. A. Wolf

+ + — =Science= n s 46:316 S 28 ‘17 350w

“The only book of its kind to which the amateur sweet-pea grower may
turn for complete instructions on the growing and care of sweet peas.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ‘17 220w

=TAYLOR, A. H. E.= Future of the southern Slavs. *$3 (3c) Dodd 949.7 (Eng ed 17-29200)

“My object,” says the author, “has been to attempt to set forth the
main features of the southern Slav problem as they exist to-day, and
the solution at which we should aim. Of necessity, in discussing
territorial questions I have assumed such a complete victory for the
Allies as will result in the dismemberment of Austria.” (Preface) The
book is made up of the following chapters: A plea for Serbia; A sketch
of Serb history; The renascence of Serbia; The problem of the
Adriatic; Proposed frontiers; Macedonia: the Serbo-Bulgarian treaty of
1912; The settlement with Bulgaria; The future southern Slav state;
Some problems of the new state; The European importance of the
southern Slavs. There is one large folding map.

=Ath= p531 O ‘17 120w

“This book is, in fact, a conclusive demonstration of the wisdom of
the buffer state theory, an unanswerable argument for the fusion of
the southern Slavs, whether in a federal, dual, or unitary state. It
should be widely read. Mention must be made of the ethnographic map
included in the volume by permission of the Jugoslav committee.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:508 D 2 ‘17 550w

“Mr Taylor discusses fully and frankly the problem of the eastern
Adriatic, but, like a good many ardent friends of Serbia, he is far
less sympathetic to Italy than he ought to be.”

+ — =Spec= 119:356 O 6 ‘17 1350w

“His chapter on this topic [Italy and Dalmatia] is interesting, well
argued, and adequately fortified with historical analogies. ... One of
the most valuable sections of Mr Taylor’s book is his sympathetic
account of the death, dormancy, and resurrection of the Serbian
people.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 O 11 ‘17 1650w

=TAYLOR, CHARLES FREMONT.= Conclusive peace; presenting the historically logical, and a feasible, plan of action for the coming peace conference, which will coordinate and harmonize Europe, and the world. 50c (1½c) Winston 341 17-4982

The author says, “In the past, treaties of peace have contained the
seeds of future war because they have not provided means by which
peace may lead to continued peace. Peace having been used in the
preparation for war and in sowing the seeds of war, the natural and
inevitable result was war. Such a peace has never been and cannot be
conclusive. ... As long as the minds of Europe dwell on competitive
national military power instead of on peaceful international
cooperation for mutual benefit, there can be no conclusive peace.” His
purpose in this book is to outline a plan for cooperation. Some of his
practical suggestions are free access to the seas for all nations, a
European commerce commission, a permanent international congress.

“Mr Taylor’s little book, however frankly amateurish in approach, does
suggest that the average American can think about the war without
overmuch affection or hostility for either side. It is neutral in the
best sense. Yet it necessarily has the defects of such a virtue—while
not doctrinaire, ‘A conclusive peace’ is a bit too impatient with the
muddle of actual passions and hopes, too confident that the essential
reasonableness of a harmonized Europe will of itself create harmony.
But one genuinely constructive suggestion does emerge.”

+ — =New Repub= 50:55 F 10 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:9 Ja ‘17

“In the simple form in which Mr Taylor first presents the idea it is
well worth considering, but he finally rides it rather fast and far
and even overworks his imagination in providing it with detailed
developments.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:35 F 4 ‘17 110w

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w

=TAYLOR, CHARLES KEEN.=[2] Boys’ camp manual. il *$1.25 Century 355.7 17-22879

“A handbook of military and all-round training.” (Sub-title) Contents:
Organization of camps and weekly-schedule; Establishing the camp;
Physical training; Formal military drill; Signaling; Field and other
exercises; Camp interests and special observations. The author is
director of Camp Penn, under military-age camp near Plattsburgh.

=A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

=TAYLOR, HANNIS.= Cicero, a sketch of his life and works. il *$3.50 McClurg 16-20121

“This new survey of the great Roman statesman’s career, written from
the viewpoint of an American student of constitutions, ancient and
modern, presents Cicero as the ideal defender of the Roman
constitution, and the ‘embodiment of the departing spirit of Roman
republicanism.’ Some of the chapter headings may serve to indicate the
way in which Dr Taylor has grouped and marshalled his materials: Stoic
philosophy and Roman law; Cicero’s Greek culture; The Roman bar in
Cicero’s time; The Roman constitution; Cicero as leader of the Roman
bar; Cicero as a statesman; Cicero and Pompey; Cicero and Cæsar; The
duel to the death of Antony.”—R of Rs

“The most interesting chapters deal with the Roman constitution and
the Roman bar in the height of its power. On the whole the life is
written in too laudatory a strain, and Cicero’s influence on early
Christian thought exaggerated. An excellent and complete anthology of
Cicero’s most striking utterances concludes the volume.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 110w

“In dealing with Cicero as a man, Mr Taylor writes from an entirely
sympathetic point of view, yielding in no particular to the
Drumann-Mommsen assault, which is now very generally regarded as
having injured the fame of two eminent German historians far more than
that of Cicero. ... As ‘a commentary on the Roman constitution,’ the
book is not adequate. ... The Ciceronian ‘anthology’ with which the
book closes was a project so well worth while that it should have been
based upon a very thorough and independent rereading of Cicero’s
entire works. As it stands, much of the material has been picked up
from secondary sources, with a certain amount of annoying and
unnecessary repetition, and displaying various grades of skill, or
want of skill, in translation.”

+ — =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 950w

+ =Lit D= 54:267 F 3 ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:182 D ‘16

=R of Rs= 54:681 D ‘16 100w

=TAYLOR, JAY LAIRD BURGESS.= Handbook for rangers and woodsmen. il *$2.50 Wiley 634.9 17-1185

This work, by a forest ranger in the United States forest service, is
not to be considered an official publication, says the author. It has
been prepared however with the permission of the Secretary of
agriculture, who has given criticism and advice. Its object is “to
serve as a guide for inexperienced men in woods work.” The author has
had in mind the problems that confront the ranger in government, state
or private employ, but he expresses the belief that the book may be of
value to others whose work or recreation takes them into the woods.
Contents: Equipment; Construction work; General field work; Live
stock; Miscellaneous. Tables and other items of information are given
in an appendix. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams, a
glossary and an index. The book is of convenient pocket size.

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:44 Mr ‘17

“‘This handbook is welcome as a most valuable addition to our forest
literature, since it is believed that it will be of inestimable value
to both those who are just starting in the profession and to the older
men who want a reference work on the various practical subjects
covered.’” R. C. B.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:348 Ap ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of
Forestry p124 Ja ‘17)

“‘Mr Taylor has prepared a useful handbook for those who are
inexperienced in woodcraft, which was compiled after eight years of
field work with the United States forest service. ... Numerous
illustrations aid in giving an understanding of the text.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:467 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Forest Leaves
p31 Ap ‘17)

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17

=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Cecilia of the pink roses. il *$1.25 (2½c) Doran 17-13951