Chapter LXXXIII: Part 4: is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced (8)

“This is the record of one heroic soul, by name Alexander Hadlock, who
in 1906 at the age of sixty-two with no money and no previous
experience in farm work, went back to the soil. He had his black
years; four winters of working out on others’ farms; five years before
he had his own few acres and his ‘shack.’ He gradually and doggedly
saved and learned and succeeded.”—New Repub

“A ‘back to the land’ story that is not concerned with friendly
chickens or misunderstood pigs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“The purpose of the book is to show that the conditions of success
under such circumstances are indomitable will, hard physical work, and
the application of scientific methods, and that the principal and
sufficing reward is the consciousness of worthy work well done.”

+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 80w

“Written by one who evidently knows something about farming and is
under no illusions as to the amount of hard work and, above all,
intelligent work that successful farming demands. But whether the
writer’s ‘Alexander Hadlock,’ who got his second wind at sixty-two and
exchanged the professor’s chair for the farmer’s hoe is a real person
or purely imaginary, it would be hard to say. Perhaps he is a little
of both.”

+ — =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 300w

“There is something of heroism, something of good, hard, common sense,
and a leavening of the strangely soothing love of animals and fields
in ‘Second wind.’”

+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 80w

“Mr Tilden is sympathetic towards the middle-aged city hunger for the
soil, although he is merciless in knocking the romanticism from that
vision.”

+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 350w

“This book will be a gospel of successful farming to many. It is not,
however, to be used as a guide in the arts of agriculture. It is too
short for that. It is what its secondary title implies, ‘The plain
truth about going back to the land.’” G: H. Hamilton

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 350w

“It is an honest book, and it tells the whole story in terms of
dollars and cents, measured rations, stone pulling, hard living,
courageous persistence.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =Pub W= 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w

“Mr Tilden tells the story well, so well that his art would command
applause were it not that the reader is breathlessly saving his
applause for the subject rather than the author of the story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 23 ‘17 680w

“The gloomy picture is relieved by a pictorial literary style that
makes the book readable. ... Hadlock’s philosophy is sound and
inspiring.” Bolton Hall

+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 250w

=TILDEN, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.= Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century. *$3.50 Dutton (*7s 6d Routledge and sons, London) 660 17-21524

“With a large measure of success, the author has essayed the difficult
task of compiling a detailed, but as far as possible nontechnical
account of the discoveries and inventions in physical, organic,
inorganic, and applied chemistry since about the beginning of the
present century. Some of the newest and most completely equipped
teaching and technological laboratories are described. Modern
discoveries receive consideration; and many of the latter-day
applications of chemical science are discussed with great fullness.
The concluding portion of the book is devoted to recent progress in
organic chemistry, some of the most striking results (such as the
additions to our knowledge of the proteins and sugars, and the
production of synthetic perfumes, colouring agents, and drugs) being
recounted at considerable length. The volume is illustrated with 150
figures, diagrams, and views; and there are portraits of eleven
distinguished chemists and physicists, of whom biographical notices
are supplied in the appendix.”—Ath

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

=Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 140w

“Sir William Tilden has filled his book with information so conveyed
as to be clear to the non-technical reader.”

+ =Ath= p239 My ‘17 1000w

“Sir William Augustus Tilden, formerly president of the Institute of
chemistry and also of the Chemical society, professor and dean in the
Royal college of science, and emeritus professor in the Imperial
college of science and technology, author of several important works
on the philosophy and practice of chemistry, has at the age of
seventy-five, produced a book of five hundred pages dealing in a
popular style on the marvelous advance which this most practical of
sciences has made up to the present time.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1400w

=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w

“We congratulate the author on the production of a work as useful as
it is accurate and interesting. The book is admirably got up and
excellently illustrated, and constitutes a worthy and timely addition
to popular chemical literature.”

+ =Nature= 99:121 Ap 12 ‘17 1750w

“A companion volume to Edward Cressy’s excellent work ‘Discoveries and
inventions of the 20th century.’ Occasional formulae and molecular
diagrams should not dissuade the general reader—the book is intended
for him. A noteworthy book that should be in every public library.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 150w

“The economic problems generated by the war lend particular interest
to the third section of the book, which deals with the modern
applications of specialized portions of chemical knowledge to
manufacture.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 500w

=Pratt= p18 O ‘17 40w

“Sir William Tilden gives a good summary of modern chemical theories
of matter, which is stiff reading, and some lighter chapters on
various branches of chemical industry such as petrol dyes, drugs,
rubber, cellulose, and explosives, with a brief concluding section on
sugar and other organic substances. These chapters are informing, and
illustrate the ever-increasing importance of the chemist in modern
life.”

=Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w

=TIPLADY, THOMAS.= Cross at the front; fragments from the trenches. *$1 (2½c) Revell 940.91

The author has been serving as a field chaplain with the British
forces. Many of the chapters that make up his book are descriptive
sketches, others are discussions of ethical and moral questions and
considerations of the soldier’s attitude toward the church, the
influence of the church after the war, etc.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 320w

“The tone of the book is hopeful, patriotic, and sincere.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w

“Through the entire book radiates wholesome feeling, love and trust
and a manly and serviceable but not ecclesiastical faith.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 350w

=TISDALE, ALICE.= Pioneering where the world is old (Leaves from a Manchurian notebook). il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 915.18 17-26970

Sketches of life and travel in Manchuria. The author, who has been her
husband’s companion wherever his business has taken him thruout the
East, knows the country with the intimacy of one who has made her home
there. In one of her chapters, “We become pioneer settlers.” she
writes of the difficulties met with in establishing a home in an
ancient temple. The book has been written largely for the joy of
recounting happy adventures, but it may be worthy of more serious
attention as throwing some light on the Far Eastern question, with
reference to the relations of Japan and China. Parts of the work have
appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The practically minded reader may find much in it, but the
imaginative will get more.”

+ =Ind= 93:372 Mr 2 ‘18 230w

“Her province is of the spirit, and her quest is as joyous as a
child’s. The book was started ‘for the purpose of giving the breath of
the open spaces to the stay-at-home vagabonds.’ This it does in a
remarkable degree.”

+ =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w

=Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w

“An interesting volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 90w

=TODD, JOHN AITON.= Mechanism of exchange. *$2.25 (4c) Oxford 332 17-16572

The author is professor of economics in University college,
Nottingham, England. He tells us in his preface to this “handbook of
currency, banking and trade in peace and in war” that “the war has
struck at the very roots of our whole business and financial system,
by its devastating effects on our foreign trade, and therefore upon
all the complicated financial machinery which has grown up round
international trade, ... and that our internal monetary and financial
system was involved in the breakdown of the foreign exchanges.” The
natural result has been “a striking revival of interest in economic
problems,” especially in questions of currency, banking and trade. The
teaching of these subjects must therefore be brought up to date, which
does not mean, according to our author, “an entire recasting of all
previous teaching of economics,” but “a new presentation of the
principles in conjunction with the altered conditions.” “Statistical
information on the problems dealt with in the book has been collected
in a series of appendices, with in every case the source of the
information. These figures are at present necessarily very
incomplete. ... At the end of each chapter references are given.”
(Preface)

“Professor Todd’s well-planned and ably written text-book on money,
exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon
our experiences of finance in war time to illustrate or modify the
theories prevailing in peace. His lucid account of the crisis at the
outbreak of war is supplemented by many tables showing at a glance the
financial history of these troubled years.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 140w

“Professor Todd states in his preface that, ‘as a result of the war,
economics has come into its own.’ On the particular subject that he is
discussing this is certainly true; but unfortunately his exposition of
it is such that it leaves the reader with a quite contrary
impression. ... Like many other workers in this field, he has
entangled himself in his problem by introducing the comparatively
unimportant question of the quantity of gold. ... Though he thus
tumbles over a factor in his problem which he introduced to his own
undoing, he provides his reader with a mass of statistics and
information which may help others to draw a sounder conclusion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 1050w

Told in the huts; the Y. M. C. A. gift book; with introd. by A. K. Yapp. il *$1.50 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1798)

These stories and sketches of the war, together with a few poems, are
contributed by British soldiers and war workers, and published for the
benefit of the Y. M. C. A. active service campaign among soldiers,
sailors and munition workers. A four page reproduction of one of the
numerous trench magazines is included. The book is illustrated in
black and white, and in color by Cyrus Cuneo.

“The subjects of the stories vary widely. One element, however, they
possess in common: a high valor and patriotism no suffering can daunt,
no hardship can quench.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w

=TOLSTOI, ILYA, count.= Visions; tales from the Russian. il *$1.35 (3½c) Pond 17-15284

A volume of short stories and sketches by Count Ilya Tolstoi, who has
been lecturing in America during the past winter. Five of them, The
little nurse, War visions, An affair of honor, The scarlet bashlyks,
and The little green stick, are stories of the war. The remaining
four, Too late, One scoundrel less, Without a nose, and Cholera, are
stories of Russian life in the days before the war.

“Count Ilya Tolstoi is a genuine poet; he has also his father’s gift
for putting before the eyes whatever he wishes his readers to see.
Read for instance the sketch entitled, ‘Without a nose’; it is
horrible but it is marvellous; it might have been written by Count L.
N. Tolstoi. Though the author is not a young man, there seems to be no
reason why he should not yet accomplish great things in literature.
These powerful stories and sketches have more than promise; they are
little masterpieces.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 750w

+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 330w

“Several of the tales are strongly suggestive of de Maupassant.
‘Without a nose’ has all of his concise and bitter irony, as ‘The
little nurse’ might represent him in his mood of, as it were,
reluctant sympathy. Stories like ‘Too late’ and ‘One scoundrel less,’
on the other hand, are full of generous emotion, the emotion of a
Russian and a Tolstoy.”

=Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 420w

“If ‘Visions’ has not genius, the book has a quiet and genuine
interest.”

+ =New Repub= 11:141 Je 2 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w

=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.=[2] Diaries; v. 1, Youth; with a preface by C. Hagberg Wright. il *$2 Dutton (18-2499)

“Those readers who have familiarized themselves with only the later
writings of Count Leo Tolstoy, must be prepared for a slight shock
upon reading the intimate records of his earlier life in the
‘Diaries.’ The first volume of the series of three is now available in
English translation, rendered from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, and
A. Sirnis. It covers the years from 1847 to 1852, and reveals the
formative period of Tolstoy’s life. His jottings, like those of
Emerson, deal with his thoughts rather than with his actions, and
express cryptically many of the ideas which he afterward expanded into
the philosophy of his mature years. The dualism of his nature is
particularly manifest; flesh and spirit were ever at war.”—R of Rs

+ — =Ath= p598 N ‘17 400w

“The ‘Diaries’ constitute a human document of great interest and
importance, taking their place with the ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine
and Rousseau in the light they shed on the soul-struggle of a wealthy
and occasionally dissipated young nobleman who early caught the gleam
and began to seek for the truth. The translation is admirably
performed.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p 8 Ja 19 ‘18 1100w

+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 1250w

=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 240w

“It is no exaggeration to say that many equally interesting diaries
could be collected from sixteen-year-old high-school girls. As for the
editing, we should be inclined to pass it over in silence if the
remainder of the diary could be expected to be as valueless as this.”

— =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 460w

“The comparison that suggests itself unjustly but automatically to the
reader of the present volume is with the diary of Samuel Pepys. We
have here the same open confessions of weaknesses, vanities, and sins;
the same engaging discursiveness; and the same frankness and honesty
which, whatever opinion we might hold about the moral worth of the
older writer, left us with no doubts about the genuine humanity of his
book. The diary has been translated into vigorous and racy English, it
has been elaborately indexed and annotated.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup471 N 3 ‘17 760w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p289 Je 21 ‘17 4700w

“The diaries now before us show that understanding was not wanting in
the translator in a literal sense; his success is indeed greater than
might have been expected in view of the rules by which he was bound to
maintain the strictest accuracy—but possibly a keener sympathy with
the ideas of the writer might produce a yet closer and more
illuminating version of a ‘human document of exceptional interest and
worth.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 4 ‘17 980w

=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.= Journal; tr. by Rose Strunsky. *$2 (3c) Knopf (17-21353)

“It was Tolstoy’s wish that his friend and follower, V. G. Chertkov,
who was perhaps nearer to him spiritually than any one else, should
revise and arrange for publication after his death all his manuscripts
and documents, including his journals. But his widow, the Countess
Tolstoy, took possession of his journals and notebooks and placed them
in the Moscow historical museum. ... Therefore Mr Chertkov can publish
only the volumes of which he happened to have copies from the
original. He possesses of these copies the volumes that cover, in
addition to this section from 1895 to 1899, the succeeding years from
1900 to 1910 and will publish these later.” (N Y Times) The present
volume of Tolstoi’s journal covers the period from October 28, 1895,
to December, 1899. Omissions, made either by the censor, or on account
of their intimate character, have been indicated. There is an
introduction by Rose Strunsky. Appended are ninety pages of notes by
V. G. Chertkov, and a short sketch of Tolstoi’s life in the nineties
by Constantine Shokor-Trotsky, which includes a classified
bibliography of Tolstoi’s writings from November, 1895 to 1899. There
is a full index.

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 70w

“A volume that will be valued by the lovers of fragmentary thought as
they value the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, the ‘Journal intime’ of Amiel and
the ‘Encheiridion’ of Epictetus. ... The voluminous notes by Chertkov
form a veritable cyclopedia of contemporary biography and literature
for they explain every proper name mentioned.”

=Ind= 92:67 O 6 ‘17 1000w

“The processes of his mental debates are exposed, and the key to his
philosophy and theology is put into the reader’s hand.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w

“Here are recorded the incessant struggles of a mind bent on being
absolutely honest with itself, longing to find the absolute moral
basis for life. ... Miss Strunsky’s introduction sketches the
influence of Tolstoy’s ideas upon the youth of Russia for the last
generation.”

=N Y Times= 22:288 Ag 5 ‘17 1600w

“Abounds in expressions of sincere self-criticism. ‘Unclear’;
‘Nonsense’; ‘This seemed much clearer to me when I first thought it
out’—comments such as these Tolstoi would not infrequently append to
his entries, and all too often the stricture is just. Seldom does
Tolstoi in this record lead us up to the heights of ethical vision;
more often he conducts us through the dark chambers of his own mind.
Yet in this very fact lies the value of the journal. Few of the
sayings it contains are valuable as isolated truths, and the whole is
scarcely more enlightening than discouraging to those who are in
search of light and leading; yet the collection of Tolstoi’s
day-to-day thoughts forms a vitally interesting document for the study
of religious experience.”

+ — =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 950w

=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:376 O ‘17 20w

“It is the belief of Miss Rose Strunsky that a reading of the diary
will make clear the meaning of the Russian revolution. ... In so far
as the revolution had its mainsprings in the intelligentsia, and it
did so largely, according to as competent an authority as Tolstoy’s
son, Miss Strunsky’s statement cannot be gainsaid. ... The translation
is finished and made with great faithfulness to lucid interpretation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 540w

=TOMPKINS, ELLEN WILKINS.= Enlightenment of Paulina. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-28187

The scene is laid partly in a town on the outskirts of Rochester,
N.Y., and partly in the southern town of Middleborough. Paulina,
daughter of a poor minister, after his death marries George Bull,
whose secretary she has been, but who is personally distasteful to
her, to secure a home and comfort for her mother. Mrs Sprague,
however, does not live long to enjoy them. When later George Bull is
imprisoned for theft, his wife, posing as a widow, goes to pay a long
visit to her mother’s girlhood friend, Mrs Taliaferro, who has a
charming daughter, Clyde. Paulina’s association with the kindly
Middleborough people, most of all with the Rev. Mr Fellows who “in
spite of his ministerial calling, was a creature of flesh and blood,”
changes and develops her in many ways. The book also tells the story
of Clyde Taliaferro’s love affairs, and of the devotion of Rosie, his
brother’s widow, to George Bull.

“A story of original flavour and of sincere and varied
characterisation.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 500w

“Beginning with a situation of unpleasant ‘realism,’ the reader is led
by way of an atmosphere of southern village comedy and romance to a
conclusion charactered with self-sacrifice and spiritual
generosity. ... Aside from the main theme, the development of a
woman’s character, the story has much individuality; its picture of
the Middleborough elect is less concerned with their typical southern
quaintnesses than with their essential quality.”

+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 440w

“One of those books which one reads with a feeling of regret—regret
for what they might have been. For there is some good work in ‘The
enlightenment of Paulina,’ but it is rendered almost null and futile
by the author’s apparent lack of any sense of light and shade, any
sense of what to eliminate.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 320w

=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS POTTLE).=[2] At the sign of the oldest house. il *$1.50 (4½c) Bobbs 17-30279

A wholesome, old fashioned story with a restraint in the love making
little known to modern romance. The setting is “the oldest house in
America,” where are gathered for the browsing appetite of tourists,
curios, paintings and valuable antiques. The keeper of the place is a
little, bent, old shell of a woman, to whom the personal conduct of
groups among her treasures and the droning recital of their ownerships
and famous points have become a dun-colored habit. In sharp contrast
to her is the grandchild, Pansy, who comes unbidden and self
announced, to touch every treasure with the gold of youth. Exuberant
spirits, a keen joy of living, tireless love of hard work become
valuable assets in this dead-and-buried atmosphere. The hero is half
artist, half business man, who also deals in antiques and has built up
a good business in reproducing old pieces. Some one has said the story
is “as fragrant as a honeysuckle, as homelike as a gingham apron.”

“‘A pretty story,’ very slight.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

“Not only does the book please while reading but it leaves a satisfied
feeling after.”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 30w

“Mrs Tompkins has not made a contribution to literature; her
characters do not grip your heart; nor do they help you to a better
understanding of life—but the simple little story is full of charm and
wholesomeness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:517 D 2 ‘17 290w

“A bread-and-butter romance, which leaves the reader cold. Throughout
the book there is an atmosphere of unreality which the thoughtful
reader, in these times of stern realities, resents. However, there is
much that is charming.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 140w

=TORRENCE, RIDGELY.= Granny Maumee; The rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. *$1.50 Macmillan 812 17-24093

These three “plays for a negro theatre” were presented in New York
city in the season of 1916-17. “‘Granny Maumee’ is a tragedy of race
hate, witchcraft and family affection of such terrible intensity that
few readers will be able to take pleasure in it. ‘The rider of dreams’
is in a softer key and somehow suggests the mingled realism and
mysticism of the modern Irish drama. ‘Simon the Cyrenian’ is an
allegory of the African race placed in a biblical setting.” (Ind)

=A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18

=Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 140w

“The three plays are strangely reminiscent of the Irish plays. They
have all the faults of the latter,—they are perhaps even a shade more
loose and amateurish,—but they have about them the gracious honesty of
a primitive people, a refreshing contrast to sophistication’s
steelier, more intellectual truth. The negro theatre is a folk theatre
and its plays are folk plays. They are chronicles of a simple,
child-like people, full of naïve superstitious religion and rude
poetry—and still within sound of the savage tom-tom. ... Mr Torrence
does not plead for the black man and he does not apologize for him. He
simply presents him, one feels truly, as he is.”

+ + — =Dial= 63:529 N 22 ‘17 840w

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 100w

“The two first of these one-act plays begin excellently. Then, to get
the theatrical ‘punch,’ the first shrills off into melodrama with
voodoo trimmings, and the second flats out into the distribution of
rewards and punishments. The third is a nowise successful attempt to
realize that ‘atmosphere’ that surrounded the crucifixion of the
Christ. If the form of the opening lines of ‘Granny Maumee’ had been
held, Mr Torrence would have given us a really worthy, almost great
study of negro character.” F. M.

+ — =NY Call= p14 N 18 ‘17 360w

“The first dramatic valuation of the negro which in theme, character
and situation approaches the actual psychology of negro life. ... The
plays have the haunting wistfulness of primitive racial
characteristics emerging in a foreign civilization and their
philosophy is distinctly that of the negro.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w

=TOWERS, WALTER KELLOGG.= Masters of space. (Harper’s master inventors) il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 654 17-7207

This book tells “the story of how the thought of the world has been
linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the
telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph,
and most recently, the wireless telephone.” The book opens with an
account of early methods of communicating thru space by means of
signals. Chapters that follow take up: Forerunners of the telegraph;
The achievement of Morse: Development of the telegraph system; The
pioneer Atlantic cable; The birth of the telephone, etc.

=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Untechnical, simply written story.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p10 Ap ‘17 130w

“Good book for readers of high school age.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 40w

“History teachers will find valuable reference material in this
volume. It will do good service in the upper elementary grades as well
as in the high school. The paucity of such material has been a great
handicap to history teachers in the past, for which reason this book
will doubtless receive a hearty welcome.”

+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 280w

“A volume of 30 pages of much interest and considerable value,
especially for the idea of grouping these kindred tales of
long-distance message-sending.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 300w

=TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON.= Autumn loiterers. il *$1.25 (9½c) Doran 917.4 17-29815

“You will hardly believe that we were loiterers when I tell you that
we were motorists,” writes the author. A leisurely journey thru the
Berkshire hills, taken in company with a companionable friend and a
six-year old motorcar, known as “Old Reliable,” is the subject of the
sketches. They are reprinted from the Delineator, with illustrations
by Thomas Fogarty. Mr Towne is a poet and an occasional bit of verse
is slipped into the prose narrative.

“There is magic in it. The title sounds the right note, interpreting
the mood of the pages that follow.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 800w

“A choice little volume. Happily illustrated. The man who drove the
car was Porter Emerson Browne, playwright and novelist.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

=TOYNBEE, ARNOLD JOSEPH.= German terror in Belgium; an historical record. il $1 (3½c) Doran 940.91 17-14685

“The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in
the countries overrun by the German armies during the first three
months of the European war. The form of it is a connected narrative,
based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct
quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference. With the
documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to
present a clear narrative of what actually happened. ... The narrative
has been arranged so as to follow separately the tracks of the
different German armies or groups of armies which traversed different
sectors of French and Belgian territory.” (Preface) There are three
maps and numerous illustrations.

“It is noteworthy that, as the author remarks, the different
testimonies fit together into a presentation of fact which is not open
to disbelief.”

+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 120w

“A dispassionate continuous narrative.”

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 30w

“No ‘fact’ is reported without abundant reference and
counter-reference. The sources include among others the Bryce report,
the appendices to the German White book, the reports of the Belgian
and French commissions, Massart’s ‘Belgians under the German eagle,’
Paul Hocker’s ‘An der spitze meiner kompagnie,’ etc. Mr Toynbee
assesses the conflicting evidence with notable fairness, so that the
record is free of any of the hysteria of the ‘eyewitness’ stamp of
excited journalist.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 130w

“The impression is inescapable that the relation is in the main true.
The damning indictment is strengthened by official German admissions
of slaughter and destruction in many of the places through which they
passed. And there can be no dismissing this sort of evidence as
forgery.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 420w

“Its material has all been co-ordinated from published documents and,
therefore, its evidence cannot be frowned down or minimized in any
way.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 130w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w

“It is of real value that the enormous mass of material to be found in
the Belgian reports, and also, of course, in the Bryce commission,
should have been worked up by a skilled and scholarly writer into the
form of a short and simple narrative. ... There is much talk now about
war aims and peace conditions. For this country the primary war aim
is, and must continue to be, not merely the expulsion of the Germans
from Belgium, but the establishment of an authoritative court to
inquire into the events which Mr Toynbee records.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 370w

=TRAIN, ARTHUR (CHENEY).=[2] World and Thomas Kelly. *$1.50 Scribner 17-29866

“Thomas Kelly is a young Bostonian, a son of ancient Massachusetts
stock. But though one of his forebears has been a governor, and he
himself is born in Back Bay, he grows up to find himself just without
the pale of the socially elect. He grows up a snob, in the odor of
snobbery. Three years of his life at Harvard are embittered by his
quite natural exclusion from the fashionable and expensive clubs of
that city of boys. In his fourth year, a fluke of athletic success
brings him to the front, and proves him worthy of membership in one of
these golden groups. But it all goes to Tom Kelly’s head, he takes to
cards and drink, and barely pulls himself together sufficiently to
save his diploma. His prowess at tennis gains him a summer in the
millionaire household of one of his clubmates at Newport. He is
supposed to be there for training before the national tournament; but
when the test comes is quite too far out of condition to make more
than a tolerable showing. But there are consolations: heiresses are
abundant, ready to award themselves to his youth and good looks. How,
after all, he escapes making a whole hopeless mess of his life, and
sets his foot at least upon the first rung of the ladder of an
honorable and useful career, is the substance of the latter part of
the story.”—Nation

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:602 Ja ‘18 550w

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 540w

“Readers who were familiar with the Boston of thirty years ago may
find here an extraordinarily faithful and, with all its humor,
sympathetic record of that place and time and atmosphere.”

+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 480w

“Mr Train, it would seem, intended his hero to have a good deal of
charm, but for some reason has omitted to endow him with an atom of
that most desirable quality. The first part of the novel is by all
odds the best. The interest of the story—like its merit—steadily
declines, until it reaches the vanishing point; which place it attains
many pages in advance of the last chapter.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 420w

“It is the strength of Mr Train’s story that he has portrayed the hero
without sparing him, but it may be questioned whether the character is
worth while.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 420w

=TRAIN, ETHEL (KISSAM) (MRS ARTHUR [CHENEY] TRAIN).= Bringing out Barbara. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-10198

Seventeen, just thru preparatory school that probably had a finishing
touch to it—the author does not say—Barbara West arrives home to enter
upon all the bewildering preparations for her “coming out.” She is a
natural, democratic girl, with simple tastes. After her four years of
school girl life she finds the atmosphere of formal teas and dinners
too stifling and the shallowness of social climbers too artificial for
her inclinations that run to flowers, birds, sunshine and people who
can tell the truth. How she manages to live thru her coming-out season
and yet emerge unspoiled is a story that may be read with profit by
all debutantes, and some mothers of debutantes as well.

“Exaggerated and rather hectic but written with considerable spirit.”

– + =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 70w

+ — =Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w

=N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

“The coldness and heartlessness of the family life of fashion and
fortune worshipers is well brought out in this novelette.”

+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 20w

“A pretty little romance, written with pleasant sentiment.”

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

=TREAT, PAYSON JACKSON.=[2] Early diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan; 1853-1865. $2.50 Johns Hopkins press 327.73 17-28858

The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history for 1917. The writer,
professor of Far eastern history in Stanford university, offers the
lectures as the first part of a study which will cover the whole
period of Japanese-American diplomatic relations. The present volume
takes up the story of American intercourse, and continues it thru the
negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, thru the troublesome
period of anti-foreign movements, to the Mikado’s sanction of the
treaties in 1865 where the narrative ends.

=TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM.= Nothing matters, and other stories. *$1.60 Houghton 17-13222

“To his achievements as actor and manager Sir Herbert Tree adds, for
the third time, that of authorship. ... Ten short stories, of which
the first fills nearly a third of the space, comprise the collection.
There is added also the presidential address delivered by Sir Herbert
before the Birmingham Midland institute in 1915 on ‘The importance of
humor in tragedy.’ The book takes its title from the novelette that
holds the initial place and tells the tragic tale of two friends and a
woman. Some of the other stories are farcical, with a touch of the
tragic in theme or dénouement. Ironic laughter runs through them
all.”—N Y Times

+ =Ath= p103 F ‘17 50w

“While we are interested in the stories of this collection, for the
majority the greatest attraction will lie in the essay with which the
volume ends, ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 650w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 200w

+ — =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 280w

+ =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 240w

+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

“He has a gift for epigram, a wayward sardonic humour, and a strong
sense of the macabre. Even where they are derivative his phrases are
ingenious, as when he defines the genius of the courtier as ‘an
infinite faculty of not being bored,’ or remarks that the Austrian
officer ‘waltzes as the nightingale sings, because he has nothing else
to do,’ or deprecates the habit observable in some people, ‘who are
too apt to treat God as if He were a minor royalty.’”

+ =Spec= 118:140 F 3 ‘17 850w

“Perhaps only two of these tales appear as they would have appeared
had Sir Herbert Tree been a professional and laborious writer instead
of a brilliant and gracious amateur. But if the form of the stories
speaks of the parergon, there is entertainment and to spare in them.
Not the least part of it, by any means, is the constant bubble of
smart phrases.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p18 Ja 11 ‘17 850w

=TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH GOTTHARD VON.= History of Germany in the nineteenth century; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul. 7v v 2 *$3.25 (1c) McBride 943 (16-759)

=v 2= Volume 1 of the English translation of Treitschke’s history was
published in 1915. It dealt with the period from the Peace of
Westphalia to the close of the War of liberation. Volume 2 is devoted
wholly to The beginnings of the German federation, 1814-1819, with
chapters on: The congress of Vienna; Belle Alliance (Waterloo); Mental
currents of the first years of peace; Opening of the German Bundestag;
Reconstruction of the Prussian state; South German constitutional
struggles. As in volume 1, there is an introduction by William Harbutt
Dawson.

Reviewed by M. S. Handman

* =Dial= 63:152 Ag 30 ‘17 1600w

“If it lacks the complete ecstasy of the author’s narrative of the War
of liberation, it compensates in a measure by the tempered pride with
which he discusses the spiritual achievements of Germany during the
first years of peace. The translation by Eden and Cedar Paul continues
to show the defects and qualities of the first volume—competence
without elegance.”

+ — =Nation= 105:518 N 8 ‘17 260w

“It is important to remember that the ill fame Treitschke has acquired
comes less from the ‘History’ than from the ‘Politics’; though the
ignorant narrowness of the latter deserves whatever condemnation it
may obtain. The ‘History’ is on a different plane. It is brilliant, it
is eloquent, and even if it is not seldom inaccurate, it represents
great erudition. That from which it seems to have inspired distrust is
the fact that it was written to prove a theory. ... The ‘History’ is a
household word in Germany, as Macaulay in England or Taine in France.
And it is that deservedly. With all its faults, it is a fundamental
book.” H. J. L.

=New Repub= 11:115 My 26 ‘17 1600w

“It is not true, but it is convincing. ... It is, in brief, the epic
of Prussian absolutism. ... Yet it should none the less be read; for
it has played and is playing a great part in the world’s affairs. And
if it is not itself sound history it has at least done more than most
books of its species to make history. Only, one should read Carl
Schurz’s ‘Autobiography’ as well.” W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 6:891 Jl ‘17 400w

=TREMLETT, MRS HORACE.= Giddy Mrs Goodyer. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-11794

Over in Europe the war is raging, but the echoes of it that reach
South Africa in this story are very faint. Little Mrs Goodyer comes
down to the coast to visit friends. Once more accustomed to an easy
way of life, she feels that she can never go back to the rough mining
town in which her husband has kept her immured, and she decides to
divorce him. Her friends refuse to have anything to do with the
matter, a reputable lawyer tells her she has no case, but she persists
and finds a lawyer who promises her the divorce, case or no case. She
has got herself into a pretty tangle by the time the husband comes
looking for her. To escape him and her troubles she sails for England.
The husband engages passage on the same boat and a reconciliation is
easily affected.

“The novel is amusing and smartly written, with a touch of cynicism,
like a dash of paprika, to give it flavor. There is a good deal of
clever character drawing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w

=TROWARD, THOMAS.= Law and the word. *$1.50 (3½c) McBride 131 17-16437

The author, who died in 1916, was one of the leading exponents of New
thought. This book is made up of a collection of his essays and is
prefaced by an appreciative foreword by Paul Derrick. Contents: Some
facts in nature; Some psychic experiences; Man’s place in the creative
order; The law of wholeness; The soul of the subject; The promises;
Death and immortality; Transferring the burden.

=Ath= p520 O ‘17 80w

=Outlook= 117:101 S 19 ‘17 110w

=Pittsburgh= 22:699 O ‘17 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 220w

=TRYON, ROLLA MILTON.= Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860; a study in industrial history. *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 609 17-13932

“The book has been written by a historian and connects, throughout,
the subject of household manufactures with the general economic and
political history of the nation. ... The general plan of treatment
involves a combination of the chronological and topical methods: For
the colonial period ... the field has been covered with a very
definite aim in view; the first, to determine and elucidate the
various factors affecting household manufactures; the second, to
connect these factors with real situations; the third, to consider the
multifarious products of the family factory; and the fourth, to find
evidences of the transfer from family to shop- and factory-made goods.
The period from 1783 to 1810 has been treated chronologically with a
view to showing influencing factors and amounts made, and topically
for the purposes mentioned in three and four above. After 1810 the
discussion has largely to do with the transition from home- to
factory-made goods, and adapts itself admirably to a straightforward
chronological treatment.” (El School J) This book has nineteen
statistical tables and a bibliography of twenty pages. The author is
assistant professor of the teaching of history in the University of
Chicago.

“The book contains eight chapters of very unequal merit. ... It will
be of value to the economic historian as a convenient and serviceable
storehouse of data bearing on household manufacture. No other single
volume known to the reviewer contains so much source material on the
subject for the country as a whole. Unfortunately it is not well
organized; it lacks proportion and emphasis, and is conspicuously weak
in interpretation.” H. A. Wooster

* + – =Am Econ R= 7:848 D ‘17 1000w

“The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography
is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index
increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer
of economic history must do more than this. Only by the constant
application of the principles of economic science can he give an
adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the
causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the
reasons for its eventual decay and disappearance.” P. W. Bidwell

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:177 O ‘17 800w

“Carefully worked out, it connects the subject with the general
economics and history work, and is useful as a reference book for
history and household art and science teachers in high schools, normal
schools and colleges. Good index.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

“Throughout the text are minutely worked out tables showing the growth
or decline of these industries not only in the different states but in
the counties which had the most influence on their status.”

+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w

“The present demand for material in the history courses will be
partially satisfied by Mr Tryon’s book. To teachers of household arts,
especially of textiles, it should make a very definite and detailed
contribution in the account which it supplies of one phase of their
work as it was done in the home prior to the time of its taking over
by the school.”

+ =El School J= 17:769 Je ‘17 670w

“Many tables give valuable statistical data.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w

“Intended for the use of students, but of no little interest to the
general reader, who will find here many homely facts about the life of
his ancestors.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w

“The author has indicated clearly the relation of household
manufactures to the social, political, and general industrial life of
the people. He has used extensively the census returns, reports of the
treasury department, and the records of many state and local
historical societies in the choice and selection of his material. The
variety of topics that Professor Tryon discusses being considered, it
seems extraordinary that he has been able to confine his treatment to
one volume. This he has done because of the method of his treatment,
which has been both topical and chronological. The book answers a
long-felt need in the field of industrial history and merits the
thoughtful consideration of all school authorities and teachers of
history.” R. E. Jordan

+ =School R= 25:526 S ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 300w

“A very interesting study.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p394 Ag 16 ‘17 250w

=TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT.=[2] New reservation of time, and other articles. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 304 16-23788

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

“The impression a young man will get from this book is that to be
institutionally responsible is to be intellectually suppressed and
benumbed. Dr Tucker does not say this, but he gives the effect of a
mind that has been a long time in prison, the implications of his
philosophy are so radical and yet his thoughts move so stiffly in
their harness. Here is a mind that has a driving radical force about
it in any direction where it works openly and freely. Once discount
the prison chill and you find Dr Tucker anything but a class-bound
conservative. His pages, if brooded over by the ruling class with
which one should have to identify him, would revolutionize our social
order.” R. B.

+ =New Repub= 12:111 Ag 25 ‘17 840w

“Dr Tucker exhibits the same restraint in the discussion of old-age
compensation that he shows in the essays upon ‘Undergraduate
scholarship’ and the war. In every case the reader will get a sense of
the ‘intellectual austerity,’ as Dr Crothers once phrased it, of a
thoughtful man with newly acquired time for thought. With America
actively engaged in the war we can find an added interest in the essay
on the ‘Ethical challenge of the war.’ Dr Tucker considers the war a
contest between liberalism and reaction in which the United States is
to play the part of keeping the issue always defined.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 19 ‘17 540w

=TUFTS, JAMES HAYDEN.=[2] Our democracy; its origins and its tasks. *$1.50 (1½c) Holt 321 17-27649

A book for the citizen and the prospective citizen who may want to
know better what his country stands for. The writer devotes himself
less to the machinery of our government than to the principles and
ideas which the machinery is meant to serve. The book is divided into
two parts: The beginnings of coöperation, order, and liberty, and
Liberty, union, democracy in the new world.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:159 F ‘18 130w

“Excellent book ... in simple entertaining style.”

+ =Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 60w

=TURNER, ALFRED.= On falling in love, and other matters. il *$1.50 Dutton 824

“‘On falling in love and other matters’ contains twenty-seven little
gossips in, one is tempted to say, Mr Francis Gribble’s boudoir—in
other words, a quantity of very small talk about the amours of Byron,
Burns, Keats, Shelley, etc., together with bits of innocent chit-chat
on sundry literary topics. The frontispiece exhibits Lady Caroline
Lamb in her page’s costume.”—Nation

“Although so much of the book is filled with well known facts and with
old ideas, he infuses into it a tone of delicate sophistication, and
quiet observation, which makes his essays pleasant if not inspiring
reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 270w

“The love affairs of poets have a special interest for Mr Alfred
Turner, ... while he also contributes a number of short and scholarly
essays on a wider variety of themes, well calculated to hold the
attention of any fairly well-read person. Such chapters as ‘A plea for
the minor poet,’ ‘The poetry of new lands,’ and ‘The importance of the
right word’ illustrate Mr Turner’s fondness for thought and expression
that lie off the main highways of literature.”

+ — =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 240w

“It is a good book for a somnolent lady resting her nerves in a
hammock, with a box of bon-bons underneath the bough.”

=Nation= 104:763 Je 28 ‘17 80w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 130w

“The author is editor of the London Evening Times. The first half of
the book follows ... the love affairs of poets. But Mr. Turner handles
his subject delicately and interestingly, and no one can complain that
the author has been in search of scandal. His faculty for pleasant
research and his knowledge of literature are better displayed in the
subsequent chapters, in which, while his subjects are seemingly chosen
at random, he writes unaffectedly and in a hearty manner that help to
disabuse the newspaper reading public of the idea that there is
something formidable and forbidding in the best authors.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 21 ‘17 270w

=TURNER, CHARLES CYRIL.= Aircraft of today; a popular account of the conquest of the air. il *$1.50 Lippincott 629.1 17-2690

“Beginning with a résumé of ancient allusions to flying, and some of
the earlier experiments and projects, the author follows with chapters
on the balloon; the first airships and aeroplanes; the aerial ocean,
and navigation of the air; the principles of mechanical flight; the
sensations experienced during ballooning and flying; learning to fly;
the first years of flying; modern airship theory; the first use of
aircraft in war; the developments of aerial fighting during the
present war; and flying developments to come.”—Ath

“A popular, complete, well illustrated account of aircraft.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17

“A welcome and useful book.”

+ =Ath= p540 N ‘16 140w

“The author has been very successful in an attempt to concentrate the
maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space. Every
page is full of facts, yet the book is quite readable and interesting.
Much of the subject-matter will probably be new even to the great
majority of experts.”

+ =Nature= 99:145 Ap 19 ‘17 900w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 22:318 Ap ‘17

“An appendix contains aviation world records, vocabulary of
aeronautical terms, French technical terms, tables, and a
bibliography. Author is a lieutenant in British service, and has
written other books on aeronautics.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w

=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Peggy of Roundabout lane. il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24817

Some of the characters from the author’s two earlier stories for
girls, “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres,” reappear in this new book. The
heroine is Peggy Callahan, who is called on to assume the duties of
housekeeper while her mother goes to the hospital. Peggy doesn’t like
housework and she had set her heart on winning a scholarship in
school. Thru all her trials she has the sympathy and encouragement of
her friend Anne Lewis. Peggy fails to gain the scholarship—but wins
something better.

“An unusually wholesome and pleasant story. Close akin to the Alcott
books.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 150w

=Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w

=TURQUET-MILNES, G.= Some modern Belgian writers. *$1 McBride 839.3 (Eng ed 18-26090)

“Beginning with a discussion of ‘The renascence of Belgian letters’
the writer proceeds to a series of outlines of the work of
Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Rodenbach, Lemonnier, Eekhoud, Max Elskamp,
Charles van Lerberghe, the Destrée brothers and Courouble, the whole
being preceded with a brief prefatory note by Edmund Gosse.”—Boston
Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18

“Mr Turquet-Milnes relates the circumstances of the founding of La
Jeune Belgique by Max Waller, and the gathering about him of a group
of bold and original Belgian young men who brought new life to the
literature of their country. ... Excellent survey of Belgian
literature.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 15 ‘17 720w

=Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w

“Its chief virtue lies not so much in the consideration bestowed upon
individual talent as in the synthetic treatment of the movement as a
whole. Taken all together, this book is one of the most conscientious
and sympathetic critical surveys I have read on any literature.
Furthermore, the author writes in a style that is virile and positive,
and has a command of his subject that is a joy in these days when
every schoolteacher sets up shop as critic. He sees his men in
relation to their environment, to the earth from which they sprang,
and having both vision and scholarship, he is able to measure them
with an eye that is unusually clear.” L: Galantiere

+ =Dial= 63:388 O 25 ‘17 1800w