“All of them are full of suggestions, most of them directed towards immediate practical ends. Perhaps that is regrettable; for it gives to the program as a whole too conservative a tone. National progress may be sustained for a time by various elements in the nation uniting upon the eradication of old and obvious evils; but a more sweeping flight of the imagination is required, a more prophetic vision of the future, if the magnificent mutual loyalty of the people shown during the war is to be translated into deeds for lasting human betterment. Margaret McMillan, for so many years ridiculed as a dreamer, until she proved by her work that vision and practical achievement go together, alone ‘unveils new horizons.’” Bruno Lasker
“Of the many publications dealing with after-war problems this volume is the fullest and most comprehensive that has yet appeared. Its scope is, of course, limited. ... The most serious omission is the absence of any reference to the development and utilization of the resources of the Empire. ... In the first group Lord Cromer’s examination of the relations between the United Kingdom and the other component parts of the Empire has the most actual value and interest. No man was better qualified to form a sound judgment on the subject.”
DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.Robert Shenstone.*$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-24210
“In the midst of horrors, I have written this tale of joyous and adventurous youth.” The author is the father of Coningsby Dawson, now at the front, who wrote “Carry on.” Robert Shenstone, son of a country school-master, destined by his father for a clergyman, but preferring to be a poet, tells his own story. At sixteen, he is master in a boy’s school on the outskirts of London; later, he becomes secretary to a Mr Heron, an eccentric and a recluse, with a fine taste in literature and art. Shenstone perseveres with his own writing and finally has a play accepted by Henry Irving. Other characters are Robert’s father, who never realizes his own ambitions; his mother, who believes that “the life that gives is so much more than the life that gets”; his widowed aunt, Mrs Tabitha Shanley, to whom “the great thing in life is never to lose the spirit of adventure”; the other masters in the school; Edith Hopper, “lineal descendant of Lilith and Cleopatra,” who tries her wiles on them all; and Lucille Overberg, the beautiful girl, who tempted to renounce life thru fear, because of her mother’s expiation of a crime, finally decides “to accept thankfully the joy of the common day.”
“‘Robert Shenstone’ is good. It is good—item one—as the pleasant and leisurely tale of a man’s young life. And it is good—item two—because, in addition to that, it is a mystery story of unusual plot.”
DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS.Where your treasure is; being the personal narrative of Ross Sidney, diver. il*$1.50 (2c) Harper 17-17284
A story of adventure by land and sea. It opens in the small eastern village where Ross Sidney spends his boyhood. He is a poor boy with little prospect in life, and he gives all his youthful adoration to Celene Kingsley, the daughter of the one wealthy man of the community. Circumstances drive him from home and he joins a wrecking crew along the Atlantic coast. When he returns to his home town it is to find Judge Kingsley in a difficulty from which he helps to extricate him. A misunderstanding with Celene, which her father might have explained away, again sends him on his wanderings. This time he goes to the Pacific coast where he ships as a deep sea diver. Here he meets another girl, who proves to be his real treasure, and he sees that his feeling for Celene was only a boyish fancy.
“The masculine sort of nonsense, the ‘rattling’ sort. As usual, Mr Day makes spirited work with his men, and tame and perfunctory work with his women. It is a long yarn, somewhat too long to rattle freely from start to finish. ... What one has to complain of is that so much of the fantastic tale is set ashore; for Mr Day’s illusion, his glamour at least, is soaked in salt water.”
“It is a full-blooded, hot-headed story, told with all the naïve zest of youth, filled with the slang and the expletives and the picturesque similes of many kinds of hustling life, both honest and dishonest. There are graphic accounts of the diver’s work.”
“The vigorous language of his sea faring folk is always amusing and in depicting their pursuits, whether ashore or afloat, he is faithfully realistic.”
DEAN, RUTH.Livable house—its garden. (Livable house ser.) il*$2.50 Moffat 716 17-16081
“A companion work to Aymar Embury’s ‘Livable house’ is provided by Ruth Dean in ‘The livable house, its garden.’ In sympathy with the spirit of efficiency, the author aims to combat indifference or ignorance in the development of grounds about the home. A secondary purpose is to aid the amateur landscape architect in avoiding the mistakes into which his ignorance of plant life and values are likely to lead him. ... One hundred photogravures effectively illustrate the results for which the author gives the fullest directions. The book is divided into five sections: The garden as a whole; General planting; The flower garden; Times and seasons, and Garden architecture.”—Springf’d Republican
“Miss Dean is a landscape architect of experience, and her suggestions are invariably practical.”
DEANE, RICHARD BURTON.Mounted police life in Canada. il*$1.50 Funk 971.2 17-1608
“From an experience of thirty-one years in the mounted police service, the author gives an account of pioneer days in the great Canadian Northwest and of the feats of daring which invested the force with the glamor of romance.” (A L A Bkl) “A long account is given of the trial of Louis Riel for treason.” (Ath)
“A vigorous, manly style makes the book very readable.”
“A document which will be invaluable to the historian that is to come of the Last West. It is full of episodes and thronged with personalities, introduced in a soldier style with an occasional touch of the parade rasp, which would help a modern variant of Francis Parkman to many a stirring, significant passage.”
DEEPING, WARWICK.Martin Valliant.*$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-10202
A historical romance of the time of Richard III. Martin Valliant is a monk. The son of a notorious old fighter, young and full of life andstrong of arm, Martin spends his days in a priory, telling his beads and mortifying the flesh to save the soul. His monkish companions, holy men in name only, have laid a plot to try Martin’s virtue. He puts temptation away from him. Then Mellis Dale comes his way. She is a girl, tho a brave one, and alone and beset by enemies, and in taking her part, Martin comes out of his cell and throws off his monk’s robe to become a man.
“Lovers of realism and of nothing but realism will not be pleased with this story. It is not for them. But to those who have the zest of adventure in their souls, to those who believe in the brave old school of fiction that leads man and woman onward through the old world of imminent dangers, it will make an intimate appeal. It is a story without a problem and with no mission but to entertain. And what better mission could it have?” E. F. E.
“With ‘Unrest’ labelled for America ‘Bridge of desire,’ Mr Warwick Deeping recently made a not very happy attempt to pin us down to our own world. There he deliberately threw over the romantic code to which, in his tales of old time, he had dutifully clung. ... He has returned to his machine. ... But the whole thing is a contrivance, rather cynically rigged up by an expert.”
“Never, unless memory be at fault, has he given us a romance in which, with no abating of swift movement or of the number of thrilling episodes, the characters were at once so human and so likable as are the hero and heroine in this tale.”
Defenders of democracy; ed. by the Gift book committee of the Militia of mercy.[2]President’s ed il*$2.50 Lane 940.91 17-27863
This anthology of miscellaneous contributions has commendatory forewords by Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe, Theodore Roosevelt and others. Many countries besides our own are represented in the table of contents, among them Belgium, China, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, and Latin America. Among the American contributors are Charles W. Eliot, Mary Austin, Robert W. Chambers, Louis Untermeyer, Fannie Hurst, Amy Lowell, Myron T. Herrick and Amélie Rives. A frontispiece in color by Childe Hassam is one of the pictorial features. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the aid of needy families of the men of the naval militia.
“Contains much of valuable information, many a stirring paragraph of description, appreciation, or narrative, and, not least surely, more than one challenge to thought.”
“There is something here to entertain every one, even if he opens the book with a prejudice against such collections.”
DE GROOT, CORNELIA.When I was a girl in Holland. (Children of other lands books) il*75c (2½c) Lothrop 914.92 17-24724
The author of this book for American boys and girls was born in Deersum, a village in the province of Friesland, and there are a number of photographic illustrations showing scenes from this childhood home. She writes of; Our house; How we dressed; Our village school; Some of our games; Our holidays; Farm life; Thekermis; Our canal-boats; On skates, etc. When she was twenty-one the author came to America and she now makes her home in California.
“A matter-of-fact account. It is none the less interesting and will give children about eleven or twelve some idea of actualities beyond picturesque wooden shoes and windmills.”
“The book bears the mark of genuine experience and faithful observation.”
“Altogether delightful. The illustrations from photographs are well chosen.”
“Her chapters descriptive of Holland are full of color and information, and her literary style is simple and direct.”
“What a child saw and heard in Holland makes a particularly interesting narrative, and the book will be read by children and older people alike with pleasure.”
DEJEANS, ELIZABETH (JANES) (MRS SIDNEY BUDGETT).Tiger’s coat. il*$1.50 (1½c) Bobbs 17-7810
A Nebraska city gives this story its setting but the woman of mystery who is its central character has a background that includes Mexico, Paris and Belgium in the early days of the war. Driven out of the war-ridden countries she comes to Laclasse, presenting herself to Alexander MacAllister as his kinswoman and showing letters that support her story. But one doesn’t know how much of the story is to be believed, and one doesn’t know whether to like or dislike Marie. This is the interest that holds the story together, but it has other points deserving of notice, one of them its excellent character portrayal, another the author’s fairness in her attitude toward the German-Americans of the Middle West.
“A rather lifeless affair of good promise and of weak fulfilment. ... The story may be described as a series of anticlimaxes.”
“The romance is well built up, and, on the whole, well written, though a trifle feverish in parts.”
“While the plot is of the stuff from which melodramas are made, the generally good character drawing gives the book substantiality.” R. D. Moore
“The story, though not without vigor, is more romantic and less restrained than this author’s previous novel.”
DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN).Counts of Gruyère.il*$2 (6c) Duffield 949.4 17-93
The author has written the history of Gruyère, a town in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In a prologue the “little castled city” is described. Then come the following chapters: Origin of the people; Influence of the church; Sovereignty of the House of Savoy; Foreign wars; The Burgundian wars (Count François I); The Burgundian wars (Count Louis); Struggle for succession; Religious reform; The fall of the House of Gruyère; Gruyère without its counts. There is a bibliography of three pages. The book is beautifully illustrated, with a frontispiece in color.
“Mrs de Koven has the instinct for historical narrative, together with a comprehension of the human side of the matter. She shows us how character and historical fact inter-act; she helps us to live in the times of which she writes.” R. M.
“Mrs de Koven, who, in addition to her other literary work, established herself a few years ago as a biographical authority upon the life of John Paul Jones, gives fresh proof in this charming volume of her marked gifts as a historian.”
“The story of the long reign of the Counts of Gruyère is most picturesque. In no other way do we get so clear a picture of feudalism in Switzerland or so graphic an interpretation of its spirit.”
DELAFIELD, E. M.Zella sees herself.*$1.50 (2c) Knopf (Eng ed 17-24709)
Zella de Kervoyou, child of a French father and English mother, educated in a convent school, “from the time she is seven years old ... is constantly shifting her standards to conform to those of the particular environment in which she happens to find herself. The book is practically the story of the lies, the evasions, the hypocrisies, the heartaches which spring from Zella’s desire to be always charming, agreeable, superior.” (N Y Times)
“It has none of that shallow brilliancy, that self-conscious cleverness, that clap-trap humour, which marks in every age the work of the tribe of gentlemen (and ladies) who write with ease. It turns a clear, warm, smiling gaze on life and interprets it to us in the very act of making us, too, smile at it. That was Jane Austen’s white magic.” H. W. Boynton
“It is a comedy of youth, in the sense in which Jane Austen’s stories may be so called. It has a certain analogy to what was probably also Miss Austen’s first effort, ‘Northanger abbey,’ and in its quiet precision of characterization and dialogue as well as in its well-nigh unerring satirical touch, it measurably suggests the great mistress of British fiction.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“This unusual and complex study of character is told with a lightness and mastery of touch and a delightful, pervasive humor not often met in the ordinary run of novels.”
“Miss Delafield has drawn her heroine with sympathetic understanding.”
DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.Peacock pie.il*$2 Holt 821 (Eng ed 16-21123)
A book of rhymes for children, with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. There are nonsense verses, romantic tales, and lovely lyrics. Up and down, Boys and girls, Three queer tales, Places and people, Beasts, Witches and fairies, Earth and air, and Songs, are the divisions of the book.
“Yet even in his poems for children he is more than a poet for children. Each year-laden reader who can look through the magic casement of Mr de la Mare’s verses will see among the shadowy figures that flit about the moon-silvered lanes a tiny ghost that was once himself.” M. M. Frank
“Mr de la Mare is not an innovator, and his scope is not great; but within his scope he has no superior.” Conrad Aiken
“Mostly they are nothing more than the pleasing little fancies which Mr de la Mare can so well conjure out of faery, fashioned with that lyric felicity which is not the least notable attribute of all the Georgians whose names are worth recounting and of Mr de la Mare in special.” J. T. W.
“Peacock pie was once a royal dish; this book is a royal dish.” Clement Wood
“One might exhaust lists of adjectives and yet fail to bring the reader the flavor, the awe, the delight, the haunting terror of this collection of verse, ‘Peacock pie.’”
“From cover to cover, the most captious critic may hardly find a poem that is not a joy to meet and to keep.”
“In the years that have passed since Stevenson brought out his ‘Child’s garden of verses’ we have not seen a prettier book of rhymes for children than this. ... The poet, in this new edition, is fortunate in his sympathetic illustrator, Mr W. Heath Robinson, whose charming designs reflect by turns the gaiety and sentiment of the verses.”
“The poetry in these two little volumes is, perhaps, the purest poetry for children that has ever been made; Blake and Stevenson not forgotten.”
DELAND, LORIN FULLER.At the sign of the dollar, and other essays.*$1.25 (3c) Harper 304 17-8762
The title essay, a discussion of advertising and an appeal for more attention to human nature on the part of those engaged in business, is reprinted from Harper’s Magazine for March, 1917. Some of the other papers have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. The complete table of contents reads: At the sign of the dollar; Football at Harvard and at Yale as seen in 1910; Some have greatness thrust upon them; A plea for the theatrical manager; The Lawrence strike; a study; Concerning X107.
“Mr Deland’s study of the Harvard-Yale football situation is one of the most interesting things he has to offer, but it must have been written before Harvard’s string of successes in the last five years. Mr Deland makes it plain that he considers Walter Camp the genius of American football.”
DELANO, MRS EDITH (BARNARD).Tomorrow morning. il*$1.35 (2½c) Houghton 17-25434
This, “a chronicle of the new Eve and the same old Adam,” is the story of the married life of a young couple in the thirties, which, in spite of complications that threaten to make trouble between them, ends happily. Martha, the “new Eve,” devoted both to her children and to social work, discovers that although it is already in the affairs of men and women “tomorrow morning,” “the millennium is a long way off,” and so to keep the love of the “same old Adam,” she models her conduct for a time upon that of the “old Eve.”
“Martha is an attractive heroine, and little Cecily, whose passion for telling the truth made her a most disconcerting person to have about, a real and amusing child. The life of the little western city in which the action takes place is well portrayed, and the busy life of the modern woman neatly and sanely sketched.”
“A domestic comedy written with charm and humor.”
“Quite aside from the message that it carries, Mrs Delano’s book is interesting for the skill with which she has managed her characters. The study of Bob Ramsey with his blundering, masculine ways, is particularly well done, Martha Ramsey, with her brilliant intellect, her self-control and her uncanny shrewdness, is a little overdrawn.”
DELL, ETHEL MAY.Hundredth chance.il*$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-10669
The hero of Miss Dell’s latest story is a horse trainer and accustomed to work to win even if he sees only the “hundredth chance” of success. This is all that is his when he loves Maud Brian, the beautiful but penniless daughterof Sir Bernard Brian. But the marriage of her mother to a scoundrel and the dependence of her lame brother cause the girl to accept marriage with him on terms of her own choosing. An added obstacle to the trainer’s hopes is the appearance of Lord Saltash, his employer and the former fiancé of his wife. In spite of the heavy odds against him, his patience and devotion at last break down social differences and win him the deep affection of his wife.
“Readers of popular fiction will no doubt revel in the rough-diamond hero and the plausible villain, the atmosphere of the racing stable, etc.; but the whole has been much better done many times already, and if this sort of book did not continue to appear, classics might receive more attention.”
“Once the major premise of her story is accepted there is nothing forced or unnatural in the situations themselves.”
“Her method proves that Victorianism is by no means played out, may indeed be rendered freshly effective by a slight tincture of modern ‘frankness’ in the treatment of sex. Her present heroine is the chill, snobbish little prude whom our fathers admired—at least in fiction.”
“The chief criticism of the book lies, not in its conventional situation and artificial character treatment—for neither of these detract seriously from the simple enjoyment of it as an entertaining story—but in the undeniable and glaring fact that none of its people seem to know the most fundamental standards of behavior or of speech. They irritate and alienate where they should hold the novel reader’s sympathy.”
“A strong and interesting story, developed with skill and good taste, and is by all odds the best the author has ever written.”
“It is all a wonderfully exciting length of distressing misunderstandings, but we are up-borne throughout by the confident anticipation that Miss Dell will never balk us of a happy ending. ... There is equal certainty, too, that though often dealing with the most delicate and difficult situations Miss Dell will skim over the thin places without ever offending our taste.”
DELL, ETHEL MAY.Safety curtain, and other stories.il*$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-29862
The title story of the five in this volume introduces as the principals a man and woman quite out of the ordinary. He is a major in the Indian army—home on leave. She is an elf-like dancer. The safety-curtain that dropped behind her at a moment when the stage is aflame is symbolized by the act of the man whose rescuing of her marks the beginning of a new sensation—that of protection. How, in India whither she goes as a bride, her odd little nature expands in the warmth of the new influence; how ghosts of the past try to rob her of her happiness; and how the strength of the man overcame them is all told in spirited fashion. The other stories are: The experiment; Those who wait; The eleventh hour; The place of honour.
DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK SAMUEL.George Armstrong Custer. (True stories of great Americans) il*50c (1c) Macmillan 17-1602
Elizabeth B. Custer, herself the author of one of the best known accounts of her husband’s campaigns, has written a preface to this book, commending it for its accuracy and fairness. The story of General Custer’s boyhood is told briefly and this is followed by a very full account of his services in the Civil war and on the plains.
“Written chiefly for young people by a man who knew the West of Custer’s day and was an early explorer of the Grand Canyon.”
“Gen. Custer’s biographer is a man who knew the West in Custer’s day and who had even less sympathy than honest Custer for the abuses of the Indian agencies where Indians and government were alike robbed by the most flagrant of grafters. ... It is a chapter of national dishonor that Mr Dellenbaugh relates. But the picture of Custer is always that of a hero.”
DEL MAR, ALGERNON.Tube milling; a treatise on the practical application of the tube mill to metallurgical problems. il*$2 McGraw 622.7 17-13102
“The author states that in the preparation of ores for concentration, cyanidation, and flotation, intermediate grinding by conical and cylindrical tube mills will eventually supersede the work now largely done by stamps, rolls, and chilian mills. General principles are discussed and the construction and operation of the different types explained. Chapter 5 deals with the adaptability of wrought iron and alloy steels as materials of construction.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Mr Del Mar’s book is worth placing in every mill-man’s library, where it will serve as a ready reference for the tube-mill operator.”
DENCH, ERNEST ALFRED.Advertising by motion pictures.*$1.50 Standard pub. co. 659 16-25184
“The use of motion pictures as an advertising medium is not confined to any one business or profession. It is adapted to wholesale as well as to retail business. Moreover, it possesses unique ‘business-pulling’ properties. It has, however, like all methods, limitations. These as well as its far greater number of advantages, Mr Dench sets forth with admirable brevity and candor.”—Boston Transcript
“Extremely up-to-date book.”
“Despite a curious belief in the value of slang as a medium for imparting information and ideas, the subject is comprehensively and authoritatively treated.”
Deportation of women and girls from Lille.*50c Doran 940.91 A17-371
A volume containing a translation of “the note addressed by the French government to the governments of neutral powers on the conduct of the German authorities toward the population of the French departments in the occupation of the enemy,” together with “extracts from other documents, annexed to the note, relating to German breaches of international law during 1914, 1915, 1916.” (Title-page) Both French and German documents are presented; also private letters. The title is inexact since the deportations included men and boys as well as women and girls.
“The chief value of this collection lies in the fact that it presents original data with little or no comment. Unlike the many books whichhave been published on this phase of the war, it is not sensational but aims to be a plain statement of fact.”
“In the letters it is more than once stated that German officers and soldiers refused to carry out the deportation order and were confined for disobedience within the fortress of Lille.”
“The entire compilation comprises one of the most striking illustrations of the horrors of war that has yet been published.” J. W.
DE SÉLINCOURT, HUGH.Soldier of life.*$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-2025
Outwardly this is a pathological study of a crippled soldier’s mental state, but, more deeply, it cuts down into human nature to reveal the eternal conflict between the great constructive force, love, and the destructive forces that find their final and supreme expression in war. This revelation comes to James Wood thru Corinna Combe, and it comes only after he has struggled against the menace of depression and threatened insanity, after he has failed to find consolation in a common-sense view of life, which urged marriage with a cheerful, trivial, common-sense sort of girl, or comfort in religion. War has been to him a horror and a desecration, and his sanity is saved only when, thru Corinna, he comes to understand its basic origin.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“It can scarcely hope to find a universal appeal, but will undoubtedly be of interest to those who enjoy the abnormal.” R. W.
“Whatever weakness the book may have as a story, however, it throws raw light, in its picture of the moral and spiritual disintegration which war may bring to the unhappy warrior, upon a common horror which the belligerent world, waving its flags and chorusing its mottoes, chooses to leave in darkness.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“It will not be strange if Mr de Sélincourt’s book turns out to have been one of the most significant of all that come out of the war. ... It is the quintessence of war literature. ... It traces the delicate spiritual effects as no other book has yet succeeded in doing. ... You have only to compare it with Mr Britling to get the contrast of its fineness with Wells’s blowsiness of spirit, that utterly pedestrian and easy way in which the re-discoverer of God dresses up again the rumpled soul of middle-class Britain and sets her decently on parade again. ... Mr de Sélincourt, perhaps unconsciously, has done in the novel what Bertrand Russell is saying impersonally.” Randolph Bourne
“One cannot read it without being stirred to deeper thought and higher feeling.”
“From the very first, its dramatic and analytical power hold the reader’s attention and carry him thru the hero’s struggles with an interest seldom roused by such a subject. It is more plain human than abnormal. ... This is as deeply thoughtful a book as any the war has inspired, and one, besides, of beautiful texture and style.” E. P. Wyckoff
“‘A soldier of life’ is a thoughtful—almost spiritual—study of the effect of war, and affords food for thought.”
“Perhaps itsdifferentiaand its most notable merit are its success in expressing high and difficult matters in terms of a mere man and his human affairs, linked by a carefully forged chain of thought and incident to the complete ‘normality’ of the opening chapters.”
DESSON, GEORGES.[2]Hostage in Germany; auth. tr. by Lee Holt. il*$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-84)
“A graphic account, by a distinguished French engineer, of his detention as a hostage in Germany for eleven months, with a number of his compatriots. The hardships and sufferings endured by the party were exceedingly severe. The pretext for the imprisonment was that some German subjects were alleged to have been ill-treated in Morocco. The illustrations show some of the places of confinement.”—Ath
“He records the suffering and misery of his experiences with the relieving brightness and humor that characterized him and his nine companions in their otherwise unendurable imprisonment.”
DESTRÉE, JULES.Britain in arms (French title,L’effort britannique).*$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.91 17-25445
“M. Destrée—a Belgian writer who, during a stay of some months in Italy, came to the conclusion that England’s efforts in the war were not sufficiently realized by our Italian allies, and was thus led to lay the facts before them—has written a French version of ‘Cio che hanno fatto gli Inglesi.’ The translation, by Mr J. Lewis May, is now before us. How England, though anxious for peace, found herself involved in the war; her naval, military, financial, and industrial efforts; the union of kingdom and empire; and the reasons why our Allies should have confidence in England, are some of the topics to which M. Destrée addresses himself.” (Ath) The preface is by Georges Clemenceau.
“If an Englishman had written this book we would regard it as a piece of self-satisfied laudation. Coming from a Frenchman, who has given the widespread patrol work of the British fleet and the astonishing development of the British army careful investigation, the book falls short of overpraise, but is singularly just.”
“The book, by the author’s confession, was hurriedly written; it is propagandist; but its laudable object is to fortify international confidence as ‘a preparation for the better days to come’; and it makes inspiring reading.”
“M. Jules Destrée discovered a suspicion in Italy that England was not ‘pulling her weight’ in the war. It is a suspicion at which we have no right to be angry, for very similar suspicions of Italian slackness have sometimes been entertained in ill-informed circles in England; and this suspicion, in both cases, has been due to misapprehensions arising out of an excusable ignorance. ... He could have got a preface from no more appropriate author than M. Clemenceau, who has frequently insisted, inL’Homme Enchainé, that an estimate of our contribution to the war must take cognizance of work done in the factories as well as in the field.”
DEWEY, JOHN, and others.Creative intelligence.*$2 (1½c) Holt 104 17-6640
Eight modern thinkers contribute papers to this volume. The subtitle “Essays in the pragmatic attitude,” indicates that the unity of thework is one of attitude rather than of conclusions. The first essay, by John Dewey, on The need for a recovery of philosophy, serves to introduce those that follow. It is a statement of the pragmatic purpose, to emancipate philosophy from its attachment to traditional problems. “What serious-minded men not engaged in the professional business of philosophy most want to know,” Professor Dewey says, “is what modifications and abandonments of intellectual inheritance are required by the newer industrial, political, and scientific movements.” The remaining essays are concerned with some of the specific applications of philosophy to present-day problems. They are: Reformation of logic, by Addison W. Moore; Intelligence and mathematics, by Harold Chapman Brown; Scientific method and individual thinker, by George H. Mead; Consciousness and psychology, by Boyd H. Bode; The phases of the economic interest, by Henry Waldgrave Stuart; The moral life and the construction of values and standards, by James Hayden Tufts; Value and existence in philosophy, art, and religion, by Horace M. Kallen.
“Some of the essays have appeared in the various philosophical journals.”
“To the general reader, perhaps the papers on ethics, by Professor Tufts, and economics, by Professor Stuart, will make the widest appeal, though all will enjoy the concluding paper by Dr Kallen.” R. C. Lodge
“The book is specially noteworthy for its importance as a contribution to American philosophic thought.” F. F. Kelly
Reviewed by M. C. Otto
Reviewed by R. B. Perry
“There is not an abundance of good philosophy or good writing in this volume. The contributions of Profs. Dewey and Moore are not without interest as statements of method.”
“‘Creative intelligence,’ in spite of its attractive title, is not a treatise for beginners in humanistic philosophy. Yet there are some who like to begin, as it were, at the top of the pyramid and work down—who like the intellectual tussle of difficult beginnings. To these, and to anyone familiar with the concepts of humanism, ‘Creative intelligence’ is to be recommended. ... In spite of these appreciative remarks, one cannot help sighing for that exposition at once vivid as lightning and picturesque as romance, which William James was always able to provide for anything he had to say.” J: Collier
DE WINDT, HARRY.Russia as I know it. il*$3 Lippincott 914.7 18-1412
“The author was previously employed by the Russian government to investigate (for the benefit of English-speaking people) the Siberian exile system and reported not unfavorably on it. His findings caused controversy in the London press. His book deals mainly with European Russia, although there are separate and interesting chapters on Siberia, Darker Siberia, Frozen Asia, the Crimea, Finland, and last but not least, the Russian army. Mr De Windt also describes the characteristics and life of the Russian people.”—Springf’d Republican
“If Mr De Windt had made the most of his opportunities what splendid material he had ready to his hand! Instead, we are given a superficial account of men and manners, well flavoured with anecdotes of social life and morals, and strongly redolent of the countless excellent restaurants and menus the author was lucky enough to meet with.”
“Interesting as it is, the material shows every evidence of having been collated with less thought of homogeneity than of producing a book that would sell.”
“In telling what he has learned of the Russian character by long-continued observation Mr De Windt helps his readers to a clearer understanding of the problems and perplexities which the new Russia is facing at this moment.”
“His book is no globe-trotter’s journal, but a considered view of the various facets of Russian life.”
“We could wish that there had been less about Russia as a playground and more about her political, artistic, and intellectual qualities, but only one who knows Russia as a man of the world could have written this book, and it can therefore be safely recommended as valuable of its kind.”
“Although the author may be congratulated on having produced a readable work, one questions whether it has its permanent historical value.”
“He can tell as readable a story as anybody could wish to read.”
DIBBLEE, GEORGE BINNEY.Germany’s economic position and England’s commercial and industrial policy after the war.*1s Heinemann, London