“It furnishes most excellent reading for the host of half-baked reformers who imagine that the world can be created anew overnight, and deserves a wide circulation both among these and among readers who take a saner point of view.”
“Vivid and most instructive narrative. Mrs Dorr’s book is an excellent piece of reporting.”
DORSEY, GEORGE AMOS.Young Low.*$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-18356
It is for the most part the life of an average young American under average conditions that the author describes. Young Low spends his boyhood and youth in a small town in Ohio. His home is the commonplace, middle-class home, his parents are not without understanding of boy nature, and his childhood is on the whole happy. Yet in two matters, religion and sex, the handicap of his early training remains with him for many years, if not for life. Much of the latter half of the story has to do with the agencies that were helpful in overcoming the effects of his narrow training in religion and his utter lack of training in regard to sex. The person who helped clarify his ideas on this question was Alexandra Lanflere. This woman, who stood in a relation to him that his early standards would have condemned, is represented as the best and finest influence that had come into his life.
“The publishers announce that ‘you have never read a book like this. You have never read so frank a revelation of a young man’s life—a boyhood and youth intensely American, both in ancestry and surroundings.’ This exaggerates matters a little, since we may recall a number of stories of recent years which approach this one in realism of setting and ‘frankness,’ not to say grossness, of detail. Part 1 of this book gives an uncommonly vivid picture of certain aspects of childhood and boyhood in a small Ohio community. We have already had such a picture, frank without grossness, in Mr Howells’s ‘A boy’s town,’ and the two pictures might well be compared as illustrating the difference between protestant and catholic methods of literary art.” H. W. Boynton
“There is nothing more remarkable in the story than the way in which the author gets under the mental attitude of Young Low and makes us see its naturalness and its inevitability.” D. L. M.
“It is unfortunate that the really excellent presentation of matter should be marred by a vast amount of modern Freudian dogma, which has not yet worked down to reasonable proportions.”
“Here, for a recent American example, is the ‘Young Low’ of a ‘new’ writer who essays to be extremely American in the continental manner—or, it is more just to say, in the continental mood. It refreshingly lacks the Russo-Gallic accent which our bold young ‘realists’ so frequently affect. It has an excellent autobiographical style, free from bookishness on the one hand and from the conventionalized vernacular of the magazines on the other.”
“The story has the faults that are inherent in its method. ... Nevertheless, it is an interesting tale, written with vigor and sincerity and a wide and varied knowledge of American life. ... The author’s sense of character is stronger than his ability in its portrayal. ... He writes with plainness of language upon the sexual impulses, inhibitions, experiences, and knowledge of the boy, the adolescent, and the young man, but there is in all his pages no taint of the lascivious. ... Artistically the finest feature of the book is the sense of the urge of dynamic forces in American life, in both society in general and in the individual.”
DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.Eternal husband, and other stories. (Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, v. 8)*$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-17080
Three stories newly translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett are included in this volume: The eternal husband; The double; A gentle spirit. In the first story a woman is characterized as “one of those women who are born to be unfaithful wives.” The woman herself is dead at the opening of the story, which thereafter has to do chiefly with a man who had once been her lover and his relations with her husband. The husband is he who is characterized in the title, a man who all his life is a husband and nothing more. He is the complementary type to the woman referred to.
“Confused, occasionally incoherent in style.”
“All of Dostoevsky’s qualities are in this latest volume, ‘The eternal husband.’ But so concentrated are they that the Dostoevsky novice would better begin with that poignant, but less extravagant, story, ‘The insulted and injured,’ or that epic of frustrated aspiration, ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ ... Such stories as in ‘The eternal husband’, however fantastic the problems of the soul, get deeply into us. We cannot ignore them, we cannot take them irresponsibly. We cannot read them for amusement, or even in detachment, as we can our classics. We forget our categories, our standards, our notions of human nature. All we feel is that we are tracing the current of life itself. ... If we are strong enough to hear him, this is the decisive force we need on our American creative outlook.” Randolph Bourne
“‘The eternal husband’ and ‘The double’ are over long, and loosely constructed. They are both excellent studies of the abnormal, as is usual Dostoevsky; but they possess one quality which is not at all usual with him, or indeed with any other Russian novelist—the quality of humor. An ironic and rather sneering humor, to be sure, but still undoubtedly humor.”
“The three long short-stories that make up this volume hardly rank with the best of Dostoevsky’s work—although they belong to the greatest period of his genius—but they are interesting as illustrating his methods. ... ‘The eternal husband’ is a powerful psychological study of a man of unpleasant type. ... The second story in the volume. ‘The double,’ is the least successful, but the last, ‘The gentle spirit,’ which deals with a man’s sensations after his wife’s death, is unforgettable.”
“‘The double,’ was published the same year as ‘Poor folk,’ but not even Mrs Garnett and Dostoievski together can make it worth reading. ‘The eternal husband’ is a later work, and the exceedingly powerful close atones for much indifferent matter in the course of the story.” W: L. Phelps
DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.Gambler, and other stories; from the Russian by Constance Garnett.*$1.50 (lc) Macmillan
The ninth volume of Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains three stories, “The gambler,” “Poor people,” and “The landlady.” The title story follows the fortunes of a poor Russian tutor at a German resort where the roulette table furnished the main diversion—nay more, obsession. The best of him is his love of Polina. Under his eye she debases herself. Disillusionment leaves him easy prey for the fitful caprice of the roulette board. He is drawn into the vortex when the reader leaves him. “Poor people” portrays the struggles of folk of humble life. The story is told in a series of letters between an elderly clerk and a young girl who turns from him to marry a prosperous tradesman. The third tale, “The landlady,” tells the symbolic story of a luckless student who was baffled in liberating the girl he loved from the prison house that bound her.
“Had Dostoevsky never written anything else these stories would suffice to give him rank among the great writers. They are not ‘pleasant’ tales, they are tales of the kind described by the quotation which heads ‘Poor people,’ tales that ‘unearth all sorts of unpleasant things,’ and therefore the lovers of sugary fiction will do well to avoid them. But those who care for human nature and for the art of writing will find them distinctly fascinating.”
“The first story in particular seems to us to have a sharpness and clearness of outline which is sometimes lacking in the author’s more elaborate works.”
“Mrs Garnett is one of the two best translators from the Russian that live to-day, but even she cannot make ‘The gambler, and other stories’ anything but dull. It is at least pleasant to have in our hands a trustworthy and complete translation of the tales.”
“‘The gambler’ is evidently based on a French model, and the humor is forced and metallic, as if the author were not really interested in his theme. The best story in the book is Dostoevsky’s first work, ‘Poor people.’”
“‘The gambler’ will throw a good deal of light upon the processes of the mind whose powers seem almost beyond analysis in such works as ‘The idiot’ and ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ If we call it second rate compared with these, we mean chiefly that it impresses us as a sketch flung off at tremendous and almost inarticulate speed by a writer of such abundant power that even into this trifle, this scribbled and dashed-off fragment, the fire of genius has been breathed.”
DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.Pages from the journal of an author; tr. by S. Koteliansky and J. Middleton Murry. (Modern Russian library)*$1.25 (5c) Luce, J: W. 891.7 (Eng ed 17-20968)
This book contains two selections. Of the first, “The dream of a queer fellow,” Mr Murry in his introduction says, “It is an epitome of the problems which tormented him.” With this dream allegory is included the speech on Pushkin, delivered on June 8, 1880 at the meeting of the Society of lovers of Russian literature, with additional notes.
“The little story or essay of sombre intensity is a key to Dostoevsky’s works.” Nellie Poorman
“In the beatific vision described with such felicitous simplicity in ‘The dream of a queer fellow,’ the quintessence of Dostoevsky’s questionings, desolation, strivings and mental sufferings is revealed. One gets the strange feeling that he is telling truths beyond which there are no others.” D: Rosenstein
DOTY, ALVAH HUNT.Good health; how to get it and how to keep it. il*$1.50 (2c) Appleton 613 17-19827
This book by the former health officer of the port of New York tells the layman, in simple terms, how to get well and how to keep well. “It has been the aim of the author to include in this book the essential and salient points in the construction of the body and function of its various parts; also to discuss public health problems, the maintenance of individual physical well-being, the means by which infectious diseases are transmitted and how they may be prevented, the importance of pure air, good water and nourishing food, as well as other matters connected with the subject of hygiene.” (Preface) The last chapter deals with “Prompt aid to the injured.”
“No better or more authoritative book of this sort has appeared. It is thorough in its treatment of the subject, accurate in its statements and considers with much detail every phase of the question. Dr Doty takes nothing for granted as to how much his readers may know already.”
DOTY, MADELEINE ZABRISKIE.Short rations: an American woman in Germany, 1915-1916. il*$1.50 (3c) Century 940.91 17-8352
An account of two visits to the warring countries. “It is the story of what happens at home when men go to war,” says the author. She adds a significant paragraph in explanation of her title: “While the men at the front slaughter one another, at home the mothers and children, the sick, the aged, the prisoners, are starved spiritually, intellectually, and physically. Life becomes a fight for existence, a struggle for one’s self and not for humanity.” The first visit was made at the time of the Woman’s peace conference at The Hague. The second was made in 1916. Of particular interest is the account of the second visit to Germany.
“A popular and moving appeal for a speedy cessation of war.”
“An emotional book, obviously overdrawn, but moving in the extreme.”
“By means of a very feminine degree of intuition, a journalistic sense of observation, a telegraphic style, and a purely American sense of humor, Miss Doty has achieved one of the most suggestive reports of conditions inside the German empire that it has been our fortune to see.”
“If Miss Doty had entered Germany less prejudiced against the government and the people and with some knowledge of the German language—she was entirely dependent upon interpreters—her book would have gained much in authority. At the same time her experiences are interesting, often exciting, and they are told with eagerness and zest.”
“In spite of the false vividness and fore-shortening of reality that is at a premium in American newspaper offices, in spite of occasional ‘worked up’ sentimentalism and a rather cheap-jewelry style, in spite of trivialities fused with basic interpretations in a common amalgam, ‘Short rations’ is a moving book. Miss Doty has a real passion for life, the woman’s horror at wasted flesh and broken bodies.”
“It is, so far as we know, the best account yet written by any woman on the subjects dealt with.” Joshua Wanhope
“Her views are not official. Therein lies their value. But the danger is that, moving largely among the people who have suffered most acutely from the war, she has given a one-sided picture. ... Miss Doty’s treatment of details is so incisive and vivid that the reader seems to share her experiences. Possibly in the long run her tone may strike one as slightly high-pitched.”
“The present volume belongs to that category of books whose chief raison d’etre is the reluctance of many educated persons to throw away notes made during travel and copies of letters written home. ... Not knowing the German language well, Miss Doty got a good many false impressions, and hands on some hearsay of doubtful authenticity.” B. L.
“She writes vivaciously, and observes shrewdly where minor matters are concerned; but her vision of the larger issues is sadly blurred by sentimental tears.”
DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).Birds worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il*$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-13205
The author has made selections from four of her previous books, “Bird neighbors,” “Birds that hunt and are hunted,” “How to attract the birds,” and “Birds every child should know.” Her aim has been to include in this single volume the “birds most worth knowing.” There are forty-eight illustrations in color, provided by the National association of Audubon societies.
“The descriptive tables make the book more useful for bird study than ‘Birds every child should know,’ although, because the birds are grouped under families rather than colors, it has more worth as general interesting information than as an aid to identification. Illustrations are colored but are not as good as those of the other books. Color key and index.”
“There is a very interesting and informing introductory chapter on ‘What birds do for us,’that tells concisely their many activities in insect destruction and their consequent commercial value to man.”
“Compact, but not skeletonized, condensation of a book that has already won its place.”
DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).Wild flowers worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il*$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 580 17-13204
This volume of the Little nature library has been adapted from the author’s “Nature’s garden” by Asa Don Dickinson. The flowers are arranged in families, the nomenclature and classification of Gray’s “New manual of botany” as revised by Professors Robinson and Fernald, being used. There are over forty illustrations in color.
“Well printed, well illustrated, and admirably adapted for home and school use.”
DOUBLEDAY, ROMAN.Green Tree mystery, il*$1.40 Appleton 17-24164
“Upon the body of a man found dead by the roadside is a notebook in which is written a confession that he has killed the deservedly unpopular rich man of the village. The search for an adequate motive opens up so many possibilities that the daughter of the murdered man employs a detective to discover the truth. The solution will come as a surprise to most readers.”—Cleveland
“The interest is well sustained.”
“A conventional detective story, following its tangled clues with indifference to anything but the pursuit in hand, and making a very pretty chase of it.” H. W. Boynton
“Its interest is largely due to the skill with which the author keeps the reader guessing as to the outcome.”
“The little tale is entertaining and sufficiently baffling.”
DOVER, ALFRED T.Electric traction; a treatise on the application of electric power to tramways and railways. il*$5.50 Macmillan 621.3 17-19497
“The author of this book is a lecturer on electric traction at the Battersea Polytechnic, London, and the text is about what one would expect to find in a comprehensive course of lectures on electric traction. The style is appropriate to such a lecture course. In preparing the material for a wider audience Mr Dover had in mind that the book would be useful to engineers as well as to advanced students. A considerable number of illustrations of present practice are naturally drawn from that of Great Britain and the Continent, but American railways have by no means been neglected. The fundamental principles are, of course, applicable everywhere. The author has treated the main subject with the following topics as subdivisions: Mechanics of train movement; motors; control; auxiliary apparatus; rolling stock; detailed study of train movement; track and overhead construction, and distributing systems and substations. He has not tried to cover generating stations and transmission lines. ... The book is profusely illustrated with pictures and diagrams, covers direct-current and alternating-current railways, contains a great deal of comment as well as descriptive matter, and should prove a valuable reference work.”—Elec World
“Noteworthy are the line drawings especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”
“We congratulate the author on having succeeded in writing a treatise which engineers and advanced students will find most useful. He is evidently well read in the literature of the subject, most of which is published in the Proceedings of various engineering societies and technical journals, both in this country and abroad, and is therefore inaccessible to many. ... We have satisfactorily checked some of the calculations, and the book is laudably free from misprints. ... The numerous references form a useful feature of the book.” A. Russell
“Noteworthy are the line drawings, especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”
DOWD, EMMA C.Polly and the princess.il[2]*$1.35 (1½c) Houghton 17-29865
The June Holiday home is a sort of glorified old ladies’ home. Little Polly is a young philanthropist who, because she is Dr Dudley’s daughter, is a privileged visitor at the home. She interests herself in the group of women, singling out for special attention, Juanita Sterling, a sweet, neurotic woman of forty-one, whose youth and charm were still with her in spite of the loveless loneliness that had tried to rob her of both. Polly must have been born with the reformer’s spirit and more than average tact. She was too young to have developed them. She puts to shame many an institution manager and makes a substantial contribution to desirable constructive methods on the human side of institution management. And what of her Miss Nita? Polly caps the program of happiness which she puts into action in the home by a real romance. She sees a prince overcome the dragon superintendent of the home and carry off the princess. What better ending could her lively imagination picture?
DOWDEN, EDWARD; GARNETT, RICHARD, and ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL.Letters about Shelley; interchanged by three friends; ed., with an introd., by R. S. Garnett.*$2 (3c) Doran (Eng ed 17-30909)
“The three friends were brought together by their common interest in Shelley, an interest not merely in his poetry, but in every detail of his life. Mr Rossetti and Professor Dowden both wrote lives of Shelley. Dr Garnett meant to write one, and was always collecting materials for it; but he was too busy in the British museum ever to do so. Still, to the other two he was the great authority on Shelley, always ready to help them with his knowledge.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The letters, the first of which is dated 1869 and the last 1906, have been brought together by the cooperation of Mr W. M. Rossetti, Mrs Dowden, and the editor, the eldest son of third correspondent. The introduction, by R. S. and M. Garnett, gives brief biographies of the three letter-writers.
“Although in recent years we have had many books about Shelley, it is doubtful if we have had any at all comparable to the compilation of letters made from the correspondence of these three Shelley workers and enthusiasts. ... In its way, their book is a revelation of the art of biography making.” E. F. E.
“It comprises the greater part of the correspondence of three notable authorities on the poet, and reflects the broad-minded interest of each in literature and life in general. The most important general fact to be elicited from themis that of Dowden’s independence of the poet’s family. These letters show clearly that he followed his own opinion in essentials.”
“The letters interchanged by Dowden, Garnett and Rossetti communicate something that a biography can hardly communicate; they tell something of the spirit in which such work ought to be done; they make the reader collaborate in imagination with the biographer—make him an apprentice to a master.”
“They contain some interesting matter in regard to Shelley, as well as speculations on the meaning of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnets’ and other literary problems.”
“An interest which produces relations so charming must be good in itself; and the record of it puts one in love with human nature, even though it may sometimes set one smiling at the minute labours of the scholar and his mysterious, incorporeal passions.”
DOWNER, EARL BISHOP.Highway of death. il*$1.50 Davis 940.91 16-21959
“When the last battle of the war is fought and the casualties are figured up it is not likely that the doctors, nurses and hospital assistants who have sacrificed their lives will be forgotten. ... Dr Downer gives many enlightening facts about them. Among other things he describes the makeshift accommodations where, with inadequate help, the doctors have been forced to undertake almost impossible tasks. ... Dr Downer had unusual facilities of studying this momentous conflict. During a nine-months’ stay in Belgrade he saw the varied changes of occupation of that embattled city.”—Springf’d Republican
“The book, which is unusually interesting as a record of real experiences, is illustrated with many photographs taken by the author himself.”
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.His last bow; a reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes.*$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-28603
The inventor of Mr Sherlock Holmes and of Dr Watson has again given us a series of sketches relating their detective experiences. Seven of the eight sketches have, however, as Dr Watson states in his preface, lain long in his portfolio. The incidents narrated date back to 1892. The last adventure, from which the book takes its title, occurred on August 2, 1914. In it Sherlock Holmes has placed his genius at the service of his country for the undoing of the agents of the Kaiser. Contents: The adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The adventure of the cardboard box; The adventure of the red circle; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans; The adventure of the dying detective; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The adventure of the devil’s foot; His last bow.
“Every story is told with the author’s admirable mastery of the narrative art; but it cannot be said that all the riddles worked out by the great detective are, intellectually, worthy of his immense reputation.”
“‘The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’ and ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ reveal Sir Arthur at his best, although this cannot be said of the opening stories in the collection. But the detective story writer must have his ups and downs, and the creator of Sherlock Holmes can easily stand ahead of any of his rivals or imitators.”
“It is a good curtain for our hero, and we are not sure that Sir Conan would not be wise to leave him ‘at that.’”
“These new stories are written with as much vigor and spontaneity as if they had been composed in the first flush of the author’s delight in his creation of that notable character. The formula in accordance with which the tales are written, of course, varies little, but the tales themselves are as interesting, as full of ingenuity and unexpected developments, as were the earliest of the adventures in which Dr Watson assisted Mr Sherlock Holmes.”
“The story of the European war that gives the volume its title is quite the weakest and most obviously forced of the whole lot. ... The sheer horror and yet convincing explanation of the apparently inexplicable in ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ has not been matched by Doyle since ‘The adventure of the speckled band.’” Fremont Rider
“As for the stories, their impressiveness is somewhat impaired by the frequency with which they end in a confession. The best of them, to our way of thinking, is the tale of the abstraction and recovery of some important documents from the admiralty.”
“Notwithstanding that the episodes comprising the volume have something of a common atmosphere and a predetermined course of development, the situations are sufficiently diverse to give a keen edge to the reader’s anticipation. The author shows wisdom in not placing the action in the present and giving Holmes a hand in ferreting out war plots.”
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.History of the great war. v 2*$2 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-21928
v 2The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1915.
“This second volume of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s history of the war relates exclusively to the campaign of 1915. The author roughly divides the three years of war into ‘the year of defence, the year of equilibrium, and the year of attack’; and the events of the second were naturally less dramatic than those which more nearly followed the outbreak of war. Nevertheless the present volume comprises narratives of the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60; the second battle of Ypres; the conflicts at Richebourg, Festubert, and in the trenches of Hooge; and the long-drawn-out fighting at Loos. The occasions are described when the Germans first used poison gas and the flame of burning petrol, and there is incidental reference to the torpedoing of the Lusitania. From beginning to end the volume is an unadorned but impressive record of gallantry and ‘grit’ on the part of the troops engaged.”—Ath
“This is an important book. It bears evidence of much research and has an authoritative tone. So far as is possible at this stage, it is real history. Such a work will be read with more interest in England than in America. The evolutions of the Durham light infantry and the First royal Irish will naturally appeal more to those who know them than to us who do not. But the book as a whole leaves a powerful impression hardly to be obtained from any other work thus far published.”
“While the events of the year 1915, in view of all that has happened since, seem nowadays rather like ancient history, it is only by the careful reading in cold blood of such painstakinglywritten accounts of what actually took place that we can arrive at a correct estimate of the great struggle in its earlier stages.”
“It is somewhat of a pity that more illuminating maps have not been provided for an otherwise important and notable historical volume.”
“In his first volume the author described the doings of the British Army in France and Flanders during 1914, and he is able to say in the preface to his second volume which is before us that no serious correction has been made of any of the facts in the first volume. That is a proud statement for any writer to be able to make in the circumstances. We can premise that Sir A. Conan Doyle will be able to say the same thing of his second volume, and be able to say it in an even higher degree, because when an author has established his reputation for correctness, and for a safe and just handling of his material, information flows into him. That is his proper reward. We imagine that Sir A. Conan Doyle has been freely given official information, and certainly we have read nothing about the second battle of Ypres and Loos which can compare for completeness with the narratives in the second volume.”
“The narrative reduces itself to a catalogue of the doings of battalions, of the names of the individuals who principally distinguished themselves, and of the casualties of different units. Probably Sir Arthur, knowing the limitations of his material, attempted no more than this; and we may say at once that he has been successful in weaving his scanty matter into a lively and spirited story.”
DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.Handbook of the new thought.*$1.25 (3c) Putnam 131 17-13214
In his exposition of new thought, which forms the first chapter, the author differentiates it from Christian science, the Emmanuel movement, etc. The author says, “The ‘old’ thought against which the ‘new’ reacts is any form of authority, whether medical or ecclesiastical, in so far as physicians and churches keep people in subjection to creeds.” The second chapter gives a historical sketch of the movement. This is followed by chapters on: The silent method; Estimate; The mental theory of disease; Reconstruction; Practical suggestions.
“Will, no doubt, be helpful to many readers but it is a baffling attempt to show that theories do not matter, so long as one has the right ‘point of view.’ Its logic is distressingly confusing to one who has been contaminated by materialist science; but there must be something in it, since Mr Dresser’s books—more than a dozen of them—are widely read by all sorts and conditions of men and women.”
“Is to be especially commended to those who desire a brief but comprehensive view of the nature, history, and aims of the movement. No one is better qualified than Dr Dresser to present an authoritative account of the new thought, both because of his long association with it and also because of his very reasonable and even empirical way of looking at the whole subject.”
“Does away with misunderstanding.”
DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS, ed. Spirit of the new thought.*$1.25 (2½c) Crowell 131 17-14165
Twenty-two messages from original leaders of new thought. The editor contributes an introduction which traces the movement from its beginning, showing that the term was first used in 1895 as the name of a little periodical issued in Melrose, Mass., and later by the adherents who practiced mental healing. The influence of Quinby upon the movement is traced and the essential difference between new thought and Christian science is pointed out. Some of the essays are: The gospel of healing; Can disease be entirely destroyed? The disease of apprehensiveness; Concentration; Is mental science enough? Criticisms of the new thought; The metaphysical movement; The new thought today; The laws of divine healing.
“This greatly needed volume should dispel a widely prevalent misunderstanding and neglect of the revival of primitive Christianity now advancing under the banner of new thought.”
“Nearly all of the essays have a bearing on the life of everyday and are vivified by a spirit of helpfulness and optimism.”
DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.Victorious faith; moral ideals in war time.*$1 (2c) Harper 172.4 17-24116
A helpful analysis of the modification of duties which the changing order of the things in the world today makes imperative. Some old philosophies must be scrapped according to the Shavian method and created new; while others must be readjusted to meet new conditions. We need a new method of thought to face new conditions with efficient hope. The mind must be alert to seek amidst present confusion new signs of the eternal values. The discussion offers constructive suggestions for meeting the new problems of the day which demand poise as a basis for service and an inner life that will be efficient. Contents: The sources of faith; Tendencies of the age; The psychology of war; The higher resistance; The moral values; The new idea of God; Christianity in war-time; The pathway of faith; Spiritual democracy.
“The author offers a constructive faith which may help the world work its way to a final spiritual democracy.”
“The viewpoints of the essays are finely optimistic. Strength-giving to those whose faith in Christianity needs strengthening. Splendidly vivifying to those Americans who ‘creditably or discreditably’ felt they had no share in the world war, before April, 1917.”
DROWN, EDWARD STAPLES.Apostles’ creed to-day. (Church principles for lay people)*$1 (4c) Macmillan 238 17-3743
In his first chapter the author asks the question: Is a creed a restraint on religious liberty? His consideration of the nature of freedom leads him to the conclusion that “Freedom exists in proportion as the community has come to a true realisation of itself, and has expressed itself in true laws. Freedom consists in fight relation to law.” He finds the Apostles’ creed a true expression of man’s relation to God and therefore a guarantee to religious freedom. The five chapters of the book are: Creeds and liberty; The origin and character of the Apostles’ creed; The creed and the Bible; The interpretation of the Apostles’ creed to-day; The value and use of the creed to-day.
“The author summarizes Dr McGiffert’s theory of the origin of the creed; and then seeks to reinterpret its clauses in terms of modern thought.”
“The book is an earnest contribution from the Episcopal church to conservative theological thought.”
DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.Greater than the greatest.*$1.50 Dutton A17-1641
“A tale of the thirteenth century struggle between emperor and pope. It is not a story of men and women whose lives merely touched the great events of the time, but of those great events themselves and of the people who actually played the leading parts therein. Across the stage of Mr Drummond’s book go pope and emperor, cardinal and warrior of mediaeval Rome. ... The heroine of the novel is Bianca Pandone, a beautiful girl of the Marches, whose uncle, risen to eminence as a cardinal, forgets her and her poverty until he needs a tool for his ambitious schemes.”—N Y Times
“A harmless romance. ... It lacks imaginative power, and so makes no deep impression.”
“The story has the prime characteristic of a good historical novel; it presents an atmosphere. And it has a quality, besides, that is not always found in stories of adventures—its characters are exceedingly well-drawn.”
“A workmanlike historical tale.”
DRYDEN, JAMES.Poultry breeding and management, il*$1.60 (1½c) Judd 636.5 16-23156
The author teaches poultry husbandry in the Oregon agricultural college. The book is planned for the student and for the practical poultry farmer. Contents: Historical aspect; Evolution of modern fowl; Modern development of industry; Classification of breeds; Origin and description of breeds; Principles of poultry breeding; Problem of higher fecundity; Systems of poultry farming; Housing of poultry; Kind of house to build; Fundamentals of feeding; Common poultry foods; Methods of feeding; Methods of hatching chickens; Artificial brooding; Marketing eggs and poultry; Diseases and parasites of fowls. The book is fully illustrated.
“A reliable, popular yet scientific treatment.”
DUBNOV, SEMEN MARKOVICH.History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the earliest times until the present day; tr. from the Russian by I. Friedlaender. 2v v 1 $1.50 (1c) Jewish pub. 296 (16-16352)
v 1This is the first of two volumes covering the history of the Jews in Russia and Poland. The Russian work of which it is a translation was prepared, Mr Friedlaender says, especially for the Jewish publication society of America. The author had treated the subject earlier in a general history of the Jewish people in three volumes, and that work has been drawn on in preparing the present work. Volume one carries the history down to the death of Alexander I in 1825 with chapters on: The Jewish Diaspora in eastern Europe; The Jewish colonies in Poland and Lithuania; The autonomous center in Poland at its zenith (1501-1648); The inner life of Polish Jewry at its zenith; The autonomous center in Poland during its decline (1648-1772); The inner life of Polish Jewry during the period of decline; The Russian quarantine against the Jews (till 1772); Polish Jewry during the period of the partitions; The beginnings of the Russian regime; The “enlightened absolutism” of Alexander I; The inner life of Russian Jewry during the period of ‘enlightened absolutism’; The last years of Alexander I.
“It is surprising and disappointing that in a work of this kind there is no attempt made to discuss in an impartial and in an intelligent manner the Jewish problem, which is neither simple nor one-sided. ... Although authorities are not always quoted there is no reason to question the author’s accuracy and honesty and one may accept his statements of fact. The work is valuable so far as it goes; but the reader cannot help wishing that the author had gone deeper and had given something more than mere information. The translator seems to have done his work well, and it is probably not his fault that the book does not read more easily.”
“A full account, by the best authority on the subject, of the political conditions under which the Jews have lived. ... It is much more detailed than Friedlaender’s ‘Jews of Russia and Poland’ and is valuable to anyone interested in the subject.”
DUBOIS, JAMES T., AND MATHEWS, GERTRUDE SINGLETON.Galusha A. Grow, father of the homestead law. il*$1.75 Houghton 17-11003
“Galusha A. Grow, while never occupying a place in the front rank of American statesmen, was yet a prominent man during the Civil war—he was speaker of the national House of representatives in 1861 and 1862—and the years immediately preceding it. ... Before the passage of Mr Grow’s ‘Homestead act,’ the public lands had been sold by the government to speculators, who disposed of them, sometimes at extortionate profits, to the needy settlers. ... After years of setbacks and disappointments, Mr Grow’s measure finally passed in 1861. Before that time, however, it had become inextricably mixed up with the Kansas-Nebraska and slavery questions. In the opinion of President Lincoln, the ‘Homestead’ act was the most beneficent legislation ever passed by a law-making body.”—Springf’d Republican
“As a life of Grow this book will hardly justify itself, for its basis is too slight; but as a sketch of a portion of the history of the public domain it will have a use.” F: L. Paxson
“An important contribution to American biography, and a highly readable book as well. ... Not the least interesting part of this readable volume is that relating to the services of Mr Grow as speaker in Congress during the troublous days of the Civil war.”
DUFF, JAMES DUFF, ed. Russian realities and problems.*$1.50 (3c) Putnam 914.7 (Eng ed 17-13746)
“This very able and illuminating little book contains six lectures delivered at the last Cambridge summer meeting by Paul Milyoukov, New Russia’s foreign minister; Peter Struve, the economist; Roman Dmowski, the Polish leader; Lappo-Danilevsky, the historian; and Dr Harold Williams, the Daily Chronicle’s correspondent, whose knowledge of Russian languages and manners is unsurpassed by any native. ... Mr Struve’s parallel between Russia and America as two vast and but partly developed countries in the colonial stage is extremely suggestive.”—Spec
“We have never read anything half so good, on ‘The nationalities of Russia,’ as Dr Williams’s clear and impartial statement of a stupendous problem, of which the Finnish and Polish questions are but fragments. ... Every one who wants to understand Russia should make a point of reading this remarkable book.”