“Mr Gribble writes of Jeanne d’Arc in detail, and with an open mind attempts to give her a proper place in history, conceding neither to M. Anatole France that she was merely the tool of the clergy, nor to Andrew Lang that she was the great military leader he thought her. His searching desire for fairness toward Jeanne d’Arc gives one confidence in the author’s estimate of other women warriors with whose reputation the reviewer is less familiar.”
“It sketches in a light superficial manner the heroic or eccentric doings of a motley group of thirty or forty women, ranging in point of time from Countess Matilda of Tuscany to Miss Edith Cavell. The only nexus among them all is that each was in some way connected with war, either leading it like Jeanne D’Arc, or in supposedly causing it like the Empress Eugénie, or in suffering from it like Lady Sale, or in some other more or less remote fashion.”
“Mr Gribble has made for himself more or less of a reputation as an entertaining but superficial writer on some of the intimate phases of history, especially those connected, and too often scandalously, with women. In this book he has collected with great industry an immense amount of information about what specific women have done in war and in the influencing of countries or individuals in times of war and as companions of warriors.”
“Reading Mr Gribble’s pages, one can hardly realize that they record historical facts. The stories that he relates have all the fascination of fiction.”
Reviewed by L. A. Mead
GRIERSON, RONALD.Some modern methods of ventilation. il*$3 Van Nostrand 697 17-12836
“The author’s expressed purpose is to present, in as simple and concise a form as possible, the general principles and practice of design of a modern ventilating plant. This is accomplished as fully as could be expected in a book of less than 200 pages. ... Although based upon English practice, it presents American practices more fully and correctly than any other British book on this subject known to the reviewer. Many of its 40 tables are from American authorities, and all are in accordance with the most modern practice. A similar statement would apply to the illustrations.”—Engin News-Rec
“Although the book will scarcely meet the needs of the student beginner in this subject, nor completely satisfy the needs of the well-informed engineer, yet it may well interest both and it is a desirable addition to any library on the subject of ventilation. The descriptions and definitions are models of conciseness and clearness. ... As a whole, the book appears to be the product of one who is thoroughly versed in the theory and practice of modern ventilating work.” D. D. Kimball
“‘The author of this contribution to a literature which is admittedly scanty has not attempted an exhaustive theoretical treatise. He has sifted with a good deal of skill bred of intimate knowledge of the practical side of his subject. Moreover the plant, instruments and methods of which he treats are up-to-date and fairly comprehensive, so that the result is a satisfactory and useful statement of things as they are.’”
GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.Carpentry. il $1 Manual arts press 694 17-1599
“This is really the complete story of the building of a modern house, from surveying and staking out to hanging the windows and doors.”—School Arts Magazine
“A textbook for use by trade apprentices, students in vocational and trade schools and students of manual arts. It is a clear treatise on the every-day problems of the carpenter and house builder. As a textbook on carpentry, it meets every requirement of the student. No other publication has ever undertaken to cover the essentials of house building in a manner adapted for school use as this book on ‘Carpentry.’”
“Author is an experienced carpenter and is chairman of the Manual arts department, University of Missouri. He has written several excellent elementary books on woodworking, which are recommended.”
“There are more than 150 illustrations. It is a book for apprentices, trade school students, and anybody who wants to know how houses are built.”
“One of the best textbooks for students beginning a study of this subject.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM.Loves and losses of Pierrot. il*$1 Shores 811 16-22429
“In his ‘Loves and losses of Pierrot,’ William Griffith again proves the validity of his poet-gifts and the great charm of a suggestive sketch-book manner of using the old meters. ... Aside from the origins of the Pierrot legend, there are many suggestions that Mr Griffith has gone deep into the study of eighteenth-century France.”—N Y Times
“A slender book of delicately alluring lyrics finely and gracefully wrought.”
“‘Spring life and spring sadness,’ is Mr Le Gallienne’s deft characterization of these songs, and little more is to be said.”
GRIMM, MINERVA E., comp. Translations of foreign novels: a selected list. (Useful reference ser.)*$1 Boston bk. 016.8
This bibliography aims to bring together in convenient form some of the translations of foreign fiction. The general arrangement is by language. French and German first, these being the largest divisions. Then follow in alphabetical order: Belgian; Chinese; Danish; Dutch; Egyptian; Flemish; Greek; Hungarian; Italian; Norwegian; Polish; Roumanian; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; Yiddish. Under each language there is an alphabetical arrangement by author. The title index is arranged alphabetically according to title, with the language designated after each author and with cross references from other titles for the same book. The list was originally compiled as a bibliography presented for graduation in the New York library school in 1914, and was brought up-to-date before publication. “Each book in the list was examined at the time of compilation. It was available either in the reference department, the circulation department, or in the Library school of the New York public library. Some of the earlier publications are probably out of print, but entries were made for every book in fair condition, with a reasonable length of life before it.” (Preface)
GRISAR, HARTMANN.Luther; authorized tr. from the German, by E. M. Lamond; ed. by Luigi Cappadelta. v 6*$3.25 Herder 15-12670
The final volume of Father Grisar’s study of Luther comes from the press in the year of the 400th anniversary of the reformation. In conclusion the author says that his constant endeavor has been “to get as close as possible to the real Luther and not to present a painted or fictitious one.” The volume contains the index for the entire work.
“The sixth volume of Prof. Grisar’s biography of the reformer displays, equally with the previous volumes, the author’s scholarship, industry, and endeavour to write with impartiality.”
“The readers of these six volumes of Father Grisar must indeed recognize that he has written the most objective, the most thorough and most unprejudiced life of Luther.”
“As a Jesuit, the author has no sympathy for Luther, but he has spared no pains to state the facts about the reformer, and his general estimate of Luther’s character, especially in its mystical and its intolerant phases, is well worth reading.”
“Perhaps it is in the nature of the case impossible that a man who is so identified with the Roman system as an earnest and able Jesuit must needs be should be able to appreciate the motive force of its most deadly opponent. He is so absorbed in his psychological theories, and in minute points of historical accuracy, that he fails to grasp and to describe the great currents of Luther’s thought and action. Professor Grisar does not give a living history, but an elaborate and critical commentary on the history.”
GRONER, AUGUSTA.Joe Muller, detective; tr. by Grace Isabel Colbron.*$1.25 Duffield
“A little, mild-looking, meek-mannered, gentle-voiced man—and the best, most famous detective attached to the Secret service of the Austrian police; such is Joe Muller, the hero and principal figure in the five ingenious tales which make up this little book. The first and longest, a novelette, in fact, rather than a short story, is the one entitled ‘The lamp that went out.’ One of those murder cases which seem so simple and obvious, and are really so very complicated, is this tale of the man whose dead body was found in a lonely road.” (N Y Times) The other titles are: The case of the registered letter; The case of the pocket diary found in the snow; The case of the pool of blood in the pastor’s study; The case of the golden bullet.
GROSVENOR, JOHNSTON.Strange stories of the great valley. il*$1 (2½c) Harper 17-12138
A story of the Ohio valley one hundred years ago. The young hero, Obadiah Holman, a New England boy, floats down the Ohio river, with his parents, to find a new home in Indiana. He meets and makes friends with many of the great men of the time and with one boy who was to become a great man, Abraham Lincoln. Of theincidents of the book, the author says, “They are almost true. ... In substance they are a faithful picture of the sort of adventures that helped pioneer lads of the great valley to grow into the full measure of men.”
“A really good, human book for children.”
“Each story is complete in itself, but they fit together and are all the better for it; and Mr Grosvenor is a capital story teller.”
GROTIUS, HUGO.Freedom of the seas; or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade.*$1 Oxford 341 16-10705
“A translation of Grotius’s famous treatise, one of the foundations and sources of international law. The book contains the Latin text of 1633, revised and an English translation by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, associate in Greek and Roman history, and Roman archaeology in the Johns Hopkins university. There is an introductory note by James Brown Scott, director of the division of international law of Carnegie endowment. Grotius’s treatise was naturally not altogether popular in England in the 17th century because he denied to any nation the right to claim large tracts of the open sea for its own particular use. The work was not, however, directed against England. It was written to make good the right of the Dutch to continue trading with the East Indies.”—Springf’d Republican
“The work is singularly unsuggestive as to present or probable future controversies.”
GRUMBACH, S.[2]Germany’s annexationist aims; tr., abbreviated and introduced by J. Ellis Barker.*$1.50 Dutton 327.43 17-29849
“Mr Barker is familiar with the politics, language, and literature of Germany, and held international rank as an authority in regard thereto before war began. In his introduction to this book he says that ‘Germany’s war-aims are not sufficiently known in this country’; and he proceeds to speak of ‘Herr S. Grumbach’s monumental volume. “Das annexionistische Deutschland,” published by Payot & Co., at Lausanne, in 1917,’ as affording the information not hitherto accessible here. To render it so has been his wish, as translator andabbreviator. It is his conviction, well based, as his numerous quotations and excerpts prove, that German annexationists, belonging to all classes of society, have formed almost boundless plans of conquest in Europe and on the continents beyond.’”—Lit D
“On some points his book shows the result of haste in its compilation, but none the less it is a very useful piece of work, which should be widely known.”
GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, and GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, jr.Valuation, depreciation and the rate-base. diags*$4 Wiley 338 17-1339
“This volume is a notable addition to the small number of books that treat at all fully the subject of valuation and related problems. It contains an introductory discussion; carefully written definitions of many of the terms used; a statement of fundamental principles; a full discussion of the various matters that effect valuation and rate making; chapters relating to the value of real estate, water rights and reservoir and watershed lands; a special chapter by Carl Ewald Grunsky, jr., on the valuation of mines and oil properties ... tables giving the probable useful life of various articles and expectancy of life and remaining value upon a given theoretical basis; and a series of tables relating to compound interest, present worth, annuities, amortization and depreciation.”—Engin N
“Less a comprehensive and systematic discussion of valuation and rate making in accordance with present procedure than the presentation of particular views based on personal experience and study. There is commendable omission of numerous elementary commonplaces, but unfortunately particular points are uselessly repeated over and over and, in general, material, much of it irrelevant, is presented in a very disorganized fashion.” J: Bauer
“While, as indicated above, the book in some of its main features seems not to make recommendations along practical and progressive lines, it is the result of personal contact, long experience and much study of the valuation problem, has been written with much care and contains many valuable ideas, so that it should have a place in the library of all those interested in valuation.” F: P. Stearns
“Chapter 12, on the accounting system, is not up to date. ... The reviewer commends the book to the libraries of valuation men, not because it is a model of clearness, nor even because he thinks the depreciation problem is as desperately complex as the authors make it, but because the authors have painstakingly expounded a fair-minded theory about which valuation men should know something, and because they have presented some remarkably complete tables.” C. W. Stark
“This work on the valuation of utilities and mines contains little new material for most students of the subject. It is primarily an exposition of established practices in valuation without much critical appraisal of their soundness. Students beginning the study of valuation, however, will find the work a clear and helpful presentation of the subject.”
“The book is not suited for popular reading, but has value for technicians. Its preparation marks a decided step in the regulation of utilities. We hear so much about it that it might be thought an old art. In fact, it is so new that it has hardly developed its science.”
“The engineer or utility official ... will probably find the mathematical and tabular information of considerable value.”
GRUNZEL, JOSEF.Economic protectionism; ed. by Eugen von Philippovich.*$2.90 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23811)
“This volume is the first published by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace. ... The book covers a much wider range of topics than is ordinarily covered in books on the protective question. Not duties upon imports alone are considered, but also the regulation and manipulation of railway rates for the purpose of affording protection, and administrative measures which, though nominally for hygienic and sanitary purposes, in reality are designed to impede importation. Export duties naturally receive attention; and further, the import and export of capital, and immigration and emigration.”—Nation
Reviewed by A. L. Bishop
“The volume will be chiefly valuable as a general presentation of a subject, too much neglected by American writers, which is bound to attract greater attention in the immediate future. More particularly the second part will be useful, for few people realize the wide extent of the measures already adopted by various countries in carrying out this policy. But as a theoretical discussion of the economic soundness and political wisdom of the policy as a whole it is inadequate.” C. W. Wright
“It has been strongly criticized for its protectionist bias.”
“Its purpose is to survey the problem of protectionist policy as a whole, and summarize the results of the past research. The committee wisely committed this task to a scholar who believed in protection. The result is a most useful volume, although it throws little light on the problem of the causation of war.”
“Professor Grunzel’s chief field of activity seems to be in the Austrian ministry of commerce, as adviser and administrator; and this accounts for the fulness of his information upon such concrete matters as were just referred to. No doubt it serves also to account for the general character of the present performance. The book is not such as would come from a scholar or from any one having capacity for intellectual discrimination. It is frankly, almost naïvely protectionist; indeed, exhibits protectionism in its vulgar form. The verdict, alas, must be that it is full of superficialities, question-begging phrases, muddy reasoning. ... As an intellectual performance, it is negligible. But as an indication of the ways, and purposes of the economic politician, it is of sad and portentous significance.”
GUÉRARD, ALBERT LÉON.Five masters of French romance.*$1.50 Scribner 843 17-26178
“The present volume is, in the main, independent of politics, though we do not overlook the introductory and concluding chapters—‘The twilight of a world,’ ‘Geniuses as cannon-fodder and survival of the unfittest,’ ‘Regeneration,’ and so on. The writers studied are Anatole France, primate of French literature; Pierre Loti, exotic representative of French Protestantism, ‘and on the surface the least Protestant of all’; Paul Bourget, ‘the most skilful technician’; Maurice Barrès, ‘defender of tradition’; and Romain Rolland, author of ‘one of the world’s classics.’”—Dial
“The criticism is sane, the argument popular, the substance interesting and the tone serious, while the style sparkles with a true French vivacity which has not had to suffer by translation. ... While it would be impossible to subscribe to every one of M. Guérard’s appreciations, he would be himself the first to disavow any such necessity.”
“Professor Guérard is a well-read man and he has written a useful book of a secondary sort. His book is, as his college lectures doubtless are, highly instructive to those who are not already well informed in the field traversed. His exposition of French novels and French culture is discreet and balanced, and his knowledge of American life, its standards, and limitations, adds to his conservatism in the present work. There is no heat or passion here, either for men or works or ideas, and the level style and equal temper of the essays make them all the more judicious and all the less inspiring.”
“Peculiarly circumstanced for interpreting to Americans the personal and literary characteristics of modern French authors is Albert Leon Guérard, a Frenchman born and bred, but now an American of more than ten years’ standing who is professor of French in the Rice institute, at Houston, Tex.”
“He wants to be on the side of the heavy angel, sociology, yet he is by inclination a connoisseur of literature. ... He is so anxious to convince Texas that French yellow-backs are worthy of serious attention that he is a little unscrupulous as to the kind of attention he secures for them. Secretly convinced that they are to be judged as literature, he has not the courage of his conviction, and serves them up as documents of social history. Unsteadiness of aim makes a bad book, and Mr Guérard’s is not a good one. And yet it might have been had not the American conscience so much perturbed the French taste.”
“Useful for readers who wish short-cuts to a knowledge of these French writers and their novels, but are hardly equal to Miss Stephens’ ‘French novelists of today.’”
GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT.Heap o’ livin’.*$1.25 Reilly & B. 811 16-21963
“Mr Guest chooses the old familiar themes of domestic joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of life, the high hopes and the grievous disappointments common to our lot. ... This is by no means his first appearance in print, and to his old friends he needs no introduction. Let those who still have before them the pleasure of making his acquaintance try his quality in such poems of the present collection as ‘My creed,’ ‘Spring in the trenches,’ ‘The other fellow,’ ‘Father,’ and ‘Mother.’”—Dial
“Those who like Will Carleton and James Whitcomb Riley will not dislike Mr Guest.”
“Homespun poetry, full of health and vigor.”
“Inspiration may or may not lie between its covers; but love and good solid, spiritual fellowship for the common man are there.”
GUEST, FLORA (BIGELOW) (MRS LIONEL GEORGE WILLIAM GUEST).Cow and milk book. il*75c (3c) Lane 636 17-12845
A series of short, practical chapters on dairying by a woman who writes from personal experience in Canada. Emphasis is placed on cleanliness, careful inspection, etc. Among the subjects taken up are: Beef versus milk, The care of milk, The price of milk, Housing the cattle, Housing calves, To start a herd on economical lines, Advanced registry of cattle, How to choose a dairy cow, Stall-fed cows, Bedding, Watering the cattle.
“Will be found as helpful as the more scientific guides, most of which have the herd owner in mind.”
“Mrs Lionel Guest was the daughter of the late John Bigelow. ... She has a successful dairy farm near Montreal which she superintends, and this little book offers the results of her own experience. It is thoroughly practical and deals with all the phases of the subject.”
GUIMERÁ, ANGEL.La pecadora (Daniela); a play in three acts; tr. by Wallace Gillpatrick. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa*$1.25 Putnam 862 16-22623
For the English version of this play by the author of “Marta of the Lowlands,” we are indebted to Mexico City. The translator saw its first performance there in 1902 and, impressed with its merits, obtained permission from the author to translate it into English. The scene is in a little Spanish village. A great singer, after fifteen years of absence, has just returned to her childhood home. She is broken in health and her hopes of renewing her strength among well-loved scenes are frustratedby the suspicions of her old friends, and especially by the jealousy of the wife of her one-time sweetheart.
“Wallace Gillpatrick has translated ‘La pecadora’ and has brought over into English most if not all of the hot and fluid passion of the original. ... For acting purposes, at least with us, some of the scenes, notably the first half of the first act, would have to be condensed, but it makes easier reading as it stands, affording the opportunity to come slowly and surely under the spell of the emotions and the sensibilities of another race.” O. M. Sayler
“For sheer dramatic intensity the second act has been equalled by few plays in the past half century. ... Guimerá’s play should be accessible in the theater. It probably will not be. There is too much of the primitive and the true in it, and nothing whatever of the veiled sex appeal. ... As a reading play it is fascinating, and we fortunately have it in an admirable translation.” Frank Macdonald
GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.Dynamic of manhood.*75c (3c) Assn. press;*$1 (4c) Doran 170 17-21790
Dr Gulick says that human desires, or hungers, may be divided into two classes: (1) those that seek some benefit for one’s self; and (2) those that seek some benefit for others. The first are stomach-hungers—or Hunger; the second are heart-hungers—or Love. It is with these “heart-hungers” that his book is concerned. Contents: The two major motives; Hunger for a friend; Hunger for woman; Hunger for children; Hunger for God. The two editions are printed from the same plates, altho that issued by the Association Press is in smaller form.
“His conclusions coincide with and add weight to the best thought of the day, from the viewpoint of religion as well as from that of science.”
“The opening chapter on unsexed persons gives the book an excessively physiological keynote, and does not establish the author’s thesis. Dr Gulick has, however, an excellent chapter on the dangers of talking sexual subjects so as to arouse pruriency in children and his presentation of the ideal of romantic marriage is sincere and high-principled.”
GULLIVER, JULIA HENRIETTA.Studies in democracy.*$1 (6c) Putnam 321.8 17-6232
Three addresses by the president of Rockford college for women. In the first, The essence of democracy, delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1915, the author expresses the belief that “the impulse toward expansion, which underlies the present world-upheaval, is the impulse toward the democratizing of Europe.” The second, The twentieth-century search for the Holy Grail, delivered before the State federation of women’s clubs in Rockford, Ill., in 1915, is a study of the work of American women along economic, civic and legislative lines. The third, The efficiency of democracy, a baccalaureate address of 1916, is given to a comparison of the methods of a democracy and an autocracy, as represented by the United States and Germany, with suggestions as to what each can learn from the other.
“While it contains nothing that is novel or striking, the book is interesting, cogent in its expression of ideas and possesses more literary merit than most brief discussions of its kind.”
“The fact that two of them are baccalaureate sermons may explain their limitations, for nothing seems to stultify original thought like the necessity of imparting it to June graduates.”
GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON.Magna carta, and other addresses.*$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 342.7 16-17474
The address on Magna carta which opens this volume was delivered before the Constitutional convention of the State of New York in 1915. The other addresses, also prepared for special occasions, are: The Mayflower compact; Constitutional morality; The eleventh amendment; Criticism of the courts; Graduated or progressive taxation; The duty of citizenship; Nominating conventions; Catholic parochial schools; The France-America committee of New York.
“Mr Guthrie’s addresses add very little to the discussion of the problems which they are concerned with, but they have their value as a statement of the conservative view by a learned and clear-thinking student and teacher of the law. The essay on ‘Magna carta’ is perhaps the least valuable of the entire collection. In this paper the author presents the older view of the content and purpose of this document, a view that has long since lost credit among English historians.”
“On every page there is to be found cogent argument, happy illustration and sound setting forth of vitally important legal and constitutional principles.”
“Mr Guthrie’s predilection for quasi-historical arguments prevents him from dealing with any issue on its merits. However, in the essay on the income tax, he shows his moral insight and social wisdom in his condemnation of a graduated income tax.” M. R. Cohen
GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL.[2]Church and state in England to the death of Queen Anne; with a preface by the Rev E. W. Watson.*$5 (3c) Longmans 274.2 17-27958
Dr Gwatkin did not live to revise his manuscript, and it is offered with some imperfections which the editors deemed presumptuous to tamper with. It is not a textbook for beginners but for “informed and intelligent students” who wish a survey of England’s secular and ecclesiastical development, in due coordination and proportion. A good index is provided.
“If, in consequence of the lamented author’s death, some portions of the book are not quite abreast of the most recent knowledge there is compensation in the broadminded and comprehensive treatment of the weighty theme to which Prof. Gwatkin wholeheartedly addressed himself.”
“As a scamper through English history this posthumous work, edited by Dr E. W. Watson, is clever. Here and there we find shrewd remarks and phrases. But, whereas the modern historian strives painfully to be coldly neutral, Gwatkin’s bias was so vehement that he seldom troubles to argue, or even to be accurate.”
“No references are given, but they are hardly to be expected in a compendium of facts which derives its interest from the personality of the author and the independence of his views. There is no lack of learning, and the book is wonderfully compressed. The character sketches are always interesting, and some of the generalizations on collateral subjects, like the remarks on English foreign policy on page 237, would do credit to a specialized monograph. Noecclesiastical historian has written with a broader outlook on the human side of English history.”
GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.Mrs Humphry Ward. (Writers of the day)*60c (3c) Holt 823 (Eng ed 18-1392)
This study of Mrs Humphry Ward is added to a series which already includes books on Anatole France, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others. It is Mrs Ward’s great and long continued popularity that draws critical attention to her work. As Mr Gwynne says, “Such a success as she has achieved and consolidated does not dictate to critical opinion, but it compels appraisement to be made.” Following the introduction, are chapters devoted to: “Robert Elsmere”; Novels of the general world: “Helbeck of Bannisdale” and “Eleanor”; Novels with a historical basis: “The case of Richard Meynell”; Later novels and general appreciation.
“Mr Gwynn takes the candid and reasonable view that the popularity of Mrs Humphry Ward justifies a critical attention which her books hardly deserve on mere literary grounds.”
“While he has apparently read Mrs Ward’s novels thoroughly, he has little understanding of their purpose. A serious mistake was made by the editor of the series in inviting him to contribute the study of Mrs Humphry Ward.” E. F. E.
“At times his criticism is most caustic, more than is usually found in sketches of this character.” D. F. K.
“It is with unmixed joy that we greet this critical estimate of Mrs Humphry Ward, not because it is vital to have an estimate of Mrs Ward, but because in itself this little study is of unusual value. This critique is excellent from a critical point of view, and well worth reading for its own sake.”
“It is a remarkably spirited and readable appreciation, even though one may not fully agree with the conclusions.”
“Mr Gwynn shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic.”
“Mr Gwynn has not a few shrewd things to say as to Mrs Ward’s mental attitude. His opening pages seem to be imbued with the highly unintelligent view that there must be something suspicious about a large circulation. This leads him to impose upon the reader at the outset what seems to us a wholly unfair view of his subject, and one which he does not prove himself able to substantiate.”
GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS, and TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE M.Life of the Rt Hon Sir Charles W. Dilke.2v il*$10.50 Macmillan (Eng ed 17-29369)
“It may be expected that this ‘Life of Sir Charles Dilke’ will at once take its place among standard works of reference, for much of it records in his own words, from notes made day by day, the important events in British and European history of the second half of the nineteenth century in which he took a prominent part. ... Sir Charles Dilke’s activities were many-sided, and his biographers have tried to present a picture of the complete man. Sections are allotted to his lifelong efforts to improve the conditions of the working classes, his care for the rights of native races, and his literary work and interests; and Mr Spenser Wilkinson contributes the chapters describing the active part taken by Sir Charles Dilke in impressing upon the nation the necessity of preparations for imperial defence. In all the activities of the second half of his life Sir Charles had a devoted co-worker in Lady Dilke, and Miss Tuckwell has provided a delightful picture of happy home life.”—Ath
“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation. For in the realm of social politics Dilke established a new tradition. In the sphere of foreign policy or imperial policy, on questions relating to the army and navy, he undoubtedly possessed an almost unrivalled knowledge; but these matters were, in a sense, the stock-in-trade of all politicians. In the field of social politics, however, he stood alone—a pioneer.”
“The reader feels that he is a privileged spectator in the actual making of history, and is enabled to realize the personalities of the chief characters who directed the course of events.”
“His biographers appear to have magnified his strong and engaging qualities and minimized his failings, which is not an uncommon practice with biographers who are also loving friends. It is unfortunately to be noted that the publishers of this work found it necessary or desirable to give the book a fragile and mechanically poor binding.” H. S. K.
“There has been no English political biography so valuable as this since Lord Morley summarized an epoch in his life of Gladstone. ... From whatever angle this life is regarded it is a valuable supplement to what we already possess.” H. J. L.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the industry and tact with which Miss Tuckwell has discharged her task of compiling what will certainly rank as a great political biography. ... Miss Tuckwell’s comments are sparing and relevant; and while she obviously writes as a loving disciple, there is no indiscriminate or emotional eulogy.”
“We cannot think of Sir Charles Dilke as a possible prime minister. ... Miss Tuckwell, however, has unquestionably shown that Sir Charles Dilke was a greater force in Liberal politics before 1885 than many people supposed.”
“It is for their spiritual quite as much as for their historical value that these volumes will take their place in English literature. ... We find, with some disappointment, in the passages dealing with labour questions a lack of that intimacy, that private estimation of personalities and tendencies, which is so fascinating in other chapters of the book.”
GWYNNE, WALKER.[2]Primitive worship and prayer book; rationale, history, and doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American books.*$2.50 Longmans 264 17-15175
A study made timely by the work of revision of the prayer book in England, the United States and Canada. The writer traces the origin and development of Christian worship to the present form for English-speaking people. The second part of his work is devoted to a clear explanation of what the church teaches by means of the prayer book—by means of the formularies, traditional customs and interpretative scripture embodied in the prayer book. The book seeks an audience among students, general readers, teachers and candidates for Holy orders.
“The chapters contain the result of considerable reading in the modern literature on the subject, and show that the writer has the gift of interesting exposition.”