“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he might sag.” C. D. M.
“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’ It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little, infinite thing, the human heart.’”
“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”
“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young, an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly accepted.” Conrad Aiken
“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious fervor, in his new volume of verse.”
“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain friendly, human feeling.”
KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.[2]Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il*$1 Appleton 355 17-31017
This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers, attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training. Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company, Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.” Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in an appendix. The book is indexed.
“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”
KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL).Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il*$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244
The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C. Gorgas.
“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not include.”
KING, BASIL.High heart.il*$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285
“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born, who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter, who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into the latter part of the story.
“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great European conflict.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”
“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or twominor persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or ‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral principles are one and the same.”
KING, BASIL.Lifted veil. il*$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203
The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled. She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.
“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”
“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E. F. E.
“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and arriving nowhere in particular.”
“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything else: a means of escape, not of access.”
“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come from his pen.”
KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL.Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il*$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108
The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this “book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of disinfectants.
“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every public library in the land.”
“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile, chiefly drawn from army life.”
“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view, however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs
KING, HENRY CHURCHILL.Fundamental questions.*$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741
The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of Christianity as a world religion.
“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is superb.”
Reviewed by James Moffat
“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and the greatness of its problems.”
KINGMAN, HENRY.[2]Faith of a middle-aged man.*$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597
“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares, that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon “The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending fellowship.
“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral reading.”
“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been attained by stern heroism.”
KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON.All aboard for Wonderland. il*$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718
A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another. Tired andhappy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the several illustrations in color add to its charm.”
KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY).Neighbors*$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704
The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes” and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a new baby.
“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”
“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”
KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.Clothing and health.(Home-making ser.) il*65c Macmillan 646 16-18558
“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and textiles.”—Springf’d Republican
“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300 pages, as excellent as its mate.”
“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the home.”
KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il*80c Macmillan 640 17-3475
“This is an elementary text book of home making, to be used as a supplementary reader, and source book. It describes the decoration and furnishing of a cottage at Pleasant Valley in a way that develops a strong desire to go and do likewise.”—School Arts Magazine
“Has a chapter with simple directions on how to care for ‘the most important member of the family,’ the baby, and one on right living and how to keep well. Good print and illustrations.”
“Four color plates and 185 other illustrations add to the attractiveness and to the value of this sensible volume.”
KIPLING, RUDYARD.Diversity of creatures.*$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11707
A collection of stories and poems. A number of the stories have appeared in American magazines: “In the same boat,” in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1911; “In the presence,” in Everybody’s, March, 1912; “The vortex,” in Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1914; “Swept and garnished,” in the Century Magazine, January, 1915; and “Mary Postgate,” in the Century Magazine, September, 1915. There are fourteen stories and about an equal number of poems.
“He has never shown himself a greater master of the art of story-telling, never combined creative imagination with more triumphant realism, or handled his own English prose with more ease, economy, and certainty of effect. The first of the fourteen, ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ is perhaps the finest short story of the future ever written.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Two of them, ‘Swept and garnished’ and ‘Mary Postgate,’ are products of the war, and that they reveal him at his best is evidence of his command of the vital facts of life. Both are grim.” E. F. E.
“In these stories Kipling presents the lamentable spectacle of the writer who has written himself out. From ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ a wearisome, drawn-out, scientific tale in the early H. G. Wells manner, To ‘Mary Postgate,’ an account of the war’s reactive effect on two lonely women, he gives on the whole only meagre evidence of that power which in the eighteen-nineties made his name famous over the globe. The fourteen tales vary in merit, but by a curious grouping the poorest and dullest rank first, the last five stories are the best of the collection. There are two stories of practical jokes on a large scale—‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines.’ The last is the better, and has more than a little of the old rollicking humor of ‘Soldiers three.’ ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ is interesting in conception, but is drawn out to such impossible conclusions and to such an unconscionable length as to destroy its effect.”
“The best stories in this volume are Kipling all over. ... His old vigor of phrase is undiminished, both the vigor which is beauty and the vigor which is brutality.” J: Macy
“Three stories stand out from the book sufficiently to assure them a place in the anthologies of the future, ‘As easy as A B C,’ ‘In the same boat,’ and ‘The village that voted the earth was flat.’”
Reviewed by Fremont Rider
“Only two of the stories actually deal with the war, and in them the author is at his best. They have restraint and dignity. There are no tricks or fireworks, but they are written with immense power and sincerity. In striking contrast to these are the two ‘comic’ stories, ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines,’ which are as bad as anything that Mr Kipling has done in the way of whipped-up humour.”
“‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘In the presence’ not only transcend the others in merit, but are also most characteristically Kiplingesque.”
KIPLING, RUDYARD.Sea warfare.*$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 940.91 17-7953
“The fringes of the fleet,” printed earlier in a separate volume, is included here as the first of three parts. Parts 2 and 3 are Tales of “The trade” and Destroyers at Jutland. By “The trade” is meant the submarine service. A number of poems are included.
“This collection of Mr Kipling’s recent articles exhibits his genius for vivid description of the almost indescribable, and his power of giving life to brute engines and physical energies, at its highest.”
“Only one American writer has so far laid his finger on the secret by which Kipling may be understood. In a recent article Mr Will Irwin discussed the cleavage in the British race between Norman blood and Saxon—a cleavage that very few understand but that is very illuminating. Rudyard Kipling is clear Saxon. He sees and writes from the Saxon point of view. His Norman-blooded officers are seen from beneath. ... In his most recent book he has given us again the purely Saxon viewpoint, writing as a brother when he writes of Grimsby fishermen. On the other hand, his officers (and the navy with its rigorous caste rule is practically all Norman on the upper deck) are admirable at a little distance.”
“The ‘Destroyers at Jutland’ chapter furnishes the real interest of the book.”
“Have an atmosphere and flavor of their own; they sometimes seem tenuous and even confused, but their effect is cumulative, the significant though often slight incidents related remain in the memory, and we conclude, with the author, that ‘the navy is very old and very wise.’”
KIRK, MRS ALICE GITCHELL.Practical food economy. il*$1.25 Little 641 17-24175
Mrs Kirk offers this book as the direct result of eleven years lecturing on home economics and the teaching of all grades from kindergarten through the academic departments in cooking. Contents: Preparedness in the home; Meats; Bread; Milk; Conservation of fruits and vegetables; Use of fruits in season; Service first. Nutrition tables, Children’s menus, School lunches for children, A week-end vacation for mother, are some of the features of a book designed to put in operation Mr Hoover’s direction to “Eat plenty, wisely, and without waste.”
“To the average housewife a definition of and a technical treatise on the familiar word ‘calorie,’ is not particularly illuminating. In this book Mrs Kirk has incorporated a generous list of examples representing approximately 100 calories and Professor Atwater’s nutrition table which shows the waste and fuel matter (measured in calories) of every food variety.”
“Mrs Kirk’s technical knowledge is sufficient to enable her to find untechnical expression for it, and she robs calories of half their horror in her careful, practical explanations.”
“Special attention is given to the elimination of waste in buying, preparation and cooking. Ways for co-operating with the Food administration are suggested. A special section deals with ‘understanding the gas range.’ An entire chapter is devoted to bread. Decidedly this is the book for all those wishing to become partners with Mr Hoover.” Cyra Thomas
“Another valuable point in this book is the amount of space devoted to the proper foods for children.”
KIRKPATRICK, MARION GREENLEAF.Rural school from within. il*$1.28 (2c) Lippincott 379 17-19387
This book is largely autobiographical. The author tells the story of his teaching experience in a rural school in Kansas some twenty-five years ago. It is a very human story in which the characters of the young teacher, his pupils and the men and women of the community are revealed. With the ripe wisdom that has come from years spent with boys and girls, the author discusses some of the problems of education and discipline represented in that early experience. He is now specialist in education, division of college extension, Kansas State agricultural college.
“Those who have neither attended nor taught a rural school may get much local color and good advice, if they desire them, from this didactic but interesting narrative. The data on consolidation of country schools may appeal to more specialized readers. The proposed rural-school curriculum falls far short of the changes which present conditions demand.” L. L. Bernard
“Shows a sympathetic insight into the rural school problem and should be a source of inspiration to those interested in rural education.”
“A constructive book.”
“The freshness of his approach to a discussion of these problems and of means of making progress towards their solution is the delightful quality of a loosely written book; a book humanly rather than intellectually original. ... His heart is plainly in what he writes, and his sympathy and first-hand experience are refreshing after books which make rural education a dehumanized affair of sociology and public administration. But to appreciate the homeliness of his book is not to forgive its poor organization and padded style.”
“From the first paragraph to the last it is constructive.”
“The spirit and tone of the book is sane and helpful and will help to inspire those who sincerely desire to render service to country people.” G: L. Roberts
KITTREDGE, MABEL HYDE.Home and its management. il*$1.50 (1½c) Century 640 17-13801
“A handbook in homemaking with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts.” (Sub-title) Among the chapter titles are: The house itself; Kitchen; Dining-room; Living-room; Bedrooms; Plumbing; Useful facts for the homemaker; Laundry work; Marketing; Division of income; Foods and their value. The author is president of the Association of practical housekeeping centers in New York city and chairman of the New York school lunch committee. She has written several other books on housekeeping subjects.
“An amplification of the material contained in two previous books. ‘Practical home making’ and ‘Second course in home making.’ While addressed to school girls, the suggestions are helpful and practical for all inexperienced housekeepers.”
“An authoritative volume.” M. G. S.
“Miss Kittredge’s book begins at the beginning; it takes for granted exactly nothing at all. The youngest and most ignorant housekeeper will learn the fundamentals here. In its compass of less than 400 pages, it is a remarkably inclusive book. It will be of particular value to the young homemaker in a city apartment. It will be welcomed, too, by the woman of limited means.”
“There are a great many suggestions about living conditions, such as a discussion of the treatment of servants, which hardly belong in a textbook for use in settlement or home-training classes. It seems almost a self-evident fact that the greatest need of the housekeeper at the present time is the ability to evaluate her time and to learn thereby how to maintain an efficient home with the least expenditure of effort. There is no attempt in Miss Kittredge’s book to even suggest this problem, and many of the methods of work that are given are unnecessarily time-consuming.” A. R. Hanna
“Even the most experienced housekeeper will be likely to find something new in this volume.”
KLEENE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.Profit and wages.*$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331 17-100
A study in the distribution of income. Income is differentiated from general wealth as “wealth just produced or come into existence.” The author examines the various economic theories that have been put forth and then arrives at his own conclusions, which go back to doctrines of the classical school. Contents: Introduction; Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest; The time-preference theory; The abstinence theory; The productivity theory of interest; The essentials of a theory of profit and interest; The theory of wages—The supply of labor; The theory of wages—The demand for labor; Conclusion.
“A clear, well reasoned attempt to state and solve the problem of distribution in economics. Scholarly and highly theoretical, it complements, but does not replace, other works in this field.”
“The book is excellent in style and tone, and a perusal of its contents will be particularly useful to economists who have followed the subjective theorists into the wilderness of psychological determinations.”
“Professor Kleene’s volume must be classified as a contribution to economic criticism. ... On its constructive side the book is fragmentary and lacks coherence. It doubtless will prove useful both to those who are insisting upon a return of theory to the problems and methods of classicism and to those who are demanding a newer institutional economics. If the book is far weaker as a constructive study than as a critical attack, the result is not evidence of personal weakness on the part of the author. Rather it affords testimony to the existing state of economic theory. In view of their problems it is unfortunate that both volumes reveal a lack of familiarity with the writings of the school of English economists who recently have been giving their attention to the subject of welfare, and who of all current theorists seem to be most fully conscious of what they are doing.” W. H. Hamilton
“This is a theoretical analysis of the distribution of income, which the trained student may find very instructive, but which will never be read by the ordinary man of affairs.”
“The whole analysis is careful and well reasoned. It will interest everyone who is thinking in the field of economics.” H. F. G.
KLEIN, ARTHUR JAY.Intolerance in the reign of Elizabeth, queen of England.*$2 Houghton 274.2 17-4838
“This careful study (by the professor of history in Wheaton college, Norton, Massachusetts) of the religious and political animosities rife in the Elizabethan era shows, as the author remarks, that the great queen’s reign is ‘not altogether an encouraging field to the idealist seeking in the past for the first rays of the light of tolerance.’ Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians contended, and intrigued against each other, with bitterness and persistence.” (Ath) “Mr Klein ... makes clear his belief that the comparative tolerance of the Anglican church was none of its choosing, but was imposed upon it for political reasons by the queen.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If Professor Klein had called his book a brief sketch of ecclesiastical controversies during the reign of Elizabeth and had made no pretensions beyond a careful restatement of the conclusions already reached by competent scholars, the book could have been commended as vital, interesting, and for the most part accurate. But as a history of intolerance during the reign of Elizabeth—it must be said in all kindliness—the book possesses the remarkable deficiency of saying very little about it. ... The long bibliography and the acknowledgments in the preface raise expectations of a more extended study of manuscript and printed sources than the text substantiates, for the great majority of its details are supported abundantly by standard secondary authorities and the foot-notes are devoted mainly to Strype, the Parker society’s publications, and the State Papers, Domestic.” R. G. Usher
“The bibliography is not critical, and evidences the author’s anti-Catholic prejudice. He warns his readers against accepting the statements of Catholic writers, but says nothing against unfair books like Bury’s ‘A history of freedom of thought.’ Again he is not aware of the utter unreliability of Sarpi’s history of Trent, nor does he apparently know that a new critical history of the Council is in course of publication.”
“The truth is that the intolerance of churches is an antiquated issue; it is the intolerance of states with which we fight to-day. ... To the question ‘When does persecution cease to be persecution?’ Mr Klein seems to provide the facile answer ‘When it is done by the state.’ ... The bibliography is portentous and indiscriminate, amounting to nearly a fifth of the text.”
KLEIN, FÉLIX.Hope in suffering; memories and reflections of a French army chaplain; tr. from the French ‘Les douleurs qui espèrent,’ by Gemma Bailey; with an introd. by Canon H. Scott Holland.*4s 6d Melrose, London 242
“It was the Abbé Klein, of the American hospital, Neuilly, Paris, who gave us the sad and moving little book ‘La guerre vue d’une ambulance’—translated under the title ‘Diary of a French army chaplain.’ The present little book has the same poignant note of single-mindedness; and it is not confined to ‘memories’ for about a third of it contains ‘Reflections’—on the problem of Evil, Grief, Atonement, ‘Lux in tenebris,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
KLEISER, GRENVILLE.Fifteen thousand useful phrases.*$1.60 Funk 808 17-30916
That this is a work for study rather than for reference is made clear in the author’s preface on How to use this book, in which he says, “The method used for building a large vocabulary has usually been confined to the study of single words. This has produced good results, but it is believed that eminently better results can be obtained from a careful study of words and expressions, as furnished in this book, where words can be examined in their context.” The phrases for study are arranged in eleven groups: Useful phrases; Significant phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases. There is an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly.
“A book of practical usefulness for the student, the writer and the public speaker.”
“Has great helpfulness for whoever is willing to use it according to Mr Kleiser’s plan.”
“While some of these selections seem ‘thwarted by fortune,’ one’s criticism must be ‘tempered by charity,’ and there is no doubt that a systematic study of these pages would greatly improve a deficient vocabulary.”
KLEISER, GRENVILLE.[2]How to build mental power. il*$3 Funk 374 17-27883
A practical, constructive aid to mind-development. Each chapter constitutes a lesson. In order, one is taught how to develop concentration, a stock of ideas, orderliness of mind, power and use of words, clear thinking, intellectual force, habit of analysis, sound opinions, the use of the will, imagination and feeling, a retentive memory, conscience, power of intuition, breadth of mind and spirituality. The whole subject of mental culture is presented in a clear, simple manner that can be readily followed by an intelligent student at odd moments.
KLEISER, GRENVILLE.Talks on talking.*75c Funk 808.5 16-19827
“Both private and public speech are covered by these ‘Talks’ of Mr Kleiser. ... They refer to Talkers and talking, give Phrases for talkers, consider Talking in salesmanship, How to tell a story, How to speak in public, The dramatic element, Care of the throat, etc. It is worth while for every one to realize the value of an attractive voice, to avoid mannerisms, and to be natural, spontaneous, charming, to the largest possible degree. Mr Kleiser’s pages will help.”—Lit D
“Suggestive but not exhaustive.”
“A new book on an old art, which can be taken in hand and read through in an hour or so, while the suggestions, if well remembered, may last a lifetime.”
“The author was formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school.”
KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH), ed. Beautiful crochet on household linen. (Home art ser.) il*75c Stokes 746 17-26258
A companion volume to a work on knitting, showing how table cloths, curtain tops, towel ends, sideboard cloths, tea cosies, dressing table runners, and other items may be finished with crochet. The author says that special features of the book are suggestions for finishing cloths with a straight edge, and designs showing natural flowers infilet crochet.
“Some of the patterns are effective, but we wish that the designers could find inspiration in conventional renaissance work, instead of trying to adapt the forms of natural flowers to such an unsuitable medium as flat crochet.”
KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSONSMITH).Flower-patch among the hills.il*$1.50 (4c) Stokes 828 17-26323
Flora Klickmann is editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, an English publication, and author of a number of books on domestic art. In this volume she writes of a summer spent in an old English cottage in the hills overlooking the Wye. The book recalls “The garden of a commuter’s wife” and others of the kind in which amusing personal experiences, out-of-door descriptions and neighborly gossip are mingled.
“She has much that is quaint and amusing and picturesque to place before the reader of her narrative.”
“Will appeal to those in whom the love of gardens is an instinct. ... She writes best of what she loves best, and flowers rather than humanity are her happiest inspiration.”
KLINE, BURTON.End of the flight.*$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-11708
Mrs Branstane, as unpleasant a woman as one could find in fiction or out of it, is named by her creator “one of the causeless catastrophes.” The scene of the story is Rossacre, typical of the smaller American cities. Rossacre boasts its social set and its social season. Of the former the Gaylands are the leaders, and it is in the Gayland home that Mrs Branstane occupies the modest position of housekeeper. But there is something sinister in her presence in the house and in her hold over Judge Gayland. He is the first of her victims. Others follow till she meets her match in Andrew Penning. Penning, who in time becomes judge in Gayland’s place, is in love with Annabel, Gayland’s daughter, and it is in her jealousy of the girl that Mrs Branstane oversteps herself and accomplishes her own ruin.
“Primarily a novel of character, of clashing temperaments and wills. Yet its best achievement and the highest promise it contains of the author’s future as a novelist—next, perhaps, to his unmistakable felicity of word and phrase—is his willingness to array his story in a healthy provincialism of scene and feeling, and his considerable ability to make his reader see that scene and share that feeling. In clarity of delineation of character and in sustained and unified effectiveness of its story of character clashing with character, this novel may leave something to be desired.” F. I.
“The characters do not live, and the temptation to much skipping is irresistible. The book is better written than many which take a more compelling grasp of their readers.”