MACNUTT, JOSEPH SCOTT.Modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture. il*$2 (5½c) Macmillan 614.3 17-17296
The author is lecturer on public health service in the Massachusetts institute of technology. His book stresses “the practical and economic as well as the sanitary factors involved,” and should interest not only health officials, milk inspectors, dairymen, city dealers, legislators and physicians, but also inquiring consumers.
“The book covers practically the same ground as is covered by ‘The city milk supply’ by H. N. Parker. The chapters on the analysis of the sanitary aspects of the milk problem are well done. The chapter on the economic factors is superficial and does not even cover the secondary material available to the author. There is some valuable material in the appendix on milk statistics, grading systems, the North system, costs and prices, and milk products.” C. L. K.
“Probably the only work combining in concise form the economic, agricultural and sanitary features.”
“A distinct acquisition to the literature on the subject. Its most distinctive feature is its illuminating treatment of the economic factors which enter into the present-day milk problem.” L. F. Rettger
“Shows in a clear and intelligent manner why there is a milk problem.”
“This book can be recommended as a reliable, up-to-date and readable exposition of the milk situation. Enough material in the way of facts and figures is inserted to support the argument fully.” Franz Schneider, jr.
“A timely book, explaining why there is a milk problem, but more useful for the student than for the housewife or the baby’s nurse. Rosenau’s ‘Milk problem’ (1912) is more complete though now a little out of date. The bibliography (6p.) and the appendix material are excellent.”
MACQUARRIE, HECTOR.How to live at the front. il*$1.25 (3c) Lippincott 355 17-24528
This is a book of “tips for American soldiers” by a second lieutenant of the British royal field artillery, who has been in the United States addressing young officers and men preparing for active service. Lieutenant MacQuarrie has tried to tell the American boys going to the front about the little things in warfare, not found in the official military textbooks or presented by staff reporters. He has much to say on discipline, on the details of life behind the firing-line and in the trenches, on the English and French people with whom the soldiers will come in contact and the British Tommy in particular, on the folks at home, the censoring of letters, the effect of war on character, and the desirability of studying the life of Jesus “to prevent war from killing your soul.” In the rather unusual chapter entitled “A curse of war,” he warns the young soldier against the fearful number of women now going about “quite unmoral and very kindhearted,” and begs him to remember that he is the father of future Americans and to give his children a fair chance.
“Told with engaging straightforwardness and humor.”
“From every aspect, light, serious, deeply human and sincerely religious, every American soldier will be helped by reading Lieutenant MacQuarrie’s book.”
“The author writes sensibly and clearly and enlivens his advice with anecdote, making the book enjoyable as well as informative.”
“Written without pretension, it is reminiscent of the matter-of-fact advice of an elder brother who has seen the world to a younger brother who has not. It is not a book that goes to the roots of things, or tries to.”
“The author is the more to be commended for the interesting, lively, readable humanness of this volume in the light of the fact that, where he finds it needed, he does not hesitate to run the risk of seeming to ‘preach’—though never was any approach to ‘preaching’ less sentimental and less dry. The chapter on ‘A curse of war’ is frank, sane, fine.”
Reviewed by Ruth Stanley-Brown
“The advice is informally expressed and given in excellent spirit.”
“It is very much to the point; thoroughly practical, shrewd, vivacious, and clear.”
MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER.Book of holidays. il*$1.25 (4c) Crowell 394 17-31084
Believing that our holidays are degenerating into mere play days, the author has taken upon himself the task of reminding us of their meaning. The book is adapted for young people. All our special days, are included: New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday, St Valentine’s day, Washington’s birthday, St Patrick’s day, Good Friday and Easter, May day, Arbor day, Bird day, Mothers’ day, Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day, Labor day, Columbus day, Hallowe’en, All Saints’ day, Election day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas.
“The book will prove profitable reading for older persons as well as the young.”
MADDOX, HARRY A.Paper; its history, sources, and manufacture. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce) il 85c Pitman 676 17-15681
“‘A book written with a view to acquainting the general reader with a full understanding of how raw material is converted into paper. ... Gives an excellent history of the introduction of the early forms of crude paper from the East, together with matter relating to the making of paper in England and the Continent in early times.’ Inland Printer”—Pittsburgh
“Covers much the same ground as Dawe but gives more space to the history of paper making, is more detailed as to manufacture, does not contain so many descriptions of the different kinds of paper, and is sixty-five cents cheaper.”
“Valuable for the school library—especially the historical sections.”
“Mr Maddox is an authority on this subject. Descriptions of the various machines and details as to their operation, full explanations of the methods employed in making handmade papers, and other interesting facts, make the book a most valuable one for the printer, the stationer, the advertising man, the engraver, the artist, the lithographer, and others, not to mention the people directly concerned with the manufacture and sale of papers.”
“Primarily for those concerned in making, handling or using paper, yet written in language intelligible to the general reader.”
“Brief semi-technical treatise which would be instructive to the general reader interested in knowing how paper is made.”
MADSEN, ARTHUR WILHELM.State as manufacturer and trader; an examination based on the commercial, industrial and fiscal results obtained from government tobacco monopolies.*7s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 336.19 (Eng ed 16-23037)
“The purpose of this monograph is apparently to show the defects of government-managed industries, and so far as tobacco manufacture is concerned, the effort is entirely successful. The author presents brief sketches of the state tobacco monopoly in France, Italy, Austria, Japan, Spain and Sweden. He shows the financial results, the popular verdict on the quality of goods produced, and the unbusinesslike management of the public authorities. Outside of France his sources of information seem to have been meager, but there is undoubtedly an unanimous verdict against government control in all the countries treated.”—Ann Am Acad
“An appendix of over sixty pages to which the author continually refers in the text contains many valuable statistical tables. These tables derived from official reports, indicate by countries the financial results of tobacco monopolies, the wages paid to factory operatives, etc. ... Whether one agrees or disagrees with the attitude of the author towards state socialism, one is unfavorably impressed by the absence in his work of an impartial analysis of the testimonials presented, by the lack of a judicious weighing of arguments pro and con.” Simon Litman
“It is unnecessary to emphasize the point that the author’s conclusions, founded on a single industry, are not to be applied without reserve to all government undertakings.” J. T. Y.
“A competent résumé of the world’s experience with the principal commercial industry carried on by the government in any considerable number of countries.”
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.Light beyond; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.*$2 (4c) Dodd 236
The mystery of death has always held the imagination of Maurice Maeterlinck, and of late years he has tended to give it more and more of his thought, a tendency intensified by the war. In this volume the translator has collected “a selection of essays illustrating the later stages of Maeterlinck’s quest.” They are chosen from the three volumes entitled, “Our eternity,” “The unknown guest,” and “The wrack of the storm.”
“Too frank and sincere a philosopher to assume that he can answer with finality a question which has defied the ages, he contents himself with reviewing the evidence pro and con as he sees it, leaving deductions to those who read.”
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.[2]News of spring, and other nature studies; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. il*$3 (9c) Dodd 580.4
A collection of nature studies. Only one of them, Our city gardens, reprinted from the Daily Mail [London], is new to American readers. The other papers have been selected from “The measure of the hours” and “The double garden.” The translator says, “I have taken the opportunity not only of revising my translation with some thoroughness, but also of introducing all the additions and corrections which the author has made in the French edition of these two books.” Contents: Our city gardens; The intelligence of the flowers; Perfumes; News of spring; Field flowers; Chrysanthemums; Old-fashioned flowers; The wrath of the bee. There are twenty illustrations in color by Edward J. Detmold.
“An exquisite book indeed. We may point out to those who have not read ‘The double garden’ and ‘The measure of the hours’ that the lover of beauty, as of nature, can ill-afford to miss such essays as these.”
MAGNUS, LEONARD ARTHUR.Pros and cons in the great war, a record of foreign opinion, with a register of fact.*$2 Dutton 940.91 17-2674
“An alphabetized compilation of opinions, the material for which has been drawn mainly from German and other foreign sources, with occasional reference to official documents.” (Ath) “There are many of the things which a student would look for: as atrocities, balance of power, Belgium, commercial rivalry, the Entente, envelopment of Germany, false news, the Hague conventions, hatred, Italy, Kaiser, kultur, Middle Europe, militarism, navalism, Pan-Germanism, Poland, prisoners, right of search, the United States, and the causes of the war. The book very largely contains hostile opinions, with some arguments in opposition, and some comments by the editor himself.” (Nation)
“Very useful for reference.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
“An excellent bibliography contains a long list of contemporary writings upon the war, which the ordinary reader would never know of. It must be said that the numerous pieces out of which the book is made have not always been well put together.”
MAGNUSSON, CARL EDWARD.Alternating currents. il*$4 McGraw 621.31 16-24124
A work by the professor of electrical engineering in the University of Washington. “The treatment is of theory, not heavily loaded with field and shop practicalities, and aims to help students to gain an idea of internal reactions and to handle certain physical facts in mathematical shorthand. Transformers are taken up after voltage generation and circuit properties. This is followed by motors, generators, converters, insulation, polyphase power, long-distance transmission.” (Engin N)
“A good text for college classes, suitable for more advanced reference work. ... Contains problems, a few footnote references, and many diagrams, some of which are not very satisfactory.”
“Another addition has been made to the already long list of electrical teaching texts that are primarily lecture notes arranged to satisfy the specific needs of specific institutions. By stating that the book, even though having 500 odd pages, covers only fundamentals, the scope is indicated. ... The chief feature of originality lies in pushing the study of transmission lines farther than common with undergraduates.”
MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE.Gold must be tried by fire. il*$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-10983
As in two earlier novels, Father Maher has told a story of industrial conditions in northern New York. The scene is a mill town, dependent wholly on the paper manufacturing industry for its existence. Daidie Grattan, who three years before had thrown a wrench into her machine and walked out of a cotton factory, comes to Barton to work in the mill. In the years following her act of rebellion the girl had gone thru a bitter experience, but she had found healing at the hands of a Catholic sisterhood and with new courage had come out into the world with the hope of helping other girls. Not until she is employed in his mill does she discover that Hugh Barton is the man who had once saved her life in a crisis. The situation between these two is worked out against a background of industrial unrest, labor warring with capital, the independent manufacturer fighting for his life against the trust.
“Mr Richard Aumerle Maher marries his attractive working girl to the son of the millowner. As the publishers say, this does ‘bring the volume to a pleasing close,’ but I have a feeling that things do not happen so. The real strength of the novel is the dramatic picture of the industrial wars.” J: Macy
“Like ‘The Shepherd of the North,’ by the same author, this is a tale of sentiment without being a tale of folly.”
“If you start reading ‘Gold must be tried by fire’ you are compelled to finish it, although you are apt to wonder why you ever began it.”
“There are tenseness and power in situation and treatment.”
MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE.While shepherds watched. il*$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 244 17-28077
Father Maher has retold the story of the birth of Christ. Beginning in the early chapters with the annunciation and the visit to Elizabeth, he continues the story thru the journeyto Bethlehem, the birth of the child and the visit of the wise men and shepherds, and closes with an interpretation of the meaning of this child’s birth to the world.
“A vivid interpretation of the Christ story suitable for the older and more thoughtful children and for adults.”
“Written with feeling and simplicity.”
MAHIN, JOHN LEE.Advertising; selling the consumer. 2d ed il*$2 (3c) Pub. by Doubleday for the Associated advertising clubs of the world 659 16-22121
“The author reviews the economic and social factors related to selling. He emphasizes the mediums and English of advertising rather than purely psychological principles. The power of personal salesmanship and the need of individual initiative are shown in relation to middleman and consumer. The present business organization from producer to distributor is seen to be that of profit yielding according as the group spirit is understood by the advertiser in telling his message.” (Ann Am Acad) “The work is based on lectures delivered before the School of commerce of Northwestern university, and for this new edition has been revised, with some new chapters substituted for old.” (N Y Times) The book was first published in 1914.
“This book is one of the few dynamic advertising books in the field at the present time.” H. W. H.
“An interesting feature of the book is the descriptive list of books for supplementary reading which follows each chapter.”
MAHONEY, HENRY CHARLES.Sixteen months in four German prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben; chronicled by F: A. A. Talbot. il*$1.50 McBride 940.91 (Eng ed 17-7955)
“Mr Mahoney is, by profession, an expert in photography. At the outbreak of the war he was in Germany, with his camera, on his way to take up an interesting appointment in Warsaw. Unable to get into Russia, he tried to get back into Holland, but was denounced as a spy, arrested, taken to Wesel, and subjected to the formidable ordeal of a midnight secret trial. ... Mr Mahoney was able to establish his innocence. He was not formally acquitted, but the charge was not pressed, and he was interned in Sennelager. After a time he was released, but only to be re-arrested and sent to Ruhleben, whence he was eventually returned to England as an invalid, unfit for military service. And now he tells, with Mr Talbot’s collaboration, his long and exciting story.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Altogether, the picture of ‘Prussian militarism’ exhibited by Mr Mahoney is a hideously repellent one, and his recital gives no evidence of exaggeration, either.” Joshua Wanhope
“The book is more than a recital of a prisoner’s sufferings in Germany; it is a splendidly thrilling tale of heroism and adventure.”
“If anything more were needed to pillory Germany in the world’s opinion, this book would supply the deficiency. Mr Mahoney tells of the attempts of the American ambassador to mitigate the hardships of the English prisoners, and of the deceit practiced on him by the authorities. This chapter harmonizes with Mr Gerard’s own narrative.”
“The chief interest, if not the chief merit, of Mr Mahoney’s book lies in the fact that he has told the truth about Sennelager, where things were done which have dug a formidable gulf between the British and German peoples, and about Major Bach, the infamous commandant of that camp. ... The evil fame of the unspeakable major has penetrated into every prison camp in Germany.”
MAHONEY, JOHN JOSEPH.Standards in English. (School efficiency monographs)*90c World bk. 808 17-20535
A course of study in oral and written composition for elementary schools. The course was worked out in practice while the author, now principal of the State normal school at Lowell, Mass., was assistant superintendent of schools in Cambridge. Part 1 of the book consists of a discussion of the course; part 2 of an outline of work by grades.
“The movement for economy of time has nowhere been as well carried out in actual school practice as in Mr Mahoney’s ‘Standards in English.’ The style of the book is direct and non-technical and it should be put in the hands of elementary school teachers for the distinct improvement of oral and written work in English.”
MAINS, GEORGE PRESTON.James Monroe Buckley. $1.50 Meth. bk. 17-22865
“By common consent, Dr J. M. Buckley, for more than thirty years editor of the New York Christian Advocate, has been and still is the accepted spokesman and leader of American Methodism. This fact alone might entitle him to the somewhat unusual honor of a biography published during his lifetime. ... The author treats his subject in separate chapters as editor, debater and parliamentarian, traveler, and author. Not the least interesting part of the record is the story of Dr Buckley’s triumph over physical handicaps that would have discouraged an ordinary man.”—R of Rs
“We consider the book of great value. Dr Buckley is a very remarkable man. ... This book was written for a purpose, but its purpose was not simply to interest and please. It will do both, but primarily it was meant to help. ... It not only reveals the greatness of this man, but the possible greatness of every normal man.”
“Dr Buckley’s personality is so compelling, his versatility in thought and expression so remarkable, and his proved ability in diverse fields of activity so well known, that thousands within and without the great Methodist fold will welcome the book that his colleague, Dr Mains, has felt impelled to write. The work is naturally eulogistic, but the author does not permit himself to abandon the judicial attitude.”
MAJOR, CLARE TREE.How to develop your personality; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Tree. il*$1 (4c) Crowell 174 16-18755
The author is a graduate of the Academy of dramatic art of London, founded by Sir Herbert Tree, and many of the principles of that school are embodied in her book. The book is divided into four parts: Physical personality; Vocal personality; Self-expression; and Mental power.
“Very practical little text book. It is primarily intended for the actor, but there is very little in it which does not apply and cannot be used with profit by any man or woman.”
“The author presents her teachings in a straightforward, sensible manner.”
MALORY, SIR THOMAS.[2]Romance of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table; abridged by Alfred W: Pollard. il*$2.50 (1½c) Macmillan 398.2 17-28655
This abridgment of Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” has been made by Mr Pollard of the British museum, who had previously edited a complete edition of the work. With a scholar’s respect for a master work, the editor has refrained from revision, confining himself to the elimination of repetition. He says, “I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven.” A glossary is provided. Sixteen pictures in color and others in black and white are Arthur Rackham’s contribution to the book.
“The abridged edition, excellently illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is of distinctive literary worth and the book itself is most attractively bound.”
“As the omitted matter is largely of a redundant character, the present edition will answer fully the requirements of readers in general.”
“Young readers should welcome this judicious abridgment of Malory by a scholar who has feeling for the original, and who has weighed carefully what is best suited to boys and girls. The edition is beautifully printed, with illustrations in color—some of the best done by Rackham.”
“Sir Thomas Malory himself would be hard to please were he dissatisfied with the fashion in which Arthur Rackham has chosen to limn his lords and ladies. The illustrator’s occasionally troublesome wealth of detail is here artistically consistent with the text.”
“Mr Pollard has done his work well, and the old stories of Lancelot and Galahad, of Gawain and Tristram, and their fellow-knights will in this simpler form gain many new readers.”
“The artist has given much thought and study to the costuming of the remote period, but in physiognomy Mr Rackham is not to be absolved from the charge of a tendency toward caricature. This defect in Mr Rackham’s art is rather serious. The book, however, makes an ornamental and valuable addition to one’s library. The scholar’s contribution gives it more than the usual importance of works of this type.”
“Mr Pollard in abridging Malory has only done for young readers what most older readers have learned to do for themselves. And Mr Rackham seems to have been fortified by the greatness of the matter. His design has never before been so bold, his colour so rich and clear. His touches of comedy are adroit, his tragic sense more powerful than in any of his previous works.”
MANGOLD, GEORGE BENJAMIN.Challenge of Saint Louis. il 60c Missionary education movement 309.1 17-25094
“Starting out with a religious survey, Dr Mangold finds there are some 400 Christian churches, valued at some $15,000,000. He then wants to know what these churches do in connection with the 21,000 illiterates of the city; with that half of the children who do not finish the eighth grade; with the 10,000 children at work. ... Dr Mangold wants to know what the churches are doing to help remedy these and many other evils. He insists all through the book that the church has a duty to perform and that it cannot remain satisfied with mere lip service.” (Survey) Dr Mangold is director of the Saint Louis school of social economy and the book is intended for mission study classes.
“Mr Mangold, whose word in social economy is authoritative, discusses [these problems] with rare dispassionateness.”
“Those who study it will not only learn that ‘something must be done,’ but why it must be done and what can and should be done. Dr Mangold has performed a good service, both as a sociologist and as a Christian.” Oscar Leonard
MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.Amarilly in love. il*$1.25 (2½c) Little 17-26657
This book is a sequel to “Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley.” “In Miss Maniates’s former story Amarilly helped to clean in a theatre, and was regularly engaged to keep in order the studio of Derry Phillips, artist, who took an interest in her and decided that she ought to be helped into better surroundings. But it was her energy and foresight and resource that ‘syndicated’ the family, so that every one earned something, and when they had pooled their earnings they were presently able to buy a little farm not too far from a town, and live in health and comfort and country plenty. There the reader finds them at the opening of this story. Amarilly, by the bounty of Derry Phillips, has been four years in college and is soon due to return home. A somewhat mysterious man has just bought the adjoining property, and the reader is for a time kept in doubt as to whether Amarilly is to be ‘in love’ with this man or with her benefactor, who is at work at his art in Paris.” (N Y Times)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Those who enjoyed reading of the adventures of ‘Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley’ will doubtless find pleasure in this ‘joyous record’ of her later experiences.”
“The story is a slight little thing, but it is gay and breezy.”
MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.Our next-door neighbors.il*$1.35 (3½c) Little 17-7455
A family of amazingly ill-behaved children are the center of interest in this story. A childless couple who know very little of the habits of the children of the species, watch with apprehension the arrival of the Polydores. Their apprehensions are more than justified. Father and mother Polydore, one literary, the other scientific, have little time to devote to their offspring, and when the two go off suddenly on an expedition to Chile, the five boys are left in the care of the Wades, who very reluctantly find themselves won over by the naughty but engaging youngsters.
“An engaging little tale, having many of those qualities which made its predecessor, ‘Amarilly of Clothesline alley,’ so popular. It lacks, however, the former’s spontaneity.”
“A ghost story, a love story, and the story of an eccentric and moneyed uncle are all worked into the texture of the lightly woven material, which forms altogether an amusing fabrication.”
“The tale would be amusing if it had some tinge of possibility, but it is exaggerated out of all relation to real life. ... The vivacious style of the book makes it pleasant reading, however, if one does not try to fancy its young barbarians in the world of actuality.”
“The children are not particularly attractive and the character portraiture generally is rather dim.”
MANTZ, HAROLD ELMER.French criticism of American literature before 1850. (Columbia univ. studies in romance philology and literature)*$1.50 Columbia univ. press 810.4 17-12600
“In the following study an attempt is made to discover French opinion on the subject of American literature, from about the beginning of the nineteenth century to about the year 1850.” (Preface) In such early French criticism as exists the author finds a reflection of disappointment. The French had looked to the literature of the new republic for an expression of the ideals of liberty, and they found in it only an imitation of the traditions of English literature. French criticism thereafter ceased to notice American writers until Tocqueville wrote his “Démocratie en Amérique.” The quotations in the volume are in French, without translation.
“A graver defect in Mr Mantz’s study is that his ‘selection’ does not select some of the most important periodicals of the epoch. He has not included the famous Globe, that herald of cosmopolitan criticism, nor any authoritative newspaper of the class of theJournal des Débats. Some salient articles such as that of Balzac on Cooper (Revue Parisienne, 1840) receive no mention whatever.”
“One or two first-rate minds hardly redeem the mediocrity and pretentiousness of much of the criticism which Mr Mantz reproduces here.”
MARBURG, THEODORE.League of nations.*50c (3c) Macmillan 341.1 17-29206
“This little book is a history of the movement in the United States to secure action by the United States and other nations, after this great world war, looking to the establishment of a League to enforce peace.” (Foreword) Mr Marburg was one of the originators of the movement and his purpose here is to describe the developments with which he has been connected. He calls his book “A chapter in the history of the movement,” and hopes to follow it later with a second volume. William H. Taft has written a foreword.
“A concise exposition of a movement toward the establishment of a durable world-at-peace. Its chief merit is its freedom from wordy explanations and extravagant forecasts, so common in many works on the subject.”
“Little need be said about this work, as it is practically nothing more than a restatement of the familiar aims of the league and its progress since war was declared. It may be taken as authoritative by those who consider the matter as one of particular importance.” Joshua Wanhope
MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.Leonard Wood, prophet of preparedness. il*75c (8c) Lane 17-10224
The foreword says, “The most effective way of presenting any cause is in human terms, and, if possible, through the medium of a personality that exemplifies the larger principles involved. There was no need of extended search for a subject. General Wood literally incarnated both the letter and the spirit of preparedness. ... The story of his life, therefore, is offered as a human document in evidence of the great cause to which he has dedicated his courage and his character.” The material of the book appeared in a magazine article in Everybody’s, March, 1917.
“Can easily be read in an hour and is worth several.”
“Although his book is written from the viewpoint of ardent admiration, Mr Marcosson has sufficiently restrained his enthusiasm to make his rapid survey of General Wood’s career a just and true appreciation of his service to the nation.”
MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.Rebirth of Russia. il*$1.25 (3½c) Lane 947 17-21674
The accomplished American journalist left London for Russia upon the news of the abdication of the Czar. He was greeted upon arrival as a representative of the new republic’s newest ally in the fight for freedom. The United States had gone to war with Germany between March 16 and April 7, while he travelled. In his first chapter, The long night, he tells of the pro-German forces in the Russian government which precipitated the revolution. The succeeding five chapters describe in vivid detail the scenes which were enacted while he was in England. These include the abdication of the Czar. Later he writes of what he himself saw and heard from such men as Kerensky, Prince Lvoff, etc., and tells of the labor unrest which followed the proclamation of the republic. The chapter on The revolution makers and the illustrations from photographs will be found of interest.
“Those who have followed these absorbing events in the press from day to day will be especially grateful for a more rationalized and consecutive account in book form than the daily press could possibly afford.” J. E. Conner
Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky
“‘The revolution in Petrograd’ might have been a more descriptive title, for Mr Marcosson gives the impression that the most of the action went on in the capital, whereas we know that it had an empire-wide effect. As it stands ‘The rebirth of Russia’ neither measures up to the demands of that momentous event nor completely records it.”
“There will be more complete and adequate accounts of the revolution when time has permitted the sifting of facts and documents, but this pioneer work is like the Russian revolution itself, vivid, tumultuous, rapid, impressionistic.”
“But it is a pity that Mr Marcosson deals so slightly, and slightingly, with two outstanding items of universal interest: the Council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates gets rather shabby treatment from him; one can only gather that he does not approve of it. And Rasputin—that strange, mysterious man is passed over with a few adjectives. Of tremendous interest are the sketches of Lvoff, Milyukoff, and of Guchkoff, and the other members of the provisional government.”
“A first class piece of descriptive writing. The reader is taken through all the successive phases of the great overturn, down almost to the present time, and the narrative is, we think, one of the best pieces of work that Mr Marcosson has ever done.” J. W.
“His book is disappointing, for it shows little of the touch of the first hand observer. ... But it has the virtue of giving a succinct, comprehensive account of the great event, with its preludes and its consequences for a short time afterward.”
“An account somewhat summary in treatment, somewhat rhetorical in style, but informing and filled with significant or striking incidents.”
“He does not dawdle over the sentimental aspects of the era, but loses none of its dramatic values.” E. P. Wyckoff
“Until it is replaced by a more weighty and judicious history of the revolution—and that cannot be for many years—this little volume is a decidedly useful source of information on contemporary Russia.” B. L.
“Perhaps the most useful of Mr Marcosson’s chapters is that in which he gives us a sort of ‘Who’s who’ of the revolution. The names of many of the leaders are puzzlingly long, and the records of the greater number are familiar to few but their own countrymen.”
MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.War after the war.il*$1.25 (1½c) Lane 382 17-6755
Trade rivalry after the war is the theme of this book. “Peace will be as great a shock as war,” writes the author. “Hence the need of preparedness to meet the inevitable conflict for universal trade. We—as a nation—are as unready for this emergency as we are to meet the clash of actual physical combat. Commercial preparedness is as vital to the national well being as the training for arms.” Contents: The coming war; England awake; American business in France; The new France; Saving for victory; The price of glory; The man Lloyd George; From pedlar to premier.
“He has gained his facts at first hand in Europe, and gives two keen character sketches, one of William Morris Hughes, prime minister of Australia and his contribution to England’s awakening, and one of Lloyd-George in action.”
“Mr Marcosson wrote before the United States entered the war, and on the assumption that she would not be drawn in. But his major thesis is not notably affected by the change of circumstances. His argument is, on the whole, plausible. The danger of commercial isolation and decadence of the United States seems, however, exaggerated.”
“It is a fair enough warning for America to organize and nationalize her export trade. Mr Marcosson does good service in dramatizing that warning. But he does a better service in his popular Sunday newspaper supplement style of exposition of the intricate financial machinery underlying the war.”
“Those who may dissent from Mr Marcosson’s views in this particular will assent to praise of the piquancy with which he puts his position before the reader.”
“Marcosson sounds a timely warning to the United States as to the commercial self-reliance.”
“Mr Marcosson is most interesting when he deals with matters of finance, and it is significant that he renounces the theory of economic exhaustion which he previously held and is now convinced that ‘the extents to which financial credit can be expended in the countries at war seems to be almost without limit.’ that ‘man power—beef, not gold—will win.’” Nannie Young
“The most notable portion of the book is his frank criticism of American business organization and methods.”
MARGOLIS, MAX LEOPOLD.Story of Bible translations. il 75c Jewish pub. 221 17-16188
“The author confines his work to the translations of the Hebrew scriptures. ... Additional chapters reveal the inherent difficulties of Bible translation and enumerate the various agencies for the circulation of the Scriptures.”—R of Rs
“Professor Margolis tells his story interestingly, in an easy, flowing style; he writes in a judicial and moderate spirit, with an evident desire of fairness, and if he lays more stress than is usual upon the work of Jewish scholars, it is because his little book is intended chiefly for Jews and aims to give the Jewish point of view. ... He appears to be unacquainted with the claim, made by Cardinal Gasquet, of a Catholic origin for the first translation of the Bible into English; nor does he know, apparently, the influence of the Douay version upon the authorized King James. His whole chapter on the age of the reformation is too much influenced by the traditional Protestant view.”