MERINGTON, MARGUERITE.More fairy tale plays. il*$1.50 Duffield 812 17-22672
A companion volume to “Fairy tale plays,” planned on the same lines. The author has chosen familiar fairy tales and made them into plays, introducing new characters as her plots demand. Contents: Puss in boots; The three bears; Hearts of gold, or, Lovely Mytlie; Hansel and Gretel. A fee is charged for the stage use of any of the plays.
“They contain very little action and hardly a line of sincere dialogue; its lines being farfetched and facetious talk,—most of it (thank Heaven) well over the heads or under the feet of children.” J: Walcott
“Teachers and parents eager for plays to give to children will find this volume, by a seasoned playwright, of great help.”
“The book has nothing in common with its name. It is devoid of either imagination or play.” LaVergne Miller
“The conversation, too, is in keeping and often witty, and the stage directions are definite enough to result in a satisfactory representation.”
MERTON, HOLMES WHITTIER (YARMO VEDRA, pseud.).How to choose the right vocation.*$1.50 Funk 174 17-14247
A book which “aims to meet—so far as it is possible to do so without expert personal counseling—the urgent need of individual guidance in choice of vocation.” The author discusses in turn the dominant abilities—construction, intuition, reason, form, color, number, attention, etc. With the analysis of these dominant characteristics is included discussion of what he calls “essential” and “supporting,” as well as consideration of “deterrent” abilities. Followingthe discussion in each case are a group of “self measuring questions” and a list of the professions and trades which demand the characteristics under discussion. Several hundred professions, arts, commercial enterprises and trades are included in these lists. In conclusion there is a chapter on “The great vocation”—agriculture. Mr Merton is a vocational counselor in New York city and author of “Descriptive mentality.”
“Its value is lessened by the lack of an index.”
“A curious, entertaining and doubtless useful compilation.”
“It is an educational volume of the self-educational kind, sure to profit one if studied in a receptive mood.”
“This overambitious attempt defeats its end by being so cumbersome that it is not convincing. It is doubtful whether any but those so intelligent as to need little guidance could guide themselves by this elaborate system. The book is worthy of study by vocational counselors for the suggestiveness of the questions and the descriptions of characteristics.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor
MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS.Horse; his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease. il*$1.50 (2c) McClurg 636.1 17-14155
A book on the breeding and care of horses. Earlier books by the author include “Dogs and men,” published in 1910, and “Road, track and stable,” published in 1912. Part 1 of this book treats of The breeding, training, and care of horses, part 2 of Diseases and injuries. A bibliography gives references to other books on the subject. The volume is well illustrated and is indexed.
MERWIN, SAMUEL.Temperamental Henry. il*$1.50 Bobbs 17-24396
“‘Temperamental Henry,’ also sometimes known among his mates as ‘Henry the Ninth,’ is an eighteen-year-old youth who lives in a small Illinois town not far from Chicago. He holds the centre of the stage, but around him are grouped his ‘crowd’ of boys and girls, all of about his own age, while more or less importantly across the scene now and then crosses one of their elders. The author has turned his attention especially to Henry, and him has dissected and discussed and pictured, up and down, in and out, through all his waverings, irresponsible, sudden moods and absurdities, comedies and tragedies. It is a remarkable—and amusing—portrayal of the age of adolescence, comparable with, or, rather, a sort of chronological sequel to Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen,’ with which it will, inevitably, be compared.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Henry strikes the reader as remarkably true. It is because he is so undoubtedly true to that temperamentality of youth, that the book possesses a meaning far in excess of the light story which it tells. The ability to bestow so complete a sense of reality upon a character must be acknowledged as fine art.” D. L. M.
“Mr Merwin takes his eighteen-year-old hero rather seriously, and makes one feel the near-tragedy as well as the humor, the romance as well as the banality, of that distressing period of emotional chaos termed adolescence.”
“Both funny and pathetic.”
“Frankly, while we acknowledge that ‘boys will be boys’ and we love their foolish boyishness, we find ‘Henry the ninth’ a terrible strain on our credulity and are glad that our nineteen-year-old friends are not such gullible idiots.”
“The readers of the story, and they are sure to be many, will be glad to know that Mr Merwin purposes letting them follow Henry’s career as he grows older and becomes something more than an unlicked cub.”
“We would hardly say that Merwin and Barrie were in the same class as writers, much as we like the American’s humor and realism. But they both, surely, have created and given the breath of life to one adolescent, temperamental boy. Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen’ was funny. And it had its moments of extremely clear insight into a boy’s mind. But ‘Temperamental Henry’ goes much deeper, as did ‘Sentimental Tommy.’ ... Probably the most human bit about the whole book is the dedication. ‘To Sam and John,’ it reads, ‘with sympathy.’ That is the whole point. ... The author understands.” E. P. Wyckoff
“A most entertaining tale.”
MERWIN, SAMUEL, and others.Sturdy oak; theme by Mary Austin; the chapters collected and (very cautiously) ed. by Elizabeth Jordan. il*$1.40 (2½c) Holt 17-31033
A composite volume from the pen of fourteen prominent writers who, good suffragists that they are, donated their services to the cause. It is a lively story of one George Remington who, as the action begins, has just brought his bride to the old Remington place, and is launching upon a political campaign for the post of district attorney. One of the big issues upon which he must express an opinion is that of woman suffrage. He writes a flowery article for his town’s leading paper, containing the usual anti home-is-the-sanctuary, man-the-protector, woman-the-ministering-angel line of objection to enfranchising women. The suffragists fully aroused, organize and swing into one of those efficient campaigns for which they are noted. Their aim is not to defeat Remington so much as to teach him a necessary lesson. When two unprotected female relatives of the clinging-vine type swoop down upon him, when his adorable wife becomes a suffragist, when he is shown the wretched housing conditions of the factory district owned by comfortable, flabby-brained women who won’t shoulder responsibilities—the scales fall from his eyes. His victory is complete.
“A good story and a boost for woman suffrage.”
“Though it is obviously a tour de force, it turns out to be no worse, if no better, than dozens of novels set adrift by the publishers each season. As a presentation of the ‘woman question,’ of which suffrage of course is only a phase, ‘The sturdy oak’ is absurd, even though it advances all the stock pros and demolishes all the stock cons. It is made to seem the more absurd by comparison with the new edition of ‘A woman of genius,’ by Mary Austin, the writer of chapter 13 of ‘The sturdy oak’ and the builder of its plot. Sound advice to the reading public would be: Buy ‘The sturdy oak’ for the sake of the cause and read ‘A woman of genius’ to find out what it is all about.”
“It isn’t as good, we believe, as any one of them could have done alone. A good suffrage tract, a not bad story, and an interesting study in comparative literary workmanship.”
“In the present instance all seriousness is there, all determination and intent to place the suffrage question on its broadly human instead of the usual limited sex basis. And it is donewith deftness, with a few fine, old thrills, with delightful irony and some well-directed straight arm jolts.” F. W.
“An exceedingly interesting story, and very amusing to boot. It is very far from being dogmatic. It is very clever indeed. And from beginning to end it is irresistibly readable. There are weaknesses and extravagances in the book. But the novel as a whole is excellent.”
“Each chapter is the contribution of one author, but the theme is carried along so smoothly that the chapters link together without a hitch or suggestion of friction. The authors, too, subordinate to the central idea—propagandism, if you choose,—the mannerisms peculiar to their own individual styles.”
METCALFE, AGNES EDITH.Woman’s effort: a chronicle of British women’s fifty years’ struggle for citizenship (1865-1914); with an introd. by Laurence Housman. il*$1.25 Longmans 324.3 (Eng ed 17-24667)
Miss Metcalfe has written a detailed account of the militant movement for the political emancipation of women in Great Britain and Ireland from 1906 to 1914, with a brief summary of preceding events, to which she devotes only twenty-six pages of her book. “For much of the history of the first thirty-five years or so of the Women’s suffrage movement the author acknowledges indebtedness to Miss Helen Blackburn’s book, ‘Women’s suffrage’ (1902). ... Interesting details are given of the later and most advanced manifestations of ‘militancy’; and the four trials for conspiracy which occurred between 1912 and 1914 are briefly described. The frontispiece and six other illustrations are reproductions of cartoons from Punch.” (Ath) There is a three-page Suffrage directory confined to British societies.
“The statement is fair and dispassionate, though the writer’s sympathy with the agitation is not concealed.”
“Miss Metcalfe, as has been said, gives most of her space and emphasis to the ‘militant’ suffragists; she passes over, with very inadequate comment, the more statesmanlike work of the non-militant societies; there are many serious omissions, amounting almost to misrepresentation, on this side of the question. These omissions considerably detract from the value of what is otherwise a sound historical record of one of the least creditable phases by which ‘Freedom slowly broadens down’ in the good old Victorian fashion.”
“The author maintains a detached and judicial point of view and nowhere betrays her own convictions or sympathies.”
“Miss Metcalfe can hardly be called a dispassionate chronicler, but she may fairly claim to have compiled a narrative of what actually occurred.”
“The whole book is a typical illustration of suffragette psychology. ... Partisanship deprives the work of most of its value.”
MICKIEWICZ, ADAM.Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania; tr. from the Polish by G: Rapall Noyes.*$2.25 Dutton 891.85
“This is the second translation of Mickiewicz’s best-known poem that has appeared in English, Miss Briggs having published a rendering in 1885. The poet wrote ‘Pan Tadeusz’ while he was exiled from his native country and living in Paris, where it was published in 1834.” (Ath) “‘Pan Tadeusz,’ the national poem of Poland, describes life in Lithuania at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It seems to have budded in the poet’s mind as a rustic idyll—the love of Thaddeus Soplica for Zosia Horeszko, daughter of an ancient house wronged by his own. ... As the poem took shape, however, the young lover and his private fortunes became dwarfed by the larger interests represented by his father, Jacek Soplica. Jacek is one of those full-blooded romantic figures whom writers of the period loved to create. In a fit of jealousy he had murdered the chief of the Horeszkos ... taking sides for this purpose with the Muscovites, the national enemy; and this misdoing of his, together with his remorse, supplies the framework of the poem. With the object of atoning for his crime, Jacek strives both to unite the Polish Montagues and Capulets in the persons of the young lovers and to free Poland from Muscovite oppression.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The lyrical movement in these passages is what chiefly reminds us that we are reading the translation of a poem, and not a regular prose romance. There is also an epical breadth about the narrative, and the fighting is described with Homeric realism.”
“The two predominant characteristics of the poem are an intensity of feeling which sometimes lapses to sentimentality and again rises to lyric fervor, and a wonderful truth not only to the general impression but also to concrete facts of his experience.” D. L. M.
“Mr Noyes has translated the poem into English prose, perhaps gaining for it thereby something in story interest while, except in form, he has lost little of its poetic values. His work has been done with admirable care and spirit and with signal success. The pictures of life reproduce with appealing fidelity the simple, tenderly portrayed details of the original, and also its intense feeling and quiet humor.”
“The various elements are skilfully combined, but it is less as a story that the poem impresses the reader than as a series of richly coloured pictures of a vanished past.”
MIDDLETON, EDGAR C.[2]Way of the air.*$1 (2½c) Stokes 623.7 17-22331
“The idea of this little book is to give as clear and graphic a description of modern aviation as circumstances will permit. ... The writer’s chief endeavor in the opening chapters has been to help the young man who wishes to adopt ‘flying’ as a profession. Part 2 of the book is composed of a collection of incidents taken from the diary of an air pilot on active service somewhere in the north of France. They are given in their original form.” (Author’s note) Part of the material of the book is reprinted from the Daily Mail, Daily Express, and other English periodicals.
MIESSNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.Radiodynamics. il*$2 Van Nostrand 621.3 16-20751
“This is intended to provide a historical and technical description of the development of wirelessly controlled mechanisms, but is directed toward the military and non-technical scientific reader as well as toward the engineer. The book opens with a discussion of ‘wireless’ telegraphy. ... The central portion of the book gives some descriptive matter relating to various early attempts at wireless control of boats, airships and torpedoes, and the author then takes up in some detail the work of J. H. Hammond, jr. (whose assistant he was) in improving the military value of such devices. Various problems of interference prevention, relay operation, etc., are discussed and the author’s suggested solutions described.”—Elec World
“Non-technical work describing much suggestive research. Not entirely reliable on the historical side.”
“Some ingenious proposals are brought forward, though the treatment is largely amateurish from the radio-engineering standpoint. ... In spite of its evident weaknesses, however, the reader is likely to find some information of interest in the descriptive chapters.”
“B. F. Miessner, expert radio aide of the United States navy, has presented the subject clearly and concisely, assuming a considerable knowledge of electricity on the part of his reader.”
“The author has unnecessarily increased the bulk of his book by the introduction of a good deal of irrelevant matter, and by space given to elementary facts connected with wireless telegraphy which might quite well have been taken as familiar to any reader likely to be interested in it. Moreover, he has rather overestimated the importance of the early work of some American investigators, and done insufficient justice to that of European workers. He is not a safe guide on points of history or priority in relation to radio-telegraphic invention.” J. A. F.
“The book contains more information on this subject than can probably be found elsewhere by the general reader, and will give him, as well as the trained engineer, a brief history and exposition of the methods and some of the apparatus used in radio-dynamics to within comparatively few years. ... The subject matter is well planned and the diagrams clear and well rendered.”
MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH.Earliest man.*$1.50 Dutton 571 (Eng ed 17-7052)
“Mr Migeod’s essay, written in West Africa, is a thoughtful attempt to reconstruct the earliest stages in man’s evolution from the beast, with illustrations from the life of animals and natives in the tropical bush.” (Spec) “The advancement of proto-man to the dignity of homoprimigeniusis also considered, as are the first stages in the use of shelter, clothing, weapons, fire and cooking. The transition from eoliths to palæoliths, the origin of speech, and social organization, are dealt with in the later chapters.” (Ath)
“The tables of cranial capacities, localities, and chronology are useful for reference.”
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson
“Some of Mr Migeod’s conceptions of the laws and causes of organic evolution will by no means commend themselves to those who are accustomed to approach the subject from a wider point of view, but the novelty of the circumstances in which his little book was written makes it stimulating and interesting.” A. S. W.
MILLAR, ANDREW.Wheat and its products. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce). il 85c (2½c) Pitman 664 17-4602
“A brief account of the principal cereal: where it is grown, and the modern method of producing wheaten flour.” (Subtitle) The author’s first purpose has been to write a book that will be of interest to the general reader; his second, to make it both interesting and useful to millers and “others connected with the breadstuffs industry.” Contents: The geography of wheat; Wheat analysis; Ancient milling; Silos; Wheat cleaning and conditioning; The break system; Machines used in the reduction system; The reduction system; Auxiliary appliances; Millstone milling; Corn exchanges. The discussion of milling processes seems to be limited to British practice.
“Of interest to the general reader as well as interesting and useful to millers.”
MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).Ladies must live.il*$1.25 (2½c) Century 17-24402
Mrs Miller once put to us the question “Are women people?” and answered it in the affirmative. About “ladies” her decision may be different, for in this story she pictures them as pirates high-handedly taking what they consider they need, whether at the game of cards or of marriage. Men, even a self-reliant western man, fall before the brilliance, charm, and ruthless acquisitiveness of the society “ladies” of Long Island and New York. Then, when the black flag seems to have conquered, love comes in.
“It is all preposterous if the reader approaches it equipped with the cool monocle of reason. But he ought not to do that: the famous glasses of rose colour are his proper tool.” H. W. Boynton
“Were the dialogue a portrayal of character, the little book would have much artistic merit. Since its men and women, however, are types rather than individuals, one cannot expect delicately shaded conversations.”
“She seems to have drawn her characters from life rather than society journals and exhibits genuine wit in their handling.”
“A far from plausible romance, but iridescent with the wit natural to the author.”
“A book which one immediately forgets all about as soon as it is finished.” M. G. S.
“Mrs Miller presents a satire on the ‘idle rich’ that is amusing, yet so improbable that it is essential to give in to her mood absolutely for the book to be convincing. The characters are drawn in keeping with the general type of the book. ... There is an abundance of smart talk, the persons of the novel glitter brightly, but ‘Ladies must live’ is not so good as ‘Come out of the kitchen.’”
“The chief pirate of the tale is reformed by love—a regrettable concession to fiction convention. Thackeray’s ‘Becky Sharp’ didn’t reform!”
“A clever bit of work.”
MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).Women are people!*75c Doran 817 17-8104
In her last book of suffrage verse, Mrs Miller asked the question which is answered affirmatively in the title of this new volume. “Women are people!” contains a collection of new poems, for the most part humorous, arranged in four groups: Treacherous texts; Our friends; Our friends the enemy; Unauthorized interviews. Many of them are reprinted from the New York Tribune.
“She proceeds through the sparkling pages of her book of poems to show how clever a woman writer can be.”
MILLER, EDWIN LILLIE.English literature. il*$1.60 Lippincott 820.9 17-18730
The author is principal of the Northwestern high school, Detroit, Michigan. He tells us that he has written this “introduction and guide to the best English books” to entertain rather than to instruct, and that he hopes his pages “will arouse curiosity about books and authors, will form the basis of class reports and discussions, and will incite people, in and out of school, to read books.” (Preface) The volume is in textbook form, with Questions and exercises and Suggested readings after each chapter. It brings the subject up to date, treating Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Bernard Shaw, Rupert Brooke and others. There is an appendix of a little over two pages giving “English history in stories, novels and plays,” and an outline map of Great Britain to be filled in by the student to form a literary map. The chapters on Milton, Bunyan, and Dryden are by Miss Helen M. Hard.
“Extraordinary opinions and commonplace verdicts upon English literature and its makers. ... He refers to a distinguished historian as Edgar Augustus Freeman, John Masefield is credited with writing ‘The tragedy of man,’ and Arnold Bennett with a novel called ‘Old wives’ tales.’” E. F. E.
“This is an excellent introduction to English literature. We have nothing but praise for it.”
“The book exhibits many of the points of a good textbook and not much besides, except a willingness to draw easy parallels between the things of yesterday and to-day. It also shows the tendency of the traditional textbook to degenerate into a bede-roll. But it offers many good suggestions for collateral reading in historical fiction. ... A later edition should point out that the ‘Prioress’ tale’ is not that of little Hugh of Lincoln, and that Sackville did not plan the ‘Mirror for magistrates.’”
“An unusual feature is the space given to women writers. The book is obviously an expression of the author’s love of literature. ... There is not a dry page in the entire 597. The book is adequately illustrated and there are special pedagogical features in the way of questions and answers, charts, etc. While Mr Miller has written primarily for the high school boys and girls his book should prove intensely interesting to the general reader.”
“Mr Miller’s ‘English literature’ is particularly strong in the number and quality of its quotations and selections from the ‘Great masterpieces.’ The critical comment is good in the main, though at times it seems more positive and final than is necessary for the guidance of the young.” E. E. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
MILLER, ELIZABETH YORK.Blue aura. il*$1.35 (2½c) Clode, E: J. 17-24815
Dora Trelawny, a little dancer of the London music halls, is the heroine of this story. Dora is undisciplined, selfish, and vain. She marries Teddie Tyson of Tyson and Turco, acrobats, and the team becomes a trio, for a place for Dora is made in their act. Turco, who plays the clown, hides a noble and beautiful soul behind his ugly exterior appearance. He understands Dora and acts as the good angel in her life, finally meeting his own death in her behalf. Turco had possessed psychic powers to a certain degree, and it is thru his sacrifice that Dora attains to the “blue aura” he had predicted for her.
“A story of graceful and unaffected sentiment.” H. W. Boynton
“Its principal claim on the reader’s interest is its capital character drawing, much force and delicacy being essential in depicting such a wild, yet lovable heroine as Dora.”
“‘The blue aura’ is a pretty story, of undisguised but unforced sentiment.”
“By what means the author contrives to write so commonplace a tale without lapsing into cheapness it is difficult to say.”
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
MILLER, FRANK EBENEZER.Vocal art-science and its application. il*$2.50 Schirmer 784.9 17-3597
This book “is a comprehensive illustrated treatise on vocal matters written by Dr Frank E. Miller, long an authority on the subject. ... He believes that everyone can and should learn to sing, and advances a theory of certain pyramido-prismatic forces within the body comparable to those which produce light and energy. With scientific training these forces give us beautiful utterance both of the speaking and the singing voice. Exercises are given to guide the self-taught student, and over sixty illustrations assist the reader to a definite comprehension of the author’s vocal gospel. The introduction is by Gustav Kobbé.”—R of Rs
MILLER, GEORGE AMOS.China inside out. il*$1 (2c) Abingdon press 275.1 17-7538
In order to come close to the Chinese people in their daily lives, the author traveled about China on foot and by boat. “The life of the Chinese is his theme, what the people say, how they amuse themselves, what they have done to represent their ideals of religion, their occupations, their daily toil. ... Through these pages walk and speak the Chinese people, in terms of universal experience, testifying their response to the stimuli of the Christian gospel and western civilization.” (Introd.) Contents: The human Chinese; The gospel of health; The missionary at work; The Chinese church and its heroes; The leaven of life. The book is illustrated with line drawings made from photographs by the author.
“It is a very readable book, because it seizes upon picturesquely typical scenes and events and narrates them from the viewpoint of a wide-awake outside observer.”
“Mr Miller writes of China from the point of view of Methodist missions in a sort of Billy Sunday vernacular. Very rightly he condemns hasty, ignorant and wholesale denunciations of missionaries, but at the same time seems rather to lay himself open to the retort that had he been longer in the Far East he might have been satisfied with a less absolutely sweeping denunciation of the mercantile communities of the treaty ports.” I. C. Hannah
MILLER, JOHN ORMSBY, ed. New era in Canada.*$1.75 Dutton 971 17-28860
“A collection of sixteen essays by leading Canadians, each dealing with his or her own special subject, but all more or less concerned, directly or indirectly, to point out paths for the betterment of Canada after the war. ... The general editor is Dr J. O. Miller, principal of Ridley college, Ontario, who contributes one of the best essays in the book on ‘The better government of our cities.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Two papers are by Leacock, and those who know him only as a jester and satirist will be surprised at the pessimism of the professor of political economy. ... Equally clear-sighted and vigorous is his concluding essay, ‘Our national organization for the war,’ which is being circulated in Canada almost as a ‘Tract for the times.’ He pricks the bubble of wartime prosperity and warns, like Cassandra, of coming ruin. Plain dealing is the note of all the essays. There is no flattery of popular prejudices, or of a foolish national pride.”
“Here are sixteen essays by fifteen different authors, some of whom write with a real sense of message; others appear to have been rather bored by the invitation to contribute. The warm friendliness that the volume before us displays for the United States should be keenly appreciated on this side of the international boundary.” I. C. Hannah
“So much having been said—and it is due—in praise of the book, there is something to be said in the direction of criticism. In the first place, the thread of unity which runs through the book is a very slender thread. ... In the second place, no French-Canadian speaks in the book for the place of French Canada.”
MILLER, JOSEPH DANA, ed. Single tax year book; the history, principles and application of the single tax philosophy.*$2.50 Single tax review pub. co., 150 Nassau st., N.Y. 336.2 17-28939
“Every five years the ‘Single tax year book’ presents an inventory of what has been accomplished by the movement for the taxation of land values. The quinquennial edition of 1917 contains a broad array of useful information for those who are interested in this subject. There is a bibliography of single tax literature, compiled by Arthur N. Young.” (Am Pol Sci R) “This volume, besides dealing with the relation of single tax to social problems, is replete with the history of the movement, citing the partial application of the principle in New Zealand, Australia, the South African republic, western Canada, Kiauchau, European and South American countries and in various sections of the United States. Of special interest to citizens of the New England states is the experience of Rhode Island.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The volume is in every way an excellent one, comprehensive, explanatory and exceedingly well compiled.” J. W.
“The book is an encyclopedia upon the subject.”
“It contains little that is new but much that has been widely scattered. Its publication reduces to a scant half dozen the books which one must read who desires a knowledge of the single tax philosophy, its history and its applications. This means that it will serve the movement well. The volume furnishes what is probably a very true cross-section of the movement today.” R. M. Haig
MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.Boys’ book of canoeing and sailing. il*$1.25 (1½c) Doran 797 17-9127
This book by the editor of Field and Stream aims to tell ambitious boys not only how to handle boats but how to build them as well. It consists of three parts: Sailing and boat building; Canoeing and cruising; Motor boat management and construction. The book has many illustrations and there are working drawings to accompany the directions for building.
“In his published plans and suggestions for the building of boats Mr Miller has been careful to keep in mind the limitations of the average boy’s pocketbook and only the least expensive materials are considered.”
MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.Rifles and shotguns; the art of rifle and shotgun shooting for big game and feathered game; with special chapters on military rifle shooting. il*$2 (3c) Doran 799 17-13239
A work by the editor of Field and Stream. Contents: Four centuries of firearms; Rifle mechanics; Rifle sights; Aiming at big game; Trigger release; Rifle targets; Two rifles for the poor man; The .22 rifle; The U.S. military rifle; Know your gun; The man’s game of trapshooting; Clay bird practice afield; Shotgun mechanics; Snap shooting; Cartridges and tables. The book is very fully illustrated.
“A useful treatise filled with not too technical information of value to the sportsman and, in less degree, to the intending soldier.”
MILLET, PHILIPPE.Comrades in arms; tr. by Lady Frazer.*$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-12511)
A book of war sketches translated from the French. The author says, “For a period of several months, in my capacity of liaison-officer attached to a British division, I was in a position to see the soldiers of the British empire and of France fighting side by side. From this moving multitude certain figures, grave or gay by turns, stood out in relief day by day. To my eyes they summed up, better than an abstract analysis, the distinctive features of the two nations in arms. I have here attempted to bring them together just as they were in reality.” There is an introduction by J. St Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.
“Spirited, humorous and sympathetic.”
“We are delighted to see that Captain Philippe Millet’s charming book, ‘En liaison avec les Anglais,’ reviewed by us some three months ago, has been translated, and very well translated, by Lady Frazer. ... We desire to put up a signpost to the new version to let those who do not read French easily know how much pleasure and interest they will get from this brilliant and sympathetic study of the British army.”
“Words of appreciation like this from a French soldier, who is military correspondent of the Paris Temps, and has himself been decorated for conspicuous bravery, should be relished by the Tommies.”
MILLIGAN, GEORGE.[2]Expository value of the Revised version.*75c Scribner 220 A17-497
“The purpose of this little volume in ‘The short-course series’ is not to repeat the material that came from the pens of Trench, Ellicott, Lightfoot, and Westcott concerning the Revised version. ... The first part contains in the compass of twenty pages a brief history of the English translations of the Bible. Then follows a discussion, under negative and positive heads, of the practical use ofthe Revised version. The third section, about fifty pages, contains a concrete study of the doctrinal significance of the Revised version.”—Bib World
“There is need of a short discussion of the value of other versions of the Bible than the Authorized. This is admirably supplied in the present book. [In Section 3] Dr Milligan sets forth an array of interesting variations in translation which ought to bring freshness and strength into the preaching of any pastor who will follow out the study. This section of the book ought to have been more extensive.”
“Does not omit the usual strong Protestant bias. The book is useful, but contains little that is noteworthy. Its scholarly author would have done better had he omitted the commonplace history which did not belong strictly to his subject, and expanded his real theme which is both interesting and important.”
MILLIKAN, ROBERT ANDREWS.[2]Electron. (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il*$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 537.1 17-22580
“The purpose of this volume is to present the evidence for the atomic structure of electricity, to describe some of the most significant properties of the elementary electrical unit, the electron, and to discuss the bearing of these properties upon the two most important problems of modern physics: the structure of the atom and the nature of electromagnetic radiation.” (Introd.) In order that the thread of discussion in the main body of the book need not be broken, mathematical proofs have been reserved for appendixes. The author is professor of physics in the University of Chicago, and the work is based largely on his own experiments in the Ryerson laboratory.
“Millikan’s beautiful investigations on the electronic charge and on the photo-electric effect are justly celebrated throughout the scientific world; they will undoubtedly become classical examples of the highest type of modern physical research. A description of such researches by their author is immensely valuable and will serve to stimulate scientific investigation as nothing else can.” H. A. W.
MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.Your national parks.il*$2.50 (4c) Houghton 711 17-14711
This well illustrated volume provides a complete historical and descriptive guide to our national parks. The Hawaii national park is included, and one chapter is given up to the National parks of Canada. Another chapter is fittingly devoted to John Muir. A list of books, on national parks, including government publications, is provided, and there are several maps, reproduced by permission of the National park service of the Department of the interior. The Guide to national parks, prepared by Laurence F. Schmeckebier, gives detailed information for the tourist.
Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers
“You can not wonder, after you read his pages and scan the photo-pictures with which they are illustrated, that Mr Mills asks: ‘Why not each year send thousands of school children through the national parks?’ If you love the west, you should read this tribute, whatever be your hunger to see that region once more. The book will do you good, even tho you must be hereafter a stay-at-home.”
“No intelligent traveller who intends to visit the national parks should fail to read Muir as a spiritual preparation, but he will do well to avail himself of the more detailed information of Mills also.”
“Comprehensive and valuable book, with more than five hundred pages of full and accurate information. ... Mr Schmeckebier’s ‘Guide,’ in the appendix, contains much valuable information for the tourist.”