“The entire volume, with its pictures and maps, should be owned by every visitor to the parks.”
MILLS, WALTER THOMAS.Democracy or despotism. $1.25 International school of social economy, 2333 Haste St., Berkeley, Cal. 16-16745
“Mr Mills ... shows first that the United States is not a real democracy, pointing out the familiar conditions in industry and politics through which the popular will may be checked. The measures through which democracy is to be attained are universal political education; representation in legislative bodies of the economic interests of the people rather than of geographical divisions; social ownership and control of the means of production, transportation, and exchange; and the initiative, referendum, and recall. The ideal is a world democracy. The author’s position is essentially that of the organized socialist movement, although in some details he is in opposition to the position officially taken by the American Socialist party.”—Am Econ R
Reviewed by G. B. L. Arner
MINER, MAUDE EMMA.Slavery of prostitution; a plea for emancipation.*$1.50 Macmillan 176 16-22872
“Those who have known Maude Miner’s work as secretary of the Probation and protective association of New York will be especially interested in this summary of her many years’ experience in work for delinquent girls. The book is written from a personal rather than from a scientific point of view and for that reason is valuable as a supplement to the various treatises and reports of vice commissions that have been issued on the subject of prostitution. The author shows that prostitution is not an isolated evil that can be abolished by direct methods of attack. She discusses its relation to housing conditions, industrial maladjustment and lack of recreation facilities, as well as to evil companionship and mental defect.”—Ann Am Acad
“There is breadth of view, sanity, balance, a strong sense of social causation, a healthy but not blind optimism in all Miss Miner says. There seems reason only for praise for such a timely and admirable book.” H. E. Mills
“Of value to students, social workers, judges, and physicians.”
“The fact that the book is popular in form, free from sordid details, and gives much space to a program of prevention, makes it especially useful for laymen who are interested in modern methods of prevention and correction of delinquency.” H. G.
“Does more than merely relate facts; it correlates them to their causes on the one hand, and on the other to the social remedies to which we must look for the protection of girls from all forms of the exploitation which ends in theirruin. ... Miss Miner, bringing to her task the equipment of experience gained in her many years as probation officer in the Women’s night-court of New York feels that society’s obligation is a double one; to help out those who have been enmeshed in the slavery of prostitution and to prevent others from being caught in it.” Alice Henry
“It is therefore a matter of grave moment to the public that the great theme ... should be freely and rationally discussed by one so well equipped as Miss Miner has been, both by scholarly research and years of probation work in the Night court.” Jane Addams
“This is an admirable book. It strikes exactly the right note. ... It is not a compilation of disagreeable revelations. It is not sentimental, nor salacious. ... There is definite information, but it is illuminated by a sympathetic understanding of what the general reader requires to know and what may be left for official reports.” E: T. Devine
MINER, WILLIAM HARVEY.[2]American Indians, north of Mexico. il*$1 (1c) Putnam 970.1 (Eng ed 17-27757)
The aim of the author has been to provide a brief popular account of the American Indian which should be at the same time authentic and comprehensive. He points out in his preface that it has been the lack of systematic arrangement rather than a dearth of material that has handicapped the student. Contents: Introduction; General facts; Indian sociology; The plains Indians; The Indians of the south-west; Indian mythology. These chapters are followed by notes, bibliography and index and there is a map showing principal linguistic families.
“Mr Miner has been well advised in his choice of authorities and has escaped most of the pitfalls into which other would-be popular writers frequently fall. It would have been better had the specific narratives been appended to the general discussion instead of being sandwiched into the middle of it. The former would also have been improved considerably by a chapter on material culture and economic life.” J: R. Swanton
“There is a good bibliography, and the book may be commended as a satisfactory popular introduction to the study of a remarkable people.”
MITCHELL, JOHN AMES.Drowsy. il*$1.50 (2c) Stokes 17-25378
This is a scientific fairy tale which is also a love story. Cyrus Alton, called “Drowsy,” who is only seven when we make his acquaintance, is the illegitimate son of an Italian singer and a young American doctor. Dr Alton settles with his boy in a little Massachusetts village where Cyrus makes friends with Ruth Heywood, the minister’s daughter. Cyrus has a strange faculty of knowing what people are going to say before they speak, and also of knowing the unuttered wishes of faraway friends. About half of the book deals with the grown-up Cyrus, who invents “a contrivance hardly bigger than a dinner-plate that generates electricity without machinery and has infinite power,” takes a voyage to the moon, where he finds enormous green diamonds, and starts for Mars but is recalled by Ruth, who has refused him but who finally sends a message out into space telling him that she has always really loved him.
“A fantastic tale which the author asserts is not a fairy story for it may come true. Drowsy is quite human, particularly in his youth in spite of his remarkable gifts.”
“No task is more delicate and dangerous to a writer than the revelation of the future. Mr Mitchell strikes a very happy medium when he opens the door of the future for us in his latest novel. He is very clever about it.”
“It is a fanciful tale, a book of dreams, but sometimes dreams come true. Mr Mitchell charms and fascinates by his philosophical comments on human foibles and human achievements.”
“The success of a tale of this kind does not depend upon whether equally marvelous things have actually taken place, but upon the author’s ability to convince us of the credibility of those he relates, during the time, at least, that we are reading his book. And in this ability—a somewhat rare one—Mr Mitchell is lacking.”
MITCHELL, JULIA POST.St Jean de Crèvecœur. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature)*$1.50 Columbia univ. press 16-16336
St Jean de Crèvecoeur was a Frenchman who came to America before the Revolution, settled on a farm in New York state and wrote a book, “Letters from an American farmer,” which was brought out in London in 1782. After the close of the Revolution he went back to his native land, to return later as French consul, in which capacity he was instrumental in establishing the packet service between France and America. From historical collections in America and family records in France, Miss Mitchell has brought together material for an interesting biography.
“This doctoral dissertation is the evidence of a good many years of untiring research, and is therefore much less superficial or fragmentary than investigations by the late Robert de Crèvecœur, F. B. Sanborn, Mr Barton Blake, and others. ... New readers will hardly be drawn to Crèvecœur and his letters by this scholarly biography. Dr Mitchell’s stagnancy of style in her ‘Life’ of an author who was seldom wanting in a certain naïve vivacity, no doubt follows the purest German tradition, which is too generally, in American universities, the tradition of our scholarship also; but that authoritative theses are necessarily dull has been disproved to us again and again by the work of candidates for the French doctorate of letters.”
“Well-written biography.”
“An important addition to the history of early Franco-American relations.”
“Miss Mitchell has told the world all that it is ever likely to know about Crèvecoeur, his life and his labours. But, after all, is the game quite worth the candle? If research of this kind is to be prosecuted it were surely as well to prosecute it with discrimination and a due sense of proportion. Applied to Crèvecoeur it appears to us to be a little overdone, even though, in itself, it is as well done as Miss Mitchell has done it.”
MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH.Cellar-house of Pervyse; a tale of uncommon things. il*$2.25 Oxford 940.91 17-13748
“‘The cellar-house of Pervyse’ describes one of the most romantic undertakings by women in the whole war. Mrs Knocker (now the Baroness T’Serclaes) and Miss Mairi Chisholm were members of a Red cross party which went to Belgium at the beginning of the war. Mrs Knocker had been trained as a nurse, but Miss Chisholm had not. They were, however, prepared to do anything, no matter how dangerous, that they might be allowed to do. For a time they helped in motor-ambulance work under conditions of unceasing peril. ... In spite of much disapproval and opposition, they established a ‘poste de secours’ in the village of Pervyse.Their theory was that a large proportion of seriously wounded men died of exhaustion through being hurried to the rear, and that many more lives might be saved if the wounded were treated first ‘for shock’ near the trenches, even though the dressing of their wounds might be insufficient in itself. This theory was brilliantly justified.”—Spec
“A valuable first-hand account of one of the most tragic phases of the war. Those who wish for ‘uninspired’ and thorough detail concerning Belgium and a part of her sufferings should read it carefully.”
“A story utterly unlike any other narrative of the war in all its varied aspects.” E. F. E.
“This volume, even after the hundreds of war books with all their details of horrors endured with courage, stands out as a wonderful record of brave and efficient service.”
“The photographs give a good idea of the scene of the desolation amid which the heroic pair worked, and of types of Belgian soldiers.”
“A wonderful story of unflinching spirit and good-heartedness.”
MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH.Lost cities of Ceylon. il*$3.50 Stokes 915.48 (Eng ed 17-12260)
“Out of India—as well as from Africa—there always comes something new. Most people at any rate will be surprised to learn from this well-written book that the remains of the ancient civilization of Ceylon, ranging in date from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200, are comparable in magnitude to the pyramids and temples of Egypt, and that the fragments of sculpture in the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa are superb in their vigour and grace. A glance at Miss Mitton’s excellent photographs will show that her enthusiasm is in no wise misplaced. Her book is based on the official reports of the experts who, at a trifling cost, have cleared the jungle from these wonderful old ruins and given them a new lease of life.”—Spec
“It is a book of one who has solved the difficulties of travel and who writes to make the way easy for others as well as to direct them to the more noteworthy sights of the island. For this reason it reads at times somewhat like the better class of guide book.”
“Many travellers have lamented in the past the small number of available books describing the history and antiquities of Ceylon. Miss Mitton, therefore, supplies a real need, and she has written with care and with enthusiasm.” Bishop Frodsham
“It is not easy to ‘place’ exactly Miss Mitton’s book. It is too practical and useful for a mere book of travels, a little too learned for a guide book, and not quite learned enough for a treatise on the ancient architecture of Ceylon. ... To the really intelligent traveller the book should be very useful indeed. What distinguishes this book from most others of its kind is that its author has a passionate—the word is no exaggeration—interest in the places which she describes. She skilfully mixes archæological description with history. ... She can usually be accepted as a safe guide, but she is sometimes, we think, carried away by her enthusiasm.”
MOKVELD, L.German fury in Belgium; tr. by C. Thieme.*$1 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-22682
This book gives the experiences of a Netherland journalist during four months with the German army in Belgium. John Buchan in his preface calls it “an admirable piece of war-correspondence, which bears on every page the proofs of shrewd observation and a sincere love of truth and honest dealing.” Contents: On the way to Liège; In Liège and back to Maastricht; Round about Liège; Visé destroyed; a premeditated crime; Francs-tireurs? With the Flemings; Liège after the occupation; Louvain destroyed; Louvain under the mailed fist; Along the Meuse to Huy, Andenne, and Namur; From Maastricht to the French frontier: the destruction of Dinant; On the battle-fields; Round about Bilsen; During the siege of Antwerp; The ill-treatment of British wounded; On the Yser.
“Of course Mr Mokveld’s book is not for those who shudder at the truth even when it is necessary to tell the truth for the sake of the betterment of mankind. It is, however, essential that the world should know the truth about Germany, and it cannot be better learned than through such books as this.” E. F. E.
“His account is calm and impartial.”
MONAHAN, MICHAEL.New adventures.*$2 (3c) Doran 814 17-28176
Under the five headings: Mannahatta; Mannahatta II; Portraits and preferences; Realities and inventions; and Lagniappe, Mr Monahan chats about Newyorkitis; Old men for love; Balzac the artist; Bermuda; The circus; The age of safety, etc.
“One might ignore the author’s paragraphs about sex were they not so frequent and conspicuous. ... Omitting the lapses, and the banalities and frayed truisms that occasionally pop their smirking faces up there is much to give genuine pleasure in ‘New adventures.’ ... We find him a lover of mankind except for a slightly jaundiced view of women. He has found life good in the main.” H. S. Gorman
“Genial reflections upon life and art. ... Mr Monahan gives us a diversion on all his pages, and on many of them a humorous thrill or an appealing shock.” E. F. E.
“Especially interesting are the two chapters ‘Mannahatta’ and his artistic short stories, ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Yearnings.’”
“It is a book that can be read with pleasure and with some profit; at least it is never stodgy.”
“Slight as its encouragement has been, until recent years, the American essay has developed a form and style and spirit of its own. And in all three of these things Mr Monahan’s essays are characteristically of our own product. They are brief and pithy, they have humor and grace and the genial spirit, and above all they are intensely interested in the swirling stream of present life.”
“Mr Monahan writes with some frankness about streetwalkers, and elderlyroués, and about miscellaneous other things. Unfortunately one is not sure that he is wholly untouched by the sex-mania which he deplores.”
MONROE, HARRIET, and HENDERSON, ALICE CORBIN, eds. New poetry.*$1.75 Macmillan 821.08 17-7483
An anthology compiled by the editors of Poetry: a magazine of verse. An introductory discussion of the “new poetry” opens the volume. The editors say “It [the new poetry] is less vague, less verbose, less eloquent, than mostpoetry of the Victorian period and much work of earlier periods. It has set before itself an ideal of absolute simplicity and sincerity—an ideal which implies an individual, unstereotyped diction; and an individual, unstereotyped rhythm.” The poets who are writing today do not disregard tradition, “on the contrary, they follow the great tradition when they seek a vehicle suited to their own epoch and their own creative mood, and resolutely reject all others.” Poetry written before 1900 has not been included. One hundred poets are represented, among them: Conrad Aiken; Mary Aldis; Witter Bynner; Robert Frost; W. W. Gibson; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; Edgar Lee Masters; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; and Louis Untermeyer.
“The editors of Poetry have been cordial to all schools, and they offer the best of modern English verse in their new anthology. The result is of that rare company—a book to keep at hand.” K. B.
“A highly interesting volume, prefaced by a valuable essay interpreting the spirit and aim of the new movement as an attempt at ‘a concrete and immediate realization of life,’”
“It is fairly comprehensive as regards American poets, but makes lamentable omissions as regards the English. ... It seems almost as if Miss Monroe had a peculiar instinct for choosing a poet’s second-best. ... It is neither old nor new, good nor bad, selective nor comprehensive. ... The result is a disappointing half-success—a provoking half-failure.” Conrad Aiken
“To my mind the book is inexact, and its aim and claim, if I understand its declarations, is exactness.” O. W. Firkins
“It is only the indescribable gleam of the ‘true gold’ of poesy, that fairy magic beyond analysis of great verse, that can command the prize. And just this true gold it is which too often lacks in the volume Miss Monroe and Mrs Henderson have prepared.” M. T.
“Praiseworthy as are many of the inclusions, we cannot understand a mind that seeks to treat of the significant poetry of today and omits Giovannitti, Harry Kemp, Edwin Markham, Chesterton, Davies, Belloc, Lascelles Abercrombie, Irene McCleod, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, to mention only a few. There is a provincial smallness in the fact that three fourths of the poets included have poems selected which have appeared in Poetry. ... But, taking it all in all, it answers the purpose.” Clement Wood
“The chief criticism against the book, or rather against the poets of today as here they show themselves, is that four or five of the writers practically include the rest, and that out of the hundred some half dozen only are truly original. ... Yet this alikeness is not a result of imitation; rather it appears to be born of similarities of experience and culture and outlook. ... It is difficult to overestimate the need for just such a book. ... The volume is made more useful by the bibliography with which it concludes, where all the books published by the several authors are noted, as well as most of the magazines in which the poems quoted from serial publications appeared. The table of contents is particularly well arranged.”
“Handsome but too indulgent volume.” Lawrence Gilman
“For the envisioning of the range of the ‘new poetry,’ and a comparison of its diversities, there is no other collection that compares with this anthology.”
“The title aside, it is an admirable collection. ... There are exactly 101 names on the list, mostly of Americans. All the British writers represented in the two collections of Georgian poetry are allotted space, save for Mr Chesterton and James Elroy Flecker.”
“The best collection for the library needing a volume to represent the new school of poetry. ... From the viewpoint of merit, the emphasis is open to criticism: the greatest space is given to Ezra Pound, the next to Miss Monroe herself, then follow Masters and Sandburg.”
“Surely at least one poem by Miss Letts and several by Irene McLeod and Lascelles Abercrombie should be found in this volume. What can be said of the standard of selection that omits Hodgson’s ‘Eve’ and ‘A song of honor?’ For this last poem we would willingly forego the seventeen pages—chiefly affectation—of Ezra Pound. ... No one concerned with modern thought and its expression can afford to neglect this book. If it is not full of what Herrick called poetic pillars, it offers many guide posts. The emotions and thoughts of many of the contributors to this anthology seem in solution; they have not crystallized. Here, then, are the young poets of America in the making, and if one could prophesy, the future of American verse might be read in these pages.” E: B. Reed
MONROE, WALTER SCOTT; DE VOSS, JAMES CLARENCE, and KELLY, FREDERICK JAMES.Educational tests and measurements. (Riverside textbooks in education)*$1.50 Houghton 371 17-28093
During recent years many educational tests have been devised and put into practice. The purpose of the present work is to give “a clear and simple statement as to the nature of the different tests which have been evolved, their use, their reliability, what are the best standard scores so far arrived at, and, in particular, how to diagnose the results and apply remedial instruction.” (Editor’s introd.) The book is designed primarily for teachers. A preliminary discussion of The inaccuracy of present school marks is followed by chapters devoted to special school subjects: Arithmetic; Reading; Spelling; Handwriting; Language; High-school subjects. Following these are four chapters on: Statistical methods; The meaning of scores; The derivation of tests, and examinations; Use of standard tests in the supervision of instruction.
“The book provides the reader with very complete bibliographies and on the whole will fill a need which has been experienced by school men recently for a fairly complete compilation of the tests which are now available.”
MONTAGUE, GILBERT HOLLAND.Business competition and the law.*$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 338.8 17-8475
How everyday trade conditions are affected by the anti-trust laws is the subject of this book. The author is a lawyer who writes here for the practical business man. The book is based on articles that appeared in Printers’ Ink in 1915. Contents: Dangers of aggressive salesmanship; Letters that spell conspiracy; Getting your competitor’s business; Price-discriminations and price-manipulation; “Exclusive-dealer” agreements; The scope of patent protection; Some “tying-contract” traps; The problem of “price-cutting”; Why join a trade association? The book closes with a bibliography and list of authorities.
“The purpose in writing seems to be rather to induce terror than to produce light.” A. M. Kales
“It is phrased in a colloquial style and its manner of expression is simple and natural. What is more noteworthy, it represents lucid treatments of subjects of which the author has an intimate technical knowledge.” Frank Parker
“In addition to being authoritative, ‘Business competition and the law,’ has been written in a style which will make interesting reading for business men in general.” R. C. V. A.
“His book gives little evidence of an attempt to understand the new economic tendencies; it offers little encouragement to the group of industrial leaders who are trying to develop the newer laws of competition.”
Reviewed by Eliot Jones
“It may be doubted that men of business can find elsewhere a better guide through the mazes of the law regarding conspiracies in restraint of trade. The decisions can be found elsewhere, but not the bills of complaint, the charges to juries, the decrees by consent, with their reasons, and other proceedings difficult of access which Mr Montague cites in his discussions.”
“Does what such broad discussions of legal principles and precedents as William H. Taft’s admirable book, ‘The anti-trust act,’ do not accomplish: it shows in detail how the law bears upon small business as well as big business. ... Mr Montague has written a well-conceived and useful book—a book that may be read with profit not only by business men, but by all who wish to study the workings of a law that is also a public policy.”
“He has done just what he meant to do, and just what hundreds of business men wanted him to do. But at the same time we do miss the broader spirit—the spirit that Edward N. Hurley has put into ‘Awakening of business.’ ... The excellent bibliography gives a summary of some sixty or so notable cases of collision with the Sherman and Clayton acts.” Doris Webb
MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.Twenty minutes of reality; an experience, with some illuminating letters concerning it.*75c (6½c) Dutton 248 17-10440
An essay printed anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1916 now appears under the author’s name. She describes an experience that came to her during convalescence after a serious illness, in which, with suddenly cleared vision, she seemed to sense for the first time the wonder and beauty and worth of life. With this little essay are printed a number of the letters called forth from others who had had similar revelations.
“The book will be helpful to those seeking a vital religious experience, and it will suggest means of comfort to those who mourn for their dead. ... The book will prove interesting to all, and of practical value to not a few.”
“This pseudo-mysticism might be amusing were it not that the neurasthenics who give their experiences are devoid of all sense of humor.”
“Idealistically sound, and heartening at the same time, in these days of war this big little message is most timely.”
“The book makes, altogether, a contribution to psychology of consequence and interest; and also it will induce in every thoughtful reader much speculation—and possibly experiment sometimes—as to the cause of such an experience and as to the possibility of making the condition described that of ordinary life.”
MONTAGU-NATHAN, M.Contemporary Russian composers. il*$2.50 Stokes 780.9 17-26884
“We can best describe the book by saying that it is a thoroughly successful effort to make good the author’s aim as defined in his introduction—that of showing modern Russian music to be, not a nine days’ wonder, but a genuine and fruitful contribution of abiding value to the youngest of the arts.” (Spec) “The works of Skriabin, Glazounov, Stravinsky, Rakhmaninov, Rebikov, Taneyev, Medtner, and other composers are discussed and criticized at some length. The first thirty-four pages of the volume are devoted to an interesting survey of Russian musical history.” (Ath)
“Mr Montagu-Nathan writes with intense sympathy, but he is far from being uncritical. ... His style is efficient, though somewhat laborious, and he is inclined to overload his comments with the ponderous jargon of modern art criticism; but he does not write for mere writing’s sake, he shows at times an agreeable sense of dry humour, and he excels in his judicial summaries.”
“He covers the ground well, and his book is in so far of real value. ... But he makes, it must be confessed, demands on the reader’s patience. The facts are wrapped up in a maze of words, the criticisms are both vague and long, and the style is repellent.”
MONTESSORI, MARIA.Montessori elementary material; tr. from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. (Advanced Montessori method) il*$2 Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)
In this book the Montessori principles of education are applied to the needs of children above kindergarten age. It consists of seven parts, devoted to: Grammar; Reading; Arithmetic; Geometry; Drawing; Music; and Metrics. The English work is in part a translation and in part an adaptation of the original. So far as grammar is concerned an effort has been made to take account of differences between the two languages, and new illustrative material has been substituted. A number of the illustrations are from photographs taken in Montessori schools in operation in the United States.
“Here is a book which the average parent and teacher will really read. ... It is not at all certain, however, that the book as it stands quite meets the needs of American schools.” H. T. C.
MONTESSORI, MARIA.Spontaneous activity in education; tr. from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. (Advanced Montessori method) il*$2 (2c) Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)
This work is a general discussion of all the principles that underlie Dr Montessori’s system of education. It consists of chapters on: A survey of the child’s life; A survey of modern education; My contribution to experimental science; The preparation of the teacher; Environment; Attention; Will; Intelligence; Imagination. The book is without an index, a lack partly supplied by an analytical table of contents.
“It covers much of the ground already gone over. Its contribution, then, to current educational literature is of no unusual value.” H. T. C.
MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).Anne’s house of dreams.il*$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-22301
This is the same Anne who was the heroine of “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea,” and the scene is still Prince Edward’s Island. Anne marries in the fourth chapter and goes to live in her “house of dreams” at Four Winds Harbour. The book brings in some of her old friends and a number of new ones.
MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).Watchman, and other poems.*$1.25 Stokes 811 17-30917
A volume of poems by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” and other popular stories. “The watchman,” from which the title of the book is taken, is a narrative poem, relating an incident at the time of the crucifixion. “Songs of the sea” and “Songs of the hills and woods” follow, and the remainder of the book is taken up with miscellaneous poems.
MONTGOMERY, ROBERT HIESTER.Income tax procedure, 1917.*$2.50 Ronald 336.2 17-2659
“This work, by its author’s own profession, is not a treatise on the income tax but rather a reference manual for the individual, company, or trustee who wishes authoritative guidance in the actual reporting of income as required by the amended income-tax law. The various provisions of the law are set forth under convenient headings; Treasury department rulings are cited; and the interpretations and criticisms of the author, who is both an attorney and an accountant, are appended.”—J Pol Econ
“The work will be helpful to those not familiar with the preparation of income tax returns, but it will not take the place of a lawyer and an accountant where the problems are complex. The author does not hesitate to uphold the law and related rulings where he deems them justifiable, nor to criticize where he thinks they are not what they should be. Most of the criticisms are well taken, but not all of them are expressed conservatively and judiciously.” R. G. Blakey
“This book is, notwithstanding, a serviceable compilation, even though it hardly makes good Mr Montgomery’s hope that it will ‘answer about 98 out of 100 anxious questions.’”
“It seems probable that the taxation of incomes will continue for a long period; and until it ceases, or the law authorizing it is better understood, this work must be indispensable in the preparation of returns and to save needless overpayments. Its advice is definite and down to date.”
“Mr Montgomery’s claim to distinction is that he does not hesitate to try both the makers and administrator of the law by the principles established by the courts.”
“The author is a certified public accountant.”
MOORE, CLIFFORD HERSCHEL.Religious thought of the Greeks from Homer to the triumph of Christianity.*$1.75 Harvard univ. press 292 16-22750
“This volume is in the form of lectures. Eight lectures given before the Lowell institute in the autumn of 1914 are combined with material from a course delivered at the western colleges with which Harvard university maintains an annual exchange. ... Beginning with Homer and Hesiod the development of Greek religion is traced through more than a thousand years to the triumph of Christianity. In addition to a treatment of the better known periods of classical literature, there are chapters on Orphism, Pythagoreanism and the mysteries, on Oriental religions in the western half of the Roman empire, on Christianity, and on Christianity and paganism.”—Am Hist R
“It represents what, I venture to think, may properly be called the new humanism of classical ownership. Without attempting universality or completeness it offers a treatment of Greek religion which is at once interesting and significant. Teachers of the history of thought should welcome for their pupils such an excellent organization of the more important aspects of the subject, while classical students will profit by the philosophical insight with which it is treated.” W. G. Everett
“The essential lack of unity in the book and the inappropriateness of the title should be apparent from the chapter-headings in the table of contents when the book is first opened. But the reader becomes more convinced of these things and more regretful when he has discovered how ably and how successfully the author has handled his proper theme. The Protestant cult of the Old Testament has warped the conception of Christianity in the popular mind, and Professor Moore has done a real service in setting forth clearly and dispassionately the vast debt which Christianity owes to the enlightened thought of Greece and the West.” I. M. Linforth
“The learning exhibited in the book is solid and unimaginative, the style too much that of the class-room, dull but informing.”
Reviewed by James Moffat
“From more special, technical, partial, and possibly more brilliant presentations the reader who seeks instruction rather than a new thrill may sometimes turn with relief to this lucid, sober, well-proportioned exposition.”
“The study is orderly and methodical, not perhaps brilliant or original, but a responsible volume, such as one can turn to with confidence, and a worthy and useful popularization of knowledge.”
MOORE, EDWARD.Studies in Dante, series 4.*$4.20 Oxford 851 17-19159
“This last contribution by the late Dr Moore to the study of Dante, which has been seen through the press by Dr Paget Toynbee, contains seven studies. Four are reprinted from periodicals: three—on ‘Dante’s theory of creation,’ an ‘Introduction to the study of the Paradiso.’ and ‘Sta. Lucia in the “Divina commedia”’—are now published for the first time. But the most important contribution, occupying nearly half the volume, consists in the ‘Textual criticism of the Convivio,’ giving Dr Moore’s reasons for emendations many of which were embodied ‘sub silentio’ in the 1904 text of the Oxford Dante.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“For specialists the new and exhaustive treatise on the textual criticism of the ‘Convivio’—as that singular prose work should be called instead of ‘Convito’—will be of chief importance. More general interest attaches to the reprinted paper on Dante’s tomb at Ravenna.”
“It is twenty-one years since the ‘first series’ of Dr Moore’s ‘Studies in Dante’ was issued, and each member of the succession, now closed by the present volume, has been an important event for scholars.”
MOORE, ERNEST CARROLL.[2]Fifty years of American education. 80c Ginn 370.9 18-2690
The publishers issue this book as an anniversary memento of their own fifty years of activity in the educational field. Dr Moore sketches briefly the progress of education from 1867 to 1917, or from the close of the Civil war to the present. There are three chapters: We live in a period of change; Education at the end of the Civil war; Some changes since the Civil war. A brief bibliography, listing about fifteen titles, is added.
“Professor Moore has given us a thumb-nail sketch of this golden era—a sketch replete with facts and figures, and serving the very definite purpose of letting us know just how far we have advanced in an important field of human endeavor.”
“Dr Moore, whose work is concise and impartial, treats of the development of theory as well as the material progress during this period.”
MOORE, GEORGE.Confessions of a young man.Uniform ed*$1.50 Brentano’s
“The ‘Confessions’ has long been known and liked; it is not likely to be forgotten. ... Mr Moore says that the book is ‘a sort of genesis; the seed of everything I have written since will be found therein.’ The present edition contains some songs and ballades written in French that belong with the period of the book, and which are well worth recovering.”—N Y Times
“There is very little that is durable about ‘The confessions of a young man.’ Mr Moore compares it to Rousseau. It is much more comparable with the work of George Sylvester Viereck. ... To improve with age a book should not have been written with an eye to the immediate audience in front. The trouble with the ‘Confessions’ is this preoccupation. ... About Degas and others of the Nouvelle Athènes, about Shelley and Gautier and Balzac and Pater, about Emma in the London boarding-house—George Moore continues to be engaging in thisjuvenescentbook. But it remains the book of a man to whom art had not yet given the unity that he craved; and who did not quite understand or acknowledge his divided soul.” F. H.
“A 1917 person will have to overcome a strong distaste before he can get the good out of the ‘Confessions of a young man.’ ... Old vices are a thousand times worse than old virtues. George Moore had money and played the prodigal in Paris of the early 80’s, the Paris of Verlaine and Mallarmé. Homer and Chaucer are our contemporaries, Shakespeare belongs to yesterday, but the Paris of Verlaine and of Mallarmé is prehistoric.” W: E. Bohn
“Probably no more vivid and entertaining set of sketches, impressions, adventures, understandings, and realizations of life lived in an environment with which Mrs Grundy has nothing in common, were ever written. ... Naturally these books are for sophisticated readers.”
MOORE, GEORGE.Lewis Seymour and some women. Uniform ed*$1.50 Brentano’s 17-3153
“In his preface to the new version of ‘A modern lover,’ which now bears the title of ‘Lewis Seymour and some women,’ Mr Moore tells how he did not revise this book, finding it to be, he exclaims, ‘jargon ... beyond hope of revision.’ Instead he rewrote it entirely, and the book is a new book, except for the plot, or anecdote. As Mr Moore describes it, ‘This anecdote was so true and beautiful that it carried a badly written book.’”—N Y Times
“It is written with all the consummate art, the seeming-careless carefulness, the ripe humor, the power in the depiction of character that have made Mr Moore a master, and the delight of every reader to whom these great qualities appeal. The story lends itself easily to Mr Moore’s genius.”