“Mr Robinson has here told the story of the British part in it as well as it has yet been done.”
“He strikes his own note, which is a more matter-of-fact note than that sounded by Mr Gibbs. ... He can tell either a plain or an exciting story lucidly, picturesquely, eloquently, and thrillingly when the need is; and where he has to speak of the larger issues, he judges soberly. ... The book is full of good stories in all veins, and will take its place as a most satisfactory popular history of one of the most important episodes of the war.”
ROBINSON, LAWRENCE EUGENE.Domestic architecture. il*$1.50 Macmillan 728 17-12502
This book tells how to plan, build and furnish a house and how to arrange the grounds. It is illustrated with diagrams, gives a glossary of architectural terms, and at the end of each chapter, references for further reading.
“A non-technical, well-balanced treatment.”
“An elementary book, useful to those building or remodeling their own homes.”
“This book has to do almost altogether with the simple, every-day things about the house, and its suggestions are meant as much for the owner and builder as for the professional architect.”
ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.Plunder. il*$1.35 (2c) Bobbs 17-9706
The three richest men in the United States meet together in one room. One controls coal, one transportation, one the food supply. An agreement is drawn up and their signatures are added. A gust of wind flips the paper out of the window! By chance it falls first in
“The tale is more commonplace and not nearly so ingenious or interesting as are ‘Loot’ and ‘Plunder,’ but it is entertaining.”
“A sensational story, exciting, but not as carefully wrought out as one or two of the author’s previous books.”
“Mr Roche displays much intimacy with the technic of the track and the betting ring, and ingeniously bares the methods that may be employed in turning racing and betting into dishonest channels. Altogether, it is one of the best racing stories that have appeared in a long time.”
ROCKWELL, FREDERICK FRYE.Around the year in the garden. il*$1.75 (1½c) Macmillan 635 17-24266
“A seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass.” (Sub-title) Altho the author begins with the first of January and follows the year around, week by week, he insists very strongly that gardening can not be done according to any such set scheme and warns the reader against following the directions of the book blindly. “Let the gardener, then, read this book with a diligent eye for such advice and suggestions as he can apply to his own problems; ... for the real work, like the profit there may be and the pleasure there is sure to be, must belong to the gardener, and cannot be put between the covers of a book.” (Introd.) The book is designed for the busy man and woman who garden in the spare time afforded between other occupations.
“The clearest and most helpful kind of information for the busy man or woman who wants to get ready for next year’s gardening.”
ROGERS, ALLEN, ed. Elements of industrial chemistry. il*$3 Van Nostrand 660 16-23460
“This volume is an abridgment of a larger book entitled ‘Manual of industrial chemistry,’ a work which was written by forty eminent specialists in chemical engineering. In its almost 500 pages of text it covers widely, but perhaps not deeply, the whole field of industrial chemistry.”—Coal Age
“The book will be of value chiefly to those who have not affiliated themselves with any particular industry and who want a generalized view of the whole field.”
“The matter is descriptive and not detailed enough to be of value to the works chemist, but would be understandable to the average reader interested in the subject. ... Dr Rogers is in charge of industrial chemistry, Pratt institute, Brooklyn.”
ROGERS, ALLEN.Laboratory guide of industrial chemistry. 2d ed il*$2 Van Nostrand 660 17-25806
“In presenting this thoroughly revised edition, the author has endeavored to make the laboratory experiments touch more closely upon present-day problems than was possible in the first edition. ... In many instances, it will be noticed that the methods are those in common use at the present time, and, whenever possible, actual factory practice has been followed.” (Preface) Contents: General processes; Inorganic preparations; Organic preparations; Dyeing of textile fibers; Pigments and lakes; Driers, varnishes, paints and stains; Soap and allied products; Leather manufacture; Wood fiber, pulp and paper; Useful data.
ROGERS, JULIA ELLEN.Trees worth knowing.(Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il*$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 582 17-13206
The introduction is addressed directly to the beginner in tree study, for whom this book has been prepared. Part 1 is a discussion of The life of the trees, and the remainder of the book is devoted to descriptions for purposes of identification. There are sixteen illustrations in color and numerous others in black and white.
“A compromise between the author’s comprehensive ‘Tree book’ and her small ‘Tree Guide,’ recently published. Of a convenient size to carry about for purposes of identification.”
ROGERS, LINDSAY.America’s case against Germany.*$1.50 Dutton 940.91 17-19161
“A good, brief account of the origin and development of the controversy which became the immediate cause of war between the United States and Germany. The author furnishes in this book a chronological record of the Wilson policy. His method is narrative and explanatory, not critical or defensive. ... He treats the points of international law involved, briefly and untechnically, particularly with regard to the submarine as a new weapon, the status of armed merchant ships, the problem of munition exports, and the difference between the English and the German ‘blockade.’”—R of Rs
“Clear and non-technical, it explains many misjudged and misrepresented points at issue.”
“The author of this volume is convinced that there is a real need for the average loyal American to understand that the legal grounds of our contentions with Germany are as much of the code of international law as the moral grounds are of the ethical code of Christendom. ... The book is written in untechnical language, but the case is argued with the care of one who has mastered international law, and the result that our position is legally correct is fully proved.”
ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).Hand of Fu-Manchu(Eng title, Si-Fan mysteries).*$1.35 (2c) McBride 17-14178
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie again take the field against the terrible Dr Fu-Manchu. They are enforced by the Scotland Yard police; he by the mysterious and far-reaching organization known as the Si-Fan. The field is London, from its foreign embassies to its lowest underworld. The weapons employed by the Asiatics in their machinations range from animal magnetism to the crudest of missiles. The peril that threatens is the wholesale slaughter of the white race and the domination of the world by the yellow. The book is the fourth of a series of which the first “The insidious Dr Fu-Manchu” was followed by “The yellow claw,” and “The return of Dr Fu-Manchu.”
“Of the experience they go through in these and other places, it would be unfair to give the reader even the faintest hint. Suffice it to say, that if he be a reader with a liking for thrills and able to put an extinguisher on his sense of probabilities, he will do well to choose a comfortable chair, make sure that there is plenty of oil in his lamp, and plunge forthwith into the mysterious occurrences and deadly perils brought about by ‘The hand of Fu-Manchu.’”
“The story comprises a succession of episodes which could be easily adapted to a thrilling movie serial. ... The author is skilful increating a state of suspense, even though neglectful of the rule that the miraculous should be fortified by plausibility.”
“The reader gallops through a number of rather inconsequent scenes in which poisonous flowers, kidnapped surgeons, hypnotic mandarins, marmosets, disguised assassins, treacherous Greeks, and secret passages play slightly unconvincing parts, aided largely by an easy incapacity on the part of the hero which is unrivalled by the most fatuous efforts of Dr Watson.”
ROLAND, pseud.Future of militarism.*2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
(Eng ed 16-23382)
“In this volume ‘Roland’ counters Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle,’ a denunciation of British unpreparedness, by arguing that preparedness could have had but one of two immediate goals—either war against Germany or an alliance with her. From this he contends that preparedness for war must inevitably lead to war sooner or later ... and that the sole means to secure an enduring peace is a league of the allied nations to found among themselves an absolute pacifist policy, and until such time as Germany becomes sane enough to accept it whole-heartily, to enforce this policy upon her.”—Ind
“It does not clearly state its case or present its arguments. Instead, it heaps scorn and irony upon Mr Frederick Scott Oliver and turns what might be a reasonable and readable counter-argument into a silly and vituperative personal attack. ... Aside from the irrelevant question of one’s sympathy with them or with what he calls ‘the Oliverians,’ this book is good where the author states impersonally and coherently what he believes, and bad where he does not. Which is to say that a small part of ‘The failure of militarism’ is definite and readable.”
“We should have gladly parted with scores of controversial pages, not wanting in acrimony, for the fulfillment of that which the chapters ‘The way out of militarism’ and ‘The psychology of militarism’ promise but do not carry out. ... The whole book, or over-grown pamphlet, written with no small ability, leaves an impression of wasted or misapplied labour. ... ‘Roland’ can give us something better.”
ROLFE, AMY LUCILE.Interior decoration for the small home. il*$1.25 (5c) Macmillan 747 17-9832
A book on house decoration and furnishing for people of moderate means. The house planned by the professional decorator does not meet with the author’s approval, for it cannot have individuality, but she realizes that the amateur who is to do his own decorating must be guided by general principles and it is for him that this book has been prepared. There are chapters on: Walls and ceilings; Windows and their decorative treatment; The finishing of floors; Domestic rugs and carpets; A brief history of furniture; Modern period furniture and its use; Furniture of modern design, etc. The author is instructor in home economics in the University of Montana.
“A simply schemed and simply expressed book like this, that is also sound, comprehensive and sufficiently detailed, should fall in fertile ground.”
“A neat summary of such parts of several works on interior decoration as apply to the small house is the substance of Miss Rolfe’s unpretentious but useful little book. Her expositions read like college lectures revised for a larger audience. They will help to bring many middle-class Americans to the next plane of appreciation.”
“A good supplement to Quinn’s ‘Planning and furnishing the home’ and Daniels’ ‘Furnishing of a modest home.’ Good illustrations taken from Good Furniture.”
ROLLAND, ROMAIN.Beethoven, tr. by B. Constance Hull. il*$1.50 (3½c) Holt 17-12724
“I do not give the name hero to those who have triumphed by infinite thought or by sheer physical strength—but only to those made great by goodness of heart,” says Romain Rolland, and it is in this spirit that he writes of Beethoven, “the most heroic soul in modern art.” The book includes in addition to M. Rolland’s account of Beethoven’s life, a selection from his letters, a copy of his will, and an analysis of his symphonies and sonatas made by A. Eaglefield Hull. There is also an introduction by Edward Carpenter.
“Contains a bibliography (10p.), a classification of pianoforte sonatas, and a complete list of Beethoven’s works (12p.).”
“Altogether one of the most valuable works in music of the present year.”
“The present volume is rather a disappointment; of its 244 pages only 54 are given to M. Rolland’s sketch of the composer’s life. As a character study it is far from satisfying, containing nothing new in fact or interpretation. ... The chief value of the book is as an introduction to the study of Beethoven, and in this respect the copy of his will, a selection of his letters, a bibliography, and the complete list of his compositions are useful.”
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
“The intimate quality of the work is unusual. Rolland brings us the living Beethoven. The philosophic basis of the musician’s life is brought out in order to explain his profound and spiritualized music.”
“The title-page reveals its composite character, and an examination of its contents shows that M. Romain Rolland’s contribution only occupies about a quarter of the whole. This is his charmingly enthusiastic but somewhat uncritical essay on Beethoven, which has been competently translated by Miss B. Constance Hull. ... The new matter is thus confined to Dr. Eaglefield Hull’s analyses, which have the merit of brevity and sum up the outstanding qualities of some works pleasantly enough. Unfortunately the editor’s style is undistinguished, and at times not even grammatical.”
“M. Rolland writes as a worshiper, but his worship is discreet. He paints a true picture, even though he leaves out details of Beethoven’s eccentricity, and the reader receives an inspiration from the glowing pages, and this in spite of infelicities in the translation, which, nevertheless, is not without spirit.”
“We become absorbed in this book mainly because of the author’s driving power, the way he arrays his facts and uses them to impel his argument. ... The second half of the book consists of a Baedeker to the symphonies, sonatas,violin sonatas, and quartets. A good many points of interest are touched upon, and the writer has looked well round his subject. But as a plan it falls between two stools.”
ROLLINS, MONTGOMERY.Village pest. il*$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23754
This story of a lively boy of thirty years ago has many of the marks of autobiography, and the author tells us that the incidents are drawn from life. David is the young son of a United States senator and his time is divided between Washington and a New England village, either place affording him a fruitful field for mischief. David has two intimate friends, one a village boy, one a Washington chum who spends a joyous summer with him in New England. David has another friend, also, a yellow mongrel dog named Alfred.
“Founded on fact the escapades will amuse this generation of elders as much as they must have exasperated and entertained David’s elders.”
“The pictures in ‘The village pest’ are almost as funny as the story itself. Young people will enjoy Montgomery Rollins’ account of David’s pranks.”
“Although one rather wonders how his longsuffering parents managed to keep out of the insane asylum, David’s pranks are very amusing—to read about.”
ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.Boy with the U.S. weather men.(U.S. service ser.) il*$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 551 17-24855
This story, dealing with blizzard, tornado and flood, is not the least exciting of this series for boys. As the author truly says, “There is no battle greater than the battle with the weather, which is both our enemy and our ally.” The story opens with a Mississippi flood. Ross and Anton, two boy chums who barely escape from the dangers of the flood, become interested in the work of the weather bureau in forecasting storms and enlist as volunteer observers. Like some of the other books of the series this one is a call to service: “High, high in the atmosphere, is a world all unexplored, where no man can dwell; where, as yet, no human-made instrument has reached. This unknown world calls for explorers, it calls for adventure, it calls for daring and patient work.” It is the author’s hope that some of the boys who read the book will answer the call.
“The illustrations are authoritative photographs.”
“A story full of thrills and appealing interest told in a way to be of great educational value.”
ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.Polar hunters. il*$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-13187
This is the second volume in the Museum series. The author describes life within the Arctic circle and gives an account of Peary’s discovery of the pole. The boy hero, who is called Kood-shoo, appears at first to be an Eskimo. He has grown up as a member of the Smith Sound tribe, and his ways are their ways, but when the Peary expedition comes to the region, the white men recognize in the boy traits that are not characteristic of the Eskimo. Eventually the two “magics” in Kood-shoo’s possession lead to his identification.
“No boy can read the story without having his imagination fired.”
ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.[2]Wonder of war in the air. il*$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 623.7 17-30275
“To give the boys of the United States a fair idea of what an aviator must learn, how an aviator must live, in what appalling perils an aviator must risk his life, to build up in our boys a still greater admiration for the men who hold the honor of the nation in their hands, and to urge the heroic and high-spirited young Americans to a higher love for their country and eagerness to serve it, is the aim and purpose of the author.” (Preface) As usual in his books, he has devised a story of more or less definite plot as a means for conveying his information.
“Packed with information, mostly accurate and brought down to within a very few months.”
“The author is doing a useful work by making his books accurately instructive as well as entertaining.”
ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.[2]Life and art of William Merritt Chase. il*$4 Scribner 17-30892
“For many years before his death last year, William Merritt Chase was regarded as perhaps the most characteristic of American painters; and Miss Roof was appointed by him to write the story of his life. This she has done in cordial cooperation and with the assistance of the artist’s family. With the inclusion of many letters and personal reminiscences and much illustrative material she tells the romantic story of Chase’s discontented boyhood in the West, his escape to Paris, and apprenticeship to art, and his subsequent crowded and picturesque career in New York. The work contains an introduction by Alice Gerson Chase and many reproductions of the artist’s works.”—Lit D
“Her book abounds in piquant anecdotes. Somewhere she speaks with scorn of the inadequacy of the literary man to understand art; this is perhaps a sort of boomerang; for her style is far from literary. The volume will be prized by all art-students and especially by those who remember the genial artist.” N. H. D.
“This authorized biography, therefore, is much more than the life of a man; it is in many ways a history of the American spirit in art during the last generation.”
“Very entertaining and well balanced book. Its pleasant, straightforward style is not at all inconsistent with the fact that Mr Chase chose Miss Roof because she had a painter’s and not a writer’s attitude toward art.”
“Though clogged with unimportant and unnecessary detail, the text will be read with interest for the sake of the pictures of the painter’s early struggles and later achievements. Some of the anecdotes relative to Chase’s experiences with Whistler are delicious.”
“A sympathetic but hardly adequate biography. Though a considerably larger volume than the Inness, it fails to give as clear a picture of the man or as definite an idea of his art. The author was at one time a pupil, and she gives an interesting account of his methods of teaching.”
Rookie rhymes.il*75c Harper 811.08 17-25361
“A collection of rhymes, parodies, jingles and songs written by members of the 1st and 2d Provisional training regiments for officers, at Plattsburg, N. Y., during their encampment from May 15th to August 15th, 1917, accompaniedby line drawings. ... About one-third of the verse is written to be sung to familiar tunes.”—R of Rs
“More pep than poetry is contained in this volume of songs and parodies. As the expression of the mental attitude of men torn away from the ordinary vocations of peace and in training for sanguinary conflict, it has a certain psychological interest. Two or three are real poems.” N. H. D.
“Interesting chiefly for their high spirits and fun.”
“The Plattsburg rhymes are, in the main, mediocre. ... A few of the verses, such as ‘The Plattsburg code’ rise distinctly out of the mediocre rut; but too often the motif is nothing more important than the relative superiority of company A over company B.” Clement Wood
“Well worth the attention of our army and navy students and their friends.”
“As a bit of fun to drive away homesickness, it will undoubtedly find its way into many soldiers’ kits.”
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.Foes of our own household.*$1.50 (2½c) Doran 304 17-25965
Mr Roosevelt thinks that “in the long run we have less to fear from foes without than from foes within. The men who oppose preparedness in our military and our industrial life; the business or political corruptionist or reactionary and the reckless demagogue who is his nominal opponent; the man of wealth and greed who cares for nothing but profits, and the sinister creature who plays upon and inflames the passions of envy and violence: the hard materialist, the self-indulgent lover of ease and pleasure, and the silly sentimentalist—all these are the permanent foes of our own household.” (Foreword) Contents: The instant need; and the ultimate need; Must we be brayed in a mortar before our folly depart from us?; The children of the crucible; Washington and Lincoln; A square deal in law enforcement; Industrial justice; Social justice; Socialism versus social reform; The farmer; The word of Micah; The parasite woman; Birth reform. “Chapters 2, 7, 10 and 11 are based on articles that have appeared in the Metropolitan; chapter 8 on an article that has appeared in the Outlook; chapter 3 on a speech delivered on the Fourth of July last.” (Appendix A.) There are seven appendices. Appendix B is a letter urging that loyal Americans be not discriminated against because of their parentage; C deals with Mr Roosevelt’s speech concerning the East St Louis riots; D with the conscientious objector; while G gives the correspondence with the President and Secretary of war concerning Mr Roosevelt’s offer to raise a division for foreign service.
“Even when Mr Roosevelt’s mind is in a state of general conflagration, as it has been much of the time since 1908, it seems to continue more or less automatically its two-handed motions of balance and compensation. And so his new miscellany, ‘The foes of our own household’ falls easily into two parts. Just as one of them was written by a judicious, progressive, and patriotic Aristotelian, exactly in the same way the other was written by a wilful, angry, and furiously inequitable extremist.” S. P. Sherman
“The foes of our own household are those who dare to differ from Colonel Roosevelt. And he verbally flays those foes with all the vocabulary—and it is by no means a small one—at his command. There are stripes here for everybody. For the pro-German, the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the ‘parasite woman’—meaning or, rather, including the one that won’t bear children—the radical, the socialist and the trusts.” Joshua Wanhope
“The diligence with which he berates the President and his advisers and the frequency with which he airs his own personal grievance bring vividly to mind the incessant fault-finding and the determined attempts to rouse anti-administration feeling of some of the men in public life during the Civil war. ... It is very much to be regretted that Colonel Roosevelt was not better advised than to give permanence to some of his criticisms. For they deal with crises left behind us, ... and their tendency is to foster and increase distrust and disapproval of the government’s conduct of the war. ... These blots are the greater pity because they mar a book that in its far greater part is intensely patriotic, devoted to the betterment of American life, helpful and important.”
“The book is vital with the unimpaired vigor and moral force of its distinguished author.”
“Mr Roosevelt’s opening chapters express a desire which can only be the interpreted as having for its object the militarization of mind and heart of the United States. ... His book is about as philosophic as a volcano—and only a little less picturesque.”
“When Mr Roosevelt writes on a topic of actuality one always gets the exhilarating impression of a determined pugilist who has his opponent’s head in chancery and does not mean to stop pounding it until he has made the world a better place to live in. It is a prose style which suits the writer exactly.”
ROOT, ELIHU.Latin America and the United States; col. and ed. by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott.*$2.50 (2c) Harvard univ. press 308 17-16739
“The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this is one of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary of war, as Secretary of state, and as senator of the United States. ... These addresses are not arranged chronologically, but are classified in such a way that each volume contains addresses and speeches relating to a general subject and a common purpose.” (Introductory note) This volume contains the addresses delivered during Mr Root’s trip to South America and Mexico in 1906, and in the United States after his return. The addresses of welcome and congratulation accompanying Mr Root’s addresses have been translated from the language of the country in which they were delivered. The first 200 pages are devoted mainly to “after-dinner speeches and toasts or answers to toasts delivered at diplomatic meetings.” The more valuable part of the book is the last eighty pages given to “Addresses in the United States on Latin American relations,” delivered from 1893-1915, the last of these being the address of welcome before the Second Pan-American scientific congress. Mr Root’s South American speeches have been published by the government of the United States in an official volume.
“Will be invaluable to the future historian who seeks to trace the origins of that fraternal spirit which has brought to our side in the war with Germany the great majority of our southern neighbors.”
“We must not forget that the invaluable spadework of Mr Root more than ten years ago was, to no small extent, the cause of the present harvest of goodwill and friendship between the two Americas. This book is one to be read and to be kept for reference. It contains in the speeches of Mr Root and in those of his South American hosts the distilled essence of that Pan-American sentiment which will be one of the greatest of peace-compelling forces in the future.”
“The more substantial part of the volume is to be found in the last eighty pages or so, and in the form of addresses delivered in the United States. They do to some extent afford real help to the reader who may wish to learn what is meant by ‘Pan-Americanism.’ The term is not free from ambiguity. ... On the whole, an examination of Mr Root’s addresses confirms old doubts whether the only practical Pan-Americanism is not Pan-North Americanism.”
ROOT, ELIHU.Military and colonial policy of the United States.*$2 Harvard univ. press 355 17-414
“Mr Root was Secretary of war from Aug. 1, 1899, to Feb. 1, 1904; Secretary of state from July 1, 1905, to Jan. 27, 1909; United States Senator from New York from 1909 to 1915. The latest volume of his addresses and reports, edited by Mr Bacon and Mr Scott, covers his services in the cabinet of Mr McKinley and in that of Mr Roosevelt, the larger part being allotted to his work in connection with the Philippines and the reorganization of the army command.”—N Y Times
“The editors have increased the value of the book by prefacing each article with a note giving its historical setting, and inserting relevant documents such as the protocols and treaties concluding the war with Spain, the instructions for the military government of the Philippines, the militia act of 1903, etc. There is also an index of some value.”
“They record the activity, the originality and the constructive service of the most accomplished and devoted public servant that the American people have had since the death of Alexander Hamilton.”
“A volume which is of direct pertinence to the problems of to-day.”
“No student of the history of the United States on the morrow of the Spanish war can ignore the contents of this most interesting volume.”
“Addresses and papers which should, and will serve as a reservoir of material for editorial writers and federal legislators.”
“It deserves, and we hope it may get, a wide reading throughout the British empire. Rarely have such official utterances had a higher political and even romantic interest. ... Perhaps the most thrilling and absorbing part of the tale modestly and quietly set forth in these official pages is that which deals with the disposal of Cuba. ... Mr Root’s admirably sensible and unanswerable defence of his Philippine administration may be commended to British rulers of India, from the secretary of state downwards.”
“The whole collection, when completed, will form a lasting monument to a statesman whose great qualities have long since gained him recognition, as far beyond the borders of his own country, as perhaps the most eminent of living American men of affairs. The present volume covers but part of his immense and varied activities, but it is the part which in the circumstances of the present time, is perhaps of the most vital interest to the American people and to the world at large.”
ROPER, DANIEL CALHOUN.United States post office. il*$1.50 (2c) Funk 353 17-24056
Authoritatively sums up the history and present condition of the postal service of the United States and points out its potentiality for still greater service to our country and to mankind. Contents: Postal service and civilization; Colonial post offices in America; British control of the American post office; Early development of the Federal postal system; Rise of the modern postal system; United States postal history since 1847; The post offices; The network of post roads; The post office lobby; The workings of a post office; Railway mail service; How the farmer gets his mail; Collection and delivery in cities; Addresses; Postage and mail classification; Parcel post; Special services; Postal banking; Postal inspection and control; Policing the mails; World mail service; Economic utility of the post office; Foreign trade by post; Postal engineering; The human element; The post office department; Relation of the department to Congress and the people; Postal perspective; Comparative postal service; Philately.
“Mr Roper has succeeded in giving a readable history of the beginnings and expansion of postal facilities with a very clear explanation of the workings of the post office and interesting information as to the difficulties to be solved, such as would hardly be possible for an author without actual experience in postal administration. The bibliography is incomplete and faulty.” Lindsay Rogers
“Mr Roper writes with the authority of four years’ experience as first assistant postmaster general (1913-16). His enthusiasm for his subject promises a good book, and the promise is fulfilled. Especially interesting are the chapters on the workings of the various departments of our postal service, as also the account of certain significant differences between our own system and those of Europe. A chapter entitled ‘Postal perspective’ presents a suggestive vista of possible future developments in our post-office department.”
“The information afforded should be at the command of every citizen.”
ROSENAU, MILTON JOSEPH.Preventive medicine and hygiene; with chapters upon sewage and garbage, by G: C. Whipple; vital statistics, by J: W. Trask; mental hygiene, by T: W. Salmon. il*$6.50 Appleton 614 17-21957
“The third edition of Rosenau’s ‘Preventive medicine and hygiene’ may well be called a special or military edition, for it is obvious that it has been prepared to meet the needs of the present emergency. To the consideration of the fundamentals of hygiene have been added sections on military hygiene as follows: Examinations of recruits, Diseases of the soldier, Duties and organization of the sanitary corps, Sanitation of troops in camp and on the march, etc. In the discussion of the new diseases which have arisen in the present world war, the latest information is given concerning trench fever, trench foot, war nephritis, shell shock, and gas poisoning, while other diseases, as tuberculosis, meningitis, and the venereal diseases, are presented in the light of war conditions. The discussion of the newer diseases peculiar to war is accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography of the recent literature.”—Nation
“With this new section superimposed on the one thousand pages of the former editions ...the work becomes the most comprehensive, as it has always been the most authoritative, treatise on hygiene in the English language.”
ROSENBAUM, SAMUEL.Rule-making authority in the English supreme court; with an introd. preface by T. Willes Chitty. (Univ. of Penn. law school ser.) $3.50 Boston bk. 17-9474
“Delegation of the power to make the rules governing the trial of the cases brought before them to the judges of the supreme court working with members of the legal profession, has been a feature of British jurisprudence since 1875 and has been less thoroughly adopted in most of the British colonies. Mr Rosenbaum undertakes a description of the development of the rules now in force and of their content. ... There are frequent comparisons between English and American methods of rule making to the disadvantage of the latter though no analysis of these is presented.” (Am Pol Sci R) “Mr Rosenbaum’s conclusion is that the regulation of civil procedure should be entrusted to a professional body rather than to a well-intentioned but overworked legislature.” (Ann Am Acad) The contents of this book first appeared as articles in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, the Law Magazine and Review, and the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation.
“The material first appeared as articles in law magazines and the subsequent editing has not eliminated references to local conditions and practice justified only in the original publication.” C. L. Jones
“Mr T. Willes Chitty of the Royal courts of justice, London, who writes the introduction, speaks in highest praise of the painstaking research and labor which the author has devoted to his task, and of ‘the practical, detailed, and accurate knowledge of our procedure which he has acquired’ and lays before his readers. This estimate by an English jurist is an estimate that can be taken at its face value, as it comes from one who is thoroughly familiar with the rules which Mr Rosenbaum describes and discusses.” C. L. King
ROSENBLATT, FRANK FERDINAND.Chartist movement in its social and economic aspects. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa*$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25226
“The volume, which is introductory, summarizes the English radical movement previous to Chartism from the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, describes in detail the economic and political situation in England at the time of the origin of Chartism, sketches the careers, personalities, and beliefs of the leaders of the movement, traces its emergence from the existing political and economic conditions and its development until the end of the Newport riot in November, 1839. The war has delayed the completion of this study for the subsequent period.”—J Pol Econ
“There seems no particular reason for the qualifying phrase in its title since the political side of the movement is as much to the front as the social and economic. The preliminary chapters are inadequate and disappointing. In the opinion of the reviewer they should either have been made much more exhaustive or cut down to a few introductory paragraphs. The narrative chapters bring out clearly the conflicting attitudes of the ‘moral force’ and the ‘physical force’ factions. The work is thoroughly and impartially done; but one has a feeling that the material had not been well enough digested and assimilated to enable the author to write with breadth of view and sense of proportion.” H. E. Mills
“It is a little over sixty years since a book wholly devoted to the history of the Chartist movement was issued from the English press; for not a single book on the subject has appeared in England since Gammage published his history in 1854. As far as it goes his study is, on the whole, a satisfactory piece of work. It is particularly so as regards the sketches of the leaders of the movement, and of the spirit in which they preached the gospel of revolt. He is less successful when he describes the political, industrial, and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement.” E: Porritt
“His exposition of the causes behind the Chartist movement is marred in places by inexactness of statement, and a tendency to exaggeration in language out of harmony with a scholarly presentation of historical facts.” E: Porritt
“Three ‘Ph. D.’ monographs on Chartism, together constituting volume 73 of Studies in history, economics and law present from different points of view a survey of a movement too much neglected by historians, especially by those of England and the United States. ... Dr Rosenblatt gives more attention than his fellow-authors to the narrative of events; so his essay serves well as an introduction.”
“An immense amount of information in a very readable form is packed into 244 pages.” I. C. Hannah
ROTHSCHILD, ALONZO.“Honest Abe”; a study in integrity based on the early life of Abraham Lincoln.il*$2 (2½c) Houghton 17-25451
“The unique and comprehensive library of Lincolniana” which Mr Rothschild had collected, recently donated in his memory to the Widener library of Harvard university, evidences the thorough research and study which he gave to his chosen subject. Mr Robert Lincoln has been quoted as calling “Lincoln, master of men,” Mr Rothschild’s first book on Lincoln, the best book about his father he had read. “‘Honest Abe’ traces the development of Lincoln’s honesty as exhibited by his active life from childhood through his election to the Senate. An additional chapter, unfortunately cut off by the author’s sudden death, was to have been added. The work, however, is an entity as it stands. ... Two of the chapters are concerned with Lincoln as a lawyer; one, with Lincoln as a politician. ... Following the text is a short biography of the author written by his son.” (Boston Transcript) “A list of books cited” occupies eleven pages and is followed by thirty-eight pages of “Notes” in which there are frequent references to secondary authorities. The frontispiece is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken from a woodcut by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype owned by Mr Robert T. Lincoln.