“Gives references to authorities.”
“The writer’s method is to jumble together a medley of facts and figures which seem to favor his side of the argument, wholly neglecting all that may be said on the other. Some of the statistics are too antiquated to be of any value whatever, as for example those which have been so freely drawn from Professor Frank Parsons’ ‘City for the people,’ a book published more than sixteen years ago. Errors of statement are not infrequent, moreover, and the style of writing leaves much to be desired.”
“The chief contribution in this work is an adequate presentation of proof that regulation of public utilities is a complete failure and that private ownership of public utilities is the most important cause of corrupt government. The most serious omission is the failure to discuss how municipalities are to secure the funds to acquire their public utilities.” B: Marsh
“The author has produced a readable brief for municipal ownership—as thoroughly one-sided as a lawyer’s brief but more open to attack. Some, if not most, of the statistical and other data are old and some are taken third hand. An instance, possibly one of the worst, may be given ... to the effect that the rates charged by privately owned waterworks are 43 per cent. higher than those charged by publicly owned works. ... The author is using figures more than a quarter century old.”
“Useful to the upholder of either side of the question.”
“A distinctive contribution to socialist literature. ... There is too little evidence at times to support the most sweeping assertions of fact. ... Then, too, there are enough inaccuracies to arouse some suspicions. ... This little book is, after all, human and socialist (although the word socialism does not occur from one cover to the other), and it has its failings, both human and socialist. ... It lacks those painstaking, thorough, exhaustive qualities for which the academician has more time and less need than we. But it is invaluable for the facts it does contain and above all for its sturdy effort to speak out of concrete experience in a field where the Socialist needs it most.” Evans Clark
“Mr Thompson gives us a frankly one-sided presentation—the case for municipal ownership.” E: T. Hartman
THOMPSON, CLARENCE BERTRAND.Theory and practice of scientific management.*$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 658.7 17-24295
During the past fifteen years the principles and methods of scientific management which were formulated and propagated by Frederick Winslow Taylor have been thoroughly tested. It is now Mr Thompson’s aim to survey the movement and make an appraisal of it. He devotes a chapter to “What scientific management is”; one to the originator of the movement, Frederick Winslow Taylor; while the body of the discussion deals with scientific management in practice, and some economic aspects of the movement. The results which are offered are derived from personal inspection of plants in twelve states where scientific management is in operation and from conferences with owners, managers and experts employed.
“A comprehensive study of history, methods and results.” I. C.
THOMPSON, D’ARCY WENTWORTH.On growth and form. il*$6.50 Putnam 18-1383
“In the author’s own words the purpose of his book is to show ‘that throughout the whole range of organic morphology there are innumerable phenomena of form which are not peculiar to living things, but which are more or less simple manifestations of ordinary physical laws.’ This thesis Professor Thompson elaborates in a most interesting manner, developing with the aid of our fuller knowledge of physical forces and of the conditions under which they act, the mode of study initiated by Borelli many years ago, and applied, more recently, with striking and suggestive results, to several forms of organic activity by Rhumbler, Leduc, Przibram, Macallum and others.”—Science
“It is clear and lucid, and deals with problems of enormous, often of surprising, interest—problems of science and problems of philosophy. The exposition is so admirable that no one need fear that the mathematics will obscure for him the philosophy, or the philosophy the science, or the science and philosophy the mathematics. The striking success and the amazing simplicity and beauty of the results will silence at once any sceptical doubt as to the utility of the method.” H. W. Carr
“This book, at once substantial and stately, is to the credit of British science and an achievement for its distinguished author to be proud of. It is like one of Darwin’s books, well-considered, patiently wrought-out, learned, and cautious—a disclosure of the scientific spirit.” J. A. Thomson
“Professor Thompson’s style is marked by a clearness of expression which makes every page of interest and his book is one that may well be recommended as revealing food for thought and fields for investigation which have been too much neglected by students of morphology.” J. P. McM.
“Though severely technical in appearance, this book is so well written and so full of interesting matter that it should not be monopolized by the specialists. It throws a new light on evolution.”
“An interesting and valuable book on a topic of enduring interest. Professor Thompson himself is careful to reiterate that he is propounding a method, advocating a principle rather than supplying a set of results which he expects the reader to accept. In this sense his book commands admiration and respect, and should stimulate a lively and productive interest in an aspect of zoology that has fallen into neglect.”
THOMPSON, VANCE.Woman.*$1.25 (3c) Dutton 396 17-7543
The author comes out fervently as a champion of the new woman in her fight for freedom. This rapidly advancing movement toward emancipation is the most important thing happening in the world today. All other problems “are of relative unimportance beside the overwhelming significance of this new fact: the rise of woman.” Women are freeing themselves from the over-specialization of sex; and this means the freeing of the race. “Woman cannot do her duty to the race unless she fulfills her duty to herself. The welfare of the race and the individual are as indissoluble as a word and its meaning; they are a bi-unity.” The author sketches rapidly the historical position of woman, then discusses the present-day significance of the woman movement.
“The frankest, truest, simplest and most compact exposition of the causes and the meaning of the feminist movement that has ever come to my attention. It is also the most entertaining. It is a picturesque and a provocative book—but it is not likely to provoke in any two people just the same feeling about it. Mr Thompson evidently believes in the feminist movement very earnestly and ardently. But his book, deeply searching and keenly discerning though it is in its discussion of most of the phases of the woman problem, grows evasive and even blind when it comes down to what is to-day the biggest and most difficult practical problem of the whole matter. And that is the economic status of married women.” F. F. Kelly
“Singularly clean, wholesome, upstanding, wind-swept, stimulating reading, much of which we cannot agree with, it is true, much of which will shock us, as it was meant to, all of which will quicken us. Superficially humorous, fundamentally serious and sincere, this book is a distinct contribution to the subject.”
“On the text, ‘Life is a conspiracy against woman,’ he has built up a serious, sincere, and stimulating sermon.”
“Mr Thompson’s book is not original in the sense of presenting new points in feminist thought. But itis unusual and challenging in its presentation.”
“A book every woman will want to read.”
“Mr Thompson occasionally allows his forcefulness to degenerate into claptrap, and his stock of haphazard information into an obvious and boastful show of knowledge, neither of which can conceivably advance the cause for which he purports to be working.”
THOMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM.Old man Savarin stories. il*$1.35 Doran 17-24211
“Stories of Canada and Canadians are rather rare among us. In these stories Mr Thomson has brought us a new acquaintance, and that a broad one, with the people who are our neighbors to the north. The stories—they are seventeen in number—cover a wide range of time and circumstance; and it is an interesting fact, to be noted at once, that they deal with Canadians as such, of French and Scotch and English descent; these are stories from Canada, not from any one class or of any one ancestry.”—N Y Times
“Not only are the stories interesting, but they embody an immense field of life.” J. E. C.
“They vivify for us many a different kind of feeling in individual, party, type.”
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.Through the year with Thoreau; sketches of nature from the writings of H: D: Thoreau; ed. by Herbert W. Gleason. il*$3 Houghton 818 17-22277
“The present volume is an endeavor ... to reproduce, with the aid of photographs, some of the outdoor scenes and natural phenomena in which he [Thoreau] delighted and which he has so graphically described. The series of views is limited, of necessity, but a sufficient number are given to illustrate Thoreau’s method of nature-study as well as to emphasize anew the accuracy and felicity of his nature-descriptions. It is hoped, also, that this combination of verbal and pictorial representation will stimulate to a wider apprehension and a more vivid realization of the beautiful in nature,—thus continuing in a measure, Thoreau’s self-appointed mission.” (Preface) The quotations from Thoreau, chosen largely, but not wholly, from the “Journals” are arranged, as the title suggests, to follow the changing seasons. The illustrations, selected from a large collection of photographs by Mr Gleason, are related intimately to the text, and include not only scenes associated with Thoreau, but studies of the plant and bird life described by him. Among them are remarkable pictures of the more delicate flowers, leaves and lichens, also of frost crystals.
“A good gift book for readers of Thoreau.”
“‘Through the year with Thoreau’ is at once a splendid memorial to that interpreter of nature, a credit to the Riverside Press as an example of beautiful bookmaking, and a satisfying further instance of the literary and artistic taste of the author.”
“The illustrations are worthy of the poet-naturalist in that they include not merely the conventional landscapes and ‘pretty’ flowers, but less usual and less promising subjects, such as the skunk-cabbage, fungi, icicles under a bank, and the ‘sand-foliage’ produced by liquid mud on the snow in the railroad cut. Mr Gleason has put into his photographs as much of an artist’s individuality as the wielder of a camera can well do.”
“Quite beyond the average volume of gleanings. The extracts are each illustrated by uncommonly fine photographs, and the whole is an attractive bit of bookmaking.”
“Without illustration, Thoreau’s description of early morning fog from Nawshawtuct hill, is appreciably less clear and interesting. Again, Thoreau’s description of the flower-buds of mountain laurel—‘curiously folded in a ten-angled pyramidal form’—gains vastly through the picture. ... Its only serious defect is its brevity; in 135 pages it is scarcely possible to do more than make a humble beginning in the task of illustrating Thoreau’s descriptions of natural scenes and phenomena. Yet a much larger book would have been forbiddingly expensive.”
“Altogether a beautiful book.”
THORNDIKE, LYNN.History of medieval Europe; under the editorship of James T. Shotwell. maps*$2.75 (1c) Houghton 940.1 17-24527
Professor Thorndike of Western Reserve university has prepared this history of Europe from the decline of the Roman empire to the opening of the sixteenth century for the college student and the general reader. The general plan of the work is “to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of the countries of modern Europe.” Special points to which he calls attention in the preface are these: he has given some attention to the states and racial groups of central and eastern Europe; he has given some prominence to economic and social conditions, omitting many minor details of political and military history; he has described the background of physical geography; he has referred frequently to source material and discussed its relative value; he has avoided fine print and footnotes and has made an unusually full index, designed “to serve somewhat the same purpose that a vocabulary does in the teaching of a language.” There is a brief list of “Guides in historical reading,” with supplementary lists at ends of the chapters.
“A capital textbook, well ordered and well balanced.”
“The style escapes the rigid narrative baldness of the compressed history for the classroom, yet it does not sacrifice accuracy to vivacity. There is a nice balance between economic, social and political factors.”
“The excellent feature about this book is that it uses events as a background for the study of institutions, principles and achievements, and thus places the chief emphasis on the intellectual content of history, rather than the framework.”
THORPE, FRANCIS NEWTON.[2]Essentials of American constitutional law.*$1.75 Putnam 342.7
A volume intended to serve as a text-book in law schools, colleges and universities. It has been prepared by a member of the Pennsylvania bar who is professor of political science and constitutional law in the University of Pittsburgh. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work. Contents: The supreme law; The law of legislative powers (2 chapters); The law of taxation; The law of commerce; The law of contracts and property; The law of the executive power; The law of the judicial power; The law of state comity, territories, and possession; The law of limitations; The law of fundamental rights; The law of citizenship; Appendix—Constitution of the United States and Cases cited.
THORPE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD.Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe; a biographical sketch.*$2.50 Longmans 17-298
“The late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England. ... Roscoe achieved so much worldly success and made himself so prominent a figure in public life that he convinced the ruling class, at any rate, of the importance of the chemist, and the royal commissions on which he served and the societies in which he took an active part, especially the Society of chemical industry, did much to raise the status of chemistry as a subject of study and an aid to the manufacturer. ... This aspect of his long and useful life is well illustrated in the sympathetic memoir which his friend and fellow-worker, Sir Edward Thorpe, has written. Roscoe’sown reminiscences, published ten years ago, have of course a more personal interest. Sir Edward Thorpe has aimed rather at recording Roscoe’s official and scientific work, especially in connexion with the Victoria university, of which he became a professor in 1857, and for the sake of which he refused the virtual offer of the Oxford chair.”—Spec
“Germany was undoubtedly the Mecca of science to Roscoe up to the close of his life. ... In the few years before the war he had written in German papers of the educated classes, and imagined as many did that the difficulties between Germany and England would be met successfully by the abhorrence of war in the best minds. ... Sir Edward Thorpe remarks as to such appeals that there was a section—a not inconsiderable section—of the German public to whom they were not made in vain, as was manifested by the publication in Stuttgart of a remarkable article on ‘World supremacy of war’ written under the nom-de-plume of ‘Nostradamus.’ The part reprint of this article is one of the most interesting things in this memoir.”
“There are several cases in which the chronological indications might have been more precise; and this defect is not compensated by the inadequate index, which might easily have been made more useful.”
THURSTAN, VIOLETTA.[2]Text book of war nursing.*$1.50 (3c) Putnam 610.7
The author of “Field hospital and flying column” and “The people who run” has prepared this book as a practical aid for nurses who expect to work near the front, where conditions and methods differ considerably from those prevailing in base hospitals at home. The work is a result of personal experience under Belgian, Russian and British military authorities. Part one consists of three general chapters on some of the features of war nursing. The four parts following are devoted to: The probationer in a military hospital; The sister in a military hospital; Notes on nursing in special cases; Infectious diseases. The appendix gives cooking recipes and table of French and English money.
THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.Enchantment.*$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-13720
At her birth her father had dedicated her to the church. And true Catholic that he was, he felt the oath to be sacred. But as the child grew, the thought of his oath became more and more distasteful. For Patricia was his favorite of the four daughters. Then he made another bargain with the parish priest. He would give up his drink, and fond enough he was of that, if Patricia could be saved from her fate. The bargain was sealed, and for ten years John Desmond kept it. Then under stress he broke it, and saw the convent doors opening for his loved child. But another man steps in and, not without connivance from the father, outwits the authority that all but had its hands on Patricia.
“Well told, but the embroidery is merely wearisome.”
“A little story of original and engaging flavour.” H. W. Boynton
“The solution of each problem is a surprise because it is the justice of Erin. ... There is neither logic nor syntax to the plot, but from first to last, there is not a dull moment.”
“In view of Mr Thurston’s intimate acquaintance with the heart and mind of the Irish people, this novel, based upon what purports to be a phase of Irish Catholicism, can scarcely be regarded otherwise than deliberate and willful misrepresentation in both theme and treatment. The impious layman whom he presumes to call a ‘good Catholic’ is hardly more objectionable than the priest who is tacitly presented as typical. Such wretched travesties could not be set forth in good faith by any writer save one totally ignorant of the church, especially as she is found in Ireland. It is a disagreeable story, founded on a preposterous premise.”
“Melodramatic from cover to cover, but has charming style and interesting characterizations. ... It is a tale for all those who ‘would not give a chapter of old Dumas for the whole boiling of the Zolas.’”
“The situation, the events that follow, might have been set forth with all the dry and bitter negativism of a ‘House with the green shutters.’ ... Mr Thurston succeeds in investing it with all the glamour of romantic feeling, that is, with that mood of faith and delight in human nature which may so readily and so indeterminately, be dismissed as sentimentalism.”
“‘Enchantment’ is a readable tale, but it is far from being Mr Thurston’s best work. Both story and style are labored. And the manner that in its spontaneity and fitness helped to make so pretty a tale as ‘The city of beautiful nonsense’ popular is artificial and often clumsy here.”
“The literary cloak of pseudo-fairy lore is not gracefully worn, and there are incidents too disagreeable to make one care whether they are well or ill told.”
“Nothing but romance, told with Irish charm, not to say humor, and the pull of an exciting yarn.” E. P. Wyckoff
“There are times when his pen fairly dances across the page, filling the senses with the spirit of youth and spring and joyousness, and swaying the mood of the reader to match his own.”
“Would have made an excellent short story. ... But Mr Thurston gives us his story beribboned just as the mid-Victorian beribboned his screens and his picture-frames. It is padded out with unnecessary digressions about fairy stories and princes: and one very soon recognizes that these add nothing whatever to the effect and only provide Mr Thurston with an opportunity to display his pretty literary manner.”
THURSTON, MABEL NELSON.Sarah Ann. il*$1.25 (3c) Dodd 17-23979
“Sarah Ann is a tenement child who has grown up in one of the most crowded sections of New York city, and who has succeeded quite thoroughly in evading education. ... The story pictures the efforts of this little tenement girl to keep house and care for Bobby and her baby sister. The crucial moment of existence comes when she first meets the ‘Lady Cop’ who takes an interest in the child and ... finally brings her to the point of wishing to go to school and of entrusting her adored baby sister to a day nursery.”—Boston Transcript
“Pathos, humor, sentimentality.”
“The charm of this little tale lies in its quaintness and its pathos.”
“A bright little tale in which humor and pathos, smiles and tears mingle in almost every sentence. ... The pathetic little figure of the child herself is drawn with tenderness and knowledge and a sure touch.”
“The best part of the book is the author’s common-sense treatment of the problem of the disposal of Sarah Ann. Contrary to time-honored literary tradition, she is not bodily transported to a higher social sphere, but is left in Cherry alley.”
THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.Education according to some modern masters.*$2 Platt & Peck, 354 4th av., N.Y. 370 16-23107
“The spiritual masters whose opinions upon education President Thwing has extracted and clearly interpreted in this book of his are Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mill, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Goethe. ... There are serious problems regarding the adjustment of education to modern life, upon which the thought of the older thinkers sheds little light. To reread the passages of their writings which President Thwing has reproduced makes one feel, however, that they had the root of the matter in them.”—No Am
Reviewed by W: H. Kilpatrick
“The book will be appreciated for its continuity and systematic organization as well as for the excellent selection which has been made of the quoted material.”
“The work is far more than a collection of pertinent quotations—though the quoted passages are numerous. In selecting the right passages from each writer, in connecting them in such a way as to show their relation to the whole thought of that writer upon education, and in independently summing up conclusions—a matter that requires critical judgment and real skill as a stylist—the author has performed a task as onerous and as profitable as that involved in producing an original treatise.”
“The book aims to save education from what the author calls the peril of losing its human touch. It is his belief that such a discussion as he presents of the foregoing great humanists will do much to counteract the modern tendency of the overemphasis on technical means, methods, and conditions. The book can be spoken of as a humanistic source-book in modern education. For a reference book in a course in the history of modern education the chief value of the book will be found in the direct quotations and the author’s summary and concluding chapter.”
THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.Training of men for the world’s future.*$1.25 Platt & Peck 378 16-23108
“President Thwing of Western Reserve university develops his essay in three parts. Part 1 briefly depicts The destruction of the world, through the present war and lists the constructive forces by which men, after the war, can build the ‘Gentle-state’ out of the wastages of war. ... Part 2, The construction, the main body of the essay, outlines ways in which colleges and universities may affect, permanently and intimately, the family, the church, the government, business and literature, and hence aid in building the new world. ... The remaining twenty pages of this second part present six historical parallels in the development of religion and of education. ... Part 3, The university itself, opens with a three-page criticism of ‘the ecclesiastical and the academic priesthood,’ taken from F. S. Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle.’ ... In answer to this criticism, President Thwing states that the university seeks no unworthy influence but seeks to find and to teach the truth, which alone, incarnated, will reconstruct the world.”—Survey
“Functions which President Thwing foresees for the university are the training of men to a broad idealism, to a social and sociological individuality and to richness of personality. But greater than any of these functions he considers the inculcation of knowledge of international relationships.”
“Mainly a summarization, sincere and often well-phrased, but containing little that is new, of the ways in which an institution of higher learning may serve the world.” W. E. Clark
TIETJENS, MRS EUNICE.[2]Profiles from China.$1 R. F. Seymour, 410 S. Michigan av., Chicago 811 17-30910
“Among prose poems which deserve to be cherished are Mrs Tietjens’ ‘Profiles from China.’ The poems are distinguished first by their almost unfailing subjectivity. The writer nearly always interprets each sight in terms of her own reaction. We do not mean that it is autobiographical, but that Mrs Tietjens quickly establishes a close relation between herself and the reader. She sees dirty, crowded China with a quick eye, and puts it before us with its gods and beggars, walls, women and dandies, rickshas and camels.”—Dial
“All is portrayed with humor, fear, sympathy, pathos, irony, and imagination.”
“It is a book which is slight in bulk but in no other way. The author achieves a sort of bigness that is rare; she has gone to a country she did not understand, and she has come back bringing with her no pretense of omniscience but a still deeper, yet, somehow revealing bewilderment. It is good to know that among the many and various-voiced women poets to-day there is one who can write social criticism without ranting and who can feel pity without sentimentalizing. This blend of toughness and tenderness is revealed a dozen times in the volume.” L: Untermeyer
“There is a staccato jerky quality that is more redolent of prose than of poetry. Yet there is always a clarity of interpretation, and a significant acceptance and rejection of materials that are artistic and noteworthy. The book is a sincere interpretation of the static East in terms of the more dynamic West.” Clement Wood
TILDEN, FREEMAN.Second wind; the plain truth about going back to the land.*$1 (2½c) Huebsch 630 17-20658
“This is the record of one heroic soul, by name Alexander Hadlock, who in 1906 at the age of sixty-two with no money and no previous experience in farm work, went back to the soil. He had his black years; four winters of working out on others’ farms; five years before he had his own few acres and his ‘shack.’ He gradually and doggedly saved and learned and succeeded.”—New Repub
“A ‘back to the land’ story that is not concerned with friendly chickens or misunderstood pigs.”
“The purpose of the book is to show that the conditions of success under such circumstances are indomitable will, hard physical work, and the application of scientific methods, and that the principal and sufficing reward is the consciousness of worthy work well done.”
“Written by one who evidently knows something about farming and is under no illusions as to the amount of hard work and, above all, intelligent work that successful farming demands. But whether the writer’s ‘Alexander Hadlock,’ who got his second wind at sixty-twoand exchanged the professor’s chair for the farmer’s hoe is a real person or purely imaginary, it would be hard to say. Perhaps he is a little of both.”
“There is something of heroism, something of good, hard, common sense, and a leavening of the strangely soothing love of animals and fields in ‘Second wind.’”
“Mr Tilden is sympathetic towards the middle-aged city hunger for the soil, although he is merciless in knocking the romanticism from that vision.”
“This book will be a gospel of successful farming to many. It is not, however, to be used as a guide in the arts of agriculture. It is too short for that. It is what its secondary title implies, ‘The plain truth about going back to the land.’” G: H. Hamilton
“It is an honest book, and it tells the whole story in terms of dollars and cents, measured rations, stone pulling, hard living, courageous persistence.” Marguerite Wilkinson
“Mr Tilden tells the story well, so well that his art would command applause were it not that the reader is breathlessly saving his applause for the subject rather than the author of the story.”
“The gloomy picture is relieved by a pictorial literary style that makes the book readable. ... Hadlock’s philosophy is sound and inspiring.” Bolton Hall
TILDEN, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century.*$3.50 Dutton (*7s 6d Routledge and sons, London) 660 17-21524
“With a large measure of success, the author has essayed the difficult task of compiling a detailed, but as far as possible nontechnical account of the discoveries and inventions in physical, organic, inorganic, and applied chemistry since about the beginning of the present century. Some of the newest and most completely equipped teaching and technological laboratories are described. Modern discoveries receive consideration; and many of the latter-day applications of chemical science are discussed with great fullness. The concluding portion of the book is devoted to recent progress in organic chemistry, some of the most striking results (such as the additions to our knowledge of the proteins and sugars, and the production of synthetic perfumes, colouring agents, and drugs) being recounted at considerable length. The volume is illustrated with 150 figures, diagrams, and views; and there are portraits of eleven distinguished chemists and physicists, of whom biographical notices are supplied in the appendix.”—Ath
“Sir William Tilden has filled his book with information so conveyed as to be clear to the non-technical reader.”
“Sir William Augustus Tilden, formerly president of the Institute of chemistry and also of the Chemical society, professor and dean in the Royal college of science, and emeritus professor in the Imperial college of science and technology, author of several important works on the philosophy and practice of chemistry, has at the age of seventy-five, produced a book of five hundred pages dealing in a popular style on the marvelous advance which this most practical of sciences has made up to the present time.” N. H. D.
“We congratulate the author on the production of a work as useful as it is accurate and interesting. The book is admirably got up and excellently illustrated, and constitutes a worthy and timely addition to popular chemical literature.”
“A companion volume to Edward Cressy’s excellent work ‘Discoveries and inventions of the 20th century.’ Occasional formulae and molecular diagrams should not dissuade the general reader—the book is intended for him. A noteworthy book that should be in every public library.”
“The economic problems generated by the war lend particular interest to the third section of the book, which deals with the modern applications of specialized portions of chemical knowledge to manufacture.”
“Sir William Tilden gives a good summary of modern chemical theories of matter, which is stiff reading, and some lighter chapters on various branches of chemical industry such as petrol dyes, drugs, rubber, cellulose, and explosives, with a brief concluding section on sugar and other organic substances. These chapters are informing, and illustrate the ever-increasing importance of the chemist in modern life.”
TIPLADY, THOMAS.Cross at the front; fragments from the trenches.*$1 (2½c) Revell 940.91
The author has been serving as a field chaplain with the British forces. Many of the chapters that make up his book are descriptive sketches, others are discussions of ethical and moral questions and considerations of the soldier’s attitude toward the church, the influence of the church after the war, etc.
“The tone of the book is hopeful, patriotic, and sincere.”
“Through the entire book radiates wholesome feeling, love and trust and a manly and serviceable but not ecclesiastical faith.”
TISDALE, ALICE.Pioneering where the world is old (Leaves from a Manchurian notebook). il*$1.50 (4c) Holt 915.18 17-26970
Sketches of life and travel in Manchuria. The author, who has been her husband’s companion wherever his business has taken him thruout the East, knows the country with the intimacy of one who has made her home there. In one of her chapters, “We become pioneer settlers.” she writes of the difficulties met with in establishing a home in an ancient temple. The book has been written largely for the joy of recounting happy adventures, but it may be worthy of more serious attention as throwing some light on the Far Eastern question, with reference to the relations of Japan and China. Parts of the work have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
“The practically minded reader may find much in it, but the imaginative will get more.”
“Her province is of the spirit, and her quest is as joyous as a child’s. The book was started ‘for the purpose of giving the breath of the open spaces to the stay-at-home vagabonds.’ This it does in a remarkable degree.”
“An interesting volume.”
TODD, JOHN AITON.Mechanism of exchange.*$2.25 (4c) Oxford 332 17-16572
The author is professor of economics in University college, Nottingham, England. He tells us in his preface to this “handbook of currency, banking and trade in peace and inwar” that “the war has struck at the very roots of our whole business and financial system, by its devastating effects on our foreign trade, and therefore upon all the complicated financial machinery which has grown up round international trade, ... and that our internal monetary and financial system was involved in the breakdown of the foreign exchanges.” The natural result has been “a striking revival of interest in economic problems,” especially in questions of currency, banking and trade. The teaching of these subjects must therefore be brought up to date, which does not mean, according to our author, “an entire recasting of all previous teaching of economics,” but “a new presentation of the principles in conjunction with the altered conditions.” “Statistical information on the problems dealt with in the book has been collected in a series of appendices, with in every case the source of the information. These figures are at present necessarily very incomplete. ... At the end of each chapter references are given.” (Preface)
“Professor Todd’s well-planned and ably written text-book on money, exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon our experiences of finance in war time to illustrate or modify the theories prevailing in peace. His lucid account of the crisis at the outbreak of war is supplemented by many tables showing at a glance the financial history of these troubled years.”
“Professor Todd states in his preface that, ‘as a result of the war, economics has come into its own.’ On the particular subject that he is discussing this is certainly true; but unfortunately his exposition of it is such that it leaves the reader with a quite contrary impression. ... Like many other workers in this field, he has entangled himself in his problem by introducing the comparatively unimportant question of the quantity of gold. ... Though he thus tumbles over a factor in his problem which he introduced to his own undoing, he provides his reader with a mass of statistics and information which may help others to draw a sounder conclusion.”
Told in the huts; the Y. M. C. A. gift book; with introd. by A. K. Yapp. il*$1.50 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1798)
These stories and sketches of the war, together with a few poems, are contributed by British soldiers and war workers, and published for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. active service campaign among soldiers, sailors and munition workers. A four page reproduction of one of the numerous trench magazines is included. The book is illustrated in black and white, and in color by Cyrus Cuneo.
“The subjects of the stories vary widely. One element, however, they possess in common: a high valor and patriotism no suffering can daunt, no hardship can quench.”
TOLSTOI, ILYA, count.Visions; tales from the Russian. il*$1.35 (3½c) Pond 17-15284
A volume of short stories and sketches by Count Ilya Tolstoi, who has been lecturing in America during the past winter. Five of them, The little nurse, War visions, An affair of honor, The scarlet bashlyks, and The little green stick, are stories of the war. The remaining four, Too late, One scoundrel less, Without a nose, and Cholera, are stories of Russian life in the days before the war.
“Count Ilya Tolstoi is a genuine poet; he has also his father’s gift for putting before the eyes whatever he wishes his readers to see. Read for instance the sketch entitled, ‘Without a nose’; it is horrible but it is marvellous; it might have been written by Count L. N. Tolstoi. Though the author is not a young man, there seems to be no reason why he should not yet accomplish great things in literature. These powerful stories and sketches have more than promise; they are little masterpieces.” N. H. D.
“Several of the tales are strongly suggestive of de Maupassant. ‘Without a nose’ has all of his concise and bitter irony, as ‘The little nurse’ might represent him in his mood of, as it were, reluctant sympathy. Stories like ‘Too late’ and ‘One scoundrel less,’ on the other hand, are full of generous emotion, the emotion of a Russian and a Tolstoy.”
“If ‘Visions’ has not genius, the book has a quiet and genuine interest.”
TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.[2]Diaries; v. 1, Youth; with a preface by C. Hagberg Wright. il*$2 Dutton (18-2499)
“Those readers who have familiarized themselves with only the later writings of Count Leo Tolstoy, must be prepared for a slight shock upon reading the intimate records of his earlier life in the ‘Diaries.’ The first volume of the series of three is now available in English translation, rendered from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, and A. Sirnis. It covers the years from 1847 to 1852, and reveals the formative period of Tolstoy’s life. His jottings, like those of Emerson, deal with his thoughts rather than with his actions, and express cryptically many of the ideas which he afterward expanded into the philosophy of his mature years. The dualism of his nature is particularly manifest; flesh and spirit were ever at war.”—R of Rs
“The ‘Diaries’ constitute a human document of great interest and importance, taking their place with the ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine and Rousseau in the light they shed on the soul-struggle of a wealthy and occasionally dissipated young nobleman who early caught the gleam and began to seek for the truth. The translation is admirably performed.” N. H. D.