“It is no exaggeration to say that many equally interesting diaries could be collected from sixteen-year-old high-school girls. As for the editing, we should be inclined to pass it over in silence if the remainder of the diary could be expected to be as valueless as this.”
“The comparison that suggests itself unjustly but automatically to the reader of the present volume is with the diary of Samuel Pepys. We have here the same open confessions of weaknesses, vanities, and sins; the same engaging discursiveness; and the same frankness and honesty which, whatever opinion we might hold about the moral worth of the older writer, left us with no doubts about the genuine humanity of his book. The diary has been translated into vigorous and racy English, it has been elaborately indexed and annotated.”
“The diaries now before us show that understanding was not wanting in the translator in a literal sense; his success is indeed greater than might have been expected in view of the rules by which he was bound to maintain the strictest accuracy—but possibly a keener sympathy with the ideas of the writer might produce a yet closer and more illuminating version of a ‘human document of exceptional interest and worth.’”
TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.Journal; tr. by Rose Strunsky.*$2 (3c) Knopf (17-21353)
“It was Tolstoy’s wish that his friend and follower, V. G. Chertkov, who was perhaps nearer to him spiritually than any one else, should revise and arrange for publication after his death all his manuscripts and documents, including his journals. But his widow, the Countess Tolstoy, took possession of his journals and notebooks and placed them in the Moscow historical museum. ... Therefore Mr Chertkov can publish only the volumes of which he happened to have copies from the original. He possesses of these copies the volumes that cover, in addition to this section from 1895 to 1899, the succeeding years from 1900 to 1910 and will publish these later.” (N Y Times) The present volume of Tolstoi’s journal covers the period from October 28, 1895, to December, 1899. Omissions, made either by the censor, or on account of their intimate character, have been indicated. There is an introduction by Rose Strunsky. Appended are ninety pages of notes by V. G. Chertkov, and a short sketch of Tolstoi’s life in the nineties by Constantine Shokor-Trotsky, which includes a classified bibliography of Tolstoi’s writings from November, 1895 to 1899. There is a full index.
“A volume that will be valued by the lovers of fragmentary thought as they value the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, the ‘Journal intime’ of Amiel and the ‘Encheiridion’ of Epictetus. ... The voluminous notes by Chertkov form a veritable cyclopedia of contemporary biography and literature for they explain every proper name mentioned.”
“The processes of his mental debates are exposed, and the key to his philosophy and theology is put into the reader’s hand.”
“Here are recorded the incessant struggles of a mind bent on being absolutely honest with itself, longing to find the absolute moral basis for life. ... Miss Strunsky’s introduction sketches the influence of Tolstoy’s ideas upon the youth of Russia for the last generation.”
“Abounds in expressions of sincere self-criticism. ‘Unclear’; ‘Nonsense’; ‘This seemed much clearer to me when I first thought it out’—comments such as these Tolstoi would not infrequently append to his entries, and all too often the stricture is just. Seldom does Tolstoi in this record lead us up to the heights of ethical vision; more often he conducts us through the dark chambers of his own mind. Yet in this very fact lies the value of the journal. Few of the sayings it contains are valuable as isolated truths, and the whole is scarcely more enlightening than discouraging to those who are in search of light and leading; yet the collection of Tolstoi’s day-to-day thoughts forms a vitally interesting document for the study of religious experience.”
“It is the belief of Miss Rose Strunsky that a reading of the diary will make clear the meaning of the Russian revolution. ... In so far as the revolution had its mainsprings in the intelligentsia, and it did so largely, according to as competent an authority as Tolstoy’s son, Miss Strunsky’s statement cannot be gainsaid. ... The translation is finished and made with great faithfulness to lucid interpretation.”
TOMPKINS, ELLEN WILKINS.Enlightenment of Paulina.*$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-28187
The scene is laid partly in a town on the outskirts of Rochester, N.Y., and partly in the southern town of Middleborough. Paulina, daughter of a poor minister, after his death marries George Bull, whose secretary she has been, but who is personally distasteful to her, to secure a home and comfort for her mother. Mrs Sprague, however, does not live long to enjoy them. When later George Bull is imprisoned for theft, his wife, posing as a widow, goes to pay a long visit to her mother’s girlhood friend, Mrs Taliaferro, who has a charming daughter, Clyde. Paulina’s association with the kindly Middleborough people, most of all with the Rev. Mr Fellows who “in spite of his ministerial calling, was a creature of flesh and blood,” changes and develops her in many ways. The book also tells the story of Clyde Taliaferro’s love affairs, and of the devotion of Rosie, his brother’s widow, to George Bull.
“A story of original flavour and of sincere and varied characterisation.” H. W. Boynton
“Beginning with a situation of unpleasant ‘realism,’ the reader is led by way of an atmosphere of southern village comedy and romance to a conclusion charactered with self-sacrifice and spiritual generosity. ... Aside from the main theme, the development of a woman’s character, the story has much individuality; its picture of the Middleborough elect is less concerned with their typical southern quaintnesses than with their essential quality.”
“One of those books which one reads with a feeling of regret—regret for what they might have been. For there is some good work in ‘The enlightenment of Paulina,’ but it is rendered almost null and futile by the author’s apparent lack of any sense of light and shade, any sense of what to eliminate.”
TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS POTTLE).[2]At the sign of the oldest house. il*$1.50 (4½c) Bobbs 17-30279
A wholesome, old fashioned story with a restraint in the love making little known to modern romance. The setting is “the oldest house in America,” where are gathered for the browsing appetite of tourists, curios, paintings and valuable antiques. The keeper of the place is a little, bent, old shell of a woman, to whom the personal conduct of groups among her treasures and the droning recital of their ownerships and famous points have become a dun-colored habit. In sharp contrast to her is the grandchild, Pansy, who comes unbidden and self announced, to touch every treasure with the gold of youth. Exuberant spirits, a keen joy of living, tireless love of hard work become valuable assets in this dead-and-buried atmosphere. The hero is half artist, half business man, who also deals in antiques and has built up a good business in reproducing old pieces. Some one has said the story is “as fragrant as a honeysuckle, as homelike as a gingham apron.”
“‘A pretty story,’ very slight.”
“Not only does the book please while reading but it leaves a satisfied feeling after.”
“Mrs Tompkins has not made a contribution to literature; her characters do not grip your heart; nor do they help you to a better understanding of life—but the simple little story is full of charm and wholesomeness.”
“A bread-and-butter romance, which leaves the reader cold. Throughout the book there is an atmosphere of unreality which the thoughtful reader, in these times of stern realities, resents. However, there is much that is charming.”
TORRENCE, RIDGELY.Granny Maumee; The rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian.*$1.50 Macmillan 812 17-24093
These three “plays for a negro theatre” were presented in New York city in the season of 1916-17. “‘Granny Maumee’ is a tragedy of racehate, witchcraft and family affection of such terrible intensity that few readers will be able to take pleasure in it. ‘The rider of dreams’ is in a softer key and somehow suggests the mingled realism and mysticism of the modern Irish drama. ‘Simon the Cyrenian’ is an allegory of the African race placed in a biblical setting.” (Ind)
“The three plays are strangely reminiscent of the Irish plays. They have all the faults of the latter,—they are perhaps even a shade more loose and amateurish,—but they have about them the gracious honesty of a primitive people, a refreshing contrast to sophistication’s steelier, more intellectual truth. The negro theatre is a folk theatre and its plays are folk plays. They are chronicles of a simple, child-like people, full of naïve superstitious religion and rude poetry—and still within sound of the savage tom-tom. ... Mr Torrence does not plead for the black man and he does not apologize for him. He simply presents him, one feels truly, as he is.”
“The two first of these one-act plays begin excellently. Then, to get the theatrical ‘punch,’ the first shrills off into melodrama with voodoo trimmings, and the second flats out into the distribution of rewards and punishments. The third is a nowise successful attempt to realize that ‘atmosphere’ that surrounded the crucifixion of the Christ. If the form of the opening lines of ‘Granny Maumee’ had been held, Mr Torrence would have given us a really worthy, almost great study of negro character.” F. M.
“The first dramatic valuation of the negro which in theme, character and situation approaches the actual psychology of negro life. ... The plays have the haunting wistfulness of primitive racial characteristics emerging in a foreign civilization and their philosophy is distinctly that of the negro.”
TOWERS, WALTER KELLOGG.Masters of space.(Harper’s master inventors) il*$1.25 (2c) Harper 654 17-7207
This book tells “the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and most recently, the wireless telephone.” The book opens with an account of early methods of communicating thru space by means of signals. Chapters that follow take up: Forerunners of the telegraph; The achievement of Morse: Development of the telegraph system; The pioneer Atlantic cable; The birth of the telephone, etc.
“Untechnical, simply written story.”
“Good book for readers of high school age.”
“History teachers will find valuable reference material in this volume. It will do good service in the upper elementary grades as well as in the high school. The paucity of such material has been a great handicap to history teachers in the past, for which reason this book will doubtless receive a hearty welcome.”
“A volume of 30 pages of much interest and considerable value, especially for the idea of grouping these kindred tales of long-distance message-sending.”
TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON.Autumn loiterers. il*$1.25 (9½c) Doran 917.4 17-29815
“You will hardly believe that we were loiterers when I tell you that we were motorists,” writes the author. A leisurely journey thru the Berkshire hills, taken in company with a companionable friend and a six-year old motorcar, known as “Old Reliable,” is the subject of the sketches. They are reprinted from the Delineator, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Mr Towne is a poet and an occasional bit of verse is slipped into the prose narrative.
“There is magic in it. The title sounds the right note, interpreting the mood of the pages that follow.”
“A choice little volume. Happily illustrated. The man who drove the car was Porter Emerson Browne, playwright and novelist.”
TOYNBEE, ARNOLD JOSEPH.German terror in Belgium; an historical record.il $1 (3½c) Doran 940.91 17-14685
“The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in the countries overrun by the German armies during the first three months of the European war. The form of it is a connected narrative, based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference. With the documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to present a clear narrative of what actually happened. ... The narrative has been arranged so as to follow separately the tracks of the different German armies or groups of armies which traversed different sectors of French and Belgian territory.” (Preface) There are three maps and numerous illustrations.
“It is noteworthy that, as the author remarks, the different testimonies fit together into a presentation of fact which is not open to disbelief.”
“A dispassionate continuous narrative.”
“No ‘fact’ is reported without abundant reference and counter-reference. The sources include among others the Bryce report, the appendices to the German White book, the reports of the Belgian and French commissions, Massart’s ‘Belgians under the German eagle,’ Paul Hocker’s ‘An der spitze meiner kompagnie,’ etc. Mr Toynbee assesses the conflicting evidence with notable fairness, so that the record is free of any of the hysteria of the ‘eyewitness’ stamp of excited journalist.”
“The impression is inescapable that the relation is in the main true. The damning indictment is strengthened by official German admissions of slaughter and destruction in many of the places through which they passed. And there can be no dismissing this sort of evidence as forgery.” J. W.
“Its material has all been co-ordinated from published documents and, therefore, its evidence cannot be frowned down or minimized in any way.”
“It is of real value that the enormous mass of material to be found in the Belgian reports, and also, of course, in the Bryce commission, should have been worked up by a skilled and scholarly writer into the form of a short and simple narrative. ... There is much talk now about war aims and peace conditions. For this country the primary war aim is, and must continue to be, not merely the expulsion of the Germans from Belgium, but the establishment of an authoritative court to inquire into the events which Mr Toynbee records.”
TRAIN, ARTHUR (CHENEY).[2]World and Thomas Kelly.*$1.50 Scribner 17-29866
“Thomas Kelly is a young Bostonian, a son of ancient Massachusetts stock. But though one of his forebears has been a governor, and he himself is born in Back Bay, he grows up to find himself just without the pale of thesocially elect. He grows up a snob, in the odor of snobbery. Three years of his life at Harvard are embittered by his quite natural exclusion from the fashionable and expensive clubs of that city of boys. In his fourth year, a fluke of athletic success brings him to the front, and proves him worthy of membership in one of these golden groups. But it all goes to Tom Kelly’s head, he takes to cards and drink, and barely pulls himself together sufficiently to save his diploma. His prowess at tennis gains him a summer in the millionaire household of one of his clubmates at Newport. He is supposed to be there for training before the national tournament; but when the test comes is quite too far out of condition to make more than a tolerable showing. But there are consolations: heiresses are abundant, ready to award themselves to his youth and good looks. How, after all, he escapes making a whole hopeless mess of his life, and sets his foot at least upon the first rung of the ladder of an honorable and useful career, is the substance of the latter part of the story.”—Nation
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Readers who were familiar with the Boston of thirty years ago may find here an extraordinarily faithful and, with all its humor, sympathetic record of that place and time and atmosphere.”
“Mr Train, it would seem, intended his hero to have a good deal of charm, but for some reason has omitted to endow him with an atom of that most desirable quality. The first part of the novel is by all odds the best. The interest of the story—like its merit—steadily declines, until it reaches the vanishing point; which place it attains many pages in advance of the last chapter.”
“It is the strength of Mr Train’s story that he has portrayed the hero without sparing him, but it may be questioned whether the character is worth while.”
TRAIN, ETHEL (KISSAM) (MRS ARTHUR [CHENEY] TRAIN).Bringing out Barbara.*$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-10198
Seventeen, just thru preparatory school that probably had a finishing touch to it—the author does not say—Barbara West arrives home to enter upon all the bewildering preparations for her “coming out.” She is a natural, democratic girl, with simple tastes. After her four years of school girl life she finds the atmosphere of formal teas and dinners too stifling and the shallowness of social climbers too artificial for her inclinations that run to flowers, birds, sunshine and people who can tell the truth. How she manages to live thru her coming-out season and yet emerge unspoiled is a story that may be read with profit by all debutantes, and some mothers of debutantes as well.
“Exaggerated and rather hectic but written with considerable spirit.”
“The coldness and heartlessness of the family life of fashion and fortune worshipers is well brought out in this novelette.”
“A pretty little romance, written with pleasant sentiment.”
TREAT, PAYSON JACKSON.[2]Early diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan; 1853-1865. $2.50 Johns Hopkins press 327.73 17-28858
The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history for 1917. The writer, professor of Far eastern history in Stanford university, offers the lectures as the first part of a study which will cover the whole period of Japanese-American diplomatic relations. The present volume takes up the story of American intercourse, and continues it thru the negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, thru the troublesome period of anti-foreign movements, to the Mikado’s sanction of the treaties in 1865 where the narrative ends.
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM.Nothing matters, and other stories.*$1.60 Houghton 17-13222
“To his achievements as actor and manager Sir Herbert Tree adds, for the third time, that of authorship. ... Ten short stories, of which the first fills nearly a third of the space, comprise the collection. There is added also the presidential address delivered by Sir Herbert before the Birmingham Midland institute in 1915 on ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’ The book takes its title from the novelette that holds the initial place and tells the tragic tale of two friends and a woman. Some of the other stories are farcical, with a touch of the tragic in theme or dénouement. Ironic laughter runs through them all.”—N Y Times
“While we are interested in the stories of this collection, for the majority the greatest attraction will lie in the essay with which the volume ends, ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’” D. L. M.
“He has a gift for epigram, a wayward sardonic humour, and a strong sense of the macabre. Even where they are derivative his phrases are ingenious, as when he defines the genius of the courtier as ‘an infinite faculty of not being bored,’ or remarks that the Austrian officer ‘waltzes as the nightingale sings, because he has nothing else to do,’ or deprecates the habit observable in some people, ‘who are too apt to treat God as if He were a minor royalty.’”
“Perhaps only two of these tales appear as they would have appeared had Sir Herbert Tree been a professional and laborious writer instead of a brilliant and gracious amateur. But if the form of the stories speaks of the parergon, there is entertainment and to spare in them. Not the least part of it, by any means, is the constant bubble of smart phrases.”
TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH GOTTHARD VON.History of Germany in the nineteenth century; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul. 7v v 2*$3.25 (1c) McBride 943 (16-759)
v 2Volume 1 of the English translation of Treitschke’s history was published in 1915. It dealt with the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the close of the War of liberation. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to The beginnings of the German federation, 1814-1819, with chapters on: The congress of Vienna; Belle Alliance (Waterloo); Mental currents of the first years of peace; Opening of the German Bundestag; Reconstruction of the Prussian state; South German constitutional struggles. As in volume 1, there is an introduction by William Harbutt Dawson.
Reviewed by M. S. Handman
“If it lacks the complete ecstasy of the author’s narrative of the War of liberation, it compensates in a measure by the tempered pride with which he discusses the spiritual achievements of Germany during the first years of peace. The translation by Eden and CedarPaul continues to show the defects and qualities of the first volume—competence without elegance.”
“It is important to remember that the ill fame Treitschke has acquired comes less from the ‘History’ than from the ‘Politics’; though the ignorant narrowness of the latter deserves whatever condemnation it may obtain. The ‘History’ is on a different plane. It is brilliant, it is eloquent, and even if it is not seldom inaccurate, it represents great erudition. That from which it seems to have inspired distrust is the fact that it was written to prove a theory. ... The ‘History’ is a household word in Germany, as Macaulay in England or Taine in France. And it is that deservedly. With all its faults, it is a fundamental book.” H. J. L.
“It is not true, but it is convincing. ... It is, in brief, the epic of Prussian absolutism. ... Yet it should none the less be read; for it has played and is playing a great part in the world’s affairs. And if it is not itself sound history it has at least done more than most books of its species to make history. Only, one should read Carl Schurz’s ‘Autobiography’ as well.” W. C. Abbott
TREMLETT, MRS HORACE.Giddy Mrs Goodyer.*$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-11794
Over in Europe the war is raging, but the echoes of it that reach South Africa in this story are very faint. Little Mrs Goodyer comes down to the coast to visit friends. Once more accustomed to an easy way of life, she feels that she can never go back to the rough mining town in which her husband has kept her immured, and she decides to divorce him. Her friends refuse to have anything to do with the matter, a reputable lawyer tells her she has no case, but she persists and finds a lawyer who promises her the divorce, case or no case. She has got herself into a pretty tangle by the time the husband comes looking for her. To escape him and her troubles she sails for England. The husband engages passage on the same boat and a reconciliation is easily affected.
“The novel is amusing and smartly written, with a touch of cynicism, like a dash of paprika, to give it flavor. There is a good deal of clever character drawing.”
TROWARD, THOMAS.Law and the word.*$1.50 (3½c) McBride 131 17-16437
The author, who died in 1916, was one of the leading exponents of New thought. This book is made up of a collection of his essays and is prefaced by an appreciative foreword by Paul Derrick. Contents: Some facts in nature; Some psychic experiences; Man’s place in the creative order; The law of wholeness; The soul of the subject; The promises; Death and immortality; Transferring the burden.
TRYON, ROLLA MILTON.Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860; a study in industrial history.*$2 Univ. of Chicago press 609 17-13932
“The book has been written by a historian and connects, throughout, the subject of household manufactures with the general economic and political history of the nation. ... The general plan of treatment involves a combination of the chronological and topical methods: For the colonial period ... the field has been covered with a very definite aim in view; the first, to determine and elucidate the various factors affecting household manufactures; the second, to connect these factors with real situations; the third, to consider the multifarious products of the family factory; and the fourth, to find evidences of the transfer from family to shop- and factory-made goods. The period from 1783 to 1810 has been treated chronologically with a view to showing influencing factors and amounts made, and topically for the purposes mentioned in three and four above. After 1810 the discussion has largely to do with the transition from home- to factory-made goods, and adapts itself admirably to a straightforward chronological treatment.” (El School J) This book has nineteen statistical tables and a bibliography of twenty pages. The author is assistant professor of the teaching of history in the University of Chicago.
“The book contains eight chapters of very unequal merit. ... It will be of value to the economic historian as a convenient and serviceable storehouse of data bearing on household manufacture. No other single volume known to the reviewer contains so much source material on the subject for the country as a whole. Unfortunately it is not well organized; it lacks proportion and emphasis, and is conspicuously weak in interpretation.” H. A. Wooster
“The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer of economic history must do more than this. Only by the constant application of the principles of economic science can he give an adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the reasons for its eventual decay and disappearance.” P. W. Bidwell
“Carefully worked out, it connects the subject with the general economics and history work, and is useful as a reference book for history and household art and science teachers in high schools, normal schools and colleges. Good index.”
“Throughout the text are minutely worked out tables showing the growth or decline of these industries not only in the different states but in the counties which had the most influence on their status.”
“The present demand for material in the history courses will be partially satisfied by Mr Tryon’s book. To teachers of household arts, especially of textiles, it should make a very definite and detailed contribution in the account which it supplies of one phase of their work as it was done in the home prior to the time of its taking over by the school.”
“Many tables give valuable statistical data.”
“Intended for the use of students, but of no little interest to the general reader, who will find here many homely facts about the life of his ancestors.” P. B.
“The author has indicated clearly the relation of household manufactures to the social, political, and general industrial life of the people. He has used extensively the census returns, reports of the treasury department, and the records of many state and local historical societies in the choice and selection of his material. The variety of topics that Professor Tryon discusses being considered, it seems extraordinary that he has been able to confine his treatment to one volume. This he has done because of the method of his treatment, which has been both topical and chronological. The book answers a long-felt need in the field of industrial history and merits the thoughtful consideration of all school authorities and teachers of history.” R. E. Jordan
“A very interesting study.”
TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT.[2]New reservation of time, and other articles.*$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 304 16-23788
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The impression a young man will get from this book is that to be institutionally responsible is to be intellectually suppressed and benumbed. Dr Tucker does not say this, but he gives the effect of a mind that has been a long time in prison, the implications of his philosophy are so radical and yet his thoughts move so stiffly in their harness. Here is a mind that has a driving radical force about it in any direction where it works openly and freely. Once discount the prison chill and you find Dr Tucker anything but a class-bound conservative. His pages, if brooded over by the ruling class with which one should have to identify him, would revolutionize our social order.” R. B.
“Dr Tucker exhibits the same restraint in the discussion of old-age compensation that he shows in the essays upon ‘Undergraduate scholarship’ and the war. In every case the reader will get a sense of the ‘intellectual austerity,’ as Dr Crothers once phrased it, of a thoughtful man with newly acquired time for thought. With America actively engaged in the war we can find an added interest in the essay on the ‘Ethical challenge of the war.’ Dr Tucker considers the war a contest between liberalism and reaction in which the United States is to play the part of keeping the issue always defined.”
TUFTS, JAMES HAYDEN.[2]Our democracy; its origins and its tasks.*$1.50 (1½c) Holt 321 17-27649
A book for the citizen and the prospective citizen who may want to know better what his country stands for. The writer devotes himself less to the machinery of our government than to the principles and ideas which the machinery is meant to serve. The book is divided into two parts: The beginnings of coöperation, order, and liberty, and Liberty, union, democracy in the new world.
“Excellent book ... in simple entertaining style.”
TURNER, ALFRED.On falling in love, and other matters. il*$1.50 Dutton 824
“‘On falling in love and other matters’ contains twenty-seven little gossips in, one is tempted to say, Mr Francis Gribble’s boudoir—in other words, a quantity of very small talk about the amours of Byron, Burns, Keats, Shelley, etc., together with bits of innocent chit-chat on sundry literary topics. The frontispiece exhibits Lady Caroline Lamb in her page’s costume.”—Nation
“Although so much of the book is filled with well known facts and with old ideas, he infuses into it a tone of delicate sophistication, and quiet observation, which makes his essays pleasant if not inspiring reading.”
“The love affairs of poets have a special interest for Mr Alfred Turner, ... while he also contributes a number of short and scholarly essays on a wider variety of themes, well calculated to hold the attention of any fairly well-read person. Such chapters as ‘A plea for the minor poet,’ ‘The poetry of new lands,’ and ‘The importance of the right word’ illustrate Mr Turner’s fondness for thought and expression that lie off the main highways of literature.”
“It is a good book for a somnolent lady resting her nerves in a hammock, with a box of bon-bons underneath the bough.”
“The author is editor of the London Evening Times. The first half of the book follows ... the love affairs of poets. But Mr. Turner handles his subject delicately and interestingly, and no one can complain that the author has been in search of scandal. His faculty for pleasant research and his knowledge of literature are better displayed in the subsequent chapters, in which, while his subjects are seemingly chosen at random, he writes unaffectedly and in a hearty manner that help to disabuse the newspaper reading public of the idea that there is something formidable and forbidding in the best authors.”
TURNER, CHARLES CYRIL.Aircraft of today; a popular account of the conquest of the air. il*$1.50 Lippincott 629.1 17-2690
“Beginning with a résumé of ancient allusions to flying, and some of the earlier experiments and projects, the author follows with chapters on the balloon; the first airships and aeroplanes; the aerial ocean, and navigation of the air; the principles of mechanical flight; the sensations experienced during ballooning and flying; learning to fly; the first years of flying; modern airship theory; the first use of aircraft in war; the developments of aerial fighting during the present war; and flying developments to come.”—Ath
“A popular, complete, well illustrated account of aircraft.”
“A welcome and useful book.”
“The author has been very successful in an attempt to concentrate the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space. Every page is full of facts, yet the book is quite readable and interesting. Much of the subject-matter will probably be new even to the great majority of experts.”
“An appendix contains aviation world records, vocabulary of aeronautical terms, French technical terms, tables, and a bibliography. Author is a lieutenant in British service, and has written other books on aeronautics.”
TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.Peggy of Roundabout lane. il*$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24817
Some of the characters from the author’s two earlier stories for girls, “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres,” reappear in this new book. The heroine is Peggy Callahan, who is called on to assume the duties of housekeeper while her mother goes to the hospital. Peggy doesn’t like housework and she had set her heart on winning a scholarship in school. Thru all her trials she has the sympathy and encouragement of her friend Anne Lewis. Peggy fails to gain the scholarship—but wins something better.
“An unusually wholesome and pleasant story. Close akin to the Alcott books.”
TURQUET-MILNES, G.Some modern Belgian writers.*$1 McBride 839.3 (Eng ed 18-26090)
“Beginning with a discussion of ‘The renascence of Belgian letters’ the writer proceeds to a series of outlines of the work of Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Rodenbach, Lemonnier, Eekhoud, Max Elskamp, Charles van Lerberghe, theDestrée brothers and Courouble, the whole being preceded with a brief prefatory note by Edmund Gosse.”—Boston Transcript
“Mr Turquet-Milnes relates the circumstances of the founding of La Jeune Belgique by Max Waller, and the gathering about him of a group of bold and original Belgian young men who brought new life to the literature of their country. ... Excellent survey of Belgian literature.” E. F. E.
“Its chief virtue lies not so much in the consideration bestowed upon individual talent as in the synthetic treatment of the movement as a whole. Taken all together, this book is one of the most conscientious and sympathetic critical surveys I have read on any literature. Furthermore, the author writes in a style that is virile and positive, and has a command of his subject that is a joy in these days when every schoolteacher sets up shop as critic. He sees his men in relation to their environment, to the earth from which they sprang, and having both vision and scholarship, he is able to measure them with an eye that is unusually clear.” L: Galantiere
“Instructive and intelligent little book for those who seek information on the subject.”
TUTTLE, MRS FLORENCE GUERTIN.Give my love to Maria.*$1 Abingdon press 17-12390
“Twelve short stories make up the pages of ‘Give my love to Maria.’ Several of these short stories won prizes offered by magazines [several years ago.]” (Springf’d Republican) “Contents: The story of the stories; Give my love to Maria; The French doll’s dowry; Idols of gold; As shown by the tape; Cupid at forty; A wingless victory; A successful failure; What doth it profit a man? Mademoiselle; Gentlemen unafraid; ‘Unto them a child.’” (N Y Br Lib News)
“Cleverness and insight they undoubtedly possess.”
“Pleasing tales.”
“‘Give my love to Maria’ contains stories with excellent plots, but there is a crudeness in their execution.”
“The stories show originality and clearness, and some understanding of the human problem.”
TWOMBLY, FRANCIS DOANE, and DANA, JOHN COTTON, comps. Romance of labor. il*55c (1c) Macmillan 16-23236
The compilers have selected “scenes from good novels depicting joy in work.” They say in their preface: “Young people are to-day more earnestly than ever before seeking for light to guide them to the places in the workshops of the world for which they are best fitted. Surely some of that light can be found in descriptions of those workshops written by writers of insight and imagination, like our novelists. Hence this book.” Among the selections are: The diver, from “Caleb West,” by F. Hopkinson Smith; Reclaiming the desert, from “The winning of Barbara Worth,” by Harold Bell Wright; Pottery, from “Brunel’s Tower,” by Eden Phillpotts; Cigar making, from “V. V’s eyes,” by Henry S. Harrison; The stock-yards, from “The jungle,” by Upton Sinclair; The cattle drive, from “Arizona nights,” by Stewart Edward White.
“An ingenious selection and arrangement of scenes from novels which picture the real work of the world in various industries.”