“The good red blood of human life runs all through the book. Even the serious student of the railroad problem may profit by its perusal, for it helps to humanize the whole situation.”
HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK.Revolt in Arabia.*75c (2c) Putnam 953 17-7479
A translation of articles that appeared in a Dutch newspaper in July, 1916. Announcement had just come of a revolt in Arabia against Turkish rule. Professor Hurgronje’s purpose was to supply the historical background for an understanding of such an event. The book has a foreword by Richard J. H. Gottheil of Columbia university, and a translation of the proclamation of the Shereef of Mecca is added as an appendix.
“This brief account of the revolt and of the general situation is admirably lucid, and so is the chapter explaining the impropriety, according to Mohammedan law, of the assumption of the title of Caliph by the Sultan of Turkey. It will help western readers to understand questions that are to most of them obscure.”
“Though we must agree with Prof. Snouck Hurgronje that the Sherifate of Mecca, acting alone, is a negligible quantity in the great war, Arabia, considered as a whole, can undoubtedly become an important factor in its course and its consequential bearing on Near Eastern problems.”
“A most instructive little book. The author condemns the attempt of the Young Turks, under German influence, to revive the Caliphate, ‘playing with the fire of religious hate.’ He regards the Shereef’s revolt as ‘a master stroke,’ in reply to this pernicious scheme, which has happily failed in the great Mohammedan countries and is now rejected in Mecca itself.”
“The author is professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden, Holland. As he also dwelt for some time in Mecca he has been able to get a good insight into the hopes and aspirations of the followers of the prophet. The little work is of value for the light it throws on one of the side issues of the war.”
HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.[2]Awakening of business.*$2 (4c) Doubleday 380 16-24342
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“In popular, almost journalistic form, the newer point of view as to the relation between government and business is set forth. A valuable chapter on the work of the trade commission shows how the commission prevents law suits. The author is optimistic and singularly devoid of that fear of calamity from either foreign competition or government oppression which permeates the writings and addresses of the older school. His attention is taken up less with ‘grave perils’ than with means of strengthening and expanding business prosperity.” J. T. Y.
“This book by the former chairman of the Federal trade commission, exhibits those ideas which have given him nation-wide fame. But the careful thinker will not be able to avoid the inference that with all his apparent clearness of thought he has some of those heresies that have made Frank A. Vanderlip term us ‘a nation of economic illiterates.’ The author discusses the Sherman law in a sane way and explains the attitude of the Federal trade commission. At the close of the book the act under which the commission was formed and a part of the Clayton act are published. The book is interesting from cover to cover. Hurley’s meaning is always clear and his ideas always clever.”
HURST, ARTHUR F.Medical diseases of the war.*$1.75 Longmans 616
“Dr Hurst discusses certain common diseases in the war, such as trench fever, dysentery and paratyphoid, and shows how infections received at this time may linger and revive through many years in other forms.” (Survey) “The first chapter is devoted to the functional nervous disorders of which so many varieties have been met with during the war. Among these are classed cases of shell shock, neurasthenia, hysteria, and psychasthenia.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour
“It is a valuable addition to the medical literature of the war.”
HUSBAND, JOSEPH.Story of the Pullman car.il*$1.50 (6½c) McClurg 656 17-15079
The story of the Pullman car is told in the following chapters: The birth of railroad transportation; The evolution of the sleeping car; The rise of a great industry; The Pullman car in Europe; The survival of the fittest; The town of Pullman; Inventions and improvements; How the cars are made; The operation of the Pullman car. One aspect of the subject is not touched on, the labor disturbances that have attended the development of the industry. The illustrations, which include reproductions of cartoons made in the early days of the sleeping car, are interesting.
“The majority of people know in a vague way about the town of Pullman and the immense size of this industry, and these exact details of the various inventions and improvements which bring about the comfort and luxury of present day travel make an interesting and instructive book.”
HUSIK, ISAAC.History of mediaeval Jewish philosophy.*$3 (2c) Macmillan 181 16-21233
At the suggestion of the Jewish publication society the author has undertaken to write a “history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic philosophy in one volume—a history that will appeal alike to the scholar and the intelligent non-technical reader.” He points out that no such work exists in any language, and that in English, Jewish philosophy in general is barely touched. This work then seems to fill a gap in the history of philosophy. A general introduction is followed by chapters devoted to eighteen mediaeval philosophers. Bibliography, notes, list of Biblical and rabbinic passages, and index complete the book. The author is assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania.
“The author shows his ability to do pioneer work of this type by the skill with which he handles the obscure and intricate subtleties of his theme. He deals exhaustively with mediaeval Jewish rationalism but omits all reference to mysticism or the Kabbaka.”
“Those familiar with the scattered, obscure, and unintelligible material with which Dr Husik had to cope, can best appreciate the value of his excellent work. He has transformed a literary chaos into a systematic presentation, accessible to the modern reader. His study of the texts is deep and thorough; and his clear, simple, and concise style stands in contrast with the obscure interpretations in German.” N. H. Adlerblum
“Most scholarly and illuminating work.”
“Dr Husik deliberately restricts his scope to the medieval Jewish rationalism. Within these limits Dr Husik has written a good book. ... He has the two qualifications necessary for his main task. He has a real control of the technique of metaphysics and an independent knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic materials. The skilful exercise of these qualifications has resulted in a notable addition to the history of philosophy.”
HUTCHINGS, MRS EMILY GRANT.Jap Herron; a novel written from the ouija board; with an introd. The coming of Jap Herron. il*$1.50 (3c) Kennerley 17-28757
The sponsors of this story, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola V. Hays, seem to be convinced that Mark Twain spelled out the tale to them on the ouija board. “Emily Grant Hutchings, who writes the introductory account of how it all happened, is from Hannibal, Mo., the home of Mark Twain’s boyhood, and in her the alleged spirit of the author seems to have put much confidence.” (N Y Times) “Jap Herron is the son of the local drunkard of a village somewhere in Missouri. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage ‘to another bum,’ Jap runs away and strays into Bloomtown and the printing office of the Herald. The editor, Ellis Hinton, has already worked and starved himself to the verge of consumption. ... Jap appoints himself assistant, which means chiefly the sharing of Hinton’s thankless toil and pitiful fare. The two become devoted to each other; a good third is added them in the son of the village skinflint, and, later, a fourth in the angelic middle-aged Flossy, who marries Hinton and mothers them all. It is Hinton’s dream that Jap shall grow up to be what he himself has wished to be, a power for righteousness in the community. Jap does: we leave him secure in the esteem and leadership of a rejuvenated Bloomtown.” (Bookm)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“A good deal of the detail does ‘sound like Mark’—as an echo sounds like a voice. The ‘lay-out’ of the tale is natural enough, too, its setting in a little Missouri town, with the village printing office as its closer scene. But that is all. It is a tale of voluptuous domestic sentiment and pathos, with morbid emphasis (strange as coming from a freed spirit!) upon the pathos of death. ... It is a woman’s story of a notably ‘slushy’ type. Its roughness, its Twainish flavor, are external and occasional. Its people are unreal; when they do not remember to talk like Mark Twain, they talk like a best-seller.”
“The story is short and snappy. ... There are spots of undoubted brilliance. The pathos is much in evidence, and there is a lot of slapstick comedy. ... At its worst, it could be called a decent parody of Mark Twain.” Clement Wood
HUTCHINSON, ROBERT H.Socialism of New Zealand.*$1 New review pub. 335 16-14591
“Like Mr Walling, the author would apply the term ‘state capitalism’ to the social experiments of New Zealand; and says, with much truth, that they are designed largely for the benefit of the small farmers and shopkeepers, and that the result has been to entrench capitalism more strongly than ever in the affections of the middle class. The ‘Lib-Lab’ alliance, which controlled New Zealand politics for so many years under Ballance, Seddon, and Ward, has reached the limit of its power, and now the small farmers and capitalists, under the leadership of Massey and the so-called ‘Reform party,’ show reactionary tendencies, while the labor leaders and socialists are breaking away from the old entanglements to take a new and more radical path, where true progress lies. ... The experience of New Zealand, as Mr Hutchinson says, indicates the lines of development which the United States is likely to take in the near future.”—Am Econ R
“While this little book gives few unfamiliar facts about New Zealand, it is important in that it shows the point of view of a socialist who has spent a year or more in that country and who wishes to ‘dispel the prevalent idea that her progressive institutions have in any way solved the problems of capital and labor.’ ... Mr Hutchinson’s book is very readable, and shows an intimate knowledge of the subject. Here and there one might cavil at his argument.” J. E. LeRossignol
“The book is not a technical treatise, but a brief simple work for the general reader, and is both readable and instructive.” G. S. Dow
HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.Mag Pye.*$1.50 Appleton 17-4712
“This new story by the Baroness von Hutten is, first and foremost, a tale of mystery. There is the mystery of Mag’s mother, and the even greater mystery of Bettany’s disappearance, and several minor secrets connected more or less closely with these two principal ones. Victor Quest, the briefless, or almost briefless, barrister, learned about them all after a while, and it is Victor Quest who tells the story. ... Although the tale ends in the year 1916, the war is but lightly touched upon, with just a glimpse or two of the opinions of various persons as to the relations of England and Germany before August, 1914.”—N Y Times
“Told in a quiet, reflective manner with good characterizations.”
“The novel is pleasing and wholesome.”
“A story of graceful humour and unforced sentiment, at its weakest where it bothers with plot.” H. W. Boynton
“The novel stands in that host of good, but uninspired, middle-class English fiction.”
“As with De Morgan the apparently careless and haphazard manner of its telling veils an adroit and intricate method. ... It is a very graceful and skilful story.”
“Not by any means the author’s best work. The plot is improbable and mechanical. Mag herself is a natural and charming girl.”
“The Baroness von Hutten is far too well trained a writer to drop into futility, but she is capable of unreality and of dullness. ... The story may satisfy the sentimental, but it is unconscionably long.”
HYAMSON, ALBERT MONTEFIORE.Palestine, the rebirth of an ancient people. il*$1.50 Knopf 915.69 17-23768
“A detailed presentation of the social, economic, and agricultural conditions in modern Palestine, accompanied by a brief survey of the history of the country since the time of Roman occupation. Palestine has long appeared to be a desert. ... The colonies established under the care of the Zionist movement have proved that Palestine is one of the richest agricultural and fruit-producing countries on the face of the globe. ... What Palestine needs, Mr Hyamson states, is, first, a new vitalized western population, secondly, roads, railways and harbors, and above all a wise, just and stable government. Since the sorry events of Turkish misrule following the war, the Jews of Palestine hope for local autonomy under the protection of a Protestant power that will see fair play between the different elements of the population.”—R of Rs
“Mr Hyamson has done his task thoroughly. His book contains all the information necessary on the subject, handled with a nice sense of relative values in a style that is somewhat heavy.”
“The unique interest of his work lies in the part concerned with modern Zionism and the actual work of colonisation and education which it has so far achieved.”
HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT.Best man I know.*50c Macmillan 170 17-14119
President Hyde of Bowdoin college died on June 29, 1917. In this, his last book, he has condensed into ninety-five pages some forty-five treatises. “The best man Dr Hyde knows finds the roots of his being in ‘that will for the good of all which is the will of God,’ and from these roots various practical fruits are borne.” (Nation)
“It seems almost mystically appropriate that President Hyde’s last publication should be a message to the world describing ‘The best man I know,’ an ideal which many of the author’s friends and former pupils will think he not only depicted but exemplified. ... Dr Hyde had something very definite to say on each of his topics, and what he has written will make excellent food for reflection for men and women of every age.”
Information annual 1916; a continuous cyclopedia and digest of current events.*$4 Cumulative digest corporation 031 (16-9777)
The second annual cumulation of the monthly numbers of Information. The Foreword says, “With the issue for January, 1917, Information passed into new ownership, tho remaining under the same editorial direction as heretofore. This change of ownership brought an enlarged size and a changed format—which will affect materially the bulk of the new annual volume. The present volume is, however, but slightly larger than that for 1915. The European war, as before, overshadows all other subjects.” The volume is a cyclopedia for the year 1916, bringing the latest cyclopedias up to date. Fremont Rider is general editor, and the work of compilation has been done by Elizabeth Webb.
“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious matter. A much larger number of topics are treated than in the excellent ‘American year book’ or ‘New international year book’; the annual has the nature of an edition of the index of the New York Times with brief text under each entry instead of reference to the newspaper files, though it is not so inclusive. Its defects are many and evident. It contains no information except that which appears in the news columns of the press, it is not well written, and it suffers much from incoherence.”
INGPEN, ROGER.Shelley in England; new facts and letters from the Shelley-Whitton papers. 2v il*$5 Houghton 17-9463
“Mr Ingpen is known already as the author of ‘The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ first published about eight years ago. ... Its first-hand offering of the real Shelley as limned by himself in his letters complemented Professor Dowden’s monumental biography and the two together gave what has been thought to be the definite depiction of the poet, his life, career, and character. But new material has been found which adds much of interest to the facts already known. ... Several interesting new facts are revealed, and some portions of Mary Shelley’s life in England are cleared up. Two letters written by Lord Byron and a number by Shelley and his relatives are printed for the first time. Legal documents recently unearthed establishing Shelley’s marriage to Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh and others concerning her suicide are here first published.”—N Y Times
“Not necessary in the average public library.”
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
“His story is well known as one of the most romantic in all literary biography. It is told by Mr Ingpen in all its variety with little skill and with a straightforward marshalling of facts old and new. The two volumes contain many valuable additions to authentic Shelleyana, and in an appendix of almost one hundred pages are reprinted a series of documentary texts, and facsimile pages of Shelley’s note-books rescued from the boat that carried him to his death.” E. F. E.
“His work is too bulky for a supplement to Dowden’s and too scant for a successor. He deserves much credit, however, for assembling a variety of information which has been accumulated since Dowden’s time. He deserves still more credit for original contributions to our knowledge of Shelley.” Garland Greever
“The object is frankly to complement the standard biographies (particularly Dowden’s). Manifestly the work must be judged on its own basis. Taken alone, it is incomplete and has the misfortune, so far as mere interest is concerned, of dealing largely with controversial and subordinate issues. But it is a scholarly and, for its own end, well-constructed narrative. By all odds the most important new matter presented by Mr Ingpen is a considerable series of letters that passed between William Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor) and the various members of the Shelley family.”
“The new material, of which Mr Ingpen makes a very workmanlike use, was discovered by the lawyers who succeeded to the business of Whitton, the solicitor of Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father.”
“Here is a book which, on account of the scarcity of paper, has grown to the dimensions of a college dictionary. The publishers were forced to divide the sheets into two sizable volumes, which are now issued in uncut paper label style, and which, notwithstanding their weight, will be found very much worth while if you are a lover of Shelley and of the England of his day.”
“The book will be indispensable to the real student of Shelley, but it does not aim to be a self-sufficient biography for the general reader. The author has so rigorously ‘refrained from moralizing, or attempting any detailed criticism of Shelley’s literary work,’ that his narrative is at times colorless.” C. M. Lewis
INGRAM, ELEANOR MARIE.Twice American. il*$1.35 (2c) Lippincott 17-28801
David Noel was called the “Twice-American” because Brazil, on account of services rendered the state, allowed him to become a Brazilian citizen without surrendering his United States citizenship. When David was a lonely, poverty-stricken boy of eleven, a little five-year-old girl gave him her white shoes to sell so that he could replace his own worn out ones. The money received for her shoes, gave him his start in life. He followed the sea for years, then settled in Brazil where he became rich and honored, a general and a statesman. The palace where he lived was known as the “House of the little shoes.” The latter part of the story deals with “Dom David’s” search for and courtship of his “lady of the little shoes,” about whom hangs a mystery; and with the treachery of Jacinto Meyer, his pro-German enemy. “Dom David’s” secretary, Nilo Valdez, and Corey Bruce, an American engineer, released from prison on parole, play prominent parts in the story.
“This novel is described as a romance, and if the word is another term for incredible narrative it has been given an apt name.”
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
INNESS, GEORGE, jr.Life, art, and letters of George Inness; with an introd. by Elliott Daingerfield. il*$4 (7½c) Century 17-26890
America’s greatest landscape artist receives intimate and sympathetic treatment from the son who was his comrade and pupil. To write into these chapters the dynamic energy of his father’s studio hours and the quiet absorption of his out-of-door preparation has been a congenial task for the son. “He has given us a picture of his father, the man and his habits, and with this has told to us incident and story, many of them new, all reflecting most clearly the ingenuous nature of the man.” He attributes Inness’s great success to his honesty and simplicity. The volume is fully illustrated, there being many reproductions of Inness’s paintings.
“An interesting and very appealing picture of a great man. Reading his life cannot fail to give the Inness lover new reverence for his work and it must introduce many who may not know it.”
“The book comes most opportunely at the present stage of our artistic development, and it ought to serve, in some measure, as a corrective for some of the fantastic, distorted, barren ideas concerning art that have sprung up and spread offensively during recent years.” F. F. Kelly
“There is an interesting selection from Inness’s letters, throwing light on his religious opinions and on his own art and that of his contemporaries.”
“The reader does not need to be a student or even a great lover of art in order to enjoy this vivid and intimate picture of the greatest of our landscape painters. The son who tells the story was his father’s pupil as well as congenial companion, and yet he is able to look at the artist’s work in a detached, impartial manner, and to describe it in a way to make the book very valuable to students.”
International military digest annual, 1916.*$4 Cumulative digest corporation 355 (17-14742)
“‘The international military digest’ summarizes the contents of eighty-odd periodicals on military science in fourteen languages. It is published monthly as a magazine and in this annual volume the material of the twelve separate issues is rearranged and re-grouped under common heads so as to make a complete, accessible record of the progress in each branch of military science during the year.”—Pub W
“There isn’t six inches of superfluous matter in the six hundred and thirty pages of double column contents of this book. The type is clear and easy to read. Whether a man be in the regular army, a member of the Officers’ reserve corps, or merely one who is trying to follow the events of the war intelligently it is hard to see how he can afford to overlook this work.” A. B. Guernsey
IRWIN, FLORENCE.Mask. il*$1.40 (2c) Little 17-24816
The mask referred to in the title is the one which the author assumes that we all wear to hide our thought and feelings. Elsa, Alison and Gertrude Terry are the daughters of a father who is a clergyman and a mother who is “a dodger of real issues.” The girls lead a sheltered life in the town of Coningsboro, and grow up innocent and inexperienced. Alison inherits money from an aunt, marries a temperamental young author, Phil Howland, and goes with him to New York. Her husband proves to be selfish, lazy, a gambler, and neglectful of his wife. The way in which Alison bears everything, even the loss through Phil’scarelessness of her baby, how she succeeds as an author, how she remakes her husband, body and soul, form the main theme of this story of married life. The handling of one episode in the book between Alison and a friend of Phil’s recalls the descriptive powers of Mr Theodore Dreiser.
IRWIN, GRACE.Brown-eyed Susan. il*75c Little book pub. 17-9254
Susan Yorke was a pretty little girl whose mother’s original ideas as to clothing her caused the child much suffering. The story carries Susan “through childhood to girlhood, through the normal school to her first position as teacher.” (Boston Transcript)
“‘Brown-eyed Susan’ is a pretty little story of everyday humanity. It will not have a reader who will not long to put it in the hands of at least one person of her acquaintance that some sensitive child may thereby be spared the ordeal of being conspicuously unlike her mates.”
“The little volume, which is the first book of a young author, should be welcomed as enjoyable in itself, and as a pleasing promise of future work.”
IRWIN, INEZ (HAYNES) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY IRWIN).Lady of kingdoms.*$1.50 (1½c) Doran 17-25510
A village on Cape Cod is the scene of the early part of this story and two young women who have grown up in its repressive atmosphere are joint heroines. Both in the words of Matt Hallowell, the village philosopher, are “waste women.” Southward Drake is a beautiful, flashing girl who early exhausts the opportunities Shayneford offers. Her friend Hester Crowell is colorless and uninteresting, her latent qualities remaining undeveloped. A party of New Yorkers who spend a summer in camp in the neighborhood bring contact with the outer world. The two girls visit New York and are introduced to its many sidedness. Southward ultimately marries, and Hester, breaking through the barriers of reserve that have held her, deliberately chooses the difficult way of unmarried motherhood as the solution for her problem.
IRWIN, M. E. F.Out of the house.*$1.35 (1½c) Doran (Eng ed 17-15549)
The time of this story is the nineteenth century, but little Carolin Pomfret, who is its heroine, is brought up in an atmosphere that belongs to the century preceding. Left an orphan at five, she comes to live with her relatives Great-aunt Catherine, who had been a belle of the Regency, Great-aunt Lucilla, and her elderly daughter Lavinia, and elderly Cousin James. She is brought up on family history, given family memoirs to read, and because the Pomfrets hold that no Pomfret should marry outside the family if it can be helped, she is all but married to one of them, her weak-willed cousin Antony. But fortunately a big man from Ireland appears in time to take her away, out of the house of Pomfret, to a new life, which altho it does not offer safety and security, yet promises something of freedom and joy.
“The tale as it is told is convincing and very charming.”
“The book has finish and a certain dainty and deliberate artificiality, but the same things are described, the same ground gone over so often, that it presently becomes more than a little tedious, losing much of the charm it might otherwise have had.”
“The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.”
IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH.Pilgrims into folly: romantic excursions.*$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16317
The author of the “Letters of a Japanese schoolboy” here gives us seven short stories, mainly serious in character. “You can’t get away from your grandfather,” “What became of Deegan Folk?” and “He shot the bird of paradise” were published in McClure’s Magazine for April, 1914, February and September, 1915, respectively. Other copyrights are held by the Short Story press corporation and P. F. Collier & Son.
“Perhaps one can best recommend Mr Irwin’s first collection of short stories by saying that it is likely to give equal pleasure to the casual and to the analytical reader.”
“One story, ‘He shot the bird of paradise,’ stands out from the rest. It has subtlety and suspense, and is marred only by a touch of amateurishness—a criticism that applies to the entire volume. Mr Irwin is still a little uncertain of his powers, but the present book has definite promise.”
“Mr Irwin’s versatility is nothing less than astonishing. ... The writer of ‘Random rhymes,’ etc., whose name is suggestive of smiles, presents in his new volume seven short stories, of which pathos, sometimes deepening into tragedy, is the most striking characteristic. They are told with exquisite art, and with a sincerity which makes even impossibilities, as in ‘The highest,’ credible.”
“The final tale, ‘The ideal gentleman,’ may be voted the best of the group. It is a pathetic story of a waiter’s efforts to make of his son a ‘gentleman’ in the English sense of the term.”
IRWIN, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL IRWIN).Latin at war.*$1.75 Appleton 940.91 17-26656
“Mr Irwin’s book on ‘The Latin at war’ makes a connecting link between the French and the Italian soldiers and nations. The first chapter, ‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the fighting men in the high Italian Alps. Afterward he returns to France and carries the reader with him along the French front, where he describes the work of the American ambulance service, and tells of his observations and experiences in the war-swept zone. In the last chapter there is perhaps the most comprehensive and accurate account of the French army, how it is formed, why it is democratic, what are its peculiar qualities, and whence they are derived that has been offered to American readers. The chapters dealing with the work of the Italian army are graphic and full of human interest.”—N Y Times
“A vivid, very readable account of the author’s experiences on the French and Italian fronts in 1916. Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
“The present book should be cut down to half its size. The author is a good observer, he has had excellent opportunities to see the French and Italian armies, and he paints some graphic scenes; but his pages are cluttered up with long descriptions of things that do not count.”
“No correspondent ‘at the front,’ during this war, has found more of human interest in his experiences than has Mr Irwin. He knows how to find it, and how to record it. His style is terse and graphic. He makes you visualize while you read, because he visualized while he wrote.”
“His pages may lack the charm of the first-hand narrative of poilu or ambulance driver, but they contain a good deal of intelligent reflection, and there is no bluff and not too much rhetoric.”
“Mr Irwin has remained fundamentally American and naïve and curious to know what the whole thing means in human values to everyday men and women. He is not the professional war correspondent. His human values have remained steady—although convinced of the basic justice of the cause of the Allies, he has not maligned the enemy.”
IZOR, ESTELLE PEEL.Costume design and home planning. il 90c Atkinson, Mentzer & co. 646 16-17166
“The purpose of this volume is to help establish in the minds of girls ‘a sane sensible well-balanced attitude toward dress,’ and towards the home as ‘the vital center of all life’s activities.’ ... The book is the result of experience in teaching.”—School Arts Magazine
“Elementary enough for children to read.”
“The best book so far available on elementary costume design and home planning.”
“Well written, captivatingly illustrated. ... It is without doubt the best single volume for teachers who are required to teach costume design to junior high school pupils. It will prove helpful, however, to upper grammar and high school teachers everywhere who have to help young people to think seriously about their own personal relation to clothing and shelter.”
JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR.Turkey and the war. 6s T. Fisher Unwin, London
“The author begins by attempting to define the objective as distinguished from the subjective aims of the present war, the aims inherent in the situation. ... The destruction and partition of Turkey may be considered the real aim of the conflict because its accomplishment is essential to a durable peace. ... Discussing the various controversial points of the scheme of partitioning the empire, Mr Jabotinsky points out that the present Germano-Turkish alliance would imply the presumably independent Sultanate of Anatolia as the natural field for German commercial expansion, and that the policy of excluding Germany from any such natural expansion must inevitably lead to another war, especially if the proposed plan of an annexation of German markets in allied countries is carried through. He concludes by emphasizing the importance, for its psychological effect, of an allied conquest and military occupation of the great market represented by Asiatic Turkey,”—N Y Times
“M. Jabotinsky pins no faith on a self-controlled, self-directed or stable Ottoman kingdom. In his lucid and somewhat cynical book, brilliant in its exposition, he discloses the salient defect of Turkish rule, or rather of the Young Turks’ rule. ... It comes from a false theory of nationality.” H. S.
“This essay by the military correspondent of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti represents some original thinking on the Eastern question. Briefly, it is a more than usually straightforward application of the ‘est delenda’ to the Ottoman empire, supported by a convincing series of facts and arguments.”
JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL.[2]Life and letters of Stopford Brooke. 2v il*$4.75 Scribner 17-27957
“The facts of Brooke’s life are probably well known. Born in 1832, the son of a poor but well-born Irish clergyman, he was ordained in 1857, was curate at Kensington from 1859 to 1863, took the lease of St James’s chapel in 1865, and left the Church of England in 1880.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “From the moment of his leaving the church Brooke became formally what he had temperamentally been for many years, an independent. ... He was a preacher and a teacher, a poet and a lecturer, and he was interested in science and art, painting being among the joys and recreations of his later years. He wrote many books in addition to the little volume by which he is best known [“A primer of English literature”]. ... Dr Jacks’ biography is throughout a near view of the man in all his aspects. The biographer married Brooke’s daughter and he draws freely upon the letters which in themselves represent clearly the progress of the great preacher’s intellectual life.” (Boston Transcript)
“To give us a self-revelation of Stopford Brooke is what Dr Jacks strives to do and succeeds in doing. Although he knew his subject so intimately, he practices self-effacement except where the personal recollections and the personal touch are necessary to color and emphasize his story.” E. F. E.
“Well worth reading because of its faithful depiction of a sweet, wholesome and beautiful nature expressing itself in manifold activities through a long and busy life.”
“An adequate and appreciative account.”
“Fascinating volumes.”
“This biography has one quality at least which makes it very unlike the usual biography. It has the quality of growth. It is the record of the things that change rather than of the things that happen. The result is a book not of revelations or confessions in the usual sense, but of spiritual development which carries the art of biography a step further in the most interesting direction now open to it—that of psychology.”
JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE (SNOW).Silverheels. il*$1 (4½c) Doran 17-30276
Silverheels is a gray horse. His young master, Bob Hughes, is a waif who has run away from the brutal farmer who has mistreated him, taking Silverheels, his one possession, with him. Silverheels is a wonderfully intelligent horse, and it is he who helps Bob find a home with kind people who turn out to be the boy’s own relatives. The story was published in St Nicholas in 1916.
“A nice human story of a horse who is much better than some humans and a first-class hero for a story.”
“Although this book is not written for the very youngest readers, they will enjoy it as well as those a little older.”
JACKSON, J. WILFRID.Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture. (Manchester univ. Ethnological ser.) il*$2 Longmans 572
This book consists of a report of the preliminary survey in the field of research suggested by the title. It is made up of a reprint of four papers, first published in the Proceedings of the Manchester literary and philosophical society. The first of the four on The geographical distribution of the shell-purple industry, is concerned with the utilization of shells in the manufacture of the famous dye, “Tyrian purple.” Subsequent chapters take up Shell-trumpets and their distribution in the old and new world; The geographical distribution of the use of pearls and pearl-shell; The use of cowry-shells for the purposes of currency, amulets and charms. Additional data that has come to light since the first printing of the papers is given in appendixes. In his introduction G. Elliot Smith, dean of the faculty of medicine in Manchester university, discusses the magic properties attributed to shells. The book is provided with index, maps and other illustrations.
“Professor Elliot Smith and his colleagues, Mr Jackson and Mr Perry, cannot be praised too highly for their method. Admiration for Professor Elliot Smith’s ingenuity must not blind us to the extremely hazardous character of his theoretical affiliations.”
“Professor Elliot Smith agrees with the author in thinking that so laborious an industry as the preparation of this purple from shell-fish could not have been invented in more than one district, and that its occurrence in eastern Asia and America points to a migration from the Mediterranean. It is a plausible theory, but it is not proved.”
“If there is some lack of arrangement, if the trees, not to mention the shrubs, do obscure the view of the wood, if the index whenever appealed to affords no clue, still we cannot but admire the diligence and wide reading of the author.”
JACKSON, MARGARET TALBOT.Museum: a manual of the housing and care of art collections. il*$1.75 (3c) Longmans 708 17-14148
“The object of this little book is to put before those interested in the administration of collections the result of several years of study of the museums of Europe and America. It cannot claim the distinction of bringing new ideas to a field where so many men of genius have long been working; it can only hope to call attention to the results of the constant experiments being made by those already in the field.” (Preface) The list of museums visited, given in an appendix, shows how extensive have been the author’s studies. Contents: The situation of the museum building; The architectural plan; Preparation for the collections; The formation of collections; The preparation of objects for exhibition; Official questions. The seven illustrations have been chosen to fit the text. The volume is without an index.