“His presentation of the Irish problem is the most conclusive written in recent years, and contains a complete review of a period in Irish history that will grow in importance with the passing of time. No one who would know Ireland’s present position can afford to miss reading this scholarly work. In writing it Mr Jones has done a great service for Ireland and her people.”
“The story of the Sinn Fein movement is dramatically told, and there is a running account of the various armed movements that accompanied it. All this is well done. There is not, however, sufficient notice taken of the Irish trade union movement, or the part it has played in reforming and extending the economic ideas of the Irish people.” Frank MacDonald
JONES, JENKIN LLOYD.Love for the battle-torn peoples. 75c Unity pub. 172.4 17-26179
“A series of popular sermon-studies, sketching rapidly the contributions made by each of the warring countries to civilization, which entitle them to the love of the American people. A new statement of the author’s well known faith in human brotherhood and internationalism.”—A L A Bkl
“A charming little volume.”
“The author has a wide knowledge of literature and a profound feeling for the great values of history and human life. He has also the gift of expression.”
“No one will read Mr Jones’s book without feeling that some things have been included that he cannot and does not want to love and that even more has been omitted that one has learned to love. And yet it is fair to say that Mr Jones has more nearly succeeded in reaching an average possessing universal appeal than could have been thought possible before the idea was given a trial.”
JONES, JOHN PRICE.America entangled (Eng title, German spy in America). pa*50c Agnes C. Laut, 286 5th av., N.Y. 940.91 17-8589
“In the course of his work on the staff of the New York Sun Mr Jones has given a year to the close investigation of the subject [of the German spy in America]. ... Here we have a detailed exposure of the misdeeds of von Papen, von Igel, Koenig, Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, the ‘German arch-plotter,’ who was commissioned ‘to isolate commercial and financial America as a base of war supplies from Europe,’ Dr Heinrich F. Albert, Dumba, and the rest of the conspirators; the full story of the Lusitania, an account of Germany’s lobby in Congress, and of the change in the system when publicity became too strong. Mr Roosevelt contributes a foreword, and Mr Roger B. Wood an introduction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Not only to Americans, however, but to all the belligerent countries, and above all to neutrals, will Mr Price Jones’s book be of service in warning them how the Kaiser makes war.”
“A remarkable story, lucidly and effectively put together.”
“Mr Jones’s story is the more deadly because it is supported throughout by documentary evidence, and is told in plain, straightforward language, little embellished by rhetoric.”
JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.St Paul, the hero.il*$1 (3½c) Macmillan 225.9 17-10430
“This is the story of the life of St Paul, told with remarkable simplicity and especially designed for younger readers. ... The first chapter shows him as a boy ten years old, talking with his father about the meaning of the law; the last chapter gives us a picture of the heroic champion sealing his loyalty to the gospel by his death.”—Bib World
“The unfolding history is given in untechnical language, vividly and concretely. ... This short book ought to be of great value in Bible study. The pictures are unusual, being reproductions of steel engravings in the classical style. The maps are too fine to be legible.”
“St Paul’s life is so full of incident and so fascinating in detail that to write a long book about him would be far easier than a satisfactory short one; but Professor Jones, with the exactness of a scholar and with the quiet reverence of a Quaker, has produced a series of brief chapters that will convey to young people a very clear outline of the main story, while not exceeding the compass of their patience.”
“The well-known scholar succeeds in making the character of Paul interesting to the adolescent boy. ... The story is written so as to appeal to the youthful imagination.”
JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR.Spiritual ascent of man.*$1.50 Putnam 201 17-5700
In his introduction, A. L. Smith, master of Balliol college, says “This book aims at bringing the best philosophical thought of the time within the range of the ordinary reader.” As the author defines his purpose it is “to present some of the main problems of science, philosophy, and religion as these are dealt with by a number of the most prominent writers of our day.” The greatest weakness of the church in the past, he says, has been its failure “to give due heed to the various branches of knowledge in their bearings on religion.” Contents: The scope and limits of science; Matter and life; Body and mind; Intellect and intuition; The “is” and the “ought”; Values; The nature of spirit; The conception of God; Religion and Christianity; Conclusion.
“This book is clearly the fruit both of wide philosophical reading and of hard philosophical thought. ... It is certainly a book which all who have the cause of religion at heart would do well to read and ponder. The book appears at an opportune time. ... We whole-heartedly commend it.” J. T. Walley
JORDAN, DAVID STARR.Alsace-Lorraine; a study in conquest.*$1 (5c) Bobbs 943.4 17-6885
This work was written in 1913. It is based on a study made in Alsace-Lorraine at that time. Writing then, before the war, Dr Jordan compared Alsace to a cyclone center—the quiet place within the storm where there is no movement. Alsace was then the least war-like place in Europe. An Alsatian expression of opinion is quoted as typical: “War is the worst possible solution of our problems, because war is no solution. With war there is never a solution of any question. ... If France should gain Alsace by war, it would be only the beginning of another war, and so on without end.” Contents: The “nightmare of Europe”; The German point of view; Alsace-Lorraine as “Reichsland”: The French point of view; Nationalism. The material of the book appeared in part in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1914.
“Brings very clearly to the foreground the evil results following Germany’s action in striving to absorb a people against their natural affiliation.”
“Prof. Jordan is eminently fair to both sides. The letters he quotes as having received from prominent Frenchmen and Germans on this thorny question form not the least interesting part of his readable and informing little book.”
“If the author is unable to forecast the best solution of the perplexing problem of Alsace-Lorraine, at least he brings sufficient evidence to show that many of those which have been proposed from time to time are utterly impracticable. ... The creation of a new ‘buffer’ state, though not advanced by Dr Jordan as ‘the’ solution, from an analysis of the material which he brings does stand out as at least the most promising approach to it.” Bruno Lasker
JORDAN, EDWIN OAKES.Food poisoning.(Science ser.) il*$1 (3½c) Univ. of Chicago press 613.2 17-14054
The author is chairman of the department of hygiene and bacteriology of the University of Chicago. The introduction deals with the extent and kinds of food poisoning and articles of food most commonly connected with food poisoning. The author then considers: Sensitization to protein foods; Poisonous plants and animals; Mineral or organic poisons added to food; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Animal parasites; Poisonous products formed in food by bacteria and other micro-organisms; Poisoning of obscure or unknown nature.
“Concise authoritative, non-technical summary of present-day knowledge.”
“The book is of value at any time, and of importance; but the coming food campaign should focus attention upon it as one of the books which, above the primer grade, lead thoughtful readers into the desired realization of certain physiological aspects of the three-meals-a-day routine.” G. S.
JÖRGENSEN, JOHANNES.False witness. il*$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-26259
A translation of a Danish work, “Klokke Roland.” The main part of the book is taken up with an examination of “Appeal to the civilized world” sent out by ninety-three German professors. The author examines their claims and brings evidence to prove them false. In addition the book contains miscellaneous chapters on German character and “kultur.”
“It is an interesting book, written in genuine and acknowledged sympathy with Belgium, and bears the marks of a craftsman.”
“It is the first authoritative expression of the Danish viewpoint—if one may go so far in generalizing—that we have had. And it should be welcomed here, as the comment of a neutral and a neighbor, upon the conduct of the war.”
“No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”
JOYCE, JAMES.Portrait of the artist as a young man.*$1.50 (2c) Huebsch 17-4707
The story of the childhood, boyhood and youth of a young Irishman. It is extremely subjective and at times difficult to follow in its intricate turnings and abrupt transitions. From babyhood onward, Stephen is a lonely soul. At an early age he is sent to a Jesuit school where, altho he is evidently popular with the boys, he seems more than ever alone. He lives a secret life and during adolescence falls prey to the temptations of sex that lie in wait for the young. The agony of his remorse, his fear of confession, and the peace and exaltation that follows it, are among the most vivid impressions the book gives. The Catholic influence is strong thruout his early life. At one time he is led to think that he has a “vocation,” but when the book leaves him at the beginning of early manhood, he is leaning toward agnosticism.
“The book has an irresistible effect of sharp, first-hand reality. But as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”
“Such a book would have been impossible forty years ago. Far from looking back with regret at the good old novelists of the nineteenth century (whom, besides, we need never lose), I believe that our fiction is immensely freer and richer than the fiction of our immediate forefathers.” J: Macy
“The book in many places is exceedingly coarse, so marring uncommon beauty, descriptive power and insight.”
“What thrusts itself forward is the naturalism.’ Apart from this, in spite of it, the book has a measure of force by virtue of its sincere intent and its unconquered though ingrowing and indeterminate idealism. Its hero (who surely discourses like nobody in nature) is to be an artist in words—for the sake of Ireland.” H. W. Boynton
“The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man.’”
“One almost despairs of conveying it to the person who has conventionalized his idea of Ireland and modern Irish literature, yet there is a poignant Irish reality to be found in few existing plays and no preexistent novel, presented here with extraordinary candor and beauty and power. ... ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man’ is not entirely pleasant. But it has such beauty, such love of beauty, such intensity of feeling, such pathos, such candor, it goes beyond anything in English that reveals the inevitable malaise of serious youth. Many people will furiously resent his candor, whether about religion or nationalism or sex. But candor is a nobility in this instance.” F. H.
“It is worth a great deal to the outside world to read of such events as are chronicled in ‘The portrait’ and ‘Dubliners.’ To see directly into the household and the heart of this sensitive young Irishman of the upper middle class is to be brought face to face with the social, political and religious forces which vex Ireland (and England, too, incidentally) daily.”
“If we begin by complaining of the title of this book, it is only because it may turn some people away from it. Others may be put off by occasional improprieties; and it is useless to say that people ought not be put off by such things. They are; and we should like the book to have as many readers as possible.”
JOYCE, THOMAS ATHOL.Central American and West Indian archæology. il*$3.75 (5½c) Putnam 913.728 (Eng ed 16-17487)
The author calls this “an introduction to the archæology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies.” His aim has been to treat the archæology of these districts in a manner similar to that of his earlier books on Mexico and South America. He says: “The geographical area covered by the book is one which is still very imperfectly known from an archaeological point of view; the people inhabiting it in early times were not so highly developed, politically, as the Mexicans or the Peruvians, and the literature dealing with them is neither large nor easy of access. Still a summary of the known facts may be of use, if only in performing the function of a signpost for future investigators.”
“Summarizes in a scholarly way much material on excavations and discoveries of scientists that has heretofore been unavailable. Good illustrations.”
“Mr Joyce, who is an assistant in the department of ethnography in the British museum, has already written two earlier volumes on the archaeology of Mexico, Yucatan and the South American continent, including the exceptionally interesting study of early Aztec civilization. ... He has gathered many of the interesting traditions which have come down from pre-Colombian days. Since the conquest of Porto Rico by the United States much has been done by our Bureau of ethnology in the line of ethnological research in that and the adjoining smaller islands, some of the results of which are seen in Mr Joyce’s book.”
“The title well describes the book as an ‘introduction’ to the subject. As such it has good value. One feels, however, that the price set is high, considering the size of the volume.”
JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD.[2]Psychology, general introduction. 2d completely rev ed il*$1.80 Ginn 150 17-25595
A second edition largely rewritten. The writer points out the principal changes and elaborations: (1) “The present edition goes further than did the first in working out the doctrines of functional psychology, especially in so far as these use motor processes in explaining mental organization; (2) The doctrine of attitudes which was presented in the first edition has been much expanded; (3) The applications of psychology have been elaborated, especially through a new chapter on mental hygiene; (4) The view with regard to the importance of consciousness in evolution which was set forth in my paper before the American psychological association in 1909 has been adopted as a guiding principle in this volume. In keeping with this view, the chapter on volition has been wholly rewritten, and several earlier sections have been largely worked over.” The chapters only slightly modified are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 17.
“The significance of this revision for educators is enhanced by the fact that the author, for most of the ten years which have elapsed since the first edition, has been actively engaged in the teaching and administration of education. This has meant that the functional aspect of mental life, in which it is regarded as active, and doing something in the organism which it inhabits and in the world outside—this aspect which was already emphasized in the first edition is still more clearly defined in the additions which appear in the second edition. The student who is sufficiently mature to make applications of general principles for himself will gain profit from a study of the discussions of this book.” H. O. Rugg
JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY, comp.Myths and legends of British North America.il*$1.50 (3½c) McClurg 398.2 17-11232
To her series of books of retold legends of American Indians, east and west, the author adds a volume of tales from the north. Among the tribes represented are the Haida, EasternEskimo, Wyandot, Cree, Bella Coola, Lillooet and Chilcotin. The author says, “Only authentic myths and legends have been used in the compilation of this volume. The leading authorities are the publications of the United States Bureau of ethnology, of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, of the Memoirs of the American Museum of natural history, as well as the ethnological publications of the Canadian Bureau of mines.” There are about twenty illustrations.
“A large selection of well-executed cuts enhance the aesthetic appeal of the work. The author has, however, been less successful in her comments on some of these samples of Indian art. ... No justification can be found for the promiscuous arrangement of the myths of wholly heterogeneous provenience. ... A more judicious arrangement would have enhanced the value of the work immeasurably.” A. A. Goldenweiser
“They have an ethnological value as well as a picturesque interest.” F. B.
“The purpose of the book seems to be the entertainment of young people, but even for this modest design the sketchiness of the material and lack of developed unity leaves it inadequate.”
JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY.Old Crow stories. il*$1.35 (4c) Little 17-24075
A book of animal stories selected from Indian folk lore. “Old Crow” is one of the characters in these tales, others are Raven, Grizzly and Coyote. How Raven brought the light, How Grizzly Bear stole the light; How Sun was made; When Real People were baked; How Coyote got his cunning; How Fire came to the Real People, are some of the titles. The pictures are by Charles Livingston Bull.
“She has retold these Indian myths of the beginnings of things in a spirited manner and in simple enough language for the little ones, yet without the condescending ‘talking down’ to which children instinctively object.” R. D. Moore
“They have a decided interest for older readers who recognize their ethnic and symbolic importance, while children will read them as the most delightful make-believe.”
KAMBAN, GUTHMUNDUR.[2]Hadda Padda; a drama in four acts; tr. by Sadie Luise Peller. (Borzoi plays, v)*$1 Knopf 839.6 17-30695
This play, translated from the Icelandic, was given its first production in Copenhagen in 1914. In spite of its difficult fourth act, which had made managers hesitate to attempt the play, it was an instant success. The other Scandinavian countries accepted it with equal enthusiasm and preparations for its presentation in Germany were only cut short by the war. It is a four-act tragedy on the theme of a proud woman’s betrayed love. Even in the pages of the printed play, Hrafnhild, called Hadda Padda, stands out as a very vital creation. In his drawing of her character and in the working out of the last act, the young dramatist reveals his northern heritage. There is an appreciative foreword by Georg Brandes.
“The element of the death of Hadda Padda in this occasionally strong little drama is a weakness—not strength, not climax. It is one of the instances of avoidance, of seeking the easiest way out, both for dramatist and character. ... The play deserves success, for, in spite of common places worked out in a commonplace manner, and its artificiality, it goes far beyond the average run of plays, and it is really in a class quite outside our English works.” F. M.
“Strikingly brilliant play.”
KARAPETOFF, VLADIMIR.Engineering applications of higher mathematics. 5v ea*75c Wiley 620 (11-32468)
“‘This is not a book on calculus or analytic geometry, nor on engineering or any branch of it. It is intended to enable an engineer to make a better and more extended use of higher mathematics in his work.’ (Preface) Contents: v. 1. Problems on machine design; v. 2. Problems on hydraulics; v. 3. Problems on thermodynamics; v. 4. Problems on mechanics of materials; v. 5. Problems on electrical engineering.”—Cleveland
“The author has great skill in stating the application of basic principles and in leading students to advanced work without waste of time and energy.”
“The treatment is, on the whole, sound, though the diction is often rather loose. ... The mathematical work is not distinguished by neatness, and one finds awkward and cumbrous proofs where often quite simple methods are available. The author appears afraid of making undue demands on the knowledge of his readers, and when a real difficulty occurs contents himself with a reference to a textbook. These criticisms must not be taken to reflect on the competence of the author, whose aims, as recorded in his prefaces, are excellent.”
KAWAKAMI, KIYOSHI KARL.Japan in world politics.*$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.52 17-21929
Writing from Peking in 1917 the author of “American-Japanese relations” and “Asia at the door” tells us in his preface to this book that prior to 1901 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic party in Japan. His experiences in America subsequent to that date caused him regretfully to turn from the socialism and trade unionism he met here because he found them to mean a brotherhood between western nations only. “I have come to the conclusion,” he says, “that socialism cannot be achieved until the relations between the East and the West are radically changed.” That such a change may mean the averting of the world catastrophe that the future centuries will otherwise see is his reason for this attempt to “serve mankind by removing some of the misunderstandings now casting a dark shadow upon the relationship of the two nations.” Most of the chapters of this book were originally published as separate articles in the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. Among the topics discussed are: The Japanese instinct of self-preservation; America’s issues with Japan; Is America preparing against Japan?; Land hunger: the background of the immigration question; Japanese immigration to America; The Pacific coast and the Japanese; The expatriation of the Japanese; The open door in China; Japan and America in China; Japan’s blunders in China; America and Japan in Korea; Japan and the Philippines; Japanese “designs” upon Mexico; America and the Anglo-Japanese alliance; America and German-Japanese relations; America and the Russo-Japanese entente.
“The author’s sympathies are with Japan in American-Japanese questions, though his presentation of his views is reasonable and sane. He feels that the Monroe doctrine is unjust to small overcrowded nations and that unhindered immigration is necessary for a permanent peace.He attempts to justify Japan in China and Korea and to allay suspicion of German-Japanese relations.”
Reviewed by W. W. McLaren
“If he were writing from the patriotic Japanese standpoint, he would remember that Great Britain is the ally of Japan, and as such is to be treated with courtesy and respect. But all the allusions to ‘England’ throughout are as unpleasantly unfair as if they came from a ‘Zeitung,’ and are particularly regrettable at the present moment. If he were writing as a keen-witted American, he would know that the policy of the ‘open door’ enunciated by John Hay has always had British support.”
“The author declares that he was once a socialist. He abandoned socialism, however, when he began the study of the relations of Asia and Europe. This he tells us, is a chasm to be bridged before there can be any reasonable talk of socialism and internationalism. So Mr Kawakami sets about to state the problem. And he does it well.” J. W.
“Not often does one find a discussion of Japanese and American relations that will compare with this little book in sanity, reasonableness, judicial temper, and ability to see the rights and wrongs of all sides of a question. As between America and Japan, he makes emphatic his conviction that the crux of the matter is the question of naturalization.”
KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.John Galsworthy. (Writers of the day) il*60c (4c) Holt 823 A17-395
The author ranks Galsworthy higher as a dramatist than as a novelist. His strong points, craftsmanship and sense of form, stand out with distinctness in his plays, and his weakness in character drawing is not so evident. Types are more successful than individual characters on the stage. Furthermore Galsworthy is more successful in his plays than in his novels because most good plays are founded on a situation; most good novels on the development of a situation; “and development is not a characteristic of Galsworthy’s art.” Two chapters are devoted to the plays, two to the novels, one to the sketches, and a final chapter considers Galsworthy the artist.
“His admirers will like this essay and it may help those who demand that he be other than he is to understand and value one of the real artists of our time.”
“A commonplace study of the cataloging type of John Galsworthy, placing emphasis upon his dramas rather than his novels, but taking one production after another in each field with impartial disregard of the demand of the ordinary reader for a measure of synthesis.”
“A worthy successor to the other numbers of the series. And that is high praise. ... One is tempted to quote the book in detail, analyze its analyses. It is a pregnant and most excellent little volume.”
“Not a brilliant or inspired but a good, discerning, level-headed and reasonably sympathetic study. ... One feels, however, that Miss Kaye-Smith over-praises Galsworthy’s power with words.”
“It goes simply and concisely through the several items of Mr Galsworthy’s work, with descriptive and clear thoughtful criticism.”
KEARY, CHARLES F.Religious hours.*2s 6d Constable & co., London 821
“The title of this volume will suggest to many readers something in the vein of the ‘Christian year.’ But Mr Keary’s religion is not Keble’s. It is not orthodox, not even Christian, at all. In his prefatory note he says that the poems are chosen, out of a quantity of verse he had ready for publication, as more suited than others to ‘the gravity of the time’; and, he adds, ‘the title “religious” which I have given them is to be construed in this sense, the literary one; the sense in which Herrick often uses the word.’ ... The truth is that religion in Mr Keary’s use means not something fanciful which poets have invented, but what it actually meant for the world of Greece and Rome before the coming of Christianity.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Keary’s long and devoted service to fine letters is well summed up in this choice book, which, we hope, will not be passed by as if it were inferior hymnology.”
“A volume of grave pagan psalms and hymns of a true piety and a true imagination.”
KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.Wayside flowers of summer. il*$1.35 Scribner 580 17-14079
“A study of the conspicuous herbaceous plants blooming upon our northern roadsides during the months of July and August.” (Subtitle) In the introduction the author adds, “The plants described in this volume are those that the wayfarer, starting out upon his summer vacation, will most likely meet if he goes on foot, or pass if he takes an auto, or see from the windows of his moving train; they are the ones that are part and parcel of summer life. ... In round numbers they vary from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty.” The botanical descriptions are based on Gray’s “Manual of botany,” seventh edition, and Britton’s “Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada.” The book is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and pictures in color.
“Of convenient size for the pocket, of good type for the eye, of generous illustration both in color and line drawings.”
KEEN, EDITH.Seven years at the Prussian court. il*$3 (3½c) Lane 943.08 (Eng ed 17-1178)
The author spent seven years in Germany as a companion in the household of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, sister of the German empress. Like the many others of its kind, the book is made up of personal reminiscences and bits of gossip about royal personages. Among the chapters are: My early days at Potsdam; The princess Margarethe; Incognito visits to England; Servants in German royal households; The crown prince and princess; The days before the war, etc.
“Her knowledge of the Kaiser and his family is at best but second hand information.” D. L. M.
“There is frequently a bias in her manner of writing that makes one realize how difficult it is for the author to be fair toward her country’s enemies.”
“Much entertaining gossip for those interested in the love affairs and dress bills of royalty is scattered over these rambling pages, but there is singularly little that is significant of anything beyond personal concerns. ... The frequent glimpses of the Kaiser, sometimes in his moods of testiness or of ruffled vanity, are the most enlivening feature of the book.”
KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS.Medical research and human welfare. il*$1.25 (4½c) Houghton 610.9 17-30712
This “record of personal experiences and observations during a professional life of fifty-seven years” formed the substance of the Colver lectures for 1917 at Brown university. Dr Keen is emeritus professor of surgery in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. His professional experience covers the period from the “old horribly fatal surgery of the Civil war” to the present. He has watched surgery emerge “from a septic purgatory into an aseptic paradise,” and he very briefly covers the marvelous changes that have taken place in this time. Among the subjects touched on are Bacteriology, Puerperal fever, Hydrophobia, Modern surgery, Syphilis, Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow fever, Malaria, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
“This record surpasses in interest the most thrilling detective story. ... It is the best possible answer to some of the claims of Christian science training.”
“The readableness, the sagacity, and the persuasiveness of this book are to be found only by the careful perusal which it deserves.”
“[Written] in brilliant, scholarly, but quite untechnical style.” G. S.
KEENE, LOUIS.“Crumps”; the plain story of a Canadian who went.il*$1.25 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-29600
The word “crumps” is trench slang for a bursting shell—“on account of the sound they make, a sort of cru-ump! noise as they explode.” The author is a young Canadian artist who writes of the early days of the war, illustrating his account with his own drawings. He touches lightly on war horrors in his text; but some of his pictures are very grim indeed. There is a very brief foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“Of life in the trenches the writer tells his story with light and cheerful spirit and yet not without full sense of duty and responsibility.” H. S. K.
“‘Crumps’ takes the whole thing a good deal as a college boy takes a big football game; it’s all something of a lark, a glorious great game, and even the horrors are touched on with a latent feeling that they are, in their own way, humorous.”
“The chief interest, in fact, of the book is in its earlier chapters, which tell of things that other men have left largely unreported.”
KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE, and CARNOY, ALBERT JOSEPH.Indian [mythology]; Iranian [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) 13v v 6 il $6 (6c) Jones, Marshall 291 17-6787
The sixth volume of the Mythology of all races is made up of two books in one. The first part, Indian mythology, is by A. Berriedale Keith, regius professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Edinburgh university. The author has limited his subject by restricting the treatment as closely as possible to the mythology that is closely allied to religion in India. Part 2, Iranian mythology, is by Professor Albert J. Carnoy of the University of Louvain, now research professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He says, “The purpose of this essay is exactly set forth by its title: it is a reasonably complete account of what is mythological in Iranian traditions, but it is nothing more; since it is exclusively concerned with myths, all that is properly religious, historical, or archaeological has intentionally been omitted.” The illustrations of the volume are deserving of special mention. Among them are a number of fine color plates.
“Both accounts well fulfil their purpose as popular summaries; both will also prove valuable to specialists. The most satisfactory chapters of Keith are those on the Rig-Veda, the Brāhmanas, and the Epic. The chapter on Buddhism, the most difficult one to write, is the least satisfactory of all.” W. E. Clark
“This series promises to be one of the great monuments of the history of religions. It is impossible to enter into a discussion of each one of these volumes. It is enough to call attention to the admirable analysis of material, its readable style, the mass of notes and bibliography.”
“Professor Keith of Edinburgh university, the author of the volume, has already published the standard ‘Vedic index of names and subjects’ and appears as editor and translator of the Sankhayana and Aitareya and of the Taittiriya Samhita. ... This is the first time, however, that any authoritative work has been published in English on the history of Indian mythology. ... The Metropolitan museum of art allowed the color plates from the Persian manuscripts of the Shaknamah to be used for illustrations of the Iranian section.” D. L. M.
“Dr Keith has with infinite skill cut a swathe through what seems an inextricable tangle of mythological detail. He makes clear the development of philosophical ideas and yet preserves so much of the mythological drapery in which these ideas are clothed that the book possesses the double quality of scholarliness and fascination. By recognizing the close connection between mythology and religion, he has greatly enhanced, in my opinion, the interest of his subject.” H. A. Clarke
“In clear presentation of matter, and in appropriateness of illustration this volume is superexcellent. For the last, some of the choicest of manuscript and book-decorations have been employed at large cost.”
KEITH, KATHERINE.Girl.*$1.35 (3c) Holt 17-3032
Chapters from this autobiography have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It gives a series of impressionistic pictures from a girl’s life from childhood up to her eighteenth year. As a little girl she is both mischievous and imaginative. She lives partly in a dream world and invents long and involved romances, of which a handsome actor and a western ranch are features, she herself playing the part of a boy. As she begins to grow up, the narrative seems more artificial and some of the incident and the mixing of the dates of certain known events give the impression that the whole is a piece of fiction.
“It is obvious that its writer has striven hard to write something strikingly original, and that she frequently makes the sad mistake of thinking that freakishness is identical with frankness, and that self-searchings and their public confession are as interesting to the reader as to herself. ... The confessions are too artificial to carry with them the convincing power of truth.” E. F. E.
“It is a very interesting book. People perhaps will like to discuss its social significance,—as I have done. But it is chiefly worth whileas a very definite rendering of an interesting conception,—rather a rare thing in art.” E: E. Hale
“Written with a curious detachment and objectivity rare in personal revelations.”
“A book of ingrowing emotion, of strained and hectic self-consciousness, of feminism in its aimless and sterile phase. It is also consciously and deliberately ‘literary.’”
“The story is no more chaotic than is life itself. One of its charms is its surprises.” J: N. Beffel
“The story is written with delicate art, its crisp, lucid style strikingly simple and its situations vividly realized. This is especially true of those portions of the book that deal with the childhood of the girl.”
“Semi-fictionalized reminiscence. ... It consists of a loose-strung series of incidents, anecdotes and self-revealments ... many of them exquisite in themselves and in their presentation; and the lot of them cumulatively meaningful in their feminine entirety.”
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.Sudden Jim.il*$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6325
James Ashe, senior, was known as “Clothespin Jimmy.” It was a matter of disappointment to him that his son, Jim, in the twenty-eight years of his life had acquired no distinctive title. A man didn’t amount to much, in his opinion, who had done nothing to merit a descriptive name. That was one of the reasons that led him to go off to California leaving his clothespin factory in Jim’s charge. If there was anything in the younger man, he wanted to see it come out. In less than a week on his new job, the son had earned his title, “Sudden Jim.” The scene of the story is a small town in Michigan and local politics play a part in the action.
“He is a type loved by the average American.”
“A good book of its kind. It is amusing, brisk, swift moving, full of incident and surprise.”
“Mr Kelland cleverly sketches a group of local characters, whose colloquialisms and hard commonsense are a source of delight. It is a clever, rapid and diverting American story.”
KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.Turn about Eleanor.il*$1.40 Bobbs 17-23983