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 life; The Christ ideal; The sociological value of the new life; The
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A L A Bkl 13:330 My ‘17

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“The book is written in simple language, and is intended for the
average reader. It will prove of great value to every pastor and
social worker. Dr McComb writes in a happy, hopeful vein, and his
discussion of these old questions is fresh and modern. The book
has a positive message, but is undogmatic in its tone.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 4 ‘17 110w

MCCONNELL, JAMES R. Flying for France with the American

escadrille at Verdun. il *$1 (4½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-6754
The author of this little book went to France in 1915 to drive an
ambulance. After some months in this service he resigned to join
the flying corps. The book is made up of four chapters: Verdun;
From Verdun to the Somme; Personal letters from Sergeant
McConnell; How France trains pilot aviators.
A L A Bkl 13:346 My ‘17
“It is this note of a spiritual awakening which lifts Mr McConnell’s
book out of the class of the adventure narrative.”
+ Ind 90:296 My 12 ‘17 110w

N Y Br Lib News 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is a short book, of little more than 150 pages—and with large
print and wide margins at that—but it has a deal of interesting
matter in it. It is both exciting and informative. And its record is
something of which, as Americans, we can all be proud.”
 + N Y Times 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 250w
“Vivid and interesting account of the daily work of the American
escadrille of the French flying corps, particularly over Verdun and
on the Somme front.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:458 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted
from Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering
p141 Mr 1 ‘17)

+ Pittsburgh 22:529 Je ‘17 60w

Pratt p41 O ‘17 20w

“Not the least interesting portions of the little volume are the
touching tributes which Sergeant McConnell pays to his comrades
who fell before him.”
+ R of Rs 55:549 My ‘17 300w
“Written in simple, but gripping style.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 130w
“Slight but very readable account.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

MCCORMICK, FREDERICK. Menace of Japan. *$2 (2c) Little 327

17-9690
“When the determination of the immediate question of the future
of Europe comes to conference, the fate of America’s interests and
the future of the United States in the Pacific will be determined by
Japan and the winners of the world war. ... The only hope for
American honor, international justice, protection of commerce and
trade, and other American interests in East Asia in future will be
either the triumph of an European-American treaty coalition over
Japanese-European Prussianism, or a triumph of the military forces
of the United States over those of Japan, and a mastery in
Washington in the management of foreign affairs.” These are some
of the conclusions voiced in the final chapter, “Back to the guns.”
“The sword, which Providence and Wisdom commend to China,
they also commend to America,” is its last word. The author has
been a journalist and war correspondent in the Far East since the
Boxer uprising.
“A book which no thoughtful reader could for a moment take
seriously.”
— Am Hist R 22:905 Jl ‘17 430w

– A L A Bkl 13:428 Jl ‘17

+
“Distinguishing between fact and fiction in books upon the politics
of the Far East is no easy task, even when the author cites his
sources of information; in this book it becomes impossible, except
to the expert student; for Mr McCormick informs us in his preface
that ‘many things contained herein ... cannot be publicly ascribed
to their sources ... many are simply extracts from my own journals
and private records.’ The author’s rabid anti-Japanese bias casts
suspicion, if not upon his facts, at least upon the soundness of his
judgment. As the reader passes from one chapter to another he
becomes convinced that he is in the presence of a propagandist,
not a sober historical writer.”
– Am Pol Sci R 11:593 Ag ‘17 530w
+

Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 730w

“Mr McCormick, although at times unjustifiably violent in his
rhetoric, has without any doubt made out a clear case against
Japanese diplomacy and our own inaction.”
 + Cath World 105:249 My ‘17 1050w
—
“Many of his assertions are too sweeping, and his conclusions are
sometimes palpably unsound. With due allowance for journalistic
dash and patriotic fervor, his book can be read profitably. It
contains a good deal of interesting information on the ins and outs
of world diplomacy since the Russo-Japanese war. It is, however,
almost wholly lacking in documentary citations, and the careful
student will often be uncertain what to accept at face value and
what to discount.” F: A. Ogg
– Dial 62:432 My 17 ‘17 450w
+

Outlook 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 50w

Pratt p10 O ‘17 20w

“The author was for years an Associated press correspondent in
China, and in recent years he has been secretary of the Asiatic
Institute. His personal acquaintance with the events he describes
dates from the Boxer rebellion. His style is decidedly journalistic,
but in places is commendably vivid. The book is essentially a study
in imperialism. Whether the conclusions are sound is a question
that admits of debate.”
Springf’d Republican p19 Mr 25 ‘17 400w
“A thoroughly mischievous work. Mr McCormick’s judgment and
language are not marked by diplomatic restraint, nor does he sift
evidence with care or display profound knowledge of the
complicated matters with which he deals.” H: R. Mussey
— Survey 39:48 O 13 ‘17 1750w
MCCORMICK, HAROLD FOWLER. Via pacis; how terms of peace
can be automatically prepared while the war is still going on. 60c
(9c) McClurg 940.91 17-5546
This suggestion for a means of determining peace terms was
written in December, 1915, issued privately in July, 1916, and is
now put forward for consideration by the public. The author asks
that the belligerents “enunciate the objects for which they are
fighting and place their peace terms in precise and concrete form
in the hands of selected neutral countries—whose role would be,
not that of mediators but of custodians and ‘transfer agents.’ The
terms thus deposited could be changed periodically in accordance
with the varying fortunes of the war, the resulting benefit being
that each side could know at a given moment precisely what the
other was demanding and could examine his own assets, chances
and hopes accordingly.” (Foreword)
Int J Ethics 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 60w

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 28 ‘17 420w

MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH, ed. To mother; with an introd. by Kate

Douglas Wiggin. il *$1 Houghton 821.08 17-13752
This “anthology of mother verse” is arranged under the headings:
The young mother; Mothers of men; Christmas mother poems;
Lullabies; The joy of motherhood; Old-fashioned mother poems;
Sonnets on motherhood; Tributes to mothers. It includes poems by
Wordsworth, Tennyson, Coventry Patmore, Eugene Field, Jane and
Ann Taylor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and other English and American
poets. Masefield’s “C. L. M.” and Henley’s “Matri dilectissimæ” are
not included. There is an imaginative introduction by the editor,
about a child and a garden; and indexes of first lines, of titles and
of authors.
 A L A Bkl 14:50 N ‘17
“The collection shows both discrimination and wide reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 160w

Cleveland p90 Jl ‘17 40w

“A collection of verse that contains neither the sentimental nor the
banal, nor does it ever descend to doggerel however well
intentioned. A book that one need not apologize for sending to
anybody’s mother.”
+ Ind 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

MCCULLOUGH, ERNEST.[2] Practical structural design. il $2.50 U.

P. C. bk. co. 624 17-29163
“A text and reference work for engineers, architects, builders,
draftsmen and technical schools; especially adapted to the needs
of self-tutored men.” (Sub-title) The book is an outgrowth of a
series of articles that appeared in the numbers of Building Age
from 1914 to 1916, with the title “Design of beams, girders and
trusses.” Before writing the articles the author had used the
subject matter in evening classes where it was presented to the
type of “self-tutored” men for whom in particular the book is
planned. Contents: External forces; Internal forces; Problems in
design of beams; Girders and trusses; Joints and connections;
Graphic statics; Columns and structures. The author is a member
of the American society of civil engineers and is a licensed
structural engineer and licensed architect of the State of Illinois.
“If in our college days one of us had dared to tell our professor of
mechanics or structures that a really comprehensive text could
have been written without the use of calculus or algebra, he would
certainly have been classed with the heretics. The writer has
always felt, however, that such a thing could be done and now his
 belief is realized in Mr McCullough’s admirable work. Although
containing only 293 pages, it is difficult to find a phase of
structural engineering such as is likely to be encountered in the
city practice of a designing engineer which is not covered in a
satisfactory manner.” W. S. Edge
+ Engin News-Rec 80:128 Ja 17 ‘18 500w
+

MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. Green fancy. il *$1.50 (1½c)

Dodd 17-23981
Green fancy is a strange hidden house on the American border of
Canada. In and around it royal personages, third-rate actors, a
New York man of the world, a beautiful woman, an Irishman of
fortune, an international crook, all play their parts in an exciting
drama of European intrigue.
“The narrative gallops along at a rapid rate, with plenty of
dramatic incidents and exciting situations, while the author
garnishes characters, incidents, and narratives with touches of
humor.”
+ N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 290w
“It is a light romance, but the element of mystery is well sustained
after the manner of such writers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 240w

MACDONALD, ALLAN JOHN MACDONALD. Trade politics and

Christianity in Africa and the East; with an introd. by Harry
Johnston. *$2 Longmans 266 16-22960
“This able book won the Maitland prize at Cambridge for an essay
on the thesis, ‘Problems raised by the contact of the West with
Africa and the East, and the part that Christianity can play in their
solution’—one of the fundamental questions, that is, which
confront the Empire and cannot be evaded. The chapters on the
liquor traffic in West Africa and in Ceylon are very painful
reading. ... Mr Macdonald discusses the difficult question of mixed
marriages, and concludes that ‘the Eurasian, so long as he
exists ... must be treated, if not as a social equal by the members
of either dominant race, at least as a man and a brother in the
great Christian community.’”—Spec
A L A Bkl 13:245 Mr ‘17

Ath p475 O ‘16 120w

N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17

“Sir Harry Johnston, who is rated an authority on English colonial
matters, contributes an interesting introduction.”
+ N Y Times 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 70w

Pittsburgh 22:430 My ‘17 100w

“From first to last Mr Macdonald seeks after truth in such a
temperate manner that his book will be read with pleasure even by
those who will differ from some of his views.”
+ Sat R 122:sup8 N 4 ‘16 1550w
“Sir Harry Johnston’s introduction is a remarkable tribute to the
Christian missionary.”
Spec 117:556 N 4 ‘16 160w
“An extensive, detailed, and able review of labour and liquor
problems in Africa, India and China.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p455 S 21 ‘16
140w
 “While one may not be convinced by Mr Macdonald’s argument,
and there are slips in his ethnological statements ... his book is
valuable for its full and impartial account of the difficulties between
Europeans and natives as they exist at the present moment.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p520 N 2 ‘16
1100w

MACDONALD, GEORGE. Evolution of coinage. (Cambridge

manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 332 17-
8356
The introductory chapter gives in brief the early history of coinage.
Subsequent chapters take up: Coinage and the state; The material
of coinage; Form, and methods of production; Types; Legends;
Dates, and marks of value; Key to the plates. Select bibliography
and Index follow. Eight plates illustrate the volume.
“An account, admirably written and illustrated, of the development
of coinage in its technical and general aspects. The economic
history of the subject is not included in the author’s plan.” C. D.
+ Am Econ R 7:413 Je ‘17 50w
“It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to
numismatics.” H.
+ Eng Hist R 32:316 Ap ‘17 90w
“His illustrations are excellent.”
+ Spec 118:593 My 26 ‘17 100w

MACDONALD, J. RAMSAY. National defence. *2s 6d Allen &

Unwin, London 172.4
“In this small book Mr MacDonald concentrates his attention not
on the peace problem of the moment or on post-war international
 policies, but on a criticism of ‘militarism’ as a principle and as a
means of national defence. He does not, that is to say, here attack
the war spirit and compulsory military service on humanitarian or
sentimental grounds, but on grounds of national defence as the
most likely means to promote what it is supposed to prevent;
‘created to give a sense of security and to defend, whereas its very
existence keeps fear alive and adds to danger.’”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
Ath p106 F ‘17 130w
“A chapter on ‘A democratic Germany and peace’ is a significant
warning to those who expect the Germans to translate military
defeat into a pacific democracy. The Germans may rid themselves
of their reigning house, as the French rid themselves of Napoleon
III in 1871, without wishing to forget the war.” M. J.
Int J Ethics 27:529 Jl ‘17 430w

Pratt p10 O ‘17 50w

Spec 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 200w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p59 F 1 ‘17

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MACDONALD, JAMES ALEXANDER. North American idea. (Cole

lectures for 1917) $1.25 Revell 18-273
“A course of lectures delivered in the early part of the present year
under the auspices of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn.,
by the editor of the Toronto Globe. ... The North American idea
which the author sets forth, is a recognition of the law of the
world’s good will as an infinite and immutable law of the ordered
life of human society and as the law of the world’s good will. This
law of good will never is broken. No more than the law of
gravitation can ever be broken. The world’s good will is law for all
nations. Its transgression makes inevitable Germany’s undoing. ...
‘Already the leaders of world-opinion, at all the battle fronts of the
world’s mind have learned the truth of the Christ dictum in the
realm of world politics, that no nation can live to itself or can die to
itself alone.’ An internationalized world is to be the outcome of the
present world conflict of ideas. North America must play her part
in the great conflict of ideas. Her preparedness must be that of the
American mind, consciousness and will. ‘Service is the measure of
our civilization. Service for others is the keynote of our
democracy.’”—Boston Transcript
“Dr Macdonald has gained an international reputation, which the
present volume will surely enhance.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 360w

Cleveland p135 D ‘17 30w

Ind 92:256 N 3 ‘17 80w

“Of prominent importance is Dr Macdonald’s enlightening review of
United States history, and that of the Dominion. Of the latter he
exposes great ignorance among us. Startling is his exposure of
General Bernhardi’s secret mission hither in 1913 to prepare
Germans for mischief among us in the coming war.”
Outlook 117:184 O 3 ‘17 180w
“The reader is, perhaps, led to share the speaker’s zeal for
democracy and internationalism. But as an exposition of North
America’s attitude toward these greatest of causes the book is
altogether inadequate. Comparatively little of the political
achievement of either Canada or the United States is presented by
the speaker.”
– Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 200w
+
MCDOUGALL, GRACE. Nurse at the war. il *$1.25 (3½c) McBride
940.91 17-20977
This is the story of the “F.A.N.Y. corps” in Flanders and France, told
by the Scottish nurse who started the work in September, 1914.
The corps has now over 50 members working in the zone of the
armies, and a few more in a convalescent camp in the center of
France. They are doing motor ambulance, first aid, base hospital,
and convalescent canteen work.
“Here is one of the most modest books to have grown out of the
war. The author’s name does not even appear upon the title
page. ... Among the most inspiring parts of the narrative are those
which tell of struggles against early official refusal to accept
women’s service, when male prejudice and mistaken kindness
prevented and delayed the entrance of woman to one of her truest
and noblest fields of activity.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 300w
“‘Graphic’ the publishers term it, and the word is none too strong.
Besides being graphic, it has an air of hurry that suits well the
incidents that it relates. She does not parade horrors, but her
buoyancy is so irrepressible that neither does she shrink from
letting them appear in all their ghastliness.”
+ Nation 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w

+ N Y Times 23:344 S 16 ‘17 90w

MCDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER. Good ministers of Jesus Christ.

(Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching) *$1.25 Abingdon press
251 17-15666
“Dr McDowell is a bishop in the Methodist church. ... [In this book]
he divides the work of the Christian ministry into eight divisions,
using the work of Christ as a basis and guide for these aspects. He
terms them revelation, redemption, incarnation, reconciliation,
rescue, conservation, co-operation and inspiration.”—Springf’d
Republican
“The lectures have large-mindedness as to practical problems of
religion and wisdom in dealing with men. Every page has
suggestions for the preacher.” A. S. Hoyt
+ Am J Theol 21:633 O ‘17 340w
“Bishop McDowell is, in our judgment, strongest in his chapters on
redemption and rescue. The terseness and beauty of the style is
an outstanding feature of the lectures.”
+ Bib World 50:315 N ‘17 70w
“Assuming that his hearers intended to enter the ministry of the
Christian church, he has tried to show them in these eight lectures
how they may become good ministers of Jesus Christ. He speaks
as one who has had thorough training for and long experience in
the Christian ministry.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ‘17 830w
“The style is clear and incisive, the substance rich with
accumulated wisdom and instinct with passionate earnestness.”
+ Ind 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“In the long series of these annual lectures this last is inferior to
none. It is characteristically inspirational and vitalizing.”
+ Outlook 117:143 S 26 ‘17 140w
“The book is an interpretation of the ideals of Wesley’s followers in
the light of modern needs and modern thought. ... It is interesting
to note the many divergencies of thought from the very excellent
series of lectures delivered on the same foundation [Lyman
Beecher foundation, Yale university] in 1915, by President Hyde of
Bowdoin college, entitled ‘The gospel of good will.’ The two series,
read together, give one an admirably-balanced view of the
religious needs of men and women to-day.”
 + Springf’d Republican p6 Je 8 ‘17 400w

MACE, ARTHUR C., and WINLOCK, HERBERT EUSTIS. Tomb of

Senebtisi at Lisht. il *$10; pa *$8 Metropolitan museum of art
913.32 17-2044
“The first publication of the Egyptian expedition of the
Metropolitan museum is this handsome quarto volume by the
assistant curators of the museum’s department of Egyptian art.
The work of the expedition was begun in the winter of 1906-07 on
the site of the pyramid-field of Lisht, which includes the pyramids
of Amenemhat I and Senusert I, of the twelfth dynasty, with ‘royal’
cemeteries surrounding them. ... Text and drawings, photogravures
and colored plates present and describe the site and the tomb, the
clearing of the tomb, the coffins and canopic box, the jewelry,
ceremonial staves, and pottery. Appendixes contain notes on the
mummy, by Dr G. Elliott Smith, and an index of names of objects
from the painted coffins. Mr Albert Morton Lythgoe, curator of the
department of Egyptian art, is general editor of the publications of
the expedition.”—Dial
“A careful index makes reference easy. And the book, a royal
quarto, printed in clear large type, is a credit to the institution that
made it possible and to the authors whose wealth of learning
makes one gasp with astonishment.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 7 ‘17 850w

+ Dial 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“It will be seen that the volume under discussion is part of a large
and comprehensive plan of archæological work, which neglects
neither science nor the public, but has considered the needs of all
with real scientific statesmanship. ... The jewelry, which is very
fully presented in color plates, photographs, and drawings, makes
the volume of importance to all students of the goldsmith’s art.”
 + Nation 105:95 Jl 26 ‘17 1500w
“Highly specialized as it is, the record contains a good deal of
general interest, and may be read with enjoyment by a wider
public than that concerned merely with the results of the
archaeological expedition’s work. ... It need scarcely be pointed out
that the plates which illustrate the great volume—there are thirty-
five of them, as well as eighty-five ordinary figure illustrations—are
of the finest.”
+ N Y Times 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 500w

MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET. Honest lawyer. *$1.25 (1c)

Lane 17-6331
A provincial neighborhood in Dorset a hundred years ago is the
scene of this story. The hero is a young attorney who has just
succeeded to his uncle’s practice. The heroine enters the tale in a
most startling way, by sending a proposal of marriage to the
lawyer-hero, who has never seen her. Just why beautiful, haughty
and much sought after Quenride Chideock should have done this
remains a mystery for some time. The answer involves a forged
will, the foiling of a particularly black villain, a trial for felony, and a
pardon obtained under unusual and romantic circumstances.
“Rather sensational tale.”
Boston Transcript p8 F 7 ‘17 250w
“The events of the story are improbable, not to say impossible; it
is romance pure and simple, wholly removed from realism. ... An
adherent of Mr Howells is not likely to care for the strange
incidents and unheard of situations of ‘The honest lawyer’; but to
those who wish to be taken out of themselves into a wholly
different world from any they have known, Miss McFadden’s
ingenious and well-told story may be heartily commended.”
+ N Y Times 22:152 F 11 ‘17 200w
MACFARLANE, ALEXANDER. Lectures on ten British
mathematicians of the nineteenth century. (Mathematical
monographs, no. 17) il *$1.25 Wiley 925 16-14318
“This posthumous publication contains most interesting
biographies of ten of the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth
century in Great Britain, namely, of George Peacock, Augustus De
Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley,
William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph
Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter. These
sketches are a part of the lectures given by Dr Macfarlane at
Lehigh university during the years 1901-04.”—Science
“Should appeal to all students of human nature. It is, however, of
more special interest, because not only are the personalities
drawn, but the work and achievements of these men are
presented and discussed in considerable detail.”
+ Engin N 77:112 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
“The list is truly representative.” G. B. M.
+ Nature 99:221 My 17 ‘17 1700w
“The author’s personal acquaintance with some of these men, and
with intimate friends of them, enabled him to add personal
touches which will be relished by the reader. Particularly gratifying
are the details about Boole and Kirkman, concerning whom little
had previously appeared in print. The future historian of
mathematics during the nineteenth century will find the booklet
full of interesting material. ... Carelessness in the proof-reading is
noticeable.” Florian Cajori
+ Science n s 45:88 Ja 26 ‘17 680w

MACFARLANE, CHARLES. Reminiscences of a literary life; with an

introd. by J: F. Tattersall. *$3.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-19702)
“A man who met Shelley at Naples and introduced him to Pompeii,
who saw Keats in Italy, who talked with Hartley Coleridge at
Grasmere, and who knew all the London wits of George IV’s day is
a very welcome acquaintance. Charles MacFarlane, whose
reminiscences have been discovered in manuscript in a country
bookshop, was a prolific author now forgotten save, perhaps, for
his historical novel, ‘The camp of refuge,’ which may have inspired
Kingsley’s ‘Hereward the Wake.’ In later life he had to seek refuge
in the Charterhouse as a Poor brother, and there, before his death
in 1858, he finished dictating the two stout quartos which he
meant for his son as an heirloom—and probably for the public as
well. The son, an Indian officer, died in 1872, and the memoirs
have been preserved by some happy chance, to be published at
last by the descendant of MacFarlane’s old friend, the John Murray
of Byron’s time.”—Spec
“He is an extremely lucid chronicler of events and a caustic analyst
of character. ... Among the many picturesque personalities brought
by MacFarlane into his book is Thomas De Quincey, whom he
handles without gloves. ... It seems altogether likely that these
reminiscences were never completed, or that if they were the final
volumes are lost or still undiscovered.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 19 ‘17 1850w
“MacFarlane was a man of cultivated mind, was a fit associate of
the varied personalities with whom he had contact. The chief value
of his book lies in his reaction to those personalities. And along
with his easy-going chatter about them goes an instinct for
discerning the things which are characteristic, revealing.” Garland
Greever
+ Dial 63:518 N 22 ‘17 1300w
“One of the most entertaining books of the sort published in many
a day.”
+ Nation 105:611 N 29 ‘17 270w
 “Full of engaging details of the literati and dilettanti of the first half
of the nineteenth century, as well as some well-known Italians and
Anglo-Indians. ... Writing casually, MacFarlane was not always
accurate.”
+ Sat R 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 1150w
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“He hated Radicals, loathed Miss Martineau and De Quincey, and
bore a seemingly justifiable grudge against Charles Knight, for
whom he wrote ‘The pictorial history of England’ and other popular
books; but there was no real malice in his nature. ... His meeting
with Shelley fills the first, and best, chapter in the book. ...
MacFarlane’s serious books are forgotten, but his reminiscences
will be read and quoted for a long time to come.”
+ Spec 118:643 Je 9 ‘17 2300w
“He is as honest as a very determined and rather prejudiced old
gentleman may be. Down go his likes and dislikes, all pat; and
since he took care to know a good many of the interesting people
in the first half of his century, writes about them honestly, and
engagingly ‘gives himself away’ in so doing, his book is lively from
start to finish.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p163 Ap 5 ‘17
1750w

MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLA (CANFIELD). Boys and girls of many

lands. il *$1.25 (3c) Crowell 17-25294
It is the author’s purpose to tell for American children something
of the every day lives of boys and girls of other countries. A little
African boy, Carl of Australia, Our playmates in Austria, Jaurez, a
lad of the Amazon, A little maid of old Quebec, Boys and girls in
China, are the titles of a few of the twenty and more chapters.
There are sixteen illustrations from photographs. Mrs McFee is
author of “Outlines, devices and recreations in United States
 geography,” “Studies in American and British literature,” and other
books for school use.

MACGILL, PATRICK. Soldier songs. *$1 Dutton 821 17-20683

“In his third book of the war, Mr MacGill turns from prose to verse.
As his ‘Songs of the dead end’ were written out of the life of his
youth in Ireland, so these ‘Soldier songs’ are the lyrical expression
of the sights and sounds he encountered a few years later in the
midst of ‘war’s orgies of carnage.’ To him war has a charm, but it is
merely the charm of adventure that adds to the joy of living and
that gives him a theme for writing. ... In a dedicatory letter
addressed to ‘My dear H. J.’—which initials undoubtedly represent
his London publisher, Mr Herbert Jenkins—Mr MacGill responds to
a request for information about the favorite songs of the soldier on
active service.”—Springf’d Republican
A L A Bkl 14:15 O ‘17
“In all these poems there is never absent that strong sense of the
part played by nature in man’s life which is always conspicuous in
Mr MacGill’s prose as well as in his verse. He responds eagerly and
vigorously to the scenes amid which he is suddenly placed.” E. F.
E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 26 ‘17 1600w
“The easy dialect of the trenches predominates, but in spite of
this, literary quality is not lacking in many of the poems. ‘Marching’
and ‘Before the charge’ are fine bits of verse.”
+ Cath World 106:408 D ‘17 120w

Cleveland p121 N ‘17 90w

Ind 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

“Noteworthy for its hearty rhythm, its sturdy originality of
phrasing, and for the courageous spirit which permeates it. By a
strange paradox, this poet has found in battle the sanity of outlook
not noticeable in the work he wrote in times of peace.”
+ Lit D 55:41 Jl 7 ‘17 350w
“We recommend to all who look upon war as something worth all
its ghastly horrors in the ‘purifying’ results it bestows on mankind
the poems entitled ‘After the war,’ ‘Out yonder,’ ‘Red wine,’ ‘The
return,’ ‘A vision,’ ‘The everyday of war,’ and particularly ‘Letters.’
Be it remembered that these poems are the testimony of a man
who finds a justification for this war.” D: P. Berenberg
+ N Y Call p14 Ag 5 ‘17 240w
—
“Like everything of MacGill’s, they are ‘different’ from anything
else. They are, besides, a genuine contribution to the few
specimens of real poetry produced by the war.”
+ N Y Times 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 620w

+ R of Rs 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w

“Make somewhat grim reading, but they are not as harsh as his
prose, and now and again a note of unexpected and delicate
tenderness is heard. ... It is indeed a signal proof of versatility that
the trench poems written in the crudest slang and the reverent
and dignified lines on the crucifix in Givenchy church should have
come from the same pen.”
+ Spec 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w
“Criticism of the songs as works of art, beyond allowing their
metrical passability, would show them to fall between two stools,
since they are not poetry on the one hand, not spontaneous
expression of crude emotion, on the other.”
 – Springf’d Republican p6 S 17 ‘17 420w
+
“These songs seem perhaps more than any verse of so strictly
‘soldierly’ a type that has come from the trenches to bring home to
us something that is really alive—to ‘get there,’ if the expression
may be allowed—more truly and easily, and without a touch of
jingling bravado.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p503 O 19 ‘16
400w

MACGRATH, HAROLD. Luck of the Irish; a romance. il *$1.40

(1½c) Harper 17-25084
William Grogan, born in New York, thrown upon the streets at
nine, a journeyman plumber at twenty-four, is the kind of hero
who, like “the Hindu Yogi, could set his body grinding corn, take
his soul out and go visiting with it.” For three years from his cellar
shop window he had seen the same two shapely feet, sensibly
shod, trip lightly by. Saturdays minus and the gap of July and
August led him to the conclusion that she was a school teacher. He
had never seen her face. “There were lots of homely women with
pretty feet. He hadn’t many illusions left, this young philosopher of
the soldering-iron, and he wanted to keep this one.” The wheel of
fortune turns. A part of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is
dumped into his lap. He puts himself aboard a ship for a trip
around the world. The pair of feet is on the same boat. Mystery
with plenty of treachery spices the story which must be left to the
reader.
Cleveland p128 N ‘17 60w
“A lively tale, the interest of which depends almost entirely upon
its plot, and, though in the climax at Singapore it does seem as if
the author might have managed to concoct a more plausible
 excuse for the delay which enabled William to arrive in the very
nick of time, the story as a whole is amusing.”
+ N Y Times 22:394 O 14 ‘17 430w
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MACHARG, WILLIAM, and BALMER, EDWIN. Indian drum. il

*$1.40 (1½c) Little 17-25511
It was an Indian superstition—that the drum, hidden somewhere
in the woods at the northern end of Lake Michigan, tolled the
passing of every soul lost on the lakes. Twenty years before, when
the freighter “Miwaka” had gone down with all on board, the drum
had beaten short. Twenty-five was the number of the lost, but the
drum made the count twenty-four. And there were those who had
waited many years for the return of a rescued man. The story
opens with the disappearance of Benjamin Corvet of Chicago,
veteran ship owner and best known man on the lakes. Coincident
with this is the arrival in Chicago of young Alan Conrad of Kansas,
who had been summoned by Corvet. Henry Spearman, youngest
member of the firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, insists that the
senior partner is dead, but Constance Sherrill refuses to be
convinced and encourages Alan in his search for the missing man.
The mystery shrouding Alan and his relationship to Corvet,
together with the explanation of the connection between Corvet
and Spearman and the lost “Miwaka” is cleared away with the
wreck of Carferry 25, when the count of the Indian drum is again
one beat short.
“An unusually good mystery story.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:97 D ‘17
“The tale is clearly and pleasantly told, the characters acceptably
real, and the solution eminently satisfactory.”
+ N Y Times 22:401 O 14 ‘17 230w
 “The plot is painstakingly worked out and the book is better
written than most plot stories. The power and tragedy of the Great
Lakes in time of storm form an impressive background.”
+ Outlook 117:219 O 10 ‘17 70w
“The big scene on the lake steamer when the cars get loose recalls
the place in ‘Ninety-three’ where the gun breaks loose between
decks and begins to batter the ship to pieces. The incident is as
thrilling as anything short of Flanders.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 370w
“The story, despite the obviousness of its dramatic struggle, is
skilfully constructed, its air of mystery being well sustained.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 280w
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MACHEN, ARTHUR. Terror. *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 17-25086

An ingenious mystery story, impossible, fantastic, yet with a moral
that sets thoughtful people musing. Rural England which is the
scene has a succession of strange deaths. Workers in munition
factories, miners, farmers, tourists and laborers are stricken down,
some apparently asphyxiated, others victims of inexplainable
violence. The theory is suggested that the Germans, before the
war, undermined the earth, and, from hidden vantage points, are
making use of some deadly ray to destroy the people. In the end it
is revealed that the terror had been due to a mute uprising of the
brute creation against their human masters who, in descending to
the plane of beasts to conduct warfare, had released their spiritual
hold over the animal creation. The subjects revolted because their
king abdicated his throne. Hatred is contagious. The animals under
its spell turned on man to destroy him.
A L A Bkl 14:170 F ‘18
“‘The terror’ is a pure tour de force in diabolism. With its haunting
unreality, its many passages of real beauty, its passages of
description of Welsh scenery, no little pleasure may be derived
from its chapters.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 130w

Ind 92:192 O 27 ‘17 60w

“Artfully does the story-teller establish his fiction upon an
indubitable fact, fresh in every reader’s mind. The British were
inactive; we all wondered why at the time, and here, says our
deponent, with his crisp reporter’s air, is the answer.”
+ Nation 105:457 O 25 ‘17 550w
“The horrors that mark the animals’ sudden war upon mankind
seem isolated from their cause, and do not convince one of any
real terror at the root of them. In spite of the disappointment, and
the defect of a good idea not vigorously carried out, ‘The terror’ is
a distinguished book, and bears the mark of a strangely original
mind.”
+ New Repub 13:158 D 8 ‘17 150w
—
“The fancy is an excellent one, and on the whole well worked out,
though, naturally, there are many things left unexplained, and
some that do not hang very well together. But as ‘A tale of terror’ it
certainly qualifies, and we should conjecture that the book has not
been published in England, though it, no doubt, will be after the
war.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 O 14 ‘17 530w
—

N Y Times 22:400 O 14 ‘17 320w

“Daring, ingenious tale.”
 + Pittsburgh 22:808 D ‘17 50w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p70 F 8 ‘17

80w

MACIVER, ROBERT MORRISON. Community: a sociological

study. *$3.75 (3c) Macmillan 301 17-17545
“A small portion of this work has already appeared in the
Sociological Review and other quarters. The greater portion is
concerned with what are believed by the author to be the
fundamental laws of social development. Prof. Maciver declares
that social science, in order to advance, must cease to be subject
to the methods and formulæ of physical and biological science. It
has a method of its own; and social relations cannot adequately be
stated quantitatively, nor understood as expressions of quantitative
laws. Of militarism the author remarks that it has been the enemy
of modern social development, and that, if it cannot be overcome,
‘in all we do to build a greater civilization we are preparing greater
offerings to the powers of destruction.’”—Ath
“This is easily the most notable book of the year in sociology. ... It
is impossible to outline in a satisfactory manner the argument of a
book so fertile in ideas. The only fair thing that the reviewer can
do is to urge all interested in social science to read the book. It is
far easier, however, to criticise the work, and in certain respects it
deserves criticism. It is doubtful, for example, if the author has
rendered sociology a service by adding another terminology to the
many already in existence. ... Finally, Professor Maciver’s attempt
to make psychology purely a subjective science, the science of ‘the
knower’ (p. 60), and thereby divorce the social sciences quite
entirely from it, will scarcely meet with approval on the part either
of psychologists or of a large number of sociologists. These are,
however, on the whole, minor defects in a work whose substantial
value nearly all students of the social sciences will heartily
recognize.” C: A. Ellwood
+ Am Econ R 7:598 S ‘17 950w
—
“It strikes one as a serious omission that almost no reference is
made to the contributions of earlier writers to the same theme. ...
On the other hand, the author shows no particular familiarity with
the sociological tradition. For that reason the terms used in this
book are more or less improvised, consequently lacking in
precision, and the whole volume is vague, thin, plausible, and
innocuous.” R. E. Park
— Am J Soc 23:542 Ja ‘18 550w
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
Am Pol Sci R 11:772 N ‘17 770w
“What makes Dr Maciver’s volume so helpful is the fact that it was
written before the outbreak of war and is published unaltered. It is
a masterly book, characterized by a firm grasp of principles, and it
is about principles that we want clear thinking at the present
time. ... The volume is refreshing in that it is neither doctrinaire
nor dogmatic. The lack of pretension about the book does not,
however, hide the fact that it is written with a thorough knowledge
of the best work in modern psychology and philosophy.”
+ Ath p235 My ‘17 1650w

Ath p248 My ‘17 150w

Cleveland p123 N ‘17 60w

“It suffers from a certain abstractness. Again and again one needs
the apt illustration which will serve to drive home the point that
has been made. It is a well-arranged book; and a student who is
acquainted with the literature of which it is a part can read it with
interest and profit. It is, indeed, here that its main value lies. It is
nothing so much as an encyclopædia of the problems involved in
the fact of human organization. ... It is permissible to suggest that
future work of this kind will be the more useful and suggestive in
so far as it is written from the standpoint of historical experience.”
H. J. Laski
* + Dial 62:517 Je 14 ‘17 1850w
–
“Dr Maciver has done valuable service not only in providing us with
a summary analysis of acquired results, but also reminding the
specialist of the immense value of a wide outlook. The author
disarms criticism by acknowledging that the subject is too vast for
any adequate survey to be made in the present state of our
knowledge. On the whole Dr Maciver’s book is completely
successful.” C. D. Burns
+ Hibbert J 16:175 O ‘17 680w
“Remarkable book—remarkable for the vigour, originality and
precision of the views presented. ... Of the two appendices, A is a
very masterly criticism of neo-Hegelian identification of the state
with society. It is, perhaps, in this illuminating criticism of
authorities such as Professor Bosanquet in this appendix and of M.
Durkheim (p. 87), Mr William McDougall (p. 79) that Dr Maciver is
at his best.” M. J.
+ Int J Ethics 28:292 Ja ‘18 340w

Nation 105:698 D 20 ‘17 340w

“We may express our gratitude for so able and suggestive a plea
for the value and importance of individual human personality in
the life of community, a plea more deeply significant against the
background of present-day happenings.” W. L. S.
+ Nature 100:124 O 18 ‘17 1000w
“While there is no question that what he has written is of high
ability, Mr Maciver has yet certain defects of outlook and method
which detract from the value of his thought. His thesis is over-
elaborated. ... What is more serious is the unreal atmosphere of
the book. Again and again it becomes difficult to grasp the vital
fact that of this community we are ourselves part. There is missing
the apt historical illustration which would lend point to the
argument. ... Not the least serious defect in Mr Maciver is his
seeming ignorance of vital tracts of human experience which are
essential to his theme. ... If this is for the most part a criticism that
is adverse, it is because Mr Maciver has written what is an
indispensable book.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 11:283 Jl 7 ‘17 2200w
—

Pratt p8 O ‘17 40w

“A very able and penetrating analysis of communal development in
the broadest sense.”
+ Spec 119:331 S 29 ‘17 120w
“We needed this book badly. Of the thousands who lightly talk
about ‘national reconstruction,’ how many question the issues
involved? This book provides a real preparation for the task.” A. H.
Burnett
+ Survey 39:201 N 24 ‘17 540w
—
“This book, the work of a Canadian professor, is one of
unmistakable originality. ... In precision of language, in accuracy of
definition, in the expulsion of indefinite phraseology, Mr Maciver’s
volume contrasts, to his advantage, with the bulk of sociological
literature. Certain pages are in the best style of philosophical
exposition. But Mr Maciver does not wholly escape the besetting
sin of sociologists—diffuseness.”
 + The Times [London] Lit Sup p194 Ap 26
‘17 1500w

MACKAY, CONSTANCE D’ARCY. Little theatre in the United

States. il *$2 (3c) Holt 792 17-29335
Aims to give a complete survey of one of the “newest, freest, most
potent and democratic forces in the art of the American stage.”
The author shows that the idea of little theatres came from
Europe. In Paris in 1887 the first experiment was launched by
André Antoine. In America the movement is new, dating from
1911-12. The “arch-foe of commercialism,” this great promoter of
common interest has grown rapidly in America. The chapters
describe the contributions and achievements of the more
important little theatres of the United States and tell of the work
going on in the laboratory theatres of the universities. There is
also a word on the cost of little theatres, on repertory theatres,
and on little theatres that have failed.
+ Cleveland p135 D ‘17 50w
“A crisply written informational volume.”
+ R of Rs 57:107 Ja ‘18 480w
“The author has done little more than bring together trivial notes
and opinions. ... And the information is frequently inaccurate.”
– Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 330w
+
“Meets a real need to satisfy requests for the history of the little-
theater movement.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:30 Ja ‘18 80w

MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS

ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY). Journal of small things. *$1.35 (2c)
 Duffield 940.91 17-8206
The author writes of France in the early days of the war. The
preface, by W. L. Courtney, says: “Those who have read Mrs
Mackay’s book which she entitled ‘Accidentals,’ will know exactly
what to expect from her new book ‘Journal of small things.’ Like
the early one it consists of a series of little sketches more or less in
the form of a diary, vignettes taken from a very individual angle of
vision. ... The precise quality of them is that they are extremely
individual and intimately concerned with the little things—episodes
half observed, half forgotten, which cluster round a big tragedy.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:396 Je ‘17

+ Ath p106 F ‘17 60w

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 570w

“The writer’s intense sympathy with the sufferings she records is
unmarred by emotionalism, and permits her to produce an account
objective enough to be valuable; and, although Mrs Mackay is
apparently not a Catholic, the ‘Journal’ is full of a beautiful
reverence for the religion of the French people.”
+ Cath World 105:838 S ‘17 250w
“This is the record of a spiritual development, and it is by far the
most impressive, the most poignant which this reviewer has yet
found in the mass of war literature. It is a volume to be read and
reread, and always to be kept near at hand.”
+ Dial 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 230w
+

+ Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 40w

 “It stays with one, with its heartache and its beauty; not for
themselves and their lost homes, but over and over again—‘Sauvez
la France.’”
+ N Y Times 22:182 My 6 ‘17 600w

+ Outlook 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w

Pittsburgh 22:682 O ‘17 80w

+ Sat R 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 190w

“The book is sad, it cannot be otherwise, but it is truthfully sad
and is informed with a delicate sentiment which is never
sentimental and which gives to her sketches contrasts of light,
shade, and atmosphere.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p32 Ja 18 ‘17
400w

MACKAY, MRS ISABEL ECCLESTONE (MACPHERSON). Up the

hill and over. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10164
A little village in Canada, very amusingly described, is the scene of
this story. Dr Henry Callandar, of Montreal, seeking mental rest and
change of scene, finds both in Coombe, where he buys out the
practice of old Dr Simmonds. Well-wishers inform him that old Dr
Simmonds really has no practice to sell and that Coombe is an
unprofitably healthy town, but all this fits in perfectly with Dr
Callandar’s plans. He comes into town on foot, like a tramp, and
his first encounter is with Esther Coombe, the young school
mistress. What promises at first to be a very pretty love story is
interrupted by the meeting between Callandar and Esther’s
stepmother. Callandar and Mary Coombe had known one another
in the long past and there is that between them that throws the
 shadow of tragedy over the awakening of a new love. But the
shadow lifts, making for the story a sunny ending.
+ A L A Bkl 13:405 Je ‘17

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 2 ‘17 350w

“The rather melodramatic plot is redeemed by skillful character
drawing.”
+ Cleveland p128 N ‘17 50w
—

+ Lit D 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“A book with which we are glad to have made friends.”
+ N Y Times 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 350w
“An unusual novel of Canadian life by a Vancouver writer. It is
admirably written and very interesting. There is truth, humor, and
charm in the pictures both of the place and the people, while the
construction is exceptionally good and the plot well and logically
developed.”
+ Ontario Library Review 1:119 My ‘17 150w

MACKAY, LUCY GERTRUDE.[2] Housekeeper’s apple book. *75c

Little 641.5 17-29531
The author classes the apple among the most essential foods and
gives over 200 recipes for its use. Apple sauce and apple salads,
baked apples and fried apples, apple puddings, pies, cakes and
dumplings are all here, with many variations. The book is indexed.
A L A Bkl 14:117 Ja ‘18

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 13 ‘18 70w

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