List of New Books Prepared in co-operation with the Library Association. The method of classification adopted is a series of groups roughly corresponding with the Dewey Decimal System, the sub-classes being indicated, for the benefit of librarians and others familiar with the system, by the class-numbers given at the end of each entry. The first numeral in these represents the main class, the second one of the subdivisions, and so on. Those works in the List which appear most suitable for purchase by Public Library Authorities are marked with an asterisk. 100 PHILOSOPHY. Cumberland (Stuart). SPIRITUALISM-THE Odhams [1919]. 7 in. 157 pp., 2/ n. INSIDE TRUTH. " 133.9 If we are to believe Mr. Cumberland, the inside truth" of spiritualism is very like the inside truth of a nut without a kernel; there is nothing in it. Mr. Cumberland's lifelong hobby has been the showing-up of mediums, and in the present volume he recounts some of his experiences with "spirits." His book forms a welcome counterblast to the propaganda of such active spiritualists as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Turró (Ramón). ORÍGENES Del ConocimieNTO: EL HAMBRE ("Biblioteca de Cultura Moderna y Contemporánea"). Barcelona, Editorial Minerva, S.A., Aribau, 179 [1919]. 7 in. 294 pp. por. index, paper, 4 pesetas. 130 This original and fascinating book, which was published in French and German before it appeared in its Spanish form, synthesizes studies which the author has prosecuted during many years. Dr. Turró maintains that our knowledge of the external world is revealed to us by, or arises out of, the sensation of hunger. The main thesis put forward is that the being who knows or perceives is he who eats. He can hug to himself the comforting reflection, Edo, ergo sum. Introducing the principal subject-matter of the book by a discussion of the physiological origins and nature of the hungry feeling which is the conscious echo of what is needed by the organism for the sustenance of its nutritive functions— and remarking that the sensation is general, and not localized in the stomach, the author proceeds to an elaborate consideration of the beginnings of knowledge. He deals at some length with the trophic processes, the transition from trophic perception to the perception of external things, the problem of external causality, and numerous other themes. graphy would have added to the acceptability of the volume. 300 SOCIOLOGY. A biblio Bernis (Francisco). LA HACIENDA ESPAÑOLA: LOS IMPUESTOS: como son en España; como son en otras haciendas; como deben ser en la nuestra ("Biblioteca de Cultura Moderna y Contemporánea "). Barcelona, Editorial Minerva, S.A., Aribau, 179 [1919]. 7 in. 360 pp. por. index, paper, 4 pesetas. 336.46 Professor Bernis, of the University of Salamanca, has made an intensive study of the systems of taxation in France, England, Germany, and the United States, as well as in his own land. He has happily utilized the wide knowledge so gained in the preparation of this elaborate survey and analysis of Spanish revenue and finance. Having begun with an historical survey covering the period from 1845 to 1916, Professor Bernis considers in detail the present aspects of the fiscal question in Spain. He regards a system of imposts as being, like every other social institution, the concern of the people; remarks that for him there exists a problem higher than that of the finance of the State, namely, the finance of the Nation; and advocates drastic measures of Spanish fiscal reform. Branford (Victor) and Geddes (Patrick). THE COMING POLITY The Making of the Future"). Williams & Norgate, 1919. 8 in. 352 pp., 6/6 n. 304 The third part of this second edition of Mr. Branford and Professor Geddes's stimulating work is wholly new; and the three chapters of the added section, Christendom," 'The Renewing of The Post-Germanic University," and " From the Old State to the New," impart to the volume a somewhat more practical character than was previously observable. Here is a pregnant sentence from the new portion of the book: "We need a vision of the Region renewed, the City renewed, the State renewed, the World renewed." And the reader will find much that is arresting in the references to the vision of joy and wonder" daily to be enjoyed in London by the seeing eye; in the remarks on the "continuous endeavour" to which the college buildings of Oxford, from New" to Christchurch, impressively testify; and in the description of the "regionalization" of studies at University College, Aberystwyth. Brissenden (Paul Frederick). THE I. W. W.: a study of American Syndicalism ("Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law," edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, vol. 83, whole number 193). New York, Columbia University (Longmans), 1919. 10 in. 432 pp. bibliog. apps. index, paper, 14/. 331.87 In this substantial volume, containing an historical and descriptive sketch of the present drift from parliamentary to industrial Socialism," as epitomized in the career of the Industrial Workers of the World in the United States, it is pointed out that ignorance and misrepresentation are rife in regard to that body; also that, violent and crude as are some of the methods of the I. W. W., the insistence of the members that no genuine democracy is possible in industry until those who do the work in a business control its management is virtually identical with what is urged, in a more refined and intelligent manner, by the British Labour Party. But when the latter organization asks for representative government in industry, those who do not ignore the request give it serious attention. When the I. W. W. echoes the sentiment in the phrase: Let the workers run the industries,' the editors are thrown into a panic, the business world views the I. W. W. menace with aggravated alarm, and the more reactionary employers hysterically clamour to have these criminal anarchists shot at sunrise.' Dr. Brissenden remarks, however, that " unquestionably the I. W. W. ask too much when they ask that the producers be given exclusive control of industry." His book should be useful at the present The reverend author has tried to make this book tribution towards both a fuller appreciation of the meaning of the Woman's Movement, which he believes to be an impulse towards Christ's ideal of the Kingdom of God," to a clearer realization by its adherents of its providential and also rôle and function for the time to come." Thompson remarks on p. 53 that the Mr. BroughtonWoman's Movement rests on opposition to the the dead-weight influence of established usage and convention dislike of change, and the jealousy that guards ancient privilege, and, in a word, on more or less unconscious selfishness. There is " a considerable amount of opinion in favour of all offices in the Church being open to trained women who are endowed with spiritual gifts. Those who maintain this position believe that women have too long been excluded from the priesthood, and virtually regarded as eligible only for lay membership of the Church. But while the author pays tribute to the value of women's services to the Church and State, and would admit" properly qualified, approved and accredited women to preach, we gather from the latter part of the book that he would exclude them from exercising the priestly function in the Eucharistic service. Many supporters of the Woman's Movement will hardly, we think, accept as unassailable the view of the Bishop of Oxford, quoted in the Bishop of Lichfield's foreword, that Christianity accepts the principle of an essential and permanent headship of man over woman." Nevertheless, as an expression of contemporary clerical opinion, Mr. Broughton-Thompson's book should be of interest to all who are convinced that women's influence is destined to play an extremely important part in the future development of the race-moral, intellectual, and social. 398.3 Elaborated from the lecture given on Oct. 23, 1917, this study treats of the history of apple cults, the apple-bird and apple-boy, the personification of the apple-tree, Ganymedes and Hebe, and the name of the apple-god, with a wealth of references to English, classical Greek, and other folk-lore. *Laski (Harold J.). AUTHORITY IN THE MODERN STATE. New Haven, Conn., Yale Univ. Press (Milford), 1919. 9 in. 398 pp. app. index, 12/6 n. 323.44 The author of "Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty," who is preparing a full book on the theory of the State," offers this as in some sort a sequel to his first book. His constructive views on political obedience are set forth in an opening essay. His ideal is the old Athenian one, reconciliation of authority and freedom. "The problem of authority becomes, above all, the duty so to organize its character and its processes as to make it, in the widest aspect, the servant of right and of freedom . . . Only in such fashion can the ethical significance of personality obtain its due recognition." After this, he submits four studieson Bonald and his theocracy, on Lamennais and Ultramontanism in France, Royer-Collard and the Restoration, and Administrative Syndicalism in France. The index enables readers to consider the views of Brunetière, M. Bourget, Dr. Figgis, Prof. Dicey, and other notable thinkers on the questions under review. remarks also that many English texts on higher chemistry On p. 254 FISIO Moder Miner White (E. C.). EASY RUSSIAN READER. Kegan Paul, 1919. No student who has honestly mastered the contents of this *Swift (Fletcher Harper). EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ISRAEL "" 400 PHILOLOGY. 500 NATURAL SCIENCE. 591.5 The Monist: a quarterly magazine devoted to the philosophy of science, vol. 29, no. 3, July. Chicago, Open Court Publishing Co., 1919. 9 in. 160 pp. paper, 2/6. 505 Two of the lectures recently delivered by Mr. Bertrand Russell at the Dr. Williams Library are included in the present number, under the general title The Philosophy of Logical Atomism." The author discusses, among other themes, the scientific applications of the maxim called " Occam's razor and Professor John Laird's paper on The Law of Parsimony deals largely with the same principle, in regard to which, also, there are letters from Messrs. Philip E. B. Jourdain and A. E. Heath. Articles of importance are Notes on Mahayana Buddhism," by Mr. Wm. Montgomery McGovern ; a contribution by M. Emile Boutroux, who deals with the relation of science to religion; and "The Genesis of Consciousness," by Mr. S. N. Patten. In the section Criticisms and Discussions," Miss Dorothy Wrinch writes upon Dr. C. A. Mercier's work, On Causation, with a Chapter on Belief." TO CHEMICAL Greenfield (Eric Viele). AN INTRODUCTION GERMAN ("Heath's Modern Language Series "). Heath and Harrap [1919]. 7 in. 408 pp. bibliog. notes, vocab., 438.7 6/ n. For a number of years the Institute of Chemistry and other bodies in this country have set plainly before students the need of a knowledge of German, so that to these young men and women the enormous bulk of German scientific literature should not be a mare clausum. The majority of American In the preface universities have adopted a similar course. to the useful work before us the Assistant Professor of German in Purdue University reminds students that a great preponderance of the world's chemical literature is by German authors, and that more periodicals dealing with chemistry are published in Germany than in any other country. He " Some short reviews close the number. This, the fourth and concluding volume of Professor Seward's descriptive palæobotanical treatise, is illustrated by 190 admirable figures, and provided with a comprehensive bibliography. An index to the four volumes, and a separate index to volume 4, complete this excellent text-book, which may be supplemented by a general review of the floras of the past. Thomson (J. Arthur). SECRETS OF ANIMAL LIFE: Melrose, 1919. 8 in. 332 pp. index, 7/6 n. See review, p. 813. 600 USEFUL ARTS. 591.5 Govett Porot (A.) and Hesnard (A.). PSYCHIATRIE DE GUERRE certain abnormal mental states found in the war a favourable Rivers (W. H. R.). MIND AND MEDICINE (reprinted from the Suñer (Augusto Pí). LA UNIDAD FUNCIONAL: ENSAYOS DE This book is a collection of discourses delivered by the author (who is the Professor of Physiology in the University of Barcelona) before the Royal Academy of Medicine of Barcelona, the Spanish Association for the Progress of the Sciences, Valladolid, and other bodies, during the period 1908-16. The addresses constitute a valuable résumé of some of the more recent scientific work in Spain and elsewhere upon the subject of organic interrelations; and included are the results of the author's own extensive researches in regard to the concept of functional unity. The correlations and motory adaptations in the digestive apparatus; the mechanics of interorganic correlation; chemical individuality; and the relationships between chemical composition and the forms of organisms, are among the subjects dealt with in these dissertations. In the section relating to psychic unity the author discusses the origins of knowledge, and refers to the views of Dr. Ramón Turró. The book is provided with excellent sectional bibliographies, and will appeal to medical men, students of bio-chemistry, and many others. 700 FINE ARTS. " 751 Govett (Ernest). ART PRINCIPLES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PAINTING. Putnam, 1919. 9 in. 379 pp. il. index, 17/6 n. Mr. Govett is a stout upholder of academic principles. For him all art is imitation : even music imitates natural sounds and combines them, and specially represents human emotional effects," whatever that may mean. He does not recognize the fact that we are affected in art by something which is different from the beauty of nature; we feel, when we look at a picture, an emotion that is not simply the emotion with which the painted scene is charged. The emotion we derive from looking at a still-life of flowers is not the same as the emotion derived from the contemplation of those same flowers in nature; and when we look at an El Greco or a Poussin the religious content of the one and the classical content of the other have but the faintest effect upon us. Our primary emotion is an æsthetic emotion; the work of art affects us as a work of art, as an arrangement, guided by human imagination and intelligence, of objects which may or may not be imitations of natural beauty. The recognition of such imitation of natural beauty is a pleasure that enhances the original æsthetic emotion, which is reinforced and complicated in the same way by the emotions-religious, amorous or whatever they may be-contained in the scene represented by the painter. Failure to recognize the distinction between the essentially æsthetic emotion, and the other emotions which may affect us in a work of art, somewhat vitiates Mr. Govett's theories. Sergeant (Philip W.). CHAROUSEK'S GAMES OF CHESS: a collection of 146 games, with annotations and a biographical introduction. Bell, 1919. 7 in. 241 pp. index, 794 7/6 n. Mr. Sergeant here presents a very interesting collection of the games of the brilliant young Hungarian player. His genius is, in many respects, reminiscent of that of Paul Morphy. Beyond the bare facts of his birth and of his death from consumption at the age of twenty-six, very little is known about his life. The problem presented by the life of a chess genius is very interesting. The exceptional mental endowment is indisputable, as is the æsthetic value of great games to the initiate. And yet there seems something essentially trivial about such manifestations of a rare faculty. Is it simply a question of majorities? Would not non-applied and non-applicable mathematics be in the same case? It is understandable that some chess players insist that chess is more than a game. Haylock (M. L.). WORKING FOR GOD; and other poems. Murphy (Vere M.). SONGS FROM THE HIMACHAL; and 821.9 Erskine Macdonald 821.9 The author has infused a measure of the spirit of the Orient into several tuneful pieces in this slender book of verse. The Indian Love Song," Evening," and A Masterpiece "' are among the more noticeable items. Simpson (H. L.). MOODS AND TENSES. [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 120 pp. front., 5/ n. "Born June 5, 1897; killed in action at Hazebrouck, August 29, 1918," H. L. Simpson was one of that noble and pitiful army of boys cut off before their prime. There is promise in the poems collected in the present volume— promise of a kind that is to be found in much schoolboy writing, and that the future may or may not bring to maturity -and in the last two or three pieces, written in France a little before the poet's death, more than a hint of fulfilment. The poems contained in the first part of the book are characteristically schoolboyish; there is a straining after Parnassian technique and a jewelled vocabulary; one divines a genuine emotion, but with difficulty, behind the conventional scenery and tinsel of the verse. Then come the new poems, written in the army, and the emotion issues forth in unadorned intensity. Here is a stanza, taken from his last poem, telling how he stumbled on a corpse in a wood : His face was cold That night "I grew old that night in the wood." Eight words-and what a hell unveiled! FICTION. Berger (Marcel). A LIFE AT STAKE. An interesting story of the life of a wounded soldier in " Gibbs (George). THE GOLDEN BOUGH. Appleton, 1918. 7 in. 394 pp. il., 6/6 n. Rowland, the American soldier-hero of this story of the German Secret Service, escapes from a prison camp into Switzerland, and by an extraordinary sequence of events becomes the titular head of a great secret order which aims at the betterment of Russia. Rowland counters the machinations of the German agents, passes through a series of sensational adventures, rescues the stolen treasure of the society, and secures another treasure in the love of Tanya, the beautiful heroine, who is a patriotic Russian, and a devoted worker on behalf of her country. The story is animated, and of unflagging interest. Hill (Cecilia). STONE WALLS. Hutchinson [1919]. 7 in. 256 pp., 6/9 n. A pleasant story about a young girl who is a musical genius. The first part is rather dull, and should have been greatly abridged. With the opening of the music section the author becomes more confident and direct. Kaye-Smith (Sheila). TAMARISK TOWN. Cassell [1919]. 7 in. 344 pp., 7/n. Enter Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs. Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny's dreama watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny's love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate. By the end of the century he has succeeded: Marlingate is more vulgar, more sordid than the lowest, most tripper-infested seaside resort. Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in Tamarisk Town," creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself-an invention rather than a copy. " McKenna (Stephen). SONIA MARRIED. Hutchinson [1919]. 8 in. 335 pp., 6/9 n. See review, p. 815. Maurois (André). THE SILENCE OF new Divine Right of intelligence ") down to the year when COLONEL BRAMBLE ("On Active Service" Series). Translated from the French. Lane, 1919. 7 in. 214 pp. 5/ n. 843.9 M Maurois' agreeable picture of the personnel of a Scottish officers' mess at Poperinghe, and elsewhere on the Western front, was noticed in THE ATHENAEUM for August, 1918 (p. 366). The book is now in an English dress, and the humour of the story is somewhat less enjoyable in the translation than in the original; but the reader is still able to appreciate the incisive delineation of the gallant officer who fills the title-rôle, and of Aurelle, the poet-interpreter, the Irish doctor, and the sport-loving chaplain with his tall stories of big game. Saltus (Edgar). THE PALISER CASE. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1919. 71⁄2 in. 315 pp., $1.60 n. 64 Mr. Saltus has an epigrammatic style which is rather irritating, but he is a skilful story-teller. The Paliser Case " is a good story constructed on the old lines. 930-990 HISTORY. Barce Wood (Charles W.). THE GREAT CHANGE: New America, as seen by leaders in American government, industry, and education, who are remaking our civilization. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1918. 7 in. 214 pp. $1.50. Altamira (Rafael). PSICOLOGÍA DEL PUEBLO ESPAÑOL 973.913 With the object of collecting facts relating to the influence upon America exerted by the war, the author, on behalf of the New York Sunday World, interviewed a number of prominent personages-specialists in education, psychologists, publicists, and captains of industry "--who have provided a considerable amount of information regarding the changes in the industrial and social life of the United States which, according to their experience, have taken place during the past four years; and some of them express opinions as to the future trend of events. Among the people interviewed were Mr. Charles M. Schwab, Professor John Dewey, Dr. Henry Dwight Chapin, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, and Mr. Bernard M. Baruch. It appears that a transformation, so great as to be almost a revolution, has been effected in America. Mr. Wood's researches have led him to finish his book in a major key; indeed, upon an optimistic note. He considers that the American worker is passing from the status of a commodity to the position of citizenship in an industrial democracy,' and he believes that eventually the motive of co-operation will be substituted for the competitive motive which has ruled in the past. This means the realization of human brotherhood." A luminous exegesis of European history, from the rise of 940.9 THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. Prezzolini (Giuseppe). CAPORETTO (“Quaderni della Voce "'). Roma, La Voce," 1919. 7 in. 60 pp., 2.50 lire. 940.9 This pamphlet on the causes of the Caporetto disaster, written a few days after it occurred, obviously could not have been printed during the war, but it strikes one as a little belated now. The charges are, as a rule, general in character, and are very similar to those made against the Staff, the Government, the professional soldier or the Civil Service in all countries after similar occurrences. Signor Prezzolini's criticisms of the Italian character are, however, of special interest. He emphasizes the utter unpreparedness of the army when Italy joined the Entente, notably the lack of heavy artillery. But the principal cause of the moral breakdown which made the disaster possible he finds in the reduction of the men's rations. Only on the rare occasions when they were supplemented from the officers' messes were they Printed for the Proprietors of THE ATHENÆUM by POLSUE LTD., 15 and 16, Gough Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C., and Published by THE ATHENÆUM PUBLISHING T No. 46 L |