Architecture Leliman, J. H. W. & Sluyterman, K. Het moderne landhuis in Nederland. 1917. Peabody Institute, Baltimore. q 728 L57 r 016.72 P33 Books on architecture, decoration and furniture in the library. 1920. Weaver, Lawrence. q 728 W36 Small country houses of to-day. 2d ser. 1919. Country Life. (The "Country life" library of architecture.) Contains plans, exterior and interior views, and descriptive text. Music Auer, Leopold. Violin playing as I teach it. 1921. Stokes. 787.1 A91 The author has numbered among his pupils Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Kathleen Parlow, Jascha Heifetz, and Max Rosen. [Songs; a collection.] 2v. [1843-65.] V.I contains also a few selections for the piano. United States-Training camp activities, Commission on. (War department.) qM 784.8 S69 r 784.4 U25 Camp music division of the War department, Commission on training camp activities, June 30, 1919. 1919. Describes in detail with many illustrations desirable equipment. Includes chapters on where to go and one on the laws of the various states affecting motorists. Riley, Mrs Alice Cushing (Donaldson). q 793.1 R45 Harvest time; an entertainment of verse, of song, of music, for children. 1905. Church. Literature Cook, Arthur Kemball. A commentary upon Browning's The ring and the book. Milford. The same. 821 B819zck 1920. .r 821 B819zco "A minute, full comment on the poem, almost always shrewd and sensible, and particularly noteworthy for its use of all the sources." Nation, 1920. Curry, Samuel Silas. 808.5 C931m Mind and voice; principles and methods in vocal training. 1910. Expression Co. Livy. 878 L75Li Livy, with an English translation by B. O. Foster; books 1-2. v.1. 1919. Heinemann. (Loeb classical library.) Latin and English on opposite pages. Mencken, Henry Louis. Prejudices. [2v.] 1919-20. Knopf. 814 M61 V.I. Criticism of criticism of criticism.-The late Mr Wells.-Arnold Bennett.The dean [W. D. Howells].-Professor Veblen.-The new poetry movement.-The heir of Mark Twain [Irvin S. Cobb].-Hermann Sudermann.-George Ade.-The Butte Bashkirtseff [Mary MacLane].-Six members of the Institute: The boudoir Balzac [Robert W. Chambers]; A stranger on Parnassus [Hamlin Garland]; A merchant of mush [Henry Sydnor Harrison]; The last of the Victorians [William Allen White]; A bad novelist [Ernest Poole]; A Broadway Brandes [Clayton Hamilton].The genealogy of etiquette.-The American magazine.-The Ulster Polonius [George Bernard Shaw]. An unheeded law-giver [Ralph Waldo Emerson]. The blushful mystery.-George Jean Nathan.-Portrait of an immortal soul.-Jack London.---Among the avatars.-Three American immortals [Emerson, Poe, Whitman]. V.2. The national letters.-Roosevelt; an autopsy. The Sahara of the bozart.The divine afflatus.-Scientific examination of a popular virtue.-Exeunt omnes.-The allied arts.-The cult of hope.-The dry millennium.-Appendix on a tender theme. Spenser, Edmund. 821 S74sto Stories from Spenser, by M. S. Smith. 1919. Cambridge University Press. Contents: General introduction.-Introduction to the three stories.-Chronology of Spenser's life.-The fairy queen.-The story of the knight of the red cross or of holiness. The story of Sir Guyon or of temperance.-The story of Britomart.-Appendix: The legend of St. George; Prince Arthur.-List of proper names.-Notes. Thucydides. 888 T42th v.1-2. Thucydides, with an English translation by C. F. Smith. 1919-20. Heinemann. (Loeb classical library.) v.I. History of the Peloponnesian war, books 1 and 2. V.2. History of the Peloponnesian war, books 3 and 4. "Bibliography," v. 1, pref. p.21-22. Greek and English on opposite pages. Van Dyke, Henry. 814 V18ca Camp-fires and guide-posts; a book of essays and excursions. 1921. Scribner. Contents: Camp-fires and guide-posts. - A certain insularity of islanders. A basket of chips.-Self, neighbor and company.-Sympathetic antipathies.-Publicomania.-Moving day.-Firelight views.-Fishing in strange waters.-The pathless profession. A mid-Pacific pageant.-Japonica.-Interludes on the Koto.-Suicidal tendencies in democracy.-A bundle of letters.-Christmas greens.-On saying good-bye. -Fellow-travellers: An old-style American; Interpreter's house; The healing gift; A traveller from Altruria. Poetry Aiken, Conrad Potter. 811 A29p Punch, the immortal liar; documents in his history [poetry]. 1921. Knopf. Ausonius. 871 A93 Ausonius, with an English translation by H. G. Evelyn White. v.1. 1919. Heinemann. (Loeb classical library.) Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and Year book of newspaper 861.08 W18 Anthology of Jugoslav poetry; Serbian lyrics. 1920. Badger. Walsh, Thomas, comp. Hispanic anthology; poems translated from the Spanish by English and North American poets. 1920. Putnam. (Hispanic Society of America. Hispanic notes & monographs; peninsular series, 4.) Drama. Theatre Bolton, Guy, & Middleton, George, b. 1880. Light of the world; a modern drama. 1920. Holt. Hare, Walter Ben. 812 B61 793.1 H26 The white Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays. 1917. Denison. Other merry Christmas plays: Anita's secret; or, Christmas in the steerage.Christmas with the Mulligan's.-The wishing man.-A Christmas carol; or, The miser's yuletide dream.-Her Christmas hat. Mackay, Constance D'Arcy. 793.1 M17g The gooseherd and the goblin; a play for children. 1909. French. Reprinted from "The house of the heart, and other plays for children." Roof, Katharine Metcalf. 812 R67 Three dear friends; a feminine episode in one act. 1914. Baker. (Baker's edition of plays.) Stevens, Thomas Wood. 792.5 S84pa Pageant of the Italian renaissance; produced at the Art Institute, Chicago, Jan. 26 and 27, 1909, under the auspices of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute. 1909. Book of words. Varesi, Gilda, & Byrne, Mrs Dolly. 812 V21 Enter madame; a play in three acts, introduction by Alexander Woollcott. 1921. Putnam. Vega, Ventura de la. El hombre de mundo; drama en tres actos y en verso. 862 V245 1880. Green, John P. Biography 92 G828 Fact stranger than fiction; 75 years of a busy life, with reminiscences of many great and good men and women. 1920. Riehl Printing Co. Autobiography of a negro who was for a number of years a member of the Ohio legislature. Kościuszko, Thaddeus. 92 K389g Gardner, Monica M. Kościuszko; a biography. [1920.] Allen. "Chief works consulted," p.204. The author "is an eloquent champion of Poland and its people and her all too short biography of the national hero is an able and timely piece of work." Outlook (London), 1921. Muir, John. 92 M953L Letters to a friend, written to Mrs Ezra S. Carr, 1866-79. 1915. Houghton. Most of these letters were written from the Yosemite valley and give a good idea of Muir's life there and of his devotion to the study of glacial geology. Condensed from Prefatory note. Napoleon I, emperor of the French. qr 92 N129r Richardson, Hubert N. B. Dictionary of Napoleon and his times. 1920. Cassell. "Select classified bibliography," p.481-489. Peel, Sir Robert. Private letters; ed. by George Peel. 1920. Murray. 92 P365pe Though the letters are conventional and decorous, precise, didactic, and unemotional, without the slightest tendency to idle gossip, they reveal the writer as the typical representative Englishman of his day and give the reader an idea of the great part he filled in the public and domestic life of his era. They supply the mellow tones and subdued lights to the portrait outlined in the political memoirs. Condensed from Outlook (London), 1920. Pennypacker, Galusha. r 92 P399 Galusha Pennypacker, America's youngest general. 1917. Sower. Brief account of his life and military services during and after the Civil war. Pepys, Samuel. 92 P419t Tanner, Joseph Robson. Samuel Pepys and the royal navy; Lees Knowles lectures delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge, 6, 13, 20 and 27 November 1919. 1920. Cambridge University Press. Contains bibliographical foot-notes. A study of the great diarist's achievements in naval administration and reform. Reid, Whitelaw. 92 R312c Cortissoz, Royal. Life of Whitelaw Reid. 2v. 1921. Scribner. V. I. Journalism.-War.-Politics. V.2. Politics (continued).-Diplomacy. A biography of great value because its subject was so influential and so "on the inside" in political and journalistic events, and because his biographer has so much matter and knows so well how to use it. It is also a delightful narrative because of its little sidelights. Condensed from Boston transcript, 1921. Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm. 92 T714b Beerbohm, Max, comp. Herbert Beerbohm Tree; some memories of him and of his art. [1920.] Hutchinson. Sketches of this English actor by relatives, professional associates, and friends. "There is the succulence of Lady Tree's contributions; there is Mr. Shaw's astringency, with his admirable general comments on the art of the theatre; there is Mr. Max Beerbohm's delightful affectionate irony, and there are the witty contributions by Sir Herbert Tree's daughters." Spectator, 1920. Names United States—Adjutant-general's office. Guide to similar surnames. 1920. Travel and Description (Includes Geography and Antiquities) r 929.4 U25g Brookes, Richard. r 910.3 B77 Brookes's general gazetteer improved; or, A new and compendious geographical dictionary, containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world, with the government, customs, manners and religion of the inhabitants. 1812. Johnson. Contains maps. Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. 913.33 P46e Eastern exploration, past and future; lectures at the Royal Institution. 1918. Constable. "Letters of reference in the text," p.114. Describes the archæological treasures of Palestine and Mesopotamia, indicates future fields of work, and insists on the absolute necessity of the English government forming some plan for preventing the senseless ravages of amateur excavators and professional curiosity hunters. Condensed from Saturday review, 1918. Europe Dawson, Coningsby William. 914 D33 It might have happened to you; a contemporary portrait of central and eastern Europe. 1921. Lane. Direct, vivid, and terrible pictures of the condition of the people, especially the children, in Austria, Hungary, and Poland in 1920. Dilnot, Frank. England after the war. 1920. Doubleday. 914.2 D585 Contents: A country in transition.-The mood of the people.-In the melting pot. The governance of England.-The social texture. The women.-The country's money. Business the keystone.-The invasion by labour.-Labour battling for enthronement. Ireland. England and America. England and the other nations. Britain overseas.-The present British chieftain.-The old gang.-The new From Lord Northcliffe to Bernard Shaw. Drink, bureaucracy, religion and the honours list. The safeguards of sport and a sense of humour.-Where England leads. -New programmes of life. Hevesy, André de. Nationalities in Hungary. 1919. Unwin. "Bibliography," p.241-247. men. 914.39 H49 A survey of the past and present history of Hungary from this standpoint. While the book is intended as a plea for the minority races, the author protests against the dismemberment of Hungary. Muirhead, Findlay, ed. 914.93 M953 Belgium and the western front, British and American. 1920. Macmillan. (Blue guides.) "Books and maps," pref. p.67-68. The same... . New York, Evening post. .r 914.93 M95 qr 914.8 N26 Sweden number (1st-2d), Oct. 18, 1919, June 26, 1920. 1919-20. |