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A student in arms; with an introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey. 1917. Dutton. $1.50.

"A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive."-Book review digest.

Hay, Ian, (pseud. of John Hay Beith).
Getting together. 1917. Houghton,
Headlam, James Wycliffe.

The issue. 1917. Houghton. $1.00.

$.50.

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"Mr. J. W. Headlam is one of the sanest and best-informed of our critics of German policy."-The Times [London] Literary supplement. Masefield, John.

Gallipoli. 1916. Heinemann. $1.25.

F30

"Mr. Masefield has written much in prose and verse of high quality, but he has never written anything worthier of unreserved admiration than this little book on Gallipoli.... The story has been told before, but never with such a concentration on the essentials with so vivid a realization of the horrors and splendors of the struggle."-Spectator. F30 Mücke, Hellmuth von.

The "Ayesha," being the adventures of the landing squad of the "Emden," by Kapitänleutnant Hellmuth von Mücke; tr. by Helene S. White. 1917. Ritter & company, Boston. $1.25.

"The landing squad of the 'Emden' was sent on shore at the Keeling Islands to destroy a wireless station. While they were so occupied, the 'Emden' became engaged in action, and Lieutenant von Mücke with his men, unable to overtake her in their small motor boat, were left stranded. To stay on the island meant capture by the British, and taking possession of a small sailing vessel, a none too seaworthy craft, that lay in the harbor, they made their escape. This was the 'Ayesha.' It is interesting to note that the Englishmen on the island, to whom the 'sporting side of the situation' made an appeal, helped the Germans in their departure. As an exciting narrative the tale of their adventures is worthy of the commendation that the translator in her preface and Lieutenant Klein of the United States navy in his foreword give it."-Book review digest. F30 Mücke, Hellmuth von.

The "Emden," by Kapitänleutnant Hellmuth von Mücke; tr. by Helene S. White. 1917. Ritter & company, Boston. $1.25. "Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, first officer on board the Emden, gives an account of that News that Germany was at war with Russia and ship's adventures in the fall of 1914. France was received on August 2, and the Emden, then in the Indian ocean, was immediately made ready for action. The first chapter contains a brief and positive statement of the causes of the war from the German point of view, but in the remainder of the book As he has related in "The the author confines himself quite strictly to his narrative. Ayesha,' he had gone ashore with the landing squad at the time of the Emden's last fight, so he can only describe that event as witnessed from a distance."-Book review digest. 2F30 Reventlow, Ernst Christian Einar Ludwig Detlev, graf zu. The vampire of the continent; tr. from the German, with a preface, by George Chatterton-Hill. 1916. Jackson press, N. Y. $1.25. Stephens, Winifred, ed.

F39 The book of France, in aid of the French parliamentary committee's fund for the relief of the invaded departments. Published under the auspices of an honorary committee presided over by His Excellency Monsieur Paul Cambon. 1915. Macmillan. 5/.

"Some of the most distinguished authors of France and England have united to create this volume....Henry James opens the book with a brief essay entitled 'France,' in which he appears before the literary world for the first time, perhaps, in his new rôle of Englishman, and Rudyard Kipling closes it with a ringing poem, also entitled 'France.'...With these two exceptions the whole body of the book is by French authors, and is printed in the original French, accompanied by admirable translations from noted English pens."New York times review of books.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Bowen, Louise Hadduck (de Koven), “Mrs, J. T. Bowen."
Safeguards for city youth at work and at play; with a preface by
Jane Addams. 1914. Macmillan.
Bowers, Edwin Frederick.

$1.50.

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Alcohol, its influence on mind and body.

1916. E. J. Clode, N. Y.

"Valuable for prohibition propaganda as well as for individual enlightenment on the evils of moderate drinking this volume entirely discredits the stimulant-value, food-value and therapeutic-value theories of alcohol. The writer cites experiments which show that alcohol does not stimulate mental quickness but is rather a depressant; that, taken as a food or as a medicine, it destroys all organic life; and that industry sustains huge losses because of the inefficiency induced by even the moderate drinking habit. The last chapter is on constructive and remedial lines, postulating that for every drunkard in the world there is a cure."-Book review digest.

Koren, John.

Alcohol and society. 1916. Holt. $1.25.

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"Many authorities are quoted regarding the physiological effects of alcohol, but little evidence given, mostly the opinions of authorities who carry no more weight than others who entertain opposite views on evidence that is not given in the text for the reader's own judgment. This second-and third-hand disposition of extremely important aspects of the liquor question is less than a reader has a right to expect of the editor of the report of the Committee of fifty....In short, we may say without exaggeration that the chief difference between Mr. Koren's book and the 1915 and 1916 year books of the United States brewers' association is the difference between octavo and duodecimo."-E. L. Fisk, M. D., in The Survey.

Boardman, Mabel Thorp.

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Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad; with a foreword by Woodrow Wilson, president. 1915. Lippincott. $1.50. Van Valkenburgh, Agnes, comp.

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Selected articles on military training in schools and colleges including military camps. 1917. H. W. Wilson company, White Plains, N. Y. $1.25. (Debaters' handbook series.)

Crow, Carl.

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Japan and America; a contrast. 1916. R. M. McBride & company, N. Y. $1.50.

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Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.

Our Eastern question; America's contact with the Orient and the trend of relations with China and Japan. 1916. Century. $3.00.

"The author, long a resident in the Far East, discusses political, sociological and economic questions of China and Japan, points out their relations with the United States, and emphasizes the need in America of the 'maintenance of specified military and naval strength and certain strategical dispositions of that force,' if dignified relations with the Far East are to be maintained."-A. L. A. booklist.

Addams, Jane.

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The long road of woman's memory. 1916. Macmillan. $1.50. "She completes a fine, thoughtful, and suggestive work with a chapter on her own personal interpretative memory."-American review of reviews.

McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia (Mooney).

In times like these. 1915. Appleton. $1.00.

KW

"The author, a well known platform speaker thruout western Canada and northwestern United States, is a suffragist, a prohibitionist, and with all loyalty to Canada and the Empire in the present crisis, an anti-militarist."-Book review digest. Fawcett, Millicent (Garrett), "Mrs. H. Fawcett.

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Women's suffrage; a short history of a great movement. T. C. & E. C. Jack, London. $.20. (The people's books.)

Avery, Alfred Henry.

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1912.

ELECTRICAL ARTS

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Dynamo and electric-motor building. 1916. Cassell. 1/.

(Cassell's

"Work" handbooks.)

"Addressed to the amateur. Contains directions for building small dynamos and motors of less than one horsepower. Plainly written without mathematics, and fully illustrated." -Pratt Institute free library, Technical books of 1915.

McCormick, W. H.

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Electricity. 1915. T. C. & E. C. Jack, London. 3/. ("Romance

of reality" series.)

Peek, Frank William.

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Dielectric phenomena in high voltage engineering. 1915. McGrawHill book company, N. Y. $3.00.

Walling, Burns Tracy, and Martin, Julius.

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Electrical installations of the United States navy; a manual of the latest approved material, including its use, operation, inspection, care and management, and method of installation on board ship. 1907. United States naval institute, Annapolis. $3.50.

Langsdorf, Alexander Suss.

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McGraw-Hill book

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Principles of direct current machines. 1915. company, N. Y. $3.00. (Electrical engineering texts.) Livingstone, R.

Mechanical design and construction of generators. 1914. "The Electrician" printing and publishing company, N. Y. 9. ("The Electrician" series.)

Croft, Terrell Williams.

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Wiring of finished buildings; a practical treatise, dealing with the commercial and technical phases of the subject, for the centralstation man, electrical contractor and wireman, 1915. McGraw-Hill

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"Consists of a commercial section, which takes up the market for wiring new houses, means of getting such business by advertising and soliciting, and costs; and a technical section, treating methods of wiring, planning and installations, tools and manipulation, etc. Well illustrated. Written from the standpoint of the Eastern United States. Writer is an authority and makes his information usable."-A. L. A. booklist. 2RX

Insull, Samuel.

Central station electric service; its commercial development and economic significance as set forth in the public addresses (1897-1914); ed. with an introduction, by W. E. Keily. 1915. Privately printed, Chicago.

TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE

Hausmann, Erich.

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Telegraph engineering; a manual for practicing telegraph engineers and engineering students. 1915. Van Nostrand. $3.00.

"A manual for practicing telegraph engineers and engineering students. It presupposes a knowledge of elementary electricity and magnetism and of higher mathematics, and treats both the theoretical and practical aspects of overland and submarine telegraphy from the engineering viewpoint."-A. L. A. booklist. RU

Maver, William, jr.

Maver's wireless telegraphy and telephony; a handbook. 4th ed. 1910. Maver publishing company, N. Y. Zenneck, Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm.

$3.00.

RU

Wireless telegraphy; tr. from the German by A. E. Seelig. 1915. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $4.00.

"Thorough treatment, of high technical value. The most comprehensive work published (1916). Chief attention to German apparatus."-Pittsburgh, June 1916. Kingsbury, John E.

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Telephone and telephone exchanges; their invention and development. 1915. Longmans. 12/6.

"The first book that pretends to give a comprehensive outline of the history of telephonic development."-Science, 1916.

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Moreton, David Penn.

Drake's telephone handbook; a book for the practical man. 1915. F. J. Drake & co., Chicago. $1.00.

"Addressed to readers lacking technical education who will find in the book much reliable information presented in a plain manner with little mathematics."-Pratt Institute free library, Technical books of 1915.

MARINE ENGINEERING

The library receives regularly the monthly periodical, International Marine Engineering (N. Y.)

Barton, John Kennedy.

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Naval reciprocating engines and auxiliary machinery; a text-book for the instruction of midshipmen at the U. S. Naval academy. 3d ed., rev. and rewritten, by H. O. Stickney. 2v. 1914. United States naval institute, Annapolis. $4.90. Durand, William Frederick.

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Practical marine engineering for marine engineers and students, with aids for applicants for marine engineers' licenses. 4th ed., rev. and enl. by Capt. C. W. Dyson. 1917. Marine engineering, N. Y.

Seaton, Albert Edward.

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A manual of marine engineering; comprising the designing, construction, and working of marine machinery; with numerous tables and illustrations reduced from working drawings. 17th ed., thoroughly rev., greatly enl., and mostly rewritten. 1913. Charles Griffin & co., London. 28/.

Bragg, Edward Milton.

TB

The design of marine engines and auxiliaries. 1916. Van Nostrand. $3.00.

Sothern, John W. M.

TC

The marine steam turbine; a practical description of the Parsons and Curtis marine steam turbines as presently constructed, fitted, and run; a manual of marine steam turbine practice intended for the use of students, naval and mercantile marine engineers, surveyors, superintendent engineers, draughtsmen, works' managers, foremen engineers, and others. Illustrated by over 330 diagrams, photographs, and detail drawings. 4th ed. Rewritten up-to-date and greatly enl. 1916. C. Lockwood and son, London. 18/.

GAS AND OIL ENGINES

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.

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Gas, gasoline, and oil-engines; a complete, practical work, defining clearly the elements of internal combustion engineering. Treating exhaustively on the design, construction, and practical application of all forms of gas, gasoline, kerosene, and crude petroleum-oil engines. Describes minutely all auxiliary systems, such as lubrication, carburetion, and ignition. Considers the theory and management of all forms of explosive motors for stationary and marine work, automobiles, aeroplanes, and motor cycles; includes also producer gas and its production. Rev., enl., and brought up to date by V. W. Pagé. 21st ed. 1917. Norman W. Henley publishing co., N. Y. $2.50.

"Convenient reference book of the popular type."-Pratt Institute free library, Technical books of 1915.

Streeter, Robert Leroy.

TB

Internal combustion engines, theory and design; a text-book on gas and oil-engines for engineers and students in engineering. 1915. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $4.00.

"Text-book, based on the author's work with his classes. A knowledge of thermodynam ics and mechanics is pre-supposed. Contains a chapter on the Humphrey pump. "Author is assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute."-Pratt Institute free library, Technical books of 1915. Supino, Giorgio.

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Land and marine Diesel engines; tr. by Eng. Lieut.-Commdr. A. G. Bremner and James Richardson. 1915. C. Griffin & company, London. 12/6.

"Translation of a standard Italian text-book on the theory and design of the Diesel oil engine. Describes in much detail the various types of the engine and their accessories. "The best book in English on the subject."-Pratt Institute free library, Technical books of 1915. TB

Wimperis, Harry Egerton.

The internal combustion engine; a text-book for the use of students and engineers. New and rev. ed. 1915. Constable. 6/6.

"There can be no doubt that it has a very distinct value to those who desire to acquaint themselves with or improve their knowledge upon the technical side of the internal combustion of fuel."-Shipbuilding and shipping record.

MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE

The library receives regularly The International Military Digest, a monthly review of the current literature of military science (N. Y.)

Wood, Leonard,

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Our military history; its facts and fallacies. 1916. Reilly & Britton co., Chicago. $1.00.

"He demands a strong navy, a highly trained mobile expeditionary force, and universal compulsory military training on the Swiss or Australian model. The citizen army would of course be a strictly federal force. Lord Roberts implored Englishmen to protect themselves by this identical scheme. They did not listen. We know the result. What may historians yet have reason to say of the United States and her warnings?"-Spectator, 1916. Andrews, Lincoln Clarke.

UCA

Fundamentals of military service; prepared under the supervision of Major General Leonard Wood. 1916. Lippincott. $1.50.

"An honest performance of the duties of citizenship demands, first, that each citizen shall learn enough about military service and its needs to give him an intelligent opinion thereon; and second, that each youth shall prepare himself reasonably to meet his individual responsibilities as a citizen soldier. Thus alone may we avoid having to go to war amidst such unpreparedness as must result in national humiliation, with wholesale loss of life and treasure. This book is designed to supply the means for attaining these qualifications, to place in one volume the fundamentals of military service, its meanings and its requirements."-Preface.

Bond, Paul Stanley, and McDonough, M. J.

UCA

Technique of modern tactics; a study of troop leading methods in the operations of detachments of all arms. 3d ed., rev. and enl. 1916. George Banta publishing company, Menasha, Wis. $2.65. Henderson, David.

The art of reconnaissance.

1916. Murray. 5/.

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"This little book tells in a very interesting way about principles and methods, protection and security, contact and independent reconnaissance, scouting, patrolling and transmission of information, with a chapter on aerial reconnaissance."-New York public library, New technical books.

American machinist.

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Shrapnel and other war material; a reprint of important articles presented in the American machinist from January to June, 1915. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $1.50.

"The material contained in this book is not only of interest to the engineer and machinist, but, in the present defenseless state of the country, it is of value to have gathered together an array of information showing how its resources can be utilized for purposes of defense. The various articles explain how machinery which was never intended for the production of war material has been adapted to the making of munitions. It shows how

when a country is under necessity of rapidly changing its mode of manufacture, it can adapt machines for purposes which hitherto were regarded as far beyond their range and capacity. It affords an example of what the American people can do when necessity requires. The book is one which may be filed away for use in the unhappy event that the United States becomes involved in war, and metal working plants can immediately be converted into arsenals."-Iron age, 1915.

Hime, Henry William Lovett.

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Origin of artillery. 1915. Longmans.

6/.

"Col. Hime quotes evidence to show that guns were invented by a German monk in 1318, exported to England in 1314, and first brought into the field in 1327. What these early pieces must have been like, we may see from the frontispiece of the book, taken from an illuminated Latin MS. belonging to Christ Church, Oxford, and of date 1327, the earliest known representation of probably the earliest piece of artillery. The remainder of the book is devoted to the history proper of gunpowder, and of the various kinds of artillery ammunition down to, say, a century ago."-Nation. Ommundsen, H., and Robinson, E. H.

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Rifles and ammunition and rifle shooting. 1915. Cassell. 21/. "Mr. H. Ommundsen, a former winner of the King's prize at Bisley, and Mr. Ernest H. Robinson, another well-known expert in all matters relating to rifle-shooting, have collaborated to produce a highly informing and richly illustrated treatise."-Spectator.

"The whole book is profusely illustrated, and the plates, representing the early specimens of match locks, flint locks, wheel locks, etc., now preserved in the Tower of London, Bisley collection, United service institution museum, and other places, are a valuable feature."-Athenæum.

NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP

Knight, Austin Melvin.

UPN

Modern seamanship. 7th ed., rev. and enl. 160 full page plates. 1914. Van Nostrand. $7.50. Muir, William Carpenter Pendleton.

UPN

Treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy, including the theory of compass deviations, prepared for use as a text-book at the U. S. naval academy. 3d ed., rev. and enl. 1911. United States naval institute, Annapolis. $4.20.

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