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84 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Literature
Ade, George. 817 A22k
Knocking the neighbors. 1912. Doubleday.
More fables in slang—satirical flings at certain aspects of American life.
Belloc, Hilaire. 824 B4it
This and that and the other. 1912. Dodd.
Contents: An open letter to a young diplomatist.—On pedants.—On atheism,—On
fame.—On rest.—On discovery.—On inns.—On rows.—The pleasant place.—On omens.
—The book.—The servants of the rich.—The joke.—The spy.—The young people.—
Ethandune.—-The death of Robert the Strong.—The crooked streets.—The place apart.—
The Ebro plain.-—The little river.—Some letters of Shakespeare's time.—On acquaintance
with the great.—On lying.-—The dupe.—The love of England.-—The storm. —The valley.
—A conversation in Andorra.—Paris and the East.—The human charlatan.—The barbarians.—On
knowing the past.—The higher criticism.—The fanatic.—A leading article.
—Tbe obituary notice.—The "merry Rome" column.—Open letter to a young parasite.—
On dropping anchor.
Benson, Arthur Christopher. 824 644th
Thy rod and Thy staff. 1912. Putnam.
"Describes, with extraordinary subtlety of analysis, not the physical but the psychological
aspects of a two years' illness [neurasthenia] from which he recently recovered,
and which, though terrible at first, soon proved itself an infinite blessing in
disguise since it changed his whole attitude to life from wrong to right." Outlook (London),
1912.
Bourget, Paul. 844 B65
Pages de critique et de doctrine. 2v. 1912.
v.i. NOTES DE RHETORIQUE CONTEMPORAINE: M. Taine romancier; L'art de Barbey
d'Aurevilly; L'art de Theophile Gautier; Nouvelles reflexions sur Lamartine; Reflexions
sur Octave Feuillet; Un roman de Leon Daudet; Un roman de Maurice Barres;
Un dramaturge et un historien.—NOTES DE CRITIQUE PSYCHOLOGIQUE : Une des
enigmes de Balzac; Le roman d'amour de Spinoza; L'enfance de Michelet; L'enfance de
Henri Heine; Un jeune homme de la restauration; Le marquis Costa de Beauregard;
Francois Coppee; Ferdinand Brunetiere; Charles Spoelberch de Lovenjoul; £douard
Rod; La statue d'Alexandre Dumas.
v.2. THESES TRADITIONALISTES: Coup d'ceil sur I'histoire de France; Les memoires
d'une patriote; La crise du parlementarisme; Valeur sociale de la vertu; Valeur sociale
de l'eglise; Trois cliscours; Les theories de Fustel de Coulanges; L'erreur de Tolstoi;
Le drame moral de Sully-l'rudhomme.—QUELQUES EXEMPLES: Un eveque; Un soldat;
Un autre soldat; Une grande veuve; Un prince; L'ceuvre d'Eugene-Melcbior de Vogiie.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. 824 C42m
A miscellany of men. 1912. Dodd.
Contents: The suffragist.—The poet and the cheese.—The thing.—The man who
thinks backwards.—The nameless man.—The gardener and the guinea.—The voter and
the two voices.—The mad official.-—The enchanted man.—The sun worshipper.—The
wrong incendiary.—The free man.—The hypothetical householder.—The priest of spring.
—The real journalist.—The sentimental Scot.—The sectarian of society.—The fool.—
The conscript and the crisis.-—The miser and his friends. —The mystagogue.—The red
reactionary.—The separatist and sacred things.—The mummer.—The aristocratic 'Arry.
—The new theologian.—The romantic in the rain.—The false photographer.—The Sultan.—The
architect of spears.—The man on top.-—The other kind of man.—The mediaeval
villain.—The divine detective.—The elf of Japan.—The chartered libertine.—The contented
man.—The angry author; his farewell.
"May be cordially recommended to all who do not object to having their thought
disturbed and their pet prejudices harrowed." Outlook (London), 1912.
Cooper, Frederic Taber. 823 C78
Some English story tellers; a book of the younger novelists. 1912.
Holt.
Contents: Joseph Conrad.—W. F. De Morgan.—Maurice Hewlett.—Eden Phillpotts.—Rudyard
Kipling.—W. J. Locke.—John Galsworthy.—Arnold Bennett.—Anthony