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THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
SIXTEENTH
ANNUAL CUMULATION
REVIEWS OF 1920 BOOKS
EDITED BY
MARY KATHARINE REELY
AND
PAULINE H. RICH
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY
EMMA HELLER SCHUMM
AND OTHERS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
NEW YORK
1921
Contents
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Reviews of 1920 Books
List of Documents for Use in the Smaller Libraries
Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
Subject, Title and Pseudonym Index To Author Entries, March,
1920—February, 1921
Directory of Publishers
THE BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
Vol. XVI February, 1921 No. 12
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
New York City 958–964 University Avenue
Entered as second class matter, November 13, 1917 at the Post Office
at New York, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One year $12.00
Single numbers 1.00
Semi-annual cumulation (August) 2.00
Annual cumulated number, bound (February) 5.00
TERMS OF ADVERTISING
Combined rate for Book Review Digest, Cumulative Book Index and
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature $60 per page per month; two of
these publications $50; one of these publications $40 per page per
month. Smaller space and contract rates furnished upon request.
The editorial staff for the year has consisted of Mary Katharine Reely,
Pauline H. Rich, Emma Heller Schumm, Elsie Jacobi, Wilma Adams and Selma
Sandler. Acknowledgments are also due to Miss Corinne Bacon who
contributed the classification numbers for the first months of the year,
and to Miss Eleanor Hawkins who succeeded her; to Miss Mary E. Furbeck
of the New York Public Library for the list of documents for small
libraries; and to the Applied Science reference department of Pratt
Institute Library for the quarterly list of technical books.
In addition to the periodicals listed on the reverse side of this page
the following magazines have been drawn on for occasional reviews:
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Social Hygiene, Mental Hygiene,
Socialist Review, Nation [London], Theatre Arts Magazine, Drama, World
Tomorrow, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, and a few other
technical journals. The literary supplement to the New York Evening
Post, now issued under the editorship of Professor Henry Seidel Canby of
Yale University, is an important permanent addition to the list of
periodicals. During the year the magazine which began its career as the
Review, changing later to Weekly Review, has been listed under its
original name.
The year just past has been notable for a number of novels of unusual
quality. Among them is a group of books by and about women: Clemence
Dane’s “Legend,” Catherine Carswell’s “Open the Door,” Miss de la
Pasture’s “Tension,” and Mrs Holding’s “Invincible Minnie.” Three others
are novels of the Middle West: Sherwood Anderson’s “Poor White,” Floyd
Dell’s “Moon-calf,” and Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street.” Zona Gale’s
“Miss Lulu Bett” might be named in either class.
“George Santayana has recently spoken of the barbarian realities of
America. ‘The luckless American who is born a conservative, or who is
drawn to poetic subtlety, pious retreats, or gay passions, nevertheless
has the categorical excellence of work, growth, enterprise, reform and
prosperity dinned into his ears: every door is open in this direction
and shut in the other; so that he either folds up his heart and withers
in a corner—in remote places you sometimes find such a solitary gaunt
idealist—or else he flies to Oxford or Florence or Montmartre to save
his soul—or perhaps not to save it.’ That is and has been the
traditional conception of aesthetic fate in barbaric America, especially
in the hinterland beyond the Hudson. But the past ten years, and
particularly the years since the war, have shown new possibilities to
the present literary generation. The Bohemian immigrant in Nebraska, the
local dentist in Wisconsin, the doctor’s wife in a small Minnesota town,
the young newspaper man in Iowa, the co-educated farmer’s daughter in
Ohio—all these figures can be seen with the same meditative zeal, the
same creative preoccupation, as the ripened spiritual personalities of
Europe.”—New Republic.
We now have anthologies and year books for the short story, for the best
plays, for magazine and even for newspaper verse. The annual volume of
the Digest might be added to the list as the year book for book reviews.
Without entering into elaborate summaries and statistics we may say that
the two most reviewed books of the year are Keynes’s “Economic
Consequences of the Peace” and Wells’s “Outline of History.” And without
attempting to create a new category of “best” reviews we may suggest
that the following will be found well worthy of reading: Richard
Burton’s review of “The Ordeal of Mark Twain” by Van Wyck Brooks in the
Bookman of January, 1921; W. S. Braithwaite’s review of “Smoke and
Steel” by Carl Sandburg in the Boston Transcript of October 16, 1920;
the reviews of Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” by Carl Van Doren in the
New York Evening Post, Nov. 20, 1920, and by Francis Hackett, in the New
Republic, Dec. 1, 1920; and J. Saywyn Shapiro’s review (with footnotes)
of Wells’s “Outline of History” in the Nation of Feb. 9, 1921.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Am. Econ. R.—American Economic Review. $5. American Economic
Association, New Haven, Conn.
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company, 66
Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. Pol. Sci. R.—American Political Science Review. $4. Frederic A.
Ogg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $5. 39th St. and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $6. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $5.60. 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C. 2.
Bib. World—Biblical World. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Booklist—Booklist. $2. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 78 E. Washington
St., Chicago, Ill.
Bookm.—Bookman. $4. G. H. Doran Co., 244 Madison Ave., New York.
Boston Transcript—Boston Evening Transcript. $5.50. (Wednesday and
Saturday). Boston Transcript Co., 324 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $9. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Cath. World—Catholic World. $4. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Class J.—Classical Journal. $2.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Class Philol.—Classical Philology. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Dial—Dial. $5. 152 W 13th St., New York.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., care of
G. H. Doran Pub. Co.
Elec. World—Electrical World. $5. McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 10th Ave.
at 36th St., New York.
El. School J.—Elementary School Journal (continuing Elementary School
Teacher). $2.50. Dept. of Education, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Ill.
Engin. News-Rec.—Engineering News-Record. $5. McGraw-Hill Company,
Inc., 10th Ave. at 36th St., New York.
Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green & Co.,
4th Ave. and 30th St., New York.
Freeman—Freeman. $6. The Freeman, Inc., 116 W. 13th St., New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. LeRoy Phillips, 124 Chestnut St.,
Boston, Mass.
Ind.—Independent. $5. 311 Sixth Av., New York.
Int. J. Ethics—International Journal of Ethics. $3. Prof. James H.
Tufts, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Int. Studio—International Studio. $6. John Lane Co., 786 Sixth Av.,
near 45th St., New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
J. Home Econ.—Journal of Home Economics. $2. American Home Economics
Assn., 1211 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy. $4. Sub-Station 84, New York.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $4. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
J. Religion (Bib. World and Am. J. Theol. merged under this title Ja
’21) $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $4. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 354–360 Fourth Ave.,
New York.
Modern Philol.—Modern Philology. $5. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Nation—Nation. $5. Nation Press. 20 Vesey St., New York.
Nature—Nature. $14. Macmillan Company, 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
New Repub.—New Republic. $5. Republic Publishing Co., Inc., 421 W 21st
St., New York.
N. Y. Times—New York Times Book Review. $1. N. Y. Times Co., Times
Square, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $5. North American Review, 9 East 37th
St., New York.
Outlook—Outlook. $5. Outlook Co., 381 Fourth Ave., New York.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $5. (including supplement).
Academy of Political Science, Columbia University, New York.
Pub. W.—Publishers’ Weekly. Zones 1–5, $6; 6–8, $6.50. R. R. Bowker
Co., 62 W. 45th St., New York.
Review—Weekly Review. $5. National Weekly Corporation, 140 Nassau St.,
New York.
R. of Rs.—American Review of Reviews. $4. Review of Reviews Co., 30
Irving Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $5.60. 9 King St., Covent Garden, London. W.
C. 2.
School Arts Magazine—School-Arts Magazine. $3. Davis Press, Inc., 25
Foster St., Worcester, Mass.
School R.—School Review. $2.50. Dept. of Education, Univ. of Chicago,
Chicago. Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $6. Science Press, Garrison. N. Y.
Spec.—Spectator. $7.80. 13 York St., Covent Garden, London. W. C. 2.
Springf’d Republican—Springfield Republican. $10.50. The Republican,
Springfield, Mass.
Survey—Survey. $5. Survey Associates, Inc., 112 E. 19th St., New York.
The Times [London] Lit. Sup.—The Times Literary Supplement. $7.40. The
Times, North American Office, 30 Church St., New York.
Yale R., n.s.—Yale Review (new series). $3. Yale Publishing Ass’n.,
Inc., 120 High St., New Haven, Conn.
In addition to the above list the Book Review Digest frequently quotes
from New York Call; New York Evening Post; Bulletin of Brooklyn Public
Library; Cleveland Open Shelf; N. Y. Best Books; N. Y. Libraries; N. Y.
City Branch Library News; New York Public Library New Technical Books;
Pittsburgh Monthly Bulletin; Pratt Institute Quarterly Book List; St.
Louis Monthly Bulletin; Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Book Selection
Dept.), and the Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
chosen by the Pratt Institute Library.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations of publishers’ names will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of this number.
An asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books.
The figures following publisher’s name represent the class number and
Library of Congress card number.
The descriptive note is separated from critical notices of a book by a
dash.
The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazine indicate
the degrees of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
An asterisk (*) before the plus or minus sign indicates that the
review contains useful information about the book.
In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume,
the next to the page, the letters to the date and the last figures to
the number of words in the review.
Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Reviews of 1920 Books
A
=ABBOTT, MRS JANE LUDLOW (DRAKE).= Happy House, il *$1.60 (2c)
Lippincott
20–26557
When Anne Leavitt is invited to spend the summer with some hitherto
unknown relatives in Vermont, she is just starting to Russia to teach.
But there is another Anne Leavitt in her college class, whom she
persuades to take her place. So Nancy comes to Happy House, a misnomer
for the gloomy old mansion where Miss Sabrina, Miss Milly and B’lindy
spent their embittered lives. The story tells how Nancy brings
happiness to them, but how her sense of guilt at the deception she is
practising keeps her from perfect contentment herself, until finally
unexpected events clear up the situation, and all are happy together.
Meanwhile a part of Nancy’s joy has come from friendship with the
“hired man” next door, who proves to have been sharing the general
deception and to be a very desirable suitor.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 110w
“Girls from twelve to seventeen will like it as well as older women
who like a sweet, pretty story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
“Girls in their higher teens will enjoy this book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 320w
“We regret that deception plays such an important part in the plot.
Nevertheless, and setting this aside, the story is well told and
interesting, and will amply repay the reading.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:258 N ’20 170w
“It is possible that its maple-sugarish, sweet cake flavor may cloy
the reader who enjoys more invigorating fare, but, as a sample of the
‘good’—‘goody-goody’ is perhaps a better word—style of story which has
taken on added popularity of late, there is nothing to criticise in
the offering.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 530w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 280w
=ABBOTT, MRS JANE LUDLOW (DRAKE).= Highacres, il *$1.75 (2½c) Lippincott
20–20318
The author of “Keineth” and “Larkspur,” etc., has written another
story for girls. Jerry Travis is the heroine of “Highacres.” She is a
little girl of the mountains, who finds John Westley when he has lost
his way. He recognizes that she is a child who should have
opportunities for education and offers to send her to school with his
own nieces and nephew. Then follows an exciting year for Jerry,
working and playing with Gyp and Graham and Isobel and Tibby, and
going to school at Highacres. Jerry is an unspoiled little girl, and
the end of the year does not find all the benefits on her side. There
is an element of mystery in the story, which works out to Jerry’s
advantage, and she looks forward to another year of school with her
new friends.
* * * * *
“This new juvenile by the author of ‘Keineth’ is full as it can hold
of the things dear to the heart of normal girlhood.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 98:1202 O 16 ’20 350w
=ABBOTT, KEENE.= Wine o’ the winds. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday
20–10311
A story of the plains in the days of pioneer settlement and Indian
warfare. Dr Harry North, because of a professional error, feels
himself dishonored and goes West to hide his disgrace. He leaves
behind him the girl he loves and is resolved never to practise
medicine again. But the new country puts new life into him. He meets a
typical daughter of the prairies who attracts him greatly and
thereafter there is an unexpressed conflict between this girl and
Alice Arden, who, still true to her old love, has come West to be near
him. The scene changes from place to place and many glimpses are given
of the varied aspects of life along the frontier.
* * * * *
“In subject matter and in treatment it differs from the large numbers
of new books. There is a power in the author which allows him to mold
his material and to invoke an atmosphere which stirs and interests
us.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1000w
“‘Wine o’ the winds’ possesses the worst of faults—it is dull. This is
partly because the plot is neither well presented nor well put
together and partly because the characters, with the single exception
of the minor one of little Matt, the hunchback, lack that vitality
which wins a reader’s interest, his liking or disliking. Now and then,
it is true, there comes a moment which seems to hold out promise of
better things in future, and the last scene of all is not without a
certain degree of impressiveness.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 350w
“Magic there is in this narrator’s vivid style, above all in the
visual quality of his descriptions, which always remain a part of the
narrative.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:372 S 29 ’20 560w
=ABDULLAH, ACHMED.= Man on horseback. *$1.75 McCann
20–363
“A tale of a gold mine taken in exchange for a poker debt, and of
results which bring the American cowboy owner of the mine into
international complications and make him an actor in the great
war.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“The excessive simple-mindedness of the hero, combined with the
heroine’s complete failure to win the reader’s liking, does much to
injure an otherwise interesting book.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:64 F 1 ’20 500w
=Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 40w
=ABDULLAH, ACHMED, and others.= Ten-foot chain. il *$1.50 Reynolds pub.
20–17407
The sub-title, “Can love survive the shackles? a unique symposium,”
indicates the trend of the book. The unnamed editor, in the
introduction, states the circumstances of its writing. At a dinner
where four distinguished writers were present, the question was
raised, “What mental and emotional reaction would a man and a woman
undergo, linked together by a ten-foot chain, for three days and
nights?” The writers differed in their solution to this problem,
according to their individual interpretation of human nature, and the
result was that each consented to present his conclusions to the
public in fiction form. This book comprises the four stories, which
are: An Indian Jataka, by Achmed Abdullah; Out of the dark, by Max
Brand; Plumb nauseated, by E. K. Means; and Princess or percheron, by
Perley P. Sheehan.
* * * * *
“Interesting as an editorial jeu d’esprit, the experiment has also
brought out four short stories of high quality.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 190w
=ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.=[2] Inflation and high prices; ed. by
Henry Rogers Seager. pa $1.50 The academy 338.5
20–26746
“A series of addresses and papers among which are: Causes and progress
of inflation, by E. W. Kemmerer; Treasury methods of financing the war
in relation to inflation, by R. C. Leffingwell; The relation of the
federal reserve system to inflation, by H. P. Willis; Remedies for
inflation with special reference to the French situation, by M.
Casenave; Remedies for inflation with special reference to the Italian
situation, by B. Attolico; Inflation as a world problem and our
relation thereto, by P. M. Warburg.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:848 D ’20 80w
=Booklist= 17:8 O ’20
=ADAM, H. PEARL.= Paris sees it through; a diary, 1914–1919. il *$4 (4c)
Doran 940.344
(Eng ed 20–4569)
Mrs Adam was an English resident in Paris before and throughout the
war. Her book describes her Paris just before and at the outbreak of
the war and follows its course in its reactions on the city until the
signing of the peace. She gossips intimately about the effect of the
war on the daily lives of the people and of the people’s interest or
lack of interest in the political events. Among the contents are: The
onslaught (1914); Endurance (1915); The distant guns (1916); The long
wait (1917); Rationing (1917–1918); Boloism; Some war Parisians; Paris
under fire (1918); Armistice; Paris in 1919: the making of peace. The
appendix describes the Paris of today: a chapter for visitors. There
are illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 70w
=Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“This book by a lady who spent the period of the war in Paris writing
for English newspapers is much better reading than many works of
higher authority and greater importance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p760 D 18 ’19 1000w
=ADAM, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.= Whither? a human fragment of contemporary
history. (1906–1919). *$5 Dutton 354
(Eng ed 20–6770)
“‘Whither? or, The British Dreyfus case,’ by Maj. W. A. Adam, is the
story of a British officer who fancies that his case parallels that of
the unfortunate Capt. Dreyfus of the French army. Maj. W. A. Adam, a
staff officer of the British army, is practically dismissed from the
service on secret evidence, which is not shown to the accused. After
vainly seeking to be reinstated the author finally sues various
officials of the British war office in a civil court and is awarded
damages. In spite of it all, during the great war this ‘British
Dreyfus’ is relegated to obscure positions in the army. In his
opinion, he should have been leading divisions and army corps. This
volume throws light on the circumlocution and red tape of the British
bureaucracy—and, it might be added, of most government officialdom the
world over.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Major Adam’s statements are carefully documented. The book, as Major
Adam has framed it, is undoubtedly an absorbing fragment of human
history.”
+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 120w
+ =Spec= 124:175 F 7 ’20 1650w
“Reading between the lines of his book, one gains the impression, that
the gallant major is one of those unfortunate persons who ‘seize the
hot end of the poker,’ or, in other words, are their own worst
enemies. But this volume is interesting.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 210w
=ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS; ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, jr., and ADAMS, HENRY.=
Cycle of Adams letters: 1861 to 1865; ed by Worthington Chauncey Ford.
2v il *$10 Houghton 973.7
20–21411
The editor of these two volumes of family letters has selected them
from many others for their description of social conditions,
discussion of public questions and contribution to the social,
military and diplomatic history of the War of secession. With the
great conflict as a back-ground, they supply “no little new history,
much untold detail, much discussion, many rumors and predictions,
expressed with individuality and in a literary form.... It is an old
story, but the manner of telling it is new, all the more remarkable
because unstudied and spontaneous.” (Introd. note) The books are
illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
“The two volumes are not merely interesting, but fascinating. Of their
contributions to history, aside from the personal views here quoted or
described, there is not space to say anything, but they are important
and valuable. No better book about the war of secession has come out
in many a year.”
+ =N Y Times= p6 N 28 ’20 2000w
“The editor of these letters would have enhanced the value of the
collection for the general reader if at certain points (not many) he
had added a brief note indicating the event out of which the letter
grew or to which it referred. The reader gets from these letters a
much pleasanter portrait of Henry than from his autobiography.” Lyman
Abbott
+ =Outlook= 127:149 Ja 26 ’21 2150w
“It would be difficult for a master hand at fiction to devise for his
own purpose a better stage setting, and a more ingenious relationship
of leading characters to the end of developing the intricacies of a
big international drama.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 470w
+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 170w
“The ‘Cycle of Adams letters’ is all very interesting, if only as
correspondence, and parts of them will add authentic material to the
history of the Civil war—all the more so that the letters were
probably written without idea of future publication.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 1150w
=ADAMS, FRANKLIN PIERCE.= Something else again. *$1.50 Doubleday 817
20–7285
“The editor of the Conning Tower, New York Tribune, amuses himself
writing verses in the styles of Horace, Longefellow, Amy Lowell and
others and by writing desk copy for the tragedies which formed the
subjects of some famous old ballads.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Good fun.”
+ =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 50w
=ADAMS, HENRY.= Degradation of the democratic dogma. *$2.50 (3½c)
Macmillan 901
19–18407
Brooks Adams has edited some of the literary remains of his brother
Henry and published them with a long introductory essay on The
heritage of Henry Adams. In introducing the work he writes: “I want to
make it clear, once for all, that I am not proposing to write anything
approaching to a memoir of my brother.... Nor do I suggest any
criticism of his essays which are annexed.... I am seeking to tell the
story of a movement in thought which has, for the last century, been
developing in my family, and which closes with the ‘Essay on phase,’
which ends this volume.” The essay in which this purpose is embodied
is devoted to the principle of democracy which John Quincy Adams
upheld and which in the estimation of himself and his descendants
received its death blow with the triumph of Jackson. The writings of
Henry Adams included in the volume are: The tendency of history
(1894); A letter to American teachers of history (1910); and The rule
of phase applied to history (1909).
* * * * *
“The title seems ill suited to the papers that make the substance of
the volume. The degradation of the democratic dogma which is here in
question is thus far from being a general movement of thought; it is a
movement within the Adams family, exemplified chiefly in Brooks and
Henry.” Carl Becker
− =Am Hist R= 25:480 Ap ’20 1500w
“Readers of this volume are advised to omit the essay at the end,
entitled ‘The rule of phase applied to history.’ Henry Adams had all
the virtues of the great amateur—penetration, aloofness, style. It is
sad to record that in the end he did not escape the pitfall of most
amateurs. He began taking himself seriously, and that as a prophet!”
E: S. Corwin
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:507 Ag ’20 1000w
=Ath= p665 My 21 ’20 2000w
+ =Booklist= 16:189 Mr ’20
“Whoever takes up this book in the expectation that he has been
invited to a sort of second table of the wondrous banquet spread
before the readers of ‘The education of Henry Adams’ will soon learn
his mistake. Not that it is not as marvellous in its way, but that it
is a separate and distinct production of a mind as varied as it was
powerful.” L. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 2100w
“Of interest to historians, scientists, and educationists.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:89 F ’20 50w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=New Repub= 22:162 Mr 31 ’20 1800w
“Why have they been resurrected, and why are they published at the
present time, with this preposterous introduction and with a misfit
title? The uninitiated will say that the popularity of Henry Adams’s
‘Education’ furnishes the answer.”
− =N Y Times= 25:323 Je 20 ’20 950w
“We took it up anticipating pleasure if not profit in getting Henry
Adams’s views on democracy. We have been disappointed. Whatever views
on this subject Henry Adams may have elsewhere expressed, he expresses
none here. He discourses on views of the universe in general, and the
philosophy of history in particular, but he has nothing to say of the
degradation of the democratic dogma, or of the democratic dogma
itself. Nor do we find that Mr Brooks Adams increases our knowledge of
these subjects.” D. McG. Means
− =Review= 2:255 Mr 13 ’20 2400w
“A curiously interesting and depressing series of historical papers,
which serves to explain some of the author’s pessimism. Henry Adams
makes some rather unwarranted historical generalizations. His papers
are a remarkable example of the method by which an unscientific mind
may apply scientific conclusions to unrelated data.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 15 ’20 600w
“‘A letter to American teachers of history’ is a brilliant
achievement. It is single and swift and passionate, as an exclamation
or a command. Nervous and mordant in style, it rises often to
eloquence and is illuminated by flashes of ironical humor.” C: A.
Bennett
+ − =Yale R= n s 9:890 Jl ’20 2350w
=ADAMS, HENRY.= Letters to a niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres;
with A niece’s memories by Mabel La Farge. *$2.50 Houghton
20–19770
These letters are introduced by “A niece’s memories” which together
with the letters, reveals a side of the heart and mind of Henry Adams
veiled to the world and to the readers of the “Education,” but poured
forth to the young. “To them all he was the generic Uncle, the best
friend—to whom they not only could confide their innermost secrets,
their perplexities, hopes and aspirations, but also at whose feet they
could sit endlessly, listening to the most thrilling talk they had
ever heard, or were likely to hear again.” The table of contents is:
Henry Adams: a niece’s memories; Letters to a niece; Prayer to the
Virgin of Chartres. Under the last heading is included: Prayer to the
dynamo.
* * * * *
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w
“A book of undeniable savor. The Adams pickle is everywhere. They are
very kind letters—lazily, unconcernedly, uncommittedly kind. That he
writes very good English will surprise nobody, and his faculty is
brought out by a certain waywardness in its exercise.”
+ =Review= 3:564 D 8 ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 50w
=ADAMS, KATHARINE.= Mehitable. il *$2.50 Macmillan
20–21185
To Mehitable in her Vermont home comes the opportunity to go to school
in Paris. Mehitable has just passed her sixteenth birthday and it all
seems to her like a dream, so quickly is she whisked away from
familiar scenes to find herself in a strange land. In spite of the
little home-made frocks with which Aunt Comfort and the village
dressmaker have fitted her out and which make her look old fashioned
and quaint to the other girls, she makes a place for herself in the
Chateau d’Estes and finds friends. Irish Una is the dearest of them
and Mehitable spends a happy vacation at her home. The story ends with
the outbreak of the war.
* * * * *
“The book is singularly pleasing, the heroine a living creature good
to know, and there are many interesting characters and situations. A
book all girls in their late teens will delight in.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 70w
“Her school life near Paris, her trips to other lands, and her fine
love story form a superior kind of story for older girls.”
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w
=ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS.= Wanted: a husband. il *$1.75 (4c) Houghton
20–7140
This story falls into two parts. The first tells of the transformation
of Darcy Cole from a peevish, spoiled, unhealthy, unhappy girl into a
radiant and captivating bit of womanhood. Physical culture plus grit
does the trick. In the old days Darcy had been so unattractive that
she had had to invent a fiancé and the second part of the story is
taken up with the adventures into which this mythical person leads
her. He is a certain Sir Montrose Veyze, selected from Burke’s
Peerage. Fortunately he never appears in person and the attractive
American lover who acts as his substitute proves perfectly
satisfactory as a permanent feature.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 110w
“Of course he does the thing well, but it hardly seems worth the doing
when the author is capable of so much better things.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w
“It is by no means as good an example of its type as his earlier book,
‘The unspeakable Perk,’ but it is entertaining in its way, and
presents a fervent plea for athletics.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 480w
“Its humor and gaiety compensate to some extent for the lack of
plausibility.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 350w
=ADE, GEORGE.= Hand-made fables. il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 817
20–4894
“The studies in American vernacular which comprise this volume first
appeared in the Cosmopolitan Magazine.... Although the period in which
these fables appeared enveloped the great war and lapped over on the
great unrest, the author has proceeded upon the theory that old human
nature continues to do business, even during a cataclysm.” With this
introduction Mr Ade proceeds to his fables, which are in his old
manner and are accompanied by John McCutcheon’s pictures.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
“Barring his treatment of this arid topic [prohibition], the rest of
the book is sheer delight.” G. M. Purcell
+ − =Bookm= 51:568 Jl ’20 340w
“Here Mr Ade once more demonstrates that the American slang vernacular
has capacities for clearness, force, and (yes!) elegance that quite
escape the base-ball reporter.”
+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 80w
“Isolated and perused at the rate of one a month, they yield a sharp
and pungent flavour; bunched thus for permanence, they are flat.” L.
B.
+ − =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 230w
“A great deal of it is amusing, poking fun in a way provocative of
chuckles, and giving new point to the old saying that there is many a
true word spoken in jest.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 350w
+ =Review= 2:402 Ap 17 ’20 120w
+ =Review= 2:461 My 1 ’20 1050w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 150w
=ADLAM, GEORGE HENRY JOSEPH.= Acids, alkalis and salts. il $1 Pitman 661
20–11164
In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries series,
the author has endeavored “to give prominence to the commercial and
domestic importance of the substances dealt with.” He has also
“included some considerations of a theoretical nature which may well
be taken as a first step towards the continuation of the study of
chemistry.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Sulphuric acid and
sulphates; Nitric acid and nitrates; The halogen acids; Carbonic acid
and carbonates; Phosphoric, boric, and silicic acids; Organic acids;
Mild alkali; Caustic alkalis; Electrolytic methods. There are diagrams
and other illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“This book aims at being not only instructive, but also interesting.”
C. S.
+ =Nature= 105:706 Ag 5 ’20 190w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’20 60w (Reprinted from Nature
105:706 Ag 5 ’20)
=AGATE, JAMES E.= Responsibility. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–7651
An English novel in which the author discourses at large on matters of
art, morals and life. The scene is laid in one of the northern
industrial towns and it follows the hero’s story from childhood on,
depicting his escape from business into letters as a profession. In
his early manhood he has a love affair with a young dancer, who when
she sees that his love is waning writes to tell him she is to bear a
child and disappears out of his life. Twenty years later he is
confronted by his son, who is on the point of enlisting for the war.
Both recognize that the usual parental relation is not to be looked
for, but they become friends. The son is totally disabled in the war,
the father partially so.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1304 D 5 ’19 100w
“It is a brave theme, but the author’s treatment of it is a deal too
confident to be successful. He cannot resist his hero’s passion for
display. And this passion is so ungoverned that we cannot see the
stars for the fireworks.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p79 Ja 16 ’20 750w
“Not for the average reader. Good work but not remarkably good.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
“The novel as a whole is excessively chaotic and immature, an obvious
attempt at a youthful smartness which seems incapable of artistic
restraint. Mr Agate has been a wide reader, but he shows at the
present moment little power of assimilation.” E. F. E.
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 900w
“A first and promising novel.”
+ − =Dial= 69:102 Jl ’20 90w
“Undoubtedly Mr Agate has both talent and promise. Today he is not an
ageless portent but a beginner with very much to learn.”
− + =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 850w
=New Repub= 23:235 Jl 21 ’20 550w
“It is a sober-minded book, this novel of Mr Agate’s. But it is also a
very rich book, rich in character, in thought, in understanding, in
comment upon life and art, original in style and treatment. We are
much mistaken if Mr James E. Agate has not definitely ‘arrived.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w
“The book is a hodge-podge.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 370w
“The genius of the book might as well be a grown man’s as a boy’s—it
is ageless as genius always is. But the faults—and they are grave—are
a young man’s or at any rate a young writer’s, faults. We should plump
for Mr Agate being, say, in the early thirties. We profoundly hope
that we are right, because we want many more books from him. We do not
ask for them to confirm our judgment, but because English literature
is starvingly in need of a new and still young first-rate performer.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:535 D 6 ’19 1700w
“A novel which bears clear traces of models so diverse as Wells and
James and, perhaps, even the author of ‘Tristram Shandy.’ But such
strength as the novel possesses lies in what is simple and
straightforward. There are good glimpses of character.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 300w
“The great quality of the book is a manly and vigorous brilliance,
which is enough to supply ten ordinary novels; the chief faults are a
rhetorical exuberance of style and an inability to see that the reader
wants time to appreciate the really good passages, such as the page
where Edward’s father sends him to school or the illegitimate son’s
explanation of what moved him to join the army.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p629 N 6 ’19 750w
=AIKEN, CONRAD POTTER.= House of dust; a symphony. *$2 Four seas co. 811
21–968
A series of poems defining the delicate shadings of sense perceptions.
They correspond to the so-called “tone poems” of music. Among the
titles given to individual pieces are: The fulfilled dream; Interlude;
Nightmare; Retrospect; The box with silver handles; Haunted chambers;
Porcelain; Clairvoyant. Parts of the book have appeared in the North
American Review, Others, Poetry, Youth, Coterie and the Yale Review.
* * * * *
“Mr Aiken possesses many poetical merits. He has a flow of language
that is refreshing in this age of meagrely trickling springs. He has
vivid sensations and a felicitous ease in exactly expressing them. But
he has the defects of his qualities. His facility is his undoing; for
he is content to go on pouring out melodious language—content to go on
linking image to bright image almost indefinitely. One begins to long
for clarity and firmness, for a glimpse of something definite outside
this golden haze.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p235 Ag 20 ’20 440w
=Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 100w
“He is not easy to understand, and some minds would doubt whether a
drift of phenomena so irrational as this, however delicately and
imaginatively it is described, can be worth describing, except from
the point of view of scientific interest. That Mr Aiken’s work is both
delicate and imaginative, there is no question.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 170w
=AIKEN, CONRAD POTTER.= Scepticisms; notes on contemporary poetry. *$2
(3c) Knopf 809.1
19–17334
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Mr Aiken is not quite a good enough talker; his gossip is
entertaining, but he has not the knack of telling a story well, of
putting an idea into a forcible and convincing form. A certain
diffuseness—it is noticeable, but to a lesser degree, in his
poetry—takes the edge and point off what he says; a fact that is the
more regrettable, since we believe his psychological methods of
criticism to be fundamentally sound and fruitful.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p10 Ja 2 ’20 500w
“At times rather technical for the lay reader but worth while for all
interested in contemporary poetry.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:160 F ’20
“It makes good sedative reading after you have got tired of Mencken,
Cabell, Powys and some few others of the real brains of America—in the
matter of the essay, I mean.” Mary Terrill
− =Bookm= 51:194 Ap ’20 600w
“The poets and the books that he makes an intellectual flourish of
judging in the re-printed reviews which make up this volume have, for
the most part, their fundamental purposes and qualities befogged and
perverted by such critical charlatanry, no matter how brilliant the
execution may be. Often Mr Aiken makes a most convincing case for or
against a poet, but the average reader will be inclined to discount
his own agreement because he cannot be sure of the critic’s motives.”
W. S. B.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1300w
“One’s quarrel with Mr Aiken will be with his limits, not with his
accomplishment within his limits. What in most instances he sets out
to do, namely, to particularize (he says illuminate) with a careful
casualness, he certainly does well. It is because he has done so much
carefully that dissatisfaction arises at the incomplete significance
of the whole work.” C: K. Trueblood
+ − =Dial= 68:491 Ap ’20 2250w
“In so far as Mr Aiken’s lucid and discriminating opinions may offset
the mawkish and meaningless eulogy of ‘poeteering’ journalists, we may
be unqualifiedly grateful to him. He does, however, invite
disagreement with his critical principles by announcing them with
excessive candor.” G: F. Whicher
+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 800w
“Mr Aiken’s book shows a nicely adjusted intellect at work, weighing
and measuring contemporary achievements, with whatever degree of bias
human nature can never escape, as he admits himself, but with some
degree of impartiality. He is chiefly interested in aesthetic values.
His style is adroit and sharp and restrained.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:59 F 1 ’20 1050w
=ALBERTSON, RALPH.= Fighting without a war. il *$1.50 (7c) Harcourt,
Brace & Howe 947
20–4690
This “account of military intervention in north Russia” (Sub-title) is
given by a Y. M. C. A. secretary assigned to work with the army
landing at Murmansk, November 1918. He took part in every phase of the
campaign from the northernmost to the southernmost points of the
expedition and was the last American to leave. He is scrupulously
careful in handling army rumors and most of his matter is based on his
own personal observation and knowledge. On the whole he considers
intervention as a “bad job” on the part of the governments who
undertook it. “We organized civil war in Russia. The Russians were not
fighting the Bolsheviki—not our way. They did not want to fight
them—in our way. We made them. We conscripted them to fight for their
own freedom. It was difficult, but we had our army there and the army
made the peasant patriotic—our way.” Contents: The expedition; The
Archangel government; Management; The fall campaign; The winter
campaign; Kitsa; Fighting without a flag; “America dobra”; America
exit; The new British army; The new Russian army; Making Bolsheviki;
The white man’s burden; Atrocities; The mutinies; The debâcle;
Military intervention finance; Propaganda; Concerning military
intervention; Concerning Russian peasants.
* * * * *
“Settles any lingering doubt about military intervention in Russia.”
+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“So amazing is the story of British arrogance, tactlessness, and
brutality in northern Russia, revealed by Ralph Albertson that it
would be well nigh impossible to accept it, if the trustworthiness of
the writer was not in a striking manner vouched for by the two
citations which he gained from the British.”
+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 650w
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p11 Ap 18 ’20 550w
+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 120w
“This little book of 140 pages, read at a sitting, but unforgettable
for many a day, is full of valuable information, all the most vital of
which was from his own personal and careful observation.” W. H. Crook
+ =Socialist R= 8:380 My ’20 650w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 100w
“The reading of the book helps to an understanding not only of the
Russian problem but of what British imperialism—or American—always
means in countries where a foreign army is in control.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 400w
=ALDERSON, VICTOR CLIFTON.= Oil shale industry. il *$4 Stokes 622
20–14240
The book heralds the birth of a new industry: the extracting of oil
from oil shale, which, in the face of our growing demand for oil, the
diminishing supply of underground oil, and the almost inexhaustible
supply of raw material in the form of oil shale, promises to be one of
paramount importance. Contents: The dawn of a new industry; Nature,
origin, and distribution of oil shale; The history of oil shale;
Mining oil shale; Retorting and reduction; Experimental and research
work; Economic factors; Summary; Opinions; The future; Bibliography,
index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“Not a finished work as far as statistics are concerned, but a good
survey of a comparatively new industry.”
+ =Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21
“For a scientific work it is too uncritical and in such remarks as
‘mountains of shale’ it is reminiscent of a promoter’s prospectus. In
fact, the whole book is written with too much apparent intention to
see all the favorable points and to disregard the at present
unfavorable ones.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 230w
=ALDON, ADAIR.= At the sign of the Two Heroes. il *$1.75 (3½c) Century
20–16500
The scene of this story for boys is laid on South Hero island, one of
the two islands in Lake Champlain that are named for Ethan and Ira
Allen. The old Frenchman, Pierre Lebeau, suggests to the three boy
campers, Christopher, Andrew and Howard, that they spend a night in
the deserted old inn that commands a view of the bay and surrounding
islands. He is under the stress of emotion and obviously has a purpose
in making the suggestion. Their curiosity aroused, they take his
advice and what they see and hear convinces them that smuggling on a
large scale is going on. They also learn the cause of old Pierre’s
emotion, for his scapegrace grandson is one of the smugglers. The
story tells how the three boys, animated by the spirit of Ethan Allen,
put an end to the law breaking.
* * * * *
“Keeps the interest and is not too improbable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20
“The background is well laid in and the story is full of ‘thrills’
having some really dramatic situations. A good tale of its type.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 50w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 70w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 70w
=ALDRICH, LILIAN (WOODMAN) (MRS THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH).= Crowding
memories. il *$5 Houghton
20–19664
These reminiscences of the wife of a poet center about her celebrated
husband but are rich in pictures of other great personages that she
has intimately known, notably Edwin Booth, William Dean Howells,
Samuel L. Clemens, Robert Browning, James McNeill Whistler, Julia Ward
Howe, Charles Dickens. The book is well illustrated and has an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“Mrs Aldrich’s memories are of superlative interest because of both
their subject matter and the great intimacy of their manner.” E. F.
Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 1500w
“The author’s stilted phrasing, trite similes, and thinly veiled
snobbery offer a melancholy contrast to the easy-flowing naturalness
and genial democracy of her gifted husband. Nevertheless, ‘Crowding
memories’ is a valuable book because of the deep and abiding interest
of many of the figures who appear in it.” A. R. H.
+ − =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 290w
“She has not produced a quite independent volume, for she quotes from
Mr Greenslet’s book at considerable length and uses excerpts from
Aldrich’s semi-autobiographical writings to complete the structure of
her narrative. Nor has she the special gift of the great memoir
writer, that easy command of detail which gives its solid reward in
social documentations. But as a casual record of certain trivialities
‘Crowding memories’ is something of a social document.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =New Repub= 25:175 Ja 5 ’21 1300w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p6 O 31 ’20 2300w
“Even in unskillful hands the result would have been useful, and Mrs
Aldrich has handled the rich material with good judgment and much
insight, making a total that is always interesting, and often
enlightening, entitling it to a definite place in our literary
chronicles.”
+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 1000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 13 ’20 940w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 80w
=ALEICHEM, SHALOM.= Jewish children; authorized tr. from the Yiddish by
Hannah Berman. *$2 Knopf
20–26870
“Nineteen stories by one of the best known of contemporary Hebrew
novelists and journalists, the Russian Shalom Rabinowitz (‘Shalom
Aleichem’): picturing with a vividness and intimacy which has gained
him the name of ‘the Yiddish Dickens’ the life of Jewish children in
the villages and small towns of the Russian pale.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup F 26 ’20
* * * * *
“They are written with a terse, beautiful simplicity. An especial
appeal for those who recognize the truth of the picture.”
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Undoubted power of camera-like observation, the God-given genius for
interpretation of the sorrows and sadness of life so surely a heritage
of Jew, Irish or Russian, help make this little volume a delight.”
+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 120w
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w
“Studies at once tentative and precocious, executed with a rare
economy and a vivid understanding. Moods are evoked as if by the
striking of a chord; the effect is instantaneous and sharp, yet
softened with queer overtones of feeling.”
+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w
“‘Shalom Aleichem,’ speaking generally is a humorist, and often
broadly so. Instances could be cited in which a verbal audacity,
almost a horseplay in phrasing, stands out as his most striking
characteristic.” C. K. Scott
+ =Freeman= 2:45 S 22 ’20 500w
“Perhaps the best quality of these stories is their humor, and such
characters as Isshur the Beadle and Boaz the Teacher do, indeed,
allowing for less breadth and vigor, justify the comparison of
Rabinowitz with Dickens that has been made.”
+ =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 180w
+ =Spec= 124:588 My 1 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 50w
“It is difficult to determine whether without the species of prestige
conferred by unfamiliarity of subject and idiom, the spice of
strangeness imparted by the mere fact of translation, the book would
arouse much more than curiosity. It is a collection of incidents in
the lives of Russian Jewish children, told with perhaps too
unrestrained a fluency, as the matter is usually of the slightest, but
with a pervading kindness, an unshakable good humour, a pleasant if
not inspired drollery, that enlist one’s sympathy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p264 Ap 29 ’20 290w
=ALEXANDER, HARTLEY BURR.=[2] Latin American [mythology]. (Mythology of
all races) il *$7 Jones, Marshall 299
20–16109
“The present volume follows the general plan [of the series]. The
author has aimed at a descriptive treatment following regional
divisions, directed to essential conceptions rather than exhaustive
classification.” (Booklist) “The book includes the Antilles, Mexico,
Yucatan, Central America, the Andes (North and South), the tropical
forests, the Orinoco and Guiana, the Amazon and Brazil, and finally,
the pampas to the Land of fire. The notes and bibliography comprise
almost a fifth of the volume. More than forty illustrations add to the
interest of a text that really illustrates itself.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:47 N ’20
“The book is more than a succinct history. It embodies the poetry of
ancient days and the cruelty and the splendor of ancient ways, without
abandoning the calm attitude that wards the scientist from hasty or
sentimental judgments.” I: Goldberg
+ =Bookm= 52:365 D ’20 560w
=ALLEN, ARTHUR WATTS.=[2] Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and
practice. il *$3 McGraw 622.7
20–6647
“The book aims to supply a handy and practical vade mecum for millmen
and engineers, covering in condensed form the various stages in the
mechanical handling and preparation of ore for metallurgical
treatment. Good drawings and half-tone illustrations. Bibliography of
86 references.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p62 Jl ’20 40w
=ALLEN, FREDERICK JAMES.= Advertising as a vocation. *$2 Macmillan 659
19–17750
“This book by Mr Allen of the Bureau of vocational guidance of Harvard
university is intended to place the subject of advertising as a
vocation especially before that part of the public concerned with the
choosing of a vocation. It is an extensive exposition of the field of
advertising, the emoluments, the qualities needed for it as a
vocation, and a thorough investigation of the various fields. It
considers advertising as a business rather than as a profession, since
in the main it is connected with the trades, and it aims to show the
future of advertising as an important element in the choosing of a
life work.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Sets a high standard. Excellent bibliography.”
+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 250w
=Brooklyn= 12:100 Mr ’20 30w
=ALLEN, NELLIE BURNHAM.= New Europe. (Geographical and industrial
studies) il $1 Ginn 914
20–4490
This volume is a revision of the book issued in 1913 with the title
“Europe.” It has been revised and partly rewritten to conform to
changes growing out of the war. New chapters have been added on:
Ireland and the linen industry; The brave little country of Belgium;
Finland and Lapland; The country of Poland, and The countries of the
Balkan peninsula.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
=ALLEN, STEPHEN HALEY.= International relations. *$5 Princeton univ.
press 327
20–5637
“The reader will find here in outline the ancient and modern
conceptions of a nation, and especially a clear statement of what has
been done to regulate international intercourse by conventions,
efforts to prevent war by arbitration and mediation and to mitigate
the barbarities of war when it does come. Included in the volume are
the documents representing the important general conventions that were
in force at the outbreak of the great war, and in conclusion the peace
treaty itself and the constitution of the League of nations are
presented.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:8 O ’20
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 120w
=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= My kingdom for a horse! *$8 Dutton
“The recollections of one who has had so varied a career as Mr William
Allison cannot fail to be interesting. His pages cover a great variety
of ground, life in Yorkshire in the middle of the last century, Rugby
in the ‘sixties, Balliol in the ‘seventies, the bar, horse racing, and
the selling of blood stock, breeding of fox terriers, political and
society journalism, editorship, and special commissionership in the
Sportsman—a multitude of memories, in fine, with fluctuations of
fortune to give a savour to the whole.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Well charged with readable gossip.”
+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 50w
“The ordinary reader will wish that his own interest had been a little
more consulted by omitting many of these equine records. He will wish,
too, that Mr Allison had not been so generous in quoting from his
voluminous correspondence. Barring this overplus, we think the author
too modest in describing his memoirs as a ‘farrago of insignificant
events.’”
+ − =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 450w
“His book shows quite exceptional familiarity with the thoroughbred,
set forth in English free—though split infinitives are to be counted
against him—from the distressing phraseology common to most men who
write about racing.”
+ =Sat R= 128:365 O 18 ’19 900w
“His digressions are rather bewildering and his arguments not all
strictly convincing. When Mr Allison gives himself, as he rarely does,
the time to describe something with enthusiasm, William Hickey himself
could do no better.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p512 S 25 ’19 1600w
=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= Secret of the sea. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–6428
The story has evidently been suggested by Poe’s “The murders in the
rue Morgue.” An American millionaire’s pleasure yacht, touring on the
Mediterranean, encounters a derelict yacht, fitted up most luxuriously
with every evidence of recent occupancy but not a soul on board.
Here’s mystery, and Peter Knight, the millionaire’s secretary and
lover of his daughter, Betty, sets himself to unravel it. His rôle as
detective proves full of danger but brings to light much past history
and romance. An Italian duke of fabulous wealth is discovered to have
been the owner of the yacht, and Peter Knight’s father—and thereby
hangs a tale of dark plots and poison cups worthy of the middle ages.
The outcome of this tale would have been a different one had not a
baboon, one of the yacht’s inmates, taken a hand in it to do some of
the murdering on his own account. Peter himself barely escapes with
his own life, but in doing so is enabled to rescue his beloved Betty
who has in the meanwhile fallen into the clutches of the same criminal
family.
* * * * *
“A mystery yarn, fantastic and impossible, but quite readable.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
“A well-conceived and engaging mystery tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= Turnstile of night. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
This tale of mystery begins in India where three white men combine in
a successful attempt to gain possession of some priceless diamonds
worn as the “breastplate of the seven stars” by an idol in a temple of
Buddha. Then the scene shifts to England; two of the treasure seekers
are dead, by fair means or foul, and the third is trying to keep for
himself the whole treasure, part of which belongs in reality to Honour
Brooke, daughter of the one, and Ronald Charteris, nephew of the other
adventurer. Loris St Leger, the villain, aided by his wicked old
uncle, and using his beautiful cousin as his tool, stops at nothing,
and as Honour and Ronald are entirely ignorant of his game or his
reasons for playing it, he soon has them completely in his power. But
there are some influences at work that he has no knowledge of, which
are acting against him, and in the end his evil purposes are defeated,
after many harrowing experiences for Honour and Ronald.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately the bright promise of the earlier chapters is not
fulfilled. There are thrills and mystery a-plenty, but the author
takes too long in expounding them and by the time they are cleared up
they have ceased to thrill.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w
“In spite of the story being such a jumble, the writing evidently is
that of a trained hand, for the sentences are neatly put together and
the author is not devoid of descriptive power. Readers who enjoy
hurrying along from one disconnected incident to another and who like
a long story will probably find this one to their taste.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 120w
=AMERICAN= labor year book, 1919–1920; ed. by Alexander Trachtenberg. (v
3) *$2 Rand school of social science 331
“Part I of this book deals with labor in the war, with the
organization of many governmental boards of adjustment and
policy-making, and with the actual administration of those laws which
were drawn to curb ‘seditious activities.’ Part II is a record of
organized labor, with historical reviews of different trade union
ventures (including such interesting experiments as the work of the
United labor education committee) and with records of strikes and
lockouts during the last two years. The third section of the book
contains a digest of new labor legislation, of court decisions
affecting labor, and of the progress of plans for health insurance,
pensions and the minimum wage. Part IV is a more general discussion of
social and economic conditions. It deals with the cost of living,
profiteering, unemployment, woman suffrage, plans for public ownership
of the railways, and the history of the Nonpartisan league in North
Dakota. Part V is a short record of the recent activities of
cooperative, labor and socialist movements in some thirty different
countries. And the final section of the book is devoted to the
socialist movement in America.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“While the volume bears the imprint of the Socialist, it manifests
much less of class or partisan bias than do many articles and volumes
prepared and circulated by ultra-conservative organizations.” F. T.
Carlton
+ =Am Econ R= 10:366 Je ’20 220w
=Booklist= 17:82 N ’20
“Unfortunately it is rather an incoherent volume. Though the
arrangement could be better and the statistical tables less partial,
still the year book contains useful material, much of which is nowhere
else easily accessible.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 80w
+ =New Repub= 22:39 Mr 3 ’20 470w
“The editor should be especially commended for his broad and tolerant
attitude towards all phases of the social problem and for his good
judgment in collecting within the covers of one volume so many
significant documents and statistical tables. The volume is
indispensable to teachers, writers, lecturers, and every one else who
has an intelligent interest in the facts and problems of the labor
movement.” L: Levine
+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 350w
“There is evidence of a purpose to stick to facts. If allowance needs
to be made it is for omissions of facts unfavorable to the cause
rather than for inclusion of direct propaganda.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 140w
“‘The American labor year book’ preserves much that otherwise is hard
to obtain and at the same time offers the best available compendium of
current information in its field.”
+ =Survey= 44:315 My 29 ’20 300w
=AMOS, FLORA ROSS.= Early theories of translation. (Columbia university
studies in English and comparative literature) *$2 Columbia univ. press
808
20–4778
The history of the theory of translation, the author holds, is by no
means a record of easily distinguishable, orderly progression. It
shows a lack of continuity and is of a tentative quality. “Translation
fills too large a place, is too closely connected with the whole
course of literary development, to be disposed of easily. As each
succeeding period has revealed new fashions in literature, new avenues
of approach to the reader, there have been new translations and the
theorist has had to reverse or revise the opinions bequeathed to him
from a previous period. The theory of translation cannot be reduced to
a rule of thumb; it must again and again be modified to include new
facts.” (Preface) Contents: The medieval period; The translation of
the Bible; The sixteenth century; From Cowley to Pope; Index.
* * * * *
“The greater one’s knowledge of the literature dealt with, the more
likely one is to approve the care and reading which she displays.” G:
Saintsbury
+ − =Ath= p271 Ag 27 ’20 780w
=ANANDA ACHĀRYA.= Snow-birds. *$3 Macmillan 891.4
20–10160
“This volume contains prose-poems or rhapsodies in free verse on
nature, Indian mythology, sentimental or ideal themes, in a style
analogous to that of Sir Rabindranath Tagore.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 30w
“Mr Achārya is not as inspired by any means and he does not get the
atmosphere and charm into his lines that Tagore did. But he is
interesting, for he presents the thought of the East.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 70w
“The poems contained in this volume can scarcely be said to uphold his
title convincingly as either artist or metaphysician. His vision is
neither profound nor vital enough to awake the pulse of verse, nor has
it the mentality that makes the muscle of decisive prose.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 D 18 ’19 950w
=ANDERSON, BENJAMIN MCALESTER.= Effects of the war on money, credit and
banking in France and the United States. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie
endowment for international peace 332
19–19929
A volume brought out by the Carnegie endowment for international peace
as one of the preliminary economic studies of the war. An introduction
sketches in broad outline the effects of the war on money, credit and
banking in the countries of Europe and the United States. The author
then takes up in detail the various problems involved in the case of
France, with a briefer treatment of the United States. Tables, charts,
etc., are given in an appendix and there is an index.
* * * * *
“That the work is well documented, well proportioned, and highly
wrought, even brilliantly done, is not to be gainsaid.” C. A. Phillips
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:137 Mr ’20 1450w
“Readers with an interest in finance will appreciate this clear,
detailed account.”
+ =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 220w
=ANDERSON, ISABEL WELD (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Presidents and
pies; life in Washington, 1897–1919. il *$3 (5c) Houghton 975.3
20–6432
This is a book of inside gossip about social Washington, where “there
is always something new under the sun.” The author has met and
listened to the “‘senators, honorables, judges, generals, commodores,
governors, and the ex’s of all these, as thick as pickpockets at a
horse-race, ... ambassadors, plenipotentiaries, lords, counts, barons,
chevaliers, and the great and small fry of legations’ who make the
life here so varied and fascinating. Some politics, a touch of
history, a dash of description, with a flavor of social affairs—such
are the ingredients of my ‘pie,’ which, whatever its faults, I hope
may not sit heavily on the reader’s digestion.” (Chapter 1) The book
is well illustrated and the contents are: Looking back; “A red torch
flared above his head”; Rough Rider and buccaneer; Parties and
politics; Enter Mr Taft; Sundry visitings and visitations; Cruising
and campaigning; Divers democrats; Allied missions; Pies; A
topsy-turvy capital; Royalties arrive.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 900w
“It is regrettable that, owing to the lack of a sufficient background,
she has not given us a definitive book on the city of Washington and
its society; but, nevertheless, ‘Presidents and pies’ is a pleasant
and sometimes a brilliant book. At least, it is easy reading, although
its illustrations hardly add to its value.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p6 Ag 15 ’20 2300w
“A delightful narrative. The style is chatty without being flippant,
and there is always a touch of humor.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 3 ’20 280w
=ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.= Leader of men. *$1 (7c) Putnam
20–8245
A tribute of love and devotion to Theodore Roosevelt, opening with a
poem by the author reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine. In conclusion
Mr Anderson writes: “Theodore Roosevelt was a brave warrior of the
body, he was the mightier warrior of the soul. His life was a chord of
many notes, blending in noble harmony.... Its music is not mute. It
still echoes round the world, sounding the forward march for the souls
of men to that nobler warfare—to victory—to peace.”
* * * * *
“The author has avoided equally the danger of sentimentalism and that
of over-analysis; his fine sanity of tone gives to his little book the
qualities of lasting excellence.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 50w
“The author tells nothing very new about Roosevelt, but he relates in
a charming manner what he knew of him.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w
=ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.= Seven o’clock stories. il *$3.50 (9½c) Putnam
20–20944
A story in short chapters suitable for bedtime reading. It is a book
about three happy children, Jehosophat, Marmaduke, and little
Hepzebiah. They live on a farm, and children who read the book will
learn all about their three dogs, the other farm animals, the
scarecrow and their friend the Toyman. The pictures are by E. Boyd
Smith.
=ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.= Poor white. *$2 (1c) Huebsch
20–27471
In this novel, as in his Winesburg stories, Mr Anderson tells the
story of an Ohio town. It is a story of the transition period of the
eighties and nineties between an agricultural and an industrial
civilization. There was a time in that period, says Mr Anderson, when
art and beauty should have awakened. Instead, the giant, Industry,
awoke. The hero of the book, however, is not an Ohioan. He is a poor
white who wanders up from Missouri, an indolent, dreaming boy, shaken
out of his lethargy by a New England woman who tries to train his mind
to definite channels. The result is the development of an inventive
strain which the awakening giant, Industry, takes and uses to its own
ends. The author’s treatment of Hugh is pathologic. He is attracted to
women but is afraid of them. On his wedding night he is seized with
panic and runs away, to be brought back by his father-in-law the next
day. And never, except for fleeting moments, does he find
satisfaction, either in his marriage or his work.
* * * * *
“Will undoubtedly be criticised by many readers for its sordidness of
detail and its emphasis upon sex, but will be read by those who do not
object to this with admiration for the frank truth of portrayal of a
certain section of life.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:155 Ja ’21
Reviewed by R. C. Benchley
=Bookm= 52:559 F ’21 380w
“Structurally the story is chaotic and badly put together, being
obviously the work of an ambitious young writer who has been
emboldened to do something imaginatively big, but who has no control
of the superabundance of material at his disposal. His ‘Poor white’ is
in its way a remarkable piece of work, but it is not the first novel
that has been written about the life it depicts or the last word in
American fiction.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 1700w
“He has made his story a ‘Pilgrim’s’ progress,’ peopled with
characters as actual and as full of meaning as those of the immortal
allegory.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 70:77 Ja ’21 850w
“While as a novel the design, rhythms, texture and synthesis are about
as bad as can be, as a book of miracles it is beautiful. The
unexpected marvels of understanding, the terrible flashes of accuracy,
the strange pity and enfolding passion are all incidental and
personal: the epic he sought to write is cumbersome and dead, but the
souls born from his soul live and suffer before us.” C. K. Scott
+ − =Freeman= 2:403 Ja 5 ’21 580w
“In veracity and intellectual honesty Mr Anderson’s book is
incomparably superior to most of our novels. But compared to ‘Main
street’ it lacks fire and edge, lucidity and fulness.”
+ − =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 200w
“To deny that ‘Poor white’ is a creation, an organism, with a life of
its own, would be to sin against the light: but it is only fair to say
that Mr Anderson’s limitations make ‘Poor white’ an incomplete, a
maimed, organism.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 24:330 N 24 ’20 1250w
“‘Poor white’ remains a poetic novel in half a dozen broad senses. It
has the clarity and concentration as well as some of the music of
poetry. In its hold upon certain large pulsations of American life it
is close to Whitman. It certainly belongs with Whitman rather than
with Howells.” C. M. Rourke
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 1350w
“The book is a careful, conscientious study of certain phases of the
industrial development of America, and especially of the Middle West.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 650w
“Important American novel.” Eric Gershom
+ =Pub W= 98:1888 D 18 ’20 240w
“The totality of the book gives the effect of a wood carving done with
a hatchet by a man who could do well if he had a knife. But its faults
are made up for by the dominant fact that Mr Anderson has a story to
tell. The book is not great, but it has the seeds of greatness. It is
worth while, and its author is worth watching.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 500w
=ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASHLEY.= South of Suez. il *$3 (6½c) McBride 916
20–18577
The book contains sketches of the author’s wanderings in East Africa
during the war. They are not a consecutive series, but they are full
of local coloring and echoes of the European war. Three of them give
an account of the apostasy of the Abyssinian ruler, Lidj Yassou, from
Christianity to don the turban, and the following uprising, of which
the author was an eye-witness. The contents, with many illustrations,
are: A coin is spun; Soldiers, sand, and sentiment; Aden of Araby;
Cross and scimitar in Abyssinia; Es-Sawahil; Zanzibar—the spicy isle;
The wilderness patrol; Kwa Heri.
* * * * *
“Delightful reading.”
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“His tales of peoples so like us in their passions and ambitions, so
different from us in habits and environment, assuredly make for
edification as well as pleasure, and we could stand more of them.” C.
F. Lavell
+ =Grinnell R= 15:282 N ’20 150w
“The impressions do not always ‘get across,’ good as the author’s
material is.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 40w
“His experiences do not form a well-connected story. His impressions
are patchy, with much left for inference. But as it is, the interest
is absorbing and some passages one will read over and over again.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 23 ’20 400w
=ANDERTON, DAISY.=[2] Cousin Sadie. *$1.75 (3c) Stratford co.
20–13144
The scene is a college town in Ohio to which the heroine, Sara
Dickinson, descendant of a long line of Calvinistic forebears, returns
after a long absence. She thinks she has shaken off the teachings of
her childhood, but in a crucial situation, involving love between
herself and the husband of a young cousin, the sharp sense of
distinction between right and wrong reasserts itself.
* * * * *
“The atmosphere of an Ohio college town is well done.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w
=ANDREA, MRS A. LOUISE.= Dehydrating foods. il *$1.75 Cornhill co. 641.4
20–11679
“‘Dehydrating foods’ tells of a method recently perfected, which will
effect a revolution in the means and methods of food preservation. As
distinguished from drying, it reduces the bulk of foods without
destroying the flavoring, coloring or nutritive properties. The
process used in America is far superior to the European methods. All
this and much more of lively interest may be gleaned from this volume
by Mrs Andrea, lecturer on food, cookery and canning at the
Panama-Pacific exposition, San Francisco, and the New York
International exposition. The book contains detailed instructions for
home dehydration as well as numerous recipes.”—Cath World
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 29 ’20 310w
+ =Cath World= 112:269 N ’20 180w
=ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= Satan’s diary; authorized tr. *$2.25
(4c) Boni & Liveright
Satan has assumed human form in the person of a Chicago billionaire,
Henry Wondergood and gives an account of his mundane exploits in the
form of a diary. He finds that, with the body of Wondergood, he has
also acquired some of his human qualities and is no longer proof
against human emotions. Thus, when in Rome he meets one Magnus and his
daughter Maria, a madonna-like woman, he falls in love with her and
allows Magnus to out-satan him to the extent of robbing him of all his
money and finally to blow him up in his palace after revealing to him
that Maria the madonna, is not his daughter but his mistress. The
story is a bitter satire on human life. In a long preface Herman
Bernstein gives a brief sketch of Andreieff’s life.
* * * * *
“This is not only caustic comment on the conditions and problems of
today on this world, it is a denunciation of all life, a renunciation
of illusions and hopes. Without a doubt this latest and last work of
Andreyev is for the time the last word in iconoclastic criticism.” W.
T. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 700w
“Many of the ideas are brought out in long, rambling conversations
dealing in the characteristic Russian manner with the purely abstract
phases of life, and tending to mystify rather than clarify. At other
times the satire is quick and amusing in its unexpected turns of keen
humour. Sometimes Andreyev shows a gentler side, one might almost say
a romantic strain.” L. R. Sayler
+ − =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 460w
“A theme, this, to tempt one of the ‘masters of free irony and
laughter,’ a Voltaire, an Anatole France. Its development in
Andreyev’s hands is disappointing. We have too great a respect for the
Satan of Job and of Milton to believe that he could have been so
easily gulled. But the source of disappointment in the handling of the
theme lies deeper. In this book, as in most of his other writings,
Andreyev shrinks back appalled before the torturing riddle of human
destiny. He hurls his vain questions against the blank wall.” Dorothy
Brewster
− =Nation= 112:46 Ja 12 ’21 850w
“Marie Corelli is so far below Andreyev that it may excite derision to
compare them, and yet in one of her bombastic novels, ‘The sorrows of
Satan,’ she actually succeeded in making a more probable Satan than
this one of the great Russian’s. This book is too savage either for
satire or burlesque—and too inconsistent. Besides, even a good fairy
tale should be plausible. Nevertheless, as a story the book is
interesting.”
− + =N Y Times= p6 O 10 ’20 2050w
=ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= When the king loses his head, and other
stories. (Russian authors’ lib.) $2 International bk.
“The half-dozen ‘other stories’ intimated in the title of this volume
are ‘Judas Iscariot,’ ‘Lazarus,’ ‘Life of Father Vassily,’
‘Ben-Tobith,’ ‘The Marseillaise’ and ‘Dies irae.’ The last two are
poems in prose. The title-story is a high-strung imaginative picture
of the French revolution; ‘Judas Iscariot’ might be interpreted as an
attempt to corporealize an arch-fiend compelled to bring about the
final tragedy of Jesus’ life in order that prophecy might be
fulfilled.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“It is to be hoped that out of Russia’s chaos, when once more life
becomes normal, there will be an end to such masterpieces of
outrageous dissection. They may represent an epoch, but they are
unwholesome and smack of the deadly amanita. Mr Wolfe’s translation
has some good passages, but there are many infelicities.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 370w
“This art has passion and humanity and a strange fervor. But to many
its glow will seem the glow of phosphorescence and decay.”
− + =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ’20 600w
=ANNESLEY, CHARLES, pseud. (CHARLES TITTMANN and ANNA TITTMANN).=
Standard operaglass. *$3 Brentano’s 782
20–6561
This new edition, revised and brought up to date, includes “detailed
plots of two hundred and thirty-five celebrated operas with critical
and biographical remarks, dates, etc.” (Title page) There is a
“prelude” by James Huneker. and an index to operas and one to
composers. The work was originally published in 1899 and was revised
in 1904 and again in 1910.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:286 My ’20
“Well told, with the chief points brought out with admirable
directness. The arrangement is simple and the indices ample.”
+ =Cath World= 112:549 Ja ’21 130w
“One of the best existent guides to opera librettos.” H: T. Finck
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 180w
=ANNIN, ROBERT EDWARDS.= Ocean shipping; elements of practical steamship
operation. il *$3 (2½c) Century 656
20–11077
This is the first volume in the Century foreign trade series, edited
by William E. Aughinbaugh. The author, who is lecturer on economics in
New York university, says in his preface: “Within the limits of a
volume like the present it is possible only to touch upon even the
fundamentals of ship management and operation.... The aim has been to
exclude, as far as possible, the academic and legalistic, and to make
the book what its title implies—a practical, if elementary, guide,
based on experience, rather than a theoretical treatise based on
maxims.” The book is divided into three parts. Part I, The ship, has
chapters on An American merchant marine; Range of the business:
Freight rates; The labor problem; Officering and manning; The cargo
carrier, etc. Part II is devoted to The office, with discussions of
Machinery of foreign trade; Foreign exchange; Traffic manager; General
cargo, etc. Part III devotes thirteen chapters to Charters. There are
six illustrations, appendices and index.
* * * * *
“Although the book cannot be described as having a scholarly style and
although the author’s ideas on economics seem to be a bit unorthodox
at times, the reader will find this volume far more useful than many
written in a more literary vein. The author seems to be thoroughly
familiar with his subject-matter.” M. J. S.
+ =Am Econ R= 10:818 D ’20 160w
=Booklist= 17:56 N ’20
“The language is simple and direct and free from technical terms. It
has evidently been the aim of the writer to produce a book of thorough
practical value to those engaged in ocean shipping.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 460w
“Excellent manual.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 50w
=ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE D’.= Tales of my native town. *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
20–6708
This collection of short stories is translated from the Italian by
Professor Rafael Mantellini and has an introduction by Joseph
Hergesheimer. This is an appreciative comparison between our
Anglo-Saxon short story and that of the great Italian. Mr Hergesheimer
calls attention to the intense realism of D’Annunzio, which knows no
reservations and no shrinking. The tales are: The hero; The countess
of Amalfi; The return of Turlendana; Turlendana drunk; The gold
pieces; Sorcery; The idolaters; Mungia; The downfall of Candia; The
death of the duke of Ofena; The war of the bridge; The virgin Anna.
* * * * *
“Here writing is done with the big stick. They are tales of the
noisier passions, executed with meticulous consideration for the
formidable detail, since D’Annunzio writes with all the heat and
strength of pulse that is supposed to belong to the southern
temperament. The translation, with the possible exception of parts of
the conversation, is very smoothly done.”
+ =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 120w
“It takes, as Joseph Hergesheimer points out in his exceedingly
interesting preface, a rather carefully prepared attitude of mind to
thoroly enjoy them. They are written with art and skill but with a
lack of reticence in description which is likely to disturb the
Anglo-Saxon. If you enjoy Russian short stories you will probably
enjoy these.”
+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 160w
“The stories are of course arresting and at times brilliant.
D’Annunzio’s powerful gifts are beyond question today.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 240w
Reviewed by Rebecca West
=New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 500w
“In their English dress, certainly, they are not overwhelming. One can
with a fairly good conscience own to the impression that, with all
their marvel of detail, several of them are oppressively squalid and
even tedious; squalor and tedium having, of course, their part, a
relative part, in the spectacle of living.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 2:435 Ap 24 ’20 520w
“These tales neither convince nor move the reader. There is a
quickness of action in these sketches, foreign to D’Annunzio’s novels;
his writing has lost a great deal of that sensuality and
voluptuousness so cloying to the American mind. But it has also lost
in beauty and harmonious detail.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 420w
=ANSTRUTHER, EILEEN H. A. (MRS JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE).= Husband. *$1.75
Lane
20–8450
“The story of a very modern young lady, Penelope Brooke, befriended in
the early chapters by a cousin. Later on the heroine embarks on the
adventure of earning her bread in London, during which time her
relations with her cousin’s husband become involved. In the end the
inconvenient Mrs Dennithorne dies, and the reader is led to anticipate
a happy sequel.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The author has good powers of description and characterization.”
+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 60w
“A pleasant tale of English life. Never very exciting, it yet holds
the reader’s interest sufficiently for an evening’s enjoyment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w
=Dial= 69:433 O ’20 80w
“This book is well written—the characters clearly drawn; but that is
the whole measure of commendation that can be bestowed upon it. It is
an exceedingly dull story of contemporary English life. It seems a
pity that such good writing and so much print paper should be wasted
upon a dead level of mediocrity.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 250w
=Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 60w
“Well written with the principal characters clearly portrayed, ‘The
husband’ lacks vitality. A certain stiffness and awkwardness make the
tale in numerous places ‘heavy going.’ Penelope, with a mild,
Quakerish manner, is the most human and attractive principal.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 220w
“Her choice of the moment for a description and her choice of the
scene to be described show psychological understanding as well as good
craftsmanship. The story is anything but ‘didactic,’ but it is none
the worse for having an ethical direction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 580w
=ANSWER= to John Robinson of Leyden; ed. by Champlin Burrage. (Harvard
theological studies) pa *$2 Harvard univ. press 274.2
20–12134
“John Robinson is considered by some to be the real father of American
democracy with its emphasis upon the separation of church and state.
The answer to Robinson by a Puritan friend is against his advocacy of
separation from the Church of England. In this answer practically the
entire argument of Robinson, the Pilgrim pastor at Leyden, for the
separation of church and state is given. The manuscript is of the date
1609, eleven years before the Pilgrims left Leyden for their ultimate
destiny, America. It is now published for the first time.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
Reviewed by Williston Walker
=Am Hist R= 26:339 Ja ’21 200w
+ =Ath= p242 Ag 20 ’20 300w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 300w
=ANTHONY, KATHARINE SUSAN.= Margaret Fuller; a psychological biography.
il *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt
20–18959
A study of Margaret Fuller from the standpoint of modern psychology,
analyzing the hysteria of her childhood and the neurotic element in
her later life. Her contribution to the feminist movement and her
relation to the revolutionary struggle in Europe are also dealt with
from a modern point of view. Incidentally there are brief and
searching criticisms of Emerson, Hawthorne, Horace Greeley and others.
Contents: Family patterns; A precocious child; Narcissa; Miranda; A
woman’s woman; The transcendentalist: The journalist; Contacts; Her
debt to nature; The revolutionist; 1850. There is a bibliography of
four pages and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Written in a straightforward, interesting literary style.”
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 530w
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 160w
“Taken as a whole the book opens up wide intellectual and imaginative
horizons.”
+ =Nation= 112:46 Ja 12 ’21 400w
“The book is like some fine-grained granite rock of solid
psychological and historical scholarship, all sun-flicked with
glinting humor and warm-hearted common sense.” E. F. Wyatt
+ =New Repub= 25:22 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Margaret Fuller’s genius was akin to madness, and how far such an
analysis of so abnormal a character is of real value is questionable.
It is, however, unquestionably well done.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:575 N 17 ’20 80w
“To explain Margaret’s hysteria by a purely Freudian hypothesis is
folly, and something a good deal worse than folly.”
− =Review= 3:388 O 27 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w
“Katharine Anthony’s ‘Margaret Fuller,’ a ‘psychological biography’ is
infested with preconceptions and is unpleasantly provocative in tone.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 11 ’20 520w
=ANTONELLI, ÉTIENNE.= Bolshevik Russia. *$2 (3c) Knopf 947
20–650
This book, translated from the French by Charles A. Carroll, is from
the pen of a former professor of the College de France, an economist
and sociologist, who as military attaché to the French embassy studied
the Russian situation with its historical background and the character
of the Russian ever in view. The conclusion he arrives at is that
Bolshevist Russia, “if not crushed by a new ‘Holy alliance,’ will
prepare for humanity the spectacle of a singular democracy, such as
the world will not have known until then, a democracy which will not
be made up of gradual conquests plucked by shreds from a plutocratic
bourgeoisie, but which will build itself up out of the very stuff of
the people, a democracy which will not descend from the powerful ones
to the people, as in all present forms of society, but which will rise
voluntarily and surely from the unorganized and uncultivated folk to
an organizing intelligence.” (Conclusion) The contents are in two
parts: Bolshevism and politics; and Bolshevism and society.
* * * * *
“The detailed recital of events in chronological order is
straightforward and clear but for the confusion of names of
individuals and of parties and factions which are almost meaningless
to an ordinary reader in this country. The psychological analysis of
the Russian is interesting, but its over-simplification makes one feel
that it is inadequate.” V: E. Helleberg
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:113 Jl ’20 170w
+ =Ath= p355 Mr 12 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
“His record, covering almost the same period as that of Robins in
point of experience, has a much broader historic background and a more
carefully scientific sociological basis.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Bookm= 51:312 My ’20 1000w
=Cleveland= p27 Mr ’20 40w
Reviewed by Harold Kellock
=Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w
“He has not only produced the most authentic record that has yet
appeared of the opening months of the second revolution, but has
written some of the clearest and wisest words which have thus far been
uttered about it.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ =Nation= 110:399 Mr 27 ’20 600w
“It is distinctly a relief to read one book about Russia that is not
written by a journalist, amateur or professional. M. Antonelli does
not describe a tremendous historical upheaval in the manner of a
reporter describing a street fight. Some of M. Antonelli’s statements
and conclusions are contradictory; but this circumstance merely
confirms his general reliability as a witness. Every revolution
carries within itself the seeds of many contradictions. It is only the
conscious or unconscious propagandist who smooths out all difficulties
and represents the acts of his own party as uniformly righteous,
correct and consistent.” W. H. C.
+ − =New Repub= 22:384 My 19 ’20 950w
“Valuable as well as interesting. The calm, broad view taken and the
absence of anything like passion or partisanship are not the least
appealing elements in this volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 800w
“A colorless but informative historical narrative.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 40w
“Although not himself a believer in Bolshevism, he is capable of
judging fairly the administrative aims of the Lenin-Trotsky régime. At
any rate his contribution contains more fact and less hysteria than
most current publications dealing with Russia.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“This book inspires confidence in the author’s impartiality and
freedom from bias. This is the best book on the subject we know of.”
+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 170w
“A sane and helpful account of his subject.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 150w
“Written with the clarity and quick intelligence one expects from a
well known French sociologist and professor.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 60w
“M. Antonelli describes his work as a ‘philosophical survey’; but the
philosophical or rather psychological study of Bolshevism stands out
less prominently than the very full and interesting account of the
methods by which the Bolshevist leaders grasped and held power during
the first few months after their coup d’etat.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p264 Ap 29 ’20 950w
=ARMFIELD, CONSTANCE (SMEDLEY) (MRS MAXWELL ARMFIELD).= Wonder tales of
the world. il *$2.50 Harcourt 398.2
20–18948
Seventeen folk tales from as many countries compose this collection.
Among them are: The food that belonged to all (America); The birds who
befriended a king (Arabia); The cattle that came (Bulgaria); Lazy Taro
(Japan); The prince and the eagle (Greece); The seven sheepfolds
(Hungary); The clever companions (India); Tom of the goatskin
(Ireland); Cap o’ rushes (England); The little cabin boy (Norway); The
chess players (Wales).
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20 20w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w
=ARMSTRONG, DAVID MAITLAND.= Day before yesterday. il *$6 (5c) Scribner
20–18941
These “reminiscences of a varied life” (Subtitle) are edited by the
author’s daughter, Margaret Armstrong. Mr Armstrong was born in 1836
at Danskammer near Newburgh, lived an interesting life as artist,
government official and traveler until his death in 1918. The contents
are: Danskammer; New York when I was a boy; My brothers; The South
before the war; At college; Travels and a shipwreck; New York when I
was a young man; Rome—church and state; Some Roman friends; The
Campagna; Venice; Saint Gaudens and others; Some pleasant summers; The
Century club; My farm at Danskammer.
* * * * *
“It is singular that so sweet and amiable a book should be so
interesting, so amusing. So much of the charm of the man seems to me
to have got into the book that I expect for it a marked success, and,
what is better, a long life in the future.” E. S. Nadal
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 4 ’20 2900w
+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w
“A delightful narrative of one phase of American life at its best.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 370w
=ARMY= and religion; an inquiry and its bearing upon the religious life
of the nation. *$2 (2c) Assn. press 261
This inquiry had its origin in the desire of certain British Y. M. C.
A. workers “to consider and interpret what was being revealed under
war conditions as to the religious life of the nation and to bring the
result before the churches.” The first step in the inquiry was the
preparation of a questionnaire to be submitted to various classes of
persons, including officers, privates and war workers of all classes.
This questionnaire covered three topics: What the men are thinking
about religion, morality, and society; The changes made by the war;
The relation of the men to the churches. The report is in two parts,
Part 1 dealing with the facts, Part 2 with religion and the army. The
report is edited by D. S. Cairns and has a preface by the Bishop of
Winchester.
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:670 My ’20 100w
“The really disappointing section of this volume is that which deals
with the remedies. One confesses to some occasional irritation in
reading ‘The army and religion,’ due to a certain complacent
assumption that the traditional religious synthesis with its dogmatic
superstructure is still valid.”
− + =Nation= 109:766 D 13 ’19 950w
=Sat R= 128:sup14 N 29 ’19 800w
“The witnesses do not always see eye to eye with one another, or
report the same thing. The result is a certain impression or
spontaneousness and of the actual. The writers do not say what they
feel under an obligation to say; or tell us what they, or those behind
them, wish us to believe. They give us the facts, as they have come to
their knowledge. The compiler, Professor D. S. Cairns, sums up, and he
has done so admirably.”
+ =Spec= 123:896 D 27 ’19 1750w
“A document of much importance both in its enlightening disclosure of
a state of things in many ways disquieting, and in the suggestions of
future policy which arise out of it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S 18 ’19 200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p508 S 25 ’19 1550w
=ARNOLD, JULIAN B.= School of sympathy. *$1.60 Jones, Marshall 824
“Several essays and poems are presented by Julian B. Arnold in a
volume entitled ‘The school of sympathy.’ The author is the son of Sir
Edwin Arnold, author of ‘The light of Asia,’ and is himself favorably
known in England as a traveler, archaeologist and lecturer.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p17 O 3 ’20 50w
“The reminiscent portions of the book are doubtless the best.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ’20 450w
=ARONOVICI, CAROL.= Housing and the housing problem. (National social
science ser.) *75c McClurg 331.83
20–2757
“Mr Aronovici’s definition of housing reform is: ‘The furnishing of
healthful accommodations adequately provided with facilities for
privacy and comfort, easily accessible to centers of employment,
culture and amusement, accessible from the centers of distribution of
the food supply, rentable at reasonable rates and yielding a fair
return on the investment.’ Nor does he overlook the close connection
of housing policy with larger aspects of industrial development,
distribution and growth of population and national economy. Following
the lines of previous studies of social survey methods, he suggests a
plan of inquiry for the housing reformer who wishes to arrive at an
accurate view of the housing situation in his community and for the
legislator who is concerned with improvement of the law. He has no
easy panacea for stimulating housing activity or supplanting private
by state enterprise, but rather lays down some fundamental
considerations without which either must fail.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
“This small but weighty volume is likely to do a world of good in
correcting mistaken view-points and vague programs yet all too current
among laymen who tackle housing reform with more enthusiasm than
knowledge and wisdom.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 440w
=ARTHUR, SIR GEORGE COMPTON ARCHIBALD.= Life of Lord Kitchener. 3v il
*$12.50 Macmillan
20–9393
Lord Kitchener’s private secretary has written his life, now issued in
three volumes as the official biography. The marquis of Salisbury
writes a preface in which he says, “Sir George Arthur has undertaken
the difficult task of writing a life of Lord Kitchener within four
years of his death. He has, I believe, in so doing been well advised,
and he has produced a work of great value. The interest of Lord
Kitchener’s career, its extraordinary culmination, the public
enthusiasm which in these last critical years centred upon him, and
the dramatic end, demand immediate treatment by a friend whose inside
knowledge of recent events from Lord Kitchener’s own point of view is
second to none.” There is also a brief introductory note by Earl Haig
on Lord Kitchener and the new army. The first of the three volumes
covers the early years, the Sudan campaign and the period to 1900.
Volume 2 completes the account of the Boer war and deals with India
and Egypt. Volume 3 is wholly devoted to the world war and closes with
a chapter summing up personal traits. Each volume is illustrated with
portraits and maps and there is a full index.
* * * * *
“Sir George Arthur, it will be seen, leaves us with no real vision of
either Kitchener or his work. But there is one characteristic which
the unreality, the romantic haze, and all the clichés of this
biography cannot conceal. Kitchener had a real simplicity and honesty
of mind.” L. W.
− =Ath= p571 Ap 30 ’20 1800w
+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1400w
“The book is good history but not light reading for hero-worshippers.”
+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 100w
=Lit D= p86 O 9 ’20 2100w
“We have a genuine respect for the workmanship of this long-expected
and interesting book, but it would be a mistake, we think, to ‘place’
it in the line of great biographies. And for a double reason.
Kitchener was admittedly a two-sided man. Wanting the highest military
talent, he was still the most conspicuous example since Wellington of
the handy-man-soldier.... At the same time, he was capable of thinking
and acting for her as a political and a moral force. But Sir George
Arthur is the soldier pure and simple, and if politics talks to him at
all, it speaks to him in the unsophisticated accents of the Guards’
mess. He is also an assiduous, if an extremely competent,
hero-worshipper. There was no need for over-reverence about Kitchener.
His character, built in the main on lines of simplicity, crossed with
shrewd rather than subtle calculation, would well have borne a more
detached view even of its excellencies than Sir George Arthur
maintains.” H. W. M.
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:74 Ap 17 ’20 2400w
“The biography is presented with such vividness that the careful
reader can discern the man apart from his work.”
+ =Nature= 105:319 My 13 ’20 1450w
“That Lord Kitchener served to the very limit of his powers is amply
and nobly proved by these volumes. But they do not solve the deeper
problem of the quality of his powers.” H. J. L.
+ − =New Repub= 25:174 Ja 5 ’21 1500w
“It is a plain, straightforward story of absorbing interest, told
without hysteria, without malice, without criticism of
others—differing so widely in this respect from the books of Lord
French and Sir Ian Hamilton—but with sound judgment.” F. V. Greene
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Je 27 ’20 2500w
=No Am= 212:567 O ’20 1400w
Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan
=Review= 3:68 Jl 21 ’20 1900w
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w
“Furnished as he is with a keen sense of proportion and a wide
knowledge of men and things, possessor of a literary style which is at
once graceful and trenchant, and having at his disposal much
documentary matter which few besides himself have seen, he was
equipped with special qualifications for undertaking this memoir of
one of the foremost figures of our time when he accepted the task. But
the very fact of his intimate association with his late chief has in
certain directions proved a handicap.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:390 Ap 24 ’20 1650w
=Spec= 124:552 Ap 24 ’20 1850w
+ =Spec= 124:583 My 1 ’20 1800w
“Sir George is no doubt better fitted than any other to weigh without
undue bias the character and achievements of this outstanding British
military figure. His devotion to his chief is revealed throughout, but
at the same time he exercises calmness in weighing his strength and
weaknesses.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 1550w
“Here, with its element of mystery, is a great theme for a
master-biography. Sir George Arthur’s three volumes are not that. He
is an easy writer with a simple, unaffected style, who for the most
part contents himself with a plain narrative of concrete facts. He
has, too, something of the reserve of his subject, and when one gets
to the difficult and contentious passages in the life he is apt to
become general and elusive, a bad fault in a biographer. But Sir
George Arthur has the great virtue of honesty with his subject.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p245 Ap 22 ’20 4500w
=ASH, EDWIN LANCELOT.= Problem of nervous breakdown. *$3.50 (4c)
Macmillan 616.8
(Eng ed SG20–45)
In writing this book on nervous disorders the author has had in mind
“the family doctor, the trained nurse, and the anxious relative,” and
his main purpose has been “to review the problem as it affects the
individual and as it concerns the state; to discuss the origin of the
more common disorders, and to indicate in what direction it is
possible for us to redress the balance in favour of nerve and
efficiency.” (Foreword) The four parts of the book are: The origins of
nervous breakdown; the varieties of nervous breakdown: The hygiene of
nerve; and The breakdowns of war. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The subjects are discussed temperately and sanely. He has no fads and
attacks none, though the field is large.”
+ =Review= 3:562 D 8 ’20 840w
“Dr Ash’s book is a timely warning of the dangers of emotionalism as
well as an important contribution to the subject of neurasthenia, and
it is so free from medical terms that it can be understood by all.”
+ =Spec= 124:351 Mr 13 ’20 1400w
“This is a commonsense work on a subject which is of universal
interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 70w
=ASHFORD, DAISY (MRS JAMES DEVLIN).= Daisy Ashford: her book. *$2 (2c)
Doran
20–9783
A volume containing the remaining novels of the author of “The young
visiters” together with “The jealous governes,” by Angela Ashford.
Daisy Ashford’s works are: A short story of love and marriage; The
true history of Leslie Woodcock; Where love lies deepest; The
hangman’s daughter. They were all written before the author was
fourteen. Angela Ashford’s offering, “The jealous governes, or The
granted wish” was written by that young person at the age of eight.
Irvin Cobb contributes an introduction to the American edition.
* * * * *
“We think that the author of ‘The young visiters’ has been unwise to
respond to the greedy public’s desire for more. Her new book was bound
to invite comparison with the other; it is not a patch on it.” K. M.
− =Ath= p111 Jl 23 ’20 600w
“Quite a tome in quantity compared to ‘The young visiters’ but except
in the most childish efforts, not so happily naïve in quality.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20
“Nothing is to be found either in Sir James Barrie’s introduction to
‘The young visiters,’ or in Mr Cobb’s tribute to the author of these
tales, to show us that they believe in the identity of Daisy Ashford
or in the claim that their humor is a juvenile product. In fact, at
times both seem to be writing in jest more than earnest, or with a
superficial seriousness that scarcely attempts to cover up the jest.
Sex is the basis of the humor in all these stories, as it was in ‘The
young visiters.’” E. F. E.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1150w
=Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 120w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 160w
“None is in the same class with ‘The young visiters,’ though each has
here and there a touch worthy of her best year, her tenth, her annus
mirabilis.” Silas
+ =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 100w
+ =N Y Times= p14 Je 27 ’20 1850w
“We doubt whether the book will repeat the success of its predecessor.
It is hard to say why one doesn’t get as much out of it, but probably
it is because a little of this sort of thing is amusing while a good
deal palls.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 110w
“These five stories, with their deeply romantic titles, contain enough
to give the admirers of the earlier book many of the same thrills of
pleasure and amusement.”
+ =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 160w
“The present writer would unhesitatingly say that it is upon the
subjects of meals and packing and costume that ‘Daisy Ashford’ shines
pre-eminently.”
+ =Spec= 124:50 Jl 10 ’20 1100w
“‘A short story of love and marriage’ and ‘The jealous governes’ have
the truly original ring of the book that made Daisy Ashford’s name
famous and her identity wondered at. But the longer efforts of the new
volume are merely uninteresting stories amateurishly told. The charm
of the precocious but still unsophisticated mind is gone.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 250w
“None of the surviving products of Miss Daisy Ashford’s pen is quite
up to the standard of ‘The young visiters.’ The longest, ‘The
hangman’s daughter,’ contains some amusing passages, but it is a more
ambitious work, written at a later age, and gives the effect of a
burlesque of a ‘grown-up’s’ novel more than of a spontaneous
efflorescence of childhood.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 50w
=ASHMUN, MARGARET ELIZA.= Marian Frear’s summer. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan
20–10729
Marian Frear and her mother live together on an isolated little farm
on the lake shore. They have been very happy together and keep busily
occupied with the vegetable garden that supplies their living. But
Marian misses the companionship of other girls and the lack of
educational opportunities troubles both mother and daughter. Then a
happy family of young people comes to spend a summer on the lake.
Marian learns to play with other young people and in the fall finds
the desired way to education open to her.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:120 D ’20
“A cheerful, wholesome, natural story for girls.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w
“The young people are simple and natural and the incidents are never
strained to produce dramatic effects, but those who have lived in the
country may feel that the absolute superiority of Marian and her
mother to all their neighbors is exaggerated.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 100w
=ASLAN, KEVORK.= Armenia and the Armenians from the earliest times until
the great war (1914). *$1.25 Macmillan 956.6
20–1701
“In this little volume an Armenian historian gives a concise account
of the rise and progress of his people, including the formation of
Armenian royalty, the early religious ideas and customs, the
conversion to Christianity, the dawn of Armenian literature, and
finally the four centuries of bondage to the Turk. Many little-known
facts have been gleaned from the somewhat obscure records of this long
ill-treated people.” (R of Rs) “The work is translated from the
original French by Pierre Crabites, whose introduction is an
impassioned plea for Armenian independence.” (Dial)
* * * * *
“While at times the author seeks to present his nation in the most
favorable light, as in the omission of any mention of the outrages
perpetrated by the revolutionary societies at the close of the
nineteenth century, his book is free from any attempt at propaganda.
Unfortunately, this cannot be said of the preface written by M.
Crabites.” D: Magie
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:748 Jl ’20 500w
“It is a concise and readable outline, giving not only the main
currents of political development but also some information concerning
economic and social organization.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:363 My ’20 60w
“Unlike most writings on the subject the history is stated in a matter
of fact way free from propaganda.”
+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 40w
“There is grievous need of a map and almost equally of an index. But
the book is good and solid, sober with historical sense and
conscience.”
+ =Review= 2:604 Je 5 ’20 450w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 120w
“A carefully prepared, though naturally sympathetic, history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 80w
=ASQUITH, MRS MARGOT (TENNANT).= Margot Asquith, an autobiography. 2v il
*$7.50 Doran
20–20995
With astonishing frankness Mrs Asquith tells the story of her life and
when she says in her preface that she has taken the responsibility of
the telling entirely upon herself, one can easily believe her. Her
dash and courage and unconventionality, her affectionate nature and
clever wit, her social position and close association with events and
people of prominence make the book unusual. In her own words, she has
related of her “manners, morals, talents, defects, temptations and
appearance” as faithfully as she could. Her reminiscences are all of a
personal nature without reference to politics and public affairs. Both
books are indexed and illustrated.
* * * * *
“Mrs Asquith is a sentimentalist, and a sentimentalist of the worst
kind, one who keeps it all for herself. She imagines that she is a
very rare, very misunderstood person. She has made a serious mistake
in writing this book; in it she delivers up her secret to the
first-comer. Her book is really a very dull one unless it is regarded
as an unconscious self-revelation. From that aspect it is quite
interesting though the type it reveals is not very intriguing.” J. M.
M.
− =Ath= p610 N 5 ’20 1850w
=Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“The self-revelations of Margot Asquith and those of Benvenuto Cellini
present more than one parallel. Margot Asquith’s autobiography is
essentially human. She has painted a portrait of herself that will
live, and she has filled in the background with pictures of many who
are sure of a permanent place in the history of English literature and
of the politics of England.” J. C. Grey
+ =Bookm= 52:356 D ’20 1250w
“Few writers have at once the intimate acquaintance and the analytic
tendency to put forward such keen and living figures. We can hope to
possess very few such living documents as is this record of the last
forty years.” D. L. Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by H: W. Nevinson
+ − =Nation= 111:sup657 D 8 ’20 1900w
“Being a woman born into a society where her game was to be charming,
and where she had no chance to be seriously educated, we find her at
the age of fifty-six publishing idiocies that Marie Bashkirtseff was
too sophisticated to utter at fourteen, and never once attaining Marie
Bashkirtseff’s noble realization that ‘if this book is not the exact,
the absolute, the strict truth, it has no raison d’être.’” F. H.
− + =New Repub= 25:77 D 15 ’20 2600w
“Her lack of reticence is, plainly, offensive to good taste. It is not
the less offensive because it is apparently entirely unconscious. The
surprising thing is, however, that with all the material for
interesting memoirs that Mrs Asquith should have stored away in her
mind, she has given us relatively so little that is of any permanent
value.” Stanley Went
− + =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 4 ’20 1700w
“The book is fascinating from the first page to the last.”
+ =N Y Times= p3 N 14 ’20 1650w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 150w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 500w
“It is after a fashion moral in tone, even religious, as is
apparently, the writer’s character; it is reticent in political
matters; and it is undeniably clever. With a little more pruning Mrs
Asquith’s ‘Autobiography’ might have been a valuable and innocent
record of a memorable society and an interesting period; as it stands,
it is a scandal. Not, as we have said, for moral reasons in the
narrower sense of the word, but for its wanton disregard of reticence
and decorum.”
+ − =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 1000w
“The fascination of the book lies in its bold defiance of British
literary and social tradition, and its studied departure from the
conventional.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w
“A book, particularly one written on some of the first figures in the
country, should have some solid worth, and represent some substantial
judgment. Mrs Asquith prides herself on saying exactly what she likes,
on writing exactly what she thinks; but the result is not often
judicious, nor of any importance, except as a tribute to the taste of
the age.”
− =Sat R= 130:418 N 20 ’20 880w
“In spite of the errors in taste, and of certain occasional breaks in
a style quite admirable when its purpose is considered, the book
justifies those who have declared it to be ‘a true piece of
literature’ with all that such words import.”
+ − =Spec= 125:598 N 6 ’20 3000w
“This autobiography is a revealing as well as an amazing book. The
toes on which it treads are all English. Americans may not approve
entirely of its material and its bumptious method, but they still find
in it much significance and a great deal of entertainment.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 1350w
“Mrs Asquith has moved through great scenes; but the motion is a
flitting, rather than an act of spiritual observation, and therefore
when she sits down to recall her impression, it is apt to lack both
sharpness and refinement.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 650w (Reprinted from London
Nation)
“She is not well equipped for the panoramic display of the outer
world, and the remarkable fulness of her opportunity in that direction
is largely wasted. Mrs Asquith is no story-teller, it is not her line;
she lacks the seeing eye and the vivifying phrase. And yet she elects
to write a book that is all storytelling, all an attempt to reproduce
the brilliant phantasmagoria in which she has lived.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 N 4 ’20 2200w
=ASTON, SIR GEORGE GREY.= Memories of a marine, an amphibiography. il
*$5 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–8797)
“This volume is in autobiographic form and while it does not pretend
to be a complete story of the author’s life it is written along
autobiographic lines. The writer gives us some account of his
subaltern days, when he was a student and then a budding naval
officer. Then he recalls the period of the disturbances in Ireland and
the Phœnix park murders. But he soon leaves this region for the East.
It is the pleasant side of naval service that he shows us. After this
sea experience, the writer tells of his transfer to the admiralty
office in London and his experiences. He gives an agreeable account of
Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in 1887, at which the German Crown
Prince Frederick, father of the recent Kaiser, was a conspicuous
figure. Then, in 1889, Sir George though not then knighted—had an
experience at the staff college. Then, later, there were some vigorous
experiences to record in connection with the war in South
Africa.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The book is one to be read with enjoyment and interest.”
+ =Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 120w
“Sir George throughout his narrative is chatty, never tedious or
prolix and intersperses his story with frequent anecdotes, which are
always fresh and well told.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 450w
+ =Brooklyn= 12:132 My ’20 40w
+ =Sat R= 128:563 D 13 ’19 1200w
“Altogether, he has given us an exceedingly attractive addition to the
literature of reminiscence.”
+ =Spec= 124:460 Ap 3 ’20 1650w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 N 13 ’19 750w
=ATHEARN, WALTER SCOTT.= National system of education. (Merrick
lectures) *$1.50 Doran 377
20–4029
“Professor Athearn frankly states that the church cannot ask the state
to teach religion, but the church can teach religion at odd hours
during the week and on Sunday. The church can and must organize and
administrate a national system of religious education that will
parallel and correlate with the national secular system which is in
process of formation at the present time. He regards the Smith-Towner
bill as a large step in the direction of a unified, national, secular
system of education, and accepts it as a challenge to the educational
leadership of the church to produce a program which will be equally
scientific, equally democratic, and equally prophetic. His discussion
of national control, or direction, of a system of secular and
religious education is extremely worth while at this, the most
critical, time in the history of education in the United States.”
(School R) “Bibliography on educational organization and
administration.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. A. Artman
+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 220w
+ =Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w
=St Louis= 18:217 S ’20 70w
“Timely and vital book.”
+ =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w
=ATTLEE, CLEMENT RICHARD.= Social worker. *$2.50 Macmillan 360
20–19448
“‘The social service library,’ of which this is the first volume, is
issued under the ægis of the University of London Ratan Tata
department of social science and administration. The subjects dealt
with in order, each subject being treated under certain general
sub-headings, are Social service and citizenship, Charities (these are
classified, and one section discusses Waste and over-lapping),
Organization, Social service in conjunction with central and governing
authorities, the Qualifications and training of the social worker (a
talk on the subject which would be of great value to all entering on
social work), Religious agencies, The settlement movement (one of the
subheads is, The school mission), Varieties of social worker; and
there is an instructive chapter at the end on The social service of
the working classes (The friendly society—The trade union—The
cooperative society—The working men’s club—self-education).”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p428 Mr 26 ’20 90w
=Cleveland= p92 O ’20 20w
“It is written in a philosophical spirit and with close-hand knowledge
of the subject. Although its descriptions of the various agencies is
based on British material, the book as a whole is bound to be useful
for the American social worker and student of social problems.” J. H.
T.
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 90w
“The book is full, racily written, and made alive with interesting
first-hand illustration.”
+ =Nature= 106:498 D 16 ’20 350w
“To an American social worker possibly the chief interest of the book
is the philosophy of the author. He reflects a modern faith in the
power of the community as such to deal with the conditions that menace
social welfare.” P. R. Lee
+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 1200w
“The book is a singularly thoughtful and instructive study of a
subject in which a widely interested public really needs
well-considered guidance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 320w
=AUDOUX, MARGUERITE.= Marie Claire’s workshop; tr. by F. S. Flint. *$2
(3½c) Seltzer
21–759
“Marie-Claire,” to which “Marie Claire’s workshop” is a sequel, was
published in 1911. Marie Claire is now employed as a seamstress in a
workshop in Paris, and the book describes her life and work there,
with character studies of her shopmates. Monsieur and Madame Dalignac
are the kindly proprietors and they are portrayed vividly as are
Sandrine and Bouledogue and Duretour and her lover and Gabielle and
the others. There is also Clement, Madame Dalignac’s nephew, who
wishes to make Marie Claire his wife. The strain of working against
time to fill a promised order, the monotony of the dull season when
there is no work, the everyday contact of the girls, all enter into
the picture.
* * * * *
“Very simple and very real, told with sympathy, grace and a fine, sure
artistry, this picture of ‘Marie Claire’s workshop’ is a most
appealing book.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 640w
“In short, this is a special type of realism, and the cumulative
effect of it ... recalls as its nearest parallel, not prose but verse,
Hood’s ‘Song of the shirt.’” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 280w
“This is a book for gentle souls; although it is too deeply human for
the ingenuous.” A. G. H. Spiers
+ =Review= 4:59 Ja 19 ’21 1100w
“Possesses all the qualities of its forerunner, truth, serenity,
freshness, keen observation, united with a deeper understanding of
human nature and an even wider sympathy.”
+ =Spec= 125:708 N 27 ’20 540w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 30w
=AULT, NORMAN.= Dreamland shores. il *$3 Dodd 821
Poems for children with such titles as My dog, Clouds, Ducks, Pirate
gold, The wind, The weathercock, The magic garden, Seasons, Noah’s
ark, The moon’s adventure, The clock-man, Travels, A castle in the
air, Tree-top. There are six colored plates and other illustrations by
the author.
=AUMONIER, STACY.= One after another. *$2 Macmillan
20–15345
“Success jostles failure in the pages of Mr Aumonier’s latest novel.
His hero is his own biographer, and we follow him through a
picturesque childhood, along a divergent manhood, and into a more or
less ebullient middleage. When the end of the story, but not the end
of his life, is reached, we find that after adverse beginnings he has
become a prosperous business man, whose temperamental sister has
caused him more trouble than any of his own emotions, that he has been
twice a happily wedded husband, that he is the loving father of a very
desirable daughter, and the expectant grandfather of a child whose
father has sacrificed himself to the god of battle in the great war.
Except for that single episode near the end of the story, the
chronicle has to do with the ways of national, if not individual
peace.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“It is rich and poor, cold and hot, dull and deeply interesting. But
the impression of the whole is of something which has just not
succeeded.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 470w
“Readers who care for presentation of character rather than for plot,
will like this, though some describe it as tedious. Not for the small
library.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“Although his theme and the form of his story are conventional, Mr
Aumonier has written in ‘One after another’ an unusual novel.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 1400w
“‘One after another,’ though reminiscent of Butler and Bennett, is of
the very recent type, the vegetable school, that deals pleasantly with
mediocrity at its best.”
+ − =Dial= 59:663 D ’20 70w
“By this sharp definition of the generations blended with his brooding
sense of life’s fundamental continuance, Mr Aumonier has made his book
as suggestive as it is entertaining and as philosophical as it is
concrete.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 320w
“The novel is one whose appeal will be to those who care for style and
thought rather than for plot and incident. It is a better book than
‘The Querrils.’”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 650w
“Naturally the interest is of the quiet rather than of the exciting
order, but the situations are well thought out and the human interest
and humor of sound quality.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 90w
“Here is something to be read by both the new generation and the old,
for it links them together, with a fine understanding of both.” D. W.
Webster
+ =Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 240w
“The development of the narrator’s character is, to our mind,
particularly well done—a very difficult task, and taken altogether the
author more than justifies the high opinion we hold of his abilities.”
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 90w
“The book tends more to reflection than to entertainment, and is
considerably above the usual run of modern novels.”
+ =Spec= 125:408 S 25 ’20 280w
“Mr Aumonier in this work, while displaying a good deal of keenness
alike of observation and thought, fails in the essential task of
creating people that impress us as individual and significant. Mr
Aumonier’s touch, however, is incisive and dramatic. And, in intention
at least, he is not commonplace.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 240w
“The scenes are described with the ability which ‘The Querrils’ showed
Mr Aumonier to possess; but the book is less carefully constructed,
and the sense of incomplete finality which marred the effect of the
earlier novel in this one is more obtrusive. Mr Aumonier studies
situations rather than characters, and in contriving a situation with
a climax that is dramatic but not ‘stagey’ he has a particular skill.
At the same time, the book has a tendency to fall into vaguely
connected episodes, while the characters approximate too closely to
collections of impersonal attributes.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p351 Je 3 ’20 430w
=AUSTIN, MARY (HUNTER) (MRS STAFFORD W. AUSTIN).= No. 26 Jayne street.
*$2 (2½c) Houghton
20–9713
The action of the story takes place in the year after America’s
entrance into the war. Neith Schuyler, the heroine, has lived abroad
with an invalid father for a number of years, and following his death
has done relief work in France. She returns home hoping to learn to
understand America. To come nearer to the problem she leaves the
luxurious home of her two great aunts and takes a modest apartment on
Jayne street, just off Washington square. Here she comes into contact
with many shades of radical opinion and contrasts it with the
“capitalistic” attitude of her own family and friends. Two men fall in
love with Neith, Eustace Bittenhouse, an aviator, and Adam Frear, a
labor leader. She becomes engaged to Adam and then learns that there
has been another woman in his life, Rose Matlock, one of the radical
group. The attitude of the two women, who represent the new feminism,
puzzles Adam and he leaves for Russia. Eustace is killed in France and
Neith is left to grope her way into the future alone.
* * * * *
“Rather obscure and vague in some places, it will not have many
readers.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
“Both in subject and in treatment, Mrs Austin’s work discloses its
kinship to the social novel of Wells.”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w
“Mrs Austin’s is a sincere and intelligent handling of an intricate
subject. Owing to her careful consideration and presentation of the
attitudes of her characters the book moves slowly, but it is easy to
feel the dynamic forces behind it.” H. S. G.
+ =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 680w
“Her attempt is original and subtle and its subtlety of presentation
is heightened by the fact that, before writing this story, Mrs Austin
seems to have steeped herself in Henry James.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 550w
“One should not chide Mrs Austin too much for her somewhat blurred
vision of the surface, since the greatness of her work lies in the
much rarer faculty, which she possesses, of being able to focus on the
inner significances.” J. C. L.
+ − =New Repub= 24:151 O 6 ’20 900w
“It gives you no more idea of conditions among New York radicals than
do the New York newspapers. The story moves slowly and
uninterestingly.” Henrietta Malkiel
− =N Y Call= p11 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The novel which is written primarily for some purpose outside itself
is a novel which from the beginning is heavily handicapped. Usually
the characters tend, in such instances, to become mere mouthpieces to
express such divergent views as the author may wish to have uttered,
and its situations are likely to descend into the condition of mere
obvious illustrations. Mrs Austin’s new novel, ‘No. 26 Jayne street,’
has escaped none of these dangers. The book is very long, more than a
little intricate, and at times profound.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:271 My 23 ’20 850w
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 50w
“Earnestness and background and an adroit hand belong to it, but all
its data, its types, its ‘ideas’ are recognizable and timely. Its
style may easily be called admirable. But its art conceals nothing.
You do not lay down the book with the feeling that it is a big
interpretation effortlessly embodied in its predestined form.” H. W.
Boynton
− + =Review= 3:73 Jl 21 ’20 1050w
=AUTOBIOGRAPHY= of a Winnebago Indian, ed. by Paul Radin. (Publications
in American archaeology and ethnology) pa $1 Univ. of Cal. 970.2
A20–741
“‘The autobiography of a Winnebago Indian’ is edited with explanatory
notes by Paul Radin. A middle-aged Winnebago called ‘S. B.,’ who
belongs to a prominent family of the tribe and has had typical
experiences, relates them in considerable detail and with great
candor. He tells of his youthful amusements and fasts, of his courting
and his many affairs with women, of his various travels, of his time
spent with shows and circuses, of his term in prison charged with
murder, of his conversion to the peyote rite and of his subsequent
visions of Earthmaker (God). The narrative extraordinarily adumbrates
customs and sentiments which have almost always been studied from the
outside but which here have the most intimate ring of
actuality.”—Nation
* * * * *
“A human document of extraordinary value alike for the ethnologist,
the psychologist, and the lay reader.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 880w
“As ethnology the account is of great value, and merely as general
reading it is highly delectable.”
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
=AYRES, LEONARD PORTER.=[2] Index number for state school systems. 75c
Russell Sage foundation 379
20–11840
“In ‘An index number for state school systems,’ Dr Ayres finds a
single number which expresses the average of ‘ten different measures
of the diffusion, the quantity, and the quality of the public
education received by the children’ of the several states. The ten
measures averaged into the index are: (1) the per cent of school
population attending school daily; (2) average days attended by each
child of school age: (3) average number of days schools were kept
open; (4) per cent that high-school attendance was of total
attendance; (5) per cent that boys were of girls in high schools; (6)
average annual expenditure per child attending; (7) average annual
expenditure per child of school age; (8) average annual expenditure
per teacher employed; (9) expenditure per pupil for purposes other
than teachers’ salaries: and (10) expenditure per teacher for
salaries. The publication includes tables giving the index numbers of
the several states for the census years since 1890 and for 1918, the
resulting ranks of the states at the several periods, the correlation
between the several items and the final index, and the correlation
between the average of the five items that are based on attendance and
the average of the five that are based on expenditure.”—School R
* * * * *
=School R= 28:709 N ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 360w
+ =Survey= 44:495 Jl 3 ’20 190w
=AYRES, RUBY MILDRED.= Richard Chatterton, V. C. il *$1.75 Watt
20–1371
“One fails to fathom the reason why handsome, indifferent Richard
Chatterton, jilted as a slacker by millionairess Sonia, should extort
an iron-clad promise from a nice old gentleman, never to tell of his
departure as a private in the Blank brigade to France where he chums
with his own valet and performs the double deed of heroism which wins
him the most coveted of English decorations. One word of that and
Sonia would never have thrown herself into the artful arms of his
false friend Montague. When unavoidable evidence jams upon her slow
credence the facts about Richard, she sees him in London, invalided
home, and insane jealousy of his pretty nurse makes her conduct still
more complicated. Later, the mistaken report of the hero’s death, the
showing up of the villain in lurid tints and Sonia’s abrupt
disappearance, get things into a grand tangle. The lovers show a
genius for miscomprehension that keeps the action going strong until
the pallid convalescent is accidentally discovered by Sonia in a
convenient sitting-room, where fate and the author have to get behind
the two and push them into each other’s arms.”—Pub W
* * * * *
“The triteness of the story is unrelieved by any felicity of style;
this is the sort of novel dashed off in a hurry to meet an uncritical
demand.”
− =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 260w
“There are vivid scenes of departing troops, trench warfare and base
hospitals, contrasted with gay glimpses of London society and country
life. And pleasant is the mellow romance of the plump chaperone and
the ‘God bless my soul’ old family friend—they at least have the
saving grace of humor.” Katherine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 300w
=AYSCOUGH, JOHN, pseud. (BP. FRANCIS BROWNING DREW BICKERSTAFFE-DREW).=
Abbotscourt. $2 (2c) Kenedy
(Eng ed 20–8732)
This is preeminently a story of human kindness with enough of
harshness in it to throw the kindly people and their doings into
relief. The two sides of the picture are represented by two branches
of the same family: the clerical, younger son side in spiritual and
worldly prosperity throughout successive generations; and the baronet
side in as steady degeneration. At last there is a reversion to type
in Eleanor, the physically and mentally sound and beautiful daughter
of the ramshackle Sir Anthony Abbot of Abbotspark, whom the Rev.
Thomas Abbot of Abbotscourt heroically resolves to adopt into his
family on her father’s death. The story revolves around poor Eleanor’s
plight as a misfit both in the vicar’s family, surrounded by kindness,
and in her dissolute brother’s house, exposed to his low designs. To
escape both she flees into an unknown world and when her trials have
reached their climax a veritable conspiracy of kindness and good will
bring her back to life and love.
* * * * *
“The story is a vivid picture, drawn with the author’s customary
skill, of provincial social life in ecclesiastical circles and
interest is well-maintained.”
+ =Ath= p1168 N 7 ’19 100w
“There is something delicately feminine about John Ayscough’s handling
of his theme, his humor, his almost imperceptible irony. ‘Abbotscourt’
cannot be called a great book, nor would its author claim such a
distinction for it. But it is worth reading for its style, its purity,
and for that fragrance as of lavender and old lace which permeates its
pages.”
+ =Cath World= 112:258 N ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 80w
=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“It is worth dwelling on the method of approach to the characters; it
differs so greatly from much that passes for character drawings now.
It is open perhaps to a smile here and a shrug there, but it is
supported nevertheless upon a basis of thought which though delicate
is secure.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p629 N 6 ’19 580w
=AYUSAWA, IWAO FREDERICK.= International labor legislation. (Columbia
univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 331
20–18736
“This book traces the origin and development of international labor
legislation from the time of Owen (1818), with chapters on progress
toward international agreements (1890–1900), labor conferences and
treaties (1900–1913) and the labor development of the world war. Part
2 deals with the difficulties in international labor legislation and
Part 3 with the Washington conference of 1919 including a summary of
the discussion of the eight-hour day and the employment of women and
children.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:839 D ’20 70w
“The assembled material will be useful to the student in the field of
labor, even though he may be puzzled by several indefinite references
and by some errors (possibly typographical).” Amy Hewes
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:361 Ja ’21 310w
Reviewed by J: B. Andrews
+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 180w
B
=BABSON, ROGER WARD.= Central American journey. (Interamerican
geographical readers) il $1.20 (3c) World bk. 917.28
20–4903
This is the story of the Carroll family in their travels through
Central America—an attempt to combine in the form of a story for
children and an account of travel, certain information on our
commercial relations with our southern neighbors. Its aim is to teach
children that, in the process of linking nation with nation the world
over, friendly trade relations contain the romance of the immediate
future, that they imply human relations, fair dealing, and honorable
business standards. Among the contents are: Castles in New Spain; The
gateway of the world; The great waterway; On the trail of Columbus; A
plantation in Costa Rica; Mules and mountain trails; The ancient land
of Nicaragua; The wonders of a wilderness; The treasure of San
Juancito; The small republic of Salvador. The book has an index and
many illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:120 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 250w
=BABSON, ROGER WARD.=[2] Fundamentals of prosperity; what they are and
whence they come. *$2 Revell 174
20–20936
“In this book the statistician of Wellesley Hills holds that we must
look to religion and not to modern efficiency methods to insure
national prosperity. He contends that down to this hour, mankind (or
humanity—or the world at large) has lost its way, chiefly because of
its refusal to accept the golden rule as the basis of true
living.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“It is a courageous book, inspired by an unshakable faith in the
pricelessness of character, filled with wholesome advice to business
men, and garnished with anecdotes that would be equally appropriate at
a meeting of the stock exchange and a dinner party.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w
“It is a business man’s call to business to change its aim, a sermon
of a high order of eloquence that if heeded would change the course of
civilization.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 200w
=BABSON, ROGER WARD.= W. B. Wilson and the Department of labor. *$2
Brentano’s 353
20–1493
“The present head of the Department of labor at Washington has had the
kind of life history that is often described as ‘typically American,’
but it happens that he was born and passed his childhood days in
Scotland. He was taken from school at the age of eight and sent to the
mines. As he grew up he worked as a common laborer, iron miner,
locomotive fireman, lumber-jack, log-driver, farmer, and union
organizer. He was sent to Congress from Pennsylvania for three terms,
and when the Department of labor was created he became by President
Wilson’s appointment the first Secretary of labor. All this and much
more is told in the present volume by Roger W. Babson, the
statistician, who was himself formerly chief of the Information
service of the Department of labor. Mr Babson’s book describes and
analyzes the machinery and policy of the department.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
+ =Am Econ R= 10:363 Je ’20 80w
=Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 60w
“A well-constructed and interesting biography.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 1 ’20 160w
“It is a little hard to tell where Babson begins and Wilson leaves
off, for the biographer has not been quite able to play the part of
Boswell to his Johnson.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 150w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 6 ’20 290w
“Mr Babson has both succeeded and failed. He has done effectively what
he set out to do. He has failed to do the much greater thing, such for
example, as that which Graham Wallas has accomplished in his life of
Francis Place. In a word, his book is not a biography insofar as
biography is an art.” W. L. C.
+ − =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 600w
=BACON, FRANK.= Lightnin’; after the play of the same name by Winchell
Smith and Frank Bacon. il *$1.75 (3c) Harper
20–4438
A novel made from a popular play of the same name in which Mr Bacon
has been playing the title part. Lightnin’ Bill Jones, so-called
because it doesn’t describe him, is a gentle, genial old humorist who
keeps a hotel in Calivada, on the California-Nevada line. In fact the
state line runs thru the house, so that divorcees wishing to obtain
the advantages of the easy divorce laws of one state might do so and
at the same time enjoy the privileges of a California resort. Two land
sharks, who for reasons of their own, wish to get control of the
property, talk Bill’s wife and adopted daughter into their scheme, and
then, unable to win Bill’s consent, persuade the wife to get a
divorce. But their plans are foiled, and Bill with his genius for
“fixing” things also brings about a happy ending to the love romance
of two young people.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
“The pathos and humor of the play seem dry and forced in the story.
Still the charm of old ‘Lightnin’ Bill’ Jones stands to some extent.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w
“The author continually insists that Jones is a ‘lovable character,’
but to the reader he seems no more than a lazy, shiftless, old
drunkard, who looks to his wife and daughter for sustenance. Mr Bacon
does not succeed in freeing the narrative from the atmosphere of the
footlights.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 150w
=BACON, SIR REGINALD HUGH SPENCER.= Dover patrol, 1915–1917. 2v il *$10
(4½c) Doran 940.45
19–19869
“At Dover during 1915, 1916 and 1917, more operations were initiated
and carried out than under any naval command since the wars at the
beginning of last century.” (Preface) The author enumerates his
reasons for writing the book: to write while memory is still accurate;
to fill the need for an adequate account of the work of the Dover
patrol; to contradict the untrue statements of the press anent his
dismissal. Contents of volume 1: Historical; The ships of the Dover
patrol; Matters of strategy; Coastal bombardments; The work of the
trawlers and paddle mine-sweepers; The Belgian coast, its patrol and
barrages; Landing the guns on the Belgian coast; A proposed attack on
Ostend; Preparations for a great landing; Plans for blocking Zeebrugge
and Ostend; The control and protection of traffic. Contents of volume
2: The incomparable sixth flotilla; The downs and merchant shipping;
The barrages in the channel; The drifters and their tasks; The French
coast; C.M.B.’s, M.L.’s, submarines and smoke; Operations; The air
services of the Dover patrol; Dover harbour and dockyard; Epilogue;
Appendixes; Index. Each volume is abundantly illustrated and supplied
with charts and diagrams.
* * * * *
“An important contribution from the standpoint of historical truth.”
+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
“As a question of strategy one of the most interesting parts of the
book is that dealing with the plans drawn for a joint army and navy
effort to turn the enemy out of his Belgian bases.” C. C. Gill
+ =Bookm= 51:477 Je ’20 1700w
“Admiral Bacon’s book has in it much matter for the layman and much
for the expert. For that reason it is more shapeless than have been
many books written about the war. For that reason also, it is a truer
presentment of the conditions obtaining.” Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:657 My 15 ’20 750w
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 6Ow
“For this lucid and sailor-like account of an essential service
Admiral Bacon deserves praise.”
+ =Review= 3:707 Jl 7 ’20 1400w
“This notable book wavers a little between treatise and narrative, but
it is well worth reading all the same. A certain sense of grievance
animates Sir Reginald Bacon’s pages. But it only obtrudes itself here
and there, for instance, in a tendency to belittle the method of
Admiral Keyes’s attack on Zeebrugge.”
+ =Sat R= 128:sup13 N 29 ’19 1050w
“Sir Reginald Bacon’s detailed narrative of the Dover patrol is a
well-written and highly interesting book, which will rank with Lord
Jellicoe’s history of the grand fleet among the chief authorities on
the naval side of the war.”
+ =Spec= 123:582 N 1 ’19 1600w
“It is a striking and interesting narrative, gracefully related, with
a thousand sidelights on this little-known field of naval operations.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 21 ’20 720w
“The 633 pages of ‘The Dover patrol’ are crowded with statements of
fact, criticisms not indeed of persons (for, apart from his official
enemy, and vague indications of contradicting sinners, Admiral Bacon
is generous in his tone to his colleagues and subordinates), but of
principles and the methods of the art of war at sea. Admiral Bacon
sometimes writes expressly for the professional reader, but he
remembers the little knowledge of most of us, avoids pedantry, and has
a respectable share of the blessed faculty for making things clear.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 O 30 ’19 2150w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 270w
=BADEN-POWELL, SIR ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH.= Scoutmastership. *$1.50
Putnam 369.4
20–26747
This “handbook for scoutmasters on the theory of scout training” is
the American edition of the author’s book on British scout training
with a few alterations by way of adaptation. Its arguments are
elaborations on the four main principles on which, according to the
author, scout training is based, and which require of the scoutmaster
that “(1) He must have the boy spirit in him; and must be able to
place himself on a right plane with his pupils as a first step; (2) He
must realize the psychology of the different ages of boy life; (3) He
must deal with the individual pupil rather than with the mass; and (4)
He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to
gain the best results.” After the introductory exposition of these
principles the contents are: How to train the boy; Character; Health
and physical development; Making a career; Service for others;
Reconstruction; The education act and the Boy scout; The attitude of
labour towards scouting; Be ye prepared; Appendix.
* * * * *
“A readable handbook.”
+ =Booklist= 17:9 O ’20
+ =Review= 3:215 S 8 ’20 80w
=BAFF, WILLIAM E.= Inventions, their development, purchase and sale. *$2
Van Nostrand 608
20–6991
“This book is essentially a manual on the marketing of inventions....
In its broader aspect it is a book on business policy and is sent out
on its mission of enlightening inventors and others about plans by the
aid of which inventions may be profitably exploited.... The problems
discussed are the manufacturers’ problems as well as those of the
individual inventor.” (Preface) Among the subjects covered are: Value
and price of patents; Gauging the merits of an invention; Developing
inventions; The market for inventions; Patents as property; Inventor
and capitalist; Elementary contract laws. The final chapter consists
of Suggestions from the author on every phase of selling inventions.
There is an index.
* * * * *
“It should prove of essential service to the inventor who is about to
market his ideas.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p15 My 8 ’20 250w
=BAILEY, CAROLYN SHERWIN.= Broad stripes and bright stars. (For the
children’s hour ser.) il $1.50 (3½c) Bradley, M. 973
19–13373
A series of stories from American history. The author says, “I have
written this book because I believe that the story of the American
people as it is embodied in the history of our United States supplies
the most important material for character building in the entire field
of elementary education, and should be offered to children in a new,
humanitarian way as a means of helping them to understand the
present.” (Preface) The stories are arranged chronologically and
include: Pilgrims for freedom; The first fight; The freeman’s charter;
Following the beaver’s trail; At the gate of old Harvard; Ringing in
the fourth of July; In the wake of the first steamboat, etc. A
chronology of main events referred to comes at the close.
* * * * *
“The stories are well told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 25 ’20 100w
=BAILEY, CAROLYN SHERWIN.= Wonder stories. il $2.50 (3½c) Bradley, M.
292
20–12815
All the well-known myths are here retold for boys and girls. There is
an introduction on How the myths began, followed by the stories of
Prometheus, Pandora (Hawthorne’s “Paradise of children”), Vulcan,
Orion, Perseus, Pegasus, Phaeton, Apollo, Mercury, Proserpine, Jason,
the golden apples, the wooden horse, and others. There are six
pictures in color by Clara M. Burd.
* * * * *
“An attractive collection.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w
=BAILEY, HENRY CHRISTOPHER.= Barry Leroy. *$2 Dutton
20–4707
“When the story opens Barry is a spy in the service of Napoleon; the
war is on between France and England. Barry had learned to believe in
the people who were fighting for liberty and equality. But there comes
a time when Barry’s regard for the French consul is turned to contempt
and hatred. The abduction and execution of the Duc d’Enghien, whom
Barry knew to be loyal to Napoleon, was the cause of his revolt.
Asserting that he would never forgive the Little Corsican for his
cold-blooded treachery, he goes over to the other side and offers his
services to the British. He forces a duel on Nelson at one moment and
saves his life at the risk of his own at another.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Rather disconnected and has not quite the charm or vivacity of ‘The
gamesters’ or ‘The highwaymen.’”
+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
“In criticizing Mr Bailey’s methods in portraying his most difficult
figures, I would not subtract from the extent of his accomplishment.
He has, we must admit, failed in Napoleon and Nelson. ‘Barry Leroy’ is
an excellent story in spite of this lack. It possesses the fine dash,
the romance, the joy of adventure for itself, that we have come to
associate with other times than our own.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1050w
“Throughout the book the action never lags; there are no dull moments.
As a spy-story having an historic background and interwoven with a
charming love affair, ‘Barry Leroy’ is above the average in
construction and sustained interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 500w
“The fantastic vein of the story is well sustained, though necessarily
told in episodes with little organic connection, as if written for
serial publication.”
+ =Sat R= 129:234 Mr 6 ’20 80w
=BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE.= Nursery-manual; a complete guide to the
multiplication of plants. (Rural manuals) il *$2.50 Macmillan 631.5
20–1758
“Rewritten and reset, L. H. Bailey’s ‘The nursery-manual’ is off the
press in its 22d edition. It deals fully with seeds, layers, cuttings,
buds, grafts and otherwise. To those who are acquainted with the
earlier editions—the first having been issued early in 1891—little
introduction is needed, save to say that the material is brought up to
date with addition of observations gained in further research. An
extended alphabetic list of plants with full directions for each is
included. The volume also includes an illustrated account of the main
diseases and insects of nursery stock, valuable to the commercial
grower.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=BAILEY, TEMPLE.= Trumpeter swan. il *$1.90 Penn
20–17175
“The hero, a young soldier, returns from France to face changes of
fortune and soon to realize that the girl he loves has lost her heart
to another man. How Randy makes good, writes the romance of ‘The
trumpeter swan,’ and wins back the wandering heart of his lady, is all
set down. Interwoven is the minor story of baby Fiddle
Flippen.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“The plot of Temple Bailey’s latest story is practically nil, but its
settings are wonderfully picturesque. The hills of old Virginia and
the moors of Nantucket are powerfully contrasted to furnish a
background for a readable light tale.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 500w
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w
“Her readers will like this new book. The love passages are wholesome,
strike the note of sincerity, and therefore cannot but be acceptable.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 430w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
+ =Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 190w
“A good simple natural harmless story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 230w
=BAIN, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Substance of a dream. il *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam
19–19598
The author disclaims all responsibility for his stories which he says
come to him “suddenly, like a flash of lightning all together.... I
never know, the day before, when one is coming: it arrives, as if shot
out of a pistol.” (Introd.) This exotic Hindu tale is half love-story,
half fairy tale, and depicts in the extraordinary queen, Táráwalí, a
being half male half female. It is in three parts: On the banks of
Ganges; The heart of a woman; and A story without an end.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:240 My ’20 450w
=Lit D= p91 S 4 ’20 1300w
“Those who have read Mr Bain’s other Hindu stories will not need to be
told of the unique place he now occupies in the world of letters. Here
the exigencies of space will permit us to say only that ‘The substance
of a dream’ is a worthy successor to the other and earlier volumes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:145 Mr 28 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w
“‘The substance of a dream’ will please those whom the other books of
the author have pleased. It is very feminine; sensuous to the point of
orgies of kissing; sensual with soulhuntings and langours and
faintings; fleshly in artistic ecstasies; and psychological in
imaginative suggestion.”
− + =Review= 2:682 Je 30 ’20 280w
“By no means the least delightful of Mr Bain’s long series of Indian
romances.”
+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 550w
“You cannot say whether his style is artful or artless; but the words
make new associations for us, create an unfamiliar state of being,
though they are familiar words.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 N 20 ’19 1000w
=BAIRNSFATHER, BRUCE.=[2] Bairnsfather case; as tried before Mr Justice
Busby; defence by Bruce Bairnsfather; prosecution by W. A. Mutch. il
*$2.50 Putnam 827
20–21304
In alternating chapters Bruce Bairnsfather and W. A. Mutch tell the
story of Mr Bairnsfather’s life and struggles for success. There are
illustrations from Bairnsfather drawings.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
“If anything in late years has been more amusing than Mr
Bairnsfather’s adventures in print, it is his adventures in black and
white as drawn by himself. Forty drawings grace the book, and many of
them are better than the original ‘fragments.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 250w
“It has that satirical note without which a whole book of humour is
apt to be sticky reading.”
+ =Spec= 135:818 D 18 ’20 60w
“The whole book is a happy means of bettering one’s acquaintance, book
fashion, with the delightful Bairnsfather.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 18 ’21 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 40w
=BAKER, ERNEST.= Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. il
*$5 Dutton
“Mr Arnot died in May, 1914, at Johannesburg, having just completed
his ‘Missionary travels in Central Africa.’ He first went to Africa,
inspired by the story of Livingstone, in 1881, and during his seven
years’ residence gained the friendship of the King of the Barotse and
was held in much esteem by the natives. Altogether he made nine
journeys to the centre of Africa, and his self-devotion and the vast
distances he traversed give him a high place among travellers and
among missionaries. His life story is worth telling and it is given
almost entirely in extracts from his own letters and diaries.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature of brotherhood and
religious democracy.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 430w
“Arnot was a noble character, and deserves a much better biography.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 90w
=BAKER, GEORGE PIERCE=, comp. Modern American plays. *$2.25 Harcourt
812.08
20–14860
Professor Baker has in this volume collected five American plays
chosen from the output of the last ten years because decided success
has been theirs, and they are worthy of professional revival, and
because the selection shows the greatest possible variety. In his
introduction he briefly analyzes each of the plays and ends his
general remarks on American play-writing with the assurance that “We
have the right to hope that the next decade will give us an American
drama which, in its mirroring of American life, will be even more
varied in form, even richer in content.” The plays are: As a man
thinks, by Augustus Thomas; The return of Peter Grimm, by David
Belasco; Romance, by Edward Sheldon; The unchastened woman, by Louis
Kaufman Anspacher; Plots and playwrights, by Edward Massey.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“All the plays collected here are significant—all have added to the
pleasure of playgoing. This book makes their remembrance the richer.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 390w
“Most decidedly, these are not the measure of American drama. They are
just five American plays. When a man has done what Professor Baker has
done at Harvard, it is disappointing to find him fathering so trivial
a venture as the collecting of these five dramas into a single
volume.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
“All these pieces, probably, profit by being printed in their
entirety, but a somewhat deliberate study of them leads to the
conclusion that, judged by any moderately critical standard, only two
of them would be marked for revival on account of their actual merits.
The best of them, by all odds, is the somewhat awkwardly named ‘As a
man thinks.’ Of the other pieces in the list, ‘The unchastened woman’
is the only one that has substantial or abiding value.” J. R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 1150w
“Four out of the five at least have interesting stories, and are
flawless in their adaptation to the theatre; but gayly as they trip on
the stage, they drag a little in the reading.”
+ − =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 350w
“This book is intended to interest both readers and amateur players.
It has, perhaps, no great significance as a compendium of modern
American drama but it should serve its purpose.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 13 ’20 240w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 60w
=BAKER, KARLE (WILSON) (MRS THOMAS ELLIS BAKER) (CHARLOTTE WILSON,
pseud.).= Blue smoke. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811
19–14952
“The poems have been written ‘at intervals since 1901,’ the author
says, and consequently their moods are various.” (Springf’d
Republican) “Love, children, the cause of woman all move her to song.
Among other pieces we have specially noted the well-handled conceit
called ‘Winter secrets’; the happy introspective fancy called ‘The
lost one’; the truly heartfelt elegy for ‘The dead fore-runner’ of the
woman’s movement; and the delightful literary reverie called ‘The love
of Elia.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“These poems are not all smoke. There are many glowing embers and a
few blazing coals. Mrs Baker shows something of antique restraint and
not a little of the newer and freer impulse.” C. M. Greene
+ =Bookm= 50:634 F ’20 140w
“Not ambitious in manner, Mrs Baker has the soundness and felicity of
art to make her themes poetically alive.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 17 ’19 1400w
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 20w
“Hers is a gentle gracefulness, a light timidity that succeeds most
when it is least emphasized.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Dial= 68:532 Ap ’20 150w
“Mrs Baker’s metaphors from nature have an almost unexampled finesse.
She draws down trees, birds, stars, prints them on her page with a
diamond delicacy, heats and lights them into a tender, fiery
transparency. Her ideas are often second-hand, and her ardors, sweet
and genuine though some of them, particularly those for her children,
may be, are not perhaps distinguished enough to wear well. The solid
core of her work, however, though small, is fine.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 110:76 Ja 17 ’20 220w
“‘Blue smoke’ is a book of happiness and hope. It is unpretentious,
modest, and sincere. The poems read as though publication had been an
afterthought; they were not written to catch an exclusive or
‘appreciative’ audience.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w
“Mrs Baker, an American writer, is a craftswoman of much skill, who is
never at a loss for ideas, various and fruitful, and can fit them to
apt expression. Hence her book is always interesting, though it does
not succeed in giving us the thrill of beautiful utterance.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 120w
“Possibly given overmuch to introspection, at times a little
over-wistful, this poet gives only her best. Her style is simple,
vivid, never précieuse; there is perfect ease in all the beauty of
these songs.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R n s= 10:204 O ’20 170w
=BAKER, RAY PALMER=, ed. Engineering education. *$1.25 Wiley 620.7
19–14693
“These fourteen selected articles, written during the past decade by
eminent engineers and scientists, are designed not only to inform
engineering undergraduates concerning the broad aspects of their
profession, but to serve as examples of good English. Simon Newcomb
and Sir J. J. Thomson discuss the origins of engineering education; J.
B. Johnson and Howard McClenahan deal with the types of engineering
education; the relation of language to the profession is considered by
J. J. L. Harrington and C. P. Steinmetz. The place of mathematics is
discussed by Sir W. H. White and Arthur Ranum; physics by M. A. Hunter
and R. A. Millikan; chemistry by J. B. C. Kershaw and Alfred Senier;
and the role of the imagination in engineering by Isham Randolph and
J. C. Smallwood. The editor is professor of English in the Rensselaer
Polytechnic institute.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:76 D ’19
“Each is not only well chosen for its primary purpose of use in
engineering schools but might also be read, or read anew, by engineers
in practice.”
+ =Engin-News Rec= 83:891 N 13 ’19 240w
“It strikes a reader that these addresses, each advocating the claim
of some one branch of science, interesting as they are, would have
been more useful if there had been a recognition of the distinction
between what should be included in the school course preceding the
technical course, in the technical course itself necessarily
restricted, and what extra academic self-education should be expected
to accompany and follow it.” W. C. U.
+ − =Nature= 105:258 Ap 29 ’20 700w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 O ’19 150w
=Pratt= p18 Ja ’20 30w
=BAKER, RAY STANNARD= (=DAVID GRAYSON=, pseud.). New industrial unrest;
reasons and remedies. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 331
20–8811
“The battle is on” between employers and employees, says the author in
explaining the raison d’etre of the present volume whose object it is
to “present a survey, for the general reader, of the present
industrial crisis, and the various reconstructive experiments now
under way to meet it.” It is the author’s conviction that the problems
are very pressing, very real and intensely human and that, if the
American people can only be made to see and know and understand where
truly reconstructive experimentation is going on and who are the
thoughtful leaders on both sides, they will decide aright regarding
them. Some of the contents are: The industrial crisis as it appears
from above to the capitalist-employer; The industrial crisis as it
appears from below to the worker; The imputed causes of the unrest;
The real causes of the unrest; Awakening of the public to the
industrial crisis; Approaches to a solution of the problem—by
political action, as suggested by the workers—the new labor party; The
new shop-council system as applied in a typical small industry—the
Dutchess bleachery at Wappingers Falls, New York; Development of the
shop-council system in America—method of organization—the movement in
England and Germany; Foundations of the new co-operative movement in
industry: the new profession of management, and the labor manager.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
“As a trained journalist, he sees the problem clearly, without that
hard definiteness such as an economist who is more reliable but less
readable, usually believes essential to correct understanding.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 280w
“Combining the lucidity of the trained writer, the quick eye of the
reporter and the orderly reflectiveness of the born philosopher, Mr
Baker’s birdseye view of what is wrong with American industry is the
best book of its kind which has yet appeared.”
+ =Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 200w
“There is nothing the matter with Mr Baker’s observation, as far as it
penetrates, but it does not penetrate to the causes which maintain the
struggle in spite of anyone’s reasonableness or good intentions.” G:
Soule
+ − =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 190w
“He is always the reporter standing outside, trying to understand a
technical problem and to help his audience to understand.” Ordway Tead
+ − =New Repub= 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 350w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w
“An outlook free from confusing prejudices and a well disciplined
ability to obtain facts were carried to the inquiry. Mr Baker’s
principal prepossession seems to have been a desire to learn those
things which are favorable to the public well being. That, I take it,
is not an insuperable handicap. On the whole there is perhaps no other
single book which tells so well and so truthfully the story of a large
and important part of ‘the new industrial unrest.’”
+ =Survey= 44:316 My 29 ’20 300w
“Mr Baker’s writings are in more or less popular style which makes
them decidedly readable without detracting in the least from the
accuracy of the facts which he presents.”
+ =Textile World= 57:30 My 15 ’20 220w
“Mr Baker’s honesty and fair-mindedness verge upon genius—though they
are plainly aided by his refusal to break through the surface where he
is unable to see clearly.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:217 O ’20 480w
=BAKEWELL, CHARLES MONTAGUE.= Story of the American Red cross in Italy.
il *$2 (4c) Macmillan 940.477
20–15731
The story tells of the material aid that the American Red cross gave
to Italy: at the front, in canteens, in assistance to hospitals, and
in helping refugees and the needy families of soldiers, but the
emphasis is put less on its achievements than on its contribution to a
better understanding between our two people and on the finer and more
discriminating appreciation of Italian character that our workers in
the field have invariably gained. Some of the topics are: The American
relief clearing house; The Baker commission, Red cross emergency
commission; Organization; Civilian relief and the “inner front”; Cash
distribution to soldiers’ families; Station canteens; Rolling
canteens; Surgical dressings; Hospital supplies; Hospitals; Work with
American troops in Italy. There are numerous illustrations and
statistical appendices.
* * * * *
“A readable book not overloaded with statistics.”
+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w
=BALDWIN, CHARLES SEARS.= God unknown. *$1 Morehouse 231
20–8877
A study of the address of St Paul at Athens, based on lectures
delivered at Columbia and Indiana universities. There are five
chapters: Religion in the open; Greek and Jew; Philosophy and
religion; Personality; Symbol and reality. The author is professor of
rhetoric and English composition in Columbia university and has
written a book on “The Bible as a guide to writing.”
* * * * *
“One feels grateful for such an intellectual and scholarly work as
that of the author of this small volume, who has made real one of the
most famous events of ancient times.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 520w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 50w
=BALDWIN, JAMES, and LIVENGOOD, WILLIAM WINFRED.=[2] Sailing the seas;
introd. by E: N. Hurley. il *$1 Am bk. 656
20–5112
“A sailor’s imaginary log, full of interest for boys and written at
the request of the U.S. Shipping board to promote in the younger
generation an understanding of the development of types of American
boats of commerce, of the interdependence of peoples and of the
importance of the merchant marine. Includes whalers, tramp steamers
and ocean liners.”—Booklist
+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 240w
=BALDWIN, MARIAN.=[2] Canteening overseas; 1917–1919. *$2 Macmillan
940.48
20–15730
“What one Y. M. C. A. worker saw in France is told in a collection of
letters written by Marian Baldwin and published under the title of
‘Canteening overseas.’ The dates on the letters run from June 30,
1917, to June 19, 1919. The first one was written on board the ship
that took Miss Baldwin to France and the last one from Coblenz.
Between the two are letters from Paris, Bordeaux, Aix-les-Bains, the
Lorraine sector, the Argonne, the St Mihiel front, from Verdun and
from Germany. All the letters are reprinted as they were originally
written, except for the insertion of names of places, persons, and a
few other indications, which, because of the censorship, had perforce
to be omitted from the letters as mailed from Europe.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“There is a gay spontaneity in parts of the book, a sincerity running
through it, and more than all else it serves to reveal the effect of
these dark days of service, of endurance, often of hardship upon the
writer herself.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 320w
=N Y Times= p30 Ja 9 ’21 170w
“These letters are made vivid by a natural descriptive touch, by an
ever-present sense of humor, and by an admirable spirit.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 130w
=BALDWIN, SIMEON EBEN.= Young man and the law. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50
Macmillan 340
20–2658
“Professor Baldwin, ex-chief justice and ex-governor of Connecticut,
bears a leading name in the history of the legal profession. He
discusses the majesty of the law and the lawyer as its minister, the
cultivation of mind and heart incident to the legal profession, the
lawyer’s various opportunities, the personal and educational qualities
requisite of success, and the ideals of the profession.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 120w
“The dominant note of the book is its idealism. Judge Baldwin has the
fortunate faculty of seeing things at their best.”
+ =Nation= 110:524 Ap 17 ’20 280w
“Eminently worth while for any young man who is thinking of the law as
his profession.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 50w
=BAMBER, MRS L. KELWAY=, ed. Claude’s second book. *$1.60 (7½c) Holt 134
(Eng ed 20–8723)
“This book records a continuation of the ‘talks’ already published in
‘Claude’s book,’ which described a young airman’s first impressions
and experiences of life after death in the spirit-world in which he
suddenly and unwillingly found himself when he was killed.” (Preface)
The present volume is furnished with an introduction by Ellis Thomas
Powell and some of Claude’s “talks” are: Some difficulties of
mediumship; The circle of power; Ideal sitters; Spiritualism and
occultism; Man’s reincarnation; Dreams; The power of mind; Spirit
helpers; God—the war—the Christ-spirit; Development of personality;
The prerogative of spirit; Prayer.
* * * * *
“In this second book of Claude’s talks with his mother, we find a
considerable advance in thought. Certain chapters, such as that on
prayer, would be recognized for their worth, even if they were
entirely disassociated with this type of book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 280w
“The explanations themselves are as unconvincing and improbable as
usual.”
− =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 310w
=BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK.= Cheery way. *$2 Harper 811
20–13319
“A bit of verse for every day” says the subtitle, and, indeed, the
verses contain a cheery message for every day in the year, full of
courage, humor, sympathetic understanding of all human moods, and good
advice. The page decorations by J. R. Flanagan are in four designs,
one for each season.
* * * * *
“These little stanzas are full of the philosophy of good humor with
some real gospel messages.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 340w
=BANGS, MARY ROGERS.= Old Cape Cod; the land, the men, the sea. il
*$3.50 (4c) Houghton 974.4
20–19426
The table of contents indicates the scope of this book about Cape Cod.
The chapter headings are: The land; The old colony; The towns; The
French wars; The English wars; Theology and whaling; Storms and
pirates; Old sea ways; The captains; The county; Genius loci. There
are eight full-page halftone illustrations from photographs and two
end maps, one a modern map of Cape Cod and the other a facsimile of a
part of Captain Cyprian Southack’s map, made in 1717. There is no
index.
* * * * *
“One of the best Cape Cod books.”
+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 60w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 220w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w
“Good stories of pirates, Indians, and sea captains make the book
lively reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
Reviewed by E: L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 70w
+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 290w
=BANKS, LOUIS ALBERT.=[2] Winds of God. *$1.75 Funk 252
A volume containing thirty of the author’s sermons, among them: The
east wind; The north wind; The whirlwinds of life; The need of a
red-blooded Christianity; The banishment of anxiety; The sorrows of a
tangled soul; The freedom of the city of God; Abraham Lincoln; The
blessings that come from prayer; The romance and joy of the pioneer;
Keeping the soul alive; The Bible ideal of a noble womanhood.
=BANNERJEA, D. N.= India’s nation builders. *$3.50 Brentano’s
“Fifteen biographies and character sketches of eminent Indians whom
the author regards as pioneers of modern India. The leaders include
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra, Sen., Dadabhoy Naoroji,
Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and others.” (Brooklyn)
“The writer would urge, by constitutional means, the immediate grant
to India, subject to the stability of the empire as a whole, of a
substantial measure of self-government.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup
Jl 10 ’19)
* * * * *
=Ath= p684 Ag 1 ’19 340w
=Brooklyn= 12:134 My ’20 40w
“The defects of the book lie on the surface. The author follows
neither a logical nor a chronological order of treatment. But when due
allowance has been made for these unfortunate short-comings, Mr
Bannerjea’s realistic character-sketches are on the whole satisfying,
critical and varied enough to attract American readers to a closer
study of the Indian point of view.” B. K. Sarkar
+ − =Freeman= 2:115 O 13 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p378 Jl 10 ’19 50w
“It is unhappily evident that Mr Bannerjea, for all the sedulous good
nature and tolerance which he consciously or unwittingly affects,
caters for the kindly enthusiasts who find the careful study of
historical origins a bore and an impediment to their pious belief that
all men are alike, that India is and always has been ‘a nation,’ and
that British administration is an oppressive and obsolete anomaly.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 S 18 ’19 1100w
=BANNING, MARGARET CULKIN.= This marrying. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–5228
In this tendency novel the problems of the modern woman are
sympathetically discussed. Horatia Grant has taken a course in
journalism at college and breaks away from her dull, respectable,
middle-class home to make her own way. She shocks her relatives by
taking a desk at the Journal, a progressive daily of socialistic
leanings with its editor, Jim Langley, socially under a cloud. She
meets a new class of people, acquires new outlooks, faces new
problems. Putting herself and her friends to the test she learns to
discriminate between the real and the acquired instincts. She finds
herself and she and Jim Langley find each other.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
“The success of the story lies not in an original plot, nor even in an
unusual manner of telling the story, but rather in a certain freshness
and joy in the experience of it all.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 750w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“The book is so distinctly pleasing, and is written with such
unmistakable sincerity, that one passes over the blemishes—very
trifling, after all—and gives himself up to the quiet enjoyment of a
work that maintains its interest throughout without any strain or
outbreak of violent emotion.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 400w
“Whether one does or does not think all the incidents probable, one
cannot help enjoying the genuine American enthusiasm of Horatia.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 300w
“A bright and busy story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w
=BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY, and HOLT, H. P.= Joan of the island. *$1.75 Small
20–4709
“The story opens in an extraordinary way, by a sailor slipping
overboard into the South Pacific ocean, just after killing the captain
of the tramp steamer in which he sailed. The escaped sailor, who has
taken with him no baggage save just a life-belt, is a strong swimmer
and after some thirty hours of alternately swimming and floating, the
fugitive reaches shore on an island of the South Sea. It is inhabited
and the traveller lands just in time to save Joan, the heroine, from
injury at the hands of an angry native. With such a beginning proceeds
a romance of the Sulu sea and islands. Joan and her brother are the
only whites in this vicinity and the brother is absent in another
island, leaving his sister who is in care of a great Dane. The dog is
poisoned by a treacherous native and Joan is barely saved from attack
by the sudden entrance of the fugitive. Of course there are adventures
without number, thrilling escapes from peril, a love episode and a
pleasant ending.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Fairly readable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 200w
“This is as good a novel of adventure as has appeared for some time,
not only because there is a clean-cut story, but on account of the
splendid lucidity with which it is related.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 620w
“The story is hardly more than mildly interesting.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 130w
=BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY, and HOLT, H. P.= Mystery of the Sea-Lark. il
*$1.75 (3c) Century
20–14289
Jack Holden and his chum George Santo salvage an abandoned sloop, the
Sea-Lark, and fit her up for use as a ferry boat. Sometime before,
Jack’s father had been forced to sever relations with his business
partner, Simon Barker, under a cloud of suspicion and Jack is glad of
the opportunity to help out the family finances. The venture is a
success, but the boys are surprised at the sudden desire of two
strangers to buy the boat. Then comes a series of strange midnight
visits and finally both boat and boys are kidnapped and taken out to
sea. They outwit their captors and in solving the mystery of the
Sea-Lark clear Mr Holden’s good name and restore the stolen money that
had been the foundation of the trouble.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20
“What a boy will call a ‘dandy yarn.’” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
“A capital story for boys.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w
“The story is well told and the interest is cumulative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 170w
“A good mystery story which, refreshingly, is quite free from German
spies.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 100w
=BARCLAY, FLORENCE LOUISA (CHARLESWORTH) (MRS CHARLES W. BARCLAY).=
Returned empty. *$1.75 (5c) Putnam
20–11496
A strange story of reincarnation. Luke Sparrow is brought up in a
foundlings’ home, where the only clue to his identity is the label
found on him bearing the inscription “Glass with care” on one side and
on the other “Returned empty.” He is a lonely baby, and grows up to be
a lonely man, with one queer trait: he has a passion for peering thru
the windows of comfortable homes, as if seeking for something he
cannot find. And then one day, he finds it in the home of a beautiful
woman. She tells him the strange story that explains his life. In a
previous incarnation he had been her husband, and at his tragic death,
she had grieved so deeply that her love had called him back to this
world to live again. But this great love, altho it brought them
together, cannot keep them so, and she steps out of his life again
leaving him infinitely richer, for the short remaining span of his
life, for the contact.
* * * * *
“She has made a most appealing story which will interest readers who
do not usually number Mrs Barclay among their favorite authors.”
Cornelia Van Pelt
+ =Pub W= 98:660 S 18 ’20 370w
=BARCLAY, VERA C.= Danny again; further adventures of “Danny the
detective.” il *$1.25 (5c) Putnam
20–12601
This sequel to “Danny the detective” is a book of short stories. The
first is a wartime story in which Danny again appears as the captor of
a German spy. The other titles are: Christmas eve; A sporting kid; A
midnight adventure; The secret room; In mid-air; Dicky’s chance; The
bishop’s story. Some of the stories are reprinted from The Wolf Cub,
an English Boy scout publication.
=BARCYNSKA, HÉLÈNE, countess.= Rose o’ the sea (Eng title Pretty dear).
il *$2 (2c) Houghton
20–17652
Eccentric Henry Eton was the only father Rose had ever known since he
had rescued her from the sea sixteen years before. Now at his death,
she determines to go to London to make her way alone rather than stay
in the little village which is so lonely without him. She is fortunate
in London to fall at once into a congenial occupation and among
friendly people. Among her new acquaintances is Denis Mallory, a
lovable, wayward boy, whose father, Lord Caister, is much worried
about the lad. Rose’s sweet spirit and common sense so appeal to the
father that he arranges an engagement between Rose and Denny hoping
thus to keep the boy straight. They both try to enter into the
arrangement honestly altho Rose realizes she is doing it for Lord
Caister’s sake rather than for his son’s. But when she comes into a
large inheritance Lord Caister’s pride releases her from the
agreement, which Denis, by a hasty marriage with an actress, has
already made impossible. There is now no barrier between Rose and Lord
Caister himself except pride, and that is finally broken down by
Denny’s tragic death.
* * * * *
“The heroine is remarkably artless; a little too artless, indeed, to
seem real—in this world, at all events. The author’s experience as a
writer of eminently readable fiction enables her thoroughly to enlist
the reader’s interest in this wild-flower heroine.”
+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 110w
“A novel which many girls and women will like.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“Rose in ‘Rose o’ the sea’ is a sort of female St Francis of Assisi.
The novel may help an undiscriminating mind to while away a dull
hour.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 70w
=N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 350w
“It is a little story sure to delight every lover of impossible
romance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 160w
=BARKER, ARTHUR.=[2] British corn trade; from the earliest times to the
present day. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 (2½c)
Pitman 338.1
The term corn trade in British usage includes “all trade not only in
wheat, ... but also in any other cereal for which there is any
commercial demand, such as barley, oats, maize, rye or rice.”
Contents: The British corn trade and its units; The corn trade in old
England; The English law on the “cornering” of wheat and other grain;
Two hundred and fifteen years of wheat prices in England; The corn
laws era; The growth and development of the modern corn trade; The
effect of the great war on the corn trade. There are notes at the
close and an index.
=BARKER, D. A.=[2] Great leviathan. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–22040
Tom’s life was regulated by principle. As a lad at Harrow his
principles brought him into trouble because they ran counter to the
rules of the school. Later they interfered with his adopting a settled
career and he led a wandering life as a lecturer against social evils.
Even as a child he had begun to look upon marriage as wrong, for he
had witnessed his mother’s unhappiness, and free unions had become a
matter of principle with him. He makes a convert of his beloved Mary.
At first they are happy, but as little by little the great leviathan
breaks her spirit, love goes and she leaves him. His other endeavors
also meet with the world’s scorn and a complete nervous breakdown is
the result. After his recovery he goes to India and there he joins a
devout and aged Hindoo on his last pilgrimage and finds peace in the
“glory of God” as taught by the Bhagavad Gita.
* * * * *
“For a first attempt it is a commendable piece of work, but it does
not—if one may be permitted the expression—cut any ice. It is
pleasantly written, and there are many happy touches, but we are never
certain as to what it is that the author is after.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 200w
“Mr Barker’s story is really very well told, he is greatly in earnest,
and the ideals he handles are much ‘in the air’ just now, especially
in England.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 170w
“A clever account is given of how he spoils his life by his experiment
in evading the chains of matrimony. The end of the book is not quite
so convincing.”
+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w
“Technically ‘The great leviathan’ is interesting as showing what Mr
Wells’s technique may become in unskilful hands. But the book, though
a failure, is an interesting failure. Mr Barker could not have written
it without learning a good deal of the difficulties of novelwriting.
He has things to say. His next book will probably be worth reading.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Je 10 ’20 560w
=BARKER, MRS HELEN GRANVILLE (HELEN MANCHESTER HUNTINGTON).= Songs in
cities and gardens. *$1.25 Putnam 821
19–19881
The princess’s garden, The narrow glass, To snow, The garden on the
hill, The wayfarer, The playmate, Lost gardens, On the river, Songs of
the rain and the wind, are some of the titles from part 1 of this
collection of poems. Part 2, containing the Songs in cities, is
devoted to such themes as: The house; The portrait; Night, and the
curtains drawn; Beyond knowledge; Old age; Twilight; To fire; The
city; Harvest of dreams. A note says that some of the verses have been
printed in earlier books by the author, now out of print.
* * * * *
“Mrs Granville Barker’s great technical accomplishment is the source
both of her triumphs and of her failures. Sometimes she is simply
exercising her ingenuity in the void, creating bubble-shapes of a
tenuous and fleeting prettiness. But at other times, when she has good
material on which to employ her skill, she produces finished and
distinguished work.”
+ − =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 70w
“Mrs Barker’s verse may not be for those who can ‘see heaven in a
grain of sand,’ but it has a quality that intelligence and taste can
thoroughly enjoy.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 160w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p595 O 23 ’19)
“These songs are quite short and slight little wisps of fancy, as it
were. But one cannot read on without being truly moved by the passing
thoughts so tenderly expressed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 O 23 ’19 180w
=BARKER, J. ELLIS.=[2] Economic statesmanship; the great industrial and
financial problems arising from the war. *$7 Dutton 330
(Eng ed 20–11567)
“The publishers have brought out a second edition of J. Ellis Barker’s
‘Economic statesmanship.’ When this book was first published in the
autumn of 1918 the negotiations at Spa and Versailles were still in
the future. The new edition accordingly includes about two hundred
additional pages dealing with problems and movements which have come
to the front during the last two years. About half the new material
relates to the economic position and future of Russia and Japan.”—Am
Pol Sci R
* * * * *
“The descriptive and analytical features of the book are admirable;
they contain a wealth of economic facts condensed in statistical form
and ably presented to the reader, retaining his interest throughout
with no sacrifice of accuracy and precision of detail. Mr Barker does
not succeed so well in the development of the theoretical features of
his book.” E. S. Furniss
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:806 D ’20 1000w
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 60w
“One may not agree with all Mr Barker’s conclusions, but there is no
doubt that his book is a storehouse of important facts and figures.”
+ − =Ath= p224 F 13 ’20 180w
“Neither in the views expressed nor in the compilation of statistics
is there much matter of importance for the American student: moreover,
many of the chapters are inevitably out of date.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ’20 200w
=BARNETT, EDWARD DE BARRY.= Explosives. *$5 Van Nostrand 662
(Eng ed 20–6748)
In this volume of the Industrial chemistry series “the author has
endeavoured to give a clear but concise account of the manufacture of
explosives, together with an outline of the methods used for
investigating this class of substance.” (Author’s preface) Contents:
Introduction; Gunpowder; Explosive compounds; Smokeless propellants;
Blasting explosives; Safety coal mine explosives; Percussion caps,
detonators and fuzes; Matches, pyrophoric alloys and pyrotechny;
Explosive properties; Sensitiveness and stability; Conclusion. A brief
bibliography follows the introduction. Other references come at the
chapter ends and there is an index.
=BARNEY, DANFORD.= Chords from Albireo. *$1.50 Lane 811
20–4705
This is the author’s second volume of poems. “Dust of stars” was
published in 1916. “The present collection includes the work that Mr
Barney has done since the publication of his first volume, and hence
covers the varied periods before his enlistment, during his service in
France, and since his return and discharge.” (Foreword) The four
sections of the book are headed: 1917; France; 1919: By the sea. The
foreword is by Lawrence Mason of Yale university.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 600w
“‘Chords from Albireo’ is a worthy successor to his ‘Dust of stars.’
It marks a deepening of the poetic instinct and a firmer grasp of
technique. Mr Barney’s work is important because of its spontaneous
evocation of moods, its impressionistic appeal to the senses.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 240w
“My complaint against Mr Danford Barney is that my understanding is a
horse which he overworks—and starves. All this would not have been
worth saying in this place, had Mr Barney been destitute of poetical
capacity.” O. W. Firkins
− + =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 280w
=BAROJA Y NESSI, PIO.= Youth and egolatry. (Free lance books) *$1.75 (4)
Knopf 868
20–11320
“When I sat down to begin these pages, somewhat at random, my
intention was to write an autobiography, accompanying it with such
comments as might suggest themselves. Looking continually to the right
and to the left, I have lost my way, and this book is the result.”
(Epilogue) The result is a collection of aphoristic, partly whimsical,
partly cynical, always sincere sketches of the author himself, his
personality, his beliefs, his literary opinions and inclinations, the
main facts of his life. The translation from the Spanish is by Jacob
S. Fassett and Frances L. Phillips with an introduction by H. L.
Mencken who says of the writer that he is more Spanish than most of
his famous contemporaries. The contents are grouped under: Fundamental
ideas; Myself, the writer; The extraradius; Admirations and
incompatibilities; The philosophers; The historians; My family;
Memories of childhood; As a student; As a village doctor; As a baker;
As a writer; Parisian days; Literary enmities; The press; Politics;
Military glory. The appendices are: Spanish politicians; On Baroja’s
anarchists; Note.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Baroja is a Latin: lucid reasoning and clear patterns of thinking
teach him to gauge and adapt life.” Stark Young
+ =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 370w
“The book is annoying and at the same time distinctly fascinating. The
pages that are worth while are immeasurably fewer than the worthless
ones; but these are so worth while that the book’s existence is
justified.” C. W.
+ − =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 190w
“He is wilful and headlong, but sometimes discerning in his literary
judgments.”
+ − =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 330w
=BARR, MRS AMELIA EDITH (HUDDLESTON).= Songs in the common chord; songs
for everyone to sing, tuned to the C major chord of this life; introd.
by Joseph C. Lincoln. *$1.50 Appleton 821
20–1986
“From among the hundreds of poems I have written during forty years I
have saved enough to make a small volume which some day I may
publish.” So Amelia E. Barr is quoted in the introduction to this, the
promised small volume. Among the titles are: The great happiness; The
old piano; Lost flowers; The empty purse; At fifty years; Quiet hours;
An old street; Harvest song; A country place in heaven; The tree God
plants; At the last; A writer’s question.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 F 21 ’20 320w
“Mrs Barr frankly was content with fireside narrative and easy
injunction, with good deeds and cheerful rhythms. Her rhythm
occasionally cantered too fast, so that her cheeks flushed and her
bonnet bobbed; but there always was a halt somewhere, with no real
effect of a runaway.” M. V. P.
+ − =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Mrs Barr was no master of the flaming phrase, to be sure, yet she had
her felicity of line. What she looked at she saw clearly, and there
was something of the folk quality in the best of her work.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:245 My 9 ’20 700w
=BARRETT, WILTON AGNEW.= Songs from the journey. *$1.25 Doran 811
20–5607
Among the contents of this book are poems reprinted from Poetry, the
Forum, Contemporary Verse, Boston Transcript, McCall’s Magazine, and
“Victory,” Mr Braithwaite’s anthology of peace poems. The author
employs both free verse and regular meters. Titles are: Songs from the
journey; A New England church; To a pair of scarlet tanagers in the
square; Soldiers, behold your beauty; The valley and the shadow; The
holiday; A song of fulfillment.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20
“Mr Barrett is one of the quieter young American poets who is not
likely to be very much talked about, but who will leave an influence
upon his readers wherever his book finds them.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 550w
“Novel conceits of fancy expressed with appealing grace and fraught
with the glamour of dreams.”
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w
“Once only, in ‘Songs from the journey,’ does Mr Barrett touch
authentic poetry—in the suave and colorful ‘The vase.’ The book is not
distinguished verse.”
− + =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 210w
“Mr Barrett is a poet of great promise, a spirit clear-eyed and keen.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 160w
“He has mastered the not too recondite, yet also not too facile,
secret of expressiveness in free verse.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
=BARRON, CLARENCE WALKER.= World remaking; or, Peace finance. *$1.75
(4c) Harper 330.9
20–4717
“All history is bound up in the human problems of personal and
national finance—personal and national protection to daily
subsistence.” (Foreword) It is the object of the book to set forth
from the point of view of the financier and the enemy of socialism
“the true relations between the work of capital and the work of hand,
and the relation of both to the labor of brain,” and to show their
bearing on our present-day problems. Some of the articles are: England
the great war loser; England’s weakness and restricted output; Ships
and shipping; The value of the pound sterling; Protection and
protected shipping; Reducing hours and increasing efficiency; The
spirit under British finance and business; The social unrest; Peace
“without victory”; Helpless Russia; Indemnities and signatures;
Socialism versus democracy; Inflation by currency, war bonds, and
taxes; Are we to pay for German intrigue at Panama? Bolshevik danger
and the remedy.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
“The book is gossipy and readable, and yet is trustworthy, for Mr
Barron had entrée to authorities who talked freely.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 250w
“There are many little affectations of speech scattered through the
book which some may find irritating. But it is, nevertheless, a good
book and well worth reading.”
+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w
=BARRUS, CLARA.= John Burroughs; boy and man. il *$3.50 Doubleday
20–20968
“The incidents here related have been told me by Mr Burroughs himself,
and are sanctioned by him. During the midsummer and fall for many
years past I have wandered with him over the fields and hills and
through the woods where he roamed as a boy. In these rambles he has
pointed out the places where the narrated events occurred. He has
explained in detail the curious and interesting ways and means of long
ago—old-time ways which will never come again. And not only in his
youthful haunts, but also during many an evening by the fireside at
The Nest, he has again recounted the childish recollections, the
boyish pastimes, and the youthful dreams recorded here.” (Preface)
After a characterization of the “grown-up boy” and his forebears the
contents are grouped under the headings: Childhood; Boyhood; Youth;
Maturity. There are numerous illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“Originally intended as a boys’ life of Burroughs, this is full of the
human, humorous life of the country boy, with the story of the work
and play of the man written in a way to interest readers of any age.”
+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“Cheerfully condescending and commonplace. Mr Burroughs deserves
something better.” D. M.
− + =Nation= 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 40w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w
“It is true to the life, sympathetic and intimate. No admirer of John
Burroughs can do without this pleasant book.”
+ =N Y Times= p2 D 5 ’20 1450w
“It is a good book for boys and girls as well as for older people up
to the nineties.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 60w
=BARRY, RICHARD HAYES.= Fruit of the desert. *$1.50 Doubleday
20–7295
“A race of sun-worshippers, the Sunnites, rescue the hero, left
starving on the desert of Arizona by bandits. He finds his new friends
to be survivors of an ancient civilization. Inevitably, as in all
stories of this type, he falls in love with their high priestess and
escapes with her to the less romantic but more comfortable life of
every-day America.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“Having elected to write a romance, and a romance of a very romantic
sort, Mr Barry is entirely justified in using romantic methods and in
paying just as little heed as pleases him to probabilities. He writes
with the skill of a craftsman, he keeps the interest well sustained.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 720w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
=BARTHOLOMEW, WALLACE EDGAR, and HURLBUT, FLOYD.=[2] Business man’s
English, spoken and written. il *$1.48 Macmillan 808
20–15735
“Bartholomew and Hurlbut have prepared a book which ‘intends to
interpret English as used by the careful business man of today.’
Chapter I of this book indicates the need of a study of business
English. Succeeding chapters take up such subjects as the business
vocabulary, ‘Common errors,’ clearness and emphasis in written
expression. Chapters VIII, IX, and X deal with oral English. Five
chapters are devoted to the study of various forms of letters. The
subject of advertising is given thorough consideration.”—School R
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p10 D 5 ’20 980w
“The book is well organized for use as a textbook. Persons giving
English courses in secondary schools will find it helpful.”
+ =School R= 28:797 D ’20 320w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 40w
=BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY.= Handbook of American government; rev and enl
ed. by H: Campbell Black. *$1.25 Crowell 353
20–11824
The last previous edition of this book appeared in 1912. The present
revision is designed to cover changes since that time, including three
amendments to the constitution, changes in the judicial system, and
changes brought about by the war. The editor has also “taken advantage
of the opportunity to explain or discuss at greater length various
important topics mentioned in the original text, and to introduce
comments or explanations of some clauses of the constitution, or of
the practical working of government under it, which had not previously
been included.” (Editor’s note)
* * * * *
+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 60w
=BARTLEY, MRS NALBRO ISADORAH.= Gorgeous girl. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–6713
Stephen O’Valley became rich quick. He strained every nerve to become
so because he wanted to marry the “gorgeous girl,” Beatrice
Constantine, the spoiled daughter of wealth. When the engagement
gaieties, the wedding and honeymoon were over, and Steve proposed to
Beatrice that they quiet down and “find themselves” the
disillusionment began. A perpetual round of social excitement, a
reckless spending of money was Beatrice’s entire world and Steve’s
comparisons between her and Mary Faithful, his right hand in business,
became more searching. In time Mary assumes the rôle of critic holding
the mirror up to Steve, to show not only his own life but Mary’s
heart. When the failure of Steve’s business sends the heartless
Beatrice to Reno another kind of “gorgeous girl” takes her place.
* * * * *
“Nalbro Bartley has mastered the style of American magazine fiction.
She has the light touch, the gift for quick, clever characterization
and a modicum of American slang. It is quite noticeable that the women
of the story are much more real creations than the men.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 500w
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w
“While Nalbro Bartley’s new story of ‘The gorgeous girl’ cannot be
called particularly convincing, it is less glaringly improbable than
some of her other tales. The book has some neat phrasing, Mary’s home
life is nicely sketched, and there are a few clever touches of
characterization.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 480w
Reviewed by E. C. Webb
=Pub W= 97:995 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=BARTLEY, MRS NALBRO ISADORAH.= Gray angels. *$1.90 (1½c) Small
20–17174
The first notice the world took of Thurley Precore was when she “sang
for her supper” and then continued to sing herself into people’s
hearts generally. The rich ghost lady heard the voice in her living
tomb and came out to take Thurley to New York and give her a musical
education. She became a prima donna, lived in an intimate circle of
first class artists, experienced their disappointments, their boredom
and the restlessness of fame. She tried to become reckless and flirted
with the forbidden, when her singing teacher, also a man of genius,
whom she secretly loved, set her right by confiding to her his vision
of America’s supreme mission in art. Winning the violet crown he
called it. Later the war with its war madness showed to Thurley that
her own particular mission lay in helping to restore a hysterical
people to sanity and to become one of the gray angels to the broken
ones of the war.
* * * * *
“The book is entertaining, the characters are well drawn. Fewer
characters would have been better. Thurley’s interesting career, with
its pleasing denouement, might have been told in considerably less
than 420 pages.”
+ − =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 350w
=BARTON, BRUCE.= It’s a good old world. *$1.50 Century 814
20–14616
The book is a collection of contributions to various magazines. They
all look upon the cheery side of life, pick out the amenities from the
commonplaces, and abound in good advice and cheery encouragement for
the passengers on this “Good old world” whose “quiet, patient fashion
in which he goes around about the same old task, day after day and
year after year” the author admires. Some of the titles are: I expect
to be entirely consistent—after ninety; A great little word is “why”;
The second mile; It’s a moving picture world, and the film changes
every few minutes; The fine rare habit of learning to do without; That
fine old fake about the good old days; Everybody has something.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Brief and pithy and filled with common sense philosophy.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 30w
=BARTON, GEORGE.= Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great
war. il *$2 Page 940.3
19–17029
“George Barton has gathered together some of the strange happenings of
the war. It is no connected tale of espionage, but rather a series of
pen pictures relating to only a few of those involved in the conflict,
and those few among the best known. The opening chapter deals with the
disappearance of the Hampshire, with Kitchener and his staff; the
final one, with the murder of Ferdinand at Sarajevo. In between are
such dissimilar persons as Edith Cavell, Capt. Fryatt, Bolo Pasha,
Roger Casement, Ram Chanda and Werner Horn.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:126 Ja ’20
“Every chapter reads like an Oppenheim novel in little, and there is
matter enough in the book to furnish material for all writers who are
seeking plots for stories of mystery.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 13 ’19 200w
“This book contains more promise than performance. Whatever interest
the stories themselves might hold is entirely spoiled by the stagey
dressing.”
− =Cath World= 111:406 Je ’20 170w
“An especially interesting chapter is ‘Eugene Van Doren and the secret
press of Belgium.’ If Mr Barton has told nothing new he has at least
gathered together the fragments of interesting and varied careers
reflecting differing aspects of the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 16 ’19 160w
=BARTON, WILLIAM ELEAZAR.= Paternity of Abraham Lincoln; was he the son
of Thomas Lincoln? an essay on the chastity of Nancy Hanks. *$4 Doran
20–19246
The author says that this book may be considered a footnote to his
earlier book, “The soul of Abraham Lincoln” and as a suppressed
preface to a “Life of Abraham Lincoln” which he plans to write. He
states that in collecting data for the first book he came upon a
considerable body of material bearing on Lincoln’s paternity and
discovered that a number of intelligent collectors of Lincoln books
and students of history were convinced that Abraham Lincoln was not
the son of Thomas Lincoln. “Moreover, the author found himself at
length compelled to ask of himself the question, What if these reports
are true? And he pursued his investigations with an open mind.... The
author has endeavored to trace every rumor and report relating to the
birth of Abraham Lincoln, to assemble all the available evidence in
favor of it and against it, to judge each one of these reports upon
its own merits, and to render what, he believes, is a judgment from
which there can be no successful appeal.” The judgment is a refutation
of the supposed evidence and the author believes that he has covered
the ground so thoroughly that the matter need not be referred to
again.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 840w
“A convincing study which leaves not a square inch of ground for the
scandal to stand on. Mr Barton’s researches have been exhaustive
and—barring a few minor slips—accurate.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 820w
“It is undisputedly and indisputably a good work to which Dr Barton
has set his hand.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 1750w
=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 70w
“A scholarly monograph.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 480w
=BARTON, WILLIAM ELEAZAR.= Soul of Abraham Lincoln. *$4 (3½c) Doran
20–3862
“The fact that there are so many books on the religion of Abraham
Lincoln is a chief reason why there should be one more.” (Preface) The
author explains his volume by stating the considerations which
differentiate it from earlier works. He has provided an adequate
historical background for the study of Lincoln’s religious life in
successive periods and has been aided in this effort by the fact that
he spent seven years in the same environment in which Lincoln lived
during two important epochs of his career. He has assembled a larger
body of essential evidence than any previous writer has compiled, and
subjected it to a critical analysis. He has opened several entirely
new avenues of investigation and he has set forth his conviction
concerning the faith of Abraham Lincoln aside from his theological
opinions. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: 1, A study of
religious environment; 2, An analysis of the evidence; 3, The religion
of Lincoln. The appendices contain extracts from addresses and books
of other writers and there is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“For libraries attempting a complete Lincoln collection, though it is
rather lacking in charm for general reading.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
“This book is so important in its field that it must be regarded as
necessary to any library, public or private, fittingly equipped for
the critical consideration of Lincoln’s religious history. His book is
so well done that it is likely long to remain the standard work on the
subject.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 51:547 Jl ’20 3200w
“The conclusion of the whole matter is that despite its entertaining
and its authoritative biographical qualities, such a book as ‘The soul
of Abraham Lincoln’ is utterly futile. It leaves us exactly at the
point of its beginning. In its last page we have no clearer idea of
Lincoln’s religious belief than in its first. Despite the mass of
material he assembles, Dr Barton proves nothing.” E. F. E.
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1500w
“His viewpoint, the skilful analysis of conflicting evidence, and the
ability which the author shows in reaching a logical conclusion, seems
to us to make this book one with which all students of the lives of
Lincoln must hereafter reckon.”
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 28 ’20 340w
“His volume will probably be the final authority on the much-debated
topic of Mr Lincoln’s religious faith.”
+ =Outlook= 124:656 Ap 14 ’20 2000w
=Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 70w
“Like many others who would like to have Mr Lincoln pictured not
exactly as he really was, but as they are eager to think him, Mr
Barton labors hard to show what he believes to have been the
president’s religious ideas. The result is a new literary portrait of
Mr Lincoln, interesting and agreeable in details of the president’s
family life, but leaving one unconvinced regarding his religious
convictions.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 600w
“Mr Barton has done his work with good feeling and well. In one thing
we dissent from him seriously. He quite naturally ascribes Lincoln’s
refusal to follow his wife all the way into the Presbyterian fold, or
some other, to the weak side of his intellect and character. In all
this there is something astray.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 1250w
=BARUCH, BERNARD MANNES.= Making of the reparation and economic sections
of the treaty. *$3 Harper 940.314
20–18667
Having been intimately concerned with the creation of the reparation
and economic sections of the treaty, the writer, in his introduction
to the book, gives an apologetic review of the then existing
conditions. The treaty was made, he says, in the still smouldering
furnace of human passion. In the reparation clauses the conference was
not writing a mere contract of dollars and cents; it was dealing with
blood-raw passions still pulsing through peoples’ veins. He concedes
that the treaty is severe but also insists that it is a flexible
instrument, qualified to help effectuate a just and proper peace, if
that desire and purpose be really present. Contents: How the
reparation clauses were formed; Drawing the economic clauses;
Reparation clauses; Economic clauses; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“He writes with more caution and less indignation than Keynes but his
conclusion is essentially the same.”
+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
“It is straight history, instead of being, like Keynes’s book, a blend
of history, literary satire and propaganda.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 120w
“Though Mr Baruch is still somewhat under the influence of the pall of
Paris, he lifts something of the veil of secrecy, and when he does he
speaks with authority, and not as the journalists. It is an invaluable
contribution.” L. S. G.
+ − =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1200w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
=New Repub= 25:21 D 1 ’20 1550w
“Mr Baruch seeks to explain, rather than to defend—which is the more
enlightening method. His simplicity, candor, and restraint let the
reader in to an apprehension of the true facts as he sees them. Where
is it, then, that Mr Baruch’s conception of the relations of men and
nations fails us and dismays us? Because he counts too low the
significance of words. Mr Baruch comforts himself that the parts of
the treaty which he hates not less than I do are empty because they
are impossible, and harmless because they can never happen. But they
have wounded, nevertheless, the public faith of Europe.” J. M. Keynes
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 4 ’20 3050w
“The author has given a valuable account of the matter; clear,
dispassionate, uninvolved. His contentions gain in force through the
strictness with which he keeps within the field that he has marked out
for himself.”
+ =No Am= 212:859 D ’20 600w
“Should prove a valuable book of reference.”
+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 340w
“Mr Baruch’s chapters are brief and direct, while also persuasive to
the point of carrying conviction. The atmosphere in which the work was
done is well reproduced. This volume will be a necessary part of every
public and private library that includes the essential books relating
to the making of peace.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 320w
“His new book is short and concise, but it is in some respects the
most illuminating comment upon the treaty that we have seen.”
+ =Spec= 125:778 D 11 ’20 1300w
=BASCOM, LELIA.= Elementary lessons in English idiom. *$2 Appleton 425
20–15172
A work prepared in the Extension division of the University of
Wisconsin as a textbook for students in correspondence-study. It is
“designed to aid two types of students,—those who are not native
Americans but who have had a season of study in night school or
elsewhere so that they read and write English a little; and those
native Americans who are handicapped by a lack of knowledge of good
English usage.” The teaching thruout the book is by examples and
exercises for practice. Rules are reserved for a summing up at the
end.
=BASDEN, GEORGE THOMAS.= Among the Ibos of Nigeria. il *$5 Lippincott
916.6
20–20653
“The country of the Ibos is a district in British West Africa on the
lower Niger immediately above the delta, and mainly on the eastern
bank of the river. The people—some of them—are cannibals and addicted
to the offering of human sacrifices with every circumstance of
cruelty; they eat snakes, except the python which is sacred; their
occupations are primitive, farming, fishing, and hunting—all three it
will be noticed connected with the necessity for procuring the prime
necessity, food. Their customs will be found detailed in this
book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“There are annoying misprints both in English and Ibo; the map,
especially in the southern portion, must be termed misleading, it does
not even contain all the names mentioned in the text; but Mr Basden
has brought together much interesting material, some of it novel,
though in many instances insufficiently localized to be of use to the
scientific student. The errors pointed out above need not alarm the
general reader, who will find the life of the people set forth in an
interesting manner.” N. W. T.
+ − =Ath= p580 O 29 ’20 580w
“It is by a missionary of wide experience, rare open-mindedness, and a
real gift of observation. He makes no pretension to literary
excellence, but has made a book that is entertaining as well as
valuable ethnologically.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 60w
“If we did not begin by crediting Mr Basden with sincerity, we should
be convinced of it in a few pages.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p631 S 30 ’20 720w
=BASS, JOHN FOSTER.= Peace tangle. *$4.50 Macmillan 940.314
20–19521
“Mr Bass traces recent diplomatic history from the secret treaties
entered into by various nations through the Paris peace conference and
the subsequent period. He devotes special chapters to conditions in
Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Russia, the Balkans, and Turkey. Particular interest attaches to the
comment on the League of nations.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“Not so much a study of the treaty itself as Scott or of particular
sections of it as Baruch but more an evaluation in terms of actual
conditions and hoped for results. Less well organized than Keynes but
more detached in spirit (opinions are presented coldly, without any
attempt to persuade).”
+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
“His book falls short of some of the other accounts, notably that of
Keynes, in organization of material, in charm of style and subtlety of
argument. In compensation it offers superior evidence of candor,
freedom from preconception and party bias and respect for the
independence of the reader’s judgment.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 24:330 N 24 ’20 1700w
“We know of no better volume to commend either to the man in the
street or to the serious student. The matter reveals a keen
observation, a rich experience, and a ripe maturity of judgment.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 330w
“It is the best single book that has been written showing how the
peace treaty has actually worked in its application to political and
economic conditions.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 110w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p843 D 9 ’20 100w
=BASSETT, JOHN SPENCER.= Our war with Germany; a history. il *$4 (3c)
Knopf 940.373
19–19694
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Taken all together the account of Professor Bassett is the clearest
and best that has yet attempted in one volume the story of our part in
the world war. New sources will modify parts of the work, but the main
outlines will stand much as this historian has dispassionately
presented them. The chief complaint that some readers will make with
justice is that the book is placid rather than penetrating or
analytical.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:737 Jl ’20 650w
“Professor Bassett has written modestly and intelligently in a field
in which it would be easy to go far astray, and has attained more than
the ‘reasonable accuracy’ that his preface hopes for. No better book
is as yet available for the student interested in our participation in
the world war, and no other is so detached and historical-minded as
this. The least successful portion of the book is that which covers
the obscure yet significant leadership of the United States in the
development of the ‘single front,’ military and economic.” F: L.
Paxson
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:351 My ’20 420w
+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
“Carefully studied and judicially written, this book is sure to be one
of the useful authorities. In a broad survey of the field, the only
notable lack is a consideration of the economic effects of the war and
of its financing.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:302 Mr 6 ’20 360w
=BASSETT, SARA WARE.= Paul and the printing press. il *$1.50 (2½c)
Little
20–8885
Paul Cameron, president of his class in Burmingham high school,
conceives the idea of a school paper. With boyish daring he approaches
the leading editor of the town with a business proposition and to the
great man’s surprise persuades him into printing the paper. The
venture is a success and Paul learns much of modern printing methods
as well as something of the history of early manuscript books and of
printing. The book is the first volume in the Invention series.
* * * * *
“Miss Bassett has made the story readable and enjoyable. One is not
too conscious of the didactic intention while on the other hand her
information stands out clearly, and she never allows it to be
smothered by the story interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 150w
=BASSETT, SARA WARE.= Wall between. il *$1.90 Little
20–15702
“A feud of four generations between two New England families is the
motif of Sara Ware Bassett’s new romance, ‘The wall between.’ Since
the days of Great-Grandfather Webster and Great-Grandfather Howe, the
two families have quarreled over who shall keep in repair the stone
wall dividing their farms. Ellen Webster, a narrow-minded, vitriolic
spinster of seventy-five, and Martin Howe, forty, are the respective
heads of the families of this generation. Matters change when Ellen
brings her young niece Lucy from the West into the old home. Lucy, who
has heard nothing of the feud, makes the acquaintance of Howe’s three
timid sisters, and eventually meets him. It follows that the two fall
in love. On her death bed, Ellen discovers how matters stand with her
niece and neighbor and determines on final revenge. When her will is
read it is found that she leaves all her property to Howe provided he
repairs the long-disputed wall. Otherwise it is to become the town
poor farm. The situation develops into a battle between Howe’s pride
and the inclinations of his heart. But love, as usual, finds a way
out.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A wholesome and pleasant, though not remarkable story that will
please girls and women.”
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Her previous novels, if one reads right, were somewhat saccharine,
but with growing firmness of touch due to experience in writing ‘The
wall between’ is more natural, more real, than its predecessors.” R.
D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 16 ’20 160w
“While different from her ‘Cape’ tales, this story is fully as
interesting, for, in spite of its artificialities, it is told with
understanding of human nature and the perversion of human instincts.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w
=BATES, KATHARINE LEE.= Sigurd our golden collie and other comrades of
the road. il *$2 (3c) Dutton 636.7
19–19679
Under the first title we have the biography of a beloved dog,
household pet of two professional women, teachers in Wellesley
college, who tended him from puppyhood until old age ended his career.
The other comrades of the road were birds, a cat, and Hamlet and
Polonius, another dog and a parrot. Poems occur between the chapters.
* * * * *
“The grownup lover of pets will enjoy this book of dog, cat and bird
biography much as children enjoy their numerous animal books. The
writer’s fondness for collies is tempered with a sly delightful humor
which relieves the book of sentimentality.”
+ =Booklist= 16:169 F ’20
“She has, in short, made literature out of a dog and enshrined one
lovable member of that remarkable race in a work as thoughtful as it
is delightful. Sigurd, I believe, will take his place among the canine
immortals, along with Greyfriars Bobby, John Muir’s Stikeen, and the
great dogs of fiction.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 51:575 Jl ’20 750w
“It was almost inevitable that in writing the life-story of Sigurd
Miss Bates should have woven into the book so much of the atmosphere
of Wellesley that it will take on for the alumnæ of those years the
character of an unfading memory.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1100w
+ =Cleveland= p33 Mr ’20 40w
“It may be that Miss Bates really understands dog nature, but she has
not expressed it here.”
− =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 310w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 60w
“We like her writing best when it is most bookish. That is its note.
We have other books on our shelves aplenty in which the canine hero
plays a more tragic or pathetic or even humorous rôle, but none in
which he is more humanly literate than Miss Bates’s Sigurd of the
golden fleece.”
+ =Review= 2:135 F 7 ’20 260w
“Cannot fail to please all animal lovers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w
=BATTERSBY, HENRY FRANCIS PREVOST (FRANCIS PREVOST, pseud.).= Edge of
doom. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–7652
A novel with scenes laid in England, East Africa and on the western
front. Rumors of Julian Abingdon’s disgraceful conduct in Central
Africa, where he has held official position, reach London, together
with an unconfirmed rumor of his death. Believing him still alive and
desiring to clear his name, his fiancée, Cyllene Moriston, insists on
going out to look for him. His cousin, Jim Chaytor, who has always
disliked Abingdon, takes charge of her expedition. Cyllene is stricken
with fever and is left in the care of German missionaries while
Chaytor goes on to find Julian. He finds him alive and well and living
voluptuously with native women and hence desiring to remain officially
dead. He does not tell Cyllene the truth; marries her himself and is
then separated from her by the outbreak of the war. During his absence
she meets Julian, finds that her old love is dead, and turns with full
hearted devotion to her husband.
* * * * *
“‘The edge of doom’ is a very capable piece of work, serious without
being in any way disagreeable, absorbing both on account of the
intensity of the emotion, the consciousness of beauty both in emotion
and in the physical aspect of things, and the importance of the
historic background.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 400w
“The book reads very much as though the author had started out to
write one kind of a story, then suddenly changed his mind and
proceeded to produce another. This is the more deplorable because the
second part of the book, the war section, is well done and
interesting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 480w
“The story is skilfully told, with a deft, yet sparing use of local
colour which helps to carry conviction. It is well worth its place on
any bookshelf.”
+ =Sat R= 129:111 Ja 31 ’20 200w
“The novel part cannot be commended as a story. At the same time there
is no doubt that the whole book is well written; the dialogue and the
narrative skilfully and vividly handled.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p652 N 13 ’19 280w
=BAXTER, ARTHUR BEVERLEY.= Blower of bubbles. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton
20–1698
Five unusual stories based on the war, with a sparkling iridescent
quality remote from, yet not antagonistic to, reality. The title story
depicts a delightful, apparently carefree personality, a gentleman,
university bred, who has no set vocation in life, is a dilettante in
almost everything it is possible to be, and who spends most of his
time and energy making unfortunate or gloomy people happy: in other
words, blowing bubbles. In spite of his weak heart he contrives to get
into the war, is permanently crippled, yet sitting in his invalid’s
chair in a picturesque garden on the Isle of Wight, blows brighter,
gayer, more luminous bubbles than ever before, and gives one person,
at least, a lasting happiness. The other titles are: Petite Simunde;
The man who scoffed; The airy prince; Mr Craighouse of New York,
satirist.
* * * * *
“All are readable.”
+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“The very fact that the actors are of various nationalities affords a
wide scope in character drawing and the author has done this work with
an incisive delicacy of feeling which one cannot fail to appreciate.
Humor is not lacking and forceful, thought-compelling passages add to
the graceful style of every story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w
“They are whimsically written. But the regularity with which the
various characters undergo a metamorphosis under the stimulus of the
patriotic impulse becomes wearisome.”
+ − =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 60w
“In this brightly written collection of five short stories we have
proof—rather sorely needed—that fiction with the recent great war as a
setting can avoid bathos on the one hand and obviously false joviality
on the other. One of the best books of unassuming and yet purposeful
fiction that has seen the light this season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:123 Mr 14 ’20 1650w
“Perhaps the last is the best—‘Mr Craighouse of New York, satirist.’
His visit as a typical American to Lord Summersdale makes a very
taking story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 100w
=BAXTER, ARTHUR BEVERLEY.= Parts men play. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–20646
Austin Selwyn, an American writer in England, has first hand
opportunity, in his intercourse with the family of Lord Durwent, to
observe the parasitism of the English aristocracy. The colorful
personality of Elise Durwent and her latent protest against the
uselessness of her class arouse his interest and love. When the war
breaks out he sees in it a hideous wrong into which the people of all
countries have been trapped by their ignorance. He embarks on a
crusade against this ignorance and writes pacifist literature, which
leads to a break with Elise. She declares indignantly that, far from
crying out against the infamy and cruelty of the war, women feel the
glory of it in their blood. The usual thing happens: Selwyn is
gradually convinced of the error of his ways and his subsequent
bravery in France wins him Elise.
* * * * *
“When he writes of London society as it was before the world war he
exhibits a deft, light touch in drawing character sketches. Later he
loses his attitude of detachment and ends in a loud outburst of
jingoism which sounds strangely hollow in these disillusioned times.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 80w
“The author wrote another novel, ‘The blower of bubbles,’ which proved
that he had a facile style, a whimsical spirit, and the power to
divine and portray human nature. This book possesses all those
qualities and an original undercurrent of philosophy as well.”
Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 270w
=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 150w
“A work of considerable promise. It is crude in parts, but crudeness
is only a synonym of unripeness, and Mr Baxter’s literary defects are
of a kind that experience can cure. Meanwhile, he has a vitality, a
gift for swiftly moving narrative, and a creative power in flinging
his characters upon the canvas which augur well for his future
development.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 N 18 ’20 440w
=BAXTER, LEON H.= Boy bird house architecture. il *$1 Bruce pub. 680
20–7092
Mr Baxter, director of manual training in the public schools of St
Johnsbury, Vt., has prepared this book out of his own experience with
boy architects. “Each drawing offered is of a proven house, one that
has served as a home for some of our songsters and if the directions,
here set down, are faithfully followed, equal success will crown the
builders’ efforts.” (Author’s preface) Some of the topics covered by
the text are: Our friends the birds; Birds that adapt themselves to
nesting boxes; Bird house material; Methods of conducting a bird house
contest; Bird house day; Winter care of the birds. There are twenty
plates with full working drawings for bird houses of various designs.
+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 70w
=BAYFIELD, MATTHEW ALBERT.= Measures of the poets. *$2 Macmillan
(Cambridge univ. press) 808.1
20–12409
“Mr Bayfield’s aim in ‘The measures of the poets’ is to ‘provide
students of English verse with a system of prosody that is on the one
hand sound in principle, and on the other not liable to break down
when brought to the test of application.’” (Spec) “The broad outlines
of Mr Bayfield’s system are fairly adequately apprehended if we blend
together our existing notions about a foot in verse and a bar in
music. Metre in music is built up out of a succession of equal time
divisions marked off by the recurrence of an accent, the accented beat
falling at the beginning of each of them. Mr Bayfield considers that
the basis of metrical structure in poetry is essentially the same: and
he therefore lays it down that the first syllable of every foot must
bear an accent. The bulk of English poetry being written in
dissyllabic feet or their equivalents, it follows that the typical
English foot must be the trochee. The main portion of Mr Bayfield’s
primer is devoted to an exposition of the system of scansion which he
deduces from this governing perception.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Mr Bayfield expounds his theory with bold lucidity, and illustrates
it with telling examples from every variety of English verse.”
+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 210w
“Like almost all prosodic theories which look at theory first, Mr
Bayfield’s necessitates, even on its own showing, endless easements
and epicycles to get it to work at all. There is no plain sailing; in
fact, Mr Bayfield would seem to agree with Dr Johnson that ‘pure’
metre is dull and inartistic.” G: Saintsbury
− =Ath= p1150 N 7 ’19 2050w
“Mr Bayfield’s general treatment and scansions are by no means so
convincing as those of his predecessors, [Lanier in ‘The science of
English verse’ and Thomson in ‘The basis of English rhythm.’]” J. R.
Hulbert
− =Mod Philol= 17:727 Ap ’20 200w
“The principle of his scheme is sound, and in the application of it to
English verse he has shown, besides the wisdom of his instinct, a
careful patience that is beyond praise.”
+ − =Spec= 122:864 D 20 ’19 1050w
“His theory has not cut him off from vital contact with poetry. The
things of which he is chiefly aware are the essential things, and to
read him is to have the ear quickened to a new enjoyment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p668 N 20 ’19 1100w
=BAYLEY, HAROLD.= Archaic England. *$7.50 Lippincott 942.01
(Eng ed 20–11405)
“This is in the nature of a sequel to a book which Mr Bayley published
some years ago called ‘The lost language of symbolism.’ He has long
been an enthusiastic and industrious student of symbolisms and emblems
and their hidden meanings, and of esoteric doctrines generally. The
present work is copiously illustrated and offers controversial
theories as to the peopling of Britain. Mr Bayley, among other things,
sees in the Cretan discoveries a wholly new standpoint for the survey
of prehistoric civilization. He believes that the Cretans
systematically visited Britain, and that men of Trojan race peopled
the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“No doubt, Mr Bayley has worked hard and honestly. Use him as a quarry
and one will find gold, and, may be, other things. But how accept his
doctrine as a whole?” R. R. M.
− + =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Mr 11 ’20 2100w
=BAZALGETTE, LÉON.= Walt Whitman, the man and his work. *$3.50 (2c)
Doubleday
20–2834
This work, the author says, was for him not a mere literary
enterprise, but the fruit of close and fervent communion with
Whitman’s work and character. Speaking of Whitman’s universality he
says: “The America which dreams and sings, back of the one which works
and invents, has given the world four universal geniuses: Poe,
Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.... And among these four figures, one of
them more and more dominates the group: it is Walt Whitman.” (Introd.)
The translator of the volume from the French, Ellen FitzGerald,
attempts an explanation of the American masses’ neglect of Whitman,
from the geniuses’ inevitable disregard of “untrained” minds, in
deference to whom she has taken it upon herself to abridge M.
Bazalgette’s treatment of the New Orleans episode and to lighten his
emphasis on the “Leaves of grass” conflict. The book is in eight
parts: Origin and youth; The multitudinary life; “Leaves of grass”;
The wound dresser; The good gray poet; The invalid; The sage of
Camden; The setting sun.
* * * * *
“Some remarkable pen portraits, a little Gallic exuberance at times.”
+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“The Frenchman’s biography, sympathetic and glowingly eloquent as it
is, can scarcely rank as an authoritative chronicle of the poet’s
life. It possesses, however, multiple values of its own. The
translator has taken the liberty of abridging M. Bazalgette’s book.
This is regrettable and not easily justified.” J. Black
+ − =Bookm= 51:172 Ap ’20 1100w
Reviewed by James Oppenheim
+ − =Dial= 68:633 My ’20 1350w
“M. Bazalgette communicates an absolute sense of Whitman’s greatness.
His book, like his theme, is ample and magnificent.” V. W. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:68 Mr 31 ’20 500w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:239 My 9 ’20 1350w
“Well informed, and adjusted to all the aspects of his subject, M.
Bazalgette has written what is in all points as good a short life of
Whitman as a reasonable person could wish. But M. Bazalgette is often
illuminating, seldom penetrating.”
+ − =No Am= 211:719 My ’20 680w
“Admirers of Whitman will find it a stimulating and suggestive
treatment of the poet from a new angle.”
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 50w
“The book has been prepared with some care. But M. Bazalgette is
inseparable from his subject; his jubilee from page 1 to page 355 is
uninterrupted. When the author is too lavish of exclamation points the
reader parries with the question mark.”
+ − =Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 450w
“The biography, though rhapsodical rather than critical, will rank
high among the scarce half-dozen of impressive books about the poet
which have appeared in the quarter century since his death.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 480w
=BAZETT, L. M.= After-death communications. (Psychic ser.) *$1.60 Holt
134
The communications were received through automatic writing and the
author says of them: “Whether these communications can come under the
heading of telepathy from the living, or whether as the title
suggests, they are partly due to telepathy from discarnate minds, is
for the reader to decide.” (Preface) J. Arthur Hill, in his
introduction to the book is inclined to attribute them to discarnate
agency. Contents: First communications received; Cases where some link
with communicators existed; Cases where relations were present; Cases
where relations were not present; Character sketches; Special
relationships; Erroneous, confused and irrelevant matter; Guides;
Supernormal sense-impressions, etc.; The potential value of
communication; Index.
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 120w
=BAZIN, RENÉ FRANÇOIS NICOLAS MARIE.= Pierre and Joseph. *$1.75 Harper
20–7722
The story takes us to an Alsatian village at the outbreak of the war
where the German subjects have all remained French at heart. Of the
two brothers, Pierre and Joseph Ehrsam, the elder at once decides to
flee the country and go to France to enlist, while the younger deems
it wise to sacrifice himself in another way, to save the factory and
the Ehrsam estate from confiscation by the Germans, by joining his
German regiment. Pierre, in the French army makes unfavorable
comparisons between French ways and German efficiency and is but
slowly won over to complete enthusiasm for the spirit of France.
Joseph at the eastern front develops an increasing hatred for the
German spirit and when he is sent to the west and faces the necessity
of fighting the French, he kills his superior officer and deserts to
the French side. The translation is by Frank Hunter Potter.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:30 O ’20
“This latest novel of the gifted Frenchman adds not a single leaf to
his laurel crown. For the most part, the interpretation is labored,
and much space is devoted to moralizing upon the obvious. The general
effect of the novel is accentuated by a translation which is awkward
and infelicitous.”
− =Cath World= 111:688 Ag ’20 300w
“Interesting in itself, the story has an added interest through what
it tells us of some of the events of the war, events which though
important have not been much written about.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1050w
“In its English dress, ‘Pierre and Joseph’ is not markedly
distinguished from several earlier romances of Alsace-Lorraine in
wartime, unless by its simplicity and precision.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 450w
=BEAMAN, ARDERN ARTHUR HULME.= Squadroon. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 940.48
20–14681
The cavalry in the great war was most of the time in little demand,
and had to take its turn in the trenches and at digging parties to
relieve the infantry. “Towards the end of 1917 ... a horse soldier
could hardly pass an infantry detachment on the road without being
greeted by ironical cheers and bitter abuse.” (Foreword) But the time
came when their prestige was reestablished. The war episodes sketched
in the book are the reminiscences of a clergyman attached to a cavalry
brigade. Among the contents are: Joining the squadroon; Day marching;
The gap; The trench party; The devastated area; The great advance; The
last lap.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p751 Je 4 ’20 100w
“We commend the book most heartily: it is well and simply written, and
deserves a wide popularity.”
+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 50w
“Those who happen not to have read many ‘war books’ of the kind, or
not to be tired of them, will find these genial, graphic,
fluently-written pages pleasant enough.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w
=BEARD, DANIEL CARTER.= American boys’ handybook of camp-lore and
woodcraft. il *$3 Lippincott 796
20–21339
This volume of the Woodcraft series is profusely illustrated by the
author. The first chapters have to do with outdoor fires under the
captions: Fire making by friction; Fire making by percussion; How to
build a fire; How to lay a good cooking fire. Other chapters take up:
Camp kitchens; Camp food; Packing horses; The use of dogs; Preparing
for camping trip; Saddles; Choosing a camp site; Axe and saw; Council
grounds and fires; Ritual of the council fire.
* * * * *
“His book is interesting, cheery, practical and constructive.”
+ =Cath World= 112:697 F ’21 110w
“A really valuable and comprehensive volume.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 80w
=BEARD, MARY (RITTER) (MRS CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD).= Short history of the
American labor movement. *$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 331.87
20–7573
As the title indicates, the book is intended as a brief and simple
story of the labor movement in the United States from the day of
independence to the present time. After pointing out that every modern
industrial country has a labor movement and that, although there are
national peculiarities, it has overleapt national boundaries; that the
origin of the movement lies in self-defense; and that it has a deep
spiritual and social significance, the author limits herself to a
plain statement of the facts in each phase of the movement as it
appeared. Contents: Nature and significance of the labor movement;
Origin of American trade unions; The century old tactics of labor;
Labor’s first political experiments; Return to direct industrial
action; Industrial panic, political action and utopias; Trade unionism
and the Civil war; A decade of panics, politics and labor chaos; Rise
of the American federation of labor; The American federation of labor
and politics; Revolutionary philosophies and tactics; Labor and the
world war; Index.
* * * * *
“It is well organized, carefully definitive of simplest terms, and
adapted to a less advanced student or reader of labor policies than
Carlton.”
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
“Mrs Mary Beard has not only supplied the student of the works of
Professor Commons and his associates with a text-book admirably lucid
and condensed, but she has achieved what is far more difficult in
writing a text-book—especially where no text-book exists—a connected
and in many ways a dramatic story.” A. L. Dakyns
+ =Freeman= 1:523 Ag 11 ’20 1500w
“Mrs Beard’s book could hardly be better, as a readable and brief
summary.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:17 Jl 3 ’20 800w
“Naturally, a large field has been covered in so small a work, but the
reader in search of a small volume that will give him the essentials
of this history will find this one valuable for the purpose.” James
Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 370w
+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
“An excellent summary of American labor history. The book is based on
recent more voluminous works, but the clarity of explanation and the
skill in selecting the salient facts of somewhat complicated
situations and incidents are largely the author’s own.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 120w
“In her ‘Short history of the American labor movement’ Mrs Beard
performs with interest, competence and wide sympathy a much needed
service.”
+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 150w
“It gives a clear impression of the ups and downs of a movement which
in one form or another goes back to colonial times. But its value is
impaired by the author’s laudable desire for brevity. Her book is so
general that it gives no sense of the real life and color of the labor
movement and but little understanding of the contending philosophies
within it. So important a phase of the modern labor movement as the
development of the Amalgamated clothing workers is not even
mentioned.” N. T.
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 180w
“The book preserves an admirably sane and restrained tone to the end.”
W: B. Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 380w
=BEAUMONT, ROBERTS.= Union textile fabrication. (Pitman’s textile
industries ser.) il *$7.50 Pitman 677
A work dealing with the British textile industry. The preface states:
“‘Union textile fabrication’ touches, in its technological aspects and
interests, the many grades and branches of spun and woven
manufacture.... The subject, when thus viewed, assumes proportions and
bearings of paramount significance to the practitioner, the
manufacturer, and the investigator, whether distinctly associated with
the cotton, the wool, the flax, or the silk trade.” The book is made
up of three sections: Bi-fibred manufactures; Compound-yarn fabrics;
Woven unions; and the illustrations consist of “numerous original
diagrams, sectional drawings, and photographic reproductions of spun
and woven specimens in the text.” The author was formerly professor of
textile industries, Leeds university.
* * * * *
“The book is well printed, neatly illustrated, and will be found
valuable by all who are engaged in these branches of the textile
industry.”
+ =Engineer= 130:281 S 17 ’20 360w
=BEAVER, WILFRED N.= Unexplored New Guinea. il *$5 Lippincott 919.5
(Eng ed 20–8650)
“This interesting book is concerned with the primitive races of
western Papua, where the author, a young Australian, acted as a
resident magistrate for ten years before the war. Professor Haddon, in
a preface, declares that Mr Beaver’s death in Flanders, where he was
serving with the Australian corps, was a great loss to anthropology.”
(Spec) “His narrative is an account of personal experiences along the
Bamu and Fly rivers; and he makes good his claim to be an explorer.
Little is known of the country behind the coastline; means of
transport have to be improvized and the inhabitants are savages. In
fact, savage is a mild term, for many of them are cannibals and all
apparently head-hunters. Mr Beaver enumerates such of their customs as
came under his notice, and throws out suggestions as to their origin,
but without committing himself to any theory.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup)
* * * * *
“Mr Beaver’s descriptions of the customs of the Goaribari, Bamu, and
other tribes are remarkably interesting; and Dr Gunnar Landtmann has
added a noteworthy chapter upon the religious beliefs and practices of
the Kiwai-speaking natives.”
+ =Ath= p1019 O 10 ’19 250w
“In short, considered from the standpoint of what Sir Richard Temple
would term an applied anthropology, Mr Beaver’s book is eminently
useful and instructive. Lack of space allows but a passing reference
to his important chapter on property and inheritance.” R. R. M.
+ =Ath= p1117 O 31 ’19 950w
“An interesting and sound ethnological study, which is also an object
lesson on the administration of aboriginal tribes by those who would
introduce Caucasian culture.”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This is one of those books, by no means rare from British pens, that
make the American ethnologist green with envy. It suggests what stores
of information on tribes now extinct or acculturated to the white
man’s ways might have been garnered by our Indian agents if they had
been selected from the class represented by Mr Beaver.” R. H. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:26 Je 2 ’20 900w
+ =Outlook= 124:79 Ja 14 ’20 40w
=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 80w
“The author had the gift, not common among anthropologists, of writing
well and of describing savage tribes with sympathy and humour. The
book abounds in curious anecdotes.”
+ =Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 180w
“Mr Beaver is no globe-trotter concerned to make a good story out of a
few days spent in a strange land. He is absorbed in a subject that is
organically interesting, and he is content to let it produce its own
effect. Unintentionally he has framed an indictment of mechanical
progress.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p544 O 9 ’19 1900w
=BECK, ERNEST GEORGE.= Structural steelwork. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans
691.7
20–10621
“The book contains technical information for the designing and
constructing of ordinary steel-framed buildings. ‘The principal
endeavor throughout has been to make the work broadly suggestive
rather than particular or exhaustive.’ (Preface) The appendix contains
tables useful for reference. Partly reprinted from the Mechanical
World and The Engineer.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 70w
=BECK, HERBERT MAINS.= Aliens’ text book on citizenship; laws of
naturalization of the United States. $1; pa 50c McKay 353
19–6644
“In preparing this book the aim has been to provide means of
thoroughly and quickly acquiring the knowledge necessary to pass the
examinations for naturalization and to assist those who have been
deprived of the advantages of our modern public schools.” (Preface)
The steps required for naturalization are first set forth. Then
follows the texts of the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States and a final section is given up to
questions and answers on laws and government. There is an index. The
author is chief of naturalization, Camden county courts, Camden, N.J.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:9 O ’20
“This business-like explanation of the law’s provisions is infinitely
more satisfactory and useful than the mushy, sentimental and verbose
expository books for the foreign-born of which there are so many.” B.
L.
+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 250w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 60w
=BECK, JAMES MONTGOMERY.= Passing of the new freedom. *$1.50 Doran
940.314
20–18420
In part in the form of imaginary conversations, the book discusses the
essential nature of President Wilson’s policies. The dialogues, in
which the chief personages of the Peace conference take part, abounds
in biting sarcasm. In the first dialogue Mr Wilson is made to appear
upon the scene literally exuding “omniscience,” and to expound his new
freedom with sounding grandiloquence. In his final estimate of Wilson
the author says: “Already the world is conscious of a distinct
revaluation of that interesting and complex personality, and it must
be sorrowfully added that this revaluation adds nothing to his
prestige.” The chapters are: Mr Wilson explains the new freedom; The
old freedom; “It might have been”; The apostle of the new freedom.
* * * * *
“The use of imaginary conversation as a means of plucking the mystery
out of the heart of the Peace conference may be questioned as to its
integrity, but Mr Beck has employed the medium with such rare degree
of skill that no one will question its effectiveness for literary
purposes.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 190w
“Mr Beck has produced in these dialogues a kind of literature that is
not often written after so much cool, thoughtful preparation, and that
is seldom found to be, as in this case, profound and exact as well as
amusing.”
+ =No Am= 212:859 D ’20 850w
“‘The passing of the new freedom’ gives him some claims to rank as a
political satirist—that rare bird in American letters.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 140w
=BECKER, CARL LOTUS.= United States; an experiment in democracy. *$2.50
Harper 342.7
20–13591
The book gives all the outstanding facts of our political history with
such impartiality as to appeal to the reader’s critical faculty and to
challenge independent conclusions. A “habitual dislike of thinking”
the author holds to be a characteristic of Americans, which at the
present time exposes them to the danger of mistaking the “form for the
substance of democracy” and may prevent America from being in the
future what it was in the past—“a fruitful experiment in democracy.”
Contents: America and democracy; The origins of democracy in America;
The new world experiment in democracy; Democracy and government; New
world democracy and old world intervention; Democracy and free land;
Democracy and slavery; Democracy and immigration; Democracy and
education; Democracy and equality.
* * * * *
“It is to be hoped that the inaccuracies will not seriously injure the
usefulness of a readable book, which is on the whole filled with
sagacious comment and treats in a telling way a number of traits and
tendencies of American democracy.” A. C. McL.
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:337 Ja ’21 560w
+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
“The author has given a valuable sketch of the political history of
America.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 580w
“Keen, clear, impartial analysis of American institutions and
traditions, reminding the reader in many ways of Bryce’s ‘American
commonwealth.’”
+ =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 30w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=Nation= 111:sup416 O 13 ’20 450w
“Interesting, and would be valuable as a brief and rapid résumé of
America’s early history and political problems were it not for one
fatal defect. It lacks that aspect of detachment which we used to
expect from college professors in dealing with debatable topics. Such
a book must be read with the same caution with which the wise man
reads the current political press during the presidential campaign.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 270w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 50w
=BECKWITH, ISBON THADDEUS.= Apocalypse of John. *$4 Macmillan 228
19–16729
“This book is a veritable encyclopedia of information regarding the
interpretation of Revelation. A series of introductory studies deals
at length with a history of eschatological hopes among Hebrews, Jews,
and Christians. An extended description is given of apocalyptic
writings among the Jews. There is also a detailed account of the
occasion, purpose and unity of John’s apocalypse. Other topics
discussed minutely are the literary characteristics of the author, the
content of his composition, the permanent and the transitory elements
in his book, the main features of his theology, the different methods
that have been used in the interpretation of the book, its circulation
and canonical recognition in the early church, the question of
authorship, the two Johns of the Asian church, the meaning of the
‘beast,’ and the condition of the Greek text of the book. The
commentary proper, which embraces slightly less than half the volume,
is of the usual analytical and statistical type.”—Bib World
* * * * *
+ − =Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 550w
“It is a real service to religion and sanity when a scholar equipped
with common sense as well as knowledge provides a good commentary on
the book of Revelation. This has been done by Professor Beckwith. The
book fills a real need.”
+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 250w
“A splendid treatise it is upon a splendid book, and a fresh honor to
American scholarship.”
+ =Outlook= 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=BEERBOHM, MAX=, comp.[2] Herbert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him
and his art. il *$7 Dutton
“The volume is at once a biography and a tribute. The first half of
the book is written by Lady Tree. After short contributions by Sir
Herbert Tree’s two daughters and Max Beerbohm (who, it will be
remembered, is his half-brother) come A sketch, by Edmund Gosse; A
tribute, by Louis N. Parker; From the stalls, by Desmond MacCarthy;
Herbert Tree—my friend, by Gilbert Parker; From the point of view of a
playwright, by Bernard Shaw; and An open letter to an American friend,
by W. L. Courtney. By no means least in interest are the appendices,
which contain Sir Herbert’s ‘Impressions of America,’ as written for
London papers in 1916 and 1917, and some extracts from his
‘Notebooks,’ as well as the speeches made at the unveiling of the
memorial tablet at His Majesty theater and the sermon preached by the
Bishop of Birmingham at the memorial service.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Why did not Mr Max Beerbohm give us a whole book himself instead of a
‘carved cherrystone’ called ‘From a brother’s stand-point’? That, no
doubt, is his business. But why did he not persuade (or bully) Lady
Tree into writing the whole work and inserting his and Mr Shaw’s
contributions at the appropriate places? Certainly the half of it
which she has contributed under the title ‘Herbert and I’ is
delightful, in style and individuality.” D. L. M.
+ − =Ath= p519 O 15 ’20 880w
“When all is said this book serves its purpose. It is readable; it
contains the facts; it gives personal anecdotes; it has a host of
portraits in character and out; it provides a variety of points of
view.”
+ =N Y Times= p7 D 19 ’20 1250w
“A most interesting book about a great actor. Throughout, it is
informal and lively.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 90w
“Lady Tree’s portrait of Tree is the most vivid and the most life-like
the world is likely to possess.”
+ =Sat R= 130:318 O 16 ’20 920w
“The whole book—all the contributions from all the different sources
are in the mass so sparkling, that it is clear that for so many hands
to write so amusingly, they must have been inspired by a thoroughly
witty and amusing subject.”
+ =Spec= 125:569 O 30 ’20 1150w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 23 ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 150w
“It is an amusing macédoine, never insipid, giving all the flavours of
the subject, without perhaps any one flavour that can be called
dominant. And that is right, for Tree’s was a ‘mixed’ temperament, and
his art was a good deal ‘mixed’ too.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 S 30 ’20 1350w
=BEERBOHM, MAX.= Seven men. il *$3.50 Knopf
20–19582
Six men and the author make seven. The book contains six imaginary
sketches of six imaginary men: Enoch Soames; Hilary Maltby and Stephen
Braxton; James Pethel; A. V. Laider; “Savonarola” Brown; with an
appendix of drawings of these men by the author. As the drawings are
caricatures so are the pen sketches satires on human vanities,
weaknesses and foibles, literary and otherwise.
* * * * *
“In none is the author’s authentic touch wholly absent, but there are
tedious pages.”
+ − =Ath= p1138 O 31 ’19 80w
“Our only regret on finishing the book is that he might have paraded
his seventh, and after all his most amusing puppet, himself, a little
more lavishly.” S. W.
+ =Ath= p1186 N 14 ’19 720w
“The motif of each story in ‘Seven men’ is slight, the working out of
it spread thin—very thin.” C. K. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 480w
+ =Nation= 111:785 D 29 ’20 560w
“Another thing that gives feature to four of the five stories in
‘Seven men’ is their author’s love of design. Even upon his essays
this love has left its mark, less distinct upon whole essays than upon
single pages now and then.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 21:386 F 23 ’20 1500w
“Max is more than a humorist—he is an ironist. His irony is exquisite
in its nuances, a carefully wrought method of workmanship that grows
almost precieuse at times. ‘Seven men’ is assuredly one of the most
amusing books of the year. It will recapture an undefinable atmosphere
that could only go with youth that was audacious and laughable, and,
by strange flashes, poignantly serious.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 2 ’21 2150w
+ − =Sat R= 128:465 N 15 ’19 240w
“Not even a good comedy is so rare as genuine satire, and when an
example of the latter is produced some indulgence in superlatives may
well be excused. In the case of Mr Max Beerbohm’s new volume, which
brilliantly achieves what ‘Zuleika Dobson’ as conspicuously missed it
is difficult to restrain praise within the bounds of judgment, for its
beneficent, limpid ridicule is an undiluted joy.”
+ =Spec= 122:19 Ja 3 ’20 1500w
“The fragrant quality of the book, the solemn malice of the papers on
Brown and A. V. Laider; the imaginative subtlety of the account of
Enoch Soames, and the glorious remedy of the rivalry between Braxton
and Maltby—they all show Max at his best.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ja 25 ’20 270w (Reprinted from
London Observer)
“Not only are his characters interesting in themselves but Mr Beerbohm
depicts them with such skill that the book is a welcome relief from
the work of less accomplished writers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’21 300w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 N 6 ’19 810w
=BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN.=[2] Connecticut wits and other essays. *$2.25
Yale univ. press 814
20–22823
“Mr Henry A. Beers’s ‘Connecticut wits’ consists of eleven brief
literary essays on subjects whose diversity is undisguised. He has
found nothing in the tradition or the atmosphere of his Yale habitat
to discourage the inclusion of an essay on Cowley and an essay on
Riley in the same volume.” (Review) “He unearths Joel Barlow and those
other neglected spirits of old Connecticut; and then allows his fancy
to range over such themes as the poetry of the cavaliers,
Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Thackeray and Sheridan.” (Freeman)
* * * * *
“In manner, these essays are scholarly, informative, and suavely
graceful.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1150w
“Scholarship and humor are admirably blended in these essays.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 30w
“Mr Beers is a clear expositor, is at ease with facts, and can make
them agreeable by almost imperceptible departures from the jogtrot of
chronicle. Without humor, he has something of the buoyancy of humor.”
+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 180w
“In his essays there is no trace of a professional tendency to carry
on with the class room manner in one’s relations with the world beyond
the class room.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 31 ’21 310w
=BEGBIE, HAROLD.= Life of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation
army. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan
20–5263
In the preface to this life of the founder of the Salvation army, the
author says: “William Booth is likely to remain for many centuries one
of the most signal figures in human history. Therefore, to paint his
portrait faithfully for the eyes of those who come after us—a great
duty and a severe responsibility—has been my cardinal consideration in
preparing these pages. Only when circumstances insisted have I turned
from my attempt at portraiture to examine documents which will one day
be employed by the historian of the Salvation army.” The work opens
with an account of social conditions in England at the time of William
Booth’s birth and reflections on the probable effects of his early
surroundings on his mind and character. Volume 1 covers the years up
to 1881 and volume 2 continues the story to his death in 1912. There
are a number of portraits and other illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“The world may be divided into people who pray with General Booth,
people who are angry with General Booth, and people who turn their
face away and look out of the window. Mr Begbie, unfortunately, seems
to have considered that it was necessary for his official biographer
to pray perpetually with the General, and his 1,000 pages of biography
even conform to the tradition of prayer in their repetitions,
vagueness, and verbosity.” L. W.
− =Ath= p365 Mr 19 ’20 1800w
+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
Reviewed by O. L. Joseph
+ =Bookm= 52:76 S ’20 550w
“There can be no doubt that Mr Begbie has laid us all under immense
obligation through the unusual blend of candor, insight, and reverence
with which he has limned the picture of this noble soul. And yet we
must confess to a feeling of disappointment. At important places the
story lacks clarity. Perhaps the most serious disappointment of all is
the paucity of reference to General Booth’s immediate touch with the
outcast. We miss the bugles and the tears of the Army too much.” A. W.
Vernon
+ − =Nation= 111:507 N 3 ’20 2000w
“Mr Begbie has done his work well. We could have dispensed with some
of his own observations concerning Darwin, Bergson, Nietzsche, and
other figures of interest which are unhelpful to the story and whose
omission might have sensibly reduced the size of the volumes. But
where he has been content with simple narration of events and the
selection of letters and writings, he has proved himself a good
biographer.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 26:778 Mr 6 ’20 2100w
“Every small detail is entered into sympathetically and fully. This is
a human document worth the reading.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“The life-story of the man who created the Salvation army, written
with a sympathy and understanding such as Mr Begbie puts in it, is an
extraordinarily welcome book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:210 Ap 25 ’20 2200w
“Mr Begbie’s life of William Booth would be for the general reader
twice as good if it were half as long.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:679 Ag 18 ’20 3500w
“For the general reader there are rather too many ‘interesting cases’
of conversion described in the more or less technical diction of
revivalism, too much journalism in the way of press clippings and
tributes from royalty. But the record as a whole is an inspiring one
of heroic achievement.”
+ − =Review= 2:680 Je 30 ’20 680w
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 130w
“These portly tomes on the founder of the Salvation army are
torrential in their eloquence and typhoon-like in their denunciations.
They resemble nothing so much as an exceptionally lively rally at the
Army headquarters, with the penitent-form in full view. Apart from his
exuberance, Mr Begbie has an interesting tale to tell.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:230 Mr 6 ’20 1150w
“Though to the modern man this modern story has more to say than most
of the annals of hagiology, it is as a romance, as a love story, that
William Booth’s ‘Life’ is perhaps most to be valued. The pawnbroker’s
assistant and the half-invalid girl from Brixton are the hero and
heroine of a love romance which for passionate intensity, for
sublimity, for tempestuous vicissitude, stands head and shoulders
above the tales of Paris and Helen, of Tristram and Iseult.”
+ =Spec= 124:584 My 1 ’20 1600w
“The biography is a thorough, exhaustive, vividly personal piece of
work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 14 ’21 530w
“In spite of a tendency to repetition, his book will be welcomed
widely as the good thing which it undeniably is—a book frankly written
and free from prejudice or exaggeration.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p121 F 19 ’20 1850w
=BELL, JOHN KEBLE (KEBLE HOWARD, pseud.).= Peculiar major. *$1.75 (2½c)
Doran
19–15567
“An almost incredible story” says the subtitle, and so it is. The
major had been given a ring by an old Turkish priest in ransom for his
life. This ring was found to possess the magic property of making its
bearer invisible. It first brought the major into repute as a lunatic,
then into all manner of scrapes and out again and so from one Arabian
nights’ entertainment into another until the war was over and we leave
him returned to England and in the arms of his best-beloved.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 300w
“Mr Howard has produced a book that will be a welcome relief from much
of the dreary fiction of the day.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 600w
“A book of irresponsible fun.”
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 70w
“We thought the humours of the ring that makes the wearer invisible
had certainly been pretty well worked out by now. But this was a
delusion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p414 Jl 31 ’19 100w
=BELL, WALTER GEORGE.= Great fire of London in 1666. il *$6 Lane 942.1
20–19932
The book comes with forty-one illustrations including plans and
drawings, reproductions of English and foreign prints, and
photographs. It is the first authentic account of the fire resulting
from thorough historic research. The sources have largely been
manuscript and the subject matter includes measures taken for meeting
the distress occasioned by the catastrophe, the temporary housing of
the citizens, the restoration of trade and the work of rebuilding.
Among the appendices are letters from residents in London and
contemporary accounts (English and foreign) describing the great fire.
There are also notes, a list of authorities consulted and an index.
* * * * *
“In every chapter sidelights are cleverly thrown upon the habits and
daily lives of the rather unpractical citizens.” E. G. C.
+ =Ath= p613 N 5 ’20 1200w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“Mr Bell had, of course, previously proved himself a scholarly and
responsible historian, a good literary craftsman, and an excellent
guide to old London. Here we have all his qualities at their best,
lighted up with an enthusiasm which good Londoners at any rate will
find exceedingly sympathetic. Now and then, perhaps, he allows his
fervour to run away with him.”
+ =Sat R= 130:320 O 16 ’20 640w
“We commend Mr Bell’s excellent book, with its wealth of new material
and its many illustrations and maps, to all who are interested in the
history of London.”
+ =Spec= 125:403 S 25 ’20 1850w
“The book is well and accurately referenced throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 S 23 ’20 1900w
=BELL, WALTER GEORGE.= Unknown London. il *$1.50 Lane 914.21
20–5387
“In the eighteen essays which make up this book—for most of them are
sufficiently personal to be given that name—is nothing that is not
interesting. Mr Bell has chosen, for the most part, from among those
antiquities of which everybody has heard but of which most people know
nothing. His ‘Unknown London’ deals with very familiar things—with
such things as Domesday book, the shrine of Edward the confessor,
London stone, the wax works in the abbey, the Roman baths, the bells
of St Clements, the bones of the mummy of Men-Kau-Ra in the British
museum, and London wall.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup D 11 ’19
* * * * *
=Ath= p734 Je 4 ’20 1400w
=Ath= p763 Je 11 ’20 1250w
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 800w
“His book, while necessarily desultory, is readable and full of
information gathered at first hand.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 70w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 100w
“If Mr Bell is so human and hearty an antiquary it is that in him the
antiquary and the journalist are admirably joined. The one gives to
his book the gusto of an enthusiast. The other prevents him from ever
forgetting, in his accumulation of knowledge, the art of interesting
others.”
+ =Sat R= 128:492 N 22 ’19 950w
=Spec= 123:585 N 1 ’19 110w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 60w
“The merit of his book is that the stories are retold here in a
simple, personal, and most attractive way. From first to last Mr Bell
is an admirable guide to old London, an enthusiast, well stored,
humorous and unfailingly entertaining.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p731 D 11 ’19 950w
=BELLAIRS, CARLYON WILFROY.= Battle of Jutland; the sowing and the
reaping. il *$5 Doran 940.45
(Eng ed 20–8002)
Lord Jellicoe has written his own account of the Jutland battle. This
book is by one of the critics of his policy, who says: “The ban on
discussion, which was felt by many as applying right up to the time of
the surrender of the German fleet, no longer exists. Nothing that can
be done now can remedy the past; but much that can be said may
safeguard the future. Hence this book, which must stand or fall in
proportion to its influence on future thought and action. It is not
intended to be any more than a critical survey. It is not a full
history of the battle of Jutland, for the policy of secrecy pursued by
the Admiralty, and the failure to hold an investigation, have made an
accurate history impossible for the time being.” (Preface) The book is
illustrated with diagrams and there is an appendix containing a
chronology of the battle; also an index.
* * * * *
“It has the authoritativeness that will give it value to historians.”
+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
=Review= 2:677 Je 30 ’20 1400w
“For the general reader it has less value than for the naval expert.
Yet it is an interesting example of the kind of criticism which seems
to be encouraged among British naval officers, not for the sake of
mere controversy but in order to draw conclusions that may be useful
in the future.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 120w
“We do not quarrel with Captain Bellairs’s main conclusion, ... but we
could wish that his tone did not sometimes suggest that he fails to be
judicial.”
+ − =Spec= 124:277 F 28 ’20 1300w
“If his captious tone be ignored, there is much in Commander
Bellairs’s criticism in his more general chapters on the sowing which
is well said and is well worth saying. But we cannot commend his tone
and temper; and for the reasons we have given we can attach very
little weight to his onslaught on Lord Jellicoe.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p115 F 19 ’20 1700w
=BELLOC, HILAIRE.= Europe and the faith. $2.25 Paulist press 940
20–15729
“Mr Belloc’s essay may be regarded as having a twofold aim, although,
to the mind of its author, this aim appears to be one and indivisible.
The first, and more narrowly historic aim of the essay, is to present
a new picture of the decline of the centralized Roman empire and the
subsequent building up of Europe, and the second, more obviously
philosophic aim, is to account for the modern European consciousness
in terms of (1) the Catholic faith and (2) the reformation. To Mr
Belloc these two objectives are not really distinct. An account of
Europe is an account of the Catholic faith, and an account of the
Catholic faith is an account of Europe.”—Ath
* * * * *
“The most convinced opponent of Mr Belloc’s views of the historian’s
qualifications will probably agree instantly that an acquaintance with
the Catholic faith is necessary to writing a history of Europe,
although he may not agree that the historian must be a Catholic. But
the strangest part of Mr Belloc’s assumption is that he regards this
condition as sufficient. We feel that Mr Belloc, although a Catholic,
has not understood European history, and that he does not understand
the modern European consciousness.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p406 S 24 ’20 1150w
“If many points of detail are not new, the explanation of their import
and bearing is original. In some cases the author’s critical
examination of sources is particular and minute.”
+ =Cath World= 112:535 Ja ’21 900w
“Mr Belloc writes with great earnestness. One could wish that the
solution of civilization’s difficulties were as simple as he judges it
to be; and that for the strength of his argument history were as
universally confirmatory of his preconceived thesis as it seems to
him.” Williston Walker
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 23 ’20 950w
“Our real objection to him is not that he has twisted history to his
own view—everybody does that—but that he has given us an incomplete
book, and even on his own showing he has left out the vital part. He
discusses at length the unified Roman state of Europe. He discusses at
length the unified Roman church of Europe. But he omits to discuss the
relations between the two.”
− + =Sat R= 130:338 O 23 ’20 1150w
“It is needless to say that from Mr Belloc’s whole conception of
Protestantism we profoundly dissent. He cannot conceive of men opening
their eyes and realising that they were serving an institution and not
the cause for which the institution stood. This fatal lack of insight
and comprehension effectually disqualifies him from giving the
impartial presentation of European history which he is desirous of
exhibiting, and almost completely nullifies the graphic force and
admirable clarity of his narrative.”
− + =Spec= 125:858 D 24 ’20 1050w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 30w
“He has the courage of his consistency and the merit of a principle;
but neither is adequate to the perplexities of the modern world.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 O 14 ’20 2100w
=BEMAN, LAMAR TANEY=, comp. Selected articles on the compulsory
arbitration and compulsory investigation of industrial disputes. 4th ed,
rev and enl (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$2.25 Wilson, H. W. 331.1
20–18153
Altho issued as a revised edition of the handbook on compulsory
arbitration first published in 1911, this is practically a new work.
The explanatory note states: “This volume is compiled according to the
general plan of the Debaters’ handbook series, but it differs from
other members of the series in that it covers two questions.... In
this case the two questions are closely related, and much of the
literature deals with both, so that it is impracticable to present
them in separate volumes and yet impossible to combine them into one
question.... The volume contains a full general bibliography revised
to the date of this issue, but not separated into affirmative and
negative references.... It also contains briefs and reprints of the
best material on both sides of each question.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
Reviewed by S. M. Lowenthal
+ − =Survey= 45:672 F 5 ’21 390w
=BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT.= Heavens and earth. *$2 Holt 811
20–21994
This collection opens with a long poem in two parts, Two visions of
Helen followed by Chariots and horsemen; The tall town; Apples of
Eden; The kingdom of the mad. The tall town is made up of poems of New
York.
* * * * *
“So many moods and themes spread over the compass of this book,
riotous and rapturous, whimsical and ironic, and undulating on waves
of swift and thrilling music make ‘Heavens and earth’ an enjoyment to
those who admire poetry when it is first of all music and imagination,
and may be after these anything in the way of subject and ideal.” W:
S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 1300w
“He has a swirling dexterity in syntax and rhythm, and practices a
gorgeous, hot impressionism.”
+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 60w
“Originality marks his work in spite of the intimation that his themes
are somewhat threadbare. He possesses a virility that is manifest at
all times and a delight in swinging measures and emphatic rhymes.” H.
S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’20 100w
=BENET, WILLIAM ROSE.= Moons of grandeur. *$2 Doran 811
20–19072
This collection of poems is reprinted from contributions to various
magazines. With a few exceptions the poet takes his inspiration from
history: the renaissance, ancient Egypt, medieval England furnishing
him with subjects. Some of the titles are: Gaspara Stampa; Legend of
Michelotto; Niccolo in exile; The triumphant Tuscan; Michelangelo in
the fish-market; The ballad of Taillefer; The priest in the desert;
Dust of the plains.
* * * * *
“The rich color and vigor of his poetry have caught some of the
brilliance and romance of these times. The vocabulary and allusions
make demands upon the reader which to many will be a serious
drawback.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“A poet so fertile and diversified is bound to be interesting, and one
cannot but recognize Mr Benet’s gifts of streaming phrase and bannered
fancy; at the same time one often misses the clear, strong note of
nature, often feels the absence from this work of actual blood and
bone.”
+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 100w
“The vigor, the individuality, the natural sources of growth and
development in his work, deserve the first word. Mr Benet’s
limitations in making the renaissance, in its essence, live again are
inherent in his method and approach. There was a roundness of gesture
in these years which is missed by nervous actions and pouncing words.”
Geoffrey Parsons
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 720w
“In ‘Moons of grandeur’ he includes ten such poems that may be ranked
among quite the best things he has done. It is apparent in this book
that he has grown greatly in stature as a poet. An extravagance that
was once fatal to him as an artist at times has been finely curbed and
turned into channels where it becomes a virtue.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 480w
“Mr Benet’s poems possess the essential qualities of beauty and
imagination.”
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 10w
“In these pictures of renaissance Italy Mr Benet proves his possession
of rhythm, of knowledge, of an allusiveness as ingathering as a
scythe, of energy, of a lambent and vibrant picturesqueness, of the
gait and swing, if not the soul, of passion. ‘Moons of grandeur,’ with
all its attractions, errs somewhat in the obscuration of the rhyme.”
+ − =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 290w
=BENET, WILLIAM ROSE.= Perpetual light. *$1.35 Yale univ. press 811
19–25952
“A memorial to the poet’s wife, who died early in 1919. ‘This verse is
published in her memory,’ says the poet in a foreword, ‘because I wish
to keep together the poetry she occasioned and enable those who loved
her—and they were a great many—to know definitely what she was to
me.’” (Springf’d Republican) “Some of the poems are reprinted from
former books of Mr Benet, and a few of the others have appeared in
American periodicals.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Mr Benet has a great command of rich language and rich rhythms, and
many of his poems are of a high literary value.”
+ =Ath= p194 Ap 9 ’20 80w
“A tribute full of deep and delicate feeling.”
+ =Booklist= 16:122 Ja ’20
“Poems of much delicate beauty, tenderness and deep feeling.”
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Benet has written no better lyrics than some of those included in
this volume. They are both brave and simple.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 180w
“Mr Benet has given his best to this little book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 18 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w
“The dignity, the courage, the faith, the aspiration of these verses
are like a beacon in this time of unrest and uncertainty.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:205 O ’20 220w
=BENGE, EUGENE J.= Standard practice in personnel work. il *$3 Wilson,
H. W. 658.7
20–102
A work which aims to cover the subject of personnel work thoroly,
showing what the standard practice at present is. “The author has
attempted to preserve an impartiality of viewpoint, not by evading
frank statement of conditions, but rather by presenting the pros and
cons on each side of the labor question.” (Preface) Daniel Bloomfield,
editor of the three volumes on industrial relations, contributes a
foreword. Contents: The personnel audit; Job analysis; Study of the
community; Labor turnover and labor loss; Organizing the personnel
department; The employment process; Selection by mental and skill
tests; Methods of rating ability; Education and training; Health
supervision; Maintenance of the working force; Incentives and wages;
Employee representation; Record keeping in the personnel department;
Personnel research; Index.
=BENNET, ROBERT AMES.= Bloom of cactus. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday
20–7647
Jack Lennon goes prospecting for a lost copper mine in the Arizona
desert. He encounters a fair amazon who, at the risk of her own
safety, tricks him into becoming a partner to her scheme of rescuing
her weak, drunken father from the clutches of a criminal white brute,
and “Dead Hole, dad’s ranch” from marauding renegade Indians. She
succeeds and so does Jack, after facing incredible dangers, cruelty
and all-round slaughter, for Carmena becomes his own dearly beloved.
She proves her metal by not only fighting her foes in the flesh but
her own jealousy of her much more femininely frail, clinging and
pretty foster-sister, Elsie.
=BENNETT, ARNOLD.= Our women; chapters on the sex-discord. *$2.50 (5c)
Doran 396
20–18319
Sex-discord exists, the author avows; it will always exist; it will
continue to develop as human nature develops—but on a higher plane; it
is the most delightful and interesting thing in existence—a part of
the great search for truth. In this vein a mere man writes broadly,
sanely and humorously about women. Contents: The perils of writing
about women; Change in love; The abolition of slavery; Women as
charmers; Are men superior to women? Salary-earning girls; Wives,
money and lost youth; The social Intercourse business; Masculine view
of the sex discord; Feminine view of the sex discord.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“‘Our women,’ being witty, human, and full of challenging
contradictions, will bore no reader, but will interest everyone, if
only for the sake of that argument dear to every mind.” Dorothy
Scarborough
+ =Bookm= 52:363 D ’20 560w
“He is not always sensible when he is serious, and he is not always
funny when he seeks to be humorous. His discourse is merely the
attempt of a glib and facile writer to toy with a theme upon which he
can play endlessly, and at the end be no nearer his goal that he was
at the beginning.” E. F. Edgett
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 1400w
“The book is diverting to read, but is not without that vein of
vulgarity which mars so much of Mr Bennett’s work.” L. P.
+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 270w
=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 400w
+ =N Y Times= p1 O 10 ’20 1500w
“Mr Bennett writes as a novelist and more or less for the human fun of
it.” K. F. Gerould
+ − =Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 900w
=Sat R= 130:279 O 2 ’20 500w
“We believe that most of his own countrywomen, though they may praise,
will not altogether like his book.”
+ − =Spec= 125:535 O 23 ’20 720w
“Though fresh enough in style and not philistine in precepts, ‘Our
women’ is as conventional as ‘Godey’s lady’s book,’ which regaled
several generations of young women; it is, however, a book modern in
sentiment.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 320w
“His pictures of the modern woman are kaleidoscopic—a medley of truths
and halftruths picked more or less at random from past, present and
future.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 O 21 ’20 1000w
=BENNETT, ARNOLD.= Sacred and profane love. *$1.50 Doran 822
20–1240
A dramatization of the author’s novel “The book of Carlotta.” The
story is that of Carlotta Peel, who as a young girl of twenty gives
herself for one night to Emilio Diaz, a world famous pianist. She does
not see him again for eight years and then, on learning that he has
become a morphinomaniac, goes to him and nurses him back to health and
manhood and restores him to his old place on the concert stage.
* * * * *
“It is, evidently, not the Arnold Bennett of ‘Clayhanger’ who plays
upon the glittering instrument of the theatre. And it is that Arnold
Bennett who could fortify the English drama.”
− + =Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“The dialog leaves us unconvinced and shadowed by the feeling that
sooner or later Carlotta will awaken to the futility of her task. We
glance with foreboding into the future. The present is temporarily
serene, but beyond the final curtain lurks a suspicion that the real
conflict of human emotions is still to come.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 520w
“Mr Bennett could hardly write a play without putting into it some
insight into character, some witty or suggestive comments upon human
life, at least one or two interesting situations and some passages of
good dialogue. Hence, this play is readable enough, but it is clumsy
and unconvincing.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:174 Ap ’20 180w
=BENNETT, RAINE.=[2] After the day. $1.50 Stratford co. 811
A volume of poems written after the war, reflecting the impressions of
war of one who took part in it. The author is a Californian who has
written dramas for local groups and had one play produced at the Greek
theatre in Berkeley. The introduction, by George Douglas of the San
Francisco Chronicle, says: “These ‘after the day’ or ‘nocturnal’
impressions were all written with a view to their being read aloud,
and as dramatic reading they take on a singularly magnetic quality.”
Free verse is the form employed.
* * * * *
“The poems, dramatic rather than lyric, are an earnest expression of a
man—one who has something to say in free verse that is worth saying.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 120w
=BENOIT, PIERRE.= Atlantida (L’Atlantide). *$1.75 (2½c) Duffield
20–12951
This prize novel of the French academy is translated from the French
by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross. Two French officers engaged on a
scientific expedition into the wilds of Sahara, discover the mythical
island of Atlantis and find that instead of having been immersed in
the sea, the desert had emerged about it preserving it with all its
ancient treasures and through mysterious contact with the outside
world, making it a storehouse of all the sciences and lore of all the
ages. Antinea, its present ruler, a descendant of Neptune, is
continually supplied with men from the outside world, who all die of
love for her while she is unable to love. At last she loves one of the
two officers of our story, but being scorned by him, she compels his
companion to kill him. This one, by the aid of a slave girl in love
with him, succeeds in escaping, but ever after wanders about a
restless spirit, consumed with the desire to return.
* * * * *
=BooklistM= 17:30 O ’20
“There is a glamor of mystery in the story; there is a flavor of the
Orient, a glint of gold, an aroma of perfume which attracts the senses
and beckons the reader onward to the end. The French have a
fascinating way with them.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 200w
“Benoit has learned from Anatole France to display erudition but the
translators make a sad mess of it. What they do to classical names
should be a warning to reformers of the curriculum.”
+ − =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 90w
“The tale is told with an economy, a sureness and a subtlety that show
how a French writer can come near to salvaging for literature themes
which, in English, are condemned to a humbler sphere.” H. S. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 120w
“Excellent as Monsieur Benoit’s book is, it does not equal, either in
imaginative power, fertility of invention, ingenuity and abundance of
incident, suspense, dramatic effectiveness, construction,
character-drawing, sustained interest or the ability to make the
reader feel that the events narrated actually occurred, any save
perhaps some one among the lesser of the many romances written by Sir
Rider Haggard. This is not to say, however, that it is not an
admirable and very entertaining story, with a conclusion both artistic
and dramatic, and more than one scene of fine imaginative quality.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 1050w
=BENOIT, PIERRE.= Secret spring. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–7919
In this story within a story Lieutenant Vignerte tells his
brother-in-arms the story of his life, which is still casting a
melancholy spell over him. Just before the war he had been a tutor to
the heir of the Grand Duke of Lautenburg-Detmold. He had fallen in
love with the Grand Duchess, received much friendly encouragement, had
come on the track of a mystery which points to the murder of her first
husband—brother to the present duke—by discovering old records and a
secret spring opening a door into a hidden chamber. A conflagration in
the castle and the outbreak of the war prevented complete disclosure.
The duchess herself took him in her private car to the French frontier
and saw him safely into the hands of the French commander there. While
in action in the trenches a German prisoner of high rank is
discovered, by Vignerte’s confidant, to be the arch-fiend in the
Lautenburg tragedy, but here again a complete revelation of the secret
is foiled by a shell that kills both Vignerte and the prisoner.
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 70w
“In spite of the involved plot, the annoyance of a story within a
story, and the somewhat cloudy narrative style—which latter may or may
not be partly the fault of the translator—the spirit of romance in
this volume makes it fairly acceptable to the leisurely reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 550w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 250w
=BENSHIMOL, ERNEST.= Tomorrow’s yesterday. *$1 Small 811
20–11179
Marsh dreams, The passing of a shadow, Morning and evening, Confession
of hope, Atonement, In the wilderness, The tale of the grey wolf, The
moon on the Palisades, At dusk, Evening, The end of the trail, are
some of the themes in this volume of poems. The author is a young
poet, a graduate of Harvard, class of 1917.
* * * * *
“It is pleasing to discover a poet today who thinks in every line he
writes. There is no superfluous word-painting in any of Benshimol’s
poems. They are the genuine and spontaneous expression of a highly
imaginative and reflective mind. Here and there, unfortunately, the
reader comes across an image that is obscure or jumbled.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 250w
“The writer is a true poet and this first volume not only has great
promise for the author’s future development, but has great charm in
the present.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 100w
=BENSON, EDWARD FREDERIC.= “Queen Lucia.” *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–15389
Riseholme was a strictly Elizabethan village, and “The Hurst,” the
Lucas’s house, more Elizabethan than all the rest, was its social
centre. Here Queen Lucia reigned. For ten years she had been the
undisputed ruler when the smoldering rivalry between herself and her
neighbor, Mrs Quantock, threatened open eruption. Not content with
having set the town’s pace with her classic taste, Queen Lucia must
also make herself the leader in each new fad discovered and introduced
by Mrs Quantock. With the coming of the famous singer, Olga Bracely,
as a resident of the town, all social observances, rules and
precedents are knocked into a cocked hat and one by one the bubbles,
in which Mrs Lucas saw her own greatness reflected, are pricked. She
no longer rules and social oblivion threatens to engulf her when Olga,
in large-hearted pity, executes a series of maneuvers which reinstate
a humbler and wiser queen in something of her former position.
* * * * *
“The dismallest feature of all is that Mr Benson’s humour should have
gone—not to the dogs, but to the cats.” K. M.
− =Ath= p241 Ag 20 ’20 700w
+ =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20
“Fantastic in the extreme, Mr Benson’s latest novel may be accepted
more as a light and airy fantasy than as a contribution to the study
of English social manners. It is, in fact, a merry farce transferred
from the lights of the stage to the printed pages of fiction and it
bears further tribute to the ingenious qualities of Mr Benson’s
humor.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 1150w
“A clever and amusing satire.”
+ =Cath World= 112:549 Ja ’21 170w
“The book is lacking in what we are constantly told is necessary for a
good novel. There is not much plot; there is no love interest; there
is no climax. But it is long since one has seen such a masterly bit of
satire, such a piece of character-study as Lucia.”
+ =Lit D= p101 S 18 ’20 1400w
“The book is a great treat from beginning to end.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 480w
“Apart from its humor and comic sense of character, the narrative
emphasizes Mr Benson’s versatility and his mature art.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 400w
“Taken as pure farce, ‘Queen Lucia’ is an altogether satisfying
entertainment; full of humorous situations, sparkling with wholesome
wit. The characters, too, are for the most part consistent and
original. So very little restraint would have kept it within the
limits of comedy and we do not feel that it gains in any way from the
touches which incline to extravaganza.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 480w
=BENSON, EDWARD FREDERIC.= Robin Linnet. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
19–19852
The book shows us English society “snug and comfortable and
stereotyped” in various aspects. First among the students and faculty
of Cambridge where, in the former, the spirit of youth occasionally
pierces through the stereotyped smugness doubly emphasized in the
faculty. There we meet Robin Linnet, nicknamed “Birds,” a lovable boy,
full of fun and horse-play with his chums, but fortified by a rare
love and respect for his mother. The latter, Lady Grote—brilliant
society woman, patroness of celebrities, shining center of an
aristocratic coterie absorbed in “a fever of mere living, a
determination to make the most of the present moment, whether bridge
or scandal or games”—has for her saving quality her great and sane
love for her son. The war-change that English society suffers, topples
Lady Grote’s world over like a house of cards, when her son goes to
France. She decides to superintend the Red cross hospital, into which
her husband converts their country house, in person. When Robin is
killed her spirit rises nobly to the occasion and what was a fill-gap
and a duty now becomes a work of love.
* * * * *
“Full of bright and entertaining dialogue.”
+ =Ath= p1138 O 31 ’19 120w
“Parts of the book are so slow moving that some readers may not care
to finish it.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“The action moves cumbrously; too much time wasted in irrelevant talk
by superfluous characters. This tries the reader’s patience, and makes
negligible a book which might have been one of Mr Benson’s most
successful efforts.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:539 Jl ’20 210w
“The concluding pages of the book are beautifully written and very
moving, making the whole worth while. It is a book practically devoid
of even a slight thread of plot, and it is very much too long.” L. M.
Field
+ − =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 1150w
=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Not Mr Benson’s best work in fiction. The whole [is] thrown together
rather than thought out.”
− + =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 70w
“The story is told with Mr Benson’s usual vivacity, but the conversion
of Lady Grote is far less convincing than the elaborate and often
acute analysis of her emotions in her unregenerate days.”
+ − =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 500w
“The closing chapters are beautifully written. Mr Benson is deeply
sympathetic without giving way to the strong temptation to be highly
sentimental. The characters are excellently individualized.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 700w
“Has the same merits and weaknesses as Mr E. F. Benson’s previous
novels.... Mr Benson, in fact, is almost entirely preoccupied with the
superficial.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p629 N 6 ’19 460w
=BENSON, STELLA.= Living alone. *$1.75 Macmillan
20–2266
“This little book describes the adventures of Angela and the
adventures of those with whom she comes in contact while she is
caretaker of a small general shop which is also part convent and
monastery, part nursing home and college, and wholly a house for those
who wish to live alone. She is an out-and-out, thorough witch, a
trifle defiant, poor, always hungry, intolerant of cleverness
and—radiant.... We have said that ‘Living alone’ is a book about the
war. There is an air raid described from below and from above,
together with a frightful encounter which Harold has with a German
broomstick, and one of the inmates of the house of ‘Living alone’ is
Peony, a London girl who is drawing her weekly money as a soldier’s
wife—unmarried. The story that Peony tells her fellow-lodger Sarah
Brown of how she found the everlasting boy is perhaps the highwater
mark of Miss Benson’s book.”—Ath
* * * * *
“We hardly dare to use the thumbmarked phrase, a ‘born writer’; but if
it means anything Miss Stella Benson is one.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1187 N 14 ’19 440w
=Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“Stella Benson possesses the rarest of attributes among writers—that
of personality.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 950w
“The particular merit of ‘Living alone’ is that it is a fairy-tale for
grown-ups, a piece of whimsical madness without rhyme or reason.” H.
S. G.
+ =Freeman= 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w
“No one but a poet could have written ‘Living alone.’ It is Barrie at
moments; again it is Chesterton, that preposterously humorous
Chesterton of the romances; and, after all, it is Stella Benson. It is
a book for the lonely and it is a lesson for the self-conscious. Best
of all, it can be read for the sake of the narrative by those who do
not care to trouble themselves with allegory.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 720w
“It is a book to dally over and reflect on.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 100w
“There are many amusing sketches of people.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 330w
“It is a pity that mere manner should so have marred this new essay in
beautiful nonsense. Beautiful is none too grand a word for ‘Living
alone.’ The book teems with beautiful ideas, beautiful imaginings,
best of all—beautiful feeling.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 O 23 ’19 550w
=BERESFORD, JOHN DAVYS.= Imperfect mother. *$2 (2c) Macmillan
20–8237
A story based on what the Freudians term the “mother complex.” Cecilia
Kirkwood, a woman of dynamic personality, is married to a sombre
little book-seller and is mother to three grown children. At forty-one
she falls in love with the cathedral organist and leaves her family to
go to London with him. Before taking the step she tells her story to
her seventeen year old son thinking him the only one who will
understand her. Stephen at this time is just beginning to fall in love
with little Margaret Weatherly and his mother, hungry for admiration
and sensitive to all shades of feeling toward herself, is conscious of
the slight change in his attitude, and the one bond that might have
held her to her home is broken. All thru his young manhood Stephen is
influenced by the tie that binds him to his mother and all his
relations with women, including his love for Margaret, are affected by
it. With the dissolution of the conflict her spell over him is broken
and he moves forward unhampered to business success and happy
marriage.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 950w
“Reads like a case book on the ‘Oedipus complex.’ But in spite of the
author’s effort to get everything right according to Freud it is not a
bad story.”
+ − =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“The story is woven with great delicacy and with unobtrusive skill and
is remarkably interesting. Yet it is doubtful whether really great
fiction would thrive on so much scientific awareness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 750w
“‘An imperfect mother’ is certainly one of the best of the recent
English novels. The author is secure in the consciousness of a ripe
and finely developed art.” W. H. C.
+ =New Repub= 24:52 S 8 ’20 900w
“It is all symmetrical enough. And yet it is all quite unconvincing.
It is even uninteresting. Cecilia alone emerges—a splendid creature
bursting through the murky moralities of stuffy Medboro.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 700w
“It is an easy enough book to read; but there is nothing much to carry
away from it, except the impression of an experienced chronicler
rehandling his materials in the light of an ‘idea.’”
+ − =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 650w
“Where it might be thought to fail, is in the too subtle
characterisation of Celia; older hands would have broadened their
touches. It is a fine piece of work.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 100w
“The merit of the book lies in the skill with which the conflict
between Cecilia’s better instincts and her invincible egotism is
drawn. Mr Beresford is an admirably self-effacing narrator....
Allowing for the improbabilities we have noted, this is an excellent
and restrained study of an ‘a-moral’ type of womanhood.”
+ − =Spec= 124:697 My 22 ’20 560w
“Judged as an essay in morbid psychology, ‘An imperfect mother’ is an
interesting document; judged as a novel, it is a failure.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p199 Mr 25 ’20 850w
=BERGER, MAURICE.= Germany after the armistice. *$3.50 (5c) Putnam 914.3
20–9640
“A report, based on the personal testimony of representative
Germans, concerning the conditions existing in 1919.” (Sub-title)
The author of this book, which is translated from the French, with
an introduction, by William L. McPherson, was a lieutenant of the
Belgian army. He went to Berlin after the signing of the armistice
to engage in a series of personal interviews with men of prominence
in diplomacy, the army, industry, finance, politics, journalism, the
arts and sciences. These interviews are here published in full and
contain such names as: Brockdorff-Rantzau; Prince Lichnowsky;
General Kluck; Karl Helfferich; Hugo Haase; Karl Kautsky; Theodor
Wolff; Maximilian Harden; Hermann Sudermann, and many others. In his
conclusions the author treats of: Germany and the war; Germany and
the atrocities; The Kaiser—militarism—bolshevism; Public spirit—the
government; Germany and the society of nations; The new Germany. The
book also contains a preface by Baron Beyens, former Belgian
minister in Berlin, and has an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“A full revelation is this volume of the true inwardness of the German
character.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 500w
“The interviewer writes with the violent prejudice of an enemy who
still fears his defeated foe. But many of the conversations are of
peculiar interest none the less. Especially valuable, perhaps, are the
statements of Kautsky and other Socialists; also the account of the
shameless murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.” H: W.
Nevinson
+ − =Freeman= 1:404 Jl 7 ’20 280w
“No better account has appeared of the individuals who are directing
the destinies of the young republic.”
+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 30w
“Lieutenant Berger draws with bold strokes the portraits of the men he
met—they stand out with lifelike distinctiveness. His style is simple
and vivacious and his subject matter is engrossing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 1300w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 40w
“There is a tone of sincere frankness in the interviews which carries
weight. Lieutenant Berger is evidently a man of tact and discernment;
he refused to enter upon useless discussion, but he was able to guide
the conversation so skilfully as to secure for his superiors the
desired information.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:419 Ja ’21 310w
=BERGSON, HENRI LOUIS.= Mind-energy. *$2.50 (3c) Holt 194
20–15087
This collection of lectures and essays, translated from the French by
H. Wildon Carr, is not only an authorized translation, says the
translator, but has been carefully supervised by M. Bergson himself,
as to details of meaning and expression, in order to give it the same
authority as the original French. The lectures are partly in
exposition of philosophical theory, partly detailed psychological
investigation and metaphysical research illustrative of their author’s
concept of reality as a fundamentally spiritual activity. Contents:
Life and consciousness; The soul and the body; “Phantasms of the
living” and psychical research; Dreams; Memory of the present and
false recognition; Intellectual effort; Brain and thought; a
philosophical illusion; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21
“Bergson is brilliant, and he is in close touch with the life of men.
He is always worth reading for his intellectual strength and his
insight into things spiritual. In this book Bergson is found at his
best.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 1050w
“The present volume is valuable for students of Bergson just because
its confident reaffirmations proclaim that, in the author’s judgment,
his theories have stood the test of time. Hence this is a good
opportunity for attempting a total estimate of Bergson’s work and a
sorting out of what is likely to live from what is likely to die.” R.
F. A. Hoernle
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 850w
“The student who lacks either the time or the training to study Mr
Bergson’s larger and more difficult work will find in this volume of
essays clues not difficult to understand and profitable to follow.”
+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 300w
“The essays before us, though diversely prompted, all converge towards
one centre, which is revealed by the title of the book. At the end
they leave the feeling that he has been pursuing the same subject all
the time. The tenacity with which he applies his principles is
certainly to be noted in a thinker who suggests such a flexible,
almost elusive, view of reality. There is a fascinating essay about
‘false recognition.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 800w
=BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HEINRICH ANDREAS HERMANN ALBRECHT, graf von.= My
three years in America. *$5 Scribner 940.32
20–11505
“As a pendant to Mr Gerard’s reminiscences of the American embassy in
Berlin during the war, Count Bernstorff’s account of his work as
German ambassador at Washington is of some historic interest. He is
mainly concerned to defend himself and to put all the blame for the
quarrel with America on the Berlin foreign office and on the military
chiefs. He denies, of course, that he had anything to do with the
campaign of bomb outrages which German-Americans, assisted by
Irish-Americans, waged against American and Canadian factories and
allied shipping. He records the profound horror and indignation caused
by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, but disclaims all previous
knowledge of that foul deed.”—Spec
“For the historian and student of the war Count von Bernstorff’s book
has undoubted value. The excellence of the translation may be due in
part to the style of Count von Bernstorff; for, unlike many German
writers, he does not hide his thought behind dense and complicated
entanglements of language, but sets it forth in clear, short, crisp
sentences.” E. E. Sperry
+ =Am Hist R= 26:99 O ’20 1100w
“There are many curious statements in the book, some of which no
sophisticated reader will believe without confirmation. At any rate
students of political science will find many things in this volume to
provoke dissent, and some also that will meet with hearty
concurrence.”
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:736 N ’20 250w
“The book is interesting and has a certain historical value.”
+ =Ath= p11 Jl 2 ’20 580w
“The tone is reasonable and conciliatory, the logic sometimes too
smooth.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
“Throughout the narrative Count Bernstorff is wonderfully frank.
Whether this frankness arises from an honest openness of mind or from
an utter absence of ability to realize his own obliquity is a question
for each reader to solve for himself.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 900w
“Count Bernstorff himself is not a thinker like Norman Angell and
Bertrand Russell, but he is intelligent to a high degree, exact,
fearless, without cheap pride, living in a much more real atmosphere
than most of the German war statesmen. He has the prime advantage, for
a time of such complexity, of having a good mind that functions
without interference from his prejudices or his passions.” Norman
Hapgood
+ =Nation= 111:132 Jl 31 ’20 1750w
“The story is told coolly and without any sign of prejudice, except
for an occasional slurring reference to Colonel Roosevelt or
Ambassador Gerard. The narrator analyzes his characters in an
objective sort of way, unmoved by anger or enthusiasm, except for one
exclamation of admiration for Colonel House; he dissects, he does not
eulogize or condemn.” C. W. Thompson
+ =N Y Times= 25:3 Jl 4 ’20 2150w
“This book, as a real contribution to history, will assuredly take its
place alongside volumes of such permanent value as Viscount Haldane’s,
General von Falkenhayn’s, and Count Czernin’s. Indeed, in none of
these is there sharper, more illuminative, and more cynical
observation both of men and events.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 250w
=Review= 3:710 Jl 7 ’20 360w
“It would be a serious mistake to consider his ‘plaidoyer’ as
dispassionate history. It is a further and exceedingly interesting
addition to that large library of self-justification now appearing in
Germany. It differs from other volumes only on a point of good taste.”
Christian Gauss
− + =Review= 3:190 S 1 ’20 1200w
“The reader into whose hands it may come will not fail to find its
chapters exceedingly interesting, as they review familiar episodes
from what to Americans is an unfamiliar standpoint.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 240w
“We think that all the great actors in the German tragedy, military,
political and diplomatic, have now told their story, except the
ex-Kaiser. Count Bernstorff’s is certainly the best of these ‘pieces
justificatives,’ for it shows that the writer’s judgment was better
than that of his masters, and his style is temperate and logical.”
+ =Sat R= 129:542 Je 12 ’20 900w
=Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 430w
“His attempt to gauge American character is on the whole happy. Even
those who differ with him will find it difficult to disprove his
findings. There is no rancor in his judgments. There is no attempt to
add piquancy to the narrative by gossip.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ’20 280w
=BERRIMAN, ALGERNON E., and others.= Industrial administration.
(Manchester univ. publications) il *$2.40 Longmans 331
20–9654
“The lectures published in this volume were delivered in the
department of industrial administration in the College of technology,
Manchester, during the session 1918–19, by various well-known
authorities on subjects relating to industrial administration.”
(Nature) “Contents: Social obligations of industry to labour, by B. S.
Rowntree; The applications of psychology to industry, by T. H. Pear;
Education as a function of management, by A. E. Berriman; Occupational
diseases, by T. M. Legge; Atmospheric conditions and efficiency, by L.
Hill; Industrial councils and their possibilities, by T. B. Johnston;
Training for factory administration, by St G. Heath; Industrial
fatigue, by A. F. S. Kent.” (Am Econ R)
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 50w
=Ath= p814 Je 18 ’20 60w
=Nature= 106:74 S 16 ’20 620w
=BETTER= letters; a little book of suggestions and information about
business correspondence. $1 Herbert S. Browne, 608 S. Dearborn st.,
Chicago 658
20–3557
“This little book has been compiled for the average person in
business, whether executive or stenographer, who wants a statement in
simple and direct form of the elementary things that are essential to
good letters. It is a first-aid manual of style for business
correspondence, suitable for adoption by any commercial concern, large
or small.” (Introd.) Contents of part 1—The letter itself: Appearance;
Substance; Phraseology; Punctuation; Paragraphing; Abbreviations;
Miscellaneous. Contents of part 2—Words, right and wrong; Some misused
words; Verbal vulgarisms; Similar words often confused; Pronouns:
their use and abuse; Miscellaneous.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
=BIERSTADT, EDWARD HALE, ed.= Three plays of the Argentine; tr. from the
Spanish by Jacob S. Fassett, jr. *$1.75 Duffield 862
20–4775
In his introduction to these plays Mr Bierstadt has given us a glimpse
of the culture of one of our American neighbors to the South, of whom
we have hitherto known too little. His historical sketch of the folk
drama of the Argentine, known as the drama criollo, shows it to have
sprung from the very heart of the people, the gaucho, and to have had
its inception in the sawdust ring of the circus. As given in the
translation, the plays are transcriptions from the original popular
and unprinted versions and although modified, have retained their true
atmospheric and colorful qualities. Of the two first Mr Bierstadt
says: “They are perhaps the most famous in all the category of gaucho
plays, and carry as do no others the very spirit of the pampas.” These
are “Juan Moreira” and “Santos Vega.” The third, “The witches’
mountain,” is not in the same sense a gaucho play, as it is set in the
mountain country, but is considered as marking the last milestone in
the epoch of truly native drama.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20
“‘The witches’ mountain’ is the only one of the three plays included
that conforms to the canons of real drama.”
+ =Dial= 59:664 D ’20 80w
“The second, while sufficiently crude and violent, has elements of
great beauty. The third, The witches’ mountain, is a really
magnificent piece, both in conception and construction.”
+ =Freeman= 1:214 My 12 ’20 400w
“When we come to the actual texture of the ‘dramas criollos’ the
impression is one of slight disappointment. The figure of the
wandering ‘gaucho’ and minstrel is romantic rather than naive. Speech
and verse, at least in their translated forms, present a curious
mixture of the sentimental and the artificial. In The witches’
mountain there is high and concentrated dramatic passion. But this
play is obviously the least primitive of the three.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 260w
“These plays have a freshness and vigor of spaces our Wild West
scenarios somehow lack. There are the same conventional gestures, the
same corroborated sentiment from which any informing fire has gone
out. But at least these are reminiscent of authentic instead of
manufactured emotion.” Lola Ridge
+ − =New Repub= 25:236 Ja 19 ’21 660w
+ − =Review= 2:605 Je 5 ’20 240w
“However primitive the plays, they possess what our American drama
strives in vain to discover, the soul of their native land.... The
witches’ mountain is doubtless the most actable, and the most easily
understood by an American audience.” D. Grafly
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 600w
“If these plays seem immature rather than naive; crude, rather than in
the spirit of the folk; if Mr Bierstadt seems to have mistaken the
drama inherent in the life and character of the ‘gaucho’ for drama in
the plays that represent him, there is still nothing but gratitude due
him for introducing the ‘gaucho’ to our unromantic world.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 380w
=BIGELOW, MELVILLE MADISON.= Papers on the legal history of government;
difficulties fundamental and artificial. *$2 (4½c) Little 320.1
20–4206
The author warns against making a fetish of history and points out the
difficulty in the way of its infallibility as a teacher. The number
and complexity of the facts, in part hidden, in part incomprehensible,
impede correct judgment. Besides, latent energies may at any time
spring into action to change men’s reactions to given facts. On the
other hand there is a certain fundamental principle on which society
rests and which serves as constant in the interpretation of history.
It is the object of the book to study the past, to give assurance of
the principle and then to see how men have acted and are acting in its
presence. Contents: Unity in government; The family in English
history: an inquiry; Medieval English sovereignty; The old jury;
Becket and the law; Index.
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:738 N ’20 50w
=Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 220w
=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.=[2] Lister’s great adventure (Eng title, Head of the
house). il *$2 (2c) Stokes
George Lister, a young Canadian engineer, has his pluck and natural
ability rather than a defective scientific training to thank for a
moderate success. His self-reliance scorns the help of friends. He
rescues a young girl, Barbara Hyslop, from an amorous crook who has
induced her to run away with him. Later he is instrumental in
returning the girl to the bosom of her family. Having lost his job he
resolves to see something of the world and goes to England, and while
there undertakes to raise a wreck off the African coast for Barbara’s
step-father. After heroic efforts he succeeds but succumbs to the
fever-ridden locality. Barbara, who from conscientious scruples over
her romantic exploit, had refused his love, now calls him back to
health with the gift of it.
* * * * *
“The heroine and the various members of her family have more
individuality than is usual in this class of literature.”
+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 80w
“There are no improbabilities and no excesses of sentimentality, the
style is simple and effective, and the pace is brisk and unwavering.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 90w
=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Wilderness mine. il *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes
20–14600
This story is divided into three distinct parts, the first and third
of which take place in England, and the second in Canada. Creighton
and Stayward are partners in business until Creighton, driven on by
his wife’s extravagances and his daughter’s need of an education,
misappropriates some of the funds and Stayward dissolves the
partnership. Creighton disappears and his wife spreads stories about
Stayward’s cruelty and dishonesty to her husband. The Canadian part of
the story has to do with Geoffrey Lisle, Stayward’s nephew, who is
managing a mine there, and who comes in contact with Tom Carson, cook
and chemist, who helps him defeat the rival mining company he is
working against. Upon his return to England at his uncle’s death,
Geoffrey again meets the girl who has been in his thoughts ever since
he left England, to discover that she is Ruth Creighton, and
theoretically his enemy. The timely discovery of who Tom Carson really
was helps him to win the girl and to clear his uncle’s name in her
eyes.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“His latest effort is a far more polished production than some of
those that have gone before it. As it is not the best kind of romance,
quite naturally it is not the best kind of adventure, but it serves
very well for an hour or so’s amusement, and lovers of Mr Bindloss
will find in this tale all the ingredients of his other efforts.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 350w
“Mr Bindloss is one of those writers (all too few) who handle the
adventure story without stressing the adventures to the disadvantage
of all the other parts of the story. In other words, his
characterization is always clear and distinct and worked up with some
elaboration, and he has a quick eye at the description of natural
scenery.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ag 22 ’20 370w
“The Canadian part of the book is much the best.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Wyndham’s pal. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
19–16148
Harry Wyndham having inherited from his forefathers an old business
enterprise of somewhat doubtful credit, along with a romantic,
restless, daring temperament, sets out on a trading adventure in the
wild lagoons, mandrake swamps, fever atmosphere, and mysterious
dangers of the Caribbean coast. There is a girl back home in England,
for whose sake he wishes to return wealthy and successful. He achieves
his purpose, although in order to do it he has to deal with a
dangerous, sinister, mysterious creature called the Bat, and has to
compromise his honesty and honor. Found out by his bride and business
partner he seriously undertakes reparation and re-establishes his own
self-respect, as well as the respect of others.
* * * * *
“Men, and boys in their teens, will like this story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Without being particularly exciting or particularly vivid, it holds
the reader’s attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 50w
“To an astonishing degree, he maintains his average. And his average
is good.” H. Dick
+ =Pub W= 97:604 F 21 ’20 280w
“We have read better stories by this author.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:422 N 1 ’19 60w
“The story is rather better than many of the author’s recent books,
and his readers will find considerable entertainment in its pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 18 ’19 100w
=BINNS, OTTWELL.= Mating in the wilds. (Borzoi western stories). *$2
(2c) Knopf
20–15961
Hubert Stane, who has served a prison sentence on a false charge, is
in the north woods. Here he meets Gerald Ainley, the man who was
responsible for his sentence. Ainley apparently stands high in the
estimation of Hudson Bay company officials and is a suitor for the
hand of Helen Yardely, a beautiful English girl who is making a tour
of the posts with her uncle. Helen is lost in the woods. Stane finds
her and fate forces the two to spend long months of exile together.
Helen takes naturally to primitive life and when Stane’s name is
cleared the two are married at an English mission and continue their
wilderness life.
* * * * *
“An exciting tale told with literary excellence beyond the average of
adventure stories.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 550w
“It is all admirably and romantically told. Though we know the tale of
old, it is still alive when the right chronicler takes it up; and Mr
Binns never for a moment lets it flag.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 200w
=BIRDSEYE, CLARENCE FRANK.= American democracy versus Prussian Marxism.
*$2.50 Revell 335
20–4906
“Clarence F. Birdseye, in a volume entitled ‘American democracy versus
Prussian Marxism,’ presents what he calls ‘a study in the nature and
results of purposive or beneficial government,’ his object being to
warn his fellow-citizens of the great danger threatening the American
form of government through the attacks that are being made upon it by
Marxian socialists. In order to make clear the danger is real, and not
fanciful, Mr Birdseye analyzes both governmental forms and shows
conclusively that no tolerance of the Marxian idea can be permitted in
this country without damage to American institutions and ideals.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
“In this compact little volume, rich in well selected facts and
information throughout, the author has performed a useful service.” W.
B. Guthrie
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:510 Ag ’20 420w
=N Y Times= p31 S 5 ’20 90w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w
=BIRNBAUM, MARTIN.= Introductions; painters, sculptors and graphic
artists. il *$5 Sherman, F: Fairchild 704
20–2849
“Papers by an American critic on Beardsley, Conder, C. H. Shannon, C.
Ricketts, Pakst, Dulac, Alfred Stevens, John Flaxman, and some younger
American artists—Maurice Sterne, Paul Manship (sculptor), Alfred
Sterner (painter, lithographer, etc.), Robert Blum (illustrator,
decorator, pastellist), Edie Nadeloman (Polish sculptor), Kay Nielsen,
the Danish water-colourist, Jules Pascrin, the Austrian satiric
artist.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The Aubrey Beardsley and Conder introductions may be taken as the
perfect models for this form of art. Mr Birnbaum, himself, never quite
arose to the same plane of detachment in his later writings. The
citations, though brilliant, become too incessant and the authorities
parading through the pages scarcely give each other elbow room. The
feats of memory displayed are prodigious, comparable to those of Mr
Huneker. In fact, stylistically, there is more than a suspicion that
Mr Birnbaum is Mr Huneker’s child.” H: McBride
+ − =Dial= 68:371 Mr ’20 1850w
“To be graceful, informing, and readily understood was the problem.
The author has solved it with sure literary tact and offers as well a
fine criticism which was not in the bond.”
+ =Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 10 ’20 580w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 50w
=BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE.= Frederick Locker-Lampson. il *$8 Scribner
(Eng ed 20–14702)
“A kinship of spirit as well as relationship by marriage bound Mr
Birrell and Locker-Lampson, and in every page of his character sketch,
he reveals a sympathy that is both personal and professional. Few
books are both more and less a biography than this. It is merely a
series of impressions and appreciations. Less than half its opening
pages contain the biographical matter, and then follow some fifty
pages of letters from eminent literary men—including Thackeray,
Dickens, Tennyson, Holmes, Ruskin, Hardy and Stevenson—which reveal
the esteem in which Locker-Lampson was held by his contemporaries. The
other material which completes the volume includes six letters written
by him to his son at Eton, some family bookplates, bibliographical
notes on the books in the famous Rowfant library, and a brief account
of the Rowfant library at Cleveland, with a list of its
publications.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Mr Birrell’s biography reads so queerly because it brings before us a
real human being. It is not that he is more profound than others, or
that he has a story to tell to which we cannot fail to listen. It is
that the values of life are quite different from those of biography.
There is such a thing as living. One of the chief merits of Mr
Birrell’s method, which is a peculiar compound of wit and sanity, is
that it reduces these nineteenth-century phantoms to human scale.” V.
W.
+ =Ath= p201 Ag 13 ’20 1300w
“It has been a long time since ‘London lyrics’ first appeared, but
none the less this intimate and accurate character sketch of their
author has a genuine interest and value.” H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:73 S ’20 450w
“A gentle and a genial tribute, it may well be said, is this volume to
the personality, the achievements and the memory of a rare being.” E.
F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1250w
“As a piece of book-making, the offering is admirable; as a book—! But
Mr Birrell is a devoted chronicler and if, from these impeccable
pages, his placid father-in-law emerges an even less interesting
figure than he seemed before one’s perusal of his memorial, the
meticulous chronicler himself can not escape scot-free.” L: Untermeyer
− + =Freeman= 2:163 O 27 ’20 750w
“Hitherto the best analysis of Locker’s work was to be found in the
sympathetic study prepared by Austin Dobson in 1904. Mr Birrell’s
sketch is ampler than Mr Dobson’s and it is also more discursive. It
abounds in playful digressions and in pleasant irrelevancies.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:14 Jl 11 ’20 2300w
“His sketch is somewhat discursive and casual, containing more
background than definite statements, but it includes some agreeable
Birrelling.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:588 Je 26 ’20 1000w
“Nowhere has he gossiped more charmingly; and if he cannot resist an
occasional divagation from his main topic, his obiter dicta are as
pleasant as ever.”
+ =Spec= 124:82 Jl 17 ’20 1500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 650w
“In reading this book, and noticing how Mr Birrell is always sliding
away from his subject to talk about himself, or about somebody or
something other than Frederick Locker, you ask why he chose ‘Frederick
Locker-Lampson: a character sketch’ for the title of a book that might
just as properly have been called ‘Scraps,’ or ‘Chips,’ or ‘Jottings.’
In the end nevertheless, you feel that you have been unfair. Mr
Birrell, in his odd, slipshod way, is a man of letters—at least a man
who delights in letters; and he gives you a faint character sketch of
Frederick Locker-Lampson.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p381 Je 17 ’20 1500w
=BISHOP, CARLTON THOMAS.=[2] Structural drafting and the design of
details. il *$5 Wiley 744
20–4714
“The author was formerly chief draftsman to one of the largest bridge
companies, and is now a professor at Yale university. Part 1 covers
comprehensively the duties of the draftsman and what he should know in
a general way about organization of plant and office, as well as a
survey of the manufacture and fabrication of structural steel. Part 2
tells in detail about the technique of drawing, with special chapters
devoted to beams, girders, trusses, bracing systems, bills, checking,
etc. Part 3 deals closely with the theory and practice of designing
different types of construction members.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
“To the student or inexperienced draftsman the book is invaluable. The
experienced draftsman can hardly fail to add to his efficiency by
reading it. The typography of the book is all that needs be desired.
This, with the general excellence of the contents, will make it a
standard in the field of structural drafting for some time to come.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:1215 Je 17 ’20 1150w
+ =Iron Age= 105:1293 Ap 29 ’20 160w
=Mining & Scientific Press= 121:33 Jl 3 ’20 110w
“On the whole we are inclined to name this the best book on the
subject.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p27 Ap ’20 170w
=Pratt= p16 O ’20 20w
=BISHOP, ERNEST SIMONS.= Narcotic drug problem. *$1.50 Macmillan 613.8
20–1614
“‘It is becoming apparent that in spite of all the work which has been
done there has been practically no change in the general situation,
and there has been no solution of the drug problem.’ This is the
conclusion of Dr Ernest S. Bishop, clinical professor of medicine in
the New York polyclinic medical school. Two outstanding elements
appear to Dr Bishop to have received insufficient consideration in the
efforts to solve the narcotic drug problem. One of these elements is
the suffering of the addict: the other is the nature of the physical
disease with which he is afflicted. Dr Bishop asserts that the
exploitation of human weakness and suffering would be checked on any
large scale, if the disease created by continued administration of
opiates were recognized and its physical demands comprehended and
provided for in legitimate and relatively unobjectionable ways.... Dr
Bishop also recommends the establishment under proper supervision and
management of stations or clinics at which those who for financial or
other reasons are unable to secure honest medical help, may obtain
their necessary opiate at minimum expense without ‘resorting to
underworld associations and illicit commerce.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p74 Ag ’20 50w
“Occasionally, very occasionally, one finds a book upon a somewhat
technical subject which is not merely readable and informative, but
actually liberating. Such a book is Dr Bishop’s discourse on the
narcotic drug problem.”
+ =No Am= 211:428 Mr ’20 850w
=Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 130w
“A criticism of the book might well be directed against its
redundancy. Nor does it appear just what type of audience he had in
mind when inditing his message. Obviously it is not intended for the
narcotic drug addict. If addressed to the physician, it is incomplete
and fragmentary. If meant for the layman only casually interested in
the problem, the message should have had greater emotional appeal.” H.
E. K.
+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:586 O ’20 480w
“Dr Bishop’s study of the situation is scientific, thorough and
humane. It will authoritatively inform the public regarding a subject
on which enlightenment is needed.
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 29 ’20 800w
“The real problems of the narcotic drug situation are related to the
origin and prevention of heroin and cocaine addictions and the
treatment and after-care of those so addicted. This book avoids these
questions and is sterile of information on these essential points of
the narcotic drug problem.” Medicus
+ − =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 450w
=BISHOP, H. C. W.= Kut prisoner. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c)
Lane 940.47
20–5240
The author, a subaltern of the Indian army reserve of officers, gives
an account of prison life at Kastamuni in Asia Minor, and of his
escape in company with three other officers, their recapture, and
rescue by Turkish brigands and their voyage across the Black sea in a
small boat, to the Russian border and freedom. Contents: Ctesiphon;
Kut; From Kut to Kastamuni; Life in Kastamuni; Escape from Kastamuni;
The first night; On the hills; Slow progress; Bluffing the peasants;
Reaching the coast; Recaptured; Rescued; In hiding with the Turks;
Continued delays; Three days on the Black sea; The Crimea and home;
Friends in captivity. There are maps, illustrations and appendices.
* * * * *
“The book is interesting.”
+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 30w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 250w
“Mr Bishop describes his adventures simply and clearly, and his book
is worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p90 F 5 ’20 60w
=BISHOP, JOSEPH BUCKLIN.= Theodore Roosevelt and his time shown in his
own letters. 2v il *$10 Scribner
20–17013
“Seven years ago, when Theodore Roosevelt published his
‘Autobiography,’ he prefixed to it a foreword, which began with this
sentence. ‘Naturally, there are chapters of my autobiography which
cannot now be written.’ Yet he had written from day to day, on the
spur of the moment, in his frank letters to one or another of his
multitude of friends, the very passages which he could not give to the
public while he was still in the thick of the fight. And it is these
passages which enliven and illuminate the two volumes which Mr Bishop
has now selected and set in order, and explained and annotated. The
work was begun while Roosevelt still lived; it had his complete
approval; parts of it were read to him and amplified from his
recollections.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The biography which will be most worth while to libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“One of the most notable works of the season is Joseph Bucklin
Bishop’s ‘Theodore Roosevelt.’” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 140w
“With perfect taste and judgment Mr Bishop has stood aside and allowed
the story to be told through Roosevelt’s letters. He has made an
excellent book, important, always readable and often extremely
amusing. With the ‘Autobiography’ and Mr Thayer’s book, the present
work, ‘Theodore Roosevelt and his time’ is one of the three
indispensable books on this subject. With Mr Huneker’s ‘Steeplejack,’
it is one of the two best American biographies of this year.” E. L.
Pearson
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 2750w
“It is a work of notable artistic merit. Perhaps fifty years hence it
may generally be conceded that this book preserves what is important
in ‘the true Theodore Roosevelt’s’ character. At present one cannot
help feeling that Mr Bishop’s figure of rugged integrity, unerring
rectitude, and loftiest patriotism has been shorn of some of its
beams.” S. P. Sherman
+ − =Nation= 112:18 Ja 5 ’21 2500w
“A difficult task has been accomplished triumphantly, and the result
is a portrait of Roosevelt by himself, set in an editorial frame which
is artistically unobstructive. Mr Bishop has given us a work which
does for one president of the United States what was done for an
earlier president by the publication of Grant’s ‘Personal memoirs.’
And neither of these great men would object to the comparison.”
Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p4 O 3 ’20 2300w
“There are a few little errors, nothing of consequence. But the book
is undoubtedly partisan; which does not prevent it from being a
thoroughly good and complete biography.” C: W. Thompson
+ − =N Y Times= p5 O 3 ’20 3450w
“It is a work after Roosevelt’s own heart, the sort of record that he
himself would have endorsed just as it stands, showing him in the full
strength and weakness of his very human quality.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:1196 O 16 ’20 480w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 340w
“These two volumes, as they stand, will serve not only for the present
time but for future generations.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 280w
“Mr Bishop has succeeded in giving us two volumes of great value and
readability.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 110w (Reprinted from Atlantic D ’20)
=BISHOP, LOUIS FAUGÈRES.= Heart troubles; their prevention and relief.
il *$3.50 Funk 616.1
20–13070
A book written in popular style and addressed to the layman. The
author believes that a patient is entitled to the full confidence of
his physician and thinks that in heart disease “the educated patient
can help more when wisely advised than in almost any other form of
disease.” The book is in two parts: Physiological and symptomatic, and
Therapeutic. The final chapter is devoted to Nursing in heart
troubles. The book is illustrated and indexed and there is a one-page
list of collateral reading. The author is professor of the heart and
circulatory diseases, Fordham university, New York city.
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:410 D ’20 90w
“The immediate effect of this sane and sensible work should be a wider
dissemination of modern knowledge of the heart, its affections and
their treatment; the ultimate result should be a reduction in the
alarming death rate from heart disease in the United States.” V. B.
Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p17 Ag 29 ’20 3000w
“A ‘doctor book’ of an unusual sort and one which will be found of
great interest and of much practical value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ’20 130w
=BISPHAM, DAVID SCULL.= Quaker singer’s recollections. il *$4 Macmillan
20–1629
“For thirty years and more David Bispham has been prominent, here and
abroad, as a baritone of note, a singing actor, and an advocate of the
use of English speech in opera. In these recollections he has packed
into one volume the record of a long and busy life—a life of many
strange and varied experiences. Unlike most men who have their hour in
opera, he has had his in society. He has traveled far and wide, and
mixed with people who were worth knowing and far-famed in many ways.
To this it may be added, unreservedly, that he has more than an
instinctive turn for setting down, in plain but vivid words, what he
would tell.”—Review
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“The style, unfortunately, is plainly that of a singer, and wavers
continually between the exclamatory and the sentimental.”
+ − =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 90w
“While Mr Bispham’s book may appeal primarily to singers and students
of singing, it is none the less a valuable text book for students of
the drama.”
+ =Drama= 10:356 Jl ’20 140w
“It is an interesting volume full of the writer’s personality written
with more literary skill and taste than many such books, giving many
sidelights on the musical life of the period of which it treats.” R:
Aldrich
+ =N Y Times= 25:6 F 29 ’20 2150w
“If we were disappointed in David Bispham’s ‘A Quaker singer’s
recollections,’ it was not because of lack of thoroughness, but
because that delightful singer’s fund of anecdote has not been used to
advantage.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“A singer who can write with ease and style is rarer than that rare
bird, the black swan. One artist of the kind is David Bispham.” C: H:
Meltzer
+ =Review= 2:289 Mr 20 ’20 950w
=R of Rs= 61:333 Mr ’20 100w
“An excellent volume of reminiscences.”
+ =Spec= 124:694 My 22 ’20 780w
“He has perhaps not grasped the first bitter truth to be learned by an
author that of all the countless incidents which his own mind makes
picturesque in retrospect only those are interesting which he can make
picturesque to others. The bald stretches, however, are only
occasional.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 850w
=BISS, GERALD.= Door of the unreal. *$2 (3c) Putnam
20–19179
Strange disappearances are common in fact and in fiction, sometimes
involving equally strange explanations, but surely in either realm,
nothing could rival the solution of the mystery of this story. Of the
four people who completely vanish from a well-traveled English road
about midnight of a moonlight night, the only one who is ever seen
again is Tony Ballingdon, and he is found unconscious and bruised in a
nearby wood. Lincoln Osgood, an American who happens to be on the
scene, makes a study of the case and soon forms a theory which proves
to be the correct one, altho so weird and uncanny is it that he
himself can hardly credit it. It is based on lycanthropy and its
strange lore: in fact, it presupposes the existence in the
neighborhood of two werewolves, Prof. Lycurgus Wolff and his old
servant. By his knowledge of the subject Osgood prevents further
tragedy and frees Dorothy, Wolff’s daughter, from the curse that is
threatening her.
* * * * *
“With the understanding that the solution of the mystery of the novel
lies along the lines of lycanthropy, the reader finds before him a
smoothly written, straightforward narrative, lucid and compelling in
its admirable simplicity, and endowed with that sustained interest
which before anything else connotes a good story.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 760w
“A readable yarn it is.”
+ =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 330w
=BLACHLY, CLARENCE DAN.= Treatment of the problem of capital and labor
in social-study courses in the churches. *50c Univ. of Chicago press
330.7
20–2984
“The social-study movement in the churches of America has developed on
lines both sound and broad in recent years, and a review of its
present status would be decidedly helpful. Mr Blachly, however, has
found the material so large that in the present essay he confines
himself to only one aspect of that movement. He presents an analysis
of several hundred pamphlets and reports, replies to questionnaires
and letters of inquiry, the texts of the social study courses used in
the leading Protestant churches, the principal church magazines and
other literature. He distinguishes five methods of approach to the
discussion of capital and labor by the churches: deductive study which
he finds as a rule incomplete and non-conclusive; controversial
discussion, especially the adoption of a definite political or
economic platform, which is dangerous to church harmony; control of
experience through attitude of mind and heart, i.e., emphasis on the
spiritual rather than the legal control of conditions; scientific,
critical examination—which is rare because the religious attitude is
as different from that of the student as it is from that of the
legislator; the incorporation of modern, scientific and sociological
facts into teaching that is primarily religious. Evidently, the
author’s preference is for the last named method.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20 (Adapted from Survey 43:781 Mr 20 ’20)
“This is a valuable summary of information for the student of the
teaching of organized religion on present-day problems of the social
life and a suggestive criticism of the different policies that have
been adopted.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 330w
=BLACK, HUGH.=[2] Lest we forget. *$1.50 Revell 824
“In the eleven chapters which make up this book the author discusses
among other things the meaning of the victory, a democracy safe for
the world, patriotism, true and false, peace and pacifism, the binding
of the nations and the English-speaking peoples. In the chapter on the
binding of the nations he says: ‘All men of goodwill must recognize
that the plan for a league of nations is inspired with their highest
ideal, and they can make it invincible.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w
=N Y Times= p21 N 14 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 280w
=BLAKE, A. H.= Things seen in London. il *$1.35 Dutton 914.21
20–26316
“This book is a pocket-sized volume, belonging to the Things seen
series, which contains descriptive and historical chapters on points
of special interest with post-card sized illustrations.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
+ =Spec= 122:546 O 25 ’19 40w
“It hardly exhausts the city. But it is a good introductory
description, written by a person who appreciates historic flavor. The
little book is well illustrated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 18 ’20 120w
=BLAKEMORE, ARTHUR WALKER.=[2] Make your will. *$1.25 Appleton 347.6
20–22318
The book is “a guide to the drafting of a valid will under the laws of
any state.” (Sub-title) In the introduction the reasons for making a
will, its essentials, and definitions of the terms used are given. The
other chapters are: Form and essentials; Provisions of will; Execution
of will; Codicils; After execution of will. The book is indexed and
has an appendix containing a synopsis of laws affecting wills for
every state.
=BLANCHARD, PHYLLIS MARY.= Adolescent girl. *$2.50 Moffat 136.7
20–8047
“A pioneering into the field of girl life in a direction, says Dr G.
Stanley Hall in his preface, which his studies took with the
adolescent boy. The book is a summary of the main theories of Fichte,
Schelling, Von Hartmann, Bergson, Freud, Trotter, Adler, Jung, Maeder
and others.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“More helpful to the serious student than Evans [‘Problem of the
nervous child’] because of its carefully selected chapter
bibliographies.”
+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
“Unfortunately, she does not resist the temptation to adopt the
evangelistic tone. Although ostensibly based on the findings of Freud,
Jung and Adler, there is never any suggestion that their researches
may ultimately lead to a questioning of some of our moral standards.
But this is an eminently safe book.” Fola La Follette
− + =Freeman= 1:621 S 8 ’20 1100w
“To the reviewer the book commends itself most particularly on account
of the richness of first-hand clinical material, put in a simple,
readable manner, the frankness with which the author has handled the
subject of the instinctive determinants of conduct, and finally
because it reflects throughout a ‘mental hygienic’ rather than a
therapeutic aim.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:974 O ’20 800w
“The chief value of Miss Blanchard’s work is in line with her own real
interest, philosophy. Busy workers with girls, who may feel that their
knowledge of the main developments of psychoanalysis is rather vague,
and who wish to know some of its real possibilities in their own
field, will find this a useful and interesting introduction.” M. E.
Moxcey
+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:584 O ’20 350w
“She endeavors to give a social direction to her material. But it
remains a good deal of a jumble.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w
Reviewed by A. E. Morey
+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 560w
=BLAND, JOHN OTWAY PERCY.= Men, manners and morals in South America. il
*$4.50 Scribner 918
(Eng ed 20–14550)
“This book is the outcome of two or three journeys which Mr Bland, the
author of several books on China, made to South America in the course
of the war. They took him to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He protests against the ‘blue-book
stodginess’ of many works which deal with that portion of the western
hemisphere south of the equator. It is undeniable that the general
reader wants, not dry particulars of South American trades,
industries, and manufacturing possibilities, but silhouettes of the
men and women and their social life; descriptions of the prairies and
forests, of mountain gorges and the ‘everlasting hills.’ Mr Bland, who
portrays numerous types of South American humanity, and spiritedly
describes the places he has visited, successfully avoids the faults to
which his strictures apply.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“His book is heartily to be commended.”
+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 100w
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“All that he tells is well worth the reading.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 550w
“Tho rambling in manner and somewhat cynical in tone, is an
illuminating introduction to a little understood part of the world.”
+ − =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 60w
“In no place in the present work has he attained or even attempted
that subtlety of characterization, that inimitable charm of
description which enchants us in Hudson. The outsides of people he has
faithfully observed and studiously catalogued; the insides he has
missed. Not that there are lacking passages of rare beauty and
memorable description in the present work. Had Mr Bland chosen any
other theme than this one, which has already been covered by a master,
his volume would stand out as an unusual contribution to the
literature of travel.” H. L. Varney
+ − =N Y Times= p16 Ag 15 ’20 1700w
“He writes because he likes writing, and as he writes very brightly
the reader has no cause to complain. He conjures up people and customs
that were strange to him in phrases of so much colour, point, and
pungency that we are well content to see them with his eyes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p198 Mr 25 ’20 1100w
=BLAND, OLIVER.= Adventures of a modern occultist. *$2 Dodd 133
20–17101
To acquire psychic power, says the author, presupposes certain unusual
natural gifts and the object of the volume is to render assistance to
those possessing such gifts. It contains disclosures of hidden facts
which have been abiding their time for years in the author’s
notebooks, and which are of interest to the spiritualist, the
theosophist, and the student of psychic research. Contents: The dead
rapper; The automatist; Astral light and psycho-lastrometer; An
experiment on the theory of protective vibration; Sex in the next
world; The reality of sorcery; Incense and occultism; Beasts and
elementals; Possession; Some new facts and theories; Oriental
occultism.
=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.=[2] Enemies of women (Los enemigos de la
mujer); tr. from the Spanish by Irving Brown. *$2.15 Dutton
20–19241
“In a fairy-like villa on the Mediterranean, Prince Lubimoff, a
Russian Apollo, surfeited with luxury and liasons, gathers a group of
friends,—a savant, a soldier, and a musician,—in order to live in calm
contemplation, free from the most disturbing element in life—the
feminine. These ‘enemies of women,’ as they style themselves, start
with a sense of satiated superiority that makes renunciation easy, but
the gradual defection of each from the code and the coterie forms an
intriguing study of human nature and its inevitabilities. In the end,
all the ‘enemies of women’ have succumbed to the eternal feminine and
chiefly because of it have gone to fight on the side of idealism, even
that incorrigible epicurean, the Russian prince, losing an arm in the
Foreign legion and gaining some semblance of a soul.”—Pub W
* * * * *
“Taking it by the large, the book, though not without its weak spots,
is a decided improvement over the two that went before it in point of
time, and thus provides a genuine climax to the trilogy.” I. G.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 1350w
“While the book is a colorful, cross-section of the hectic war and
post-war fragments of European civilization, it lacks the directed
drive of the ‘Four horsemen’ and ‘Mare nostrum,’ as well as the
concentration of theme and treatment of the Spanish stories.” Clement
Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 200w
“The book is so full of splendid, glowing color, so rich in
characters, each one clearly set forth and individualized—it has so
many dramatic scenes, so many statements upon which one would like to
comment, that to choose among them is extraordinarily difficult. That
the book is beautifully written, and the descriptions of scenery
remarkable, goes, of course, without saying.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1300w
“Blasco Ibáñez has, with master hand, painted a broad, crowded canvas,
teeming with life and glowing with primary colors. It is undeniably a
strong book and thoroly characteristic of the author, tho with rather
an over-emphasis on the sensual side and coronetted classes, and with
different ethical values from those to which the Anglo-Saxon mind is
trained.” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 98:1888 D 18 ’20 410w
=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.= Mexico in revolution; tr. by Arthur Livingston
and José Padin. *$2 Dutton 972
20–12284
“The author of the ‘Four horsemen of the Apocalypse’ happens to be one
of the few Spaniards of distinction who have recently visited the
United States. That he should prove to be a journalist as well as a
novelist occasioned some surprise among his admirers in this country.
His visit to Mexico was distinctly a journalistic enterprise, the
outcome of which was a series of articles printed in the New York
Times and other important newspapers and now brought out in book
form.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Statements cited as facts are sometimes based on hearsay, or
incomplete knowledge. The style is that of a vigorous piece of
reporting, particularly in the vividness of the personalities
portrayed.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
=Cath World= 112:401 D ’20 260w
“It is interesting reading, and is, of course, excellently written.
The book is of only temporary interest, however, and from the
standpoint of historical study will be of little or no value.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 100w
“His shrewd, quick-glancing political insight, his wit, his sense of
the picturesque, his fundamental common sense views of life and the
smooth, even flow of his style are all illustrated at their best in
his little book on ‘Mexico in revolution.’”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 320w
“Señor Ibáñez owes a great deal to his translators. They had an
inspiring task, for Ibáñez is a born journalist of the highest type,
and the swift rush of his narrative, the power of terse description,
the characterization, the wit to ‘make you see it,’ should be a spur
to any translator.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 25 ’20 3800w
“Ibáñez will seem to the friends of the Mexican people to have erred
as badly in going to the opposite extreme [from the radical position].
Yet Ibáñez’ picture, even if overdrawn, is an honest one. It is a
depressing picture if one accepts it as it stands. But the artist has
overcharged his canvas.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:212 S 8 ’20 800w
“Señor Blasco Ibáñez is gifted with a ‘nose for news’ and an unusual
ability to give literary form to his observations and impressions. In
short, he is a first-rate reporter. He employed his time in Mexico to
good advantage.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 140w
=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.= Woman triumphant (La maja desnuda); tr. from
the Spanish by Hayward Keniston; with a special introductory note by the
author. *$1.90 Dutton
20–7292
“The central theme concerns the intimate tragedy of a great painter,
Renovales, who, beholding the loveliness of his young wife, persuades
her to pose for him, promising that the picture shall be destroyed.
But when his inspired hand has added the last brush-stroke, Renovales
knows that this is his master piece, and when exhibited will bring him
fame. The wife, however, in a sudden revulsion of outraged dignity,
flings herself on the picture and slashes it into ribbons. Her act
cleaves asunder the artist’s two-fold worship. Meanwhile, a blight has
fallen upon the wife’s former beauty. With pitiful futility she admits
to herself that he might freely paint and exhibit her if only it would
bring back her vanished charm. Yet she clings to life until the day
when she becomes aware that even his technical fidelity is at an end.
But when the prematurely old and faded wife is dead and buried, the
memory of her comes back to haunt Renovales with the elusive charm of
her girlhood. And it is borne in upon him that while pursuing
unattainable desires he has missed the best life had to offer, and
that now it is forever too late.”—Pub W
* * * * *
“‘Woman triumphant’ is, if one may say so without sounding dogmatic,
one of the three great novels by Blasco Ibáñez that will endure. There
are power, irony, depth and greatness in this novel. Josefina is one
of Blasco Ibáñez’s few convincing portrayals of women, and Renovales
is not merely an artist type, but a flesh and blood creature. The
atmosphere is vibrant with interest, there are admirable pages of
art-criticism, and the ever attractive scenes out of Bohemia.” I:
Goldberg
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 69:102 Jl ’20 130w
“It shares the vivid pictorial quality, the sweeping rhetorical
strokes characteristic of his fiction, but the slightness of its
structure, tenuity of its philosophy and a certain morbidity of theme
relegate it to the secondary rank among his novels. There is too much
in the book that has this charnel-house atmosphere, and while it has
unmistakable power, power does not redeem it.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is the great storyteller of today. In sheer
ability to narrate, to make even the minutest analyses of the
thought-processes of his characters part of his action, he stands
peerless. ‘Woman triumphant’ only serves to emphasize those traits
which have brought him enthusiastic homage before. The translation,
like the original, is far above the average.” T. R. Ybarra
+ + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 950w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
=Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“What moves us in it is that for all their blundering and wantonness
something real and abiding has sprung from the union of Renovales and
his maja.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 500w
“Despite an inherent tendency to sensationalism, ‘Woman triumphant’
may be enjoyed for keen interpretation of human nature, sustained
romantic creation, strong plot and vigorous action.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 500w
=BLEYER, WILLARD GROSVENOR.= How to write special feature articles.
*$2.25 Houghton 070
20–5605
“A handbook for reporters, correspondents and free-lance writers who
desire to contribute to popular magazines and magazine sections of
newspapers.” (Sub-title) “The book is the result of twelve years’
experience in teaching university students to write special feature
articles for newspapers and popular magazines.... The success that
these students have achieved leads the author to believe that others
who desire to write special articles may be aided by the suggestions
given in this book.” (Preface) A careful analysis of current practices
is the basis of the methods presented and an effort has been made to
show the application of the principles of composition to the writing
of articles. The book falls into two parts of which the second is
devoted to a collection of typical newspaper and magazine articles,
with an outline for the analysis of them. Part 1 contains: The field
for special articles; Preparation for special feature writing; Finding
subjects and material; Appeal and purpose; Types of articles; Writing
the article; How to begin; Style; Titles and headlines; Preparing and
selling the manuscript; Photographs and other illustrations. There is
an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 240w
=BLISS, DANIEL.= Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss; ed. and supplemented by
his eldest son. il *$2.25 Revell
20–20532
“Daniel Bliss is not a name of resounding fame, and yet the man who
bore it lived a long and useful life, reaching well into its ninth
decade, and this long life was for the most part spent in doing good
to his fellowman. This book is largely an autobiography written, it is
believed, wholly from memory, in his eighty-second year. His life was
the life of a missionary, a teacher and the founder and president of
the Syrian Protestant college at Beirut. He was born in August, 1823,
in Vermont, the son of a farmer of the olden time. In his own language
Mr Bliss records many incidents of his childhood. He follows these
anecdotes with the story of his school life, his apprenticeship to a
tanner, his course later at the academy and at Amherst, where he was
graduated in 1852. It was during his college course that he became
interested in missions and resolved to become a missionary. Soon after
his graduation he received ordination to the ministry. Three years
later he was married, and with his wife sailed for his lifework in
Syria.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 340w
=N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 120w
=Outlook= 126:421 N 3 ’20 1450w
“Exceedingly readable book. There is something extremely restful and
benign in the manner and matter of the narration.”
+ =Spec= 125:674 N 20 ’20 300w
“One of the most interesting biographies of the year.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 19 ’20 700w
=BLOCKSIDGE, ERNEST WALTER.= Ships’ boats. il *$9 (*25s) Longmans 623.8
20–13582
“The first detailed text-book on this important subject. It follows
mainly the requirements and classification of the British Board of
trade and aims to deal essentially with practical applications and to
avoid all abstruse theory. Form, stability, strength and capacity are
carefully considered. Constructional details of the various classes
are given and there are chapters on timbers, pontoon boats,
motorboats, nested boats, and sail-boats; lifting and lowering
appliances, buoyancy air-cases; miscellaneous equipment; galvanizing
methods, painting, repairs and maintenance, fire and boat drifts, and
stowage and transporting arrangements. The book is illustrated with
photographs and line details. The author is ship surveyor to Lloyd’s
register.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Mr Blocksidge presents for the first time a complete and
authoritative work on a very important branch of naval construction.”
C. M. Peabody
+ =Int Marine Engineering= 25:774 S ’20 1700w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p31 Ap ’20 100w
=Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p109 F 12 ’20 60w
=BLOOD, BENJAMIN PAUL.= Pluriverse; an essay in the philosophy of
pluralism; with an introd. by Horace Meyer Kallen. *$2.50 Jones,
Marshall 191
20–9219
“In 1874 Blood wrote and circulated a pamphlet entitled ‘The
anaesthetic revelation and the gist of philosophy,’ which brought him
into correspondence with Tennyson and Gurney, Emerson and Sir William
Ramsay, Stirling and James. In the last years of his life he returned
to the topic, and the result is ‘Pluriverse,’ posthumously published.
The central point of the book is simple enough. It is that philosophy
is ‘of all our vanities the motliest,’ and that the ‘satisfaction’
which it seeks, the sense of security through insight into the mystery
of being, is not to be obtained through argument and reasoning but
through the illumination or revelation which comes under the influence
of anaesthetics.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“Another obscure volume is added to the literature of philosophy. And
this will have to be acknowledged despite the fact that the diction of
the author is in many places very beautiful, and his thoughts very
often exceedingly suggestive.” F. W. C.
− + =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 570w
“Blood, in thorough keeping with the best in American philosophy,
thinks waveringly and writes excellently.” E. P.
− + =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 200w
“Even Dr Kallen’s interesting and sympathetic introduction does not
convince me that the aftermath was worth gathering in.... At any rate,
most sane and reasonable men do not gather their religion in the
obscure by-ways of abnormal experience, and one cannot help feeling
that Blood’s memory would have been better served had it been allowed
to live only through the pages of William James.” R. F. A. H.
− + =New Repub= 24:332 N 24 ’20 1250w
=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. Selected articles on modern industrial
movements. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 330.4
20–1961
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:363 Je ’20 40w
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“The selection on the whole is a fair and representative one. There is
an exceptionally complete bibliography.”
+ =Nation= 110:774 Je 5 ’20 220w
“The editor seems to have been able to detach himself from any bias in
making his selections. An excellent bibliography is presented, and an
index completes what is, on the whole, a very useful documentary work.
If the other volumes in the series maintain the standard set by this
one they will prove valuable as a source of reference and study.”
James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“As in all compilations of broad scope and limited size, the judicious
but fallible editor has included things that he might have left out,
and excluded things that he should have put in, and none of his
readers will be altogether satisfied; but for all that, he has set
before them some good material, for which those who have appetite for
industrial problems should be truly thankful.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 230w
“The compiler has made a discriminating selection of material. Papers
on Bolshevism give a much needed insight into that creed, and tend to
check the trouble-breeding application of the term to all radicals.
Both the student and the man of business will find here ample material
on which to base intelligent conclusions.”
+ =Scientific American= 122:476 Ap 24 ’20 130w
“Throughout an attempt is made to treat controversial subjects from
various points of vision. Least successful in this respect is the
chapter on Bolshevism, particularly as it relates to the achievements
of the Soviet government. On the whole, however, the cream of the
literature on both sides is impartially presented.” H. W. L.
+ − =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 70w
=Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 100w
“The reader is left free to make his own deductions from the fund of
valuable information contained therein. The selected bibliography
which starts the volume is a real contribution to literature on the
subject of industrial relations.”
+ =Textile World= 57:30 My 15 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 50w
=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. and ed. Selected articles on problems of
labor. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 331.8
20–9366
This is volume 3 of Mr Bloomfield’s series of books on industrial
relations following “Employment management” and “Modern industrial
movements.” The compiler has selected for reprint the best of the
recent material on the subject, grouping this material under the
headings: Causes of friction and unrest; Cost of living; Methods of
compensation; Hours of work; Tenure of employment; Trade unionism;
Labor disputes and adjustment; Limitation of output; Industrial
insurance; Housing; Methods of promoting industrial peace;
Occupational hygiene; Women in industry. Bibliographies have been
provided for each subject and there is an index. Meyer Bloomfield
writes an introduction.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:607 S ’20 50w
Reviewed by R. W. Stone
+ =Am J Soc= 26:242 S ’20 200w
“All phases of the labor problem are ably and concisely treated.”
+ =Am Machinist= Jl 8 ’20 120w
=Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“This series has become indispensable for those who, unable to
maintain a large filing system of their own, wish to keep important
articles on industrial topics that appear in the periodicals.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w
=BLOUNT, BERTRAM; WOODCOCK, WILLIAM H.; and GILLETT, HENRY J.= Cement.
il *$6 (*18s) Longmans 691.5
20–13877
“The present volume forms one of the series of Monographs on
industrial chemistry which is being edited by Sir Edward Thorpe,
F.R.S., and published by Messrs Longmans. The book contains an
introduction, thirteen chapters, and five appendices. In the
introduction it is explained that, although cements may vary in
chemical nature from casein to iron oxide, yet, by common consent and
because of the enormous practical importance of calcareous cements,
the term cement, used without qualification, is restricted to them;
and it is of calcareous cements alone that the book treats. There are,
as Mr Blount points out, numerous varieties of such cements, but they
all fall into two groups, (1) the calcium silicate group, and (2) the
calcium sulphate group, the first being typified by Portland cement
and the second by plaster of Paris. Strictly speaking, it is with the
first group alone that the author is concerned.”—Engineer
* * * * *
“This is a welcome addition to what may be described as the ‘popular’
literature on cement. There is indeed much in the book that should
cause the cement manufacturer of today to think.” S. G. S. Panisset
+ =Concrete= 17:130 O ’20 640w (Reprinted from British Chemical
Industry)
“One has become accustomed to connect Mr Blount’s name with novel and
interesting points of view on a variety of matters and we are not
surprised, therefore, to find that he has in large measure treated his
subject in a manner quite different from that adopted by any previous
author.”
+ =Engineer= 130:280 S 17 ’20 2250w
“Rather fuller references to continental and American methods would
have been welcome. A very useful book.” C. H. Desch
+ − =Nature= 106:3 S 2 ’20 820w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p48 Jl ’20 100w
=BLÜCHER VON WAHLSTATT, EVELYN MARY (STAPLETON BRETHERTON) VON.= English
wife in Berlin. *$6 Dutton 940.343
21–600
“Evelyn, Princess Blücher, English wife of the great-grandson of the
famous marshal of Waterloo, lived throughout the war among her
husband’s people, mainly in Berlin, and set down a record of what she
heard, saw, thought and felt. As one of that strange colony of
distinguished internationals who were war-bound in the German capital,
she met everybody of note and enjoyed exceptional advantages for
seeing what was going on behind the scenes during those eventful and
tragic years. She saw the war also as the country-folk saw it, for she
was frequently at the Blücher family seat in Silesia; and at the same
time she played a useful rôle in the care of the British prisoners and
wounded.”—Freeman
* * * * *
=Ath= p107 Jl 23 ’20 520w
“There is nothing stale or war-worn in this account.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 70w
“Remarkably shrewd and impartial record.” C. R. Hargrove
+ =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1000w
“Almost alone of the chronicles that have come out of the enemy
country, her diary presents a portrayal of events that is neither
envenomed by partisanship nor warped by propagandist intention.” Amy
Loveman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 D 4 ’20 1050w
“Takes high rank among the really worthwhile books of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 920w
“Princess Blücher’s book adds hardly any fact of importance or of
permanent historical value. The author saw German life during the war
from only a few angles. The attraction of the book for the general
public lies almost wholly in the appeal which it makes to persons who
are interested in people of title for the title’s sake.”
− + =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 90w
“This book, simply written by an English lady, with a decided sense of
humour and deep religious faith, is far more amusing and informative
than the many documented narratives of the famous war correspondents,
because it is written from the centre of things in Germany, and has no
political or partisan object.”
+ =Sat R= 130:73 Jl 24 ’20 1050w
+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 2400w
“Its tone is moderate, neither violently pro-English or anti-German.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 25 ’20 980w
“This is not exactly an important book, but it is one of the most
interesting of those that have been written about life in Germany
during the war. Princess Blücher writes with ease, sympathy, and
charm, but no special distinction.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 2250w
=BLUNDELL, MARY E. (SWEETMAN) (MRS FRANCIS BLUNDELL) (M. E. FRANCIS,
pseud.).=[2] Beck of Beckford. *$2 Kenedy
(Eng ed 20–23029)
“The Becks of Beckford were baronets—alternatively Sir John and Sir
Roger—and through an honest endeavour to repay money that had been
embezzled by a member of the family they have come down in the world
and live as hardworking farming folk. Young Sir Roger, the Beck of
Beckford of the story, after school and Oxford, comes back to the
farm; and instead of marrying an American heiress with whom he fell in
love, wins through his hardships and difficulties by hard work.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is wholesome and pleasant enough, but seems best suited to
readers who are still at the naïve and unexacting age.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:550 Ja ’21 100w
“This is a simple, pretty tale, but saved from insignificance by the
skill which never fails this novelist.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 120w
=BODENHEIM, MAXWELL.= Advice; a book of poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811
20–16518
Among the titles are: Advice to a street-pavement; Advice to a
buttercup; Foundry workers; Rattlesnake mountain fable; Advice to a
butterfly; Fifth avenue; Boarding house episode; Steel mills; South
Chicago. Some of the poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Smart
Set, New Republic, Touchstone and other magazines.
* * * * *
“Mr Bodenheim uses words in a cryptic, esoteric fashion, attaching to
them meanings of his own, as though they were his private property and
not the common possession of the race.”
− =Ath= p614 N 5 ’20 140w
“Mr Bodenheim has proved himself a very capable artist. Once the
reader is willing to lend a bit of sympathy to his theory there is
much to enjoy in his poems. The clew to their virtues may be a little
difficult to get, the harmony may seem discordant, the images a trifle
confusing and fantastic, but careful discernment will bring unity out
of the picture, and with a vivid phase of imaginative suggestion.” W:
S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 1050w
“His unfailing sentiment for things leads him at moments whimsically
to indulge both word and thought with frantic gestures, even
occasionally with unworthy figures of speech. Such tricks, although
they often steal distinction from surprise, wear out the power of the
brain to respond and eventually develop a resentment toward the kind
of verse that leaves us jaded. But it must be observed that Mr
Bodenheim has not made a habit of these literary capers; as occasional
lapses, his can be condoned.” Stewart Mitchell
+ − =Dial= 69:645 D ’20 1100w
“There is not a single piece in the volume that fails to possess a
fresh outlook, a precious intellectual attitude; but these are labored
over and strained at so painstakingly that whatever poetry existed in
the original concept has long left, and only dry intellectual husks
remain.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= N 21 ’20 440w
“‘Advice’ is indubitably one of the important books of the year, as it
is one of the books most compact with beauty, actually worthy of
frequent rereading. It is a book small only in size, for behind its
lines tremble the multitudinous vibrations of a world of beauty and
thought.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 920w
=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of Americanization. $1.50 (3c)
Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los Angeles,
Cal. 325.7
19–12739
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“The book is written in splendid spirit and should be of good service
to foreigners and to untrained Americanization workers. The chapter
dealing with Democracy and the square deal, one of his four
Americanisms, is the best in the book. It is much better than the
other three. The chapter on the negro is very good but inconclusive.”
A. E. Jenks
+ − =Am J Soc= 25:651 Mr ’20 280w
=Booklist= 16:153 F ’20
“On the whole, the book is a valuable contribution to a subject in
which there is much interest at the present time.”
+ =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 180w
=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of social psychology. new and enl
ed $1.75 Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los
Angeles, Cal. 301
20–11686
This is a revised and much enlarged edition of a work published in
1918. “In this edition the problems have been re-stated and increased
in number.... The subject matter has been re-written and elaborated.
The original eight chapters have grown into fifteen chapters.”
(Preface to 2d ed) Contents: The field, development, and literature of
social psychology; Psychological bases of social psychology; The
social personality (three chapters); Suggestion-imitation phenomena
(three chapters); Invention and leadership (two chapters): The nature
of groups; Group conflicts; Group loyalties; Group control; Social
change and progress. Problems and references follow the chapters.
There is a general bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“The volume makes no particularly new contribution to its subject; its
value lies in its outlining of the field in its differentiations, and
its opening up to the student of volumes of pioneer inquiry.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 Ja 29 ’21 160w
=BOGART, ERNEST LUDLOW.= Direct and Indirect costs of the great world
war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace
336
19–18454
In this volume of Preliminary economic studies of the war Professor
Bogart of the University of Illinois presents a discussion, with
tables and estimates, of the war costs in each of the countries
concerned. The foreword says: “In the following pages the direct
outlays of the governments, which are matters of usual financial
procedure, may be said to be fairly accurate; the attempt to estimate
the indirect costs of the war, however, is attended with a
considerable amount of conjecture and must be regarded merely as the
best guess which is possible at the present time.” The work closes
with a bibliography of thirty pages and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Am Econ R= 10:377 Je ’20 140w
“It is not as an accurate summary of the costs of the war, but as an
outline of the financial history of the great powers, that the book
will prove permanently useful.” Alzada Comstock
+ =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 420w
“This book by Professor Bogart is the most complete and authentic
account now in print of the losses of the war, stated in terms of
dollars. The work bears the mark of painstaking cautions and scholarly
method. An extensive bibliography and good index adds to its value.”
C. J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 25:650 Mr ’20 280w
=Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
=Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 380w
=Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 350w
“Professor Bogart has produced a careful, sober, and thoughtful
analysis of the cost of the war to the world at large, so far as the
items can be stated without over-indulgence in ‘estimates,’ and with
all proper caveats.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 80w
=BÖHME, JACOB.=[2] Confessions of Jacob Boehme; with an introd. by
Evelyn Underhill. *$2 Knopf 189
“Mr Scott Palmer has done a valuable piece of work in getting together
in a small volume the more personal utterances of Jacob Boehme. It is
a book that will appeal to many people who have felt an interest in
the great mystic, but, at the same time, have found his writings, when
presented to them in mass, heavy and difficult reading.”—Freeman
* * * * *
“Mr Scott Palmer has been wise in keeping as far as possible to
William Law’s eighteenth-century translation, the simple language of
which is so admirably adapted to the profound meditations of this
homely tradesman. Quite apart from their speculative and philosophic
value, certain sentences in this volume have about them the intense
and innocent beauty of really great literature.” Llewelyn Powys
+ =Freeman= 2:357 D 22 ’20 840w
“We are grateful to Mr Scott Palmer and Miss Evelyn Underhill for
their help in faithfully elucidating Böhme’s doctrine and revealing
the man himself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 1350w
=BÖHME, JACOB.= Six theosophic points, and other writings. *$3 (1½c)
Knopf 189
20–4124
This book, written in 1620, has here been newly translated into
English by John Rolleston Earle. In addition to the Six theosophic
points, the contents are: Six mystical points; On the earthly and
heavenly mystery; On the divine intuition.
* * * * *
“Valuable for helping to clarify a book written four hundred years ago
in a very difficult vocabulary. Too obscure and special for any but
the student of the question.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
“These new translations have something more than the face value of new
translations of an old and more or less inaccessible author. Students
of German mysticism are indebted to the scholarship of John Rolleston
Earle as a commentator as well as a translator.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 130w
“In the ‘Six theosophic points’ one will wander long unless one is
provided with some chart. Page after page record the wanderings of a
puzzled, ever-searching, ill-equipped, penetrating spirit, with no
compass or chart; often over-stepping, it would seem, the bounds of
sanity, but from time to time letting fall a pregnant saying. Even in
his incoherences are gleams of light.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 2650w
=BOJER, JOHAN.= Power of a lie. *$2 Moffat
“The novel tells the story of two men living in a small Swedish town
or village, tells what the power of a lie did to them, to their
families, and to those persons who came in contact with them—and it.
Knut Norby, a wealthy farmer, has indorsed a note for a friend, Henry
Wangen, a note for 2,000 kronen. Three or four years later Wangen
becomes a bankrupt and Norby denies his signature, denies that he ever
saw the paper, or ever signed one for Wangen. The witness is dead;
Wangen is convicted of forgery and sent to prison, while Norby is
given a banquet by his fellow-townsmen. The innocent man is punished;
the guilty man is fêted.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Here is a novel of compelling power and dignity, illuminated by a
bleak beauty like that of the aurora borealis.”
+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 60w
“Bojer does not allow himself the luxury of beauty except where it
aids his story. He strips his narrative bare, trims it exquisitely to
the least detail, and lets it glide straight before the wind. Johan
Bojer is undoubtedly a great artist, although by no means a luxuriant
and happy one. He has been aided in his American venture by the
admirable translation of Jessie Muir, which deserves the highest
praise.” R. L. Duffus
+ =Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w
“The novel is indeed admirably written, the author indulging neither
in verbal fireworks nor in splashes of black, white or scarlet. One
reads it with the feeling that it is the truthful account of a real
occurrence, but of an occurrence seen from all sides. ‘The power of a
lie,’ in short, stands head and shoulders above the average
contemporary novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:708 Jl 7 ’20 750w
“The idea is presented with fine suggestiveness and artistic
vitality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 50w
=BOJER, JOHAN.= Treacherous ground; tr. from the Norwegian by Jessie
Muir. *$2 Moffat
20–4783
“Young Erik Evje has two characteristics; he is a man whose former
immoral aberrations weigh heavy on his conscience, and a man imbued
with high ideals in connection with social reform. By putting into
practice his ideals he hopes to atone for his sin. He can find no
solace in religion, and he makes of his philanthropic work his
crucifix. The little colony that he plants on a hillside is the only
tangible evidence of his ideals, and at the same time his atonement.
But he is told that his house is built on sand, that a landslide will
carry it away. It is too necessary as his last grip on the best part
of himself for him to give it up. The landslide occurs and wipes out
several families.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A story with interesting characters, a pleasant background and well
sustained suspense, that is thoughtful without a touch of heaviness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Its trenchant clearness is almost frightening, like transparent glass
where one expected wooden walls; its teaching is both true and
tragic.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 100w
Reviewed by R. L. Duffus
=Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p93 Je 26 ’20 1800w
“The tale has the bite and ‘follow through’ of an Ibsen play, a ‘Wild
duck’ or an ‘Enemy of the people.’ It lacks, accordingly, the rich
sympathy of ‘The great hunger.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 120w
“The theme is peculiarly and very strongly developed. Johan Bojer
employs a very realistic style and presents a vivid picture of the
Evje farm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 31 ’20 250w
=BOK, EDWARD WILLIAM.= Americanization of Edward Bok; the autobiography
of a Dutch boy fifty years after. il *$5 Scribner
20–17333
In writing his autobiography the author has treated himself
objectively, which accounts for the title. It is with the editor and
publicist that the book deals, not with the author’s private self. Not
until he retired from the editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journal, did
he cease to be two personalities and become simply himself. The book
abounds in reminiscences of editorial experiences and of famous men,
contains facsimiles of autographs and manuscripts, a list of
biographical data, illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“Mr Bok has done more than merely carry the reader with him along the
pleasant paths which he has trod. He has thought deeply upon the
problem of the immigrant and the result is a valuable contribution.”
H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:362 D ’20 540w
“This autobiography of the ex-editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal is
likely to produce upon the sophisticated reader that impression of
exasperated amusement which I have noted in more or less civilized
Britons when they have undergone a course of the Saturday Evening
Post, at my suggestion, in order that they might become familiar with
that microcosm of the United States.” E. A. Boyd
− =Freeman= 2:355 D 22 ’20 2550w
“This is an extraordinary array. In all the account of it there is not
one gleam of intellectual speculation, not one sign that Mr Bok ever
heard of the world of ideas, or that he understood any passions
stronger than sentimentalism. His criticism of the America in which he
lived and which he seems to have understood so well, is always merely
trivial.” I. B.
− =Nation= 111:783 D 29 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by A. M. Jungmann
=N Y Evening= Post p2 O 23 ’20 1400w
“Considered in every aspect, ‘The Americanization of Edward Bok’ is an
affording and a significant book. In style it is as simple and
perspicuous as Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis,’ which was also written in the
third person and by a man of shrewd common sense who trusted his
instincts.”
+ =No Am= 213:134 Ja ’21 2000w
“There is a great deal that is stimulating to energy, originality, and
resourcefulness in this autobiography, as well as much that is amusing
and agreeable reading.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:514 N 17 ’20 1600w
“It is pleasant reading and happily stimulating to wholesome
ambition.” R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“All in all, this is a remarkable book. Edward Bok is as compelling a
writer when telling his own story as when writing on other themes, and
this ought to be one of the ‘best sellers’ of the year.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 100w
=BOLTON, GUY, and MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Light of the world. il *$1.75 Holt
812
20–19671
The scene of this three-act play is Oberammergau, the village of the
Passion play, just previous to a new performance; the time, between
the choosing of the actors and the opening of the play; and the theme,
the disparity between the teachings of Christ and the daily life of
Christians. Anton Rendel, the chosen Christus, discovers, on the eve
of his friend Simon’s wedding, that Simon has betrayed the girl Anton
had loved. Anton forgives but advises confession to Ruth, the bride,
and is left under the impression that it was made. The girl and her
baby seek refuge and find shelter in Anton’s house. His rivals among
the actors throw suspicion on Anton and insist that he drive out the
girl or give up his rôle as Christus. He does the latter and before
the play is to open a mob comes to set fire to his house. At that
moment the truth of the situation has just been revealed to Ruth. She
exacts open confession from Simon as the price of her love, whereupon
the rôle of Christus is once more offered to Anton.
* * * * *
“In no sense is this a play that will live, but it is a workmanlike
performance with a creditable motive—defence of the unfortunate and
misunderstood.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 220w
“Guy Bolton and George Middleton have made a real addition to the
literature of our contemporary stage. Yet curiously, perhaps, the
illustrations interspersed through the published play serve as a check
rather than a spur to the reader’s enjoyment.” Dorothy Grafly
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w
=BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE, and MARSHALL, THOMAS MAITLAND.=[2] Colonization
of North America, 1492–1783. il *$4.25 Macmillan 970
20–16766
“A solid treatise (arranged in headed paragraphs) by two American
history professors, giving a comprehensive survey of the colonization
of North America from 1492 to 1783, and providing a more complete
account than previous works have done of the colonies of nations other
than the English and of English colonies other than those which
established their independence. A special attempt has been made to do
better justice to Spanish achievements in North American colonization.
Of the three sections into which the work is divided the first deals
with the founding of the colonies, the second with their expansion and
the international conflict (Anglo-Spanish and Franco-Spanish as well
as Franco-English), and the third with the revolt of the English
colonies. Numerous convenient maps elucidate the text. Index 53
pp.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 240w
“A convenient and readable sketch of the whole subject.”
+ =Spec= 125:823 D 18 ’20 110w
“The style of the work is far from distinguished, and it is a
text-book rather than a work of history; but it shows just that
breadth and firmness of treatment which will aid the student to
acquire a true perspective of past events. The excellence of the idea
should have considerable effect on the elementary teaching of
history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 120w
“Because of this comprehensive character, from the point of view of
our present interests instead of from that of the original thirteen
states of the union, it will be particularly appreciated by those of
us who feel the importance of intelligent acquaintance with our
historical backgrounds but have not the time to specialize in colonial
history.” Lilian Brandt
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 120w
=BONI, ALBERT=, ed. Modern book of French verse in English translations.
(Modern books of verse) *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 841.08
20–8026
“‘The modern book of French verse’ covers the whole field of French
poetry from Guillaume de Poitier’s writing in 1071 to Jules Romain’s,
who was born as late as 1885. All the famous figures of French poetry
are generously included, the book being starred with the names of
Villon, Marot, de Ronsard, Du Bellay, Chenier, De Beranger, Victor
Hugo, De Musset, Gautier, De Lisle, Baudelaire, Prudhomme, Mallarmé,
Verlaine, Samain, Laforgue, De Régnier, Jammes, Paul Fort and Vildrac.
Among the translators may be casually noted Jethro Bithell, Robert
Bridges, Chaucer, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, James Elroy Flecker,
Andrew Lang, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, John Payne, W. J. Robertson,
Rossetti, Swinburne, J. A. Symonds, Arthur Symons and Francis
Thompson.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“Mr Boni’s admirable compilation of English translations of the best
French poetry makes a delectable volume. There are very few false
notes in this varied chorus.”
+ =Cath World= 111:834 S ’20 170w
“An excellent anthology of translations. Should be valuable in courses
in comparative literature.”
+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w
“The wealth of material at Mr Boni’s command must have made his
editorial task a pleasure as it has undoubtedly made the resultant
book invaluable. In future editions, however, Mr Boni should fill a
few very obvious gaps.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 950w
“His anthology has many gaps, judged as a selection of French verse.
However, it is useful and interesting to have this collection of
translations, not only for a better idea of French verse among those
to whom the originals are sealed, but for a study of poets of the
whole subject of translation.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Je 13 ’20 620w
“It must have been a labor of love on Mr Boni’s part, and, like all
labors of love, it vindicates itself by its completeness and high
average of value. The book will be found invaluable by those who do
not read French easily.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 600w
“The quality of the verse is comparatively high; none of it is high
enough to dissuade a sensitive reader from learning French.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 250w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 230w
Reviewed by E: B. Reed
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 360w
=BONJOUR, FELIX.= Real democracy in operation: the example of
Switzerland. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 342.4
20–9847
The author of the book, a former president of the Swiss national
council, outlines and explains the constitution and the workings of
the Swiss federal republic, which he considers to be in the vanguard
of democratic evolution. The twenty-five more or less autonomous
states comprising this confederation are political laboratories which
borrow one from another those forms of government which appear to
succeed best—a practice which insures continuous democratic growth.
Contents: Federalism in Switzerland; The evolution of democracy in
Switzerland; The Landsgemeinde; The referendum; The results of the
referendum; The popular initiative; The results of the initiative; The
election of the government and officials by the people; Democracy in
the communes and the churches; Compulsory voting and woman suffrage;
Proportional representation; Democracy in the army and maintenance of
neutrality; The future of democracy in Switzerland; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“Written in a pleasing style and admirably translated.” R. C. Brooks
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:514 Ag ’20 330w
=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 40w
=N Y Times= p19 Ag 22 ’20 3000w
=Outlook= 126:558 N ’21 ’20 180w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w
“We recommend those who are interested in the theory and art of modern
politics to read this volume of Mr Felix Bonjour with attention, even
though they may be bored occasionally with its inevitable
parochiality.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:119 Ag 7 ’20 750w
“A book such as M. Bonjour’s was much needed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Jl 1 ’20 950w
=BOOK= of Marjorie. *$1.50 (6½c) Knopf
20–4704
The book is an idyl of married life told by the husband. It begins
with that night in spring when he first told Marjorie that he loved
her and makes the reader a confidant of all the intimate details that
lay between then and the time when they both bent over Peter’s
bassinette and knew that they “should live forever in Peter and
Peter’s children.”
* * * * *
“The book offers no unusual problems and its reactions are simple and
happy.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 800w
=Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 250w
“The telling is graceful and natural; the little autobiographical
fragment is a thing to cherish.” C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p11 My 16 ’20 180w
“‘The book of Marjorie’ is a simple description of a happy marriage by
a writer whose main charm is simplicity.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 650w
=BORDEN-TURNER, MARY.= Romantic woman. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–15390
The story of a Chicago heiress who marries into the British
aristocracy. It opens in Chicago, here lightly disguised as
“Iroquois,” with the heroine’s own account of her democratic and
rather hoydenish girlhood and an introduction to the childhood
friends, Louise, Phyllis, Jim Van Orden and Pat O’Brien, who play a
part in her later life. Perhaps she should have married Jim and
settled down to a conventional and comfortable American life, but
traveling with her father in India she falls romantically in love with
a handsome cavalry officer, not knowing that he is heir to a dukedom.
He, on his part, tho genuinely attracted to the girl, is not
unconscious of her wealth. Marriage brings disillusionments and
introduces the naïve American into a society whose standards are quite
incomprehensible. There is considerable analysis of the two
contrasting points of view and the story ends with a glimpse of the
war.
* * * * *
“If you can find either constructive idea or positive personality in
this book, I cannot; and therefore it remains for me, despite its
clever elaboration of detail, that thing which Mr Hewlett rightly
dismisses as not worth the name—a string of anecdotes, and no more.”
H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:71 S ’20 560w
“Her picture of that city [Chicago] and its people is one of the very
brilliant things in recent literature. Its temper is not harsh, but it
has an edge and the edge cuts clean every time. Always she conveys the
richness, the distinction, and the vigor of an arresting character and
mind.”
+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 900w
“Miss Borden is not a little pretentious. She does not avoid trying to
take more soul out than she has really put in. At the same time, she
has a rich theme and she knows her theme. She has a real Englishman in
hand and she knows him; and she has a vitality almost as good as the
vitality of art. Hers is not the detachment of art or the sincerity of
artistic self-expression. It is the drive of emotion, the sincerity of
a personal confession told in provisional terms.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:290 Ap 28 ’20 1650w
“Except where it becomes too involved the book is well written. Where
its author has been most successful is in the atmosphere of dull
discontent, of poignant disillusion, which she evokes throughout.
There are neat characterizations, epigrammatic bits of phrasing and
some passages written with unblushing frankness.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 600w
“It is a book worth reading slowly and must be so read, for it is told
in that peculiar manner practiced by Conrad. It is a taxing style, but
it has its fascination.” M. K. Reely
+ − =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 300w
“The work is characterized by contrasts, there are times when the
climaxes and the description are vivid but between these there are
pages where the writing is labored.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w
=BOSSCHÈRE, JEAN DE.= City curious. il *$3 Dodd
20–18755
A fantastic fairy tale, retold in English by F. Tennyson Jesse. Smaly
and Redy, husband and wife, who live in a charming little white house,
regret that they haven’t three daughters to occupy their little
bedrooms. They wished for them and said a magic verse, but nothing
happened. Then they set out to look for them. The story follows their
strange adventures and describes the very curious people they meet.
The grotesque pictures by the author are in keeping with the text.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 30w
“The Belgian turns of thought and imagery have been kept, but not at
the expense of good English, as is sometimes the case in a
translation.”
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 260w
“It is really ingenuous of M. de Bosschère and his admirers to imagine
him as qualified to draw for children. We should hide all his pictures
from them.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 330w
=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Librarian’s open shelf; essays on various
subjects. *$3 (3c) Wilson, H. W. 814
20–26990
“The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a
librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional
career, although the influences of it may be detected in them here and
there.” (Preface) The book forms a companion volume to “Library
essays” and like that volume is composed of collected papers and
addresses prepared for various occasions. Partial list of contents: Do
readers read? What makes people read? The passing of the possessive: a
study of book titles; Selective education; The uses of fiction; The
value of association; Modern educational methods; Some economic
features of libraries; Simon Newcomb, America’s foremost astronomer;
The companionship of books; Atomic theories of energy; The
advertisement of ideas.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20
=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Library essays. *$3 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 020
20–26991
The author celebrates his twenty-fifth year of librarianship with the
publication of this volume of collected essays and addresses. They are
arranged chronologically and “reflect to a certain extent the progress
of library work during the past quarter century.” (Preface) Among the
subjects covered are: Pains and penalties in library work; How
librarians choose books; The work of the small public library; Lay
control in libraries and elsewhere; The whole duty of a library
trustee, from a librarian’s standpoint; Library statistics; The love
of books as a basis for librarianship; The library as the educational
center of a town; The librarian as a censor; How to raise the standard
of book selection; The library and the business man; The future of
library work; The library as a museum; The library and the locality.
There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20
=BOSWELL, A. BRUCE.= Poland and the Poles. il *$4 (4½c) Dodd 943.8
20–26318
The book is based on a study of Poland extending over many years and
on personal contact with Poles during a five year’s residence of the
author in their country. It is rather a series of essays than a
continuous narrative and aims to treat Poland ethnically rather than
politically and to describe all the region where Polish civilization
is an important element. The contents are: The land; The people:
National characteristics; The past of Poland; Divided Poland;
Political parties; The country-side; Commerce and industry; The
Ukraine question; Work at the foundations; The capital city; The great
romantic poets; Modern currents in Polish literature; Education and
science; Art and music; The war; Three maps, numerous illustrations
and an index.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature dealing with a country of
which too little is known by the English reader. The Polish national
characteristics are very clearly described.”
+ =Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 70w
“We would draw attention to Mr Boswell’s able summary of the Ukrainian
problem.... On the other hand, although he devotes a whole chapter to
Polish affairs during the war, his treatment of the Teschen question
is, in our opinion, neither adequate nor correct. The purely
informative sections of Mr Boswell’s book are accurate and thorough.
His treatment of ethnographical matters is particularly good, while
the two chapters he devotes to Polish literature cover a large amount
of fresh ground.” P. S.
+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 700w
+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“One of the foremost impressions made by the book is that of the
earnest effort of the author to give a truthful delineation of the
country and the people of whom he writes. This after the long years of
propaganda on the part of both Germany and Russia is too important to
be overlooked.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 600w
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“A readable and instructive book by a competent authority. The
concluding chapter gives a useful sketch of Polish policy during the
war which was very perplexing for western readers.”
+ =Spec= 124:21 Ja 3 ’20 140w
“Unlike some supporters of the Polish cause he has no need to make up
in sentiment what he lacks in knowledge; on the contrary his knowledge
saves him from an unqualified and undiscriminating enthusiasm. The
historical and political side is naturally the most important at the
present time, and it is in regard to this that Mr Boswell’s work is
most illuminating.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 850w
=BOSWORTH, THOMAS OWEN.= Geology of the mid continent oilfields. il *$3
Macmillan 553
20–26532
A work covering the oil fields of Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas. A
bibliography of four pages following the introduction shows the
sources on which the author has drawn. The sections of the book are
then devoted to: Geographical and geological situation of the mid
continent oil region; History of the development of the mid continent
oil region; Geological structure of the mid continent oilfield region;
Geological history of the oil bearing deposits; Stratigraphy and the
oilfields; The oil accumulations and their relation to geological
structure; Character of the oil; The natural gas; Production of
gasoline from natural gas; Salinity of oilfield waters; Some general
conclusions. There is a folding map showing the region under
consideration, with additional maps and drawings and eight
illustrations from photographs. The book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Although the vocabulary of the book is more or less technical,
nevertheless the lay reader may pursue it with comfort and
understanding.” I: Lippincott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:588 S ’20 410w
“There is certainly nothing strikingly new in Dr Bosworth’s book, and
one further perceives in the work a strong undercurrent of bias to
prevalent American opinion. For the rest, the book certainly contains
some useful features.” H. B. Milner
+ − =Nature= 105:608 Jl 15 ’20 750w
=Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 S 30 ’20 60w
=BOUCICAULT, RUTH BALDWIN (HOLT) (MRS AUBREY BOUCICAULT).= Rose of
Jericho. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6707
Sheelah Brent was literally picked up by a traveling theatrical
company and pressed into their services as substitute for a sick stage
child, when she was only seven. For six weeks she thus tided over,
with her earnings, a crisis in her family while her widowed father was
ill from overwork. Later, when she came to choose her own course, it
was the theater. She made good in her profession and in due time
became an artist. Towards this latter development her love experiences
as a woman helped. But it meant struggle and heartache for Sheelah and
defiance of all conventions. Heart solitude once more overtakes her
when her son Michael, the fruit of her first girlish and illicit love,
is sent to school in England under the guidance of his English father.
It is then that she finds so much solace in a book that she writes to
the author for more spiritual help. With the coming of the war both
Michael and his father volunteer and the latter rescues his son at the
cost of his eyesight. The usual thing follows but not before Sheelah
has turned to religion, Michael has been killed and she has discovered
in her former lover the author of the helpful book.
* * * * *
“A good deal of the novel is well written, particularly the first two
‘books,’ but it drags badly toward the close.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 350w
“The beginning is cleverly human, but the close is strongly-presented
pathos of the type commonly classed as ‘sob stuff.’”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 190w
=BOUCKE, OSWALD FRED.= Limits of socialism. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 335
20–7869
After having made it clear that he considers socialism as neither a
chimera nor a crime the author makes an attempt at a sympathetic
examination of its various tenets with a view to laying bare its weak
points and demonstrating the necessity for amendments of the original
creed. “Revision is a step in the onward march of civilization.
Science itself is nothing if not continual growth and redefinition of
terms, whose finest fruit is the advancement of humanism.” The book
falls into two parts. Part 1, The limits in theory, contains: The
problem; Karl Marx and the economists; The economic interpretation of
history; Justice. Part 2, The limits in practice, contains: The limits
in production; The limits in distribution; The limits in consumption;
The limits in government; A petition. There are seven statistical
tables and an index. The author is professor of economics at
Pennsylvania state college.
* * * * *
“In regard to the program of socialism, the author makes a worthy
contribution to a much neglected subject in that he points out the
difficulties which socialists will encounter in trying to realize
their ideals, and the limited success which they are likely to
attain.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Am Econ R= 10:860 D ’20 780w
=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
“When he leaves the field of economics he is less convincing. The book
will prove rather stiff exposition to the general reader, who will be
annoyed at the needlessly scientific vocabulary.”
+ − =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 340w
“The book is stimulating to thought because it is itself thoughtful, a
model in manner and temper, a better antidote to socialism’s errors
than denunciation or denial of the evils it seeks to cure.” E: A.
Bradford
+ =N Y Times= p12 S 12 ’20 2000w
“There is much good stuff in the book, some shrewd ideas, and some
sound generalizing, which if turned into language understanded of the
people would be valuable.”
+ − =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 20w
=BOULENGER, JACQUES.= Seventeenth century. *$3.50 (2c) Putnam 944.03
20–26872
This work forms one of the volumes of the National history of France.
It is preceded by “The century of the renaissance” by L. Batiffol,
published in 1916, and is followed by “The eighteenth century,” by
Casimir Stryienski, also issued in 1916. Contents: The youth of Louis
XIII; Richelieu; The preponderance of France (1630–1643); The kingdom
under Louis XIII; The beginnings of society and of classic literature;
The Fronde and Mazarin; The “Roi-soleil”; The glorious years,
1661–1678; Decline; Religious matters; Sunset; The kingdom under Louis
XIV; The great age. References come at the end of the chapters and
there is an index.
* * * * *
“Distinctly a readable book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
“This new presentation of the greatest period in the history of France
is brilliantly written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
+ =Ind= 104:217 N 13 ’20 50w
“Boulenger has undertaken a difficult task, and he has done it well.
Though treating the general history of a whole century in some detail,
he is neither superficial nor tiringly technical. One feature of his
book is especially commendable; the author’s desire to be
non-partisan. It may be well to bring out the fact that, for the real
or quasi-specialist, Boulenger treats his subject too much from the
outside, and thus fails to emphasize sufficiently at least one feature
of much importance for the proper understanding of the epoch he
treats.”
+ − =Review= 3:503 N 24 ’20 1900w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w
“His portraits of Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert and the great King
himself are vivid and unforgettable. M. Boulenger is a learned
historian but, like so many French scholars, he wears his learning
lightly.”
+ =Spec= 125:344 S 11 ’20 150w
“M. Boulenger’s subject is relatively simple, but it is a big one, and
it has the disadvantage of being hackneyed. The best praise that can
be given to his book is to say that it is on a level with M. Madelin’s
‘French revolution,’ and superior to any other volumes in this
attractive series.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 700w
=BOULNOIS, HENRY PERCY.= Modern roads. il *$5.75 (*16s) Longmans 625.7
(Eng ed 20–9208)
“The author was a member of the British Advisory engineering committee
appointed in 1910 as a result of the increasing dust nuisance due to
poorly constructed roads. Much information regarding British
conditions was obtained and standard specifications produced. This
book covers in a comprehensive way the subjects of motor traffic, the
various kinds of roads and details of construction, waves and
corrugations, slippery streets, with appendices relating to traffic
regulations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w
=Spec= 122:145 Ja 31 ’20 420w
=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.=[2] History of a literary radical; and other
essays. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 814
This collection of essays, reprinted from various magazines, is edited
with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. The latter is a sketch of the
author’s intellectual development which is corroborated in the first
essay, “History of a literary radical.” What Bourne stood for, says
Van Wyck Brooks, was a new fellowship of the youth of America, a
league of youth, for the purpose of creating, out of the blind chaos
of American society, a fine, free, articulate cultural order. “He, if
any one, in the days to come, would have conjured out of our dry soil
the green shoots of a beautiful and a characteristic literature: he
knew that soil so well, and why it was dry, and how it ought to be
irrigated!” (Introd.) The essays are: History of a literary radical;
Our cultural humility; Six portraits; This older generation; A mirror
of the Middle West; Ernest: or Parent for a day; On discussion; The
puritan’s will to power; The immanence of Dostoevsky; The art of
Theodore Dreiser; The uses of infallibility; Impressions of Europe;
Trans-national America; Fragment of a novel.
* * * * *
“The essay which gives its title to the book is a piece of
intellectual biography which is worth the careful study of everyone
who is puzzled by the open revolt of the choicest intellects in our
undergraduate bodies against the ideals and discipline of our
universities. In ‘The Puritan’s will to power’ and in ‘Transnational
America’ Randolph Bourne’s feelings were perhaps too deeply involved
to permit him to attain the complete clarity and cogency usual with
him. But the gently whimsical ‘Ernest, or Parent for a day’ would be a
sufficient compensation for any imperfections there might be elsewhere
in the book.” Alvin Johnson
+ =Freeman= 25:293 F 2 ’21 880w
“It is impossible, in spite of all that makes it valuable, to read
this book without a final sense of disappointment. Randolph Bourne’s
interests were as wide as the world; his views were true and tempered;
his style is simple, and it is effective chiefly because the words he
uses are wise and exact rather than original; but his appeal, after
all, is very narrow. He is the pure intellectual addressing the
‘younger intelligentsia,’ and his exclusiveness gradually becomes
slightly tiresome even as the phrase quoted becomes irritating.” Freda
Kirchwey
+ − =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1050w
=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.= Untimely papers. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 320.4
20–26319
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Written during America’s war preparations, these papers are well
named untimely, for they question with the rigor of a clear minded,
uncompromising pacifist and idealist, America’s attitude in combating
the spirit of the war lord with war. They are an interesting portrayal
of the courage in his belief of the author.”
+ =Booklist= 16:219 Ap ’20
“Dying just when he should have come into his own, Randolph Bourne
left behind him a set of brilliant essays on the political life of
yesterday. These have been gathered and edited by James Oppenheim with
a foreword perhaps a thought too laudatory. Yet much can be said for
Mr Bourne’s keen insight and flashing style. His sentences are diamond
cut, his reasoning clear even to the most undiscerning.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 240w
Reviewed by E. C. Parsons
+ =Dial= 68:367 Mr ’20 1500w
“They are courageous papers in that they represent an unwincing
defence of an attitude which can never have been at all popular. They
are turned from protest into positive statement by a long and
unfinished essay on the state, in which Mr Bourne was clearly
searching to vindicate the ultimate rights of personality against the
demands of authority outside. The whole essay is a superb cry of anger
against a tyranny which he felt to be grinding. Yet I venture to think
that the essay is in fact largely devoid of realistic basis. It has a
specialized motivation which makes it valuable as the record of a
personal experience, but impracticable as a contribution to political
science.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Freeman= 1:237 My 19 ’20 1150w
“It is the book of a too sensitive spirit, dying brokenhearted in a
world that seemed hopelessly insane and misdirected. Whatever we may
think of the substance of these essays there can be no question of the
delicate beauty of their expression or the evidence they give of the
patrician dignity and courage which marked the author’s personality.”
+ =Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 100w
“No educated, honest, able-bodied man can read the war essays of
Randolph Bourne without some degree of admiration for their dead
author and some sort of shame for himself. What we say now without
being either brave or original he said then, not, perhaps, with the
maturity of a Bertrand Russell or a Romain Rolland, but at least with
fine courage and imagination. It may turn out that the cleanest
picture of ourselves when we were not ourselves is here in these two
hundred and thirty pages.”
+ =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“The unfinished fragment on the state, which was to have been so great
a book, is still a keen and impressive analysis of social
psychology.... And after the self-styled peace what would Randolph
Bourne have added, what doubly bitter denunciation, to the temperate
ironies of these searching papers? Perhaps nothing but the tolerant
smile of one who foresaw.” Marion Tyler
+ =Socialist R= 8:251 Mr ’20 550w
“Academically, his arguments may have been right, but it is obvious
that they were uttered at a time when they must have proved the
reverse of helpful. They may now be read with the dispassionate calm
to which they are entitled, and they well repay careful
consideration.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 220w
“He proved right in many of the pronouncements which can now be
weighed against actual happenings; and for this reason there is hope
that a kindly hearing may yet be given to the essays here reprinted.”
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 150w
“These papers are overshadowed by the war; and as the war figured in
Bourne’s outlook as a tragic impertinence which had rudely choked the
young shoots of a new life in America with which his dearest hopes
were bound up, there is a steady undertow of resentment which disturbs
the balance of his thought. But all the same, these papers were worth
printing as a historical document to show the generations to come how
the war struck a profound and honest mind that had enthroned the
spirit of life and was already seeing afar off the triumph of life
over the forces of death.” R. R.
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 160w
“He could write—there is no question about that—and he could think,
but these two fine qualities do not excuse the fact that his first
principles are nearly always wrong.” M. F. Egan
− + =Yale R= n s 10:188 O ’20 380w
=BOWEN, WILLIAM.=[2] Enchanted forest. il *$2.50 Macmillan
20–20549
In this series of fairy tales a forest is turned into paper, its
brooks petrified and the voice of the birds stilled by the bad temper
of a king. How the forest was redeemed by Bilbo the woodcutter’s son,
who thereby won the princess; how the pair cured the old king’s temper
through an “Interrupter” and his “Encourager”; and how little Prince
Bojohn and his playmate Bodkin had many adventures with elves and
fairies, is all told in these tales with delightful humor. The book is
illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
=BOWER, B. M., pseud. (BERTHA MUZZY SINCLAIR) (MRS BERTRAND WILLIAM
SINCLAIR).= Quirt. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–8857
Lorraine Hunter lives in Los Angeles and has absorbed her ideas of the
“West” from the movies. She has never known her father, a rancher in
Idaho, but she pictures him as a cattle king and sees herself in the
rôle of cattle king’s daughter. She finds the Quirt, Brit Hunter’s
ranch, a very different place from her imaginings. It is one of the
few small ranches allowed to survive in the shadow of the great
Sawtooth cattle company’s holdings. Other small owners have been
absorbed or have met “accidental” deaths, but Brit and his partner, as
two highly respected old-timers, have remained unmolested. On the
night of her arrival Lorraine loses her way and finds herself mixed up
with one of the “accidents” referred to. She talks, and talk is
dangerous to the Sawtooth. In the fight that follows Lone Morgan lines
up with the Quirt but it is Swan Vjolmar, the seemingly innocent
Swede, who plays the final card.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The tale begins interestingly enough, but what with deeds of
violence, and thunderstorms of a like violence, soon passes into the
realms of mediocrity.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 300w
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
“The story moves briskly, with plenty of sensational incident, while
all its detail, as always in B. M. Bower’s novels, is colorful and
convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 370w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 200w
“A story of western life that is both fresh and plausible.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 160w
=BOWMAN, ARCHIBALD ALLAN.= Sonnets from a prison camp. *$1.50 Lane 811
20–8620
The author, professor of philosophy at Princeton university, says of
these sonnets written in captivity that they “stood between my soul
and madness,” and hopes that what has meant so much to him under one
of the heaviest blows that can befall a soldier will have some general
human interest. They are grouped as follows: In the field; The nadir;
On the march; Rastatt; Hesepe; Thoughts of home; Influences;
Watchwords and maxims; England and Oxford; Home thoughts once more;
Interlude; England.
* * * * *
“When he begins to write of those reflective themes to which the
sonnet form is fitted, Mr Bowman reveals himself as an interesting and
talented writer. Mr Bowman’s chief defect is a certain stiltedness and
overnobility of language, which sometimes leads him to talk of prosaic
or trivial things with a pomp which does not become them.”
+ − =Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 180w
“Benvenuto Cellini also wrote sonnets in captivity: and they are as
perfunctory and uninspired as are Professor Bowman’s.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by Marguerite Williams
=N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w
=Sat R= 129:110 Ja 31 ’20 200w
“Grave and eloquent sonnets, a little sententious and here and there a
little prosaic.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 D 11 ’19 80w
=BOYER, WILBUR SARLES.= Johnnie Kelly. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–16092
Johnnie Kelly is a red-headed Irish boy of thirteen when he makes his
debut at Public school 199, Amsterdam ave., the Bronx. The teachers
regard him as a terror, but one instructor, Daniel Parks, takes enough
interest in him to try to show him how he can be a leader. His various
escapades fill the book, culminating in his being elected
vice-president of the Amsterdam Republic, and receiving the wrist
watch which is offered to the pupil who sells the most liberty bonds.
Incidentally, he plays no small part in the romance that develops
between Mr Parks and the pretty new teacher, Helen Bouck.
* * * * *
“Many schoolmasters are of a cut-and-dried sort, who cut circles in
deep ruts and see nothing in life beyond the daily routine of the
schoolroom. But Mr Boyer sees beyond this and has made a natural study
of the boy and his characteristics. Not this alone, but he himself has
a rare gift of humor, and the two are combined in ‘Johnnie Kelly.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 190w
“The efforts of a ‘Bronix’ policeman’s son to attain popularity in a
Manhattan public school are amusing enough, and he and his young
associates are human and healthy.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 150w
=BOYNTON, PERCY HOLMES.= History of American literature. *$2.25 Ginn
810.9
20–3784
Omitting authors of minor importance the book has been written “with a
view to showing the drift of American thought as illustrated by major
writers or groups and as revealed by a careful study of one or two
cardinal works of each.... The growth of American self-consciousness
and the changing ideals of American patriotism have been kept in mind
throughout.... As an aid to the student, there are appended to each
chapter (except the last three) topics and problems for study, and
book lists which summarize the output of each man, indicate available
editions, and point to the critical material which may be used as a
supplement, but not as a substitute, for first-hand study.” (Preface)
Beginning with the 17th century, the contents contain chapters on the
earliest verse, the poetry of the revolution and the early drama, all
our American classics as: Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson,
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs Stowe and
Holmes, the later poetry and Walt Whitman, the rise of fiction and
contemporary drama. There are also two maps, three chronological
charts, an appendix characterizing the most significant American
periodicals and an index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 28 ’20 750w
“The style throughout is marked with a crispness and vivacity that are
missing in too many textbooks in the same field. The author’s
scientific knowledge and scholarship are winningly displayed on every
page of his book.”
+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 220w
=BRACKETT, CHARLES.= Counsel of the ungodly. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–13703
When Peter van Hoeven, scion of an old and wealthy New York family,
lost his fortune at the age of sixty-two, he determined to earn his
living as a butler. Luck brought him into a newly rich family, mother
and daughter, of whom the mother is exuberantly vulgar and the
daughter sensitively aware of their short-comings. Jacob Smith, alias
Peter van Hoeven, becomes Mary’s guardian angel and she relies on him
and confides in him more and more. When it is subsequently discovered
that Mary is not Mrs Davison’s daughter, as the long lost husband with
the real daughter turns up, Peter resolves to adopt Mary as his niece,
trumping up a story of a lost brother Richard whose daughter she is.
That she really is his niece becomes probable later. He now makes
himself known to his family to whom he introduces his niece. He also
undertakes to cure her of an undesirable love affair by first
engineering her into and then out of an engagement by ungodly counsel.
As the right fellow is waiting just around the corner it all ends
well.
* * * * *
“Light and fairly amusing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“It is a delightful atmosphere into which you are led in this swiftly
moving story, where almost every one is pleasant to know.”
+ =Lit D= p92 O 23 ’20 1550w
“The author’s flexible style and skill in drollery, distinctly above
the average, makes one regret that he has not employed his literary
ability in a less inconsequential plot.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 330w
=BRADFORD, GAMALIEL.= Prophet of joy. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–14773
This tale in verse relates the career of a millionaire’s son, a
golden-haired vision of a boy, imbued with a faith that it was his
mission to redeem the world with the gospel of joy. His first convert
was a spinster cousin, Theodora, who undertook to stand between him
and his stern father, to be ever his haven of refuge and to smooth the
way for him generally. His exploits are many and fantastic. He meets
all manner of people, the lowly and the artists, the pious and the
rich, and he meets them all alike with laughter, gaiety, and love.
With this love and joy in life he at last undertakes to assuage a
striking mob and meets his death. The woman agitator whose method,
unlike his, had been to stir up hatred and revenge as a means of
salvation, but who had long loved the boy, vows before his body that
violence must die and dedicates herself to “joy’s pure torch” and to
love as the “Star of immortal hope to mortal men.”
* * * * *
“Characters, incidents and beauty of telling combine to make an
interesting story and a poem of wide appeal.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“What fun the author must have had composing all this! He has not only
worked with his subject, he has played with it. He keeps up his own
and the reader’s courage, sometimes by whistling. It is one of the
most original contributions to literature that I have seen, and I know
nothing in American literature which it resembles. And it is written
in the American, not the English language.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Bookm= 52:170 O ’20 1400w
“When the ‘prophet of joy’ is killed in an attempt to mediate between
a band of strikers and their employer, there is little sense of pathos
because the character has been largely a creature of fancy and as such
has engaged the reader’s attention rather than his affection. But Mr
Bradford is fluent and dexterous and the rhymes carry one along
through one hundred and ninety-three pages of easy and agreeable
reading.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2: S 29 ’20 300w
“He takes pains to show what it is that he is not talking
about—Christian Science, Sunday school morality, silly altruism—but we
are never sure what it is that he is talking about, and never sure
that his is not the nambiest-pambiest of palliatives.”
− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 230w
“Mr Bradford is a poet, and a good one. Much of the present poem shows
a deftness and a skill that place him high among writers of light
verse. But in all fairness he must leave his ivory tower and acquaint
himself with causes he dislikes before writing unfairly of them. The
book, barring this one capital fault, is a capital one, and as such
may be recommended.” C. W.
+ − =N Y Call= p10 S 12 ’20 700w
“It seems to the present reviewer, indeed, the most stimulating and
absorbing volume that has appeared in American poetry since ‘The
Congo’ and ‘Spoon River.’ It is not an imitation but a vital
incarnation of the Byronic satire, proving that modern life may be
dressed in an ancient mode at least as effectively as in the fashions
of the hour. The ‘Prophet’ should find an audience for many years to
come; should even, one is tempted to say, win a permanent place among
the classics of lighter American verse.” C: W. Stork
+ =N Y Evening= Post p5 O 23 ’20 1150w
“Nothing can be gayer, idler, saucier, easier, more winningly devious
and desultory than his treatment of the eight-line Italian epic
stanza. The story is agreeable, and the only point of failure is the
point in which in a poem of this kind failure is most forgivable and
least important—the nature and handling of the thesis.”
+ − =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 310w
=BRADLEY, ARTHUR GRANVILLE.= Book of the Severn. il *$5 Dodd 914.2
(Eng ed 21–834)
“The ancients had river gods; we too have them in our minds and feel
their qualities. For rivers are things of life and personality, of
soul and character.... Some of our river gods are men and some are
women.... Father Thames has proclaimed his sex for all time; but the
Severn has been a lady since literature began.” (Chapter 1) The author
shows his readers not only the scenic but also the historic Severn and
conducts him from its cradle in Plinlimmon to Gloucester with sixteen
color plates to mark the way. There is no index.
* * * * *
“The author tells the story in ample detail and with full knowledge.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“In brief, this is a most entertaining volume. The coloured plates do
not add much to its attractions.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Bradley has a mingled zest for scenery, for history, and for the
humours and graces of life, which makes him one of the best of
all-around companions on such a series of excursions, either afoot or
in an armchair.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 Ap 1 ’20 950w
=BRADLEY, GLENN DANFORD.= Story of the Santa Fe. (Frontiers of America)
il *$3 Badger, R: G. 656
20–6283
“The [story of the] railroad known as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe describes the beginnings and development of one of the most
extensive of American railroad systems. Projected by the vision of
Cyrus K. Holliday, and developed by the energy and financial support
of other farseeing Americans, this railroad was built to develop the
business which was originally conducted in primitive fashion from the
Missouri river across the Kansas prairies and through the mountains to
the old mining centre, Santa Fe. It is an account of what real men by
the exercise of push and profanity have been able to accomplish, even
in the face of tremendous obstacles and hindrances, both natural and
those presented by the devilish ingenuity of man.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The story as written by Mr Bradley is very complete. The author has
done his work very well.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 800w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=BRADLEY, MRS MARY (HASTINGS).= Fortieth door. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–2264
A romantic adventure story staged in Cairo, Jack Ryder, altho young
and good to look at, has managed to evade the society of girls and
devote himself wholly to the fascinations of Egyptian tombs. He is
bored unspeakably at thought of the masked ball to which his
compatriot, Jinny Jeffries, is dragging him. But at the ball he meets
Aimée, the alluring veiled figure who is to lead him so far on the
road to romance. It is only when the dance is over, his heart already
well lost, that he learns that her attire is no picturesque disguise
donned for an evening, that she is a high born Moslem escaped for a
few mad moments from the haremlik. Fate and ancient custom are against
him, but he learns by accident that Aimée is of French birth, and
youth, daring and good luck conspire on his side to bring all to a
happy end.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“Here is a ‘romantic incident’ carried through from start to finish
without a false note, though some of the harmony toward the end is, as
is were, a trifle close.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 220w
“Mrs Bradley transports us to the realms of romance. We realize that
we are not moving among scenes of reality, but we do not greatly
care.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w
“The story is well thought out and interesting. And it has the merit
of being smoothly written and vividly as well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 60w
“Cleverly told with plot of interest and original details well
sustained throughout.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 280w
“A good adventure story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 90w
=BRADLEY-BIRT, FRANCIS BRADLEY.= Bengal fairy tales. il *$5 (7½c) Lane
398.2
20–22478
These fairy tales have been collected by the author from the natives
of Bengal by word of mouth. They breathe the spirit of the East and
are unlike any of western tales, as are also the six full-page
illustrations in color by Abanindranath Tagore. The contents are in
three parts, the first of which consists of the stories told by
Bhabaghuray, the traveller.
* * * * *
“The really ideal illustrator of this kind of literature is, of
course, the artist who is himself a product of the land which has
given birth to it, and from this point of view the book illustrated by
Mr Tagore is of special interest.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
=BRADY, LORETTA ELLEN.= Green forest fairy book. il *$2 (4c) Little
20–18407
A book of new fairy tales into which the author has put much of the
true fairy-land atmosphere. Some of the titles are: Dame Grumble and
her curious apple tree: A tale of the Northland kingdom; The little
tree that never grew up; The tale of Punchinello; The strange tale of
the brown bear. The illustrations are by Alice B. Preston.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 70w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Anthology of magazine verse
for 1919; and Year book of American poetry. *$2.25 Small 811.08
Mr Braithwaite who omits from this annual volume his usual critical
introductory essay takes occasion to call attention to Edwin Arlington
Robinson’s “The valley of the shadow,” as a poem demanding careful
attention and study. Other notable poems are Leonora Speyer’s “The
queen bee flies,” Sara Teasdale’s “August moonrise,” Vachel Lindsay’s
“The empire of China is crumbling down,” Lola Ridge’s “The everlasting
return”; also poems by Witter Bynner, Scudder Middleton, Edna St
Vincent Millay, Louis Untermeyer, Maxwell Bodenheim, Amy Lowell, and
others.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 50w
“Taken as a whole, the ‘Anthology of magazine verse for 1919’
possesses distinct merit as a collection of contemporary verse. As a
stepping-stone in the steady advance of American poetry it is even
more interesting.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 14 ’20 1700w
“All in all the anthology is valuable not only as literature, but as a
barometer of the spirit of the times.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“There is poetry here of a grade we like to boast of being able to
find every day in the magazines, that of Conrad Aiken, Sara Teasdale,
Clement Wood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and sundry others. There is
singing here that is something more than verse, and there is verse
that is something less than poetry.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 100w
“The year book is, if anything, more representative and satisfactory
than its predecessors. The critical material at the back is more
restrained than hitherto, and gains thereby. For those who wish to
keep up with the best of the new poetry, the book is indispensable.”
C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w
“Critics have often told Mr Braithwaite that his collections of
magazine verse can never have the highest value because the best
American poetry is not published in magazines. This year, at any rate,
that would seem to be untrue. It is doubtful whether anything better
than Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Valley of the shadow’ has been
published in any of the books of the year.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“Mr Braithwaite’s annual ‘Anthology of magazine verse’ improves from
year to year. The present volume is no exception to this rule.
Particularly to be commended is the elimination of Mr Braithwaite’s
usual attempt at rating the verse of the year according to merit.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 100w
“Mr Braithwaite has done his work with knowledge, with discernment,
and with a liberality which sometimes compromises his discernment.”
+ − =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 9 ’20 750w
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
“He is too generous in his appreciation, including much that is
excellent but not significant. As with every anthology, we quarrel
with the selections. Though the book would gain by omissions, the
general level is a high one.” E: B. Reed
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Book of modern British
verse. *$2 Small 821.08
20–1984
“A collection intended to acquaint American readers with contemporary
British verse in the period which ‘began with an assault upon reality
and a shock of symbols’ to be disturbed and perhaps re-directed by the
forces of war.” (Booklist) “John Masefield’s ‘August, 1914,’ is
included, and G. K. Chesterton’s booming ‘Lepanto,’ also favorite
poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Walter de la Mare, J. C. Squires,
Ralph Hodgson, Joseph Campbell, James Stephens, Thomas MacDonald and
many others. William Butler Yeats, probably the greatest of all living
makers of lyrics, is not represented. But it is generally understood
that his work seldom appears in anthologies.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“It has Masefield’s ‘Biography,’ ‘August, 1914,’ and ‘Cargoes’;
Belloc’s ‘South country’; Brooke’s five splendid sonnets; Julian
Grenfell’s ‘Into battle’—finest of all the ‘war poems’; de la Mare’s
‘The listeners.’ And these are only a few of the memorable things
included.” H: A. Lappin
+ − =Bookm= 51:211 Ap ’20 700w
“Due to something more incomprehensible than his taste he has failed
signally. ‘The book of modern British verse’ begins as a misnomer; it
ends as a misrepresentation.” L: Untermeyer
− =Freeman= 1:69 Mr 31 ’20 1100w
“It exhibits the period fairly enough without characterizing it, and
with this book as with other anthologies, even the best, the critical
reader will miss old friends and make new ones.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 80w
“A pleasant and interesting little book. Mr Braithwaite has
over-emphasized the importance of Cicely Fox Smith’s verse.... Nor do
the ‘Songs from the evil wood’ represent Lord Dunsany’s poetic talent
as well as would a passage from his imaginative and often beautiful
prose.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 160w
“The sheer beauty and spontaneity of these poems must surprise
pleasantly those who have believed this period of social unrest and of
war incapable of producing art of the highest order.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
=BRAND, MAX.= Trailin’! *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6637
A wild-west story that opens in Madison Square garden, where Anthony
Woodbury accepts a challenge and rides a man-killing horse. Shortly
after, the man Anthony has always regarded as his father is killed and
Anthony goes West to follow the trail of the slayer and learn the
secret of his birth. With the foolhardiness of a tenderfoot he takes
unrealized risks, but his skill and daring always carry him through,
and he is successful too in winning a western bride.
* * * * *
“The story undeniably grips.”
+ =Ath= p118 My 28 ’20 100w
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
=BRANOM, MENDEL EVERETT.= Project method in education. (Library of
educational methods) *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 371.3
19–15249
In his first chapter on “The nature of the project method,” the author
discusses the term “project” and the different meanings assigned to
it, saying, “There is no fundamental difference of opinion concerning
the meaning of the word, but the difference lies in the degree of
elasticity that should be permitted. In every case a unit of
purposeful, intellectualized activity is involved.” The chapters that
follow take up: The evolution of the project as an educational
concept; The relation of the project method to instincts; The social
basis for the project method; The significance of motivation; Teaching
by projects; Learning by projects; The project-question; The
project-exercise; The project-problem; Manual or physical projects;
Mental projects not involving manual activity; The project method in
history; The project method in geography; The reorganization of the
course of study; The preparation of the teacher. There are twelve
pages of references and an index.
* * * * *
“A valuable discussion of the project method.”
+ =Cleveland= p19 F ’20 20w
“The author sets forth in clear terms one of the existing needs in
education, namely, to get away from the ‘bookish, theoretical
education of former days.’ There are times, however, when his
distinctions are not exactly clear to the reader.”
+ − =School R= 28:234 Mr ’20 900w
=BRASOL, BORIS L.= Socialism vs. civilization. *$2 Scribner 335
20–4141
As indicated by the title, the object of the book is to prove that
socialism is the most dangerous enemy to civilization and that
socialist agitation “threatens to ruin not only the existing order but
also every attempt to improve it and to insure social progress and
general prosperity.” The author claims to be a close student of Marx
whose economic and social theories he attempts to explain and to
refute. Professor Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard university writes an
introduction, and the contents are: Modern socialism—its theories and
aims; Criticism of the Marx theory; The great socialistic experiment
in Russia; Socialist explanations of the failure in Russia;
Socialistic agitation in Europe and America; Social revolution or
social reconstruction.
* * * * *
“Mr Brasol’s book gives a just though not a neutral estimate of the
character and aims of modern socialism.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:624 S ’20 800w
“Brasol’s treatise is a valuable criticism of radical socialism, it
fails to meet in a convincing way, the issue as raised by Laidler,
Spargo, Vandervelde, Rauschenbusch and others, although the
constructive proposals given in the last chapter might to some extent
at least mitigate the admitted evils of the present system.” L. M.
Bristol
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
“He makes out his case by infinite omissions, by a near-sightedness
that throws the whole subject out of proportion, and by a plentiful
use of epithets like ‘soap-box agitator’ and ‘parlour Bolshevist’; and
his constructive suggestions are of an incredible banality.”
− =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 240w
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“The chief moral to be drawn from the volume is that he wastes his
time who tries to interpret present-day social movements without being
at least sympathetic with the spirit of social unrest and demand for
change.” H: P. Fairchild
− =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“His book is full of ammunition for those who feel a call to oppose
propaganda to propaganda, and of reassurance to those who consider the
facts disquieting.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 920w
=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 650w
“In offering opinion on his book a sharp distinction should be drawn
between the first four chapters and the last two; the book would be
twice as good with the last two eliminated.”
+ − =Review= 2:491 My 8 ’20 380w
“While it cannot be recommended to the opponent of socialism as an
altogether reliable armory of arguments, the book, nevertheless, often
hits the nail and should prove stimulating and useful to the convinced
Socialist and the impartial student.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 200w
=BREARLEY, HARRY CHASE.= Time telling through the ages. il *$3 Doubleday
529
20–1749
“When the Ingersolls of watchmaking fame desired to celebrate the
quarter-century of their experience in that industry, a book relating
the evolution of time-keeping devices was adopted as a fitting
memorial and as an anniversary contribution to horological art and
science. The anniversary occurred in war time and the book had to wait
until the establishment of peace. It is a handsomely illustrated
volume, ‘Time telling through the ages,’ and bears the name of Henry
C. Brearley as author, although credit is given Miss Katherine
Morrissey Dodge for the research work necessary. The book relates the
development then of watchmaking in England, France, Switzerland and
America, past the days of the guilds and of handmade watches to the
era of machine made standard parts at a price within the reach of
everybody. Among the illustrations are many photographs of rare and
curious old watches in the museums of the world. There is also
included as an appendix forty-two pages of encyclopedic dictionary,
defining and often illustrating all the terms pertaining to
watchmaking and all the names of people identified through the ages
with the progress and perfecting of the art.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p23 Je 27 ’20 720w
“Most ingenious compilation. The illustrations are numerous and
interesting.”
+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 200w
=St Louis= 18:243 O ’20 50w
“The story is interesting and valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 550w
=BREASTED, JAMES HENRY, and ROBINSON, JAMES HARVEY.= History of Europe,
ancient and medieval. il $1.92 Ginn 940
20–5789
A work based on the authors’ “Outlines of European history.” “Chapters
1–20 have been completely rewritten, simplified, and condensed; and
more space has been given to Roman history and less to that of the
ancient Orient.... As for the rest of the work, much condensation has
been effected and the details of presentation have been reconsidered
from beginning to end.” (Preface) The bibliographies have also been
revised. Part 1 of the book, Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and
Rome, is by Professor Breasted. Part 2, Europe from the break-up of
the Roman empire to the French revolution, is by Professor Robinson.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
“The writer sees no reason why the book should not meet with immediate
success, for it is without question one of the best in a somewhat
barren field.”
+ =School R= 28:475 Je ’20 250w
=BREBNER, PERCY JAMES (CHRISTIAN LYS, pseud.).= Ivory disc (Eng title,
Gate of temptation). *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
20–10366
Dr Bruce Oliver had, until nearly his fortieth year, found women only
an interesting study, and had not regarded them sentimentally. But
when Estelle Bocara came into his life, his heart awakened. She felt
and responded to his love, but she was already married to an eastern
professor and mystic. As their acquaintance grew and their intimacy
developed, Dr Oliver found Estelle at times to be under the strange
mesmeric power of her husband, when she committed crimes of which she
had no knowledge. Thinking her mental condition due to physical injury
received in her childhood, Dr Oliver performed a successful operation
on her brain. In an effort to complete the cure, Oliver put himself in
Bocara’s power, with almost disastrous results. Fortunately for him,
another victim of Bocara’s cruelty freed them both, and the obstacle
to marriage with Estelle was removed. The ivory disk of the title is
the amulet, the gift of Estelle which Oliver believes saved him from
death.
* * * * *
“To become an adept in the craft of storytelling sometimes means
advancement in literary style; had it been so in Mr Brebner’s case he
would not have opened one of his chapter-sections with such a passage
as ‘The crisp air of the morning had not yet let go of the world.’”
+ − =Ath= p750 Je 4 ’20 160w
“‘The ivory disc’ will furnish the reader with a harmless kind of
diversion and will make no extortionate demands either upon his
attention or upon his intellect.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 360w
“The book can be recommended to lovers of sensation and cheap
sentimental versions of occultism.”
− =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
“A distressing story. Apparently the author wants to make our flesh
creep. But, somehow, he does not.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 110w
=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= Great war and the R. A. M. C. *$6 Dutton
940.475
(Eng ed 20–285)
“‘The great war and the R. A. M. C. takes up the work of the Royal
army medical corps on the western front during the first months of the
war and relates with full detail the whole story of its efforts,
failures and achievements, with especial reference to the service of
its field ambulances.” Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“His succinct accounts of the various actions and manœuvres are just
sufficient to support the main thread of the story without diverting
the interest from it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 1 ’20 1400w
=BRIDGE, SIR FREDERICK.= Westminster pilgrim. il *$8 Gray, H. W.
19–14604
“This bulky but entertaining book recounts a great deal more than
the story of a pilgrimage to Westminster. It might excusably claim
to be the history of the Abbey itself during the last
half-century—coronations, funerals, choral functions, musical
services, etc., having all the prominence that the organist would
naturally consider their due. First and foremost, it is an
autobiography of the chatty gossipy order; the life-story of a
singularly busy musician who rose from the ranks, who came into
contact with many of the leading men of his time, and who by his own
showing never lost an opportunity for profiting by his talents or
his peculiar fund of ready wit and jocularity. But in addition to
this it deals now and again with serious musical topics, more
particularly, of course, those which have come within the orbit of
the author’s own wide professional experience.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“On the whole, however, the book suffers from those very excellences
which make Sir Frederick so eminently suited to his office.”
+ − =Ath= p396 My 30 ’19 600w
=Brooklyn= 12:67 Ja ’20 40w
“The Illustrations are of exceptional interest, and the whole book is
excellently got up.”
+ =Sat R= 127:508 My 24 ’19 1200w
“The emeritus-organist of Westminster has led a full and successful
life, and the record of his professional activities makes excellent
reading, for Sir Frederick Bridge is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =Spec= 122:665 My 24 ’19 1350w
“He records meetings with a few great men outside his
profession—Dickens, Tennyson, Browning; but it seems that the organist
of the Abbey is most likely to meet great men at their funerals. His
friends who were not great in the worldly sense are much more
entertaining.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 1 ’19 1100w
=BRIDGE, NORMAN.= Marching years. il *$2.50 (3c) Duffield
20–18955
The above title is given to the autobiography of a noted physician of
New England origin, the eighth generation in direct descent of Deacon
John Bridge, to whom a bronze statue has been erected near Harvard
university. Dr Bridge was graduated from the Chicago Medical college,
served on the teaching staff of Rush Medical college for two decades
and is the author of many publications on medical subjects, a list of
which is appended to the text.
=BRIDGES, ROBERT.= October. *$1.50 Knopf 821
“‘October, and other poems’ does not bring anything particularly new
to bear on Mr Bridges’s poetry. Its principal value is to show the
poet laureate’s reactions to the war.” (N Y Times) “The best that we
get is a quiet sound to arms in ‘Wake up, England,’ a tribute to
victory in ‘Der tag: Nelson and Beatty,’ a ghostly dialogue between
the victorious admirals of the past and present, some stanzas on
‘Britannia victrix,’ in the orthodox tradition of rehearsing the
spirit of England’s greatness, some tributes to personal friends who
were lost in the war, laurel-verse for the great soldier Lord
Kitchener, sonnets to America in joining the fight for liberty, praise
for the dominions for throwing in their lot with the mother of the
brood, and other such occasional verses.” (Boston Transcript)
* * * * *
“The disappointment, if we may call it disappointment, of this small
book is that so much of its room is taken up by poems of a more or
less official inspiration. Nothing he writes, be the occasion never so
official or the inspiration tenuous, is marred by a touch of shoddy;
the dignity of poetry is safe in his hands. This dignity has no
pomposity. It is only a name for the austerity and candour that mark
the true artist.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 640w
Reviewed by S: Roth
+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 160w
Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 1150w
“The collection is hardly representative of Mr Bridges’ best work, but
at its least, it is good verse.”
+ =Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Mr Bridges was created to do small things in poetry, and to do them
very well.”
+ =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“The one drawback to Mr Bridges’s poetry is a lack of fire. It all
seems conscious, coldly worked out to a well-defined formula. He
carves carefully and with meticulous skill the clever cameos which he
offers the public.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p13 Ag 29 ’20 950w
“The name ‘October’ which the poet laureate has given to his new book
of poems is exceedingly appropriate. There is the perfection and
completion of autumn about them, the sense of something rounded and
finished, a matured and considered beauty.”
+ =Spec= 124:557 Ap 24 ’20 320w
=BRIDGES, VICTOR.= Cruise of the “Scandal,” and other stories. *$1.75
(2c) Putnam
A volume of short stories by an English writer who introduces them
with graceful apologies to “the countrymen of Edgar Allan Poe and O.
Henry.” Mr Bridges is author also of “The lady from Long Acre” and the
stories are written in the light-hearted manner of that novel. Among
the fifteen titles are: The cruise of the “Scandal”; The man with the
chin; Tony and his conscience; With the conquering turkey; A bit of
Old Chelsea; Full-back for England; The bronze-haired girl; His
reverence.
* * * * *
“A cluster of very delightful short stories.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Here is an English author who is satirical, keenly observant and
above all humorous.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 60w
“Most of the tales are amusing, the author’s style is light and
readable, and several of the stories reflect pleasantly the easy-going
existence of the well-to-do young English bachelor as it was before
the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 450w
“The short story which gives this book its title is charming and gay.
Some of the others are flippant or rummy.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 200w
=BRIGGS, THOMAS HENRY.= Junior high school. (Riverside textbooks in
education) *$2 Houghton 373
20–13790
A work by a professor of education, Teachers college, Columbia
university. “The purpose of the book is to present the facts, so far
as they can be ascertained, concerning the newly established junior
high schools, or intermediate schools, and at the same time to set
forth a constructive program for the reorganization if it is to be
educationally effective.” (Preface) The author states that he has
visited personally more than sixty junior high schools, that he has
supplemented the information thus obtained by a study of the
literature of the subject, by questionnaire returns, conferences and
correspondence. He has also acted as educational advisor of the Speyer
experimental junior high school in New York. Contents: The need of
reorganization of schools; The development of the junior high school;
Claims and objections; Organization; Special functions of the junior
high school; Curricula and courses of study; Methods of teaching;
Teachers and salaries; The administration of the schedule and of class
units; Social organization and control; Buildings and grounds; Costs;
Results; In conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 260w
“The book will serve a moderately useful purpose as a textbook for
classes of beginners who need to be taught some definition of the
movement, but will probably do little to influence practice in the
present or the future.”
+ − =El School J= 21:70 S ’20 600w
=BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY.= Cape Cod and the Old Colony. il *$3.50 (6c)
Putnam 974.4
20–14826
The book considers the Cape in its entirety: geologically,
geographically, and historically. We are told of its relation to the
glacial invasion, of its changing shoreline, due to the corroding and
depositing force of the waves, and “how the first colonists and those
who followed them have adjusted themselves to the mobile conditions of
nature and of man.” (Preface) Contents: The Pilgrims around the bay;
The origin of the Cape; The changing shoreline; Old Colony names and
towns; On the land; The harvest of the waters; Roads and waterways;
Three centuries of population; The environment of the sea;
illustrations, index and maps.
* * * * *
“Clear, informative, and without distinction of style. Good
photographs and charts.”
+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“It is sort of glorified geography, with a good deal that is both
interesting and instructive.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 50w
“One thing at least is certain—he has presented science in a garb that
does not repel the layman, and that in itself is always in the nature
of an achievement.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 120w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Marbeck inn. *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–3713
Sam Branstone’s cradle had stood in a laborer’s cottage. Through a
deed of heroism in his boyhood he secured a grammar school education
and his face was set towards success. A loveless marriage to an
extravagant woman emphasizes the necessity for money. The means he
employs for getting it are not of the highest. To business he adds
politics and the ambition for power. Then in the capacity of his
secretary, comes Effie, the woman of beauty and charm and a talent for
self-sacrifice. She loves Sam and resolves to sacrifice herself for
him by putting the beauty, that has never found a place there, into
his life. During a week at Marbeck inn together, she changes his
outlook and as he sinks in the social scale he rises spiritually.
* * * * *
=Ath= p573 Ap 30 ’20 850w
“A book full of clever detail but somehow without any final
whereabouts. For myself, I am unable to like or believe much in either
Sam or his Effie, and can’t feel that I ought to have been bothered
with them, despite the craftsmanship of their sponsor.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 150w
“‘The Marbeck inn’ is, as far as we know, Mr Brighouse’s first novel.
In it may be found certain of the characteristics discoverable in all
his plays, a shrewd knowledge of and a censorious attitude towards the
life and the people of his own section of England, and a contempt for
the ruling powers of both city and nation. The basis of Mr Brighouse’s
art, both as dramatist and novelist, is character.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 1550w
“The unregenerate Sam and his world have a magnificent solidity and
lifelikeness. His formidable and admirable mother, his moral slattern
of a wife, the Rev. Peter Struggles, George Chapple, and even Mr
Alderman Verity—these people are authentic, vivid, and memorable.”
+ − =Nation= 110:393 Mr 20 ’20 380w
“As a study of certain phases of life in and about Manchester, this
English author’s new book is to be commended for its faithfulness.
That the story is decidedly sordid in tone may be the consequence of
its environment. Certainly there are few pleasant people among its
characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 340w
“The action of the story is rapid and free. It has a dash that savors
somehow of the movies, and the characters are perhaps equally
moviesque—bold in outline without much delicacy of shading. One feels
that one has to take the author’s word for their third dimension—all
except Anne, the watchful mother, and Peter Struggles, loved pastor of
St Mary’s.” Marguerite Fellows
+ =Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 260w
“One agrees with the author that Sam is worth staying with until the
moment arrives when he is to discover that he has a soul. On the other
hand, exception will be taken to Mr Brighouse’s method of showing Sam
his soul.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 100w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Three Lancashire plays. $2.50 French, S. 822
20–13324
“The first of the three plays, ‘The game,’ proposes to be about
football. The true subject of the play is parents and children. The
daughter of the ‘gentleman’ rebels against her father and wants to
marry the footballer; the footballer clings to his stern old mother
and will not marry the girl unless he may keep his mother. And
naturally the girl realizes that that would never ‘work’ and gives up
her lover. ‘The northerners’ is a play about the introduction of
machine-looms and the new tyranny of the masters of labour in the
Lancashire of 1820. ‘Zack’ is a character comedy.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The first two plays in the volume are hardly adaptable to use in
America, but ‘Zack’ will be a valuable addition to the repertory of
amateur groups.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 170w
“His plots are neither simple and exact, nor, on the other hand,
marvels of good carpentry. They are either too weak or too strong,
invertebrate or too dependent on situation. But ... we have here three
plays in which Brighouse’s keen sense of good stage-humour, and his
knack for observing character are applied to a people and a life that
he could know honestly at first hand.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 650w
“Mr Brighouse’s touch and temper are equally uncertain. In ‘The
northerners’ his action is ingenious in the bad and artificial sense,
and flares into the noisiest melodrama in the last act. ‘The game’ is
a far sounder and less pretentious play than ‘The northerners’; ‘Zack’
is negligible.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 200w
“‘The game’ is, perhaps, a trifle too local, with an appeal to a more
specialized audience whose chief interest lies in the fair play of
organized sport. It is a relief to discover in the last play, ‘Zack,’
amusement for its own sake.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 580w
“As for ‘Zack,’ it cries out for acting. But the dialogue and the
situations go for little in print.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p121 F 19 ’20 900w
“All show a sense of the theatre, good situations, lively talk (and,
one might exclaim, ‘What more could you ask, in Heaven’s name?’), but
for all this they are at best but commonplace.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:350 O ’20 140w
=BRINKLEY, FRANK, and KIKUCHI, DAIROKU.= History of the Japanese people.
il *$4.50 Doran 952
This history dates from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era
and has been compiled with the collaboration of Baron Kikuchi who also
contributes the foreword. He claims that among the many books on Japan
there has not yet been a history of Japan so essential to the proper
understanding of Japanese problems. Besides that part of the contents
devoted especially to dynastic and political history there are
chapters on: The historiographer’s art in old Japan; Japanese
mythology; Rationalization; Origin of the Japanese nation; Language
and physical characteristics; Manners and customs in remote antiquity;
The capital and the provinces; Recovery of administrative authority by
the throne; Manners and customs of the Heian epoch; Art, religion,
literature, customs, and commerce in the Kamakura period; Foreign
intercourse, literature, art, religion, manners, and customs in the
Muromachi epoch; Christianity in Japan; Revival of the Shintō cult;
Wars with China and Russia. The appendix contains: The constitution of
Japan; The Anglo-Japanese agreement, 1905; and the Treaty of
Portsmouth, 1905. There is a list of Japanese works consulted; an
index; 150 illustrations engraved on wood by Japanese artists;
half-tone plates and maps.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 460w
=BRINTON, REGINALD SEYMOUR.= Carpets. $1 Pitman 677
20–14784
This volume of Pitman’s Common commodities and industries series
comprises the following chapters: History; Materials; Dyeing;
Hand-made carpets; Brussels; Wilton; Axminster; Chenille; Tapestry;
Ingrain; Design and colour; Statistics; Employers and employed;
Conclusion. There are thirty illustrations and an index.
=BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS.= Naturalism in English poetry. *$3 Dutton
821.09
20–20661
“These studies deal with that reaction from artificial and
conventional poetry of the eighteenth century which began with
Thomson, grew through a transition period of some fifty years
(1730–1780) into the ‘naturalistic’ poetry of Burns and Cowper,
reached its height with Wordsworth, and died with Shelly, Keats, and
Byron. They are based on the Ms. of a course of lectures delivered by
the late Stopford Brooke at University college, London, in 1902. The
later chapters of the book are also printed from Mss., except two,
which appeared after the author’s death in the Hibbert Journal.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“There was, perhaps, no great originality in Stopford Brooke’s
criticism; and in reading his particular book one sighs occasionally
for a page or two of precise discussion of the keyword in the title.
On the other hand it has the redeeming salt of a genuine humanity, an
enthusiasm which, if it attaches sometimes to what seems to us only
diluted poetry, is in the main convincing—a book, in short, which can
be read with pleasure rather than exhilaration, and which, considered
as lectures delivered to a university audience, is admirable.”
+ − =Ath= p792 Je 18 ’20 600w
“Mr Brooke’s book is one that should be widely read, for it gives new
life to these men [Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron].” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 400w
“While Stopford Brooke has written good criticism, he has not written
great criticism; for a criticism which, while dealing with human
values, does not really seek for the larger reconciling ideas, and
which always in a pinch leans toward a theological standard cannot be
called great.”
+ − =No Am= 213:284 F ’21 1300w
“Though the present work penetrates deeply into the spirit that
animated the naturalistic poets, it is marred by the use of many
outworn phrases, examples of tautology, and an irritating loquacity
that might be forgiven in a lecturer, but cannot be condoned in the
printed page.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 70w
=BROOKS, ALFRED MANSFIELD.= From Holbein to Whistler; notes on drawing
and engraving. il *$7.50 Yale univ. press 767
20–15784
“Starting with the ‘Beginnings of line engraving in Italy,’ Mr Brooks
comments on the line engraving and wood in the North, talks upon the
work of such men as Mantegna, Marcantonio, Raimondi, Lucas of Leyden,
Durer and Holbein; gives an account of the theory and progress of
etching through Rembrandt, Van Dyck to Claude Lorraine; mezzotint
engraving as exemplified by Claude Lorraine and Richard Earlom, and
concludes on the famous collection of engravings and designs by Turner
known as ‘The liber studiorum.’ The volume is illustrated in both line
and shadow, with reproductions of the famous drawings of the artists
dealt with.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Ease and dignity mark the style.”
+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 470w
“If the reader may occasionally prefer a different path from the one
taken by Mr Brooks, that is in measure a matter of personal
predilection. The same may be said of the choice of prints for
discussion. However, in the end the book stimulates, and exhibits good
common sense.”
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 450w
“On the whole, it is an interesting and instructive book, a little
verbose, but full of shrewd observations and sound though unoriginal
generalities. It is neither sufficiently concise nor sufficiently
ample for very general use; however, the patient reader will be amply
repaid for the reading.” R: Bassett
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 580w
=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= Luca Sarto. il *$1.75 (2c) Century
20–3883
Fourteen hundred and seventy-one is the time of this story of
adventure and romance, as told by the hero, Luca Sarto, in the first
person. Here is his own outline of the events: “We shall see, when all
is done, how a man fled wisely from his enemies, the Orsini; how he
came to France; how later, in good time, he wooed and kissed a lady;
how, after a night that was candled by stars and danger, the morning
sun was witness to their betrothal. I end with priest and blessing. No
need of candle then.”
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Remarkable for the fidelity with which the author preserves the
atmosphere of the middle ages.”
+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 60w
“From the confinement and necessary limitations of the essay-form, Mr
Brooks has emerged with much credit, to give us a glorious adventure
bubbling with spirits, and plausible withal.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 800w
“Full of intrigue and action, and related in a quaint phraseology full
of color and metaphor.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 110w
“It has the sparkle of brightly burnished armour and a
pulse-quickening pace. The manner of the telling is not without a
touch of swagger, spiced with the salt flavour of the modern
point-of-view, humorous and whimsical.”
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The book, a first novel, is an entertaining historical romance
cleverly written and contains plenty of intrigue and adventure
combined with a pretty love story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 320w
“His adventures in France are told with dash, and the style smacks
truly of the manner of the fifteenth century.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“A spirited and amusing if not inspired narrative of
adventure-cum-politics.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 640w
“The story is well written, in a fresh and stimulating romantic
spirit, and should appeal to those with a weakness for historical
novels that do not contain too much history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 450w
=BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM.= Labor’s challenge to the social order; democracy
its own critic and educator. *$2.75 (2c) Macmillan 331
20–8263
“The problem here submitted is a study of power rapidly and in part
accidentally acquired by labor. More especially it is a study of what
labor is to do with its new mastership, what fitness it possesses for
the work it would take in hand and how, meantime, other classes are to
play their part.” (Chapter 1) The author holds that the war has
precipitated this new power of labor, which in normal times would have
developed more slowly and carried with it its own discipline, and that
now its education will be more costly both for itself and the public.
He also holds that for capital the day of “the lone hand” has closed
and that the lesson for both capital and labor to learn is to unite
their forces in cooperative effort. A partial list of the contents is:
“A new society”; World lessons; The struggle at its worst; The Inner
revolution; Lessons from the communists; Socialism; Government
ownership; Industrial democracy at its best; The employers’ case
against the union; The new “profit-sharing”; Syndicalism; The new
guild; Index.
* * * * *
“It is a stimulating and penetrating appreciation of the latest
developments in the labor field on the background of Mr Brooks’s forty
years’ study of the upward movement of wage-earners throughout the
world. Like his other books, it is a human document rather than a
dogmatic treatise.” H: R. Seager
+ =Am Econ= R 10:602 S ’20 1000w
“The volume is fully up to the author’s standard of writing, which
means that it is accurate, good-tempered and interesting.”
+ =Am Pol Sci= R 14:739 N ’20 50w
“The very interesting illustrations cited throughout make this book
not only earnest but really attractive reading on labor organization
questions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
“A clear account and discriminating criticism of the labor movement.”
+ =Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 480w
“His book is unquestionably the most mature, balanced and far-seeing
analysis of recent months.” Ordway Tead
+ =New Repub= 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w
“With some blemishes here and there of involved or slipshod phrase,
the book is to be warmly welcomed. No other man in America who deals
with this subject draws from so ample a store of learning and
experience. No other has at once the exactness and the scope of his
information. No other writes with such uniform tolerance and breadth
of view.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 720w
“His tolerance and his desire to understand and to interpret the world
of labor fairly and humanly give distinction to his work.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 300w
=BROOKS, VAN WYCK.= Ordeal of Mark Twain. *$3 Dutton
20–8431
“This book is primarily a psychological study and yet it is full of
biographical detail related to the career of Mark Twain, and
supplements the biography written by Mr Paine. It should be stated,
however, that Mr Brooks did not undertake this task in the spirit of a
chronicler. He started, rather, with the aim of offering a logical
explanation of Mark Twain’s well-known tendency to pessimism.” (R of
Rs) “The main idea in the book is that Mark Twain’s career was a
tragedy—a tragedy for himself and a tragedy for mankind. Everyman who
does not live up to his highest possibilities is living in a state of
sin. Mark Twain was, therefore, one of the chief of sinners, because
his possibilities were so great and he fell so short. There were two
villains in Mark Twain’s tragedy—his mother and his wife. His mother
was more eager to have him good than to have him great; his wife
wanted him to be a gentleman. Between them they tamed the lion and
made him perform parlor tricks. This hypothesis is worked out by Mr
Brooks.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“Having set up his theory, everything in the humorist’s career is made
to contribute to it in the most plausible, ingenious, and stimulating
way; the book is so able and interesting that to read it is a delight.
Yet, for me, as I strive to realize Mark Twain, remembering the man
and reading the author to find the man, the result is not
satisfactory, nor do I think Mr Brooks has penetrated to the heart of
the secret. He has succumbed to the danger which always confronts the
thesis-maker who has to subdue data so that they may buttress his
belief.” R: Burton
* + − =Bookm= 52:333 Ja ’21 2900w
“Not only a subtle psychological study of one of the most prominent
figures in the life of the past century, but also a valuable
acquisition to the essay realm of American history.”
+ =Cath World= 112:255 N ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Dial= 69:293 S ’20 3150w
“This ‘Ordeal’ is so brilliant a book and comes so near the truth in
its general outlines that it seems almost an excess of seriousness to
point out certain excesses of seriousness into which Mr Brooks has
been carried by his ardor for the dignity of the literary profession.
But it should be pointed out that his criticism is very far from being
disinterested. He means to bring an adequate indictment against the
sort of society which discourages and represses a man of genius.” C.
V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
“Unfortunately Van Wyck Brooks took Mark Twain’s humorously
megalomaniac utterances for serious expressions of a megalomaniac
soul, and, as it seems to me, utterly missed the most promising lead
in his mountain of ore. But there were riches enough for his purpose,
nevertheless.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 23:201 Jl 14 ’20 2350w
“Many books have been written about Mark Twain; but with the exception
of Paine’s biography this work by Mr Van Wyck Brooks is the most
important and the most essential. Whether one agrees with Mr Brooks’s
thesis or not—and I do not—one must admire and one ought to profit by
the noble and splendid purpose animating it. It is a call to every
writer and to every man and woman not to sin against their own
talents.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p1 Je 27 ’20 2200w
“While Mr Brooks is in no sense an artist in words, he is a dramatic
expositor, and he owns a thesis which attracts to its defense an
inspiritingly large number of crisp facts and observations. His book
will interest and serve even the unbeliever.”
+ − =Review= 3:108 Ag 4 ’20 1150w
“Mr Brooks seems to have adopted a thesis which he feels bound to
support by ingenious and plausible argument. As a clever and brilliant
application of critical methods to a literary career, the book has few
equals in American literature.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 120w
“Although it is easy to dissent from Mr Brooks’s interpretation of
Clemens’s biography, the book aims to provide something of the serious
criticism which is so essential not only to American letters but to
American culture. It is somewhat overtheorized and finespun. The ideas
would be clearer if the book were more condensed in expression and
data.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ’20 490w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:114 Je ’20 60w
=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.=[2] Self-help in piano study. il *$1.50 Stokes
786
20–17977
The book is in two parts: Practical lessons in piano technic and Plain
talks with piano teachers and students. It consists of reprinted
matter from the Musical Observer and Musical America in the form of
brief essays, many of them written in response to requests from
teachers and students. Among the chapters of Part 1 are: The
principles of piano playing; The beginner; Use of wrist and arms;
Scale playing. Part 2 has talks on: On teaching; Laying the
foundation; Points on technical training; Touch and tone, etc.
=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.= Vocal mastery. il *$3 Stokes 784.9
20–19844
This book is composed of a number of talks with famous singers with a
view to obtaining “their personal ideas concerning their art and its
mastery, and, when possible, some inkling as to the methods by which
they themselves have arrived at the goal.” Among those interviewed are
Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Amelita Galli-Curci, Giuseppe de
Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti, Reinald Werrenrath, and Sophie
Braslau. A group entitled, With the master teachers, includes David
Bispham, Oscar Saenger, Herbert Witherspoon, Yeatman Griffith, and J.
H. Duval. Twenty photographs illustrate the book. Miss Brower is
author also of “Piano mastery,” a book of similar purpose for
pianists, and other books for musicians.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
=BROWN, ABBIE FARWELL.= Heart of New England. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–16517
This collection of poems is a tribute in verse to the Pilgrim
tercentenary, taking the reader from the Pilgrim’s separation from old
England, to the present generation’s reunion thru the war. The first
group of poems deals entirely with New England and some of the poems
are: Pilgrim mothers; Pirate treasure; Grandmother’s house;
Grandmother’s garden; Pine music; The blazed trail. The second group
contains war songs, among them: Peace—with a sword; From the canteen;
Prayer for America. The book ends with The rock of liberty: a Pilgrim
ode, 1620–1920.
* * * * *
“Many who cannot find pleasure in more daring modern poets should find
contentment in the work of Miss Brown. When much of today’s poetry is
forgotten her verse will wait for him who wishes to know the true New
England.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 3400w
=BROWN, ALICE.= Homespun and gold. *$2 Macmillan
20–19504
“‘Homespun and gold’ is an appropriate title for Miss Alice Brown’s
new collection of stories, considering the homely material she has
used and the glint of hope that persists in an atmosphere of impending
tragedy. The people and scenes are all of New England, and the
situations deal with the suppressed desires, the thwarted hopes, and
the hated sacrifices made lovable, of a people in whom the Puritan
tradition is not entirely dead.” (Freeman) Contents: The wedding ring;
Mary Felicia; A homespun wizardry; Red poppies; Ann Eliza; The return
of father; The deserters; The house of the bride; A question of wills;
A brush of paint; The path of stars; The widow’s third; White pebbles;
Confessions; Up on the mountain.
* * * * *
“Because they describe life rather than interpret it they fail to move
one profoundly. The reader closes the book impressed with its
sustained excellence; the sure touch of an experienced craftsman is
apparent on every page, but it throws no clear light upon the enigma
of human destiny.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 240w
“Taken together, they form an interesting picture of New England
village life. It is a picture far less grim than some others we have
seen.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 850w
“They are humorous, human, and true.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
“There is very little description in any of the stories—dialog is used
almost wholly and this aids in the sharp differentiation of the
characters. A homely idiom, fast becoming obsolete, adds to this
effect.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=BROWN, ALICE.= Wind between the worlds. *$2 (2c) Macmillan
20–11071
In various ways the characters of this story are interested in the
life hereafter and in communication with the dead; and the reactions
on the living, when the quest becomes too ardent, constitute its
moral. A bereaved mother, one of whose sons has been killed in the
war, pins all her faith to automatic writing, in the hope of getting a
message from him. Her relations with her husband become strained, her
nerves threaten to give way. Her secretary, who practices the writing,
has through it so lost her grip on the higher potentialities of life,
that she no longer discriminates between genuine and fraudulent
practices. A scientist has taken the matter up from the scientific
side and from seeking communication with his dead wife has been led
deeper and deeper into his investigations, and becomes almost crazed
and totally irresponsible. For love of him his daughter surrounds
herself with a fabric of lies from which only the love of an unusual,
divining young man and her father’s death, extricate her. For the
bereaved mother and her family the situation is saved by the
penetrating wisdom of an old woman.
* * * * *
“Written with characteristic deftness and charm.”
+ =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20
“In ‘The wind between the worlds’ Miss Brown has, despite the
intricacy of her theme, sacrificed neither her story to her problem,
nor her problem to her story. Devotees of the cult doubtless will not
approve of it, for its hints at fraud will seem to them to be unjust,
and it suggests little sympathy on the part of the novelist with the
cause they have so near at heart. To others, however, it will appear
as a sensible and skilfully imaginative exposition of a vital
subject.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1400w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
=Lit D= p110 N 6 ’20 2700w
“If one can forget the shoddiness of the material there are several
virtues that might be pointed out. The book will undoubtedly please
disciples of the formula school of fiction.” H. S. G.
+ − =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 340w
“The ‘plot portion’ of the story is the weakest part of it. There are
times when it seems manufactured. But the character drawing is
admirable. That the novel is admirably written and the atmosphere of
Boston, where the scene is laid, excellently reproduced, of course
goes without saying.” L. M. Field
+ − =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 11 ’20 1550w
“The love-plot is singular, but not convincing or quite well managed.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 360w
“Madame Brooke, the grandmother of the dead boy, is much the most
interesting and unconventional character in the book, and in her the
author depicts an exclusively American type.”
+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w
“The technique is admirable; but the breath of life is rarely present.
The characters are intellectually conceived, the story is original,
the psychology shows insight; there is capital description, reasonably
good dialogue, situations both interesting and dramatic; the tale
moves without faltering; and yet, the breath of life being absent for
the most part, the story is unreal.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p701 O 28 ’20 340w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 120w
=BROWN, SIR ARTHUR WHITTEN, and BOTT, ALAN JOHN.= Flying the Atlantic in
sixteen hours. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 629.1
20–8254
In this account of the prize-winner in the first competitive flight
across the Atlantic, in a Vickers-Vimy machine. Sir Arthur Brown says:
“We have realized that our flight was but a solitary fingerpost to the
air-traffic—safe, comfortable and voluminous—that in a few years will
pass above the Atlantic ocean.” The last three chapters of the book
are devoted to a discussion of aircraft in commerce and
transportation. Contents: Some preliminary events; St John’s; The
start; Evening; Night; Morning; The arrival; Aftermath of arrival; The
navigation of aircraft; The future of transatlantic flight; The air
age; illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“One leaves the book with the sensation of having been in the midst of
remarkable accomplishment.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 900w
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w
=BROWN, DEMETRA (VAKA) (MRS KENNETH BROWN), and PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES=,
trs. Modern Greek stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (3c) Duffield
20–26756
The book has a foreword by Demetra Vaka describing the emotional and
intellectual history of the Greeks from the time they lost their
independence to the Turks in 1453 to the present. Modern Greece, she
says, owes her independence and inspiration to her poets and other
writers and Mount Olympus, by becoming the stronghold of the outlaws
and insurgents against Turkish rule, became in a new sense a sacred
mountain. Of the authors of the eight stories selected for the volume,
all but three are still living. The stories are: Sea; The sin of my
mother; The god-father; Mangalos; Forgiveness; Angelica; A man’s
death; The frightened soul; She that was homesick.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w
+ =Lit D= p92 N 20 ’20 1450w
“All these stories are pervaded with a fatalism, a sombreness, a
prepossession unredeemed by that super-sight that we associate with
the Greeks of old. If they are exact transcriptions of the instincts
and beliefs of the Greek people of today they have far to go before
the heights are reached.” B. D.
− =N Y Times= p9 Ag 22 ’20 950w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
“Without awakening at any point intense curiosity or poignant interest
they hold the attention by their sincerity, truth, simplicity, and an
indefinable democratic and human tone. They are admirably translated
in pure idiomatic English.”
+ =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Charming tales. The stories are fascinating in their strange beauty.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w
“These stories are beautiful as literature; they are fascinating as
documents of a people’s inner life.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:334 N 27 ’20 150w
=BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE.= That affair at St Peter’s. il *$1.75 (4c)
Lothrop
20–7761
This story is told by Preston Perrin, the junior warden of St Peter’s,
a church in the suburban town of Hollywood. The tale has to do with
the theft of St Peter’s communion plate between two morning services
on a June Sunday. Various persons had access to the safe where the
silver was kept, including Sophie Dennison, whom no one, least of all,
Preston, could connect with such a crime, Thompson, the organist,
Anna, a Girl’s friendly girl, and of course the rector. Fred Farrell.
A detective is called in, but his conventional methods prove little.
Finally, the silver is returned and the affair is explained very
naturally and credibly, the whole excitement lasting less than a week.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The book is old-fashioned, but—its mystery appearing early—will be
finished if started.”
+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 210w
“A very interesting and well written story. All characters are
attractive and a spice of love-making, withal, completes the value of
the work as a story of human interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 130w
=BROWN, EVERETT SOMERVILLE.= Constitutional history of the Louisiana
purchase, 1803–1812. $2.50 Univ. of Cal. 973.4 A20–742
“The purpose of this monograph is to discuss the most important of the
constitutional questions which arose as a consequence of the purchase
of Louisiana, and to show how the statesmen and legislators in charge
of affairs at that time interpreted the constitution in answering
those questions. Much has been written on the Louisiana purchase but
no connected narrative of its constitutional aspects has hitherto
appeared.” (Preface) The author has confined his study principally to
the lower part of the province, that organized as Orleans territory
and afterwards admitted as the state of Louisiana. He has utilized
much hitherto unpublished material. There is a bibliography of
thirteen pages, in which this material, together with published works,
is cited. An appendix reproduces the Senate debate on the Breckinridge
bill in 1804, and the volume is indexed. It is published as volume 10
of the University of California publications in history, of which
Herbert E. Bolton is editor.
* * * * *
“Dr Brown has covered a wide range of manuscript and printed material,
and handled it with a just sense of proportion and a keen scent for
the significant. I do wish, however, that aspirants for the three
magic letters would not be so oppressed by the solemnity of their
quest as to neglect the light and humorous aspects of their subject.”
S. E. Morison
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:143 O ’20 280w
“A careful and elaborate monograph.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:625 O ’20 80w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w
=BROWN, GEORGE EDWARD=. Book of R. L. S.; works, travels, friends, and
commentators. il *$2.50 (3c) Scribner
20–6150
A book of Stevenson miscellany, alphabetically arranged. “The chief
aim of this book is to provide a commentary on his works as far as
possible from Stevenson’s own standpoint by showing the circumstances
in which they were written, their history in his hands, and his
judgments on them.... The scheme of the volume also embraces
references to members of his family, and to his more or less intimate
friends as well as the places directly associated with his wandering
life.” (Preface) The comments vary in length from brief paragraphs to
several pages. Subjects covered more or less at length include the
Appin murder, on which “Kidnapped” was based; “The black arrow”; Alan
Breck; “Catriona”; Father Damien; Dedications; “Kidnapped”; Samoa; San
Francisco; In the South seas; and “Treasure island”; and there are
also notes on Barrie, Meredith, Kipling, Sidney Colvin, and others.
The book has eight illustrations and is indexed.
* * * * *
“The arrangement is handy for reference, and the information
sufficiently attractive to repay one who dips into the book for
pleasure.”
+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 50w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 17 ’20 1000w
“Raises the question of how long Stevenson will survive segmentation,
mutilation for mottoes, and vivisection in calendars, without
impairment of his literary vitality. This volume, fortunately, is a
dictionary rather than a dissection.”
+ =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 70w
“Once you have braced yourself and plunged in, an encyclopedia is
delightful reading and so is this ‘Book of R. L. S.’”
+ =Ind= 102:235 My 8 ’20 300w
“Unless some one does the same thing better, the book will stand; it
need fear no rivalry, so far as ready reference is concerned, from
more brilliant narratives. Minor shortcomings are offset by his
general accuracy and good sense.”
+ − =Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 180w
“‘A book of R. L. S.’ is a good compendium of everything that is worth
knowing in the life of Stevenson.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 900w
=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 120w
“Contains a valuable index.” D. K.
+ =St Louis= 18:66 Ap ’20 30w
“It seems a little odd to find all sorts of information about
Stevenson, his friends, and critics arranged under alphabetical
headings, as if he were a cookery book or a postal guide. We have at
this date quite enough books about Stevenson, and we hope that this
will be the last for some time to come.... While Mr Brown’s industry
is remarkable, his criticism is not always of the kind we regard as
useful.”
− + =Sat R= 128:610 D 27 ’19 1350w
“A pleasant and informing study. The arrangement which is so
convenient for reference, interferes very little with the book’s
readability.”
+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 70w
“The reader is made to feel an intimate acquaintance with that very
remarkable author and man.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 27 ’20 220w
“The book serves also as a bibliography, with notes of the values of
first editions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 90w
=BROWN, IVOR JOHN CARNEGIE.=[2] Meaning of democracy. *$2 McClurg 321.8
(Eng ed 20–4617)
“The lecturer of Oxford tutorial classes attempts to show what
democracy implies. He recognizes that the word has come to mean
nothing. Having accepted the principle of equality, as the basis of a
division of power, he proceeds to outline representative government.
He finds in this inevitable delegation of power, three main problems;
the demand for general education to make articulate public opinion,
the machinery for translating this public opinion into practice and in
the third place, the need of curbing those elected to office, so that
they will not forget the source of their power.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“An excellent little book.”
+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 520w
“Ivor Brown’s ‘The meaning of democracy’ warms the heart with the new
vision of education—education where teacher and students meet as
equals.” A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:499 F ’21 190w
=Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 140w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 360w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p116 F 19 ’20)
“It is more human, more readable, and more thought-provoking than nine
out of ten of the treatises on the same general lines with which it
has been our rather arduous privilege to grapple. This is because Mr
Brown is neither very whole-hearted nor, happily, very consistent
about his self-imposed task. The terrible series of definitions by
which he is going to fathom the last recesses of the democratic idea
loses itself, like certain eastern rivers, in the desert during the
course of the first few chapters; and we can bear with the loss.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 F 19 ’20 1500w
=BROWN, NELSON COURTLANDT.= Forest products. il *$3.75 Wiley 674
19–15703
A book by the professor of forest utilization, New York state college
of forestry. “Some idea of its scope may be obtained from such chapter
headings as the following: Wood pulp and paper; Tanning materials;
Veneers; Slack and tight cooperage; Naval stores; Wood distillation;
Charcoal; Boxes; Cross ties; Poles and piling; Mine timber; Fuel;
Shingles; Maple syrup and sugar; Rubber; Dye woods; Excelsior and
cork. Under each topic the character and source of the raw material,
the tree species involved, the processes of manufacture, the
marketing, the utilization, and values are discussed. Whenever any
attempts have been made toward standard specifications and grading of
the products, these are given in considerable detail. Statistics of
production in the United States or of importation from other lands are
arranged in convenient tables, and still more important for the
scientist is the bibliography which is appended to each chapter.” (Bot
Gaz)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:156 F ’20
“Attractive in appearance, well illustrated, and carefully organized.”
G: D. Fuller
+ =Bot Gaz= 68:479 D ’19 220w
=BROWN, ROBERT NEAL RUDMOSE.= Spitsbergen. il *$5 Lippincott 919.8
20–7933
“This book, from the pen of a British explorer, meets the new demand
for information about the mineral resources of this Arctic
archipelago, and at the same time gives a good account of the history,
exploration and animal and plant life of the country. The author
discusses the three ways suggested for settling the political status
of Spitsbergen—partition, international control by two or more
nations, and annexation by one or other nation. He rejects the first
two propositions as not feasible and concludes that the islands should
be annexed by either Great Britain or Norway, the choice to be
submitted to the League of nations and decided by a mandate to one or
other of these powers.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Dr Rudmose Brown is a geographer of repute with considerable
scientific attainments, whose work in the Antarctic has won
recognition, and in this volume he has given us a valuable, lively and
most interesting account of the Spitsbergen archipelago. He writes
with a restrained enthusiasm inspired by a genuine love of these wild
regions which compels our interest.” L. C.-M.
+ =Ath= p1064 O 24 ’19 1250w
“Since the book was finished before the government of the country was
settled it is slightly out of date in this, but is chiefly valuable
for the details of history and economic resources.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“The book states the problem clearly and contains numerous helpful
maps and illustrations.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 120w
“Dr Rudmose Brown gives a map showing the principal mining estates
according to nationality, but no map showing the distribution of coal,
and no geological map. This last seems a curious omission and
certainly is a regrettable one. His book may be recommended to the
general inquirer and especially to the tourists and health seekers.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:612 D 27 ’19 1300w
“An interesting and useful book.”
+ =Spec= 123:473 O 11 ’19 1450w
“This is one of those commendable volumes which entertains while it
informs the reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p556 O 16 ’19 1000w
=BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE.=[2] History of Persian literature under
Tartar dominion (A. D. 1265–1502). il *$14 Macmillan 891.5
21–509
“The literature of Persia has found a most able and enthusiastic
interpreter in Professor Edward G. Browne, of the University of
Cambridge, who has already published two exhaustive volumes entitled
‘A literary history of Persia,’ bringing the subject down to the
middle of the thirteenth century. Now comes a third, covering the
period from 1265 to 1502. It is practically a continuation, if not so
in name and form, of the other two standard volumes.” (Nation) “The
period dealt with begins immediately after the terrible Mongol
invasion under Hulagu, includes the conquests of the redoubtable
Tamerlane, and ends with the appearance of the great Shah Ismail, the
founder of the Safawi dynasty, as the saviour of his country.” (Spec)
* * * * *
“It must be confessed that it is not easy reading. He could hardly
expect it to be a popular piece of literature. But what a glorious
feast it provides! He has indeed performed a great and needed work in
interpreting this fine people to modern readers.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 780w
“Takes its place by the side of the two earlier volumes as a
masterpiece of sound scholarship and critical judgment.” A. V. W.
Jackson
+ =Nation= 111:508 N 3 ’20 560w
“The volume, in short, is worthy of its distinguished author, and
sheds a flood of light on an epoch with which even experts are
unfamiliar.”
+ =Sat R= 130:359 O 30 ’20 720w
“His treatment of the subject is so direct and so clear that the
general reader would never suspect that the ground traversed is mostly
new ground, and that the sources both for the history and for the
literature are for the most part contained in unpublished
manuscripts.”
+ =Spec= 125:337 S 11 ’20 2300w
=BROWNE, ROBERT T.= Mystery of space. *$4 Dutton 114
19–18843
“It is Mr Browne’s belief that mankind has entered upon a new era in
the development of intellect and that new powers of perception and
understanding are unfolding in the most advanced members of the race.
‘The intellect’, he says, ‘has but one true divining rod, and that is
mathematics,’ and he brings forward his mathematical evidence to prove
his contention. He discusses also the genesis and nature of space,
devotes a chapter to an exposition of the fourth dimension, another to
discussion of non-Euclidian geometry and traces the growth of the
notion of hyperspace.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:112 Ap ’20 30w
“The greatest of all latter-day books on space. It is written by a
mathematician, a mystic and a thinker, one who, endowed with a
tremendous metaphysical imagination, never lets go any point of the
threads of reality. Lucid and logical, with a pen that never falters,
Mr Browne advances steadily from page to page upon the fortresses of
science.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:119 Mr 14 20 1700w
“It is excessively irritating that writers on this subject either
choose or are forced to employ a vocabulary and a style which are
repellent to the reader, and to mix the significant and insignificant
into an almost inextricable tangle. Careful and prolonged searching
brings forth the fact that Mr Browne has a definite and interesting
thesis.” L: T. More
+ − =Review= 2:133 F 7 ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w
“As offering to the reader very intelligible and significant, not to
say impressive intimations and conceptions of that larger universe in
which we live and move and have our being, and of which we are hardly
aware, ‘The mystery of space’ presents an admirable idea, in its clear
and well-considered resumé of facts.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 1150w
=BROWNRIGG, SIR DOUGLAS EGREMONT ROBERT.= Indiscretions of the naval
censor. il *$2.50 (4c) Doran 940.45
20–7998
The author was chief censor at the British admiralty during the war.
He writes of: The establishment of the naval censorship; How the news
came of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland islands; Problems of
publicity and propaganda; The battle of Jutland; The death of Lord
Kitchener; Educating the public; Co-operation with other departments;
Zeebrugge and the censorship; Authors, publishers and some others;
Press men of allied countries; Visitors to the Grand fleet; Artists
and the naval war; Censoring naval letters; Wireless and war news;
Odds and ends; A censor’s “holidays”; Last days of the censorship. The
illustrations are grouped at the end and there is an index.
* * * * *
“Admiral Brownrigg has many amusing stories to tell as well as many
momentous topics to discuss.”
+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
+ =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 40w
“Anyone who expects Sir Douglas Brownrigg’s ‘Indiscretions of the
naval censor’ to be indiscreet will be disappointed. Where the Admiral
does become interesting is in his intimate account of life at that
ramshackle building known as the British admiralty.”
+ − =Nation= 111:51 Jl 10 ’20 260w
“The grave question of the proper relation to be observed in time of
war between the truth, the state, the public, and the press scarcely
obtrudes its chilly presence into the warm stream of anecdote which
courses through these pages.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 26:868 Mr 20 ’20 1100w
“The book is breezily written and as entertaining as it is genuinely
informative.”
+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 440w
+ =R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 100w
“Admiral Brownrigg has command of a straightforward, telling style.
His book is full of humour, good spirits, and the kind of information
which only he is in a position to impart.”
+ =Sat R= 129:334 Ap 3 ’20 1150w
=Spec= 124:181 F 7 ’20 300w
=Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 220w
=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia and her friends. *$1.25 Macmillan
“Seven short sketches of London society fill 150 small pages of ‘Celia
and her friends’ in which Ethel Brunner presents a bright and
benevolent heiress, attended most of the time by a clever bachelor,
who fain would change his state and hers, and assisted in the various
chapters by a supporting cast of more or less merit.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 50w
“As a picture of one phase of idle London life, there may be some
interest, but it has been so much better done by other writers that it
fails to impress one.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 280w
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w
“The dialog is full of repartee not overdone. The book isn’t meant to
be deep; whimsical, frivolous, entertaining, would describe it
better.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 140w
=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia once again. *$1.80 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–5894)
“‘Celia once again’ is a collection of nine short stories—perhaps
episodes is the better term, as there is no pretense of a fictional
plot in any of them; they all relate to Celia and her interesting
friends. According to Peter—Celia’s husband—she was ‘dangerously quick
in making friends,’ she was anxious to make every penny she could for
charity, and when she stationed herself in Piccadilly with her flag
tray and a bundle of tickets for a picture to be raffled for, ‘Love’s
awakening,’ it was small matter for wonder that her handsome face and
becoming costume won for her a gratifying success. But her
philanthropic effort was not without adventures; these the author
recounts.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The dialogue is often witty and every chapter sparkles with comment
and whimsical philosophizing on people and affairs.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 380w
=BRYANT, MRS ALICE ELISABETH (CRANDELL)=, ed. Treasury of hero tales.
(Treasury ser. for children) il *$1 (3½c) Crowell 398.2
20–15175
The stories retold for children in this volume are The Gorgon’s head;
The apples of youth; The story of Siegfried; The coming of Sir
Galahad; Rinaldo and Bayard; White-headed Zal; Beowulf and Grendel;
How Cuchulain got his name; How Robin Hood met Little John.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 50w
=BRYANT, MRS SOPHIE (WILLOCK).= Moral and religious education. (Modern
educator’s lib.) *$1.90 (*6s) Longmans 377
(Eng ed E20–537)
“Some advocates of moral training in the schools believe that morality
can best be taught through the development of religious faith and by
direct appeal to self-respect, reason, sympathy, and common-sense. A
book advocating this idea has just appeared. It deals with such
general topics as self-liberation and self-realization, the moral
ideal, the religious ideal, and the reasoned presentment of religious
truth. A chapter is devoted to each of these topics.” (School R) “In
the second division of the volume a large number of attractive
examples are given of model lessons on moral topics. There are reviews
of the lives and doings of great men and a concrete setting forth of
social and personal virtues. The last part of the book attempts to
furnish concrete material for religious instruction. The character of
this fourth division of the book can be well illustrated by citing the
general title of the section and the titles of certain of the
chapters. The general title is The reasoned presentment of religious
truths. Under this heading there are chapters on The young student’s
need of a reasoned doctrine, God and the world, Man and his destiny,
etc.” (El School J)
* * * * *
“The book is an interesting and typical contribution to the field of
endeavor which is at the present time commanding large attention in
American institutions. It will undoubtedly be made use of as a
reference book by teachers in the field of moral and religious
education.”
+ =El School J= 20:716 My ’20 260w
“Generally speaking, the discussion is theoretical and abstract. In
but a few cases does it touch problems of everyday life. For the
American teacher, it seems to have little of value.”
− + =School R= 28:478 Je ’20 150w
=BRYAS, MADELEINE DE, comtesse, and BRYAS, JACQUELINE DE.= Frenchwoman’s
impressions of America. il *$1.75 Century 917.3
20–9734
The comtesse and her sister came to America in 1918 on a lecture tour
to speak in behalf of devastated France. While here their services
were also enlisted to help in the third Liberty loan drive. They
traveled from coast to coast in this double capacity and have here
jointly recorded their experiences in characteristically vivacious
French style. The book has an introduction by André Tardieu and the
contents are: Paris bombarded; No submarines; New York “en guerre”;
“Dry” Washington; American hospitality; Speaking for the third Liberty
loan; Experiences in factories; Over the top; American generosity;
Touring for devastated France; On a mission for the American
government; “Proper” America; In the Middle West; St Louis; Our
reception at Camp Dodge; No Indians and no cowboys; A dip in Saltair
with Mormons; The Pacific coast; San Francisco; Puget Sound; Vers la
France.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
=Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 300w
+ =Lit D= p105 S 18 ’20 1050w
“Their book is vivacious, sprightly, entertaining, incisive, shrewd,
full of wit and humor, especially when the authors tell us about
things which struck them as being particularly American.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 19 ’20 370w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 60w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.=[2] World history. (British academy.
Annual Raleigh lecture, 1919) pa *90c Oxford 901
20–15226
“Lord Acton chose the idea of liberty as the central line around which
to write a world history. In the present lecture Lord Bryce suggests
another and perhaps more profitable clue—the notion of the gradual
unification of mankind. This process he briefly traces through the
centuries of history, showing how language, conquest, trade, religion
and thought have helped to draw together the scattered tribes of
primitive humanity into large groups. This process of convergence has,
however, been accompanied by a process of divergence, for while
individuals have been drawn into groups, the groups have tended to
become profoundly separated. Lord Bryce concludes his lecture by a
speculative prophecy of the future.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p355 Mr 12 ’20 110w
+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 450w
=BRYHER, WINIFRED.= Development; a novel; preface by Amy Lowell. *$2
Macmillan
“‘Development’ is an essay in autobiography, a note-book rather than a
novel, the fragmentary jottings of a child’s emotions, a child
entirely centred on self and in her recollections deliberately
isolating herself from other minds.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The
record takes its subject from early childhood, beginning at four years
old, through much travel around the Mediterranean, with sensuous
absorption of the ‘warm South’; into two years of bleak school life,
and a succeeding period of vague seeking after an undefined something
that shall be life.” (N Y Evening Post)
* * * * *
“This book is described as a novel; we should prefer to call it a
warning.” K. M.
− =Ath= p144 Jl 30 ’20 840w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:341 Ja ’21 480w
“There is to be another volume called ‘Adventure,’ to follow this one
of ‘Development.’ At least it seems quite certain that those of us who
have experienced the spell of Nancy’s early days will not be likely to
neglect the later volume.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 1200w
=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 780w
“The chief complaint leveled against Miss Richardson’s sequence is
that Miriam Henderson, however faithfully rendered, is not worth
writing about. This cannot be said of Nancy. Inarticulate as she is,
here is a personality of complicated power.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 25:270 Ja 26 ’21 950w
“It is patently sincere, and the author has an unusual feeling for
words, a highly developed color sense, and intensity of feeling. But
even here she is hunting not for the inevitable, right word but for
the bizarre, the surprising. Nevertheless, the result is often
felicitous and is saved from becoming burlesque, though sometimes by a
narrow margin.” H. L. Pangborn
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 15 ’21 580w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 250w
“It has the value that truth and sincerity always give, but as a piece
of literature it has more promise than achievement. Out of her
experience and toil will some day come a notable, perhaps even a
memorable book, but we cannot close the present review without a
warning against the danger of too close a pre-occupation with the
analysis of one’s own emotions. Breadth, stability, and intellectual
strength are not to be found in this book; they can be gained only by
the assiduous study of the external world.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:79 Jl 24 ’20 380w
+ =Spec= 125:781 D 11 ’20 460w
“The evident truth of much of what Miss Bryher tells us about Nancy
does not save a good deal of ‘Development’ from being simply dull.
These experiences set down in this way, are no more than the raw
material for art, to be turned into something coherent and beautiful
when a maturer experience can use them, when egotism has been touched
with a tolerant humour, and people have ceased to be ‘baffling.’ They
are notes on the artistic mind before it has left the stage of the
grub, and grubs are never very pleasant.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 640w
=BUCK, ALBERT HENRY.= Dawn of modern medicine. il *$7 Yale univ. press
610.9
20–15528
“‘The dawn of modern medicine’ gives a concise review of the progress
of medical science from the early part of the eighteenth century until
about 1860. Among the contents are a discussion of medicine in Germany
and other European countries during the eighteenth century, brief
biographical sketches of a number of physicians and surgeons who were
leaders then, and a somewhat detailed description of workers in
special departments of medicine and surgery. Several chapters deal
with important European hospitals of that time and other organizations
for the teaching of medicine.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:56 N ’20
“Dr Buck is to be congratulated on his study of the history of
medicine in the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth centuries. As a
biographical study of the leaders of medicine the book is all too
sketchy; in fact, many of these histories have been culled from
standard medical histories.” E. P. Boas
+ − =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1050w
“A loose and disorderly arrangement greatly lessens the usefulness of
this stately volume. It confuses men of the highest importance and men
of no importance at all. It presents a chaotic and unintelligible
picture of the progress of the medical sciences during the period
under review.” H. L. Mencken
− + =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 700w
“The work is of interest as an addition to general medical literature
and because of the manner of treatment it will prove interesting and
profitable to the ordinary reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 210w
=Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 130w
=BUCK, CHARLES NEVILLE.= Tempering. il *1.75 (1c) Doubleday
20–5772
A story of the Kentucky mountains spanning the years between the
feud-ridden period of the late nineteenth century and the world war.
One of Boone Wellver’s kinsmen is convicted for the murder of Goebel,
the democratic nominee for governor, and young Boone swears vengeance
to the death on the man whose false testimony convicted him. But Boone
has already come under the influence of Victor McCalloway, a
professional soldier, and McCalloway persuades him to wait till he is
twenty-one. Boone is sent to school, falls in love with Anne Masters,
learns a new code of manners and morals, but once comes dangerously
near a return to his old gods and to keeping his old vow. He goes into
politics and when the war comes enlists. He meets Anne, from whom he
had been separated, and there is promise of happiness after the war.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“It is a compliment to Mr Buck’s literary skill that he makes mighty
interesting reading of the story of his hero’s symbolical struggle.
‘The tempering’ will not suffer by comparison with any of John Fox’s
novels of similar locale.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 550w
=BUCK, HOWARD SWAZEY.= Tempering. *$1 Yale univ. press 811
20–1675
This is the first volume in the Yale series of younger poets. This
series “is designed to afford a publishing medium for the work of
young men and women who have not yet secured a wide public
recognition. It will include only such verse as seems to give the
fairest promise for the future of American poetry.” Twelve of the war
poems printed as part two were in 1918 awarded the annual prize in
poetry offered at Yale university. Other poems are reprinted from the
Nation, Contemporary Verse, Poetry Journal, Poetry, the Masses, and
the Yale Literary Magazine.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 450w
“A first book of verse wherein jubilant youthfulness, unwearied even
in the poems of war experience, marches to gay pipes with a sweeping
stride and an idealism unappalled.”
+ =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 30w
“There is such real artistic restraint and such moving sincerity in
most of the battle and exile pieces that it is a pity that the poem of
the return should border on vulgarity. Mr Buck has obviously not yet
quite found himself, but he certainly has the stuff of real poetry in
him.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 Jl 1 ’20 150w
=BUCK, SOLON JUSTUS.= Agrarian crusade: a chronicle of the farmer in
politics. (Chronicles of America) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 329
20–4901
“The farmer in American politics is the theme treated by Mr Solon J.
Buck in ‘The agrarian crusade,’ in which are related the rise and fall
of the so-called Granger movement in the West, the greenback
propaganda, the Farmers’ alliance, the organization of the Populist
party and its surprising success in 1892, the silver issue, and more
recently the growth of the Nonpartisan party in North Dakota and other
states.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. P. Oberholtzer
=Am Hist R= 26:147 O ’20 600w
“It is obviously a hurried piece of work, well enough written, but
with a tendency to triteness and wordiness.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 500w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w
=St Louis= 18:106 Je ’20 20w
=BUCKLE, GEORGE EARLE.= Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield.
v 5–6 il ea *$6 Macmillan
The author of these two volumes is Monypenny’s successor. The work was
extended in order to treat more fully of Disraeli’s management of the
eastern question, the most outstanding feature of his administration.
This was made possible, says the author, by the Russian revolution.
“There can be now no reasons of international delicacy to prevent a
full disclosure of Disraeli’s eastern policy.” Contents of volume 5:
The Irish church, 1868; Defeat and resignation, 1868; Reserve in
opposition, 1868–1871; Lothair, 1869–1870; The turn of the tide,
1872–1873; Bereavement, 1872–1873; Lady Bradford and Lady
Chesterfield, 1873–1875; Power, 1874; Political success and physical
failure, 1874; Social reform, 1874–1875; An imperial foreign policy,
1874–1875; Suez canal and royal title, 1875–1876; From the Commons to
the Lords, 1876–1877; Appendix—an unfinished novel. Contents of volume
6: Reopening of the eastern question, 1875–1876; The Bulgarian
atrocities, 1876; The Constantinople conference, 1876–1877; War and
cabinet dissension, 1877; Conditional neutrality, 1877; Derby’s first
resignation, 1877–1878; Final parting with Derby, 1878; Agreements
with Russia and Turkey, 1878; The Congress of Berlin, 1878; The Afghan
war, 1878; The Zulu war, 1879; Beaconsfield and the queen, 1874–1880;
Last months of the government, 1879–1880; Dissolution and defeat,
1880; Endymion, 1880; The last year, 1880–1881; The man and his fame;
Index to the six volumes.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p72 Jl 16 ’20 2000w
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The record is as revealing as anything in range of British
biography.”
+ =Lit D= p90 N 20 ’20 1600w
“For, with all respect to the preceding volumes of this monumental
biography, none of them, nor all of them together, compare in
interest, in the present reviewer’s opinion, with these two. It may be
said at the outset that Mr Buckle has done his work well. His
narrative is full and free and flowing. It has a nice proportion
between his own words and those of his hero, an entertaining
alternation between the life and the letters—and not too much of the
speeches—of his subject; an agreeable and readable style; a pleasing
touch of humour; a sufficiency of anecdote and allusion. It is, in
brief, an excellent piece of biographical writing.” W. C. Abbott
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 18 ’20 2000w
“If nothing is set down in malice, nothing is withheld through a
mistaken sense of loyalty. Disraeli is painted in this full length
portrait as he was. His faults and follies are revealed, as well as
his amiable and outstanding ability.” Rollo Ogden
+ =N Y Times= p5 S 19 ’20 1900w
“This biography, too large for most American readers, will
nevertheless be a necessity in every library, public or private, which
aims to possess in completeness any dealing with the history of Europe
during the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 180w
“Undoubtedly one of the most important compilations for the student of
nineteenth century English history.”
+ =Pratt= p31 O ’20 30w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 330w
“Mr Buckle’s work will stand comparison with Lord Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone,’ and that is the greatest possible praise.” Lindsay Rogers
+ =Review= 3:293 O 6 ’20 2300w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 150w
“Mr Buckle has concluded his task, and produced one of the greatest
political biographies in the language. For the general reader the work
is, of course, too long; and even the student of history might have
dispensed with some of the letters and some of the extracts from
speeches, which nearly always weary.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:562 Je 19 ’20 1200w
+ =Sat R= 129:587 Je 26 ’20 1750w
“Mr Buckle’s detailed narrative of Disraeli’s handling of the eastern
question between 1876 and 1878, which is of course the main feature of
his closing volumes, is full of interest and instruction for the
present generation. Disraeli’s letters abound in good things, access
to which is facilitated by an excellent index.”
+ =Spec= 124:829 Je 19 ’20 1850w
“On the whole, everybody who is not an extreme partisan will recognize
the honesty, the lucidity and ability with which Mr Buckle has stated
his case.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p373 Je 17 ’20 7000w
=BUCKROSE, J. E., pseud. (MRS ANNIE EDITH [FOSTER] JAMESON).= Young
hearts. *$1.90 (1c) Doran
20–11074
Mr Thompson’s moving away from Wressle came as the direct result of
his being dropped from the Urban District Council. Shorn of the
privileges of public life, he felt that he couldn’t carry on as of
yore, and so decided to take up farming in real earnest. He therefore
bought a farm in Muckleby and moved his faintly protesting wife and
daughters there. Once settled in the little village, he felt that he
should use his influence for good, and so undertook to destroy old
superstitions and to revive old country customs which were falling
into disuse. His schemes for carrying these purposes out are the
foundation of the story, although the romances of his daughters Helen
and Maude have a large share in it as well.
* * * * *
“Leisurely, will not be as well liked as some of her others.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“As usual with this author, her quiet manner covers and sustains a
warm human interest; the environment is graphically pictured; the
characters are drawn with an assured, vitalizing touch. That of the
father, an unconscious egoist, is somewhat unduly elaborated,
introducing matter that is superfluous, almost extraneous; and there
is also an unwonted paucity of what Mrs Buckrose has taught us to
expect eagerly, her unique, delightful humor.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w
“Mildly, almost tepidly humorous in its pictures of English country
life. The lady who writes under the name of J. E. Buckrose has given
us better stories.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 50w
=BUDISH, JACOB M., and SOULE, GEORGE HENRY.= New unionism in the
clothing industry. *$3 (4½c) Harcourt 331.87
20–15160
In defining their term “new unionism” the authors give a brief account
of the changes that have taken place in unionism both in England and
America from as far back as the “one big union” agitation in England
in 1830 and point out that the present significant distinction between
unions is between those “which are unconscious that their efforts tend
toward a new social order and so adapt their strategy to the immediate
situation” and those “which are conscious of their desire for a new
order, and so base their strategy on more fundamental considerations.”
The latter type is best exemplified by the unions of the clothing
workers of America which in their breadth of sympathy and vision,
their new ideal and new hope throw light both on the aspirations of
British labor and on the present flux and unrest in the American labor
movement. The book is an account of the struggles and the rise of the
unions in the clothing industry. Contents: The new unionism; The
clothing industry; The human element; The unions—their beginnings and
growth; Decisive victories; Collective agreements; Philosophy,
structure, and strategy; Education; Labor press and cooperatives;
Textiles; The future; Bibliography, appendix and index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
“Although the authors have no doubt tried to be impartial, the book is
clearly the product of partisans rather than the work of unbiased
observers. No mention is made of any of the short-comings of the newer
unions, nor are the difficulties and perplexities of the employer in
his contact with them dealt with (except in connection with seasonal
idleness). The book is, however, an excellent one; the authors have a
thorough knowledge of their subject and a broad outlook over the
industrial problem.” A. M. Bing
+ − =Survey= 45:23 O 2 ’20 1200w
“Should find a place in the public library of every city with an
industrial population as it undoubtedly points the way which union
developments will take in the future.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 80w
=BUELL, RAYMOND LESLIE.= Contemporary French politics. *$3.50 Appleton
944.08
20–20938
The author calls attention to three sterling qualities in the French
people which, in the elections of November 1919, steered them,
contrary to the predictions of the “storm prophets,” clear of
Bolshevism and the extreme socialist left. These qualities are: their
attachment to property, their respect for authority, and their civic
spirit. In the light of these he interprets the present political
situation. The book has an introduction by Professor Carlton J. H.
Hayes and the contents are: Party philosophies; Parties and
parliament; The “Bloc” and the sacred union; Party realignments; Woman
suffrage and the “R. P.”; The 1919 elections; The demand for a new
constitution; Syndicalism: program and tactics; The press and the
censorship; The bureaucracy and state socialism; A government by
interests and experts; Regionalism; What the French peace terms might
have been; The French conception of a league of nations; What France
thought of American “idealism”; Appendices; Index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“Mr Buell’s book affords the beginning of sound knowledge concerning
France because it treats of the larger—that is, the political—aspects
of French life with some approach to completeness and without the
sentiment that blurs outlines.”
+ =No Am= 213:282 F ’21 950w
=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Russian pendulum:
autocracy—democracy—bolshevism. il *$2 Macmillan 947
19–15627
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Though the material is not well organized and the observations not
very profound, yet ‘The Russian pendulum’ is one of the very few good
books in English on present day Russia.” F. A. Golder
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:356 My ’20 500w
“His suggestions for allied policy in the future are vague, but his
detailed account of actual happenings in Russia makes this a very
informative book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
Reviewed by Harold Kellock
=Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“He shows himself well disposed, sympathetic, and fair-minded in every
way. But he is not remarkable for the amount of his novel information
or for comprehension of the forces at work, nor is he very clear-cut
in his view of the means by which the desired readjustment is to be
brought about. His best chapter is a survey of the mistakes of allied
diplomacy in Russia. To his statement of remedies as well as to his
other judgments, Mr Bullard is led more by his wishes than the facts.”
+ − =Nation= 110:268 F 28 ’20 420w
“In his own recommendations Mr Bullard is modest; he realizes that the
problem is too dynamic for any program hard and fast in its details.
But, for all that, Mr Bullard is hazy.” C. M.
+ − =New Repub= 21:361 F 18 ’20 1950w
“Much of it is valuable first-hand material for the student, and some
of it, alas, can not be considered as entirely accurate or unbiased.
Quite the most valuable feature of the volume is his opening chapter
devoted to Lenin. The Siberian part is unworthy of the writer and
appears to have been done under pressure to pad out an otherwise
admirable book, a pressure which is also indicated by the faulty
transliteration of Russian names.”
+ − =Review= 2:207 F 28 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:107 Ja ’20 80w
“‘The Russian pendulum’ does not reveal any understanding of the
forces back of the great change in Russia.” Alexander Trachtenberg
− =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 620w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 27 ’19 100w
“This is unquestionably one of the ablest books yet written dealing
with revolutionary Russia. Not only in his comment on events, but in
his treatment of the more fundamental aspects of the situation, he
has, with vigorous and imaginative word, written a highly illuminating
book.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:47 Ap 3 ’20 580w
=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Stranger. *$2 (2c) Macmillan
20–7920
The story takes the reader into an intellectual circle of lower New
York, among social workers, literati and artists—America’s aspirations
at their best. Into this circle is injected a Moslem—son of an
American missionary couple in Turkey—born and brought up there, a
convinced Mohammedan. This leads to comparisons between eastern and
western life and religion, not always flattering to our western
civilization. Some flaws are detected in the proud and secure
foundations of our science and “efficiency.” The finest exponent of
the latter and of feminism, Helen Cash, meets her Waterloo in the calm
questioning eyes of this stranger. Frank Lockwood, the artist, sees in
him the savior of his soul, and to Eunice Bender, the sick girl, he
opens up heaven before she dies, through the spirituality of his love.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“We do not often happen upon so very good a story as this one, from
every point of view.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1000w
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 70w
“In brief, one feels that Mr Bullard, in attempting to be realistic,
has achieved only a faithful narrative, based on ideas about which, on
the whole, no one would wish to dispute.” L. M. R.
− + =Freeman= 3:286 D 1 ’20 160w
“As a character and a sympathetic intermediary between East and West,
Mr Bullard’s ‘Stranger’ is picturesque and charming; as a guide and
philosopher he is amiably sentimental and futile.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w
“As Mr Bullard has avoided the rocks of mere Menckenesque satire, so
has he steered clear of the equally dangerous shallow pools of
sentimentalism. He has not achieved a great book—there are few such in
the world—but he has penetrated pretty nearly to the core of some of
the counterfeits that time will break. His story is interesting,
thoughtful, reasoned, suggestive.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 1000w
“It is an idyll of a rare degree of loveliness, delicate as a flower,
but without, one feels quite sure, a flower’s evanescence. Unusual and
striking in conception, the book is no less unusual and striking in
execution. A really worth-while novel, one which appeals both to the
reader’s brains and to his emotions, is this.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1000w
“Both in its originality as to treatment and balance between character
interest and suggestion of thought the novel is of substantial value.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 600w
“Altogether the special pleading of the book in favour of Morocco
versus America should not be too readily believed in by the
intelligent reader.”
− =Spec= 125:820 D 18 ’20 50w
“‘The stranger’ is a very appealing and unusual novel in the delicacy
and vividness of its portraiture.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 30 ’20 580w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 120w
=BULLER, ARTHUR HENRY REGINALD.= Essays on wheat. il *$2.50 Macmillan
633.1
20–838
“The book contains chapters on: The early history of wheat-growing in
Manitoba; Wheat in western Canada; The origin of Red Bobs and
Kitchener; The wild wheat of Palestine. But the most important part of
the book is the chapter on The discovery and introduction of Marquis
wheat, perhaps the most productive variety of wheat in North America.
The style is non-technical.” (Booklist) “The author is professor of
botany in the University of Manitoba.” (Brooklyn)
* * * * *
“The book should appeal not only to the student of economic history,
and to botanists, but to the general reader who may wish to learn
something of the great cereal crops of North America.” I: Lippincott.
+ =Am Econ R= 10:815 D ’20 450w
=Booklist= 16:225 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“Prof. Buller’s ‘Essays on wheat’ are among the most interesting
things we have seen for a long time. He is singularly fortunate in his
subject, and he tells his story remarkably well, giving the wealth of
detail, the figures, and the references needed by the man of science,
without sacrificing interest or literary form.” E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 105:224 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 450w
“The volume is an excellent and timely addition to works dealing with
the resources of North America.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
=BULLOCK, EDNA DEAN=, comp. Selected articles on the employment of
women. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 Wilson, H. W. 331.4
20–4722
A second edition of this handbook, first published in 1911, has been
prepared by Julia E. Johnsen. New material has been included covering
“the new outlook on the employment of women the rapidly changing
phases growing out of women’s large part in war work, the larger
opportunities, new and fairer standards of protective legislation,”
and the bibliography has been revised and brought down to date.
* * * * *
=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 20w
“Valuable in presenting the subject from many angles.”
+ =Booklist= 16:286 My ’20
“Although the articles selected are interesting, well arranged and
yield their significance easily to the lay student, they do not give
the solid basis of fact which debaters ought to have. They dwell,
however, on the most important questions for women workers.” E. K.
Wells
+ − =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 260w
=BULMAN, HARRISON FRANCIS.= Coal mining and the coal miner. il *$6
Macmillan 622.3
(Eng ed 20–11528)
“A comprehensive survey of the whole industry as it existed in normal
times—the figures and statistics being confined for the most part to
the period before the war, ending with 1913—by an experienced colliery
manager and director of colliery companies. The book was written
before the Coal commission, and Mr Bulman hopes that the normal
picture he draws ‘may serve as a useful corrective to some erroneous
ideas which have arisen from its proceedings.’ A chapter of
seventy-nine pages very fully illustrated with plans and photographs
is devoted to ‘Miners’ houses.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“We cannot say that his book is attractive in form or style, but it is
at any rate an honest book and not misleading propaganda.”
+ − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 240w
“For those who are interested in the why of industrial troubles, this
book can serve as a means of showing the gaps in the thinking of
colliery managers and how they do not comprehend the incoherency of
the men who work.” Hugh Archibald
− =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 620w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 90w
“His dispassionate, detailed, documented, and illustrated statement of
facts is far more impressive and convincing than mere argument or
assertion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w
=BULSTRODE, BEATRIX (MRS EDWARD MANICO GULL).= Tour in Mongolia. il *$5
(8½c) Stokes 915.1
What led this English lady, after an eighteen months’ stay in China,
to travel in Mongolia was “the fascination of the unknown, a deep love
of the picturesque and inherent desire to revert awhile to the
primitive.” Also Mongolia was an opportunity of meeting with
medievalism untouched. The trip took place in 1913 while Mongolia was
at war with China and the author’s account is particularly instructive
in her analysis of Mongol character. An introduction by David Fraser,
Times correspondent in Peking, explains the political situation at the
time of the tour. The book is indexed and profusely illustrated.
* * * * *
“She can handle a pen to excellent effect.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 S 16 ’20 960w
=BUNAU-VARILLA, PHILIPPE.= Great adventure of Panama. *$1.75 Doubleday
986
20–5904
The object of the book is to show how the Panama canal enterprise was
hedged about by criminal conspiracies on the part of Germany, both
financially and politically, linking it intimately with the great war.
The author claims to expose the mysterious threads of “the
always-menacing ‘occult power of Germany’” which have long been
visible to himself alone. Among the contents are: The occult power of
Germany; The Boche conspiracy in Mexico (1861–63) preparing the
provocation of 1870; The Boche conspiracy in France, (1888–92), to
wreck the Panama canal, in order to create the depressed state of mind
necessary for the premeditated aggression; Various traces of Boche
intrigue in Bogota for defeating in 1903 the adoption of the Panama
canal by the United States, etc.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
“The trouble with M. Bunau-Varilla’s method of argument in seeking to
prove his contentions is that he considers a mere uncorroborated
statement quite sufficient to prove anything that he wishes to prove.”
T: R. Ybarra
− + =N Y Times= 25:158 Ap 4 ’20 1100w
“There is perhaps more rhetoric than evidence in certain parts of this
narrative; yet it would not be surprising if evidence as yet uncovered
should sometime confirm nearly all of the author’s opinions. Few fact
stories, it may be said, tell so clearly as does this of M.
Bunau-Varilla’s just how things were done and what motives actuated
the doers.”
+ − =No Am= 212:285 Ag ’20 900w
=Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 300w
“It is not lightly to be dismissed because of the ebullient egotism
with which it is written. The testimony of the chief actor in the
drama is worth listening to.”
+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 1000w
=BUNKER, JOHN JOSEPH LEO.= Shining fields and dark towers. *$1.25 Lane
811
19–15769
This is the first volume of a poet from the Middle West who looks down
from philosophic heights upon the din of battle, of traffic and
travail with a sweet and mellow wisdom and an encompassing faith in a
divine love. The contents in part are: Earth-music; The flute-player;
To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom; The splendid stranger; New
York sketches; Ballade of faces fair; Love’s intendment; The great
refusal; Quest and haven.
* * * * *
“Though the section entitled ‘New York sketches,’ and the study called
‘Complainte d’amour,’ contain some of the cleverest and most
interesting vers libre that the present reviewer has ever seen, Mr
Bunker is no disciple of the new school. He is essentially in the
great tradition, and it is in the familiar forms, the recognized types
of English verse, that he does his most ample and satisfying work.” H:
A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 50:373 N ’19 850w
“Not always with the same perfection of expression does he sing, but
at the same time never does he fail to give, whatever the mood or
theme may be, a significance to it that comes from his spiritual
manner of approach and understanding. This peculiarly individual
quality is as apparent in the four poems of the ‘New York sketches’
with their realistic background and outlines, as in the ‘Quest and
haven,’ the memorial poem to Francis Thompson.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 F 7 ’20 1300w
“Mr Bunker has enjoyed and experimented with a wide range of poetry.
Not the less for this has he remained captain of his poetic soul. His
is a highly personal muse, tender and chastened, yet capable of
merriment, with the far vision of the pure in heart. Lyrics such as
‘Revolution,’ ‘To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom,’ or, in more
playful vein, ‘Boons,’ are distinct additions to the sum of modern
poetry.”
+ =Cath World= 110:403 D ’19 350w
“Mr Bunker is direct, fluent, enthusiastic, and harmless, with good
impulses and ordinary vision.” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:76 Ja 17 ’20 180w
“The book shows much promise, and nearly all of it has the real
singing quality, although now and then, as happens sometimes with even
the best of poets, either the author’s ear has failed him or his
command of the technique of poetical expression has not been up to the
mark. But these lapses are rare.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:62 F 1 ’20 360w
“Some day if this writer keeps on and has a real experience in life,
he may become a poet. If all his work were as musical as the four
stanzas on ‘Twilight’ criticism of his work would even now have to be
modified.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ja 25 ’20 260w
“Mr Bunker is said to be ‘a modern of the moderns,’ but we prefer him
in the more old-fashioned mood which inspires ‘Twilight’ and some of
the other pieces in his book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 180w
=BURGESS, THORNTON WALDO.= Burgess animal book for children. il *$3
(4½c) Little 590
20–21007
A companion volume to the Burgess bird book. In the story Peter Rabbit
goes to school to Mother Nature. He learns first about his own
cousins, the marsh rabbit, the arctic hare, and others, and then about
his friends the squirrels, and so on up through the animal kingdom to
the deer, elk, bears and other large mammals. “There has been no
attempt to describe or classify sub-species.... The purpose of this
book is to acquaint the reader with the larger groups—orders,
families, and divisions of the latter, so that typical representatives
may readily be recognized and their habits understood.” The pictures
are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and there is an index.
* * * * *
“‘The Burgess animal book’ ought to be given to every child in America
as an introduction to the animal life of our continent. And there is
not one of those children who won’t like it and absorb an untold
amount of information from it.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 50w
“This book affords further evidence that Mr Burgess is doing a great
deal toward making the boys and girls of today a generation of
naturalists.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p72 N 21 ’20 170w
=BURGESS, WALTER H.= Pastor of the Pilgrims: a biography of John
Robinson. il *$4 Harcourt
20–20311
This study of the life and times of John Robinson is based on original
research. “Besides the identification of the early home and the
parentage of John Robinson, these pages throw a little fresh light
upon the Southworths and Carvers and others connected with the Pilgrim
Father movement. Gervase Neville is identified, and the anonymous
opponent of Robinson in one of his earliest controversies is named.
The history of the obscure church in the western part of England is
unfolded, and an attempt made to settle the vexed question of the
identity of John Smith.” (Foreword) A partial list of the contents is:
The birthplace and parentage of John Robinson; Religion in England in
the days of Elizabeth and James; Separation from the Church of
England—Robinson and Bernard—Gervase Neville—William Brewster;
Religious refugees at Amsterdam; The Pilgrims at Leyden; Robinson’s
plea for lay preaching; The sailing—Robinson’s letter of advice—Robert
Cushman’s letter—the “Mayflower’s” voyage; The influence of Robinson
on the thought and life of his age. There are illustrations,
appendices, a chronological table of the writings of John Robinson and
an index.
* * * * *
“The volume shows wide study of the whole literature of contemporary
separatism and of its opponents, and may be heartily commended not
only as a biography of the Pilgrim pastor, but as a most readable and
informing account of the separatist movement of his day not only for
the specialist but for the general reader.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:338 Ja ’21 400w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 120w
“Here is brave stuff, no doubt; unhappily nothing organic or even
articulate has been made of it. With a little artistic sympathy, with
even a touch or two of the quality which marks a man of letters, he
might have made the portrait memorable.”
+ − =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 460w
“Taken as a whole, the volume is a good example of what can be
accomplished, well-directed historical scholarship applied to a
definite object.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w
“We could wish that the biography was less interrupted by digressions
on side-issues, but Mr Burgess’s enthusiasm for his subject is wholly
commendable.”
+ − =Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 220w
“It does not treat all phases of the separatist movement with equal
thoroughness. It is deficient at times in method and proportion. But
it is an earnest, honest work, in which, in spite of the author’s
sympathy with Robinson, and a desire to claim for him as large a
personal influence as possible little is written with any other object
than telling the truth. Its deductions are moderate.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 90w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 Jl 8 ’20 1150w
=BURGESS, WARREN RANDOLPH.= Trends of school costs. (Education
monographs) il $1 Russell Sage foundation 379
20–17519
“The study is based upon data included in the reports of the United
States Commissioner of education, and covers the period from 1870 to
1918. By means of the ‘line of trends’ the writer presents a striking
picture of the drift of annual expenditures for public education in
the United States during the period noted, comparing this with a
similar representation of the growth in pupil attendance. Noting the
fact that teachers’ salaries and new buildings absorb four-fifths of
all school expenditures for the year 1917–18, an analysis is made of
the trends of teachers’ salaries since 1840, the salaries of rural and
city teachers, both men and women, being considered separately.
Interesting comparisons of these with the lines representing the
trends of the cost of living and of the salaries of other workers are
presented. Likewise, the tendencies with reference to costs of
buildings are similarly shown. A special set of tables and graphs
indicates the trends of such costs during the period from 1915–20.
From the data presented the writer concludes that ‘to buy the same
amount of educational service in 1920 as in 1915 it will be necessary
to double the school budget.’ The closing chapter deals with the
sources of income for school support.”—School R
* * * * *
“Aside from the content, the method employed in the study will be of
interest to students of education.”
+ =El School J= 21:235 N ’20 250w
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 70w
=School R= 28:710 N ’20 680w
=BURKE, KATHLEEN.= Little heroes of France. il *$1.75 (4c) Doubleday
940.344
20–17608
Twelve stories of deeds of heroism performed by French children during
the war. The author was engaged in relief work and some of the
children she knew personally. “Others she knew because all France
loved and honored them. One of the stories, that of the Denisot
children, was found in the diary of a German soldier.” (Introd.)
Contents: André Lange and his wheelbarrow; Madeleine and André Daniau;
Denise Cartier; Robert Felix; Louise Haumont; Louis and Marcelle
Denisot; Baby Pierre; Gustave Daret; René Chautier; Etienne Chevrille;
Emile Depres; Henriette Maubert. The book is illustrated by Paul
Verrees and has an introduction by Alfred Holman.
* * * * *
“Heroic, really true and full of action these will prove stirring
tales and bring home the horrors of war to all boys and most girls.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
=Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 40w
“It is an incredibly stirring, beautiful little book, and it is one
that every generous child will love. It is not alone for children,
however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 50w
=BURKE, THOMAS.=[2] Song book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. *$1.25 Holt 811
20–22856
A book of poems in free verse viewing life through the oriental eyes
of Quong Lee, shopkeeper in Limehouse, London’s Chinatown. Humor and
philosophy mingle in the poems. Titles are: Of buying and selling; A
nightpiece; Of a national cash register; Under a shining window; A
song of little girls; At the feast of lanterns; Of worship and
conduct.
* * * * *
“Occasionally a banality, but light and poignant sentiment in
abundance, with here and there a poem that sets vibrating the cords of
sensibility.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 100w
“Mr Burke triumphs so splendidly in these verses, as he did in his
prose stories, that he deserves all the praise we can give him.” W: S.
Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 1450w
“These vers libre pieces of ‘song’ present the personality of
Chinatown, the quaint phrase and the cool temper with a reality which
grows more and more vivid as one reads them through.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 60w
=BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE.= Tarzan the untamed. il *$1.90 McClurg
20–7515
“This new story tells what happened to Tarzan and his wife and the
home he had made in British East Africa when war broke out in 1914 and
a small detachment of black soldiers, commanded by German officers,
marched past his farm and on to German headquarters. Tarzan was
hurrying home from Nairobi, where he had heard of the outbreak of war
when this happened, and when he reaches his farm he finds a scene of
desolation, no one left alive upon his place. In grief and rage and
hate he casts off the veneer of civilization and becomes the ape-man
once more, while he ranges the country to find those who have killed
his mate and mete to them the justice of the jungle. He finds them,
but the result makes only the beginning of the story, which goes
swiftly on through many complications.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It runs on for some four hundred pages with no visible trace of
style, little or no atmosphere or local color, and about as slim a
foundation plot as has graced a novel for many a day.”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 300w
“The story shows the same qualities that have marked the previous
Tarzan stories—ingenuity and fertility of invention, combined with
those crude and garish features that make the success of a popular
moving picture play.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 430w
“Will doubtless thrill the crowd which loves the cinematograph, and
cares nothing for common-sense, or coherence, compared with violent
sensation and frequent killing.”
− =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w
=BURROUGHS, JOHN.= Accepting the universe. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 210
20–18062
“A series of sallies, excursions, into the world of semi-philosophical
speculation,” the author calls this collection of essays, whose burden
is “that this is the best possible world, and these people in it are
the best possible people,” that “the universe is good,” and “the heart
of nature is sound.” Among the longer essays are: Shall we accept the
universe? The universal beneficence; The faith of a naturalist; The
price of development; The problem of evil. Then follow two groups of
short pieces under the headings: Horizon lines; and Soundings. The
poet of the cosmos, in the last essay, is Walt Whitman.
* * * * *
“The philosophizings will please many not too radical thinkers. Most
people will prefer his bits on nature.”
+ =Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
=Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 180w
=Lit D= p101 N 6 ’20 1200w
“He is a naturalist; his vision is as broad as terrestrial time; he
leads us over much geological and biological ground to the mind of
man. But once confronted with that phenomenon, he is, like many a
scientist, evasive; he is reduced to the merest academic platitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 840w
“Spirited and eloquent pages.” H. W. Boynton
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“There will be many who will take issue with Mr Burroughs’s philosophy
of God and nature, good and evil, life and death, but this will not
disturb him. He has unquestionably brought the inexorable facts of
existence to bear upon theories, creeds and beliefs, and has applied
their lesson with unsparing frankness. The result is not in line with
so-called orthodoxy, but none the less he has coined into words the
unspoken expressions of many hearts.” H: L. West
+ − =N Y Times= p16 O 24 ’20 950w
“His philosophy is a mass of contradictions. Mr Burroughs in accepting
the universe drops out from it its most important phenomena.”
− =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 300w
“Of flowers and birds and the simple life Mr Burroughs has something
to say, his divagations on the universe leave us doubting. It would in
fact be easy to point out a series of shocking inconsistencies into
which he has been thrown by his ambitious attempt to combine a wise
and wholesome life in nature with a metaphysical theory of natural
evolution.”
− + =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 470w
=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Hidden Creek.
il *$2 (2½c) Houghton
20–15343
When Sheila Arundel’s artist father dies and leaves her penniless, she
counts herself fortunate to be befriended by Sylvester Hudson, who has
come into her life thru a painting of her father’s he has just bought
to decorate his western hotel. He takes her back with him to Millings,
but the reception his family give her makes her eager to be
independent and in gratitude to Hudson she consents to become a bar
maid in his saloon. The only member of his family who treats her with
respect is Dickie, the despised half-drunken son, in whom she
discovers a soul akin to her own poetic nature. Her success in the
saloon brings her popularity of a kind, but one particularly trying
day, culminating in a brutal insult from her employer, determines her
to get away and she seeks refuge with Miss Blake, a recluse living on
Hidden Creek alone with her dogs and her peculiarities. From the
horror that this experience brings, Cosme Hilliard, a hot-blooded
young half-Spaniard, rescues her, and for a time it seems that he is
to be her hero, but Dickie, whose character has been developing along
with hers, altho in a different way, at length comes into his own.
* * * * *
“‘Hidden Creek’ follows no beaten path; its plot is skillfully
developed and the story is told with realism and with a sparkling
wit.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 200w
“Will be welcomed by the reader with fondness for romance staged apart
from the trodden paths of every day life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 200w
=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Red lady.
*$1.75 (3c) Houghton
20–6709
A unique feature of this mystery story is that its principal
characters, including both hero and villain, are women. Men play
secondary parts. Three housekeepers have fled from the Pines when
Janice Gale accepts the position. Her first intimation of something
wrong comes with the signs of terror exhibited by her mistress’s young
son at sight of her red hair. Then there are indications that the
house is haunted. The child Robbie is frightened into convulsions and
dies with a strand of red hair in his fingers. Janice next comes face
to face with the ghost and finds her the counterpart of herself.
Convinced that this is a real woman she sets herself to trace the
mystery, braves great dangers, all but loses her life, escapes and
wins the love of the young detective who has been regarding her as a
criminal.
* * * * *
“An exceptionally fine specimen, American in origin, of that popular
genus colloquially known as the ‘shocker.’”
+ =Ath= p867 D 24 ’20 80w
“The mystery of it all is hard to penetrate but Mrs Burt at last finds
a way out of the strange tangle and altogether writes a very good and
very unusual story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 200w
“This story would be more attractive if the author were to make, say,
her present ninth chapter her first. She could condense in that one
chapter about all she has told us in the eight preceding and would
thus spare the reader much boredom. And yet, considering how good are
the final chapters, there is reason to believe that we have in Mrs
Burt one of the well worth while writers of real mystery stories of
the immediate future.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 650w
=BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS.= Songs and portraits. *$1.50 Scribner 811
20–8428
“A nature modestly reflective as well as emotionally alert is revealed
in ‘Songs and portraits’ by Maxwell Struthers Burt. The poems
reminiscent of the dead, in form and spirit not unlike those of Rupert
Brooke, express the belief that ‘the dead know all.’ In ‘Fishing’ and
‘Marchen’ this Princeton poet paints gay and naive little small-boy
pictures. He reasons rather bitterly against frantic fanatics and
pudgy-fingered plutocrats.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Mr Burt’s ear and his learning are much indebted to Rupert Brooke—but
it is a sorrowful thing to see anyone assume so easily all the
palpable qualities of another. There are the same studied
irrelevancies, the same feminine endings, the same delight in names.
Mr Burt has imitated most of the many things we would like to forget
in Rupert Brooke, including his glorification of war and death.” G. T.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 250w
“When at last he shall speak thoughts all his own, it is hoped that he
will not have lost his really very lovely gift of expression, his
round, elegant, springtime pregnancy and shapeliness of phrase.” Mark
Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Although many of the poems seem unfinished, as if their maker had had
the right poetic impulse but scant leisure, nevertheless there is a
warmth and naturalness of utterance In all of them that will rejoice
the hearts of those who are weary of strident or vapid
artificialities.” Margaret Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 370w
“Mr Burt’s ‘Songs and portraits’ has real delicacies of a kind neither
very usual nor very extraordinary. There are phrases of drooping
grace; there are straying, sinuous rhythms; there is a desultory and
hovering tenderness. Mr Burt’s very picturesqueness is rather mellow
than picturesque.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 160w
=BURTON, ALEXANDER.= Public speaking made easy. (Made easy ser.) $1.25
(3c) Clode, E. J. 808.5
20–16872
In the introduction the author calls attention to the present-day
tendency in the art of oratory which distinguishes it from the oratory
of the past. “This is the cultivation of simplicity in form as opposed
to that ornateness of phraseology which has been so characteristic of
the most esteemed public utterances in former times.” The chapters
following the Introduction are: Breathing; Pronunciation; The voice;
Accessories of the voice; Direct training; Preparing a speech; The
deeper training; Beecher’s Liverpool address; Lincoln’s oratory; A
southern orator; The American system; Conclusion.
=BURTON, THEODORE ELIJAH.= Modern political tendencies and the effect of
the war thereon. (Stafford Little lectures for 1919) *$1.25 Princeton
univ. press 320.1
19–25948
“The president of the Merchants national bank of New York, former
United States senator from Ohio, sees four dominant phases in the
changing ideas of peoples and governments: the relation of governments
to the governed; the relation of the governed each to the other; the
relation of the central government to its constituent parts; and
international relations.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 650w
“‘Modern political tendencies’ by Theodore E. Burton possibly sets the
Stafford Little lectures at a higher level of open-mindedness than was
reached by such earlier contributors as Grover Cleveland and Elihu
Root; in fact it is marked by that tone of restrained liberalism which
is coming to be a mark of our more important bank presidents, to the
great amazement and confusion, no doubt, of their editorial
satellites.”
+ =Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
=BURY, GEORGE WYMAN.= Pan-Islam. *$2.25 Macmillan 297
20–5812
“‘“Pan-Islam” is an elementary handbook,’ explains the author, ‘not a
text-book, still less an exhaustive treatise.’ It is a study of the
Pan-Islamic problem on the political, social, religious, and many
other sides, by one who served in the Hedjaz and Arabia during the
war, but has also had a quarter of a century’s experience of
Mohammedan countries and peoples. As a rule he abstains from political
criticism.”—Ath
* * * * *
“His remarks on aggressive missionary enterprise are sensible and
illustrated by plenty of facts.”
+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 80w
“The book is well written and full of interesting and valuable
information. The long experience of the author and his manifest
fairness make his opinions of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =Bib World= 54:429 Jl ’20 230w
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
“The Carnegie peace commission should send the last chapter, A plea
for tolerance, to every missionary organization.”
+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 124:18 Ja 3 ’20 1250w
“He writes in a progressive spirit and very sympathetically toward the
Moslem world. It is far better that his sentiments were expressed by
an Englishman than by an American. The last chapter, a plea for
toleration, is really a most admirable piece of writing.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 60w
“Mr Bury presents a fairly impartial view of Christian missions in the
Near East, with their effect on Islam. It is a problem which he has
studied at first hand, and he is studiously careful to express his
views courteously. He is best when he is away from religious
discussion, describing the Arab and the Turk as he knows them.
Altogether Mr Bury’s book contains much that is entertaining; and
although he has chosen too resonant a title for what might more
reasonably be called essays, his expressed opinions are sensible and
his matter readable.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p776 D 25 ’19 1000w
=BURY, JOHN BAGNELL.= Idea of progress. *$5.50 Macmillan 901
20–9233
“Prof. J. B. Bury’s new work is ‘The idea of progress: an inquiry into
its origin and growth.’ The theme is developed under such chapter
headings as: Some interpretations of universal history: Bodin and
Leroy; Utility the end of knowledge: Bacon; The progress of knowledge:
Fontenelle; The general progress of man: Abbe de Saint-Pierre; New
conceptions of history: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot; The French
revolution: Condorcet; The theory of progress in England; German
speculation on progress; The search for a law of progress: Saint-Simon
and Comte; and Progress in the light of evolution.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“This is just the chief merit of Professor Bury’s book, that it
discriminates with fine precision between what is essential to the
modern conception of progress and what only superficially resembles
it. His exposition of the significance of the idea of progress in the
history of European civilization is so lucid that it leaves nothing to
be desired.” Carl Becker
+ =Am Hist R= 26:77 O ’20 800w
=Ath= p791 Je 18 ’20 630w
“It is hardly necessary to say that the author carries out the
historical inquiry with great width of learning and with a scrupulous
desire to make a reasonable case even for those writers whose
presentation has its weak or even its ridiculous points. His remarks
are eminently judicious wherever they can be tested.” P. V. M. Benecke
+ − |=Eng Hist R= 35:581 O ’20 1650w
“An exceedingly clear and interesting account of the origin and growth
of the idea of progress.” S. B. Fay
+ |=Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 520w
“Professor Bury’s work in clarity, accuracy, and fairness attains the
high standard set by his previous historical volumes.”
+ =Spec= 124:795 Je 12 ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 17 ’20 90w
“It is a work of profound scholarship, sedate in tone and rational in
spirit. It is unfortunate that Professor Bury did not carry his study
beyond his self-imposed limitation which ended it with the time when
progress became a current creed.” A. J. Todd
+ =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 730w
“A sound piece of pioneer work, with its merits and limitations. Only
his knowledge of the subject and its intrinsic interest have saved his
book from falling into the class of those which are less often read
than consulted. Professor Bury has condensed the results of his work
with remarkable ease and brevity and always with fairness.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p357 Je 10 ’20 1700w
=BUSH, COLEMAN HALL.= Applied business law. *$1.28 Holt 347.7
20–5200
As the ordinary empirical methods of acquiring the essentials of
business law and practice are “entirely too slow ... the purpose of
this book is to eliminate the long term of apprenticeship, to give a
wide range of experience to all who seek it, by presenting material,
both law and facts, for application in constructive work.” (Statement
of purpose) The book is in two parts: 1, Fundamental principles:
Essentials of contracts; Agency; Service; Deposits, loans, and hiring
of things; Carriage; Sales of goods; Partnership; Insurance;
Negotiable paper; Real property; Business corporations. 2, How to
write business papers: Simple contracts; Articles of agreement;
Negotiable contracts; Contracts concerning land; Miscellaneous forms;
Index.
* * * * *
=School R= 28:476 Je ’20 250w
=BUTCHER, ALICE MARY (BRANDRETH) lady.= Memories of George Meredith. il
*$1.60 (6c) Scribner
(Eng ed 20–6151)
This book of reminiscences begins delightfully, when the author was a
girl of thirteen, with pebbles tossed against a bedroom window and an
invitation to walk to the top of Box Hill to see the sun rise. It
continues in the same vein of intimate, personal reminiscence to the
day of Meredith’s death. There are pleasant glimpses of Shakespeare
readings, of picnics, of Meredith’s family life, and of his
friendships with young people, with quotations from letters and
conversations.
* * * * *
“Her reminiscences have a girlish naïveté which is far from
unattractive. Her anecdotes and some of the letters he wrote to her
and his whimsical and witty talk help to fill out pleasantly our
mental portrait of Meredith.”
+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 100w
“She is to be congratulated on her heroic self-restraint. We enjoy
here, we are made to feel, the cream of several volumes.” J. J. Daly
+ − =Bookm= 51:351 My ’20 820w
“Many details of Meredith’s family life are given by Lady Butcher in a
wholly informal and fragmentary manner. Her style is frequently cloudy
and repetitious, and she often spoils a good story by her clumsy way
of telling it.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 1250w
=Cleveland= p51 My ’20 80w
“After reading Lady Butcher one needs to draw back a little with
half-closed eyes to fit the various fragments together; but in a
moment or two it will be seen that they merge quite rightly into the
figure of the great man.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p765 D 18 ’19 900w
=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= How it feels to be fifty. *75c (18c) Houghton
814
20–8224
A genial essay reprinted from the American Magazine of December, 1919.
Its substance is summed up in the concluding paragraph: “At twenty my
life was a feverish adventure, at thirty it was a problem, at forty it
was a labor, at fifty it is a joyful journey well begun.”
* * * * *
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 480w
=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Swatty; a story of real boys. il *$1.90 (2c)
Houghton
20–5587
Mr Butler goes back to his own boyhood for these stories. They are
stories of boy life on the banks of the Mississippi and the book opens
with a tale of the mighty river on one of its spring rampages. Swatty,
Bony and George are “real boys” of the Huck Finn and Plupy Shute type.
Altho the episodes are loosely woven together to make a continuous
narrative, many of them are in effect short stories and some have been
published as such in the American Magazine. Among the titles are: The
big river; Mamie’s father; Scratch-cat; The haunted house; The red
avengers; The ice goes out.
* * * * *
“Better if read in parts, a few adventures at a time.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“Were it not for a lamentable lapse into sentimentality out of keeping
with the rest of the book, ‘Swatty’ would be a worthy successor [to
Huck Finn]. A boy like George would never in this wide world possess a
grandmother addressed as ‘Ladylove,’ and if he did, he would be cut
into small pieces before he would use so soft an appellation.” G. M.
Purcell
+ − =Bookm= 51:473 Je ’20 470w
“Although the situations are somewhat hackneyed, the author has the
knack of seeing things from a boy’s point of view and expressing them
in a boy’s language.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 60w
“The humor of the book is broad and obvious rather than whimsical, but
Mr Butler’s admirers will probably enjoy it.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 380w
“There will doubtless be a stampede for ‘Swatty’ in the children’s
room of many a public library, altho Ellis Parker Butler in his
subtitle does not commit himself as to whether this is a story for
real boys, or merely about them. There is a choice morsel, for the
girls, too, in the incident of the tailor’s fashion sheet.” R. D.
Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:1001 Mr 20 ’20 140w
=BUTLER, SIR GEOFFREY GILBERT.= Handbook to the league of nations; with
an introd. by Robert Cecil. *$1.75 Longmans 341.1
20–5652
“Sir Geoffrey has presented in skeleton outline the development of the
league idea from the day of Grotius to the framing of the Paris
covenant, passing over rapidly its earlier history and laying stress
on the attempts at international organization represented by the Holy
alliance and the Hague conferences. He has throughout emphasized the
fact that on a concert and not on a balance of the Powers rested the
best hope of realization of the ideals of the statesmen and thinkers
who strove for the elimination of war, and he bases his faith in the
efficacy of the newly formed league on its conformity to that
principle. In addition to general discussion of the provisions of the
covenant, Sir Geoffrey has added the text of the document with
commentary upon its specific features.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. R. Towse
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 200w
=Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 50w
“Sir Geoffrey Butler’s book is of modest scope and plan, but it
provides what has until now been lacking—a sober and succinct
statement of historic process which we date from Grotius, and of which
the covenant is but the latest phase.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 240w
=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= Is America worth saving? *$2 (3c) Scribner
304
20–5743
These addresses on national problems and party policies have for their
common theme the exposition and interpretation of the fundamental
principles upon which the American government and American civil
society is built. The real difficulty in solving all our present day
problems by the light of these fundamental principles, the author
claims, lies in their extreme simplicity. He looks upon socialism and
similar movements as subversive of these principles, as the real
enemies of the people, and as entirely destructive, and places his
faith upon a “stalwart and patriotic Americanism.” Among the contents
are: Is America worth saving? A programme of constructive progress;
The real labor problem; A league of nations; Elihu Root, statesman;
Problems of peace and after-peace; The making of a written
constitution; Theodore Roosevelt, American; Faith and the war; Is
American higher education improving? The colleges and the nation;
Index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Everett Kimball
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:512 Ag ’20 490w
=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
“Failing entirely to understand the play of actual economic forces in
the production and distribution of income, it is natural that Dr
Butler should conclude that strikes and industrial wars are simply the
result of an ignorance of the true and complete harmony of interests
between capital and labor. Dr Butler pleads for ‘cooperative
individualism into a moral purpose.’ But we cannot help feeling that
he has not got any intelligible grip upon this moral purpose, and
therefore shows a feeble hold upon the very principle of individual
liberty whose championship he assumes.” O. O.
− =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 1350w
“There are no compromises of principles in this book, and the author
makes no concessions to those demands made through the cries of the
herd. To all Americans who need a mental tonic today, and to all who
feel that their confidence in law and the application of law to life
needs strengthening, and to all who believe that this republic is not
to drift at the mercy of every wind of doctrine, this very seminal
volume belongs of right.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:203 Ap 25 ’20 3450w
+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w
“Read aright, the book is a masterly and no doubt timely defence of
American institutions and the principles underlying them.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Je 10 ’20 1150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 40w
=BUXTON, NOEL EDWARD, and LEESE, C. LEONARD.= Balkan problems and
European peace. *$1.75 Scribner 949.6
19–19084
“This book on Balkan political problems falls into three parts: (1) a
history of pre-war European politics in the Balkans; (2) the policies
pursued during the war by the Entente and Allied powers, with
particular reference to Bulgaria; and (3) the probable future of the
Balkans.”—Ath
* * * * *
Reviewed by Ferdinand Schevill
+ =Am Hist R= 25:747 Jl ’20 360w
“Clear and interesting little book. It displays considerable knowledge
and the matter is well arranged.”
+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B. U. Burke
=Nation= 111:218 Ag 21 ’20 750w
=N Y Times= p19 O 10 ’20 70w
“Its value depends on the light it sheds on Bulgarian aspirations
rather than on any impartial discussion of new material.” H. F.
Armstrong
+ − =Review= 2:395 Ap 17 ’20 1200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 160w
=BYNNER, WITTER (EMANUEL MORGAN, pseud.).= Canticle of Pan and other
poems. *$2 Knopf 811
20–9070
Among the poems of this book are the Canticle of praise, written in
celebration of the ending of the war and presented at the Greek
theater in Berkeley, California, in December, 1918, and the Canticle
of Pan, delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa poem at the University of
California in June, 1917, and the Canticle of Bacchus, also presented
in California. Among the shorter poems are a number of translations
from the Chinese. Titles of others are: Youth sings to the sea; The
wild star; Vintage; Gipsying; Pittsburgh; A song in the grass; The
swimmer; The desert; On leaving California; Away from California;
Rain; Night; News of a soldier.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Witter Bynner, in his ‘A canticle of Pan,’ is more of a ventriloquist
than a poet. He speaks in too many voices, and on too wide a range of
topics to have achieved mastery in any manner or distinction in any
style. Mr Bynner’s volume is singularly unauthentic: it is an
anthology of imitations (none of them particularly effective) of most
of the known manners of prosody.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:62 S ’20 700w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 12 ’19 500w
“In these canticles Mr Bynner has evolved a medium admirably suited
for community expression, dealing with the large events of the world.
In a sense these are experimental, and Mr Bynner, while giving them a
certain poetic merit, has not made them distill his finest poetic
spirit. His lyric note is, at its best, one of the purest among
present-day poets.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1150w
“What one has here in the end is Bynner, the man, rather than Bynner,
the poet. He is a delightful man, clever and keen and kind. But he is
too full of his message to be truly moving.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 120w
“Witter Bynner forfeits our respect at the outset by writing a
canticle wherein he imagines Pan and the Christ child as friends; he
continues to forfeit it by a vein of breezy, Vachel Lindsay-Stephen
Graham optimism that runs through his book.” J: G. Fletcher
− =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 230w
“These canticles as well as some of the less ambitious poems are
marred by an ethical idealism that is too self-conscious. Pan and
Bacchus especially must not moralize. Their magic is their
waywardness. The best poems in the book are the slighter ones,
including the bits of translation from the Chinese, Japanese and
Russian and the original poems in their spirit.” C. M. S.
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 300w
+ =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 110w
“Mr Bynner’s latest volume proves, among other things, that there are
limits beyond which Mr Bynner cannot be said to gain by
experimentation. Not that he has a still, small voice; not that he is
a little poet; but he is most himself and most happy when he is
working in established, or at least in well knit, rhythms and moods.
His publisher has produced him in a form that does both American
poetry and American publishing handsome credit.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 230w
“Witter Bynner’s new volume, ‘A canticle of Pan’ leaves one disturbed
and aggrieved. He is undeniably such a really talented poet that one
wonders why so much of his book leaps out of the mind much faster than
it leaps in. It is apparent that the community masque idea is not a
happy choice for Mr Bynner. It is in the shorter pieces in this book
that Mr Bynner is at his best.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 450w
“A rather poorly balanced miscellany of poems. The volume is by no
means representative of Mr Bynner’s excellence as a lyric poet. In
comparatively few pieces in the present collection does he approach
his highest standard of workmanship. A number of them are trivial in
conception and detract substantially from the merit of the others.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 430w
=BYRNE, DONN.= Foolish matrons. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
20–18252
The heroines of the story are four: one wise and three foolish. The
wise one was a great actress who married the big uncouth surgeon whom
she loved, gave up her career and became his guardian angel and mother
of his children. Georgia, pretty and frivolous, craved the excitement
of gay New York. Married she was a vampire and finally drifted to the
underworld. Sheila, the college graduate and newspaper woman, clever
and heartless, dreamt of a career, married a poet for the glamor of it
and drove him to drink with her coldness. Sappho, the model, frankly
married for money, and posed as patroness of amateur artists. She
became ashamed of her plain millionaire husband and thought to do
better for herself but lost in the game.
* * * * *
“There is enough material in ‘The foolish matrons’ for four novels;
any one of the biographies which are told simultaneously would have
made a book by itself—a book representing with true artistry a segment
of life.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 600w
“The tale has vivid elements: it is overdrawn, but possesses dramatic
intensity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 150w
C
=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.=[2] Domnei; a comedy of woman-worship. *$2
McBride
20–20192
A revised edition of “The soul of Melicent,” published in 1913, with a
new introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer. For note on the story see
Annual for 1914.
* * * * *
“Cabell has won indisputably the position of being one of our few
distinguished men of letters. He is not for every reader, but one can
scarcely picture his desiring this doubtful honor. He writes for his
own discriminating audience, and for them he cannot write enough. He
creates a taste which it is difficult to satisfy with lesser delights.
‘Domnei’ carries a significance and an atmosphere of its own.” D. L.
Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 1100w
“It is a subtle story, but not a convincing story.... And ‘Domnei’ is
an entertaining story—a story to be read at one sitting—with colour
and marvel and high-sounding words. It has the outline of a narrative
poem, and I, for one, feel that it is a pity that Mr Cabell did not
turn his prose into verse.” Padraic Colum
+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 650w
“The thing that makes ‘Domnei’ stand out above most fables of
chivalrous romance is not the clear and sympathetic character
portrayal, nor the flowing, beautiful English, nor is it the great
wealth of mediaeval lore, which Mr Cabell undoubtedly possesses to an
exceptional degree. The greatness of ‘Domnei’ lies in the fact that
every detail, historical, narrative, or constructive, falls into place
with consummate art, bringing to us of these later and hurried days a
spiritual interpretation of the knight’s quest for divine beauty.” H.
W. M.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 400w
=CABOT, WILLIAM BROOKS.=[2] Labrador. il *$3 Small 971.9
“‘Labrador’ is an account of half a dozen expeditions into the
interior of that country which the author has made since 1904. From it
the reader obtains an impression of what life is like in that
elemental land, barren and sentineled off its coast by age-old
icebergs. The country is one of the oldest primal faces of the globe,
and Mr Cabot believes it may have been the cradle of the human race.
Its only products are fur and fish, and, as the fur is failing,
Labrador will doubtless remain a little-known land. ‘Over this great
territory,’ writes the author, ‘the people still wander at will,
knowing no alien restraint, no law but their own. The unwritten code
of the lodge and open, the ancient beliefs still prevail.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The lovers of nature study and of travel and adventure will find much
of interest in this carefully written book. Mr Cabot writes with
enthusiasm as well as with rare intelligence.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 540w
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 2 ’21 280w
=CADMUS and HARMONIA, pseuds.= Island of sheep. *$1.50 (5c) Houghton
20–7649
In an English country house, on the eve of a house party, the host and
hostess are much distressed about the future. The party is about
equally composed of optimists and pessimists and they are all more or
less liberal. It consists of the minister of the parish, a highland
landowner, a labor ex-member of Parliament, the wife of a former
Liberal minister, a progressive journalist and his wife, an American
woman resident in England, a lady given to good works, a conservative,
a liberal lawyer, a grenadier of the guards; a lieutenant of the
United States army, a labor leader, an imperialist, a French general,
a coalition member of parliament, an American politician and a captain
of industry. They discuss the future and reconstruction from all
points of view, of which the most satisfactory in the end seems to be
that of the ex-labor member of Parliament. It at least moves the
minister to relate the old saga of Balder, the life-giver, and his
expected return to earth after the twilight of Walhalla has made an
end to the old gods.
* * * * *
“The quickness of the argument, the mental agility of some of the
talkers and the interesting character touches give a delightful
lightness to this presentation of serious problems.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“Rolls the present world unrest up into a cheerful and conservative
package, with the strings tied a bit too neatly.”
− =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 70w
“As a matter of fact, characterization is the authors’ weakest point.
Their style is too fluent, too uniform. Opinions are well contrasted,
but the individualities of the speakers are lost in the monotony, in
the rhythm and vocabulary of their utterance.” R. F. A. H.
+ − =New Repub= 24:222 O 27 ’20 700w
“It is rather hard for an American to account for the admiration which
the book is said to have won in England. There is not, as a rule,
anything particularly novel in the content or exceptionally striking
in the form.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 430w
“When the reader finishes it, he may be inclined to think first, that
although done by a master hand, it is a rather slight contribution to
the great post-war discussion. But the more he thinks about it the
more the reader begins to perceive that ‘The island of sheep’ is a
microcosm of the present mental and physical state of the world,
certainly of the English-speaking world.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 900w
“The reader will thank us for letting him discover for himself the
rare charm of this book. Passion is excluded, though there is plenty
of idealism, and an abundance of hard, shrewd wit. National
characteristics are exceedingly well portrayed. There is here a
fineness akin to a forgotten art.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 1250w
“Most of our readers, faced with this list [of characters] in the
abstract, will be inclined to turn from the book with a ‘Lord ‘a
mercy!’ or ‘Heaven save us!’ If they do they will be quite wrong, for,
in spite of the soundness of the argument, the book is a light one,
and full of very pleasant relief, which we must not call comic, but
which has the same effect as the old stage artifice.”
+ =Spec= 123:616 N 8 ’19 2200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 280w
=CAINE, WILLIAM.= Strangeness of Noel Carton. *$2 (3c) Putnam
20–11497
This is not exactly a story within a story but rather two stories so
interwoven and fused that in the end they are not distinguishable
apart. They are both written in the first person by Noel Carton and
one is his journal and the other the novel he writes because his wife
has said he couldn’t do it. This wife he hates for her crudity and
smallness, altho he has sold himself to her for the home and comforts
she gives him. In his novel he unconsciously portrays himself and his
wife Josephine as his main characters, Nigel and Jocelyn. As he
becomes absorbed in his plot, and as he takes more and more powerful
drugs in his fight against insomnia, it is increasingly difficult for
him to distinguish between the real of his life and the unreal of his
fancy. The climax comes when his hallucinations give way to madness,
and the tragedy of his novel is carried out in real life.
* * * * *
“The fastidious reader will be inclined to put this volume aside after
the first few pages, but if he can persevere he may very quickly
realize that the vulgarity of the author’s manner is deliberate, and
very effective and moving. It is paying a great compliment to Mr Caine
to say that no one who does not read this remarkably plausible tale
from cover to cover could believe it.”
+ =Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 180w
“In a unique combination of diary and straight novelistic
construction, Mr Caine has done something for the novel which one
Reizenstein once did for the stage in ‘On trial’—he has found a new
form.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 220w
=Lit D= p92 O 9 ’20 2800w
“The book is original and exceedingly well done.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 200w
“From the moment you meet Noel Carton, his wife, and his situation you
are deeply interested in all three. You don’t like him nor yet his
wife, but he is a vivid, actual creature, and he makes every one,
perhaps we might better say everything, he touches, vivid and
compelling.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 100w
“Not every reader is likely to enjoy this grim mixture of realism and
fantasy, but it is impossible to deny the power with which it is
written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 180w
=CALDWELL, WALLACE EVERETT.= Hellenic conceptions of peace. pa *$1.25
Longmans 172.4
19–18236
“An historical study of the subject, beginning with the epic age and
coming down to the fourth century B.C. Issued as one of the Columbia
university studies in history, economics and public law.” (Brooklyn)
“What Mr Caldwell has done is to restate what the Greek poets,
historians, orators, and political leaders have said and written about
the desirability of peace. For that was their theme, that peace was
desirable and war was destructive. He has also traced for us, in the
tumultuous course of Greek history, the attempts to preserve the peace
and the causes of their failure.” (Nation)
* * * * *
“This is an interesting study written by a man well grounded in Greek
history. Our main criticism is that Dr Caldwell has not kept his aim
steadily enough in view. In fact, it is hard to avoid the conclusion
that there has been a certain shifting of aim as the work proceeds.
The concluding chapter is the most valuable part of the book.” W. S.
Ferguson
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:313 Ja ’20 450w
=Brooklyn= 12:60 Ja ’20 30w
“There is much in Dr Caldwell’s record that has special pertinency to
these times.”
+ =Nation= 109:804 D 20 ’19 250w
“Certain problems appear very modern especially the conflict of Athens
and Sparta regarding the implications of ‘freedom,’ and the inability
of Greece to form a permanent league of free states, in spite of
religious and commercial incentives to unity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 5 ’19 180w
=CALKINS, RAYMOND, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Substitutes for the
saloon. *$1.75 Houghton 178
20–1362
“To the study which he made for the famous Committee of fifty twenty
years ago and which has been the standard volume on the subject during
that entire period, Dr Calkins now adds a new introduction and a
series of appendices supplementing carefully chosen points in a way to
bring the whole discussion of the saloon substitute up to date and to
make of the volume a handbook for those who wish to engage in this
form of social service and to learn something of the body of
experience which has been built up for a half century. The book is
particularly illuminating in setting up the workingmen’s club or
whatever one cares to call it, against the perspective of
neighborhood, class, race, religion, politics, age, habits and other
factors which condition its success or involve its failure. In the
long run, it seems clear, the ‘substitute’ must be almost purely
democratic or else commercial in management, and it must be of
spontaneous growth or at any rate seem to be.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Interesting to leaders of men and boys of the working class.”
+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 10 ’20 300w
=Survey= 43:471 Ja 24 ’20 650w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Dardanelles. *$5 (3½c) Houghton 940.42
20–4693
The book belongs to the Campaigns and their lessons series. The author
considers the contest in the Dardanelles as a campaign by itself which
was affected by events elsewhere only in so far as these diverted much
needed military and naval resources. The work is designed to be a
study of certain phases of the campaign rather than a formal record of
its course, many of the problems discussed admitting of considerable
diversity of opinion. Thus the naval attempt to force the Straits
without military aid, the famous landing on the shores of the
Gallipoli peninsula on the 25th of April, and the successful
evacuation of the sea-girt patch of Turkish territory are discussed at
length, but some of the principal combats are dismissed briefly
because their story suggests no special lessons.
* * * * *
“The book needs an index.”
+ − =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 90w
+ =Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“It cannot fail to be of the utmost value, as a document of the war,
which will increase in value as the years pass.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 750w
“The story is told with the accuracy and straightforward impartiality
that might be expected. After the accounts of each main event, whether
success or failure, General Callwell adds a passage of ‘Comment,’
criticizing that action and pointing out where the causes of success
or failure lay. To all military students and to all who, like myself,
are intimately acquainted with the campaign, these comments will
naturally be the most valuable and interesting parts of the volume.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:648 F 7 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“General Callwell’s valuable study of the Dardanelles campaign, from a
military standpoint, appears opportunely as the complement of the
Dardanelles commission’s report on the conduct of the operations.”
+ =Spec= 123:729 N 29 ’19 1400w
“This is an excellent addition to the ‘Campaigns and their lessons’
series. The one criticism that we have to make of it is the inadequacy
of the maps. There are certain phases of the campaign, notably the
attacks at Anzac and Suvla in August, 1915, which it is impossible to
follow clearly without large and clear maps.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p724 D 11 ’19 850w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Life of Sir Stanley Maude,
lieutenant-general. il *$6 Houghton
(Eng ed 20–14053)
“This official biography of the conqueror of Bagdad, who died during
the fourth year of the war, was written by the British Director of
military operations at the War office. General Maude was one of the
small group of commanders brought to the front by the war who appealed
to the popular imagination. Fortunately, his biographer is one of the
leading military writers of our time. The book is inspiring, not
merely as the life of a great soldier, but as a contribution to our
knowledge of British military operations in Mesopotamia.” R of Rs
* * * * *
“As clear and sympathetic an account as any friend of General Maude’s
could desire.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p239 Ag 20 ’20 680w
=Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1350w
+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w
“There is not too much Maude in the book, nor is there too much
collateral history, just a happy combination of the two, an
achievement which is by no means common in memoirs!”
+ =Sat R= 130:279 O 2 ’20 1000w
“Sir Charles Callwell is particularly to be congratulated on the
justice and candour with which he has written this book. Eulogy at
points where eulogy is undeserved is an offence in biography. It is
misleading; it deprives the reader of the opportunities of learning
the lessons which he might have learned from the truth; and in the
last analysis it is unfair to the subject of the biography himself.
Sir Charles Callwell, while making clear his intense admiration of
Maude, succeeds in giving point to that admiration by admitting that
Maude was not without his intellectual faults as a soldier.”
+ =Spec= 125:209 Ag 14 ’20 1550w
“In spite of the attraction of his subject the biography is to be read
once and no more. One hesitates to think that General Callwell has
missed the secret of Maude’s greatness. One searches the book in vain
for a generalization, a fruitful idea.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 Jl 29 ’20 1200w
=CAMERON, CHARLOTTE.=[2] Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. il $6 Stokes
917.98
Cheechako is Eskimo for tenderfoot, but this particular tenderfoot
turns out to be a hardened traveler. After many other lands the far
North beckoned this adventurous Englishwoman and she set out from
Seattle in June to travel 2,200 miles on the Yukon to Alaska and back
all in a summer season. She sings the praises of the wondrous riches
of the country—for which she bespeaks a prosperous future—and of the
hospitality of its people. Nome, which had lured her from childhood,
was the real objective of the trip and of it the author gives a
detailed account. The book is well illustrated.
* * * * *
=Ath= p581 O 29 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 40w
“Very wisely she is content to write as a sightseer, not as a pioneer;
and the result of this renunciation is that we get from her something
fresh.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1000w
=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Gray mask. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–2640
An episodic narrative dealing with the solution of various mysteries
and taking its name from the first adventure. Garth, a member of the
detective force, is asked by his chief to assume the disguise of the
Gray Mask, a criminal chemist who goes with face covered to hide the
effects of an explosion. The disguise takes him into the heart of a
criminal gang, among whom to his horror he finds Nora, his chief’s
daughter. But her presence there is satisfactorily explained and the
law breakers are brought to justice. The second episode concerns a
murder mystery, and there are others, ending with Garth’s engagement
to Nora.
* * * * *
“The stories hardly measure up to the author’s previous work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Football without a coach. il *$1.25 Appleton
797
20–13870
The object of the book is to supply a perfect pen-and-ink coach for a
football team, telling it how to progress from week to week, warning
it of the dangers that will crop up and telling it how to surmount
each difficulty that arises. It is intended as a text-book for the
grammar school boy, the high school student, and the young man from
the shop or office. Contents: Building the foundation; Sizing up the
candidates; The first scrimmage; Practice without a scrub; The line
and the forward pass; The line; The backfield; Building plays; The
strategy of football; Things that make or break a team.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
“The book comes as near to taking the place of an expert coach as
printed words can.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w
+ =R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Handbook on health and how to keep it. *$1.25
(3c) Appleton 613
20–5624
In formulating a “simple, reasonable and practical system of
preserving physical fitness” for all ages, the author has had in mind
the “simplest, shortest, least exhausting and most exhilarating form
of calisthenics” that can be devised. He has concentrated his setup
exercises with four groups of three each thus: Hands, Hips, Head;
Grind, Grate, Grasp; Crawl, Curl, Crouch; Wave, Weave, Wing. Portions
of the book are devoted to practical suggestions as to the value of
certain sports at proper periods of life and to cautions as to the
general health and the follies of some habits. Contents: Problems of
youth and age; Daily dozen set-up; Reviewing follies; Children,
schoolboy and collegian; Industrial worker.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 300w
“Mr Camp’s latest book should be useful to the instructor of
gymnastics and the Boy scout leader. The author’s insistence upon
athletics will readily be forgiven on the ground of a specialist’s
natural enthusiasm; but the space given to it and other general
considerations in the book hardly make it a very practical ‘handbook’
for the individual in need of advice and stimulus.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 160w
=CAMPBELL, HENRY COLIN.= How to use cement for concrete construction for
town and farm. il $2 Stanton & Van Vliet 693.5
20–6499
This comprehensive book covers such subjects as Farming with concrete;
What concrete is, how to make and use it; Making forms for concrete
construction; Reinforcement; Concrete foundations and concrete walls;
Tanks, troughs, cisterns, and similar containers for liquids; Concrete
floors, walks and similar concrete pavements; A concrete garage on the
farm; Poultry houses of concrete; Concrete silos, etc. The author
writes from the point of view of both engineer and farmer. There is an
alphabetical table of contents, and the book is very fully
illustrated.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 90w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 210w
=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL.= Everyday Americans. *$1.75 (5½c) Century 917.3
20–16765
The book is a “study of the typical, the everyday American mind, as it
is manifested in the American of the old stock. It is a study of what
that typical American product, the college and high school graduate,
has become in the generation which must carry on after the war.”
(Preface) This typical American the author finds to be “the
conservative-liberal” in whom the inherited liberal instincts have
become petrified and who suffers with a sort of a hardening of the
arteries of the mind. There is also a radicalism of a sort but it is a
very different thing from European revolutionary radicalism. The soul
of America now in which abides the future, is the bourgeoisie and he
advises all who wish to speculate in postbellum America to study the
younger leaders of the labor parties on the one hand and the college
undergraduates on the other. They are the future. Contents: The
American mind; Conservative America; Radical America; American
idealism; Religion in America; Literature in America; The bourgeois
American.
* * * * *
“Written in a clear, rather colorless style.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“If Mr Canby’s book had been written long ago it would have remedied
in large degree the appalling ignorance existing abroad concerning
American mind and thought.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 180w
“A timely, undogmatic contribution to an exceedingly lively issue.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w
“As far as it goes, Mr Canby’s book is very good and very interesting.
On the whole, his analysis appears to be sound; and his candour is
admirable.” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 1150w
=Nation= 111:512 N 3 ’20 280w
“Thoughtful and lucid appraisement of American values. Though the
style is simple, it is closely packed; the substance is weighty, and
no one will get it all in the first reading.”
+ − =Review= 4:17 Ja 5 ’21 580w
“It may be argued that there is no special brillance or insight in
these pages, but if one really wishes to convince the average
thoughtful American, it is well to be neither too philosophical nor
too paradoxical. Mr Canby at least shows us that he has an active
mind, capable of searching the underlying issues of the time in which
he lives.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 650w
“This study of the American mind is altogether delightful because of
its directness, sincerity and penetration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 280w
=CANFIELD, CHAUNCEY L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$3.50 Houghton
979.4
The book is based on the authentic diary of one Alfred T. Jackson, a
pioneer miner who cabined and worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County,
California, from 1850 to 1852. It is a “truthful, unadorned, veracious
chronicle of the placer mining days of the foothills, a narrative of
events as they occurred; told in simple and, at times, ungrammatical
sentences, yet vivid and truth compelling in the absence of conscious
literary endeavor.... It sets forth graphically the successive steps
in gold mining, from the pan and rocker to the ground sluice and
flume.... No less fascinating is the romance interwoven in the pages
of the diary.” (Preface) The editor states that he has verified many
of the incidents and happenings. An edition of the book was published
in San Francisco shortly before the earthquake and fire, during which
the plates and many of the copies were destroyed.
* * * * *
“This book is well printed in large type but the solid character of
the contents, in spite of the chapter headings, will repel some
readers.” H. S. K.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 600w
“One of the most fascinating features of this remarkable document is
the diarist’s self-revelation of his evolution from a Puritanical New
Englander, bound and shackled with the prejudices of generations, into
a broad-minded man whose mental growth is miraculously stimulated by
the freedom of his environment and associations.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 2850w
+ =R of Rs= 63:223 F ’21 100w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Release of the soul. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 149.3
20–8452
“The surface of life has been broken by the war, says Mr Cannan; there
is no longer any structure in social existence: ‘For the artist there
is metaphysic or nothing.’ And in this highly metaphysical, mystical
essay he attempts to convey a programme for the immediate future of
society and especially for the artist. We are told that the book was
written during Mr Cannan’s recent visit in America, in a period of
intense creative inspiration. As a record of mystical experience, as
an endeavor to express the ineffable, it expects from the reader a
coöperation more sympathetic than that of the intelligence. Stripped
of its mysticism, the argument is a tolerably familiar one; it is a
fusion of certain beliefs almost universally held now by the younger
writers and artists, beliefs regarding the industrial régime,
bourgeois democracy, intellectualism, the instinct of workmanship, the
release of the creative impulses.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“Mr Cannan’s new book is, indeed, unusual. The words God, soul, life,
occur with extraordinary frequency but the variety of their
syntactical connections throws no light on their meanings. Since we
are neither provided with, nor enabled to deduce, definitions of Mr
Cannan’s chief terms, we find his book unintelligible.”
− + =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 500w
“The tone of the book is rhapsodical; its sentences are so desultory;
and even the illustrations drawn here and there from history, art and
literature are so loose, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to
decide at times what he exactly does mean.”
− =Cath World= 111:832 S ’20 230w
“There is little art in his exposition and less evidence of work. And
it takes more religion of a charitable nature than Mr Cannan preaches
to restrain one from saying that the author of this work has released
his soul so very successfully that it has disappeared.”
− =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 110w
“Flashes of fine thought are not incompatible with loose thinking. A
book may be very stimulating and suggestive in its details and yet as
a whole leave behind an impression of hopeless confusion. This is just
the kind of book Mr Cannan has produced.” Edwin Bjorkman
− + =Freeman= 2:19 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is not unlikely that many, perhaps most, of the people who read Mr
Cannan’s new book will wonder what he is driving at. A little of this
bewilderment will be due to Mr Cannan himself; for when he passes over
from the dramatic to the discursive a certain elusiveness invades his
speech. The book is one of those which must be read two or three times
over before its whole significance becomes clear; but it is abundantly
worth that trouble.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 111:301 S 11 ’20 1100w
“His book is a curious, largely incomprehensible and thoroughly dull
rhapsody upon God and nature, life, love and the soul.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:152 O 6 ’20 220w
“The charm of the book is to be found in some of the brief ecstatic
meditations in which from time to time the pages flower.” Van Wyck
Brooks
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 My 8 ’20 950w
“Mr Cannan has flung a light bridge from mysticism to internationalism
over which it is quite conceivable that an exposition so airy, chary,
and fleeting as his own may pass in safety. But the plain man, the
logician, and the investigator can not be urged to trust his weight to
the inadequacies of the trembling fabric.”
+ − =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 500w
“It is an embarrassing book to read. One feels like an intruder upon a
privacy, for really Mr Cannan appears to have suffered considerably.
Either so ‘private and confidential’ a book ought not to have been
written, or we should not be reading it.”
− =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 240w
“Obviously what Mr Cannan says is largely platonic doctrine, to many
incomprehensible; but spiritual emphasis at this time is so needed
that the book is justified in spite of its frequent cloudy and chaotic
passages.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 220w
“Mr Cannan, weary of criticism and all negative activities, has turned
to mysticism; and this book is the result. It is sincere, passionate
and interesting, but it lacks structure, and so is a little difficult
to read.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p417 Jl 1 ’20 1850w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Time and eternity; a tale of three exiles. *$1.90
(2½c) Doran
20–7059
London is the abode of these three exiles. One of them is an
Englishman, Stephen Lawrie, at odds with the world about him and with
the war, living in voluntary seclusion in the London slums, trying to
solve the riddle of the universe in silence and inactivity. The other,
Perekatov, is a Ukrainian Jew eking out a precarious existence in
London as a correspondent for a Russian paper. He obtrudes himself on
Stephen with whose face, seen at a public meeting, he had been
impressed. There is much spasmodic, intangible talk between them and
their intercourse ripens into friendship of a sort. Valerie du Toit,
the third exile, is a South African of French Huguenot extraction, who
has come to England athirst for the eternal verities. With elemental
force the spirits of Stephen and Valerie meet and melt into each
other. This kindles insane jealousy in Howard Ducie who acts the
Othello to Valerie’s Desdemona, smothers her in her sleep and has
himself run over by a train. Stephen accepts the tragedy as a
happening in time which can not interfere with the eternity of his
love.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 240w
“Mr Gilbert Cannan’s novels are important novels, but they are not
good novels. They are the illustrative material of his essays and they
do not illustrate them in any creative fashion. The theories shine
through too glaringly, as in ‘Time and eternity.’ Mr Cannan started
out with a naive creative impulse, but the events of the past six
years have aroused in him, as in many of us, so much impassioned
thinking about life that the material of creation itself slips from
his grasp.”
− =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 400w
“Though the book frequently reveals creative strokes, though its
general plan is majestically conceived, yet it conveys the sense of
being a preliminary work. ‘Time and eternity’ suggests the need for a
future work which will see the thing through. The sculptor is still
groping.” J. C. L.
+ − =New Repub= 23:182 Jl 7 ’20 730w
“‘Time and eternity’ is the result of a serious lack in its author,
the lack of a sense of humor. The piece has untold burlesque
possibilities, and they have been wasted. ‘Time and eternity’ may be
ascribed only to a rapidly advancing senility.” Henrietta Malkiel
− =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 420w
“We have all long known the phrase ‘a welter of words,’ but to read
Gilbert Cannan’s new book ‘Time and eternity’ is to realize just
exactly what it implies. The reader’s strongest feeling after he has
at last toiled his weary way through this extremely dull book is a
desire for plenty of soap and water and good fresh air.”
− =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 900w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 520w
“Mr Cannan writes too quickly and too often. He writes with a sort of
hungry rage, because he despises something, though he does not know
what, and desires something equally unknown to him. His work is as
restless and as inconclusive as a conversation between adolescents
teased with growing pains.”
− =Sat R= 128:419 N 1 ’19 1200w
“In ‘Time and eternity’ Mr Cannan presents a piece of tedious writing
and speculation about slinking individuals who are out of harmony with
the ages.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 400w
“Mr Cannan has not yet, in this method, passed the experimental stage.
Moreover, he has not enough to say about the souls of his three
exiles, to each of whom by name is allotted one-third of this short
book, to engage unflagging attention. They are queer if not tiresome,
but vaguer than people speaking uninspired lines from behind a
curtain. They do nothing very much; they appear to want nothing very
special; they certainly are nothing very intensely.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 650w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Windmills; a book of fables. *$1.60 (3c) Huebsch
20–17654
A volume of satires. The first two, Samways island and Ultimus, altho
written before 1914 have to do with a series of wars between Fatland
(England) and Fatterland (Germany) and, except in matters of
mechanical detail, they indicate remarkable foresight. Of the two that
follow, Gynecologia describes the women governed world that succeeded
the great wars, and Out of work is a social satire involving Jah, the
devil, and a certain Nicholas Bly, a labor agitator. The author writes
a preface to the American edition. The book was published in England
in 1915.
* * * * *
“Mr Cannan’s satire is not as keen and cutting when bare and exposed
in these sketches as it is in some of his other books where it half
hides behind a veil of romance. ‘Windmills’ is brilliant in places,
but not as a whole.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 31 ’20 310w
“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is
ineffective.”
+ − =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w
“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are
remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant
perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s
admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the
side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 650w
“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy
reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”
− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 60w
“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is
nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and
neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of
sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us
say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book
has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined
brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the
passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.
− =Review= 3:192 S 1 ’20 920w
=CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT).=
Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947
20–6483
“Many who have followed the Russian articles in the Saturday Evening
Post of Princess Cantacuzène will no doubt greet with pleasure their
appearance in book form under the title ‘Russian people: revolutionary
recollections.’ Similar to Princess Cantacuzène’s earlier book,
‘Revolutionary days,’ these pictures of Russian life are seen through
the eyes of a member of the upper classes, residents for years in the
country. It is the simple folk outside the city, exemplified by the
peasant of the Cantacuzène estate, Bouromka, about whom the stories
center. In addition to the pictures of Bouromka before and after the
‘red’ outbreaks, there are chapters dealing with the efforts in
various parts of the old empire to re-establish a stable government.
Crimea, where the Cantacuzène villa is situated, was one such center.
‘Daughters of Russia’ is the title of the final chapter, these ranging
from Catherine the Great to Catherine Breshkovsky and Maria
Botshkarova.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The author knows the peasants and tenantry outside of the large
cities and writes of them intimately and interestingly. Her account of
the revolution and of political affairs is, however, second hand and
lacks clarifying detail.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
“They present readable and accurate impressions of events on which
full information is still hard to get.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 130w
“It would be a mistake to regard her story as seriously contributing
to our understanding of the revolution, if for no other reason than
that her materials are obtained at secondhand and to a great extent
from rumor. Painting in simple black-and-white is not her only
limitation.”
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“Princess Cantacuzène’s book is certainly a striking case of a good
opportunity missed. If only she had stuck more to what she saw herself
during those days when her adopted country was going to pieces before
her eyes!”
− + =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 1400w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 380w
=CAPABLANCA, JOSÉ RAÚL.= My chess career. il *$2.50 Macmillan 794
20–6061
The author, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1888, began to play chess at the
age of five. At eleven he was matched against the Cuban champion, J.
Corzo. In his introductory chapter he says: “The object of this little
book is to give to the reader some idea of the many stages through
which I have passed before reaching my present strength.... As I go
along narrating my chess career, I will stop at those points which I
consider most important, giving examples of my games with my own notes
written at the time the games were played, or when not, expressing the
ideas I had while the game was in progress.” This plan is followed
thruout the book, beginning with the match with Corzo and continuing
to the Hastings victory congress in 1919. The conclusion gives points
for beginners.
* * * * *
“There is not a trace of boastfulness in the book. Capablanca’s
passion is for exact scientific truth. The general spirit is one of
detached and critical self-observation. Altogether, a book of great
psychological interest.” R. O. M.
+ =Ath= p237 F 20 ’20 650w
=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
“This refreshing little book probably contains more real information
on the science of chess than a dozen of the more weighty tomes put
together. Capablanca’s comments on his own and his adversary’s play
throughout the book are of a most original and illuminating sort.”
Moreby Adlom
+ =Bookm= 51:573 Jl ’20 950w
“It is in many ways the most egotistical, and incidentally subjective
book we have ever come across; the note of satisfaction sounds like a
loud gong throughout, nor does the voice of self-praise die away. The
book, in fact, has been written in a mood of positively aboriginal
conceit. All this, however, should not obscure the fact that Senor
Capablanca’s chess-games are very brilliant, and his notes full of
interest.”
− + =Sat R= 129:251 Mr 13 ’20 700w
“His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious.”
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“The interest is immensely enhanced by being annotated by Capablanca
himself.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 F 26 ’20 350w
=CAPEK, THOMAS.= Cechs (Bohemians) in America. il *$3 (5½c) Houghton
325.7
20–1302
The author, after a residence of thirty-nine years in Cech America, is
thoroughly conversant with the history and the status of his
countrymen here. The volume aims “to throw light, not only on the
economic condition of the Cech immigrant, but on his national,
historic, religious, cultural, and social state as well.” (Introd.) It
describes the American Cech as being not an adventurer but a bona-fide
settler, an idealist and an upholder of modern democracy. Biographical
sketches are given of all the prominent and intellectual Cechs who
have exerted an influence on their countrymen in America and the book
is abundantly illustrated. Successive chapters are devoted to the
immigration in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
and to the Cech’s economic status. Other chapters are: New Bohemia in
America; Rationalism: a transition from the old to the new; Socialism
and radicalism; Journalism and literature; Musicians, artists,
visitors from abroad; The churches; The part the American Cechs took
in the war of liberation. There is an appendix and an index.
* * * * *
“‘The Cechs in America’ is a comprehensive, carefully arranged manual
of all information about this section of our immigration. To anyone
wishing, or needing, to be authoritatively and thoroughly informed on
this subject, his book is indispensable.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:142 O ’20 530w
“Interesting and informing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
“His picture leaves no detail obscure so long as he writes without
religious or political preconceptions. The copious bibliography in
this volume deserves special complimentary mention.”
+ =Cath World= 111:104 Ap ’20 580w
+ =Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 420w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 480w
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 50w
“His own sturdy love of America, mixed with his identification with
the Czech in America makes the book a delightful though unintentioned
combination of the subjective and the objective. None of the other
national groups have produced anything quite like it.” H. A. Miller
+ =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 550w
=CAPES, BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH.= Skeleton key. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–7424
This detective story is prefaced by an introduction by G. K.
Chesterton. The action takes place at Wildshott, the country home of
the Kennetts, where Vivian Bickerdike, who tells part of the story in
his own words, and Baron Le Sage are guests. Shortly after their
arrival, a pretty housemaid is murdered in a secluded path not far
from the house. The usual steps are taken, an inquest is held and a
detective called in. Several arrests are made but finally guilt seems
to fasten itself pretty conclusively upon Hugo Kennett, the young son
of the family, whose choice seemed to be marry or murder. But Baron Le
Sage is not satisfied that he is guilty, and uncovers a deep laid and
unsuspected plot of which Hugo was to have been the victim, and the
perpetrator was to go scot free. Fortunately the scheme was foiled in
time.
* * * * *
“Will please the more critical reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“Above the average detective story.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“‘The skeleton key’ is a detective story of singular ingenuity and
power. Yet it is much more than that, in that the air of delicate
romance dispels much of the sordidity that, in the very nature of the
work, is always striving to rear its head and dominate the narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 470w
“The late Bernard Capes was one of the few writers of mystery and
detective stories who make an honorable effort to combine plot with
literary workmanship. This posthumous tale is one of his best. It has
a decidedly original dénouement which will puzzle even practical
mystery solvers.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 50w
=CAREY, AGNES.= Empress Eugénie in exile. il *$4 Century
20–20073
These reminiscences from Empress Eugénie’s own lips are culled from
letters and diaries kept by the author while a member of the Empress’s
household at Farnborough. The book contains many illustrations from
photographs and the contents are: Farnborough Hill, an empress’s home;
Daily events: further extracts from diary and letters; The Empress
visits Queen Victoria; Later events at Farnborough Hill; Reminiscences
of Empress Eugénie: her characteristics and idiosyncracies.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 13 ’20 660w
“Mrs Carey incorporates, especially in the last half of the book, a
great deal about the daily life at Farnborough which can be of
interest only to persons who make a hobby of Eugénie, if any such
there be. But this fault must be overlooked, for the book has the
extraordinary merit of telling Eugénie’s own story or stories told by
Eugénie, within an hour or so after they had dropped from her lips.”
+ − =N Y Times= p11 N 21 ’20 2050w
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 170w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
=CAREY, WILLIAM, and others.= Garo jungle book; or, The mission to the
Garos of Assam. il *$2 (2½c) Am. Bapt. 266
20–2499
After describing the Garos topographically, the author calls their
mountain abode “a den of wild beasts and of still wilder men.”
“Within, the fiercest passions held sway, and gruesome superstitions,
such as made the blood of the Bengalis run cold to think of, wrapped
them in an atmosphere of ghostly fear.” It was when the British
government was faced by the only remaining alternative “extermination
of the Garos” that the missionaries began to demonstrate the
possibility of another way. The book is the history of the struggle
and an account of what has been accomplished. It contains abundant
illustrations, two maps, and appendices consisting of a glossary, a
list of Garo books, of churches and schools and a service chart.
=CARLETON, WILLIAM.= Stories of Irish life; with an introd. by Darnell
Figgis. *$1.75 Stokes
A20–891
“Himself a peasant, William Carleton writes of the Irish people, the
Irish scene and the Irish life out of the book of his own experience.
He was the youngest of the fourteen children of a small farmer in
Tyrone, and was brought up in a household that knew the ancient Irish
tongue as well as the English language. His real literary career began
in 1828, when, at the age of thirtyfour, he settled permanently in
Dublin and became a contributor to the Christian Examiner. For this
paper, Carleton during the following six years wrote his ‘Traits and
stories of the Irish peasantry’ upon which is based his reputation as
a delineator of Irish life and character. As one of the recently
issued volumes in a new Library of Irish literature, eight stories and
sketches are selected to represent Carleton’s contribution, among them
being: Neal Malone; Phelim O’Toole’s courtship; The party fight and
funeral; The midnight mass; and Denis O’Shaughnessy going to
Maynooth.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Carleton belongs by right to the Irish classics. His tales are
vigorous and brimful of humour. His character-drawing was extremely
vivid, and some of his heroes are like creations of flesh and blood.
He had also a gift of impressive description.”
+ =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 60w
“His temperament and his experience combined to produce a picture of
the peasantry which is unrivalled as an historical document, and
fascinating as a work of art. Protestant though he became, Carleton
writes always as one oppressed, of those suffering from similar
oppression, and for that very reason appeals with undying power to the
generous ethic of fair play which has always characterized the
Anglo-Saxon elsewhere. What he wrote for his own generation has lost
nothing of its force today.” R. B. J.
+ =Ath= p750 Ag 15 ’19 950w
=Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“No matter what varying amount of interest they may have found in
Carleton’s tales, readers and critics have vied with each other in
emphasizing their appealing and truthful Irish quality.... In many
ways, however, Carleton followed stereotyped formulas both in his
plots and his character portrayals.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1600w
+ =Cath World= 112:395 D ’20 160w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Elementary economics. *$1.10 (2c) Macmillan 330
20–1765
The author of this “introduction to the study of economics and
sociology” realizes that economics is not a science in which the
problems discussed can be proved mathematically; that it fairly
bristles with controverted points; that the student is apt to approach
it with preconceptions and class or interest bias. The object of the
book is to help the student to look upon both sides of a question and
to come to independent conclusions on such problems of everyday life
as prices and markets, taxation, banking, tariff, wages, rent,
transportation, and ownership of property. The book falls into three
parts: Outline of industrial and social evolution; Fundamental
economic concepts; Economic problems. Some of the more specific
subjects discussed are: Getting a living under various conditions;
Wants and value; Direction of the world’s workers; Wealth and income;
Competition and monopoly; Money and banking; Railway transportation;
Labor organizations; Labor legislation; Agricultural economics;
Taxation; Industrial unrest; Social and industrial betterment. There
is an index.
* * * * *
“The simplicity and clarity of treatment together with
thought-stimulating topics for discussion make this a good textbook
for the beginner in economics in junior or senior high school.”
+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
“The style of the book is simple enough to justify its introduction
into the upper years of the elementary school. The material is of so
vital a type that it deserves recognition in all schools. Where the
special problem is that of preparing children for trades this book
will serve to give a broader view of the individual’s place in
industry.”
+ =El School J= 20:548 Mr ’20 350w
“The author of this book has done more than simply produce another
book on elementary economics for use in high schools. He has in
reality broken away from the traditional discussion of consumption,
production, exchange, and distribution, and organized his discussion
in quite a different manner from that followed by traditional texts in
the field. There are no lists of reference books. This seems
unfortunate since the book itself does not contain enough material for
even a half-year course in the subject.”
+ − =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 260w
“A text that is sure to find ready reception for courses in economics,
especially in secondary schools. As a basis for fruitful class
discussion it should prove very effective in the hands of a competent
instructor.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 120w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Organized labor in American history. *$2.50 (4c)
Appleton 331.87
20–7434
In tracing the influence of the wage earner in American history the
writer points out the intimate relations between industrial evolution
and social progress. So long as there were still open frontiers
towards the west, the economic life of America can be said to have
been abnormal. Now that the frontier is a thing of the past the wage
earner’s influence may be expected to increase in importance as the
years go by. To examine the cause and effect of organized labor as a
social phenomenon and a social institution is the object of the book.
Contents: Introduction; Epochs in the history of organized labor;
Adoption and interpretation of the constitution; The free school and
the wage earner; Land reform and the wage earner; Labor legislation
and the wage earner; Other reform movements and the wage earner; Labor
parties, socialism, direct action, and the progressive movement; The
ideals of the wage earner; Recent pre-war tendencies; The war and
after; Index.
* * * * *
“One of its chief merits is that it is based on an accurate knowledge
of the ideals and policies of organized labor.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:837 D ’20 780w
“The author has accomplished his modest purpose of helping to bring
American history into a truer perspective by showing the influence of
the wage-earner on the course of events.” Mary Beard
+ =Am Hist R= 26:369 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 70w
“His interpretation of this history shows keen insight into the play
of economic forces that have made for the development of classes, the
rise of the labor movement and the evolution of industrial society. On
the interpretive side we think that it is more informative than the
more laborious work of Professor Commons and associates.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 820w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
“I do not see why a book designed to give understanding of the present
should deal with Shay’s rebellion and fail to do more than mention
either the interesting development among the garment workers of the
equally significant changes in the organizations of railroad workers.
I have no desire to quarrel with Professor Carlton’s selection, for
his temper is tolerant and his mood understanding, qualities to be
prized highly among men whose minds are directed to the description of
events in the field of labor.”
+ − =Survey= 41:315 My 29 ’20 100w
“Will serve as a useful introduction to a close study of modern
American labour problems.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 30w
“It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters.
Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the
reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and
crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon
most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint
should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable.” W: E.
Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 900w
=CARNEGIE, ANDREW.= Autobiography. il *$5 (4c) Houghton
20–19520
The volume is edited by John C. Van Dyke and has a preface by Mrs
Carnegie. Besides the facts of the author’s life and career the book
contains much matter of general interest and reminiscences of notable
personages. There are chapters on: Civil war period; The age of steel;
Mills and the men; The homestead strike; Problems of labor; The
“gospel of wealth”; Educational and pension funds; Washington
diplomacy. The book is well illustrated and has a bibliography and an
index.
* * * * *
“The historian will regret that it confines itself more to portraiture
than to documentation, that it throws little new light upon partly
known facts, and that it has none of the elaborate accuracy likely to
be found in the biography of a man who seeks to justify himself. The
reader of the book retains a friendly feeling towards a simple yet
astute personality.” F: L. Paxson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:368 Ja ’21 490w
=Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 600w
“Although scrappy and gossipy in parts the interest is sustained.”
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The result, for those who knew Mr Carnegie intimately, is most
satisfactory and charming. The style is simple and unaffected. The
joyous enthusiasm, which filled him from youth to old age, shines
forth in these pages.” W: J. Holland
+ =Bookm= 52:364 D ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Freeman= 2:451 Ja 19 ’21 2150w
“The volume is as entertaining as it is inspiring. It will undoubtedly
rank high among the world’s lasting autobiographies.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w
“Carnegie unfolds himself, and nowhere does he attempt to make it
appear that he has virtues which he has not—modesty, for instance.
Sometimes he talked with real eloquence and sometimes with bathos, but
he sets both down with unfailing fidelity.”
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 17 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 240w
“The general reader will find this the best American autobiography
since 1885, when General Grant’s ‘Memoirs’ were published.”
+ =Review= 3:620 D 22 ’20 1900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 950w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 70w
=CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND
EDUCATION.= American foreign policy; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray
Butler. Carnegie endowment for international peace 327
20–7870
“This collection of documents is intended by the editor to comprise
‘those official statements by successive presidents and secretaries of
state which, having been formally or tacitly accepted by the American
people, do in effect constitute the foundation of American foreign
policy.... They are the classic declarations of policy which, taken
together, present a record of which the American people may well be
proud.’ Naturally the selection begins with Washington’s farewell
address and includes Jefferson’s statement as to entangling alliances.
Then follow the various messages relating to the Monroe doctrine:
Monroe’s, Polk’s, Buchanan’s, Grant’s, Cleveland’s, and Roosevelt’s.
Blaine, Hay, and Root contribute their ideas as to the Monroe
doctrine, that of the last named being in no sense official, as it is
the well-known address as president of the American Society of
international law for 1914. The instructions to and reports from the
American delegates to the Hague conferences are properly included.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
=Am Hist R= 26:141 O ’20 360w
“Readers who do not wish their history predigested for them, but on
the other hand do not resent a prescribed diet, will find this little
volume much to their liking.” E. S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=CARPENTER, EDWARD.= Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and
meaning. *$3 (3c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 290
20–5669
The author holds that the process of the evolution of religious rites
and ceremonies has in its main outlines been the same all over the
world and that it has proceeded in orderly phases of spontaneous
growth. The object of the book is to trace the instigating cause of
this great phenomenon along psychological lines. In its first
inception, he claims, it was stimulated by fear and has run along
three main lines: the movements of the sun and planets; the changes of
the seasons; and the procreative forces. Contents: Solar myths and
Christian festivals; The symbolism of the Zodiac; Totem-sacraments and
eucharists; Food and vegetation magic; Magicians, kings and gods;
Rites of expiation and redemption; Pagan initiations and the second
birth; Myth of the golden age; The saviour-god and the virgin-mother;
Ritual dancing; The sex-taboo; The genesis of Christianity; The
meaning of it all; The ancient mysteries; The exodus of Christianity;
Conclusion. The appendix on the teachings of the Upanishads contains
two essays: Rest and The nature of the self. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Mr Edward Carpenter has wide reading and as far as one can judge, no
lack of the critical faculty; so that, presumably, he could play the
man of science if he chose. But his interest is less in theory than in
practice. He looks forward to a new age, and, preoccupied with his
vision of the future, searches the present and the past for such
promise as they may hold of the fulfilment of his hope.” R. R. M.
+ =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 1100w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“To everyone acquainted with ... any of Mr Carpenter’s books, the
present volume on religious origins and developments will come as a
warrant of profound thought and beautiful illumination of expression.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 650w
“His treatment is throughout as sympathetic and as fair as his purpose
to demonstrate his thesis allows him to be; and it is only right to
admit that he makes a very good case for the vast generalization that
he lays down. But he is greater as prophet than as critic; and that is
why this book does not measure up to ‘Towards democracy.’” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1300w
=Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 270w
“Some of the researches of Frazer and Lang and Tylor and other
scholars are vulgarized by him, and conclusions drawn from their
premises from which any of them would recoil.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w
“Mr Carpenter’s book is written for those who have not read much of
anthropological research, and such readers will find in it an
exceedingly clear and lucid summary of a vast body of specialist work.
And the book is filled with that humane and glowing hope for humanity
which has made Mr Carpenter’s writings an inspiration to countless
readers. It can be confidently recommended to all who are not
specialists in the subjects with which it deals.” B. R.
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:116 Ap 24 ’20 1100w
“Mr Carpenter is never clear, although he writes clearly. He
disappears in a vacuum at the end of all his books and poems. He lacks
the thunder and the sureness, the passion and the vision of the real
prophet. He possesses clarity without light. He expounds, but does not
see.” B: de Casseres
− =N Y Times= 25:155 Ap 4 ’20 800w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
Nation [London])
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 1900w
=CARPENTER, RHYS.=[2] Plainsman, and other poems. *$2 Oxford 821
“Rhys Carpenter is a poet enamored of classic themes. Thus in his new
book, ‘The plainsman,’ we find such titles as For Zeus’ grove at
Dodona, The charioteer of Elis, Birds of Stymphalus, Heracles sails
westward and Pegasos at Hippokrene. He also loves nature and swinging
lilting songs. His method of singing is that of former days, but to it
he brings his own active personality.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 50w
“There is not one of Rhys Carpenter’s verses that does not possess in
its degree magic and power. The poet’s thought is beautifully
instinctive and confident: his expression is beautifully artistic and
considered.”
+ =No Am= 212:569 O ’20 1150w
“There is many a gracefully turned poem in this book, the kind of
poetry that almost runs into music. Mr Carpenter is a master of the
shades of sound, he is dexterous in his meters and the delicate finish
and completeness of his efforts set them in a distinctive place among
contemporary efforts.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 240w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Boy’s book of magic.
il *$2 Dodd 793
20–17072
“The object of this book is twofold: (1) To explain, not only how a
trick is done, but also how to do it ... and (2) to describe and
explain those tricks which the average boy can make or procure, with
relative ease and with but little expense.” (Preface) It falls into
two parts: part 1: Introductory remarks; Card tricks; Coin tricks;
Tricks with handkerchiefs; Tricks with eggs; Pieces of apparatus of
general utility; Feats of divination; Miscellaneous tricks; Concluding
instructions. Part II: Hindu magic; Handcuffs and escapes therefrom;
Sideshow and animal tricks. There are numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“The directions are clear and practicable, and there are many helpful
illustrations.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 190w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Higher psychical
development. il *$3 Dodd 133
20–17105
The book contains an outline of the secret Hindu teachings as embodied
in the Yoga philosophy and is the substance of a series of twelve
lectures delivered by the author before the Psychological research
society of New York in 1918. It supplements a previous book by the
same author, “Your psychic powers and how to develop them,” and is
recommended for more advanced reading as it contains information and
“secrets,” never before published and hitherto carefully guarded by
the Hindu Yogis, and shows the connection between the Yoga practices
and our western science, philosophy and psychic investigations.
Contents: An outline of Yoga philosophy; Asana; Pranayama; Mantrayoga
and Pratyahara; Dharana; Dhyana and Samadhi; The Kundalini and how it
is aroused; “The fourth dimension,” etc.; “The guardians of the
threshold”; The relation of Yoga to occultism; The relation of Yoga to
“psychics”; The projection of the astral body; Glossary and Index.
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Your psychic powers
and how to develop them. *$3 (3c) Dodd 134
20–5132
The author warns the reader that the views presented in the present
volume are not necessarily his own but constitute the body of
traditional and accepted theories on spiritualism and psychic
phenomena. He has tentatively and for the sake of argument adopted the
“spiritistic hypothesis” to set forth the possibilities that it
contains. This course has been warranted, he claims, by the newer
researches and conclusions in the field of psychical research. He also
believes that the bulk of the material contained in the book is sound
and helpful and that in following the practical instructions the
reader cannot go far wrong. A partial list of the contents is: How to
develop; Fear and how to banish it; The subconscious; The spirit
world; The cultivation of spiritual gifts; The human aura; Symbolism;
Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Dreams; Automatic writing; Crystal gazing and
shell-hearing; Spiritual healing; Trance; Obsession and insanity;
Prayer, concentration and silence; Hypnotism and mesmerism;
Reincarnation and eastern philosophy; The ethics of spiritualism;
Physical phenomena; Materialization; Advanced studies.
* * * * *
“Perhaps gives insufficient warning to the amateur, who nevertheless
will usually find results not as readily forthcoming as the recipes
might imply.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:256 My ’20
“It is without question the best and most complete, the clearest and
the most sensibly compiled compendium of ‘dippy’ lore that we have
read.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 450w
“As a statement of the spiritistic position the volume is accurate,
careful, thorough, if never once for a single moment illuminating or
inspiring.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 Ag 26 ’20 500w
=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Our nervous friends; illustrating the mastery
of nervousness. *$2 Macmillan 616
19–18395
“In a series of short stories Dr Carroll, who is medical director of
the Highland hospital in Asheville, describes typical cases of nervous
pathology—chiefly among the well-to-do—indicating clearly in each case
the causes of the condition and how it might have been avoided or
overcome.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Another of the encouraging but by no means coddling books which the
nervous patient and his friends may read with profit.”
+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:85 F ’20 30w
=Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 50w
=CARSWELL, CATHERINE.= Open the door. *$2 (1c) Harcourt
20–10736
This novel adds one more to the list of recent books about women by
women of which “Mary Olivier” is perhaps the most noted example. It is
the story of Joanna Bannerman, altho it is some little time before
Joanna’s story emerges from that of the Bannerman family. Indeed it is
never entirely distinct from it. The Bannerman children grow up in an
atmosphere of narrow religiosity, bordering on mysticism and ecstasy.
Joanna’s after life is a reaction from her early environment. As a
girl she dreams of love, which to her means adventure, escape,
possession of the world. She seeks realization of her dreams, first in
marriage with Mario Rasponi, who takes her to Italy, then in illicit
union with Louis Pender, an artist, and finally, in her second
marriage with Lawrence Urquhart, finds fulfillment of life.
* * * * *
“It is head and shoulders above the class of books which are commonly
called ‘best-sellers,’ it makes a genuine appeal to the intelligence
as well as the emotions, and we do not doubt for an instant that it
was inspired by the author’s love of writing for writing’s sake.” K.
M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 700w
“The novel can stand without difficulty upon its own merits. This does
not mean that it lacks entirely certain earmarks of the beginner. It
has on the other hand much that more than makes up for a stiffness of
movement which betokens the amateur. Miss Carswell will undoubtedly
handle her material more easily in the future but it is questionable
whether she will be able at that time to bring to a book the freshness
of interest and unconventionality of phrase which attracts us strongly
here.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 550w
“She does not succeed, perhaps, in drawing merely a normal woman
normally, but with great competence she portrays a slightly neurotic
heroine of somewhat unusually varied experience, understandingly and
with conviction. It is in the conventional happy ending alone that the
story fails. In its penetration to the secret springs of character and
conduct, in its visualization of persons and interrelated groups, in
its mastery of line and its sureness of phrase, this is no amateur
effort but a first novel of some moment, provocative of thought and
expectation.” H. S. H.
+ =Freeman= 1:598 S 1 ’20 900w
“Joanna and her story remain vivid and delightful and have a touch of
epic breadth and richness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 170w
“Sex interests without haunting or obsessing or torturing her. Miss
Carswell is in the happy position of one who is naturally frank and
naturally decent. Her decency and her frankness are not at war. ‘Open
the door’ is quite sure to fasten many readers’ eyes upon Miss
Carswell. She can do love and landscape and character. It is more than
a remarkable first novel. It is a remarkable novel.” Silas
+ − =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 1000w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 650w
“Her work has many striking qualities: energy, a rich profusion of
characters clearly seen and relentlessly portrayed, and a thoroughly
modern treatment of that all-absorbing theme of today—the duel of the
generations. One is inclined to think that she has put too much into
her book. She leaves too little to the imagination, with the result
that very few of her characters engage the affection of the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 125:151 Jl 31 ’20 600w
“Few have gone further in the successful analysis of motives than the
authoress of this interesting novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 360w
=CARTER, ARTHUR HAZELTON, and ARNOLD, ARCHIBALD VINCENT.= Field
artillery instruction. il *$6.50 Putnam 358
20–10616
“A complete manual of instruction for prospective field artillery
officers.” (Sub-title) Contents: Physical instruction; Dismounted
drill and military courtesies; Matériel; Drill of the gun squad; Fire
discipline; Field gunnery; Conduct of fire; Communication; Orientation
and topography: Reconnaissance; Horses and their care; Riding and
driving; Cleaning and care of equipment; Entraining and detraining.
There are 272 illustrations, two appendices and an index. The work is
based on the authors’ experience at the Field artillery central
officers training school, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky.
* * * * *
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 60w
=CARTHAGE, PHILIP I.= Retail organization and accounting control. *$3
(4c) Appleton 658
20–20957
This book covers the subject of accounting as applied to the
department store, specialty shop and retail store of any description.
The author says: “I have long felt the need of a text book on
department store procedure, and have endeavored to render my book
useful by its treatment of accounting, management and systems. Theory
is entirely eliminated. Practical application and experience are its
governing features.” (Introd.) Contents: Books in use and procedure;
Books in use; Sales checks and return checks; Auditing; Balance sheet
(three chapters); Turnover; Merchandising (two chapters); Profit and
loss; Burden; Profit and loss; Alteration department. The book is
illustrated with fifty-eight forms (tables, charts, etc.) and is
indexed.
=CARVER, THOMAS NIXON.=[2] Elementary economics. il $1.72 Ginn 330
“It is the purpose of this book to examine the economic foundations of
our national welfare and to point out some of the simpler and more
direct methods of strengthening these foundations.” (Introd.) There is
a topical treatment of the chapters, after the manner of textbooks,
under which each topic is briefly explained and a list of exercise
questions at the end of each chapter. The divisions of the book are:
What makes a nation prosperous; Economizing labor; The productive
activities; Exchange; Dividing the product of industry; The
consumption of wealth; Reform. The book is indexed and illustrated.
=CASTIER, JULES.= Rather like.... *$2.25 (3c) Lippincott 847
(Eng ed 20–682)
“Rather like” is a book of parodies on English authors, written by a
Frenchman while interned in a German prison camp. Before bringing out
the work the English publisher submitted a proof of each parody to the
author parodied and the comments received in reply are printed in an
introductory note. The sketches are genuine parodies, not burlesques.
Among them are G. K. Chesterton: What’s maddening about man; A. Conan
Doyle: The footprints on the ceiling; John Galsworthy: Punishment;
Charles Garvice: The power of love; W. W. Jacobs: The yellow pipe;
Rudyard Kipling: The song of the penny whistle; G. Bernard Shaw: The
exploiters.
* * * * *
“These parodies are highly creditable as the work of a foreigner, but
they are not really effective. One can recognize the subjects of the
parodies, but the author adopts the long-nose method in exaggerating
none but the obvious features.”
+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 90w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p764 D 18 ’19 800w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=
John Seneschal’s Margaret. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–17318
John Tempest and John Seneschal, comrades and strangely alike, suffer
untold agonies imprisoned together in Turkey. Seneschal finally breaks
under the strain and is buried in the wilderness by Tempest. So much
the prologue tells. The story proper begins with a hospital in London.
Tempest is a patient here and as a result of a head wound is suffering
from loss of memory. He is identified by the Seneschal family as their
son and heir and taken to their home. He is horribly aware that this
is all wrong but cannot recall his own identity and his fixed belief
that John Seneschal is dead is considered one of the delusions of his
mental condition. The one other certainty that he clings to is the
face and name of Margaret—and Margaret was Seneschal’s childhood
sweetheart. In all the confusion of his clouded mind she seems the one
thing that is true and real. After rest and care and love have been
given him, his mind suddenly clears and he knows that he is John
Tempest usurping the place of John Seneschal. Complete recollection
brings problems whose solution taxes all the love and honor of John
Tempest’s manhood, but from which he emerges true blue.
* * * * *
“We may be glad of this—that the book with which Egerton Castle has
bidden us farewell is not only artistically worthy of one who loved
and respected his art, but contains a depth and richness of feeling
far beyond that of any of the blithe tales preceding it, while in all
the long line of his heroines there is not one finer or more lovable
than she who was ‘John Seneschal’s Margaret.’” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 1000w
“Entertaining and vigorous narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w
“The story is indeed one of the best productions of Mr and Mrs Egerton
Castle.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 150w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=[2]
Little hours in great days. *$2 Dutton
“The latest volume by Agnes and Egerton Castle, ‘Little hours in great
days,’ is one of domestic thrills such as the Castles know how to
evoke so well. It is a continuation in spirit and in form of their
‘Little house in war time,’ with the difference explained. ‘The little
house, after many vicissitudes, stands, even as the world stands
today, upon a return to order and new kindly hopes.’ The Castles have
a gardener, now that such men are luxuriously possible, and ensuing
chapters reveal in a quiet way the joys of gardening and a gardener.
Some chapters are by one writer and some by the other; from long
association their style is uniform, and in these garden chapters
difficult to attribute—if we had not been told. As with other English
writers who cannot quickly forget the war, better chapters follow,
‘Tommy at war’ and ‘The soul of the soldier,’ for example, which take
up and also look back upon the man in khaki after November,
1918.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p29 Ja 2 ’20 40w
“The best of the volume is in the character sketches it contains,
agreeable rather than sharp-cut, of people they have known intimately.
The authors’ delicacy is real, their feelings just, and their desire
to please obvious.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 190w
“Mr and Mrs Castle will find it difficult entirely to acquit
themselves of the charge of having written a ‘pretty-pretty’ book. In
writing about the maimed soldiers Mr and Mrs Castle show a fine
quality of mind and a sympathy that increases with spending.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 110w
=CASWELL, JOHN.= Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. il *$4 Appleton 799
20–12388
“The notes and suggestions contained in this book are the result of
experience in many lands and against practically all kinds of game, as
well as on the target range and in actual military service. Its
purpose is to supply data for the hunter against game and to give both
hunter and target shooter more simple solutions of the rather
intricate methods in use for the calculation of elevation, windage,
and atmospheric conditions.” (Preface) Chapters are devoted to: Rifle
types; Game rifles; Target rifles; Actions; Stocks; Sights; Cleaning;
Bullets; Lubrication of bullets; Cartridges; Elevations; Windage and
atmosphere; Judgment of distance; Position; Aiming and trigger
squeeze; Stalking and cover; Aims for vital points on game. In
addition there are eight appendices, devoted to various matters
including Historical sketch of the evolution of the rifle, glossary,
and a select bibliography of the rifle. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“With certain limitations, much to be regretted, he has written a very
good book. It is to be regretted that Col. Caswell has failed to
recognize a wider range of choice in rifles, that he has neglected to
discuss the human facter as the principle element in the killing of
game.” C: Sheldon
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 1400w
“Although the book makes no pretenses to literary style, it contains
passages that many novelists might well envy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 Ag 26 ’20 640w
=CATHER, WILLA SIBERT.= Youth and the bright Medusa. *$2.25 (3c) Knopf
20–17316
This collection of stories presents four of Miss Cather’s recent short
stories: Coming, Aphrodite!; The diamond mine; A gold slipper; and
Scandal. To these are added four of the earlier stories with which she
first won critical appreciation: Paul’s case; A Wagner matinée; The
sculptor’s funeral; and “A death in the desert.” In the early as in
the later stories the theme is youth and art.
* * * * *
“The first four are longer and more ambitious, but not so strong. Her
real shortcoming is that she is at present quite without a ‘style’;
placed beside any European model of imaginative prose she is dowdy and
rough, wanting rhythm and distinction.” O. W.
+ − =Ath= p890 D 31 ’20 780w
“Honest, skillfully wrought stories. Their ruthless, almost cynical,
unmasking of sometimes ugly truths will repel some readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“The author perceives life from many angles, all subsidiary to her
comprehensive outlook; she has the faculty of getting under the skin
of each character, or of speaking from his mouth: she is economical,
therefore powerful, in her management of action, interaction and
contrast; she succeeds remarkably in conveying the sense of detachment
which the ‘different’ from their kind experience.” B. C. Williams
+ =Bookm= 52:169 O ’20 580w
“As studies of success, of the successful, of the victims of ‘big
careers,’ as simply of ambition, above all of the quality of ambition
in women, they probably are not surpassed.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 200w
“The thing is told with the utmost skill, and the deftest effects of
descriptive incident. The two contrasted personalities are projected
as firmly in a few strokes as if a whole novel had been filled with
the details of their careers.” E. A. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:286 D 1 ’20 760w
“The stories have the radiance of perfect cleanliness, like the
radiance of burnished glass. Miss Cather’s book is more than a random
collection of excellent tales. It constitutes as a whole one of the
truest as well as, in a sober and earnest sense, one of the most
poetical interpretations of American life that we possess.”
+ =Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 500w
“Feeling she has, and romantic glamour, but at no time does she seem
easily irradiant. For this reason her very effectiveness, her shrewd
impersonal security in the arrangement and despatch of her story, has
a formality that takes away from the flowing line of real
self-expression. Better than the familiar vast ineptitude, this
formality. But Miss Cather is perhaps still withholding from her
fiction something that is intimate, essential and ultimate.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 25:233 Ja 19 ’21 1800w
“‘Youth and the bright Medusa’ is decidedly a literary event which no
lover of the best fiction will want to miss.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 550w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 50w
“Miss Cather is one of a small group of American authors who are
producing literature of a high type and adding to the literary laurels
of America in Europe. She is an artist with a sure touch in moulding a
plot and depicting a motive. The longer stories here—Coming, Aphrodite
and The diamond mine—are consummate in both respects.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w
=CAUSE= of world unrest. *$2.50 Putnam 296
20–19292
The American publishers of this English book decline to accept any
responsibility for the soundness of the conclusions presented. H. A.
Gwynne, editor of the London Morning Post, in a long introduction of
approval of the contents, also points out that its editors do not
assume the authenticity of the documents upon which it is based—the
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The contention of the book is “that
there has been for centuries a hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish,
whose objects have been and are to produce revolution, communism, and
anarchy, by means of which they hope to arrive at the hegemony of the
world by establishing some sort of despotic rule.” (Introd.)
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, truth is a matter of proportion. We do not doubt that
the industrious authors of this volume have amassed material that
might become a valuable footnote to history—in the hands of a
historian. Alas that there should lie so great a difference between
induction and deduction; and that in the discharge of even the
sternest ‘public duty’ a sense of humor should be so essential!”
− =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 540w
“The book is one which parlor Bolshevists ought to read, yes, every
one ought to read it who is interested in the development of free
government, and especially those simple-minded optimists who think
that the key to progress has been found and that government is a well
understood thing.” J: J. Chapman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 670w
“The authors are conspicuously honest, but their honesty inclines to
credulity, and they are disposed to confuse ‘post hoc’ with ‘propter
hoc.’ While admitting that ebullient Israel requires to be carefully
watched, we really cannot, in these days of unstinted publicity,
swallow mysterious stories about a ‘formidable sect.’”
− + =Sat R= 130:376 N 6 ’20 1250w
=Spec= 125:503 O 16 ’20 1250w
“The book which appears under the pretentious title, ‘The cause of
world unrest’ contains nothing to make good its pretenses.” Harry
Schneiderman
− =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 50w
=CENTER, STELLA STEWART=, comp. Worker and his work. (Lippincott’s
school text ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 820.8
20–26453
“‘The worker and his work,’ by Stella S. Center, is a text for high
schools designed ‘to meet the needs of boys and girls who feel the
urgent necessity of selecting the right vocation.’ It is a book of
prose selections from present-day writers, ranging from H. G. Wells to
Harold Bell Wright, interspersed with a few bits of verse.” (Nation)
“It is not concerned with processes nor practical problems. The
illustrations are from artists who use some form of labor for their
subjects; they include Meunier, Pennell and Rodin.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“The selections themselves leave a confusing and contradictory
impression.”
− + =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 280w
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 20w
“It is rather a romantic statement of modern industry than a true one.
The book, however, should find a real place and should give to many
students a preliminary picture of the variety of industry.” Alexander
Fleisher
+ − =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 100w
=CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, jr.= Freedom of speech. *$3.50 Harcourt 323.4
20–22239
The object of the book is to inquire into the proper limitations upon
freedom of speech by way of ascertaining the nature and scope of the
policy which finds expression in the First amendment to the United
States constitution and then to determine the place of that policy in
the conduct of war. With a wide and learned acquaintance with the law,
the author’s endeavor is to get behind the rules of law to human
facts, and although not in personal sympathy with the views of most of
the men who have been imprisoned since the war began for speaking out,
he declares with certitude “that the First amendment forbids the
punishment of words merely for their injurious tendencies. The history
of the amendment and the political function of free speech corroborate
each other and make this conclusion plain.” Contents: Freedom of
speech in war time; Opposition to the war with Germany; A contemporary
state trial—the United States v. Jacob Abrams et al; Legislation
against sedition and anarchy; The deportations; John Wilkes, Victor
Berger, and the five members; Freedom and initiative in the schools;
Appendices (including Bibliography); Index of cases; General index.
* * * * *
“This is a book very much ‘up to the minute,’ with which every judge
and every lawyer should be familiar as a matter of professional
routine; every newspaper editor should know it by heart. Every
liberty-loving American will find it profoundly disturbing reading. To
those who have despaired of freedom of speech in America this calm,
scholarly, sane exposition of very recent history will sound like a
clear bell in a moral fog.” J: P. Gavit
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 1300w
“His book is courageous and sound, simple and scholarly.” Albert De
Silver
+ =World Tomorrow= 4:56 F ’21 2100w
=CHAFFEE, ALLEN.= Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.
A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy
on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from
their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the
thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which
they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they
start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The
story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of
finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization
again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are
they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest
service.
* * * * *
“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining
story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life
that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 120w
=CHALMERS, STEPHEN.= Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11075
Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to
his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to
pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his
twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good
name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate
throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock”
Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant
of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to
the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do
so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding
Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage
of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge
of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada
and a new life.
=CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN.= Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van
Nostrand 676
20–17582
A work on paper making “including chapters on the tub sizing of paper,
the coating and finishing of art paper and the coating of photographic
paper.” (Sub-title) The author is on the editorial staff of the
Engineer and the book is based on two series of articles, on Paper
making and its machinery and on The art of coating paper that appeared
in that journal in 1915 and 1916. The volume is very fully
illustrated, having six folding plates and 144 illustrations in the
text. It is also indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
“A valuable contribution that will be appreciated by all who are
interested in the operations.”
+ =Engineering= 110:157 Jl 30 ’20 2400w
“Mr Chalmers’ effort, admirable as it is, regarded in its proper
aspect as a pioneer to some such technical treatise, falls far short
of our expectations in this direction. It is doubtful whether a really
practical and useful textbook on the engineering problems of the paper
industry will ever be written. The two most interesting chapters in
the book are those dealing with The coating of art paper and The
coating of photographic paper. Taking the book as a whole, we are glad
to recommend it to those associated with the paper industry.” R. W.
Sindall
+ − =Nature= 105:480 Je 17 ’20 1100w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 70w
=CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE AGNEW.= Taxi. il *$1.60 Bobbs
20–2643
“This is a whimsically humorous account of the adventures of Robert
Hervey Randolph, ‘six feet straight up and down, broad of shoulder and
narrow of hip, sandy haired, blue eyed, nose slightly up-ended and
wearing a saddle of faint freckles, clean shaved, well groomed, very
correctly dressed, and twenty-six years old,’ who swaps places with a
New York taxicab driver, clothes and all, and gathers some big ideas
while studying the under side of the upper world through a hole in the
front glass of his car. His experiment convinced him that a chaperoned
cab company was badly needed in New York.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Viewed seriously, ‘Taxi’ is a piece of sheer absurdity: but it is not
written for the serious view. Still, merely as a piece of deliberate
nonsense, I don’t find it remarkably successful. Its gaiety is not
quite spontaneous.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 90w
“The most sanguine admirer of Mr Chamberlain would be obliged to admit
that ‘Taxi’ is a pot-boiler. It is not, moreover, a very choice
specimen of pot-boiling. The product is of a watery character, in
which a few bits of nourishment float pathetically.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 120w
“An agreeable romance runs through this original tale and all ends
well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 440w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 97:176 Ja 17 ’20 280w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Crimson tide. il *$1.75 Appleton
19–18840
“Mr Chambers shrewdly gives us glimpses of two scenes which take place
before the beginning of the story, but which are vitally important to
our understanding of it. One is a foreword and contains the first
meeting of Palla Dumont, Ilse Westgard and John Estridge. Estridge is
an ambulance driver in Russia, detailed to take Palla Dumont to the
Grand Duchess Marie who has obtained permission to have her American
companion and dear friend with her in the convent where the imperial
family are confined. In the preface we have an equally important scene
taking place in the convent when the Bolsheviki arrive to put to death
the empress and her children. With such exciting events behind her it
is little wonder that Palla Dumont has no real desire to settle down
to the ordinary life of the United States after the signing of the
armistice. The story is largely concerned with Palla’s revolt from the
conventional and her endeavor to fight the rising tide of bolshevism
in New York by preaching her gospel of love and service.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
− + =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p9 F 7 ’20 600w
“One pictures Mr Chambers awakened by the alarm clock of destiny to
realization that the hour is striking in which he must begin to write
a new novel and saying to himself with infinite boredom: ‘What in
thunder is there left in the world that I haven’t written about?
Bolshevism? Is Bolshevism among my titles?”
− =N Y Times= 24:741 D 14 ’19 700w
“It is all fairly interesting, but rather shallow.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:440 N 27 ’20 130w
“‘The crimson tide’ promises, in its inception, to be a lively story
of adventuring with a strain of characteristic Chambers romance.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Slayer of souls. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–8632
When the story opens the heroine, Tressa Norne, is on shipboard
leaving behind her China and the memories of her four years as a
captive temple girl. When next met she is in a hotel room in San
Francisco, expelling an intruder by the simple expedient of opening a
bolted door with the power of her eye, and causing a yellow snake to
appear out of the atmosphere. Next she is on the stage in New York
giving an exhibition of black magic, with secret service men watching
her. Victor Cleves obtains an interview and enlists her in a crusade
against the “red spectre,” anarchy, otherwise bolshevism. For the
secret of the bolshevist advance is really magic, “brewed in the hell
pit of Asia.” It has conquered Russia, is spreading over Europe and
threatening the United States, where already the I. W. W., the parlor
socialists and some two million other deluded mortals are in the power
of the dread Yezidees of China. Indeed, we have the author’s own word
for it that all that stood between “a trembling civilization and
threat of hell’s own chaos” was this little band of secret service men
and one lone girl. Civilization totters but is saved.
* * * * *
“‘The slayer of souls’ is as good a story as ‘In secret,’ and that is
no mean praise. We embark upon strange and perilous adventures, and it
is not long that we bother to count whether or not the episodes of his
tale are practicable. They are exciting and they are full of wonder,
which suffices.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 440w
“It is a well told story, but Mr Chambers, our most shining example of
a debased talent, can write better than he does here.”
+ − =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 120w
“The reader sympathizes wholly with one of the characters who at the
end of the book ‘whispers hoarsely, “For God’s sake, let us get out of
this!”’”
− =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 630w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“The stories provide diverse entertainment but are in nowise above
mediocrity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
“The book serves only to show that an author, reputed of great skill
in casting the storyteller’s spell over his readers while leaving
thought and emotion unstirred, can on occasion forget that skill, and
write as clumsily as any novice.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 310w
=CHAMBRUN, JACQUES ALDEBERT DE PINETON, comte de, and MARENCHES,
CHARLES, comte de.= American army in the European conflict. *$3
Macmillan 940.373
19–18747
“An account of the American military activities from a French source.
The two French officers who were the authors of this work were
attached to General Pershing’s staff.” (R of Rs) “The work is
remarkably comprehensive, and in its 400 pages embraces a rapid but
complete survey of American preparation for war, the transport of men
and supplies across the ocean, the training of the troops in France,
the organization and work of the services of supply, construction work
in France, the part taken by different units of the A. E. F. with the
allied armies, the organization of the American forces into their own
armies and the part they thus played in battle.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“The facts which they present are beyond dispute, and the presentation
is singularly free of any discussion of the friction which arose
between us and our allies over the methods in which the necessary
cooperation between us was effected. The narrative is unbalanced in
treating so much in detail minor actions of the first few divisions
arriving in France.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:529 Ap ’20 900w
“Written without sentimentality, in a clear, logical, analytical
manner.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
“The book is of special value in that it gives perhaps the best
account of the organization of the American troops in France.”
+ =Cath World= 111:822 S ’20 370w
“Some of the distinctive qualities of the French genius for expression
are evident in the clarity, the logical arrangement, the precision
with which the narrative is presented. Noteworthy throughout the book
are the understanding of American character and the appreciation of
how it has been formed and colored by the history and conditions of
the country.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:80 F 8 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 40w
+ =Spec= 124:868 Je 26 ’20 670w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p230 Ap 15 ’20 830w
=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Sunshine in Underwood. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
A trifling comedy of errors involving a young English parson on his
holiday. Bob Truesdale had meant to spend his month’s leave with
Colonel Massey but at the station he is hailed with joy by Uncle
Joseph and Aunt Emily who mistake him for their nephew, Bob Upton.
What he learns in the next half hour about the feud between the
colonel and the vicar and the part he had been destined to play in it,
also about the colonel’s plans for himself and Nora Massey, decides
him and he keeps up the deception. Later a friend appears who is
willing to play the part of Bob Truesdale and still later the real Bob
Upton, who all the time has been engaged to Nora, comes on the scene
and Truesdale is glad enough by then to be relieved of his disguise
for he is already deeply in love with Hilda, the vicar’s daughter, and
wants to do his courting in his own proper person.
* * * * *
“A light and cheerful story.”
+ =Ath= p157 Ja 30 ’20 40w
“Light, irresponsible, amusing fare. It is the sort of thing that one
may read or fall asleep over, as it may happen, with no harm done
either way.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 400w
“This is one of the funniest books of the season.”
+ =Sat R= 129:178 My 22 ’20 70w
=CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK.= Educational sociology. *$2.25 Century
301
19–17183
“Although the author, who is the head of the Department of political
and social science at the College of Wooster, states in his preface
that the work is written as an introductory textbook in sociology from
the educational point of view, it is hardly that, but rather a work on
social psychology, in which field it is very successful. Part one, on
Social movement, treats public opinion, citizenship, social
solidarity, custom, tradition, habit, rules of the game, revivals,
panics, crazes, strikes, political campaigns, and similar topics. Part
two, on Social institutions, does not take up the evolution of social
institutions, but is a study of the organization and control of
society through its institutions, taking up the state, property, the
family, the church, the school, occupation and under minor
institutions, charity, amusement, art, science, business, and war.
Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The
one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different
groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers,
business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey
* * * * *
“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original
and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 200w
“Well indexed.”
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information,
the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently
dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal
students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The
treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods,
or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena,
relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of
education have been produced, how schools and society in general are
interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day
social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”
− + =School R= 28:153 F ’20 300w
“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement
is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social
facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and
illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to
the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w
=CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS.= More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of
the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6
20–4279
This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,”
published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during
the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among
them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the
minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A
tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of
Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in
the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an
epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
=N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
=CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH.= Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c)
Little 842
20–6298
The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard
Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the
English books on the subject published in the present century. It
“offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three
decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the
conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis,
and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.”
(Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft;
Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists;
Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers;
Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters;
Bibliographical appendix; Index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert
Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 120w
“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that
represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour.
And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There
are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of
criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no
proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste
essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”
− + =Freeman= 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w
“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many
admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow
technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w
“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can
see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development,
but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an
anatomical study of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical
interpretation.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 300w
=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam
20–7764
Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer.
She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these
that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby
mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a
one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent
with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises,
while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from
her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the
sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her,
bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the
strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he
conquers her.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her
courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an
inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w
“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect
to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 210w
=CHAPIN, CHARLES.= Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam
20–18406
This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing
for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who
suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of
escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the
experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author
was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the
tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune”
days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city
editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city
desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering
clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 580w
“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the
author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book
is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison
walls.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w
“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no
words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with
some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the
human story is there and written in a style easily understood and
followed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 800w
=CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL.= Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5
20–10622
“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been
written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather
study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book
it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the
study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its
problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the
British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind;
What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the
sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms;
Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather
charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes
contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools
and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an
index.
* * * * *
“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest
to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific
method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be
imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the
conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the
neighborhood of England.”
+ =El School J= 20:552 Mr ’20 180w
“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an
introduction to an important subject.”
+ =Spec= 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w
=CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER.= What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2
20–7850
“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States
arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of
birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he
has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of
birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent
resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant
land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the
southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are
small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in
color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the
same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as
frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions
easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are
arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the
birdlover.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w
+ =Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 40w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w
“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most
authoritative, bird guide.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 230w
=CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS.= Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373
20–5654
The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the
portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American
front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and
biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the
foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division
assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the
American military decorations.
* * * * *
“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic
traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring
achievement.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 140w
“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types
among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is
evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special
points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a
collection of clever portraits as this.”
+ =Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 80w
=CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON.= Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the
California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton
Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the
mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite
Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part
Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre
and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had
done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle.
Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an
earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers.
The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá,
in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San
Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa
Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.
* * * * *
“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 70w
=CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds.= Cape Coddities. il
*$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073
This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a
serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but
merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday
land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the
initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired
of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under
the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message
from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A
by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer
bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A
wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w
“Pleasant little essays.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w
“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and
general appearance.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75
Macmillan
20–3884
This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s
stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country
house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch;
Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.
* * * * *
“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen
though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 50w
“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a
moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of
experience!”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 130w
“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a
naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by
instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him
suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the
Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who
have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life
has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of
gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and
Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be
recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”
+ =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w
“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And
in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics.
To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great
sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain
humane feeling.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w
“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given
neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His
tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and
described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is
revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter
nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 320w
“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the
baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted
by a master without hope.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and
friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan
20–5392
“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890
of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has
selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw
most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A
biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s
brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity
for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect
art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is
that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these
letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction
that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w
“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian
life in all their fascinating variety.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 70w
“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight
disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the
life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic
process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction
of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of
detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in
a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of
Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett
+ − =Dial= 68:626 My ’20 1900w
“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or
envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is
favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he
himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got
into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His
personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it
is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w
=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote
them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without
opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with
himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could
not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the
fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w
“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and
intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and
sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 F 12 ’20 2700w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.=[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press
20–4892
“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for
boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their
way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which
the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two
boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who
had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with
tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to
meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes
first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of
buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the
adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 70w
“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner,
‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it
is intended.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w
“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in
the Rockies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.= Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8
20–4120
A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the
convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s
Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others
who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to
address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ...
clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered
from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have
been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what
is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows:
Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals;
Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The
author is connected with the boys’ work department, International
committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of
“Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.
* * * * *
“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers
and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a
moral.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
=CHELLEW, HENRY.= Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord
Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7
20–21085
The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human
efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment.
“Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our
thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency
is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and
scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps
towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory;
Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting
employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker;
Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for
efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.
* * * * *
“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the
usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”
+ =Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 60w
“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly
worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R.
Burton
− =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w
=CHENG, SIH-GUNG.= Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the
nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951
(Eng ed 19–19083)
“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of
his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an
academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful
analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux
of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is
that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a
profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain
semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety
positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides
pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient
people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space
in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to
discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and
he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set
China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a
great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who
speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory
contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared
since the revolution.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w
“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he
has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in
his country.” W. W. Willoughby
+ =Review= 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w
“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which
is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain
throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and
impartial examination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15
20–1624
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically
discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an
almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical
peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English
and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes
made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root
of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The
Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland;
An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.
* * * * *
“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the
almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and
Ireland.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 400w
=Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
“The title of Mr Chesterton’s book, ‘Irish impressions,’ is apt; the
author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet
his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such
as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr
Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume
should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J.
O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1150w
“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a
war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a
glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is,
however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal
Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as
well by others before.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 180w
=Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can
treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w
“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is
not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too
profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and
so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as
deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts
lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”
+ − =No Am= 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w
“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is
full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one
must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth
the candle.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w
“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit,
epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch
one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear
to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and
confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing
when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor
that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and
one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and
brilliant career.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w
“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the
monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his
genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes
rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a
contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond
thing vainly invented.”
− + =Spec= 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w
“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely
liberal Englishman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w
“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in
the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the
reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less
facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler
spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 650w
“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from
one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish
impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J.
O’Conor
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:209 O ’20 220w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane
173
20–5411
The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New
Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added
conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and
brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage
stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that
has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.”
The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact
that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their
natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story
of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The
vista of divorce; Conclusion.
* * * * *
“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his
book is an interesting study in style.”
+ =Ath= p192 F 6 ’20 120w
“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to
an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in
order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet
clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton
does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the
question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p235 F 20 ’20 1600w
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater
care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the
family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained,
especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and
most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 850w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 60w
“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present
situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w
=Lit D= p116 S 18 ’20 1550w
“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated
for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a
desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than
it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in
present need of it.” Preserved Smith
− + =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w
“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing,
and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better
treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same
sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us
have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes
− + =Nation [London]= 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w
=Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w
=Sat R= 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w
“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the
middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild
socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle
ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”
+ − =Spec= 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w
“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to
empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then,
having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord
with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his
own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction
comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the
ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good
sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ’20 750w
“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air
and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are
strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once
gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really
is quite easy to imitate.”
− + =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 180w
=CHEVREUIL, L.= Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray.
il *$3 Dutton 134
20–6884
“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of
the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French
Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial
penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of
discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions,
materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the
scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and
the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it
altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the
chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is no exaggeration to say that out of the multitude of the
psychical books which have appeared within these last few months,
‘thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,’ this one volume stands out in its
luminous clearness, its scholarly selection of scientific data, its
penetration into the realms beyond the senses, its sane exaltation of
feeling, and its remarkable comprehensiveness of the relation between
phenomena and spiritual philosophy.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 500w
=CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN.= Vanishing men. *$2 Dutton
20–7298
“The psychology of terror is the outstanding theme of ‘The vanishing
men.’ Indeed, the sense of terror communicates itself to the reader,
for the disappearance of two men and the portentous fate hanging over
the heroine are apparently insoluble mysteries. One man plans an
elopement with her but fails to appear and is not heard from again.
Afterwards she marries a wealthy man some years her senior. He is
attacked by a mania of fear, and eventually vanishes, too. Then a
wealthy young man falls in love with her, and she warns him of the
fate visited upon her previous lovers. But he is courageous and
optimistic and refuses to be deterred by such fantasies of the
imagination. He starts an investigation, and eventually presents a
simple solution of what happens previously.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“So ingenious a mystery that devotees will forgive the loose plot
structure and the improbable characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole problem is put and solved in an original way, and some
readers will be grateful for a mystery story without the old
properties and machinery.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 250w
“The story would greatly profit by a general tightening up. Its charm
lies entirely in the formulation of the mystery, and with its solution
the charm vanishes into incredibly thin air.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 900w
=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“In ‘The vanishing men’ it is easy enough to pick flaws, but over and
above them all remains the great fact that the story interests the
reader from the beginning, holds his attention and brings up with a
smashing climax at the end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w
“Ingenious but over-melodramatic in its grisly conclusion.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
“The reader is thoroughly thrilled, Mr Child is able to hold the
atmosphere of mystery and terror.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
=CHILDREN’S= story garden. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott
20–7726
A collection of stories illustrating Quaker principles. The book is
compiled by a committee of the Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends,
Anna Pettit Broomell, chairman. The introduction says, “‘The
children’s story garden’ announces its purpose at once. Its stories
have the direct aim of teaching ethics and religious truth to
children.... It is not the intention of the compilers to make this a
sectarian book. There are of course stories which show the reason
behind some Friendly customs, but as a whole it is hoped that there is
a fair representation of the simple virtues which lie behind human
progress and Christian living.” The stories have been selected and
adapted from many sources. Several, including the opening story, show
the relation between the Friends and the American Indians. A few have
been written especially for this book. There are historical notes and
an outline of the principles illustrated which will be useful to
teachers. Further readings are also suggested.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
“If used with discrimination, the book will furnish some very good
reading material.”
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 60w
=CHISHOLM, LOUEY, and STEEDMAN, AMY=, comps. Staircase of stories. 11
*$4.50 (1½c) Putnam
20–26559
“Any originality of Intention or treatment must be disclaimed for ‘A
staircase of stories.’ Its title, plan, appeal, and aim have been
alike suggested by ‘The golden staircase,’ a volume of ‘Poems and
verses for children between the ages of four and fourteen.’ The title
indicates ... a gradual ascent in difficulty as the pages are
turned.... In the choice of content, the aim, as before, has been to
concentrate solely on what it is believed children will most enjoy.”
(Preface) The series opens with The old woman and her pig, Lazy John,
Henny-Penny and other simple tales and with its graduated ascent works
up to an adaptation of Daudet’s “Last class.” Other stories are The
golden touch; The madonna of the goldfinch; The storks; The queen of
the seven golden mountains; The twelve huntsmen; The porcelain stove;
Gareth and Lynette; and Balder the beautiful. There are illustrations
in color and in black and white.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20
“There is a goodly array of reading matter that should appeal to the
youngster. The many color illustrations and pen and ink sketches add
to the attractiveness of a book that any child may well covet.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 50w
“The illustrations are by a number of artists, whose names deserve to
be known, so charmingly is their work done. In fanciful conception and
delicacy of colors the plates are almost always a delight: moreover,
there is no approach to the unduly fantastic or the bizarre. The black
and white pictures have the breadth and surety of good
draughtsmanship. Altogether ‘A staircase of stories’ is a successful
production.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 180w
=CHRISMAN, OSCAR.=[2] Historical child. *$4 Badger, R: G. 392
20–6060
“Dr Chrisman, professor in the Ohio university, offers this book as
the first of a projected series in paidology, the science of the
child—a term originating, says the author, with himself. In this
volume there is gathered an imposing array of folkways of many ancient
peoples. Mexico, Peru, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Persia, Judea,
Greece, Rome, earlier and medieval Europe are all included, and there
is also a long chapter on earlier United States. Quotations from many
sources are used in abundance. Dr Chrisman explains that one must know
the setting of child life, to understand children. It is really,
therefore, the social background that one finds here—miscellaneous
customs of home, dress, food, marriage, infant ceremonies, industry,
religion, amusements, education (briefly), and the like, which
constitute the environmental stimulus to growth.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 30w
“The reader gains the impression that the value of the book for
students will depend upon the degree to which the teacher can help
them to an intelligent use of the facts here portrayed. Unguided, one
is likely to finish the book with a somewhat confused impression of a
wide variety of interesting practices, but without any clear-cut
addition to his knowledge of children.” Hugh Hartshorne
+ − =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 320w
=CHRISTY, BAYARD H.= Going afoot. *$1.35 Assn. press 796
20–7930
In this enthusiastic little book on walking instruction is given on
the how, when and where of walking—the clothes to wear, the equipment
to carry, the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, and the
localities to choose. Detailed description is given of walking clubs
and their organization and activities. Contents: How to walk; When to
walk; Where to walk; Walking clubs in America; Organization and
conduct of walking clubs; Bibliography.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 300w
“It may seem impossible to write an altogether dull and uninspiring
book on walking in the country; but Mr Christy has accomplished it.
This is not to say that this little handbook of practical advice has
not its uses. The chapter on organization is valuable for anyone
contemplating the formation of a club.”
+ − =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 200w
=CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO.= Ideals of America. *$1.75 McClurg 304
19–16553
“This volume consists of thirteen essays by different authors who have
endeavored to analyze the ‘guiding motives of contemporary American
life’ in various fields. The essays were first presented as lectures
before the City club of Chicago during the years from 1916 to 1919.
Government, the law, labor, science, education, business, ‘society,’
music, religion, philosophy, literature, and human progress are
treated. Robert Morss Lovett, Elsie Clews Parsons, John P. Frey, John
Bradley Winslow and George Ellsworth Hooker are among the notable
contributors to the volume.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
+ =Nation= 110:523 Ap 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:222 F ’20 40w
“The essays vary in value, but for example, to cite only two, those of
Dean Lovett and Justice Winslow, are exceedingly able statements of
realities and tendencies in their respective fields of literature and
the law. As a whole the book is a useful picture of the intellectual
life of the American which existed until 1914.”
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 140w
=CLANCY, MRS LOUISE BREITENBACH.= Christine of the young heart. *$1.75
(2c) Small
20–17176
Christine Trevor is a butterfly debutante, pretty and selfish, with
the notion that the world revolves around her. Then she loses her
father and her wealth in one blow. She has a crippled younger brother
and there are Dilly and Daffy, the six-year-old twins, so she has a
wonderful opportunity to retrieve her character if she chooses to do
so, but at first she rebels against mothering the twins and being a
comrade to Laurie. She gradually awakes to the fact that nobody can
love a “crosspatch,” as Daffy frankly calls her, and that to have a
friend, one must be one. She decides to act on this principle, and her
progress in friendship and happiness is speedy. Winning over cranky
old Joshua Barton, her next door neighbor, is perhaps her greatest
achievement, and thru it an ancient wrong is righted which brings
happiness to many people. And Dr Denton, who has loved her always,
surely loves her no less now that she has outgrown her earlier
selfishness.
* * * * *
“It is cloying upon the intellect and opiate to the senses. ‘Christine
of the young heart’ is sweet; it is doubly dangerous because it is
well constructed and well written, even though it be a typical novel
of sentimentality.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 380w
=CLAPHAM, RICHARD.= Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells; with an introd. by
J. W. Lowther. il *$4.25 (*12s 6d) Longmans 799
20–17000
“Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells is pure foxhunting. It is the fox
and the work of the hounds alone that matter. On the Lakeland fells
the fox looks after himself, and is there to be killed. He is no
friend of the fell sheep. You will ask—why then is he not shot or
trapped? And the answer is a simple one—because the men of that
country enjoy hunting him. Of the joys and dangers of this sport on
the fells Mr Clapham writes.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“He knows his subject thoroughly: he argues about it, theorizes about
it, gossips about it, and all in a charmingly informal fashion. His
volume is profusely illustrated with photographs that convey the
interest of his subject even better than the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 D 4 ’20 160w
“A volume that will attract only a limited audience, but it is
pleasingly written and the author’s intimate knowledge of his subject
is indubitable. Written, undoubtedly, for the English public, its
appeal to American readers will not be very great.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w
“Of the five chapters, we liked best that on ‘The fell hounds.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p645 O 7 ’20 1000w
=CLAPP, JOHN MANTLE.= Talking business. (Language for men of affairs) $4
Ronald 808
20–9489
The first of the two volumes on Language for men of affairs considers
spoken language on the ground that not one in ten business men has the
ready and sure mastery of the language forms required in business
operations. The book is in five parts. Part I, The real problem:
Putting your mind on the other man, treats of the psychology of
speech. Part II, The machinery, explains the physiological basis under
such headings as: Your appearance; The vocal organs; Pronunciation; A
good voice. Part III, Language, considers the vocabulary and
construction of sentences. Part IV, Conversation, Business interviews,
discusses the various business situations involving speech and Part V,
Public speaking, Business addresses, the more elaborate uses of
language. There are illustrations and an index. The second volume, on
Business writing, is edited by James Melvin Lee.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=CLARK, ALFRED.= Margaret book. *$1.50 Lane 828
20–7457
A book of verses strung together on a thread of prose. It is by the
author of “My erratic pal” and follows the same manner. The prose
narrative tells of a New Zealand soldier on sick leave in England, of
his happy days in Margaret’s garden, of their love and marriage. Among
the poems there is a series describing the dreams experienced in
illness.
* * * * *
=Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“It is all very sweet and nice and gentle—rather too ostentatiously
so; every one plays up to the demand for sweetness too zealously and
continuously, and the lusciousness of the love-making begins to pall.
Nor do we think that the combination of prose and verse justifies
itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 240w
=CLARK, ALICE.= Working life of women in the seventeenth century.
(Studies in economics and political science) *$3.25 (3c) Harcourt. Brace
& Howe 331.4
20–2765
The writing of the book was prompted by the conviction that “the
conditions under which the obscure mass of women live and fulfill
their duties as human beings, have a vital influence upon the
destinies of the human race, and that a little knowledge of what these
conditions have actually been in the past will be of more value to the
sociologist than many volumes of carefully elaborated theory based on
abstract ideas.” (Preface) The seventeenth century was chosen as a
field of research because, as a sort of watershed between the
Elizabethan era and the restoration period and partaking of the
characteristics of both, it forms an important crisis in the historic
development of Englishwomen. The author indicates in her conclusions
that with the advent of machinery and capitalism, restricting the
economic life of women, a marked decadence is revealed. Contents:
Introductory; Capitalists; Agriculture; Textiles; Crafts and trades;
Professions; Conclusion; List of authorities; List of wages
assessments; Index.
* * * * *
“In spite of the fact that the author’s powers of induction are not at
all points comparable with her industry, the painstaking work is a
monument to her effort, and is of unquestioned value in its
presentation of contemporary evidence.” Amy Hewes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:577 S ’20 1750w
“Whether Miss Clark has proved her thesis or no, she has made
available to the general reader and the student of economics a mass of
material not easily accessible otherwise. She has faced the difficult
task of presenting a fair sample of her evidence, and has come well
out of that searching trial, though reflection would no doubt cause
her to admit that on occasion she has read more into her authorities
than is quite admissible.” E. M. G.
+ − =Ath= p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w
“Clearly and interestingly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Though Miss Clark’s book is technical in character, being based on a
rigid plan, we may build up from it an enlightening picture of life in
seventeenth century England.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 350w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 550w
“The exhaustive bibliography and the rigidly technical character of
the investigation are the book’s outstanding virtues.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 170w
“Her distinction is that she has been able to render an inquiry so
similar in method to that followed by many American students in
graduate work, a genuine contribution in an important field. The
record is in fact a corrective to much loose thinking concerning the
place of women in a productive society. Not least of all, moreover, it
is an extraordinarily interesting book.”
+ =Survey= 44:320 My 29 ’20 360w
“The narrative is somewhat overloaded by detail, much of which could
have been relegated to foot notes; but neither this nor the defects to
which we have drawn attention should prevent due praise being given to
Miss Clark for a laborious and successful attempt to break new ground
in the history of the economic position of women.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CLARK, CHAMP.= My quarter century of American politics. 2v il *$6 (2c)
Harper
20–4643
“I started out to accomplish certain things. I kept pounding away at
them and have achieved most of them.... Endowed by nature with a
strong constitution, I have been able to do more work than most
men.... My long public career is due largely to the fact that I have
been blessed with as faithful a constituency as man ever had.... As my
wife, children, and many friends want to know some of the facts,
experiences, and recollections of my busy life, I will give them as
briefly, modestly, and as accurately as possible—writing about the
persons, books, circumstances, and things which most influenced my
life.” (Chapter 1) The books are illustrated and have an index.
* * * * *
“Throughout these gossipy and voluble pages, we find much of
repetition and more of exaggeration. In spite of its faults, which are
easily forgiven to the genial author, the work is one of some value to
our political literature. It is decidedly interesting and engaging
reading.” J. A. Woodburn
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:713 N ’20 1400w
“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent
fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics,
bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public
personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious
reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w
“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired
to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a
half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements,
the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome
platitudes.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w
“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous
account from his list.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w
“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and
affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s
reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of
illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of
the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm
there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”
+ =No Am= 211:713 My ’20 2250w
+ − =Review= 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 180w
=CLARK, ELLERY HARDING.= Track athletics up to date. il *$1.50 Duffield
796
20–9841
A new manual of track athletics by an author who has had wide
experience as a physical director. His purpose is stated in the
preface: “First, I have endeavored to trace, with brevity, the history
of track athletics; next, I have noted some of the best of the many
books, pamphlets and special articles which have been written on this
subject; and lastly, I have tried to summarize, in the year 1919, our
present knowledge of proper methods of training and of performing the
various events on track and field.” The work is illustrated with
forty-three plates.
* * * * *
“He combines clear statement with the highest ideal of sport.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 70w
=CLARK, EVANS.= Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. pa 50c Rand
school of social science 914.7
20–12609
“The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the
astounding falsehoods told about soviet Russia by the American press,
publicists and state and federal officials during the past few years.
In this portion the Sisson documents, the presidential fabrications,
the reports of alleged military defeats, and the rumors concerning
‘the nationalization of women,’ etc., are set forth in documentary
form. Part 2 consists of a comprehensive bibliography of periodical,
book and pamphlet literature dealing sympathetically with all phases
of the Russian problem—foreign policy, education, drama, industry,
labor, propaganda, religion, the woman question, etc.”—Socialist R
* * * * *
“The method is simple and admirably adapted to the purpose. Possibly
his classification is a little biased, as when he maintains that all
the conservatives have been unreliable and all the liberal and labor
organs truthful. But in general his criterion will stand and his list
will prove sound.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w
+ =Socialist R= 9:209 N ’20 250w
=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.= Gospel of out of doors. *$1.25 Assn. press
570.4
20–9999
One of the author’s purposes in publishing this collection of papers
is “that other men and women, encouraged by my own experience of the
joy, the comfort, and the health that come from an old farm, may feel
its lure, learn its joy, and experience its health-giving comforts.”
(Preface) Contents: The gospel of out of doors; The joy of the seed
catalogue; The lure of the old farm; A sermon to my brother weeds;
Farming as a moral equivalent for war; Under the willow in the spring;
My doorstep visitors; Birds in the bush and birds in the book; Out of
doors in the autumn; A rainy day at the farm; The underground
alchemist; Fun on the old farm; Always something new on the old farm;
Next best to a farm; Can a horse laugh? Ever-bearers and
ever-bloomers.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
“There is nothing about the old farm, however prosaic it may be, that
fails to suggest to Mr Clark material for a delightful essay; and he
is always ready with a pungent poetical quotation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w
“The charm of the book ... is simply irresistible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w
=CLARK, THOMAS ARKLE.= High school boy and his problems. *$1.20
Macmillan 170
20–8370
“Dean Clark of the University of Illinois for many years has made boys
and their ways the chief concern of his official life. Mr Clark is
what the students would call a ‘regular’ dean. He knows the
temptations that beset the young man and is not astonished that they
are sometimes too much for him. He is inclined to overlook the minor
shortcomings, but conceives it his duty to warn the boy of the risk he
runs in yielding to evil suggestions. For the rest the book has much
in it that is of interest, and the dean is particularly happy in his
chapters on the value of systematic study and on choosing a career or
a college.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Sensible little talks with a happy freedom from ‘preachiness.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 150w
“It is concrete in every paragraph, reminiscent, replete with glimpses
of real boys facing actual situations. Almost as important as is its
content is the fact that it promises to win a reading from the
high-school boy to whom it is addressed.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.= Lady Trent’s daughter. *$1.75 (1½c) Benziger
20–4464
Lady Trent had been married at a very early age and, widowed before
twenty, had left her infant daughter to the care of her elder sister,
who had brought the girl up in seclusion from the world. Olave is
sixteen when the story opens. A distinguished novelist meets the girl
in the woods, and charmed with her youth and innocence, persuades her
into a series of clandestine meetings. He finally tells her that he is
engaged to another woman, and later it comes to light that this woman
is Olave’s mother. The engagement is at once broken and Lady Trent
tries to win her daughter’s confidence and love. But the mischief is
already done and the girl continues to meet Quinn. A runaway marriage
is planned, but is abandoned when Quinn’s long neglected Catholic
principles reassert themselves. Olave also accepts Catholicism, toward
which she has had strong leanings, feeling that under its influence
she would have been saved from the course of deception she has
followed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p304 S 3 ’20 390w
“Guy Quinn not only fails to live for us, but is quite devoid of any
heroic qualities. As to his charm, which subjugated in turn the widow
Felicity Trent and her young daughter Olave, that has to be taken
altogether on trust.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 Ag 19 ’20 600w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.=[2] Ursula Finch. *$2.25 (2c) Benziger
The story of two sisters, one a spoiled beauty and one a drudge, The
scene is Cornwall but later when Ursula, the drudge, seems likely to
interfere with her sister’s matrimonial schemes, she is packed off to
Rome as a nursery governess. Here she comes under the influence of
Catholicism and joins the church. The lover who had been the cause of
her exile follows her and as he also has leanings toward the Catholic
faith the story ends happily.
* * * * *
“Miss Clarke has again produced a book which is both interesting and
entertaining; yet appreciation is mingled with constant regret over
the vehemence of her characterizations.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:548 Ja ’21 210w
=CLARKSON, RALPH PRESTON.=[2] Elementary electrical engineering. il *$2
Van Nostrand 621.3
20–19604
“A textbook of theory and practice, particularly adapted for the
instruction of mechanical, civil, and chemical engineers and others
desiring a short course.” (Sub-title) Contents: Introduction; Units
and terms; The solution of circuits; The generation of electricity;
Electrical measuring instruments; Illumination and power, electrical
transmission, theory of lighting devices. There are 141 diagrams and
an index.
=CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES EUGÈNE BENJAMIN.= Surprises of life. *$1.90 (4c)
Doubleday
20–16497
This collection of tales, translated from the French by Grace Hall,
tells the stories of curious characters in all walks of life. The
initial tale, Mokoubamba’s fetish, is of an old negro from Central
Africa, reseater of chairs, weaver of mats and mender of all things
breakable, wise beyond other men and with a philosophy of his own with
regard to fetishes. Some of the other titles are: A descendant of
Timon; Aunt Rosalie’s inheritance; A mad thinker; Better than
stealing; A domestic drama; The treasure of St Bartholomew; Lovers in
Florence.
* * * * *
“To face facts, though not always a pleasure, is a duty. To face the
French novelist’s interpretation of them seems to us in many cases
neither the one nor the other.”
− + =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 160w
“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly
readable.”
+ − =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w
“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The
book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of
a master of satire.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 380w
“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The
strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they
have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking
and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the
parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of
characterization are admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 1400w
“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its
pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than
hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the
brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man
who is not answerable to reviewers.”
+ =Review= 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w
“The book is marked by its clarity, that absence of adjectives which
makes every idea understood at once. M. Clemenceau is shrewd, yet
generous, a quality that Mark Twain attained in some of his short
stories. He paints portraits not merely in two dimensions, but in
three.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 290w
“There is always the impression that the things related are things
seen, not things invented, and that they are symbols of things not
seen. Some of the equipment of a complete master of the genre indeed,
he seems to lack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 450w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Moments with Mark
Twain; selected by Albert Bigelow Paine. *$1.50 Harper 817
20–6374
One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the
writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was
something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged
chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note
the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation,
his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with
some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may
consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to
show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor.
Useful for quotation hunters.”
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 20w
=Review= 2:403 Ap 17 ’20 80w
=CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE.= Budget and
responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c)
Macmillan 353
20–8814
“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible
government in the United States, with special reference to recent
changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for
administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The
preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to
the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr
Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been
preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the
several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s
note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by
ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of
the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and
interpretation of the recent movement for administrative
reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed
plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in
state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and
operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure;
Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a
want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.
* * * * *
+ =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:711 N ’20 500w
“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of
government.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of
a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to
realize that if the government of this country is to be administered
in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget
must be adopted.” G. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 350w
“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the
technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.”
C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 140w
“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful
argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the
cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value
to women.” C. E. Rightor
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 570w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 50w
=CLOSE, EVELYNE.= Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–20001
Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor,
Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom
time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for
him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame
matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it
entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and
they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child
was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for
revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own
unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes
it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the
fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in
her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is,
and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to
pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.
* * * * *
“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”
+ − =Ath= p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w
“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable.
The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of
description.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 50w
=Sat R= 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN.= Principles of sociology with educational
applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301
20–3277
“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far
greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the
solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book,
which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social
organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students
with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to
groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are
familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of
‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a
series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of
bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a
select list of books generally useful for further reading in the
subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in
succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of
the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general
systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be
very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students
unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the
importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the
compass of the text itself.”
+ − =El School J= 20:713 My ’20 580w
+ =School R= 28:389 My ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p404 Je 24 ’20 150w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704
20–6951
“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to
improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more
interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’
He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the
will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly
upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good
workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle
every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was
never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the
idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made
reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in
hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and
on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and
accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best
of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst
of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made
penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on
æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or
Poussin—with admirable insight.”
+ − =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 140w
=Ath= p8 Ja 2 ’20 1550w
“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly
dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to
give real pleasure.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w
“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”
+ =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and
sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a
manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w
“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines
sensitiveness.”
+ =Review= 2:276 My 29 ’20 400w
“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the
public with a natural and human interest in art.”
+ =Sat R= 128:565 D 13 ’19 800w
“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be
imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”
+ =Spec= 124:242 F 21 ’20 380w
“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth
truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in
some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr
Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to
be common sense.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 1050w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner
230
(Eng ed A20–528)
“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock
asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter
of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some
moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe
that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can
be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in
fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The
Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to
the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate
and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the
disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the
beginning of happiness.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder
whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are
merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid
reality on which to repose themselves.”
− =Ath= p315 My 19 ’19 180w
Reviewed by Bertrand Russell
=Ath= p487 Je 20 ’19 1700w
“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief
doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book
must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant
discussion of a supreme subject.”
+ =Bib World= 54:643 N ’20 330w
“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains
the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded
and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 29 ’19 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 O 19 ’19 2600w
=COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25
Extension press 134
“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to
be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and
necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most
ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir
Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic
practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a
future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in
evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the
attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the
reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in
spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 110w
=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 110w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817
20–19071
In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the
reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm,
and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking
possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the
house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that,
although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the
Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while.
Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream;
Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for
water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady
Maude; Us landed proprietors.
* * * * *
“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit
thin with an occasional raisin.’”
+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 110w
“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w
“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the
role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of
humor in the subject will be brought forth.”
+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–2846
“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of
character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The
gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a
self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good
craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke
and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys
will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When
August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called
Emily.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
=Lit D= p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from
any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos,
reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens
the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The
escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell
buzzard.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY
MARSHALL RINEHART).= Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that
just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817
20–4128
Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of
women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding
the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a
tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end,
reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and
their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for
their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them,
dreadfully.”
* * * * *
“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs
to compensate.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she)
tried.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w
“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better
reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more
sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 340w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–19510
Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa
Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention.
Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has
confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s
death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey
tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This
involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle
and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the
paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the
fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot
since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.
* * * * *
=Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 50w
“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the
creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most
effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never
swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the
authors of American best sellers.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 310w
“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London
thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel
because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w
“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w
“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”
+ =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–5233
During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to
his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty
girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It
is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for
another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of
the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly
suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers,
but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But
which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations
lost and no hearts broken.
* * * * *
“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit
tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he
should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no
account of time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously
constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our
interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because
none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our
sympathy.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment
and accomplishment.”
+ − =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w
“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains
mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a
weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w
=COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.= Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590
20–7593
A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado,
published as one of the New-World science series of which John W.
Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges
and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of
its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters,
the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of
the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he
has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and
others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal
photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York
zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
=CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.= Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18933
Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at
the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains
his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend
that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had
mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes
in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More
casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining
camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure
the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a
mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the
Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the
landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond
to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the
bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more
real to Tom.
* * * * *
“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious
motion-picture type.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 200w
=CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).= Memories of
Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50
(3½c) Appleton
20–2278
From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the
career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome
of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it
became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen
relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through
the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who
never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long
as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the
sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his
great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white
horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his
hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)
* * * * *
“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a
merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of
presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a
lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J:
Bunker
+ =Bookm= 52:79 S ’20 560w
“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the
sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that
the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot
with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is
evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo
Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in
good season.” J. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 F 14 ’20 450w
“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she
writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume
very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of
compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic
power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating
than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short
Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is
worth knowing, for it is history.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
=N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring
picture of early western life.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 30w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 19 ’20 200w
=CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.).= Autobiography of
Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–7661
In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a
showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great
wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing
of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the
thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and
stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era,
so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our
purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it
is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its
hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it
was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to
do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy
years.”
+ =Review= 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted
to western history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at
length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has
passed beyond duplication.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w
“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history
graphically told by the one who knew it best.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 100w
=COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE.= More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c)
Macmillan 330
20–6208
The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be
pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he
believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in
any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of
Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we
may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The
Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as
owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and
employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in
the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate
professor in Union theological seminary.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
=N Y Times= p30 O 10 ’20 60w
“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell
upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social
order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”
− + =Review= 3:75 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 380w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd
20–16928
A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents:
Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the
dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic
toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!
* * * * *
“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to
amuse.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2646
A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest
and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later
David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been
murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant,
Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the
first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains
his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There
seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against
whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others
become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous
letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied
Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who
loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for
“licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the
evidence that singles out this one.
* * * * *
“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’
and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will
be able to guess the solution.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which
books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement
that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard,
and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the
successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”
+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and
suspense.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 80w
“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of
that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 80w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c)
Stokes 335
(Eng ed 20–76275)
The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial
and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes
through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the
book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong.
After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the
conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers
by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers
on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction
consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their
functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole
community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The
reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways;
“Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and
shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The
finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p305 S 3 ’20 210w
“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose
approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae.
But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an
impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Republic= 25:80 D 15 ’20 1500w
“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The
whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”
− =Sat R= 130:221 S 11 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 1350w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian
soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the
Survey 331.87
(Eng ed 19–2251)
“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the
younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader
an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The
book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union
structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward
amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the
shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the
future.”—Survey
* * * * *
“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No
student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for
that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe
+ =Am Econ R= 9:589 S ’19 380w
“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the
growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take
the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to
consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the
futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a
flood of goodwill.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 140w
“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British
trade union movement.”
+ =Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 440w
Reviewed by H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 43:282 D 20 ’19 240w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Labour in the commonwealth. (New
commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331
19–3307
“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue
of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have
prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the
last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast
with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated
thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr
Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English
intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party,
writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and
women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and
gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and
what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that
labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics
* * * * *
“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He
avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing
the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins
+ =Am Econ R= 10:608 S ’20 420w
“A notably interesting book.”
+ =Ath= p31 Ja ’19 30w
“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search
for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the
groundwork of labour organization.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 340w
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social
life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:31 N ’19 40w
=Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
=Int J Ethics= 29:506 Jl ’19 140w
“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to
plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and
humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and
education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the
state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has
previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization
of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the
angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive
piece of work.”
+ − =Nation= 110:112 Ja 24 ’20 1100w
“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all
his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative
style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which
such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr
Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther
side.” C. M.
+ − =New Repub= 22:102 Mr 17 ’20 480w
“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision
by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail
to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep
his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in
depicting present industrial conditions?”
+ − =N Y Evening= Post p3 F 14 ’20 1800w
=N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 1400w
=Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 240w
“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its
object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social
relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of
guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose
it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 41:644 F 1 ’19 480w
“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his
book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is,
furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally
a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom
it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 500w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Social theory. (Library of social
studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301
20–7572
The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in
supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private
individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles
of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon
which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be
in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are
composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of
society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full
self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical
reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated
list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social
theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The
forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and
representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and
co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and
local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions;
Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.
* * * * *
“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a
few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity
against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of
the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have
been a protection.” A. W. Small
− =Am J Soc= 26:247 S ’20 870w
“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very
seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It
will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both.
For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds
itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English
mind.” G. L. Dickinson
+ =Ath= p476 Ap 9 ’20 1700w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general
conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It
is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me
inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon
necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.”
Ordway Tead
+ − =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic
in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and
masterly handling of his material.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:113 O ’20 520w
“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he
is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable
traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by
a preference.” T: R. Powell
+ =Nation= 11:sup413 O 13 ’20 2050w
“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology
made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:212 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social
organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully
successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:154 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for
easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to
know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and
project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we
would rather see it tried in some other country.”
− + =N Y Times= p13 Ag 8 ’20 2400w
“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate;
despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete
example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a
coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet
acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 150w
“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be
quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for
something more original.”
− =Sat R= 130:56 Ag 17 ’20 650w
“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not
pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old
conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 840w
“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr
Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he
used.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that
he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and
commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and
very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it
is not acute.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Mr 11 ’20 1100w
“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither
his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social
theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his
work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers
and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and
creative thought.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:219 O ’20 720w
=COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES.= Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford
941.5
20–2491
“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of
Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a
wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex
population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine
sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is
anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no
“self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the
geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is
closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on
its own politically.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Ath= p47 Ja 9 ’20 240w
“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare
even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the
knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet,
and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N.
J. O’C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 400w
“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be
reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 200w
=COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY.= Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10
Lane
20–5660
The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking
house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business,
financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life
story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the
subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that
period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came
to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of
Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he
married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated
and volume 2 has an index.
* * * * *
=Ath= p332 Mr 12 ’20 2450w
“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.”
E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 1450w
“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the
author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike
us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and
frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of
Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches
together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his
historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and
fairness of judgment.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:36 Ja 10 ’20 1500w
“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the
family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to
affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the
book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and
throws new light on the history of his times.”
+ =Spec= 124:144 Ja 31 ’20 1050w
“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to
edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he
has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an
extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope,
expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other
riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 1 ’20 1850w
=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.=[2] Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501
20–16351
“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the
idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the
achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life
are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing
to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part
in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that
science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its
‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that
it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between
them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if
they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its
mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R.
E. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 300w
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of
wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even
the alphabet.”
− =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the
method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration
about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and
all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book,
much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the
very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 510w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes
631.37
20–19612
The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important
factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the
number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes
to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every
kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the
illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the
contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The
mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for
small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms;
Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your
tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how
to make them; The kind of tractor you want.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50
Appleton 629.2
20–11306
In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells
you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles,
in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how
to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to
do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts:
The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric
lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p57 Jl ’20 80w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Putnam’s
handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
20–7432
This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in
business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the
merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know
about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can
use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four
parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and
Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of
selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter;
Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making
your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside
credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two
illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Wonders of
natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590
20–21293
It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making
and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into
simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of
natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and
mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from
the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into
the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book
is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are:
Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines;
Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern
fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower
forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the
exhibits are prepared.
=COLLINS, JOSEPH.= Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life.
*$3 Scribner 850
20–17228
“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent
book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of
particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of
Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in
this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new
movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the
futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of
the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither
praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most
romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to
Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and
sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is
a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect
essayist.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 720w
“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book,
proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called
forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have
seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and
what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes
up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 720w
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical
notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to
whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his
swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author
he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical
faculty.”
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1150w
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not
charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down
sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary
exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
+ =No Am= 212:856 D ’20 1700w
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and
illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any
would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he
considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a
number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under
a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 29 ’20 500w
=COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Proportional form. il *$3
Putnam 740
20–7442
“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those
set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s
harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in
nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the
government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this
universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation
of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain
fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant
reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs
and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and
correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics
are by Capt. Coan.”
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 250w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c)
Macmillan
20–21991
Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean
the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus.
He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise.
But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had
risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,”
said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than
he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the
fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the
enchanter.
* * * * *
“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek,
Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed
patch-work of enchantment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293
20–19525
“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of
the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he
has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with
Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in
mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose
sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
=Bookm= 50:380 N ’19 90w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for
all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 150w
+ =New Repub= 25:24 D 1 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COMERFORD, FRANK.= New world. *$2 Appleton 335
20–17097
The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world
problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every
conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all
the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress
and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order.
Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem
of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The
soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the
socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in
Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices
consisting of various documents.
* * * * *
“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate
judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 400w
=COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA
ARMSTRONG).= Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–21182
His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets
called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began
to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran
away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals
seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact
that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag
his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the
jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of
power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s
exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good
grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah;
Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human
friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and
half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the
narrative.
* * * * *
“Men and boys especially will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a
collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though
parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s
credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid,
picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Church and industrial
reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261
20–15930
This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times
of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the
introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters”
challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its
attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our
time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After
defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial
problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society;
Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian
attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social
betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian
industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual
Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the
church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices
are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II,
Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction;
III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an
index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 680w
“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a
summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age,
backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of
the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor
+ =Survey= 45:467 D 25 ’20 1250w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Missionary outlook in
the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266
20–7779
This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by
the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report
prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its
chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains
the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the
religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents
fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of
foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war
on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary
principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices
contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.
* * * * *
“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of
the subjects on which they write.”
+ =Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 180w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much
suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such
readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here
reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will
have to do a good deal of translating.”
+ − =Review= 3:271 S 29 ’20 1800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Religion among
American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50
Assn. press 261
20–5049
“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee
was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint
action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and
the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression
of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of
the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book,
which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and
religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews,
letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts:
The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war
on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.
* * * * *
“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is
planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 380w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
Reviewed by H. A. Jump
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 13 ’20 3050w
Reviewed by Hugh Page
=Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 290w
=CONE, HELEN GRAY.= Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton
811
20–519
“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone,
though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong,
impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the
poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The
remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on
various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as
the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the
German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now,
without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy
predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer
− =Dial= 68:527 Ap ’20 620w
“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though
palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the
present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at
unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A
poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V.
D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the
pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The
highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate
and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no
tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than
colored. Her style is good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w
=CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD).= Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt
811
20–9071
This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show
nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are
grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war;
Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a
concluding poem: The wilderness.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons
of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on
a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1600w
“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like
her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem
all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts
of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The
melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite
discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 280w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 20w
“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of
the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in
her gentler moods.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 240w
=CONKLING, HILDA.= Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–7794
The author of these poems is now nine years old. Amy Lowell writes a
long preface to the book in which she says: “It is poetry, the stuff
and essence of poetry.... I know of no other instance in which such
really beautiful poetry has been written by a child.... What this book
chiefly shows is high promise; but it also has its pages of real
achievement, and that of so high an order it may well set us
pondering.” With some biographical data on the child Miss Lowell
describes her manner of working, which she considers to be largely
subconscious and perfectly instinctive. The poems are grouped
according to the child’s age into: Four to five years old; Five to six
years old; Six to seven years old; and Seven to nine years old.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole is convincing, and a number of the poems are
beautiful.”
+ =Ath= p644 N 12 ’20 620w
+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Charming and unusual. Here is a book of poems instinct with the
spirit of childhood and so childlike in much of its phrasing as to
make a direct and permanent appeal to children and grown people.” A.
C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:314 My ’20 1000w
“Her thought has not the incoherence that might be expected of a
child; she paints in each poem a complete picture, step by step,
usually leading up to the last line with a fine feeling for climax. In
economy of words and in power of connotation these poems resemble the
translations from the Chinese and the Japanese which have lately
attracted the attention of occidental poets, but there is a richness
of detail that we are accustomed to associate with the tradition of
English literature.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Many a mature poet might be proud of some of these little gems. All
of them sparkle with that faery light that enables its possessor to
see things quaintly and daintily.”
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 70w
“The quality which shines behind practically all of these facets of
loveliness is a directness of perception, an almost mystic divination.
It is its own stamp of unaffected originality, a genuine
ingenuousness. It is ridiculous to talk of the ‘stages’ in the work of
a ten-year-old child and yet the verses conceived between four and
seven are more vivid, seem more spontaneous and less—absurd as it may
seem—sophisticated than those written between seven and nine.” L:
Untermeyer
+ =Dial= 69:186 Ag ’20 1200w
“Readers will be glad of the book, not only because it was written by
a child, but because it contains beautiful poetry. Not a false image
is to be found in it, not a single artificial symbol, not a line of
dull, stereotyped diction!”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“The gift is given us gravely and unconsciously, with none of the
reticences that fears ridicule, and yet with none of the exaggeration
that tries to ‘show off.’” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The present volume deserves a high place among the expressions of
youthful imagination. It is vivid, fresh, and creative in no small
degree.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w
“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O.
W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w
+ =Spec= 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w
“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and
consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the
characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life
with keen eyes and quick imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 500w
=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8795
Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a
little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his
friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the
Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets
possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and
turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other
adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the
whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.
* * * * *
“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author
knows how to write them.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole book is sufficient to provide an evening’s entertainment of
no mean quality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 260w
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“Every page vibrates with action and glows with unforced drama.
Happily, both his matter and manner are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
=CONNOR, HENRY GROVES.= John Archibald Campbell. *$2.25 (3c) Houghton
20–7012
The subject of this biography was a southern jurist, appointed a
justice of the Supreme court in 1853. In 1861 he resigned to become
assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy. He was one of the
three Confederate peace commissioners who met Lincoln and Seward in
1865. The table of contents indicates the outstanding points in his
career and shows the biographer’s plan of treatment; Ancestry and
early career at the bar; Associate justice of the Supreme court of the
United States; The slavery question before the court; On the circuit:
filibustering and the slave trade; Efforts to avert civil war;
Services to the confederacy and peace negotiations: The problem of
restoration; The slaughter-house cases and the fourteenth amendment;
Last years at the bar; Personal characteristics, intellectual and
social traits; Conclusion. A table of cases follows and an index.
* * * * *
“The biographer’s judicial experience gives him an advantage in the
treatment of legal points, while his sense of restraint eliminates
bias in the discussion of matters that ordinarily arouse the keenest
controversy. The method of inserting quoted portions is at times
confusing, and there are numerous inaccuracies of quotation.” J. G.
Randall
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:119 O ’20 680w
“Will interest students of history.”
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 550w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Rescue: a romance of the shallows. *$2 (1c) Doubleday
20–10316
Mr Conrad’s new tale of the South Seas is the story of a man torn
between loyalty to friend and love of woman, forced to choose between
faith to his plighted word and her safety. It is a story of a
generation ago with civil war rife among the native tribes of the
Malay straits. Captain Tom Lingard has pledged his all to the service
of Rajah Hassim and has plotted and contrived to restore him to his
kingdom. The enterprise has reached its climax when an English yacht
blunders into the scene of activity and runs aground. Captain Lingard
goes aboard her with offers of assistance, his one thought to get the
intruders out of the way. His offer is met with insolence on the part
of the owner and he would gladly have left them to their fate, but he
had seen the woman, Mrs Travers, and her spell is on him. Thereafter
these two are but puppets in the hands of fate and the outcome is the
wreck of all Lingard’s hopes and the failure of the cause he had
served.
* * * * *
“This fascinating book revives in use the youthful feeling that we are
not so much reading a story of adventure as living in and through it,
absorbing it, making it our own. This feeling is not wholly the result
of the method, the style which the author has chosen; it arises more
truly from the quality of the emotion in which the book is steeped.”
K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Jl 2 ’20 1500w
“A characteristic story, one of his best.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“While the charm of its style is undeniable, while it is filled with
glowing word-pictures of tropical scenes, we shall doubtless be held
to be intellectually blind and artistically obtuse by many Conrad
admirers when we say that it has none of the flowing narrative
qualities which should be the chief characteristic of a story of its
sort.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 1250w
“‘The rescue’ is characterized by that extraordinary grasp of reality
and breadth of outlook for which Mr Conrad is famous.”
+ =Cath World= 112:394 D ’20 350w
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 100w
“It is not easy to find another name for genius. The effort to
describe it is ungrateful enough. When it penetrates so deep to the
roots of life one can pay it the tribute of becoming silent at the
earliest possible moment.” Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:191 Ag ’20 2250w
“If Mr Joseph Conrad’s ‘The rescue’ is an earlier novel, as has been
said, it is difficult to see why he did not leave its style intact or
re-write it wholly in his later, sparer manner. Yet with all the
disappointments of detail, in completion ‘The rescue’ produces a
massiveness of effect which belongs only to Conrad.” C. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 1:454 Jl 21 ’20 370w
“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’
there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself.
There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as
etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability
to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails,
contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations
of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 1150w
“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating
with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is
Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:263 My 23 ’20 1450w
“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the
lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”
+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 560w
=Review= 2:604 Je 5 ’20 240w
“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the
later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably
unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in
mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich
and strange and new.”
+ =Spec= 124:52 Jl 10 ’20 850w
“It matters not how often Mr Conrad tells the story of the man and the
brig. Out of the million stories that life offers the novelist, this
one is founded upon truth. And it is only Mr Conrad who is able to
tell it us. But if the statement of the theme is extremely fine, we
have to admit that the working out of the theme is puzzling: we cannot
deny that we are left with a feeling of disappointment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p419 Jl 1 ’20 1500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 150w
=CONSTABLE, FRANK CHALLICE.= Myself and dreams. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 150
19–15968
The book is a contribution to the literature on psychical matters in
which the soul is treated as a psychical subject whose physiological
state is but transitory, merely an “occasion” for conduct. Part 1,
Myself, includes such subjects as the relativity of knowledge,
insight, self-consciousness, the intelligible universe and the
sensible universe, ideas, free-will and the categorical imperative.
Part 2, Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and
psychological theories; Multiplex personality; Hallucination and
illusion in dreams; Romance and fairie; Phantasy; Ecstasy; The
eternal.
=CONTEMPORARY= verse anthology; with an introd. by C: W. Stork.[2] *$3
Dutton 811.08
20–19666
“The editor of Contemporary Verse has selected from the pages of that
magazine devoted exclusively to poetry the representative
contributions printed during the past four years as examples of a
style and quality of poetic expression ‘broadly devoted to the needs
and interests of the general reading public.’ Among the contributors
are found such well-known names as Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner,
Clement Wood, John Hall Wheelock, William Rose Benet, Lizette
Woodworth Reese, Sara Teasdale, Mary Carolyn Davies, Margaret Widdemer
and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. Among the lesser known contributors are
Amory Hare, Stephen Moylan Bird, Gertrude Cornwell Hopkins, Elinor
Wylie, Winifred Welles, Phoebe Hoffman, Dorothy Anderson, Amanda B.
Hall, William Baird, Berenice K. Van Slyke, Leonora Speyer and many
another.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Bookm= 52:560 F ’21 600w
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 340w
“It has a little that is very good, more that is very bad, and very
much that is mediocre.”
− + =Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 50w
“The selections which appear in this volume, are, in the main, chosen
with discrimination and taste.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 40w
“Throughout there is an undercurrent of sane vitality, that spirit of
healthy restlessness and inquisitiveness that more than anything else
distinguishes the work of so many of the present American poets from
that of their quieter, more smoothly flowing British brothers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 250w
=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Business law; a working manual of every-day law. 2d
ed 2v $8 Ronald 347.7
20–7362
A two-volume edition of the work published in 1918. Volume 1 covers:
The law of the land; Contracts; Sales; Agency; Negotiable instruments;
Insurance; Employment; Partnership; Corporations. Volume 2: Real and
personal property; Wills and inheritance; Personal relations;
Suretyship; Debts and interest; Bankruptcy; Bailments and common
carriers; Patents, trademarks, and copyrights; Taxation; Arbitration;
Law and lawyers; Forms. Appendixes to volume 2 contain: Chart showing
jurisdiction of state courts; A professional law library; Glossary,
and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:355 Jl ’20
“It is a valuable handbook; it can be referred to by the ordinary
citizen because nontechnical terms are used and the statements of law
are plain and concise.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 180w
“It is well arranged and clearly written for the business man.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 80w
=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Goin’ fishin’; with an
introd. by Leonard Wood, and a foreword by Wright A. Patterson. il
*$2.75 (1½c) Stewart & Kidd 799
20–16782
“Weather and feed facts; the fresh-water game fish: the natural and
artificial baits and their use.” (Sub-title) Besides this information
the book contains the infectious exuberance of spirit which comes from
the love of out-o’-doors and which, says the author, has burned like
an unquenchable volcano within him from the earliest moments of his
life. The motor boat in fishing, footwear and the camp commissary also
receive attention and a list of recommended fishing waters—in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pacific Northwest and Canada—concludes the book.
=COOK, SIR EDWARD TYAS.= More literary recreations. *$2.75 Macmillan 824
20–4043
“About half the book is devoted to three charming papers on Pliny’s
letters, the classics in daily life, and the Greek anthology. Other
essays are on travelling companions, the art of editing, the changes
and corruptions of words, and on ‘single poem poets.’”—Brooklyn
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:102 Mr ’20 50w
“The essays in this second volume of literary recreations, composed in
the intervals of leisure snatched from his official duties during the
war, are now published for the first time, and only serve to heighten
the regret caused by the premature death of their author. Reserved and
restrained with strangers, he here reveals a geniality and sympathy of
which only the few who knew him intimately were aware.”
+ =Spec= 123:659 N 15 ’19 1550w
“There will be a good many readers of this book who, after listening
to Sir Edward Cook, will take down the Greek anthology or the
half-forgotten Virgil or Homer from its shelf, and so thank him in the
way he would have best liked to be thanked.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 O 23 ’19 900w
=COOK, W. VICTOR.= Grey fish. *$2 Stokes
“In the Shetland Islands they have a toast which they drink on New
Year’s day, ‘Health to man and death to the grey fish.’ In this novel
both name and toast are applied to a grim sort of hunting and of prey,
the German submarines off the coast of Spain during the war. The story
consists of twelve connected episodes in which two of the characters
are always in the centre of interest, a few others come and go, and
still more appear only in single tales. The two chief actors are a
young Scot ostensibly in the employ of a British firm of wine
merchants with offices at various Spanish ports. The other is a
middle-aged Spaniard, a stevedore, once a peasant and an ex-smuggler.
A double motive urges him into the grey fish hunting, a love of
dangerous adventure for its own sake and a passionate hatred of the
Germans because his brother’s boat had been sunk and his brother
drowned by a German submarine.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 120w
“The author of ‘Grey fish’ has provided a series of fascinating, well
spiced tales so closely connected that they deserve to be called a
novel, into which he has put not a little of the atmosphere and color
of the Spanish coast.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 400w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 70w
=COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS.= Social evolution of religion. *$3.50 Stratford
co. 201
20–4088
“The author is dominated by one thought throughout his work, and that
is ‘all religion is essentially communal or social.’ Primitive man,
like the child, he asserts, does not know himself apart from the
group; and he adds: ‘It must be recognized that all the evidence is in
favor of the conclusion that the earliest manifestations of religion
were those of a group, and not those of individuals.’ And the
conclusion is drawn that man has been religious from the beginning.
After a few chapters in which are described the social transmission of
human experience, the creative genius of social man, and communal and
tribal religion; feudal, national, international and universal
religion are described; and the closing chapter is on religion as
cosmic and human motive. Two fundamental points underlie and color
this entire work, namely, that religion is a natural phenomenon and
that it is primarily social.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
“He has collected a great mass of facts, and his interpretation of
those facts, while evidencing a vigorous mind, is but the judgment of
a human being; and there will be no lack of dissent on the part of
readers.” F. W. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 800w
“The author has drawn heavily upon writers of his own way of thinking.
Nowhere is there evidence of any scientific discernment.”
− =Cath World= 111:258 My ’20 500w
“The author tells us that this book contains fifty years’ study of
religion but there is not the slightest suspicion in it of an old
man’s conservatism. Few books about religion are more radical, more
fearless, more resolutely faced toward the future than this one.” A.
W. Vernon
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 780w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 60w
=COOKE, RICHARD JOSEPH, bp.=[2] Church and world peace. *$1 Abingdon
press 261
20–8658
“After discussing the demand for a League of nations and answering the
question whether or not such a league is possible, and after stating
the political difficulties in the way of such a league, the author
concludes that the league will need all the spiritual power of the
church to make it effective. He says that ‘while the League of nations
may do much to prevent war, it cannot eradicate the desire for war. It
would seem, therefore, absolutely essential that the physical power of
the League shall be supplemented by a spiritual power, some mighty
generating influence which, by its appeal to the souls of man, shall
be able to cool super-heated passions, and for treasured wrong
substitute desire for justice and not revenge, for peace and not war.’
There must then be a Christian league, a league of Christendom
supplementing the political League of nations.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:652 N ’20 280w
“The book is a strong one, well argued, clearly written, and
exceedingly timely. It closes with an inspiring note of optimism.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and SPOHR, WILHELMINA.= Household arts for home and
school. 2v il v 1 *$1.50; v 2 *$1.60 Macmillan 640.7
20–4147
These volumes are intended for the use of household arts classes in
school and as a help in home work. Volume 1 describes how the girls of
the Ellen H. Richards school chose the furniture and all accessories
for the Sunnyside apartment of five rooms, to be occupied by two of
the teachers, and to be used as a practice house for the school. The
girls made all the curtains, couch covers, dresser scarfs, table
doilies, towels, etc., and while doing so learned all about the
decorations and furnishing of a home, its management and up-keep, the
use of the sewing machine, the making, mending and cost of clothing
and the care of the baby. Volume 2 is more especially devoted to the
daily work in the home. The storing and canning of fruits and
vegetables, cooking, cleaning and laundering, the preparation of
breakfasts and dinners, keeping well and happy are discussed. Each
volume has an appendix and an index and many illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 260w
“The lessons are selected with discrimination, and suitable balance is
maintained between the various topics. The book does not make adequate
provision for the development of thought and initiative on the part of
the pupil and fails to give opportunity for the understanding of
principles through experiments.”
+ − =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 370w
=St Louis= 18:221 S ’20 30w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and others.= Teaching home economics. *$1.80
Macmillan 640.7
19–15655
“The authors took upon themselves a large task as indicated in the
statement of their aim, namely, to ‘offer suggestions for the
organization, administration, and teaching of home economics
subjects.’ The authors say, ‘It is taken for granted that the students
who will use it will be familiar with the scope of the field,’ and
that ‘the book is intended for use primarily in normal schools and
colleges’ though they ‘hope that the social workers, vocational
advisors, and lay readers will find in this book suggestions of
value.’ They specially stress the fact that they wish to ‘attack the
subject in the light of the new vision of education as a factor in
social evolution.’ The attempt to cover in outline the whole field is
treated under four different divisions: (1) Home economics as an
organized study in the school program; (2) Organization of courses in
home economics; (3) Planning of lessons; (4) Personnel, materials, and
opportunities; (5) Addenda.”—J Home Econ
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“One of the good features of the book is the list of questions after
each chapter and the suggested references for collateral reading.
While the authors have succeeded in bringing together in one volume
material which will be very helpful to the discriminating teacher of
home economics, the undertaking was so great as almost to prevent
adequate treatment of the various parts.” Isabel Bevier
+ − =J Home Econ= 12:137 Mr ’20 550w
“One finishes the reading of the book with the realization that
innumerable statements as to existing conditions have been given, but
a feeling akin to bewilderment is not cleared away by any definite
conclusion as to wise selection of material, clear emphasis on
abilities to be developed, or teaching methods to be used.”
+ − =School R= 28:311 Ap ’20 360w
=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Wunpost. *$2 Dutton
20–10766
“‘Wunpost’ was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though
he came from a good old southern family and had ‘the profile of a
bronze Greek god,’ was nevertheless so illiterate that, when he found
a gold mine and decided to call it the ‘One post,’ he spelled the name
‘Wunpost.’ He had a habit of finding gold mines. During the course of
the narrative he discovers no less than three, but he is cheated out
of two of them by the wickedness and ingenuity of old Judson Eells and
his ‘yaller dog,’ Lapham, the lawyer who thoroughly understood how to
draw up a contract of the most deceptive kind. ‘Wunpost’ went to work
to get even with Eells, with Lapham, and with ‘Pisenface’ Lynch, who
was Eells’s ‘hired mankiller and professional claim-jumper.’ Of course
he succeeded. But meanwhile he learned something about the dangers of
boasting, had any number of adventures, including one with an Indian
scout whom he outwitted and made a trip across the famous Death
valley, besides falling in love.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 320w
“The best of this book is the descriptions.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The work is an excellent specimen of the better class of western
fiction, glowing with local color, featured by continuous and well
sustained action and containing an abundance of its own variety of
love and adventure.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 100w
=COOPER, HENRY ST JOHN.= Sunny Ducrow. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6635
The story of a little girl of the London slums who leaves a pickle
factory to go on the stage. Her name is Elizabeth Ann but everybody
calls her Sunny and it is as Sunny Ducrow that she rises to fame.
Later she buys an interest in the pickle factory and moves it to the
suburbs where she establishes a model village called Sunnyville. A
noble lord falls in love with her and for a time Sunny thinks she is
in love with him, but she finds out that she is not and gives her hand
to a less distinguished suitor in her own profession.
* * * * *
“The book is brightly and vivaciously written, and many people will be
glad to become acquainted with Mr Cooper’s heroine.”
+ =Ath= p1138 O 31 ’19 60w
“Sunny Ducrow is an amusing impossibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 300w
“In ‘Sunny Ducrow’ Henry St John Cooper barely escapes unwittingly
surpassing the ‘novels’ that first established Stephen Leacock’s
reputation. His heroine outglads Pollyanna and outbunks Bunker Bean.”
− =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 70w
“There is much that is good in the book and much that is interesting.
Good types in all classes of society are here, and the writing is
sincere and simple in style. Sunny is almost too perfect, too
infallible, too easily successful, and all the various humans who come
into her life are almost too regenerated.” G. I. Colbron
+ − =Pub W= 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 350w
=Sat R= 128:sup16 N 29 ’19 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 200w
=COOPER, JAMES A.= Tobias o’ the light. il *$1.75 (2c) Sully
20–9142
Tobias is the light-keeper in one of the Cape Cod lighthouses. In
addition, he is a born matchmaker, and when Ralph and Lorna declare
they will not marry each other, although—or perhaps because—their
families urge it so strongly, he tries to patch up their difficulties
by telling each that the other is in financial difficulties. Their
pity and chivalry aroused, all might have gone well, had it not been
for the bank robbery, of which Ralph is suspected. When Lorna believes
Ralph to be the thief because of his need of money, Tobias feels that
perhaps he may have overreached himself in his stories. But
fortunately the discovery of the part Conny Degger, Ralph’s enemy, has
played in the whole affair, puts the matter to rights, and the
prospect is bright for Ralph and Lorna, financially and sentimentally.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 180w
=COPE, HENRY FREDERICK.= Education for democracy. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 370
20–8371
“Democracy is more than a form of government: it is a social ideal, a
mode of life and a quality of the human spirit; therefore it cannot be
imposed on a people; it must be acquired.” How it can be acquired and
how our educational plans and ideals can be made to express
personal-social values and a common good will in all phases of life is
the subject of these essays. A partial list of the contents is:
Education in a democracy; Democracy as a religious ideal; The
spiritual nature of education in a democracy; Beginning at home; the
public schools and democracy’s program; Spiritual values in school
studies; Organizing the community; Democracy in the crucial hour.
* * * * *
“This little volume contains many excellent suggestions on the subject
of education for democracy, and is worth reading both by teachers and
by parents. But it is not always self-consistent, nor does it seem to
us well grounded in fundamental principles.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 270w
Reviewed by J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
=COPPLESTONE, BENNET.= Last of the Grenvilles. *$2.50 Dutton
20–1693
“Another story of naval adventure by the author of the widely read
tale entitled ‘The lost naval papers.’ Plot and war romance abound.
The area of activity covered is, as before, purely naval, and, like
the former book, this not only includes stories of spies and their
detection but also furnishes a true and amusing picture of the British
sailor in wartime.” (Outlook) “The hero is a descendant of Grenville
of the ‘Revenge,’ and his life is related from boyhood till he enters
the naval service and goes through the great war.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“The experienced author makes ‘history repeat itself’ in excellent
fashion for the youthful reader.”
+ =Ath= p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:208 Ap ’20 280w
“Mr Copplestone knows the sea and ships as few writers know it, and
‘The last of the Grenvilles’ is a stirring example of his storytelling
power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 320w
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
“No one who has read one of Mr Copplestone’s books will allow another
of them to pass him unread.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 90w
“In the sentimental episode entitled ‘The warm haven’ the author
challenges comparisons with ‘Bartimeus’ and without success; a lighter
touch is needed. But with this deduction the book is a spirited and
enjoyable performance.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 380w
=CORBETT, ELIZABETH F.= Puritan and pagan. *$1.75 (1c) Holt
20–20188
Nancy Desmond is the puritan, Mary Allen the pagan. Nancy is a painter
with a studio on Washington Square. Mary Allen is a distinguished
actress. Max Meredith, who has married one of Nancy’s college friends,
comes to New York on business and looks her up. They see much of one
another during his stay and find to their dismay that they have fallen
in love. True to her instincts and her ideals Nancy sends Max away
from her. In the meantime, Roger Greene, Nancy’s friend and teacher,
has become infatuated with Mary and between these two there is no
question of renunciation. They accept their love as a fact altho Mary
refuses marriage. When Nancy learns of the affair she is crushed and
finds how much Roger has meant to her. Later after a long separation,
after she has seen Max again and after the other love has run its
course, Nancy and Roger come together.
* * * * *
“Her picture will prove fascinating to those who do not know that it
is not faithful.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:552 F ’21 90w
“There is a palpable unevenness in ‘Puritan and pagan.’ It is so
surprisingly good in spots that we should not expect that an author
could maintain that high level everywhere. The novel very frankly
contrasts the puritan and the pagan, but it is a contrast,
fortunately, which possesses no element of didacticism, no hint of
moral purpose.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 1050w
“The author has vividly portrayed several phases of New York life and
analyzed skilfully several original characters, without forgetting
that her main purpose was to tell a very old and very human story.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 180w
“The plot is sound, the dramatis personae consistently interesting,
and the action logical and generally swift.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 340w
“All the plans, hopes, fears, regrets and dreams of three young lives
find their expression between the covers, and while there is much that
is bitter-sweet in the reading, the sympathetic reader will follow
with unflagging interest to the end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w
=CORBETT, SIR JULIAN STAFFORD.= Naval operations. *$6.50 Longmans 940.45
20–8648
“In the official history of the great war prepared by direction of the
historical section of the British committee of imperial defense, this
is the first volume devoted to naval operation, and concludes with the
battle of the Falklands in December, 1914. It gives a detailed account
of all the activities of the British navy during the first five months
of the war, and this account is entirely based on official reports and
other documents. Besides the maps, plans and diagrams inserted in this
volume, there is a separate case containing eighteen maps and
charts.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The pictures presented are consecutive and clear. The efforts of the
author to produce a plain and interesting narrative are ably seconded
by the publishers; for the make-up of the book is admirable in the
highest degree, and presents a model that makes the work of most
American publishers seem crude. In comparison with this book, any
other book, even though it deal with mighty armies, seems modelled on
microscopic lines.” B. A. Fiske
+ =Am Hist R= 26:94 O ’20 1150w
“Sir Julian Corbett had a moving tale to tell, and he has told it
well. It is not altogether impossible to imagine it better written.
But the story is at least clear and objective. His judgments err in
being a little over-kind.”
+ =Ath= p412 Mr 26 ’20 1850w
“Scrupulous care in the presentation of facts and reticence in
criticizing them characterize this very detailed, well documented
history.”
+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 420w
Reviewed by Reginald Custance
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:460 Jl ’20 2600w
“Sir Julian Corbett is a master of naval lore; he is deeply versed in
the strategy and the tactics of the great captains of the old days.
The maps are of the highest value and importance.”
+ =Nature= 105:546 Jl 1 ’20 250w
“Sir Julian’s style is clear and concise, his treatment of the subject
admirable in every way. A more thrillingly interesting book would be
hard to find, or one more valuable.”
+ =Review= 4:36 Ja 12 ’21 1150w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 90w
“The chief merit of Sir Julian Corbett’s volume consists in its
exposition of the interplay of naval and military considerations.”
+ =Sat R= 129:370 Ap 17 ’20 1250w
“The author’s lucid and dispassionate works on the past history of our
navy had shown that he was specially qualified to record its greatest
undertaking, and his new book is all that we had expected it to be as
a narrative, even if some of his occasional remarks and deductions may
provoke dissent.”
+ =Spec= 124:348 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“Sir Julian S. Corbett reveals himself a student of detail, a
scholarly narrator, and a man who is not impatient of research. These
virtues, together with an ability to retain throughout a comprehensive
view of the worldwide field of operations and the political or
military necessity governing many moves that were unavailing, give
this history an uncommon value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 170w
“In our judgment Sir Julian has accomplished his extremely difficult
task with very great skill. The difficulty of the task is, indeed, in
large measure concealed by the skill of its accomplishment. No naval
historian has ever had to paint on so large a canvas. None has ever
had such intricate and far-reaching operations to describe.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 3200w
=CORIAT, ISADORE HENRY.=[2] Repressed emotions. *$2 Brentano’s 130
20–19840
“Defining emotional repression as ‘the defense of conscious thinking
from mental processes which are painful’ the author goes on to explain
the nature of repression, its relation to the unconscious, the part it
plays in mental disorders and the manner in which it may be treated
through psychoanalysis. He gives a description of the unconscious,
emphasizing its importance in the light of the new psychology, and
states that it ‘originated not only in the childhood of man but in the
childhood of the world,’ and that in it ‘is condensed and capitulated
the cultural history of mankind.’ The process of psychoanalysis is
outlined, and its value, not only in the treatment of neuroses, but
also for the insight it furnishes into certain character defects, is
pointed out. The author lays special stress on the fact that
psychoanalysis is largely educational since it serves to further the
development of character.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 30w
“Dr Coriat has made good his promise of adding to the knowledge of the
race. A simpler vocabulary would sublimate the complexities of his
thought.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 110w
“On the whole the book is very well written, avoiding terminology
which might confuse the lay reader, and while it contains nothing
especially new, it does help to clarify one’s ideas on the subject and
is well worth reading.” J. J. Joslyn
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 270w
=CORNELL, FRED C.=[2] Glamour of prospecting. il *$6 (6c) Stokes 916
The volume is a record of the “wanderings of a South African
prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds.”
(Sub-title) The book was written before the outbreak of the war, and
the country has since undergone many changes and many of the waste
places, difficult of travel, can now be reached by rail. But this
still leaves vast untapped spaces for the lover of adventure. It was
the love of adventure more than the mineral riches that tempted the
author and his book is, therefore, no handbook for the would-be
prospector, neither is it intended to discourage him with discomforts
and hardships, for these “were richly compensated for by the glorious
freedom and adventure of the finest of outdoor lives, spent in one of
the finest countries and climates of the world.” (Preface) The book is
well illustrated from photographs and contains an insert map.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p612 N 5 ’20 640w
“The author has a keen sense of humor and an equally marked facility
in description. And his experiences furnish him ample opportunity to
give full play to both of these powers.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 550w
“His story may be taken as a treasure hunt; but it is something more
permanently satisfying than fiction, for it treats of real things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p533 Ag 19 ’20 1750w
=CORWIN, EDWARD SAMUEL.= Constitution and what it means today. $1.50
Princeton univ. press 342.7
20–26748
“Within the compass of only one hundred fourteen pages, Professor
Corwin has combined with the full text of the Constitution of the
United States a series of concise explanations elucidating as far as
necessary every paragraph of this document. In a brief introduction he
states his purpose to be, not merely to explain the original
intentions of the founders of our government, but to show what in the
course of time the constitution has come to mean and does actually
mean today.”—Review
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“The task set for this volume has been performed skillfully,
concisely, and unostentatiously. There is in this book no citation of
cases or decisions, which would deflect its purpose, and no intrusion
of private opinion.” D: J. Hill
+ =Review= 3:212 S 8 ’20 1000W
“The idea of the book is excellent. A greater proportion of quotations
from decisions of the supreme court would be welcome. And the comment
on the question whether the president should pay an income tax savors
of personal opinion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 130w
=CORY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Rise of South Africa. 4v v 3 il *$9 (*25s)
Longmans 968
“Professor Cory in the new volume of his excellent history of South
Africa, deals fully with the critical era that followed the abolition
of slavery and that saw the great trek. The author states with much
force the case of the colonists, and especially the Dutch farmers,
against a most unsympathetic and tactless government.” (Spec) “What
was said and written and done at this particular critical time shaped
and coloured the whole subsequent history of South Africa; and the
mischief then wrought never has been, and possibly never will be,
wholly eliminated. As Professor Cory shows, the great trek did not
take place because the Dutch did not like their British neighbors, but
because they wanted to be quit of the British government, as that
government was directed from England.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Descriptive note for volume 1 will be found in the Book Review Digest
for 1910; for volume 2 in 1914.
* * * * *
“Allowing for the restricted scope of the treatment, both in time and
area, the author has made a valuable contribution of far more general
interest than the particular incidents he actually describes.” A. L.
Cross
+ =Am Hist R= 26:357 Ja ’21 500w
=Brooklyn= 12:69 Ja ’20 30w
“The conclusions reached by Mr Cory are those already familiar; but,
assuredly, they have never before been based on such a background of
well-digested and well-marshalled authority. In more than one instance
the author has been able to interview survivors of the events
narrated; whilst, throughout, the best evidence available is
dispassionately put forward. Undoubtedly the author’s extreme
moderation renders more impressive the judgment at which he arrives.”
H. E. Egerton
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:289 Ap ’20 460w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 200w
“It is a book of high merit, clearly written, attractively
illustrated, bearing evidence of tireless research and of information
derived from first-hand sources, so far as such sources still exist.
For South African readers it provides a reasoned and whole-hearted
defence of a past generation of colonists, both British and Dutch.
From the point of view of a wider public it lends itself to some
criticism, on the double ground that the author, as is natural from
his surroundings, is over much an advocate, and that his book, from
its minuteness and wealth of detail, is too much of a chronicle and
too little of a history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p703 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CORY, HERBERT ELLSWORTH.= Intellectuals and the wage workers. $2
Sunwise turn 304
20–1365
“Mr Herbert Ellsworth Cory’s ‘The Intellectuals and the wage workers’
is an attempt to present the terms upon which intellectuals and wage
workers should unite in the task of social reconstruction. But Mr Cory
sees modern society, the labor movement, and the purpose of revolution
in psychoanalytic terms. He states his purpose thus: ‘I have been
trying to make some forecast of the processes by which intellectuals
and wage workers will unite to break down rationally those
institutions which are but hysterical symptoms, compromises, bad
habit-formations from competitive random activities, morbid complexes
and inertia.’”—Nation
* * * * *
“His apparently easy references to the most diverse contributors in
half a dozen fields of human knowledge, philosophy, psychology,
education, the labor movement, economics, the physical sciences, are
amazing. Yet a full integration seems to be lacking. The members of
the proletariat, to whom, it is evident, he dedicates his volume, will
be least likely to grasp Mr Cory’s message because it is so heavily
weighted with scientific terms.”
+ − =Nation= 110:338 Mr 13 ’20 350w
“He has revealed the tragedy of modern thought, but has lacked the
force to bring it into touch with the tragedy of modern life, and has
produced half a book instead of a whole one. The half book that he has
written could hardly be done better.” Gilbert Cannan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 1650w
“I hope that it will be widely read; for there is need for all to know
what fantastic speculation is constantly issuing from the
revolutionary fold. Among thinking persons the book will prove its own
best antidote.” W. J. Ghent
− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“It is to be hoped that Professor Cory will work out his theory in
more detail in its relation to the labor union movement. He sometimes
gives the impression of a man seeing it through a golden haze. In
avoiding the cocksure pedantry of the typical college professor he has
now and then fallen into an uncritical acceptance of unprofessional
things.” W: E. Bohn
+ − =Socialist R= 8:247 Mr ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 200w
=COSTER, CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE.= Flemish legends. il *$3 Stokes
398.2
20–26992
These legends, translated from the French by Harold Taylor and
supplied with eight woodcuts by Albert Delstanche, are taken from the
folk-lore current in the middle ages in Brabant and Flanders. The
translator’s note contains a brief survey of De Coster’s career as a
writer. The first tale of “The brotherhood of the cheerful
countenance,” tells how the inn-keeper Pieter Gans, of Uccle, was
tempted by the devil to set up the image of Bacchus in his hall and
form the above brotherhood, whereupon there were nightly carousings by
the male population of Uccle; and how, therefore, it fell to the lot
of the women of Uccle, to form themselves into an archery club, under
the protection of the Virgin Mary, and save the city from brigands.
The other tales are: The three sisters; Sir Halewyn; Smetse Smee.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“They are Rabelaisian in form but without the coarseness and
rollicking humor of the great French satirist. There is much of somber
beauty in the stories, but also much of the blood-lust of the period.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w
“If, like Rabelais, and Balzac after Rabelais, he uses his mastery in
that old French the richness and breadth of which were not yet shorn
by the correct and academical, he is wholly Belgian, and comparable at
most and best with Jordaens, or rather with Rubens, who to robust
sensuousness could add the heroic, lavish the while of colour and
exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1450w
=COTTER, WINIFRED.= Sheila and others. *$2 Dutton
20–18386
“Subtitled ‘The simple annals of an unromantic household,’ this
unpretentious little volume relates some of the experiences of a
Canadian family, experiences principally concerned with dogs and
servants. There are some fourteen sketches in the volume, several of
them being concerned with the parrot and the dog who were the pets of
the household. The succession of ‘wash ladies,’ the peculiar behavior
of the seamstress, the ‘Suppression of a cuckoo clock,’ the point of
view maintained by the vacuum cleaner agent ... these and others of
the kind provide the author with themes.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Most of the papers are very mildly humorous, and all of them are
pleasantly written.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 320w
“Sketches of merit, but menaced as a collection by a certain excess of
‘brightness.’ On the whole the whimsies of housekeeping are relatively
wearisome to the male; I suspect this volume will fare best as read
aloud in purely feminine circles.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 110w
=COTTERILL, HENRY BERNARD.= Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300–1600). il
*$5 Stokes 945
20–2716
This volume follows “Medieval Italy during a thousand years,”
published in 1915. It is a review of the political history of Italy
from 1300–1600 “as viewed from the standpoint of the chief cities,
with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the
art and literature of the three centuries.” (Subtitle)
* * * * *
“We should be inclined to trust Mr Cotterill further in art than in
literature. His style improves noticeably as he proceeds, and he lays
aside to some extent his irritating habit of breaking into the
historic present on the slightest provocation. As a whole the book is
thoroughly sound and useful. The photographs are suitably chosen, and
there are good chronological tables, lists of artists and genealogies
of the chief reigning houses.” L. C.-M.
+ − =Ath= p1254 N 28 ’19 1600w
“The great mass of materials relating to a disorganized country and to
the achievements in art are so interwoven as to form a scholarly,
clear whole.”
+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 30w
“The author has adopted an excellent and satisfactory plan for
compassing his enormous field and clarifying the immense detail that
goes to make up the history of these perhaps most significant
centuries in the world’s history. The book was evidently written
during the war and the author is frequently rather amusingly, pleased
to find German authorities in error.” B. B. Amram
+ =Review= 2:544 My 22 ’20 1300w
“The author’s bias in favour of republicanism is unfortunate in its
results upon his work.... It is useless, however, to discuss
differences of opinion in a book the subject of which is so immense;
we can only repeat our conviction that a reader who expects to find a
general book on the art, literature and history of all the Italian
states during their most important period will find Mr Cotterill’s
book useful, though he will be well advised to supplement its
judgments with other and more detailed works, and to make free use of
the historical lists and tables provided at the end of the book, and
of the useful index.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:561 D 13 ’19 1050w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Inevitable; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de
Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–18761
The title of the story indicates its fatalism. At the age of
twenty-three Cornélie de Retz van Loo was a divorced woman. She had
passionately loved the handsome Baron Brox when she married him, but
their temperaments had clashed from the beginning. He had gone so far
in his masterful, brutal way, as to beat her and she had run away. She
went to Italy to be alone and to reconstruct her life. She became a
feminist and achieved some fame in the woman movement by her pamphlet
on “The social position of divorced women.” Also she met Duco van der
Staal, the painter and dreamer and formed a free union. They were a
most harmonious couple, complementing and stimulating each other;
helping each other to find their “line of life.” But Cornélie will not
hear of marriage. She is through with marriage. Impecuniosity enjoins
a temporary separation. Cornélie takes a position as companion. There
she meets her former husband who at once exerts hypnotic power over
her and commands her to return to him. Cornélie flees and returns to
Duco, but even in his arms and knowing that she loves only him, her
inexorable fate is upon her. She follows the call of him whom she does
not love, but whose property and chattel she is because she was once
his wife.
* * * * *
“Of the four other Couperus novels which have now been published in
this country, ‘The inevitable’ is decidedly the best from the mere
standpoint of novel writing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w
“Taken as a whole, it is rich in beauty, rich in passion, has much of
gentle dreaming and superb awakening; yet it contains a certain
sadness which oftimes borders close to melancholy—a splendid woof
woven together with a warp of morbidity.” M. D. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 1050w
“There are many chapters in ‘The inevitable,’ aside from the
concluding one, which mark the book as an exquisite example of the
fictionist’s art. The author’s touch is always delicate and sure in
handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion. The author’s
powers of characterization are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 1300w
“‘Inevitable’ is decidedly well written and translated; it is
extremely attractive in its pictures of Rome, of Italian society, and
of the foreign colonists.” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“As in ‘The tour,’ the author’s interest in antiquity and in art finds
very full expression in these pages, as well as his sense of racial
contrasts and interplay among those who chance to meet on alien soil.”
H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 400w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Tour; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
*$2 (2c) Dodd
20–10054
In this book Louis Couperus, the Dutch novelist, tells a story of
ancient Egypt. Publius Lucius Sabinus, a young Roman lord, is touring
the Nile seeking diversion and forgetfulness of his lost love, whom he
believes drowned. This is the outward reason. Actually he has come to
visit all the various oracles to learn what he can of her whereabouts.
One after the other they reveal to him the thoughts that are in his
own mind and bring him to admit what others have all the time known,
that the girl has shamelessly deserted him and run off with a common
sailor. At the end of the tour news meets him that the Emperor
Tiberius has confiscated all his property, but Lucius, who has now
found solace with the Greek slave Cora, is impervious to the stings of
fortune and faces a life of poverty with gaiety. The story is told
lightly and with humor.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“‘The tour’ adds much to the Dutch novelist’s laurels, for it achieves
the unusual success of being totally unstrained by ‘melodrama,’
‘conflict,’ ‘passion,’ ‘revenge,’ or any other of the common
characteristics of a modern novel, and yet it is enthrallingly
interesting.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 12 ’20 300w
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w
“Although passages of fictional interest reward the more
frivolous-minded reader occasionally, and although there is a love
scene toward the end, there is much Baedeker between. The work is
unmistakably Couperus, delicate and suggestive, yet precise.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 230w
“His style is exquisite, delicate, unusual, and beautifully
translated.”
+ =Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 140w
“This book, even more perhaps than the stories that deal with his
Dutch contemporaries, exhibits his frugal ease and grace, the strength
and delicacy of his execution, the conscious but always finely
restrained melodic structure of his prose.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 420w
“A certain degree of relief is given to the otherwise sombre picture
by the two figures of Uncle Catullus and of the Sabaean guide Caleb,
the latter being a convincing presentment of a type which has changed
but little with the passing of time. Those who are interested in the
lives of the rich as they were some couple of thousands of years ago,
and in the decay of the oldest and at one time the most powerful
civilization upon earth, will find ‘The tour’ a fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 800w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“It is, at all events, a gay little affair. It is a romantic comedy in
the vein of ‘Twelfth night’—which, with its disconsolate young lord
and the manner of his comforting, it vaguely resembles.”
+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 320w
“Told with light, ironic humor and exquisite artistry.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=COURNOS, JOHN.= Mask. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–262
“This is the story of the making of a human mask.” (Overture) It is
the story of John Gombarov’s childhood and youth, as he told it years
afterward to a friend in London. Born in Russia, into a family of
“emancipated Jews,” he spends his early childhood there and tells of
the quaint customs and the kind of people he remembers. Then, the
family fortune being hopelessly ruined by his stepfather, a man with
the soul of a child and the mind of an inventor, they come to America,
the land of promise. The process of Americanization that Vanya, now
John, goes through in ‘The city of brotherly love’ is not a pretty
picture to contemplate. There the “wretched little foreigner” is run
“through a mangle” to “wring Europe out of his flesh and bones like
dirt out of a garment.” Only a heroic soul of the type of John
Gombarov’s could survive uncrushed. But it put the mask on his face.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
* * * * *
“The charm and power of the book lie in its welding of substance and
form,—its ‘style,’ in the only sense that matters. Its pictures are
conveyed as if by indirection. Yet they are as clear-cut as the work
of a lapidary.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:76 Mr ’20 1100w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 900w
“The embarrassing predicament of ‘The mask’ is that it is a reasonably
good book. Now a reasonably good book is peculiarly elusive. One
cannot tumble all over himself with praise of it, nor can he object to
it without a futile qualification of every statement. Mr Cournos, like
so many of our present-day writers, goes about his work with
intelligence, an impeccable keenness of vision, and some thoroughly
arrived attitudes. Consequently, one cannot get at him. He is
impregnably aware. Such people are skilled in the art of giving just
as much as can be endured, and no more.” Kenneth Burke
+ − =Dial= 68:496 Ap ’20 1700w
“If ‘The mask’ does no more than picture the struggle of an immigrant
family in ‘The city of brotherly love’ it is a rich contribution to
American literature. But it certainly does much more than that.” Alvin
Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 650w
“It is the poetry in this novel that makes its starkness endurable.
Behind the welter of life that it presents is an irresistible impulse
to live with mastery, with beauty, with meaning.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 550w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 480w
“‘The mask’ is a great book, curiously Elizabethan in spirit, a cry of
joy and life that existence cannot quench.”
+ =Sat R= 129:192 F 21 ’20 750w
“There is a vein of poetry in the telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 220w
“A book like this cannot be read lightly as an amusement. It is
closely written, with an intensity of feeling (usually hatred,
particularly of America) which will be a little startling to
Englishmen. John Gombarov is a fine character; the book is created for
him; he is the central interest which holds this discursive narrative
together. If he is not precisely a lovable character, he is a real and
living one.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 O 30 ’19 550w
=COURSAULT, JESSE HARLIAMAN.= Principles of education. (Beverley
educational ser.) *$2.50 Silver 370
20–20531
“The purpose of this book is to make simple, definite, and clear, a
body of principles which should guide in educational thought and
practice. Every student of education has certain fundamental beliefs,
or principles, which he uses as standards in judging the truth or
falsity of educational ideas and practices, upon which, as an
explanatory basis, he organizes his knowledge of educational matters,
and in the light of which he sees new difficulties to be overcome and
new problems to be solved.... To deal intelligently with these
educational problems, to deal intelligently with any educational
problems, even where scientific measurement is made use of, one must
have some fundamental ideas as to the nature of education and the part
which education plays in the drama of life.” (Chapter I) The contents
fall into three parts: The individual process; The social process; The
educational process. There is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“A preliminary statement of suggestions for using the book as a text,
together with a graphic outline of the book itself, found in one
chapter, add to the usefulness of the volume.”
+ =El School J= 21:312 D ’20 680w
“The book is excellently organized for teaching purposes. The
reinterpretation of the contributions of the great educational
philosophers is clear and concise, and is interwoven most
appropriately with the unfolding of the theme.”
+ =School R= 29:70 Ja ’21 350w
=COURTNEY, MRS JANET ELIZABETH (HOGARTH).= Freethinkers of the
nineteenth century. il *$6 Dutton 274.2
(Eng ed 20–12144)
“A cross section of English intellectual life as it reflected the new
tendencies is presented in a biographical study of seven outstanding
personages of the period by Janet E. Courtney in ‘Freethinkers of the
nineteenth century.’ The seven are Frederick Denison Maurice, Matthew
Arnold, Charles Bradlaw, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen, Harriet
Martineau and Charles Kingsley, the last included rather as an
associate of free thinkers and a sympathizer with them than as one
actually of their number. The author in a preface explains the
selection as promoted by recollection of youthful impressions of the
controversies in many fields of intellectual activity.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p634 My 14 ’20 780w
“Her book reads a little as if Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen and the
others were files of old newspapers, from which she has been
diligently and judiciously clipping. But the clippings, it is only
fair to add, are connected by a well-informed and easy narrative, and
each whole is a story told with tolerance and humor and a pleasant
contagious gratitude.”
+ − =New Repub= 23:313 Ag 11 ’20 1350w
+ =No Am= 213:139 Ja ’21 580w
“Miss Courtney has done her work well; her brief biographies are
intelligent, sympathetic, and discriminating, and are interesting
reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 130w
+ − =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 500w
“Mrs Courtney’s book is well worth reading. We regret its omissions,
and it does not go very deep; but as a record of facts and of
sympathetic interpretation it is interesting.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 900w
“Their stories are intelligently and interestingly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 520w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Mr 18 ’20 880w
=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL MADISON.= Colonial architecture of
Salem. *$8 Little 728
19–19769
“The chapter headings [of this book are:] The gable and peaked-roof
house; The lean-to house; The gambrel-roof house; The square
three-story wood house; The square three-story brick house; Doorways
and porches; Windows and window frames; Interior wood finish; Halls
and stairways; Mantels and chimney places; Public buildings; Salem
architecture of today. The first five chapters trace a definite
development in Salem architecture by periods in a more thorough manner
than has before been attempted. The last chapter deals with modern
houses designed and built with rare good taste along historic lines
since the disastrous Salem fire of 1914.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“It is not a chatty book like Miss Henderson’s; it is rather a
serious, analytical, descriptive, and semi-technical study.” W. A.
Dyer
+ =Bookm= 51:243 Ap ’20 280w
“The most valuable as well as the most complete study of the subject.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 650w
=COUTTS, FRANCIS BURDETT THOMAS MONEY-.= Spacious times and others.
*$1.25 Lane 821
20–7868
A book of poems by an English writer, author of a number of volumes of
essays and verse. Part 1 consists of war poems with such titles as:
The new Pisgah; To the Belgians; To America aloof; To America at war;
To an anticompulsion demagogue; To the strikers; The conscientious
shirker; To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The second part contains poems
of other days. Notes on some of the war poems come at the close.
* * * * *
“For all their fourteen lines and their Petrarchan rhyme-system, they
have the quality of newspaper articles.”
− =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 450w
“Much better than most of the lyrics of the war is a quiet poem about
a woman, called ‘Her character.’” Marguerite Williams
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 90w
“They have eloquence; but it is rather the stilted eloquence of a
sententious publicist than poetry; and it is lost when the writer
drops to political abuse. On the whole the inspiration runs thinly
throughout.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=COX, HAROLD.= Economic liberty. *$2.75 Longmans 330
20–12900
“Mr Harold Cox has collected and reprinted from the quarterlies a
number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. Mr
Cox rightly lays stress on the importance of economic liberty which is
obtainable only under our existing system. There is much truth in Mr
Cox’s chapter on socialist ethics. He devotes a chapter to the special
fallacy of ‘Nationalisation,’ involving the state control under which
enterprise withers and individual initiative ceases. There are some
essays, too, on the question of free trade or protection, and an
eloquent paper on ‘The two paths of empire’—the old protectionist
methods which we abandoned deliberately last century, and the modern
creed of freedom under which the dominions and the crown colonies and
protectorates have developed very rapidly and successfully.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:852 D ’20 70w
“Will be appreciated by those who distrust state control and by
radical thinkers who wish seriously to consider opposing points of
view.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“One would, in fact, like to see these essays expanded into a general
political philosophy, and we believe there would be a welcome for such
a book, and that it would have considerable influence.”
+ =Sat R= 130:180 Ag 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Cox’s general line of reasoning is sound.”
+ =Spec= 124:830 Je 19 ’20 1200w
“In dealing with present day problems, Cox is academic and aloof from
realities. Nevertheless, this is a good book for reformers of all
schools who sincerely desire to consider their cause in the light of
every genuine opposing argument.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 270w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 670w
=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SYDNEY COXON).= Breathless moment. *$2 (2½c)
Lane
20–13346
Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her
father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper
and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is
already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the
front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her
breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife
dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock.
He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her
charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child
arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An
operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all
difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for
what has happened before the war.
* * * * *
“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”
+ =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 100w
“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters
whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which
develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of
hers which we have previously read.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 700w
“The story is readable but unconventional.”
+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 70w
+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 30w
“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only
she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability
quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were
not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in
for atmosphere.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O ’20 260w
=CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud.= Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c)
Century
20–17409
Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He
seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that
enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent.
In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and
illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The
greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole
street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a
reasonable doubt.
=Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the
sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut
and ingenious plot-weavings.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w
“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are
much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious
incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the
explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
=CRADDOCK, ERNEST A.= Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3
“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of
the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the
introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some
English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite
recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom
republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in
some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it.
Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject,
‘The school republic.’”—School R
* * * * *
=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w
“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits
and defects of the scheme proposed.”
+ =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 200w
+ =School R= 28:550 S ’20 120w
“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of
pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It
is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well
written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so
interesting.”
+ =Spec= 124:761 Je 5 ’20 900w
=CRAM, MILDRED.= Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–10732
A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug
Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New
York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests
in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry
him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the
tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl,
daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real
romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his
adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie
technique in telling her story.
* * * * *
“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the
faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer
and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 350w
“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a
Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to
serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out
for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will
entertain the reader admirably.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 340w
=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones,
Marshall 252
20–445
“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up
their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the
monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the
Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of
life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once
more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long
and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American
Church Monthly.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:163 F ’20
“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider
than the small groups for which they were written.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:833 Mr ’20 850w
+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=CRANE, AARON MARTIN.=[2] Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248
20–22091
A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in
1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the
teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The
prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving,
Prayer and healing.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 130w
=CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE.= In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3
(4c) Little 974.4
20–9735
The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not
applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century
and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was
repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans
but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the
Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that
however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is
desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who
look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their
own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In
which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The
formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they
sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How
they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried
to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”;
Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony;
Appendix, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim
fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:122 O ’20 2350w
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 120w
“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a
sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of
deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation,
causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims
must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 340w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the
personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of
today.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 50w
“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 750w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373
20–10648
“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public
information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of
the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep
any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was
to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a
compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.”
The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section;
Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in
honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and
other documents, including a list of the publications of the
committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated
with portraits and is indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
=Freeman= 2:89 O 6 ’20 1550w
“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did
not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet,
the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by
a man who knows the art.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 4 ’20 3150w
Reviewed by F: Moore
=Review= 3:211 S 8 ’20 1000w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373
20–11585
A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the
ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of
nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and
our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the
chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”;
“The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral
offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What
Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were
the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great
American tradition.
* * * * *
“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove
all the reason on one side.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard
Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography
of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly
overstated.”
− + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w
“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 460w
“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to
hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most
effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique
in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the
president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less
satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and
rhetorical.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w
“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts
over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1700w
=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= At
random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814
20–18957
The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is
a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays,
impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are:
Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline;
Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids;
The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms;
The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.
* * * * *
“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in
the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be
entertained with these random papers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 280w
=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 10w
=CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN.= Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50
Brentano’s 947
20–1063
“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared
their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the
United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks
or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers
only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson
was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much
travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of
Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this
interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Ath= p560 Ap 23 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because
it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English.
He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was
scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its
presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”
+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 700w
“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to
historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western
colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”
+ − =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 50w
“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French
historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as
well as with interest.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1250w
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal
observation, he describes the organization and government of the
Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that
is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”
+ − =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:52 Ap 3 ’20 160w
=CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS.= Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c)
Stokes 134
20–19174
The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter
and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world.
Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a
decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by
way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and
materializations, all through non-professional means. Long
conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are:
Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of
spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”;
Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is
done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The
seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation
extraordinary.
* * * * *
“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr
Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the
case.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 660w
“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible
dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of
a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on
either side of the veil.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 540w
Reviewed by Booth Tarkington
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 420w
“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the
life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend
themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the
next phase of life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 360w
=CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.= Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–22156
This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the
story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of
Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor
monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the
horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander
about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts.
So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his
first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several
respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.
* * * * *
“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible,
and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is
lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not
even make a moderately good story.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 200w
“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is
little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon
the Catholic church.”
− =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w
“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with
optimism for the world’s future.”
+ =Outlook= 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still
admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 280w
=CROMWELL, GLADYS.= Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
19–19249
“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is
posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum
gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a
poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the
end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked
the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests,
was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is
pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows
clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without
question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign
of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of
nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had
herself thought and felt.”
+ =Ath= p289 F 27 ’20 140w
“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two
very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly
always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness
is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w
“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing
that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a
fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and
bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic
world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of
her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and
Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson,
with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:534 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 300w
“The work of a finely thoughtful woman whom the spectacle of sheer,
naked cleverness and successfulness hurt, it represents feminine
introspection almost at its best.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“It is the cumulative effect of the collection that is most
remarkable. As one reads on, the book develops a unity that is more
than a unity of texture or of inspiration. It achieves an
eloquence,—superseding the poet’s earlier constraint—that seems almost
to deepen the lyric sequence to the additional significance of a
monodrama.” O. R.
+ =New Repub= 22:65 Mr 10 ’20 1000w
“The poems are sincere, but sometimes stumbling. The winds of time
will blow from the tree of poetry some of the leaves as heavy as these
and as slightly affixed.”
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 200w
“If Miss Cromwell had lived she would never have been a popular poet,
but it is quite likely that she would have written rare lyrics for the
pleasure of poets and others to whom poetry is no amusement, but, in a
deep and real sense, the sharing of life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 480w
“Her poetical work throughout is the self-revelation, made with a
blunt direct sincerity, of a fine spirit and a thoughtful mind.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 210w
=CROSLEY, MRS PAULINE S.=[2] Intimate letters from Petrograd. *$3 Dutton
947
20–10514
“Pauline S. Crosley’s book is a collection of letters written to
members of her family, principally from Petrograd, where her husband
was American naval attaché from the spring of 1917 until the flight of
the foreign legations and embassies through Finland in the following
February.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The book is remarkable for its unbiased opinions and its clear
estimate of the political situations, as well as for its realistic
account of the chaotic conditions of Russia in the first days of its
downfall.”
+ =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 80w
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 1400w
=CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD.= Dame school of experience, and other papers.
*$2 (3½c) Houghton 814
20–22103
In the opening paper the author reports an interview he had with the
“withered dame” who teaches the school of experience. He found the
schoolhouse an ancient building and the equipment primitive. The dame
treated his inquiry into her methods as a prehistoric joke and made it
plain that she did not go in for the fancy branches of ethics. Her
parting advice was to treat experience not as a noun but as a verb and
to mind the adverbs. The other papers are: The teacher’s dilemma;
Every man’s natural desire to be somebody else; The perils of the
literate; Natural enemies and how to make the best of them; The
spiritual adviser of efficiency experts; The Pilgrims and their
contemporaries; Education in pursuit of Henry Adams; The hibernation
of genius; The unpreparedness of liberalism; On the evening of the new
day.
* * * * *
“This volume of a dozen essays is bound to be one of the most popular
books of the season throughout the country, and while it appeals
primarily to the man and woman of literary culture, its wisdom as well
as its wit will draw many others to whom common sense clothed in humor
appeals particularly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 24 ’20 400w
=CROWDER, ENOCH HERBERT.= Spirit of selective service. *$2 (2c) Century
353
20–5259
In part one of this book the author tells how the draft act was put
into operation. Its success was made possible, he says, thru the
cooperation of the men and women, nearly two hundred thousand strong,
who made up the backbone of the selective service system. This body,
composing the draft boards, “espoused the administration of an
unpopular law, and not only achieved success in its execution, but
popularized it as well.” In part two the author considers plans for
bringing the same spirit of cooperation to bear on the present
confusion. The chapters of part one are: America elects; Feeding the
god of war; The volunteer system in America; Pride of tradition versus
common-sense patriotism; Universal service in America; Selective
service in America; How England achieved selective service; The spirit
of the draft; Part two: The tasks that lie ahead; The permanency of
the selective service idea; The preservation of Americanism; A plan of
action; The old guard. An appendix gives General Crowder’s report as
provost marshal general to the secretary of war on the demobilization
of his department.
* * * * *
“Clearly written and very interesting historically.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“While ‘The spirit of selective service’ contains more detail,
description, and theory of the draft and its aftermath than it does
‘spirit,’ it is none the less a well written and valuable contribution
to the already large collection of semi-technical post-war
literature.” C. K. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 360w
“It may be that some of its propositions are more ingenious than
practicable, though it would not be easy to point them out. It may be
that the writer is over-hopeful of the success of some of his plans,
though he maintains generally an admirable tone of moderation. It is
certain that he has, in a broad and patriotic spirit, presented most
lucidly what he esteems to be the lesson of one of the greatest
administrative achievements in the history of our government.”
+ =No Am= 211:857 Je ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 120w
=CROWELL, JOSHUA FREEMAN.= Outdoors and in. *$1.50 Four seas co. 811
20–5146
Nature themes predominate in this volume of poems and not the least
attractive of them are those inspired by the cultivated garden
flowers. There are a few poems of social interest, including those
which touch on the war. An occasional vein of satire is also
disclosed. The verses are grouped under the following heads: Through
the year; Along the way; Above the clouds; From sea and shore; By wood
and stream; Of field and town; To tone and tune; Garden wise; An
interlude; Dream wise.
* * * * *
“Skilled though he be in verse forms, Mr Crowell is nevertheless far
from being a poet, and no discriminating reader will ever suspect him
of it.”
− + =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w
“The verses are pleasant and often graceful. The book is enjoyable
reading, though hardly belonging to the heights of poetry.”
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 120w
=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Common sense and labour. *$2 (3½c) Doubleday 331
20–7435
In attempting to put his finger on the something wrong in the
industrial world of today, in the relations between employer and
employee, the writer does not find any intrinsic antagonism between
capital and labor. On the contrary he believes that “there is a
growing conception that capital and labor are complementary, that it
is perfectly possible to effect a bargain and sale with a reasonable
profit to both sides and without more than a natural amount of
bickering.” He has little use for any of the revolutionary changes
involved in “profit-sharing,” the “democratization of industry” and
the like, but thinks that constructive results can be achieved when
“capital and labor meet not as partners but as persons anxious to make
all that they can out of the same general opportunity.” Contents: The
fundamental causes of labour unrest; The relation between the employer
and the employed; The worker and his wage; Wages and profit-sharing
delusions; The fetish of industrial democracy; When they get together;
The economic truths of work; The man and the machine; The methods and
policies of British labour.
* * * * *
“The many cases cited give it a lively interest for the average,
concerned business man or worker.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 3:651 D 29 ’20 500w
“His book makes for sanity on both sides.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w
“Distinguished by rare good sense and lack of partisanship.”
+ =St Louis= 18:215 S ’20 20w
“He is not always judicious in his strictures and his indulgence in
cutting epigram is sometimes rather annoying, but there is much of
stimulating information and suggestion in his essay.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 240w
“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of
labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of
understanding of those causes.”
− =Survey= 44:316 My 29 ’20 200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 80w
=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1
20–8812
The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for
higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against
work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He
has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present
mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates
a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but
rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of
savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers
a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social
unrest.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w
“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.”
G: Soule
− + =Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 170w
“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in
conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead
− =New Repub= 24:100 S 22 ’20 2100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 N 25 ’20 70w
=CROY, HOMER.= Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–16795
Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in
the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians
were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The
young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love
with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond
who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the
two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering
adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim
eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news
of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.
* * * * *
“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 340w
“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals
are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of
artificial coloring in description or action.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 110w
=CROZIER, WILLIAM.= Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner
940.373
20–8902
A book subtitled “a contribution to the history of American
preparedness.” The author’s purpose is to describe the ordnance
department and to trace the various steps in equipping the army for
France, leaving the reader to judge to what extent the department met
its responsibilities. Contents: Ordnance department; Embarrassments;
Overhead organization; Criticisms; Rifles; Machine guns; Field
artillery; Smokeless powder; Responsibility; Conclusion. The author
states that since he is no longer a member of the war department he
speaks “without official authority, and with something of the freedom
of any other citizen.”
* * * * *
“So far as the book is an apology for the Ordnance department, it is
well done and is successful. So far as it is an apology for the writer
himself, it had better have been left undone. It doth protest too
much; it leaves the reader not quite convinced; worse, far worse, it
leaves him bored.” H: W. Bunn
+ − =Review= 3:319 O 13 ’20 1500w
“Altogether the book has a larger field than its mere name implies. It
may be said to be an authoritative and comprehensive history of an
achievement characteristically American in dealing with new and
extraordinary problems.” F. B. C. Bradlee
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 310w
=CRUICKSHANK, ALFRED HAMILTON.= Philip Massinger. il *$4.50 Stokes 822
(Eng ed 21–120)
Of the many dramatists of the century of Shakespeare, says the author
of this volume, none seem more worthy of affectionate consideration
than Philip Massinger. Comparing his writings with the masterpieces of
his contemporaries, which, though displaying rich gifts of pathos,
poetry and humor, are often marred by waywardness, unnaturalness, want
of proportion and grossness, Massinger’s work is sober, well-balanced,
dignified and lucid. While he shares with them the atmosphere of
romance and adventure, he is the most Greek of his generation. The
book contains, besides the text, appendices and index, a frontispiece
portrait, a facsimile of the Henslow document at Dulwich, and of the
“Believe as you list” Ms. in the British museum.
* * * * *
“It is a conscientious work, which contains, we suppose, all the
information and nearly all the serious speculations possible, about
its subject. In expression of judgment and comparison, it is useful;
for if any opinion is to be expressed of Mr Cruickshank’s criticism,
it is deficient rather than aberrant.” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p760 Je 11 ’20 1600w
“In every detail, Dr Cruickshank’s book is carefully documented.” E.
F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1550w
“He has thoroughly mastered the large amount of material collected in
dissertations and technical journals during the last half-century, and
within certain definite limits has made an adequate study of which the
chief merit is the warm and well-reasoned admiration of Massinger
which glows through every page. The scope of the book is unfortunately
strangely limited.” S: C. Chew
+ − =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 600w
“Professor Cruickshank’s scholarly and illuminating and, to us,
provocative book will, we hope, do something to revive interest in
Massinger’s work.”
+ =Sat R= 130:36 Jl 10 ’20 720w
=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.= History of education. (Riverside
textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9
20–20533
As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a
phase of the development and spread of western civilization,”
indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of
primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece,
traces the development of education throughout the western world for
the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or
less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of
the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race.
The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world;
The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The
book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and
maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.
=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.=[2] Readings in the history of education.
(Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9
20–22845
“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of
educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The
original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading
to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement
to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume.
It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the
subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise
of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the
revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new
scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth
century come the beginnings of national education which gradually
bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.
=CULLUM, RIDGWELL.= Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–18301
Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a
mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his
pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with
him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he
finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter
with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost
accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote
all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there
is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians
lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion
of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years
of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the
meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in
their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of
the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years,
and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him
years before.
* * * * *
“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and
the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating
Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and
well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots
even inspired.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 620w
“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber in
its treatment.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w
“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his
latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a
cumbersome, prolix style.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 40w
=CUMMING, CAROLINE KING, and PETTIT, WALTER WILLIAM=, comps. and eds.
Russian-American relations, March 1917–March 1920. *$3.50 Harcourt 327
20–11098
The documents and papers have been compiled under the direction of
John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood, and William Allen White at the
request of the League of free nations association. They cover three
years beginning with the first declaration issued by the Provisional
government of Russia after the revolution, March 16, 1917, and ending
with the statement made by the supreme council at Paris, February 24,
1920. Their object is to facilitate an inquiry into the relations
between the United States and Russia since the revolution of March
1917, the general purport of which is indicated by an extract from a
letter by the chairman of the association: “It is not intended that
this study should go into the question of the relative merits of
Bolshevism or of the forces fighting Bolshevism in Russia, but that it
should be merely an attempt to make clear to the American people what
the actual facts have been in our governmental dealings with the
various groups in what was the Russian empire.” The documents fall
into three main categories: (1) Documents already published in English
in Senate reports, State department publications, the New York Times,
Current History Magazine, the Nation, etc.; (2) Original translations
from various Russian official and unofficial newspapers; (3) Materials
hitherto unpublished, contributed by Colonel Raymond Robins and
others. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Gratitude for the publication should not impose silence as to its
faults, which are of such a character as to impair greatly its
usefulness. First of all, the selection of documents, besides being
very slight for the period of the provisional and Kerensky
governments, has also somewhat of an ex parte character. The reader
will not fail to be struck with the entire absence of papers derived
directly from the State department, except for five that are taken
from one of its publications.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 420w
=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
“It is made up entirely of authentic documents. This moderation in aim
is an excellence, for not the most vindictive interventionist could
deny the impartial, objective nature of the information now made
conveniently accessible, and much of it made for the first time
available.” Norman Hapgood
+ =Nation= 110:766 Je 5 ’20 2650w
=CUMMINGS, BRUCE FREDERICK (W. N. P. BARBELLION, pseud.).= Enjoying
life, and other literary remains. il *$2 Doran 824
20–16882
The present volume shows the versatility of the author’s genius in
that it is equally divided between his love of nature and his love for
literature. The first four essays are a hitherto unpublished part of
the “Journal of a disappointed man” and breathe the joy of life and
passion for life in rare exuberance. The rest of the contents are five
essays on literary and speculative subjects, two short stories: A fool
and a maid on Lundy Island; and How Tom snored on his bridal
night;—and essays in natural history.
* * * * *
“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power and
originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its quaintness
or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the literary
exercises of an unusually able man.”
+ =Ath= p1366 D 19 ’19 620w
“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual
sketches are very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon
the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a
keeper of journals.”
+ − =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 250w
“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always
this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 650w
“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of
cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his
friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a
disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second
demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human
documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”
− =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 400w
“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing,
cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 13 ’20 650w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 5 ’20 1100w
=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.= Brazilian mystic: being the life
and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd
20–26882
The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties
but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr Cunninghame
Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known as Antonio
Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet and saint and
who with his followers became involved in civil war. A long
introduction describes the scene of action, that region of Pernambuco
and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable only as “wooded,
back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted to cattle
raising and it has developed a people described as “a race apart—a
race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong, honest,
revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life to an
extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of
some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.
* * * * *
“Mr Cunninghame Graham gives us the story with a certain graphic
effect and some picturesque detail. Unfortunately, the picturesque
detail is not chosen so as to throw light on the points that are most
obscure and of deepest interest. It is a pity that the value of a book
containing so notable a record should be impaired by grave defects of
style and taste.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p368 Mr 19 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction as
well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1450w
“His story Mr Cunninghame Graham tells vividly, with rather too many
nagging philosophical comments, but with a richly colored background
of strange, wild customs.”
+ − =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 300w
“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in
his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives
him everything in narration which delights him.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:18 Ap 3 ’20 1100w
“‘A Brazilian mystic’ possesses an exotic charm that sets it apart
from volumes of the commonplace.”
+ =N Y Times= p13 O 3 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
“All is told with an artistry of penmanship that is a revelation to
those who were, perhaps, too near events at that time to see them in
their romantic aspect.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:78 Jl 24 ’20 500w
“His narrative of the successive sieges of Canudos is an admirable
piece of writing.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Fascinating and exciting story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 2 ’20 320w
“If the result looks to be unworthy of the trouble the author has
taken, the responsibility for the failure to make a really interesting
book rests with Antonio Maciel and his followers.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 900w
=CURLE, JAMES HERBERT.= Shadow-show. new ed il *$2.50 (6c) Doran 910
20–19281
The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets
doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show
of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was
forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his
life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid
phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The
pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The tortoise’s
head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The dream city of
Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the waters of Babylon”; A
grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through the seventh gate.”
* * * * *
“It is all very fascinating, with none of the dreariness of the
traveler who talks and says little.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 170w
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w
“One feels that it all might have been much better done than it is,
and that it probably would be much better indeed, if one might forget
the book and sit down for a chat with the author.”
+ − =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 320w
“The showman is always interesting, though not always to be believed
implicity, especially when he forgets the pictures and goes to
moralizing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 340w
=CURLE, RICHARD.= Wanderings; a book of travel and reminiscences. *$5
Dutton
910
“The ground-plan of Mr Curle’s travel-book is autobiographical, like
that of a picaresque romance; the twenty-five chapters, each complete
in itself, are placed intentionally in a seemingly haphazard order,
thus evoking different atmospheres, and allowing the author opportune
moments for uttering occasional opinions. Asia, Africa, America, and
Europe are the fields of travel.”—Ath
=Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 100w
“His descriptions, if rather impressionistic, are capitally done, and
there is no taint of monotonous sameness in the record of his
adventures on land and sea. As a whole, ‘Wanderings’ is a very good
book; better than that, it is a very interesting book, and one which
loses no interest by many readings.” G. M. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 800w
“Is it Mr Curle’s weakness that his Europe is rather threadbare, that
he has so little to tell us that is interesting about France and
Spain, that he achieves his effects best when the strong colours are,
as it were, given to him by those ‘more outlandish places’ that yield,
among more sensual trophies, the rich anodyne of sadness and
disillusion which is so assuaging to the neurotic of our day?”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 450w
“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except
in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns
the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 2350w
+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 400w
“Of local color and atmosphere there is a satisfying amount, and the
autobiography which is the basis of the book but not its motive is no
more obtrusive than the hooks on which one hangs his garments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 250w
=CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT.= Wanted: a fool. *$1.75 (3½c) Harper
20–18762
Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his
luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man
who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with
chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and
uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr
Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in the
hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen by
her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s
books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is
deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with seem
to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The key to
the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a double
life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns that since
his retirement to the country he has been picked by a leading
theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture prominently
displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight visit has played
quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be even more
important in O’Mara’s.
* * * * *
“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very fragile
threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle strained.
Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed delight.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 110w
“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory
reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits
and ‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as
is proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last
chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”
+ − =NY Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 370w
“A slight, but in its own way, engaging tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 230w
=CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER.= Valley of silent men; a story of the Three
River country. il $2 (2½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–15535
James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far
northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to a
murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the latter
free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A mystery
girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape. Their scow
is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and Marette is
apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of silent men” is
now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last strength he
finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices prompted
by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark deeds—all of
which come to light in the Valley of silent men.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“This is by no means a remarkable western adventure tale, but for
undiluted romance, tinged with the flavor of adventure that always
accompanies mention of the R. N. W. P., ‘The valley of silent men’
cannot be surpassed.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 23 ’20 270w
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 7 ’20 770w
“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes too
trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 100w
=CUSHING, CHARLES PHELPS.= If you don’t write fiction. *$1 (5c) McBride
029
20–11318
This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly
newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly
autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The
first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as
a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters
are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs; Finding a
market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet street”;
Something to sell; What the editor wants.
* * * * *
“A rollicking but practical account of how one free-lancer succeeded.”
+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“It is extremely enjoyable and rather helpful ‘how-to’ book.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 240w
“It will pay any beginner—and perhaps some writers of experience—to
run through this book for suggestions.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the
professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w
=CUSHMAN, HERBERT ERNEST.= Beginners history of philosophy. v 2. Modern
philosophy. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 109
(19–243)
In this second and revised edition “much new material has been
incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the
re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the
‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some
length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the
civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The
humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural science
period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of the natural
science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment (1690–1781); John
Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in France and Germany;
Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of the thing-in-itself; The
philosophy of the nineteenth century; illustrations, diagrams and
index.
=CUTTING, MRS MARY STEWART (DOUBLE-DAY).= Some of us are married. *$1.75
Doubleday
20–6842
“In this new volume Mary Stewart Cutting relates a number of those
pleasant, semi-humorous little stories of married life with which her
name is associated, as well as two others which she calls
‘Autobiographical stories.’ The first, The man who went under, is the
tale of an embezzler, told by himself. The second, The song of
courage, is a story of a woman who might have been a great singer, had
not life thwarted her-life, and her own affections.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“While as a whole not equal to Mrs Cutting’s best work, will no doubt
give pleasure to many people.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 400w
“None are dramatic or tragic in the accepted sense. Indeed, some of
the little plots seem almost trivial in their beginnings and
consequences. But married folk will quickly appreciate their truth and
the deft skill of the author in presenting them severely on their
merits.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 320w
=CYNN, HUGH HEUNG-WO.= Rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people,
its causes and the outlook. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 951.9
20–8302
“This story is of the Korean rebellion of March, 1919, and the
establishment of the republic. The author who was educated in an
American university, and is principal of the Pai Chai school in Seoul,
is temperate but shows clearly the wrongs of his country under
Japanese rule. Appendixes contain material on the relation of
missionaries to the revolution and also Japanese-Korean treaties since
1876. No index.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p743 N 11 ’20 60w
=CZERNIN VON UND ZU CHUDENITZ, OTTOKAR THEOBALD OTTO MARIA, graf.= In
the world war. *$4 (4c) Harper 940.48
20–6768
The author disclaims any intention of writing a history of the war but
says of the book: “Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose
is to describe separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and
individuals with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore,
observe closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the
great drama.” (Preface) The result, with his introductory reflections,
is a conception of the war as a whole. One of the features of the book
is an intimate characterization of the Archduke Ferdinand. Contents:
Introductory reflections; Konopischt; William II; Rumania; The U-boat
warfare; Attempts at peace; Wilson; Impressions and reflections;
Poland; Brest-Litovsk; The peace of Bukharest; Final reflections:
Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“Among the swarm of revelations that are appearing in connection with
the diplomatic history of the war. Count Czernin’s book is one of the
really notable ones. It is true he is disappointing, for he
continually makes us feel that he might have told us much more if he
had chosen to, but, as far as he goes, he is well worth attention.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:502 Ap ’20 650w
“It is greatly to be regretted that this translation of an interesting
and important book should have been entrusted to someone with a half
knowledge of German, and a complete ignorance of the elementary facts
about Austria.”
− + =Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 220w
=Ath= p108 Ja 23 ’20 2050w
=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w (Reprinted from Am Hist R)
“The title of the book should really be ‘Czernin in the world war,’
but this does not say that the story is lacking in universal
significance. The hasty-pudding character of the text, the very lack
of scholarly caution, brings us so much nearer to the personality of
Czernin himself; and it is this opportunity to see an important elder
statesman in mental action that gives the work more interest than the
technical narratives of the military leaders. The sidelights that
Czernin’s analysis throws upon colleagues and adversaries in the same
official station as himself, are an important contribution to the
psychology of statesmen.” L: Mumford
+ =Freeman= 1:452 Jl 21 ’20 1750w
+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w
“Count Czernin has two advantages over the other statesmen and
commanders who have published their personal records of the war. He
writes remarkably well, and he has no motive to distort the truth. His
fault is diffuseness and repetition, but it cannot spoil an eminently
readable book.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:308 N 29 ’19 2100w
“Czernin treats the war in a very fair and objective spirit. He
reveals his limitations most clearly in the chapter on the
Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.” A. C. Freeman
+ − =N Y Call= p11 My 23 ’20 1350w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 180w
=Spec= 123:692 N 22 ’19 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 1150w
D
=DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE=, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones,
Marshall 755
20–26575
The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is
arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page
reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico,
Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on
the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of
each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the
complete story of the life of Jesus.
* * * * *
“An important book for any art collection.”
+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20
“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of
books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is
‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number
of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am
confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent
place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:257 N ’20 490w
“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both
the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure
to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies
of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 90w
“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem
capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the
greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in
full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which
appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color
reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.”
Glen Mullin
+ =Nation= 111:sup654 D 8 ’20 2150w
“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes.
Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who
opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will
find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 720w
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w
=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan
20–817
A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman
of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of
which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing
it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon
her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire
into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend
that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit
the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala
Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the
young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.
* * * * *
“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence
Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable
powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date
these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p1289 D 5 ’19 1350w
“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel,
writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex.
In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops
venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental
indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:202 Ap ’20 1300w
“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but
Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that
which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 500w
“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and
just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a
poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The
people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great
consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.”
H. I. Gilchrist
+ − =Dial= 68:523 Ap ’20 1500w
=Lit D= p113 S 18 ’20 2550w
“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and
intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and
life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high
speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other
literatures its structural method is not unknown.”
+ =Nation= 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w
“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and
it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the
compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the
very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem
artless in its basic simplicity.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence
Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in
the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s
‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater
clarity.”
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w
“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force
may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is
certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w
“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place
among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one
of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain
of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps
by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any
kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made
her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it
up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional
current.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w
“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary
achievement, particularly on the technical side.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w
“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss
Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness
of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident
limits in the understanding of men.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 750w
=DANE, EDMUND.= British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918.
il *$3 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–4448)
“This volume deals with the operations in five theatres of
war—Southwest Africa, East Africa, Togoland, Cameroon, and Kiao-chau.
Mr Dane has endeavored, with the help of nine sketch maps, to compress
the account of them into 205 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p688 My 21 ’20 110w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 40w
“On the whole, he has given us, as he claims, a truthful and lucid
narrative, sufficient for the general reader, and a useful primer for
the student. Mr Dane quotes no authorities and gives no bibliography.
He goes out of his way to avoid and paraphrase ordinary military
expressions.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p728 D 11 ’19 550w
=DANIELS, GEORGE WILLIAM.= Early English cotton industry; introductory
chapter by George Unwin. (Manchester university publications) il *$3.25
(*8s 6d) Longmans 338.4
20–14211
“Mr Daniels, who is senior lecturer in economics in the University of
Manchester, was greatly helped in writing this historical sketch of
the cotton industry from the sixteenth century to the death of Samuel
Crompton by the discovery in the upper storey of one of the mills
owned by Messrs O’Connel and Co., Limited, at Ancoats, of a number of
ledgers, correspondence files, etc., dealing with their business for
the period 1795–1835. Mr Daniels further discovered among the business
correspondence of the firm a series of original letters by Crompton,
written in 1812 and describing his invention of the ‘mule’ thirty
years earlier, which are here reproduced.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Daniels’ researches make a valuable addition to social and
industrial history.”
+ =Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 210w
“Apart from these technical details, however, the book is of special
value because it shows that the present relations between capital and
labour were not the outcome of the factory system, but must be traced
much further back.”
+ =Spec= 125:211 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 Ag 12 ’20 110w
=DANIELS, JOHN.= America via the neighborhood. il *$2 (2c) Harper 325.7
21–170
The volume is one of a series of eleven books on Americanization
studies of which Allen T. Burns is general director. Its point of
departure is that the essential objective in any program of
Americanization is constructive participation in the life of America
and that this cannot be attained either by enforced conformity or the
equally enforced injection of the English language and a smattering of
civics. The general conclusion of the study is that Americanization
does not restrict itself to the immigrant alone but to all activities
that have to do with neighborhood and community problems and that it
is the labor unions, cooperatives and political organizations that
bring the immigrant into democratic partnership with the native
American. The book is illustrated and the contents are:
Americanization and the neighborhood; Inherent forces; Union through
racial coherence; Colony pioneering (two chapters); The social
settlement approach; The settlement’s larger opportunities; Church,
school, and library; Other agencies and the neighborhood principle;
Labor unions; Co-operatives; Political organization and government;
The outcome.
=DARGON, JEAN.= Future of aviation, with a preface by M. Etienne Lamy.
il *$3 Appleton 629.1
20–3275
“A volume entitled ‘The future of aviation’ contains a translation by
Philip Nutt of a work written in French by Jean Dargon. There are nine
full-page illustrations in the book, two maps, and numerous diagrams.”
(N Y Times) “It is a discussion of the civil as opposed to the
military use of the airplane, showing how it depends first of all on
structure which aims at endurance and carrying power rather than
agility and lightness. The author then considers practical problems;
postal service, tourism, international air lines and traffic
regulations.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:264 My ’20
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ja ’20 30w
+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 40w
=DARK, RICHARD.= Quest of the Indies. il *$2.25 Stokes 910 9
The title of the book is used as the symbol for the medieval spirit of
adventure and desire for expansion and knowledge of the earth’s
surface. Beginning with the Mohammedan invasion of eastern and
southern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries, the book contains
brief sketches of the various voyages of exploration and conquest with
their leading personalities—which ended in the complete European
invasion of the Americas. With illustrations and several early maps of
the world the contents are: The mediæval world; The farther East; The
heel of Africa; Round the Cape to India; The Portuguese eastern
empire; The first voyage of Columbus; Later voyages of Columbus;
Central America: discovery of the Pacific; Magellan’s voyage; The
conquest of Mexico; The conquest of Peru; Chronological summary,
Index.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p13 O 31 ’20 100w
=DARLING, ELTON R.= Inorganic chemical synonyms and other useful
chemical data. *$1 Van Nostrand 546
19–17188
A work based on a series of articles written for the Chemical Engineer
in 1918. It is designed for the student, but the author expresses the
belief that it will prove useful to the experienced chemist. Contents:
Introduction; The elements; Specific gravity and temperature
comparison; Standards of weights and measures; Chemical synonyms
(comprising the main body of the book); Cross index of chemical terms.
The author is in charge of the industrial chemistry department in the
Newark technical school, Newark, N.J.
* * * * *
“An excellent alphabetically-arranged cross-index enables one to
identify quickly names which do not indicate the true chemical nature
of the compound. As a time-saver, the book deserves the attention of
every chemist in contact with the field of industrial chemistry.” A.
G. Wikoff
+ =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 22:667 An 7 ’20 340w
“A good library reference.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ja ’20 40w
=DARLINGTON, W. A.= Alf’s button. *$1.75 Stokes
20–12958
By the fortunes of war, it happened that Aladdin’s famous lamp was
among a group of curios which were melted up during the late war, and
appeared subsequently as buttons for soldiers’ tunics. So it was that
Private Alf ‘Iggins, hard at work with his toothbrush on his second
button, in preparation for inspection, was amazed and terrified at the
sight of a djinn appearing before him, bowing low and asking for
orders. He eventually recovered from his terror enough to take
advantage of the genie’s powers, aided and abetted by Bill Grant,
whose imagination was more riotous than Alf’s. Their adventures with
“Eustace,” as they christened the djinn, make up the book. The fact
that Eustace often brought an oriental flavor into the carrying out of
their wishes proves rather disconcerting to Alf and Bill, and brings
them some undesired notoriety.
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 70w
=N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“The most amusing book I have read this summer is ‘Alf’s button.’” E.
L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:209 S 8 ’20 260w
=DASENT, ARTHUR IRWIN.=[2] Piccadilly in three centuries, with some
account of Berkeley Square, and the Haymarket. il *$7 Macmillan 942.1
21–340
“Mr Dasent has examined minutely the ratebooks of St
Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Westminster, and St George’s,
Hanover-square, in which he has followed every house in
Piccadilly-place through all its vicissitudes of ownership. Mr Dasent
begins his history, so full of noble and historic names, from a humble
tailor, one Robert Baker, who in 1612 erected the first buildings upon
land covered by the present site of Piccadilly.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “Clarendon was the real maker of Piccadilly. The great
Clarendon House, which he had barely finished before he went into
exile in 1667, was the first of the Piccadilly mansions. Moreover,
Clarendon sold to Lord Berkeley the site of the present Devonshire
House, to Sir William Pulteney the site of Bath House, and to Sir John
Denham, poet and architect, the site of Burlington House and the
Albany. But Clarendon had made Piccadilly a fashionable place of
residence. Mr Dasent has illustrated his book with some highly
interesting old prints.” (Spec)
* * * * *
“His style is slipshod, he has no sense of literary values, and the
result is merely a collection of odds and ends about the people and
places associated with Piccadilly and its surroundings. His book is,
therefore, without form, but it is by no means void, since its
intrinsic interest and its scenes of ancient days reproduced in its
illustrations have a permanent value as records, the entire volume
bringing together a large amount of information not easily accessible
elsewhere.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 1700w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 100w
“A pleasant and discursive book.”
+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 320w
“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so
attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an
excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one
sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one
ought to be in bed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 1350w
=DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.=[2] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3
Harvard univ. press
20–23204
“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his
more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy,
and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as
one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this
monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact
that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great
events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career
to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England
and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“An admirable index completes a remarkable study of a period of early
English history seldom discussed.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 780w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Boy in Serbia. il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell 914.97
20–15466
The author of “Tales of Serbian life” has written this story to set
forth some of the everyday manners and customs of Serbia. It is told
in the first person by Milosav, who describes Simple village life,
Playtime, First days at school, How St Sava’s day is kept, etc. There
is a colored frontispiece with other illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
“Charmingly simple, dignified and instructive and filled with a joyous
appreciation of home and country.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
“Rarely well told.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p834 D 9 ’20 140w
=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Ward tales. (On active service ser.) *$1.25
(3c) Lane
20–10369
These tales from a military hospital by a V. A. D. show chiefly the
humorous side and the comic happenings in surroundings so gruesome.
There is just enough sadness in these pictures to give a background to
the brighter moments in a nurse’s life. The tales are: In the ward
kitchen; “Eye-wash”; A conference of the powers; Visiting day; After
hours; The tale of a shirt; The night round; Going to the pictures.
* * * * *
“There is nothing of the grim or the harrowing, though there is an
occasional touch of finely restrained pathos.”
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 40w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 50w
=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= National evolution. (National social science
ser.) *75c McClurg 301
20–1609
“This book traces the development of human societies through the
stages of primitive culture, Christian civilization and modern
capitalism; ends with a consideration of the best basis for national
progress. The book is a condensation of social theories, the only
original point being ‘an attempt to harmonize the cultural theory of
history with the concrete workings of economic law.’ Chapter
bibliographies.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“This brief, concise work is on the whole sound and constructive and
will be of special value to the reader whose time is limited.” G. S.
Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:248 S ’20 240w
=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“‘National evolution’ is a distinct contribution to the National
social science series.”
+ =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The forecasts of the author are reasonable and, on the whole,
convincing.”
+ − =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 220w
=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Matrix. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–3881
The story is the romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, father and
mother of Abraham Lincoln, put together by the author from legends and
documentary evidence and woven into a work of fiction portraying
pioneer life in the bluegrass valley of Kentucky, illumined by faith,
love and courage. It throws a halo around the head of Lincoln’s mother
and shows us his father as the first martyr to the cause of abolition.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
“It is quite fitting that the story of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
should be written by an author who comes from the ‘blue grass country’
herself. She is able to bring to it that inherited tradition which is
so difficult for an outsider to achieve.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 360w
“The author occasionally lapses into primer-technique. A maturer style
could have given form to a more enduring romance.”
+ − =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 50w
=Nation= 110:375 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It has a certain stiffness, as if the task of weaving history and
legend and surmise into a consistent and interesting story were a
somewhat hampering business to the author. She has, however, succeeded
in presenting a clear and evidently carefully drawn sketch of this
particular period of American history.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 280w
“It seems to us that the author has made the life of their community
focus on these two young people almost too persistently, for whatever
their foreordained place in history, they must have been to their
neighbors ‘just folks.’ City dwellers who love the simple life will
find a breathing space in this pioneer tale.” E. C. Webb
+ − =Pub W= 97:605 F 21 ’20 260w
“It is not the author’s fault if she has produced a pious memorial
rather than a living portrait.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 2:462 My 1 ’20 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 190w
=DAVIS, FRANKLYN PIERRE=, ed.[2] Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919,
and year book of newspaper poetry. $2.50 The author. Enid, Okla. 811.08
20–15478
“Franklyn Pierre Davis of Enid, Okla. carries the anthologizing
tendency a step further by editing an ‘Anthology of newspaper verse
for 1919 and year book of newspaper poetry.’ Selections are made from
a list of papers nationwide in range, and include topical poems, light
verse and serious poetry. The editor says: ‘I hope to be able to
present annually the best of the verse published in the newspapers in
a volume which may preserve for the future the real sentiment of the
American people and the true ideals of American life.’”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“If the fact be excepted that Mr Davis has done his job rather badly,
one can have nothing but admiration for his endeavor. The idea is
mentally invigorating and susceptible of many admirable procedures. It
is the editor’s own fault that he has not carried it out in a
sufficiently comprehensive manner.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =Bookm= 52:168 O ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w
=DAVIS, JAMES FRANCIS.= Chinese label. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–6429
San Antonio is the scene of this smuggling story and Julian Napier is
the special secret service agent sent down from Washington to catch
the smugglers. Besides opium, he is on the lookout for two diamonds of
great value. A Mexican, a Turk, several Chinese, a beautiful Armenian
woman, a lovely American girl and her father, all are implicated in
the plot. Clever team work between Napier and the Texas rangers
results in the taking of one diamond, and the other is captured in a
spectacular raid on the headquarters of the Chinese society which was
also doing a big opium business. In this raid the poor dope fiend
which the American girl’s father had become met his death like a man,
leaving Ruth to be comforted by Julian.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“The whole affair is treated lightly, without pretense that it is
anything more than an amusing yarn; and this is refreshing.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 190w
=Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w
“It all runs logically and with a degree of reserve for which the
reader is grateful. There would be opportunities for the writer to run
amuck, as it were, if he would, but he is artist enough to understand
that the best dramatic effect often can be attained by piquing the
imagination rather than by laying on the crimson paint with a
whitewash brush.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:277 My 23 ’20 480w
=Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 120w
=DAVIS, MALCOLM W.= Open gates to Russia. il *$2 (2½c) Harper 914.7
20–1610
The author pleads for fair dealing and friendliness and co-operation
with Russia in the accomplishment of her great task of reconstruction,
and the object of the book is to point out the practical ways and
means by which mutually satisfactory relationship can be achieved
between Russia and America. The book falls into four parts: The new
importance of Russia; Russia’s immediate necessities; Russia’s
enduring needs; The interest of Russia. “The first part is a
consideration of the question of recent relationships and the
attitudes which they have created. The second ... of the important
opportunities in trade and industry. The third points out social
opportunities, in which considerable opportunities for commercial
enterprise are also involved. Finally, the last part is an answer to
some American misconceptions of Russia and a description of the real
Russia for Americans who wish to know her.” (Chapter 1: America’s
attitude toward awakened Russia)
* * * * *
“It is intensely practical, and for that very reason has value at the
moment beyond the larger number of books upon Russia.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 330w
“Business men who plan to expand their export trade will find these
pages a mine of information. The conditions and needs are presented in
detail, and valuable suggestions for the conduct of trade with Russia
are given.”
+ =Cath World= 111:536 Jl ’20 700w
+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 60w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
=Nation= 110:400 Mr 27 ’20 160w
“It is gratifying to come across a book that is so clear in its
recital of facts as the one Davis has given us. It is in all a volume
worth reading.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 750w
“The five chapters under the general title, Russia’s enduring needs,
are of great value, and of special interest is the one relating to The
liberated influence of woman.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 440w
“It will be perhaps especially suggestive to the American who
contemplates opening business relations with Russia, but it is a
valuable addition to the library of any layman interested in social,
economic, and intellectual conditions in Russia today.”
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 80w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is one that challenges our present individual indifference
to the Russia of today and of the future.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 1100w
“It should not be neglected by anyone interested in commercial or
other relationships with Russia.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:50 Ap 3 ’20 220w
=DAVIS, NORAH.= Other woman. *$1.75 (1c) Century
20–9140
In this story of dual personality a man, Langdom Kirven, after
excessive fatigue and brain-fag, loses himself and consciousness, and
wakes up in a hospital another man. In the morning he had said
good-bye to his wife and little son and taken a train to New York. The
new man is a crook and a criminal, albeit a genius. After seven years
his one-time bosom friend and business partner, Spencer Ellis, finds
him on a bench in the park, a down and out tramp. Ellis recognizes
Kirven and implores him to return to his old life. But there is no
memory in Kirven, now John Gorham, and Ellis is at last forced to
believe that the external resemblance hides a strange personality. But
he gives Gorham a chance to retrieve his fall in fortunes, which the
latter does with bold and doubtful business methods. He also falls
passionately in love with Naomi, Ellis’ cousin. One morning after
another crisis, John Gorham has fled with all memory of himself and a
bewildered Kirven awakens in the latter’s office. After this a
succession of alternations follows, each one leaving the subject and
his friends more bewildered and perplexed than ever. At last an
eminent physician finds the way out. The split personality can be
unified by a complete realization of the situation and henceforth
Langdom Kirven can go through the remainder of his life whole,
although cursed with a continuous memory.
* * * * *
“Somewhat melodramatic and rather long drawn out, but cleverly
managed. Will appeal to those who read for plot interest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“It is a difficult piece of work which is admirably well done.” D. L.
M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 580w
“Miss Davis has handled her material very well indeed, with much
ingenuity of invention and with commendable care in the working out of
her great amount of detail and complication. The novel is a good piece
of literary workmanship in construction and development.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 420w
=DAVIS, PHILIP, and SCHWARTZ, BERTHA=, comps. Immigration and
Americanization. $4 (1½c) Ginn 325.7
20–4542
The book is a compilation of selected readings, on the title subject.
It “aims to cover the field of immigration and Americanization from
every possible point of view, subject to the limits of a single
volume. It is particularly designed to meet the needs of high schools,
colleges universities, and chautauquas, which have been frequently at
a loss in recommending to the student, investigator, official, or
general public a handbook on these twin topics.” (Preface) The
selections have been arranged chronologically and include some of the
most recent contributions on the subject from writers including Jane
Addams, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Emily Greene Balch, Edward
A. Steiner, E. A. Goldenweiser, Paul U. Kellogg, John Mitchell, Edward
Alsworth Ross, Edward T. Devine, Lillian D. Wald, J. E. Milholland,
Samuel Gompers, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin K. Lane, Louis D. Brandeis,
Theodore Roosevelt. The contents are in two parts. In book 1 the
selections are classified under: History; Causes; Characteristics; The
new immigration; Effects; Immigration legislation. Book 2 contains:
Americanization: policies and programs; Distribution; Education;
Naturalization and citizenship; Americanism. There is an appendix, a
bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“The book should be of value to both the general reader and the
special student.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 200w
“The compilers have exercised diligence and judgment, but with a few
exceptions the selections lack the ‘human touch.’ It would appear that
an undue proportion of space is allotted to the new immigration, even
admitting that from the standpoint of the present time and the
Americanization worker greater emphasis is justifiable.” G: M.
Stephenson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:168 S ’20 720w
=Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
=DAVIS, WILLIAM.= Hosiery manufacture. (Pitman’s textile industries
ser.) il *$3.50 Pitman 677
A British work designed to meet the rapid development of the knitted
fabrics industry and to supply the demand of new firms for
information. Contents: Development of the knitted fabric; Knitting and
weaving compared; Latch needle knitting; Types of knitting yarns;
Systems of numbering hosiery yarns; Calculations for folded knitting
yarns; Bearded needle knitting; Setting of knitted fabrics; Various
knitting yarns; Winding of hosiery yarns; Circular knitting; Colour in
knitted goods; Colour harmony and contrast; Defects in fabrics. There
are sixty-one illustrations and an index.
=DAVIS, WILLIAM STEARNS.= History of France; from the earliest times to
the treaty of Versailles. il *$3.50 (2c) Houghton 944
19–19268
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Professor Davis has the knack of vivid and fluent narrative. The tale
reads well and is interesting. The author makes the great figures of
French history appear living.” C. H. C. Wright
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:313 Ja ’21 580w
+ =Booklist= 61:163 F ’20
“An interesting feature of the story is that which tells of the
relation of France to the crusades. There is an extremely interesting
account of life in France in the feudal ages. The story of the
revolution is told rapidly, but with great brilliancy. As a single
volume history of France this must take its place in the foremost
rank.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 550w
“Though one can clearly discern the author’s purpose of presenting his
facts fairly and with due justice to all, he has not perfectly
understood the spirit and ideals that have made France. Early and
mediæval France cannot be judged by the ideals of modern American
Protestantism.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:256 My ’20 220w
“His limited space excludes detailed interpretation of separate
events, and the author is also compelled to give only the most
perfunctory notice to the economic phenomena which are associated with
various stages of French history. On the political side, however, the
work is reasonably complete, and Professor Davis shows an excellent
sense of proportion in laying special stress upon what may be called
the revolutionary era of French history.” W: H: Chamberlin
+ =Dial= 68:255 F ’20 1500w
+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 300w
=New Repub= 23:207 Jl 14 ’20 1650w
“The book is much more than a mere history; it is a colorful romance,
with a splendid nation as a background, and most of the characters
cast in a heroic mold.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The present volume is, so far as we know, the only truly
comprehensive history of France. Aside from its comprehensiveness, the
text has been clearly and compactly written by one who has an enviable
knowledge of sources.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“Though very sympathetic to his subject, and though he often
animadverts to the ravages of the Hun in the present when telling of
the past, his tone is scholarly and his attitude sufficiently
impartial. Mr Davis has added an excellent select bibliography.
Unfortunately, there is almost nothing of French literature and art.”
+ − =Review= 2:285 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“This book becomes at once the standard single-volume history of
France in the English language.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is the excellent
diction. Many of the illustrations are reproductions of rare prints
and paintings, and they greatly enhance the value of the work, which
is, indeed, a modern and trustworthy textbook.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 140w
=DAW, ALBERT W., and DAW, ZACHARIAS W:= Compressed air power. il *$7.50
Pitman 621.5
“A treatise on the development and transmission of power by compressed
air for engineers and draughtsmen, and for students of applied
science.” (Sub-title) “The compression, expansion, exhaust, and flow
of air and gases are very fully dealt with, formulae deduced for
making the necessary computations, and practical examples solved to
assist those concerned in the design and use of compressed air plant
and machines.” (Preface) The book has seventy-five illustrations,
forty tables and numerous worked out examples, and is indexed. The
authors are members of the Institution of mining and metallurgy [of
Great Britain].
* * * * *
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p59 Jl ’20 190w
=DAWSON, CONINGSBY WILLIAM.= Little house. il *$1.50 (9c) Lane
20–16158
The little house tells its own story. It is a very old and empty
little house, as it stands in “Dolls’ House Square” in London, and on
the nights of air-raids and bombing, it is a very frightened little
house. But it is not too frightened to give shelter to others who are
afraid, too, and so one night when “the little lady who needed to be
loved, but did not know it,” crept in, with her two little children,
they are amply protected. And presently, “the wounded officer who
wanted rest,” looking for a haven from the raid sought it too in the
little house. Then the officer goes off to war, and the little lady
comes to live in the house. After the armistice, the officer returns,
and, again in the shelter of the little house, finds the rest he
craves more than ever, and “the little lady” receives the love she
needs. And the little house feels that its part in the romance has not
been inconsiderable.
* * * * *
“By making the house in question narrate the scenes its walls have
witnessed. Mr Coningsby Dawson has aimed, not too successfully, at
imparting a Hans Andersen atmosphere to occurrences which have not
much in common with the traditional material of fairy-tale.”
+ − =Ath= p892 D 31 ’20 140w
=Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“A story which has a real Christmas flavor and which would warm the
heart of anybody whatever is ‘The little house.’” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 120w
“The story has a charm as elusive as the appealing quality that won so
many followers for Maude Adams. It is as endearing as ‘Roaming in the
gloaming’ or ‘Comin’ through the rye.’ In it sentiment keeps clear of
sentimentality.”
+ =N Y Times= p2 S 19 ’20 1000w
“‘The little house’ is really a Christmas story—and a very delightful
and charming one. The fanciful manner in which the story is told by
the old house in which the scenes take place is beautifully conceived
and finely carried out.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“Mr Dawson has chosen a rather childish allegory as his method,
although, after having read the book, one may look at a house with a
slightly more human feeling of childish fancy. The redeeming feature
of the book is the atmosphere of old London. Aside from these glimpses
of old London, ‘The little house’ is hardly more than a sweet book for
sweet people.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 330w
“For all its pretty sentiment (or, rather, because of it), the whole
thing is a pure ‘machine,’ the working of which Mr Dawson has mastered
under western influences.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 90w
=DAWSON, EDGAR.= Organized self-government. il *$1.40 Holt 353
20–10285
The object of this volume is to serve as a school text-book in
teaching government, organized and political cooperation, the
functions of government and the problems to be met by those who
perform those functions. It is to arouse the child’s interest in
government as a practical subject and to open his eyes to noticing its
effects in the street, in the home, in the school. This latter
purpose, more especially, is to be accomplished by the suggestions and
questions at the end of each chapter. The contents are in five parts.
Part I, Elements of self-government, shows how voluntary cooperation
depends on parliamentary law, rules and legislation, rulers and
officers, and a constitution. Part II, Self-government in cities,
applies these elements to all the details of city government; Parts
III and IV do the same for the states and the United States. Part V,
Some general ideas about self-government, has chapters on: Socialism
and capitalism; Parties and leaders; Organized government; and Real
international law. In the appendix some of the accepted principles of
political cooperation are discussed, i.e. the short ballot principle;
civil service reform; the executive budget; the principle of
responsible leadership; etc.
* * * * *
“The book is sure to take its place among the few best ones in its
field.”
+ =School R= 28:548 S ’20 530w
=DAWSON, RICHARD.= Red terror and green: the Sinn-Fein-bolshevist
movement. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5
20–5381
“Mr Dawson builds his thesis that Sinn Fein is Bolshevism by
quoting Sinn Fein leaders, and refers the reader to name, page,
date of his authority. He goes back to the earliest attempts of
Ireland to free herself from England, and traces the whole
movement, the influences behind it and the work of the leaders who
led, up to today, when the new (Irish) nationalism ‘starting with
lofty ideals of national regeneration on the old lines of the
ancient culture, begins to seek its inspirations from modern
sources of unspeakable corruption.’”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p496 Ap 9 ’20 100w
“Will not please those who take the opposite stand, but worth while as
a well done presentation of the objections to Ireland’s attitude.”
+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“As a polemical writer Mr Dawson is a comfort because his proofs are
not of the unidentified sort so common in the mouths of platform
orators. He does not employ vituperation as argument nor blackguarding
as punctuation. ‘Red terror and green’ is a timely, excellent guide
book to the present meaning and purpose of Sinn Fein.” W. R. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1650w
“So evidently prepared from the standpoint of reactionery British
interests as to become propaganda in its most palpable and, therefore,
most useless form.”
− =Cath World= 112:550 Ja ’21 80w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 250w
=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w
“The intrigues of Casement with the Germans make excellent material
for building up a theory that Sinn Fein was part of a German plot, and
in a world torn by Bolshevism it is plausible to suggest that Sinn
Fein emissaries have been seeking to combine the forces of disorder at
home with the agencies of disorder in other countries. But Mr Dawson
will not easily convince those who know rural Ireland that its
peasantry—now bitterly Sinn Fein—are now or were ever bolshevistic.”
H. L. Stewart
− + =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1150w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 124:388 Mr 20 ’20 1200w
“The reader will be impressed rather by the care with which the author
has followed Irish events than by his insight into the psychic and
temperamental change which has affected the Irish people during the
period which he reviews.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 340w
=DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.=[2] Borrowdale tragedy. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–19918
The tragedy of the title, altho the central incident of the book, is
by no means its central theme. The tragedy is the death of old James
Borrowdale, and the subsequent trial of his young wife Flora and her
friend Cecil Twyfold for his murder, of which they are acquitted. The
major part of the book, however, is taken up with the love of Cecil
and Flora, its development while Flora was still bound and the
reaction of the tragedy upon them. The expansion of their characters
is along lines contrary to convention, as Cecil expresses it, they
have taken the “downward path to salvation,” downward, that is, from
the standards of material success that the world sets up. A plea for
individual freedom, as opposed to the usages of conventional society,
is really the keynote of the book.
* * * * *
“There is an undeniable simplicity in the writer’s style, a genial
mellowness that in a tale like this is really extraordinary. There is
hardly a writer today that could take the structure of this novel and
its strong plea for individualism as opposed to social conventions,
with its technically unhappy ending, and not make it despite
brilliancy, a hard and cynical book. On the contrary Dr Dawson has
written with deep humanness and charm. We have had the fortune to read
few novels of the present season with such genuine delight.” S. L. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 420w
=DAY, CLARENCE SHEPARD=, jr. This simian world. il *$1.50 Knopf 817.
20–10010
Ours is a simian civilization. If we had not descended from the monkey
what would our world be like from the point of view of
extraterrestrial beings? If the ant and the bee, or the big cats, or
the elephant or any of the other beasts had achieved the hegemony?
Such whimsical questions with their conjectures were suggested by a
Sunday afternoon Broadway crowd to the author and his friend Potter.
The author’s illustrations are as amusing as his fancies.
* * * * *
“It was a good idea, and Mr Day has a real though immature gift of
lightness in treating a solid subject. But his theme is really too big
for his ninety pages, and although his thinking is honest and
courageous it tends to become unsubstantial.”
+ − =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 150w
“Aside from the amusing quality there is a basis of shrewd comment.”
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 270w
“No less complete and varied than his estimate of man is Mr Day’s
expression of it: a natural blend of wisdom with lightness, humour
with profundity, hope with art, economy with abundance, kindliness
with malice. The quality that makes possible such alliances is the one
most infrequently granted to mortals: Mr Day sees things as they are
beneath accumulated centuries of appearances; he cannot, he will not
be fooled.” Robert Littell
+ =Dial= 69:197 Ag ’20 1300w
“Mr Clarence Day’s whimsicality is quite virile; it is the expression
of a naturally ingenuous mind; ‘innocent’ in the Nietzschean sense and
not incapable of a certain gentle philosophic malice.”
+ =Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 280w
“The most amusing little essay of the year.”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 360w
=Nation= 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“It ought to interest any lively spirit because of its grace and
reasonableness. And it ought to entrap and enlighten any slack soul
who may pick it up in search for amusement. Amusing it unquestionably
is, but a great deal more than amusing, to follow this grim parallel
between the ways of apes and men.” R. T.
+ =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 650w
“While his treatment of the subject is amusingly interesting, it is
none the less a serious one. The whole essay is, in fact, a bitter
arraignment of our present order of civilization.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 640w
+ =Review= 3:306 O 13 ’20 1400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 500w
=Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
=DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS.= All-wool Morrison. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
20–13700
Stewart Morrison has inherited St Ronan’s mill from his Scotch
ancestors and is himself a canny Scotchman. In his absence and against
his will he is elected mayor of the city of Marion and then things
become lively. Within twenty-four hours and by sheer intimidation he
beats the governor, the politicians and vested interests at their game
of falsifying election returns and barring duly elected members from
the legislature. He prevents the forming of a syndicate for stealing
the state’s water-power. He teaches some bloody anarchists, athirst
for martyrdom, what’s what by taking one of them across his knee and
spanking him lustily before an admiring mob. He diverts a howling mob
from the state house thus protecting the conspirators within while
teaching them a wholesome lesson. And he wins his bride in the
bargain. All within twenty-four hours.
=Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 220w
“The fun of the book lies for the most part in this unity of time. A
quality of the book is that its characters and happenings possess that
delightfully feverish and slightly unreal aspect that things often
acquire after dark.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 420w
“Mr Day’s homely, racy humor goes some distance toward minimizing the
glaring artificialities to which he resorts in stimulating the action
of the narrative.”
+ − |=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 380w |=Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N
’20 60w
=DAY, JAMES ROSCOE.=[2] My neighbor the workingman. *$2.50 Abingdon
press 331.8
20–8266
“This book is an outspoken word for the capitalistic system and
against the methods of organized labor. Chancellor Day has been
speaking with strong conviction on the somewhat unpopular side of this
controversy. He displays the abuses in the trades union. He calls the
labor union ‘an artificial and unnaturally and illogically attached
institution in our country, working not for the common good but to
create conditions altogether possible and profitable to its own
members without regard to how its act may bear upon business of
construction and manufacture.’ Chancellor Day calls collective
bargaining ‘meddling’ and says: ‘It is high time that the country
pronounced with unmistakable law against strikes of all kinds. There
should be no doubt left that strikes are crimes.’”—Bib World
* * * * *
“Full of ‘ginger’ and worthy of attention by everyone who is ready to
consider both sides of the burning question of the day. He does not
represent the honorable attitude in the contest that will finally make
for peace. He is violent and bitter. He is absolutely unjust to the
majority of the immigrants who land on our shores.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 260w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 60w
“The readers of this book will find in it much repetition and too much
vehemence. It provides in places quite as much heat as light, and is
not without a touch here and there of a rather narrow type of
politics. There is not great use made in it of the mantle of sweet
charity, and small allowance appears for those with whom the author
disagrees. Yet with his attacks upon radicalism in its Red form we
must sympathize.” W: C. Redfield
− + =N Y Times= p9 D 5 ’20 2150w
“It would be difficult to find a volume more filled with hatred and
misunderstanding than this product of the chancellor of Syracuse
university.” W. L. C.
− =Survey= 44:417 Je 19 ’20 260w
=DEALEY, JAMES QUAYLE.=[2] Sociology: its development and applications.
*$3 Appleton 301
20–20107
The book is an enlarged and revised edition of the author’s
“Sociology” issued in 1909. It gives a survey of sociological
development so that the student may have in fairly brief compass a
general view of its rise and its relations to other sciences, a sketch
of the development of social institutions, and a short discussion of
social problems and of the factors to be considered in social
progress. Its contents fall into three parts: Sociology and its
kindred sciences; Society and its institutions; and Social progress.
Some of the chapters are: The beginnings of social science; Sociology
and biology; Sociology and psychology: Social behaviorism; Achievement
and civilization; Civilization static and dynamic; Social gradations
and genius; Society and the individual; The elimination of social
evils; Racial factors in social progress; Economic factors in social
progress; Educational factors in social progress. There is a
bibliography and an index.
=DEAN, BASHFORD.= Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. il *$6 Yale
univ. press 399
20–17513
“This book is one of the publications of the Committee on education of
the Metropolitan museum of art, in which Dr Dean is curator of armour.
It is an account of the various types of body protection used or
experimented with by the nations engaged in the great war, with a
brief historical survey of the development of armour in earlier times.
As chairman of the Committee on helmets and body armour of the United
States National research council the author had special opportunity
for the study of his subject, not only in America but in the allied
countries in Europe.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Within his field of special knowledge he has touched and illuminated
almost every phase of the art and craft of the armorer ancient or
modern. Rarely indeed has such historical erudition as Mr Dean’s been
applied to a theme so recent and in most respects so businesslike.”
+ =Nation= 111:108 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“This volume is definitive in its field.” C. O. Kilnbusch
+ =N Y Times= p6 Je 27 ’20 2550w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 12 ’20 50w
“The practical treatment of the question makes the book a valuable
contribution to military literature, apart from its historical and
antiquarian interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 150w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p647 O 7 ’20 1150w
=DEARMER, NANCY (KNOWLES) (MRS PERCY DEARMER).= Fellowship of the
picture. *$1.25 Dutton 134
20–17392
“Professor Dearmer states in an introduction that on July 31, 1919, at
their country cottage, his wife felt impelled to sit down, and allow
her hand to write automatically; after that she wrote regularly, being
quite unaware of what she was writing. On September 10 Professor
Dearmer, reading the script aloud to her, found that the book had
reached its end. It came as from a man of high academic distinction
who was killed in France in 1918, and who had already written
contributions to religion and philosophy. ‘The fellowship of the
picture’ claims to be a book which he had been anxious to write after
the war. It is composed of thirty-six short chapters setting forth a
religious philosophy of life and fellowship.”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p108 Jl 23 ’20 340w
=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 120w
“There is no particular exhilaration in reading automatically penned
platitudes than there is in the reading of the platitudes penned by
ordinary beings.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 120w
=DECKER, WILBUR F.= Story of the engine; from lever to Liberty motor. il
*$2 Scribner 621
20–6990
“This book tells about the first prime movers and traces the early
history of the steam-engine. A chapter is devoted to each of the
following subjects: Steam-boilers, furnaces and connections;
reciprocating engines; the locomotive; the steam-turbine; measurements
of power; gas-engines; gasoline engines; and oil-engines. ‘It is the
aim of this book to show how man first learned to apply mechanical
principles; to trace the gradual development of heat engines; to
furnish accurate and reliable information regarding present-day types,
and to prepare the way for possible later scientific studies.’
(Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Unusually readable, more accurate than the ordinary book of this
type, and well supplied with diagrams.”
+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= 5:32 Ap ’20 100w
=St Louis= 18:220 S ’20 40w
=DE HAAS, J. ANTON.= Business organization and administration. il $1.60
Gregg 658
20–9408
The book is intended for a high school textbook and is limited to a
statement of the most essential facts of business practice, including
the problems of labor management and payment of wages. At the end of
each chapter are references to standard works, a list of study
questions, and of test questions. Contents: The elements of business
success; Business organization; The proprietorship of a business;
Financing an enterprise; Financial institutions; Management; The wage
question; The service department; Selecting the site; Planning the
building; Purchasing; Marketing; Selling and advertising; Foreign
trade; The technic of foreign trade.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“While the volume has some drawbacks in its function, it has
nevertheless a broader appeal. Many a professional man or woman ought
to have a deeper knowledge of this subject. Professor De Haas’s work
is admirably suited for his or her use.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 230w
“The book is written in a pleasing style and is well arranged. Its aim
is to aid the teacher in awakening proper attitudes in the minds of
the students. Teachers will find it helpful in this respect.”
+ =School R= 29:75 Ja ’21 300w
=DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN).= Cloud of witnesses.
*$2.50 Dutton 134
20–4626
“‘A cloud of witnesses’ is the title of a new book by Mrs Anna De
Koven (the widow of the musical composer, Reginald De Koven). The
messages, which largely constitute the book, are believed by Mrs De
Koven to be from her sister, Mrs Chatfield Taylor, whose death
occurred some two years since. Between the two sisters there was an
unusually intense affection, and this ‘rapport’ is one of the most
potent factors in any communication between the seen and the unseen.
There is in New York a woman with abounding mediumistic gifts; a woman
of society and culture, whose intelligent interest in the work is such
that she gives much time to accredited sitters who seek her. She is
known as ‘Mrs Vernon,’ which is not her real name. Mrs De Koven went
to Mrs Vernon, an entire stranger, and with no possible clew to her
identity. Messages from her sister came of such genuineness as to be
unmistakable. Dr Hyslop contributes the introduction to this
book.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Deeply sincere, intimate, and instinct with refinement.”
+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21
“Certainly, except to the most determined skeptic, there is much in
the book to convince one of the action of supernormal intelligence.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Dial= 69:207 Ag ’20 140w
“Unfortunately for the sympathy every one must feel with this
beautiful record of a sister’s affection, it is impossible to accept
Mrs De Koven’s views of what is ‘evidential.’ As propaganda the book
is only one more tale of credulity; but it has unusual value in being
entirely free from the sordid crime of ghosts for revenue. Mrs Vernon
receives no remuneration when she summons Mrs De Koven to hear a
message from the dead.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 600w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Review= 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 700w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 280w
=DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.= Collected poems, 1901–1918. 2v *$4 Holt 821
20–21987
Volume 1 contains Poems: 1906; The listeners: 1914; and Motley: 1919.
Volume 2 is in two parts: Songs of childhood: 1901, and Peacock pie.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. M. Murray
+ =Ath= p466 O 8 ’20 750w
“Enough has been said to show Mr de la Mare’s attitude towards poetry
and towards life. The question now arises whether this attitude is not
somewhat too severely limited to make of him anything more than a
delicate craftsman, a painter of miniatures, a carver of
cherry-stones.” J: G. Fletcher
+ − =Freeman= 2:477 Ja 26 ’21 900w
“His artistic presence in our modern world is so surprising that we
are tempted to doubt the certainty of it when his books are not in our
hands. He is a delightful anachronism. Out of our tangle of violent
and discordant colors he makes his white magic. Of Mr de la Mare’s
poems for children it is difficult to speak moderately.” Marguerite
Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p16 D 19 ’20 1550w
“The poems are like silk threads which are individually fragile, but
which, woven together, make a fabric of unmatched fineness and
strength, and are capable of taking on the softest, clearest colours.
Some of the poems for children are exceedingly successful.”
+ =Spec= 125:571 O 30 ’20 500w
“Few of our poets have availed themselves of their privilege of
prosodic freedom more delicately than Mr de la Mare. He has a
musician’s ear; his rhythms have the clear articulation and
unpredictable life-lines of the phrases in a musical theme. The course
of his verse reminds us frequently of the fall of a feather launched
upon still air and fluttering earthwards, tremulously in dips and
eddies.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p657 O 14 ’20 3300w
=DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.= Rupert Brooke and the intellectual
imagination. pa 75c Harcourt
20–1238
“It is the brilliant quality of Rupert Brooke’s passionate interest in
life, his restless, exploring, examining intellect, that chiefly
concerns Walter de la Mare in a lecture on Brooke first given before
Rugby school a year ago, and now issued in booklet form. He suggests
that poets are of two kinds: those who are similar to children in
dreamy self-communion and absorption; and those who are similar to
boys in their curious, restless, analytical interest in the world.
Poets of the boyish or matter-of-fact imagination are intellectual, he
says: they enjoy experience for itself. Poets of the childish or
matter-of-fancy heart are visionary, mystical; they feed on dreams and
enjoy experience as a symbol. He thinks that Brooke’s imagination was
distinctly of the boyish kind.”—Bookm
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Those many who admire the peculiar mysticism and subtlety of Mr de la
Mare’s reaction to the terms of experience will not be surprised that
this essay of his seems the most valuable comment that has been made
on the poet of the ‘flaming brains,’ the most romantic and appealing
figure of youth and song that has crossed the horizon of these riddled
years.” Christopher Morley
+ =Bookm= 51:234 Ap ’20 650w
“An interesting and valuable contribution to poetic interpretation. It
is a beautifully written piece of prose woven with subtle analysis and
keen perceptions, the kind of spoken meditation which takes one back
to the days of Pater and Symonds.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 650w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 80w
“Mr de la Mare does him a service by silencing the hysterical
plaudits, and presenting with cool and exquisite certainty the more
enduring aspects of Brooke’s spirit. Of this little book both Mr de la
Mare and Brooke may well be proud.”
+ =Sat R= 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p739 D 11 ’19 1350w
=DELAND, MARGARET WADE (CAMPBELL) (MRS LORIN FULLER DELAND).= Old
Chester secret. il *$1.50 (6c) Harper
20–18606
When Miss Lydia Sampson promises to take Mary Smith’s child and keep
the truth about his birth secret, she means to keep her word and does
so in the face of Old Chester gossip. Later the proud grandfather,
whose heart has been won by the boy, wants to adopt him but meek
little Miss Lydia agrees only on the ground that he acknowledge the
relationship. Still later when the weak parents also wish to go thru
the formality of adoption she makes the same condition. When the
mother is finally moved to make her confession the son casts her off
as once she had cast him, but Dr Lavendar intervenes in her behalf,
telling the boy that her soul has just been born.
* * * * *
“An exquisite bit of character work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 70w
“With what truth and delicate artistry Mrs Deland handles the
narrative of what happened to Johnny, his foster mother, and his
parents, no one who is at all familiar with the other Old Chester
tales will need to be told. Simple as is its plot, the story has the
quality of suspense, never permitting the reader’s interest to flag.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 550w
“The story is not entirely convincing, but the reader remains under
the spell of the writer’s dramatic skill.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 800w
“It lacks the vitality of the earlier Old Chester stories and suggests
that this vein is wearing thin.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 80w
=DE LA PASTURE, EDMÉE ELIZABETH MONICA (E. M. DELAFIELD, pseud.).=
Tension. *$2.25 (3c) Macmillan
20–17523
The story revolves about the faculty and directors of a provincial
commercial college. Lady Rossiter, wife of one of the directors, is an
officious person who dispenses sweetness and light in theory and in
practice spreads malicious gossip. An incident in the early life of
Pauline Marchrose, who come to the college as superintendent, is so
magnified that the girl is forced to resign her position. She has been
greatly attracted to Mark Easter, a man of charming personality
without force of character, and her leaving the college has all the
elements of defeat with a shattered ideal added, but an unexpected
turn is given to the story by Fairfax Fuller, principal of the
college, and in Lady Rossiter’s opinion, a misogynist.
* * * * *
“A convincing personality but not a satisfying plot.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“The interplay between two temperaments is one of the most searching
things in recent fiction. But, indeed, Miss Delafield is very rich in
creative vigor.”
+ =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 410w
“The end is abrupt, and may be unsatisfactory to those who read
‘Tension’ for any other reason than to watch Miss Delafield pillory
objectionable characters. This she does most competently to Lady
Rossiter, to a simpering young authoress, and to two dreadful
children, but the nice people, it must be admitted, leave very little
impression.” S. T.
+ − =New Repub= 24:246 N 3 ’20 540w
“‘Tension’ has got scarcely anything to recommend it. The story may be
life, but it is altogether too drab and uninteresting for fiction.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 140w
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 60w
“Miss Delafield presents her characters through their own words, and
their speech is sustained self-revelation. Almost all of them are
eccentric, and their eccentricities are expressed with something of
Dickens’s inventiveness and humorous exaggeration. We have to smile or
laugh whenever they open their mouths.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 660w
=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Tidal wave, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
19–5814
The first of this collection of short stories tells of the love of a
big red-headed young giant of a fisherman for a lovely vision of a
girl whose awakening to womanhood came to her in an overpowering
passion for an artist. The latter’s love was for his art to which he
would have unscrupulously sacrificed the girl. A catastrophe which
would have cost them both their lives but for the timely intervention
of the red giant, taught the girl through much sorrow the difference
between the love that stands like a rock and the passion that sweeps
by like a tidal wave. The stories of the collection are: The tidal
wave; The magic circle; The looker-on; The second fiddle; The woman of
his dream; The return game.
* * * * *
“Six tales with well drawn characters which rather compensate for the
melodramatic features of the book.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“Of the six short stories contained in this volume, ‘The looker-on’ is
perhaps the least stereotyped.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Christine McAllister
=Pub W= 97:604 F 21 ’20 300w
=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Top of the world. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–13065
Sylvia Ingleton is a very miserable girl when her father brings home a
stepmother, who proves so domineering and hard that Sylvia realizes
her happiness is ruined unless she gets away. So she goes out to her
fiancé in South Africa, a fiancé whom she has known only by
correspondence for the last five years. Upon her arrival there, Guy
fails her, but his cousin Burke steps into his place, and when Sylvia
realizes she cannot count on Guy, she consents to marry Burke. The
remainder of the story is taken up with the struggle between her old
dying love for Guy, and the new love which springs up in her heart for
Burke, which at first she fights against and denies. In the end it
conquers her, however, but not before she and Guy and Burke have gone
through many bitter waters.
* * * * *
“The amazing thing about the Dell fiction is that it is so good of its
kind. There is almost no sensual appeal in it, and very little of
anything that is revolting. As full of sob stuff as Florence Barclay’s
immortal works, it has still a virile fibre. The South African
descriptions are excellent. Much of the subsidiary character work is
distinctly good.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“That’s the kind of a story it is—lingering madness long drawn out—562
pages of mawkishness.”
− =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 470w
“Almost alone in a tired world, Miss Dell continues to sound the
clarion note of melodrama. Taken by themselves Miss Dell’s heroes are
rather tedious.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 140w
=DELL, FLOYD.= Moon-calf. *$2.25 Knopf
20–19503
A biographical novel relating the childhood, adolescence and young
manhood of Felix Fay. He was the youngest of a somewhat misfit
family—his father’s early turbulence ending in failure and his
brothers’ artistic proclivities in resigned adaptations to the
necessities of life. Only in the dreamer Felix, because life was so
unreal to him and his dreams so real, was there enough persistence to
make some of the dreams materialize—after a fashion. The reader
accompanies him through school life with its unquenchable thirst for
reading, his religious development, his loneliness and poetic
aspirations, his economic struggles and his acquaintance with
socialism, his adolescent longings with their culmination in a love
episode and his early career as a journalist.
* * * * *
“A subtle character study accomplished by narrated episodes rather
than detailed analyses. Some readers will object to this on moral
grounds. Probably not for the small library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
Reviewed by R. C. Benchley
+ =Bookm= 52:559 F ’21 380w
“We realize how very close Floyd Dell has got to the heart and ideals
of America in this portrayal of the family glorifying of Felix’s
education.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 1 ’20 1000w
“‘Moon-calf,’ as it stands, has the importance of showing how serious
and how well-composed an American novel can be without losing caste.
It is an effective compromise, in manner between the school of
observation and the school of technique.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 90w
“Mr Dell’s first novel, in short, shows us that a well-equipped
intelligence and a new perception have been brought to bear on the
particular instance of the sensitive soul, the particular instance
that lies at the heart of all our questioning, and that the endless
circle of sensitive souls and terrifying American towns is broken at
last.” Lucian Cary
+ =Freeman= 2:403 Ja 5 ’21 500w
“Any lover of fine fiction must rejoice in the surfaces of Floyd
Dell’s first novel much as a cabinet-maker does when he rubs his
fingers along a planed board or an old gardener when he turns a cool,
firm, ruddy apple over and over in his hand. The style of ‘Moon-calf’
will arouse despair in the discerning. Colloquial and flexible, it is
also dignified as only a natural simplicity can make it.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 580w
“One must have a good deal of fluid romanticism to be able to revel in
Felix Fay. In his struggle toward reality there is a good deal of
vivid and sympathetic narrative, and one feels that his plight as an
imaginative youth is honestly understood. But is it generous or
engaging imagination? And is it associated with intelligence? The
subsequent development of Felix Fay may say yes, but so far he is
mainly an exactingly hungry and under-fed literary ego.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 25:49 D 8 ’20 1250w
“His words develop a dull and unpenetrative edge while his form is not
at all illuminative. One is lost in a meandering of incident which has
been given no significance by any concerted impulse, any synthetic
grasp of the subject, any consistent overtone or generality.” Kenneth
Burke
− + =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 31 ’20 1150w
“So skillfully has the author drawn his poignant portrait of a
sensitive idealist in conflict with a hostile, workaday world that the
reader will soon cease to think of Felix as a character in a novel.
Rather, he will think that he is the novelist himself dressed in the
incognito of a few imaginary experiences.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1100w
“It is written by a man who thinks for readers who think. It is
addressed to those persons who want to know what makes us what we
are.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 98:1885 D 18 ’20 300w
“A story told with ease and restraint. There is no animated showman in
the foreground to divert us with his witticisms. The action, quiet and
leisurely though it is, steadily unfolds itself by means of certain
persons who are and mean something to us, without our effort.” H. W.
Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w
=DELL, ROBERT EDWARD.= My second country (France). *$2 Lane 914.4
20–8528
The author’s qualifications for talking about France and the French
people rest on the facts that France has been the home of his choice
for over twelve years, that he has lived intimately with the people in
their own homes, and that his friends are of various classes and
opinions, including the proletariat and the rural folk, and that the
more he saw of them the more he loved them. The object of the book is
to draw attention to certain defects in French institutions and
methods, to show that the political situation gives signs of nearing
the end of a régime and is full of glaring fundamental
inconsistencies; and that in other than political respects, also,
France is behind the times and in need of drastic changes. Contents:
The French character; Problems of reconstruction; The administrative
and political systems; The discredit of parliament and its causes;
Results of the revolution; Small property and its results; Socialism,
syndicalism and state capitalism; Back to Voltaire; Index.
* * * * *
“When we leave actual people, and come to institutions, the political
system, banking, railways, religion, etc., Mr Dell displays all the
peculiar excellences of his type. His analysis is acute, modern and
thoroughly interesting.” J, W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p178 F 6 ’20 1050w
=Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“His book is a bitter attack upon France, her people and her
institutions. Where are the ‘fondness’ and the ‘sympathy’ that the
author claims in his introduction?”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 500w
=Cleveland= p90 O ’20 40w
“A book of real illumination, one wonders whether any one will really
like it.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 90w
“I know of no recent book which gives a better picture of the French
people as they really are, both of their lovable and unpleasant
qualities, nor of the economic and political and intellectual life of
present day France than that by Mr Robert Dell, ‘My second country.’”
Harold Stearns
+ =Freeman= 1:595 S 1 ’20 2050w
“Mr Dell writes of the French people with sympathy and affection, but
does not allow those feelings to color his judgment or subdue his
criticism.” B. U. Burke
+ =Nation= 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 1150w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 40w
− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w
“The book contains a great amount of concrete information, such as we
require when trying to understand a foreign country. In fact, the
whole book is valuable if the reader allows for the author’s bias. The
account of radical political movements is particularly good.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ’20 450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p94 F 12 ’20 850w
=DENNETT, TYLER.=[2] Better world. *$1.50 Doran
20–8457
“In brief the contention of this book is that we must have a better
world; that the proposed League of nations is far from the effective
agency to produce it, although it is a long step in the direction
indicated; that the Christian religion has in it the power to create
the convictions and popular demands which alone will guarantee any
organization of a better world or bring into being more just and
democratic programs than the one now under such discussion.”—Bib World
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:652 N ’20 260w
“Mr Dennett is always worth reading because of the wealth of his
personal experience and the freshness with which he presents his
facts. In the present case, unfortunately, his endeavor to make out a
good case for American mission work has led him to exaggerate certain
tendencies and to argue at times illogically.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:540 Jl 17 ’20 300w
=DENSMORE, HIRAM DELOS.= General botany for universities and colleges.
il *$2.96 Ginn 580
20–5036
The book is intended for use in universities and colleges and is an
outgrowth of the author’s long experience in giving introductory
courses in botany to students. “The author’s aim in writing the book
has been to furnish the student with clear statements, properly
related, of the essential biological facts and principles which should
be included in a first course in college botany or plant biology.”
(Preface) Emphasis is placed throughout the book on the plant as a
“living, active organism, comparable to animals and with similar
general physiological life functions.” The contents fall into three
parts of which the first is subdivided into the sections: Plants and
the environment; Cell structure and anatomy; Physiology; Reproduction.
Part 2, dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of
the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes
(Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club
mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3,
Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended
to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive
terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons;
Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.
=DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS.= Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd
(Eng ed 20–11835)
It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic,
“who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain
sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all
panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I
sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this
book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.”
(Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870);
The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of
the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary
republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every
paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a
balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is
here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no
over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen
+ =Am Hist R= 25:491 Ap ’20 740w
=Ath= p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 740w
“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and
enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and
Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if
written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed,
well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of
Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played
his part.” Carl Becker
+ =Nation= 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w
“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative
biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified,
temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a
Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the
theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book
from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his
documents.” H. L. Pangborn
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 23 ’20 880w
“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great
precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed
with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which,
however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to
hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 O 17 ’20 2100w
“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is
as rich as on the political.”
+ =Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w
“The work of the anonymous translator is extremely well done.”
+ =Spec= 125:244 Ag 21 ’20 450w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 Ap 29 ’20 2050w
=DESMOND, SHAW.= Passion. *$2 Scribner
20–7288
“The title may be a little misleading. Mr Desmond’s story deals with
‘the nervous, combative passion of the end of the nineteenth century,’
and particularly with the conflict between big business, the passion
to get, and art, the passion to create. A good deal of effort is spent
on the depiction of big business in London at the turn of the century,
and particularly of one Mandrill, the embodiment of its spirit.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
“‘Passion’ fails for the reason that so many of these novels of
confession fail. Our curiosity about human beings, our longing to know
the story of their lives springs from the desire to ‘place’ them, to
see them in their relation to life as we know it. But Mr Shaw Desmond
and his fellows are under the illusion that they must isolate the
subject and play perpetual showman.” K. M.
− =Ath= p671 My 21 ’20 700w
“It is a novel without even novelty to redeem it. Its bravery is
bombastic, its stupidity heroic, its mediocrity passionate, its
passion impotent.”
− =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 40w
“Mr Desmond tries to crowd all the modern forces into his conflict,
and frequently neutralizes his effects by the nicety with which one
violence is banged against another. His picture of London life, in its
meannesses and poverty, has touches of Dickens, and touches, also, of
the Dickens sentimentality. His purposes grow weak through sheer
over-analysis.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 180w
“We know of no exacter study of childhood and adolescence nor of any
less steeped in traditional idealisms. Young Tempest at home and at
school is immensely genuine and instructive. After that the fine
veracity of the book breaks down.”
+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 300w
“The hero’s revolt against finance of the most frenzied character is
plausible enough, but somehow the entire latter half of the book fails
to carry very much conviction. One feels that Mr Desmond is not devoid
of the divine fire, but he needs a better boiler under which to build
it.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 600w
“The most accurate description that can be applied to the work is that
it is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism, despite its
grotesqueness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 150w
“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying
his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw
Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to
make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its
grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w
=DEWEY, JOHN.= Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191
20–17102
In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in
Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of
ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory
note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s
ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead
of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the
moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent
happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some
historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific
factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of
experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real;
The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral
conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.
* * * * *
“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning
and technical diction.”
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little
book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size.
Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is
the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has
yet appeared.” B. H. Bode
+ =Nation= 111:sup658 D 8 ’20 1500w
“One may agree heartily with Professor Dewey’s polemic against fixed
and final aims and yet believe that the most urgent need of ethics now
is to work out a science of values. The lack of some such criticism of
values makes itself felt in Professor Dewey’s book.” A. S. McDowall
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 N 13 ’20 1800w
“The book is written with the accustomed fluency and piquancy of the
pragmatic school, and it forms a piece of the most interesting
reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 340w
=DEWEY, JOHN, and DEWEY, HATTIE ALICE (CHIPMAN) (MRS JOHN DEWEY).=
Letters from China and Japan; ed. by Evelyn Dewey. *$2.50 Dutton 915
20–7580
“The Deweys, man and wife, are ‘professorial’ people. Mr Dewey is
professor of philosophy in Columbia university and Mrs Dewey is a
woman of great cultivation and deep interest in the things of the
mind. The letters included in this book are written under the spur of
first impressions. They have not either been revised or touched up in
any way. You are never expected to remember that Mr Dewey is really a
Ph.D. or that his wife reads ‘deep books.’ They make you see the
cherry trees in bloom, the Mikado passing with his symbols, the
chrysanthemums on the panels of his carriage; the Chinese women of the
middle classes at home and the panorama of Chinese villages and
streets. At the same time you feel that there is a serious purpose in
the minds and the hearts of the two persons who write these
letters.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:631 Ag ’20 440w
“It is quite evident that Professor Dewey has enjoyed visiting
countries ‘where the scholar is looked up to and not down upon.’ He
writes with all the zest of a boy on his first trip abroad. Most
striking is their revelation of Professor Dewey’s responsiveness to
the æsthetic aspects of China and Japan.”
+ =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is not difficult to guess the authorship of most of the letters,
and Mrs Dewey’s interest in the more pictorial aspects of the
countries, in the women, and in their educational and domestic
problems, admirably supplements Professor Dewey’s more historical and
speculative observations.” Irita Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“They are full of delightful descriptions of small events not usually
described so sympathetically by travelers in the East.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 750w
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 180w
=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Old Reliable in Africa. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes
20–17655
Zack Foster, otherwise known as “Old Reliable,” is the colored valet
of Colonel Beverly Spottiswoode, and when the colonel makes a trip to
the Sudan, to see if the climate there is suitable for cotton culture,
he takes Zack along with him. Zack’s presence guarantees him against
ennui, for where Zack is, there is excitement. At one spot in Africa,
he is hailed as “The Expected One,” by an Arab tribe, at another he
rescues the most important donkey of the Sultan of Bong from
crocodiles, and is suitably rewarded. But perhaps his most worthy
exploit is the establishment of a “Hot cat eating house.” He reasons
the labor problem out and comes to the conclusion that the natives
refuse to work on the cotton plantation because they don’t need
anything. He proposes to put within their reach some thing that they
will be willing to work for, in the shape of hot fried catfish. This
application of the law of supply and demand proves eminently
satisfactory. But on the whole neither Zack nor the colonel are
reluctant to return to Vicksburg in time for Christmas.
* * * * *
“Like most sequels, a falling off from the original.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“An amusing book for an idle hour.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 80w
“A series of adventures, many of which are of a startling dramatic
character but always informed with the dry humor which is the very
essence of Old Reliable’s irresistible personality.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 210w
“His adventures are as queer as they are funny.”
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 30w
=DILLISTONE, GEORGE.= Planning and planting of little gardens: with
notes and criticisms by Lawrence Weaver. il *$2.25 Scribner 712
20–26877
“Competitive schemes for planting for different kinds of lots are
criticized from the architectural point of view. Incidentally, there
are discussions on sundials, rock gardens, water-lily ponds, rose
gardens, garden steps and pathways, climbers for the little garden,
etc. Altho written for England, will be useful in this country where
climate permits like vegetation.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
“The author [is] as sound on the architectural aspect of garden-making
as upon matters of pure horticulture.”
+ =Spec= 124:559 Ap 24 ’20 170w
=DILLON, EMILE JOSEPH.= Inside story of the peace conference. *$2.25
(1½c) Harper 940.314
20–5137
“This is only a sketch—a sketch of the problems which the war created
or rendered pressing—of the conditions under which they cropped up; of
the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished
politicians who volunteered to solve them; of the delegates’ natural
limitations and electioneering commitments and of the secret
influences by which they were swayed, of the peoples’ needs and
expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted by the conference and
of the fateful consequences of its decisions to the world.” (Foreword)
These fateful consequences, in the author’s final summing up, are that
future war is now universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of
the Versailles peace. “Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has
been openly adopted by its ostensible enemies, and the huge sacrifices
offered up by the heroic armies of the foremost nations are being
misused to give one-half of the world just cause to rise up against
the other half.” Contents: The city of the conference; Signs of the
times; The delegates; Censorship and secrecy; Aims and methods; The
lesser states; Poland’s outlook in the future; Italy; Japan; Attitude
toward Russia; Bolshevism: How Bolshevism was fostered; Sidelights
treaty with Bulgaria; The covenant and on the treaty; The treaty with
Germany; The minorities.
* * * * *
“The title of this book is singularly non-descriptive. It has none of
the qualities of narrative and every page betrays the fact that the
author remained entirely outside the real workings of the conference.
With all respect to Mr Dillon’s experience, he has written a
misleading book.” C: Seymour
− =Am Hist R= 26:101 O ’20 600w
“Dr Dillon’s main intimacies in Paris seem to have been with those
delegates [of small states]. That fact, which is not unconnected with
his own nationality, has enabled him, thanks to his really wide
knowledge of international problems, to get inside the skin of the
Paris tragedy in a way which would be impossible to the ordinary
advanced radical writer. There are faults of proportion. Not enough is
made of the economic aspects of the failure, and many judgments are
questionable.”
+ − =Ath= p1334 D 12 ’19 1000w
“Interesting but not easy to read, perhaps too detailed. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
=Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 130w
“From ‘The inside story of the peace conference’ the reader takes away
the impression of a stubborn and somewhat sour honesty, and also of a
vacillating bias that the author intended as little as he suspected. A
ripe scholarship, a keen observation, an adequate sweep, but—it is
impossible to avoid its conclusion—a decidedly jaundiced personality.”
+ − =Lit D= 64:122 Mr 27 ’20 2200w
“Dr Dillon does not write without bias. On the other hand, his
scathing indictment of the ignorance and inefficiency, the cynicism,
the bad faith, and the remorseless pride of power of the big five and
four and three is only equaled, but not excelled, by the now
well-known criticism of Professor Keynes. The two books, indeed,
supplement one another admirably.” W: MacDonald
+ − =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 580w
“By virtue of his inside knowledge, his ruthless uncovering of
weaknesses, his keenness in criticism, he well deserves to be called
the Junius of the peace conference.”
+ =No Am= 211:717 My ’20 1100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 180w
“It is not a history of the conference: it is an account of the way
things were done at Paris, written by a man of wide outlook, who knows
his way about the diplomatic world. Doubtless there will be many
volumes written on the peace conference, but few are likely to be so
valuable to the historian as this.”
+ =Sat R= 128:562 D 13 ’19 1250w
“This book does not add to Dr Dillon’s reputation. The allied
statesmen, being only human and fallible, made mistakes, notably in
regard to Italy and Rumania. But the wonder is that they did so well
as they have done. Dr Dillon emphasizes and exaggerates all their
blunders. He has taken the scandalous gossip of embassies, clubs, and
newspapers a little too seriously.”
− =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 100w
“The whole volume is a bold and dashing and highly fascinating
presentation.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 550w
“Our criticisms of this book are severe, but we believe they are just.
Dr Dillon has had a great opportunity and he has failed to use it. He
has failed because there is no evidence in the book of any consecutive
thought, of any firm ideas, of any help for reconstruction in the
future. Dr Dillon’s analysis of what happened at the conference is
always biassed and often incorrect; he has chosen to make himself
merely the mouthpiece of the complaints of the smaller states without
helping his readers in the least to discriminate as to their justice.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 1900w
=DILLON, MRS MARY C. (JOHNSON).= Farmer of Roaring Run. il *$1.75 (1c)
Century
20–1892
John McClure, a wealthy Philadelphian of Scottish birth, has created a
large farm in West Virginia, more or less as a rich man’s toy, which
is not even self-supporting. After five years his managing farmer
dies, and McClure is astounded when the farmer’s pretty,
girlish-looking widow asks to be allowed to run the farm. Reluctantly
he consents. He soon finds that Mrs Sinclair is not only quite a
capable farmer but also a very lovable woman; quite incidentally too
he discovers that it is necessary to spend more time on his farm
and—its manager. All sorts of improvements are put into immediate
action: forest conservation, careful selection of the best cattle
only, clubs for the isolated young people, a church, and other things
that spring from Mrs Sinclair’s energetic, fertile brain. Being very
young and beautiful, and of gentle birth, she attracts several
potential lovers, but McClure, after many heated misunderstandings,
and several romantic adventures, eventually wins her. Other minor love
stories run through the book, also a mystery.
* * * * *
“Good descriptions of the country. Women will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“A pleasant, thoroughly conventional and rather sugary little story,
the conclusion of which is perfectly obvious by the time one has
finished the first chapter, is Mary Dillon’s new novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:126 Mr 14 ’20 350w
=DILNOT, FRANK.= England after the war. *$3 Doubleday 914.2
20–20324
England, says the author, is in a stage of transition and is entering
upon a new epoch. What this new epoch is likely to be does not enter
into the speculations of the writer who confines himself to sketching
the main features of England in their present state of transformation.
Among the contents are: The mood of the people; The governance of
England; The women; Business the keystone; Labour battling for
enthronement; Ireland; Britain overseas; From Lord Northcliffe to
Bernard Shaw; Where England leads; New programmes of life.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“The American reader will find much to instruct him in the chapters
dealing with the new leaders in politics and economics who have arisen
in England since the war.” J. C. Grey
+ =Bookm= 52:366 Ja ’21 400w
“If he is not profound nor subtle nor concise, he is never dull and
seldom altogether commonplace.” C. R. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 170w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
=N Y Times= p14 O 24 ’20 1750w
“Mr Dilnot has produced a book entertaining and, in the main,
thoughtful.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 270w
=DIMMOCK, F. HAYDN=, ed.[2] Scouts’ book of heroes; with foreword by Sir
Robert Baden Powell. il *$2.50 Stokes 940.3
“A record of scouts’ work in the great war.” (Sub-title) Contents:
1914; Famous scouts in the war; Scout heroes of the army; Scout heroes
of the navy; Heroes of the air service; The heroes at home; Just—a
scout; Called to higher service. In addition sixty pages are devoted
to records of those who received medals, etc.
=DINGLE, A. E.= Gold out of Celebes. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–8238
Jack Barry, an American seaman out of a job, is loafing about Batavia,
in the Dutch East Indies, when Tom Little, a traveling salesman tired
of the typewriter business, puts him on the track of adventure. Little
has undertaken to go into the interior in the interests of Cornelius
Houten, a Dutch trader, who has reason to suspect one of his agents.
Houten is looking for a skipper and Barry meets his needs. The two
Americans scent mystery from the outset. In the first place there is
the strange lady, Mrs Goring, who claims acquaintance with them and
asks passage on their ship. In the second place there is something
puzzling about the big soft-voiced Dutch mate. There is also the
relation between Leyden, the man they are after, and Natalie Sheldon,
the charming young missionary. And the last is the point that matters
most to Barry. On some of these points the two are in doubt to the
end, working often in the dark, but fully deserving the rewards that
finally come to them.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“The plot of ‘Gold out of Celebes’ reveals nothing particularly new.
The love interest is slight, but pleasing. It is the breezy way in
which this novel is written that carries it. The plot is a secondary
matter entirely, while the ‘red blood’ element, vivid enough at times,
is always kept discreetly within bounds.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w
=DINNING, HECTOR W.= Nile to Aleppo. il *$7.50 Macmillan 940.42
“The author of this book is a captain in the Australian forces which
fought in the great war. Mr McBey was the official artist which
followed the army of the Egyptian expeditionary force and the two
together, the soldier and the painter, collaborated to produce a
volume which is not a book of the war, nor yet a book of travel, but a
combination of the two. The story begins at Taranto, away down in far
southern Italy. Here the force was simply in camp near the town, and
presumably a transport appeared in the harbor, her nose pointing
eastward and business opened up. Thence through Palestine and Syria.
The trail leads around the hills of Judea, through its ravines and
past its straggling orchards, and, at length, to the Holy City. He
takes us through the valley of the Jordan to Ludd; and from Ludd to
Damascus and thence to Homs; and from Homs to Aleppo, where the train
traversed the burning sands to Beyrouth.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Captain Dinning is a born observer. He always contrives to see what
is worth seeing and to record it vividly, sometimes in the slangy
style of his diary, sometimes in the finished manner of his later
chapters. Occasionally his judgments are open to criticism.”
+ =Ath= p759 D 3 ’20 950w
“The whole is an intensely breezy narrative, written by a man who
understands well the use of his eyes and of the English language to
interpret what he sees.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w
“Mr McBey’s pen sketches deserve more than passing mention, for he is
no mere illustrator. His economy of line and his ability to convey an
indelible impression of these arid stretches of Palestinian landscape,
their undeniable color and beauty, are more than fortuitous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p24 D 4 ’20 360w
+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 300w
=DIXON, THOMAS.= Man of the people. *$1.75 Appleton 812
20–13190
This drama of Abraham Lincoln has one purpose: to show Lincoln’s fight
to save the Union. We see Lincoln on the one hand as the friend of the
oppressed and dispensing pardons according to a deeper sense of
justice than is apparent on the surface. On the other hand we see him
deal with implacable firmness to carry through his great conviction
that the Union must be saved. The whole is divided into a prologue,
three acts, and an epilogue.
* * * * *
“Melodramatic and inferior to Drinkwater’s play.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
=DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.= Blood red dawn. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–10053
A story of San Francisco following the fortunes of a girl who has her
own living and her own way to make in the world. She is in turn a
stenographer in a business office, accompanist for a singer at
fashionable at-homes and Red cross concerts, and entertainer in a
Greek restaurant. The latter occupation takes her “south of Market”
and into a new social world where she meets the foreign born and has a
glimpse of the alien point of view on American life. Two men have a
part in her story, Ned Stillman, descendant of native stock, and Dr
Danilo, a Serbian doctor. The war is in progress at the time.
* * * * *
“Although it has merit, it is a rather tepid performance. Mr Dobie’s
faults, the faults of the novice, grow less noticeable as he warms to
his theme. But he fails to warm sufficiently. He handles all his
situations and incidents with the indifferent care of a man following
a recipe. In spite of its riotous title, ‘The blood red dawn’ is
distressingly smug.” M. A.
+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 360w
“Well constructed romance. The author knows his San Francisco. This
story—his first full length book—gives a graphic and colorful picture
of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The characters fail to transcend or to sublimate the type; are all,
by a shade, a little second-rate or common; and the result is a
disappointing effect, in a book containing so much veracious detail of
confused mediocrity. The opening chapters give us hope of creative
realism, and we seem to have received, when all is done, a
disconcerting blend of naturalism and romance.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 250w
=DODD, MRS ANNA BOWMAN (BLAKE).= Up the Seine to the battlefields. il
*$3 (3c) Harper 914.4
20–7447
“Why is it that not one traveler in a thousand, no, nor in tens of
thousands has known the Seine shores as the shores of the Hudson are
known—as the Rhine, for so many years, has been known and sung? Few
Frenchmen even are fully aware of the wonders and beauties which a
trip up the Seine will yield.” (Introd.) As one of the effects of the
war has been the discovery of the Seine’s commercial possibilities the
author fears that in a few short years the Seine will no longer be
“the lovely river of beauty.” She therefore proposes to immortalize
its many surprises in scenic and architectural splendors in a book
which is profusely illustrated from engravings and paintings.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“The book is intensely interesting both for its geography and its
history.”
+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 220w
“The book is an amiable introduction to modern French history; and if
Mrs Dodd’s manner is a trifle too intense for her subjects, there is
at least not a tiresome page in the whole volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 150w
“Such a volume as the present will be grateful reading to all those
who love France and who feel the force of the old days, no matter how
modern some parts of new France have become.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“Unfortunately Mrs Dodd’s style is too hasty—at points it is
positively slipshod—to carry the finer effects that would make for
complete success in such work as this.”
+ − =Review= 2:681 Je 30 ’20 300w
=DODD, LEE WILSON.= Book of Susan. *$2 Dutton
20–11147
“Susan is frankly a phenomenal child. After her stupid, bestial father
murders the woman with whom he is living, Susan is adopted by a
wealthy and cultured bachelor, and grows up to be a brilliant woman
who holds her own in his circle of scholarly and fashionable friends.”
(Outlook) “She is now old enough to be in love with [her] guardian,
who is, of course, in love with her. But Ambo’s two special friends, a
Yale professor and a New York radical, also love Susan. Finally it
takes a bomb from a Gotha in the streets of Paris to bring Susan to
the point of letting Ambo know that she loves him alone.” (Bookman)
* * * * *
“The reason why one reader is unimpressed by this plot, and even finds
it absurd, is because he is unimpressed by Susan. She is over-clever,
over-sprightly. So, for that matter, is the whole book.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:68 S ’20 500w
“For all its Stevensonesque touches, for all the moments when one
glimpses a mind like Pater’s, or a glimmer of Ibsen, through the
palings of the back fence, as it were, one has nothing, except a
couple of characters—say five—to take away with one. The first part of
the story is delightful.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 430w
“The book is much above the average novel, and the author’s insight
into feminine psychology quite remarkable. Moreover, it has the great
quality of interest.”
+ =Lit D= p114 N 6 ’20 1650w
“Mr Dodd’s style is in another world from the gritty slovenliness of
the average story; the earlier part of his book is filled with ripe
and intense characterizations; the interpolated passages of criticism
and verse are mellow and delightful. But the fable of the book is the
fable of ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ not only in fact but, beneath all
appearances of intellectual subtlety and integrity, in tendency and
spirit. We can only hope that Mr Dodd will soon give us another novel
in which his grace of style and temper shall serve to express an
austerer strain of thought and imagination—austerer because it is
truer and truer because it does not compromise.”
+ − =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 620w
“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character
of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about
‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and
has shaped his materials with no little skill.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w
“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the
incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the
American novels of the season.”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w
=DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD.= Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday
20–26482
“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of
recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set
the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of
American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.)
“It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can
never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has
pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early
environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The
great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great
reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United
States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or
Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the
League; Index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill,
and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson
+ =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1250w
“Although I am seldom in complete agreement with Professor Dodd, and
often a horizon’s distance away from him, I find myself forced to the
conviction that this book offers the fullest and fairest amount of
Wilson and his work that I have seen, or am likely to see in many a
day.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 24:36 S 8 ’20 2250w
“Quite the most discriminating, comprehensive and just appraisement of
Woodrow Wilson that has yet been made.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 230w
“As fairly as seems humanly possible, Prof. Dodd has maintained the
historical point of view, endeavoring to weigh all evidence
impartially, and taking counsel from friends and foes alike, and from
the president himself on various occasions.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 520w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 110w
=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner makes it fashionable. il *$1 (5c) Harper
20–6285
“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up
of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich,
new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean
people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way.
He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to
be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did.
So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of
extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of
simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it
all!
* * * * *
“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w
“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a
lesson well worth heeding in these days.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w
“A genuinely funny story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w
=DODGE, LOUIS.= Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6862
“Louis Dodge’s new hero is named Robert Estabrook, and it is Beakman,
the very unpleasant city editor of The News, who gives him the
nickname of ‘Whispers’ because of his defective speech. Estabrook—or
Whispers—arrives in Missouri City shortly after the murder of old
Pheneas Drumm, a dealer in masks and costumes, reputed to be very
rich, and goes first to the office of the highly successful News. But
not liking the looks either of Beakman or of The News office—whereby
he shows his good sense—he decides to try to get a position on the
rival paper, The Vidette. This he does. Also, Whispers promises to
solve the mystery of the Drumm murder within two days. Of course he
makes good.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
+ =Cath World= 112:121 O ’20 90w
“Mr Dodge has written a uniquely interesting book. The plot itself is
simple enough, the dénouement not surprising; but from the very
beginning a subtler interest is aroused by the genuine appeal of the
characters revealed and the picturesque quality of the city newspaper
life.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 480w
+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 350w
“Once the main thread begins to unwind, ‘Whispers’ plunges into an
exciting series of dangers. Either through his own, or the author’s
clumsiness, Estabrook does not display much craft in his sleuthing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 250w
“The long arm of coincidence is applied to its limit, but the story is
entertaining.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 20w
=DODWELL, C. E. W.= Righteousness versus religion. $2 Stratford co. 201
20–14752
In opposing righteousness to religion the author does not direct his
criticism against Christianity in the sense of the “righteousness,
simplicity and beauty” of the teachings of Christ, but against
dogmatic religion which he makes responsible for everything that has
gone wrong with the world. He charges it with promulgating
“mischievous errors, falsities and debasing superstitions, ignorance,
hypocrisy and narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance.” The contents
are: Religion; Many religions; The Christian religion; The works of
religion; The Bible; Righteousness. The postscript has paragraphs on
the future of the “Church” and “Religion”; on the effects of
Catholicism on Spain and Ireland; on the war; and a recommended list
of books for further reading.
* * * * *
“Of his tremendous sincerity there can be no doubt. It might fairly be
urged that the book fails to accord to its object of attack the usual
privilege of being judged by its best rather than by its worst. Yet
his assaults are put forward in such a whole-hearted and
self-convinced manner that what he says is not calculated to wound or
affront.” L. S.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1100w
=DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.=[2] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch
204
We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the
profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the
roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is
to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve,
not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel
and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever
it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors
any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of
social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into
sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of
spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization;
The religion within.
=DOMBROWSKI, ERIC.= German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c)
Appleton 920
20–26749
These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with
much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the
personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich
Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg
Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von
Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von
Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von
Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”
+ =N Y Times= p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w
“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates
only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women,
leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be
revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly
entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many
books of the hour.”
+ − =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w
“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all
are enlightening and amusing.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the
requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight.
But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well
as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the
author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w
“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints
vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and
agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C:
Seymour
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.=[2] States of South America, the land
of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and
commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918
“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its
first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated
reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as
before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911
Digest Annual.
* * * * *
“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from
beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 250w
“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief
value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact
that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his
chief competitor.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 O ’20 40w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25
Lippincott 940.45
20–26104
The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea
frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and
preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the
new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and
explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the
effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:164 F ’20
“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism
which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed
description of the instruments used.”
+ − =Nature= 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w
“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on
inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it
falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’
note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts,
not less displeasing is his English.”
− =Sat R= 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w
“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who
look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in
the war.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 850w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarines and sea power. *$2.50
Macmillan 359
(Eng ed 19–18399)
“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on
naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to
preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we
hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we
have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we
are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never
return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at
the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult
for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he
endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 70w
“Most instructive volume.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 O 9 ’19 1450w
=DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE.= How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1
Appleton 613
20–17245
This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into
Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking.
The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and
commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and
jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The
menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor
do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.”
The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little
physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft
subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you
eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six
weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author
is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.
=DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK.= Art of interesting; its theory and practice
for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808
20–18519
The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in
written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in
prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier
chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are
described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular
authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The
final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the
titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of
eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style;
Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest;
Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of
the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World
and America.
* * * * *
“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius
for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the
artistry.”
+ =Cath World= 112:389 D ’20 350w
=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald
671
19–15024
“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the
metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary
treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with
fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to
our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies
specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general
informational value to the average layman as well as to the
metal-worker.”—School R
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20
“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing
that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too
abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a
way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full
understanding on the part of immature students.”
+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 100w
“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school
attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and
productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in
vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are
able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of
their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.
+ =School R= 28:155 F ’20 220w
=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald
684
19–15025
The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all
industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal
workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating
to woodworking trades.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20
+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w
=DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH.= Glory
rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5585
“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the
‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had
mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer
receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him
that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and
says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come
for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer
raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his
wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and
arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence.
Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and,
refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of
the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision
furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her
mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 240w
=N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w
“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James
Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so
enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling
situation to another.” E. M. Brown
+ =Pub W= 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w
=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Honest thief and other stories. *$2
(1c) Macmillan
20–26192
This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works
of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s
dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another
man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The
crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.
* * * * *
“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious
relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we
are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange
way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard
it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is
over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky
who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who
wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a
ridiculous man.’” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 850w
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature
drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he
was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten
stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most
entertaining.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 550w
“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French
variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of
form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite
lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an
accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony
of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training
or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C:
K. Trueblood
+ − =Dial= 68:774 Je ’20 800w
“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among
his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised
when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is
the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the
imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and
that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w
“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible
to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow
himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant
predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic
talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we
are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the
proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him
across the boundary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 O 23 ’19 950w
=DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE.= Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger
state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5
20–8513
The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the
state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be
taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as
brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to
set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians,
the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin
their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries,
etc.
* * * * *
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:117 Je ’20 30w
=DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH.= Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1
20–5264
“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial
features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a
sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as
will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now
attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound
and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the
centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay
and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a
sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present
decaying economic and political structure and considering the
imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any
of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and
insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of
initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic
domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 60w
“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the
basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system
which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await
the event.” J. L.
+ =Ath= p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w
“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible.
Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking
and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je 20
“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case,
although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead
+ − =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to
soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not
scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes
straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive
concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”
+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the
fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have
had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms
which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message
of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political
democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of
thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon
economic freedom.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w
“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its
technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit
practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground
for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and
sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton
+ − =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w
=DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS).= Penny plain.
*$1.90 Doran
A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a
number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with
her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the
pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid
atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of
London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society
and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much
description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an
unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too,
appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the
fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her
single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the
shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your
choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the
penny plain, as “better value for the money.”
* * * * *
“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be
pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a
loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less
indispensable in fiction.”
+ − =Ath= p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w
“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is
worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 480w
“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little
short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of
war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice
with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’
leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be
judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss
Douglas deserves a very high mark.”
+ − =Spec= 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w
“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that
the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and
a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the
gradual unfolding of the characters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w
=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84
20–18296
“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey
of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a
sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short
time found themselves out of debt and with money in the
bank.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w
=N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on
thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America
and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in
their careers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 190w
=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–18763
Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint
pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a
latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts
in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results
are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has
invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn
painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued
from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into
a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his
water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn
patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the
other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the
right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.
* * * * *
“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing
particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made
piece of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 320w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25
Doran 821
20–2926
No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old
style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad
most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are:
Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The
guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The
wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime!
Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.
* * * * *
“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master
of evening-paper balladry.”
+ =Ath= p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w
“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir
Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book;
British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her
destiny.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w
“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has
been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 110w
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town
or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for
recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in
sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One
longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian
humour.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 80w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3
(3c) Doran 940.3
=v 5–6= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.
Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story
of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given
seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the
Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters.
Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading
up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are
illustrated with maps and plans.
* * * * *
“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the
most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional
ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in
keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
+ − =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5)
=Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6)
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6)
+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)
“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his
maps, so-called, are execrable.”
+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6)
=Spec= 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5)
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its
official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be
congratulated upon his work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed,
since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible
that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily
produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly
that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in
the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has
modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v
5–6)
=D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart.= Tales retailed of celebrities and
others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
20–20076
“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after
dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of
good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be
capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a
few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the
author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years.
The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago:
Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and
Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains:
Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William
D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.
* * * * *
=Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w
“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle
in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting
of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have
much general interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p141 F 26 ’20 110w
=DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS.= History of the Atlantic coast line railroad.
*$2 Houghton 385
20–7433
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays
in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of
short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic
coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company
period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and
the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a
marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early
trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states:
Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The
Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860:
North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The
South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil
war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to
1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and
consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical
note; Index; and insert maps and table.
* * * * *
“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the
economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our
knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a
good discussion of the industrial development of the country through
which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:593 S ’20 720w
“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of
personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and
paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the
bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book,
nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered
contribution.” U. B. Phillips
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=DRACHSLER, JULIUS.=[2] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of
immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7
20–18678
“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical
study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant
groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the
national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed
toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural
point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short,
must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under
an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be
achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to
accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to
study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races
represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be
an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 720w
=N Y Times= p10 D 12 ’20 1800w
“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to
facts.” J: M. Gaus
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w
“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own
point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been
divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be
recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of
assimilation.” J. B. Berkson
+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w
=DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.=[2] Five months in the Argentine from a
woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2
20–12791
“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine:
from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey
from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an
invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at
Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes
about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern
was to study the status and training of women, the care of children,
the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation
* * * * *
“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into
considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and
pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w
=DREISER, THEODORE.= Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814
20–2927
“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character,
The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The
reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic
America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the
authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain.
It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The
house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord
of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his
ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the
doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world
republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the
triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers,
madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of
the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so
arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself
in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of
repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its
immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has
no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”
− =Cath World= 111:260 My ’20 320w
“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity,
and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is
a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”
− =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 160w
“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is
astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of
the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has
no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost
purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific
verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie
Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is
certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life
than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w
“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to
be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely
interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate.
The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless,
chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually
in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey
rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.
− + =New Repub= 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w
“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has
been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless
common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is
pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser
has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this
country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the
million.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w
− =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 750w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena.
*$2 (2½c) Crowell 130
20–6883
The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never
received any communications through a medium, and that he has never
investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He
classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that
arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book
emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner
vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the
spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well
as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our
participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to
be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The
new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power;
Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions;
Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light;
Positive values.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety
refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a
featureless level.”
+ − =Review= 2:631 Je 16 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 40w
=DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE).= Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam
20–6736
This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a
personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life,
her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been
the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her
birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and
marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to
her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via
lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a
biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that
account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more
extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred
pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative
picture.” H. J. L.
− + =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social
and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and
beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished
and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
− =Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 320w
=R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 80w
“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records,
Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of
letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and
commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 850w
+ =Spec= 124:49 Ja 10 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 D 18 ’19 1600w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c)
Houghton
20–20308
The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell
the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of
the community of spirit and of the differences of national character
between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler
in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them.
Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln
as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History
and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least
polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has
brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”
+ =N Y Times= p1 D 5 ’20 850w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 80w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction
by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the
author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural
concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in
poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of
such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm;
The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
* * * * *
“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the
stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living
beings.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w
“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The
best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and
simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in
the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 S 20 ’17 960w
=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton
20–10731
“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on
the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant
risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to
the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the
visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count
Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful,
proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the
changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval
Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative
tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure
of success in his undertaking.”
+ − =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w
“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w
“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on
the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to
the real issue.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 130w
=DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD.= Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c)
Assn. press 261
20–13993
“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can
satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of
the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic
undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler
Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need
of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need
emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the
Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need
summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 130w
=DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT.= Darkwater: voices from within the
veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
20–4763
“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama
from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have
reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of
souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual
and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual
collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little
alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an
autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The
souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The
servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women;
The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed
poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess
of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The
call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn
to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The
negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
* * * * *
“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we
cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is
irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’
races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white
races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
+ − =Ath= p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w
“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears.
It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no
matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’
thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages
of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of
racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 620w
“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the
negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful
whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work
as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 670w
“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument
of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from
the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not
always on the same high level as his style.”
+ − =Ind= 102:235 My 15 ’20 200w
+ =Lit D= p86 My 1 ’20 1350w
“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of
his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his
leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note
of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which
often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so
keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But
still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and
the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois
and his cause much further.” O. G. V.
+ − =Nation= 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w
“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of
his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the
sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book
must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to
the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he
tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he
establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F.
H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is
that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn
general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs
all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in
this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest
praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that
inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w
“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems
involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence.
It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already
convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”
− + =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w
“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr
DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something
universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories
at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the
Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is
the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the
world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W.
Ovington
+ =Socialist R= 8:381 My ’20 700w
“Very able and pathetic book.”
+ − =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w
“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of
identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and
black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have
overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book
is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and
makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a
great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster
+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w
“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred
which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the
paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact
that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would
inevitably eat up the white man.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w
“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in
spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he
cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’
who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality
which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his
right to complain.” N. T.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:286 S ’20 160w
=DUCLAUX, EMILE.= Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin
F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders
20–6556
“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896.
The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful
quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it.
He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of
Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of
the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of
knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe
the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the
great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States
Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons
mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific
research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of
what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w
“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The
translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.
+ =Nature= 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has
been made since it was written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w
=DUCLAUX, MARY.= Twentieth century French writers (reviews and
reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9
(Eng ed 20–11400)
“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its
publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and
interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly
of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes
the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland,
Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy,
Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)
* * * * *
=Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this
volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
+ =Ath= p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w
=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her
brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the
stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from
those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are
obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in
her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated
individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of
personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.”
C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein
lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend
and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the
world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a
book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to
restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w
“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes
possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with
that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R.
Redman
+ |=N Y Times= p15 Ag 22 ’20 2500w
“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has
yet been published in English.”
+ |=Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 530w
“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here
is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse
is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this
field of literary criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 F 26 ’20 1850w
=DUGANNE, PHYLLIS.= Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt
20–14598
This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she
is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a
rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting
herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling,
her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and
Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with
the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and
periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to
“find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of
the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close,
she stands at “the beginnings of things.”
* * * * *
“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be
conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree
technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of
its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining.
The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there
is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way
interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the
author.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w
“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she
visualizes men and things with cool precision.”
+ =Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w
=DUGUIT, LEÓN.= Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski.
*$2.50 Huebsch 321
20–7266
“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following
significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public
service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is
no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of
individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public
need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory
of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about
occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily
from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state
absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct
bodies.”—Socialist R
* * * * *
“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general,
be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond
understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real
nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:504 Ag ’20 1000w
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his
side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats
fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 F 21 ’20 80w
“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and
the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background
for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 420w
=DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY.= Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c)
Doubleday 917.8
A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler.
It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern
Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end
maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing
motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end,
followed by the index.
* * * * *
“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many
valuable suggestions.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality
of tourist information into so compact space before.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w
=DUNLAP, KNIGHT.= Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to
explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation
found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second
part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an
element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can
according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection
of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more
disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all,
however, the author directs his argument against economic interest
as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the
case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as
indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus
=Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 160w
“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there
have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by
Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s
library.” P. P.
+ =Social Hygiene= 6:577 O ’20 640w
“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race
betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more
than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence
or citation of authority other than his own observations.”
+ − =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
=DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329
20–8653
The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances
that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author
takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected
on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a
greater part and that often the result depends on accident or
incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and
states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison
and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of
congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van
Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk;
The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery
compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan;
Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war
issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs.
Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term
issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist
tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard
vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley;
Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft;
Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical
mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition,
suffrage, socialism.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 30w
“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of
the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead
he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or
judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring
the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a
fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with
intelligent discrimination.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w
=DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Natural history of the child. *$2
(2½c) Lane 392
20–4905
Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not
written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the
traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood
from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a
history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up
from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.”
(Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early
life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His
schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion;
His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.
* * * * *
“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly
interesting and amusing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung
together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read
with interest by every child-lover.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or
the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the
use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble
of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn
cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”
+ − =Spec= 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w
“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or
nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has
in him a trace of the antiquary.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old
and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style
in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Je 19 ’19 300w
=DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H.= Intimate golf talks. il *$3
Putnam 796
20–21193
The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John
Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s
interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for
his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks,
interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs;
Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold
address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to
the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of
balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults;
Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing
faults; This brings us to putting.
* * * * *
“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the
production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 980w
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c)
Doubleday
20–13705
When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But
he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an
ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American
temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only
of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was
to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found.
By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept
together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting
experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost
lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have
Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share.
How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the
close of the story.
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c)
Doubleday
20–5121
A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction.
The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang
of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from
her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with
the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter
of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching
experiences add an original touch.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Tales of three
hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.
20–26193
“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany
pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third
hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond
the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that
we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the
Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped
tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before
long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to
sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first
made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the
second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into
the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y
Times)
* * * * *
“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a
subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys
successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true
dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary
fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than
the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness,
and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a
serious defect of style.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p202 Ag 13 ’20 560w
=Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but
present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”
+ − =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w
“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express
in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying
man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a
girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such
fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him
‘The sack of emeralds.’”
+ =N Y Times= 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w
+ =Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 650w
+ =Spec= 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w
“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out
sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up
associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous
virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his
perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that
he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of
the pure artist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p437 Jl 8 ’20 1250w
=DURKIN, DOUGLAS.= Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
Because he had once struck his brother with murder in his heart, King
Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that
resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier
country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met
Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old
Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an
enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who
was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her
wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the
fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation
vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 250w
=DURSTINE, ROY SARLES.= Making advertisements and making them pay. il
*$3.50 Scribner 659
20–16526
“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected
with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with
reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising,
it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that
makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 270w
“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more
helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced
to see.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p9 N 21 ’20 2400w
=DURUY, VICTOR.= History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944
20–14467
A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was
translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890
by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present
year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and
other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been
maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the
Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the
Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to
and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:83 N ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c)
Doubleday
20–19763
The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor,
too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes
the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat
encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which
an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At
Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a
German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the
course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on
board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed
into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize
themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds
the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his
country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the
Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.
* * * * *
“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple
qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w
“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern
tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the
suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 720w
=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has
introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main
has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul
was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to
the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and
others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most
picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that
little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in
Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of
broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the
people.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure
to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
+ =Nation= 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one
feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 260w
E
=EAST, EDWARD MURRAY, and JONES, DONALD FORSHA.= Inbreeding and
outbreeding: their genetic and sociological significance. (Monographs on
experimental biology) il *$2.50 Lippincott 575
20–352
“Whether close inbreeding causes deterioration of the race and
cross-breeding re-invigorates it, is a question that has long been
disputed. It was not until the development of the Mendelian theory
that a sufficiently powerful method of analyzing the problem was
discovered. The book by Professor East and Dr Jones gives an account
of the solution of the problem by means of this theory. The data which
East and Jones have here brought together have a wide applicability to
practical animal and plant breeding. The authors also attempt to apply
them to the field of human heredity.”—J Philos
* * * * *
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
=Am J Soc= 26:251 S ’20 380w
+ − =Ath= p706 My 28 ’20 500w
“One of the most valuable features of the book is the admirable
bibliography of 225 titles.” M. C. Coulter
+ =Bot Gaz= 69:530 Je ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Alexander Weinstein
+ =J Philos= 17:388 Jl 1 ’20 620w
“The book is marked at once by independence and by scholarship. Of
great interest to many will be the application of the biological
results to the particular case of man. There is a carefully selected
bibliography.”
+ =Nature= 106:335 N 11 ’20 900w
“From a popular standpoint, ‘Inbreeding and outbreeding’ is by far the
most interesting and suggestive book on heredity that has appeared in
recent years.” O. E. White
+ =New Repub= 24:278 N 10 ’20 1400w
“Two biologists of note, both experimental plant breeders, have done a
useful work in laying the results of their experiments and their
reflections upon the experiments before a semi-popular audience. They
are wise in doing so, for no question comes more frequently to the
eugenicist than this: Is the marriage of cousins prejudicial to
offspring? Or this: What are the biological consequences of race
admixture?” C: B. Davenport
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 450w
=EASTON, DOROTHY.= Golden bird, and other sketches. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–11225
These sketches are introduced by a foreword by John Galsworthy and
“catch the flying values of life” as he says a good sketch does. They
contain pictures from the southern countryside of England with some
French sketches. “The golden bird” is an old inn where a paralyzed
youth with a poet’s soul has for ten years made the walls of his room
transparent and who beguiles the time, when he is not seeing visions
of the shifting seasons outside, with his violin. Some of the other
titles are: Laughing down; The steam mill; Heart-breaker; Twilight;
September in the fields; Causerie; Smoke in the grass; Adversity; It
is forbidden to touch the flowers; A Parisian evening; Life.
* * * * *
“The writer gives us the impression of being extremely young—not in
the sense of a child taking notes, but in the sense that she seems to
be seeing, smelling, drinking, picking hops and blackberries for the
first time. For such sketches as ‘An old Indian’ and ‘From an old
malt-house’ we have nothing but praise. But while we welcome her
warmly, we would beg her, in these uncritical days, to treat herself
with the utmost severity.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 190w
“They have color, dramatic vivacity and interesting characterization.
Somewhat depressing.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Miss Easton writes with a certain graceful precision, an unerring
touch for the right word, for the exact effect, and a deeply
sympathetic attitude toward nature and toward humanity in its varied
aspects.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 200w
“They are simple, vivid and effective in their simplicity. There is
real insight and real skill in putting down what the author has seen.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 200w
“With a remarkable economy of means she renders the rather drowsy
sweetness of her south of England scenes. And occasionally, as in the
sketches called Laughing down, her tenderness for her landscape makes
her sentimental and callous—the two are never far apart—about people.
But her best sketches, of which there are many, have their brief
moments of irony and tragedy and so combine beauty and wisdom in
uncommon measure.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 360w
“Miss Easton holds almost constantly to this objectivity, except that
she relieves, or perhaps one should say illuminates, it sometimes with
the suggestion of spiritual significance by means of a delicate,
elusive touch that seems less her own than the inescapable implication
of that which she is describing.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 600w
“An ardent fancy and a delicate yet firm hand have gone to its making;
and, thank heaven, it reminds us of nobody! I am not sure, in thinking
it over, but the main charm of the book, apart from its beauty of
workmanship, lies in its total lack of that ‘humor’ which is the god
of the current literary machine.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 450w
“A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading
afterwards.”
+ =Spec= 125:744 D 4 ’20 50w
“The author has a deep and comprehensive feeling for the transitory
values of life which she succeeds in communicating to the emotions of
her audience. She writes with a delicacy which would beautify the most
sordid subjects.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ’20 430w
“The quality of the volume suggests that stronger work may follow.
More experience should confirm that individual quality already
described, and may help to put a curb on an exuberance of sentiment
which is at present Miss Easton’s chief weakness.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 Jl 15 ’20 390w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= In Berkshire fields. il *$3.50 Harper 917.44
20–18686
Not as a scientist but merely as a lover of nature and the wilds, does
the author record his wanderings through fields and woods. As a
permanent resident in the hills he knows them in every season of the
year and in every elemental mood and loves them “less for their
softness than their wildness.” Their wildness, he tells us, is still
considerable for in their miles of forest the moose and wildcat still
roam and there is even recent evidence of a timberwolf. Seventy-eight
illustrations, chiefly of winter scenes, by Walter King Stone, grace
the pages and the contents are: Landlord to the birds; Jim Crow; The
cheerful chickadee; The menace from above; By inland waters; Poking
around for birds’ nests; The queen of the swamp; Forgotten roads; From
a Berkshire cabin; Little folks that gnaw; The ways of the woodchuck;
Foxes and other neighbors; In praise of trees; Enjoying the influenza;
Adventures with an ax; Weeds above the snow.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 290w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 170w
“He has written of the birds and animals of the Berkshires with an
accuracy perfected by long observation and with a sympathy arising
from sincere affection.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
“Sympathetic nature study and observation, not burdened with
scientific detail, is charmingly set forth.”
+ =Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 390w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= On the edge of the wilderness, il *$1.75 (3c)
Wilde 591.5
The first of these “tales of our wild animal neighbors” is the story
of a lone timber wolf who strayed into western Massachusetts where his
species is supposed to be extinct. The scene of the other stories is
also the Berkshire hills, where, on the authority of the author and
others, wolves, foxes, deer, moose and other animals still survive,
The titles are: “The return of the native”; Big Reddy, strategist; The
Odyssey of old Bill; The life and death of Lucy; General Jim; The
mating of Brownie; The taming of ol’ Buck; Red slayer and the terror;
Rastus earns his sleep; “The last American.” The illustrations are by
Charles Livingston Bull.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w
“Mr Eaton’s art is finished and flowing, a joy to read. Books like
this are not only an education in natural history, but in beautiful
English, in clarity of description and harmony of phrase.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 180w
“‘On the edge of the wilderness’ is almost ideal in fulfilling the
many demands of the average intelligent boy for an entertaining book
of adventure. In the first place it rings true. It has a literary
value such as boys unconsciously appreciate.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 250w
=ECKEL, EDWIN CLARENCE.= Coal, iron and war; a study in industrialism,
past and future. *$3 (2½c) Holt 330
20–13789
Ours is a “machine civilization” and the story of industrial growth
and competition since 1775, the author holds, “is chiefly though not
entirely the story of coal and iron.” The book attempts to keep the
discussion free from any and every preconceived bias, theory or
assumption and to arrive at conclusions entirely through the
historical study of the industrial developments of different
countries. Industrial growth is a matter of natural evolution based on
physical environment and inheritance and hardly at all on human and
personal control. The form of government is a negligible fact—a strong
nationalism still desirable, and war still the simplest solution of
many of our industrial problems. The contents are in four parts: The
growth of modern industrialism; The material bases of industrial
growth: The causes and effects of industrial growth; The future of
industrialism. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The thesis is carefully developed and well maintained. The striking
feature of the book is the openness of mind with which the future is
examined. Although the historical portions of the book are sound in
the main there are some statements with reference to the eighteenth
century that can scarcely be accepted.” A. P. Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:307 Ja ’21 640w
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“Mr Eckel has long been prominent as a geologist and engineer. In this
volume he certainly qualifies also as an economist. His views on labor
organization, the corporation, and the influence of legislation are
especially significant.” G. P. W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 600w
“The present work is written for the general reader, and through
elimination of the less important and by judicious distribution of
emphasis he has produced a book which is likely to be widely read with
both interest and profit. Though written in a language intelligible to
the business man quite as much as the student, it is perhaps most of
all important through its judicious criticism of the traditional and
orthodox viewpoint of the economist.” W: H. Hobbs
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 1450w
=Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 280w
“It is a worth while book and one has difficulty in telling in a few
words why; probably it is because it is written with sincerity and
because the author is not writing as other engineers have written, to
promote a cause but to examine facts critically.” Hugh Archbald
+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 360w
=EDDY, SHERWOOD.= Everybody’s world. *$1.60 Doran 327
“A discussion, from the standpoint of world Christianity, of post-war
conditions in the Near East, Russia, Japan, China, and India, with a
chapter on the relations between Great Britain and America and
Anglo-Saxon responsibility to the world. The book is the result of a
tour around the world in 1919.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The author has given an interesting and valuable survey of world
conditions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 100w
“The charm of style lies in the author’s intense human interest which
results in much picturesque and personal narrative. Mr Eddy is
singularly free of bias.” L. R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=EDEN, EMILY.= Miss Eden’s letters; ed. by her great niece, Violet
Dickenson with introd. *$6.50 Macmillan
“To the present generation the name of Miss Eden conveys little or
nothing. As the sister of Lord Auckland, who held office in the reform
ministries of the early years of last century, and who became
governor-general of India in 1835, she was well known in London
society under William IV; and during her later life she published some
novels and books of travel which were not without merit, but had not
sufficient distinction to preserve them from oblivion. But her abiding
claim to the notice of posterity was her talent for friendly
letterwriting. Her most intimate friend, Pamela, daughter of Lord and
Lady Edward FitzGerald, had an equally marked gift for talking with
the pen, and perhaps greater vivacity and humour; and the
correspondence between these two brilliant women is preserved in the
present volume.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 100w
“If she has no ideas about things in general, she has a perpetually
renewed interest in the immediate; it is this, with the firm, easy
texture of her style, and a delicate oddity of perception, which makes
her letters so eminently readable. It is this, but something more; for
of all the qualities named she is perhaps fully conscious; but she
appears admirably unconscious of the qualities of heart and character
she has.” F. W. S.
+ =Ath= p335 Mr 12 ’20 1100w
“We think that Miss Dickenson might have suppressed some of the
letters as deficient in interest. But we are grateful to her for
presenting us with some of the best specimens of the lost art of
correspondence.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:441 N 8 ’19 1100w
“She had the true note of colloquial ease which few people ever
achieve in their letters, and still fewer retain. She gossips
charmingly; her observations on her friends and acquaintances are not
the mere threadbare inanities which can interest only those who know
the persons concerned, but real characteristic illuminative things
which are nearly as pleasant to read now as they were when they were
written eighty or ninety years ago.”
+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 600w
“The judgment of Miss Dickenson’s selections and the unusual
excellence of her materials give the book what we so seldom find in
biographies—construction and artistic purpose.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 N 6 ’19 950w
=EDGINTON, HELEN MARION (MAY EDGINTON).= Married life; or, The true
romance. *$1.75 Small
20–8626
“May Edginton’s novel begins with the marriage of a pretty, bright,
charming girl who has been earning her own living and a fine, handsome
young man whose salary in an automobile house has been ample to allow
him to spend upon himself with some freedom. The action carries them
rapidly through the rose-colored days of the first year of married
life. By the end of that year they are both beginning to feel the
financial pinch resulting from the necessity of making the salary that
had been enough for one serve the needs of two. Then the babies begin
to arrive and at the end of six years they have three. The salary that
had been little more than enough for one has not been much increased
and it has to be stretched to cover the needs of five. The husband,
under this strain, has grown morose, fault-finding, resentful, and the
wife, with her strength taxed far beyond its powers, is weary,
irritable and hopeless. The author’s solution she has found solely in
the very material one of furnishing them with enough money to enable
the husband to spend as he likes and the wife to hire a maid, get her
hands manicured and buy some new clothes.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Why force an obviously false ending to a tale that rings true up to a
certain point?”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 250w
“The author tells the first part of her story with much realistic
detail and with color and vivacity.... The story is the expression of
a purely material and selfish ideal of life.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 440w
=EDIE, LIONEL D.=, ed. Current social and industrial forces; introd. by
James Harvey Robinson. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 330
20–3781
“Essays from a number of radical and liberal English and American
writers, which reveal the fundamental causes of unrest and propose
some plans of action. Some of the authors represented are: Veblen,
Sidney Webb, Meyer Bloomfield, J. A. Hobson, J. Laurence Laughlin,
Bertrand Russell, Helen Marot, Emil Vandervelde, Walter Lippmann,
Norman Angell, H. G. Wells and John Dewey. There are also numerous
reports from various commissions of both the British and American
governments and of organizations of employers and workers.” (Booklist)
“The book grew out of the compiler’s need for a textbook in his
courses on current historical forces at Colgate university. The
selections are grouped under the headings: Forces of disturbance,
Potentialities of production, The price system, The direction of
industry, The funds of reorganization, The power and policy of
organized labor, Proposed plans of action, Industrial doctrines in
defense of the status quo, and The possibilities of social service.”
(Survey)
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by R. F. Clark
+ =Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 240w
“Should be very valuable to the student and to the more thoughtful
reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
+ − =Cath World= 111:681 Ag ’20 420w
“The excerpts and reprints are skilfully grouped, so that the
reader—for the book can be read as well as consulted—can grasp the
material handily. The selections are made without prejudice.”
+ =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 80w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 60w
“Prof. Edie has rendered a real service by gathering into well-related
chapters some of the most illuminating discussions of a large number
of modern writers on social topics.” H: P. Fairchild
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 900w
“It is every citizen’s duty to be informed on these subjects, and
Professor Edie puts the information within the reach of any who wish
it.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 22 ’20 340w
“In this symposium one gets many and variously colored and confusing
glimpses of industrial and social movements, but no comprehensive view
of any single subject and no consistent coördination or
interpretation.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 300w
+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 280w
“The book gives a useful conspectus of radical thought—but it scarcely
deals at all with ‘current social and industrial forces.’” W: E.
Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:218 O ’20 380w
=EDMAN, IRWIN.= Human traits and their social significance. *$3 Houghton
301
20–17674
Throughout the long process of civilization two factors have remained
constant, says the author: nature and human nature. The only change
with regard to the one has been in our increasing power of control of
nature through increasing knowledge. And the only difference between
the man of today and the primitive savage is in the control of the
native biological impulses that the civilized man has achieved through
education, religion and morals. It is the aim of the book to indicate
man’s simple inborn impulses and outstanding human traits and the
factors which must be taken into account if they are to be controlled
in the interest of human welfare. Accordingly the book falls into two
parts: Social psychology; and The career of reason. Types of human
behavior and their social significance, basic human activities and
crucial traits in social life, and the racial and cultural continuity
are among the subjects considered in part one. Part two contains:
Religion and the religious experience; Art and æsthetic experience;
Science and scientific method; Morals and moral valuation. There is an
index.
* * * * *
“There are but few books of only 467 pages that contain so much
information as this one. Written as an introduction to contemporary
civilization and intended for freshmen, it clarifies questions at
whose profundity Plato would have been disheartened. If the freshman
of today can digest even a small portion of this book colleges are
progressing, while for a man comparatively advanced in years, and with
interests as universal as those of Leonardo da Vinci, it would be a
handy manual.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 250w
=EDWARDS, A. HERBAGE.= Paris through an attic. *$3 Dutton 914.4
19–19896
“Paris, ever fascinating and ever fresh, was seen in the days before
the war from a new angle, by a delightful young couple, with a thin
family purse. An income of 350 dollars a year sufficed their needs.
Where they lived, and how they lived is told by the feminine half of
this pair of adventurers. The young couple attended the Sorbonne.
Sundays and holidays are treated in an account of how Paris amuses
itself. All these happenings, and many others, fill the space of two
years, and the pages of the book, up to the eventful day when Richard
receives his title, ‘Docteur de l’Universite de Paris.’”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“The section on the students and the university reveals aspects of
French life not ordinarily found in books of travel.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“Charming narrative.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 700w
“This book contains a hundred delightful and delicate reflections, an
equal number of personal touches, and some quaint views of life which
cannot fail to charm the reader who likes to saunter in the little
lanes of the great world.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1400w
=EDWARDS, AUSTIN SOUTHWICK.=[2] Fundamental principles of learning and
study. $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
20–22148
“The present volume is a rewriting of manuscript which the writer has
used for some time as part of his lectures to students in educational
psychology. The aim is especially to show how the results of general
psychology and experimental psychology and of allied sciences can be
put into use by the teacher and the student in the problems of
learning and of study.” (Preface) The author takes the point of view
that “the forming, modifying and remaking of habits, habitudes,
dispositions, tendencies, etc., under the guidance of ideals set up by
society, seems to be the fundamental work of education.” Among the
chapters are: Fundamental principles of education; Neurology and the
basis of education; The fundamental work of education; Learning and
habit formation; Acquisition which involves study; Attention and
sustained effort; Feeling habits and moral education; Supervised study
and the school curriculum. The book is provided with questions,
chapter references, select bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“The range of topics treated and the definite nature of the
discussions make the book suitable for wide use in courses dealing
with a survey of the psychology of the learning process.”
+ =El School J= 21:392 Ja ’21 600w
“In this comparatively brief and quite readable treatise, one finds
less space taken up with academic discussion of pedagogic bugaboos
than in most books on similar themes.” C. L. Clarke
+ =Survey= 45:611 Ja 22 ’21 400w
=EDWARDS, CLAYTON.= Treasury of heroes and heroines. il *$3 (2½c) Stokes
920
20–19159
“A record of high endeavour and strange adventure; from 500 B.C. to
1920 A.D.” In the book so described in the sub-title the life stories
of many famous men and women are given. The “Heroes of reality”
include: Buddha; Julius Cæsar; Saint Patrick; King Arthur of Britain;
Mohammed; Alfred the Great; Robin Hood; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary;
Dante; Robert Bruce; Jeanne d’Arc; Christopher Columbus; William the
Silent; Queen Elizabeth of England; Sir Francis Drake; Henry Hudson;
Peter the Great; George Washington; John Paul Jones; Molly Pitcher;
Napoleon Bonaparte; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Grace
Darling; Florence Nightingale; Father Damien; Catherine Breshkovsky;
Theodore Roosevelt; Edith Cavell; King Albert of Belgium; Maria
Botchkareva. Four heroes of fiction are included: William Tell; Don
Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; and Rip Van Winkle. There are illustrations
in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
* * * * *
“The stories are brief, but they are by no means mere sketches; nor
are they ‘written down’ in a way that children dislike. It is a good
book and a useful one.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 13 ’20 180w
“The big book is interesting and well done, full of information that
reads like wild romance.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 120w
=EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.=[2] Belgium old and new. il *$10 Penn 914.93
20–21326
“The illustrations, numbering forty-one, are full-page and are mostly
in color. These reproduce ancient or famous buildings, towers,
sections of historic structures and open spaces in Antwerp, Brussels
and other cities and towns of the several provinces in the kingdom.
Much of the text is historical in character. In the first chapter, Mr
Edwards touches upon the natural resources of the little country and
its condition at the close of the war, concluding with an optimistic
forecast of its quick recovery and future well-being. He then
proceeds, in separate chapters, with historical sketches of Antwerp,
Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai, Couillet, Liège and Mons. This done,
the author returns to the present and discusses Belgium’s colonies,
characteristics of the country and people and the constitution. The
work concludes with chapters devoted to Cardinal Mercier and the king
and queen.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The text of the book is eminently satisfactory, but chiefly so
because it puts us in precisely the right attitude of mind and spirit
for enjoying to the full the charm of the book’s generous wealth of
illustration.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 15 ’20 380w
=EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).= Tales of enchantment from
Spain. il *$2 (6c) Harcourt
20–17754
The author has brought out two earlier collections of South American
tales and her studies in this field have led her to an examination of
the folk lore of Spain, from which many of the Spanish-American tales
are derived. Among the titles of the fifteen stories are: The white
parrot; The carnation youth; The wood cutter’s son and the two
turtles; The luck fairies; The bird which laid diamonds; The enchanted
castle in the sea; The princess who was dumb. The pictures are by Maud
and Miska Petersham.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
=EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, and KENNEDY, JOHN JAMES BRIGHT.= Knights of
Columbus in peace and war. 2v il *$5.25 Encyclopedia press 267
20–6359
“The first of these two handsome illustrated volumes is devoted to the
origin, growth, and constitution of this celebrated Anglican Roman
Catholic friendly society, founded by the Rev. M. J. McGivney in
Connecticut in 1882; its work in peace time of protecting homes,
promoting higher education, allaying religious prejudice, opposing
bolshevism, etc.; and its war work during the fighting in France, with
the navy, and after the armistice. The Canadian Knights’ war work has
a special chapter. The second volume is chiefly taken up with the roll
of honour of the Knights.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:258 My 16 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 90w
=EGGLESTON, MRS MARGARET W.= Use of the story in religious education.
*$1.50 Doran 268
20–4125
“In this book the author has brought together some of the
recommendations on story-telling that have been current in secular
education for some time and has applied these to problems directly
connected with the Sunday school.”—El School J
* * * * *
“Will interest all storytellers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“The book will be suggestive to Sunday school teachers and will lead
to an improvement in the story-telling which is an important part of
the Sunday school’s work.”
+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:110 Je ’20 140w
=EINSTEIN, ALBERT.= Relativity: the special and general theory. il *$3
Holt 530.1
20–17742
“The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact
insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a
general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in
the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus
of theoretical physics.” (Preface) The translation is by Professor
Robert W. Lawson who has added a biographical note of the author. The
contents are in three parts: The special theory of relativity; The
general theory of relativity; Considerations on the universe as a
whole. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Although Professor Einstein’s own exposition is as clear and simple
as could be expected, the book is of exceptional interest, not as a
popular exposition, but as an indication of the mental processes of
its author.”
+ =Ath= p311 S 3 ’20 260w
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“An excellent translation of Einstein’s book.”
+ =Nature= 106:336 N 11 ’20 1200w
“Written in an unpretentious, straightforward style. The trend of his
exposition can be followed in the main by any attentive reader who is
not scared by algebraic formulae.” E. E. Slosson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 2400w
“The book is ‘intended to give an exact insight into the theory to
those who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of
theoretical physics.’ In the opinion of the reviewer, in this attempt
he has been eminently successful, that is, if an essentially
mathematical notion can be made intelligible without algebraic
symbols.” A. G. Webster
+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 90w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Abraham Lincoln. (Heroes of all time) il *$1.50
Stokes
20–18583
This story of Lincoln for young people is in seven sections: Years of
inexperience; Years of development; Years of self-expression and
experience; Years of public recognition; Years of leadership; Years of
supremacy; Triumph and death. Each section is prefaced by an extract
from Lincoln’s speeches. There are nine illustrations, a list of
presidents of the United States up to Abraham Lincoln and a chart
showing method of government in the United States.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Periwinkle’s island. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott
An English story for children, all about the surprising adventures of
Meg, Peg and Topkins, who go to the country with their mother, the
queen, Fuzzy Wuzz, their nurse, and Tut-Tut, their tutor. Only good
children are allowed to land on Periwinkle’s island and at first
attempt Meg, Peg and Topkins can not pass the test, but they improve
and after the second trial go ashore to take part in the great chase
after the Creepingo, aided by the Top Twins, the Elastic Dog and other
queer folk. The pictures in color are by Molly Benatar.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Road to unity among the Christian churches.
*$1 (8½c) Am. Unitar. 280
20–2426
This little volume contains the first lecture delivered under the
Arthur Emmons Pearson foundation, established in 1918 with the object
of promoting “the advancement of mutual understanding and helpfulness
between the people of all denominations and creeds.” Dr Eliot points
out the factors that have promoted division in the past and then
enumerates the present forces that are encouraging unification. He
says, “To the United States the world is indebted for the
demonstration that on the principle of federation a strong, stable,
and just government can be constructed.... The same principle applied
to the divided Christian churches will produce analogous good results;
but as in a group of federated states federation will not be fusion.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 50w
=ELIOT, SAMUEL ATKINS=, ed. Little theater classics, v 2 il *$1.50
Little 808.2
18–19312
This is volume two of “Little theater classics” adapted and edited by
Samuel Atkins Eliot, jr. Each one of the four plays has an
introduction giving its origin and history, and staging suggestions.
The plays are: Patelin, from “Maître Pierre Pathelin” by Guillaume
Alécis; Abraham and Isaac, from the Book of Brome and the Chester
cycle of miracles; The loathed lover, from “The changeling” of
Middleton and Rowley; Sganarelle, or, Imaginary horns, from Molière.
Three of the plays have already been produced by little theaters and
are illustrated with photographs from the production.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sganarelle is a charming little antique. Abraham and Isaac is a
beautiful piece of work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 520w
“There are some intrepidities in Mr Eliot which rather stagger me,
though whether the protest comes from real disapprobation or simply
from that unusedness which whimpers at the approach of novelty it is
hard for me to say. For instance, I stand agape, if not aghast, at Mr
Eliot’s consolidation of the Chester play and the Brome play on
Abraham and Isaac into one drama.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:608 Je 5 ’20 340w
“On the whole, this second volume measures up to the high standard set
by the first. The work has been done with fine taste and intelligence
and forms a valuable contribution to the dramatic literature available
to little theatres.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 300w
=ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.= Poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811
20–4200
Mr Eliot is a poet of American birth who lives in London. “He
published ‘Prufrock’ in 1917 and ‘Poems’ in 1919—this volume assembles
the contents of the two, together with a number of other poems, and is
the first volume to be published in America, where heretofore it has
been exceedingly difficult to obtain his poems.” (Publisher’s
announcement) Some of the poems have appeared in Poetry, Others, the
Little Review, and other periodicals.
* * * * *
“Mr Eliot is always quite consciously ‘trying for’ something, and
something which has grown out of and developed beyond all the poems of
all the dead poets. Poetry to him seems to be not so much an art as a
science.”
+ − =Ath= p491 Je 20 ’19 600w
=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The ‘Poems’—ironically so-called—of T. S. Eliot, if not heavy and
pedantic parodies of the ‘new poetry,’ are documents that would find
sympathetic readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium. As a
parodist, Mr Eliot is lacking in good taste, invention, and wit.” R.
M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:57 S ’20 1400w
“Reading these poems (?) is like being in a closed room full of foul
air; not a room in an empty house that is sanctified with mould and
dust, but a room in which the stale perfume of exotics is poisoned
with the memory of lusts.” W. S. B.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. E. Cummings
+ =Dial= 68:781 Je ’20 1400w
“At least two-thirds of Eliot’s sixty-three pages attain no
higher eminence than extraordinarily clever—and eminently
uncomfortable—verse. The exaltation which is the very breath of
poetry—that combination of tenderness and toughness—is scarcely
ever present in Eliot’s lines. Scarcely ever, I reiterate, for a
certain perverse exultation takes its place; an unearthly light
without warmth which has the sparkle if not the strength of
fire. It flickers mockingly through certain of the unrhymed
pictures and shines with a bright pallor out of the two major
poems.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Freeman= 1:381 Je 30 ’20 2000w
“He is the most proficient satirist now writing in verse, the
uncanniest clown, the devoutest monkey, the most picturesque ironist;
and aesthetically considered, he is one of the profoundest
symbolists.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 300w
“In such poems as ‘Gerontion,’ the ‘Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’
‘Portrait of a lady,’ ‘Cooking egg,’ we get a glimpse of the visions
and tragedies that are in the soul—it does not matter that the soul in
these situations has to look out on restaurants instead of on
temples.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 980w
“His is a book to gaze upon worshipfully and humbly. We shall always
cherish it, for its shrieking modernity—though we are one of the
Philistines who still ask for poetry and sanity in lines presented as
poetry.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 270w
“Mr Eliot, like Browning, likes to display out-of-the-way learning, he
likes to surprise you by every trick he can think of. He has forgotten
his emotions, his values, his sense of beauty, even his common-sense,
in that one desire to surprise, to get farther away from the obvious
than any writer on record.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Je 12 ’19 550w
=ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.= Modern science and materialism. *$3 (*7s
6d) Longmans 146
20–4021
“The philosophy expounded by Hugh Elliot in ‘Modern science and
materialism’ is the complete materialism which not only makes mind
dependent upon matter but identifies mind with matter. The world is
thus conceived as consisting of one substance. Not all of those who
agree with the materialistic hypothesis will accept this extreme
simplification of it. To many Mr Elliot’s view will seem as
metaphysical as the opposite view which regards matter as a form of
mind. Mr Elliot’s book, however, is not merely an argument against the
commonly accepted dualism in the conception of matter and mind. It is
also a survey of the creation of man and the universe, as interpreted
by a method which reduces all processes to the working of blind, but
immutable, laws. In all respects, Mr Elliot’s view of the universe is
rigidly mechanistic.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“It is difficult not to be unjust to ‘Modern science and materialism.’
Its science is above reproach and occupies the center of the author’s
interest and the bulk of the book. But it is impossible to say more of
the author’s ‘materialism’ than that it is what physical science
always is when it attempts to substitute itself for life.” C. E. Ayres
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:249 S ’20 280w
“A good bird’s-eye view, not unduly technical, for the interested
layman or student.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 17 ’20 140w
“Mr Elliot is one of the most intolerant of materialists, but those
who read his book are likely to see that he frequently falls into the
sin he castigates, that of accepting ideas as true which are merely
speculative. Mr Elliot also falls into the familiar error of claiming
to be an agnostic and, from this negative doctrine, he immediately and
cheerfully builds up a most positive philosophy.”
+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=Sat R= 128:613 D 27 ’19 1150w
“Mr Elliot writes with refreshing clearness and vigour; he is always
entertaining, and he never leaves his readers in doubt about his
meaning. But while admiring Mr Elliot’s gifts of exposition and
assertion, we would urge upon him, with some diffidence, the
advantages of a larger share in his own writing of that agnosticism
whose value he so strenuously upholds.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 480w
“Unquestionably able book. Mr Elliot states his stern ideas with the
utmost simplicity and clarity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 40w
=ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.=[2] Black gold. *$2.25 Macmillan
20–19915
“The ‘black gold’ which gives its title to L. E. Elliott’s novel is
rubber. Though it opens in England, the greater part of the scene is
laid in Brazil. The heroine is an English girl, Margarita Channing,
whose elder sister, Francina, is the wife of a musician, Salvatore.
Both Margarita and her sister sing nicely, and with the help of some
rich Brazilians Salvatore organizes an opera company and takes it up
the Amazon as far as Manaos. The voyage and the people they meet on
board the steamer afford opportunities for the discussion of Brazilian
affairs, of which the author makes full use. Presently they reach
Manaos, are taken to see all its sights and especially the operations
of the rubber industry, and have some experiences with South American
politics. Of course there is a love story for Margarita, with a young
Englishman, an inventor and the owner of a rubber plantation, as its
hero.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“I have felt nowhere else so keenly the spell of South America, the
power of the golden blood of the ‘rio das Amazonas,’ and the power of
the forest.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1300w
“The novel is neither good nor bad; merely mediocre. Those who enjoy
swift moving tales will find it slow. Those who like style,
characterization, will find it uninteresting. As it is, it exemplifies
the immortal (and overworked) ‘words, words, words.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 90w
“It is in this descriptive portion of the volume that the author has
done her best work, for, though her style is usually good, she lacks
dramatic and character sense, and is essentially an article rather
than a fiction writer.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 350w
“Not only the physical beauty of Brazilian scenes, but the industries,
social conditions and political upheavals are set forth
interestingly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=ELLIS, JULIAN.= Fame and failure. il *$3.75 Lippincott 920
(Eng ed 20–8729)
“Short biographies of a number of famous people who ended as failures.
Amongst the characters discussed are Edwin James the lawyer,
Wainewright the murderer, Lady Hamilton, King Ludwig of Bavaria and
Beau Brummel. In all there are eighteen biographies.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1412 D 26 ’19 40w
=Ath= p174 F 6 ’20 390w
“A better selection to illustrate his thesis that fame and success are
not alway marriageable ideas could not have been made.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 2300w
“Notwithstanding his rather absurd classification, Mr Julian Ellis has
written a very amusing book. His style is clear and lively; and he
doesn’t bore us with footnotes or authorities, which so often spoil
the pleasure of reading biographies.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 640w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p753 D 11 ’19 80w
“If we must decline to take Mr Ellis too seriously as a biographer,
this need not prevent us from wiling away some pleasant time in his
company. If he has the faults of the journalist, he has also no small
measure of his virtues.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 1 ’20 2550w
=ELLIS, STEWART MARSH.= George Meredith. il $6 Dodd
20–26976
“This book follows the lines of articles which Mr Ellis contributed to
the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. His primary object was
to use his information about the early life of Meredith, who was his
father’s first cousin, and to reconsider in connexion with it the
inner history of some of the novels, particularly ‘Evan Harrington,’
‘Beauchamp’s career,’ ‘Vittoria,’ and ‘Diana of the crossways.’ There
are numerous portraits and other illustrations.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Ellis makes an absorbingly interesting volume out of his
revelations.”
+ =Ath= p62 F ’19 2100w
=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“All the details in this volume are of surpassing interest, and it
contains not a little acute criticism of Meredith’s novels. The work
as a whole is an exceptional pen portraiture of a literary personality
who was as great and influential as he was interesting.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 1350w
“Written without any distinction of style, Mr Ellis’s contribution
belongs to that class of biographical work which owes its existence to
the fact that some one or other has known, or been connected with, a
famous man and is able to satisfy, by the composition of a book of
this kind, the promptings of his own personal egotism.” Llewelyn Powys
− =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 740w
“That Meredith, in Evan Harrington, misinterpreted and, as the
biographer holds, maligned the character of Mr Ellis’s grandparents
may, or may not, have been a contributing cause of the publication of
this rather shallow and rather malicious book. Certain it is that
George Meredith was on no very friendly terms with his Ellis cousins,
and the reader must be warned of the evident animus on the part of the
biographer.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 25:267 Ja 26 ’21 1200w
“Mr Ellis’s book on Meredith is to be welcomed, though it appears to
be in no sense an ‘official’ biography and though it is not written in
a manner which could have pleased Meredith himself. It is neither an
‘inspired’ exposition of his career nor a book which could be counted
excellent on its own independent merits. But it is the only biography
in existence.”
+ − =New Statesman= 12:378 F 1 ’19 2050w
“What should have been a great portrait is only a rather ordinary
photograph. He is painstaking and accurate enough. Any one who is
interested in Meredith can gather from this book much which he will be
glad to know. But he will seek in vain and with growing exasperation
for the things which are really needful.” W. H. Durham
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 600w
“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p6 N 21 ’20 2350w
+ =Sat R= 127:157 F 15 ’19 700w
=Sat R= 130:182 Ag 28 ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Ja 23 ’19 70w
=ELWELL, AMBROSE.= At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small
19–19053
“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and
suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the
sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the
rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first
person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with
which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest,
teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign
waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home.
At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes
entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a
wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the
closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a
settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of
time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea
on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist
of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice
will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 160w
=EMERSON, GUY.= New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304
20–12285
A series of papers on Americanism. The new frontier is the present
social and industrial situation and the author’s plea is that it be
faced with the spirit that conquered the old geographical frontier of
the expanding west. This spirit is for him typified by Theodore
Roosevelt. The introduction says, “In this book two main points are
emphasized; first, that the spirit of that portion of our people which
has actually shaped the destinies of America has been liberal, rather
than radical or conservative.... Second, it is claimed that our
national spirit has taken its essential liberal flavor from the
frontier, from the generations of tireless, self-reliant effort which
won this continent for the men and women of our own day and which
stamped them with its indelible character.” Contents: The frontier of
American character; The leadership that made America; What is a
liberal? The politics of the middle of the road; Public opinion and
the industrial problem; The need for fifty million capitalists; An
American federation of brains; Human resources; The weapons of truth;
The American spirit in world affairs; The new frontier. There is a
bibliographical appendix, also an index.
* * * * *
“Written by a layman for laymen, with a limited and somewhat uneven
bibliography appended for the use of readers not especially familiar
with the development of the United States, the book is interesting and
valuable as an illustration of one type of thought which has to be
taken into consideration by the student of forces making American
history today.” L. B. Shippee
+ =Am Hist R= 26:370 Ja ’21 400w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Excellent book. He sees clearly and writes as clearly, giving no
handy panaceas as such, on a topic where the temptation is great.” R.
D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 450w
“Mr Emerson knows his American history thoroughly. He is also a
student of American psychology, as is shown by his success in
directing the publicity of the Liberty loan drives. These two
characteristics probably account for much of his ability to strike out
a new path in the already overcrowded field of ‘Americanization.’ For
that there is novelty and freshness in his attack on an old problem,
no one can deny. Nor should it be held against him that he has
achieved this novelty through a distinctly original and forceful use
of another man’s idea. He has developed Professor Turner’s profound
conception of the influence of the frontier in a new field; for the
purpose of his argument he has made it his own.” Lincoln MacVeagh
+ =Dial= 69:303 S ’20 1800w
“The best chapter, we think, is the one on ‘The industrial problem,’
but the whole book is vital and invigorating.” C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:478 O 27 ’20 1700w
“A book of timely consequence, whose pages deserve wide and careful
reading.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 15 ’20 1900w
“An interpretation of America which is thoughtful and scholarly, which
is simply and forcibly written, and which is well worth anybody’s
reading.”
+ =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 90w
=ENGLAND, GEORGE ALLAN.= Flying legion. *$1.90 McClurg
20–12813
“In a lofty tower at the summit of the palisades of the Hudson is the
eyrie of the master where he dwells with his Arabian servants.
Mysteriously he summons a company of thirty veterans of the war, all
longing for excitement, a battalion is formed and a new, giant
aeroplane, just ready for service on the Jersey shore is seized and
the party take to flight for the Arabian desert. Mysteriously they
went away, mysteriously they returned after scores of adventures.”
(Boston Transcript) “One of the thirty with the master had been an
uninvited member—a ‘Captain Alden,’ who is a mysterious personage
altogether and whose identity, ultimately discovered, furnishes the
story’s principal romantic interest.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by
thrills. The style is awkward.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Well-told tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 220w
“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when
the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical
attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 470w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 150w
=ENOCK, C. REGINALD.= Spanish America: its romance, reality and future.
2v il *$8 Scribner 918
20–26989
“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a
perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us
right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of
the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the
second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and
still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish
Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and
Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of
Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The
historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial
life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“He has prepared what might quite accurately be called a primer of
Latin America. It contains much valuable information, of course, but
so does an ordinary primer. He expects practically nothing of his
readers.” D. J. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 600w
“Such comprehensive, birdseye-view books as Mr Enock’s are of value as
a starting point for more detailed study.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 7 ’20 2350w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“In spite of an occasional tendency to slipshod writing Mr Enock has
given us a readable and informing work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 900w
=EQUIPMENT= of the workers. $4 Sunwise turn (*10s 6d Allen & Unwin)
331.8
“There have already been exhaustive surveys of the physical and
economic condition of the workers; and the findings of Booth and
Rowntree have almost become classical. It was plainly necessary,
however, to have these surveys supplemented by an inquiry far more
inward and intimate into the mind and the outlook of the workers. What
are they thinking? What are they living for? Do they read? If so,
what? ‘The equipment of the workers’ gives us the answer to these and
the like questions. The inquiry was planned and carried out by a group
of workers at a Y. M. C. A. settlement in Sheffield; and it deals
exclusively with Sheffield conditions. The finding of the group is
that 25 per cent of the workers are well equipped, 60 per cent
inadequately equipped, and 15 per cent ill equipped. The body of the
book consists of a detailed record of the results of the inquiry in
408 typical cases.”—Nation
* * * * *
“An extraordinarily interesting inquiry. The results are very
illuminating and important.”
+ =Ath= p894 S 12 ’19 60w
=Ath= p975 O 3 ’19 1500w
“In the main the tests applied and the judgment passed upon the
reaction of the investigated persons to the tests seem sound. We have
in this volume an important datum for our thought upon reconstruction
and the problems of the new world.”
+ =Nation= 109:766 D 13 ’19 550w
“This book combines the exactness of scientific inquiry with the vivid
appeal of art. A picture such as this of American life would be one of
the most revealing documents in our time.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 21:322 F 11 ’20 1600w
“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable study of certain
elements in the standard of living about which there is too little
trustworthy information.” L. B.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 1400w
“A close and systematic investigation, with abundant particulars of
individual cases.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p487 S 11 ’19 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Democracy and ideals: a definition. *$1.50 (3c) Doran
304
20–11647
The author’s preface states: “These chapters, with the exception of
the first and the last, were written while I was serving as chairman
of the Army education commission with the American forces in France in
1918 and 1919, and as educational director of the American
expeditionary force university at Beaune, 1919.... I have tried to
express here from several angles a central conviction that we in the
United States are detached from the past, and that this detachment is
the striking fact in all our problems; that if in the future we are to
become and to remain a nation, we must collaborate for common ends.”
The six essays are: Democracy and ideals; American character; French
ideals and American; Society as a university; Universal training for
national service; University leadership. The author is professor of
English in Columbia university.
* * * * *
“A pleasing clarification of ideas not particularly new or startling.”
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Among the best of the recent books dealing with the problems of
citizenship and Americanization. It is written in a style so simple
that anyone with but an elementary knowledge of English can enjoy it.”
A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:497 F ’21 720w
“Scattered here and there through the volume are observations showing
a thoughtful understanding of American problems, but the
generalizations suitable to public addresses seem somewhat commonplace
in their published form, when the inspiration of the occasion is
past.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:400 D ’20 200w
“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and
he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious
intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general
temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a
whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful
service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start
them thinking.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1000w
+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 80w
“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific
educational program.”
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 390w
“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as
distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made
immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has
failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his
work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again
fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an
interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a
document.”
+ − =Review= 3:94 Jl 28 ’20 170w
+ =School R= 28:637 O ’20 170w
“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of
our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very
illuminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 250w
“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their
neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which
determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by
it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky
+ − =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield
808.1
20–12047
Poetry, the author holds, is not subject to evolution in its essence
but is an unchanging function of an unchanging life and its three
genres, the lyrical, the dramatic and the epic, are comparable to the
three eternal ways of meeting experience: “as simply a present moment,
or as a present moment in which the past is reaped, or as a present
moment in which the future is promised.” The other essays of the
volume are: The teaching of poetry; The new poetry; Scholarship and
poetry.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Of great value to all lovers of poetry is Mr Erskine’s book. His
criticism is keen and trenchant and happily expressed in a style
peculiarly his own.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 490w
“When his moral prejudices are not in the way, Mr Erskine is a sound
writer.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 800w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 20w
Reviewed by W: McFee
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 D 31 ’20 1700w
“One will find great pleasure in his book, but it will hardly take its
place as an important document.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 1050w
“They are characterized by a fine mingling of discrimination and
common sense. His breadth of view, his refusal to rest content with
mere special scholarship, gives value to his advice about the teaching
of poetry.”
+ =No Am= 212:572 O ’20 850w
Reviewed by L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 720w
“An uneven book in which the critical elements are decidedly superior
to the constructive ones.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 410w
“There is somewhat too much of that intellectual writing around a
subject which is common with persons who are afraid of the obvious,
but, on the whole, the book will awaken thought; it will not do this
the less because some of its reasoning will arouse criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1100w
=ERVINE, ST JOHN GREER.= Foolish lovers. *$2 (1c) Macmillan
20–8447
Mr Ervine’s new book is dedicated to his mother, who asked him to
write a story without any “bad words” in it, and to Mrs J. O. Hanny,
who asked him to write a story without any “sex” in it. It is the
story of a charmingly conceited young Irishman who goes to London to
write novels and plays and comes home again to be a grocer. John’s
boyhood is spent in the home over the shop where three generations of
MacDermotts had preceded him. He grows up under the care of his
mother, his Uncle Matthew, the dreamer whose dreams come to nothing,
and his Uncle William, who supports the family. He goes to London
where he meets Eleanor. He asks her to marry him almost at first
meeting, dogs her steps and finally persuades her to marry him, only
to find that she has leagued herself with his mother to persuade him
back to Ballyards and the shop.
* * * * *
“‘The foolish lovers’ has nothing to commend it but a good beginning.
Why did he write it? Or, rather, why did he give up writing it?
Perhaps he would reply that what is not worth doing is not worth doing
well. It is a possible explanation.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 600w
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“It is regrettable that so good a story as this bears so poor a title.
‘The foolish lovers’ is neither an exact nor an appealing designation
for a novel that is so full of the commonsense of life.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 22 ’20 1950w
“Mr Ervine, in spite of his obvious determination to fix securely the
‘local coloring,’ has failed to evoke the fine, harsh, sincere reality
of the Black Northerners with whom his story deals. Prose drama is,
after all, this author’s true medium.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 100w
=Lit D= p97 O 23 ’20 1850w
“John McDermott himself is not altogether credible. His exploits,
especially his wooing of Eleanor—the central thing in the book—have
none of the homely vigor and quiet truth of the Irish scenes and
incidents. Here and there Mr Ervine gives us glimpses of a more
searching novel he might write about the people of Ulster. But he
deliberately cut himself off from that possibility here by the kindly
promises to be harmless which he records in his dedication.” Ludwig
Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“To put it all as briefly as possible, ‘The foolish lovers,’ while not
so remarkable a book as ‘Changing winds,’ is worthy of its author—and
to say that a book is worthy of St John Ervine is to give it high
praise.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1200w
“Modern taste hardly asks for anything really better than such a suave
and frank, sympathetically critical and wisely humorous treatment of
life as is found in this book. Its tone just suits the mood of the
cultivated man or woman of today who has outgrown youthful tastes but
has retained a certain independence of view-point. In charm and in
acuteness—the two qualities generally most worth commending in the
fiction of the day, in which hysteria is so apt to take the place of
power—‘The foolish lovers’ is preeminent.”
+ =No Am= 212:287 Ag ’20 660w
“‘The foolish lovers’ exemplifies to a very high degree the special
gifts which have made its author’s novels notable among recent
fiction. Mr Ervine has something of Dickens’s love for people. No more
delightfully tender description of a courtship is contained in recent
fiction, nor any which so finely sets forth as that in ‘The foolish
lovers’ the unconscious humor of young love.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 125:388 Je 23 ’20 2950w
“Mr Ervine’s tale is in the new-British mode, the post-Wellsian,
somewhat diffuse, somewhat overburdened with scenes and ‘characters,’
if not, in this instance, with ‘ideas.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:91 Jl 28 ’20 350w
“The portraits of his family are excellent, and the way he imposes
himself on Eleanor is ably studied.”
+ =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 110w
“Mr St John Ervine has chosen an old theme, but he has invested it
with the freshness and vigour which we have come to expect from his
work.”
+ =Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 550w
“The story is rich in whimsical observations on personal
characteristics and political trends, and engages the reader’s close
interest in all its phases.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 600w
“By far the most attractive part of his story takes place in
Ballyards. The characters of Uncle William and Uncle Matthew are
delightful. The success with which Mr Ervine brings out their
simplicity and nobility of character is a convincing proof of his
gifts as a novelist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Je 24 ’20 800w
=ESCOUFLAIRE, RODOLPHE C.= Ireland an enemy of the allies? tr. from the
French. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5
20–5757
“M. Escouflaire’s thesis in this volume is that the Irish question
so-called is ‘an international imposture.’ In years past this French
writer had accepted anti-British propaganda from Ireland at its face
value, but his contact with British statesmen during the war led him
to question his earlier conclusions, and in the present volume after
an independent study of Ireland’s relations with England he declares
categorically that the whole Irish claim of oppression by England, so
far as the present generation is concerned, is a myth.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The egotism of his attitude is bewildering, but it is the key to a
treatment of Irish affairs which would otherwise be merely stupidly
unfair and ungenerous.”
− =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 80w
“The book is a grotesque perversion of all Irish history, ancient and
modern. The author’s gross ignorance is never corrected by the
translator.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 200w
“Lovers of England must trust that she will not listen to such
counsels as these.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 360w
=N Y Times= pl Ag 1 ’20 750w
“His book is well written, but without the wise judgment that comes
through the sympathetic understanding that such men as Lloyd George
bring to the problem.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
“M. Escouflaire’s book must be laid down with a sigh of
disappointment. It is the sort of work which can help no one, a
perfect specimen of how Irish matters should not be discussed, and
those most anxious for the object he sets before himself should be the
first to repudiate the methods by which he is seeking it. The present
critic hates Sinn Fein and all its works as much as M. Escouflaire can
hate them, but he would wish to see it attacked with artillery not so
far out of range.” H. L. Stewart
− + =Review= 2:676 Je 30 ’20 2000w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w
“Accurate and spirited little book.”
+ =Spec= 123:732 N 29 ’19 440w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 30w
=ESSEN, LÉON VAN DER.= Short history of Belgium. il *$1.50 (3c) Univ. of
Chicago press 949.3
20–2285
This second and enlarged edition of the original book contains a
special chapter on Belgium during the war. The book is illustrated and
has a bibliography and an index. The first edition was published in
1916.
* * * * *
“Dr Van der Essen has succeeded admirably in confining a record of
monumental size within the compass of a small volume. Yet, in doing
so, he has not sacrificed clearness for brevity nor interest for
compactness.”
+ =Cath World= 112:117 O ’20 210w
+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 40w
“Professor van der Essen has treated this difficult and often
intricate subject with admirable skill; though writing with a
scholar’s intimate knowledge of his country’s history, he has
succeeded in steering clear from the shoal of ponderosity and dulness.
Here and there the Roman Catholic has led the historian astray.”
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 750w
“It is a fascinating story told by a master of the facts who writes
with a fine sense of proportion.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 140w
=EVANS, CARADOC.= My neighbors. *$1.75 (5c) Harcourt
20–5187
More stories of a Welsh rural neighborhood by the author of “My
people” and “Capel Sion.” In a prologue entitled “The Welsh people”
the author offers some explanation of the ugly and distorted aspects
of human nature that he presents. The stories are: Love and hate;
According to the pattern; The two apostles; Earthbred; For better;
Treasure and trouble; Saint David and the prophets; Joseph’s house;
Like brothers; A widow woman; Unanswered prayers; Lost treasure;
Profit and glory.
* * * * *
“I happen to know something of Welsh religion, and I have written not
a little in criticism of it. But the religion which Mr Evans describes
I have never met with. We Welsh have many grievous faults, and we have
not been as faithful in self-criticism as we should have been. But Mr
Caradoc Evans’s book does not describe us. It describes only Mr
Caradoc Evans’s own soul; and it is not a pretty sight.”
− =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“Mr Evans’s artistic gift is very genuine but hard and narrow. In its
present trend one can see little chance for its development. The
stories are like rocks—impressive but barren. The preface is written
in a more flexible vein and a more ironic mood. In it the language of
the English Bible, from which Mr Evans draws, is transmuted for the
uses of his artistic intention. In the stories themselves it is
employed merely as a weapon. But his work has fierce honesty,
concentration, power. It is sanative and, within its definite limits,
completely achieved.”
+ − =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“But does he really traverse the whole stage? We cannot think so.
Where there are Goneril and Regan we cry out for a Cordelia, and Mr
Evans would, we think, have made his terrible portraits more effective
even than they are already if he had introduced more contrast and
relief into them.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:77 Ap 17 ’20 600w
“Mr Evans knows the Welsh intimately and searchingly, and his
portrayal of their daily lives, their bickerings, prayings and
aspirations is altogether ruthless and incisive.” Pierre Loving
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 800w
“The hardy reader who will persist beyond the almost impenetrable
idiom of Caradoc Evans will be richly rewarded. Especially do we
recommend the book to reformers, utopists, spinners of millennial
dreams.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 320w
“He is sometimes difficult to follow, partly because the dialogue is
in English literally translated from the Welsh, and partly because the
stories are almost excessively condensed; but the subdued irony and
false simplicity are delightful, and he knows the sovereign power of
the restraint which leaves events to explain themselves without heavy
exegesis.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p154 Mr 4 ’20 450w
=EVANS, EDWARD RADCLIFFE GARTH RUSSELL.= Keeping the seas. il *$3 Warne
940.45
20–2282
“Captain Evans saw a great deal of the Dover patrol and of all it
included. He tells his experiences, so to speak, right on end and in a
kind of chronological order. He is a witness who was there and records
what has remained in his mind of what he saw. And he had notable
things to remember; for he commanded the Broke in the action of March,
1917, in the Straits. The war produced few such passages of conflict
as the action in the Straits. Captain Evans’ services, like those of
other officers, consisted in the main of cruising and watching. At the
end he was afforded a change in the direction of Gibraltar and the
Portuguese coast.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“His ‘simple sailor volume,’ as he calls it, is full of miscellaneous
stories which would have been the better if they had been more
carefully digested; but if the whole is rather confusing, not a little
good matter is to be found in the heap.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1050w
=EVANS, MRS ELIDA.= Problem of the nervous child. *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7
20–6871
This volume comes with an introduction by Dr C. G. Jung of Zurich who
says of the author: “Mrs Evans’ knowledge of her subject matter is
based on the solid foundation of practical experience, an experience
gained in the difficult and toilsome treatment and education of
nervous children.... This book, as the reader can see on almost every
page, is the fruit of an extended work in the field of neuroses and
abnormal characters.” Its purpose is to aid parents in the training
and education of their children, not to add another “to the already
long list of textbooks explaining psychoanalytical treatment for
nervous troubles.” It does not presuppose scientific training in the
laws of human development on the part of those for whom the book is
intended and therefore avoids technical terms and abstruse discussions
as far as possible, giving only end results of present day research
and observation on the subject, with examples of cases. Contents:
Statement of the problem; The development of repression; Symbolic
thought; The child and the adult; Mental behaviour of the child;
Defence reactions; The parent complex; Buried emotions; Child
training; Muscle erotism; The tyrant child; Teaching of right and
wrong; Self and character; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
“There are spots in the book where the all-absorbing panacea of
psycho-analytic therapy is too powerful, and she over-stresses the
environment, losing sight of the medico-psychological fact that many
defects are organically directed. The book needs a broader sensing and
interpreting of the ever present interplay between the hereditary and
environmental forces.” H. F. Coffin, M.D.
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=EVANS, LAWTON BRYAN.= America first. il *$2.50 Bradley, M. 973
20–16082
“Instead of being what the title might imply, the volume contains one
hundred stories from the history of America in condensed form and
written in a style that will prove interesting to the juvenile reader.
The author goes on the supposition that the nearer a story is to the
life of the child, the more eagerly it is absorbed. True stories, he
says, about our own people, about our neighbors and friends and about
our own country at large, are more interesting than true stories of
remote people and places. The stories grouped in the volume open with
‘Leif, the lucky,’ and continue down through history to the time when
Americans made history over-seas.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“An excellent piece of work. The book will be a valuable supplement to
school study of our national history and it will stimulate a healthy
national pride.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w
=Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 180w
=EVARTS, HAL GEORGE.= Cross pull. *$1.90 (3½c) Knopf
20–4269
The hero of this story is Flash, a cross between wolf, coyote and dog.
Clark Moran took him as a puppy and tamed him and the dog in him
responded to kindness. To one other Flash gives his allegiance, to
Betty, the girl from the East who comes into the mountains. To most
other humans he is indifferent, but there is one he hates. The story
tells how he served his two loved ones in a crisis, and how in so
doing he took his own revenge on his enemy. In the end he settles down
as a safe and trusted house dog, but there were times when the wild
strain awakened and at those times, on still nights during the mating
moon, certain civilized suburbanites would experience a primitive
shudder at hearing the lone wolf’s call.
* * * * *
“Not over humanized or sentimentalized; one of the best dog stories.”
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“A better novel it might have been, but a better animal study it could
scarcely have been.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 200w
“A story of more than ordinary interest either as an ‘animal story’ or
a ‘live’ western romance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w
=EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL.= Arguments and speeches: ed., with an introd.,
by his son Sherman Evarts. 3v *$15 Macmillan 815
19–16299
“Mr Evarts (1818–1901) as leader of the American bar, orator, and
statesman, was one of the most conspicuous of American citizens in the
nineteenth century. This substantial collection of his public
utterances not only provides a record of his career, but an important
document for the social and political events of his day and for the
history of American oratory. He was the leading counsel for the
defendant in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Jackson in
1868; and in 1872 was counsel for the United States in the Alabama
arbitration at Geneva. He was secretary of state during President
Hayes’s administration (1877–1881) and one of the senators for New
York 1885–1891.”—The Times [London]. Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The editor’s introductions and comments are brief and well chosen
throughout. Taken as a whole, the volumes are a worthy memorial to one
of the influential leaders of the American bar, and of the Republican
party during a difficult period of our history.” W: A. Robinson
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:349 My ’20 360w
“The ‘Springbok’ argument is said by our leading authority on
international law to be as good an argument in a prize case as he has
ever read. The defense of Andrew Johnson was equally worth reprinting.
As to the rest of the three volumes there is much room for doubt.”
Zechariah Chafee, jr.
+ − =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 28 ’20 1650w
“These volumes should find a place in all public libraries, especially
those of the higher institutions of learning, and in many private
libraries. especially those of persons interested in the political
history of the United States.”
+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 100w
“We are glad to find, in sampling these volumes, that Evarts’s high
reputation for eloquence is fully justified.”
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
Reviewed by Moorfield Storey
=Yale R= n s 10:189 O ’20 1200w
=EVISON, MILLICENT.= Rainbow gold. il *$1.75 Lothrop
While their father is serving a term of imprisonment on a charge of
embezzlement three young people, Toni, Basil and Cecily, go to live
with their grandfather in a lonely old house in Maine. The grandfather
is crabbed and cold and the two aunts have become as dull and drab as
the old house. The story tells how the children bring new life into it
and how Toni wins her grandfather’s heart and moves him to take steps
toward a new hearing of their father’s case which proves his
innocence.
F
=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Secret of everyday things; informal talks
with the children: tr. from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell.
il *$2.50 Century 504
20–17586
This book for young readers contains another selection of Uncle Paul’s
talks, following “The story-book of science,” “Our humble helpers” and
“Field, forest and farm.” Among the everyday things discussed are
Thread; Pins; Needles; Silk; Wool; Flax and hemp; Weaving; Woolen
cloth; Moths; Calico; Dyeing and printing; Human habitations; Soap;
Fire; Matches; Glass; Iron; Rust; Pottery; Coffee; Sugar; Tea; Bread;
Air; Evaporation; Rain; Snow; The force of steam; Sound and light.
There are occasional illustrations in the text.
* * * * *
“Would be useful in junior high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
“Didacticism flies before Fabre’s freshness of style like dust before
a broom.”
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 80w
“The insect world has been recreated for lay readers by the patience
and the genius of Fabre. Here his themes are homelier but his gift for
accurate information, made fascinating in the telling, is the same.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 90w
“The heart and mind of a scientist, the style of an artist, and the
sympathy of a man whose child spirit never died live in the book.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 150w
=FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN.= Conservation reader. il *$1.20 World bk.
338
20–8813
This book is one of the Conservation series and is especially designed
for the education of children in right ways of looking at nature. It
is the author’s opinion that much of the enthusiasm for conservation
will expend itself uselessly unless it can be made to reach the
children and the purpose of the book is to present its principles to
pupils in a simple and interesting manner. Among the contents are: How
our first ancestors lived; The earth as it was before the coming of
civilized men; How far will nature restore her wasted gifts? Things of
which soil is made; The use and care of water; How the forests are
wasted; Our forest playgrounds; What is happening to the wild flowers;
What shall we do when the coal, oil, and gas are gone? What is
happening to the animals and birds; How to bring the wild creatures
back again. Among the many illustrations are two color prints and
there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20
“Well adapted for use in the intermediate grades.”
+ =El School J= 21:156 O ’20 120w
=FALKENHAYN, ERICH GEORG ANTON SEBASTIAN VON.= German general staff and
its decisions, 1914–1916. *$5 Dodd 940.343
20–2294
“The book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according
to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas
by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the
two years of the war when I was at the head of the general staff. My
statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense
of the word. They touch upon the events of the war, and other
occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary
to justify the decisions of the general staff.” (Preface) Contents:
The change of chief of the general staff; The general military
situation in the middle of September, 1914: The battles of the Yser
and around Lodz; The period from the beginning of trench warfare in
November-December, 1914, until the recommencement of the war of
movement in 1915; The break-through at Gorlice-Tarnow and its
consequences; Operations against Russia in the summer and autumn of
1915; Beginning of the unrestricted submarine campaign; Attempts to
break through in the west in the autumn of 1915, and the campaign
against Serbia; The situation at the end of 1915; The campaign of
1916; Comparative review of the relative strength of forces
(Appendix); Maps.
* * * * *
“The work itself is a memoir, rather than a history. It makes no
references to authorities, and furnishes little in the form of
documents, but it bears evidence of more careful preparation than is
usual with memoirs and of being based on authentic records or accurate
first-hand knowledge.” J: Bigelow
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:500 Ap ’20 750w
=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 2800w
=Lit D= p123 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
“Both as a personal apologia and as a revealing of inside German
military history this volume is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s
book—indeed, it is better; it is less clumsy and tart, its language is
clearer and terser.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 240w
“With one exception, his book is a candid and apparently
straightforward statement of the problems he was called upon to solve,
and as such it will always be valuable to the special student, but not
to the general public: it proves nothing.”
+ − =Review= 3:533 D 1 ’20 2100w
“General von Falkenhayn’s book on the war is, from the military
standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff’s
memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural
man’s desire for revelations of the enemy’s domestic controversies.
The attentive reader of his book will be impressed with General von
Falkenhayn’s personality. He writes like a soldier, not like a
politician.”
+ =Spec= 123:895 D 27 ’19 1750w
“Von Falkenhayn’s book is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s. It has
the merit of being shorter; it contains a much smaller admixture of
politics; and its handling of personal controversies, though
sufficiently tart, is less clumsy and disagreeable than Ludendorff’s.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 2200w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= On the trail of the pioneers; romance, tragedy,
and triumph of the path of empire. il *$3.50 Doran 978
20–7011
The present volume does not give in full detail the historical
background of the successive great movements of population from the
East to the West but rather actual typical cases of emigrants on the
move. “It ... gives glimpses of many of these great movements, the
routes the emigrants took, and the sections to which they went. The
endeavor is made to answer the questions, Who were the emigrants? How
and where did they travel? What adventures did they have by the way?
What were their impressions of the country through which they passed?
What did they do when they reached their destinations?” (Preface) For
this purpose full use has been made of the records of early travellers
and pioneers. Contents: Through the Cumberland gap to Kentucky and
Tennessee; Through the Pittsburgh and Wheeling gateways; Floating down
the Ohio and the Mississippi; From northern New York and New England
to the West; The Santa Fe trail; The Oregon trail; Across the plains
to California; Toiling up the Missouri; Bibliography; Index; Maps and
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“An excellent, condensed history.”
+ =Cath World= 111:697 Ag ’20 120w
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 50w
=N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 150w
“While sketchy and disjointed, Mr Faris’s book presents enough that is
piquant or solidly interesting to lure the reader to search further
for himself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 700w
“The author has accomplished a scholarly piece of work without
pedantry or tedious generalization. The writing of the book is so
fresh and entertaining that the general reader will find it a real
pleasure to peruse it.”
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
“There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in
the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries,
resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and
some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant
passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils
of ‘literary’ friends.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:185 O ’20 330w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Seeing the Far West. il *$6 Lippincott 917.8
20–17297
“John T. Faris’s ‘Seeing the Far West’ has chapters upon the scenery
of Colorado, Arizona, the Yellowstone, the Sierras, Oregon, and
Washington.” (Review) “He regales his readers with bits of gossip and
local history that enliven and endow with a human interest the scenes
to which he leads them.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“The writing of the book is simple and direct, gaining thereby in
clearness and force. Its sincerity cannot be questioned and its
personal touches and humanness stir alive one’s jaded interest in
travel volumes.” J. W. D. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 11 ’20 560w
“‘Seeing the far West’ is a desirable addition to any home library.”
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 140w
“Occasionally the reader finds flashes of description that are
characterized by originality, but, on the whole, the writer is content
with conventional utterance.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 160w
“The book will take its place as one of the best of the ‘boosters’ for
seeing the great West.”
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“Mr Faris has the enviable trick of making one see. He sets one
dreaming golden, fantastic, rainbow dreams, and leaves one,—as only
the most vivid dreams can leave one,—half convinced that one has
actually been there in the flesh.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 370w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 40w
“It is well illustrated with photographs which show that Mr Faris is
not too enthusiastic in his descriptions.”
+ =Spec= 125:748 D 4 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 200w
“Mr Faris’s main difficulty is that he has so many things to write
about. In fact, he would have given a clearer idea of the country if
of its natural features he had been content to describe fully one of
each kind instead of—in perhaps a spirit of democratic equality—giving
a shorter account of several.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 N 18 ’20 1250w
=FARNELL, IDA.=[2] Spanish prose and poetry old and new. *$5.25 Oxford
860.8
20–22172
“‘Spanish prose and poetry, old and new.’ by Ida Farnell is a
collection made in the belief that one of the consequences of the war
will be an increased interest in the literature of the Latin races.
Miss Farnell has endeavored to show something of the spirit of Spanish
literature by translated extracts from authors ranging from the
fourteenth to the nineteenth century (omitting the eighteenth as an
age of decadence), to which she has prefixed short biographies of the
writers.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar
difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments
and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.”
N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic
bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her
translations satisfy.”
+ − =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 29 ’20 80w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little
20–20647
This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby,
Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard
Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and
returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the
rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has
since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth
in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the
same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the
island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love
grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of
vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events
develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a
solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough
fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.
* * * * *
“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone
towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a
good account of himself as regards both these models.”
+ =Ath= p442 O 1 ’20 110w
“The story would be much more effective were it narrated in forthright
English.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 1600w
“The author has written a thrilling and convincing sea story with so
many quaint characters and so much cut-and-thrust action that it is
hard to find anything which may be offered as a parallel in very
recent fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“The action is as rapid as ever. The ingenuity with which Mr Farnol
creates fresh situations of romance is tireless.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 700w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Geste of Duke Jocelyn. il *$2.50 Little
20–16930
In this merry jest is romance and knight errantry of old. The tale
tells of one Duke Jocelyn of Brocelaunde, a puissant knight, but
marred of face so that he despairs of winning the love of the
beautiful lady Yolande. He dons his fool’s motley garb with cap and
bells and sets out with one lonely, poorly garbed knight to act the
part of the Duke’s envoy and press his suit. They meet with many
adventures in the forest, fall in with Robin Hood, make friends and
fight many a brave fight with and for him. Even the Lady Yolande is
intrigued by the fool’s merry songs and after he has rescued her from
a hated suitor, she yields to his love and openly declares it before
the assembled knights of the Duke of Brocelaunde. Songs and rhymes,
blank verse and prose mingle in the telling of the tale.
* * * * *
“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a
medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready
metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”
+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 70w
“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or
old.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 120w
“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest
story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it
makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 540w
“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional
products that have come from the presses this year.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 740w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 360w
“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits
of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his
cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any
father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and
invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with
marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions
that would escape her.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 D 11 ’19 650w
=FARNSWORTH, CHARLES HUBERT.= How to study music. *$2.10 (3½c) Macmillan
780.7
20–19843
Professor Frank M. McMurry in his introduction to the volume points
out that the teacher’s method of teaching may unduly overshadow in
importance the child’s method of study. This little book places the
emphasis on the child’s method of study and takes the form of home
conversations between the children and the adults of the family. It
shows how a child’s appreciation of music requires a fertile home soil
for its growth and how Jack’s initial “I hate music” can be changed
into his final “I love music.” Contents: Difficulties in the study of
music; How listen to music; How learn notation without awakening a
dislike for music; How a child should learn to sing; How learn to play
the piano; How learn to enjoy classical as well as modern music; How
to select music; How make use of music in the family; Library of piano
compositions.
* * * * *
“The unusual characteristic about the book is the fact that the
problems are presented from the viewpoint of both pupil and teacher.
In this respect it is better than a formal text would probably be.
Indeed, the author evidently sought to exemplify his philosophy of
teaching by the book itself.”
+ =El School J= 21:317 D ’20 510w
=FARRAR, JOHN CHIPMAN.= Forgotten shrines. (Yale ser. of younger poets)
*75c Yale univ. press 811
20–3703
“Mr Farrar has earned a reputation which foreruns this book of his
with a war poem called ‘Brest left behind.’ He divides his poems in
groups called Portraits, Songs for children and others, Miscellaneous
and Sonnets. The first group of Portraits won the eighteenth award of
the prize offered by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook at Yale for
the best unpublished verse by an undergraduate.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Beautiful in thought and expression.”
+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 200w
“He gives us a fine sense of diversity of interests and a balance of
form that is admirable.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 340w
“Mr Farrar has achieved clear and tender outlines in the section
called Portraits, and should be encouraged to proceed further.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=FARRISS, CHARLES SHERWOOD.=[2] American soul. $1 Stratford co. 920
20–22043
“An appreciation of the four greatest Americans and their lesson for
present Americans.” (Sub-title) The four Americans are: George
Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Theodore Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the author is quite happy in his attempt to draw the
moral without overpainting the tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 30w
=FAY, CHARLES RYLE.= Life and labour in the nineteenth century. *$8
Macmillan 331.8
(Eng ed 20–16219)
“Though the title sounds as if ‘Life and labor in the nineteenth
century’ were solely on economics, and though economics gets plenty of
treatment, Captain Fay’s lectures cover the political history of
England and its international adventures. It is only the fact that
wars are not described that prevents it from being a history of
England in the nineteenth century.” (N Y Times) “The volume contains
the substance of the author’s lectures, delivered at Cambridge in
1919, to students of economics among whom were officers of the Royal
navy and students from the United States army.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)
* * * * *
=Ath= p47 Jl 9 ’20 800w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w
“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least
American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical
reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although
they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a
careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its
politics, written in a vivacious style.”
+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 26 ’20 1950w
“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does
not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the
freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in
which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of
‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to
manufacture.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w
=FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.=[2] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans
940.45
=v 1= The cruiser period.
“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British
fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every
incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up
in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the
Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions
taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South
Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Altogether, ‘The cruiser period’ is a notable addition to the history
of the war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 350w
+ =Spec= 125:707 N 27 ’20 1350w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p787 D 2 ’20 1650w
=FELD, ROSE CAROLINE.= Humanizing industry. *$2.50 Dutton 331.1
20–8521
“Miss Feld has written a story concerning one Struthers who,
inheriting an industrial plant run on old-fashioned lines of
benevolent despotism, tries to introduce modern ideas and overcomes
one by one the obstacles created by a bad tradition. It is not
fiction, but the method of telling enhances the impression of the
author’s belief in good personal relationships and common sense as the
most promising approaches to a humanization of industry. Incidentally,
the book discusses in detail and with reference to successful
experiments the merits of welfare, educational, insurance, pension,
profit sharing and industrial representation schemes.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 50w
“There seems to be one thing overlooked. In speaking of human
relations, the author seems to have in mind kindliness, friendliness,
charitableness—of which we have none too much. She does not mean
anything as fundamental as the economic relationship of classes to one
another, to the soil and natural resources, to the powers of
government. She reminds me pathetically of the reformers who hoped to
save the institution of slavery by inducing slave holders to treat
their slaves and mules in a more kindly way.” B. C. G.
− + =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 580w
“It is a book that all employers of labor ought to read, because
whether or not they have sensed that new era, or even entered upon it,
they will find in it eye-opening ideas, helpful suggestions. It is a
book that all laboring men who have begun to think ought to read,
because it will set them on the right track in their thinking.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 22 ’20 780w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w
=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
=FELLOWES, EDMUND HORACE=, ed. English madrigal verse, 1588–1632.
(Oxford English texts) *$6.25 Oxford 821:04
20–17023
“This is a reprint of the known words of Elizabethan songs, arranged
under their composers and, among these, under the particular type of
song, with the names of the poets in the few cases where they are
known. In all of these songs both words and voice part were paramount.
For if, as in the first half of the book, they were madrigals (for
from three to six voices), each voice was sovran in turn, and each
vied with the other in the amount of meaning it could impress on the
words. If, as in the second half, they were solos or duets, then they
had the sketchy accompaniment of the lute, or the support of veiled
and velvety-toned viols. The first are necessarily short, for the
madrigal form required much repetition of words; pithy, for if a voice
is only to be heard at intervals it should have something terse to
say; and conventional, for you cannot put intimate sentiments into the
mouths of half a dozen different people in succession. The second are
more elaborate. They are all true lyrics in that they take one point
and press it home.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“To all who love the lyric, English madrigal verse will be a genuine
delight. Its careful editing makes the musical construction quite
clear, and the material is indeed a treasury of quaint verse.” C. K.
H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 1 ’20 680w
“A learned and careful work which only a scholar both in literature
and in music could have brought to a conclusion.”
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 260w
“Interesting and scholarly book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 Ag 5 ’20 6300w
=FELSTEAD, SIDNEY THEODORE.= German spies at bay; comp, from official
sources. il *$2 Brentano’s 940.485
(Eng ed 20–8200)
“This is a record of interest, exactly recording the actual work of
our Secret service and the particulars of the chief German spies whom
it traced and dealt with, and exposing the error of much of the panic
about spies in England which at one time prevailed.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 70w
“Mr Felstead is not dull, nor truthfully can one think, brilliant.
Those who are interested in spies will be reading for information
(possibly thrills), and herein the author is enthusiastically
cyclopedic.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 230w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 50w
“Mr Felstead has written an amusing as well as an instructive book,
and he seems to have steered cleverly between the rocks of reticence
and indiscretion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p178 Mr 18 ’20 1050w
=FENWICK, CHARLES GHEQUIER.= Political systems in transition; war-time
and after. *$3 Century 342
20–20220
The book is one of the Century New world series of which W. F.
Willoughby is general editor. Since the war, the author holds, the
question of the organization of the state and the scope of the
functions it is to perform has become once more an open one, for the
war has made it clear that there are some serious defects in the
machinery of government that call for radical amendments to our
constitutional system. The relative strength and weakness of the
several political systems and the probable line of future
reconstruction, form the subject of the present study. Contents: Part
1, Political ideals and demands of war; War a test of democratic
government; The constitutions of the great nations on the eve of the
great war; Part 2, Changes brought about by the war in the political
institutions of European countries; Countries with autocratic
governments; Countries with democratic governments; Part 3, Changes in
the political institutions of the United States; The war and the
constitution; War powers of the president; Emergency legislation
adopted by Congress; Changes in the organization of the government;
The separate state governments: new legislation and new administrative
activities; Part 4, Problems of reconstruction in the United States
raised by the war; New ideals of democracy; The program of political
reconstruction; The program of international reconstruction; Index.
* * * * *
“An excellent account of the shake-up in governments produced by the
war, full of material which must be included in any adequate history
of it.” E. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 D 8 ’20 950w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“The volume is a valuable compendium of war measures in the
belligerent nations and of the political problems which the war has
left.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He
achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of
taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are
important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more
careful about his dates.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 19 ’20 2250w
=R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 100w
=FERBER, EDNA.= Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–8793
The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine;
April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long
distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell;
The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa
or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are
stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are
reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and
other magazines.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and
women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her
skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into
them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in
their making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w
“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life,
rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying
the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”
+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
“The highest praise you can give an author in these days is to say
that his or her book is ‘thoroly American,’ from which, alas, it does
not necessarily follow that it is an excellent piece of workmanship.
Edna Ferber’s ‘Half portions,’ however, wins on both counts.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 160w
“Miss Edna Ferber is not thoughtful about the affairs of the world.
She simply does not let herself think. If some one would endow Miss
Ferber, and make it no longer too expensive for her to think or bring
a story to an honest conclusion, she might become a sort of American
Arnold Bennett.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 200w
“It is a book that is thoroughly enjoyable and laughable from
beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 620w
=FERBER, EDNA, and LEVY, NEWMAN.= $1200 a year. il *$1.50 Doubleday 812
20–18069
A three-act play in which a university professor gives up his $1200 a
year position in the university to earn $30 a day in a mill. He
immediately becomes popular as a labor leader and lecturer and is in
demand all over the United States, but it is only when he is offered a
salary of $5000 a week in the movies that the magnate who owns the
university as well as the mill is moved to consider the question of an
adequate salary for a professor.
* * * * *
“Interesting to read. One would like to see it acted.”
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“The complications hold the kernel of genuine comedy, but instead of
cracking their nut, Miss Ferber and Mr Levy have contented themselves
with merely painting funny faces on the shell.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 180w
“The authors have challenged serious criticism by calling the play a
‘comedy’ and by permitting the publishers to proclaim it a ‘timely
satire.’ It is an amusing and clever farce, containing many touches of
skilful character depiction.” Jack Crawford
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 800w
“As a vehicle for amusement ‘$1200 a year’ is both ingenious and
satisfying. Its characters are human, its situations vivid. It
portrays with little exaggeration the wretched circumstances of our
little world of scholars with sympathetic and understanding treatment.
But what of that other world? Have not the authors exaggerated the
affluence of mill labor to crown their dramatic purpose?”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 560w
Reviewed by A. E. Morey
+ =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 240w
“Rather a good story, though highly illogical and incredible.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:86 Ja ’21 230w
=FIELDING, WILLIAM JOHN.= Sanity in sex. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd 176
20–10067
The past few years have seen a remarkable change in the public
attitude toward sex. The ban of secrecy has been largely removed and
the need for rational sex education is generally recognized. The
author’s purpose in this book has been “to subject the social
processes responsible for these changes to a thorough analysis,
classifying all the important factors and tendencies involved, and to
give as concise and accurate an account as possible of this historic
period of the sex-educational movement.” (Introd.) Subjects covered
include: the government’s campaign of sex-education, sex-education in
the army, venereal disease, sex hygiene in industry, sex education in
the public schools, the relation of sex knowledge to marriage, sex
ignorance and divorce, birth control, and psycho-analysis, and the
final chapter discusses economic sufficiency as a basis of sex
hygiene. There is a classified bibliography of seventeen pages,
followed by an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 80w
“Mr Fielding is not an alarmist; he strikes more than a note of hope
in his account of the work which the United States government did with
the army during the war.”
+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 650w
“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and
is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of
psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p688 O 21 ’20 90w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:113 Je ’20 70w
=FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN.= Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20541
“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain,
the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross
commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on
the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been
to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from
that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the
storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The
incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The
bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The
unbreakable link with “home.”
* * * * *
“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is
among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a
business-like but boresome monotone.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 260w
“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost
unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great
as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is
to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of
just such tales.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 540w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 120w
=FILENE, CATHERINE=, ed. Careers for women. *$4 Houghton 396.5
20–21359
The object of the book is to give vocational information to high
school and college women, to supplement the work of vocational
advisors in schools, and to help decrease the number of “square pegs
for round holes.” It is composed of articles written expressly for the
book by a number of specially qualified contributors and its compiler,
Miss Filene, is the director of the Intercollegiate vocational
guidance association. The vocations considered are grouped under the
headings: Accounting; Advertising; Agriculture, etc.; Architecture;
Arts and crafts; Business; Dramatics; Education; Finance; Government
service; Health services; Home economics services; Industrial work;
Institutional work; Insurance; Law; Library work; Literary work;
Motion-picture work; Museum work; Music; Newspaper work; Personnel
work; Physical education; Politics; Religious work; Scientific work;
Secretarial work; Social work; Specialists; Statistical work;
Vocational training. Suggested readings accompany most of the chapters
and there is an index.
* * * * *
“By far the most practical and complete book in its field. Will be
useful in any library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“It should be of great value to high-school and college students and
the new graduate. The suggestions are, on the whole, sound.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 220w
“Differently as the various authors write, there is uniformity in one
respect—in the brisk, snappy, pungent way in which they push their
points at you and make you see the picture.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 D 26 ’20 1750w
“Both for its merit as a model of the way in which occupational
information should be presented, and for what it signifies in the
modern outlook of thoughtful college women and, it may be added, of
college men as well, this book is noteworthy. The publishers deserve
mention for the most attractively printed book in the field of
vocational guidance.” Meyer Bloomfield
+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 490w
=FILLMORE, PARKER HOYSTED.= Shoemaker’s apron. il *$2.50 (5½c) Harcourt
20–17679
This is the author’s second book of Czechoslovak fairy tales and folk
tales with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. It is a
companion volume to the earlier collection and contains besides the
fairy tales five nursery tales and a group of devil tales. They are
not so much translations as a retelling of other versions to suit the
English-speaking child. The fairy tales are: The twelve months;
Zlatovlaska the golden-haired; The shepherd’s nosegay; Vitazko the
victorious. The shoemaker’s apron is one of the devil tales.
* * * * *
“An interesting collection of twenty stories drawn from original
sources and retold with simple charm.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 90w
+ =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 150w
=FINCH, WILLIAM COLES-, and HAWKS, ELLISON.= Water in nature, il *$2.50
Stokes 551
(Eng ed 20–1223)
“W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, two English scientists, have
contributed to the Romance of reality series a volume entitled ‘Water
in nature.’ In it they deal scientifically, and at the same time
entertainingly, with practically all of water’s manifestations in the
natural world, including its relations to cloud, atmosphere, ocean,
rain, hail, snow, ice, glaciers, springs, rivers, lake, waterfalls,
mountains, caves, rocks, reefs, and corals.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ja ’19 40w
+ =N Y Times= 25:55 F 1 ’20 70w
“Any one who is interested in natural phenomena will find fascinating
reading in this résumé of popular science.”
+ =Outlook= 123:243 O 29 ’19 50w
=FINDLAY, HUGH=, ed. Handbook for practical farmers. il *$5 Appleton 630
20–16999
A comprehensive handbook “dealing with the more important aspects of
farming in the United States.” (Sub-title) Special chapters have been
contributed by practical experts in different parts of the United
States. Subjects covered include the various farm and garden crops,
farm animals, the care of milk and the curing of meat on the farm,
farm buildings, running water, the use of explosives, the care of
tools, fence posts, roads, the farm loan system, farm records, pets,
weeds, etc. There are 258 illustrations and an index. The editor is
lecturer on horticulture in Columbia university.
=FINDLAY, JOSEPH JOHN.= Introduction to sociology, for social workers
and general readers. (Publications of the University of Manchester) il
*$2 Longmans 301
20–14079
“The central theme of sociology, as conceived by Professor Findlay and
lucidly expounded in this excellent introduction to a comparatively
new, extremely comprehensive, but somewhat elusive science, is ‘the
definition of social groups, their classification and their relations
to each other.’ The treatment is systematic, though some problems of
considerable importance, such as the institution of land tenure, have
had to be omitted. The first five chapters are devoted to principles.
The second part relates to types of social grouping, such as family,
state, religion, and occupation. In the third part, which is concerned
with organization, the positions of the leader, the official, and the
representative, are discussed: and there is an analysis of the
instinct of loyalty.”—Ath
* * * * *
“A valuable part of his book is the admirable list of references to
contemporary and other authorities.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 190w
“The author, while primarily an educational administrator and not a
professional sociologist, nevertheless has attained a definite grasp
of certain fundamental principles in the science of society. His book
is a very thoughtful piece of work, but the reviewer confesses to
losing his way frequently in the course of the argument.” A. J. Todd
+ − =Survey= 45:22 O 2 ’20 600w
=FINNEY, ROSS LEE, and SCHAFER, ALFRED L.= Administration of village and
consolidated schools. *$1.60 Macmillan 371
20–4558
“This book has been written especially to meet the needs of principals
of small schools and to serve as a textbook in those institutions
where young men and women are in training for the administration of
village schools. Its five parts discuss, respectively, Governmental
administration, The principal’s personal-official relations, Adapting
the school to the needs of the child, The business side, and
Miscellaneous.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“It gives valuable and practical charts and tables and is fraught with
helpful suggestions. It will be very useful to those who know how to
discriminate and are not too slavishly bound to the letter.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
“The book is written in a style that ought to appeal to teachers and
school officers who have not enjoyed the opportunities of an elaborate
training.”
+ =El School J= 20:711 My ’20 550w
+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 140w
=FIRKINS, OSCAR W.= Jane Austen. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 823
20–4130
A critical and biographical study of Jane Austen, falling into three
parts: The novelist; The realist; The woman. Part 1 is a searching and
unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reference to
plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters.
Part 3, the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’s
personality as revealed in her letters and reflected in the novels.
Notes and an index come at the end and the whole is prefaced by
verses, “To Jane Austen,” from the author’s pen, reprinted from the
Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
“He is often clever and always readable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Cleveland= p84 O ’20 30w
“The advantage of this microscopic, literal measurement is that it
prepares the way for an exact delineation of Jane Austen’s production
and character. If the final picture lacks an inconsequent sureness, it
is full of fine perspectives and fresh values.” C. M. Rourke
+ =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 760w
“He paints a sort of cubist portrait of Jane Austen, which would pass
unrecognized were it not labeled with her name. He has succeeded in
imagining a Miss Austen who is ‘one vile antithesis’. In ‘creative
criticism’ does the critic create the author in his own image?” H. E.
Woodbridge
− =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 700w
“A book both new and worth reading. He has looked at Miss Austen more
through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many
illustrious eulogists, than any other writer I know of. Even when he
is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels
his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists
for the sake of saying something new.”
+ − =New Repub= 22:318 My 5 ’20 1100w
“Although his book is written in so flowing and altogether charming a
style that it is a pleasure to read it, I could not help wondering why
he thought it worth doing at all. Certainly, no one that reads it will
be tempted to fly to Jane Austen. Quite the contrary!” Gertrude
Atherton
+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 2950w
“Minute analysis of individual characters, their consistency and
temperaments, is carried a little too far for any but the devoted
admirers who have every one of Miss Austen’s novels firmly in
remembrance.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w
=FISCHER, HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS.= Studies in history and politics.
*$5.65 Oxford 904
20–11671
“When the Right Honorable Herbert Fisher took up the onerous duties of
a Minister of the crown on the British Educational board ... the heavy
labors in the service of the English youth left him little time for
writing and research. The studies collected in his latest volume are,
therefore, not new, but are reprints of various magazine articles
written, for the most part, between five and ten years ago, though
here and there retouched and supplemented. Three of the eleven essays
deal with French politics; three with the history of history; two with
Napoleon; one with British imperial administration; one with the value
of small states; and one with the resurgence of Prussia.”—Nation
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p510 Ap 16 ’20 1350w
“The studies are all amply worth reading.” Preserved Smith
+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 980w
“Interesting and thoughtful essays.”
+ =Spec= 124:87 Jl 17 ’20 200w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 620w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p231 Ap 15 ’20)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
“Mr Fisher’s essays will interest everybody who cares either for
history or for politics, and, most of all, those who care for both.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 Ap 15 ’20 2650w
=FISHER, IRVING.= Stabilizing the dollar. *$3.50 Macmillan 338.5
20–674
“[In this book] first there is a twenty-five page summary. Then there
is the main body of the text, 125 pages, in which the same arguments
that appear in the summary are amplified. Finally there is an appendix
of 171 pages in which practically the same points are gone over again,
only this time with a strong emphasis upon ‘technical details.’ Thus
we have a boiled down encyclopedia addressed to three separate levels
of attention, or perhaps of intellect, all within the modest confines
of one small volume. Professor Fisher believes that the high cost of
living is caused by a shrunken dollar, just as the low cost of living
from 1873 to 1896 followed an enlarged dollar. The purchasing power of
the dollar is at all times, so he easily proves, uncertain and
variable. His remedy is to make the dollar more or less valuable,
according as prices are rising or falling by adding or substracting
from its weight in gold.”—Unpartizan Review
* * * * *
“The close association between economic and political problems at the
present day warrants for this book the attention of political
scientists.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:322 My ’20 80w
“This book is well arranged for summary or detailed reading.”
+ =Booklist= 16:189 Mr ’20
“Many prominent economists indorse the plan. The question of its
practical application is a distinct and different affair. Be that as
it may, the book is provocative of thought and deserves a wide
reading.” G. M. J.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 550w
“The plan is presented with elaborate simplicity and persuasiveness,
and an exhaustive discussion of technical details, alternative plans,
and precedents.”
+ =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w
=Lit D= 64:119 Mr 13 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
=Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 2150w
“It is a duty to direct attention to Professor Fisher’s plan, and it
is agreeable to add that he makes its study easy.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:245 My 9 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w
“For the advanced student of currency and price movements the six
appendices will prove of special interest.” E. R. Burton
+ |=Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 420w |=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369
Je 10 ’20 120w
“In ‘Stabilizing the dollar’ we have not necessarily the final word,
but the most complete exposition as yet of a great, fundamental reform
whose inevitableness the reviewer cannot doubt.” A. W. Atwood
+ − =Unpartizan R= 13:413 Mr ’20 1850w
=FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1st baron.= Memories and records. 2v il
*$8 (6½c) Doran
20–5756
Lord Fisher devotes the first of these volumes to Memories, reserving
such biographical details as he chooses to give for the volume of
Records. Of the work as a whole, he says, it is “not an autobiography
but a collection of memories of a life-long war against limpets,
parasites, sycophants and jellyfish.” Aside from its pungent style,
the book is of interest for its memories of King Edward, whom the
author loved, for his estimates of Lord Nelson, whom he worshipped,
and for his outspoken criticisms of Great Britain’s war policy. There
are a number of illustrations and each of the volumes has its index.
The appendixes to volume 2 give a summary of Lord Fisher’s great naval
reforms, by W. T. Stead, and a synopsis of his career.
* * * * *
“This remarkable book is full of good things. The rush of the author’s
forcible prose recalls the headlong progress of a motorcycle emitting
explosive noises.”
+ =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 280w
“We get an impression of more than force; we feel that we are dealing
with a perfectly honest man who has an unfailing eye for humbug.”
+ =Ath= p1225 N 21 ’19 900w
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“It is a rambling autobiography without form or plan, frank to the
verge of indiscretion or beyond, crammed with the enthusiasm and
energy of youth (he was born in 1851 but was of the tribe of Peter
Pan), exuberant beyond the bounds of the English language, and
altogether delightful and incredible.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 250w
“Many delightful anecdotes testify to the more irresistible side of
Lord Fisher’s personality, and his staunch praise of his friends, his
inimitable descriptions of many sea captains, and his warm
appreciation of the British merchant navy also show fine traits of
discernment and character.” B. U. Burke
+ =Nation= 110:204 F 14 ’20 1350w
“His directness and brevity never fail him, every paragraph is charged
with interest, and the reader’s mind easily gathers up and puts in
place the material. The originalities in printing are devices of this
fertile inventor to make truths go home and lodge.” D. S. M.
+ =New Repub= 23:285 Ag 4 ’20 1600w
“There is no connected narrative or any orderly sequence of events;
and yet it is continuously interesting, often amusing, and sometimes
exciting in a supreme degree. The language is occasionally deplorable,
from the standpoint of most drawing rooms and all grammar schools; and
yet there are passages of rare and original beauty from even a
rhetorical point of view. One feels in the presence of a psychic
force.” B. A. Fiske
+ − =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2750w
“A peculiar book, this—gossipy, and good, nervous comment, with
technical explanation shoved in like coal into a furnace. Navy men
will enjoy it, but so will the man on the street.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 200w
“Admiral Fisher’s gift for comradeship makes him an admirable
portraitist. There is no dull moment in the two volumes.”
+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Sturdy fighter as he is, he hits no foul blow. He is not sparing of
his epithets on his opponents en masse ... but of no individual living
man or woman does he speak otherwise than in terms of kindliness and
honour. If his blame is hearty, so is his praise; and while his blame
is anonymous, his praise is defined. He who has applauded others so
lavishly and willingly may perhaps be excused when he exhibits
considerable affection for his own good deeds also.”
+ =Spec= 123:617 N 8 ’19 1300w
=Spec= 123:899 D 27 ’19 100w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ’19 500w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p579 O 23 ’19)
“The books are a vivid photograph of picturesque and historic
personality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 1650w
“Inaccuracy is the inevitable result of hasty talk. Those of us who
are not over and above solemn, and who are quite prepared to give Lord
Fisher all the licence of, say, Admiral Coffin, whose free talk once
amused the House of commons, often at his own expense, may still
regret that he does not endeavour to deserve a share of ‘the heavenly
gift of proportion and perspective’ which he admired in King Edward.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 O 23 ’19 1050w
“There are some things in these memories and records which few
critics, now or hereafter, will commend except in so far as they
exhibit some of the less attractive features of Lord Fisher’s
personality with a candour which goes far to redeem them from censure.
But these are really superficial traits.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p759 D 18 ’19 2050w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 890w
=FISKE, BRADLEY ALLEN.= Art of fighting; its evolution and progress. il
*$3 (2c) Century 355
20–7785
Paying a passing tribute to the universal desire for peace, the author
says: “Until it is certain that war has actually been banished from
the earth, armies and navies must be maintained. In order to give
their country the protection needed, each army and navy must be
correctly designed, prepared, and operated. To know whether this is
being done, the people need a general knowledge of the principles of
the art of fighting, especially of strategy. To impart this knowledge
in simple language is the object of this book.” (Preface) The book is
in three parts: Fighting and war in general; Historical illustrations;
Strategy. This third section is composed of three chapters: Strategy
in peace; Strategy in war; and Strategy as related to statesmanship.
There is no index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“It may be objected to this book, particularly by the pacifist mind,
that it lacks a true perspective, a proper sense of proportion, an
adequate conception of relative values. But the ready answer is that
it is the book of an inventor, a specialist, an enthusiast. Admiral
Fiske has made a notable contribution, worthy of the most careful
study.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 1650w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 330w
=FISKE, CHARLES.= Perils of respectability, and other studies in
Christian life and service for reconstruction days. *$1.50 Revell 252
20–2430
“The subjects [of the fourteen sermons] are striking without being
sensational. Among them are ‘Alone in the wilderness,’ ‘The peril of
an empty soul,’ ‘The manliness of Christ,’ and ‘The gospel for an age
of luxury.’ The author has found his way into the heart of things and
speaks out of a deep experience. He understands the meaning of
Christianity in all its phases, individual, social and
corporate.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Bishop Fiske is a plain and convincing preacher: these are sermons
worth reading as well as hearing. We miss the personality of the
preacher but that is inevitable in the case of printed discourses.”
+ =Bib World= 54:433 Jl ’20 180w
“No man, minister or layman, can read them without becoming
strengthened.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 150w
=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Can the church survive in the changing order?
*80c Macmillan 230
20–3581
“Prof. Fitch likens the present day to other great periods of
transition; the time of Jesus’s advent, of the Mohammedan invasion, of
Luther’s protest. The church today stands for the old order. It has
attempted to keep abreast of the times merely by tacking new social
programs on to an outworn philosophy. This method is doomed to failure
from the beginning. If the church is to survive it must mold
progressively its fundamental conceptions. And its most fundamental
conception, its attitude to the Jesus of history, must be based on an
appreciation of his moral grandeur. A quickened conscience, resulting
from a clearer apprehension of the moral value of Jesus’s teaching, is
far more important for the church than any new Christological
formulation. This moral awakening will itself have religious content
in its devotion to eternal and transcendent values.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“We looked to the last sections of the book for something to guide and
inspire the church so unsparingly criticized. There is no program
offered. This is a fatal weakness. What is needed now is not a
negative criticism but a constructive program.”
− =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 210w
“Anything from the pen of Dr Albert Parker Fitch is certain to be
clear, colorful and aggressive. His latest little book is no
exception.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 5 ’20 330w
=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Preaching and paganism. *$2 Yale univ. press
204
20–19512
“The Amherst professor describes the permanent element in religion—the
sense of God—in contrast with two forces that are in control of our
present day thinking and acting, humanism and naturalism. He shows how
these alien factors have entered and subtly taken possession of
worship and even preaching, and he pleads for the religious view
which, while acknowledging God in nature and in man, refuses to set up
either man or nature as its norm and guide.” (N Y Evening Post) “The
book is the forty-sixth of the series of the Lyman Beecher lectureship
on preaching in Yale university and is the fourth work published on
the James Wesley Cooper memorial publication fund.” (Boston
Transcript)
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p8 D 4 ’20 330w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 180w
“Prof. Fitch may not altogether give the philosophical background to
the desired restatement of transcendence, but he at least gives
evidence of earnest and well-pondered affirmation. The book is meant
both to instruct young clergymen and to inspire them, and it should
succeed in its double object.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 14 ’21 330w
=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= Flappers and philosophers. *$1.75
Scribner
20–26757
A book of short stories by the author of “This side of paradise.”
Contents: The offshore pirate; The ice palace; Head and shoulders; The
cut-glass bowl; Bernice bobs her hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple goes
wrong; The four fists.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“The author proves himself a master of the mechanism of short-story
technique, a neat hand with dialogue, and exactly as bungling with
character work as one would expect from an author as young as the
cynicism of his endings proclaims this author to be. For he cannot let
well enough alone.... In fact that is the chief trouble with all Mr
Fitzgerald’s tales. They are too consciously clever.” I. W. L.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 250w
“Here are to be found originality and variety, with imaginativeness of
the exceptional order that needs not to seek remote, untrodden paths,
but plays upon scenes and people within the radius of ordinary life.”
+ =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w
“The substance of the eight stories in his volume is in harmony with
his new manner. They have a rather ghastly rattle of movement that
apes energy and a hectic straining after emotion that apes intensity.
The surface is unnaturally taut; the substance beneath is slack and
withered as by a premature old age. In ‘This side of paradise’ there
was both gold and dross. Instead of wringing his art, in Mr
Hergesheimer’s fine expression, free of all dross, Mr Fitzgerald
proceeded to cultivate it and to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post.
Why write good books? You have to sell something like five thousand
copies to earn the price of one story.”
− =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 380w
“Not the most superficial reader can fail to recognize Mr Fitzgerald’s
talent and genius.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 530w
“‘Head and shoulders’ has a twist at the end that is truly O.
Henryish. So does ‘Bernice bobs her hair.’ We pick these two as the
best.”
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w
Reviewed by Sibyl Vane
+ =Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 280w
=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= This side of paradise. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6430
“It isn’t a story in the regular sense: There’s no beginning, except
the beginning of Amory Blaine, born healthy, wealthy and
extraordinarily good-looking, and by way of being spoiled by a
restless mother whom he quaintly calls by her first name, Beatrice.
There’s no middle to the story, except the eager fumbling at life of
this same handsome boy, proud, cleanminded, born to conquer yet
fumbling, at college and in love with Isabelle, then Clara, then
Rosalind, then Eleanor. No end to the story except the closing picture
of this same boy in his early twenties, a bit less confident about
life, with ‘no God in his heart ... his ideas still in riot ... with
the pain of memory ... he could not tell why the struggle was worth
while,’ and yet ‘determined to use to the utmost himself and his
heritage from the personality he had passed.’”—Pub W
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“In all its affectations, its cleverness, its occasional beauty, even
its sometimes intentioned vulgarity and ensuing timidity, it so unites
with the matter as to make the book a convincing chronicle of youth by
youth.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:471 Je ’20 950w
“It is merely his way of doing things that makes his story different
from multitudes of its kind. To say that in ‘This side of paradise’ Mr
Fitzgerald has written a novel that will cause us to use a modern and
expressive phrase, to sit up and take notice, is a mild expression of
the feeling he arouses in us. He is a story teller with a courage of
his own. Many will not like his novel, some will abhor it, but none
can question the fact that he is a novelist with a message if not with
a mission.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 2000w
“Part of the story is thoroly amusing; part of it goes deep into the
serious thoughts and desires and ambitions of its hero-author; in the
last third he dives so deep that he gets well over his head.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Fitzgerald is on the path of those who strive. His gifts have an
unmistakable amplitude and much in his book is brave and beautiful.”
+ − =Nation= 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“An astonishing and refreshing book. The book is fundamentally honest
and if the intellectual and spiritual analyses are, sometimes tortuous
and the nomenclature bewildering to those not intimate with collegiate
invention, it is nevertheless delightful and encouraging to find a
novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a
reflection of American undergraduate life.” R. V. A. S.
+ − =New Repub= 22:362 My 12 ’20 400w
“The whole story is disconnected, more or less, but loses none of its
charm on that account. It could have been written only by an artist
who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary
style.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 500w
“There are, as I see it, two secrets to the all-round satisfactoriness
of Mr Fitzgerald’s book; he can write—that simply sticks out all over
the book; and he has the rather rare good sense of ‘crowding his work
instead of spreading it thin.’” R. S. L.
+ =Pub W= 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 460w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The story’s construction occasionally gives an impression of
jerkiness; but the author’s obvious familiarity with his ground and
his uncanny ability to see life through the eyes of his characters
reduces this defect almost to the vanishing point.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 500w
=FLEMING, WILLIAM HENRY.= Treaty-making power; Slavery and the race
problem in the South. $1.50 Stratford co. 341.2
20–12527
The book contains two speeches by the author as a member of Congress
from the tenth Georgia district. The practical issue underlying the
speech of the Treaty-making power was given by the crisis threatening
legislation in California to discriminate against Japanese children in
the public schools. The second speech, Slavery and the race problem in
the South, is a courageous plea for justice on behalf of the negro.
=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= Stevenson’s Germany. *$3.50 Scribner 996
(Eng ed 20–9232)
“This book, which groups about Stevenson’s ‘Footnote to history’
evidence of German misbehaviour in the Pacific, and particularly in
Samoa, is, we are informed by the preface, the conclusion of an
‘argument against Germany, begun in “The new Pacific,” and continued
through “The problem of the Pacific”’; it is essentially an attempt to
show that Germany is unfit to govern in the islands of the South sea,
and a plea that in no circumstances whatever should she be allowed to
regain an inch of those profitable lands.”—Ath
* * * * *
“The present volume has little to commend it. The organization is very
faulty, the materials used are slight and even they have not been
presented as well as they deserved, and there are certain obvious
errors.” P. J. T.
− =Am Hist R= 26:373 Ja ’21 320w
“There may be good and just reasons for excluding Germany from the
Pacific, but they do not appear conclusively in this book. What
appears too clearly is the desire to profit to the utmost by her
downfall.” F. W. S.
− =Ath= p735 Je 4 ’20 550w
=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 90w
“Well written and well-documented book.”
+ =Sat R= 129:476 My 22 ’20 700w
“The difficulty in being satisfied with Mr Fletcher’s case is not,
however, that it is unfairly put or in any way exaggerated. On the
contrary, it has been carefully prepared, and the evidence put forward
is trustworthy. The trouble is that, from circumstances over which the
Germans had no control, it is all pre-war evidence and must be judged
by pre-war standards.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Je 10 ’20 670w
=FLETCHER, CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE.= Historical portraits, 1700–1850; with
an introd. by C. F. Bell. il 2v ea *$5.65 Oxford 757
(9–24668)
“The Clarendon press has published, after a long interval, the third
volume of Messrs Fletcher and Walker’s collection of historical
portraits. It contains a hundred and fourteen portraits, selected by
Mr Walker, of men and women of eighteenth-century Britain, with short
and racy memoirs by Mr Fletcher. The portrait gallery includes the
famous admirals; generals like Wolfe, Cumberland, Wade, and Ligonier;
Wesley, Berkeley, and other great divines; men of letters, lawyers,
men of science like Newton and Halley, Dodsley the publisher,
Arkwright, Wedgwood, and Brindley, the maker of canals, whose talents
would have rusted in obscurity had he not been employed by the Duke of
Bridgewater.” (Spec) The previous volumes appeared in 1909 and 1912.
* * * * *
“It is fair to say that the collaborators of this volume are to be
congratulated in general on their selection. Yet the principle on
which they worked remains a mystery. One needs only to consider the
biographies which have accompanied the portraits of other such
collections to perceive that Mr Fletcher is as much a genius in his
way as Mr Walker is in his; and that between them they have produced
an extraordinarily entertaining and instructive book.” W. C. Abbott
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:489 Ap ’20 600w
+ =Ath= p640 Jl 18 ’19 90w
“Mr Fletcher’s potted ‘lives’ are excellent: they are a pattern of
what such brief biographies should be. Scholarly, of course,
informative and readable, they are completely at ease in their
handling of men in every walk of life. The book has its limitations.”
M. H. Spielmann
+ − =Ath= p746 Ag 15 ’19 1800w
=Brooklyn= 12:40 N ’19 30w
“The value of this publication is so great for educational purposes
that one hesitates before offering any criticism. Mr Fletcher’s
biographical notices are in their turn models of conciseness and
economy of space, and give just the information which should excite
the student to a better acquaintance with each subject in turn. These
notices, however, convey some idea that they have been written
entirely apart from the portraits themselves.” Lionel Cust
+ − =Eng Hist R= 34:607 O ’19 670w
“We have seen better photographic reproductions. But the volume is
none the less of the greatest interest and value.”
+ =Spec= 122:86 Jl 19 ’19 1650w
“His biographies bring under fire virtually the whole of English
history between 1700 and 1850, and few of them are not lit with new
interest. We can imagine that in questions of aesthetic criticism his
personal view will not be unchallenged.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Jl 24 ’19 1950w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Dead men’s money (Eng title, Droonin’ watter).
(Borzoi mystery stories) *$2 (2½c) Knopf
20–19048
This story is told by Hugh Moneylaws, a young law student in
Berwick-upon-Tweed. While going on an errand which kept him out very
late one night, Hugh comes upon a dead man lying in the woods. In the
investigation that follows, Hugh conceals one piece of information, a
bit of caution he has reason to regret later. He does not mention
publicly having seen Sir Gilbert Carstairs, 7th baronet of
Hathercleugh House, at the scene of the murder. When the one person
with whom he shares this knowledge meets a violent death, he begins to
realize the seriousness of it, and when Sir Gilbert makes a dastardly
but unsuccessful attempt to put Hugh himself out of the way, he is
convinced of Sir Gilbert’s guilt, and his disappearance makes
assurance doubly sure. The remainder of the story tells of the efforts
to locate him, and the facts that come to the light about him in the
search. On several occasions Hugh’s life hangs by a hair, but he
eventually comes out of it with only a crippled knee, and nothing more
to fear from “Sir Gilbert,” who has met his punishment at the hands of
another enemy.
* * * * *
“Take one typewriterful of Stevenson, add several murders for luck and
one mystery that isn’t mysterious, mix well with a sensational jacket
and an afterthought of a plot and the answer is ‘Dead men’s money.’”
− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 160w
“The author’s grasp on the various threads of his story is always
firm, and he brings them all together at the end, leaving them tied up
in a neat bow, with no loose ends, with a skill that compels deep
admiration of his craftsmanship.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 N 7 ’20 320w
+ − =Sat R= 127:427 My 3 ’19 190w
“Mr Fletcher is one of the most skilful writers of this type of
fiction. The narrative abounds in thrills and tense situations and
will be highly diverting to devotees of this school of fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 190w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Paradise mystery. (Borzoi mystery stories)
*$1.90 (2c) Knopf
20–8629
A stranger in the town of Wrychester is killed by a fall from the
upper gallery of the cathedral. But this fact naturally is not so
simple as stated, and leads to the question, was the fall suicide,
accident or murder, and if murder, who was the murderer, and what was
the motive. In the answering of these questions many people are
involved: Dr Ransford, whom the dead man had been asking for; Dr
Bryce, his assistant, who had been forcing unwelcome attentions upon
Ransford’s ward, Mary Bewery; Collishaw, the laborer, who later met
his death because he knew too much; Simpson Harker, an ex-detective;
Stephen Folliot, whose step-son is also a suitor for Mary Bewery’s
hand. These, and others, are all bound up in a network of mystery
which is not unraveled until the surprising denouement of the story.
* * * * *
“A good English mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“Besides the mystery there is a tender little love story and several
interesting characters.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
=Lit D= p100 O 23 ’20 1350w
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The excellent reputation earned by J. S. Fletcher as a teller of
engaging mystery tales is preserved in his latest story, ‘The Paradise
mystery.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 240w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Talleyrand maxim. il *$1.75 (2c) Knopf
20–627
Linford Pratt, a young lawyer, is inspired by Talleyrand’s maxim:
“With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He
knew that wit and skill were his, and that time and patience, coupled
with opportunity, would bring him the fortune he craved. He was not
over nice about the opportunity. It came to him in the shape of a will
whose existence no one suspected. It was to have been the first rung
of the ladder by which he was to rise. Complications set in in the
shape of an unknown witness of his theft, and wits as sharp as his. He
must rid himself of the first by murder; he must extricate himself
from the latter by blackmail, by fraud and intrigue and still another
murder. But the net closes in about him till a bullet from his own
weapon is his only means of escape. Side by side with this tale of
horror goes a perfectly good romance between a good young man and a
virtuous young woman.
* * * * *
“A very ingenious and well told mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“In the invention and use of the complications, little and big, with
which the author weaves and embroiders his plot, advances and delays
its movement, and intrigues the reader’s attention, Mr Fletcher works
with ingenuity, resource and skill. And he writes with a freshness of
touch and an individual quality of style not always possessed by
writers of detective fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 600w
“The story is written with the easy facility of a practised hand, and,
if we once accept without demur certain conventional improbabilities,
it shows plenty of movement.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:606 Je 21 ’19 200w
=Spec= 123:89 Jl 19 ’19 30w
“Mr Fletcher shows much inventive skill, and is resourceful in
advancing and delaying the movement of the plot, and in handling the
maze of complications which arise. He employs a fresh touch that gives
a new zest to the much over-worked detective-story type of light
fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 340w
=FLEURY, MAURICE=, comte. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. 2v il *$7.50
Appleton 996
20–14392
“The publishers have had the manuscript for the last ten years, but
because of the personal revelations contained in the book, Eugénie
requested that it be withheld from the public until her death. It is
written by Comte Fleury, who was for more than twenty years an
intimate member of the empress’s entourage.” (Springf’d Republican)
The memoirs end with the peace negotiations of 1870 and do not touch
on the empress’s later years. There is no index.
* * * * *
“The memoirs contain no surprises. There is nothing in them that will
compel any very considerable re-writing of the history of the second
empire. Probably the most distinctive feature is the portrait they
draw of the empress. It is, I think, much too favorable, inaccurate
because incomplete. But it is done with sincerity, modesty, and good
taste. It is a revelation of the empress as she would like to be
seen.” F. M. Anderson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:360 Ja ’21 320w
“A misleading title, for there is proportionately little from the pen
of the empress herself and her personality is often lost in the flood
of details of diplomacy and court life, but the author has been able
to add some fresh information to the history of the second empire.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
“He who hopes to find romance in the two volumes of the ‘Memoirs of
the Empress Eugénie’ will be disappointed. What are we to say of a
writer who omits both the drama of her rise and the pathos of her
closing years, who robs the history of all its picturesque character
and concentrates his attention upon her official routine? What are we
to say of him? We are to say, of course, that he is an ‘official’
biographer and that, as such, is so anxious to present nothing which
will detract from an impression of perfect propriety and dull royal
respectability, that he has deprived her of all character.” J. W.
Krutch
− =Bookm= 52:78 S ’20 600w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1050w
=Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 190w
“The most valuable and important things are the reports of intimate
conversations and sayings of the Emperor and Empress and others, which
picture forth their characters and, without description or character
analysis, place them in a different light than they have been placed
by other memoir writers and historians.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Jl 25 ’20 4650w
“Being a great admirer of Napoleon and Eugénie, Comte Fleury naturally
gives a picture which is highly favorable to them. But he has also
attempted to take into consideration the work which has been done by
historical scholars on this period. The point at which the reader must
be on his guard is in accepting without question Napoleon’s views as
given in the conversations which the author quotes.” S. B. Fay
+ − =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 200w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 180w
“Memoirs are often disappointments, either containing nothing worth
saying, or running to the Margot Asquith type. These memoirs have
something to say, and it was not, in the saying, found necessary to
surround them with bits of scandal or incidents better left untold.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 27 ’21 620w
“Comte Fleury had access to large quantities of letters and papers.
They are thrown into the book pell-mell, with only the loosest
arrangement; the source, and therefore the value, of many of them is
left uncertain; it is not always easy to see in a particular place
whose narrative is being read. None the less they make an interesting
assortment, though nothing is brought to light in them to modify the
judgment which reasonable people have for some time been accustomed to
pass on the empire.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 1950w
=FLEXNER, HORTENSE.= Clouds and cobblestones. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19673
As the title indicates this collection of poems includes in its
subjects everything contained in life between the clouds and the
cobblestones: wide sympathies and interests and knowledge of men and
their ways. The author employs both rhyme and meter and free verse.
Among the titles are: If God had known; Children’s ward; Hunger;
Masks; Longing; A sky-scraper; To a grasshopper; All souls’ night,
1917; Mammon redeemed; The sons of Icarus; Folk-dance class;
Munitions; To Peter Pan; Blown leaves; A child; The masseuse.
* * * * *
“There is not a single poem in this collection that is not purely
creative by reason of its presentation of a fresh, vivid idea,
emotionalized and expressed poetically.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 1200w
“Quite possibly there is nothing in these pages that will long endure,
but the verses touch human values with sincerity and poetic feeling.”
L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 180w
“She writes with a great deal of technical proficiency; her verse is
simple, direct, and readable. This is at the same time its greatest
virtue and its greatest defect, for having been apprehended easily,
the lines fade from the memory, leaving no trace.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 80w
=FLINT, LEON NELSON.= Editorial: a study in effectiveness of writing.
*$2.50 Appleton 070
20–20034
The author holds that, for all the truth that there may be in the
saying: “the good editor is born not made,” the editor who has not
thought out and applied a technique of his craft is “going it blind.”
The book deals with methods of finding, gathering and handling
editorial materials and with notions as to editorial responsibilities
and opportunities. Contents: Development of the editorial column;
Weakness and strength of the editorial; The editor and his readers;
Materials for editorials; Editorial purposes; Building the editorial;
The manner of saying it; Paragraphs and paragraphers; Typographical
appearance; The editorial page; Editorial responsibility; The editor’s
routine and reading; Analyzing editorials. The numerous illustrations
consist of copies of specimen editorial pages and there is an index.
=FLYNN, JOHN STEPHEN.=[2] Influence of Puritanism on the political and
religious thought of the English. *$4 Dutton 285.9
20–22021
“A broad survey of the results of the English Puritan movement in both
hemispheres. The author has sought to distinguish the permanent from
the merely transitory elements of Puritanism, and to relate it to the
present age.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“His reading, wide as it is, is in excess of his powers to use it
profitably. He sets out with vague ideas on the varied content of
Puritanism, with the natural result that he leaves us in a state of
vagueness.”
− =Ath= p107 Jl 26 ’20 440w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 40w
“We are given an amiable piece of dilettantism, praiseworthy in
object, careless in execution, and distinguished neither by clearness
of intention nor by profundity of thought. We fail to see anything
fresh in Mr Flynn’s book, and the ignorance which it would dispel is
ignorance of the fundamental kind which a knowledge of English history
would make impossible.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 880w
=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Precepts and judgments. *$4 Holt 355
(Eng ed 20–6758)
This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a
sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The
Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and
the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last
century.
* * * * *
“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”
+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 50w
Reviewed by J: P. Wisser
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w
“The little book will, we think, make its readers anxious to read the
originals from which it is compiled.”
+ =Spec= 123:777 D 6 ’19 140w
=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Principles of war. *$7.50 Holt 355
These pages were written for young officers, says the author in his
preface. “The reader must not look to find in them a complete, a
methodical, still less an academic account of the art of war, but
rather a mere discussion of certain fundamental points in the conduct
of troops, and above all the direction which the mind must be given so
that it may in every circumstance conceive a manœuvre at least
rational.” (Preface) The translation is by Hilaire Belloc and the
contents are: On the teaching of war; Primal characteristics of modern
war; Economy of forces; Intellectual discipline—freedom of action as a
function of obedience; The service of security; The advance guard; The
advance guard at Nachod; Strategical surprise; Strategical security;
The battle: decisive attack; Battle: an historical instance; Modern
battle. There are twenty-three maps and diagrams.
* * * * *
“The entire work is convincing in its reasoning and its deductions,
the language is clear (the translation is remarkably true to the
original and expressed in excellent English), and the maps are
adequate.” J: P. Wisser
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w
=FOERSTER, ROBERT FRANZ.= Italian emigration of our times. (Harvard
economic studies) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 325
20–103
“A most thorough survey of the greatest migratory movement of our
time. The causes of emigration are analyzed by a consideration of
conditions in Italy, and the emigrants are followed into the countries
of their settlement in Europe, Africa, South America and the United
States, the last of which is treated in detail. Their fortunes,
economic and cultural contributions in their new homes are weighed
carefully.—Booklist
* * * * *
“It may be said that Dr Foerster’s work is the most authoritative as
it is the most comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of
Italian immigration yet published in the United States, and is
indispensable to all who care to know intimately its characteristic
features and main purport.” W. E. Davenport
+ =Am Hist R= 25:547 Ap ’20 500w
“The study is in all ways a very acceptable one, and may well serve as
a model for similar studies of other nationalistic groups.” A. E.
Jenks
+ =Am J Soc= 25:783 My ’20 950w
“Especially valuable are the four chapters (97 pages) dealing with the
Italian immigrants in the Argentine and Brazil. But the especial
importance of Professor Foerster’s work is the careful analysis of the
causes of emigration, of the effect of this movement on the Italian
nation, and of its probable future.” Edith Abbott
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:523 Ag ’20 700w
“Very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:153 F ’20
“The main text holds its interest for the general reader from
beginning to end, while the footnotes and bibliographical citations
will rejoice the heart of scholars who may wish to follow the argument
to the very source.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:150 Ag 18 ’20 1550w
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“It is a scholarly and timely book. It is a prophetic book, for it
tells us our faults, fully, faithfully and fearlessly, and points to a
better way. It is a scientific book, for it promotes a better
understanding and, consequently, a better feeling. It is a lonely
book, for no one has ever before done for the Italian or any other
foreign language group what this book does.” F. O. Beck
+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 450w
=FOLKS, HOMER.= Human costs of the war. il *$2.25 (2c) Harper 940.318
20–9641
While in charge of the American Red cross relief work in France, the
author was impressed with the infinitesimal fraction of reality which
found its way into print in the American papers. Towards the end of
the war he was requested to make a survey of the needs of southern and
southeastern Europe and to ascertain the net results of the war on
human welfare. The book records his findings. It is not a constructive
program he says, “simply a contribution toward a diagnosis which might
make it possible to outline a well-considered course of treatment.”
“Chapter I tells the origin of the survey ... and gives an account of
the itinerary of the trips. Chapters II to VII, inclusive, deal
respectively with Serbia, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece. Chapters
VIII to X endeavor to sum up the war’s results in all these countries,
in the three vital aspects of childhood, home, and health. Chapter XI
tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface)
There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“Although mostly estimates, the data are perhaps as accurate as any we
shall ever get. The survey is somewhat defective, however, because
confined chiefly to the five lands named, and would have been more
valuable had all the belligerent countries been included.” N. L. Sims
+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book
that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations
of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 420w
“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of
the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs,
Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is
portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a
dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts
themselves.” D: S. Jordan
+ =Nation= 111:sup410 O 13 ’20 1200w
“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his
facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained
temper.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 25 ’20 2000w
“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up
their hidden story of misery or hope.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”
+ =Review= 3:153 Ag 18 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Like Gibbs’ ‘Now it can be told’ and Keynes’s ‘Economic consequences
of the peace,’ this is a book to be owned and read—and like them it is
readable. Mr Folks’ subject is as important as theirs, and his
competence is unquestionable. This is not to say that it is the last
word on the subject. Quite the contrary. One might wish, for instance,
that there were more frequent indications that the Allies have not had
all of the human costs to bear. Another obvious defect is the omission
of maps.” E. T. D.
+ − =Survey= 44:449 Je 26 ’20 800w
=FOOTNER, HULBERT.= Fur bringers. $1.90 McCann
20–8241
“A tale of the Northwest. The trading posts, Indians, half-breeds,
adventurers and beautiful heroines of the ordinary story are here anew
in a plot in which the young trader afflicted with ‘June fever’ is
obliged to take an open stand against the heroine’s father, known to
all but the daughter as a slave-driver and profiteer.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Very well written.”
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“The story has plenty of incident, it moves quickly, and is told with
a good deal of spirit.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 450w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
=FORBES, GEORGE.= Adventures in southern seas: a tale of the sixteenth
century. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–16854
A romance of the days of discovery based on the voyages of Dirk
Hartog, Dutch navigator. The story is told by Peter Ecoores Van Bu who
sailed on his first voyage with Hartog in 1616. They were bound for
the South seas in search of treasure for the Amsterdam merchants who
were sending them out. But the islands they reach are poor in
treasure, if rich in adventure, and it is only after the lucky
discovery of pearls that Hartog is willing to return. Several other
voyages follow, on which the hero experiences ship wreck, capture by
savages and numerous other adventures. At the end of his second voyage
he marries his Dutch sweetheart and gives up the sea, but following
her death he again listens to its call.
* * * * *
“The very spirit of high adventure—the manifold dangers and hardships
of ancient seekers after treasure—blows through the pages of the
book.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 D 26 ’20 600w
=FORBES, JAMES.= Famous Mrs Fair, and other plays. *$2 Doran 812
20–21209
The other two plays in this collection are: The chorus lady; and The
show shop. Of these plays, Walter Prichard Eaton, in his introduction
to the book, comparing their literary qualities, says, that “The
chorus lady” can least endure the scrutiny print affords although
enormously successful on the stage, while “The show shop” “stands up
four square under the test of print” and is a most pungent and amusing
satire of American stage life. “The famous Mrs Fair” is a more serious
production with reasoned reflections on life and human motives. Its
heroine, the wife of a wealthy business man, has become famous as a
war worker in France. Coming home she is lionized, can no longer
adjust herself to her domesticity and dreams of a career. Not until
the family is nearly disrupted with tragic results does she, in the
nick of time, wake up to her former responsibilities.
* * * * *
“What first strikes the attentive reader of Mr Forbes’s handsome
volume is the poverty of observation. Two of the three plays deal with
the little theatrical world in which he has been busy for twenty
years. Yet he has not seen that world directly at all. The superficial
bits of verisimilitude are pure veneer. Nature is hard to reach even
for those who see her. To Mr Forbes her face, like that of the idol of
Sais, is veiled.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 620w
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Character-training of children. 2v il per ser
of 7v *$15 Funk 173
19–13817
These books by Dr Forbush, author of “Child study and child training”
and “The boy problem in the home,” are issued in the Literary Digest
parents’ league series. Volume one is devoted to: Problems of
government, with the subject matter divided as follows: Problems to be
solved by means of the child’s own responsiveness; Problems to be
solved largely through suggestion; Problems to be solved largely by
substitution; Problems to be solved largely through cooperation.
Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes up
Problems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The
series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two
by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care of children which are reprints
of earlier works.
* * * * *
“These volumes, written in the clearest language of technical terms,
well illustrated and interestingly arranged, should be a helpful and
invaluable guide for those who have children to bring up or children’s
problems to consider.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 18 ’20 280w (Review of series)
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Home-education of children. (Literary Digest
parents’ league ser.) 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 372
19–14028
The first of these two volumes is devoted to the first six years of a
child’s life and consists of two parts: Teaching a baby, and Teaching
a little child. Volume 2 is devoted to: Teaching a school child (from
six to twelve or fourteen); and The teaching of youth (from fourteen
upward). Volume 1 has a list of story-and-picture books to use with
the littlest children, also a list of books to help the mother in
telling stories, and in volume 2 there is a chapter on Books in the
home, with suggestions for reading.
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Sex-education of children. (Literary Digest
parents’ league ser.) il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 612.6
19–13816
“This book differs from others in the abundant literature that is
being produced upon this topic, chiefly in the fact that it endeavors
to present, with the least possible waste of space, all the material
that parents of a growing family of children of both sexes need for
their use at every stage of other children’s development. The unique
feature, perhaps, is a section devoted to concrete answers to the
embarrassing questions that children are likely to ask.” (Introd.)
Contents: Why we have to do this; How to educate the little child; How
to educate the schoolboy; How to educate the schoolgirl; How to
educate the coming man; How to educate our coming women; List of books
for further reading; Index.
=FORD, HENRY JONES.= Alexander Hamilton. (Figures from American history)
*$2 Scribner
20–7498
“This book is a biography which aims to present the life of Hamilton
as completely as possible from the evidence obtainable. It gives most
attention to his political ideals and career and it also describes his
character and personal life.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important
contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner
of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of
American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the
book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:718 N ’20 360w
=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 30w
“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow
of imagination, however.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 230w
“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which
it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of
undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently
inspires in the writer of biography.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 400w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:678 Je 30 ’20 1100w
=FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Foreign trade of the
United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd.
by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382
20–11960
“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the
‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed
by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign
commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our
exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the
transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign
exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A
final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 60w
=FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS.= Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and
work. il *$4.50 Harcourt
20–23005
Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of
Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of
his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but
a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer,
based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was
familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first
English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious
annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly
half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s
compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The
Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach
literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the
organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.
* * * * *
“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the
rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is
a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that
of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach
somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J.
Dent
+ − =Ath= p384 S 17 ’20 1500w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 420w
“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known
to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach
literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only
available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an
excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and
illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”
+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 320w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 S 23 ’20 1100w
=FORMAN, HENRY JAMES.= Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–3795
This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes
wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the
son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the
Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes
to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother,
enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal
to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an
adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the
girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war
breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to
go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting
for him on the Beacon.
* * * * *
“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as
the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins
through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He
repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains
his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character
are what they were.”
− =Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 200w
“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but
the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the
scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the
sharply drawn characterization.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while.
The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr
+ − =Pub W= 97:178 Ja 17 ’20 260w
“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
=FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.=[2] American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353
20–13840
“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools
has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general
civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the
machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is
well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a
former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this
more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such
as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each
chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more
useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and
comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 820w
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:54 N 17 ’20 160w
=School R= 28:715 N ’20 520w
=FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD).= Dangerous
Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–18931
Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a
marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher,
after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks
the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still
slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only
succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and
her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice.
Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera,
and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies.
Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the
jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents
doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned
to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly
turns over their value to the starving children of the old world,
feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.
* * * * *
“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one
eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the
characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 150w
“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the
juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed
that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is
crude and obvious in many spots.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 320w
=FORSEY, MAUDE S.= Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott
A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London
and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of
home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s
wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real
childhood.
=FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN.= Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf
20–3675
An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love
with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and
assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as
unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a
son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of
this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once
idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical
sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English
girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts
end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that
she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent
Gino.
* * * * *
“An odd and delightful piece of work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and
tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.”
H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 260w
“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people,
it is ‘human.’”
+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 120w
+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 60w
“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as
well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming
book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 750w
“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that
Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think
that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to
the end.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 650w
=FORT, CHARLES.= Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504
20–1375
The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall
have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone
into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions
and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of
disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the
quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious
assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any
explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is
one of the hypotheses suggested.
* * * * *
“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need
of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s
quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style
that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 140w
“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of
the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of
systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Eugene Wood
=N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 1250w
“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he
does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of
pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find
himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”
− =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 440w
=Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20
=FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN.= Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans
20–9644
“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied
in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour
Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only
served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the
Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first
experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria
and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff
of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting,
but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres
of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to
Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a
visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these
diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and
fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and
pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many
viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had
exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should
publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have
steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good
deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:563 Je 19 ’20 1550w
“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good
humour and frankness.”
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’19 640w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p298 My 13 ’20 1000w
=47 WORKSHOP.= Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il
*$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
29–11241
“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two
volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the
university during the year. Of the four plays of this series,
‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian
renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and
cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for
amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a
farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris
F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an
echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching
for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur
conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 520w
“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great
power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing
types of dramatic work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 170w
“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate
stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary
quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in
English.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 140w
=FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE.= American police systems. (Publications of the
Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2
20–20105
This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of
social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police
systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically
every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000,
and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring
in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last
word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It
cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid
and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand
ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make
our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is
indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police
departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia,
St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The
development of American police control; The present state of police
control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the
department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The
rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime;
Conclusion.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will
he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us
who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the
best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a
few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 320w
“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this
volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 330w
“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all
citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal
government.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib= Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w
=N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 1750w
Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge
+ =Outlook= 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w
“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable
difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only
by police administrators but by the general public upon whose
intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their
solution.” E. D. Graper
+ =Survey= 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w
=FOSTER, JOHN.= Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26880
Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search
for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The
quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at
the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The
hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater
safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a
Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two
halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of
thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the
grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on
a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman
carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 530w
“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 50w
=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–14214
Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he
fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of
his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love
of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a
neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he
assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a
former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed
wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught
not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.
* * * * *
“A very good story it is.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 230w
“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are
not made to seem plausible by clever development.”
− + =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 350w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON.= Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75
Huebsch 331.89
20–26587
John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the
overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most
extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and
to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the
pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is
a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in
fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of
one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present
situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank
attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm
breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the
strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike
cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.
* * * * *
“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and
partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in
the steel industry.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 140w
“Too frankly partisan to be history, and with too few facts to give it
the weight of a scientific survey, this authentic picture of the labor
machine in operation has the force of valuable evidence from the
inside.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“It is seldom that the public is afforded such a frank statement from
official sources so soon after the event and in this case it is
especially useful since most of the news furnished during the course
of the strike came from the representatives of the employers.” G. P.
W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w
“His book is worth a dozen abstract discussions of the labor movement,
for it is an example, one of the best examples that has ever arisen,
of labor doing its own thinking, making its own detailed and
disinterested analysis. For its clarity, cogency, and significance, it
is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the volumes written about
public affairs.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:273 S 4 ’20 2000w
“Mr Foster’s book is an exceedingly valuable contribution to our scant
body of authentic documents on the labor movement.” R. W. B.
+ =New Repub= 23:284 Ag 4 ’20 1550w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 800w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
“Mr Foster draws a vivid picture of events, all of which he saw and a
large part of which he was. His judgment is cool and dispassionate; he
sees the faults in the labor movement, but he imparts to his readers a
tremendous admiration for the men who could conduct so long a campaign
against such terrific obstacles.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford
937
(Eng ed 20–11698)
“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history;
parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of
literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of
Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in
Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted
from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical
Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear
everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as
embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J
* * * * *
“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the
fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the
guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren
+ =Class J= 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w
“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the
shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:614 O ’20 290w
“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have
nothing to do but to listen and learn.”
+ − =Spec= 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)
“A volume without a dull page in it, and ranging over a very wide and
varied field. It contains the gleanings of long studies, pursued into
the ripeness of age with the ardency of youth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 1300w
=FOX, DAVID.= Man who convicted himself. *$1.90 (2c) McBride
20–18253
“The Shadowers, Inc.” is a unique detective society composed of six
ex-criminals who have decided to use their exceptional talents in an
honest way rather than decidedly otherwise as heretofore. There is a
handwriting expert, a jewel and art connoisseur, a toxicologist, “the
greatest safe-cracker of the age,” and a smooth villain who has dealt
in various forms of fraud, from oil stock to psychical phenomena. At
the head of this band is Rex Powell, whose brain conceived the scheme.
Their aim is restitution, not prosecution, and they work privately and
discreetly. Their first case is one of robbery in an exclusive
Riverside Drive home, but as it progresses it provides scope for the
activities of each one of The Shadowers. That they are successful in
apprehending the robber almost goes without saying but their greatest
success lies in the fact that they actually force the man to convict
himself.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
“‘The man who convicted himself,’ despite its novelty, strikes the
reader as plausible.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 350w
“The story has the appeal of the popular melodrama and ‘dime novel’
without descending to crude and amateurish methods of telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w
=FOX, DIXON RYAN.= Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York.
(Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law) il
*$4 Longmans 329
19–16519
“Under this title, Dr Fox, assistant professor of history in Columbia
university, has given us an account of the decline of federalism in
the state of New York and its eventual transformation into the
whiggism of the forties. His narrative is a continuous panorama of
party activities and beliefs and of the careers and influence of party
leaders during forty years of New York’s history. It runs from the
days of John Jay, Elisha Williams, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and others
of those who represented the property rights and aristocratic
privileges of the eighteenth century, to Thurlow Weed, the
anti-renters of 1837, and the Tippecanoe clubs, log cabins, and hard
cider of the Harrison and Tyler campaign. Thus, as far as it goes, it
illustrates the influence of industrial development and geographical
expansion upon party standards and standard bearers during a very
important period of American history.”—Nation
* * * * *
“The book is a noteworthy contribution to all the social sciences.” A.
C. Ford
+ =Am Econ R= 10:342 Je ’20 320w
“Dr Fox employs usually a lucid and vivacious style which engages the
attention. There are, however, a few lapses into discomforting
awkwardness and ambiguity of expression. There are discernible in
places, likewise, certain failures in nicety of historical
discrimination. These minor deficiencies, however, detract little from
the general high excellence of the work.” W: Trimble
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:725 Jl ’20 860w
“The work has great merits, principally those resulting from diligence
in collecting materials and skill in arranging them.” H: J. Ford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:525 Ag ’20 170w
“As an analysis of the conditions under which the centre of political
gravity was shifted from the old party of lawyers, bank presidents,
merchants, and land-holding aristocrats to the ‘people,’ vested by the
revised constitution of 1821 with the right to vote, this essay is
both suggestive and informing.”
+ =Nation= 109:827 D 27 ’19 1050w
“An interesting and illuminating history.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p23 O 23 ’20 180w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 17 ’20 1500w
=FOX, EARLY LEE.= American colonization society, 1817–1840. (Johns
Hopkins university studies in historical and political science) $2.25
Johns Hopkins 326
20–506
“In this volume the author represents the colonization movement as
essentially a moderate, conservative, border-state movement which had
an appeal to men in every walk of life, from every political and
religious creed, and from every section of the union. He divides the
history of the American colonization society into two distinct
divisions: the first, to which this volume is devoted, begins with the
organization of the society in 1817 and extends to 1840; the second
covers the period since 1840. This volume ends with the reorganization
of the society in 1839, after which date the society, under the
influence of the North and the East, was more aggressively
anti-slavery in its programme and activities. In the first chapter,
the author discusses at considerable length the status of the free
negro and his relation to the slave and to the white population; in
the second, the organization, purpose, and early history of the
society; in the third, fourth, and last chapters, the relation of
colonization to Garrisonian abolition, to emancipation and to the
African slave-trade respectively.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“While the book contains much that is new and interesting the material
is very poorly arranged and there is much repetition in the numerous
quotations.” A. E. Martin
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:726 Jl ’20 650w
“While he does justice to the South, he does rather less than justice
to the abolitionists. But he has made a very useful contribution to
the history of the question of slavery, for one of the best ways of
understanding its difficulties and complexities is to study it from
the middle point of view of the ‘colonizationist.’” E. A. B.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:627 O ’20 390w
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 320w
=FOX, JOHN, Jr.= Erskine Dale, pioneer. il *$2 Scribner
20–16857
“For the scene and period of his last romance, Mr Fox goes far back
through nearly a hundred and fifty years. His hero, at the opening of
the story a boy and at the close a young man, has been captured by the
Indians, is brought up among them, and is as skilled in their ways of
life and knowledge of woodcraft as if he had their blood in his veins.
He is, however, the heir to a great Virginian estate, and the reader
follows his exploits as he goes back and forth between the primitive
scenes of the forests and the sophisticated life of the Virginian
towns. At one moment he is with the pioneers resisting an attack from
the Indians, at another in the very camps of the Indians themselves,
and at a third gazing into the eyes of his beautiful cousin in the
midst of the social entertainment of his prosperous relatives. More
than once he faces death, but he emerges unscathed both from the
attempts of the Indians to take his life and from the enmity of a
jealous rival in love.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“In ‘Erskine Dale—pioneer,’ Mr Fox has portrayed with exceptional
skill the spirit of those days when the national spirit of the British
colonists was beginning to make itself felt. It is not merely the
story of one boy’s adventures. It is a tale of the birth of the
American power and influence as expressed in more than one picturesque
region.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 1100w
“It is a good book to give to the American boy, for it abounds in
stirring adventures, and at the same time gives a good insight into
the everyday life of the pioneers.”
+ =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 100w
“The dialog is full of ‘go’ and the book will appeal immensely to
intermediates.”
+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w
“The book has plenty of color and of movement, and gives an
interesting picture of the period with which it deals.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 760w
“Perhaps the very best of his many romances. The flow of the story is
clear and strong; it has atmosphere, movement, and distinction.”
+ =Outlook= 26:333 O 20 ’20 140w
“It is full of color and charm and thrill.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 270w
“Mr Fox vividly recreates the atmosphere and social environment of the
time.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 160w
=FOXWELL, HERBERT SOMERTON.= Papers on current finance. *$3.50 Macmillan
336.42
19–12740
“This volume brings together with little alteration seven articles and
addresses spread over the period 1909–1917, but relating either to
problems raised directly by the war or to questions to which the war
has brought a new and urgent interest. An appendix reproduces a paper
of 1888, ‘The growth of monopoly, and its bearing on the functions of
the state’; also a letter dated February, 1918 advocating ‘fixed
exchange within the empire.’ The first paper, ‘British war finance,’
deals critically with the crisis of 1914 and the financial emergency
measures that it evoked. The next two papers are concerned with the
problem of financing trade and industry, particularly after the war.
‘The financing of industry and trade’ (4) stresses the desirability of
a closer touch between the financial, as distinguished from the
banking institutions and British industries. ‘The banking reserve’ (5)
deals with the inadequacy of the English position and proposes the
establishment of a system of triple reserve. The burden of ‘Inflation:
in what sense it exists: how far it can be controlled’ (7) an address
delivered in 1917, is that the foreign exchanges do not prove currency
depreciation, that gold depreciation was scarcely more marked in
England than in the United States, that high prices resulted from the
enormous expenditure of the government and could be checked only by
cutting away from the gold standard.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
Reviewed by C. A. Phillips
+ =Am Econ R= 10:140 Mr ’20 550w
“It is the papers on finance and banking which show Professor Foxwell
at his best, and make his volumes a valuable handbook for students.”
+ =Ath= p781 Ag 22 ’19 1000w
“Professor Foxwell’s book suffers from the defect inherent in its
form, which is that of lectures delivered at different times during
the past ten years, of not co-ordinating the treatment of these
problems. The contents are valuable and the author’s grasp of his
subjects complete enough to make us regret that he did not recast the
lectures into book form and develop his logical sequence.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:482 My 17 ’19 1350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 My 8 ’19 450w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Bride of
Corinth, and other poems and plays; a translation by Wilfrid Jackson and
Emilie Jackson. *$2.50 Lane 842
20–19383
A volume of poems and plays. Contents: The bride of Corinth; Verses;
Crainquebille; The comedy of a man who married a dumb wife; Come what
may.
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Little Pierre;
tr. by J. Lewis May. *$2.50 (3½c) Lane
20–22476
“Little Pierre” is the story of a boy from his birth to his tenth
year. It is told in the first person and the actual memories of
childhood begin with his second year. He is the son of a Paris
physician and is born “in the days when the reign of King Louis
Philippe was drawing to a close.”
* * * * *
‘Mr May and his colleague have done well, uncommonly well with their
work, have indeed lost very little in the transition from French to
English, and kept all the charm of ‘Little Pierre.’” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 560w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Seven wives of
Bluebeard, and other marvellous tales; a tr. by D. B. Stewart. *$2.50
(5c) Lane
20–22333
Four fairy tales, not written for children. In the first Bluebeard is
pictured as a shy, modest man, the victim of the extravagance and
unfaithfulness of his seven successive wives. The other stories are:
The miracle of the great St Nicholas, a satiric treatment of an old
legend; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de
Boulingrin, a version of The sleeping Beauty; and The shirt, the story
of the king who was told to find the shirt of a happy man.
* * * * *
“This pleasant and apparently accurate rendering gives us one of the
most delightful works of an author who loses relatively little through
the process of translation, partly because of the Doric simplicity of
his style and partly because of the importance which he attaches to
the plot and the intellectual gist.”
+ =Ath= p434 O 1 ’20 260w
+ =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 60w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Roaming through the West Indies. il *$5 (2c)
Century 917.29
20–17981
The author says: “The following pages do not pretend to ‘cover’ the
West Indies. They are made up of the random pickings of an
eight-months’ tour of the Antilles, during which every island of
importance was visited, but they are put together rather for the
entertainment of the armchair traveler than for the information of the
traveler in the flesh.” He also states that he wishes it distinctly
understood that this is not the record of a walking trip. As a protest
to those friends who ever since his vagabond journey around the world
have expected him to travel always on foot he planned a trip on which
walking would be difficult if not impossible. The book is in three
parts: The American West Indies; The British West Indies; and The
French West Indies and others. There are many illustrations and a map.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“Altogether this latest volume is another witness to its author’s
talent for description, his sense for the dramatic, and his eye for
the picturesque, which combine to make his accumulating works a boon
to the travel-thirsty reader.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 140w
“If the average American wants to know just what he would see and how
he would feel in the West Indies, let him read Mr Franck’s book. On
occasion Mr Franck reminds one of Herodotus, in the marked distinction
between the credibility of what he reports as of his own experiences
and the dubious quality of what he has got through hearsay.” A. J.
+ − =New Repub= 24:248 N 3 ’20 680w
“What all other writers aim at, Mr Franck accomplishes with consummate
ease. The easy flowing style of ‘Zone policeman 88’ and ‘Vagabonding
down the Andes’ is here manifested in its highest perfection.” W:
McFee
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 20 ’20 1100w
“His pages are thickly sprinkled with character sketches of bizarre
personalities, rarely poetic descriptive passages, and narratives as
tense as their back-grounds are colorful. As in Mr Franck’s earlier
books, the distinguishing characteristic of his writing is his ability
to make his readers ‘see the sights’ through his eyes, which are so
alert to catch any happening of human interest.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 31 ’20 2300w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“‘Roaming through the West Indies’ is easily the best ‘regular’ travel
book on the islands south and east of Florida we have seen.” R. S.
Lynd
+ =Pub W= 98:1198 O 16 ’20 290w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 870w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Vagabonding through changing Germany. il *$4
(4c) Harper 914.3
20–11658
The author went into Germany with the American army of occupation, and
later, released from duty, he traveled throughout the country. He
followed his usual custom of mixing with the people, talking with them
and living their life as far as possible and his book sets down in
detail his observations. Among the chapters are: On to the Rhine;
Germany under the American heel; Thou shalt not ... fraternize;
Knocking about the occupied area; Getting neutralized; The heart of
the hungry empire; “Give us food!” Family life in Mechlenburg; On the
road in Bavaria; Music still has charms. There are many illustrations
from the author’s photographs.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“The ‘vagabond’ tells his experiences in a rapid, brilliant manner, as
if he were never for a moment tired, and had no difficulty at all in
telling his story. The pictures tell the story of the Germany of today
fully as well as does the author in his brilliant chat: and both
together form a book well worth reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 440w
“A thoroughly entertaining and at times instructive volume. The reader
is grateful for the care with which Mr Franck has handled his facts.
At no point does he attempt to be picturesque, sentimental or
theatrically effective.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:238 N 17 ’20 220w
“Franck’s book is eminently readable, his possession of comparisons
from other visits to Germany, his keen knowledge of German and his
great fund of information upon all the countries of the world going to
make it unique in character and filled with worthwhile incident. It
lacks sympathy even with the wretched populace of the fatherland.” F:
O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 1 ’20 1150w
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 130w
+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 16 ’20 560w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 50w
“He gives no statistics, but the evident desire to avoid exaggeration
and the studied fairness with which he reproduces opinions compel
confidence in the accuracy of his report on economic and political
conditions.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:421 Ja ’21 1150w
=FRANCK, TENNEY.=[2] Economic history of Rome to the end of the
republic. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 937
20–11380
“In contrast to the practices of certain contemporary historians who
have analyzed Roman economic conditions, Professor Frank has wisely
laid down the principal that ‘a priori methods of interpreting
historical development by means of generally accepted economic and
psychological maxims must be applied to Roman history only with great
reserve.’ He therefore follows closely the evidence furnished by the
inscriptions, by archaeology, and by literature. Under Etruscan
domination industry and commerce developed in Latium to some extent.
The treaties with Carthage and the history of Roman coinage show that
trade declined after the explusion of the Etruscans, and that the
Romans turned again to their farms. The deforestation of the Volscian
mountains and the gradual exhaustion of the soil made it impossible
for the dense population of Latium to win a livelihood from their own
land, and the pressure was relieved by territorial expansion. If
relief had not come in this way manufacturing, commerce and the arts
might have gained a better foot in Rome. The two chapters on industry
constitute one of the most valuable contributions which the author has
made to our knowledge of Roman economic conditions.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“Among the best features of Professor Frank’s[sp?] book, which is
characterized throughout by knowledge, precision of statement, and
acuteness of observation, as well as by vigor of style and vitality of
thought, is the skill with which he has utilized the archaeological
sources of information.” W. S. Ferguson
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:801 D ’20 1500w
“As a study of the economic development of the city of Rome, the
governing centre of the civilized world, it stands alone in its
completeness, in the thorough use which the author has made of
available evidence, in the sound judgment which he has shown, and in
the clear, convincing way in which he has set forth his conclusions.”
F. F. Abbott
+ =Am Hist R= 26:309 Ja ’21 560w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Dark mother. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright
20–19046
“Mr Frank’s is one of those long novels of the type which Theodore
Dreiser has popularized, with a minute description of the adventures
of one or two young men, coming to New York from the West, giving
especial emphasis to their amatory experiences, and reflecting
sarcastically upon the evils of capitalism. In this book it is the
Spanish war which enters incidentally into the story.”—Review
* * * * *
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
=Dial= 70:95 Ja ’21 3950w
“He has chosen a highly impressionistic method of conveying his
perceptions and observations. There are few or no connectives.
Sentences and paragraphs stand alone and unfriended. Individually they
are pitched in an extremely high key. The result is both nerve-racking
and, in the end, without true effectiveness.”
− + |=Nation= 111:480 O 27 ’20 320w
“The quality of this novel seems courageous in a small way but chiefly
wilful; sincere but not important. He seems to have intensity without
much perception. But one thing Mr Frank does do: he brings home to us
anew in this book the very valuable reminder that there are vast areas
of life that our literature has not yet known how to include. In that
sense this novel in places may be called a creditable experiment in
material.” Stark Young
+ − =New Repub= 25:148 D 29 ’20 520w
“‘The dark mother’ is a lost cause, so far as the medium goes. For it
is transitional, it is neither the novel, nor something distinct from
the novel. Judged as a novel, it does not satisfy; and there is
nothing else to judge it by. In any case, Waldo Frank is en route for
something or other.” Kenneth Burke
− + =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1350w
“Of all kinds of sophistry the most insidious is that coming from an
eloquent writer who is the unconscious victim of unsound thinking. Mr
Frank is perhaps unduly preoccupied with the world and the flesh, but
it would take a psycho-analyst to gauge his intention in dwelling upon
them. To give the author his due, it must be said that he impresses
the reader rather as a man groping for ethical convictions. Mr Frank’s
powers of characterization deserve high praise.”
− + =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 800w
“Short sentences, in the manner of the late Horace Traubel, make ‘The
dark mother’ rather jerky and monotonous. How is it that so many young
writers do not understand that just at present books about sex have
become a little tiresome?” E. L. Pearson
− =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 230w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Our America. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 917.3
19–16552
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“To say that it is without interest would be to say what is not true;
to say that it is thoughtlessly written would be a hasty comment on an
author whose work everywhere evidences the pale cast of thought. It
is, indeed, an interesting, thoughtful book, written in an easy,
somewhat emotional style. But it is nothing if not pessimistic in its
historical backward glancing and in its view of the present. And it is
often lacking in a sense of perspective and proportion.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:685 F ’20 280w
“Mr Frank does not write with the sustained and rolling cadence of
Hebrew poetry. His sentences are swift and staccato like the flash of
a whip, sudden and shrill like newspaper headlines. And yet Mr Frank
is of the school of the prophets of his race. Other witnesses have
arisen against us, W. T. Stead, M. Paul Bourget, Mr H. G. Wells, Mr
Arnold Bennett. These, however, have spoken in their separation from
us, and, excepting the first, with the tolerant cynicism of
detachment. What gives force to Mr Frank’s prophecy is that he is of
us, as Jeremiah was of Jerusalem.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 68:506 Ap ’20 2800w
“We should like to be appreciative toward a great deal in this book if
its author were less rasping, less intent upon antagonizing and
irritating at every turn. His tribute to the wistful beauty of the
perished culture of our red men and his analysis of the industrial and
spiritual genius of the Jew in America would evoke a readier response
if the motivation were more disinterested.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 900w
Reviewed by W. J. Ghent
=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“A striking interpretation of the American spirit.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 20w
“Hostile and shallow critics will be tempted to run the gamut of the
alphabet in search of verbal missiles to hurl at the author from
anarchist and bolshevist down to zealot. Mr Frank is none of these,
the more careful reader will decide, but merely an insurgent in
letters, feeling the pulsing of a new age that sooner or later will be
able to declare itself and dominate public opinion as Puritanism has
dictated in the past.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 650w
“While most people will take exception to some of Mr Frank’s
statements, his reversal of the usual points of view cannot fail to
stimulate thought.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 160w
“The book has a genuinely interesting chapter on the Jew and much that
is just and sympathetic in regard to the ‘buried culture’ of the
Indian. But the unburied issues that cluster about the negro it
notably fails to mention. And with the exception of an elaborate
eulogy of Miss Amy Lowell, there is no intimation that the American
population is not exclusively masculine.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:158 My ’20 750w
=FRANKAU, GILBERT.= Peter Jameson. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–3796
A story of the war—of the “great cleansing.” Peter Jameson at the
outset of the story is a business man, of somewhat the American type.
He is married to an admirable wife, father of two little daughters,
and in every way successful and satisfied. At its beginning he is not
greatly stirred by the war, but the end of three months finds him in
it. The story thereafter follows his fortunes and scenes at the front
alternate with homecomings to Patricia. He is twice wounded and is
finally invalided home with shell shock, from which he is saved by
Patricia’s care. A real love awakens between husband and wife and the
story comes to a triumphant end on Armistice day, 1918.
* * * * *
“We find ourselves wishing that he had kept his talent in a napkin
rather than put it to such uses.”
− =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 1000w
“The scenes of English country life in the last part are a pleasant
offset to the earlier war pictures.”
+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 880w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is in keeping with the newest invention in
novel-writing the thesis that four years of slaughter in France
purifies all Englishmen.”
− =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 120w
“Personally we were more interested in the tobacco business than in
the shell shock, which is the real cause of the book, but that may
have been because we knew less about it beforehand. Anyway Peter is
very well worth knowing, as are a number of the lesser lights.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“The vivid battle descriptions that are the best part of the book
cannot atone for its essential narrowness and shallowness, for its
manifold defects of thought and style, for its systematic
glorification of hates and follies and prejudices that were scarcely
excusable even in the heat of the conflict. ‘Peter Jameson’ is the
product of a mind still inflamed by the fever of war.” W. H. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:224 O 27 ’20 270w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is a fine story. Though Mr Frankau’s style is
unpleasantly spasmodic and though so many characters confuse the
reader’s mind the book reads easily, and one feels that a certain
phase of English life has been definitely interpreted.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 820w
“There are splendid descriptions of fighting, descriptions that reveal
the hand of a writer who knows well what he is writing about. Mr
Frankau had a high goal in view when he conceived ‘Peter Jameson.’ It
was no ordinary war book that he set out to write. The result has
justified his courage. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not unworthy of the high
purpose which its author set himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 800w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“A fine story, with its wealth of well-drawn persons,—a record of
England in war-time to be classed with ‘Mr Britling’ and ‘The tree of
heaven,’ and more hopeful than these.” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:1292 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“The book is clever, veracious in spots; oh, so anxious to get at the
truth about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and quite
without creative vitality as a whole.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 230w
“We admire the way in which the author has ripped up a pre-war story
and transformed it into a lively criticism of our military
authorities, and added a vivid impression of the Battle of Loos.”
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
“Romance, in the conventional sense, is not Mr Frankau’s strong point,
and the real strength of the book is in the chapters on the war and
its ‘realities’—a very useful antidote to the work of Sir Philip
Gibbs. We confess to finding the earlier chapters wearisome, and even
repellent.”
+ − =Spec= 124:556 Ap 24 ’20 650w
“The book has the essential quality that the author enjoys his own
story and believes it to be true. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not a great
novel, but it is certainly a good one.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 850w
=FRANKEL, LEE KAUFER, and FLEISHER, ALEXANDER.= Human factor in
industry; with the cooperation of Laura S. Seymour. *$3 Macmillan 658.7
20–11151
The object of the book is to show the relation of service measures in
industry to increased production and aims to give in a single volume
the material available in part in other books, pamphlets and
monographs. It deals with the problems of labor administration which
have to do with “obtaining and holding the employes,—technical
training, education, and promotion,—methods of remuneration, and of
providing savings and loan facilities with insurance against accident,
sickness, old age, and death,—the length of the working hours,—the
work environment,—medical supervision,—opportunities for recreation
and self-development on the factory premises,—and housing and living
conditions.” (Introd.) Contents: Hiring and holding; Education;
Working hours; Working conditions; Medical care; Method of
remuneration; Refreshment and recreation; The employer and the
community; Insurance, savings, and loans; Organization of the
department of labor administration; List of references; Index.
* * * * *
“An up-to-date summary of current practice.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 50w
“Although there is little in this book to interest the more
sophisticated students of labor administration, it is a valuable
survey for the general reader and for those industrial managers who
have not had time to keep abreast of the developments to date.” R. W.
Stone
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:372 N ’20 300w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“It is only in recent days that employers have realized how greatly
production depends upon the spirit of the laborer. For this reason
this book with its careful, authoritative studies of varied aspects of
the service work should be most welcome.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 220w
“To the already acquainted with the material and able to supply for
himself the connecting links, it gives many leads. To the uninitiated
it gives a solid back-ground for further study.” M. J. Janovsky
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:703 O ’20 1100w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 20w
“A scientific and well-considered treatment of vital problems in the
relations of employer and employee.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 60w
“It is a kind of industrial Baedeker, practical and informing. The
spirit is judicial, and difficulties as well as successes are
impartially suggested with enough information to make further inquiry
possible.” Mary Van Kleeck
+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 60w
=FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS.= Boys’ book of sea fights; famous naval
engagements from Drake to Beatty. il *$1.75 Crowell 359.09
20–15362
A companion volume to “Boys’ book of battles” by the same author.
Contents: Sir Francis Drake; Marshal Anne-Hilarion de Tourville;
Commodore John Paul Jones; Lord Horatio Nelson; The burning of the
“Philadelphia”; Perry’s victory on Lake Erie; The “Constitution” and
the “Guerriere”; The ship that strangely disappeared; The “Monitor”
and the “Merrimac”; Admiral David Farragut; Dewey at Manila bay; The
battle of Santiago harbor; The running fight off the Falklands; The
battle off Jutland bank. There are portraits, maps and other
illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 50w
“An excellent collection.”
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 20w
“It is a book of real value, that should be included in every boy’s
library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS.= Young citizen’s own book, il *$1.75 (2½c)
Crowell 353
20–17382
“‘The young citizen’s own book’ is offered to boys and girls as a
friendly guide. It is a little text-book on national, state, city, and
county affairs in which we have tried to tell as directly as possible
both the how and the why of things.” (Preface) The book opens with a
chapter describing a visit to the national capital. This is followed
by discussions of: The government of the United States; Territories
and dependencies of the United States; The rights of citizenship;
Young citizens; Political parties and their platforms; Political party
organization; The business of voting; The real meaning of schools.
Other chapters are devoted to the various departments of government,
state and national, to taxation, commerce, and international
relations. A series of charts illustrating phases of government comes
at the close.
* * * * *
“Differs from other books on this subject in that it is not a
textbook, but is meant to be read for pleasure as well as information.
Has some helpful charts on elective systems.”
+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
“Gives a descriptive account of the workings of our government in a
style which will be of interest to elementary school children. The
material follows the traditional type of civics treatment and will be
of value only as a supplementary reader.”
+ =El School J= 21:239 N ’20 70w
“It is a good book for young people who are sometime going to vote.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
=FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE.= Sir Roger de Coverley, and other literary
pieces. *$3.40 Macmillan 824 (Eng ed 20–7456)
A volume of essays by the author of “The golden bough.” “There are
five papers on Sir Roger; an essay on ‘The quest of the gorgon’s
head’; three biographical articles (Cowper—W. Robertson Smith—Fison
and Howitt); and several shorter essays on other byways of letters.”
(Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
Reviewed by G: Saintsbury
+ =Ath= p273 F 27 ’20 840w
“‘Sir Roger de Coverley and other literary pieces’ possesses that
mellowness that bespeaks the true literary artist. It is such a book
as only a great master of English letters could write.” H. S. Gorman
+ =New Repub= 23:368 Ag 25 ’20 1400w
“There is nothing in the volume which is unworthy of the author, and
the de Coverley papers alone will cause it to be cherished dearly by
many of its readers.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 Je 27 ’20 1500w
=Sat R= 129:164 F 14 ’20 600w
“His dream fantasies of Sir Roger de Coverley are light and charming.
But though the reader cannot help being pleased at the ability which a
man so learned shows in the rôle of a general writer, he will realize
when he finds him touching but ever so lightly on his own subject, as
in some passages on William Robertson Smith, that the other was after
all only journalism of moderate merit and that what he admired in it
was extrinsic.”
+ =Spec= 124:555 Ap 24 ’20 630w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 17 ’20 70w
=FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE.= Business research and statistics. *$2.50
Appleton 658
20–15931
“This book is intended for all those who shape policies, make markets,
direct affairs or study investments in business, and also for those
analytical executives, statisticians and researchers who assist such
men to arrive at correct solutions to their problems. It is further
intended to give a more practical and creative outlook to those who
aim to make a profession of business research and statistics.”
(Introd.) The contents in part are: Types and kind of data; The law of
averages as a guide to business; Per capita consumption study; The
possible market analysis and saturation point; Prognostications and
tendency curves; The technique of field investigations; The dollar and
the budget idea in business finance research; Inquiries into
management problems; Graphic charts and maps and their part in
research; International trade statistics and researches; Imagination
and vision in relation to research; Index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
+ − =Nation= 112:sup240 F 9 ’21 560w
“An interesting and lucid general presentation of the subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 90w
=FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE.=[2] Great game of business; its rules, its
fascinations, its services and rewards. *$1.50 Appleton 658
20–21357
The author makes no apologies for calling business “a game.” Properly
played it is “perhaps the greatest game left to man to play, because
it engages more faculties, renders greater constructive, practical
service to the world and offers more discipline and stimulation and
variety to the individual than almost any other interest which could
be followed. Indeed, it is the game that most of us must follow!”
(Preface) But—it must be played well—with more sportsmanship—with more
harmony and esprit de corps. A partial list of the contents is:
Warming up for the great game; Amateur or professional; The standard
personal code; Technique—the science of the game; Organization and
teamwork; The humbling of money to its true place in the great game;
The new business ethical code; “Fair play” and unfair competition.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
=Nation= 112:sup239 F 9 ’21 700w
=FREEMAN, LEWIS R.= In the tracks of the trades. il *$5 (4½c) Dodd 919
20–18401
“The account of a fourteen thousand mile yachting cruise to the
Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis,” (sub-title) on the
pleasure yacht Lurline. The account includes descriptions of the
islands visited and of the natives and their mode of life with
illustrations from photographs by the author. The contents in part
are: San Pedro to Hilo and Honolulu; Honolulu to Taio-Haie; The
Marquesas today; The passion play at Uahuka; Society in the Societies;
The song and dance in Tahiti; By the absinthe route; Samoan cricket:
Fauga-Sa v. Pago Pago; A visit to Apia; In Suva and Mbau; Honolulu to
San Pedro.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“A very charmingly written story of a most delightful voyage.” E. J.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 600w
“He has made a very readable book about his adventures; his
photographs deserve better printing.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“Attractively told, with here and there many striking passages of
description.”
+ =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 340w
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 31 ’20 700w
=FRENCH, JOSEPH LEWIS=, ed. Best psychic stories; introd. by Dorothy
Scarborough. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–11499
“These tales belong to a class that does not quite include the
out-and-out ghost story, but does reach out to the supernatural in the
indefinable fashion that we nowadays call psychic without bothering to
define what psychic means. This is a perfectly fitting field for
fiction of the non-realistic kind, for it does not demand belief but
imagination. Algernon Blackwood and ‘Fiona McLeod’ were adepts at this
form of story, and are here well represented, together with Jack
London, W. T. Stead and others.”—Outlook
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
+ − =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w
“Mr French has selected his material with a fine judgment and a
discriminating taste, and Dorothy Scarborough has contributed an
introduction which adds much to the reader’s enjoyment of the volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 650w
=Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 70w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 130w
=FRENCH, THOMAS EWING, and SVENSEN, CARL LARS.= Mechanical drawing for
high schools. il *$1.25 McGraw 744
19–13746
“A two years’ high school course unusually rich in drawings (of which
there are 244). Authors are teachers in the department of engineering,
Ohio state university. ‘The first seven chapters comprise a complete
textbook which may be used with any problems. The paragraphs are
numbered for easy reference. The eighth chapter is a complete problem
book, in which the number of problems in each division is such that a
selection may be made for students of varying ability, and that a
variation from year to year may be had. The problems have references
to articles in the text, and the order may be varied to suit the
particular needs of a school. Definite specifications and layouts are
given for most of the problems, thus making it possible for the
instructor to use his time efficiently in teaching rather than in the
drudgery of detail, while the time ordinarily wasted by the pupil in
getting started can be used in actual drawing.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New
Tech Bks
* * * * *
“An excellent textbook.”
+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 O ’19 160w
+ =Pratt= p19 Ja ’20 20w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w
=FREUD, SIGMUND.= General introduction to psychoanalysis; authorized
translation by G. Stanley Hall. il *$4.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright 130
20–12205
This volume consists of a translation of twenty-eight lectures given
to laymen. They are conversational in tone and follow the inductive
method, the author building up his evidence from case after case. He
deals little in general statements and in the course of one of the
early lectures speaks as follows: “I have not invited you here to
delude you or to conceal anything from you. I did, indeed, announce a
‘general introduction to psychoanalysis,’ but I did not intend the
title to convey that I was an oracle, who would show you a finished
product with all the difficulties carefully concealed.... No,
precisely because you are beginners, I wanted to show you our science
as it is, with all its hills and pitfalls, demands and
considerations.” There are four lectures on the psychology of errors,
eleven on the dream, and thirteen on general theory of the neuroses.
G. Stanley Hall writes an introduction for the American edition.
* * * * *
“A more satisfying survey for the serious lay reader than the author’s
earlier books on special topics.”
+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
“It makes ponderous reading, and suffers from a lack of tolerance
toward the author’s pupils who have departed from or enlarged upon the
innovator’s technique. At the same time, it is a well-developed,
exhaustive, and informative treatise upon the various vistas of the
subject.”
+ − =Dial= 69:665 D ’20 80w
“Without stopping to inquire into the reasons for the attitude of the
reactionaries, Freud has taken up their objections one by one and met
them fairly. Following the rule of Darwin, he has not attempted to
brush them aside with a few blustering remarks; he has keenly analyzed
the obstacles they have presented. The present work offers, in an
extremely attractive form, the material for a fundamental conception
of psychoanalysis.” Gregory Stragnell
+ =Freeman= 1:572 Ag 25 ’20 950w
“Undoubtedly it is the finest exposition of the subject yet written.
Those who have looked upon psychoanalysis as a plaything, as a
philosophy for the parlor radical, or as a means of imparting thrills
and color to studio life, will find this book greatly disappointing
and little to their taste.” H. W. Frink
+ =Nation= 112:sup236 F 9 ’21 1750w
“You can go through a first course with the simpler books of Andre
Tridon or Barbara Low; then turn to an exhaustive treatise like this
one, with an initial understanding that will be of great help in
understanding the immensity of this new arm of science.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 890w
“Freud believes that his subject merits the utmost care of
presentation and the courteous condescension of the discoverer
offering something new and all-important. One has only to follow these
pages carefully, as questioningly as one will, to feel that the
condescension is one of a genuine humility and yet the firm assurance
of a man who has sincerely and conscientiously won his convictions by
unremitting toil in the face of calumnious opposition.” S. E. Jelliffe
+ =N Y Times= p5 Ag 8 ’20 3050w
“Prof. Freud’s theories represent a degree of fantasy to which science
cannot follow him. It might be said that, although he has been the
principal explorer of psychoanalysis, he is its least promising
exponent.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 240w
=FREUNDLICH, ERWIN.=[2] Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation;
authorized English tr. by H. L. Brose. *$1.50 Putnam 530.1
(Eng ed 20–16353)
“Dr Einstein, who writes the preface, states that the author ‘has
succeeded in rendering the fundamental ideas of the theory accessible
to all who are to some extent conversant with the methods of reasoning
of the exact sciences.’ Formulae and equations are by no means lacking
and the vocabulary is hardly suited to the capacity of the general
reader—to whom the simply written introduction by Dr Turner should
prove more acceptable.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p641 My 14 ’20 950w
Reviewed by E. Cunningham
+ =Nature= 105:350 My 20 ’20 1050w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p64 Jl ’20 70w
=FREY, ABRAHAM B.= American business law. *$5 Macmillan 347.7
20–8660
“The object of this book is to set forth clearly and concisely those
fundamental principles upon which is built the superstructure of
business law. In order to make clear such principles ... concrete
illustrations have been used, some of which are synopses of, and
excerpts from, the leading cases decided in Great Britain and the
United States.” (Preface) At the end of each chapter are a number of
carefully prepared questions referring to the subject matter of the
text and a number of legal forms are given in connection with various
subjects which, on occasion, can be adapted to individual use. All
technical terms are carefully explained. The chapter headings are: Law
in general; Torts; Definition and classification of contracts;
Essentials of a valid contract; Competent parties; An agreement;
Reality of consent; Consideration; Legality; The form; Proof of a
contract; Interpretation of contracts; Operation of contracts; The
discharge of contracts; Forms; Agency; Sales; Bailments and carriers;
Partnerships and corporations; Suretyship and guaranty; Insurance;
Negotiable instruments; Property; Bankruptcy; Patents, copyrights and
trade-marks; Master and servant; Damages; Evidence. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:827 D ’20 120w
“Even if published anonymously we should know it was the work of a
scholar and a lawyer. It is comprehensive in its scope and is
practically a textbook in little. Its rules are sound. Its exposition
is clear. Its examples, taken from leading cases, are of the best.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 300w
“So far as it goes, it is clear. But it is complete only in the sense
that something is said about all of the apposite judicial attitudes
that have become crystallized into formulated rules. Perhaps such
books have their place, notwithstanding their offense against the
maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing. But they must be
handled with care.”
+ − =Nation= 111:457 O 20 ’20 230w
“This book is admirably arranged and thorough in treatment, citing
clear examples for most of its statements. The indexing is excellent,
the text clear, the examples concise, and the forms ready to hand for
daily practical use.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w
=FRIDAY, DAVID.= Profits, wages, and prices. *$2 Harcourt 338.5
20–18150
The object of the book is to assemble the available facts and
statistics concerning profits, wages, taxes, and prices in such a way
as to set them in orderly relation one to another and to disclose
their causal interdependence. Contents: The curse of peace; The growth
of profits; Normal profits and profiteering; The uses to which profits
are put; The rate of interest; The course of wages; The division of
the product; How Europe raised American prices; Prices since the
armistice; General prices and public utility rates; The theory of the
new taxes: Has the excess profits tax raised prices? The part played
by the banks; How can real wages be raised? Index.
* * * * *
“The author marshals his facts with skill. His style is interesting
and all that he has to say important.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 110w
+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“Mr Friday’s book is a striking demonstration of the primitive state
of economic science, and of its trifling influence upon the conduct of
the nation’s business. Mr Friday, merely by collecting the information
made available by a few war agencies, incomplete as it is, and basing
his conclusions on observed facts, has been able to throw doubt upon
some of the most respectable conclusions of economists, to say nothing
of the assumptions to be found in current popular discussion.” G:
Soule
+ − =Nation= 112:184 F 2 ’21 1350w
“The general reader will find in Professor Friday’s book a striking
instance of the newer tendencies. It is economic theory which retains
all the logical vigor of the works of the old school, yet faces the
new facts and breathes a new spirit. The book is uncommonly readable
and interesting, besides, and offers a hope that the new theory will
be couched in terms that everybody can understand.” Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 24:171 O 13 ’20 1300w
“In general it may be said that Professor Friday’s book is the most
original and important volume dealing with economic and industrial
America which has appeared since the war.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 620w
=FRIEDLANDER, GERALD=, tr. Jewish fairy book. il *$2.25 (4½c) Stokes
20–17680
Twenty-three stories from various sources have been translated and
adapted by Mr Friedlander. The preface says: “All the stories have
been collected from various Jewish writings. No attempt has been made
to give a literal translation. The tales have been retold in a modern
setting. Some of these quaint old tales and stories brought comfort to
the children of Israel in the days of long ago. Perhaps some pleasure
may be derived by their perusal in our days.” Among the tales are: The
magic apples (from the Jewish Chap book); The wise merchant (from the
Midrash Rabbah); Heavenly treasures (from the Talmud); King Solomon’s
carpet (from Beth Hammidrash); The demon’s marriage (from the Jewish
Chap book); The princess and the beggar (from Tanchuma); The citizen
of the world (from Rabbi Eliezer). The colored illustrations are by
George W. Hood.
* * * * *
“Less extravagant than the Arabian nights entertainments, these
stories are more genial in tone than many of the witch tales with
which our children are quieted. Some of them seem to have a moral to
teach, but it is in no case enough of a moral to prove really
troublesome.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 220w
“The stories are full of imagination and miraculous deeds, and
children will revel in them.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 50w
“Will be found particularly entertaining to young readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 60w
=FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL=, ed. America and the new era; a symposium on
social reconstruction; with a foreword by Herbert Hoover. *$6 Dutton
330.973
20–12473
“Instead of proposing reconstruction, most of the contributors to the
symposium content themselves with pointing out ways and means by which
our present social system may be improved. Professor J. H. Hollander
shows that war is the very negation of economic progress. Professor R.
T. Ely outlines a land policy with widespread ownership and limitation
of holdings as its chief feature. Dr Frederic C. Howe favors selective
immigration. Dr Edward A. Fitzpatrick calls for improvements in public
administration. Professor Victor J. West shows the need of further
amendments to the Constitution, especially for the purpose of
establishing a congressional cabinet, or other forms of responsible
government. Professor Chas. B. Davenport indicates the possibility of
racial improvement by sex control among superior stocks, by
sterilization of criminals, segregation of the feebleminded, and
better marriage laws. Professor Warner Fite makes a plea for
individualism. There are also contributions on education, vocational
guidance, delinquency and crime, control of venereal diseases,
recreation, nervous strain, mental hygiene, and other important
subjects.”—Review
* * * * *
+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 70w
“It is a very ambitious volume and is worth having, not only for its
good points but also to learn about a certain common attitude in much
of the present discussion on religion and the family.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:694 F ’21 160w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“If this book held nothing but the foreword by Herbert Hoover it would
be still invaluable.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p9 S 12 ’20 4500w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:347 O 20 ’20 1200w
“Taken not as a symposium, but as a chance collection of essays on
urgent present-day problems, the volume is to be commended for its
wealth of suggestion. The different authors speak with authority and
offer programs of the highest interest. Each of the contributions
printed separately as a pamphlet would have considerable influence; in
this volume it is somewhat lost.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:321 N 27 ’20 300w
=FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL.= International commerce and reconstruction;
with a foreword by Joseph French Johnson. *$5 Dutton 382
20–5838
* * * * *
“In the spring of 1919, when this book was prepared. American business
looked forward to a tremendous foreign trade with devastated Europe and
the countries previously supplied by European belligerents. As a
preparation for this anticipated trade, Mr Friedman has reviewed the
literature and statistics bearing upon the commercial policies and
foreign trade of the world and has attempted to outline the changes
which the war has brought, or will bring, in international trade and the
opportunities for American business enterprise.”—Pub W
* * * * *
“It will be seen that here is material of much value. Of necessity it is
largely provisional material. The world is far from having settled down.
Much that is contained in this volume will fast become obsolete, and
indeed some is already obsolete. None the less the student will turn
with interest to this helpful collection, and will find in it much that
would otherwise be difficult of access.” F. W. Taussig
+ =Am Econ R= 10:596 S ’20 520w
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:502 F 2 ’21 200w
“The book easily contains as much important information as almost any
other half-dozen books together, covering the whole or part of the
same field. There are no conspicuous lacunae, and the matter is well
presented, is supported by adequate statistical data, and is largely
free from unnecessary verbiage or conspicuous national bias. Where the
author attempts economic analysis of the facts he presents, he attains
only a mediocre degree of success.” Jacob Viner
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:853 D ’20 850w
“The book is distinctly of the solid variety and represents a deal of
work, tho mostly of compilation.” L. K. Frank
+ =Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 300w
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 100w
=FROST, HELEN, and WARDLAW, CHARLES DIGBY.= Basket ball and indoor
baseball for women; with an introd. by T: D. Wood. il *$1.50 Scribner
797
20–3344
“Basket ball and indoor baseball for women are two games that are
rapidly growing in popularity. The book under review fills a long-felt
need in that it sets forth the principles of successfully playing
these games. Experts have here given the gleanings of their long
experiences. They have included sixteen illustrations and thirty-seven
diagrams, making clear the different points in the game of basket
ball. Twelve illustrations and thirteen diagrams are used in making
plain the crucial principles of indoor baseball. Such topics as
passing, catching, guarding, shooting, team play, and signals are
taken up in connection with basket ball. Fielding, throwing, catching,
batting, base running, team play, practice, and signals are discussed
in that portion dealing with indoor baseball.”—School R
* * * * *
“Helpful illustrations and diagrams. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:267 My ’20
=Pratt= p24 Jl ’20 30w
“Coaches, instructors, and players will find this a very helpful
handbook in teaching or taking part in these delightful indoor games.”
+ =School R= 28:394 My ’20 190w
=FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT=, comp. Songs of dogs. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17755
This book consists of a compilation of the best poems written about
dogs, arranged in three groups. The first, The friend of man, is
headed by a prose eulogy on the dog—“the one absolutely unselfish
friend that man can have in this selfish world”—by George Graham Vest.
Group two, In lighter vein, is introduced by “Good dogs” by Baudelaire
and group three, The happy hunting grounds, by “Memories” by John
Galsworthy. The book has an index of titles and an index of authors.
* * * * *
“A treat to dog lovers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 130w
=FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT=, comp. Songs of horses. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17756
“Since the dawn of civilization,” says the compiler of this anthology,
“the horse and the Muses have been boon companions in all the heroics
of mythology and history,” and, “the advance of the horse has been
coincidental with that of man himself.” The grouping of the poems is
indicative of the type of horses described. The groups are: The wild
West; Orient and Occident; Track and field; “Horseplay”; The horse in
war. There is an index of titles and an index of authors.
* * * * *
“Not all have great literary value, but none detract from the quality
of the whole.”
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“‘Songs of horses’ stands out as one of the most colorful of
anthologies. As a book from which to read aloud it could scarcely be
matched.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 130w
=FROTHINGHAM, THOMAS GODDARD.= Guide to the military history of the
world war, 1914–1918. *$2.75 Little 940.4
20–16505
The object of the book is to give a general perspective of the war
from a military and strategic point of view. “At the present time a
detailed history is out of the question, but it is now possible to
write a narrative that is complete, in the sense of giving a reliable
synopsis of the strategy and grand tactics of the whole war.”
(Introd.) To accomplish this purpose the author has confined himself
to comparing and checking up the official statements and bulletins
given out by the different governments during the war and has not
measured military results merely by victories and conquest of
territory but by their costliness in life and material as well. Among
the contents are: The great German offensive of 1914; Military events
on the Russian front; New military situation after the defeat of the
great German defensive of 1914; Offensives of Entente allies, 1915;
Italy in the war; The war on the sea, 1915; German offensive of 1916
against Verdun; The war in the air; The United States in the war; The
final campaigns. The book contains twenty-three maps, an appendix, a
table of dates, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Interesting, clear and readable, and also well organized for quick
reference.”
+ =Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“Twenty-three excellent maps add to the great value of this work which
will doubtless be much used by students in military schools and in
advanced courses in colleges in military history and science.” E. J.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 22 ’20 900w
“The book is free from bias and boasting, studiously written and
decidedly well worth while.” F. L. Minnigerode
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ja 9 ’21 1000w
“Captain Frothingham’s narrative is well-knit, his style clear and
simple.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 340w
=FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY.= Book of boyhoods: Chaucer to MacDowell. *$3
Dutton 920
20–14312
“Eugénie M. Fryer in ‘A book of boyhoods’ traces from Chaucer the poet
to MacDowell the composer the formation periods in the lives of great
men of every variety of genius. There are twenty-eight of them all,
and they include Leonardo da Vinci, the painter and all-round man of
sciences and the arts; Balboa, Drake, Raleigh and La Salle, the
voyagers and discoverers; Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln, builders of
the American republic; Burns, Wordsworth and Keats among poets,
Stevenson, the romancer; and Kitchener, Foch, Joffre and Brusiloff, as
great soldiers and leading figures in the struggle with Germany and
the Germans.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 8 ’20 540w
“To have written a book which will offend no healthy boy and make no
boy feel priggish for reading it, is a good thing.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 80w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 120w
“The average boy probably will balk at some of these biographies.
‘Bookish’ children, however, will find enjoyment in the carefully
wrought characterizations and ingeniously varied presentations.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 2 ’20 340w
=FULLER, HENRY BLAKE.= Bertram Cope’s year. $1.75 Ralph Fletcher
Seymour, Chicago
19–16363
“Bertram is a post-graduate in a western college community. Socially
he attracts friendly advances from men and women. But he is flabby of
purpose, and has no fixed ambition except to get an honorary degree
and a paying position in an eastern college. He gives nothing in
return for the friendships he inspires, and escapes all love
entanglements.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“Live enough people and a sense of humor hovering near the surface.”
+ =Booklist= 16:133 Ja ’20
“The kind of novel which must be enjoyed not for its matter so much as
for its quality, its richness of texture and subtlety of atmosphere.”
+ =Bookm= 51:344 My ’20 380w.
“The study of this weak but agreeable man is subtle but far from
exciting.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 80w
“Mr Fuller’s realism is the real thing; in seeming to register it
interprets and portrays.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“The story is less interesting than the author’s last previous book
‘On the stairs,’ because of its speculative tendencies. But Mr Fuller
is a keen observer and anything that he writes is worthy the serious
consideration of the reading public.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 500w
=FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD.= Gloss of youth. *$1 Lippincott 812
20–7798
“‘The gloss of youth’ is an eminent scholar’s brief diversion in which
Shakespeare discusses with John Fletcher his relations to the public
and his art and is consoled by the appreciation of two children who
are no other than little ‘Jack’ Milton and ‘Noll’ Cromwell.”—Nation
* * * * *
“It is all a little over-intentional. But the little play is, no doubt
well suited for such academic occasions as the one which caused it to
be written.”
+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 90w
“It is not surprising that Horace Howard Furness, jr., the son and
literary successor of his noted father, should cast in dramatic form
one of the most intimate and pleasing interpretations of a living
Shakespeare. The interweaving of Elizabethan diction and contemporary
thought is never strained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 550w
=FURNISS, EDGAR STEVENSON.= Position of the laborer in a system of
nationalism. *$2 Houghton 331
20–18599
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in
economics and is a study of the labor theories of the later English
mercantilists, 1660–1775. The author holds that the dominant
nationalism existing in England between the years 1660–1775 bears a
fundamental likeness to the revival of nationalism caused by the war.
The former period, known by the term “mercantilism,” has come to stand
for a relationship of economic rivalry between nations and the
theories and policies that governed it. The reverse side of this
mercantilism is the domestic economy of the nation and it is with this
side, illustrating the reaction of nationalism upon the life
conditions of the people and upon labor, that the book deals.
Contents: The doctrine of the national importance of the laborer; The
doctrine of employment; The doctrine of the right to employment and
the duty to labor; The enforcement of the duty to labor; The doctrine
of the utility of poverty; Theories of wages; Conclusions. The
appendix contains chapters on the economic, social and moral life
conditions of the English laborer, 1660–1775, and the book has a
bibliography, a subject index and an index to authors.
* * * * *
“Like others in this series, a scholarly piece of work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 280w
“Scholarly study.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 600w
=FYLEMAN, ROSE.= Fairies and chimneys. il *$1.25 Doran 821
20–19073
A book of verses for children by an English poet. Among the titles
are: Fairies; Yesterday in Oxford street; A fairy went a-marketing;
The best game the fairies play; Differences; Mother; Grown-ups; Cat’s
cradle; Visitors; I don’t like beetles; Summer morning; White magic.
Following these come seven poems under the heading Bird lore:
Peacocks; The cuckoo; The rooks; The robin; The cock; The grouse; The
skylark.
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 60w
“Its contents would do for lyrics in an operatic version of ‘Peter
Pan.’” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:209 S 8 ’20 200w
G
=GAINES, RUTH LOUISE.= Ladies of Grécourt. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.476
20–9727
“In this volume Miss Gaines continues the story of the relief work at
the front of the Smith college unit, the first part of which she told
in her previous volume, ‘Helping France.’ So fully was the work of
this unit appreciated by the French people, that the workers were
given the title of ‘Dames de Grécourt,’ from the name of one of the
sixteen French villages covered by their work. Of these sixteen
villages, few inhabitants were left, save the old and feeble and the
children. From a population of nearly 5600, but 1740 were left in
August, 1917. Six hundred of these were under fifteen years of age. It
was among these helpless people that the Smith college women
worked.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Pleasing illustrations.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“The story which Miss Gaines relates is not only of the deepest
interest, but is one of the important documents which the war has
brought forth.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 270w
“Both the manner and the matter of ‘Ladies of Grécourt’ do credit to
the spirit and the culture of American college girls.”
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 130w
=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
“Miss Anna M. Upjohn’s pencil sketches of French peasants and rural
life add greatly to the attractiveness of the book.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 17 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E: E. Hunt
+ =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 750w
=GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY.= Family and the new democracy; a study in social
hygiene. *$2.25 (3c) Saunders 392
20–1764
[Publisher has withdrawn book from circulation.]
The book completes the author’s trilogy on the phases of woman’s life;
the other two books being: “The four epochs of woman’s life” and
“Personal hygiene and physical training for women.” In the present
volume she briefly sketches the vital epochs of the history of our
social institutions and points out that today the institution of the
family is threatened by three fatal excrescences: prostitution, free
love, and divorce. She lays bare the causes of these evils and
suggests remedies which will insure the greatest amount of social
happiness and the best possible progeny. Among the contents are: Rally
to save the American family; Primitive man’s problems of marriage and
the family; Marriage and divorce laws in primitive society and ancient
civilizations; Various aspects of the modern divorce problem;
Prostitution, social disease, and marriage; Alcohol and race
degeneracy; Sex education as a solvent for the double standard of
morals and celibacy; Problems of betrothal; The problems of marriage;
The rights of the child, eugenic marriages, the limitation of
offspring; Woman’s economic independence and the disintegration of the
family; References; Index.
* * * * *
“The chapters on the need for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and
for sex education to combat the spread of venereal disease, are much
to the point.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“Novices in the literature of sex (to which in spite of its
self-conscious title, the book belongs), will find in it a larger
amount of historical information than is customary in popular
treatises, an occasional sensible sociological opinion, and useful
hygienic advice. It is only the critical who will realize what a
hodge-podge Dr Galbraith’s volume is.”
− + =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 400w
“There are no essential facts omitted in this book that pertain to
man, to woman, to the family. Many of the subjects are of absorbing
interest and the manner in which the author treats them makes them the
more so. For instance, her views on prohibition as a modifying factor
on the family of the future are not only unique but they are sound as
well.” B. P. Thom
+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 160w
=GALE, ZONA.= Miss Lulu Bett. *$1.75 (3½c) Appleton
20–4218
This is the story of a family drudge awakened to a sense of
independence thru a marriage which turns out to be no marriage at all.
Miss Lulu Bett “makes her home” with her sister, and when her
brother-in-law’s brother comes to visit after nineteen years
wandering, she startles her self, no less than the family, by marrying
him. She goes away with him but at the end of one month comes back.
She had found out that Ninian already had a wife living, and as Miss
Lulu Bett she again takes up her position in her sister’s house. But
there is a difference, as Dwight Deacon finds out when he tries to
bully her into keeping his brother’s falsity a secret. Then comes
another lover and the story ends happily.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w
“One is conscious that the materials of the story have undergone a
considerable warping in order to fit them into the tragic mould; there
is less of the hopeless, inevitable sweep of things than we have found
in other of the author’s recent studies.”
+ =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 60w
“It will be interesting to see whether the people who like the
somewhat over-sentimental ‘Friendship Village’ stories continue to
like Zona Gale as the far from sentimental and exceedingly skilful
author of ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’”
+ =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“Miss Zona Gale has written a thoroughly admirable and thoroughly
unpopular book and vindicated at last the promise of her literary
beginnings. The work is clear, direct, dry, and full of haunting
little implications.”
+ =Nation= 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 450w
“The book stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters.” C.
M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 23:315 Ag 11 ’20 420w
“Nothing could well be more astonishing or claim a more ungrudging
tribute than Miss Gale’s recent achievement in ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’ This
short novel is the result of the most courageous imaginable revision
of her entire fictional method. [This] revision of her method has lost
her nothing that she ever had, and it has gained her a great deal that
one has constantly deplored her lack of.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 1500w
“Lulu Bett herself is an exquisite piece of portrayal. Her development
during the course of the events that befall her is logical and
natural. To us it seems the best thing Miss Gale has yet done, and
more than this, it is a promise of a new type of work from her.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“A fine example of close, careful character study on a small scale.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
“To say that here also [in the conclusion] the author rises to the
occasion is simply to credit her once again with that fine and
finished art that make all her writing an abiding joy to the
discriminating.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 400w
“In ‘Birth,’ its immediate predecessor, Miss Gale showed a surprising
growth not only as ‘localist’ but as ironic interpreter of character.
This story is firmer in tone as well as more compact in form.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The artist in her has guided her pen in careful work, and the
characters are as clearly and completely delineated as if seen on the
stage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w
=GALLAGHER, PATRICK.= America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. il *$3.50
Century 940.314
20–15149
The book consists chiefly of reminiscences of the peace conference, by
one who was there, with the author’s individual opinions on the events
as they transpired and on the personages that took part in them, the
whole permeated by a spirit of benevolent imperialism and unshakeable
faith in America. Of the six books that make up the volume, Pagans and
prophets deals especially with the peace conference personalities;
Isles and islanders with Australia, Ireland and the Philippines; High
lights and history with the Asiatic side of the war. The remaining
three books are; Amateurs and experts; The cause célebrè, in re
Kiaochau, China v. Japan, ex parte, W. Wilson; Unfinished business.
There are illustrations, appendices and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“The Asiatic chapters, the bulk of the book, are complete enough; they
are a little too full. There is too much that is documentary, and the
vivacity of the author’s high-gaited style suffers a little, though
there is always a story or a joke to take the curse off. There is,
too, a little confusion in a treatment that takes us unawares from one
period back to an earlier without sufficient warning.”
+ − =N Y Times= p9 S 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN).=
Women’s wild oats. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 396
20–6280
“Essays on the re-fixing of moral standards.” (Sub-title) Of the
“hideous abuses” created by three generations of industrialism and
brought to a climax by the war, the author is considering those
affecting the position and moral standards of women. The book is an
attempt to distinguish between a “too ready acceptance of the fashions
of the day,” and a “too loyal obedience to the prejudices of
yesterday.” Accordingly she would curb the too frantic present day
rebelliousness of women by a return to the Jewish ideal of marriage as
a religious duty, and praising the perfect feminist ideal inherited by
the Jewish women. On the other hand she would facilitate divorce,
would lift the burden of illegitimacy from the shoulders of innocent
children, and would procure some sort of honorable recognition for
sexual partnerships outside of marriage. The essays are: Introductory;
The prosperity of fools; The covenant of God; That which is wanting;
“Give, give!” If a child could choose? Foreseeing evil; Conclusion,
and appendices.
* * * * *
“The book is well worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p320 Mr 5 ’20 200w
“In justice to Mrs Hartley I must admit that in the earlier part of
‘Women’s wild oats’ she argues for the home as against the factory.
But the second half of her book is a defense of all the things which
tend to break up the home. Even in Mrs Hartley’s early chapters the
hysterical note in her ‘womanly womanliness’ led me to expect that it
would not last.” T: Maynard
− =Bookm= 52:74 S ’20 840w
“There are those, however, who will be inclined to think that her
comparisons of English with American conditions are rather too
flattering to American life of the present day. Either that or we must
read into the English situation even darker colors than those with
which she paints it. Nevertheless hers has been a healthful effort and
should do good in clearing away some of the illusions of the
situation.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 850w
“In spite of her fervid indignation at the unnecessary burdens of
woman-kind, she usually fails to understand the real difficulties and
she altogether ignores more radical cures. Her own favoured remedies
are too vaguely indicated to be a matter for demonstration or
refutation; they are rather the passionate assertions of a personal
faith.” V. G.
− =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 300w
“The most satisfactory chapter is that describing the position of the
illegitimate child. The book is marked by the tension of the long war
and the superficial disillusions of peace, and her summary of present
tendencies seems too incoherent and egotistic to have much value.” N.
C.
− + =Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 230w
+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 260w
“It is with some hesitation that one sets to work to criticise a book
such as ‘Women’s wild oats,’ for one wants to recognize its courage
and its sincerity, and at the same time one disagrees with certain
points of view, as one necessarily must when one is dealing with the
work which touches so many sides of a great question. One thing we can
say is that Mrs Hartley is always honest and always wise.” W. L.
George
+ − =N Y Times= p1 S 12 ’20 2150w
Reviewed by K. F. Gerould
=Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 900w
“‘Women’s wild oats’ is less sensational than its title, though it
contains much that will provoke dissent. It is a sober and earnest
book, at once incisive and felicitous in style, but it must be
believed that in her diagnosis of social tendencies in England there
is some exaggeration. A certain captiousness—one might almost say,
querulousness—in Mrs Hartley leads her very close to inconsistency.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 580w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 100w
“The book is an irritating mixture of good sense, violent prejudice,
and a most trying method of using the English language.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p196 Mr 25 ’20 850w
=GALLICHAN, WALTER M.= Letters to a young man on love and health. *$1
(4c) Stokes 612.6
20–15339
These letters are from an uncle to his nephew, beginning when the boy
is sixteen and extending over a period of five years. They are on
puberty, with its accompanying unrest and longings, and on sex and
marital hygiene and treat these subjects with large insight, sanity
and sympathy.
* * * * *
“There is much common sense in these letters.”
+ =Ath= p1166 N 7 ’19 170w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 110w
“While this book is undoubtedly more desirable than those products of
an earlier day that endeavored to enforce a moral code through fear,
still there are many reasonable objections to be raised against it
that render its great usefulness doubtful. The modern serious youth
desiring sex knowledge does not want a sugar-coated pill but simple
facts. This author is not always accurate or up-to-date in his
statements or teaching.” H. W. Brown
+ − =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 420w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 30w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Awakening. il *$2 Scribner
20–20951
This child idyll concerns the first eight years of the latest of the
Jolyon Forsytes, whose birth was announced toward the close of the
author’s novel “In chancery.” Little Jon is a healthy and, in the
words of his mother, “loving, lovable, imaginative, sanguinary” little
savage, and, so successful in the choice of his parents that he is
enabled to live the life prompted by his dramatic instinct. The
illustrations by R. H. Sauter are a feature of the book. The story
appeared in Scribner’s magazine, November, 1920.
* * * * *
“Illustrations and text fit together with unusual charm.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“The story is slight and the note of tenderness is perhaps too long
drawn out. But it throws an agreeable sidelight on the ‘Forsyte saga’
and on Mr Galsworthy’s affection for some of his creatures.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“Since little Jon was born in 1901 it seems a safe presumption that Mr
Galsworthy’s forthcoming volume will take him up to the threshhold of
manhood. But Jon’s childhood, as here set forth, is so charming and
perfect a thing in itself that, however interesting Mr Galsworthy may
make his future career, one is almost tempted to wish that he might
remain in memory as we know him in this little volume.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 20 ’20 490w
“A few episodes in the life of a little boy of eight years old,
vividly realized and described with great charm.”
+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 120w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= In chancery. *$2 (2c) Scribner
20–18929
The story is a sequel to the author’s earlier novel, “The man of
property,” and relates the further fortunes of the Forsyte family.
With one exception the possessive instinct is still strong in the male
generation, who include their wives and progeny in their property.
Soames Forsyte, after his wife, Irene, had run away with another man
lives on into middle life nursing his injuries until he poignantly
realizes that he is still without a son to inherit his fortune and his
name. Meeting Irene again, after a separation of fifteen years,
awakens the old desire to possess her, and failing of her consent,
nothing in law is too sordid for him for the attainment of a divorce.
Even the family tradition for respectability must go by the board as
he forces his cousin Jolyon—the one Forsyte that has not run true to
type—into the rôle of correspondent. At the end he marries the pretty
French girl, whom he does not love, and smothers his disappointment at
having a girl child, and no hope of another, in his sense of
proprietorship. At least—“that thing was his.”
* * * * *
“When we have said that ‘In chancery’ is not a great novel, we would
assure our readers that it is a fascinating, brilliant book.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 870w
=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“As a story of human persons, ‘In chancery’ should rank among his
best.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:251 N ’20 630w
“As we have already said, these Forsytes are extremely boresome, and
we fear Mr Galsworthy exaggerates not only their importance and the
extent of the world’s interest in them, but also the value of his own
contribution to modern imaginative literature.” E. F. Edgett
− =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 1100w
“With grace and clearness and with a skill that holds the reader’s
attention unfailingly, the tale is told. Its accomplishment is fine
and delicate, though its convincingness is not complete.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ’20 480w (Reprinted from London
Observer)
“Here we have again in careful acrimony mingled with a warm
consciousness of physical beauty which is so characteristic of Mr
Galsworthy.” E. W. N.
+ =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 200w
“Mr Galsworthy never lets his utmost penetration make him ruthless. He
knows that ruthlessness is simply a failure to perceive the dark and
pathetic humanity that lies just beyond the immediate horizon of one’s
vision.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 750w
“The book is in many ways one of the biggest Mr Galsworthy has ever
written; perhaps the very biggest. A better balanced, more logical and
saner novel than ‘The saint’s progress,’ one accepts its reasonings
and analyses, which satisfy at once one’s brain and one’s instinct. It
is notable among the notable, a novel to read—and to read again.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 24 ’20 1500w
“It is a serious drawback that the first dozen pages or so of this
book are a regular barbedwire obstruction because of their intricate
tangle of genealogy and relationships. The reader who perseveres,
however, will be rewarded by as fine and penetrating a study of
temperament and heredity as is often written—not ‘highbrow’ or
philosophical, but dramatic, tense and vivid.” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 430w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 210w
“Most of the characters of ‘In chancery’ are the brooding victims of
Mr Galsworthy’s remote wrath—Soames’s father, James, is the most free
from literary victimisation. Here is an old man drawn with skill,
without prejudice, and with that untiring care which is this author’s
chief asset as a craftsman. It seems to us that for him our little
world is a sick man tossing feverishly upon his bed; Mr Galsworthy,
finger on pulse and clinical thermometer in hand, sits patiently by
his side, recording the slow sinking towards dissolution.”
− + =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 630w
“One may add that here, as always, Mr Galsworthy is remarkably just to
the characters with whom he is not in perfect sympathy. He writes of
the old régime with respect and even regret.”
+ =Spec= 125:820 D 18 ’20 600w
“It is a most absorbing story viewed merely as a personal narrative.
But apart from that it is a section from the history of English
society. The book must be classed with Mr Galsworthy’s most
characteristic and finest work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 620w
“Once more Mr Galsworthy shows his quiet mastery, now and then a
little pontifical perhaps, but always suggesting the good rider on the
spirited horse. And once more he lights up his sober fabric with the
golden thread of beauty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 O 28 ’20 1050w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Plays; 4th ser. *$2.50 Scribner 822
20–9081
The book contains three plays: A bit o’ love; The foundations; The
skin game. In the first play a young clergyman, Michael Strangway, is
deserted by his wife, who returns during the first act to plead with
her husband not to divorce her out of consideration for the career of
her lover. He consents and thereby makes himself impossible with his
narrow-minded parishioners. His struggle is between his love as a
cosmic manifestation and the essence of Christianity, and his love for
the woman, his wrongs and his worldly prospects. When, at the moment
of the most hopeless desolation, he has prepared a suicide’s noose for
himself, the cry of a little child for “a bit o’ love,” and the brave
fight with his sorrow of a brother in affliction, recall him to the
world and his stronger self.
* * * * *
“This fourth volume of Mr Galsworthy’s plays is hardly up to the best
of his earlier dramatic work. Of the three plays which it contains,
‘The skin game’ is the most skilfully and convincingly written; but
even ‘The skin game’ leaves us comparatively cold.”
+ − =Ath= p733 Je 4 ’20 560w
“Written with the usual sincerity and dramatic intensity.”
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is sufficient of the first two, ‘A bit o’ love’ and ‘The
foundations,’ to say that they are ‘good Galsworthy,’ which means that
they are more than readable and that they are beautifully constructed
and phrased. More must be said of ‘The skin game,’ the third play. It
is Galsworthy at his best.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 280w
“Mr Galsworthy has written better plays than these, but if you care
for his plays at all you will find them worth reading.”
+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“Of the new plays the first, A bit of love, is undeniably the
weakest.... The skin-game has a more timeless touch. It takes the
tragicomedy of all human conflict, localizes it narrowly, embodies it
with the utmost concreteness, and yet exhausts its whole significance.
Galsworthy has never derived a dramatic action from deeper sources in
the nature of man; he has never put forth a more far-reaching idea nor
shown it more adequately in terms of flesh and blood.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 1100w
“To the reader who revolts against the rather sickly sentiment of the
first of them and who has smiled half-heartedly at the forced comedy,
in which the same sentiment still appears, in the second, the virility
and grasp of the third comes as a tonic.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 760w
“These three plays will hardly add much to the fame of John
Galsworthy, although, on the other hand, enough skill and command of
character is evidenced to render them interesting additions to his
work.”
+ − =N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 700w
“‘A bit o’ love,’ ‘The foundations,’ and ‘The skin game’ display
ability of a high order. That fact is presumed in their authorship and
is verified in their perusal. But all three have an effect of
interlude or byplay; they are corollaries to earlier and weightier
dicta.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:396 O 27 ’20 1100w
“He has many gifts, many qualities—technical ability, imaginativeness,
sympathy, experience of life, ideas, ideals; but the one supreme,
essential gift—the ability to create living men and women working out
their destinies in the grip of fate—is not his. Mr Galsworthy, in
fact, remains the second-rate artist he always was.”
− + =Sat R= 129:590 Je 26 ’20 1050w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 800w
“‘A bit o’ love’ is in Mr Galsworthy’s weaker vein. ‘The skin game’
possesses a greater number of powerful scenes of dramatic conflict
than Mr Galsworthy has ever put into a single play. ‘The foundations’
is an utter departure for Mr Galsworthy or any other English
playwright. Our stage is almost unfitted at present to handle such a
play, but the existence of the manuscript ought to do something
towards stimulating the development of a new producing method.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:348 O ’20 300w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Tatterdemalion. *$1.90 (3c) Scribner
20–5770
A collection of stories and sketches, some of them reprinted from
Scribner’s Magazine, the New Republic and the Atlantic Monthly. Among
the sketches that compose Part 1, Of war-time, are a number presenting
unfamiliar aspects of the war period. Two of these, The bright side
and “The dog it was that died,” are stories of Germans interned in
England. The other titles are: The grey angel; Defeat; Flotsam and
jetsam; “Cafard”; Recorded; The recruit; The peace meeting; In heaven
and earth; The mother stone; Poirot and Bidan; The muffled ship;
Heritage; ‘A green hill far away.’ Part 2, Of peace-time, contains
eight stories: Spindleberries; Expectations; Manna; A strange thing;
Two looks; Fairyland; The nightmare child; Buttercup-night.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“On the side of art ‘Tatterdemalion’ illustrates the Galsworthian
qualities which are quite familiar by this time: a mellowness that
never degenerates into softness; a virile tenderness of tone; an
unobtrusive ease in the progression of the narrative; a diction which
is always adequate, often beautiful, but which will not or cannot
exploit all its own full resources of either beauty or strength
through some inflexibility of inner modulation. Some of the short
stories here are, with these definite qualities and their defects,
among the best of our time.”
+ =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 750w
“In his earlier novels and tales there was a marked predominance of
the emotional quality over the intellectual. The two are here more
nearly in accord. With possibly one exception none of the impressions
is overwrought, or marred by sentimentality, or blurred by loud-voiced
passion. Mr Galsworthy’s restrained, softly modulated style, as of an
instrument with few overtones, wins its effect without recourse to
obvious eloquence or special pleading.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 22:427 My 23 ’20 850w
“Unalike as these tales and sketches are in many ways, they resemble
one another in this—that always there is the intense feeling for
beauty. Among the artists in literature of the present day—and they
are not so few as some would like to imagine—those are rare who can
safely challenge comparison with the John Galsworthy of
‘Tatterdemalion.’” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1200w
“The contents of the volume are diverse in the extreme; yet the
keynote of the whole can be expressed in one word—beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 100w
“The volume is an interesting and notable example of Mr Galsworthy’s
workmanship, typical of his clearness of vision and of his
fearlessness in telling the truth, notwithstanding the fact that the
winds of popular passion and taste blow in the opposite direction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 500w
“There are pieces in this book which will probably drop out of his
collected works some decades hence. Yet we would willingly miss none
of them from the book before us. If circumstance has deprived some of
these tales and studies of the finest touch of craftsmanship which Mr
Galsworthy can give, the book as a whole is clear revelation of one of
the best and bravest minds of our time.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’20 480w
=GALWAY, CONOR.= Towards the dawn. *$2.50 Stokes
“The novel is, quite simply and frankly, propaganda for the cause of
Sinn Fein. Its heroine is a vigorous, eager, impulsive, large-hearted
young woman whom the reader first sees as a gawky, somewhat impish
slip of a girl in her first teens. She gets caught in a street fight
between Orangemen and Hibernians, brought on because some drummers of
the former refuse to give way to the band heading a procession of the
others; she is knocked down, trampled and has a narrow escape from
being killed. The first thing she says when she comes back to
consciousness is to declare solemnly that she hates both factions and
thereafter will be a Fenian. To this determination she holds with
enthusiasm, becoming a Sinn Feiner when that organization comes into
activity. At one time, moved by the desire to make a sacrifice, she
enters a convent with the intention of becoming a nun, but her desire
to take part in the active measures Sinn Fein is planning brings her
out again and into the ranks of that organization’s most ardent
protagonists.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Pleasantly written and containing some excellent character drawings,
‘Towards the dawn’ is likely to prove a distinct success.”
+ =Cath World= 112:264 N ’20 320w
“Would be interesting if the author’s viewpoint could be trusted to be
accurate and impartial. But it is quite evident that it is never
impartial and therefore only actual knowledge of conditions can say
whether or not it is accurate.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 350w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 160w
=GAMBIER, KENYON.= Girl on the hilltop. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–10304
When Roger Lingard comes to England in 1914, it is to look up his
ancestry, for he is the descendant of the Lingard of St Dyfrigs’ Park,
who years before had eloped with Charity Turle, his cowman’s daughter,
and emigrated to America. The modern Roger finds Dorothy Lingard and
another Charity Turle interesting representatives of the family in the
present generation. Before he has revealed himself to them, the war
breaks out and he enlists. At the end of four years, he returns to his
ancestral acres, to find himself, by the death of the male line, their
owner. Then follows the interesting question, what shall become of the
female line. Roger offers himself to Dorothy, that thus she may not be
deprived of her birthright. But he finds himself superseded in her
affections by another and when he turns to the humbler Charity, he
finds a similar situation to exist. But the telegram which he sends to
the mysterious “girl on the hilltop” reads “The third time’s lucky!”
and so it proves to be.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“Mr Gambier has built up a very alluring story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 260w
“An interesting picture of rural England in wartime and unusually
entertaining.”
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 50w
“‘The girl on the hilltop’ has the virtue of being uncommon, but it is
not very satisfactory. The author’s method of story-telling may be
described as spasmodic; there is no ease in the course of his recital.
He jumps along in a fashion quite disconcerting to the reader and
insists on creating about certain of his characters an air of mystery
that is annoying rather than interesting.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Incidentally the novel gives a realistic picture of the war
privations and provocations in remote English villages. The story is
built on unusual lines and its originality makes it decidedly
readable.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 160w
=GAMBLE, WILLIAM.= Photography and its applications. il $1 Pitman 770
20–16270
The book is one of the Pitman’s common commodities and industries
series. It is not intended as a guide or text-book for those desiring
to practice the art of photography, but as a popular outline of the
subject for general information on “How it’s done.” Contents: The
discovery of photography; The camera and lens; Dark room and its
equipment; The sensitive plates: wet collodion process, and collodion
emulsion and dry plates; Making the exposure; Development and
after-treatment of the plate; Printing processes: carbon and other
methods; Enlarging, copying, and lantern-slide making; Colour
processes; Scientific applications of photography; Cinema-photography;
Photomechanical processes; Industrial applications of photography;
Photography in warfare; Illustrations and index.
=GANACHILLY, ALFRED.= Whispering dead. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90
(3c) Knopf
20–8519
Some years before the war, according to this story, there was a fire
at the German embassy at Santiago, Chile, which completely destroyed
the building. In the ruins were found the charred remains of a human
body, and the mystery of the story is the identity of the man who so
perished. Beckert, the German chancellor, was thought to be the
unfortunate victim, but Rojas, the Chilean detective, has another
theory which takes him on a wild chase in the Andes, resulting in the
capture of the man who was responsible for the fire, and the murderer
of the unknown person who perished in it. Stress is laid on the
ruthlessness characteristic of the German nature even before the war.
* * * * *
“A well-told and well-constructed story.”
+ =Sat R= 128:422 N 1 ’19 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 180w
=GANZ, MARIE, and FERBER, NAT. JOSEPH.= Rebels; into anarchy—and out
again. il *$2 (3c) Dodd
20–219
Marie Ganz, daughter of a Hester street pushcart peddler, came from
Galicia to America in 1896, when she was five years old. After her
father’s death in 1899, she never knew what it was to have time to
play, tho she did not work the regular twelve-hour day in a sweatshop
until she was thirteen. She made friends among Russian socialists and
anarchists, joining the latter group, and preached war upon the
capitalists. She organized strikes, led mobs, got into prison and out
again, and finally broke her connection with the anarchist group. She
tells us: “I had learned much and changed much since that day when I
led the mob into the capitalist stronghold, and the old rancours were
gone forever.... My work is not over ... but, in the effort to help
the poor and downtrodden, it is to run in other lines hereafter.”
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 130w
“Although the apostasy of Marie Ganz furnished the occasion for her
book, it is the period of her rebellion that engages one’s interest
and gives the book its attraction.”
+ =Nation= 111:456 O 20 ’20 200w
“A vigorous and straightforward narrative.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 460w
“Quite as authentic and interesting as other autobiographies of women
who have risen from the Ghetto of the New York East side, the book by
Miss Ganz, nevertheless, does not range with them; It is too much
concerned with only one aspect of life to paint either accurately or
convincingly the throbbing vitality and beauty of that most colorful
of American neighborhoods.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 450w
=GARBORG, ARNE.= Lost father. $1.25 Stratford co.
20–13202
This is a prose poem interspersed with verse in the form of prayers by
a lost soul seeking an unknown god. Gunnar Haave had left his native
land in search of life. He has squandered it and at the end returns
home in search of the Father. His brother Paul has also thrown away
his life to become the servant of his Master, Christ. It is Paul who
finally succeeds in bringing the peace of the Father to Gunnar. An
autobiographical sketch precedes the story and the translation from
the Norse is by Mabel Johnson Leland.
=GARDNER, AUGUSTUS PEABODY.= Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner.
*$2 (8½c) Houghton
20–5738
The letters are preceded by a short sketch of Major Gardner’s career
by Mrs Gardner who has edited the collection. They are grouped under
the headings: The Spanish war; Congress and politics; War-time
activities; The army again. The volume contains four fine portraits of
Major Gardner at various stages of life.
* * * * *
“These letters are glowing with American idealism.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 210w
=GARDNER, GILSON.= New Robinson Crusoe. *$1.25 (6c) Harcourt 330
20–13989
“A new version of his life and adventures with an explanatory note.”
(Sub-title) In this new version all of Robinson Crusoe’s reflections
are along economic lines. His first musings on “Why does man work?”
are answered by his own efforts to supply himself with shelter, food
and clothing. He soon discovers of how little avail his labors are
without the cooperation of his fellow-men. This is later supplied by a
colony of refugees on a neighboring island and with cooperation come
the needs of specialization and organization. As the story proceeds
all the features of a capitalistic society develop. Robinson becomes a
power, the chief exploiter and ruler of the realm in which there now
are rich and poor, exploiters and exploited. Then some of the younger
blood become wise to the fact that “a man may own what he produces,”
and no more. They lay in wait for him one dark night on the beach and
instead of drowning him outright mercifully ship him off to England.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= Jl 28 ’20 180w
=Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 430w
=Nation= 111:456 O 20 ’20 480w
“The ‘New Robinson Crusoe’ is interesting as an economic tract.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 160w
“Mr Gardner has made a distinctly novel contribution to the literature
of economics, but it will be an unhappy day for children when they are
given this primer of economics disguised as a story to read in place
of the good old fashioned tale of Robinson Crusoe.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 350w
=GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and others.= American guide book to France and its
battlefields. il *$3.50 Macmillan 914.4
20–11006
Part I of this guide book is devoted to general considerations with
chapters on: Things to consider and to do before you sail; A special
chapter on passports; A few important points that should be understood
before arrival in France; Conditions that will confront you upon
landing; Paris and its life; Amusements, shopping, side trips, etc.
Part II is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists;
History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims;
British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the
Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera, and
Italy; The château country of France; England and London. Part III is
devoted to Divisional histories of American divisions in France, and
an Appendix presents statistics. There are numerous maps,
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“This guidebook has several valuable features.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 26 ’20 250w
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 170w
“The ‘American guidebook’ is not compact. It is badly organized and
repetitious. Of the 20–odd maps in the book, not one is of practical
value to the tourist. The only worth-while section of the book is the
part devoted to brief tabular histories of A. E. F. divisions. The
information given in this department is compact, well-presented and
satisfying.” J: T. Winterich
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 770w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 80w
=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Rick and Ruddy. il $1.50 (2½c) Bradley, M.
20–23176
The story of a boy and his dog. Rick wants a dog but his mother is
obdurate. She does not like dogs and is afraid that even the best of
them might be tempted to bite Mazie, Rick’s little sister. Then Ruddy,
the red setter, is washed up out of the sea and since he seems to have
come in direct answer to Rick’s prayer, she cannot turn him away. Boy
and dog have happy adventures together. Ruddy guides Rick home when
the two are lost and he rescues the little sister from drowning. The
tramp sailor who had been his former owner returns and tries to gain
possession of him but Ruddy is recovered and returned to his true
master Rick.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 30w
=GASS, SHERLOCK BRONSON.= Lover of the chair. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 814
20–85
“Mr Gass turns over from many angles the leading problems of education
in a democracy, and the wider problem of democracy itself. The matter
is generally cast in dialogues, with the disillusioned scholar
described in the title as arbitrator. On the side of education the
author has no difficulty in showing that the present lurch towards
vocational training in the public schools is really not democratic at
all. It assumes that a child is to be fitted for a place in which he
shall stay—an aristocratic assumption. The book closes with an
autobiographical fragment which is its best literary feature and has
the advantage of bringing the various problems involved to a moral
focus.”—Review
* * * * *
Reviewed by Mary Terrill
=Bookm= 51:192 Ap ’20 950w
“Despite the friendly humor and gentleness of the essayist there is
the iron of sharp experience and the steel of strong convictions to
give point and edge to his critical depictions of men and manners.” H.
A.
+ =New Repub= 24:51 S 8 ’20 820w
+ =N Y Times= 25:213 Ap 25 ’20 50w
“Despite a certain crabbedness and inflexibility of literary form, the
book is a notable one. It is thought through, and has flights of grave
eloquence. As a survey and estimate of modern society, as offering a
tenacious criticism which is ever tinged with human sympathy, the book
is a true landmark.”
+ =Review= 2:157 F 14 ’20 580w
=GASTON, HERBERT E.= Nonpartisan league. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt, Brace &
Howe 329
20–6358
The author of the present volume is thoroughly acquainted with the
history of the Nonpartisan league from the inside, and tells the story
of its foundation and growth sympathetically but dispassionately,
leaving the reader to make his own estimate of its importance as a
political and social movement. In his final survey the author says:
“Any cult or propaganda becomes dangerous if it comes close to the
truth. ‘Menaces’ to the existing order of society are born of the
evils of existing society in conflict with human needs and natural
human desires. To brand a group, a cult, a society, a religion, as
disloyal or disreputable is one way of fighting it, but it need not
forever damn it.” Contents: The Nonpartisan league—what it is; North
Dakota; Seeds of rebellion; Breaking ground; Terminal elevators; The
leader for the occasion; Applied psychology; “Six-dollar suckers”;
Publicity; The enemy opens fire; Choosing the candidates; The first
campaign; Leaguers in power; The League becomes “national”; War
issues; Producers and consumers; “Patrioteering”; Growth and power;
The second big battle; League democracy at work; “The new day in North
Dakota”; Another crisis passed; Organization changes; Survey and
forecast.
* * * * *
“Three years’ employment on the publication controlled by the league
has given Mr Gaston an intimate knowledge of the organization, and,
although the reader is assured of a ‘conscientious effort to make a
faithful report of facts of essential interest,’ favorable conclusions
are the rule. This point should be kept in view in judging the matter
presented.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:628 S ’20 1700w
“A very readable history of North Dakota’s recent interesting
contribution to politics.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“This book is an authoritative and to a certain extent an unbiased
statement of the genesis and growth of the movement.” G. M. J.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1000w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 20w
“An extremely lucid, vigorous, well-written account of one of the most
extraordinary movements in our political history. The league is
fortunate in having an apologist as clear-minded and as fair-minded as
Mr Gaston: his book has the character not of propaganda but of
history.”
+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 150w
“An indispensable book for the study of middle western politics.”
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“A severe critic will find in it much to praise, little to blame. Of
course certain transactions are glossed over. All important events are
given ‘with bright protective coloration.’ While the book has
historical sequence, it lacks philosophical unity.” J. E. Boyle
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:619 Jl ’20 1450w
“The Nonpartisan league has been the victim of an unconscionable
amount of lying. The more notable, therefore, is the service performed
by Mr Gaston in writing a book that gives not only the facts, but the
truth, concerning this remarkable political organization. Mr Gaston
writes with sympathy for the league, yet with scrupulous fairness to
its opponents. The story is told simply, directly, and with an absence
of partisanship and bitterness remarkable in view of the fierce
struggle of the past five years.” H: R. Mussey
+ =Nation= 110:656 My 15 ’20 1450w
“Admirable account.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 My 9 ’20 1200w
=N Y Times= p28 Ag 22 ’20 80w
“Although the author warns the readers of his possible bias, he has
nevertheless written dispassionately and in good spirit and, on the
whole, accurately.”
+ =Outlook= 125:430 Je 30 ’20 2400w
“His book is as readable as it is earnest. In his own language, he
‘puts it across.’ It is a great pity that one must lay the book aside
with the thought that though it is interesting it is little more than
an excellent piece of campaign apologetics.”
+ − =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 1500w
“His narrative throws much light on agrarian conditions in the Middle
West and Northwest.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w
“No doubt the impartial and critical historian of the future will
discover that the narrative is colored in favor of the movement the
author traces. Nevertheless, the work is a worthy one and gives a
fairly reliable account of a most interesting experiment.” J: M.
Gillette
+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 690w
“It is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to
be frank and honest, with so little rhetoric and apology, that we must
accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from
an insider adequately informed for his task.” W: E. Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:222 O ’20 800w
=GATLIN, DANA.= Missy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–20320
Missy, short for Melissa Merriam, is ten when we first make her
acquaintance in this book. Some of her adventures and experiences in
the years between ten and seventeen are told in chapters entitled: The
flame divine; “Your true friend, Melissa M.”; Like a singing bird;
Missy tackles romance; In the manner of the Duchess; Influencing
Arthur; Business of blushing; A happy downfall; Dobson saves the day,
and Missy cans the cosmos. Missy is the kind of girl who had “been
endowed with eyes that could shine and a voice that could quaver; yes,
and with an instinct for just the right argument to play upon the
heart-strings.” From the day when, in childish religious fervor, she
prays publicly “O Lord, please forgive me for being a spy-eye when
Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless
life,” her mental processes are original. Some of the chapters have
appeared in short story form in various popular magazines.
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“What Booth Tarkington did for the growing boy with ‘Penrod,’ Dana
Gatlin has written for the girl, with the difference that ‘Penrod’ is
done with broad effects for humor, while ‘Missy’ is a more delicate
piece of workmanship.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 500w
“This book is an almost perfect example of the department store
romance. There is not a glimmer of anything that might disturb the
picture. The book is fairly well written and many will like it.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 60w
=GAY, ROBERT MALCOLM.= Writing through reading. 90c Atlantic monthly
press 808
20–10291
This “suggestive method of writing English with directions and
exercises” (Sub-title) has for its object the acquisition of a command
of language and discipline and drill in clearness, vigor and
conciseness. The author believes that the problem of teaching writing
as an art and a tool of expression can be greatly simplified by
retelling the thoughts of others and the methods considered in the
book are: translating; paraphrasing; condensing; imitating prose, and
imitating verse. Contents: Introduction: reading and writing;
Transcribing and writing from dictation; Translating; Paraphrasing;
The abstract; Imitation and emulation.
* * * * *
“Suggestive to anyone interested in effective writing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Beyond all question ‘Writing through reading’ is the type of textbook
which eleventh and twelfth-grade classes in composition ought to be
able to follow with great profit.”
+ =School R= 28:632 O ’20 320w
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and FLAHERTY, MARTIN CHARLES=, comps. Poetry of
the people. 88c Ginn 821.08
20–11327
This volume has now been enlarged by the addition of a section devoted
to Poems of the world war: historical and patriotic. There are also
added four pages of notes on Popular songs of the world war.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and KURTZ, BENJAMIN PUTNAM.= Methods and
materials of literary criticism. $3 Ginn 808.1
20–11325
“This book is the second of a series entitled ‘Methods and materials
of literary criticism’, the volumes of which, though contributory to a
common aim, are severally independent.’ The first volume (Gayley and
Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and
poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the
methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, the
epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching
completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms.”
(Preface) The book is made up of two parts: The lyric and some of its
special forms; The epic and minor forms of narrative poetry. Each of
these subjects is considered under two aspects: Theory and technique,
and Historical development, and a list of general references is
provided for each, in addition to frequent references in the text. An
appendix contains a brief bibliography of the history of poetry (60
pages) and there is an index.
* * * * *
“The work here accomplished is an honor to American literary
scholarship and is of great and enduring value.”
+ =Cath World= 112:541 Ja ’21 230w
“The helpfulness of such a compilation can hardly be overestimated.
Testing the book from the standpoint of a student of the classical
types of literature one is impressed by the completeness of the
bibliographical material and by the discrimination of the editors when
selection is necessary.” H: W. Prescott
+ =Class J= 16:254 Ja ’21 520w
=Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 190w
“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how
the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that
absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power;
and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of
references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The
index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p12 Ag 15 ’20 2100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 200w
=GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN.= Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50
Ginn 220
19–15715
“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how
the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which
offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible,
the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular
tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical
literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual
nature of their message.”—Ath
* * * * *
“The point of view of the treatment is rather confusing. The method is
in a broad way historical, but in detailed application it contents
itself with acceptance of traditional views to such an extent as
almost to vitiate the usefulness of the book for historically minded
students.” J. M. P. S.
+ − =Am J Theol= 24:473 Jl ’20 190w
“Those who are not discouraged by the preface and the abstract style
of the whole work will find the matter instructive.”
+ − =Ath= p1352 D 12 ’19 140w
+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20
=GEORGE, WALTER LIONEL.= Caliban. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–15960
Richard Bulmer’s career in many respects parallels that of Alfred
Harmsworth but frequent reference to Lord Northcliffe as a
contemporary shows that it is not intended as a portrait. The story
begins with Richard’s boyhood and covers his early amateur attempts at
journalism, his first daring venture into the publishing world with
“Zip,” a sensational monthly that gives the public what it wants, and
his subsequent rise to the peerage and ownership of a chain of
newspapers. He marries early and after seven years separates from his
wife. Women mean little to him for he is too deeply absorbed in his
career, but late in life he meets Janet Willoughby and at her hands
suffers his first defeat. The story begins in the eighties of the
nineteenth century and runs thru the world war.
* * * * *
=Ath= p376 S 17 ’20 840w
=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“We know no more or less about Bulmer on page four hundred than on
page forty. He is a type brilliantly projected as a George or a Wells
or a Walpole or a Mackenzie knows how to project him,—and there is no
more to say.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 52:250 N ’20 660w
“In ‘Caliban’ Mr George cannot convince us for a moment that his
Richard Bulmer is doing anything more than to obey the commands of his
creator. A puppet in a marionette show has as much initiative of his
own as is possessed by this Richard Bulmer.” E. F. E.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is superior in many ways to Courlander’s ‘Mightier than the sword’
and has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs’ ‘Street of adventure.’ But
it is a falling off from Mr George’s superb ‘Blind alley.’”
+ − =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w
“As a portrayal of Bulmer, ‘Caliban’ is convincingly done; as a novel,
it is disappointing. For the book, despite Bulmer’s portrait, is
perfunctory.” R. S.
+ − =Freeman= 2:166 O 27 ’20 400w
“Mr George has grasped in its concrete terms one of the fundamental
things in our civilization—the press. His report may not be
faultlessly accurate; there may be depths he has not reached,
complications he has not disentangled. But his account has great
fulness of matter, dogged closeness of observation, fine solidity, and
burning candor.”
+ =Nation= 111:380 O 6 ’20 1000w
“Mr George has neglected the difficult and more interesting half of
his subject. He has not tried to answer the most puzzling of the
questions that yellow journalism raises. Not everybody, however, cares
to investigate the differences which separate the successful wooers of
‘Caliban’ from the unsuccessful, and in Mr George’s novel there is
cleverness enough to reward all readers who do not care.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w
“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will
‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that
give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander
Black
+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 5 ’20 2050w
“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr
George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations
become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing
make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an
interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less
clever variations.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps
better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole
business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too
often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the
narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 820w
“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of
truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to
redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs
away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which
would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 210w
=GEORGIAN= poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08
20–26460
The writers represented in this fourth volume of Georgian poetry are:
Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Francis Brett Young, William
H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, John Freeman, Wilfrid
Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Harold Monro, Thomas
Moult, Robert Nichols, J. D. C. Pellow, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward
Shanks, Fredegond Shove, J. C. Squire, and W. J. Turner.
* * * * *
“The corporate flavour of the volume is a false simplicity. Of the
nineteen poets who compose it there are certain individuals whom we
except absolutely from this condemnation, Mr de la Mare, Mr Davies and
Mr Lawrence; there are others who are more or less exempt from it, Mr
Abercrombie, Mr Sassoon, Mrs Shove, Mr Nichols and Mr Moult; and among
the rest there are varying degrees of saturation.” J. M. M.
− + =Ath= p1283 D 5 ’19 670w
=Booklist= 15:270 My ’20
“It is a profound labour to read this book. Not because, let me
hastily say, there is nothing good in it, but because it is all so
dreadfully tired. Here are nineteen poets, in the heyday of their
creating years, and scarcely one of them seems to have energy enough
to see personally or forge a manner out of his own natural speech.”
Amy Lowell
+ − =Dial= 69:424 O ’20 3000w
=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w
“It would, we think, be just to assume that there are three themes
which belong to poetry above all others—God, man, and nature. But
after reading the fourth book of ‘Georgian poetry’ from first page to
last, one would never have guessed it. We feel especially drawn
towards Mr Robert Graves. He is obviously at odds with the Georgian
complacency and conventionalism, particularly in the matter of
language. Mr Brett Young, again, a long way the best of the five
newcomers, reacts against the tenuity of the others and their careful
avoidance of reality.”
− + =Nation [London]= 26:338 D 6 ’19 1850w
“Among the others, it is good to see the name of D. H. Lawrence,
although he contributes but one poem, ‘Seven seals,’ a magnificent
thing, worthy of his wild unhappy genius.” Siegfried Sassoon
+ =N Y Times= 25:2 F 29 ’20 1150w
“These poets have unquestionable merits. Their temper is calm,
measured, resolute—almost an eighteenth century temper. Their ideal is
the vivid, the striking, the extreme—almost an Elizabethan ideal.
Naturally enough, their eighteenth century temper is not quite at home
in the handling of this Elizabethan ideal. Hence the vividness, which
is by no means altogether wanting, comes to reside less in the ideas
than in the language, less possibly in the language than in the
vocabulary.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 260w
“In ‘The sprig of lime’ and ‘Seventeen,’ which are his two long poems
this year, Mr Robert Nichols reaches a far higher platform in his
ascent of Parnassus. ‘The sprig of lime’ is an exceedingly beautiful
reflective poem.... Mr Shank’s ‘Fête galante, or The triumph of love,’
is a longish poem of quite extraordinary and peculiar
attractiveness.... Alas that Mr Squire’s ‘You are my sky’ has not been
included! His beautiful poem ‘Rivers’ is, as ever, most delightful
reading. Mr Harold Monro’s ‘Dog’ is a cunning piece of realism.”
+ =Spec= 124:143 Ja 31 ’20 1000w
“The character of the collection has altered slowly till this last
volume is least like the first: in fact, quite different. Long poems
are fewer and shorter, and the bulk of the contents has acquired a
strong family likeness. The original group of authors was more varied
in aim and achievement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p738 D 11 ’19 2100w
Reviewed by E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w
=GERMAN= days. *$3 Dutton 914.3
(Eng ed 19–11975)
“The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes her experiences
at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in
Berlin.” (Spec) “The latter half of the book gives the reader a clear
picture of commonplace life in Germany today—the homes, the food, the
amusements. The author is continually contrasting them, greatly to the
disadvantage of Germany, with what she has found in England.”
(Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian
school system is all the more effective on that account.”
+ =Spec= 122:368 Mr 22 ’19 130w
“Among the books which aim to give enlightenment regarding prewar
Germany one volume stands out for the seemingly naive impression of
unpleasantness that it gives. This is ‘German days.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ’20 700w
=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Youth in Harley. *$2 (1½c) Scribner
20–14294
After Stephen Quaid graduated from college he became principal of
Harley academy and for a year was a part of the New England village
life that soon will be but a tradition. In the picture unfolded by the
story many types of New England character are seen and old customs,
time-honored sports and celebrations and a town meeting are described,
and in the romance of Stephen and Cynthia Darrell, with the ups and
downs of their courtship, glimpses are given of the New England
conscience in both its feminine and masculine aspects.
* * * * *
“Interesting and wholesome but not a plot novel.”
+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
=Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 420w
“Though too abstract for great art, Mr Gerould’s novel represents an
intellectual honesty which fiction lacks in America, and which for
great art is requisite.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 300w
“The action is slow at times, and readers who desire plot above all
and breathlessness while reading will hardly feel themselves wholly in
sympathy with the book. It is, first of all, an effort in
characterization, and in this field Mr Gerould is always successful.
For readers who desire to taste the quality of excellent writing at
their leisure ‘Youth in Harley’ is to be recommended.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 600w
“Certainly the narrative is not exciting, nor is it rapid in movement,
but it is sincere in its mild realism and finished carefully in its
detail workmanship.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 70w
=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Modes and
morals. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 814
20–3866
Instead of the above title the author has been tempted to call her
collection of essays “Democracy, plumbing, and the war” because
democracy, always having a materialistic connotation, and plumbing,
symbolizing physical comforts, as well as war, “make the problem of
our immediate future a rather special one.” In the first essay, The
new simplicity, the cultural élite are exhorted to practice a severe
simplicity of living in order to hold their own against overpaid labor
whose tastes run to luxuries. In The extirpation of culture four
causes are named for this gradual extirpation among us: The increased
hold of the democratic fallacy on the public mind; The influx of a
racially and socially inferior population; Materialism in all classes;
and The idolatry of science. The other essays are: Dress and the
woman; Caviare on principle; Fashions in men; The newest woman; Tabu
and temperament; The boundaries of truth; Miss Alcott’s New England;
The sensual ear; British novelists, ltd.; The remarkable rightness of
Rudyard Kipling.
* * * * *
“Stimulating and provocative essays.”
+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sparkling little essays full of originality and common sense.”
+ =Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w
“Mrs Gerould is infinitely more agreeable as an essayist than as a
short story writer and her discussions of current problems, social,
spiritual and literary, are not only clever but stimulating.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 110:sup486 Ap 10 ’20 800w
=New Repub= 22:97 Mr 17 ’20 1350w
“The book is as charming as it is clever, as wise as it is witty.
‘British novelists, ltd.,’ is the most individual of the essays in
this volume, as it is also the most amusing. It is full of humor and
of good humor. It has the light touch so much desired nowadays; none
the less is it a searching criticism.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 2300w
“One salutes the Mrs Gerould of the short stories as a fictional
artist of subtle power and distinguished skill. One views her
secondary personality, the social philosopher, the student of manners
and morals, as an example of the perturbing truth that a mind which
creates with brilliancy and force may be feeble and unrewarding in
ratiocination. Mrs Gerould is trite and trivial not only whenever her
subject gives her an opportunity to be, but at moments when she might
easily be something else.” Lawrence Gilman
− =No Am= 211:564 Ap ’20 1550w
“A little superior, supercilious Mrs Gerould doubtless is, and not a
little paradoxical. But in her speculation, she uncovers a good many
meaty ideas. One may not always agree with her or think her correct in
her statement of facts; but one has at least got some return for the
energy expended in reading.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 1350w
“When we say that Mrs Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have
indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in
this attractive and satisfying volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:186 O ’20 500w
=GIBBON, JOHN MURRAY.= Conquering hero. *$2 (3½c) Lane
20–16160
A fishing party of city men is interrupted by the startling appearance
of a beautiful woman. She introduces herself as the Princess Stephanie
Sobieska, and is then recognized as a moving picture star. One of the
guides of the fishing party, Donald Macdonald, Scotch Canadian and
veteran of the world war, becomes a prime favorite with her, and after
the fishing season is over, they still remain friends. He goes out to
a farm in British Columbia and there meets a little girl whom he
shortly becomes engaged to. But here the Princess Sobieska unwittingly
makes trouble for him, for she appears on the scene again, and Kate
thinks there is or has been something more than friendship, between
Donald and her, and breaks the engagement. The Princess, in her
wisdom, takes just the right course to straighten matters out, and all
ends happily.
* * * * *
“The book suggests an attractive open-air atmosphere, and the freedom
of great spaces.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 100w
“Frankly, Mr Gibbon has contrived to secure a host of ill-assorted
ingredients that, so far from assimilating each other, make known
their utter unsimilarity in no uncertain fashion.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 210w
“If it is possible, Mr Gibbon has too much real life in his book. Now
and again the realization comes quite consciously that he is using his
carpetbag of a romance as a receptacle for chunks of his own life. On
the whole his story is a crude, vigorous, simple and attractive sketch
of the Canada of today.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 270w
“It is an amusing tale, but carries no serious conviction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w
=GIBBON, M. MORGAN.= Jan. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
John and Jan are both Owens, John, son of the quiet, staid Henry, and
Jan, daughter of the wild, wilful John. The younger John and Jan alike
crave freedom and liberty from the time they play together as
children. Even then John’s love for Jan is strong and protecting and
it never wavers all thru their school life until she promises to marry
him. But she finds the engagement irksome and after a quarrel, John
sets her free. She experiments with her freedom, trying one excursion
into liberty after another. But nothing satisfies, she and John are
both miserable and both too proud to give in. Eventually she realizes
that she would rather have love than freedom.
* * * * *
“The young lady who gives a name to ‘Jan’ labours obviously under the
disadvantage—very usual with novel heroines—of meaning something to
her creator, which has not been conveyed to the reader. The
descriptions of Welsh middle-class life are vivid and sympathetic, and
impress us as drawn from actual fact.”
+ − =Ath= p163 D 3 ’20 100w
“It is a thoroughly wholesome story, set forth by a writer who has the
gift of frank, effective, convincing narrative. The value of this
novel, which most readers will appreciate, lies in the fact that it is
entertaining in itself, page after page.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 470w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 190w
“This is a first novel which may fairly be described as promising.
Praise must be given to the careful delineation of the characters of
Jan and John.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p721 N 4 ’20 120w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= France and ourselves. *$1.50 (2½c) Century
940.344
20–5134
This collection of “Interpretative studies, 1917–1919,” is from the
author’s war contributions to various American magazines, mainly to
the Century. The burden of the book throughout is “We must see
problems as France sees them, and we must help to solve them in the
French way and not in the American.” Even when the author contrasts
America’s “fourteen points” with what he is pleased to call France’s
“fourteen points,” he does not consider the task hopeless. Contents:
How we can help France; The tiger of France; World justice for France;
The industrial effort of France during the war; Human currents of the
war; The attitude of France toward peace; The reconstruction of
northern France; The case against Caillaux; What confronts France.
* * * * *
“Much of the book must be classed less as history than as propaganda,
though propaganda of a very high-minded type. But the inevitable
shortcomings of the book add in another way to its value. It vibrates
with the spirit of the war and with the generous enthusiasm that
inspired those Americans to whom the true character of France had been
revealed.” A. D. Hill
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:730 N ’20 840w
=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 800w
+ =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 210w
+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w
“Much of this book is now badly out of date. Aside from this, there is
much that is valuable and even timely in the book. Dr Gibbons writes
with vigor and clarity of vision.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 950w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 100w
“The chapter on the attitude of France toward peace, written about a
year ago, is full of matter for thought today.” T. M. Parrott
+ =Review= 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 120w
“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of
essays.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4
20–21327
“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars
and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere
because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify
them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up
the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of
brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before
him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built
for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and
medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real
to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George
Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar;
Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice;
Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting
town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is
the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever
illustrations.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 310w
“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as
it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description
and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 1000w
=R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 40w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50
Houghton
20–20218
Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance
with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has,
moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that
precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915
and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace
conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his
Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the
University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early
manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession;
Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece;
The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former
Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest;
Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the
entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral;
Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the
peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire.
The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached
investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is
more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby
measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.
+ =Boston Transcript= p 5 N 20 ’20 850w
“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it
will be none the less useful.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 150w
“What he is writing is not dignified biography, but propaganda.”
Elenore Kellogg
− =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 440w
“The book is one of great value, notwithstanding its lack of some of
the qualities artistic and interesting biography ought to have.”
+ − =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 2250w
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 580w
“Mr Gibbons’ book is the most successful attempt to give a complete
and proportioned account of Venizelos’ life.” A. E. Phoutrides
+ − =Review= 3:621 D 22 ’20 900w
“Aside from its strictly biographical features, this volume is a
contribution to the recent history of the Balkans, as well as to that
of the peace conference at Paris.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 160w
“Mr Gibbons has contributed a notable addition to modern biography.”
E. B. Moses
+ =Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 250w
=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Splendid outcast. il *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–2258
In the midst of a battle Jim Horton finds his twin brother Harry, an
officer with responsibility, crouching behind the lines in a “blue
funk,” desperately afraid to obey his major’s orders, Jim compels
Harry to change uniforms with him, takes Harry’s place, and so
splendidly performs his brother’s duty that he gains for him the croix
de guerre. Incidentally, Jim is seriously wounded. Recovering in the
hospital he finds himself in a strange dilemma. No one believes his
story. At last he grimly resolves to see the game through. This is
difficult, as Harry is a dissolute crook engaged in some shady
undertakings, and Jim is all that a true gentleman ought to be.
Furthermore there is Harry’s beautiful bride to add more perplexing
complications. Around this situation evolves a tense story, running
through the underworld of Paris. In the end Jim, upon the death of his
worthless brother, marries the beautiful Moira, whose marriage to
Harry had been forced upon her, and who loves Jim beyond question.
* * * * *
“It is undeniably a dramatic story that Mr Gibbs tells. In spite of
the transparent confusion of identities, he manages to keep us
genuinely guessing at least part of the time.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 320w
“If the characters were any of them real people the probabilities of
the plot would not matter so much, but they are merely the stereotyped
figures who have appeared in dozens of tales of this order, and they
rather detract than add to the book’s credibility.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:91 F 15 ’20 420w
“The book would make a tremendous movie. The moves of the
detective-like story are too intricate, the action too violent, the
scenes too realistic to be overlooked in this field. It is a book for
tired brains and jaded moments.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 300w
“The story moves with the rapid characteristic of Gibbs’s tales, but
many of the incidents are more obviously manufactured for effect than
in some of the author’s preceding books.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 280w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Now it can be told (Eng title, Realities
of war). *$3 (1c) Harper 940.3
20–5994
“In this book I have written in a blunt way some episodes of the war
as I observed them, and gained firsthand knowledge of them in their
daily traffic. I have not painted the picture blacker than it was, nor
selected gruesome morsels and joined them together to make a jig-saw
puzzle for ghoulish delight.... I have tried to set down as many
aspects of the war’s psychology as I could find in my remembrance of
these years, without exaggeration or false emphasis, so that out of
their confusion, even out of their contradiction, the real truth of
the adventure might be seen as it touched the souls of men. Yet when
one strives to sum up the evidence ... are we really poor beasts in
the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas,
for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict? If that is so,
then God mocks at us. Or, rather, if that is so, there is no God such
as we men may love with love for men.” (Part 8) Contents: Observers
and commanders; The school of courage; The nature of a battle; A
winter of discontent; The heart of a city; Psychology on the Somme;
The fields of Armageddon; For what men died.
* * * * *
“The war writing of Mr Gibbs presents an interesting problem. He
appears to be a reasonably sensitive observer, he has had exceptional
opportunities for observing, and he writes with considerable fluency.
Why, then, does his writing affect us so little?... Mr Gibbs’ style
has no definite and unique outline; it is, as it were, a composite
style, his voice has the indistinctness of the voice of a crowd. The
style is adequate to his purpose because his sentiments have something
of the same quality. They furnish, as it were, the greatest common
measure of the more intelligent opinion and the more decent feeling
about the war.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p272 F 27 ’20 900w
=Booklist= 16:274 My ’20
“His book is a bit querulous about the obvious indignities; but it is
calm and terrible about the great wrongs.”
+ =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 90w
“The indictment of war is written in the same spirit as Barbusse’s
famous novel ‘Le feu’ or Sassoon’s war poetry, and with as much
literary skill as either. Mr Gibbs’ emotional reaction to the horrors
of war fuses the miscellaneous details of the book into a powerful
picture of the whole. His intellectual reaction is not so clear.”
+ − =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“It is a great triumph for him to have written this book, to say the
things he does say and reveal the facts he reveals.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:356 My 12 ’20 2150w
“This volume marks the close of that great work done by Mr Philip
Gibbs as a chronicler of war. It is a wonderful close, and a public
tired of war books must not make the mistake of neglecting this, which
has a frankness, a truth and a stern reality never before shown in all
the literature of the war.” Cecil Robert
+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 1100w
“Different from his other books in that it shows no particular design,
is painfully fragmentary and reveals Mr Gibbs as an unsatisfactory
psychologist.”
− =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“A book which, however unpleasant it may be, is to all appearances
both truthful and sincere. Its truthfulness is its greatest virtue. In
several ways, however, the book is somewhat unsatisfactory. Its tone,
one may say, is not that of well-balanced thinking or of altogether
unbiassed criticism; it does not wholly convince. Furthermore, one
cannot rid oneself of the feeling that Sir Philip leans somewhat
toward the pacifist fallacy.”
+ − =No Am= 212:142 Jl ’20 1200w
“Mr Gibbs says things well: his fault is that he says them too often.
Some of the repetition is clever emphasis that drives home the point
while the speed saves the effect of boredom. If the book lasts it will
be as a record of matters which properly belong to history, but with
which history does not always deal.”
+ − =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 1500w
=Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 100w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 100w
“We cannot honestly recommend anyone to read this book just now,
valuable and interesting though it may be to the next and succeeding
generations. Power of graphic description Sir Philip Gibbs undoubtedly
has; but his bitterness of spirit and his emotional worship of youth
are not moods to be prolonged at the present hour.”
− + =Sat R= 129:349 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“He has a keen eye for the telling detail that impresses a picture
indelibly on the mind, and his quick sympathy with all who suffer
helps him to keep the human side of the great tragedy foremost in our
thoughts. His style is sufficient without being distinguished. He has,
however, the defects of his qualities. He sees what is to be seen so
intensely that he is inclined to forget the existence of what he does
not see.”
+ − =Spec= 124:493 Ap 10 ’20 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 29 ’20 80w
“From the beginning to the end he resolutely refused (and it is a
great thing to say of him) to become familiar with war. He took no
intellectual pleasure, as it was so easy to do, in all the human
ingenuity that was concentrated on it. So too Mr Gibbs kept himself
remote from everything that concerned war as a profession, with its
inevitable indifference to suffering. He is single-minded in his
desire to be the spokesman of youth that went to the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 4 ’20 900w
“If ‘The judgment of peace’ is a flame, ‘Now it can be told’ is a slow
and smoldering fire. These books, accepted by mankind, would be
sufficient in themselves to end war forever.” G. H.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 700w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= People of destiny; Americans as I saw them
at home and abroad. il *$2 (5c) Harper 917.3
20–17298
In describing the life in New York and the people he met in America
the author records impressions that are much the same as those of
other Europeans, vid., that there is too much vastness, bustle and
hubbub, too little “art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought.”
In summing up the characteristics of the people he finds them “filled
with vital energy, kind in heart, sincere and simple in their ways of
thought and speech, idealistic in emotion, practical in conduct and
democratic by faith and upbringing”; and he expresses the hope that
these characteristics will help them to steer free of the dangers that
threaten our liberties since the war. In telling America what England
thinks of it he is holding up a warning mirror to us. Contents: The
adventure of life in New York; Some people I met in America; Things I
like in the United States; America’s new place in the world; What
England thinks of America; Americans in Europe.
* * * * *
“He expresses a number of opinions about America, but they are not all
consistent with one another, they belong to different emotional
registers, and we feel it would be a purely arbitrary proceeding to
select any consistent set of them as representative.”
+ − =Ath= p648 N 12 ’20 700w
=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“His first few chapters are so insistently laudatory that one feels
his praise issues more from his will than from his judgment, that he
is simply determined to see good, and one longs—perversely, no
doubt—for more shading in the picture. In the closing chapters,
however, he comes to grips with his subject and gives a more balanced
verdict.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:537 Ja ’21 770w
“Sir Philip Gibbs met so many of the right people during his stay
among us that it is curious he should have learned anything whatever
about America. Sir Philip’s book is occupied largely with the
conventional admirations of the casual European for the physical
conveniences of our civilization, with the regulation amazements about
wonder cities and their subways and skylines and palaces and
bejewelled parasites.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 2:309 D 8 ’20 1150w
“In the main his studies of the American man, woman, and child at home
are not only correct, but animated by a cordial pleasure in having
seen people he likes, doing the things he likes.”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 3 ’20 1900w
+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 250w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 560w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Wounded souls. *$2 (2c) Doran
The story is not so much a novel as it is an account of the war’s
effect on human souls. We see it first in Lille with its inhuman
savage hatred and lust for revenge on the part of the French and a
revulsion of feeling in the English soldiers from patriotism to an
abomination of the war. Then the author shows us the effect of the
armistice on the German people and their reviving hope kindled by the
fourteen points. Again in England the same irreconcilable spirit of
hatred as in France and the ruthless, morbid, neurotic sullenness of
the returned soldier. Between all these forces the crushing out of
love and life in the young couple—the English officer and his German
wife—whose humanity had carried them beyond nationality. The whole is
a drastic picture of post-war Europe.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“In this book Philip Gibbs, with powerful, vital strokes, brings home
to us that the war is not yet over, although fought and won.”
+ =Cath World= 112:685 F ’21 290w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
“Only a man who has been there could introduce so much background. Mr
Gibbs was either too close to his material or too much the journalist
to succeed in giving the atmosphere of an invaded country as well as
Sir Harry Johnston has done in ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ But his
chronicle of public sentiment in England equals that of H. G. Wells’s
stories of the war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w
“All of the descriptive part, where the author confines himself
principally to an admirable reporting of what he himself saw and
heard, is extremely interesting and worth while. The fictional portion
of the book is less successful.” L. M. Field
+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 1150w
=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 90w
“The junkers of all nations, the militarists, the advocates of
universal military training, will not thank Philip Gibbs for ‘Wounded
souls,’ which must at least be credited with eloquence and disquieting
vision.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 220w
“It is excellently done, and often moving, but it is just the feeling
that everything is being made so skilfully to tell which prevents one
accepting it in the spirit of real æsthetic enjoyment. Sir Philip
Gibbs, like many another of us, is disillusioned, which is not
surprising, but he overdraws the picture of disillusionment and
spiritual decay. His shadows are all pitch dark and his lights too
high.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 N 4 ’20 540w
=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Forerunner; his parables and poems. il *$1.50 Knopf
892.7
20–20557
This book is similar in form and thought to “The madman,” published in
1918. “You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded
are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be
a foundation,” are the opening words. The five illustrations are from
drawings by the author.
* * * * *
=Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w
“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s
pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush
that is captivating.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 410w
=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741
20–212
“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us
‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen
to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to
fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This
theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative
essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil
sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain
instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint
strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen
Mullin
+ − =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w
=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= Chemistry and its mysteries; the story of what
things are made of told in simple language. il *$1.50 Lippincott 540
20–8917
“The preface of ‘Chemistry and its mysteries,’ is addressed to the
adult and sets forth the advantages of disabusing the mind of any
child below high school age of the idea that chemistry is a dry and
merely technical study. The author bases the book on the belief that
children will become genuinely interested in science, if the subject
is put before them in a manner in which they can easily grasp it. The
volume is the fifth in the Science for children series, the text
showing in a simple manner the inner meaning of everyday happenings
and the composition of materials met in everyday life.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“Of interest to the adult as well as child.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 200w
“He certainly has achieved considerable success in a difficult task.
It is unfortunate that Mr Gibson makes a few statements to which
exception can be taken in themselves.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p748 D 11 ’19 550w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.=[2] Neighbours. *$2 Macmillan 821
20–18067
“There is restraint and beauty in these poems which always keep close
touch with men and women. Neighbours speak in the quiet of their homes
a few intimate lines which open whole life stories; pretty love poems,
poems of travel and picture verses are gathered with ‘In khaki’ and
‘Casualties.’”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Mr Gibson for us has something of the power and the achievement of
his fellow-Northumbrian, Bewick. Granted that he possesses not a tithe
of Bewick’s nature-knowledge, he approaches him more nearly in his
reading of human nature; and when he leaves this province for the dash
and splendour of Turner or even the woodland reverie of Birket Foster,
he drops for a shadow the substance which he had before.” E. B.
+ − =Ath= p549 O 22 ’20 540w
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“The only definitely interesting section of Mr Gibson’s new book is
the first, called ‘Neighbours,’ containing a series of grim rural
monologues and dialogues. The other sections are filled with turgid
sonnets and monotonous quatrains about the war.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 160w
“Admiring Mr Gibson’s careful workmanship and truth to nature, we
cannot escape the feeling that at least half the time he is to the
real poet as the photographer, however fine, is to the artist.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 250w
Reviewed by K. L. Bates
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 2 ’21 1200w
“Mr Gibson’s skill is most admirable when we consider that it is
allied to poetic feeling of the utmost simplicity and depth.”
+ =Spec= 125:505 O 16 ’20 380w
“Mr Gibson’s latest book will not lessen his reputation as a poet, but
it can scarcely add to it. For while the virtues of style and
sincerity which his earlier poetry has taught us to expect, are in
equal evidence here, the vices which we trusted were only incidents of
his growth remain in an exaggerated condition.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p714 N 4 ’20 1350w
=GILBRETH, FRANK BUNKER, and GILBRETH, LILLIAN EVELYN (MOLLER) (MRS
FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH).= Motion study for the handicapped. (Efficiency
books) il *$4 Dutton 658.7
(Eng ed 20–6759)
“The authors maintain that there is ‘one best way’ in every industrial
process, and that way can best be determined by a study of the methods
of experts as revealed by motion pictures so taken as to show the path
of the motion and the time required. The best way of performing an
operation having been determined, the authors maintain that the
cripple should be taught that method. Their enthusiastic claim is, ‘We
have worked out in the laboratory the methods by which suitable
occupations for cripples of any type may be determined and also
methods by which training in these occupations may be transferred to
the crippled learner.’ Much is said about the problem of the crippled
soldier, for most of the chapters of the book were papers read before
meetings of engineers in 1917 and 1918 when that subject was receiving
much attention.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Ath= p452 Ap 2 ’20 500w
=Nature= 105:737 Ag 12 ’20 950w
Reviewed by J. C. Faris
+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w
=GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD.= Six thousand country
churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261
19–17903
“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church
conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly
surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life,
denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division
into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious
instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with
non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are
recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former
volume.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit
of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan
Hoben
+ =Am J Soc= 26:377 N ’20 180w
“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the
program for the living church in America during the next generation.”
+ =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 170w
=Booklist= 16:188 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w
“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church
federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six
thousand country churches.’”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 80w
“Certainly everybody who is at all concerned for the cause of morals
and religion, every student of sociology, and every believer in the
laboratory method, must feel under deep obligation to the painstaking
authors of ’6,000 country churches’ for the statesmanlike survey which
they have given to us.” C: E. Beals
+ =Nation= 110:521 Ap 17 ’20 1050w
=GILLESPIE, JAMES EDWARD.=[2] Influence of oversea expansion on England
to 1700. (Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public
law) pa *$3 Longmans 942
20–18737
“In this treatise British colonial development is approached from a
new angle. The author has made a serious attempt to analyze and
present the effects of early British expansion on England herself. He
discusses these effects in the concrete, under the heads of social
customs, commerce, industry, finance, morals and religion, thought,
literature, art and politics.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“He handles large quantities of fascinating material with dexterity
and good sense.”
+ =Nation= 111:539 N 10 ’20 80w
“Mr Gillespie’s book, though sometimes inconclusive and sometimes
unconvincing, particularly in what it says of political development,
is illuminating and suggestive, and opens up a new field of
observation and research to the historical student.”
+ − =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 340w
“Such a discussion is useful in that it brings together for the first
time a variety of materials that have heretofore been widely
scattered. It serves to crystallize and clarify our views of a most
important period in English history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 100w
=GITTINS, HARRY NEVILLE.= Short and sweet. *$1.75 Lane
20–7428
A collection of short light stories and sketches. The author died on
active service in France in 1917, aged twenty-four years. The stories
originally appeared in Punch, the Liverpool Daily Post and London
Opinion, and have been collected in book form by Mr Gittins’ family as
a tribute to his memory. The point of most of the stories, which
average about seven pages, is in the light repartee of love making
rather than in action. Among the titles are: The golfing husband;
Marjorie on the turf; A golfing musical comedy; By the left; A
difficult handicap; A lucky escape; The married man’s advantage; The
difficulty of the dance; Short and sweet, etc. At the close there is a
group of verses in the same strain.
* * * * *
“Of gossamer texture, and seemingly dashed off without much thought,
they yet give an instantly recognizable reflection of the typical
British young man of good family and sufficient means. Some of the
chapters suggest the daintiness of the ‘Dolly dialogues,’ while all
are up to a respectable standard of literary merit.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 400w
“They are very good examples of the light humorous vein in which the
youth of this generation delight and excel. Many of them remind us of
the early work of Barrie.”
+ =Sat R= 130:400 N 13 ’20 60w
“The little stories have a touch of original humor and are agreeable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w
=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.= Literary snapshots, impressions of
contemporary authors. *$1.25 Brentano’s 811
20–13197
“In these snapshots, Mr Glaenzer has brought out the literary features
of his subjects. The first three groups are devoted to English,
American and foreign authors, among the twenty-two of the first being
Hardy, Galsworthy, Wells, Kipling, Barrie, Shaw, to Dunsany, Doyle,
Hudson and Blackwood; among the fourteen American authors are Howells,
Dreiser, Wharton, Tarkington, Hergesheimer, Churchill and Wister;
among the ten foreign authors are France, Loti, Rolland, to
Schnitzler, d’Annunzio and Boyer. Another group of prose-writers are
labelled ‘Lollypops,’ among which are Harold Bell Wright, Florence L.
Barclay, Robert W. Chambers, Elinor Glyn, Owen Johnson, Marie Corelli,
Upton Sinclair and Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the four groups under
the ‘Flicks at Pegasus,’ the poets, English and American are
limned.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The likeness is in the impression rather than in the contours, and
for that reason is much more strikingly interesting.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’19 400w
“The literary photographer has been clever in catching his victims in
what the public would call ‘a characteristic and distinctive pose.’ In
the case of his vers libre subjects Mr Glaenzer is successful in
reflecting their styles in his own.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 200w
“You may not like some of the snapshots, you may violently disagree
with the implied judgments—but they are all stimulating, some of them
are humorous, a few bitter, and more are acutely critical.” W. P.
Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 220w
=GLASIER, JOHN BRUCE.= Meaning of socialism. *$2 (4c) Seltzer 335
21–880
The book is one of the “New library of social science” series, edited
by J. Ramsay Macdonald. It has an introduction by J. A Hobson, who
says of socialism that its most profitable labor is in the field of
“humanism”—meaning that economics, politics, art and morals are but
necessary factors in the realization of higher human relationships—and
that the author of the book has more successfully than any other
writer of our time the humanist interpretation and outlook. The four
parts of the book are: After long ages; The epoch of freedom;
Socialism in existing society; Beyond all frontiers.
* * * * *
“Mr Glasier is badly equipped as an economist and is too impatient for
rhetorical flights.” H. S.
+ − =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 200w
“While the book contains no new departure in socialist thought, the
author’s fine literary gift, his intimate knowledge of the socialist
movement and his inspiring idealism make the volume an excellent first
aid to the student of socialism.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 110w
“Presents the fundamental idea of socialism with a large amount of
ethical and humane idealism and praiseworthy grace and sweetness of
temper. It is, in short, socialism suffused with the spirit of William
Morris and purged of its economic one-sidedness that Mr Glasier
presents.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p684 N 27 ’19 1000w
=GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS GEORGE CRAM COOK).= Plays. *$2 Small 812
20–12185
All of Susan Glaspell’s plays have been produced by the Provincetown
players and by other little theater groups and some of them have been
published separately. This is the first collected edition. The
collection opens with Trifles, which has been called “the best play
that has been written by an American.” The other one-act plays are The
people, Close the book, The outside and Woman’s honor. These are
followed by the three-act play, Bernice, a play of subtle theme, one
of the few attempts to write serious American drama. The collection
closes with two comedies written in collaboration with George Cram
Cook, Suppressed desires and Tickless time.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Miss Glaspell has command of crisp and forceful dialogue, but this
volume, indeed, indicates clearly that her gifts are literary rather
than dramatic.”
+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 160w
“These eight plays have a literary quality and a somewhat
philosophical viewpoint that make them as readable as stories. Miss
Glaspell writes in a crisp, descriptive style and she shows keen
insight into the underlying human motives. ‘Trifles’ is a really great
play.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“The publication of Miss Glaspell’s collected plays at last lifts them
out of the tawdriness of their original production and lets them live
by their own inherent life. That life is strong, though it is never
rich. In truth, it is thin. Only it is thin not like a wisp of straw,
but like a tongue of flame.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 1100w
“Miss Glaspell’s style, while not especially distinguished, is
entertaining and easy to read.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 250w
“The well-rounded laughter of ‘Suppressed desires’ becomes a trifle
more angular in the comedies from a single pen, ‘Woman’s honor,’ and
‘Close the book.’ In all the plays there is a deeper meaning, the
presence of an interesting idea or ideal, yet, as in ‘Woman’s honor’
and ‘The outside,’ the idea often remains veiled. ‘Bernice’ may be
read with an intensity of thought. Yet, as a play, acted upon a stage,
what was intense might easily become monotonous.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 14 ’20 600w
“For readers who can achieve an artistic perspective in relation to
these plays there is satisfaction in finding, after reading and
rereading them all, that the big things are the good ones, and that
the biggest is the best. It is as if Miss Glaspell hit a far target
more easily than one close by.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 320w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 60w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= What the workers want: a study of British
labor. *$4 Harcourt, Brace & Howe 331
20–9059
As a result of five years’ study of the British, the author predicts
that England will make an early and sane adjustment to the new
impulses of the human spirit now striving for expression throughout
the world and that she will be the first country to enter the new age
equipped and unembittered. His summary of the wants of the workers
today is: “The workers wish to be the public servants of community
enterprise, not the hired hands of private enterprise. They refuse to
work longer for a system of private profits divided in part among
non-producers. They demand a share in the control and responsibilities
of the work they do (not only welfare and workshop conditions, but
discipline and management and commercial administration). They demand
a good life, which means a standard of living (in terms of wages and
hours) that provides leisure, recreation, education, health, comfort,
and security.” (Chapter 1) The contents report all the important
events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the
sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What
the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full
the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into
the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The
judgment; The public. There is an index.
* * * * *
“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men
in the British labor situation.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound
understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political
problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M.
Ave-Lallemant
+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w
“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the
various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new
authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its
influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the
narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for
understanding the situation.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 150w
“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful
pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the
general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest
danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The
danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book
nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely
to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:855 D ’20 1550w
“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose
a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and
juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of
authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the
least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.”
G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several
years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a
frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an
objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a
preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J.
L.
+ =New Repub= 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w
“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr
Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient
or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose
his head.”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w
+ =Survey= 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w
=GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.=[2] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst
Biggs. il *$5 Lane
21–658
These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of
Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back
to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them
and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a
larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully
illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is
added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess
Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman
and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in
the forest hut.
* * * * *
“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious
striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
“An exceptionally attractive book.”
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w
“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 220w
=GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT.= Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.
il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150
20–7588
“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem
foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director
of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published
under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’”
(Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of
different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect
greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work
and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used
as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are
protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work
with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in
intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting
and appealing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w
=GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI.= Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68
20–18316
The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in
beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the
theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without
which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are
impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile
rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular
current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being.
The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on
which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of
the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The
rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.
* * * * *
“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 80w
“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the
way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the
author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably
lucid.” Van Buren Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1850w
=GOLDBERG, ISAAC.= Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50
Brentano’s 860
20–2423
“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals
and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford
in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr
Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets,
Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru,
Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and
political points of view are quoted in both the original and
translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone
Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w
“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse
he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an
English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to
hand.” J. B. T.
+ − =Ath= p902 D 31 ’20 520w
“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of
subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is
marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of
his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w
“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value.
It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if
swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.”
G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 750w
“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of
world literature.” T: Walsh
+ =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid
and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The
chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort
to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American
writers.” H. K.
+ =New Repub= 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w
“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately,
however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things.
In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then
pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w
“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at
times sparkling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre)
*$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12048
In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl
who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground
that she has learned to love another. The development of the play
brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man
himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the
sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to
that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing
in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a
preface and there is an introduction by the author.
* * * * *
“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than
dialogue.”
+ − =Ath= p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w
“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward
the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes
human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes
− + =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard
to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound
thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical
antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan
− =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w
“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any
pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the
pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of
Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 50w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer
20–9785
The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from
Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there
becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the
brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an
advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the
Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced
to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian
connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she
becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An
elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the
means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is
divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her.
At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she
loves.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:67 S ’20 700w
“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w
“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of
vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But
after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes
its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like
turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C.
F. L.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 220w
“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is
convincingly inevitable.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w
“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an
entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction
and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious
talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a
‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but
nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and
triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w
“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover
to cover.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w
“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little
grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot
and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force
to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story
gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer
824
20–17759
These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English
novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary
reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and
some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton
Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H.
Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on
Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English
letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking
back. There is an index.
* * * * *
“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of
critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the
miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the
part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to
read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon
public idols.”
+ − =Ath= p827 Je 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. E. Roberts
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off
somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his
consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting
precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M.
R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w
+ − =Nation= 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w
“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly
worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider
his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows
definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of
genuine, worth-while information.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 640w
“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable
receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface
impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing
either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much
his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the
better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”
− + =Sat R= 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w
“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a
literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’
The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the
book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low
tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does
not obtrude his political opinions.”
+ − =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w
“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is
that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing
distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be
credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w
“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can
attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial
he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is
undistinguished and sometimes slack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 300w
=GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.).= I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c)
Sully 504
20–1376
A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions,
giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.”
The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the
I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining
chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as
Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air,
Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity,
Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331
20–224
“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited
by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two
volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and
labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from
official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American
Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public
addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections
include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material
is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is
generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:365 Je ’20 70w
+ − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:97 Mr ’20 40w
“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of
the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the
thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the
reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the
Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E.
D. Strong
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:257 O ’20 850w
“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic
federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A.
F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the
organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume
confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book.
The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the
reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is
valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of
the American federation of labor.” James Oneal
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 30w
“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part,
no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 17 ’20 140w
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes
Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton
331.8
20–12195
“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book
gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has
known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is
made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and
editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and
employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women
in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of
output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing
and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged
chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under
the major headings.” (Survey)
* * * * *
“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official
unionism on important labor issues.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding
labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would
like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of
employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related
subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book
will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:791 N ’20 530w
“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and
realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters.
In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and
standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking
out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience.
When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur
Gleason
− + =Nation= 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires
authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as
it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the
various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial
possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers
and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect
in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty
years.” J. D. Hackett
+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.=[2] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50
(*14s) Longmans 830.9
20–8640
“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French
revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual
ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect
produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters
such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte
and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily
it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German
institutions.”—Sat R
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p605 My 7 ’20 1200w
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w
“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr
Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is
allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the
generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither
outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”
+ =Sat R= 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w
“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of
materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and
clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on
the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it,
for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and
cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond
cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.= Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–13567)
“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost
the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John
Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the
tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to
reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in
that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party.
Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an
uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was
eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger
than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of
opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even
at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea
for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do
most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his
correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same
thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney
throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most
attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall
dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide
and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the
background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself,
and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and
opinions.” G. L. D.
+ =Ath= p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 600w
“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very
attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s
character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and
conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the
record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not
attach to the man.”
+ =Sat R= 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like
‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an
instructive contribution to contemporary history.”
+ − =Spec= 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w
“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that
needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be
wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is
fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy
with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w
=GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS.= Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt,
Brace & Howe 335
20–6220
The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the
actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since
this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he
meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings
are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable
administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a
marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the
daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the
Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical
revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government”
and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a
government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with
Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism
and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia;
Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and
education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene;
Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of
rest; Conclusions.
* * * * *
=Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it
leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock
+ − =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with
unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their
conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be
carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is
discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”
+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode
was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks
had done or proposed to do.”
− =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w
“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes
his book of very little value.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F19 ’20 260w
=GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN.= Poland and the minority races. *$2.50
Brentano’s 914.38
20–15472
“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last
year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish
question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now
published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we
have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General
Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American
government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon
the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the
more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p521 O 15 ’20 200w
“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first
page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise
rather sordid recital.”
+ =Cath World= 112:405 D ’20 190w
“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the
Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the
Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but
not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:358 F ’21 250w
=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w
“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without
prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of
fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much
information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief
for either side.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p6 D 12 ’20 2150w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
=Spec= 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make
it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the
publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a
government commission no reference is made to the final report of the
commission.” M. A. Chickering
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w
“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which,
though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader
in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more
elaborate works.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w
=GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN.= Frontier of control: a study of British
workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1
20–20526
Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of
industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The
author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control
in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings
without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in
which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the
analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade
unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which
together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular
industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the
war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for
control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the
latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The
right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special
managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning
complete self-government in industry.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
=GOODWIN, JOHN.=[2] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–14762
The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret
Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s
most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John
Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful
suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves
itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir
Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful
interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and
hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting
her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where
Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as
she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of
shrewd moves on both sides.
* * * * *
“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of
melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood.
In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and
banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden
characterizations.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 140w
“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really
powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 290w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=GORDON, ALEXANDER REID.= Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist.
(Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224
(Eng ed 20–6575)
“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has
been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success
in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job,
Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to
this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of
the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university
and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter
into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily
accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the
Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the
Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts
of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old
Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed
unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of
stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away
from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 130w
=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c)
Houghton 285
20–5985
This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of
the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded
upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England
divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type
although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds
that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the
Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming
in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses
himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is
that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard
Theological Review for April, 1907.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w
“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have
dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a
loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to
a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our
opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us
the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more
personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 600w
=GORDON, MARY DANIEL.= Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little
20–17022
A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess
the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince
Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a
birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol,
drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their
expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they
are successful in the object of their quest.
* * * * *
“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 210w
“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 110w
=GORDON-SMITH, GORDON.= From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories,
reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7
20–6737
To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the
author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and
closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters.
The introduction contains a brief history of the political and
military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the
war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and
sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a
series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which,
the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and
suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two
parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian
attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is
an insert general map of the Balkan war area.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr
Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 630w
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w
“The book is of absorbing interest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w
“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the
great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a
useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 60w
=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans
821
20–18248
“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and
in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there
is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative
measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The
coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and
group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the
last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying
of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London
clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p472 O 8 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w
“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are
sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and
in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he
has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since
Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 580w
=GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER.= Inside story of
Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3
(3½c) Doubleday 940.311
20–5203
Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who
was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where
he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which
preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the
volume, points out its object as being an examination into three
fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire)
pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in
a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike
of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their
empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve
the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters
are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties
to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till
at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder.
Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of
the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three
months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the
Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s
back. There is an appendix.
* * * * *
“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of
new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”
+ =Booklist= 16:274 My ’20
“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr
Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights
on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties.
Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar
quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially
strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w
“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is
unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss
the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be
difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are
by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the
years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are
admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 160w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).= Night’s lodging;
scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.)
*$1 Four seas co. 891.7
20–26568
This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin
Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T.
Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with
an equally short characterization of his dramas.
* * * * *
“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read.
Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since
it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could
hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be
intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the
stage?”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).=[2] Reminiscences
of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch
The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after
various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy
intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different
angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that
of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”;
always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am
not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his
death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter
despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man
is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S.
Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
* * * * *
Reviewed by S. Koteliansky
=Ath= p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w
“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the
considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the
precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be
considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a
considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w
“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of
Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his
emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the
most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and
publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would
have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w
“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced
rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use
Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 250w
“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only
Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.”
Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p3 Ja 9 21 3100w
“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the
man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug
‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”
+ =Spec= 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w
“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in
fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or
rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an
unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be
judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive
as their subject was strong and excessive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50
Scribner 824
A20–530
“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the
cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in
its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of
literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from
Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings.
Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The
charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar
Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less
conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and
the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli,
and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on:
Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of
the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a
literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and
biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the
best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary
revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w
=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the
modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who
fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of
criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by
no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written
a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature
of criticism.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w
“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr
Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries,
and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates.
He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the
right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major
Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in
the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 68:777 Je ’20 1550w
“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past.
His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic
and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide
the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with
something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is
venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w
“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w
“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that
it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w
“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles
lettres, but of the best brand.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w
“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays
that make up the volume now before us. The best and most
characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in
portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily
the most striking.”
+ =Spec= 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 O 2 ’19 1100w
=GOULDING, ERNEST.= Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production
and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677
This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial
institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of
handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface
by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents:
Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and
the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa
and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and
similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of
principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an
index.
=GOWAR, EDWARD.= Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little
20–16169
Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he
made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book
was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where
he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived
in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is
humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which
are by Alice Bolam Preston.
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w
“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 100w
“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 70w
=GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON.= Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658
19–11576
“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It
deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine,
good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental
and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order.
Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business
classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth
of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield
him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”
+ =Am Econ R= 9:829 D ’19 130w
=Booklist= 16:192 Mr ’20
+ =Pittsburgh= 24:456 O ’19 30w
=GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA.= Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.
20–4216
Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his
country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero
in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.”
The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned
by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal
injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a
new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of
childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy
and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion
remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s
misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and
cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of
the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and
Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially
powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land
of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is
translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.
* * * * *
“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large
humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in
significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between
Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance.
Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more
successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg
+ − =Bookm= 51:232 Ap ’20 560w
“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called
this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first
hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must
be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind
it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both
the Americas.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w
“As a piece of writing, due allowance being made for a wretched
translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way.
In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the
romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture
which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the
Brazilian civilization of today.”
− + =Nation= 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w
“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands
as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for
Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His
book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its
powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive
passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it
is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective
mind.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w
“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the
fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the
book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the
book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 3 ’20 850w
=GRAHAM, ALAN.= Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–13547
Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting
treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering
the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining
survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an
irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning
and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all
the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not
reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant
of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a
document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the
strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the
laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons
involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious
treasures.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A good mystery story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”
+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w
“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure,
a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well
served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have
been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w
=GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER.= It happened at Andover; well, most of it did,
anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–15954
A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover,
written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The
unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The
infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy;
The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.
* * * * *
“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older
readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 70w
“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the
ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’;
but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a
teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired
teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their
school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6
(Eng ed 20–23038)
“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for
Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the
author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is
also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’
set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the
relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the
‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on
what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published,
is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of
Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and
some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement
assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking.
The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but
discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current
practices.”
+ =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w
“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of
partisanship.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 120w
“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force.
But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an
exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the
Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly
disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the
body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker
after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong,
thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas
− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 720w
“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the
problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem
sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the
whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence
too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the
slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1
20–21927
This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in
America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled
south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to
Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru
Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river
north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors,
visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on
lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the
negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds
that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro
and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively
a negro problem.
* * * * *
“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations
are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its
simple, unescapable effect.”
+ =Ath= p615 N 5 ’20 570w
“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our
problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few
instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct
interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve
million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 2 ’21 1100w
“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know
already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and
‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which
Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w
“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in
American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is
lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with
subsequent chapters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 1600w
“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments.
Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C.
Willcox
+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w
“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it
gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race
question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple
desire to learn the truth.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly
help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like
most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads,
Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than
his own side of the question.”
− + =Sat R= 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w
+ =Spec= 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w
“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master.
But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy
than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and
misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois
propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s
view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret
differently.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 2500w
=GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.= Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814
20–14542
“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing
eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard
university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the
papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of
changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’
(Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith
college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other
chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform
in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages,
New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so
intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of
English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and
amusing.”
− + =Ath= p811 D 10 ’20 240w
“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England
pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which
should interest every student of language. If there were more
philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have
less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate
forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross
+ =Mod Philol= 18:55 Ag ’20 500w
“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument,
are at times rich in illustration.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w
“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in
common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his
brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w
+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w
“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many
departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon
him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof.
Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure
and will do so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 70w
=GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.= Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822
20–17687
A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of
Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and
inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences
reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of
all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in
his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for
dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and
Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his
policy of peace.” (Preface)
* * * * *
“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military
chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The
verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by
stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”
+ =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 160w
“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a
ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in
Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period,
the play might have a success in representation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 My 13 ’20 450w
=GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.= True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt
20–14285
An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl,
Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are
expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her
own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a
hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and
the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is
the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story
has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.
* * * * *
“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and,
unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 160w
=GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).= Eve of Pascua, and
other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–12450
With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic.
A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a
scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and
betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself
defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer
who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting
her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they
are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost.
Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it
was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped
into the former’s place with the blind mother.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 70w
=Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w
“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born
story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the
title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only
suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w
“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of
‘Richard Dehan.’”
+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w
=GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.= What did Jesus teach? an examination of the
educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232
19–18243
“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a
campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The
leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders,
and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont
Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a
strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it
appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of
Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other
classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical
sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight
chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of
God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the
kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the
value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to
theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it
should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.
+ =Am J Theol= 24:475 Jl ’20 150w
“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement
of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the
content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the
paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter
summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second
feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon
the ethical content of the teaching.”
+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:220 Ap ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAVES, ROBERT.= Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821
20–6375
To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys
are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that
predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of
war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A
frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True
Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they
lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second
book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.
* * * * *
“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think,
suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has
deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue.
It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve
simplicity.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 50w
“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness
that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of
something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the
stern reality of life.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a
delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”
+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 80w
“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as
fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go
with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into
little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its
meaning.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w
“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country
sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is
indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right
and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that
unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w
“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some
perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is
in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many
of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”
+ =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w
“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme
merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new
volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to
possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with
a future before him.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w
=GRAY, A. HERBERT.= Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230
20–8352
“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book.
It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is
Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the
message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author
considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs,
never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths.
Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the
embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was
Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom;
Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human
nature? The resources of the disciple.
* * * * *
“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating
statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a
long time.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 320w
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAY, JOSLYN.= Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner
19–15554
“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and
not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is
delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as
much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also
of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse
is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother
marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly
schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did.
Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of
her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it
is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the
story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to
love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants
and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their
teens.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w
“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their
teens.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w
=GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.= Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.)
*$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
20–775
A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an
uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole
duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited.
From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal
place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden
cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe
enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American
school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what
his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A
hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his
American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.
* * * * *
“Much information about customs and country.”
+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a
good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this
particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w
+ =Cath World= 111:412 Je ’20 90w
=GREENBIE, SIDNEY.= Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2
20–9726
It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to
both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine
sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with
resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and
the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its
present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we
must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop
condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2.
The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There
are many illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of
detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults
of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be
regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 400w
“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time;
best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one
interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 90w
“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and
thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his
judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator,
the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic
critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on
Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w
“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may
properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but
expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate
realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense,
it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously
interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ =No Am= 212:719 N ’20 480w
“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.
+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 40w
“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has
endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other
Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 360w
“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people;
and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth
without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament
qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But
with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in
appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of
view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible
person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes
without malice.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 O 21 ’20 900w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.= Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8
(Eng ed Agr20–1194)
This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which
Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the
author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and
technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development
and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a
collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such
technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the
atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous
fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The
foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died
shortly before the publication of his book.
* * * * *
“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech= Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w
+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w
=GREGG, FRANK MOODY.= Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran
This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the
Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the
beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and
romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where
it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the
foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the
Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the
romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave
England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden,
accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their
trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.
* * * * *
“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic
history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can,
and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a
tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 560w
“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to
history in this form.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w
“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days
set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for
adolescent study.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w
“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will
remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.= Dragon; a wonder play in
three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822
20–13121
An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about
the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by
a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit
to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king
in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that
enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo,
accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is
sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of
Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the
dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues
the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from
start to finish.
* * * * *
“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w
“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will
be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish
little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if
given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust
humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 240w
“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w
“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing,
imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”
+ − =Spec= 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w
“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to
carry the interest from beginning to end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 330w
“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James
Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all
that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find
out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it
opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these
super-serious times.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 270w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady=, comp. and ed. Visions and
beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam
398.2
20–26541
These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the
Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told
them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under
appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or
quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the
invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the
country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the
country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and
healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and
notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish
folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray,
and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the
friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth;
Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts;
Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the
desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.
* * * * *
“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply
interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the
lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the
Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of
folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add
greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.
+ =Ath= p550 O 22 ’20 1250w
=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and
digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class;
folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars
would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while
those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s
interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w
“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening,
but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and
beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their
atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum
+ =Dial= 69:300 S ’20 1400w
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w
“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are
interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race
must have this book.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w
“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a
renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with
which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit
and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and
beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk
poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”
+ =Outlook= 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w
“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general
psychologist.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w
“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in
ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously
are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three
times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the
spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in
this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As
literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell
that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”
− =Sat R= 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 S 23 ’20 1700w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–8277
Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ...
burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of
six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy
tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a
newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through
it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is
thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a
multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with
a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been
hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will
have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance
for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid
for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself
up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the
penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for
him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all
ends happily.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman
and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to
reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble
that he is a little hard to bear.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w
“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is
agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose
momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous
shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”
+ − =NY Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w
“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks
much of the probability in his previous stories.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 120w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
20–19919
When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his
father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily
mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old
man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds
he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is
to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place
in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him
in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather
against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable
and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been
falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His
suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not
care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to
his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much.
Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the
last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his
grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.
* * * * *
“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply
to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film
royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort
of blind, blundering vigor.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 120w
“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 380w
=GREGORY, ODIN.= Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore
Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812
20–13984
“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius
Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a
consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as
human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who,
forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their
scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace....
In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted,
when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead
Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their
mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d
Republican)
* * * * *
“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is
hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius
Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of
tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these
have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry,
sandy beach.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w
“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement
of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant
declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an
accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition
which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it
difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter
of the old forms.” C. M. S.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 480w
“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly
comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ’20 720w
“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most
difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better
to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much
with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with
the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are
not there.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 480w
=GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL),
and SPALDING, KATIE.= Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour.
il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19
20–5733
In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell,
and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a
good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It
relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far
north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique
illustrations tell a story of their own.
* * * * *
“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one
into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description
and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right
illustrations.”
+ =Booklist 16:309 Je ’20=
“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her
husband’s accounts.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they
really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous
temperament.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w
“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine
viewpoint.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w
=GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM).= Life of
Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand
20–3856
“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of
eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable
volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems
never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his
life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a
private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his
discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen
years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of
President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of
disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became
a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President
Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography
[is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w
“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and
economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w
“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period
from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 160w
=GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount.= Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824
20–5788
The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the
Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that
make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing
what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed
by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all
books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and
calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the
purpose of observing birds.
* * * * *
“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound.
We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on
the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be
learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite
the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w
“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the
Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic
warmth and color.”
+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w
“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of
recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very
frequently abused—‘cultured.’”
+ =Outlook= 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w
“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is
not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of
baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w
“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but
also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”
+ =Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w
“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GREY, ZANE.= Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper
20–2265
Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he
lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough
happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an
unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl,
newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them
in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding
expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen
Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an
empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which
a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing
for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax
just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps
her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in
completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp
witnesses an unusual honeymoon.
* * * * *
“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane
Grey.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous
and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done,
while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of
the splendid Ranger.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w
“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written
and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide
spaces.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On
occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs,
which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book
is among the author’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w
“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than
Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell
20–13979
The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss
ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains,
where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American
home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and
traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country.
Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain
giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam
fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss;
The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren
of the Rhine.
* * * * *
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 80w
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 180w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il
*$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4
20–10074
“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather
upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls.
Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles
and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this
without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the
objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide
everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer
co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive
prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the
contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English
history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie
England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the
boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to
emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the
great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance;
Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state;
Index; Illustrations.
* * * * *
“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for
youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate,
thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer
+ − =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 90w’
“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most
careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does
his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the
reader.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 380w
“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting
information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner
and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”
+ − =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p15 O 3 ’20 80w
“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2
Manual arts press 371.42
20–10299
This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of
Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and
colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary
connections between the more general courses in educational psychology
and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in
manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction;
Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial
arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of
apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and
attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and
association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in
the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The
lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards
and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two
appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.
* * * * *
“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of
the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction,
nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as
simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in
mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological
principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose
in an admirable degree.”
+ =El School J= 21:236 N ’20 640w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p67 Jl ’20 80w
“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book
that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and
absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 120w
=GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS).= Lure of the manor.
*$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
A20–1264
The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be
played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close
of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired
from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his
example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them
comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much
younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent,
is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and
indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia
comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent,
also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has
been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern
aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the
end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s
real character.
* * * * *
“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but
by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two
heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while
that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming
forced and artificial.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w
“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as
being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be
obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of
being artificial and exaggerated.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 190w
=GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL.= Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan
20–19507
This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery
of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s
island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she
is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is
a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret
as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island,
reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency
in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from
the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on
the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including
the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island.
Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a
satisfactory conclusion.
* * * * *
=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 90w
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in
verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author
had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 230w
“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with
amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 170w
“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to
characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy
with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they
find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own
difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of
her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is
most prodigal of her good things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 630w
=GROGAN, GERALD.= William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane
20–7728
This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who
was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in
childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico,
where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a
story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales,
The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The
other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in
Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The
failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 80w
“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character
in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a
group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 500w
“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems
less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a
quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of
the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier
day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w
“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not
tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and
readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is
the all-important one will enjoy the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 280w
=GROSSMANN, LOUIS.= Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for
teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377
19–27517
“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this
‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet
appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and
constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to
the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten
to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such
as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music,
etc.”—Am J Soc
* * * * *
“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but
they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy
and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 25:502 Ja ’20 340w
“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”
+ =Booklist= 16:42 N ’19
“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=GROVE, SIR GEORGE.=[2] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo
Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6
Macmillan 780.3
This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of
music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an
historical introduction with chronological register of names; the
second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index.
The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In
the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended
treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section
to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American
and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The
preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s
dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired
that this volume should include continuations of those articles that
relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in
the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a
hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”
=GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS=, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il
*$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3
20–6493
A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction.
They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of
the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H.
Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John
Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark
and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the
word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,”
“Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations
are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A
biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding
crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind
it in quality.” A. A. W.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are
about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a
starving man.”
− =N Y Times= 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w
=GUILD, ROY BERGEN=, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a
manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261
20–17803
The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention
held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the
Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches
of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of
church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of
organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service;
Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will;
Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The
church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The
spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby
Jones, D.D.; Appendix.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch
work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 630w
=N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 100w
=GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND.= Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il
$1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812
20–84
The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career
as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the
plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university;
Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown
university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman,
University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury,
University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play
shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up
mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the
alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or
as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The
other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.
* * * * *
“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in
their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by
Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”
+ =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 90w
“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a
whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical
expertness.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 500w
=GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.=[2] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden.
*$2 Stokes
“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of
sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white
daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin
has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks
from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a
biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the
realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but
it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has
attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is
interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie
Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in
our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of
some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in
spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1050 O 17 ’19 50w
“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their
simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands
revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with
friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w
“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its
charm as a human document.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1050w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.= Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811
20–3010
In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been
“martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood,
piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to
inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol
in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents
are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period;
Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are
interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The
illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.
* * * * *
“A delightfully whimsical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of
the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked
it.” W. A. Barrett
+ =Bookm= 51:476 Je ’20 700w
“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist
in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that
virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him
sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet.
These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very
little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w
“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w
+ − =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 80w
“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat
disappointingly worked out.”
+ =Ind.= 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w
“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius
for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic
light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth
its price twice over.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w
+ =N Y Times= 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w
“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both
subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The
book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the
season.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 240w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.=[2] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895
20–19184
“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan,
clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every
quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is
often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of
mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the
knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not
in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is
only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of
philosophy.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w
“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich
proverb-literature which exists in English.”
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w
“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most
crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this
twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words
here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement
Wood
+ =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w
“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w
=GUITRY, SACHA.=[2] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley
Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842
This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which
preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase
where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four
acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful
evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in
“The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of
Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has
succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another
lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with
Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for
permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act
Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old
rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is
deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his
son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his
paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts.
*$2.50 Macmillan 336
20–10284
This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in
administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal
research and the training school for the public service. Its object is
to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led
up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract
some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the
contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are:
The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on
finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system;
Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the
budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system;
Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The
appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts
constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.
* * * * *
“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as
well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:712 N ’20 450w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and
uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting
book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 320w
“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who
imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty
of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in
our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 60w
“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The
illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided
readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 200w
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790
20–4701
Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr
Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play
his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords
the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that
the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any
other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character
and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most
truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The
extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and
fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and
ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals;
The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression;
Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth;
Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization;
Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds;
Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.
* * * * *
“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 200w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 My 8 ’20 650w
“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of
children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his
treatment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w
“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will
enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who
are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and
educators as well.” S. L. Jean
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.).= Air pirate.
*$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–26883
The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when
travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and
cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told
by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for
the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial
liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is
being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on
this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is
captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore
doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr
Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite
resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in
capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no
means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to
death more than once.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly
written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that
suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel
abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into
plausibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 40w
=GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.).= Selling your
services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg.,
N.Y. 658
20–6660
Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s
services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it
has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell,
that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates
of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are
here edited and collected into book form by the author. John
Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods
and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his
services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know
your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your
experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted
advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment
agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case
alive; Index.
=GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE=, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis
Wilson, H. W. 051
The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been
indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving
author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for
fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily
usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work
is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of
the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
* * * * *
“Indispensable aid.”
+ =Booklist= 16:296 Je 20
=GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE.= Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44
19–15645
“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who
embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered
continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders
and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who
yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in
‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a
flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference
to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters
from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and
desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he
met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered
ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w
“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and
does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded
admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a
buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few
short pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p16 O 19 ’19 220w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes
891.6
A20–768
“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907,
representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of
this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered,
severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make
the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and
Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using
the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of
Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among
the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in
Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The
life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the
lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There
are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland
(1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 140
=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 40w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 170w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans
20–5238
“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one
who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the
period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent
Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty,
and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken
because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his
life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to
achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of
all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than
he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united
Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John
Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the
seal of his blood.’”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to
possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he
makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme
in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from
the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the
general reader.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:134 O ’20 520w
=Ath= p1365 D 12 ’19 160w
“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading
for those informed on Irish politics.”
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek
tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an
understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is
set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents
can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w
“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of
events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and
personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to
anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the
controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w
“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is
seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary
treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and
authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial
balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w
=Sat R= 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w
“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a
dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of
view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the
nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either
with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain
notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel
that he is an honourable political opponent.”
+ − =Spec= 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w
“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view
of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule....
Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had
an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was
determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w
“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history
of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more
profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His
work is one which every student of modern politics should read and
read at once. There has been no more important publication on the
Irish question during recent years.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 N 13 ’19 950w
Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor
=Yale R= n s 10:210 O ’20 270w
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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt,
Brace & Howe
20–8515
A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the
legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an
arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document.
“Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election
has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an
increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have
found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for
training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the
administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless
Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the
administration, should seek to make the man who most patently
possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”
* * * * *
“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it
should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and
continual preparedness.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w
“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of
General Wood.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 50w
=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans
20–5230
“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of
the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain,
and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous
incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians,
warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the
East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are
fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of
mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands
unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which
the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful
dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings.
There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making
solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka.
There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests,
warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring
through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
=Ath= p274 F 27 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
=Lit D= p121 S 18 ’20 1500w
“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales
are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The
ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with
‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its
indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants
thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide
them for him.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w
“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can
never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”
+ − =Sat R= 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w
“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with
his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid
reality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 600w
=HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl.= Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15
Dutton 940.342
20–762
“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command
of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close
of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at
London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations
for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the
information of the people at home and were quite apart from the
detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters
in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been
collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary
to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s
despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of
the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal
Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is
accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in
large scale.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these
despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision.
The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies
the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every
struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”
+ =No Am= 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w
“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the
campaigns that it describes.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and
re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”
+ =Spec= 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w
=HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan.= Before the
war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42
20–3879
The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial
investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,”
he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport
ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were
deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the
anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their
conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what
follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience
and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the
epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at
all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than
this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the
Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French
revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some
enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.”
Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude
before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.
* * * * *
“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the
war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The
style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first
hand account.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 250w
=Lit D= 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case
for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly
chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister
motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and
presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that
lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what
strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the
surface of things.” Carl Becker
+ − =Nation= 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w
=Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w
“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr
Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being
over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will
read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges
hatched in the fever of fear.”
+ =Sat R= 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w
“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal
government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive
reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he
has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put
together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an
obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has
brought much unmerited odium on the author.”
+ − =Spec= 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w
=HALE, FREDERICK.= From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5
(Eng ed 20–11662)
“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern
Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western
frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home,
describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching
lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to
counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more
intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools
and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in
the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition
to Baku.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can
describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.
+ =Ath= p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w
“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in
good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells.
It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 100w
“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the
Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer
picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”
+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w
=HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE).= American’s London. il *$2
(1½c) Harper 914.21
20–26752
An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and
ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many
a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London
houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the
author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining.
Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it
agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 870w
“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the
incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her
experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”
+ =Lit D= p94 N 20 ’20 1550w
“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it
is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more
likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are
lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading
is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most
intimate confidences.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 26 ’20 2200w
“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who
would have it otherwise?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 280w
=HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD.= Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch
An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of
“Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the
author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has
been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished
through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword
is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be,
it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will
be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the
United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr
Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of
adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and
drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the
President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents:
Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions;
Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A
typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League
of nations speeches.
=HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.=[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs
20–17531
Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity
and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own
impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of
her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she
found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner.
For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one
day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her
course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear,
she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry
her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he
took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave
her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end
of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages,
finally arriving at the real thing.
* * * * *
“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of
whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of
pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as
the novelist.” W. T. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 600w
“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of
tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 520w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w
=HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT.= Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National
social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327
20–2059
“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief
account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its
relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the
League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of
the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the
present.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite
conventional.” J. S. R.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:150 O ’20 370w
“A convenient summary.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 80w
“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe
doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more
extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up
ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and
butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not
conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin
+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w
=HALL, GRACE.= Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922
20–7587
“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold
in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the
saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of
Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the
eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St
Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St
Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their
humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the
beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix
and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of
the saints according to their century and one according to their days.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Morale, the supreme standard of life and
conduct. *$3 Appleton 170
20–13129
The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the
war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of
the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be
subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using
morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial
and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life
abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of
creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all
checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of
contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism
and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war
museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals;
The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem;
Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”;
Morale and religion; Bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He
colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and
again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many
of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for
Christ.”
− + =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 490w
“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend
of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its
breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or
directing the rest of the race.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 90w
“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It
appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and
eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w
“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly
ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is
not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all,
not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and
must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”
− + =New Repub= 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w
“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every
vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to
religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and
newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and
differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is
peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 1300w
“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable
improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of
association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently
overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested
reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in
all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey
− + =Review= 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w
“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their
independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no
groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other
books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more
careful writing would improve this one.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w
“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the
author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures
during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects
induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic
features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann
− =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 190w
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50
Appleton
20–20441
“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories,
whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological
principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a
new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the
world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by
the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state
of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A
conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a
psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in
domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.
* * * * *
“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude
and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is
right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the
enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the
psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 500w
=HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON.= Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton
20–12451
“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington
Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted
away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and
which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his
lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand
somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes
him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same
boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for
clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city
office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old
spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked,
unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is
discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step
upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point
is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him
is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review
* * * * *
“Boys and men will like this.”
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel
plant are combined in this very readable novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w
“An entertaining and inspiring story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w
=HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD=, eds. Lafayette
flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton
940.44
20–17744
“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families
and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large,
the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their
purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and
authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface)
The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the
Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The
Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted
wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the
headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on
the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded,
prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very
fully illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at
least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and
it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes
more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors
are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.”
J. W. D. Seymour
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1100w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w
“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with
the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the
point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and
choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather
+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w
=HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed.= Physiology and national needs. *$4
Dutton 613
(Eng ed SG20–168)
“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon
during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food
conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public
lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in
their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them
are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific
knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated
beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture
by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden
on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected
and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation
of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of
grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that
might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight
storage.”—Review
* * * * *
=Ath= p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w
“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many
different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for
those it answers.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature= 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w
“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular
style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit
by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”
+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w
“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures
dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series,
but each one is well worth studying.”
+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w
=HAMBIDGE, JAY.= Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ.
press 738
20–15783
“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after
generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the
book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has
been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s
concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest
the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs
suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple
enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process
of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the
Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by
finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as
plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with
a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to
capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and
general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of
the text is for the artist.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite
subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery.
This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and
perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its
mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an
interesting work.” D: E. Smith
− + =Nation= 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w
“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing
than anything published within this field during the last century.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w
“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at
least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and
modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole
problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.
+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w
“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the
Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new
field in modern art.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:187 N ’20 70 w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w
“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet
it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their
author.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p700 O 28 ’20 1750w
=HAMILTON, CICELY MARY.= William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes
20–8361
Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus
is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk
in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well
regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden
death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like
a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife
among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in
Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his
wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his
pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is
accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the
rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from
growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional
and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s
imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very
interesting one.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w
“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under
abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an
Englishman.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792
20–21431
The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered
as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper,
“Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world
as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be
to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not
sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the
other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the
drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire
on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of
puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The
Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian
drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle
Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom
he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in
the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace,
and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 160w
“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered
the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic
criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To
this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three
qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy
and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little
20–18662
Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle
down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and
he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could
forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the
paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces
and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss
Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning
hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the
wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha
discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not
which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall,
at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the
dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.
* * * * *
“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality,
the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 360w
=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 100w
“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly
to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries
the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”
+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–6492
A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community
within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been
unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in
the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she
returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother
henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho
Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the
conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary
Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to
be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular
young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false
testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is
averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
* * * * *
“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is
not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is
tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much
better than the overdrawn story.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“Utterly unconvincing story.”
− =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the
disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the
self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates
her little circle.” H. Dick
+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w
=HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord.= Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5
(Eng ed 20–655)
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish
province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in
continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically
all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to
overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is
given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and
Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is
traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of
Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts
and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the
continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p415 My 30 ’19 120w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 550w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value.
The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself
back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that
of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable
handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it
out without either an index or even a table of contents.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w
“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout
wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which
betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no
personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of
the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”
+ − =Spec= 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 260w
“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s
historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities
of imagination and felicity of phrase.”
− =Yale R= n s 10:209 O ’20 150w
=HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord.= Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4
(4c) Doran
(Eng ed 20–10129)
This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences
of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome,
Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats
pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the
glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the
curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There
is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this
collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an
ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or
bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of
being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as
it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w
“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”
+ =Spec= 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 29 ’20 800w
“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for
all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with
accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with
moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than
startling.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p644 N 13 ’19 800w
=HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH.= Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran
940.42
(Eng ed 20–10127)
The author gives as his reason for keeping a diary during the
Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after
the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory
without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his
work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the
verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915
and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations,
maps and an index.
* * * * *
“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a
little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight
which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only
of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the
detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his
superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a
stirring picture.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w
“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a
poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 1700w
“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility.
His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world
service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his
acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney
+ =Nation= 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w
“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great
adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L.
Minnigen
+ =N Y Times= p9 N 7 ’20 1900w
“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be
surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of
a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military
man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly
atmospheric and poetic text.”
+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its
characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and
its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same
time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable
material by way of criticism of war policy.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 150w
“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our
interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w
=Spec= 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w
=HAMMOND, ARTHUR.= Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c)
Am. photographic pub. co. 770
20–11849
This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up
such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition
applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of
elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and
scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other
volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point
out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized
rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is
possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the
personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is
beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.
* * * * *
“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this
book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide
experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious
amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do
justice to the text.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the
author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably
complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and
presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout
his engrossing volume.”
+ =Photo-Era= 45:104 Ag ’20 760w
=HAMMOND, DARYN.= Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s
796
(Eng ed 20–16277)
“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst
professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a
sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the
severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just
below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is
that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot
he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right
action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of
itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but,
in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too
exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.”
B. R. Redman
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)
“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting
as well as original.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 250w
=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS
JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50
(*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942
20–4494
“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The
village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they
described the new life of town and factory introduced by the
industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same
period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne;
The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields
silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it
is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might
otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work
well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in
the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the
ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:324 Ja ’21 800w
“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the
Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not,
probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village
labourer.’” W. F. Woodring
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:364 N ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation
of labor to the development of English politics during the period
prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is
not wholly neglected.”
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w
“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs
Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the
front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is
conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and
the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born
‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak
for themselves.” L. W.
+ − =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w
“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study
of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting
fact, is illuminating.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and
painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great
classics of English sociological literature.”
+ =Cath World= 111:404 Je ’20 290w
+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 100w
“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than
the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which
describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely
an exaggeration.”
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:624 O ’20 390w
“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than
which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w
=Sat R= 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w
“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic
wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the
workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British
industry.”
+ =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 90w
“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most
fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the
masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the
thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also
because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic
psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be
recommended too warmly.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p771 D 18 ’19 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 1950w
=HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN.= British labor conditions and legislation
during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for
international peace 331
19–19930
One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the
Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social
background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war;
Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade
unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of
labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor,
welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial
reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio
state university, and was a member of the United States food
administration.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 160w
“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of
the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the
presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:550 Ap ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland
+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w
=Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w
“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a
great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk
if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found
ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching
research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it
has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably
unbiased.” G. S.
+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w
“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical
way.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w
“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on
labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.
+ =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 100w
“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The
present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to
know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of
the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=HAMSUN, KNUT.= Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf
20–21963
The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and
has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A
young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells
of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some
paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually
described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with
distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by
fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium,
complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness
about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.
* * * * *
“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its
belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no
public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 70w
+ =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w
“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very
frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt
consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if
appalling.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1000w
“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve
the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and
compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot
+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties
alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human
soul.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 490w
=HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON.= Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52
Silver 374.28
20–3342
In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at
rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The
wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the
subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to
emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be
fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of
rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be
effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and
probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such
redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities
centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The
community center and the world war; Leadership and the community
center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure;
Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community
center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center;
Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community
center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life
programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general
bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and
the book is indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good
references for further study.”
+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Letters of
Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell
20–4805
These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms”
can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in
France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing
picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which,
although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends,
“run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and
ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the
book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The
subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller,
July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred
thousand, 1914–1916.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 90w
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Nation [London]= 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that
Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which
he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on
the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when
carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a
truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”
+ − =Spec= 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w
“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very
advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a
comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest
philosopher.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w
“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious
experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on
whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1050w
=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Irishman looks at
his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15
20–4485
In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he
knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and
economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution
of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen,
all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of
the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making
of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the
new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and
scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate,
university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural
organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle
classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not
aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so
many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary,
his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the
wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his
novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:261 N ’20 370w
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 110w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w
“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an
ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when
the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render
it a most unusual volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w
“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know
what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what
way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to
all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle
Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a
policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”
+ =Spec= 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w
“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr
Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he
is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to
the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his
treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as
real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 360w
=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Up, the rebels!
*$1.75 (2½c) Doran
19–15676
Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose
phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take
the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to
suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off
steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the
rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who
engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her
off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought.
There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in
the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the
situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas
into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for
recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.
* * * * *
“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy
and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”
+ =Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 120w
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in
Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 51:207 Ap ’20 900w
“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish
question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social
conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader
among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w
“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale
amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic
treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly
chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w
“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader
chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit
and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from
this most entertaining of writers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w
“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English
government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the
distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of
its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems
merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w
“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of
Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned
the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer
living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that
can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first
novel, the author sees no way out.”
+ =Spec= 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w
“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be
remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive
of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had
happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s
books.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 450w
=HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY,
pseud.).= Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–9476
“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the
litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the
thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t,
indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a
series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to
follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton
sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse
is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants
restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return.
Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has
no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural
phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful
rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange
tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the
mystery to its solution.
* * * * *
“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is
of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen
flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing
this season.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that
will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 80w
=HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS.= Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50
(1c) Shaw, A. W. 658
20–19862
A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a
big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man,
shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his
relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the
chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead
ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks
advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and
sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The
ironmaster invests in junk.
=HANSON, OLE.= Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
331.87
20–2669
The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as
coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no
uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage,
arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery,
autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After
giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red
employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every
day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in
the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle;
Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some
of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and
bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and
development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America:
its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.
* * * * *
“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”
− =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with
which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w
“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story
of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr
Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to
generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he
delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth
reading.”
+ − =Lit D= p90 My 1 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w
=HANUS, PAUL HENRY.= School administration and school reports. *$1.75
Houghton 379.15
20–13792
The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as
superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined
educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify
their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some
principles of school administration; Town and city school reports,
more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of
public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in
business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall
the state go? The German example; German schools and American
education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.
* * * * *
“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as
the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal
amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are
interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely
related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might
have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless
appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”
+ − =El School J= 21:73 S ’20 880w
“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of
the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a
system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the
suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the
essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify
the volume.”
+ =School R= 28:710 N ’20 190w
=HAPGOOD, NORMAN.= Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5
20–12808
Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of
revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in
what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own
position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by
nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a
radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He
concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying
the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times.
His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of
right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.”
Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of
thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our
follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is
socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism;
From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?
* * * * *
“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a
stroke.”
+ =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not
be based upon the soundest philosophy.”
+ =Cath World= 112:403 D ’20 330w
“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the
volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not
to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the
present.” Harold Stearns
− + =Freeman= 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w
“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution
of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare
indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still
more or less disabled morally by their late services to national
morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of
God and the cause of right.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w
“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these
is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities
consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being
nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the
defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.”
M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w
“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of
co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great
combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood
is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are
fatal defects in a historian.”
− + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr
Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social
measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But
in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other
incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in
every line.” W. J. Ghent
− + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w
“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood
possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is
mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader
to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there
is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w
“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of
President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L.
R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c)
Putnam
952
The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the
Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of
Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best
literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a
common understanding. The present volume is intended for those
Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of
quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved
intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard
to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the
common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents:
The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of
Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power;
gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the
new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military
régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The
welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country;
End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan;
The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two
chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and
the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an
index.
* * * * *
“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries
of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable
circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese
propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w
=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–16796
A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the
death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New
York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact
with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the
shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her
and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble,
psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply
interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne,
they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother
is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance.
Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the
supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the
other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is
freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise
of happiness.
* * * * *
“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be
taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in
spirit control and guardian angels.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50
Manual arts press 672
20–19056
A second edition of a work originally published by the author,
instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university,
where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical
and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment;
Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer
work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There
are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.
* * * * *
“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a
supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it
should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in
the hands of the pupils as a text.”
+ =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w
=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947
20–3007
Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American
ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the
powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate
acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the
government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but
he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in
riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in
its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own
account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair
controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice
left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia,
and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is
told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The
contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet
Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The
personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most
picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the
birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w
=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w
“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it
necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr
Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert
the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable
suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be
widely read.” Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w
=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective.
*$3.40 Macmillan 821
20–26754
“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’
including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of
sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has
this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not
one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered....
Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr
Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is
not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He
has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has
sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”
− + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w
=Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w
“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when
Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone,
is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily
through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be
devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial
consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however
keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but
of a shadowy unity and design.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who
sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She
is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the
story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her
ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with
Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from
one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular
novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts
the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of
the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a
reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at
the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces
her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest
of the story.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w
“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why
quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a
really happy ending to a story?”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any
number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’
very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had
the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy
ending.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w
+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w
“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any
probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to
her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among
well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a
little below that attained in other books by the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w
=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60
Princeton univ. press 814
20–10290
“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of
literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on
Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor
Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets;
Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois;
Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows
when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w
=Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w
=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–3192
The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of
intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs.
Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and
Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully
placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen
is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just
found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has
just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous
contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the
old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with
touches of satire.
* * * * *
“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She
relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in
phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And
these easily suffice.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to
a somewhat conventional vamp story.”
+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w
+ =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w
“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd
comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot,
constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w
“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For
those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the
book will have a great deal of interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w
=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–11301
Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents
on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to
Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from
the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring
they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht.
Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the
party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles.
The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and
the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances,
for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter
by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s
orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she
must be single when found.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is
trite.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w
=N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w
=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314
20–6966
“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such
official documents as are available, which will convey to the general
reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the
conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three
months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the
conference.”—Wis Lib Bul
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality
and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr
Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out
most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr
Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the
Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of
France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught,
should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good
faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald
+ =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w
“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace
conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes
and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The
peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in
the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w
“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little
too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and
unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the
personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w
=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ.
publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4
20–14551
“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris
tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the
“Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and
early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has
entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the
Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of
transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then
she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master,
Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one
is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most
likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her
last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
=Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w
=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304
20–6972
This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the
English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous
impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war.
They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the
author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the
birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which
are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect
peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe
and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The
new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours;
The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign
politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of
reconstruction.
* * * * *
“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth
reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent
critic.”
+ − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author
demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his
criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well
informed.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w
“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age.
Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his
intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather
uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at
Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most
sincere, the least preconceived.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w
“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any
man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use
of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H.
G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown
anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the
work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away
with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as
this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts
considerably from the value of his words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w
=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET,
pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran
20–3
The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost
story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes
herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries
herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece
of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South
America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from
disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she
resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily
concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released
through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her
spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final
appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.
* * * * *
=Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w
“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs,
Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly
done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the
fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review
the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w
“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and
artistry.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to
ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all
that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and
willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness
with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from
smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances
Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm
in the book.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare
distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this
unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the
over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’”
Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w
“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”
+ =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w
“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to
prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and
personages predominate.”
+ − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w
“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs
the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it.
The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and
stirs only a mild interest.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w
“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the
flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its
excellences, it certainly does not perform.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van
Nostrand 540.9
The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly
bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or
so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by
centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents:
Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic
law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic
weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory
of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame
Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry;
Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry
of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an
index.
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the
universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530
20–7594
The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s
great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements
which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of
relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led
to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s
law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are:
Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.
* * * * *
“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on
‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the
‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is
that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”
− =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis,
wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel
− =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w
+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w
“A lucid little book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w
=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert
Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and
marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday,
continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never
grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a
child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous
situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment,
Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad
escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all
the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself
unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and
his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.
* * * * *
“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but
the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of
the book.”
+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w
“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards
its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of
sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”
+ =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w
“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine
or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed,
well-written novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w
“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she
needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our
readers.”
+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w
=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338
20–6119
The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize
essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and
application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility
commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much
confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The
author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is
essentially different from other industry; that private property
devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property,
and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service
rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of
regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of
‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of
the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose
of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation;
Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value,
contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible
property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion.
There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.
* * * * *
“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the
book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal
relationships.” J: Bauer
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w
“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered
material.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on
current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and
commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the
uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of
valuation.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w
=Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w
Reviewed by E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club.
*$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce
Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American
themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in
the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted
at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of
the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has
chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps
gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles
are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s
husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham
Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w
“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only
one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
=N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w
=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50
Houghton 613.2
20–6498
The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either
knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced
cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to
feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the
proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in
the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed,
and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those
of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not
intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them.
Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of
foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and
vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement
of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for
school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an
index.
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
“A highly important and serviceable book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w
“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged,
written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet
the demands of the ordinary household.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w
Reviewed by E. A. Winslow
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans
press
20–8235
A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high
school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing
for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various
experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group
goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating
and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation
in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to
college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a
rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as
athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright
and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that
has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.
=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the
Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314
20–12208
“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were
two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace
conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western
Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three
which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre
valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and
related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures
published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell
institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort
of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its
historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its
importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be
contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by
other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a
well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the
probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy
contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of
the conference.” Clive Day
+ =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w
“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the
conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the
overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C:
Seymour
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w
“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate
knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors
held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an
historical record.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet
appeared.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w
“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such
a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing
with important questions.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w
“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference
did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here
discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced
again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the
settlements made.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w
“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great
value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such
matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the
status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good,
for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so
ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w
=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il
*$3 Dutton 940.44
20–8364
The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The
author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to
the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from
the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The
book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without
overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on
himself.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind
of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little,
I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth,
good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C:
H. Towne
+ =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w
“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this
book should be of value.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w
=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks
for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907
“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in
schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow
justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of
materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is
outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade
pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further
discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the
effective use of supplementary historical and literary source
material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable
ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to
the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and
different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three
specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a
unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social
situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final
chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the
teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R
* * * * *
“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two
reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by
implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and,
secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions,
so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional
pedagogue.” H. E. B.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w
=Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w
“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied
thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is
hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to
a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”
+ =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w
+ =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =Spec= 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w
=HASTINGS, MILO MILTON.= City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–15704
Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The
German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the
roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of
a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people
themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It
was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments,
was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy
managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by
means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that
stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities
that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the
war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.
* * * * *
“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story
that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale
depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an
author’s imagination.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 420w
=HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.= Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–26982
“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as
Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was
young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the
midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect
treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they
encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the
mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with
the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages
who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling
experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the
ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess”
returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.
* * * * *
“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older
boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure
island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high
seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman
+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w
“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to
portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages
that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea
and its shores possess.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell
The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water
friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in
telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are
introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on
dog signs and language and dog friendships.
* * * * *
“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T.
Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4
20–6752
In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author
tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he
learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with
personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in
touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about
the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to
woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook;
A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee;
Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land;
One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The
speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the
hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks.
Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now
out of print.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w
=HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.).= Lucinda. *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–18612
The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last
moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.”
As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the
bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly
assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes
and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius
Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon
her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She
tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and
keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in
Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda
is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes
good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the
better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.
* * * * *
“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is
treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always
distinguished this author.”
+ =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 130w
“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people
involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 100w
“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is
pleasantly diverting.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 600w
“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the
art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on
original lines and has underlying humor.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p777 N 25 ’20 560w
=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= United States in our own times, 1865–1920.
*$2.25 Scribner 973.8
20–14454
“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to
know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share
of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my
guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the
business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of
the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand
our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The
aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico,
Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction;
Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of
the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain;
“Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive
revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book
contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an
index.
* * * * *
“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the
social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our
law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems
to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out
so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the
student of recent American history. In the first place the
‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references
to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and
more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as
to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a
story.’” B. B. Kendrick
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:349 Ja ’21 520w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be
impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a
happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work
is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 580w
“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may
be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w
“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has
apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each
particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent
events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to
the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an
account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the
social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort,
but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent
account.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 5 ’20 3000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 150w
“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The
judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of
reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft
follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American
nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last
chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not
represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh
+ − =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w
=HAWTREY, R. G.=[2] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332
19–19368
“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on
subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with
the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and
credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of
the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the
course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial
crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial
problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The
assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 80w
“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is
not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough
for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the
theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by
rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the
product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its
way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.”
G. S.
+ − =Ath= p1120 O 31 ’19 460w
“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best
portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done
that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and
covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these
few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of
the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p568 O 16 ’19 720w
=HAY, JAMES.= Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–4958
Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman,
suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the
Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator,
and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his
secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired
German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and
Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are
occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working
with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with
his jack knife and thinks.
* * * * *
“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the
characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”
+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to
follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 140w
=HAY, JAMES.= “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–15703
Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim
is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of
“Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer.
With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly
detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to
discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end
guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton,
Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed
guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she
had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But
Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with
circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s
mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became
convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played
on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the
facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster
and brought the criminal to justice.
* * * * *
“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather
commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the
moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 420w
“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective
stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its
author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of
these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest
in his automaton-like characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w
“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little
genuine human interest.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
=HAYDEN, ARTHUR.= Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749
20–15722
“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a
heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly
unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The
land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to
be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early
examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of
them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and
tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his
insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works
of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The
half-tone illustrations are clear.”
+ =Ath= p193 F 6 ’20 90w
“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is
just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers,
too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 400w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 400w
“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of
a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in
general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects
peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 12 ’20 2250w
“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding,
if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our
forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of
human rather than technical interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p757 D 18 ’19 3050w
=HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY.= Brief history of the great war. *$3.50
Macmillan 940.3
20–8603
The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem
to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of
the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval
battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him
lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write
candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding
generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events
and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to
the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three
appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American
reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement
between the United States and France. The book contains a select
bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.
* * * * *
“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so
far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious
consideration by professional students of history. It is written with
a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes
of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique
place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.”
W: S. Davis
+ =Am Hist R= 26:91 O ’20 1250w
“Useful as a school text or reference.”
+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity,
in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all
rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German.
Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there,
are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make
everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly,
by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result
unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by
Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=New Repub= 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w
“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was
composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the
war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 850w
“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an
admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography,
and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and
sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different
events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would
convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a
whole.” F. V. Greene
+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to
supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all
times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial
comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the
political. The bibliography is very faulty.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 280w
“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or
tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in
popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the
events will have proved little more than political treatises. In
short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w
“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w
=HAYES, ELLEN.= Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co.
977.1
20–19252
A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in
Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer
days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In
explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve
fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With
the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern
life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a
prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of
Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild
turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The
wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle
period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year
around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.
* * * * *
“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that
linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are
interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small
history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly
interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w
=HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK.= Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4
(Eng ed 19–19932)
“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years
ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself,
subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for
personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important
aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the
sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for
this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators
despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a
brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of
the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of
showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as
such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other.
The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival
of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w
“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his
reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally
witty.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w
+ − =Spec= 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the
Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w
“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a
real contribution to current political discussion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w
=HEAD, JOSEPH.= Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4
20–1616
The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a
serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which,
through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal
diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many
other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the
teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book
tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing
remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases
due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth
preservation deserves wide circulation.”
+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w
=HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY.= Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion;
being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280
20–18237
“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of
Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels
down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the
church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He
gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no
directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and
the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different
from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the
creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church;
it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we
cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the
historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church
union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus
Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming
majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the
professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device
for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents
and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”
− =Cath World= 112:543 Ja ’21 600w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=Sat R= 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w
“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it
should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”
+ =Spec= 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)
“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this
volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the
problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of
this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a
single ambiguous sentence in the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w
=HEAGLE, DAVID.= Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science
respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50
Am. Bapt. 218
20–9221
The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the
arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources
drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific
proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by
Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed
information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first
chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older
arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from
biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and
abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and
possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and
objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes
and a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w
“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of
critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of
juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 210w
“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey
of the argument for personal survival after death.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w
=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814
20–19452
These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of
literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the
University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon
literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring
unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness
in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the
vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and
preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by
John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and
character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary
prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the
highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use
of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion;
Farewell address.
* * * * *
“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these
lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side
of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as
it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w
“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in
subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity
Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing,
the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w
“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition,
can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 290w
=N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w
“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the
workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense
on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30
lessons’ on the market.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w
=HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR.= Diplomacy and the study of international
relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327
20–4112
“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray
diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of
history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by
representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the
knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the
volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and
the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view.
The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion
of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is
rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate
of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives
evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w
“A valuable and scholarly work.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“This is a very valuable source book for students of international
law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a
record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material,
but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international
relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much
impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really
aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great
interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book
than a finished work.”
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 170w
“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found
elsewhere.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w
=HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON).= By-paths in
Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58
20–12460
“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons
of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to
the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects.
We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was
called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North
and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends
among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of
the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the
surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as
well as with rare human understanding.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 40w
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 280w
“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of
the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters
are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”
+ =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w
+ =Spec= 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w
=HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON.= Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co.
839.7
20–6852
This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen,
is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after
God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak,
where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old
animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both
realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search
for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial
fires.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 150w
“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it
adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is
not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn
=Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
=Review= 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w
“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The
soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in
originality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 580w
=HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK.= Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c)
Doubleday 799
20–16781
This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts
for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some
small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when
the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window
pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have
found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his
trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are
from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf
fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others;
Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the
inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals;
The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.
* * * * *
“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an
accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen
will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 600w
“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly
achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm
for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one
convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring
‘when the red gods call.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 1050w
“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the
book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 340w
=HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD.= Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c)
Century 976
20–8247
It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the
Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known
as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points
out two determinative principles in the progressive American
civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the
acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the
hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless
nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant
national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of
the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part
are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion;
The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies;
Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators;
Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men;
The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes,
bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume
realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific
historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are
grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest
history.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:116 O ’20 580w
“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the
Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George
Rogers Clark”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of
witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done
his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a
somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states,
and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.”
J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w
=Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w
“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:183 O ’20 940w
=HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY.= Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6633
Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his
claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled
to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone
hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are
watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion
might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows
that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude
toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen
attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry
it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the
registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different
meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.
* * * * *
“Bright and interesting story.”
+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 70w
“The book is colorful and well written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w
“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life
anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”
− =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the
outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w
=HENRY, AUGUSTINE.= Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene.
(Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9
(Eng ed Agr20–233)
“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by
Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no
doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of
tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however,
deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of
forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as
sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a
question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment
areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already
proceeded.”—Nature
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his
book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough.
He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent
investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and
for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be
sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill
+ − =Nature= 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w
=HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL.= Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5
The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish
for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English
government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and
political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield
in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of
independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement
and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the
subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism
before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish
nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of
Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement;
Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the
rising; Conclusion.
* * * * *
“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details
of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this
respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the
present leaders which must be of considerable value to future
historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the
case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at
all.” P. B.
+ =Ath= p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w
“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but
unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein
is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w
=HENRY, STUART.= Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton
20–2260
“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class
German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or
fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form
of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden.
Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy
and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced,
heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her
fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow
hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but
is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a
government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from
America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute,
despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst,
a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four,
quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American
institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa,
but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower
him.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its
truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity
with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists,
which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of
actual experience.” J: S. Wood
+ =Bookm= 51:361 My ’20 1600w
“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in
vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient
to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w
=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w
“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by
some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the
outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted
itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il
*$2.50 Dodd 134
An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with
its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail,
such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation,
spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and
drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows:
Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism;
Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits,
reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit
photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters;
Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text
is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions
of spirit-photographs.
* * * * *
“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly
valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that
he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an
extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all
the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book
is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory
because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w
“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in
the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered
or denounced away.”
+ − =Review= 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits
themselves. *$2 Dodd 134
20–15944
The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit
world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The
author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation
of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character
development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense,
there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The
necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the
next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character,
preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the
Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be
striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and
“hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man,
here and hereafter.
* * * * *
“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If
such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed,
the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of
immortality.” M. F. Egan
− =N Y Times= p17 S 26 ’20 160w
=HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others.= Church of
England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283
(Eng ed 20–16630)
“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a
thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live
lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of
high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from
a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s
college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short
preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of
the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them
full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which
gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821
(Eng ed 20–1081)
With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are
spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title
poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The
rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty;
The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The
cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the
good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to
be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about
the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf
20–628
He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence
in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the
right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than
measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more
of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself
at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried
down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the
same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was
bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain
had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the
bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the
fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot
for cowardice.
* * * * *
“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war
books.”
+ =Ath= p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w
“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up
horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very
fine work with a limited appeal.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:78 Mr ’20 580w
“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like
fact, which perhaps it is.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate
consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have
diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”
+ =Nation= 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w
“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the
structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but
destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last
crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable
and perfectly convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w
“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and
revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’
is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of
the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little
rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but
its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w
=Spec= 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w
“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without
passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how
far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat
them as persons?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ’20 320w
“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not
like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than
they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the
former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking
parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its
author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w
=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf
917.29
20–21412
In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted
thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the
social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a
more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and
climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect
had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an
opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations
rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”
* * * * *
“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great
imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 70w
“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant
eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and
ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most
understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.”
J. S. N.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer
possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the
objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external
realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book
is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 2000w
“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the
creation of literature, his own and others.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w
=HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH.= Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394
20–4985
A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and
Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin
and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of
nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with
the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never
be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression
of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.”
Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday;
Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day;
Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence
day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.
* * * * *
+ =El School J= 20:795 Je ’20 100w
=HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON.= Insects of economic importance. *$2
Macmillan 632.7
20–12386
These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised
edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the
inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the
principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm
animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief
summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made,
and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise
discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and
directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve
chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological
literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of
insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact
insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect
control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of
the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and
an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w
=HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER.= Physician in France. (Liverpool
diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475
(Eng ed 19–19873)
“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of
the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary
discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and
relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the
beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the
sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces.
Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field
ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting
the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses
some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of
enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance
of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders:
of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing
from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious
question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French
and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human
characteristics.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads
his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his
mind and general outlook.”
+ =Ath= p1401 D 26 ’19 520w
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 21 ’20 480w
“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those
amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written
by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except
as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least
important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the
record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts
with our own.” H. R.
+ =Nation [London]= 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w
“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book
have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the
layman and to enlist his sympathy.”
+ =Sat R= 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w
“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes
which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a
fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance
the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the
publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”
+ =Spec= 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have
nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as
he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters,
devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the
French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with
comprehension and discretion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 1250w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt
20–8858
This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light
heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real
devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he
avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this
heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’
that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has
been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As
a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly
account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title
I have given it.”
* * * * *
=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w
+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring
than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly
splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life
and death to King Olaf.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w
“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency
of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables
Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his
sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w
“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr
Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth
century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual
romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual
setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author
sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 480w
“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in
describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which
is high and beautiful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd
20–19506
The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman.
Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself,
ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises
to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung
by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still
quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he
wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in
her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is
his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to
follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a
glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of
hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but
willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad
for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making
Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr
Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth
style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of
avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty,
yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the
garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a
novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing
dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 300w
“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are
silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places
them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of
creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the
story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition
to the novels bearing his name.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 560w
“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting,
although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under
slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary
execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet
effectiveness.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w
“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have
often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather
than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s
Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w
“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as
examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 450w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd
20–4
This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the
story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid
when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and
man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to
flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting
with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.
* * * * *
“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient
with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and
the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a
breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size
dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no
doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep
the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds
himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 600w
=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The
outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to
be inexhaustible.” E. F. E
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w
“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w
“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this
of ‘The outlaw.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of
the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing
that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”
+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of
ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a
vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the
Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w
“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill
between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an
obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not
without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 600w
=HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER=, ed. Americans all; stories of American
life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt
20–14759
The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that
he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as
the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it
were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these,
each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would
not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel
could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents:
The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of
heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing
of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi,
by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by
Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart
Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt
Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The
struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper;
The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author
following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories
classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.
* * * * *
“An interesting group of stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 280w
“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William
Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made
after a model.”
− + =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w
“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book
which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different
phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a
misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their
passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and
pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 13 ’20 850w
“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w
“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans
all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine
recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well
selected.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 190w
=HIBBEN, PAXTON.= Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c)
Century 949.5
20–10649
The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been
in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar
revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into
it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and
consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was
nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of
a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught,
its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force
a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that
government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.”
(Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion;
Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.
* * * * *
“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of
German intrigue.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor
reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It
constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”
+ =Cath World= 112:691 F ’21 480w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w
“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear,
readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from
errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations,
the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being
excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from
the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of
strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried
away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard
+ − =New Repub= 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w
“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of
an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not
always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times:
but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we
understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian
people.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w
“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan
situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this
unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies
that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of
journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.”
A. E. Phoutrides
− =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w
“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is
one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called
side-shows of the war.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 350w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ’20 110w
=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c)
Doran
19–11943
“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved
Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of
a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your
choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a
touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are:
Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad;
The two fears.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection
another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and
people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F.
E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1450w
“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his
best work.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 30w
“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one
might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so
markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different
class.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w
“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake
bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w
“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The
dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well
done.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 5 ’19 400w
=HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS
BEACH).= Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–7653
A story that covers several generations in the life of an English
family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is
strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann
Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer
uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their
turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in
Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller
Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry
on the family tradition.
* * * * *
=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 80w
“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life
before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail
in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an
entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot,
and not even much to characterization.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 260w
“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never
rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human
character in the novel.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w
“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later
Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the
smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”
+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 300w
=HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES.= New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341
20–14528
The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International
organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919,
in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general
purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its
relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and
(3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever
precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction
is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because
it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the
background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation
between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the
general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices
contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany:
The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act;
Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and
drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United
States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and
index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“A useful reference manual.”
+ =Ind= 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international
organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The
pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he
discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively
pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations.
Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for
international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under
existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1000w
“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition
of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written
by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1600w
“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is
so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not
be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle
over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w
+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w
=HILL, CONSTANCE.= Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6
(*21s) (7c) Lane
20–12406
“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear
to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has
enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very
spirit of rural life.” (Chapter 1) She was born December 16, 1787, and
was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and
successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready
in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings
acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with
drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.
* * * * *
“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is
not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart.
There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about
Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must
own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind
and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come
to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can
scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.
− + =Ath= p695 My 28 ’20 2400w
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia,
and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her
sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w
“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s
book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and
brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S.
Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w
“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our
time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in
‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice
book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”
+ − =Sat R= 129:454 My 15 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 1150w
=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1
20–11020
As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of
nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact
that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of
nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection
of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were
acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed
league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional
foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the
fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book
is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters,
which are reprinted from the North American Review are:
Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the
League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the
Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League;
The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn
referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s
“points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s
reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is
indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced
political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a
microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble
in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the
old order in return.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:399 D ’20 550w
=Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w
“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration.
His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is
thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish
+ − =Nation= 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w
“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a
force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize
that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and
convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by
him.”
− =N Y Times= p5 S 5 ’20 2450w
“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and
therefore of a value far transcending that of most political
discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”
+ =No Am= 212:424 S ’20 1150w
“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of
editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish
to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or
Paris league.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 160w
“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as
proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet
when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be
written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an
important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the
belief that American independence and true internationalism are not
incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 140w
=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812
20–19677
A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior
amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume....
The three simple little farces included herein were written for a
boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study
and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may
prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play,
“Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the
Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second,
“A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a
Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a
boy scout play.
* * * * *
“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of
the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’
and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been
anticipated.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p15 N 13 ’20 130w
=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes
20–18659
The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and
court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories
are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case;
Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers;
Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In
the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a
gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long;
War.
* * * * *
“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and
fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 230w
=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w
“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get
a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w
=HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.=[2] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35
Macmillan 614
19–19494
“The development of public health nursing in the United States has
naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written
by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the
elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be
acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to
the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon
such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the
campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15
’20)
* * * * *
“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which
can be heartily recommended.”
+ =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w
“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the
nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too
little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water,
milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price
+ − =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 170w
“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the
diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases,
on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant
in form.” C. E. A. Winslow
+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 330w
=HILL, JAMES LANGDON.= Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young
men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252
20–3809
A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on
righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an
appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean
sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The
sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in
cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian
nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory
comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 470w
=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130
20–26542
“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian
science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each
dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in
various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of
every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is
the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not
an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says,
“I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great
that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance
of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected
direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again?
Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution
of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about
telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc;
Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.
* * * * *
“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most
small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative
source.”
+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the
advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that
it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an
unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − =Dial= 69:206 Ag ’20 400w
− =Nation= 111:49 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and
gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what
frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous
quotations of both prose and verse.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’20 50w
=HILL, JOHN WESLEY.= Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam
20–21413
The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to
reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the
evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was
its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a
statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he
drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God
rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a
tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an
introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a
bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an
orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the
reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that
unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But
the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”
+ − =NY Times= p1 D 5 ’20 800w
=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 190w
“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the
average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr
Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight
into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The
education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today.
‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w
=HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.=[2] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan
170
20–15460
“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work
discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined
by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern
philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is,
perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of
the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature
of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final
destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to
individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance
of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 270w
“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more
sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question
discussed more fairly.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:690 F ’21 100w
“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous.
The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is
the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and
Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w
“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way
thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 240w
“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained,
devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose
views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father
Hill’s.” H: Neumann
+ − =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w
=HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.= Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide
bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314
20–2359
The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are
hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her
human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people;
France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon
land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth;
Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of
the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from
America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love
their country; Notes, and references to authorities.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 40w
“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors
due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs
several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of
this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental
principles.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w
=HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.= Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–7792
“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons,
Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable,
from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the
glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram
and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of
French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps
with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an
imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of
beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth
of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w
“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a
golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for
the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired
visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 1050w
“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little
promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient
ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold
(and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is
especially successful in the sonnet.”
+ =Cath World= 112:118 O ’20 90w
“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an
authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place
among the books of the season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w
“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist,
atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of
his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w
“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in
‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase
and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms
and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 150w
=HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.= Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c)
Holt 914.7
20–14675
In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate
destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who
constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force
in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are
utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by
centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a
goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement
and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The
peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The
legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer;
Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The
ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land;
The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the
peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant
problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the
American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and
the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:364 Ja ’21 490w
“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that,
excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book,
‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a
failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand
what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.
− + =Freeman= 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w
“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and
contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily
press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was
before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved
or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr
Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the
soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:307 D ’20 560w
“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant
origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters,
without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with
which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob
Zeitlin
+ =Nation= 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w
“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it,
and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus
is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how
a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w
=HINE, REGINALD L.=[2] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain
historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth
centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040
20–18243
“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the
author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most
interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from
which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from
Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers
have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and
Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally
good.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor
is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the
humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a
liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its
externals one of the best for many months.”
− + =Ath= p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w
“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and
a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old
manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their
writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.”
G. H. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:622 O ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w
“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an
excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it
was written. It is a book for the country house table.”
+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w
“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be
kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened
at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which
we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are
they altogether without their value for the historian.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w
=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Love of
brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger
20–3710
Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in
affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people;
and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had
lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending
him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn
throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution
overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s
supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha,
grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and
apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate
and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving
her mother while still in disgrace.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh
form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”
+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 160w
“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet
to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out
imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells
her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real
originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a
definite form, finely moulded.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 S 25 ’19 220w
=HISTORY= of the American field service in France; Friends of France,
1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373
20–15471
“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published
a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous
accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the
blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our
regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and
anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume,
‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and
incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former
work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps
and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections,
new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger
volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with
rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 700w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 70w
=HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.= Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and
citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam
20–6726
The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his
advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much
danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national
preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood
writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under
the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and
organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of
republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army
for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel;
“Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum;
Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles
concerning General Leonard Wood.
* * * * *
“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It
is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its
denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President
Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans
− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:719 N ’20 310w
=Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“Serviceable and readable volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 70w
=HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.= Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton
“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social
reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been
appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among
the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery,
Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration
and peace.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious
enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is
a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.
+ − =Ath= p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w
=Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 30w
=Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w
=Spec= 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara
Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4
20–21968
“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality
for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a
slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter
standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the
book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce
and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic
ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For
morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and
risk-taking.”
* * * * *
=Nation= 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w
=Survey= 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
336.42
(Eng ed 20–114)
The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large
sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an
enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the
principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual
tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members
of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of
distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to
bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The
object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability
to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of
taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1:
Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable
surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of
income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue.
Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A
levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of
imperial to local taxation; Index.
* * * * *
“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have
decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By
working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is
apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of
outstanding influence.” C. L. King
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 700w
=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and
taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w
“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of
collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like.
But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.”
R. R.
+ − =Nation= 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w
“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present
regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of
this volume.” L: Jacobs
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in
particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so
nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war
burdens.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by Lawson Purdy
* + =Survey= 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w
“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved
when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts
and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case
is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be
called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even
truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at
the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed
‘needs’ of the state.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w
=HOBSON, S. G.= National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan
338.6
(Eng ed 20–16216)
“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of
the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations
with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the
principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument
is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D.
H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the
consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At
the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson
avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no
student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility
of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that
wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane
structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of
western civilization.”—Ath
* * * * *
“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild
proposals.” J: G. Brooks
+ =Am Econ R= 10:858 D ’20 750w
=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting
dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the
shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been
written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G:
Soule
+ − =Nation= 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w
“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be
able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a
theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble
with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness
where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be
separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard
− + =New Republic= 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w
“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive
pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad
failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”
− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w
“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 40w
“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought
and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression
of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and
strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems
to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes
along, and to find the right words for them.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1050w
=HOCKING, JOSEPH.= Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell
Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the
Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in
finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He
is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His
secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave
used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to
sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between
cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after
death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the
cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and
succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his
death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious
of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been
performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.
* * * * *
“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr
Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able
to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have
been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w
=HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.= Principles of
accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657
20–17381
Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume:
those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control
over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics;
those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those
who expect to become business executives of one kind or another.
Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of
accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of
profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information;
The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The
construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The
adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger
entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general
journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business
practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts;
The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred
items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of
accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting
accounting facts; Appendix.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 50w
=HODGES, FRANK.= Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R.
Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2
(Eng ed 20–6078)
“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the
production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under
the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal
industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers
of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime
consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital,
namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a
certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific
development of that industry; and that different and competitive
systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous
labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are
taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old
argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work
more efficiently and economically than a number of small and
overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to
consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are
now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No
system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity
of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have
lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the
country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath
* * * * *
“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself
to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance
of scientific detachment.”
+ =Ath= p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w
“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the
extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges
and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation
whether they like it or not.”
− =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w
“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the
rules of logic.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w
=HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED.= Studies in contemporary
metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104
20–4123
The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop”
and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the
same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems
and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in
plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and
activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and
enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is
needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the
spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in
the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The
contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific
method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On
“doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances”
in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and
secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The
self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of
religion; Index.
* * * * *
“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander
+ =Nation= 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of
a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most
difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be
congratulated on a work of permanent value.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w
=HOFFMAN, CONRAD.= In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press
940.472
20–21330
Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do
relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in
Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A.
thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice
to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in
Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The
Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at
work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under
surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American
prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German
revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment.
In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an
American woman in Berlin.
=HOFFMAN, MARIE E.= Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones,
Marshall
20–8234
“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the
moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from
the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against
their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery,
their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the
tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of
Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters
the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to
pass.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people,
and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs
engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their
environment.” F. M. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 400w
“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true
local color.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w
=N Y Times= p17 Je 27 ’20 270w
=HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von.= Death of Titian. (Contemporary
ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832
20–6845
This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the
German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was
acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on
the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.
* * * * *
“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the
excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in
it.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 270w
“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only
skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses
nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in
particular, lose most everything.”
− =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 50w
“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about
his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative
aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze
atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.”
E. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w
“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has
sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of
beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written
today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a
funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the
pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out
the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 150w
=HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER.= Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd
799
20–21340
While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the
open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for
winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a
split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this
operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this
more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine
chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen
contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the
two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The
angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams
showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp
outfit.
* * * * *
“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these
attractive pages.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w
=HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY.= Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–5229
As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal
feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she
wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t
even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries
him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still
lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the
first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever
after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an
incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds
in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she
is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with
brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 150w
“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is
the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene
+ =Bookm= 51:565 Jl ’20 550w
“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the
American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her
for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true
American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda
Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that
she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about
her, she isn’t.”
+ =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w
“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any
passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic
tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is
only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with
eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”
+ =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w
“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been
ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a
loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the
author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may
not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our
common experience.” Signe Toksvig
+ − =New Repub= 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w
“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the
study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’
though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.”
Oliver Herford
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 750w
“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s
masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman
more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid
novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
=Pub W= 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current
stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome
for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the
best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks,
pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w
=HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL.= Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton
19–19359
Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire
working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in
explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband
and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs
have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break
him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new
independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the
breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost
her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce
life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.
* * * * *
“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with
considerable power.”
+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 120w
“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”
+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of
four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon
a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more
genial, less tense and stormy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w
“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less
striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is
more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and
apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in
character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to
the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w
“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the
book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”
+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w
“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the
preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into
human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however
brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than
heretofore.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w
“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them
intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by
no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is
the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an
ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness,
but sees in both the movement of life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 O 9 ’19 460w
=HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL.= Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans
20–12858
“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a
translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear
‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share
my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of
Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to
enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of
Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating
apologist.”—Review
* * * * *
“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate
given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and
philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to
many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:467 Jl ’20 460w
“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of
the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is
ripely philosophical.”
+ =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w
“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the
philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers
+ =Review= 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w
“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer
footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for
the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and
schoolmasters.”
+ =Sat R= 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and
picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the
subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to
any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so
agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people
want.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w
=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs
20–17657
Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is
supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming
mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger,
Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come
upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They
find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the
first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three
foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is
solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding
is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.
=HOLLIDAY, CARL.= Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co.
392.5
19–13678
This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and
usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has
nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents:
Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies;
The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding
festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding
ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.
* * * * *
“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but
there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 180w
=HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES.= Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran
917.3
20–20548
Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill,
Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los
Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory
journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas,
William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors
and book sellers and others.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular
type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever
unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see
him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 950w
“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of
interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather
than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”
+ =Cath World= 112:692 F ’21 320w
“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has
fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so
assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of
other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell
− =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w
“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a
surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that
is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving
+ − =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w
“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure
by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to
another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly
sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book
covers.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI.= Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2
Appleton 616.8
20–17971
The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are
susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation,
analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of
psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed.
As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the
author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated
there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration;
Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of
psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses;
Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A
statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group
survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement,
methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric
hospital; Index.
=HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR.= Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday
20–5732
A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a
presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days;
Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the
Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager
of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army;
The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are
four illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has
had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
=HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.=[2] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth
annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford
759.5
20–2853
“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of
Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of
the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on
toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than
did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard
him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as
an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by
numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1049 O 17 ’19 100w
=Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w
“A brilliant, though concise, study.”
+ =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Is violence the way out of our industrial
disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331
20–7773
Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far
from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos
comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three
addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of
New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone
can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital
and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can
win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements,
not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem:
co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and
confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human
relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer
for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his
topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating
about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after
mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced,
you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the
passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.
+ =Nation= 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 250w
Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher
=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
=HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.= Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340
20–22316
These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and
articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918.
They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On
receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency;
Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar
as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law;
Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar
association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at
Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland;
Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to
continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton;
Natural law.
* * * * *
“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all
share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of
romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization
that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by T: R. Powell
+ =Nation= 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w
“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an
extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen
+ =New Repub= 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 40w
=HOLT, HENRY.= Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton
134
20–26562
“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a
new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just
before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic
relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and
has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in
his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers
the three most important developments during the years since the work
first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the
spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and
conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of
Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new
sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from
their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in
depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20
“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a
vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its
form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses
did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of
credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and
miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:204 Ag ’20 820w
“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is
the nobility of spirit which informs it.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w
=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w
=HOLT, LEE.= Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane
The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present
book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to
determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A
“portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary
which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day,
those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the
time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in
France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own
country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to
describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”
* * * * *
“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be
described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 80w
“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter
of first-rate interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 100w
=HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT.= Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
649.1
20–7343
The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The
constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown
the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the
earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new
material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet
and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need
often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide
for the period of infancy.”
=HOME=—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran
940.373
20–4692
The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by
Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by
Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on
the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of
selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They
have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John
Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize
essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F.
Hudson.
* * * * *
=Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w
=HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER.= Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories)
*$2 (2c) Knopf
20–17651
The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country
with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in
times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There
is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers
with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the
desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.
* * * * *
“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim
trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures
of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that
they are as accurate as they are vivid.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 480w
“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and
true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the
average.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 120w
=HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE.= Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van
Nostrand 609
19–16654
The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps
in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and
more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The
spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some
indifference of the past; American war research; The education for
research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making
and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting
solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six
portraits.
* * * * *
“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national
and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely
illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and
how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book
is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct
for solving things.”
+ =Electrical R= 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w
“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain
government officials and legislators of the higher type will find
stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is
written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of
the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the
two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and
appreciation of engineering.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w
“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women
who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly
if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical
education.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ja ’20 40w
“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the
appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained
intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as
tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic
critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and
substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed
with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”
+ − =Review= 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w
=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232
20–14228
The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says,
is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book
is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having
taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching
morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be
followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did
Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His
questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His
imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the
native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as
teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The
appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are
illustrations and a bibliography.
=HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS.= Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity
books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620
20–6879
This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for
it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects.
It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions”
in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a
thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control
than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the
engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four
major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The
consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics;
Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The
personal side.
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 100w
=HOWARD, ALEXANDER L.= Manual of the timbers of the world, their
characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1
“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and
aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the
market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and
characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made
as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information
is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best
timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country.
This special part of the work is followed by a more general one,
dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications
and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section
dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec
* * * * *
“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into
mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty
of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the
technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 570w
“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more
use than its author modestly imagines.”
+ − =Spec= 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w
=HOWE, EDGAR WATSON.= Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf
20–20449
A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several
pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The
title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct
prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood
and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.
* * * * *
“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison,
Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is
not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 90w
=HOWE, J. ALLEN.= Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and
industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2
“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the
reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part
it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the
methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters
on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification
of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of
stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the
employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two
concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the
market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.
=HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE.= George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and
public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd
20–726
The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and
in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings;
Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy;
Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The
final years. Illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule
for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell
his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an
interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:345 My ’20 1650w
“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be
especially interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
Reviewed by Lindsay Swift
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 F 28 ’20 1900w
=N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w
“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer
as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even
disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official
‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w
“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w
Reviewed by E: G. Lowry
+ =Review= 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w
=R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 140w
“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the
scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of
approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to
historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive
studies of the world war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN=, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni
& Liveright
20–11148
“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My
double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days,
to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost
Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The
great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other
than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction
which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It
is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of
the course of American short story writing during the past
half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten
such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here
too.”
+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w
“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on
what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might
be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they
displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking
than his selections.”
− + =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 240w
“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is
here revealed.”
+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w
“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its
soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three
of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave
a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke
+ =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w
“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this
volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be
as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called
a classic.”
+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but
none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.”
Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w
“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it
begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and
dignities of the short story as a kind.”
+ − =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel
companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3
20–2699
Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at
Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling
about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of
which have been selected from the original volume.
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 1000w
“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away
the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive
parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle,
as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about
its business!”
+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w
“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with
full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic
summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the
future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist
travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr
Howells’ should score a large popularity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 340w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle
eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–16794
Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather
theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical,
always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather
fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an
abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for
a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend
their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In
their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and
the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was
somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher,
a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His
experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in
which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual
powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either
the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr
Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 1500w
“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr
Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.
− + =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w
“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness
which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w
“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too
little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story
hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus
tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often
trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which
might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.”
Carl Van Doren
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 1900w
“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s
method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid
revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple
people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of
human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black
+ =N Y Times= p1 O 3 ’20 1950w
“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and
character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the
reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary
Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w
“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether
casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one
person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless
voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more
hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w
“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is
really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and
distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had
still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with
simplicity.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p829 D 9 ’20 850w
=HOWLAND, LOUIS.= Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history)
*$2 Scribner
20–7497
“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a
picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism
which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured.
Sources are not cited.”—Booklist
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w
“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of
Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man
and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w
=HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B.=, tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’
ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–8884
The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the
people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into
three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating
from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The
writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to
the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda;
Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena
Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan
Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes
each translation and there are appendices.
* * * * *
“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some
of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.=[2] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old
Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6
“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book
stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books
of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some
noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the
Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and
heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a
Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian
dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they
travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several
capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the
age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured
the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us
today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and
profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most
interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y
Evening Post
* * * * *
“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his
subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his
scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting
a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:129 O ’20 560w
“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of
which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E.
J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 180w
=Spec= 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w
=HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud.= Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton
20–22444
New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson
is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative
and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street
house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property,
increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters
and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come
upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s
experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry
him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that
Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at
all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a
young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding
material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both
Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses
to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so
to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in
so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a
freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page
sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.
* * * * *
“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American
literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 130w
“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should
not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”
+ − =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w
“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s
more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young
gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 120w
“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of
certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New
Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w
“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and
bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no
difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the
book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 210w
=HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM.= College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378
20–12841
Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the
colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort.
This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the
college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college
professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized
heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr
Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call
of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind;
The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind;
How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The
truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The
meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms
of culture; How may these things be? Index.
* * * * *
“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are
interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865,
right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what
the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was
permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe.
Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present
system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he
has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J.
W. G.
− + =Grinnell R= 15:261 O ’20 400w
“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has
performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any
one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities
and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as
his criticism.”
+ − =No Am= 212:573 O ’20 1250w
“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it
would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position
of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come
to pass.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 330w
“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not
tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and
college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the
task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in
America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K.
Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w
=HUDSON, STEPHEN.= Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf
A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young
Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife,
and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his
father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a
woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is
beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little
sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling
character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to
leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of
reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design.
In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his
now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief
interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts
Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of
following.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1153 N 7 ’19 460w
“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation
with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is
solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of
touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of
its inner veracity.”
+ =Nation= 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w
“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous
descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be
possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend
on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker
and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble
and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w
“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for
Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than
an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing
more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also,
slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 O 16 ’19 650w
=HUDSON, W. H.= Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2
20–2104
“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits
and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the
out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming
books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a
village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J.
Detmold.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”
+ =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 80w
+ =Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book
about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of
the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds
which he describes and makes real.” J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w
“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a
naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study
of natural history.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional
bits that are Hudson at his best.”
+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact,
and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”
+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w
“The book is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w
“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book
is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 O 23 ’19 1000w
=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2
“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr
Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his
‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late
P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along
with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species
being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the
only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the
birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any
other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w
“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal
touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this
book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in
Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty
of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes
they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w
“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at
least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct
appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the
species here described in their natural haunts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 1450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w
=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton
20–23046
“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is
of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida
who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen
mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is
a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers
with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally
published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the
only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which
deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree
worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a
piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who
was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N
Y Times
* * * * *
“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion
with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”
+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 140w
“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the
tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is
recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must
have a permanent place in our libraries.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 1050w
“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w
“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most
writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if
they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we
should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of
their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for
their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the
short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s
genius.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p823 D 9 ’20 960w
=HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT.= Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3
Appleton 387
20–9794
The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various
phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic
order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the
ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students
studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents
are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of
ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean
rates and regulation. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:595 S ’20 80w
“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 40w
=HUEBNER, SOLOMON S.= Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2
20–16525
The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist
students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting
business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to
discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as
the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and
functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of
policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils
covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo
insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk
insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations;
Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of
the various types of policies); Index
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 140w
“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful
to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine
insurance offices.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 170w
=HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA.= Diantha goes the primrose way, and other
verses. *$1.35 Harper 811
20–6682
The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning
away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die
and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of
mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The
other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved
objects.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:61 S ’20 580w
=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w
=HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth
century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08
(Eng ed 20–3437)
A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms
of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval
college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland,
consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from
Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from
the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853);
The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of
the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and
Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements
(two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on
The British empire. There is an index.
* * * * *
“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has
appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its
usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no
references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or
illuminating.” C. F. Lavell
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:133 O ’20 350w
“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in
a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300
pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to
finish with unabated interest.”
+ =Sat R= 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w
=HUGHES, GLENN.= Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811
20–11395
From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick
Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by
the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a
thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the
creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined
and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art
created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A
garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.
* * * * *
“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly
falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too
much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 190w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–20946
Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The
stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The
college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The
butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper;
You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other
magazines.
* * * * *
“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories
themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good,
while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all,
an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 580w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper
20–8631
Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten
thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to
marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since
childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much
larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and
turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his
sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all
ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is
sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob
finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another
sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a
“professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding
plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This
is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other
matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists,
quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions
on prohibition and social conditions generally.
* * * * *
“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great
deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading,
though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately
long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w
“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely
put together.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 190w
=HUGHES, TALBOT.= Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391
The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks
edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and
dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage
greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of
this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side
of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant
elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface)
Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of
suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated
with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made
of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions
and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric
dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the
development of costume in the different centuries including the
nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.
=HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.= Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of
America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380
20–4902
“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early
development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he
has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals,
based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph
under review the author has brought together the best results of his
earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part
which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our
commercial development.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him
into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a
fair balance.” E. L. Bogart
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:145 O ’20 340w
“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s
knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully
wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’
published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The
enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the
author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked
a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:153 S ’20 550w
“An extremely readable volume.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).=[2] Sword of the
spirit. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8516
“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed
with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other.
Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at
first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the
little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature.
The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material
in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on
his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The
barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage
threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the
author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them
together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling
the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved
around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a
whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”
− + =Cath World= 112:544 Ja ’21 330w
“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity
the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen
perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA,
pseud.).= Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes
20–2263
The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and
arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful
parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an
English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen,
consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion
of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks
over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself
into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and
artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius
bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 40w
“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with
improbable power.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is
interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do
next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out
of the ordinary.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w
“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and
the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention
throughout 500 closely printed pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 250w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).=
Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134
20–7778
“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism,
with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church
has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not
‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all
religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as
they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”
− + =Ath= p1301 D 5 ’19 60w
“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of
rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana,
interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen
through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and
hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs
Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation,
ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”
− =Cath World= 111:553 Jl ’20 320w
“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but
it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4
20–5751
Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real
and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary
Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an
“extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks,
Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of
extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two
parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the
titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The
artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and
ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of
part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;
The vision malefic.
* * * * *
“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness
of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in
hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to
what he says.”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly
burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them.
As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his
profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 51:231 Ap ’20 900w
“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a
good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the
arts in most of the centuries.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w
“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity
with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic
movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this
vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different
in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read
but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 580w
“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living
today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres
+ − =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his
literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators
of the Mencken-Nathan order.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w=
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=Yale R= n s 10:187 O ’20 250w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner
20–16114
“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music
and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining
running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and
women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and
the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 52:267 N ’20 800w
“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in
experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns
merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull,
hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task
with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 140w
“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker
has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume
two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his
fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he
discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His
autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive,
versatile, individual.” J. B. A.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1350w
“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where
there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge
of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly
human book.” B. D.
+ =N Y Times= p8 S 12 ’20 2000w
“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would
make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and
concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into
contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w
“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite
unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour
thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years.
One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s
life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships,
but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective.
Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods
and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w
“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the
artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in
the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w
“Both volumes well repay perusal.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 50w
“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as
intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth
preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the
reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than
American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris
and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects
Philadelphia as the most interesting?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1700w
=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.=[2] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c)
Macmillan 940.477
20–20074
“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book,
meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an
outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve,
as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a
series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America
awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem
of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The
doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor;
Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the
hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit
bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.
* * * * *
“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their
country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 140w
“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way
the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the
armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w
=HUNT, H. ERNEST.= Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131
(Eng ed SG19–89)
In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the
book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by
building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes
the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and
our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated
stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled
by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind
at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory;
The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves;
Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.
* * * * *
“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in
hand.”
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
=HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON.= When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of
other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1
20–7945
The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of:
The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games
and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in
Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and
around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea,
returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn
many things in a pleasing way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 180w
=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.= New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387
20–11687
This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The
author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and
has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the
present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes
most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the
chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United
States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war
conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant
marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce
in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships;
Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and
re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an
index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed
instruction in practice and methods.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 190w
=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly
press 920
20–10511
The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent,
foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William
Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He
holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for
what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign
birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each
sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches
are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz;
Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus
Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.
* * * * *
“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is
yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w
“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in
the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr
Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite
impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as
Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old
fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this
kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should
have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference
book.”
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 90w
“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In
the first place, since the constitution does not provide for
conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no
‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping
with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are
made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.
− =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE.= Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies
in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4
19–18237
“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is
a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the
factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion
of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and
vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief
methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are
drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and
although occasional references are made to the work of women during
the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have
been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since
1914.”—Am J Soc
* * * * *
“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously
prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:609 S ’20 450w
“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had
satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is
the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated
without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before
the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the
same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary
Van Kleeck
+ − =Am J Soc= 25:497 Ja ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”
+ =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w
“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig
+ =New Repub= 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w
“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the
available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she
has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON.= Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner
920
(Eng ed 20–22470)
“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about
so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the
place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s
‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing
with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men
of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General
Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne,
George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G.
Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending
thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these
300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr
Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic
strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford
entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p830 Je 25 ’20 550w
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible
form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any
comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be
good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some
recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s
book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w
“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr
Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not
characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its
judgment.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w
“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes
rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A
gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a
circumspect critic of their public activities.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 1350w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Happy house.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–1214
Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became
a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without
stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting
family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere
rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist
discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with
her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run
smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for
his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the
latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story,
that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.
* * * * *
“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E.
Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:204 Ap ’20 400w
“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which
should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to
infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are
moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its
rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 450w
“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”
+ =Cath World= 111:407 Je ’20 210w
=Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Lit D= p97 S 18 ’20 2650w
“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but
Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w
“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one
forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character
drawing.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w
“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something
of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her
star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own
family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten
scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that
she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with
this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 280w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Helping Hersey.
*$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–26758
A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many
popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and
daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first
misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place
in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch
written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other
titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The
common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino;
Three times; A Berlin adventure.
* * * * *
“Slight but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in
one volume by one author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it
were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most
distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless
sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the
Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–16190
In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love
episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism.
The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or
less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself
sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he
perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he
ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The
birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art;
First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round;
Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.
* * * * *
“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to
combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to
be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing
should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and
vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be
judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book,
but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the
shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to
print them.” J. M. M.
− + =Ath= p699 My 28 ’20 1500w
“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any
special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry.
His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical
legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war,
and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the
very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that
makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the
more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the
form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 1850w
“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights
of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a
little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his
satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings
toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires;
for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a
criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be
disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − =Dial= 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w
“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own
sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is
not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination
to write something better than the conventional prettifications which
people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w
“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be
quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of
English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached
in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 19 ’20 1250w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Limbo. *$1.75 Doran
20–12115
A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical
history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The
shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave
splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop;
The death of Lully.
* * * * *
“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic
and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough
in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical
standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the
masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 100w
“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s
collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’
Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard
Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the
surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of
all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”
+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w
“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier
books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the
finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and
fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some
actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a
decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is
without doubt.” H. S. G.
+ =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w
“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric
suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr
Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is
dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak
of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed
jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a
certain achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style
with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and
with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the
stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the
effervescence of his spirits.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the
reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the
ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”
− + =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w
“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of
Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly
enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in
melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever
after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 460w
“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which
are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public
to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state,
what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a
great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is
another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like
to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth
having.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 5 ’20 800w
I
=IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE.= Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him.
il $1.50 Christian herald pub.
19–14241
“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint.
He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and
working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life
of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious
life.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in
parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical
English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of
the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of
Roosevelt’s personality.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 160w
=Nation= 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w
“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for
him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably
in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 62:419 O ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 180w
=ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of.= Henry
Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner
(20–4450)
“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to
most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one
twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things.
What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of
England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of
surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history
is primarily a biography. But during at least the first
five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an
important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a
spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful
eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and
comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material
which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House,
at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence,
much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at
various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester
to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on
the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its
main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at
times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the
background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of
the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page.
The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker
+ =Am Hist R= 26:87 O ’20 750w
+ =Ath= p206 F 13 ’20 1700w
“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry,
have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional
sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us
anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient
importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for
saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer
by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”
− + =Sat R= 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w
“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new
light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles
James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the
difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his
‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister
in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”
+ =Spec= 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w
“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his
subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p73 F 5 ’20 3650w
=In= the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–19505
The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which
an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved
by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in
happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which
starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be
a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of
the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring
diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the
mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs
‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully
revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is
the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on
life and books.
* * * * *
“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an
instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most
interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up,
is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is
profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out
in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K.
M.
+ =Ath= p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the
mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have
value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 520w
“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of
humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression.
Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w
“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances
of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple
enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 580w
“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a
finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present
book is her first.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 500w
“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of
characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to
Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not
qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is
illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of
touch.”
+ =Sat R= 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w
=Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w
“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its
charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a
delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and
power.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w
“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something
delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an
example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of
analysis.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD).= Love and the crescent; a
tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes
20–11299
The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war.
It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished
Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights,
deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final
reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The
deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable
romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.
* * * * *
“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the
description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the
story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical
methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very
excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement
rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are
full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very
interesting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been
entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The
characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is
scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a
real live human being.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w
=INGALESE, RICHARD.= History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50
(3c) Dodd 131
20–10777
The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on
occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to
hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind
always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is
always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of
psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is
well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past,
present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual
mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of
re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and
concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers;
Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual
forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of
opulence. There is an index.
=INGE, WILLIAM RALPH.= Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204
20–18249
“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from
the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the
future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions.
To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec
* * * * *
“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as
skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of
the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological
research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers
who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts
and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”
+ − =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 250w
“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness,
epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as
distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his
fearlessness.”
+ =Ath= p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing
way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction
of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic
spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his
interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who
utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal
consequences.” O. L. Joseph
+ − =Bookm= 51:237 Ap ’20 700w
“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the
world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept
conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w
“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce
with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living
emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”
+ − =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad
as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native
island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the
‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the
controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has
never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the
author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved
Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w
“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals,
institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and
literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the
citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D.
S. M.
+ =New Repub= 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w
“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to
rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his
destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the
work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display
what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained
philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”
+ =Review= 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)
“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we
have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive
Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to
popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 N 6 ’19 2050w
=INGERSOLL, ERNEST.= Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5
“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar
birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead,
whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden
and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y
Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals
that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other
animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and
excellently illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 500w
=INGPEN, ROGER=, ed.[2] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs
821.08
20–19453
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice
of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide
poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The
selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from
the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are
grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs;
Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields
and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of
patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise;
Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.
=INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.= Report on the steel
strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of
industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89
20–16529
In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world
movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are
presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint.
These findings justify the strike in its central phase and
substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained
the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens
the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on
the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions
and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real
conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a
no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances
and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference;
Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian
findings); Appendices and index.
* * * * *
“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions
concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M.
Janes
+ =Am Econ R= 10:877 D ’20 1900w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“One of the most important documents in the history of American
industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other
important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact
that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by
organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W:
Z. Foster
+ =Freeman= 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w
“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a
field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult.
This work is invaluable.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 12 ’20 370w
Reviewed by L. K. Frank
+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 90w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we
should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman,
newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These
two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel
strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s
commission.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS.= Proceedings of the
international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press
613
20–15934
The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the
National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25,
1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part
of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those
problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by
education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to
be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire
personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes,
contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men
as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of
women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six
volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health;
The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of
the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in
marriage.
* * * * *
“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these
discussions.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w
=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
20–6636
Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride
of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her
own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion
to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household
to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because
the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her.
She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off
before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and
the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book
abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.
* * * * *
“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her
mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The
novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for
this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400
pages.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w
=Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Suffering husbands. *$1.75
(1½c) Doran
20–10767
A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis
Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a
stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled;
Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c)
Doran
20–6843
A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists.
Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and
choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern
philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin,
Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house
as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been
wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come
from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a
romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and
a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in
the end to Oliver and his mules.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 370w
“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll
classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt
in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by
what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph
Cheyney
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious
kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is
intended to caricature.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w
“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=ISE, JOHN.= United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9
20–8898
“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United
States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest
conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many
unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the
forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how
intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources
has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public
sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional
historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this
phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w
“A well written and nontechnical book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 24 ’20 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w
=IVES, HERBERT EUGENE.= Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott
778
20–7599
Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the
writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific
photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It
is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary
photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a
discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific
methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because
aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the
photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced
methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate
the text and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and
useful information.”
+ =Cleveland= p88 O ’20 30w
“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual
for class or self instruction.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w
=IVEY, PAUL WESLEY.= Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan
658
20–3332
“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the
goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the
character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of
his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of
personality which make a successful salesman; these include
enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He
describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and
methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N
Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“An interesting and practical book for department store classes.
Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail
selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”
+ =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a
good one of its kind.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 150w
J
=JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS.= Early Persian poetry. il *$2.25
Macmillan 891.5
20–7452
“From the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi” (Sub-title) is the
ground covered by this book, which aims “to give succinctly the main
outlines of the several early periods, ... and to illustrate, by
translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of
the various authors.... Many of the citations are only small fragments
of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked
almost as shades from the far-distant past.... Some of the reliques of
their works, however, are longer and have a fuller metrical tale to
tell. The episode of Suhrab and Rustam, moreover, is a well-known
classic in literature.” (Preface) Contents: Persian poetry of ancient
days; The new awakening of Persian song after the Muhammadan conquest;
the Tahirid and Saffarid periods; Rays from lost minor stars: earlier
Samanid period; Rudagi, a herald of the dawn; Snatches of minstrel
song; from the later Samanid period to the era of Mahmud of Ghaznah;
Dakiki; The round table of Mahmud of Ghaznah: court poetry; Firdausi,
and the great Persian epic; The Shah-namah; some selections
translated; Epilogue. There are illustrations, a list of works of
reference, a list of abbreviations, an alphabetical list of poets, a
note on Persian pronunciation and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Much as we must admire Professor Jackson’s zeal and fervor ... yet
one can not but feel a sense of disappointment at the amateurishness
of some of his versions, with their often clumsy use of ‘did’ and
their woodeny structure.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 650w
“Professor Jackson has added immeasurable value to his book by a large
number of original translations that are skillfully done and still
retain poetry in their phraseology. The author’s hope of carrying on
his work is commendable, and it is to be desired that circumstances
make it possible.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 200w
=JACKSON, BENNETT BARRON, and others=, comps. Thrift and success. il
*$1.25 Century 331.84
19–12737
A compilation arranged by the superintendent and two teachers of the
Minneapolis public schools. “Several selections are devoted to the
general aspects of thrift, but the editors have wisely included a
considerable number of selections describing such thrift agencies as
savings banks, farm mortgages, postal savings banks, life insurance,
and government bonds. The opportunities for wise investment, as well
as the necessity for saving, are thus brought clearly to the reader’s
attention. The book includes several little plays which teach a thrift
lesson. There are, too, inspiring talks intended to stimulate children
to make a success of themselves. A number of biographical sketches of
prominent Americans of the past and present are included.” (Survey)
* * * * *
“A valuable occasional reader or teacher’s manual.”
+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20
“All the selections teach definite, crisp lessons, and teachers
interested in thrift instruction will find the book extremely
suggestive.” G: F. Zook
+ =Survey= 42:760 Ag 23 ’19 140w
=JACOBS, EDWIN ELMORE.=[2] Study of the physical vigor of American
women; pref. by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. $1.50 Jones, Marshall 612
The author presents the results of some statistical studies made among
college women. The outcome of the study is to show “that there is no
real evidence of the decline in the physical vigor of the women of
America.” And arguing that “the male half of the population of a
country can neither be very far ahead or behind the female part in its
general health,” he holds that his conclusions may apply to the
population as a whole. The investigation was carried out along four
lines: fertility, longevity, anthropological measurements and women’s
athletics. There is a five-page list of references.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JACOBSEN, JENS PETER.= Niels Lyhne; tr. from the Danish by Hanna Astrup
Larsen. (Scandinavian classics) $2 (2½c) Am.-Scandinavian foundation
20–1700
A novel by the author of “Marie Grubbe.” It has been called a
spiritual autobiography and in her introduction the translator
sketches the relation of the novel to Jacobsen’s own life. It is the
story of a dreamer who always falls short in his contacts with
reality. Niels Lyhne’s mother spends her life in one long day dream,
broken by disillusionments from which she hastens to take refuge in
still further dreams. The infusion of this temperament in her son,
though mixed with his father’s sterner stuff, renders all his efforts
futile. The story opens with a beautiful account of Niels’s childhood
with its friendship for two boy companions, and is carried through two
love episodes, and a short period of happy marriage to his death in
the war of 1864.
* * * * *
“The novel has the quality of a late autumn afternoon, a windless,
tranquil hour of waiting, when both strong desire and strong regret
are absent, and when in a mood of reverie and forgiveness we let the
world glide from us. A sense of something honey-sweet, faded, and
delicate pervades it. How deeply Jacobsen was the literary artist the
Larsen translation unfortunately little reveals. Though it is more
faithful to the original than the general run of translations to which
we here in America have become accustomed, its prosiness and
stiffness, its air of being all too patently the translation, prevent
it from representing Jacobsen quite fairly.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ − =Dial= 68:644 My ’20 2150w
“The account of Niels Lyhne’s boyhood has a depth of insight even in
matters of sex that is rare in the romance writers. Later the
narrative seems a little hurried and huddled as though vitality to
exhaust his subject had gradually failed the author. But this
uncommonly sensitive translation of a memorable book is cordially to
be welcomed.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w
=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= New Mexico; the land of the delight makers.
(See America first ser.) il *$5 Page 917.89
20–6434
This is the third book about the southwest, a land he knows
intimately, that Mr James has contributed to this series. California
and Arizona were the subjects of the first books and he has found in
New Mexico a theme of equal interest. As set forth in the long
subtitle the aspects of New Mexico covered include “the history of its
ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards,
Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games,
social life, and industries of its Indians; a description of its
climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of
its rapid development, land reclamation projects and educational
system; with full and accurate accounts of its progressive counties,
cities and towns.” Two interesting chapters deal with literature and
art and among the illustrations are a number from paintings by artists
of the Taos colony. There is a bibliography and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Like others of the series, a beautiful picture book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
=JAMES, HENRY.= Letters of Henry James. 2v il *$10 Scribner
20–6773
In editing these volumes of letters, Mr Percy Lubbock has had a wide
field for selection. For, as he says of Henry James, “He was at all
times a copious letter-writer, overflowing into swift and easy
improvisation to his family and to the many friends with whom he
corresponded regularly. His letters have been widely preserved, and
several thousands of them have passed through my hands, ranging from
his twenty-fifth year until within a few days of his last illness.”
(Introd.) In addition to the introduction which opens volume 1, the
editor has contributed brief illuminating prefaces to the sections
into which the volumes are divided. These divisions, for volume 1,
are: First European years: 1869–1874; Paris and London: 1875–1881; The
middle years: 1882–1888; Later London years: 1889–1897; and Rye,
1898–1903. Volume 2 comprises: Rye: 1904–1909; Rye and Chelsea:
1910–1914; and The war: 1914–1916. Notes are often provided for
individual letters and an index adds to the value of the admirably
edited work.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Sydney Waterlow
+ − =Ath= p537 Ap 23 ’20 2350w
“The portrait they paint of the novelist and his surroundings is so
clear that the editor has needed merely to add here and there a
prefatory note. These and the introduction are finely appreciative and
adequate.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
“The editor, Mr Lubbock, has compassed a dangerous undertaking in his
selection and, while he offers many letters which illustrate the
social side of his hero, he justly lays stress on the inclusion of
literary themes. These letters bid fair to become a classic in English
literature.” J. G. Huneker
+ =Bookm= 51:364 My ’20 2700w
“Throughout them we find an abundance of literary comment upon his
fellow writers which is pungent and vigorous, even if not always
convincing.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 10 ’20 1500w
Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:83 Jl ’20 3700w
“Mr Lubbock tells us that James left behind him scarcely a document
that revealed any trace of the origins of his work. Of the origins of
his spirit, his point of view, he yields us scarcely more in the way
of documentary evidence. One apprehends him here indeed in certain
aspects of intimacy as the son, as the brother, as, if not the friend,
at least the fellow-artist, as, perhaps most warmly, the uncle. It is
only—only—as the man that he foils our question.” V. W. B.
+ − =Freeman= 1:164 Ap 28 ’20 1700w
=Lit D= p89 Jl 10 ’20 3450w
“All the more, however, finding him thus restricted as to race and
sympathies and images, do we find ourselves admiring the magnificent
passion with which he worked at his art. His famous prefaces to his
novels and tales are accepted as an indispensable handbook to the art
of fiction. No less may his letters be considered indispensable to
those serious students and fellow-artists who wish to observe a genius
massively revolving and tirelessly experimenting.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 2000w
* =Nation [London]= 27:178 My 8 ’20 1550w
“I am brash enough to venture the prediction that the best book of
Henry James’s, the one with the widest appeal, the one with the most
permanent interest, the one most easily read, is not to be found among
those which he wrote for publication, but is this collection of his
correspondence. What these letters bring before us vividly is a
warm-hearted James, devoted to his family and dowered with the gift of
friendship.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 2750w
“Whatever has been deleted does not harm that which gives pleasure and
delight, surprising us by the clarity and directness of its style and
by the warm sentiment of its friendship.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in
letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of
sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite
tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.”
Lawrence Gilman
+ =No Am= 211:682 My ’20 3000w
“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist
that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that
his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses
+ =Outlook= 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w
“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the
peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made
of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps
unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English
adoption.” S. P. Sherman
+ − =Review= 3:706 Jl 7 ’20 2350w
“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes
that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about
notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and
psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an
intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified
as it was humanly attractive.”
+ =Spec= 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w
“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the
reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 1400w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Master Eustace. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer
“The five stories in this volume, together with the four included in
‘A landscape painter,’ appeared originally in American periodicals,
but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book
form in this country. The present volume, along with ‘A landscape
painter,’ makes accessible to the American public the nine short
stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in
English editions of his works.” (Preface) The five stories, all
written later than “A landscape painter” are: Master Eustace;
Longstaff’s marriage; Théodolinde; A light man; and Benvolio.
* * * * *
“It is not to be imagined that because the stories in this collection
are primarily concerned with the interplay of character they are
slow-moving narratives, with a tendency to be diffuse. On the
contrary, they are well-knit and direct in conception, and executed
with richness, deftness in phrase and mood, and a quiet but keen wit.”
Lisle Bell
+ =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 540w
“No one need look for masterpieces among tales that Henry James
declined to put between covers. The poorest inclusion in the book, and
one of James’s very poorest bits of writing, is ‘Theodolinde.’ The
book is valuable but not invaluable.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 320w
“They are written in a style transparently clear and straightforward,
and are decidedly romantic in substance and form. Nothing in this book
is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 160w
=JAMES, HENRY DUVALL.= Controllers for electric motors. il *$3 Van
Nostrand 621.317
20–174
“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical
applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of
articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the
addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction;
Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods
of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with
different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic
braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating
current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JAMES, WILLIAM.= Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press
20–23198
“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man
which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with
all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is
as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in
personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters
reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the
prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two
volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his
estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise
accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions
brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful
hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound
little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They
will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of
self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 52:557 F ’21 1150w
“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do these.
They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their
self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’;
they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the
chronicle of a notable family.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 2150w
“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the world
will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the most
beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have been
printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things about
persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard, which should
not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 1650w
“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift, we
may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w
“As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man, like
William James, so there can never be another collection of letters
like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care for
genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will find the
book a treasure-house.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 2600w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Book of Job; its origin, growth and
interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223
20–27474
The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books
of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and
the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding
and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by
defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite
authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and
interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the
Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and
additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was
transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy
and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the
Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version
is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the
incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr
Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style
better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 8 ’20 1150w
“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional
prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But
his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w
“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book
for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to
an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd
+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c)
Lippincott 327
20–7859
The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to
be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly
settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the
cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two
contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large
army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these
contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the
creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted
entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of
European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates
not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a
solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the
great war.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted does
not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and
change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to
educate public opinion in this country on a question that involves us
all, whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w
“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble faith as
Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. H. Anderson
=Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 170w
=JAY, WILLIAM.= War and peace. *$1 Oxford 341.6
20–3783
As one of its publications the Carnegie endowment for international
peace has issued a reprint of “War and peace,” published in 1842, with
an introduction by James Brown Scott. William Jay, the author, was the
son of John Jay, who helped frame the first peace treaty with Great
Britain. Of his plan for maintaining peace, Mr Scott says, “Starting
from the premise that we are free agents, that war is an evil, William
Jay maintains that the extinction of other evils shows that war itself
may be eliminated by the gradual growth of a public opinion against it
and by the creation of agencies which nations can create and use just
as individuals have created and used them.” The plan he outlines
involves the creation of an international tribunal with power to
arbitrate.
* * * * *
“The book still has its importance, and the plan proposed has in fact
made its way into many treaties.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=JEAN-AUBRY, G.= French music of today; tr. by Edwin Evans. (Lib. of
music and musicians) *$2 Dutton 780.9
(Eng ed 19–17080)
“The first two sections deal with French music and German music and
The French foundations of present-day keyboard music. Among the
composers touched on in two sections called Studies and physiognomies
and Sketches for portraits are Massenet, Debussy, Roussel, Chabrier,
D’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Dukas, Ravel, and de Sévérac. A section on
Music and poetry contains essays on Baudelaire and music and Verlaine
and the musicians; the concluding section is on French music in
England; and to this little volume M. Gabriel Fauré adds a preface.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Only the first chapter of the book is
new, the others ranging over various periods, and in some cases dating
as far back as 1906 and 1907, when the modern French achievement was
virtually an unknown quantity in England.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“Makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in clarity.”
+ − =Ath= p114 Mr ’19 60w
“M. Jean-Aubry is one of those enthusiastic apologists who almost
disarm criticism by their sheer ingenuousness. Were it a volume of
recent production, and a serious attempt at criticism, one would
indeed be compelled to call his judgments in question on almost every
page. A pamphlet which was opportune in 1909 may be rather tiresome
ten years later.” R. O. M.
− + =Ath= p757 Ag 15 ’19 550w
“The critical judgments of some of the older chapters and the
propagandist tendency make the book somewhat untimely.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:13 O ’19 30w
“M. Jean-Aubry has given us the point of view of the modern French
composer toward his art. The value of this contribution alone more
than offsets any charge of propagandism that the book may bring forth,
a charge that is partially refuted by the very fact that much of its
contents was written long before the war.” Henrietta Straus
+ =Nation= 110:527 Ap 17 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer
=Review= 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids
technicalities.”
+ =Spec= 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w
“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of
his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and
sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is
indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French
composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w
“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the
service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that
positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a
whirlpool of words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w
=JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT.= Brief description of the Holy sepulchre.
il *$3.50 Putnam 726
20–9215
The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the
Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief
description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian
churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of
the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the
history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the
lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of
Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work
closes with chronological tables and index.
* * * * *
“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the
reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The
illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of
enlargement.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 100w
“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and
value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they
go to Jerusalem and after they return.”
+ =Spec= 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w
“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1150w
=JEFFERY, JEFFERY E.= Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer
20–14708
A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With
the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine,
they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess
of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul;
Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of
sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The
revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way
of epilogue.
* * * * *
“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of
kindliness.’”
+ =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w
“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit
curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and
persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”
+ =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w
“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring
of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all
such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 19 ’20 210w
“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old
army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany
demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident
attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w
=JENKIN, A. M. N.= End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane
20–7429
Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this
story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love
with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready
to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless
marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he
no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The
doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want
of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his
hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from
the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a
double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple,
intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a
dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina
herself.
* * * * *
“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks
literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his
plot.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 130w
“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the
social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a
dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 400w
“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock
the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and
downright awful power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w
“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly
be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this
affection.”
− =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w
“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted
interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w
=JENKINS, J. T.=[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2
“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally
associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint
committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of
the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing
adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the
herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling.
Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter
deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and
herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last
chapter.”—Ath
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 100w
“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles
Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little
else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his
text.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 280w
“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to
the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of
utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its
more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”
+ =Spec= 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w
=JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR.= Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667
20–18167
The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries
series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes
from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their
quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the
determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length.
The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary
to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material.
Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments
used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the
application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests
of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and
enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.
=JENSEN, ALBRECHT.= Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author,
box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7
20–19054
“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian
Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage
movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic
effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system
is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment
and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects
from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises;
Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The
construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises;
General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises
with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of
exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises
may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the
body. There are eighty-six illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 70w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w
=Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–22232
When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun,
it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of
possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his
actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or
household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his
murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled
violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to
Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he
had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for
breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time
of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to
nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the
suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which
gives the actual murderer away.
* * * * *
“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr
Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”
+ − =Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 140w
“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 520w
“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension
of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the
narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of
readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and
Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty
of opportunities here.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 420w
“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what
is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much
of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”
+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w
=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“A detective story of exceptional merit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 170w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield
20–3191
Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a
successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens
and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same
boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military
service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board.
But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service
and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the
story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s
dancing.
* * * * *
“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was
that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that
he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror
for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom
into popular ballerinas.”
− + =Ath= p475 O 8 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”
+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 70w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821
20–20439
The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom:
“In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the
streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a
hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also
furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The
droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of
healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty
stays her foot; Lover’s cry.
* * * * *
“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr
Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity
of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point,
perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of
accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 680w
=JESSUP, ALEXANDER=, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern
lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright
20–12376
“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short
stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W.
Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others,
including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The
editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are
inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious
interest.”
+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 50w
“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man
will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w
“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which
alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work
involving critical selection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 120w
=JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON.= Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2
Harcourt 192
(Eng ed 20–6885)
“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol
college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in
which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually
perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and
discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of
the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a
subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The
first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie,
which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of
common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s
treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion,
but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are
those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be
considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it
will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important
than those noticed by him.”
+ − =Ath= p539 Je 27 ’19 80w
“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably
intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an
admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by
all who are interested in philosophy without being professional
philosophers.” B. R.
+ =Ath= p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w
=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w
=Brooklyn= 12:28 N ’19 50w
=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who
possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense,
does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape
only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another
to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who
takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of
initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and
stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey
− + =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w
“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study
as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of
today.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w
“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p492 S 18 ’19 1000w
=JOHNSEN, JULIA E.=,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3
(Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7
This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers
the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service,
Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in
1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.
=JOHNSON, ARTHUR.= Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15533
The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the
dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two
lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal
coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s
and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918
volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”
* * * * *
“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality
of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities
of Henry James.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 400w
“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the
same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the
transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood
difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and
this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= What to see in America. (American highways and
byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3
19–19488
“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in
nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is
intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and
also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home,
but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state
is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the
largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest
concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in
visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a
chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.
* * * * *
“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full
contents by states with mention of attractions.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say,
but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward
English.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w
“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for
reference.”
+ =Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 40w
“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better
than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history
to add the right tincture of romance.”
+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w
“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well
printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of
those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let
their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here
photographed.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure
to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the
‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w
“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended
to public-school geography classes.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD.= Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ.
press 811
20–1009
The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some
new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems;
Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems;
Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems
of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems
chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war;
Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time
poems.
* * * * *
“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he
displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional
after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing
about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent
laureate.”
+ =Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 120w
“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much
grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious
verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of
distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.”
H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 60w
“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor
to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the
interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 1900w
“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of
Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing
respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar
and the citizen of the world.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50
Dodd 737
The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil
medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of
England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards;
Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals;
British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals
for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good
conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United
States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and
numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and
index.
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s
postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383
The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an
intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first
and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there
is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be
collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner
and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with
philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the
collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps,
desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and
other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description
of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war;
Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms
with a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and
otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of
forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w
=JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO.= Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham
941.5
20–5597
“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit,
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give
lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the
book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr
Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development
of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co.,
inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91
20–10078
“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the
narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one
island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing
of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the
island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for
science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the
great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of
Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close
of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military
operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans
for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its
capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of
the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for
independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its
influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the
series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This
volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of
agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left
untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a
subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w
“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed
into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would
appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and
costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba
it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment
can ill afford.” C. H. Haring
− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 30 ’20 1550w
“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban
point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is
continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto
of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached
compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only
a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital
interest and importance to the people of this country.”
+ =No Am= 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w
“A well-written history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON.= Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the
woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan
20–7923
“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook
to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and
Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’
taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point
where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and
her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren,
consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but
find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws
forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of
revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her
hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In
1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take
an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs
Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it
came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first
days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother.
The description of the experiences of these two women especially
during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and
well done.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay
Dombeys’ will like this.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the
nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they
are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing
phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing
human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 2100w
“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which
the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with
circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it
both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have
found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the
rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable
subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.
− + =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w
+ − =Lit D= p97 O 9 ’20 1700w
“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a
gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His
second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”
+ − =Nation= 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w
“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and
other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will
read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir
Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of
scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a
light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly
individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”
+ =Nature= 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w
“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling
and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization,
with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself
(she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly
superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w
“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the
poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s
preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book
and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to
be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels
and the war: 1914.’”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w
“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w
“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a
laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means
disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with
the initials G. B. S.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w
“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and
those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We,
unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and
amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must
absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper
20–18509
The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is
very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is
none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his
family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been
born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary.
There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation
to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual
ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends
or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions
of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual
nature.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 470w
“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of
individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her
book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 520w
“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet
Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the
same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will,
at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever
again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 270w
=N Y Times= p21 N 21 ’20 400w
“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a
sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too
conscious effort at poetic expression.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 10 ’20 250w
=JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON.= First reflections on the campaign of 1918.
*$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373
20–5656
The author, who was attached to the general staff at General
Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had
every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers
his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He
points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and
how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the
competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets
and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the
whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible
efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The
U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank
and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The
National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics;
The replacement system; Our army of the future.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p27 O 10 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c)
Little
20–10309
The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly
married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A
young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her
love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the
police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is
so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire,
Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her
quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of
international significance, in which great sums of money are involved.
Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the
end, when she foils their schemes.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective
stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w
“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and
well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w
=JONES, ELIAS HENRY.= Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47
20–7946
This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in
Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an
exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother
officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in
spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape
through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that
spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental
powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane
conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and
‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from
beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was
possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly
educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods
employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in
the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their
truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a
postscript and appendices.
* * * * *
“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a
real and lasting service.”
+ =Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 100w
“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in
detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w
“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably
be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 380w
=JONES, SIR HENRY.= Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320
20–12226
“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the
Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to
give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the
language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction
is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is
said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of
individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics
* * * * *
“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of
place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.
− + =Ath= p270 My 2 ’19 530w
=Int J Ethics= 30:115 O ’19 160w
“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious
thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have
left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A.
by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines
several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state
is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more
the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is
in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international
flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if
the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive
their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”
− =Sat R= 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w
“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected
or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument
is singularly clear.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
=JONES, HENRY ARTHUR.= Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370
20–10632
“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English
work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the
condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training
of actors, English politics before the war, national training for
national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the
future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion,
reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social
prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social
reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and
rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in
a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of
education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his
book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for
practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good
citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers,
have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the
plainest economic laws.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p283 My 2 ’19 170w
− =Ath= p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w
“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought
out criticism.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:83 F ’20 40w
“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from
two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many
suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is
looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the
problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”
+ =Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w
“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as
they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian
of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a
little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”
+ − =N Y Times= 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w
“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that
cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or
as a treatise upon education.”
+ − =No Am= 212:428 S ’20 1850w
“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write
foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with
him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other
hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w
+ =St Louis= 18:56 Ap ’20 40w
“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work
palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about
it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is
that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w
=JONES, HERBERT.= Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821
20–7866
A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love
sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling
a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of
that city.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 30w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 200w
“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a
truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling,
or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which
fills the rest of the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr.= Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
19–16027
The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in
Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles
are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight;
Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The
universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.
* * * * *
“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such
a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in
both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and
sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for
simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan
940.47
20–10376
“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says,
‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work;
it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the
Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in
reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our
War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors.
Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps
which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the
chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations
with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to
Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation
* * * * *
“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of
singular and effective devotion and courage.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 200w
=Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w
“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed
account of a great work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w
“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to
criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis
on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less
emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to
be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too,
for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt
+ − =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w
“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many
ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of
authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable
perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at
stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his
story more summarily.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p690 O 28 ’20 1250w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–1571
“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of
a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories
and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly
outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his
biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of
definition.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:202 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w
“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short
biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the
Society of Friends with masterly art.”
+ =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w
“A compact and well-written volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
=JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.).= La Chance mine mystery.
il *$1.75 (2c) Little
Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the
vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his
life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find
her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But
it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of
sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the
way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s
partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and
her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow
about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come
to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of
hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.
* * * * *
“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable
action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going
on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 170w
“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting
are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 520w
“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men
and women alike.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its
charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their
howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will
satisfy the most blasé reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
=Pub W= 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w
=JONESCU, TAKE.= Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923
20–3876
The author of this volume was former prime minister of Roumania. Of
this English version Viscount Bryce writes in the introduction: “the
descriptions it contains are for the most part vigorous sketches
rather than portraits. Some, however, may be called vignettes, more or
less finished drawings, each consisting of few lines, but those lines
sharply and firmly drawn. Intermingled with this score of personal
sketches there are also a few brief essays or articles which set
before us particular scenes, little fragments of history in which the
author bore a part, all relating to the persons who either figured in
the war, or were concerned with the intrigues from which it sprang.”
Contents: Monsieur Poincaré; Prince Lichnowsky; Count Berchtold; The
marquis Pallavicini; Count Goluchowsky; August 2, 1914;
Kiderlen-Waechter; Count Aehrenthal; Count Czernin; Count Mensdorff;
England’s antipathy to war; The responsibility for the war; King
Charles of Roumania; Herr Riedl; Count Szeczen; Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace; Baron Banffy; Roumanian policy; Tragedy; Count Tisza; Talaat
Pasha; Prince von Bülow; Taticheff; France and the Teuton; A cousin of
Tisza; New Italy; Why four last Germans; Eleutherios Venizelos; The
kaiser.
* * * * *
“Some light is thrown on the events immediately preceding the war, and
although the book is almost diplomatically polite, we see once more of
what poor quality these official great men usually are.”
+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 80w
“Through all the back-stage chat which a diplomat loves we catch sharp
flashes which throw into new relief many of the great events connected
with the war.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 520w
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 400w
“The book, being what it is, naturally does not contain or profess to
contain the matured contribution to the history of the last decades
which we hope some day to have from his pen; but none the less it will
be useful to many and can be read with pleasure by all.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p704 D 4 ’19 1300w
=JOSEPH, MRS HELEN (HAIMAN).= Book of marionettes. il *$5 Huebsch 792
20–26461
“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different
ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people,
though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest
that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes
into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of
operating them.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style
assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets
themselves.”
+ =Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w
“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of
marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.”
Maurice Browne
+ =Freeman= 2:18 S 15 ’20 1600w
“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by
Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic,
airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen
with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 1300w
“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary
affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the
indispensable erudition.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 2500w
“Amusing and whimsical book.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 330w
“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject,
it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 310w
=JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON).= Junior cook book.
$1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5
20–10578
The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain,
nourishing food without any other help than the directions given.
Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that
have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as
the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship.
Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and
the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon
and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have
food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies;
Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves;
Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.
* * * * *
“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w
=JUDSON, JEANNE.= Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2647
Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to
live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated,
emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having
divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the
surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers
an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George,
the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills
Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and
faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth,
however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness
of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously
restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister
power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her
frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere
that hangs over Gloria and her household.
=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should
create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults
now in vogue.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 60w
=JUTA, RÉNÉ.= Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt
20–13976
The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much
political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of
Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret
gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta,
discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful
young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At
the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s
arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the
young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells
Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a
woman) was a leper.
* * * * *
“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an
original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative
was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least.
Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.”
G. M. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 460w
“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write
of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a
pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still
greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying
of the characters.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
=Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat
early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W.
Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w
“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to
make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a
bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by
the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:122 Ag 7 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w
K
=KAHN, OTTO HERMANN.= Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran
304
20–11152
A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business
and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with
an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure
of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January
25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling
the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The
menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain,
and America and the League of nations are among the subjects
considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers
on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular
priced opera; Art and the people.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:810 D ’20 30w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of
great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 140w
“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking
instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is
an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his
book has the quality which results from doing things rather than
thinking about doing them.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w
“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be
characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind
neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the
special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”
+ =No Am= 212:426 S ’20 1350w
“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that
is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are
particularly good.”
+ =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 300w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w
=KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW.= Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday
947
20–14311
The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American
ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of
the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading
to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St
Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led
to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself
strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the
bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on
personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels
nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a
revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily
already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on
Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the
deliverer.
=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
Reviewed by W: Hard
* =New Repub= 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w
“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule
without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as
affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character
and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w
“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama
appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It
is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr
Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the
manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any
such illusion.”
+ =No Am= 212:431 S ’20 750w
“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the
first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from
which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as
exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter
+ =Outlook= 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w
=KANE, ROBERT.= Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170
“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the
Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first
deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards
of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the
evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath
=Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w
“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and
old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth
remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index
has been omitted.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:825 S ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w
=KARSNER, DAVID.= Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock
prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright
20–978
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as
giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful
purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of
view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which
he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the
literature of the day.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 160w
“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a
contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”
+ =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 80w
“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted
Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and
addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the
cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter
+ =Nation= 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait,
which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and
is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he
has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the
historical sources to the extent that he might under different
circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic
biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is
excellent.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w
“Not needed by all small libraries.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:123 Je ’20 50w
=KARTINI, raden adjeng.= Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf
20–20025
The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise
Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese
women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded
prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She
was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent
longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her
achievements in that direction.
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given
to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the
woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.”
Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 1100w
“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends
in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the
writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid
manner.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 600w
“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the
worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly
supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of
European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however,
her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the
book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”
+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 100w
“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters
have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is
sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of
them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped
the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat
didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w
+ =Nation= 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in
native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than
Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of
distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this
shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
+ =New Repub= 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75
Doubleday
20–18511
Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on
Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a
trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who
is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a
splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she
has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s
illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth,
Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
* * * * *
“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books
rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of
the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written
by one.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are
excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75
Doubleday
20–18510
After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,”
Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She
and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and
aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her
big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister,
and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is
the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part.
And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and
learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.
* * * * *
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton
20–7297
“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
dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter 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.”—Ath
* * * * *
“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.”
+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w
“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we
do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes
most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be
equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but
an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in
retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted,
and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it,
so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it
flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p881 S 12 ’19 1200w
“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and
atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec
123:622 N 8 ’19)
“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and
a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to
be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel
that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no
detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 1500w
“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the
author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead
of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”
+ − =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 70w
“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and
‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort
of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no
compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book
‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a
romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of
work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H.
S. G.
+ =Freeman= 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w
“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to
‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work
of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly
move the reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w
“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which
belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has
the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so
dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w
“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which
observation and local knowledge are happily united to very
considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread
over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”
+ =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w
=KEABLE, ROBERT.= Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
20–15963
“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts
of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of
unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his
characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East
Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary.
When the British government brought a great number of the natives of
this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied
them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he
described his work among them and their reactions to their new
surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange
spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of
missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England,
in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and
which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the
peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than
anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In
no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy
apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the
only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes
handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a
simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild
flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
20–10564
Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book
describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting
in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying
and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent,
omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in
the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the
asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers;
Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth;
Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower
sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and
numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English
names.
+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE.= Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75
Oxford 967
(Eng ed 19–12919)
“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the
Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which
regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately
annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are
reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 50w
=Dial= 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w
“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious,
exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily
wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a
later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An
appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an
advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and
well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:290 Ap ’20 950w
Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois
+ =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w
“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state
is exact and scholarly.”
+ =Spec= 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w
“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is
dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central
Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in
his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic
rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s
extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for
affairs, and financial skill.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w
=KEITH, ERIC A.= My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47
20–2039
Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the
left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly
interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his
three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of
which the third was successful. This American edition of the book
contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English
edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the
route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a
plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.
* * * * *
“Vigorously written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of
escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is
again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
+ =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this
takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and
is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 28 ’18 70w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact.
But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell
in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr
Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did
was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to
arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce
determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad
respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing
soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never
loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
* * * * *
“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is
written in an entertaining vein.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper
20–7299
They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but
then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was
determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was
an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a
sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive
cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the
contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to
perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and
exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his
efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks
and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a
short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide
appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of
willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in
the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing
of the efficiency idea.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 120w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
20–18251
“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations
without balking and with family tradition and business tradition
fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result
of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a
disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright
Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile
king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as
a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an
up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he
takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it
over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the
announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s
unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost
girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and
sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 230w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends
with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox
manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest
of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment
recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating
as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy
Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the
proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of
calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called
‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a
true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served
excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a
moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a
little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real
mate.’—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that
American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can
accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Bobbins of
Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and
lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account
of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign,
begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace
industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the
introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home
industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal
schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the
notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of
laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and
their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are:
Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont;
Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent;
Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.
* * * * *
“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and
designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too
technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would
possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= My 19 ’20 230w
+ =Cath World= 112:398 D ’20 170w
Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman
+ =J Home Econ= 12:425 S ’20 340w
“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many
illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of
convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the
secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”
+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.
+ =St Louis= 18:223 S ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 26 ’20 840w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Mercier; the
fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
20–5667
The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief
in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book,
parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and
Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to
cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and
Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor
general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to
America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas
pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal
Mercier’s works concludes the book.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a
delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to
express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and
discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
+ =Cath World= 111:687 Ag ’20 380w
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful
pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 70w
+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown
together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should
especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout
reverence.” M. K. Reely
+ − =Pub W= 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–8244
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with
the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,”
describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the
sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The
university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest
of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining
chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food
administration, and the American relief administration. Four
appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and
speeches.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our
time.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w
=R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte
Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
20–17603
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of
this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not
pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description
of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social
movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I
suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of
the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the
revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows
tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee
society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love
with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is
about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of
chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful
information as well as much fancy in the text.”
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is
following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a
child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
− =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like
this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for
nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be
less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely
authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true
story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 120w
=KELLY, FRED CHARTERS.= Human nature in business; how to capitalize your
everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
A20–714
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest
when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other
periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your
every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Interesting but rather obvious.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with
incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements
of conduct.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 260w
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as
sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN.= American medical
biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
20–14756
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia
of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the
preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to
produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one
biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new
biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original
sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have
replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is
carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty
references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main
biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every
man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in
the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become
illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.”
Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies
nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the
general index.
* * * * *
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the
discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place
‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren
Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p14 O 31 ’20 2500w
=KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD.= What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
20–3794
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a
real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and
his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the
great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from
Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre
finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of
the grave in France.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values
which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a
success.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w
=KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD.= Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–12187
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of
sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by
campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis)
“Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to
sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made
upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he
gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his
poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If
one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a
development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with
qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this
volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 40w
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found
‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has
not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are
gathered here.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before,
though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for
commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 160w
=St Louis= 18:247 O ’20 30w
=KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.=[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
20–17967
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the
principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the
author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest
mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of
the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past.
A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it
with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to
justice.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping,
straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 160w
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with
inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most
narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery,
admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 80w
=KENEALY, ARABELLA.= Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
(Eng ed SG20–92)
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the
characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses
as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a
chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and
the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by
misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist
doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress.
She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will
be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
=Ath= p621 My 7 ’20 120w
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the
disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
− =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 30 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length,
and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on
dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of
vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common
sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances
with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:436 My 8 ’20 800w
“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and
against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and
unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to
pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will
probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
+ − =Spec= 125:20 Jl 3 ’20 500w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6
Macmillan 852
20–8020
Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation
of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present
volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of
themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who
trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who,
across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul
of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from
Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life,
a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted
to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work,
the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the
plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an
index and three illustrations.
* * * * *
=Ath= p266 Ag 27 ’20 2150w
+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not
obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book
is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French
and Italian citations.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 900w
“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”
+ =Nation= 111:511 N 3 ’20 250w
“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a
workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 720w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:476 O 9 ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 Ag 26 ’20 1250w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–19583
The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old
traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all
iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in
finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus
enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson,
Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and
Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit
daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her
cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and
impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he
causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but
when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims,
and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s
innocence, true love comes to its own.
* * * * *
“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an
essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of
properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern
Italy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 90w
“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate
presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the
orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of
well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know
his Venice.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 470w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very
day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a
morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822
20–6980
An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made
for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and
among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows
steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to
radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday
type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of
Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:271 My ’20
=Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 260w
“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that
of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest
fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the
theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 520w
“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than
Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there
are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies
in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a
play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught,
and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues
of its journey.”
− + =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely
intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment,
falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is,
is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy
would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a
suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped
over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:255 Jl ’20 380w
=KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.=[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies
in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230
20–15157
“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism
for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided
into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second
part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main
independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the
theology of the developing church.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1016 O 10 ’19 60w
“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The
treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”
+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 240w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.= Jesus’ principles
of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232
20–12830
“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to
interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively
in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that
Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and
coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two
distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the
other in political science, have worked together to expound the
teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a
yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual
satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that
the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this
volume.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 180w
“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many
theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal
and of the abstract.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 470w
“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”
− =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 100w
“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without
sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are
involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is
thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the
reader.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w
=KENT, ROCKWELL.= Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il
*$5 Putnam
20–6728
Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an
island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with
his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings
that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an
introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s
drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life
of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect
companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both
man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together
by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face
to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the
wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is
nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own
all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is
that which we believe it to be.”
* * * * *
“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious
enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an
excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks
for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never
lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of
Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But
when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art,
we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
Reviewed by H: McBride
=Dial= 69:91 Jl ’20 800w
“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful
series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet
adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps
chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and
freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening
+ =Freeman= 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w
“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one
of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like
‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the
wilderness.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’
is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys
is not a mere surmise.”
+ =Outlook= 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is
‘Wilderness.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a
born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
=KEON, GRACE.= Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
20–5124
“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black
bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in
fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than
saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and
abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and
felt that she really could not take him into her household of six
small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them
all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father,
Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and
quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish
tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with
another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one
for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 120w
“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”
+ =Cath World= 111:696 Ag ’20 120w
“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
=KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL.= Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia
univ. press 940.373
20–3590
Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first
delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia,
and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier
and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American
scholarship; What have we learned?
* * * * *
=Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w
=KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS.= Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1
20–13602
“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in
their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by
Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly
the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough
explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of
negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and
radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the
franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in
education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume
of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received
following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he
bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w
“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s
growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable
indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist,
not only without effective protest but largely with their
acquiescence.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 260w
“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume
and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy
fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness
with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w
“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the
country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w
“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find
Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”
+ =No Am= 212:575 O ’20 300w
“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America.
Typographically the book is not attractive.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w
“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”
+ =Review 3:538 D 1= ’20 300w
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought
or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the
compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If
instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate
the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate
honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire
and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably
turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning.
*60c (7½c) Revell 134
20–17391
Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person
relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very
dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door
which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon
the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the
presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy,
while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.”
Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some
comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of
spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
* * * * *
“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly
interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its
details.”
+ − =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w
+ =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane
20–8544
This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the
first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished
letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton.
After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the
present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore
written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from
A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those
poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”;
Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The
laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets
whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear
deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster
Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
* * * * *
=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 40w
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:569 Jl ’20 920w
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 1450w
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s
‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his
biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
+ =Cath World= 111:831 S ’20 90w
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There
is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to
exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression
of their real greatness.”
+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means
destitute of revealing touches.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that
he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 D 11 ’19 750w
=KERR, R. WATSON.= War daubs. *$1 Lane 821
20–5692
This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid
the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not
see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy
eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.”
Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The
gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w
“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of
these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely
digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new
poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too
closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”
− + =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 80w
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without
the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an
intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But
there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain
honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 My 8 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the
verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD).= Painted meadows. *$1.90
(1½c) Doran
20–7762
Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved
Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome
and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took
Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a
hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and
ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from
straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth
became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it
vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before
disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid
loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to
Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only
averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s
unfaithfulness.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
=Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 120w
“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief
characters are very real.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise
graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of
prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets
out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that
‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent
craftsmanship.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w
“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the
subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense
and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality.
Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which
embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 300w
“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy)
husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been
faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet
conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so
attractive a feature in some American novels.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w
=KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.= Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam
users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543
The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in
the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in
the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The
new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has
made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and
upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The
chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus
has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.”
(Preface to the second edition)
* * * * *
“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives
trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to
every industrial chemist.”
+ =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w
=KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.= Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c)
Harcourt 330.94
20–2057
As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace
conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied
and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on
his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the
peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to
“re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the
injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty
and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result
of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions
for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the
defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the
new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide
in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies
themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish
themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to
individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The
conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.
* * * * *
“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the
growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly
of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which
a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C.
J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 640w
“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also
unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 750w
“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of
individuals.” C. L. King
+ − =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 300w
“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of
hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and
the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination.
In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a
middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to
boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he
knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out
with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to
bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had
been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is
not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of
generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and
domination.”
+ + − =Ath= p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w
“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful
clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy
because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to
widely differing political factions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:199 Mr ’20
“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided
by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or
in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will
disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these
critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant
economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip
+ =Bookm= 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w
“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure
fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this
book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less
suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes
expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle
+ − =Dial= 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w
“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what
happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the
multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle
sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have
been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may
understand.” W: C. Bullitt
+ + =Freeman= 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w
=Lit D= p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w
“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the
overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer
has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of
knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the
ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen
living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely
hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid
portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral
indignation.” H. J. Laski
+ + =Nation= 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w
+ =Nation [London]= 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w
“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp
dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As
against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be
put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for
dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so
much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are
yet hanging.” A. A. Young
+ − =New Repub= 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w
“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing
than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the
limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically
sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of
human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least
important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its
demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial
provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos
brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve.
Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league
of nations.” P. D. Cravath
+ + − =N Y Sun and Herald= p11 F 2 ’20 3600w
“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic
future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his
interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political
questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of
their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us
a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead
he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet,
and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the
‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen
− =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the
work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is
a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind
which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical
humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It
is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave
reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”
+ − =Review= 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 210w
“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the
term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the
relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages
of this book.”
+ =Sat R= 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Arthur Gleason
+ =Socialist R= 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w
“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his
former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect
of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be
written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last,
‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of
substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication
is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies
proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems
to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different
category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves
attention.”
− + =Spec= 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w
“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and
Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but
consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and
penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said
outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord
Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation
[London] 26:426 D 20 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w
“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will
be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and
interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he
appears to have little interest or understanding.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w
“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present
conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr
Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of
the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the
enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires.
Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly
pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual
treatment than he himself proposes.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:94 Mr ’20 260w
“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing
than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s
predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book
is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of
the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete
mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour
− + =Yale R= n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w
=KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.= Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer;
with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s
20–10008
“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s
diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not
given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a
mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the
years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July
30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w
+ =Cath World= 112:255 N 20 220w
“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay,
and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a
self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of
these memories.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w
=KIMBALL, EVERETT.= National government of the United States. *$3.60
(1½c) Ginn 342.7
20–5064
The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which
institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which
appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting
the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical
origins and the development of our national political institutions and
the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of
the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that
the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered,
authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme
court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at
conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents
is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution;
Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election
of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and
functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial
system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance;
Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United
States and there is an index.
* * * * *
“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the
fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The
student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the
essential principles of our national political system which will give
him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.”
Ralston Hayden
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:722 N ’20 880w
+ =Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has
been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener
discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would
perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is
no new interpretation of our national system, but there is
compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly
high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:154 S ’20 620w
“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly,
discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a
reasonable degree of readability.”
+ =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w
+ =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 150w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science.
Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that
even a layman without any training in political science can
understand.” J: E: Oster
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w
=KING, BASIL.= Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper
20–14599
A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was
of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a
snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from
those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of
view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of
Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning
to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our
whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is
gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it,
returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too
his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going
shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in
adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the
current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will
open up to him.
* * * * *
“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit;
only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to
be an error.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 170w
“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have
written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King,
and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper
pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life
which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 800w
+ =Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 320w
“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much
skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and
then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but
dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction
of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally
fastidious reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w
“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact
should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to
the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be
the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers,
the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 120w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.= Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van
Nostrand 540.3
(Eng ed 20–10609)
A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in
compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects
of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more
important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or
manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions
of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry
for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.
* * * * *
“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict
reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.
+ − =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w
“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p25 Ap ’20 20w
=KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.= Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10006
Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and
aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity,
Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them
are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and
birds in sonnet and short lyric form.
* * * * *
“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the
fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but
his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W.
S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910
20–9990
In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between
1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889
published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three
sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New
England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers
written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the
family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the
magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in
1913.
* * * * *
“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and
obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block
of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go
on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the
greater the obstruction.” V. W.
− + =Ath= p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the
world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling
develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in
his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w
“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as
the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in
America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea
to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the
outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly
over-stimulated nervous system.”
− =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are
full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength
and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight
of Monadnock.’”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w
=New Repub= 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w
“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk
and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the
letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all
these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the
same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding
anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic,
not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United
States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never
filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant
thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow,
these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is
humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”
+ − =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w
“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and
those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.
+ =St Louis= 18:231 S ’20 60w
“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is
his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us
see things and understand things.”
+ =Spec= 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w
“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface
aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is
congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as
inevitably out of date.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w
“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with
poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this
book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his
patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous
by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies
seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome
of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive
he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 120w
=KIRBY, ELIZABETH.= Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran
20–15953
Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness.
First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her
ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants
and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she
wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius,
held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further
production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She
dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy
prince at last.
* * * * *
“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and
Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and
appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 240w
“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and
extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby
presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she
compels the reader to share.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w
=KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.=[2] Wealth: its production and distribution.
*$2.25 Dutton 330
“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land,
labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s
preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in
a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of
wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an
analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the
production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the
economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 70w
=KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.= View vertical, and other essays. *$2
(3½c) Houghton 814
20–17902
Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial
essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a
universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the
mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his
conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the
sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for
the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the
keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life
or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our
friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In
defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in
fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman;
Gift-books and book-gifts.
* * * * *
“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the
particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and
directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip
suits a cat.”
+ =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 130w
“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written
essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same
time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen
perception of just what her own position ought to be.”
+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w
“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more
impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor
and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing
off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w
=KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.= Imagination and its place in education.
$1.48 Ginn 370.15
20–8868
“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational
psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the
imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal
development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this
intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different
school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1,
‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the
imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes.
Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters
describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different
stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness,
quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different
individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of
thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the
imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of
training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining,
stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a
brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training.
Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in
learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic,
geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School
R
* * * * *
“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which
is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of
imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to
all students of educational psychology.”
+ =El School J= 21:153 O ’20 290w
“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student
ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the
exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be
handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K.
Gordon
+ − =J Philos= 18:54 Ja ’21 150w
+ =School R= 28:638 O ’20 420w
=KLAPPER, PAUL=, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in
the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3
20–5826
A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points
out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on
college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is
surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an
introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three
papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S.
P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E.
Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2
covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis
Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the
social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political
science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is
devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to
Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical
drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany
a number of the papers and there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their
scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and
their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the
teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual
and prospective college teachers.”
+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 290w
=KLEIN, DARYL.= With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c)
Lane 940.48
20–6740
The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese
labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in
China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to
France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the
journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and
change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing
from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple,
jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the
crop of war books.”
+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 60w
+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these
‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating,
free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow
peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial
relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The
title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 150w
“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial
humanity.”
+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is
given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 160w
=KLEIN, HERMAN.= Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century
20–17976
Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for
which she had designated the author of the present volume as her
collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography
for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s
career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the
singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an
index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
=Bookm= 52:166 O ’20 1250w
“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of
interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book
will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in
her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 17 ’20 2450w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p773 N 25 ’20 1300w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk
808.5
Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity
school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has
prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles
are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to
say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371);
Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public
speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu
speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it
(20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for
speakers and writers (20–7283).
* * * * *
“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in
the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate
the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in
these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in
ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value
to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H.
H. F.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in
volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worth
appreciably more than all of Mr Kleiser. His additions to it subtract
from it by hiding it from the casual gaze.”
− + =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 220w
“The suggestions are sensible, sound, comprehensive, and written in
terse and understandable language. Many practiced speakers could
improve their style by following them.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a May 30 ’20 150w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH).= Lure of the pen. *$2.50
(4c) Putnam 808
20–6889
In her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be
authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to
write; but sometimes it is possible to help the beginners to an
understanding of what it is better not to write.” She tells these
beginners why they fail, emphasizes the need of training, tells them
three essentials in training and how to acquire them. She also tells
them how to give themselves a course in observation and how to assess
spiritual values. The contents are in five parts: The mss. that fail;
On keeping your eyes open; The help that books can give; Points a
writer ought to note; Author, publisher, and public.
* * * * *
“The author gives much good advice (a great deal of it very
elementary) to literary aspirants.”
+ − =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 120w
“Practical in many respects, the book is of little use in teaching the
‘would-be author’ how to become an artist. Miss Klickmann’s
instruction is from an editorial standpoint, not from the artist’s,
and as such her volume has its value for the novice who knows no
better than to believe that literary greatness and fame come with a
successful appearance in the magazines.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 550w
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w
“Her book is remarkably well done, and may very well help some real
talent on its way; and, apart from that, it is written in so lively a
style, so full of piquant anecdote and illustration, that it is a pity
that the more sophisticated reader, who would really much more enjoy
it than the ‘would-be’ author for whom it is written, is not likely to
encounter it.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 900w
“Miss Klickmann’s work is adapted not only to people without knowledge
but to people without brains. There is an iteration of the familiar,
an elaboration of the simple, an elucidation of the clear.”
− =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 650w
“It might be said that if a young writer fails to profit by this
inspirational book he had better leave off his attempts to write.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 100w
“The substance of the teaching is helpful, and the manner encouraging
without being effusive.”
+ =Spec= 122:737 Je 7 ’19 300w
“On the professional side, her suggestions are of great practical
value. If any adverse criticism can be made, it is that she does not
classify thoroughly her comment on the various types of material
discussed. Miss Klickmann’s advice is not effusively or obscurely
pedantic. It is all breezy and to the point.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 800w
“She wields herself a very bright and ready pen, and out of the
abundance of her experience she gives in a flow of headed paragraphs
helpful advice on every side of the subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Je 5 ’19 100w
=KLUCK, ALEXANDER VON.= March on Paris and the battle of the Marne,
1914. il *$3.50 Longmans 940.4
(Eng ed 20–10378)
“Alexander von Kluck, generaloberst, has written a book about his
Belgian and French adventure. It was completed in February, 1918, on
the eve of the great German offensive in Picardy. It is the personal
observations, impressions and opinions of a commanding general who
reviews his own actions in the quietude of his study and illustrates
them with the orders issued to him and by him, but with very little
information beyond the manoeuvres of his own army in the field and
almost none of the enemy. Evidently the sub-title to the book, ‘The
battle of the Marne,’ is a characterization of the British editors,
for the author calls it ‘The battle on the Ourcq’ and devotes the last
third of the book to it. Still, if the British editors have given the
book a title which shall more pointedly appeal to readers of English,
they have also furnished the book with something far more important:
Footnotes by the experts of the Committee of imperial defense. These
notes check up von Kluck’s data, correct his errors, and often qualify
his conclusions.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“His book lacks the attractive personality and humor of Ludendorff’s,
the intimate observations of von Hindenburg’s. There is nothing
picturesque about it. All the same, as has been said, the military
historian will find therein a mine of academic information which he
cannot afford to leave unexplored.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 25 ’20 2650w
=Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1150w
“A valuable contribution to military history.”
+ =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 430w
=KNAPPEN, THEODORE MACFARLANE.= Wings of war; with an introd. by D. W.
Taylor. il *$2.50 Putnam 940.44
20–15470
“This book describes in detail the contribution made by the United
States to aircraft invention, engineering and production during the
world war. Five of the most important chapters are devoted to the
origin, development and production of the famous Liberty engine. Mr
Knappen is among those who believe that in spite of all the revelation
of Congressional investigations made during the past two years the
aircraft achievements of our government, considering our
unpreparedness at the outset, were highly creditable.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 110w
=KNIBBS, HENRY HERBERT.= Songs of the trail. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19670
Poems of the far West and the cattle trails. Among the titles are: I
have builded me a home; The pack train; The hour beyond the hour; The
sun-worshipers; Gods of the red men; Arizona; Trail song; Waring of
Sonora-Town; The long road West; Old San Antone.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“This is the West, seen first hand but seen through the perspective of
Mr Knibbs’ Harvard training. One may suspect that these westerners are
a bit more intellectual than the average cowpuncher, but the poems
perhaps are the more readable for it.” C. F. G.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 290w
“Good, honest work of its kind, with occasional beauty and much
narrative interest. ‘The wind’ is a strong and individual poem,
especially fine in atmosphere and imagery. Mr Knibbs is far more of a
poet than the much advertised Robert W. Service.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 150w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN
ARTHUR.= Mayflower maid. il *$1.90 (3c) Century
20–16501
A story of the coming of the Pilgrims. Barbara Gorges is a timid
motherless girl who starts out with her father from Leyden in the
Speedwell. When the Speedwell and the Mayflower are obliged to run in
to Plymouth, Barbara’s father becomes the victim of a fatal accident
and she is left an orphan. Fortunately for her, she is taken under the
protection of Myles Standish and his wife Rose. The story then follows
closely the historical narrative, and describes the trip across the
Atlantic, the landing at Plymouth, the first hard winter, the death of
Rose Standish, the relations with the Indians, the love story of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and finally that of Myles Standish and
Barbara herself.
* * * * *
“More interesting than Taggart’s ‘Pilgrim maid,’ gives a good picture
of life in the colony.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=KNOWLES, MORRIS.= Industrial housing. *$5 McGraw 331.83
20–16847
“Morris Knowles, an engineer of vast experience and the chief engineer
of the housing division of the United States Shipping board,
understanding the need of the interdependence of engineer, architect,
town planner, landscape gardener, sanitarian, utility designer,
contractor, real estate agent and the public spirited business man and
city official in the development of a successful city plan and in the
solution of the housing problem, has written the book, ‘Industrial
housing.’ Housing is taken in its broadest meaning, with all its
relations to other problems. The town plan, streets and pavements,
water supply, sewerage, waste disposal and public utilities are some
of the specifically municipal problems treated in this work.
Illustrations and charts, a good bibliography and an analytical index
complete its usefulness.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial
housing.”
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w
“The book is a store of invaluable information.”
+ − =Survey= 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w
=KOBRIN, LEON.= Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I:
Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s
20–6127
“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment
almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the
pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk
is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle
of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each
other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter
wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over
their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily
life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the
narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow
you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where
‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of
the soul of the new world.”—New Repub
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“The whole work is frankly realistic, softening no oaths and tempering
no vices. Yet withal, it is a refreshing bit of reading, for despite
the bitterness and ugliness floating like scum on the waters of that
ghetto life, one never quite loses consciousness of the great deep
cleanness beneath it all. In that Kobrin proves himself a master: his
realism is suggestive and translucent, not blunt and opaque.” L: Brown
+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 920w
“Leon Kobrin has lived the life he writes about. His bitter realism is
no creation of fancy; the atmospherical color is without blemish.”
Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ap 25 ’20 420w
“Once in a while, a race produces an author capable of presenting its
message in language of so great simplicity and force that his writings
can be appreciated anywhere in an adequate translation. The Jewish
race possesses such a writer in Leon Kobrin.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 7 ’20 240w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Great south land. *$4.50 (5c) Dodd 918
A20–884
The book treats of the republics of Rio de la Plata, and southern
Brazil of today. These countries the author, in his introduction
compares to the ugly duckling which turned out a swan. Already before
the war they had steadily risen in importance and “there is no doubt
that the shifting sands of international politics and the racing
centres of power have left these South American states in an economic
position stronger than any which they have previously enjoyed.” Part 1
contains: Buenos Aires of yesterday and today; The Argentine capital
in war time; Cosmopolitan influences; Some topical episodes; The work
of the British in Argentina; Argentina’s political prospects; Internal
and external affairs; Rio and its surroundings; British and Americans
in South America; The press of the eastern republics. Part 2 is
devoted to the industrial points of the various states and there is an
index.
* * * * *
“A map would have been helpful to the reader.”
+ − =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 50w
=Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“Mr Koebel is essentially a writer sympathetic to the lands of which
he writes. What his book loses in depth it gains by virtue of this
sympathy, by its author’s earnest desire to see things from the South
American angle, without in the least abandoning the attitude of a man
alive to the defects of those whom he is describing. It is a
stimulating work by a sane and just writer.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:223 My 2 ’20 1300w
“Mr W. H. Koebel’s last addition to the, by now, rather lengthy series
of books which he has written on Spanish-America, is disappointing....
He obviously knows as well as anybody that the problems are there and
call for answer. But he does little more than indicate their presence,
and then wander in generalities and descriptions, not without
occasional repetitions.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p640 N 13 ’19 850w
=KOONS, FRANK THOMAS.= Outdoor sleeper. *$1 (6c) Norman, Remington co.
613.79
20–13861
A little book inspired by the sleeping porch. The author writes of
outdoor sleeping as a source of health and pleasure. There are
chapters on: The first night; Outdoor toggery; The birds; The romping
children of the night; The chastened hours of the morn; The trees;
Summer; Winter; The stars; Health and happiness. A star map serves as
frontispiece. The book was first copyrighted by the Journal of the
Outdoor Life.
=KOOS, LEONARD VINCENT.= Junior high school. *$1.36 Harcourt 373
20–10298
The author calls attention to the great dissimilarity that still
prevails in the junior high school movement in every aspect of
organization and function. He holds that the experimental stages of
the movement should now be reviewed and stock be taken of the current
opinions and practices, with a view towards clarifying thought as to
its peculiar educational purposes. With an introduction by Henry
Suzzallo the contents are: The movement for reorganization; The
peculiar functions of the junior high school; The test of the
organization; The program of studies; Other features of
reorganization; The standard junior high school; Tables and graphs.
* * * * *
“In six chapters Professor Koos has presented an analysis which goes
to the heart of the junior high school movement. The book is a
striking example of what can be done by way of giving information
without becoming drearily encyclopedic.”
+ =El School J= 21:71 S ’20 1000w
=KOSSOVO=; heroic songs of the Serbs. *$1.25 Houghton 891.8
20–10292
These ballads, translated by Miss Helen Rootham and printed with the
original on alternate pages, come with an introduction by Maurice
Baring and an historical preface by Janko Lavrin. Mr Baring says of
them that their colors are primitive like those of the primitive
painters, their similes are taken from a first-hand communion with the
sights and facts of nature and their emotions are the primitive
emotions of man. But their soul is saturated with the Christian faith
of the Crusaders and they sing the sorrow of Serbia, the unspeakable
anguish of a people who are victorious in defeat. In the historical
preface Janko Lavrin divides the Serbian folk-songs into four groups
of which this, the Kossovo-cycle, deals with the heroic battles fought
on the Kossovo plain against the Turks. The songs are: The fall of the
Serbian empire; Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Militsa; The banquet on the
eve of the battle: a fragment; Kossanchitch and Milosh: a fragment;
Musitch Stefan; Tsaritsa Militsa and the Voyvoda Vladeta; The maiden
of Kossovo; The death of the mother of the Jugovitch; The miracle of
Tsar Lazar.
* * * * *
“Miss Rootham’s simple and dignified translation makes it possible for
English readers to appreciate the heroic quality of the originals.”
+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 60w
“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs
make them very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as
Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to
get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in
alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that
it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to
translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not
communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while
useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N.
H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine
work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w
“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They
have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere
rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W.
Firkins
+ =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w
=KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.).= London venture. *$1.50
Dodd 824
20–4439
The author is an Armenian who has dropped his real name for a more
pronounceable signature. The book consists of a series of
“self-conscious” essays wherein the author under the guise of
reminiscences discourses on men and writers, women and love, on death,
friendship and modes of living. It is a book of moods also and the
writer fits in the subject or person to fit the mood. The chapter
vignettes are from drawings by Michel Sevier.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the book is that the author has taken great pains
with his style, which is considerably more attractive than the
substance of the book.”
+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 70w
“Set forth with a cynical humor which narrowly escapes brilliance,
much of the narration is downright fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“A curious introspective fragment of a story told in a succession of
spasms of introspection. It suffers from its form, but as it was
evidently written for occasional serial publication, that could not be
avoided. The book and its illustrations have a certain charm.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“It is difficult exactly to understand the ‘challenge’ of this book or
what the writer meant to do with it. There is undoubtedly a
fascination hard to analyse about the book and the personality
revealed in it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 250w
=KRAFFT, HERMAN FREDERIC, and NORRIS, WALTER BLAKE.=[2] Sea power in
American history; with an introd. by William S. Benson. il *$4 Century
973
20–22044
The object of the book is to make clear the importance of sea power in
both its military and commercial aspects. For this purpose it traces
out and connects up into one continuous story the rise, development,
and present condition of both branches, showing their mutual
dependence upon each other. Biographical sketches are given of such
outstanding figures in our naval development as Paul Jones, Stephen
Decatur, David Porter, John Ericsson, David G. Farragut and Alfred T.
Mahan. Among the contents are: The defeat of British sea power gives
America independence; The rise of commercial sea power in America
during the Napoleonic wars; Sea power dominates the War of 1812; Sea
power aids national expansion; The blockade a decisive instrument of
sea power in the Civil war; Sea power splits the confederacy in two;
Sea power in the Pacific; American sea power in the world war. The
book is indexed and illustrated, with maps and diagrams of naval
actions.
=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Blood of things. *$2 Brown, N. L. 811
20–13986
Mr Kreymborg’s second book of “free forms” contains verses grouped
under such titles as: A five and ten cent store; Zoology; Arias and
ariettes; Crowns and cronies, etc.
* * * * *
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Nine-tenths of ‘Blood of things’ is unintelligible, or if
intelligible is irrelevant to any human concern. The one-tenth which
is intelligible and relevant is diffuse to the point of evaporation.”
− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 240w
“Mr Alfred Kreymborg’s new book is decidedly interesting to read, but
it is more often merely interesting than lifting and compact with
genuine poetry. Mr Kreymborg is inconclusive; his gestures are
tentative; he does not strike fire with sufficient frequency to
establish him firmly as an authentic poet.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 640w
“A critic who is unprejudiced and willing to be convinced by the free
versifiers will acknowledge that there are one or two poems that are
pretty poor. He would probably set aside the book with the comment
that Mr Kreymborg has done some things well, but that anybody could do
what Mr Kreymborg has done if he would consent to go just a little bit
crazy.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 340w
=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Plays for merry Andrews. $2 Sunwise turn 812
The five plays are: Vote the new moon; Uneasy street; The silent
waiter; At the sign of the thumb and the nose; and Monday.
* * * * *
“Their unreality and irony are invigorating and real, and Gordon Craig
was quite right in considering them as a test for actors. The title
should warn the professionals off and attract the amateur.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w
“There is no doubt that Mr Alfred Kreymborg has both talent and
intelligence. But he has not reached the stage of any clear
communication. The lilt of these playlets haunts the ear but teases
the mind. There is a vertigo in the oddly rhythmed prose. But the
intentions are dark, and where the darkness lifts they seem perilously
commonplace.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 130w
“Almost all of his plays possess that direct appeal to children,
although they are often too abstruse or fantastical for older
audiences. To enjoy them completely one must have an open mind,
unprejudiced by stage conventions. The whole volume, with its
delightful caricatures, with its humors, with its tongue-in-the-cheek
bombast, is very reminiscent of Dickens.” Malcolm Cowley
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 460w
=KUNOU, CHARLES A.= American school toys and useful novelties in wood.
il *$1.25 Bruce pub. co. 680
20–26563
The author is supervisor of manual training in Los Angeles, where toy
making has for some years made up part of the course of study in this
department. During the war interest in the subject was greatly
stimulated by the sale of the children’s products for the benefit of
the Red cross. A general preliminary discussion of toy making, its
educative value, the materials used, etc., is followed by a series of
fifty-two plates with designs for toys.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“This book gives excellent toy working drawings.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 70w
=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Kindred of the dust. il *$1.75 (1½c) Cosmopolitan
bk. corporation
20–8274
For the scene of his story the author creates a feudal fief in the
Pacific northwest. Hector McKaye, head of the Tyee Lumber Company, is
known as “the laird,” his son Donald as “the young laird.” Donald
comes home from college and a trip around the world to find his old
chum Nan Brent the mother of a nameless child. Nan had believed
herself married and to protect the real wife of the man who had
deceived her is keeping his identity secret and bearing her shame.
Donald finds that he loves Nan and is willing to marry her.
Interference on the part of his mother and sisters drives her away.
Donald is stricken with typhoid and to save his life his mother
telephones to Nan to return. Following his recovery steps are again
taken to prevent the marriage but Donald is obdurate. A break with his
father results. The war comes, Donald enlists, goes to France, comes
home again and there is a happy reunion, with a copy of Nan’s marriage
license turning up to prove her innocent intentions.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“The story is powerful and holds the attention of the reader in an
unusual manner.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 350w
“For sustained interest and constructive workmanship Mr Kyne seems, in
‘Kindred of the dust,’ to have outdone his previous efforts.
Wholesome, entertaining story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 450w
“The hero is almost too noble to be true.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 280w
“A strong, straightforward, unaffected story, seasoned, and not
overseasoned, with sentiment.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 70w
L
=LABOULAYE, EDOUARD RENÉ-LEFEBRE DE.= Laboulaye’s fairy book; tr. by
Mary L. Booth. il *$2.50 (5c) Harper
20–19778
This book of fairy tales, translated from the French, was copyrighted
in America in 1886. Kate Douglas Wiggin has written an introduction
for the new edition. The titles are: Yvon and Finette; The castle of
life; Destiny; The twelve months; Swanda, the piper; The gold bread;
The story of the noses; The three citrons; The story of Coquerico;
King Bizarre and Prince Charming. The pictures are by Edward G.
McCandlish.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:126 D ’20
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 220w
“Delightful collection of tales.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 70w
=LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL.= Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative
of observations in the winter of 1899–1900. il *$3 Badger, R. G. 915.4
19–15644
“In his observations of Indian life Professor Ladd was chiefly
concerned with educational, social and religious conditions. For the
study of these he had unusual opportunities. This book gives a summary
of what he learned from personal interviews with the viceroy and
secretary of education in Calcutta, with natives and missionaries, and
with Hindu philosophers. Professor Ladd also describes the social
customs of the people and outlines some of the political reforms that
are demanded by the native leaders.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Although the book makes no contribution to the literature regarding
India, it is interesting as reflecting the impressions of an American
professor concerning the practices and cults of the Indian peoples.”
+ =Bib World= 54:430 Jl ’20 220w
=Boston Transcript= p4 N 5 ’19 440w
“Whether the generalizations he makes, based upon conditions as he
observed them two decades ago, still hold true in full or not, they
are interesting as reflecting the reaction of a foreigner, well
equipped by his training in educational and philosophical work, to an
alien and intricate civilization.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 100w
=LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON.= Socialism in thought and action. *$2.50
(2c) Macmillan 335
20–3555
The author is secretary of the Intercollegiate socialist society and
editor of the Socialist Review. The important service of his book is
that it gives an up-to-date treatment of the new developments in
socialism and relates them to the movements of the past. It covers
“the socialist criticism of present day society, the socialist theory
of economic development, the socialist conception of a future social
state and the activities, achievements, and present status of the
organized socialist movement in various countries of the world.”
(Preface) It is divided into two almost equal parts: Socialist
thought, and The socialist movement. The work is intended to serve as
a textbook for college classes and study groups, and “as a ready
reference book for the thinkers and doers who have come to realize
that an intelligent understanding of this greatest mass movement of
the twentieth century is absolutely essential to enlighten
citizenship.” There is a select bibliography on socialism and allied
subjects, and an index.
* * * * *
“Of especial interest is the discussion of the Russian revolution, and
recent developments in European and American socialism, concerning
which the data are the latest available.” G. S. Watkins
+ =Am Econ R= 10:633 S ’20 480w
“Throughout the entire work differences of opinion are given;
arguments are sound and the proof offered scientific. In fact it is a
splendid presentation of this movement. Not only does the book deserve
serious attention but it would make an excellent text.” G. S. Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:374 N ’20 630w
Reviewed by L. M. Bristol
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
“Dr Laidler has that discreet receptivity for conflicting opinion and
dogma which gives his work, within the limits of socialism, the stamp
of a firm, intelligent neutrality.”
+ =Dial= 68:670 My ’20 120w
“As a text book, Mr Laidler’s volume is invaluable. It reveals a
ceaseless and remorseless study and reading of the socialist movement
in all its manifestations and in all the questions that have aroused
controversy. Impartial as a text book, it is yet vivid as a chronicle
of events caught almost on the wing.” H. S.
+ =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 160w
“On its interpretive side, Comrade Laidler has used his material
judiciously and his presentation is such that no charge of bias will
be made by the reader, whatever may be the latter’s own view. His
attitude is an objective one. A very good index rounds out one of the
best contributions that has come from the pen of any American
socialist author.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 28 ’20 900w
=Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 120w
“Probably as full and clear a statement of modern socialistic concepts
as can be had in the English language.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“As a book it suffers from two distinct faults. In the first place it
tries to cover too much ground. No one can write a competent survey of
every aspect of socialism in a moderate-sized volume. The book
attempts, in the second place, a treatment of the most recent events
in the socialistic movement at a time when the evidence for anything
more than a bare and jejune statement of congressional resolutions is
simply not available. Yet the book transcends these deficiencies. It
shows, even to an outsider, what immense justification there is for a
faith in the prospects of socialism.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Socialist R= 8:379 My ’20 600w
“Any one interested in the labor movement will use his book several
times a week. Its mass of facts is not a mess, but an orderly
mobilized compilation.” Arthur Gleason
+ − =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 370w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 Jl 29 ’20 110w
=LAING, MARY ELIZABETH.=[2] Hero of the longhouse. (Indian life and
Indian lore) il *$1.60 (2½c) World bk.
21–649
The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely
different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The
real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the
Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the
Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic
sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and
manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C.
Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a
bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for
school children.
=LAKE, KIRSOPP.= Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3
Macmillan 270.1
“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and
oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six
early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus.
The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a
complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight
of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first
presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at
Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“There is no mistaking the keenness of Prof. Lake’s thought or the
brilliant cogency of his style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 12 ’20 1000w
“On many matters we must strongly dissent from him; but his work will
be useful to every student of early Christianity, if only because it
compels its readers to re-examine the presuppositions of their
religious thought and to test their theories of the church’s
development. If we say that the author of this work raises far more
questions than he answers, he might be expected to reply that this
precisely was his purpose.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p733 N 11 ’20 960w
=LAMB, HAROLD.= Marching sands. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton
20–5227
The American exploration society sends Captain Gray to the Desert of
Gobi to find the lost tribe of the Wusun, supposed to be the remnant
of an Aryan race, the original inhabitants of China. At the same time
an English rival expedition starts on the same quest. The expeditions
are facing the dangers not only of the desert but of the hostile
Chinese Buddhist priests and of the leper colony with which Wusun is
surrounded. By the time the desert is reached the American expedition
consists of only one member, Captain Gray, and a Kirghiz guide. He
comes upon the English expedition under Sir Lionel Hastings and his
niece Mary. Being rivals they part company, each bent on reaching
Wusun first. Sir Lionel is killed after he had set foot on its
environs. Mary is taken captive by the Chinese and placed in charge of
the Wusun. By sheer pluck Gray penetrates into the stronghold and puts
up a gallant fight for Mary and the reader takes leave of them free
but alone in the “infinity of Asia.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“Mr Lamb has written a gripping tale abounding in thrills and mystery,
adventure and danger, bravery and love; and the narrative of this
search for a hidden city presents a unique and exciting plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 320w
“While rather slow in getting into action, this tale is thrilling in
the extreme after it once gets its American explorer into the Gobi
desert.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 160w
=LAMBUTH, WALTER RUSSELL.=[2] Medical missions: the twofold task. il $1
S. V. M. 266
20–9358
“The growth of medical work in Christian missions is a romantic
chapter in the record of the extension of the kingdom of God on earth.
The writer draws from a wide range of material and experience and
presents the great work of medical missions in a most attractive form.
The book furnishes a mighty appeal to the young man or woman who is
looking forward to the practice of medicine and surgery as a
life-work. One is forced to face the need of the world and to decide
whether it is right to remain in one’s own land struggling for a
practice, or whether it is far better to go where the need is
desperate and invest life there.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The pictures are well chosen; the specific examples of effective
missionary service are stimulating; the field of study is wide and is
surveyed with discrimination. An excellent book for private reading or
class study.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 160w
“Unfortunately the book is propaganda and the references to the
adventures of the medical missionary are drowned in a
misrepresentation of heathendom. Although he, Bishop Lambuth, does
voice the cry for service in an antiquated religious idiom, he is
really bigger than his creed and values humanity more than
proselyting.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 280w
=LAMOTTE, ELLEN N.= Opium monopoly. *$1 Macmillan 178.8
20–2983
“‘The opium monopoly,’ by Ellen N. LaMotte, the author of ‘The
backwash of war,’ ‘Peking dust,’ ‘Civilization,’ etc., is a remarkable
monograph on the ‘opium question,’ based upon government blue book
reports, statistical extracts and official data. In this work, the
author discusses the problems of opium monopoly and consumption in
India, the Malaya peninsula, Siam, Hongkong, Srawak, Turkey, Persia,
Mauretius, British Borneo and British Guiana, and gives a brief
outline of the history of the opium trade in China and of Great
Britain’s opium monopoly.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“National pharisaism and a strong anti-English feeling are a
conspicuous part of the writer’s equipment, but the facts which she
adduces must give us to think.”
+ − =Ath= p685 My 21 ’20 80w
“Well documented.”
+ =Booklist= 16:258 My ’20
“One of the best arguments yet advanced against the mandatory system
pieced together at Paris.”
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 50w
Reviewed by C: R. Hargrove
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 840w
“Miss LaMotte, in spite of her rather obvious desire to have her fling
at Britain, is at the same time evidently actuated by a desire to
reveal a grievous state of affairs. Having exposed the outstanding
features of the cultivation and sale of opium by the British, it is
obviously Miss LaMotte’s duty to continue her interesting
investigations in this country.”
+ =Lit D= p89 My 1 ’20 900w
“Miss LaMotte’s little book might be taken more seriously if she were
not at such pains to paint Great Britain black. It is idle to draw
fine moral distinctions between the British government which sells
opium to the Japanese and the Japanese who smuggle it into China. The
whole trade is bad enough in all conscience, however, and to have
attacked it is to have done something useful.”
+ − =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 340w
“Miss LaMotte did a great service to the cause of human justice when
she wrote her admirable work. It will prove a valuable asset in
rousing the conscience of the civilized people of the world against
this gigantic international crime of drugging nations. Let us hope
that the book will soon be translated into various languages of the
civilized nations and the truth spread broadcast to remedy the wrongs
of the helpless millions.” Taraknath Das
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 25 ’20 2750w
“Miss LaMotte’s book is intended as a severe indictment of Great
Britain’s policy with regard to opium. Her account would, however, be
a fairer one if consideration were given to the British side of the
case as presented, for example, by Sir John Strachey in his ‘India:
its administration and progress.’”
+ − =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 280w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w
“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this
which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching
courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the
stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions
of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan
+ =Socialist R= 8:315 Ap ’20 400w
“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed
problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte
for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium
is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason
alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the
facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as
recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 2200w
“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first,
the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese
especially; second, the danger that the United States will take
China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough
to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has
the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting
and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 550w
=LAMPREY, LOUISE.= Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes
20–18171
Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the
guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of
the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament
in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The
tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of
the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s
daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal;
Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate
with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and
Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
=LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.= Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by
John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828
(Eng ed 20–16302)
“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must
always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is
the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a
little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for
every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself,
and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a
young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications,
an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of
affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as
the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it
should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1037 O 17 ’19 400w
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ja 31 ’20 550w
“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be
wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who,
liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life,
and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us
continually aloft.”
+ =Sat R= 128:507 N 29 ’19 1850w
“Charming little book.”
+ =Spec= 123:511 O 18 ’19 140w
“To glance through an admirable volume of selections from Landor, such
as that edited by John Bailey is to be filled with delight and regret.
What writer of the second rank has more to yield to the discoverer
than he? What prose more squarely can support the weight of the
exactest scrutiny than his?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 8 ’19 280w (Reprinted from Ath)
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p564 O 16 ’19)
“As, however, Mr Bailey implies by making a day-book of his
selections, Landor not only constantly said beautiful things
beautifully, but as constantly things that stand the wear and tear of
daily life. No doubt the blank page at the end of this charming little
book is provided to hold a good resolution—namely, whatever else may
happen in nineteen twenty-one, to read Landor through.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 850w
=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD
(BLAINE).=[2] Life in the circles. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134
20–19176
This book is a continuation of the volume entitled “To walk with God,”
and contains “further lessons received through automatic writing.”
(Sub-title) There are lessons on will, knowledge, joy, truth,
understanding, sympathy, and love.
* * * * *
“The level of intelligence of the sending spirits is not very high—a
grade or two above the kindergarten.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 30 ’20 80w
=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD
(BLAINE).=[2] To walk with God. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134
20–6367
A series of “lessons” which the authors received in the form of
automatic writings. An introduction gives the circumstances under
which the messages were received and the lessons have to do with the
power of love, helpfulness, kindness and the need for spiritual
guidance. The authors say: “We realise that it will be said that there
is nothing new in the teaching, and we admit that there is repetition
to what seems an unnecessary degree, but we pledge our word that we
have put nothing of our own into the text.” (Introd.)
* * * * *
“The fact that the wife of the Secretary of the interior and the
daughter of James G. Blaine are the recipients of these messages will
make a certain demand for the book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
=LANE, MRS ROSE (WILDER).= Making of Herbert Hoover. *$3.50 (4½c)
Century
20–18582
Herbert Hoover represents America, says the author, and his is the
spirit of five generations of American pioneers. His life began at the
end of one pioneer age and the beginning of the other. His ancestors
had been sturdy pioneers of Quaker stock—his father a blacksmith. They
had conquered the soil, he conquered the world of finance. Much of the
material of the book has been collected by Charles Kellogg Field,
classmate and friend of Hoover.
* * * * *
“Written with the interest in really delightful settings and small
circumstances of life such as a novelist employs to characterize a
hero. Children will like this book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“It is a story of a wonderful career, written with a brightness and a
dash that captivates and enthralls.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w
=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 100w
“The book is readable for its vivid presentation of an active and
adventurous career.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 330w
=LANG, EDITH, and WEST, GEORGE.= Musical accompaniment of moving
pictures. il pa *$1.25 Boston music co.; Schirmer 780
20–4471
“A practical manual for pianists and organists and an exposition of
the principles underlying the musical interpretation of moving
pictures.” (Sub-title) There are three parts: Equipment; Musical
interpretation; The theatrical organ. Musical scores are given and
there is an index.
* * * * *
“Not exhaustive but very suggestive to the player and illuminating to
the listener.”
+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
“It is a book we can warmly commend.”
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 260w
=LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN.= Militarism in education; a contribution to
educational reconstruction. 80c Headley bros., London; for sale by
Survey 371.43
19–12681
“The author contrasts the German and English systems of education,
gives an account of the scholastic methods adopted in Norway, deals at
considerable length with the aims of real physical training, devotes a
chapter to boy scouts, and brings many arguments against compulsory
national service, to which he is strongly opposed.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p475 Je 13 ’19 50w
“The faults of anti-militarist literature are usually rancour,
sentimentality, and exaggeration. Mr Langdon-Davies has escaped all
three. The merit of this book consists in its clearness and its
shortness, in the fact that the author knows what he wants to prove,
and proceeds to prove it without fuss or sentiment and with
considerable moderation.”
+ =Ath= p621 Jl 18 ’19 550w
=Brooklyn= 12:62 Ja ’20 30w
“From the point of view of physical health, Mr Langdon-Davies gives
many proofs from experienced educationists of the deleterious effects
on children of military training. In a valuable chapter on the
psychological aims of physical education, he points out that character
must be built on the basis of instinct and that ‘the cornerstone of
the superstructure is the acquirement of habit and self-control.’” B.
U. Burke
+ =Nation= 110:335 Mr 13 ’20 1150w
=LANGFELD, HERBERT SIDNEY.=[2] Aesthetic attitude. *$3.50 Harcourt 701
21–113
The author holds that a sense of beauty is as vital to the complete
existence of the individual and of the race as is the sense of justice
and that a nascent appreciation of what is beautiful can be developed
into a strong, useful and satisfying reaction to the world of colors,
sounds and shapes. The emphasis of the book, therefore, is put upon a
description of the nature of appreciation and of the mental processes
involved therein, ... its wider applications to the problems of human
happiness. He concludes that “whenever we are able to adjust ourselves
successfully to a situation, so that our responses are unified into a
well-integrated or organized form of action, we call that situation
beautiful, and the accompanying feeling one of æsthetic pleasure.” The
contents are: Introduction; The science of beauty and ugliness; The
æsthetic attitude (two chapters); Empathy; Illustrations of empathy
from the fine arts; Unity and imagination; Illustrations of unity from
the fine arts; Balance and proportion; Illustrations of balance from
the fine arts; The art impulse; Conclusion; Index.
=LANGFORD, GEORGE.= Pic, the weapon-maker. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–13544
“Like Kipling’s ‘Jungle stories,’ but laid in western Europe perhaps
40,000 years ago, the story of ‘Pic, the weapon-maker,’ is George
Langford’s popularization as fiction of such facts as science has
revealed about the cave men of the Mousterian era. Pic, the ape-boy,
with the hairy mammoth and the wobbly rhinoceros, formed a triple
alliance of friendship and adventure. Pic was in search of the secret
of cutting flints in such a way as to put a fine edge on them without
spoiling them in the attempt, and before the story closes he has found
it and made it the key to renewed fellowship with the tribe that had
cast him out. As to the scientific quality of the story no less an
authority than Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American museum
of natural history, writes a brief approving introductory
note.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:37 O ’20
“Anthropology and adventure are jumbled—naively, at times—in this
story which, for all its prehistoric licence, still clings to the
technique of Stratemeyer and other weavers of juvenile romance.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 280w
“A troublesome fault is the author’s imaginative cocksureness. A
higher degree of vagueness would actually have yielded an impression
of greater exactness here. But where all is dark and chaotic, much
must be forgiven to the first imaginative explorers. It is certain
that Mr Langford’s book will fruitfully awaken the interest of the
young in the remote past of the race, nor will maturer minds read it
without some fresh light on dim places.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:190 Ag 14 ’20 260w
“The characterization of the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros is not the
least clever part of this whimsical, fanciful and yet true story of
this little, prehistoric man, and it is with real regret that the book
is laid aside as the story closes.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 650w
“An unusual and a powerful juvenile. The spirit and narrative of the
book will be enjoyed even by children too young to attempt the reading
for themselves.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:1296 Ap 17 ’20 180w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 60w
=LANIER, HENRY WYSHAM.= Book of bravery; third series. il *$2.50
Scribner 920
20–15939
“This is a book of courage, wherein people in their daily pursuits
meet with obstacles which they surmount through excellences of
character. The man who is paid for his brave work, like the
life-saver, the policeman, the fireman, is none the less brave and his
deed is none the less fraught with the tingling quality of bravery. In
the missionary field and on the battlefield Mr Lanier finds material
for this volume.”—Lit D
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
“It is a collection worth making.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 90w
“For the inspiration of these volumes, children and parents alike may
well be grateful to Mr Lanier.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 60w
“The stories are vividly presented, and the book is one to stir the
heart of youth.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
=LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY.= Secrets of earth and sea. il *$3.50
Macmillan 504
“These popularly written chapters on a wide variety of scientific and
anthropological topics, such as What is meant by a species? Species in
the making; The biggest beast; The earliest picture in the world; The
art of pre-historic men; The swastika; etc., form a sequel to the same
author’s ‘Science from an easy chair’ and ‘Diversions of a
naturalist,’ and like them is mainly a reprint, with considerable
additions, of articles published in daily or weekly papers.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup S 23 ’20
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“The essays are entertaining but have no high literary qualities. Men
like Shaler, Burroughs, Muir, Mills, and Slosson have done this sort
of book far better in America.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’29 140w
+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 2 ’21 3100w
“Let it be said at once that ‘Secrets of earth and sea,’ though
extremely interesting, is not in the best sense as diverting as was
‘Science from an easy-chair.’ The subjects treated are delightfully
interesting to the layman but the style is unfortunately rather
redundant and heavy.”
+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 190w
“The book is indicative of what will be common in that happy day when
science will be written about as fully and as charmingly as purely
literary subjects are today.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 3 ’20 350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 90w
“Parents and guardians who are desirous of introducing their boys to
the study of natural science and who, in pursuance of that
praiseworthy aim, are looking for a book which, while sound and exact
in statement, is yet light and easy to read and, above all, has no
tincture of the school classroom, would do well to think of Sir Ray
Lankester’s ‘Secrets of earth and sea.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p831 D 9 ’20 370w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= These things shall be. $1 (5½c) Huebsch 261
In these six essays the author proclaims himself a revolutionist and
downright hater of the existing order but he does not see salvation in
a terrific cataclysm with hopes of a new order arising from the ruins
of the old. He pins his faith upon a change of heart in individual men
and women and in the message “Ye must be born again.” The spirit of
the essays is faith in a God of love and in the teachings of Christ of
human brotherhood and love and cooperation. Mr Lansbury is editor of
the London Daily Herald.
=Ath= p166 Ja 30 ’20 80w
“He has nothing startlingly new to say, but the serenity and
steadfastness of his faith in humanity and in a society of individuals
living the gospel of Christian love, will afford comfort and
reassurance to minds tired for the moment of their searching.”
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
+ =Survey= 44:355 Je 5 ’20 310w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= What I saw in Russia. *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
914.7
21–434
In his introduction to the American edition of this book, Matthew F.
Boyd, after reviewing the attitude towards Russia of the European
powers, of which France is now the only one still openly hostile,
finds that the United States has once more become the arbiter of world
destiny and that her policy towards Russia will decide the future of
the world. George Lansbury went to Russia to discover what was the
spirit moving the men and women responsible for the revolution. He
found it to be that of a band of people striving to build the New
Jerusalem, that they are actuated by purely moral and religious
motives and are doing what Christians would call the Lord’s work.
Contents: Finland to Moscow; Lenin and other leaders; Lenin,
bolshevism and religion; Co-operation, trade and business; Trade
unions and labour organization; Children and education; Law and order;
Prisoners and captives; About people; Public health; Moscow to London;
Appendix.
* * * * *
“The chapter on religion will interest churchmen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
“Any one who wishes to gain a vivid picture of life in Soviet Russia,
drawn with entire honesty and animated by sympathy and good will
should, by all means, read Mr Lansbury’s book.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 D 19 ’20 420w
=LANSING, MARION FLORENCE, and GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Food and life. il
68c Ginn 613.2
20–5746
The book has been suggested by the new importance that the war has
placed on food as a universal human need and on the desirability of a
full knowledge of its potentialities even for children. “From its
pages the child will learn the facts he should know concerning the
great food business into which he is born and in which he is a
partner.... There is hardly a virtue or an ideal of family, community,
and world life which does not take a natural place in a study of the
fundamental human problem of food.” (Preface) Every aspect of the food
problem, the personal, the social, the economic and the scientific is
entertainingly put before the child in detached stories. The contents
are: A life business; The food tether; In business for yourself; Food
as fuel; Our dally bread; The magic touch; Likes and dislikes; A world
appetite; The first step; The moment of eating; In the world’s food
market; The pitcher and the loaf; The gift of a garden; Kitchen
service; Food and money; For future use; Food and health; Food and the
government; At a world table. In Facts and figures are given tables,
charts and lists of a scientific nature. The book has an index and
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
=LASKI, HAROLD JOSEPH.= Political thought in England from Locke to
Bentham. (Home univ. lib.) *75c (1c) Holt 320.9
20–14002
The author holds that the eighteenth century began with the revolution
of 1688, that it was a period of quiet after a storm and can make
little pretence to discovery, but that its stagnation was mainly on
the surface and that the period was fruitful of much thought resulting
in future activity. The significance of Locke—who alone in this period
confronted the general problems of the modern state—of Burke, Hume,
Adam Smith and their contemporaries, forms the subject matter of the
book. Contents: Introduction; The principles of the revolution; Church
and state; The era of stagnation; Signs of change; Burke; The
foundation of economic liberalism; Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The method of treatment is not coldly analytical but genial and
speculative. Care is taken to relate political theory to ethics; there
are flashes of penetration into matters psychological; but economics
receives scant consideration. To the present reviewer neglect of
economics seems fatal. The truth seems to be that Mr Laski has written
a conventional story, bolstered up English political mythology, and
left the great muddle of so-called ‘political thought’ just about
where he found it.” C: A. Beard
− + =New Republic= 24:303 N 17 ’20 1200w
“A really admirable little book.” F: Pollock
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w
“There are a few obscurities of phrase throughout the book, and a few
far-fetched judgments. But, on the whole, Mr Laski writes brilliantly
and suggestively, evincing a clear comprehension of essentials,
against a background of necessary learning. It is his most broadly
considered and best-balanced work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 1250w
=LATANÉ, JOHN HOLLADAY.= United States and Latin America. *$2.50
Doubleday 327
20–14147
“This book is based on a smaller volume ... ‘The diplomatic relations
of the United States and Spanish America,’ which contained the first
series of Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history. That volume has
been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming
in.... I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much
that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a
large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty
years.” (Preface) Contents: The revolt of the Spanish colonies; The
recognition of the Spanish-American republics; The diplomacy of the
United States in regard to Cuba; The diplomatic history of the Panama
canal; French intervention in Mexico; The two Venezuelan episodes; The
advance of the United States in the Caribbean; Pan Americanism; The
Monroe doctrine; Index and maps of South America and the Caribbean.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:166 Ja ’21
“The American people are thoughtless, careless, heedless concerning
the questions that affect them as regards Latin America, because they
are ignorant of those questions. But should they be fed with
misstatements like this?” S. de la Selva
− =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 60w
=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Jimmy Quigg, office boy. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan
20–18923
A new story for boys by the author of “Under orders” and “Marty lends
a hand.” At fourteen Jimmy goes to work as office boy in a big
publishing house and the story shows the opportunities for advancement
open to the boy who is industrious and willing to learn. One of
Jimmy’s fellow workers, Fred Garson, has different ideals. He
introduces Jimmy to the Office boys’ league and attempts to organize a
strike. Fred disappears and with him some of the company’s funds.
Jimmy, who refuses to believe his friend guilty, does some amateur
detective work, clears Fred’s name and circumvents a group of bomb
plotters in the bargain.
* * * * *
“There is a pronounced moral flavor, but it is quite wholesome.”
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 60w
“Mr Latham improves in his narrative style and cumulative interest of
plot.”
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 140w
“The author understands the types he has drawn, and he understands
also the universal boy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 13 ’20 140w
“The theme of Americanization inspires the book, but first of all it
is a good story, a delightful bit of character study, and it is
written by a man who knows his job.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w
=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Marty lends a hand. il *$1.60 (3½c) Macmillan
19–16144
Marty, the young hero of this story for boys and girls, is in his
sophomore year in high school. He has won first honors in the
sophomore oratorical contest and is to play “Tony Lumpkin” in the
class production of “She stoops to conquer.” And then just at that
happy moment an accident to his father takes him out of school to
shoulder the responsibilities of a bread winner. He finds an original
way of earning a living—growing mushrooms in an abandoned mine. The
mine proves to be the secret hiding place of German plotters and Marty
sees that they are brought to justice. But the chief interest of the
story is in the mushroom experiment, and thru cooperation of his loyal
friends, it succeeds beyond Marty’s fondest hopes. His father recovers
and takes charge of the new business and Marty looks forward to a
return to school.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:175 F ’20
“A distinct advance over his book of last year.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:382 N ’19 60w
“Mr Latham knows his boys and girls, and he makes them not mere
automatons but living figures on the stage he has set so skilfully.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 8 ’19 400w
“‘Marty lends a hand’ is a good story for young readers for the same
reason that ‘Under orders’ was a good story for them, because it is
what they are themselves when they are what they should be—simple,
wholesome, natural and unconsciously democratic.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:636 N 9 ’19 500w
=LATZKO, ANDREAS.= Judgment of peace. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–1372
“The author of that bitter polemic against warfare, ‘Men in war,’
repeats his denunciation in ‘The judgment of peace.’ Lt. Latzko has
written an argument rather than a novel. The thesis is that war is a
diplomats’ game and wholly evil for the ‘impotent pieces.’ The hero of
the book is George Gadsky, a pianist, who volunteered, submitted to
arbitrary discipline, and ‘felt crushed, torn out of his real self,
degraded to the level of a shabby, beaten sneak.’ The overbearing,
stupid sergeant, the stay-at-home enthusiast and the families rivaling
each other in iron crosses and deaths are scored. One ringing
declaration in this novel is contained in the words of the Frenchman,
Merlier: ‘Have not these four years taught every nation that you
cannot seek to enslave others without robbing yourself of all
freedom?’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“Were it not for the devout prayer for human brotherhood which is made
throughout the book, it would, not merely by its grimness and gloom,
but by its lightning flashes of revelation, leave the night more
black.” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 51:206 Ap ’20 650w
“The ‘Judgment of peace’ appears to be the work of one who has gone
through intense suffering by reason of the war, and whose life has
become permanently embittered. Few writers equal his descriptions of
the bloody agonies of the battlefield and his pictures of soldiers,
but his outlook on life is morbid and gloomy.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:108 Ap ’20 360w
“His story fails as art because it is forever running into bald
propaganda, as propaganda because its grounds are emotions instead of
thoughts.”
− =Dial= 68:536 Ap ’20 80w
“Like ‘Men in war,’ ‘The judgment of peace’ is swift and strong, lucid
and incandescent, appalling and irresistible. Latzko’s fierce
arraignment and mighty tract should be welcomed by lovers of peace and
should be kept alive in order that an epic memory all plumes and
purple may not go down from our generation.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 600w
“‘The judgment of peace’ is a book of hate—hate not for ‘enemy’
countries, but for selfish rulers and militarists everywhere. So far,
so good—but the author goes too far; his condemnation of ruthless
militarism, of selfish uncontrolled power, is good and true; his
apparent assumption that all rulers, all governments, all holders of
power everywhere, are thus actuated by utter selfishness, is neither.
And one is left, at the end of this absorbing, brilliant, thoughtful
and passionate book, with the sense that after all the author has not
got us very far on the road toward the brotherhood of man.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 700w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 420w
“Patience is somewhat strained by the manner of this book; the protest
is not new, and the tale is rather hastily and crudely constructed.
The most effective part comes near the end, where Gadsky as a prisoner
of war gets to know a French soldier.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 240w
“A significant book, comparable with Barbusse’s ‘Under fire.’ Not for
the smaller libraries.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 50w
=LAUDER, SIR HARRY (MACLENNAN).= Between you and me. $2.50 McCann
19–18483
“‘I’m no writin’ a book so much as I’m sittin’ doon wi’ ye all for a
chat,’ Harry Lauder says in his first chapter; and he carries the plan
through to the last. The book is a biography, a Scot’s philosophy of
life, and a shrewd discourse on current social problems,
combined.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“A book which will be liked only by the enthusiastic Lauder-ites. It
is written in Scotch dialect which often runs unevenly into pure
English. Not as good as ‘A minstrel in France.’”
+ − =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20
“Sir Harry mentions the possibility of two more books. We shall
welcome them eagerly, as we always welcome him, but we cannot help
hoping that, despite the charm of his gossipy style, the next ones
will have to some degree the skeleton of an outline.” I. W. L.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 850w
+ =Dial= 68:403 Mr ’20 60w
“Readers who are not frightened at a glimpse of Scotch dialect will
love the book for its genuine human note, its humor, and its
underlying pathos.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w
“This book gives Lauder and his message in a unique and inimitable
way. It is well worth reading as Lauder himself is worth hearing.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 100w
=LAWRENCE, C. E.= God in the thicket. *$2 Dutton
“It is a delicately worked narrative of a glittering world peopled by
pantomime folk, whose names have been familiar to us all from
childhood—Harlequin and Columbine, Pierrot, Punchinello, Aimée and
Daphne, and many others. They live in the Forest of Argovie; and their
life is the pantomime life, with its queer, sudden approaches to the
greyer conditions of human existence and irresponsible withdrawals to
the spangled regions of fantasy.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The
god of the title is none other than he of the pipes and the
goat-thighs, Pan himself.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
=Cath World= 112:688 F ’21 130w
“In many passages here there is a surplus of adjectives, a lack of
precision and reality. There are times when the author writes with a
pleasing irony that would be even more enjoyable if the vein were not
overdone.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 140w
“Very delicately, very gracefully written, a little too long perhaps,
but full of quaint conceits, poetically fanciful and therefore a good
deal out of the ordinary.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 550w
“A little masterpiece.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 60w
“It is perhaps refreshing in these prosaic days to exist for an hour
in the world of fantasy.”
+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“It is a pretty story, which fails rather disappointingly to be
something more.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Je 10 ’20 550w
=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= New poems. *$1.60 Huebsch 821
20–17904
Mr Lawrence prefaces his collection of new poems with a discussion of
the nature of poetry, saying in part, “Poetry is, as a rule, either
the voice of the far future, exquisite and ethereal, or it is the
voice of the past, rich, magnificent.... The poetry of the beginning
and the poetry of the end must have that exquisite quality, perfection
which belongs to all that is far off.... But there is another kind of
poetry: ... the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present.”
And it is for this third type of poetry, he continues, that new poetic
forms must be forged. Among the poems of the book are: Apprehension;
Coming awake; Suburbs on a hazy day; Piccadilly Circus at night;
Parliament Hill in the evening; Bitterness of death; Seven seals; Two
wives; Autumn sunshine.
* * * * *
“The more stringent their form the better these poems are; and when,
as in Phantasmagoria, Mr Lawrence finds a subject suited to his
strained and ‘pent-up’ manner, he ‘gets his effect’ very wonderfully.”
+ − =Ath= p66 F ’19 220w
“Mr Lawrence’s ‘New poems’—like the overwhelming bulk of ‘the rare new
poetry’—seems inspired less by any remote touch of divine madness,
than by a labored and sophisticated anxiety to exemplify a theory. Mr
Lawrence has none of the brilliancy of Miss Lowell, none of the power
of Mr Lindsay. His slim new book offers the pathetic spectacle of a
shabby manikin pirouetting in caricature of the muse.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:59 S ’20 880w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w
“Apart from a brilliant preface, there is scarcely anything in this
book which is pitched at the same level of intensity as the best poems
in ‘Look, we have come through.’ The touch is somewhat slacker and
vaguer, the feeling less fused with the words. ‘New poems’ contains as
least one poem which I am almost inclined to set higher than anything
Lawrence has ever done. This is the poem called ‘Seven seals.’” J: G.
Fletcher
+ − =Freeman= 1:451 Jl 21 ’20 900w
“Mr Lawrence’s preface poses spontaneity as an ideal, promising poetry
that ‘just takes place.’ That is interesting, but it does not explain
Mr Lawrence’s poetry, which here as always betrays elaborate trouble
in its preparation.”
+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 50w
“His ‘New poems’ reasserts his place among the most gifted, the most
arresting of the English poets.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 630w
“As you read the whole volume through it seems to you more and more
that he feels too intensely about a great many things. There is this
difference between him and older sentimentalists, that they were at
the mercy of pleasant feelings, while he is often at the mercy of
unpleasant; but it is still the same poet’s disease, and in both cases
the feelings seem too intense for their cause.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p67 F 6 ’19 1100w
=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= Touch and go. (Plays for a people’s theatre)
$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12050
Altho the background of this drama is a strike in a British colliery
it is not intended as a propaganda play. The author is concerned with
the tragic element in the struggle between capital and labor. He has
defined tragedy as “the working out of some immediate passional
problem within the soul of man.” The play also represents his idea
that a “people’s” theater should deal with people, with men and women,
not with stage types.
* * * * *
“Mr Lawrence, of course, cannot escape his genius. The secondary
qualities of ‘Touch and go’ are superior to the big things in the work
of many other dramatists.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“Mr Lawrence’s new play, ‘Touch and go,’ seems to indicate that, while
the author may have gained compensations in other ways, he has lost,
temporarily, it is to be hoped, under the blighting strains and trials
of the last few years, some of the vital energy that is essential to a
dramatist.” Elva de Pue
− + =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 390w
“This is a play serious in purpose, of vital contemporaneous interest,
unexceptionable motive and written with knowledge and ability, which
is nevertheless ineffective, because while it exhibits a comprehensive
sense of existing conditions and states its problem very clearly, it
has nothing to offer or suggest in the way of a possible solution
except a series of benevolent platitudes.” J. R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 680w
“The preface is so excellent, so much in the manner of the great
English tradition that it holds, and urges, and ends by being, I
think, even better than the play, a fine little masterpiece of eight
pages.” Amy Lowell
+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 22 ’20 2000w
“The only thing amusing in the little volume is the preface, which is
entertaining enough. Mr Lawrence does not make this mistake of open
didacticism when he writes poetry. Why, oh! why, does he write drama
like this?”
− + =Spec= 125:279 Ag 28 ’20 360w
“The preface has been most stimulating and formative. Preface and
play, however, are widely separated. Never once are we led to feel the
promised reality of the characters. The story moves in a confusion of
the fundamental details.” Dorothy Grafly
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 440w
“His characters are overdrawn, and his action has to do with struggles
of temperament rather than of contrasting philosophies.”
− =Survey= 44:592 Ag 20 ’20 100w
“The strength of the play lies in its picture of colliery life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 80w
=LAWRENCE, DOROTHY.= Sapper Dorothy Lawrence; the only English woman
soldier. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Lane 940.48
20–5239
Miss Lawrence gives this account of her exploits in France as a
soldier of the Royal engineers, 51st division. 179th tunnelling
company. It was as a last desperate effort to get to the war that she
plotted and struggled her way into the ranks. Twelve times she had
applied for various forms of war work and had been turned down. Her
efforts to go as newspaper correspondent met the same fate. The
Tommies were more accommodating and helped her to accomplish her
purpose. Contents: At Creil; Sleeping in Senlis forests; In soldier’s
clothes; On the march for the trenches; Arrest; Tried at Third army
headquarters; In a convent; On board.
* * * * *
=Spec= 123:411 S 27 ’19 200w
“A brightly written tale of pluck, energy, and determination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 11 ’19 100w
=LAY, WILFRID.=[2] Man’s unconscious passion. *$2 Dodd 157
20–18051
Dr Lay, author of “Man’s unconscious conflict” and “The child’s
unconscious mind,” writes here of the part which the unconscious plays
in love and marriage. Contents: The total situation; Conscious and
unconscious passion; Affection is not passion; Insight; The transfer
of passion; The emotion age.
* * * * *
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w
“Dr Lay’s book is written in a most readable and interesting style and
should make a great appeal to all those interested, professionally or
otherwise, in this dominant and important phase of individual human
life and its relation to the tissue of the whole social organism.” S.
W. Swift
+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 880w
=LEACH, ALBERT ERNEST.= Food inspection and analysis. 4th ed il *$8.50
Wiley 543.1
20–5902
“This manual, designed for the use of analysts, health officers,
chemists and food economists, has been revised and enlarged to the
extent of ninety pages; new material having been added or substituted
for material in earlier editions. The former arrangement of chapters
has been retained but the list of references at the end of chapters
has been left out and, instead, more attention has been given to
footnote references. A special feature is the final chapter by G. L.
Wendt, ‘Determination of acidity by means of the hydrogen electrode.’
The book includes such subjects as food, its functions, proximate
components, and nutritive value; general methods of food analysis
including microscope and refractometer; milk and milk products; flesh
foods; eggs; cereal grains; tea, coffee, and cocoa; edible oils and
fats; sugar; as well as artificial food colors, food preservatives,
artificial sweeteners, flavoring extracts, and substitutes.”—J Home
Econ
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20
+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 240w
“As a whole, however, the new edition well maintains the reputation of
the work. It contains so much trustworthy information that chemists
concerned with foodstuffs will find it invaluable.” C. S.
+ − =Nature= 106:141 S 30 ’20 560w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Unsolved riddle of social justice. *$1.25
(4½c) Lane 330
20–1689
The author sees in the present state of human society an extraordinary
discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness and
analyzes the reasons for the present-day social unrest. He points to
the complete breakdown of the Adam Smith school of political
economists with their doctrine of “natural liberty” and laissez-faire.
In asking “What of the future?” the author finds himself confronted
with the phenomenon of modern socialism. This he relegates to the
realm of beautiful but impracticable dreams and suggests as a mid-way
course that the government should supply work for the unemployed,
maintenance for the infirm and aged, and education and opportunity for
children, and should enforce a minimum wage and shorter working hours.
Contents: The troubled outlook of the present hour; Life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness; The failures and fallacies of natural
liberty; Work and wages; The land of dreams: the utopia of the
socialist; How Mr Bellamy looked backward; What is possible and what
is not.
* * * * *
“Dr Leacock writes with great clarity and force. While the limits of
the volume do not permit detailed treatment of any of the topics taken
up, the reader will find every page suggestive and will be thankful
for a chance to see the woods instead of the trees.” O. D. Skelton
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:522 Ag ’20 360w
“Written in a vigorous, easy, though not humorous, style, that will
make it popular with those who seek a middle track.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
“The author of ‘Literary lapses,’ and all the rest of them, could not
be dull if he tried. His new volume on the problems of modern life is
fully as live as any of his humorous sketches, and nearly as
readable.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
+ =Cleveland= p44 Ap ’20 50w
“A readable and frequently keen analysis of industrial society.
Professor Leacock’s delicately manipulated scalpel cuts perilously
close to the heart of the price system, in his perception of the
paradox of value.... While the honest sunlight of criticism declares
the insufficiency of individualist economics, the light that Professor
Leacock throws upon socialism—taking Bellamy’s bleak vision of
bureaucracy as sample—is almost a moonbeam from the larger lunacy.”
+ − =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w
“The riddle is not only unsolved when Professor Leacock tackles it,
but it remains so when he has finished with it. The author has merely
re-stated the problem in a lucid and concise manner and fused it with
a sort of primer of economics, and comes out in the end with a
middle-of-the-road vagueness as his major contribution to the
subject.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 100w
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w
Reviewed by C. E. Ayres
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:439 My ’20 550w
“Stephen Leacock is far from happy in his study of ‘The unsolved
riddle of social justice.’ He reveals himself as a clever man, of
course, but not as a serious economic thinker. He, surely, cannot be
so ignorant as this book would lead one to infer.”
− + =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 550w
“As a book for the general reader this little treatise can scarcely be
too much commended. It is eminently humane in spirit, sensible,
serious without being ‘dead serious,’ and thorough on the essential
points. The author seems to know how average, educated people think
and feel about the present state of society, and to have an unusually
good idea of how to write for persons who do not know much about
political economy.”
+ =No Am= 211:430 Mr ’20 750w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 750w
“It is sound common sense doctrine that he preaches, and for that
reason it will be popular with but few people in these days of
emotional ‘thinking.’”
+ =Review= 2:234 Mr 6 ’20 750w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 40w
“Professor Leacock’s book is an appeal to pure reason; it is
argumentative, but not quarrelsome; it is progressive in its aims, but
it is not revolutionary. His picture may be overdrawn and too highly
coloured, but it substantially represents what many thoughtful and
clear-sighted men see today when gazing upon the eastern and western
worlds.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:501 My 29 ’20 950w
“There is much good sense in this attractive book.”
+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 250w
“His solution may seem to be inadequate; but without doubt Mr Leacock
has written a valuable popular analysis and has stated sane and
forward-looking remedies.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 19 ’20 180w
“Mr Leacock’s treatment of the problem is not intentionally humorous
or flippant, but it is surprisingly superficial. As soon as he comes
to a discussion of the social thought that governs the demands of
large masses at the present time, he becomes positively absurd. Mr
Leacock is most successful where he pricks current misconceptions.” B.
L.
− + =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 220w
“He does not overload his subject with the useless ballast of
philosophic jargon, or obscure a poverty of thought by abundance of
words. His book is short, lucid, always to the point, and sometimes
witty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 350w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Winsome Winnie, and other new nonsense
novels. *$1.50 Lane 817
20–21990
This is a sequel to “Nonsense novels,” published in 1911. Again the
author parodies the style of various popular types of fiction. Among
the numbers in this second series are Winsome Winnie: or, Trial and
temptation, narrated after the best models of 1875; The split in the
cabinet: or, The fate of England, a political novel of the days that
were; Who do you think did it? or, The mixed-up murder mystery; Broken
barriers, or Red love on a blue island; and Buggam Grange, a good old
ghost story. The stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine.
* * * * *
“While this later volume lacks to a slight degree the fresh
spontaneity of Mr Leacock’s older books, there are plenty of sincere
laughs left.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 140w
“The great majority of readers will find ‘Winsome Winnie’ almost as
good as the author’s best books. In other words: the work of a man
who, in the silence of Mr Dooley, is the most amusing writer in North
America.” E. L. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 490w
“Despite his delicious drolleries, Mr Leacock’s book of verbal
cartoons contains an amazing amount of truthful criticism—doubly
effective because its form and oblique method of delivery rob it of
all malice.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 D 19 ’20 670w
“A book of parodies which is as amusing as the first series. ‘Winsome
Winnie’ and ‘Who do you think did it?’ are as good as any of the
sketches which Professor Leacock has ever written.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 540w
“It will be a very superior person who does not laugh the first time
he reads Mr Leacock’s version of these jocular subjects. But as the
laugh comes from the verbal surprise or from the technical improvement
in an established joke, it is not likely to be repeated.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p795 D 2 ’20 600w
=LEADBITTER, ERIC.= Rain before seven. *$2 (2c) Jacobs
20–9473
Michael Lawson was an awkward, shy and colorless youth, the fourth and
youngest in a family of waning fortunes. As a gawky boy of fifteen he
falls in love with the daughter of his tutor, Vicar Hargrieves. Some
years later, Isobel’s heartless flirtations give him his first deep
emotional experience. At school he discovers his love and talent for
music and finds a patron who finances his musical education. But funds
fail before he has launched upon a career, and he is reduced to
playing in a picture-drome. He meets with a succession of failures and
becomes a tramp. As such he is discovered by his sister Rosie—his
family having been ignorant of his whereabouts for years. His brother,
a successful scientist and inventor, takes him on in business. Michael
makes good, drops music altogether, achieves tranquillity of heart and
wins the love of a dear quiet girl, who had adored him even as a
child.
* * * * *
“The first novel of a very grave and very garrulous young Englishman
who has not yet discovered how many things have been said before. The
trail of his story is lost under an underbrush of truisms, though
through the brambles one catches glimpses of landscape not unlike some
of Mr Mackenzie’s milder panoramas.”
− + =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 100w
“It is rather more than a good example of the usual thing.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w
=LEARY, JOHN J., Jr.= Talks with T. R. il *$3.50 (4c) Houghton
20–11574
Extracts from the diaries of a veteran newspaper man who had been for
many years in the habit of recording carefully his conversations with
Theodore Roosevelt. These are now arranged under appropriate headings,
some few of which are: Roosevelt and 1920; Dewey and Fighting Bob; The
break with Taft; The attempt on his life; Clashes with the Kaiser; On
election eve, 1916; Senator Lodge’s fist fight; Roosevelt’s one talk
with Mr Wilson; Roosevelt on labor; Loyalty; Germans in America;
Colonel Roosevelt on boys; Pershing and Wood. There are a number of
illustrations.
* * * * *
“The picture is less attractive than that of the writer of the letters
to his children, or of the state papers that have been included in Mr
Bishop’s selection, but it seems to present with fidelity one of the
poses of the most versatile statesmen of our day. The absence of an
index makes the book more difficult to use than it need have been.” F:
L. Paxson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:149 O ’20 400w
“A wonderful readable book about a wonderful personality.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 450w
“The volume is a racy, authentic, well-considered work, but instead of
revealing the inner springs of motive, instead of a transvaluation of
strenuous values, it merely adds to the sum total of current
impressions.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 280w
“Better than any photograph or any biography I know, they give you the
feeling of having talked with the man in the flesh.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 110w
“It is in all respects one of the best Roosevelt books we have ever
seen, and in some respects the best.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 Ag 15 ’20 1700w
“It is all vastly entertaining, though one wonders whether the
obligation of discretion which private conversation implies has not in
certain cases been prematurely sacrificed in the interest of impartial
history.”
+ =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 580w
“‘Talks with T. R.’ is an unusually interesting book. It is a really
valuable book. It is certain to be read; it deserves to be read. The
author of the book had done well to omit certain virulent assaults on
living Americans, notably President Wilson.”
+ − =Review= 2:656 Je 23 ’20 350w
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is a readable and informing book. The principal criticism that may
be made concerns the typography and make-up of the volume. It could be
condensed nearly fifty per cent without detracting from its
readableness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 550w
=LEBLANC, MAURICE.= Secret of Sarek. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5586
“To put into his narrative the right degree of thrill, the correct
dose of horror, M. Leblanc takes us to the gloomy island of Sarek, off
the coast of Brittany, which has the cheerful nickname of ‘Island of
the coffins,’ and there plunges his characters into a welter of
murder, mystery and terror that has few parallels in this kind of
fiction. Strange figures robed in white, flitting in and out of the
woods on the island, make one suspect that the ghosts of the druids of
ancient times, or else descendants of theirs dwelling in caves beneath
the island, have got on the rampage in the modern world. Arsène Lupin,
the peerless solver of mysteries, arrives on the island in his little
private submarine. He takes the situation in hand with his usual
combination of ability, bravery and luck. Things move fast from the
moment that he sets foot on the old stamping ground of the druids. It
would be unfair to tell the series of strokes of genius, combined with
strokes of the incredible luck, whereby Arsène Lupin circumvents the
atrocious Vorski and makes it possible for ‘The secret of Sarek’ to
have a happy ending.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 100w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookman= 51:584 Jl ’20 230w
“Suffice it to say that it is an enthralling story, carried forward
breathlessly amid a whirl of shooting, stabbing, crucifying and
general bloodshed, cleverly raised above most of its kind by a really
baffling atmosphere of mystery, a genuine thriller among thrillers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 700w
Reviewed by E. C. Webb
=Pub W= 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 250w
“The book is full of eerie mysteries and disasters violent enough to
merit honourable mention in a competition with Greek tragedies and
tinged with a suggestion of archaic survivals and black magic which
will pleasantly thrill even a jaded reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 180w
=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Complete poems of Francis Ledwidge. *$2.50
Brentano’s 821
20–2931
Francis Ledwidge, the young Irish poet, lost his life in the war. His
poems are brought together in this volume, with an introduction by
Lord Dunsany. “Readers familiar with his work will find all of the
favorites in this volume—June, To my best friend, Desire in spring,
and others. They will find also his poems written during the great
war. It is interesting to note that he did not write much of battle
and all that went with it, but made his songs out of memories or out
of new glimpses of beauty.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“His scope was limited. Trees, flowers and the recurring seasons were
his theme. But he evidently believed in these things, and did not
write of nature because since Wordsworth’s day, it is the correct
thing to do. Ledwidge was a countryman and loved the country; the
desire to express himself came, and he moulded into what are often
exquisite forms, the simple country thoughts which were natural in
him.”
+ =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 340w
+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“A book which many lovers of modern Irish poetry will rejoice to
possess. In many of the poems there is evidence of a delicate and
fragrant talent, but one refuses to speak, as the editor so
confidently does, of Ledwidge’s genius.” H: A. Lappin
+ − =Bookm= 51:215 Ap ’20 160w
“It is difficult to predict what his future development might have
been, but at least there is nothing in this collection to justify the
editor in speaking so confidently of his protégé as a genius. Although
there is here a great deal of fragrant and delicate imagination, and
much keen and intimate observation of sky and tree and field and bird,
there is nothing quite so full of Irish reality as any one of a dozen
lyrics one might mention by Joseph Campbell or Padraic Colum, for
example.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:827 Mr ’20 260w
“There is little in the slight evidence before us to indicate that he
would have made his place by sheer power; his success, had he lived,
and had he obtained it, would have been of the idiosyncratic sort. And
success of this sort he would, I think, no doubt have obtained. For
through all his work runs a strain of lyric magic.” Conrad Aiken
+ − =Dial= 68:376 Mr ’20 1900w
“Francis Ledwidge was an honest songster, a poet of the blackbird in a
time of hawks and vultures. He was in no sense an important poet, it
must be said.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w
“When it is said that he is somewhat unvarying and that he is
sometimes immature it remains to be said that in everything Francis
Ledwidge wrote there is the shapely and the imaginative phrase.”
Padraic Colum
+ − =New Repub= 22:190 Ap 7 ’20 680w
“He knew the simplicities and austerities of wild life in fields and
woods so well that he could borrow from them a little sternness to go
with the sweetness of his song.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Ja 18 ’20 500w
“It is simple, sincere, beautiful. Yet it is always quiet and restful.
It is not emotional, it soothes. The pictures are gems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ’20 900w
“It is true that he is ‘the poet of the blackbird,’ that his ‘small
circle of readers’ will turn to his work for its mildness, sweetness,
and serenity, ‘as to a very still lake ... on a very cloudless
evening.’ But that small circle must not be disappointed to discover
that his limpidity and naturalness are often blurred with the
derivative, that his taste is uncertain, ... that his imagination is
less active than his fancy. Complete poems, unflawed by inequalities
of tone and workmanship are therefore rare.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1700w
“It is impossible to read these again without realizing that Ledwidge
is Ireland’s foremost poet of landscape, a poet who will undoubtedly
win lasting recognition.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Yale R n s= 10:207 O ’20 130w
=LEE, GERALD STANLEY.= Ghost in the White House. *$2 Dutton 342.7
20–8716
“‘The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction,—by a
kind of ghost of the nation, called the People.’ Gerald Stanley Lee
gives expression to what he regards as the common aspiration of the
people—a yearning to emerge from the ghost stage and to take on
tangible shape and substance through which to give expression and to
render service. This transformation must be wrought through the
organization of the people—the consumers—into a large club or league
with branches and chapters. Thus organized, the individual would have
a channel for the expression and application of their constructive
thought. On the individual is the responsibility of arming himself
with knowledge adequate for good judgment, with perspective for sound
progress, with vision for comprehensive planning. Then shall the
President be simply the chief of a practical religion.”—Survey.
* * * * *
“Mr Lee writes for the most part in words of one syllable, a style
admirably suited to reflect his own mental processes.” H. K.
− =Freeman= 2:333 D 15. ’20 190w
=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 80w
“The author has thought, or mused, a lot, but he has hardly studied
the problems at all. He fancies that economics is a very simple
science—and so it is, his economics. He has not the faintest
conception of the real forces that are now reshaping the industrial
world.”
− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 430w
“Mr Lee’s book is thought provoking, stimulating, and much of it is
true. It will provoke thought in persons who do not habitually think.
One is not quite sure whether a good book like this helps or hinders
one.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 4 ’20 3000w
“It is a remarkably successful attempt to formulate the definite,
practical desires of the plain people.”
+ =R of Rs= 42:109 Jl ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 4 ’20 670w
“It deserves to be widely read. It deals in a fascinating way with a
common experience and a serious problem. While it does not solve this
old problem, it serves a good purpose by stimulating new interest and
new thought.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 200w
=LEE, HARRY SHERIDAN.= High company. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–16183
A collection of war poems under the subtitle “sketches of courage and
comradeship,” mostly hospital scenes full of pathos and touches of
humor. Contents: The upper room; The pipe and the fire; Angeline;
April hearts; The hidden wound; Trees; Baldur the bright god; Winged
heels; Ninette and Rintintin; Deferred payment; “Soldiers three”;
Biddle’s kid; The good brown earth; The roll of honour; Pudgyfist
visits the hospital; Lights out; The pie lady; “Every dog has his
day”; “All in the blue unclouded weather”; Buddies; The shadow of the
cloud; “Men of good will.”
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:402 D ’20 170w
“The wounded doughboys are depicted with humor, sympathy, and
originality, but the free verse form often degenerates into literal
and banal prose.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’ 20 90w
“The tribute is beautiful in spirit, beautiful in expression.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 380w
=LEE, JAMES MELVIN=, ed. Business writing. (Language for men of affairs)
il $4 Ronald 808
20–9490
This volume has been prepared by a number of writers connected with
the business department of colleges, and with business periodicals and
is intended to help business men to write reports, articles for trade
papers, make effective speeches at dinners, conventions or clubs, and
to instruct advertising writers. The seven divisions of the book are
headed: Essentials of writing; The reinforcement of reading; Letter
for men of affairs; Report-writing; Advertising copy; The journalism
of business; Mechanical and incidental. The appendices consist of
bibliographies for both volumes and there is an index. The companion
volume on “Talking business” is by John Mantle Clapp.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Chinese coat.
*$1.75 (6c) Scribner
20–14288
To Eleanor More and her husband, Richard, a blue Chinese coat that she
could not afford to buy became a kind of a symbol. The desire to give
it to her stayed with her husband all thru their early married
life—while their family was growing up and even after the children
were men and women. Their pilgrimage to a far country to at last gain
possession of the coat is the climax of a story which is part allegory
and part romance.
* * * * *
“A quiet tale of married life told with a charming simplicity and a
touch of symbolism.”
+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“Companionable, sweet and comfortable, filling the mind with dreams of
times when, unwillingly and under pressure, we were forced to let the
great desire go.”
+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 60w
“A sweet little story, charmingly told, and illustrating the lovable
qualities of husband and wife.”
+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 60w
“A story that is remarkably compact and sustained in interest
throughout. Throughout it is woven the glimmering web of poetry, and
this is due partly to the theme itself and partly to the simplicity of
the prose. One feels upon reading the story that Mrs Lee possesses
unsuspected talents. The idealism and symbolic qualities of ‘The
Chinese coat’ are never in doubt. It is a book to be read.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 480w
“A charmingly simple story that has just enough of a plot to hold it
together.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 80w
=LEE, VERNON, pseud. (VIOLET PAGET).= Satan the waster. *$2.50 Lane 822
20–16301
Vernon Lee’s satirical allegory, “The ballet of the nations,” was
published in 1915 and was reviewed in the Book Review Digest at that
time. It is now reprinted here, with prologue and epilogue which take
account of the deeper causes leading to the war and of the chaos that
has followed it. In the trilogy thus completed Satan appears as “the
waster of human virtues.” And since the greater and more useless the
waste, the greater his delight, he finds his chief joy in
self-sacrifice which is vain, and the author, who in the furnace of
the war has come to doubt and question all accepted values, suggests
that what the world needs in place of self-sacrifice is that altruism
“which is respect for the other rather than renunciation of the self.”
This and other philosophical aspects of the war are discussed in the
Introduction and in the notes which follow the play.
* * * * *
=Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 190w
“We are casting about for a reason why a book so honest, intelligent,
well-written, clever, should not stimulate but depress, should be a
tiresome book. We may mention that the masque, ‘Satan the waster,’
occupies 110 pages out of about 340; the remainder consists of
introduction and notes. That is a damning—or at least a
damnable—fact.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p299 S 3 ’20 640w
=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“It is an interesting discussion of our international imbecilities and
sets forth with pomp those precise opinions whose less elegant
expression recently sent several hundred Americans to jail.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w
“Enormously stimulating and quickening book. It ought to be one of the
real factors in that spiritual re-adjustment which is now a major
democratic necessity.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 24:244 N 3 ’20 3650w
“Her satire fails because never from beginning to end can the reader
believe in it. It is merely an expression of her opinions in a very
artificial form; and, whether or no we agree with them, we would
rather have them expressed in the natural form of argument.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p389 Je 24 ’20 3200w
“It embodies the reaction to the world war of one of the sanest minds
and most finished stylists of her day. One who compares Romain
Rolland’s dramatic satire ‘Liluli’ with this work, is struck with the
similarity in purpose, in point of view, in fundamental concept, and
even in their common form of cosmic burlesque. Neither the great
Frenchman nor the great Englishwoman has written a ‘play’ in the
ordinary sense, but each has made an uncommon contribution to
literature.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 320w
=LEES, GEORGE ROBINSON.= Life of Christ. il *$5 Dodd 232
20–18310
Considering it of supreme importance to be able to visualize the
scenery amid which the life of Christ was laid, the writer of this
volume spent six years in Palestine during which he learned “how real
was the life of Christ in the scenes depicted in the records of the
Evangelist.” Thus with much local and historic coloring the life of
Jesus is reinterpreted from the accounts of the apostles which are
closely followed. The book is indexed and has one hundred and
twenty-five full page illustrations.
* * * * *
“Inevitably it provokes comparison with Renan in point of literary
style, if not in actual treatment, for Mr Lees is a convinced
believer. His style fails badly by the test. Though a book of this
kind is not greatly to our taste, we cannot but acknowledge the
author’s devotion.”
− + =Ath= p868 D 24 ’20 90w
“His narrative is plain, simple, understandable, but not marked by
either remarkable scholarship or remarkable insight.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 90w
=LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.= Junk-man, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811
20–17992
With a wealth of imagery and a poet’s wisdom all life is mirrored in
these poems in the time-honored garb of rhyme and metre. The first
line of the poem “On re-reading Le morte d’Arthur,” “Here learn who
will the art of noble words” can be applied to this collection, the
author’s first since the war.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“If his extreme youth was a little hectic with the heady wine of
passion his maturity has grown beautifully sane with the philosophic
mind. He was never more youthful than now, when he has recaptured the
song of the lark, regained the lightness of foot that measures the
pace of any gypsy up hill and down dale, and with an eye for illusions
that any lover might envy.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 130w
“It is a sad day for poetry when an authentic craftsman attains such
facility that he writes from sheer momentum. This, we suspect, is what
has happened in the case of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, whose new book,
‘The junkman’ is the mere shell of poetry—the forms without the
feeling.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 200w
+ =Ind= 194:246 N 13 ’20 150w
“It is compact with beauty, filled with all those things that we
instinctively know to be the real marks of authentic poetry. The
flare, the passion, the abiding sense of things that may not readily
be put into words, are all here. It is the sort of poetry that
endures, that becomes memorable and takes place in the memories and
hearts of its readers.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 10 ’20 1500w
“A collection of verse that equals anything this prolific author has
done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 400w
=LEIGHTON, JOHN LANGDON.= Simsadus: London; the American navy in Europe.
il *$4 (11c) Holt 940.45
20–9639
“Sims—Admiral—U.S.” explains the title of the book. It was the cable
address of Admiral Sims’ headquarters in London. The author was
connected with the Intelligence section of Admiral Sims’ staff and as
such is conversant with the inside facts and history of our naval
operations. The book gives his personal impressions and disclaims
official sanction. A partial list of the contents: The situation in
April, 1917; Admiral Sims in London; The establishment of bases;
Submarines off the American coast; A discussion of submarines and
their methods; The distraction of submarines; Why American troopships
were not sunk; The end of the submarine campaign; The man on the
bridge (in homage); Appendix, charts and illustrations.
* * * * *
“After the host of war books which have kept our heads buzzing with
anecdotes and statistics incoherently packed into a jumbled whole it
is not only refreshing but instructive to read a clear, sane, and
comprehensive exposition of our naval activities in Europe as set
forth by Mr Leighton.” P. E. Stevenson
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Je 27 ’20 1000w
“It is something of a relief to find a war-book that does not strain
one’s nerves, or overwhelm one with facts, and that has hardly any
note in it of propaganda, or eulogy, or criticism. Mr Leighton has
given a clear-cut, well-ordered account of what our navy did in
connection with the British navy.”
+ =No Am= 212:862 D ’20 1050w
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w
“Pervading his book is a whole-hearted devotion to his chief, which
goes beyond mere professional loyalty and suggests kinship with the
spirit that surrounded Nelson. Readers of Admiral Sims’s own book can
hardly fail to discern the secret of this spirit and it is pleasant to
find it reflected from the pages of his subordinate.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 6 ’21 860w
=LE QUEUX, WILLIAM TUFNELL.= Doctor of Pimlico; being the disclosure of
a great crime. *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–1211
“Weirmarsh is a criminal who operates all over the continent of
Europe, as well as in England, and, possessing certain hypnotic
powers, he finds it easy to bend other wills to his for his own
profit. So not only is Sir Hugh Elcombe—with his splendid record as a
British officer in several hard campaigns, including the great war
just ended—made a pitiful object by his fear of an ‘exposure’ by
Weirmarsh, but Sir Hugh’s beautiful stepdaughter, Enid Orlebar, who
seems to be a perfect example of the high-class modern English girl is
also under his baleful shadow. She is loved by the middle-aged
cosmopolite who is intended to be the hero of the book. He is a
talented author of mystery romances which bring him an income of
several thousand pounds sterling a year. His real name, under which he
writes, is Walter Fetherston. But he has a penchant for amateur
detective work—he avers that he always ‘lives’ his romances—and when
he is engaged in trying to get to the bottom of some criminal mystery
he calls himself John Maltwood.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 180w
“The story rambles on—always fluent and in well-chosen terms, with
colorful pictures of various localities in Europe obviously made by
one who knows them personally, but singularly deficient in suspense,
dramatic action, humor, or any other of the qualities which make for
real interest in an up-to-date work of fiction.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 140w
=LESCOHIER, DON DIVANCE.= Labor market. (Social science text-books)
*$2.25 Macmillan 331
19–19765
“The purpose of this volume is to show the necessity for a national
organization to control the problem of employment. In the course of
his discussion the author presents much information concerning
conditions of the labor market in this country and offers many
suggestions to officials of employment offices, university students
and teachers, legislators and the general public.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The book is an authoritative and constructive study of an important
question; and its essential merit lies in the fact that it is based on
experience. The general aspects of the question, however, are not
neglected and the bibliography and references show that the subject
has been studied as a whole.” G: M. Janes
+ =Am Econ R= 10:605 S ’20 940w
“The subject is covered very fully and is presented in a popular
style. Will be valuable to labor managers, students of economics, and
progressive business executives.”
+ =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
“Of interest to all students of practical economic questions.”
+ =Cleveland= p54 My ’20 40w
“A workmanlike book ... that fills a gap in economic literature.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 40w
“It is neither novel nor exciting. It is a sober and well-balanced
study of the way in which the sale of labor in the employment market
is organized. If Mr Lescohier’s book has a fault, it is his
inclination to regard the general background of the present industrial
system as permanent. But as a survey of machinery Mr Lescohier’s book
is of real value.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w
“In this volume Professor Lescohier has rendered a singularly
opportune public service. It is enormously important to have available
at this time such a clear discussion of the nature of the labor market
and of the significance for the country of the sundry labor and
immigration policies proposed.”
+ =Survey= 44:318 My 29 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=LESLIE, NOEL.= Three plays: Waste; The war fly; For king and country.
*$1.50 Four seas co. 822
20–7067
There is tragedy in all of these realistic one-act plays. In Waste we
have a dying consumptive girl whose last hours see a grief and
poverty-stricken mother, a drunken father, and her lover turning from
her to her younger sister. In the War-fly two strangers meet in a
hotel restaurant and the one entertains the other with a gruesome
fancy about flies as the devil’s emmisaries. In For King and country
an aged village couple have one son returned from the war blind and
while they are discussing the future of the other son and his war
bride this other is brought home mad.
* * * * *
“Each and all of his three plays reveal him as a playwright with
ideas, and as one whose own acting has enabled him to see dramatic
values and to cause them to live in plays of his own. There is the
reality of life in them as well as a feeling for the theatre that
makes them actable. They hit the centre of the target.” A. A. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 450w
“Of Mr Noel’s three one-act plays the second, The war-fly, is quite
dark in drift and meaning and so one suspects that neither matters
greatly. His first and third plays, on the contrary, Waste and For
king and country, are drenched with significance because they strain
after no symbolism and are philosophical because they are true.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 180w
“The three plays contained in Noel Leslie’s book are rather
exasperating. In each one of them the author handles an excellent
theme, makes fair headway with it and then does not quite realize the
possibilities of his plots.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 140w
“The plays are set with an actor’s solicitude, and each begins with a
promise which is overcast by partial disappointment.”
+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 100w
“They really are workmanlike in structure, are well written, and
display some grasp of character and ability to devise dramatic
situations. In ‘The war fly,’ the author shows that he can devise a
tragic fantasy of some original power.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 180w
=LEVEL, MAURICE.= Tales of mystery and horror. il *$2 (3½c) McBride
20–18255
These stories are translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin.
Henry B. Irving provides an introduction in which he says: “Reminding
one of Edgar Allan Poe more than any other, M. Level employs the
method of O. Henry in the service of the horrible.” The stories, which
are all brief—have the titles: The debt collector; The kennel; Who?
Illusion; In the light of the red lamp; A mistake; Extenuating
circumstances; The confession; The test; Poussette; The father; For
nothing; In the wheat; The beggar; Under chloroform; The man who lay
asleep; Fascination; The bastard; That scoundrel Miron; The taint; The
kiss; A maniac; The 10.50 express; Blue eyes; The empty house; The
last kiss.
* * * * *
“He has Poe’s predilection for supernatural and gruesome themes,
something of de Maupassant’s technique of compression, a flair for the
‘irony of fate’ formula, which was so characteristic of O. Henry’s
plot, and a kinship with Burke’s nostalgie de la boue. But there the
likeness ends, he has none of the qualities mentioned in a degree
sufficient to raise him to the level of the men he suggests.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 740w
“In spite of their subject-matter, the stories neither shock me
morally, chill my blood with their horror, nor affect me with their
pathos. A skillful machinist, not an artist, seems to have been at
work.” E. L. Pearson
− + =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 480w
=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Shepherd of the sea. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
20–26194
This is a story of the icy North, of ice-floes, of shipwreck, of
starvation and mutiny at a whaling station, of an overland trip in a
dog-sled, deprivation and hunger and narrow escape from freezing. A
missionary sea-captain who is out to fight the whiskey traffic with
the Eskimos and to carry the word of God to them, picks up Buck
Traherne when his motor-boat had capsized in the Strait. Traherne is
just out of college at Seattle and a tenderfoot. The life on
ship-board puts strength into him and he becomes, with the shepherd,
the mainstay of the castaway crew on Herschel Island. Moona—half
Eskimo and half Scotch—the shepherd’s ward, loves him and after the
rescue has come, and the arctic flowers have once more lifted their
heads, the charm she has knitted into Traherne’s muffler shows its
potency.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 51:80 Mr ’20 260w
“Memories of ‘Captains courageous’ seem to filter through the
beginnings of Mr Leverage’s tale. Nevertheless, the plot would pass
very well by itself if the author had the style and strength to render
it into a forcible and plausible narrative. Unfortunately, he has
not.” G. M. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 550w
“The tale contains an abundance of adventure, and the author seems to
know the country and the life whereof he writes, but the book is
marred by a style so very jerky that it soon gets upon the reader’s
nerves.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 380w
=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Where dead men walk. *$1.75 Moffat
20–1210
“A story of the underworld, Mr Leverage’s new novel, ‘Where dead men
walk,’ recounts the adventures of one Vilos Holbrook. He had lived a
lazy, comfortable life until his uncle, Colonel Bishop, who had
control of the modest fortune left him by his father, was swindled out
of it while himself endeavoring to swindle a supposedly dying man.
Only a few hours before he learned of the loss of his fortune,
curiosity had induced him to attend the disreputable ‘Three students’
ball,’ where he had seen Gypsy Cragen dance, and later talked with
her. When he presently discovered that she had been one of the gang of
swindlers who had gotten the better of his uncle, he protected her,
and later joined the little organization of thieves to which the Gypsy
and her father, formerly a noted safeblower, belonged. This he
preferred to earning an honest living as an electrical engineer. Also
he took first to whisky, and then, under the Gypsy’s tutelage, to
opium, which he found at the end of that path over the roof described
as the one ‘where dead men walk.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Stories of the underworld invariably possess a certain fascination.
Mr Leverage has written a fair sample of this type of novel.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w
“The story is entertaining in its way and contains one really clever
situation. But the style is unpleasantly staccato, and the
construction leaves a good deal to be desired.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:76 F 8 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 80w
=LEVERHULME, WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, 1st baron.= Six-hour shift and
industrial efficiency. *$3.50 (4c) Holt 331
20–11378
The book is the American edition of the author’s “Six-hour day,”
abridged and rearranged by Frank Tannenbaum, with an introduction by
Henry R. Seager. Lord Leverhulme’s remedies for the defects of modern
industry are based on actual experience and are summed up in the word
co-partnership. He looks upon the employer as the senior partner in an
industry and the employees as the junior partners, with the confidence
that under such wisely planned leadership complete cooperation will
gradually result. Contents: The problem of industrial efficiency; The
six-hour shift; Harmonizing capital and labor; Co-partnership;
Co-partnership and business management; Co-partnership and efficiency;
Co-operative aspect of business; Health and housing; Shop committees
and shop efficiency; Industrial administration; The workers’ interest
in productivity; Principles of reconstruction; Socialism, or equality
vs. equity. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20
=Lit D= p106 S 4 ’20 1600w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ’20 150w
=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. $3 Stokes 327
20–15556
These letters, “copied from government archives in Moscow, unpublished
before 1920,” are “the private letters from the Kaiser to the Czar
found in a chest after the Czar’s execution and now in possession of
the Soviet government.” In his introduction the author reprints
comments on the letters from various English papers and from Professor
Walter Goetz. As the letters were written in English they are printed
as written. Four of the letters are given in facsimile.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 580w
“While not as important as the telegrams which were published in 1917,
these letters from the Kaiser to the Czar are extremely interesting as
historical documents completing the picture. They reveal the author
far better than any biographer could reveal him.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 10 ’20 2550w
“They are only half satisfactory as correspondence because there are
no letters of reply from the Czar to the Kaiser. Regrettably
incomplete as the present volume is, no book, we think, could present
a greater revelation of the Kaiser’s character. Such a book should
have had an index.”
+ − =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 400w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 140w
“Mr Grant’s excellent introduction explains everything that needs
explanation, and ample footnotes clear up the personal and other
allusions which might perplex readers who are not close students of
foreign politics.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p867 D 23 ’20 900w
=LEVINGER, MRS ELMA EHRLICH.=[2] New land. $1.25 Bloch
20–10306
“This little collection of stories written for children, of ‘Jews who
had a part in the making of our country,’ belongs in part to
historical biography with a large fictional element and in part to
pure fiction with a historical setting.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The particular ideal of the author of ‘The new land’ to be sure, is
not Christian but patriotic virtue, but her method of approach is
sadly reminiscent of the Sunday school library of old time.
Nevertheless the tales are all carefully and enthusiastically told and
often rise to intrinsic human interest.” C. K. S.
+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 140w
“The stories are well written; they have a collective ‘moral,’ of
course, but this does not obtrude itself, nor is it narrowly
nationalistic.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 120w
=LEVISON, ERIC.=[2] Hidden eyes. *$1.75 Bobbs
20–16929
“Mysterious bank robberies at Jacksonville, Fla., furnish the plot of
‘Hidden eyes.’ The most complicated locks and burglar-proof bank
vaults are opened without delay by a most adroit and elusive thief.
Robbery after robbery occurs and the detective force is well-nigh
demoralized. The detective chief, however, has a latent suspicion of a
young chemist named Thornton, who is an expert in steel and safe
locks. Thornton is taken in the very act of a midnight foray. But this
is far from clearing the mystery. That duty is accomplished by a local
doctor who dabbles in psychoanalysis and auto-suggestion.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 360w
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 370w
“The dénouement is quite unexpected and furnishes the biggest thrill
of all.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 120w
=LEVY, S. I.=[2] Modern explosives. il $1 (3½c) Pitman 662.2
The contents of this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and
industries are: Modern explosives and their raw materials; The
chemistry of explosives manufacture; The acids section of an
explosives factory; The manufacture of propellant explosives;
Preparation of the high explosives; Explosives in war and peace;
Chemistry and national welfare. Index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“Although avoiding technical details, the author has given a
reasonable and well-balanced treatment of his subject in the space at
his disposal. One or two slips may be noted. The final chapter, on
‘Chemistry and national welfare,’ although not directly connected with
the subject, is very apposite at the present time.”
+ − =Nature= 106:340 N 11 ’20 180w
=LEWER, H. WILLIAM.= China collector; a guide to the porcelain of the
English factories. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4½c) Dodd 738
“This book has been written to enable the enthusiastic collector of
china, even after he has passed through his apprenticeship, and
acquired a certain amount of experience, to form a correct judgment of
that branch of ceramics embraced under the designation of old English
porcelain.” (Foreword) The book has a prefatory note by Frank Stevens
explaining the illustrations of which there are thirty-two and the
marks. The distinctive features of each factory are treated under the
titles of history, paste, glaze, decoration, production,
characteristics, noted artists, chronology, and marks. The factories
discussed are: Bow; Bristol; Caughley; Chelsea; Chelsea-Derby;
Coalport; Derby; Longton Hall; Lowestoft: Nautgarw; New Hall; Pinxton;
Plymouth; Rockingham; Spode; Swansea; Worcester. There is a
chronograph, a bibliography, a tabular index of factories, an index of
names and a general index.
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Main street. *$2 (1c) Harcourt
20–18934
In telling the story of Main street, Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the
author has tried to tell the story of all America. His Main street “is
the continuation of Main streets everywhere.” It is a story of dull
mediocrity, complacent and satisfied with itself. Carol Milford, one
year out of college, marries Dr Will Kennicott and goes with him to
his home town, Gopher Prairie, in the wheat belt. Carol hates Main
street at sight and in the six or eight years of her life that are
chronicled does not hate it less, altho in the end she comes to see it
with larger eyes and to endure it. One after the other she attempts
reform measures, including a little theater venture, but her efforts
meet defeat. She has her fling of defiance, and spends one of the war
years in Washington, but comes back again, still rebellious. “I may
not have fought the good fight,” says Carol, “but I have kept the
faith.”
* * * * *
“One of the few really good American novels of today.”
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“The book is too long, rather tedious. But it has a humanity, a
popular note which will appeal to thousands.” S. M. R.
+ − =Bookm= 52:372 D ’20 100w
“The total impression one derives is that neither Jane Austen nor
George Eliot depicted the provincial England of the past with more
vividness than that with which Mr Lewis portrays the present-day
American small town.” S. A. Coblentz
+ =Bookm= 52:357 Ja ’21 800w
“He knows the American small town for what it is, history in that
respect being the supreme achievement in American fiction. But when he
creates a protest against it, an attack upon its vicious existence,
through the symbol of Carol Kennicott he comes nearer to the function
of a treatise than the process of art. Kennicott is masterly drawn.”
W: S. Braithwaite
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 1700w
“The atmosphere of the sordid smug little burg is well done.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 80w
“At times, Mr Lewis makes one feel that he has treated his people as
mere incidents in an environment, that he has pictured them, not
without malice, like Dickensian gargoyles. But there are scenes in his
book as sensitively felt as some in Mr Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Winesburg,
Ohio.’ These exceptional passages of his book are an earnest of the
restraint and mastery which one will have the right to expect of his
later work.” H. J. Seligmann
+ − =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 750w
“His dialogue, which he uses very freely, is brilliant. The exactness
of this dialogue is a literary achievement of a very high order. Mr
Lewis has given literary permanence to the speech of his time and
section. But the dialogue in ‘Main street’ is anything but literature
in the sense of Verlaine; it is living talk. ‘Main street’ would add
to the power and distinction of the contemporary literature of any
country.”
+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 820w
“‘Main street’ is pioneer work. Some formulae it does help to
perpetuate. Some garishness and crudity it does unpleasantly employ in
its anxiety to be effective and pat. But while the novelistic hen does
not necessarily lay better if surrounded by strong artificial light,
the light in ‘Main street’ is on the whole natural, honest and oh so
amazingly illuminating.” F. H.
+ − =New Republic= 25:20 D 1 ’20 1500w
“‘Main street’ is a book to possess and treasure. What the critics
have overlooked is just this: that Carol’s idealism was at least as
superficial and worthless as the faults of Main street. Carol is more
than a blind would-be leader of the blind; she is a butterfly aspirant
for the leadership of the apsychosaurus.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 300w
“Dealing with material that is rarely subtle, Mr Lewis can be subtle
enough himself. Besides his gift for character and situation, he has
also a knack at satire and caustic epigram, with so enormous an
acquaintance with the foibles and folklore of the Middle West that he
has literally set a new standard for novels dealing with the section.”
Carl Van Doren
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 20 ’20 2000w
“A remarkable book. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily
into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing.
It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people
are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than
their revealing talk.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 14 ’20 1600w
“Gopher Prairie is untypical in human sympathy, in generous instincts,
in kindness of heart. Its people are not merely heavy in mind,
ludicrously dead to art and literature and world movements; they are
selfish, grasping, slanderloving, ignoble. Carol herself is a shallow
sort of reformer. This is the strongest criticism to be made on ‘Main
street.’” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 400w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 98:1889 D 18 ’20 200w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 690w
“It is full of the realism of fact, colored by rather laborious and
overclever satire. But it has no sustained action, whether as realism
or as satire. It is a bulky collection of scenes, types, caricatures,
humorous episodes, and facetious turns of phrase; a mine of comedy
from which the ore has not been lifted.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w
“Mr Lewis has fashioned one of the year’s most notable volumes of
fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w
“He is particularly adept in reproducing the vernacular. Whether the
picture as a whole and his judgments on it are equally true may be a
matter for disagreement. But as a sincere attempt to deal honestly
with middle-western life the novel is noteworthy.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 90w
=LEWISOHN, LUDWIG=, ed. Modern book of criticisms; ed. with an introd.
(Modern lib. of the world’s best books) *85c Boni & Liveright 801
20–11399
“An anthology of passages (of about six pages or less each in length)
from modern authors dealing with the principles of literature, art,
and criticism, divided into four parts according to the nations
represented by the authors drawn upon—for France, Anatole France,
Lemaître, Remy de Gourmont; for Germany, Hebbel, Dilthey, Volkelt, R.
M. Meyer, Hofmannsthal, Mueller-Freienfels, Alfred Kerr; for England,
George Moore, G. B. Shaw, Arthur Symons, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett,
W. L. George, T. MacDonagh, J. C. Powys; for America, Huneker,
Spingarn, Mencken, Lewisohn, F. Hackett, Van Wyck Brooks, and Randolph
Bourne.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Lewisohn’s group of critics are restless impressionists, almost
destitute of doctrine.” S. P. Sherman
− =Bookm= 52:111 O ’20 880w
“Connoisseurs of critical personality as such will miss Mr More and Mr
Sherman in this volume, inasmuch as they are men of a particularly
vivid and dramatic force. The critics whom Mr Lewisohn does put in his
collection speak for the most part superbly.” C. and M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:219 Ag 21 ’20 1250w
“He has done his task in commendable fashion.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 240w
“A book which begins with selections from Anatole France and Jules
Lemaitre is bound to be useful, for the critical writings of these men
are less accessible than one could wish. Furthermore, Mr Lewisohn has
made a number of translations of his own from German writers. It is
this foreign background which gives the book its chief value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 100w
=LEYDS, WILLEM JOHANNES.= Transvaal surrounded. *$8 Dutton 968
(Eng ed 20–23043)
“In continuation of this author’s monumental work on the annexation of
the Transvaal, this volume was completed and prepared for publication
in June, 1914, just previous to the opening of the great world war. At
that critical time its publication did not seem prudent and its
appearance was delayed. In the preceding volume the relations of the
Boers and the British government were reviewed from the first
settlements in South Africa to the London convention of 1884.... With
the events which followed this volume is concerned and especially with
the British policy, which was systematically followed by each
succeeding cabinet, of gradually surrounding this struggling republic
by a barrier of British territory, which effectually deprived it of
all opportunity of outward expansion. An appendix reproduces a large
number of original documents of great value to the student of this
period, who desires to make a close and exhaustive study of this
really little understood feature in English-African history.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 600w
“Dr Leyds is far too sweeping in his charges, due in large measure to
his hatred of everything British and to his inexperience of native
affairs. The book is one to be read and studied by all who desire to
see both sides of a bad patch in our colonial history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 4 ’20 2200w
=L’HOPITAL, WINEFRIDE DE.= Westminster cathedral and its architect; with
an introd. by W. R. Lethaby. 2v il *$12 (5c) Dodd 726
(Eng ed 20–13853)
These volumes are a memorial to a great architect by his daughter.
Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to
the making of the architect. Together the books contain 160
illustrations and numerous architectural plans. Partial contents of
volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedral
idea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The
plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional
problems; Description and details of exterior; Description and details
of interior; The adaptation and development of Byzantine architecture
as exemplified in the cathedral; The mosaics; Appendices. Volume 2
contains the architect’s life history and the story of his
architectural training and career and an index.
* * * * *
“Though her literary style is frequently clumsy and never particularly
good, she had the necessary facts at her disposal and upon the whole
has used them well. A more skilled biographer would have given us more
of Bentley.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:821 S ’20 500w
“On the technical and intellectual side, the work might have been
composed by an architect having no relation to Bentley, and this it is
which gives a special attraction to these 700 pages. There is but one
trace of feeling that might perhaps be deprecated: a certain
sensitiveness lest, in arranging for the interior completion of the
cathedral, the present or future authorities may be lacking in loyalty
to the ideals of the architect.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 1100w
“The fact that so large and so admirable a book on a modern architect
has appeared in this country is a matter for congratulation to the
author, the publishers, and the architectural profession. Undoubtedly
it was needed. One can justifiably criticize the arrangement, for it
leads to a certain amount of repetition.”
+ − =Spec= 124:461 Ap 3 ’20 700w
“The account of the cathedral in this book is very full and
interesting, and illustrated with plans both final and preliminary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p739 D 11 ’19 2300w
=LINCOLN, ELLIOTT CURTIS.= Rhymes of a homesteader. il *$1.50 Houghton
811
20–5608
Many of these poems are in dialect, among them The varmint, Angela, An
evening with Browning, The phonograph, The game of games and The
old-timer remarks. Others, such as The sunflower road, Montana night,
Hills, Wheel tracks, Wild geese, and A song of the wire fence, are
descriptive of the wild beauty of the northwest country. Some of the
poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland and
Sunset.
* * * * *
“Lack the poetic beauty of Piper on the same subject, but will have
many readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
“Elliott C. Lincoln deals with two types of verse, descriptive and
dialect-narrative, with rather more discrimination than Robert
Service, but by no means as much vigor. The descriptive verse is
melodious, if often conventional.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The sociologist often can learn more about America and the American
people from this homespun verse without literary distinction than from
the smooth rhymes that flow in and around the poetry reviews. Eugene
Field was the outstanding master of the homelier craft. A successor of
his, perhaps superior in wealth and charm of diction, more direct,
more sensitive, is Elliott C. Lincoln.”
+ =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 170w
=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Portygee. il *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–6287
Portygee is the old Cape Cod term for foreigner expressive of both
contempt and suspicion. It is applied with all its hidden meaning to
Albert Miguel Carlos Speranza, when he comes to live with his
grandparents, old sea captain Zelotes Snow and his wife, after the
death of his father, a Spanish opera singer. The latter had eloped
with the captain’s only daughter, who had died unforgiven by the old
man. Albert, aged seventeen, fresh from a fashionable New York school,
has much to live down and to live up to in South Harniss: his
inclination to write poetry and his dislike for business, in the first
place; and his grandfather’s expectations of him in the second. Little
by little and with struggles on both sides, that endear the two
leading characters to the reader, both win out. Albert comes to occupy
first place in the old man’s heart and is no longer a Portygee, while
he gains his own ends, becomes an author, a war hero, and marries the
best girl in town.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“The reader of ‘The Portygee’ will find within its pages a somewhat
conventional story, but he will find also, as in everything Mr Lincoln
has written, a sure understanding of the people of Cape Cod, and an
entertaining chronicle of its life and scenes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 24 ’20 1500w
“Another inimitable Cape Cod story.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 40w
“He can tell a very good story, as he does in ‘The Portygee,’ his
psychology, tho somewhat obvious, is true, but his thoroly ‘wholesome’
humor lacks the faintest alleviation of subtlety. Cape Cod deserves a
better interpreter.”
+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 100w
“‘The Portygee’ is a pleasant, amusing little story, which Mr
Lincoln’s admirers will no doubt greatly enjoy.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 480w
“There is hearty fun in the book, and there is also sound philosophy
and fine Americanism.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w
“This book brings back the smell of the moors, the salt sea, and the
thick encompassing fogs.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 60w
“A pleasant tale, which will be enjoyed by all lovers of Lincoln.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 80w
=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Red seal. il *$1.75 (3c) Appleton
20–4266
A burglar forces his way into a fashionable Washington home, is caught
and taken to court where the McIntyre twins, whose house he had
entered, appear against him. His sudden death in the courtroom demands
an inquest and an autopsy, which reveal the fact that Jimmie Turnbull,
cashier of the Metropolis Trust Company, while masquerading as a
burglar, was killed by poison. His engagement to Helen McIntyre
complicates the situation. Harry Kent, lover of the twin sister
Barbara, takes up the case. Missing securities and a mysterious
envelope sealed with a red B further complicate matters. The
characters all suspect one another and the reader suspects everyone in
turn. Eventually Harry Kent solves the mystery, and the miserable
shoulders of the clever forger take the guilt of all phases of the
perplexing crime.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“There is nothing unusually clever in the structure of the story. By
concealing essential facts, by raising a new question with every
incident, and by answering none, the author puzzles rather than
creates suspense. The story is indeed so confusing as to be in danger
of being tiresome.” G. H. C.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 300w
“‘The red seal’ has the great merit of being really mysterious. The
author has managed very cleverly in the way she contrives to conceal
all clues that might lead one to discover the true culprit, holding
them back until the very end. The tale moves swiftly and holds the
reader’s interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 360w
“As in so many cinema plots, everyone seems to be ready to believe
anything about anybody, to act in the most compromising manner for
apparently inadequate motives, and to prevaricate with voluble
insincerity at all times and in all places. With such allies at her
disposal, Miss Lincoln makes so formidable a defence of her mystery
that only the most experienced reader will penetrate it before the
time appointed for unveiling.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 220w
=LIND, WALLACE LUDWIG.=[2] Internal-combustion engines. il $2.20 Ginn
621.43
20–6497
The author has treated of internal combustion engines, their
principles and application to automobile, aircraft, and marine
purposes. “The endeavor has been to arrange and present the subject
matter in such a manner as to bring it well within the comprehension
of the average student. For more advanced students, who have a
knowledge of thermodynamics, the writer has presented in Chapter III
the theoretical considerations of the various cycles which are
applicable to internal-combustion engines.” (Preface) There are 120
illustrations, a trouble chart and an index.
* * * * *
“For its purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is
sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice,
although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp
and appreciate.”
+ =Nature= 106:210 O 14 ’20 180w
=LINDEN, HERMAN VANDER.=[2] Belgium, the making of a nation; tr. by
Sybil Jane. (Histories of the nations ser.) *$3.75 Oxford 949.3
(Eng ed 20–9824)
“This volume is a translation of Professor H. vander Linden’s ‘Vue
générale de l’histoire de Belgique’ with the addition of three
chapters dealing with the history of the modern kingdom since 1831,
written specially for this English edition. The original title tells
us that the reader must not expect to find in this work more than a
historical sketch. The writer makes no higher claim for it.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Monographs are valuable if their scope be limited, but any small
volume covering centuries has the defects of its qualities. In this
instance the reader might have gained had the author limited himself
to a consideration of modern Belgium. The later chapters are richer
in individuality and indicate what the author can do in
character-sketches.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:355 Ja ’21 420w
=Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 640w
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 120w
“The best portions of this book are the numerous sections dealing with
the social and economical conditions and progress of the Belgic
provinces at various epochs of their chequered history. The strictly
historical narrative does not deserve the same unqualified praise.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p344 Je 3 ’20 1650w
=LINDERMAN, FRANK BIRD.= On a passing frontier. *$1.75 Scribner
20–10052
“These glimpses of past or passing phases of life in Montana get a
sure grip on the reader, in spite of their sombre quality. Bad men,
bad language, and bad whisky figure prominently in the sketches, but
most of the experiences ring true.” (Outlook) “His characters run the
usual gamut of western tales, and each possesses a picturesque
individuality, correctly shaded.” (Boston Transcript)
* * * * *
“These sketches of the Little Rockies will rank well in the front
class of fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 160w
“The stuff of good literature, though not in any final form, appears
in ‘On a passing frontier,’ short stories without too much art, but
also without too much decoration, which bring the Little Rockies very
near home.”
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
=LINDSAY, MAUD MCKNIGHT.= Bobby and the big road. il *$1.50 (9c) Lothrop
20–26565
Bobby has always lived in the city but when he is five years old his
father and mother take him to live in a little brown house by the side
of a country road. The story tells of his little adventures while
making friends with the birds and animals and flowers. He makes other
friends too and goes to the circus and spends a happy Christmas. The
story is suitable for children who have just learned to read.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 30w
“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for
grown-up readers, too.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 29 ’20 140w
=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Golden whales of California; and other
rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
20–2832
In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan,
John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II,
Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is
crumbling down, and others.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be
primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio
savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive
people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M.
Weaver
− + =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 650w
“With this volume Mr Lindsay certainly regains all he seems to have
lost in his previous collection, and he now settles permanently in the
very forefront of the half a dozen contemporary poets whose fame will
last beyond the generation in which they were born.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 1500w
=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 100w
“Two impulses dominate Lindsay’s latest volume; two tendencies that
are almost opposed in mood and mechanics. Sometimes the Jerusalem
theme is uppermost; sometimes the jazz orchestration drowns everything
else. Frequently, in the more successful pieces, there is a racy,
ragtime blend of both. But a half-ethical, half-aesthetic indecision,
an inability to choose between what most delights Lindsay and what his
hearers prefer is the outstanding effect—and defect—of his new
collection.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:789 Je ’20 1200w
“There is an impression abroad that ‘The golden whales’ falls a little
below ‘General William Booth,’ ‘The Congo,’ and ‘The Santa Fe trail.’
It does do that; yet it stands well up among Mr Lindsay’s better
poems, which is to say, among the better poems of contemporary
America.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 350w
“In this volume it is poems like Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan and
Kalamazoo and The golden whales and The comet of prophecy and My lady
is compared to a young tree and The statue of old Andrew Jackson and
the Roosevelt poems and the Alexander Campbell poems which show the
increasing self-possession of a singer who really lives with wonder
and abides with dreams. The fascination of Lindsay is that this wonder
and these dreams are drawn from common American life.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:321 F 11 ’20 1300w
“‘The golden whales’ is a book thoroughly alive, thoroughly jolly and
thoroughly fit for chanting in typical Vachelese. His idiom, as well
as his whimsical exaggeration, roars on every page.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w
“The book, taken by and large, might be a parody on Mr Lindsay, all
the Mr Lindsays.... And yet one knows very well what has happened. The
superstition has got him, the group-consciousness has sucked him down.
Mr Lindsay has listened too readily to his kind public, his critical
faculty, never strong, has been smoked and blurred by incense.” Amy
Lowell
− + =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 2850w
“In this writer there have always been two elements: the poet, and
what I shall unceremoniously, but not disrespectfully, call the
urchin.... The poet and the urchin lived apart: they could not find
each other. They have found each other, in my judgment, in the ‘Golden
whales,’ and their meeting is the signal for Mr Lindsay’s emergence
into the upper air of song.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 700w
“Many persons have become needlessly alarmed and excited over Mr
Lindsay’s importance as a poet. He is original, very original, both in
form and in substance, and he is exhilarating—if it be only the
exhilaration induced by the jingling tambourine.... The new book shows
Mr Lindsay performing at top speed—facile, self-confident, clever,
sometimes brilliant, his viewpoints as healthy and entertaining as
ever.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 1 ’20 480w
“Mr Lindsay’s ‘The golden whales of California’ is a disappointment.
In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a
mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the ‘jazz bird’s screech’
and ‘monkey-shines and didoes.’” E: B. Reed
− + =Yale R= n s 10:203 O ’20 150w
=LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, and O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Doughboy’s
religion, and other aspects of our day. *$1.25 (8c) Harper 940.478
20–1683
In his introduction Harvey J. O’Higgins, giving an appreciation and
brief survey of Judge Lindsey’s career, says that it is as an advocate
of a moral alliance that he speaks in the book—“for although the
actual writing of the book has been a work of collaboration, the
message is his message and the spirit of its utterance is, as nearly
as possible, his.” This is the message: “The Christian religion is not
a religion of individual salvation and selfish virtue. It is a
religion of love and self-sacrifice and humility.” It is a religion of
doing rather than of church-going and the American junker will have to
accept it if the lessons of the war are to be fruitful ones. The four
essays of the book are: The doughboy’s religion; The junker faith;
Horses’ rights for women; A league of understanding.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“There has been so much nonsense about the religion of the American
soldier written and spoken by members of the Y. M. C. A. that it is
refreshing to hear the subject treated intelligently by a real man. It
is not strange that the famous judge of the juvenile court should be
the man to understand the doughboy as others have failed to understand
him.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 600w
“The publication, at this date, seems to be an afterthought. However,
the book will have some interest, since it presents the thoughts of a
man so well-known as Judge Lindsey.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 140w
“These essays are thought-provoking and written with Judge Lindsey’s
usual fiery sincerity.”
+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 120w
“Judge Lindsey spares no one in his discussion and is judicious in his
summary of the case.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 10 ’20 450w
=LIPPMANN, WALTER.= Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323
20–4814
Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are
here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief
introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the
author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they
must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school
had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they
cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily
available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not
available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can
survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated
private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of
western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main
essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate
headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He
has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and
judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 160w
=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 90w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 480w
“Mr Walter Lippmann is one of the editors of the New Republic, and
consequently may be presumed to know all about liberty; but he has
never been a newspaper man and, while he knows a good deal about news,
most of what he knows is not true.”
− =N Y Times= 25:129 Mr 21 ’20 3200w
“The programme which the author proffers is a worthy one. Would that
it could be attained! Progress toward its attainment will, however,
require considerable soul-searching and inner reformation on the part
of responsible persons connected with the handling of the news; and
this is likely to require rather large drafts on the bank of time.” W.
J. Ghent
+ =Review= 2:571 My 29 ’20 1250w
“However much one may disagree with some of Mr Lippmann’s statements
and views, there is no doubt that he renders a public service by
directing his critical mind to the press and its influence. It is
courageous thinking of this kind that will help the public to become
more exacting in its demand on the press.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1300w
“A calm, impersonal and general survey.” J. G. McDonald
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w
=LISLE, CLIFTON.= Diamond rock. il *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt
20–16154
A boys’ story of the revolutionary war. The Quaker settlement in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, had been very remote from the scene of
war and had taken little interest in its progress, but with the battle
of the Brandywine in the summer of 1777, it is brought close to them.
On that very day Joe Lockhart, fishing along the creek, encounters an
attractive stranger who teaches him how to catch trout with a worm.
Later Joe and his chum, Amos Rambo, pick up a paper which shows the
stranger to have been a spy. Joe carries the evidence to Washington’s
headquarters and reports and is sent on a mission thru the British
lines. He meets the stranger again and learns that he is a spy on the
right side. Thereafter the two boys see something of all the stirring
events that follow, including the Paoli massacre.
=LITCHFIELD, PAUL WEEKS.= Industrial republic. *$1 (8c) Houghton 331.1
20–10139
The booklet is a study in industrial economics by the vice-president
and factory manager of the Goodyear Tire and rubber company.
Government and management, says the author, are synonymous terms, the
one being applied to the political, the other to the industrial world
and the war has focussed attention on the faults of both. After a
brief outline of the evolution of capital and the wage system and its
present antagonism the author points out the necessity of giving labor
the control of the management of an industry while safe-guarding the
interests of capital. In illustration he describes the Goodyear
representation plan. Contents: Expansion of political democracy; The
labor-capital opposition—genesis and growth; Present status of the
labor-capital opposition; Clues to the solution; Rights involve
duties; The industrial republic; Industrial citizenship; The Goodyear
representation plan.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“The book should prove of real interest to social workers and to
business men. It maintains a consistent point of view throughout and
develops logically to its conclusion.” Alexander Fleisher
+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w
=LITERARY= digest history of the world war; comp. by Francis W. Halsey.
10v il with subscription to Literary digest *$12 Funk 940.3
20–646
“This work covers the titanic struggle as it was fought on land, by
sea, in the air, on all fronts in all parts of the world, by the
thirty nations involved in the conflict. The first six volumes deal
chiefly with the outbreak of the war and its causes, and the long and
bitter struggle on the western front, including America’s entrance and
participation, and carrying the story down to the signing of the
armistice, the occupation of the Rhine valley, and the meeting of the
peace conference in Paris. The seventh is devoted to Russia’s share in
the war, the revolution, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the rule of the
Bolsheviki. In the eighth is to be found the story of the war in the
Balkans, Turkey, and Palestine, while the ninth deals with Italy’s war
effort and the story of the submarine warfare. The tenth contains the
history of sea battles and of commerce raiding, an adequate
description of the work of the Peace conference, sketches of fifty
military and political leaders, a chronology that fills forty pages,
and an index to the whole work. The volumes are all copiously
illustrated.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The internal political events in the various countries are nearly
altogether neglected, except of course the revolutions in Russia,
Germany, and Austria-Hungary. In this method of treatment there can be
only a feeble attempt to evaluate the significance of the various
factors entering into the huge conflict. The account lacks, too, as is
natural, the simple direct style of Usher’s ‘Story of the great war.’
Nevertheless it is a comprehensive piece of work well done and
extremely well suited to the clientele to whom it is directed.” G: F.
Zook
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:720 Jl ’20 670w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:115 Mr ’20 80w
=N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 100w
“Mr Halsey approached his task with a true perspective and justly saw
and accurately described the part taken by each nation involved in its
due relation to the whole conflict and the final victory.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 1250w
“The present work is certainly full of fine material and will itself
be constantly and permanently valuable for reference and study.”
+ =Outlook= 123:515 D 17 ’19 200w
“In common justice to the author, we must give him praise for his
skill in so reducing, condensing, and digesting the immense mass of
material at his command as to produce a continuous and even
narrative.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 320w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 150w (Review of v 10)
=LIVERMORE, GEORGE GRISWOLD.=[2] Take it from Dad. il *$2 Macmillan 817
20–21986
Letters from a father to his son in preparatory school, letters full
of friendly advice and good counsel with a mixture of homely anecdote
from the father’s experience. There are amusing illustrations by Bert
Salg.
* * * * *
“A new kind of boys’ book—and a good kind, too.”
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w
“It is not difficult to imagine that fathers with boys of eighteen
will find Mr Soule an altogether enjoyable companion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 240w
=LIVERMORE, THOMAS LEONARD.= Days and events, 1860–1866. il *$6 (3c)
Houghton 973.7
20–5734
This posthumous book, published by the author’s family and recording
Colonel Livermore’s experiences in the Civil war, was begun
immediately after the conclusion of the war, while its events were
still fresh in his mind. Henry M. Rogers in his introduction gives a
brief sketch of the author’s life.
* * * * *
“Colonel Livermore has been known for a long time by his work on
‘Numbers and losses in the Civil war,’ which has been one of the most
valuable contributions to our military history. The work now before us
is of an entirely different character and reflects the ability of the
author from a new and no less interesting angle.” Eben Swift
+ =Am Hist R= 25:734 Jl ’20 600w
“The volume ought to take its place as a real ‘source book’ for
commentators on the history of that conflict. There is much of
entertainment in the narrative, which is frank to a degree and often
vigorous, fresh, and significant in its criticisms.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w
=LIVINGSTON, ROBERT.= Land of the great out-of-doors. il *$1.75 (9c)
Houghton
20–17525
When they are about five and six years old, Penrose and Penelope,
known as Pen and Penny, are taken to the country to live on a farm.
This little story tells of their daily life, beginning in the spring
time and continuing to Christmas. In some of the chapters Pen tells of
his doings, in others Penny gives her view of things. The colored
pictures are by Maurice Day.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
“The impersonator frequently forgets, in his desire to have the
valuable information imparted, that he is under contract to use the
speech of childhood. However, the stories will undoubtedly find favor
with the little folk, and their atmosphere is fresh and wholesome.” M.
H. B. Mussey
+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
“It will prove excellent to read aloud, or to give to children who are
just beginning to read for themselves.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 80w
=LOCK, H. O.=[2] Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. *$3
Dutton 956.9
20–4566
“The history begins with the ancient Egyptians, relates the campaigns
and conquests of the Jews, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Greeks,
Romans, Arabs, the picturesque warriors of the Crusades, the French,
and then the British. The intervening history is briefly sketched, to
make a connected narrative. The book has an introduction by Field
Marshal Viscount Allenby, commander-in-chief of the British forces in
Palestine.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map
attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many
periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”
+ =Spec= 122:86 Ja 17 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 60w
=LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON.= Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas
co.
20–94
This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of
George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger
Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard
Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild
Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians
his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven
Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter
enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful,
however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris
Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that
Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted
over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as
he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him
exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares
Lady Edris’s fate.
* * * * *
“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of
which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest
is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use
of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”
− + =Cath World= 111:408 Je ’20 140w
=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane
20–26105
The hero is a man of great intellectual power, dynamic physical energy
and sudden quixotic impulses. After he has spent eighteen years of
voluntary exile in China—self imposed because he fears to compromise
the girl he loves—and two years of hermitlike seclusion on the moor
with a fascinating and erudite young Chinese student, a German bomb
from a zeppelin shocks him into a dazed knowledge of the European war.
Wide awake, action hungry, he scorns his former achievements as a
mathematical genius and brilliant Chinese scholar, plunges into
political activities, gets “hitched on to” the war, and becomes the
man of the hour. The old distasteful personal ties are broken through
his wife’s death and the lapse of the years. New ones are forged and
he learns that he has a fine son of whom he had not even dreamed. Life
in London has become sweet and full and he desires no change. But once
more the quixotic impulse asserts itself—a sacrifice becomes necessary
for the sake of his officer son’s career, and he is off to China
again.
* * * * *
“A typically interesting Locke story. The book ends rather weakly.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“Mr Locke has written many stories better than ‘The house of
Baltazar,’ but there are few of them in which his neglected
opportunities were greater. The truth is that he, like many other
novelists, is obsessed by the necessity of making the war and its
far-reaching effects a part of his fiction.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1260w
+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 20w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“But, after all, it is Baltazar himself who is the book, and he is
always a joy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 1150w
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 200w
“A captious reader might complain that Mr Locke has tried to do too
many things at once, that a single novel simply has not sufficient
space to include the big issues of feminism, profiteering, labour
unrest and the thousand and one elements of contemporary social
upheaval. But Mr Locke’s readers are not inclined to be captious.” F.
T. Cooper
+ − =Pub W= 97:173 Ja 17 ’20 550w
“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the
elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is
exceedingly well imagined.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 130w
“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude
for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting
mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”
+ − =Spec= 124:462 Ap 3 ’20 550w
“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and
Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter
element is supplied by the Chinaman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 650w
“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the
probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of
the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 F 26 ’20 550w
=LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE.= Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan
327
20–7662
The author’s preface points out that Pan-Americanism has passed
through three periods, the first, characterized by a tendency toward
solidarity, the second, by an opposite tendency toward separation and
distrust, the third marked by a revival of the earlier trend. This
book is devoted to the first of these periods, extending to about 1830
and embracing the years of revolution and the formation of new states.
The eleven chapters are devoted to: Meaning of Pan-Americanism;
Formation of new states; Failure of monarchical plots; United States
and Hispanic American independence; International complications;
Hispanic America and the Monroe doctrine; Early projects of
continental union; The Panama congress; British influence; Attitude of
the United States; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. There is a
bibliography of nineteen pages, followed by an index. The work was
completed as an “academic task” at Columbia university under the
direction of Professor John Bassett Moore.
* * * * *
“A thorough and authoritative study.”
+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“With the substance of the book little fault can be found. It is
timely and valuable. The arrangement and style are likely, however, to
elicit some adverse criticism. The style abounds in colloquialisms,
redundant words, and inexact expressions. But these slight
imperfections do not seriously detract from or obscure the thought of
an otherwise excellent work.” W: R. Manning
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 870w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 60w
=Spec= 125:471 O 9 ’20 1600w
“Interesting and scholarly study.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w
=LOCKINGTON, W. J.= Soul of Ireland; with an introd. by G. K.
Chesterton. *$1.75 Macmillan 941.5
20–824
“The gist of this [book is] that ‘Ireland is a proof, that the whole
world may see, of the joy of life and sanity of outlook that spring
from the Catholic church, the church of the tabernacle’: aliter that
‘the Irishman fearlessly stands before the whole world and
unhesitatingly proclaims that his greatest pride and his greatest
glory is the heritage that was given him by St Patrick—our Holy
Catholic faith.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“Father Lockington employs a bombastic style unfortunately
characteristic of a class of books about Ireland, books against which
nearly all the younger Irish writers have revolted. It is surprising
to find an author of Mr Chesterton’s literary standing writing an
introduction to ‘The soul of Ireland’: readers who care for literature
will be wise to go no further.” N. J. O’C.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 180w
“Long, sickly, sentimental rhapsody, in the rococo style.” Preserved
Smith
− =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 150w
“It is written in a lofty, almost poetic, style, and a deep religious
fervor pervades it throughout.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 500w
“Even those who stand outside the sacred circle for which he writes
and who can not share the glowing devoutness of his symbolism must be
moved by the enthusiastic tenderness with which this Jesuit priest
idealizes the land of his ministry.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 70w
=LODGE, RUPERT CLENDON.= Introduction to modern logic. $2 (1c) Perine
bk. co., 1413 University av., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 160
20–5668
An introductory text book prepared by an assistant professor of
philosophy in the University of Minnesota. “By ‘modern’ logic is
understood that body of logical theories and methods which is usually
associated with the names of Lotze, Sigwart, Bradley, Bosanquet,
Wundt, Erdmann and Dewey.... The traditional or Aristotelian logic,
which has played so great a part in the past history of thought, is
entirely omitted from consideration, as are also symbolic logic and
the various attempts at inventing a logical calculus. For all such
omissions, as well as for what is included, the sole justification is
the nature of an introductory treatise.” (Preface) The book is in
three parts: Judgment; Inference; and Scientific method. Each chapter
is followed by references and exercises and there is an index to
authorities referred to in the text as well as a general index.
* * * * *
“In this purpose to develop comprehensively the constructive theory of
‘modern logic,’ the author has admirably succeeded. The presentation
marches. Compactness, explicitness, the constant use of illustration,
and clarity in development are its outstanding features.” C. I. Lewis
+ − =J Philos= 17:498 Ag 26 ’20 1200w
=LOEB, MRS SOPHIE IRENE (SIMON).= Everyman’s child. il *$2 Century 362.7
20–17501
The author is the president of the New York city Board of child
welfare and has personally studied the child welfare work done in
various European countries and in the United States. The book
describes the urgency of state laws to protect the children of the
poor and what has already been done in that direction through the
Widow’s pension law. Among the contents are: The cry of the children;
What is being accomplished; Homes instead of institutions for the
children of Uncle Sam; Importance of home life to children; How
children keep out of children’s court; How the other half dies; The
unwanted child; Boarded-out children. There are illustrations and an
appendix.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
“Miss Loeb’s book is written with care and out of her manifold
experience; but it is written also in enthusiasm. The book represents
the most progressive thoughts on these problems and is worthy of a
careful reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 290w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 40w
=LOFTING, HUGH.= Story of Dr Dolittle; being the history of his peculiar
life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts. il *$2.25
Stokes
20–18925
A very jolly nonsense story. Dr Dolittle loves animals and fills his
house with queer pets, to the dismay of many of his patients. His
sister warns him that if he keeps on none of the best people will have
him for a doctor. But he loves animals better than he does the best
people and the result is that his practice all falls off. So he gives
up being a people’s doctor to become an animal doctor. He learns their
language, Polynesia his parrot acting as his teacher. When the
opportunity comes to go to Africa to cure the monkeys of a strange
disease he is ready for it, and there he has most curious and
interesting adventures. The illustrations are by the author.
* * * * *
“The most delightful nonsense story of the year.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 360w
“An invigorating, fascinating tale, its quaintness enhanced by the
droll illustrations.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 60w
“It is a pleasant surprise to open a volume whose illustrations appeal
because of their inherent nonsense, and to find the author, who is as
well the illustrator, maintaining a delightful sense of proportion in
his imagination.”
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 200w
“This is the best ‘animal’ story we remember to have come across in a
long time, imbued with a real love and understanding of animals and
with a humor which is fresh and quaint.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p19 D 4 ’20 240w
“Is as fascinating as it is queer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 250w
=LOMAX, JOHN AVERY, comp.= Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp; with
a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. *$1.75 Macmillan 811.08
19–18742
“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and
other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by
the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later
volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be
assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert
H. Knibbs.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth
century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”
+ − =Nation= 110:306 Mr 6 ’20 280w
“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book,
the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’
are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a
picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and
highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a
mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation
of that life.” Natalie Curtis
+ =Nation= 111:591 N 24 ’20 2200w
“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in
which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as
robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by
his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 550w
“The volume is essentially a book of the soil, truly interpretative of
an element of our national life which has practically faded away.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 26 ’20 500w
“This new collection of songs written by and for cowboys is more
interpretive of the American spirit than the third-rate material from
Greenwich village with which most of our literary periodicals fill
their pages. Somewhat surprising, perhaps, to those whose idea of its
life is taken from films and fiction, is the chastity of thought and
diction in this folk-literature of the Far West. Its realism, and
often its humor, is altogether delightful.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w
=LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA.= Cry of youth. *$2 (1½c) Appleton
20–5773
Margaret Randolph, an American girl alone in Rome, meets Fra Felice
Estori, a young Franciscan monk. He is as beautiful as a youthful god
and quite ignorant of the ways of the world, for almost all his life
has been spent within monastery walls. Margaret is also a devout
Catholic and she knows their meetings are unwise but the two are drawn
irresistibly together until both are faced with the fact of their love
and the necessity for separation. The young monk, altho he has not
taken his final vows, is to be sent to South America on a mission.
With breaking hearts they part. But an artist friend who takes an
interest in the two tricks them into coming to his lonely mountain
castle and leaves them there alone. The outcome is that they resolve
never to part and Fra Felice becomes lost to the world. Then follows
the strange story of their lonely life, the birth and death of their
child, separation, misunderstanding and final reunion, with the
ancient title of Prince Estori restored to its rightful owner.
* * * * *
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 270w
=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Brown Wolf, and other Jack London stories; as chosen
by Franklin K. Mathiews. il *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan
21–380
These stories have been collected into one volume by the chief scout
librarian of the Boy scouts of America, in the hope that they will
serve to exercise both the boy’s mind and conscience by teaching him
to see and feel life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it, and
thereby to develop the emotional muscles of the spirit that open up
new windows to the imagination and add some line or color to life’s
ideals. The stories are: Brown Wolf; That spot; Trust; All gold
canyon; The story of Keesh; Nam-Bok the unveracious; Yellow
handkerchief; Make westing; The heathen; The hobo and the fairy; “Just
meat”; A nose for the king.
=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Hearts of three. *$2.50 Macmillan
20–17822
“A posthumous story by Jack London, in which descendants of the famous
pirate, Sir Henry Morgan, engage in a rival hunt for his treasure
buried somewhere in the South Sea islands.” (Outlook) “‘Hearts of
three’ is not an original work; it is the translation of a scenario by
Mr Charles Goddard, who, as Jack London himself informs us was
responsible for ‘The perils of Pauline,’ ‘The exploits of Elaine,’ and
similar alliterative masterpieces. The result of this collaboration,
as might be supposed, is a novel with a wealth of action, piled up
without discrimination.” (Freeman)
* * * * *
“It has occasional moments of good writing when Jack London, the
novelist, snatches the pen away—impatiently and not without
considerable vexation, one likes to imagine—from the scenario-writer.”
L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 300w
“The idea of the tale is bold and its execution is spirited.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
=LONES, THOMAS EAST.= Zinc and its alloys. (Pitman’s common commodities
and industries) il $1 Pitman 669.5
GS20–328
The preface points out important changes in the zinc industry due to
the war. The chapters then take up: Zinc: its history, properties, and
uses; Zinc ores and other sources of zinc; Dressing zinc ores;
Calcining and roasting zinc ores; Zinc smelting; Hydrometallurgical
processes; Alloys of zinc. The book is illustrated with twenty-three
figures and is indexed.
* * * * *
“The book possesses the virtues of being up to date and reasonable in
price.”
+ =Engineer= 129:301 Mr 19 ’20 100w
“An excellent example of what such books ought to be. It is a pity
that the author did not keep clear altogether of chemical equations,
which he might easily have done in a purely popular treatise, as he
has been somewhat unfortunate in their use. In a future edition the
author might with advantage devote a little space to the galvanising
of iron.”
+ − =Nature= 105:193 Ap 15 ’20 350w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p34 Ap ’20 100w
+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 20w
=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Wood-folk comedies; the play of wild-animal life
on a natural stage. il *$3 (4c) Harper 590.4
20–18326
It is the author’s contention that animal life is from beginning to
end a gladsome comedy; that there is absolutely no such thing as a
struggle for existence in nature; that the woods when they are white
with snow are quite as cheery as the woods of spring or summer; and
that the wood-folk are invincibly cheerful. On this basis the tales
are written and great is the fun thereof. Contents: Morning on
Moosehead; The birds’ table; Fox comedy; Players in sable; Wolves and
wolf tales; Ears for hearing; Health and a day; Night life of the
wilderness; Stories from the trail; Two ends of a bear story; When
beaver meets otter; A night bewitched; The trail of the loup-garou;
From a beaver lodge; Comedians all. There are eight illustrations in
color.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Very readable.”
+ =Spec= 125:822 D 18 ’20 30w
“Mr Long is least satisfying when he is forcing the note of
sentimental optimism (‘animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome
comedy’), and best worth reading when he tells a plain tale of
animals’ habits or adventures in the landscapes which he describes so
well.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 150w
=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Mac of Placid. *$1.90 (1½c) Century
20–14293
Mr Longstreth, who has written a book on the Adirondacks, as well as
one on the Catskills, here makes his appearance as a novelist. His
hero, Anson MacIntyre, is born in the “wolf winter” of 1869 and he
tells his own story up thru the eighties. His beginnings are not
promising, but two things unite to make a man of him, his deep love
for his native woods and his love for Hallie Brewster. These two
forces and one other, his friendship with R. L. S. For no less person
than Stevenson appears as a character in the story. The two skate
together on Saranac lake and become intimate companions. Mac’s
romantic devotion to Hallie and his rivalry with Ed Touch appeal to
the fiction writer’s imagination and he takes a hand in the wooing.
Other real people, the Bakers and Dr Trudeau, are mentioned in the
story.
* * * * *
“Lovers of Stevenson, the man, must add ‘Mac of Placid’ to the volumes
of Stevensonia which have been accumulating so rapidly in the past
decade.... The fundamental difficulty with Mr Longstreth’s book is
that his characters, no matter how real to him, even though they may
be actually alive, often fail to live.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 780w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 270w
“The portrayal of Stevenson is vivid. Not the least interesting detail
of the work is the colorful description of the Adirondack country and
the rigorous joys of a winter there.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 240w
=LOONEY, J. THOMAS.= “Shakespeare” identified. *$5 Stokes 822.3
20–7795
A book written to prove that the plays of Shakespeare were written by
Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. The author states that his
interest in the problem was awakened after years of study of “The
merchant of Venice,” thru which he gained “a peculiar sense of
intimacy with the mind and disposition of its author.” Convinced that
this author had nothing in common with William Shakespeare of
Stratford he set about finding the contemporary who best met the
requirements. His search led him to Edward de Vere. The one play which
does not fit into his scheme is “The tempest.” The book has a
frontispiece portrait and an index.
* * * * *
“The effort of Mr Looney to solve this conflict is a little
unfortunate in some respects, though most interesting in many others.
A schoolmaster by profession, he is inclined to speak like one. Mr
Looney thinks he has proved his theory. Of course, he has not. But he
has opened most promising vistas, and it is to be hoped that his leads
will be followed up.” Edwin Björkman
+ − =Bookm= 51:677 Ag ’20 3350w
“Mr Looney’s dominant fault is that his work is wholly inferential.
However much we may be convinced that De Vere, had he been a genius,
might have written such plays as Shakespeare’s, there is no tangible
fact to connect them with him.” Joseph Krutch
− =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 580w
“The argument connecting Oxford with the Shakespearean plays has the
abundance of strained literary and personal analogies, and the amazing
absence of common sense which characterize most Baconian endeavors.”
J: Corbin
− =N Y Times= 25:18 Je 27 ’20 1600w
“The volume appears to have all the paraphernalia of scholarship but
little of its critical spirit.”
− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w
− =Sat R= 129:308 Mr 27 ’20 800w
“That we cannot agree with his conclusions we attribute partly to some
grave defects which seem to us to exist in his reasoning, and partly
to some general considerations which he appears to have overlooked.”
− =Spec= 124:425 Mr 27 ’20 1500w
“Mr Looney’s honesty enables us to see, a little more clearly than was
evident from the essays of previous adventurers of the same kind, how
this zeal for attributing the plays and poems of Shakespeare to some
titled contemporary originates and grows.... Unencumbered by any
inconvenient knowledge at first hand of what he is writing about, Mr
Looney proceeds to build up his case very easily. Almost any man’s
life could be illustrated from Shakespeare’s plays, and Mr Looney
makes them illustrate the life of the Earl of Oxford.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p149 Mr 4 ’20 1550w
=LORD, ARTHUR.= Plymouth and the Pilgrims. *$1.50 Houghton 974.4
20–19250
This book comprises the Colver lectures for 1920 given at Brown
university. The three lectures are entitled: Plymouth before the
Pilgrims; The Pilgrims before Plymouth, and Plymouth and the Pilgrims.
The first discusses “some of the political, geographical, and legal
conditions which determined the settlement at Plymouth”; the second
considers “some of the economic, social, and religious influences
which directed and shaped the Pilgrim migration from England and
Holland to the New World.” The third lecture takes up those incidents
of special interest in Pilgrim history which may be useful in
considering present problems and may “perhaps serve to illustrate in
what particulars the lives and examples of the Pilgrims have
contributed in shaping the American policy.” Mr Lord is president of
the Pilgrim society and chairman of the Pilgrim tercentenary
commission.
* * * * *
“Mr Lord throughout displays the depth of his legal attainments.” E.
J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 460w
“Altogether, the book moves swiftly and is well documented. Perhaps,
however, his sympathy with the movement inclines him to an
overestimate of the Pilgrim attitude toward freedom of worship.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 180w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w
“An outline of the essential facts the American citizen must know if
he is to celebrate intelligently the landing of the Mayflower.”
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 200w
=LORD, KATHARINE.= Little playbook. *$1.50 Duffield 812
20–9126
The plays have frequently been produced by the author and others and
are intended for the needs of schools, clubs, settlements and
playgrounds. Pantomime and dancing play a large part in them and music
is desirable, but they do not require elaborate staging or costumes.
In the introduction the author gives advice and suggestions for their
production in order to insure the greatest amount of self-expression
on the part of the children. The plays are: The greatest gift (a
Christmas play); Katjens’ garden; June magic (a little play for the
garden); The minister’s dream (a Thanksgiving fantasy); The day Will
Shakspere went to Kenilworth (a pageant play); The Yuletide rose (a
Christmas miracle play). Directions for the scenery and costumes are
given at the end of each play.
* * * * *
“All of the plays are written in an amusing and simple manner and
should prove a delight for children.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 200w
=LOREBURN, ROBERT THRESHIRE REID. 1st earl.= How the war came. *$3 (3c)
Knopf 940.311
(Eng ed 19–15817)
The book is a plea for open diplomacy under all conditions. Although
the author puts the immediate responsibility for the war on the
shoulders of the military power of Germany, he shows that the indirect
but more fundamental cause is to be found in the clandestine
transactions in the foreign affairs of all countries. He throws much
light on the historical antecedents of the war in continental Europe,
and exposes the unprecedented schemes of conquest all over the world
undertaken by England and her allies even during the war itself.
Contents: Introductory; Storm centre in the Balkans; Storm centre in
Alsace-Lorraine; Great Britain is drawn into a French alliance;
Attitude of Great powers in 1914; How the continent came to war; How
Great Britain came into the war; Sir Edward Grey’s speech on 3rd
August 1914; Belgium; Was it inevitable? Remedies; Appendix (Sir E.
Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914); Map of the Balkans.
* * * * *
=Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 200w
“Whatever be one’s personal views upon this thesis, it is impossible
not to admit and to admire the ability with which the book is written.
And it has something more than mere ability.” L. W.
+ =Ath= p999 O 10 ’19 500w
+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“Lord Loreburn’s pages, an analysis as dispassionate as may be of the
whole miserably intricate business of the telegrams of July, 1914,
destroy whatever remains of the unphilosophic hope that all the evil
was compact and corruptingly on one side.” Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 150w
“Such an application of commonsense, honesty, and plain speaking
should go far towards allaying the virulence of war hatreds and
deflating national conceits.”
+ − =Nation= 109:826 D 27 ’19 1750w
“If the book is to be regarded merely as a historical essay, still it
is one of the neatest and clearest ever written. Those who do not
believe that the work of peacemaking was completed once for all at
Versailles will place a far higher value on Earl Loreburn’s book.”
Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 21:272 Ja 28 ’20 1850w
“Lord Loreburn has done the present and succeeding generations a real
service by disentangling and rearranging, with all the skill of his
profession, the capital events. Everybody should read the book, though
everybody will not agree with the conclusions of its learned author.”
+ =Sat R= 128:270 S 20 ’19 850w
− =Spec= 123:410 S 27 ’19 240w
“One may dissent from his reading of the facts, but it is impossible
not to respect the admirable forensic temper with which they are
presented.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S 18 ’19 550w
=LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON.= Einstein theory of relativity. *$1 Brentano’s
530.1
20–5628
“‘The Einstein theory of relativity’ has an introduction of
twenty-four pages reprinted from various sources, followed by a small
forty-page article by Lorentz, translated from a Dutch paper. Lorentz,
it may be added, is one of the greatest of living physicists and came
perilously near anticipating Einstein’s work of fifteen years ago. The
article is devoted almost entirely to the gravitational aspect of
relativity.”—Freeman
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 20w
+ − =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 90w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 30w
=LORIA, ACHILLE.= Karl Marx; authorised tr. from the Italian. *$1.50
(6c) Seltzer 335
21–881
A sketch of Marx’s life and an exposition and criticism of his
doctrines compose Professor Loria’s monograph. The long foreword by
the translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, is an analysis and criticism of
Loria and of Loria’s attitude toward Marx.
* * * * *
“A brilliant appraisal of the life and works of the ‘Father of modern
socialism.’ Contains an excellent foreword by Eden and Cedar Paul.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w
=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= With other eyes. *$1.90 Brentano’s
20–8363
“Much of this pleasant story is alluringly set in the ‘Island valley
of Avalon.’ The heroine is of Acadie, and is fittingly named
Evangeline. She and her widowed mother have come from Nova Scotia, and
settle at Glastonbury, where the mother marries an amiable old doctor,
and the daughter falls in love with his son. But while Evangeline is
on a visit to a Welsh manor belonging to her friend, a young clergyman
arrives on the scene. Later after losing a foot at the front, he comes
to an understanding with Evangeline. The story incidentally gives some
sort of answer to the problem whether women ought to be ‘saddled for
life’ with men whom they no longer love or respect, merely because
they have ‘given themselves to their country.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 100w
“The story proceeds along lines that remain unhackneyed, even when the
book becomes, virtually, a war novel. It is a grave, thoughtful piece
of work that does the author credit. Its principal defect rises from
an error in judgment, which seeks to divide interest and space almost
equally with a secondary story.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:828 S ’20 280w
“The novel contains some gracefully written descriptions of
Glastonbury and of Wales.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 420w
“We recommend it as much above the average of the ordinary novel.”
+ =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 D 25 ’19 120w
=LOVETT, WILLIAM.= Life and struggles of William Lovett in his pursuit
of bread, knowledge, and freedom; with some short account of the
different associations he belonged to and of the opinions he
entertained. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf
20–26886
The books belong to the series of Economic reprints and come with an
introduction by R. H. Tawney who says of them that they are more than
an autobiography inasmuch as Lovett “was the spokesman of the
political labour movement which started with the formation of the
London Working men’s association and which developed into Chartism.”
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 70w
+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 480w
“Not a wholly reliable historical document.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1000w
=LOW, BARBARA.= Psycho-analysis; a brief account of the Freudian theory.
*$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 130
20–9413
The author of this brief introduction to psycho-analysis is a member
of the British psycho-analytical society, and Ernest Jones, president
of the society, writes an introduction for the book. In part he says,
“That the deductions made from psycho-analytical investigations are
both novel and not easily acceptable, Miss Low makes plain in her
book, and she has not adopted the easier way of concealing these
attributes of them. She has chosen the loftier aim of attempting to
present all aspects of the psycho-analytical theory fairly and
straightforwardly, and yet to bring them within reach of those who
have made no previous study of the subject.” The chapters take up: The
scope and significance of psycho-analysis; Mental life—unconscious and
conscious; Repressions; The rôle of the dream; Treatment by
psycho-analysis; Probable social and educational results. A list of
reference books is given in an appendix.
* * * * *
“The ‘popular’ style of this book defeats, to some extent, the
author’s purpose. We should have liked the exposition to be more
clear-cut and reserved. As it is, the reader will have some difficulty
in grasping the root ideas of the Freudian theory, although, if he is
patient, he will find a good deal of information in this book.”
+ − =Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 80w
“Worth while in defining the science, but too condensed for serious
study.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w
“About the first work on psycho-analysis that can be recommended for
general reading is Barbara Low’s ‘Psycho-analysis.’ Of course, Miss
Low exaggerates the field to which psycho-analysis is applicable, as
she does its therapeutic value.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 280w
=LOW, BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS.=[2] Broken music. *$2 Dutton 811
20–20973
“From the four volumes of poems which he had published at intervals
during the last ten years or so Mr Low has selected his best work to
make this collection of his art. These four volumes, ‘The sailor who
sailed,’ ‘A wand and strings,’ ‘The house that was’ and ‘The pursuit
of happiness,’ have been much admired and praised by the most
discerning critics here and abroad, in spite of which they have had a
very moderate circulation.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There are many of us who would not willingly suppress or forget a
good deal of the work in the four volumes of Mr Low’s that he has seen
fit not to include in this representative collection, but what he has
gathered here makes a very fine spiritual attraction that will win him
an increasingly wide circle of new admirers. I think when you get at
the core of Mr Low’s art you will find above everything else beautiful
thought; and beautiful thought is scarcely to be found without a very
intense and passionate emotional foundation.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 1400w
“After a careful reading we remain of our old opinion that the leading
poem, ‘The vigil-at-arms,’ is Mr Low’s best effort. Elsewhere Mr Low’s
work lacks freshness and individuality.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 130w
=LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.= Function of the poet; and other essays. *$5
(10c) Houghton 814
20–26550
The essays and reviews in this volume have here for the first time
been collected into book form and are edited with a preface by Albert
Mordell. According to this preface they sustain Lowell’s reputation as
one of our great American critics and are in nowise inferior in
literary merit to the volumes collected by himself. The essays on
poetry and belles-lettres in the volume are: The function of the poet;
Humor, wit, fun, and satire; The five indispensable authors (Homer,
Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare); The imagination: Critical
fragments. Among the reviews of contemporary writers are: Henry James:
James’s tales and sketches; Poetry and nationality; W. D. Howells:
Venetian life; Edgar A. Poe; Thackeray; Roundabout papers; and the
three last essays are: Forster’s life of Swift; Plutarch’s morals; A
plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.
* * * * *
“Especially interesting will be his criticisms of contemporaries—Henry
James, Longfellow, Whittier, Howells, Poe and Thackeray.”
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“They are pleasant, scholarly, informal; they polish off literary
subjects gracefully, even if not dazzlingly.”
+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 80w
“Mr Mordell has brought together a surprising number of uncollected
essays and reviews by Lowell. What is even more surprising in a
collection of this kind is that it reveals its author at his best. If
Lowell has little to offer a generation which, like ours, expects from
literature the very bread of life, he has virtues our contemporary
criticism singularly lacks. He has the judgment we gladly dispense
with and the verbal felicity we despise, for the lack of which the
future will despise and dispense with most of us.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:357 Je 23 ’20 1050w
“Throughout the book, as generally in Lowell, are paragraphs,
sometimes pages, notable for their beauty, vision, wit, and eminently
quotable.”
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 470w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 2450w
“Lowell’s abstract reasoning on literature is highly abstract and
highly succinct, and its promises for the eye or the palate are not
always redeemed in the intellectual stomach. The reviews of
contemporaries are very urbane, very judicious, rather measured,
rather distant, a little formal.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The mingled wisdom and humor of Lowell are apparent everywhere.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 27 ’20 840w
=LOWIE, ROBERT HARRY.= Primitive society. *$3 Boni & Liveright 572
20–7731
“Beginning with the custom of marriage. Dr Lowie studies it through
the practice of polygamy, with its side-shoots of polygyny, polyandry,
sexual communism, to the family, with its various units, to the
kinship usages. The Sib organization, with its history and
ramifications, is analyzed and illustrated, the first half of the
study of primitive society on its individual side ending at the stage
of The position of woman. Then in turn such questions are studied as
Property, Associations, Theory of associations, Rank, Government, and
Justice.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The reviewer, a teacher of sociology, is one of a large group who are
grateful to Dr Lowie for his service in writing this book.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 w
“Useful for its expansion of data commonly found only in briefer
outlines.”
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 380w
“‘Primitive society’ is a worth-while book. It is interestingly
written and valuable and readable, even for an amateur anthropologist
or sociologist. Its factual solidity makes it of permanent worth in
any library.”
+ =Cath World= 111:684 Ag ’20 330w
“Dr Lowie’s book may be recommended as the most informative, lucid,
and keenly critical introduction to the study of primitive social
organizations that the reviewer is aware of. It deserves the most
careful study. Fortunately for the non-professional reader, ‘Primitive
society’ is an eminently readable book. The style is crisp and rapid.”
E: Sapir
+ =Dial= 69:528 N ’20 2500w
“It would be indeed surprising if ‘Primitive society’ did not win for
itself the position of an indispensable guide in a difficult domain.”
+ =Freeman= 1:377 Je 30 ’20 1550w
“All in all, Mr Lowie’s book will do much to render more life-like and
substantial our current conceptions of a primitive community.” E:
Sapir
+ =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 1550w
“Principles or viewpoints are handled with equal skill, the didactic
or dogmatic is avoided, indeed, let me say, with extraordinary skill.
Dr Lowie is critical of old categories, but not, like many a critic,
merely to make way for new, he never handicaps himself with
classification. Obviously ‘Primitive society’ will be a welcome
book—at least to those who want to know how things are before asking
why they are.” E. C. Parsons
+ =New Repub= 24:245 N 3 ’20 1550w
“He has produced a work that will serve as a comprehensive textbook
for the student, and that is written in a manner interesting enough to
engage the attention of the general reader. His material has been
correlated and arranged with skill, and he cites his authorities with
a marked care.”
+ =N Y Times= p12 O 31 ’20 1100w
“Dr Lowie reviews the rich material of social organization with a new
insight: he discards simple solutions, too much dominated by the
active social ties as we know them, and by the desire to read
evolutionary conclusions into historical data.” Joseph Jastrow
+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 740w
=LOWIS, CECIL CHAMPAIN.= Four blind mice. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane
20–19509
The story is of two married couples in the English colony of Rangoon.
Douglas Selbridge is an overworked official and Delia, consequently, a
neglected and bored wife. Major Brattlethwaite and his wife are living
apart and the latter is nothing but a rumor. The major seeks the
company and solace of Delia until matters become strained between
herself and her husband. When the absent Mrs Brattlethwaite suddenly
appears upon the scene to vanish again immediately, at the same time
that the body of a murdered woman is discovered in the jungle, a
crisis is reached. A fortunate solution of the mystery not only saves
an innocent man from the gallows, but straightens out the domestic
relations of the two couples satisfactorily.
* * * * *
“From the point of the murder the story maintains a high level of
interest, and reaches a satisfactory conclusion. The domestic and
boarding-house scenes have engaging touches of novelty, which suggest
a feminine hand.”
+ =Ath= p212 Ag 13 ’20 270w
“The native scenes are more interesting than the troubles of the white
folks, the descriptions of the rains, the heat, and native life being
well above the average in vividness and picturesque quality.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 70w
=Spec= 124:244 Ag 21 ’20 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 130w
=LOWNDES, MRS MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC).= Lonely house. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
20–10307
Lily Fairfield is a young English girl who has been ordered a change
of scene for her health, and therefore has come to visit some distant
connections by marriage at their home, “La Solitude,” near Monte
Carlo. She finds “La Solitude” to be a lonely isolated house, and
leads a rather quiet life, altho shortly it is enlivened by the return
of Beppo, the son of the Count and Countess Polda, whose paying-guest
she is. As she is something of an heiress, she soon realizes that it
is the hope of Beppo’s parents that he will marry her. Indeed the
desire for money seems to bulk very large in their lives. But a young
Scotsman, Angus Stuart, has already filled the place in her heart that
Beppo hopes to occupy, altho she is rather slow to realize the fact.
“La Solitude” becomes even more unbearable to her than before after
two robberies resulting in murder have been committed nearby, but it
is not until an attack is made on Angus Stuart that the real criminals
are discovered, and Lily realizes what danger she has been in and how
she has escaped it.
* * * * *
=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 80w
=Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 420w
“A melodramatic though not unconvincing mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
“The background and atmosphere of these players is wherein Mrs Lowndes
has excelled herself. It is all too unfortunate that so able a writer
should seek to satisfy shallow desire for excitement rather than to
gratify literary taste: of the latter Mrs Lowndes would be very
capable should she wish to produce, not a best-seller, dependent upon
its author’s noteworthy name, but work of real merit.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:111 O ’20 300w
“It is an eery tale, with plenty of atmosphere, one that will keep its
readers hanging on the turn of the pages.”
+ =Lit D= p89 O 9 ’20 2350w
“The tale is well written and cleverly developed, incident following
incident in a way which keeps the reader’s interest always on the
alert, and makes convincing a plot which, though highly melodramatic,
is by no means improbable.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 770w
=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Adventures and enthusiasms. il *$2 Doran 824
20–26998
The book contains a collection of short sketches on a variety of
subjects such as episodes from life, reminiscences of people and
places, reflections and whimsical thoughts. The style is leisurely and
full of quiet humor. Some of the sketches are: The perfect guest; A
morning call; Possessions; Drake and his game; Davy Jones; Thoughts at
the ferry; Telephonics; Thackeray’s school fellow; The newness of the
old; On finding things. Fourteen of the sketches bear the common
heading: In and about London.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“Mr Lucas would be the first to admit that he challenges comparison
with Lamb, and that the advantage is Lamb’s.” N. F. Gerould
+ − =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 320w
“His work is invariably diverting, delicate, sparkling, adapted to the
subtlest appreciations.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 80w
=Boston Transcript= p7 S 1 ’20 780w
+ =Cath World= 112:263 N ’20 350w
“The title under which Mr E. V. Lucas harnesses his latest collection
of essays, ‘Adventures and enthusiasms,’ suggests an intensity which
is seldom substantiated in the text. These sketches move at a jogging
pace, guided by a slack rein, and rarely touched by the whip of
fancy.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 520w
“He writes of all sorts of ordinary, everyday things like aunts and
telephones and punctuality, with pleasant leisureliness, with
whimsicality and with deep enjoyment.”
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 100w
“Both the adventures and the enthusiasms are mild. Mr Lucas’s taste is
generally impeccable and sane.”
+ − =Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 170w
“Mr Lucas’s stories verge upon essays and his essays hover upon the
edge of narrative, real or fictitious. They are not easy to
classify—and that is another way of saying they make the pleasantest
kind of book in the world.” E. L. Pearson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 S 25 ’20 800w
“‘Adventures and enthusiasms’ impresses you with its feeling of
leisure, of the fullness of time, of the charm of idleness. Life runs
full here but not in the impetuous desperate rush of spring, with the
sounds of torrents and winds.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 800w
“Of all his volumes of essays none is better than his latest.”
+ =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 270w
=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Verena in the midst; a kind of story. *$1.90
Doran
20–17824
In this novel in letters, Verena, a maiden lady of some wealth, is the
central figure. She has met with an accident to her spine and is
obliged to be bed-ridden for months. All the letters are to, from and
about her and they all are revealing as to the characters of the
writers. The various relatives come to her for counsel and advice and
make her the recipient of their confidences. The most frequent
interchange of letters is between Verena and an old friend, Richard
Haven, the friend that “never disappoints.” His daily message of good
cheer, his ever ready counsel, and his daily contribution of poetry,
for the sleepless invalid to memorize, are the best parts of the book.
* * * * *
“‘Verena in the midst’ is not to be taken seriously. With the
exception of the nephew Roy, who is quite amazingly made known to us,
there has been, on the part of the author, no serious attempt at
revelation.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p332 S 10 ’20 680w
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“It implies no forgetfulness of Mr Lucas’s more solid achievements to
say that he is perhaps the chief of those English writers who are
doing the little things supremely well. And his fecundity in finding
these little things to do is hardly less than his facility in treating
them.” Stanley Went
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 400w
“This book is full of humorous twists and surprises and odd bits and
ideas and pleasant letters and anecdotes and—I am afraid I shall have
to use the poor, over-worked word—whimsicalities.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w
“Mr Lucas has surpassed himself. And yet, as is often the case, the
idea is so simple that almost anyone might have thought of it....
Almost anyone could have thought of the idea, but is there anyone but
Mr Lucas who could have carried it out with so near an approach to
perfection?”
+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 750w
“Most of the characterization is very good. To accuse Mr Lucas of
slightness of tenuity would be to invite the retort that that was the
idea. It is after all a book with which from many writers we should be
content.”
+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 350w
“Apart from the kindly humor which is their main ingredient, Mr E. V.
Lucas’s little nibbles at the novel are in themselves amusing to the
critic. The form of fiction appeals to him provided that he can use it
on his own terms. He can think of the most delightful sets of people
and give them appropriate names; he can write all their letters for
them and, at a pinch, carry on their conversation; but always on the
condition that they keep still and remain strictly true to type.
Unfortunately, in real novels as in real life, it is difficult to keep
people still.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 S 2 ’20 800w
“In Mr Lucas’ familiar style. It is the sort of thing he does with
great deftness.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w
=LUCKIESH, M.= Artificial light: its influence upon civilization.
(Century books of useful science) il *$2.50 (2½c) Century 628.9
20–11163
The aim of this book is “to show that artificial light has become
intricately interwoven with human activities and that it has been a
powerful influence upon the progress of civilization.” (Preface) The
early chapters deal with primitive forms of lighting, covering such
subjects as: The art of making fire; Primitive light-sources; The
ceremonial use of light; Oil-lamps of the nineteenth century, and
Early gas-lighting. Among the chapters devoted to modern lighting are:
The science of light-production; Lighting the streets; Lighthouses;
Artificial light in warfare; Signaling; Light and safety; Light and
health; Spectacular lighting; Lighting the home; Lighting—a fine art?
Reading references come at the close. The author, who is director of
applied science, Neia Research laboratory, has written also “Color and
its applications,” “The lighting art,” etc.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
“Written in a simple yet finished style it gives the general reader a
comprehensive and engaging account of illumination.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p68 Jl ’20 150w
“The story is told in a surprisingly interesting way. Altogether the
book may be regarded as a model for such monographs.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
+ =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 250w
“An interesting treatment of a fascinating subject.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 120w
=LUCKIESH, M.= Lighting the home, il *$2 Century 644.3
20–17579
The book considers the problem of artificial lighting both from a
utilitarian and an aesthetic point of view. “Light,” says the author,
“is the most powerful medium we have for creating or accentuating the
mood of a room.... Attention to apparently insignificant details of
lighting equipment does much toward converting a house into a home.”
Among the contents are: Light as an expressive medium; Safeguarding
vision; The functions of fixtures; Various rooms; Novelties in
lighting; Colored light. There are illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“Could be used in high school libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 230w
=LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (TOBY, M. P., pseud.).=[2] Diary of a
journalist. $6 Dutton
“Politicians, statesmen, authors, actors, painters, princes,
journalists, social leaders, and men and women in many other
professional walks of life throng the pages of Sir Henry Lucy’s
volume. It covers a long period of years from 1885 almost to the
present day, and it is rich in the personality encountered by a
newspaper writer and editor who has come into daily contact with the
events and the people of his time. In his previous volume entitled
‘Sixty years in the wilderness,’ Sir Henry Lucy has told a consecutive
story of his career, in this latest volume he supplements it with
material which resulting from ‘the habit dominant through many years
of daily noting interesting events coming within personal observation’
yields ‘a collection personally, politically and historically
interesting.’”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Except for a few jokes, we find very little of interest in this
record. In his phrases we sometimes recognize the flavour of the
official biography. In particular he has one trick very characteristic
of those works. It is to make statements about his hero, with the air
of suggesting an exceptional virtue, which hold good of practically
everybody in the world.”
− + =Ath= p551 O 22 ’20 330w
“An entertaining book of personal reminiscence.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“‘Recollections of a journalist’ would perhaps be a more suitable
title, and certainly Sir Henry Lucy’s recollections are singularly
rich and varied.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 29 ’21 420w
+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 9 ’21 1450w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ’20 180w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20)
“The worst that one can say about Sir Henry Lucy’s diary is that no
one would ever have suspected it of being a diary if the author had
not so labelled it. It has obviously been revised in the light of
subsequent events. Why has the book no index? It is just the sort of
book that especially needs one.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 750w
=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.=[2] General staff and its problems: the secret
history of the relations between the High Command and the German
Imperial government as revealed by official documents; tr. by F. Appleby
Holt. 2v *$15 Dutton 940.343
20–22469
“The statements in Ludendorff’s first volume were so bold that there
arose a demand for the source on which he based many of his
sensational assertions. This demand the former Quartermaster-General
of the German armies now seeks to meet in a second volume.” (N Y
Times) “Among the documents included are the report of the conference
between Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Pless, when the
unrestricted submarine campaign was finally decided upon, and the
violent letters exchanged between the chancellor, Hindenburg,
Ludendorff, and the foreign office revealing the internal difficulties
of Germany in 1916. The matter of American participation, as the
German authorities viewed and discussed it, is gone into thoroughly.”
(Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Simeon Strunsky
=N Y Evening Post= p1 Ja 29 ’21 2900w
Reviewed by T. R. Ybarra
=N Y Times= p3 D 5 ’20 1850w
=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 150w
=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.= Ludendorff’s own story, August 1914–November
1918. il 2v *$7.50 (3c) Harper 940.343
20–4133
“The great war from the siege of Liege to the signing of the armistice
as viewed from the grand headquarters of the German army.” (Subtitle)
What the author calls the first commandment for a German “unselfish
submission and the sinking of the ego in national discipline”
characterizes this grim account of one who, with an eye single, was
bent on the winning of the war. Volume 1 falls into two parts: the
author’s career as chief of the general staff on the eastern front;
and from his appointment as first quartermaster-general. Volume 2
begins with the entente offensive in the first half of 1917, the
Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war and ends with the
armistice and the end of Ludendorff’s military career. The books
contain many maps and each has a loose map in a cover pocket. Volume 2
has an index.
* * * * *
“He gives a wealth of interesting comment and ex parte statement of
motives, intentions, and expectations, which he does not prove. His
treatment of the administrative and political sides of the war is the
best part of the work. His accounts of battles are in many cases
unsatisfactory. As a whole the translation is good.” J: Bigelow
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:503 Ap ’20 1200w
“Of interest, not only for the record of military events by one of the
most prominent military leaders, but also for the light it throws on
the mental attitude and processes of the author.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:359 My ’20 170w
“The one great military book which the war has so far produced is the
strange record of General Ludendorff.”
+ =Ath= p1286 D 5 ’19 1550w
=Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 950w
=Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 100w
=Lit D= p109 Ap 17 ’20 2550w
+ − =Nation= 110:sup481 Ap 10 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 3200w
Reviewed by M. H. Anderson
=Pub W= 97:608 F 21 ’20 300w
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 120w
“Ludendorff may be read with profit by those interested in the
handling of troops in contact with the enemy.... He exhibits the best
and the worst qualities of the old-fashioned amongst regular soldiers.
He knows his work as a handler of fighting men, but outside the realms
of factors he is a simple and bewildered soul. And, let it be
repeated, as a strategist, he is almost infinitely naive.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:417 N 1 ’19 2300w
“General Ludendorff has written a very able and interesting book on
the war. It is not a good military history, though the summary
accounts of the earlier Russian campaigns are instructive. The
numerous plans and diagrams by the author are valuable also in their
way. But the book throws a flood of light on the hopes and fears of
the great general staff, and on the relations between the German army
leaders and the politicians in Berlin. To an English reader, of
course, this typical Prussian author must be unsympathetic.”
+ − =Spec= 123:505 O 18 ’19 2100w
“Ludendorff’s war memoirs are the most solid contribution to the
strategical history of the war that has yet appeared. To the military
student the most valuable portion is that dealing with the Russian
campaign of 1914 and 1915; but in spite of the great military eminence
of the writer, this is a book for the plain citizen rather than the
soldier, for quite half of it is politics.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 O 16 ’19 1850w
=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Triple mystery. *$1.75 Dodd
20–7518
“Here Adele Luehrmann has evolved a situation where three men of
prominence of the same nationality and presumably of similar
interests, all die with sudden and unexplained mystery within a few
days of each other. The first effort seems to be to throw suspicion
upon Olive Thrace, who has reason to be anxious to be rid of Zarady,
the great concert master. The second death brings in the element of
the girl with the squirrel cap. The actual solution of the triple
mystery is a surprise.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“The author has not succeeded at any point in really intriguing the
reader. The characters are obviously puppets to string the story on:
sheep fattened for slaughter. The dénouement is lacking in ingenuity.”
− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 220w
=LUMHOLTZ, KARL SOFUS.= Through central Borneo; an account of two years’
travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917.
2v il *$7.50 Scribner 919.11
20–16918
“Reaching the island which has been the object of his journey, Mr
Lumholtz first gives us a comprehensive idea of its climate and the
biological conditions which there exist, its natural resources, its
population, history, government and racial problems. Presently he
plunges into the jungle and shows us first its wonderful vegetation,
and next its strange people. He takes us up the vast rivers, noting
the habits of the people by the way. To his narrative the author adds
a considerable number of folklore stories drawn directly from the
natives, stories doubtless handed down orally for many generations.
The author embellishes his volumes with profuse illustrations, many of
them from photographs taken by himself.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“A happy combination of scientific study with journalistic ease of
style and choice of interesting material.”
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 110w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 650w
“Because he went into such an unknown region his book has the
atmosphere of Hakluyt or Purchas. The photographs which illustrate the
book are excellent.” J. F. Gould
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 960w
“The author’s style is one of extreme simplicity, and his material is
presented in a form that should prove attractive to scientist and
layman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 1150w
“Mr Lumholtz knows how to write entertainingly as well as how to
observe with scientific accuracy.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
=LUTHER, MARK LEE.= Presenting Jane McRae. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–10734
When Jane McRae is first presented she is acting as waitress in her
step-father’s hotel in a small “up-state” New York town. Here she
comes in contact with Stuart Pendleton, a young civil engineer, and
with Arthur Gault, a movie singer. With Stuart she falls in love, but
refuses to marry him when she learns of his previous entanglement with
another woman. Leaving unbearable conditions at home, she goes to New
York to support herself. At the end of her resources, she again meets
Arthur Gault, who is now a moving picture director. He gets her a
small part in his picture and finally persuades her to marry him. She
becomes more and more successful as an actress, but is not happy. She
realizes that her marriage to Arthur was a mistake, but does not see
the way out. But when the war comes and frees her from him, the manner
of his death leaves her still with an unanswerable question. “It did
not occur to her that she was free.”
* * * * *
“To tell the truth all this business of Jane and the engineer, from
beginning to end, is unreal and commonplace. Jane herself is least
credible and desirable whenever that young man is brought on the
scene. Except his good looks and his fine phrases, there is nothing or
next to nothing ‘to him.’ What ‘makes’ the book is its study of Jane
in relation to the movie man.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 52:70 S ’20 650w
“On the whole, it is a quick-moving and interesting tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Very long and not very interesting. Some of the motion-picture parts
of the book are not unentertaining, while of the characters Arthur
Gault is by all odds the best, at times becoming a real human being.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w
“An agreeable little comedy of life not without serious import also.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w
=LUTZ, EDWIN GEORGE.= Animated cartoons. il *$2.50 Scribner 778
20–3350
“E. G. Lutz answers many an unspoken question about the movies by
telling very explicitly how an artist gets motion into his
drawings. After two chapters of history upon their origin and
development he goes into a description of the successive steps in
the production of various kinds of screen pictures in action. It
all seems very simple after being carefully explained in both text
and illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p39 Ap ’20 70w
=Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w
“The book is interesting as catering to the universal desire to see
the wheels go round.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 25 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 90w
=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Cloudy Jewel. il
*$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
20–20648
Julia Cloud, at her mother’s death, is free to choose between living
the life of a drudge in her selfish sister’s household, or struggling
along alone on insufficient finances. She is trying to make her
decision when her niece and nephew from California put in an
unexpected appearance, and they have a delightful suggestion for her
future. They are coming east to college and propose taking her along
to make a home for them and be a real mother to them, for though
well-to-do, they are orphans. This plan they carry out and she plays
her part wholly to their satisfaction. She feels a keen responsibility
for their welfare and at first their lack of any religious ideals
grieves her deeply. But they become interested in the Christian
Endeavor society in a little church and gradually come to be leaders
in it as well as in college life. There they make friendships which
finally grow into deeper relations, and the story ends in two
romances.
* * * * *
“It may be safely prophesied that Mrs Lutz, if she continues to spin
more novels of the type of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ will doubtless lure into her
fold a large proportion of the followers of Harold Bell Wright. Within
the pages of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ one may find the telling and sure-fire
ingredients of an American best seller.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 300w
“Mrs Lutz will beguile many hours for those who do not wish to be
aroused or excited by what they read, and her books will have a
wholesome influence wherever they are read.” K. O.
+ =Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 270w
=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Exit Betty. il
*$1.75 (2c) Lippincott
20–13974
When Betty Stanhope met her bridegroom in the crowded church where the
ceremony was to take place, to her horror she found he was not the man
she had promised to marry. A timely fainting spell permitted her to
escape from the church, and it was fortunate for her that she ran
across Jane Carson just outside. Jane took the excited girl to her
room where Betty told enough of the story to convince Jane that she
was the victim of the cupidity of her scheming stepmother. Jane sent
her to her mother in the country where Betty successfully eluded
pursuit, until by Jane’s keenness, aided by her friend Jimmie and
Jimmie’s employer, Warren Reyburn, Betty slipped forever from the
clutches of those who had tried to rob her of her inheritance.
Incidentally a double romance developed for her and Jane.
* * * * *
“Melodrama of the crudest kind and religious sentiment equally crude
are blended in a whole which, curiously enough, pleases rather than
repels.”
+ − =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 40w
“Of course it is a very old plot, this of the cruel step mother, but
Mrs Lutz manages to centre our interest entirely in Betty and to
arouse our sympathies to the point where we do not greatly care that
some of her plot elements are distinctly hackneyed.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 420w
=LYNCH, FREDERICK HENRY.=[2] Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie.
il $1.50 Revell
“‘Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie’ furnishes an intimate
picture of the late ironmaster and philanthropist, in which many
phases of his character are depicted. In the course of much close
association, Dr Lynch, as a member of the executive committee of the
New York Peace society, enjoyed opportunities of learning what the
canny Scotsman thought concerning many other things than iron and
libraries.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 250w
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 70w
=LYND, ROBERT.= Ireland a nation. *$2 (3c) Dodd 941.5
20–1230
In this thorough sifting of the Irish problem, the author, an
Englishman, does not spare England. Of her habit of not taking Ireland
seriously he says that if it is persisted in “it will bring ruin not
only on Ireland but upon England and on our European civilization
generally. If Ireland is not ... given her freedom equally with every
other nation in Europe, another great world-war is as certain as the
rising of tomorrow’s sun.... Every nation on the earth that desires to
do wrong to another takes fresh heart when it thinks of the example of
England in Ireland.” Contents: Why it is important to realize that
Ireland is a nation; The historical thread; Sinn Fein; The
insurrection of 1916; Ulster: the facts of the case; The hesitating
sort of Liberal and Irish self-determination; One man’s views on
Dominion home rule; The Irish soldier; Ireland’s record in the war;
The soldiers’ sacrifice; The English in Ireland: a scene; Another
scene: the drums of Ulster; The witness of the poets; A note on Irish
literature; Voices of the new Ireland (from various writers);
Common-sense about the little nations; Epilogue.
* * * * *
“Interestingly written though somewhat lacking in unity.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“It is devoid of all appearances of sentimentality, yet the very
calmness with which the argument is followed gives a force to the book
which passion itself could hardly sustain.”
+ =Cath World= 112:259 N ’20 500w
+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ =Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 550w
“‘Ireland a nation’ stands above and apart from the vast majority of
books on the subject. It owes this distinction not only to its
author’s brilliant handling of a complicated theme, to his sense of
selection, and to his gift of distilling the essence of long-drawn-out
controversies into a witty phrase, but primarily to the fact that he
lifts the issue to a new and higher plane. Where other writers take it
for granted that the dispute is one between two nations. Mr Lynd
confronts the rulers of Great Britain with their pledges not to
Ireland but to the civilized world, and insists that an Irish
settlement is to England’s allies, no less than her enemies, the ‘acid
test’ of whether these pledges are more than mere empty words.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:50 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 100w
=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w
“He is well informed and presents his views with clearness and force,
as befits an editor of the London Daily News. But his book will fail
through over-statement to carry conviction to his opponents.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w
“If his pages have at times the intractable vehemence which belong to
his nationality, they are no less lit up with the wit and sparkle that
seldom desert a man of his race.” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:461 My 1 ’20 600w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 30 ’20 280w
=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Girl, a horse and a dog. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
20–14290
When Jaspar Dudley’s will was read, instead of the fortune which his
grandson Stanford Broughton expected, he received only a vague legacy
which at first he chose to disregard entirely. For it read something
as follows: “Your portion ... was worth, at its latest valuation,
something like $440,000.... When you find it, you will be able to
identify it by the presence of a girl with brown hair and blue eyes
and small mole on her left shoulder, a piebald horse ... and a dog
with a split face—half black and half white.” With just this
information and certain indefinite geographical data, “Stannie”
finally starts on the trail of his inheritance. He has less trouble in
locating it than might be expected. But then his troubles begin, for
he finds it to be a flooded mine, which is nevertheless highly
desirable to a certain mining engineer. He determines to pump it out,
and ascertain its value. His attempts to do this, and the efforts of
his rival to thwart him, and gain possession himself, make the story,
with, of course, some rivalry for the blue-eyed girl as well.
* * * * *
“Rather well told and interesting to readers of western stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“Plenty of dash in this story, and genuinely interesting from
beginning to end.”
+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 110w
“‘The girl, a horse and a dog’ is a book built frankly for amusement
purposes, but it is more substantial than the usual run of adventure
stories. Mr Lynde possesses the power to develop character in a
consistent manner, to afford the reader glimpses of types which live,
and to do this without halting the steady flow of a narrative that
steadily rises in its interest.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 650w
“A lively tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 60w
=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Wreckers. il *$1.75 Scribner
20–5584
“Graham Norcross, whose private stenographer and confidential clerk,
Jimmie Dodds, tells the tale of their adventures, was anything but
anxious to become general manager of the much-abused Pioneer short
line. That unfortunate railroad had for some time been nothing but an
instrument for a little group of Wall street speculators to make money
with; they juggled its stock about, stinted it in equipment and
everything else, and abused it generally. Now, squeezed dry, it was on
the verge of bankruptcy. And to make bad matters worse, at its
headquarters in Portal City every wellpaid post was filled by some
cousin or nephew or brother-in-law of the stock speculators who
controlled the road. This was a part of the proposition which faced
Graham Norcross when he started out to make the Pioneer short line an
honest and a paying concern. By the scheme finally carried out, it was
arranged that one section of ‘the country—and the employes—had a
railroad of their own,’ a railroad whose stock was controlled by the
people most interested in its welfare.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“A railroad story which will interest men and boys.”
+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 700w
“The story maintains the author’s reputation as a teller of
entertaining tales.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 140w
=LYNN, MARGARET.= Free soil. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan
20–20945
A story of the fight for free soil in Kansas in the fifties. Among the
New England recruits to the free soil population are John and Ellen
Truman, who give up ease and security and take their two young
children into the new and strange land. With them goes Ellen’s cousin
Harvey Sayre, young and high-spirited and ripe for adventure. Later
another cousin, Phoebe Murray, comes for a visit, and refusing to be
sent back to safety, remains to play her part with the other women.
Even before reaching Kansas the Trumans have a taste of the tense
relations between North and South and they are in the heart of the
struggle from the moment of their arrival. Another struggle no less
interesting is revealed within the ranks of the free-soilers, between
the advocates of violence and those who stand for peaceful methods.
The figure of John Brown as he moves through these pages differs
somewhat from popular legend. The love story of Phoebe and Lewis
Hardie, the high courage of the women, and the author’s very evident
love for the prairies lighten the somberness of the story.
* * * * *
“Miss Lynn has not only made her story interesting and her characters
alive; she has pictured the country itself as few writers have
pictured it. ‘Free soil’ is a noble book, a living book, a book to
read and to remember. In its blending of fiction and history it is a
notable achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 550w
“As fiction pure and simple the novel has no great art, but it has
historical reality and wide human sympathy. As a sketch of western
living conditions in early days the book is also satisfying.” E. C.
Willcox
+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 140w
=LYTLE, JOHN HORACE.=[2] Story of Jack. il $1.50 Pettibone-McLean co.,
Dayton, O.
20–10081
“The scene of the title story is laid in the Klondike land in the
Klondike days. Jack is a real dog, and a great one, who will win
straight to the heart of every reader.” (Cath World) “The tragic
adventure of Jack is followed by other stories, each directed to a
particular foible of the dog-lover—the pioneer dog who spends his life
by racing with a message of an Indian uprising, the unwelcome mongrel
who rescues a child from drowning and is welcome ever after, the
spaniel who is taught to point golf balls and so saves his master in a
desperate match, and so on.” (Review)
* * * * *
“These are stories of live people and live dogs told in a live way.”
+ =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w
“They are capital tales, all of them; and if the limits of canine
intelligence are overstepped, what harm is done?”
+ =Review= 3:626 D 22 ’20 190w
M
=MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD.= Christian faith and the new day. *90c (4c)
Macmillan 230
20–6365
The author’s subject is theology—theology as adapted to the needs of
the day. He says in his preface, “Visitors to theological seminaries
often tell young men they are not to preach their theology, whereas in
any sound way of speaking it is the only thing they are to preach.”
The book is addressed “not to technical theologians but to working
ministers and thoughtful laymen.” Contents: The call to
reconstruction; The Christian theology of God; The Christian theology
of salvation; The church; A concluding word. The author is a professor
in McCormick theological seminary, Chicago.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
=MCARTHUR, PETER.=[2] Affable stranger. *$1.50 (4c) Houghton
20–20446
The author is a Canadian farmer and journalist who visited the United
States in the capacity of friendly observer. He was interested
particularly in the state of public opinion as it concerns Canada and
Great Britain and his method was to keep as quiet as possible and let
the other person do the talking. Some of his chapters, which were
contributed first to the Toronto Globe, are: Back to the primitive;
Registering reform; A burden of farmers; Organized for profit; Old
home week; The ward leader; The soul of Canada; A land of upper
berths.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 80w
=MACAULAY, ROSE.= Potterism. *$2 Boni & Liveright 20–19045
“‘Potterism’ is a newspaper novel. The idea is Potterism. It is a more
inclusive idea than the one which was once covered by the word
‘bromide.’ Potterism also takes in the bromide, but generally speaking
it means ‘muddle and cant—second-rate sentimentalism and cheap
short-cuts and mediocrity.’ It is personified in Mr Potter (afterward
Lord Pinkerton) owner of the Pinkerton Press, and in his wife, ‘Leila
Yorke,’ the novelist. But the Potters are such perfect symbols that
even their own children, Jane and Johnny, help to form the Anti-Potter
league. There are three or four other members of the league, and the
book follows their fortunes, which take a slightly melodramatic turn.
In the end the president of the league is killed in Russia and the
Potter-Pinkerton Press goes on forever.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“In this new novel by Miss Macaulay it is not only her cleverness and
wit which are disarming. It is her coolness, her confidence, her
determination to say just exactly what she intends to say whether the
reader will or no.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 380w
“Shrewd, vigorous and interesting to many readers. Most amusing to
those who can appreciate subtle humor.”
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“Even to a confirmed Potterite the keen thrust of Miss Macaulay’s wit
must afford a fearful delight. Here is a good antidote for the
oversexed novel.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 220w
“There is no doubt but what Miss Macaulay looks at her day and its
state of mind much as Cervantes looked at his, and her result in
fiction is in kind if not in degree the same. In degree it is far
ahead of its kind beyond anything done by her contemporaries. For all
its clever caricature and exhilarating interest the story is downright
English.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 1150w
“As a sophisticated picture of modern life the book is exceedingly
well done; as a solution of the problem it sets before us it fails,
chiefly because in the author’s philosophy there is no solution—at
least no workable solution.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:694 F ’21 300w
“It is cleverly conceived and cleverly written, but it is a little too
hasty to be complete.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w
“In ‘Potterism’ Miss Macaulay has sketched for us a clever, amusing,
and, on the whole, convincing picture of the state of the British mind
during and immediately after the war. Her book pushes as close to the
current hour as it can without lapsing into mere journalism.” Edwin
Björkman
+ =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 490w
“Miss Macaulay’s narrative technique shares the keenness and
distinction of her intellectual outlook. Each section of the book is
told by one of its characters and thus the characterization is of a
rare completeness and inwardness. The section written by Lelia Yorke
is masterly.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 620w
“Miss Macaulay is so competent in reaching her aim that one is forced
to wonder why she didn’t make her book a little smoother and more
varied in style, and a little less awkward in form.” S. T.
+ − =New Repub= 24:280 N 10 ’20 460w
“The story is taken up at different stages by the principal figures,
and Miss Macaulay shows real skill in her power of representing the
facts as they appear to each, colored by the style and the
preoccupations of the individual.” E. A. Boyd
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1050w
“Add to this penetrating observation and trenchancy of expression a
finished style and good powers of characterization and it is not
difficult to understand why Miss Macaulay’s fictional commentary on
present day foibles was praisefully acclaimed in London, where it has
already run into several editions.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 850w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
+ =Pub W= 98:1887 D 18 ’20 340w
“What gives it distinction is the range and flexibility of its idea.”
H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 550w
“In these days of Potterism, trade-union tyranny, and fiscal
oppression, we are not often, as they used to say in the eighteenth
century, ‘merry.’ Yet Miss Macaulay’s novel amused and refreshed us.
The satire is playful, delicate, and mordant.”
+ =Sat R= 129:543 Je 12 ’20 800w
“The book is rightly named ‘tragi-farcical,’ and therein lies its
weakness, for the abruptness of the alternations are extreme. The
greatest tragedies have not excluded comedy, but the introduction of
farce produces a confusion of tones.”
+ − =Spec= 124:833 Je 19 ’20 640w
“The effect of abstraction is unfortunately heightened by the author’s
device of telling part of the story in her own person, part in the
persons of the different characters, a proceeding for which we can see
no good reason. It would have been better if she had written all in
the person of the unworldly Laurence Juke. In his instalment we have
the Miss Macaulay whom we knew before, afraid neither of pity nor
enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p348 Je 3 ’20 950w
=MCAULEY, MARY ETHEL=, ed. Wanderer; or, Many minds on many subjects;
with an introd. by Charles Alexander Rook. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 040
20–11654
“In the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Miss Mary Ethel McAuley, calling herself
the ‘Wanderer,’ showed an extraordinary ingenuity in putting nice
questions in casuistry and in eliciting a wide variety of answers to
them, many of which now appear in this volume.” (Review) “‘Can a
radical be a Christian?’ ‘Is our present marriage system perfect?’ ‘Is
it possible for the dead to materialize?’ ‘Should we have birth
control?’ ‘Is the mystic a human need?’ ‘Are the ministers more
muzzled than the editors?’ ‘Would George Sand be received in genteel
society today?’ ‘Was Tolstoi a prophet?’—these are a very few of the
many vital or bizarre questions asked by Miss McAuley and tackled by
Sir Tom, Doctor Dick, and Plain Harry and Lizzie.” (N Y Call)
* * * * *
=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 250w
“Nobody could possibly accept half the opinions in this book, but some
of them are enlightening, many are interesting, and the “‘Wanderer’
idea is excellent.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 360w
=Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 240w
=MCBRIDE, ISAAC.= Barbarous soviet Russia. il *$2.50 Seltzer 914.7
20–12209
“Favorable pictures of present-day life in Russia under the Bolshevist
régime, as sketched by an American traveler. Mr McBride gave special
attention to labor conditions, education, the status of women, and the
character of the soviet leadership. Interesting documents, including a
report on the financial situation of Russia, are included in an
appendix.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 500w
“What we have not yet seen is a book which combines a frank
confrontation of the point of view of the Soviets with a clear-eyed
estimate of its principles and a fair description of the successes or
failures resulting in the operation. Mr Isaac McBride has failed to
write such a book, but he has at least shown that the materials for it
are not lacking.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 1400w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is a number of excellent
illustrations. A great deal of valuable and interesting information
about the labor laws and the industrial condition of soviet Russia is
contained in a long appendix.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 680w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 50w
=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Taint in politics. *$2 Dodd 172.2
“This anonymous attack on the political world of the day deserves
attention as a searching and forcible exposure of many undoubted
abuses. Lack of principle, lightly disguised corruption, privileged
incompetence, a pampered and leisurely civil service, slavish
adherence to party, the substitution of oligarchy for any true
democracy—these and such like features of public life are trenchantly
and often convincingly attacked; and some historical chapters at the
beginning trace the evolution of political corruption back to the
middle ages. Though the writer has some suggestions at the end as to
shorter parliaments, saving of parliamentary time, and, more broadly,
the fundamental need of popular education, he is almost solely
destructive; he is ‘not so much concerned with the method of
purification as the establishment of the disease,’ and it is a real
merit that he is absolutely impartial in his onslaught on the two—or
three—parties and on the coalition.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The value of this anonymous criticism of present-day political
affairs would be greatly enhanced were the writer able to confirm the
hope held out at the commencement, that in spite of his summary
dismissal of politics as everywhere and always more or less tainted,
his attitude might eventually be something more than negative.”
− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 200w
“The reader is likely to find, in this volume, additional reasons for
congratulation that America has not become a partner in the
international gaminghouse. The chapter on American conditions is
disappointingly superficial.” C. N.
+ − =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 280w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 80w
=Sat R= 129:565 Je 19 ’20 700w
“The thoughtful reader will not, of course, forget that there is
another side to the question.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 My 6 ’20 280w
=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Present and past banking in Mexico. *$2 (3c)
Harper 332.15
20–4614
On the ground that the degree of banking development of a country
measures the degree of civilization, comfort, and economic
development, the book attempts “to trace the history of the credit
institutions of the country from their initial stages down to the
present time. Effort has been made to stress the salient facts in the
extraordinary story of the rise and fall of banking in our neighboring
republic.” (Preface) The book is published under the auspices of the
Doheny foundation and a partial list of the contents is: Early stages
of banking and finance; Through the crisis of 1884; Origin of the
Banco nacional; High tide of bank concessions; General law for
institutions of credit; The transition period; Adoption of the gold
standard; Eve of the Madero revolution; Huerta and the banks; Regime
of the Constitucionalistas. There is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Dr McCaleb has succeeded in furnishing the only comprehensive account
of banking developments in Mexico. It is not easy for American readers
to understand the statements of Mexican banks because of the
differences in the terminology used, which grow largely out of
differences in banking practice. Dr McCaleb has done much to make
understandable the statements which he cites.” A. N. Young
+ =Am Econ R= 10:844 D ’20 940w
+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 30w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 50w
=MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY.= Henry Elizabeth. *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–13543
Henry Elizabeth’s mother had wanted a girl and her name was to have
been Elizabeth. When he was born a boy the Elizabeth stood with the
addition of Henry, Young Braginton, for he was the master of the
manor-house, grew up a country bumpkin much given to drinking, eating
and women. He was a young giant. One day, after a drunken bout, he
encounters a most beautiful woman, such as he had never seen. It
changes his career. He resolves to give up his old life, go up to
London, become one of Queen Elizabeth’s courtiers, and make himself
worthy of his beauty. He falls in with a former court jester who takes
his education in hand, and little by little makes himself master of
all the gallant practices, including swordsmanship. He has many
adventures, serves Elizabeth and is granted favors, and has the
opportunity, most coveted, to champion the cause of his lady love and
rid her of her enemies. Although he had not won her at the end of the
story the reader hopes that he will yet succeed. The picture of London
in Elizabeth’s time is one of the quaint features of the story.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p307 S 8 ’20 160w
“It is characteristic of Mr McCarthy that it has all the excitement
and rapidity of a good swashbuckling tale with a most polished
workmanship and better style than is the case of most books of the
kind.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 420w
“The story is written in that leisurely way that enables the author to
reproduce in fine detail much of the social background of the time
with which it deals and also to accentuate the feeling of its
unhurrying pace. But this is all done without apparent effort and as
an integral part of the story, which moves swiftly enough when the
time for action comes.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
“A capital tale of the days of Queen Bess. It is just historical
enough and not too much so. A tale which has incident, action, humor,
and character depiction.”
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 80w
“Mr McCarthy is one of our most acceptable historical novelists. His
people are real; and neither they nor he drop into the mannerisms of
style or the pat dialogue too common among his rivals.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w
=MACCLINTOCK, LANDER.= Contemporary drama of Italy. *$1.50 (2c) Little
852
20–1987
The book is one of the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard
Burton. Comparatively little is known to the English-speaking public
of modern Italian dramatists. The object of the book is to fill the
gap. The author holds that the Italian is realistic rather than
romantic and his modern literature is characterized by fidelity to
life and the intellectualization of its themes rather than by
emotionalism. Even romanticism contained the germs of the modern
movement and an increasingly intelligent public demands more and more
discussion and solution of vital questions and urgent problems. The
contents are: The foundations; Giuseppe Giacosa; The early realists;
Gabriele D’Annunzio; The later realists; Roberto Bracco; Actors and
acting, the popular theatre, the dialect theatre; The younger
generation; Futurism and other isms; Bibliographical appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“Without that special charm which transforms such a book into one of
popular appeal, but still interesting and useful in its suggestiveness
to the drama student and general reader.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
=Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 70w
“Mr MacClintock is very agile, very well-informed, his touch is light
and his taste is catholic.”
+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 200w
“His book is excellent in every way, a model for the other
contributors to the Contemporary drama series. It is founded upon
indefatigable investigation, at once broad and deep. It is informed
with a fine critical spirit. It is logically planned and proportioned.
It is written in clear English. And it is as unfailingly interesting
as it is unhesitatingly instructive.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:226 My 2 ’20 2100w
“In spite of occasional infelicities of expression and errors of fact
or of judgment, it is a distinctly valuable contribution to the study
of modern Italian literature. Dr MacClintock’s first chapter, and his
last, ‘Futurism and other isms,’ are the least satisfactory part of
his book, since they involve broad generalizations based on a profound
knowledge of the background. This knowledge he does not yet
sufficiently possess, if one may judge from his tendency to accept and
incorporate the views of previous writers.” K. McKenzie
+ − =Review= 3:452 N 10 ’20 1000w
=MCCONN, MAX.= Mollie’s substitute husband, il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–14216
“Professor” John Merriam, principal of the Riceville high school, on
account of his startling likeness to the “Boy senator,” George Norman,
was induced to represent that gentleman under rather amazing
circumstances. The Reform league of Chicago was trying to secure
better traction conditions in that city and upon Senator Norman rested
the decision, and it was his intention to veto the measure. Then what
was simpler than for the enterprising Reform league to kidnap the
senator and substitute his double—John Merriam, who would put the
thing thru for them in short order. He agreed to play the part, which
involved playing husband to Mollie June, with whom he had been in love
since she was a school girl. The situation naturally led to
complications both public and private, and all the people concerned
were led a merry chase escaping detection. A happy outcome at times
seemed impossible—but at length it is achieved for all except the
unfortunate Senator Norman himself—and perhaps he deserved his fate.
* * * * *
“The story is brisk and brilliant, if complicated in plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 290w
“A certain levity of style with which he writes disarms criticism and
adds to the entertainment he has provided.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w
=MCCORD, JAMES NEWTON.= Textbook of filing. il *$2 Appleton 651
20–4539
“Based on our experience in training thousands of girls and women for
filing positions no matter what methods were involved, or what
particular manufacturer’s system was employed, this book has been
compiled.... Its purpose is to instruct in the different methods of
filing, which are limited, while the different systems are numerous
and must be reduced to a possible four methods.... Office routine,
short cuts, cross reference and different refinements and
ramifications all come in for proper consideration and the volume is
equally as valuable as a reference book as a textbook.” (Preface)
Contents: Filing equipment; Routing; Alphabetic methods; Numeric
filing; Geographic methods; Subject and decimal methods; Automatic
system; Card indexing; Transferring; Legal filing; Insurance; Real
estate; Follow-up methods; Banking; Sales; Manufacturing; Stocks and
bonds; Card ledgers; Appendix; Index. The author is director of the
New York school of filing.
* * * * *
“A clear, simple presentation.”
+ =Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 120w
=MCCORMICK, ROBERT RUTHERFORD.= Army of 1918. *$2 Harcourt 940.373
20–19162
A work by a member of General Pershing’s staff, with chapters on: The
background of the army; The inspired ambassador; Early days of the
A.E.F.; The great division; Germany’s last offensive; A few technical
points; The pursuit from the Marne; The American offensives; Some
elements of national defense; New weapons and their use; The general
staff; The crime of silence; The only solution. The solution offered
in the concluding chapter is a strong military establishment with a
trained army based on European, preferably French, models.
* * * * *
“It should be read by everyone who is interested in our future
military policy.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 100w
=MACCRACKEN, JOHN HENRY.= College and commonwealth, and other
educational papers and addresses. *$3 Century 378
21–159
The collection consists largely of college addresses delivered at
opening or commencement exercises, including, as the title essay of
the book, the author’s inaugural address as president of Lafayette
college. One of the leading ideas in this collection is the
superiority of individualism to conformity, communism or state
control. Even the desirability of cooperation is set forth with
certain reservations. The war with its problems furnishes some of the
topics. Among the titles are: The college and the individual; Liberty
and cooperation; War and education; The college and the shadow of war;
Federal leadership in education; Why the trust idea is not applicable
to education; The college man and freedom; The education of women;
Broader education of engineers; Scientific method and therapeutic
impulse; Religion and education.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 240w
=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Anderson Crow, detective. il *$2 (3½c) Dodd
20–4957
Anderson Crow, besides being the detective of the title, held a number
of important municipal offices in the town of Tinkletown, including
those of deputy marshal, deputy superintendent of the fire department,
commissioner of water-works and others. His zeal on the trail of crime
was therefore keen, and he rarely was outwitted, whether he was
capturing German spies, or solving the mystery of a suicide or
following up the effects of hard cider in the Foreign missionary
society. His understudy was Alf Reesling, the village drunkard, who
had been sober for twenty-five years, but who was living on the
reputation of one hilarious week of his youth. Harry Squires, the
editor of the weekly Banner, was a thorn in the side of the detective,
although but for him some of his successes would have been failures.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“The tales are written in a farcical, extravagant style which, when
applied to characters obviously intended to represent everyday human
beings, needs a strong dash of humor to make it palatable. Mr
McCutcheon has not made them funny enough. The illustrations, by the
author’s famous brother, are full of ‘pep’ as one would expect them to
be.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 300w
“Good fun.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w
“While sketchy and episodical, the narrative is well knit. It is,
perhaps, not far from the truth to say that Mr McCutcheon’s story is a
satire on the detective creation of the fiction writers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 280w
=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= West wind drift. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–18655
The Doraine, in the treacherous days of the war, sailed one day from a
South American port carrying a thousand souls. And from that day she
was never seen again, and was eventually reported lost with all on
board. But two German spies might have given a fuller report if they
had told of their work before they dropped off onto the launch that
was awaiting them in the middle of the South Atlantic. The Doraine was
left to helplessly drift, at the mercy of wind and tide. So finally
she was borne to the shores of an uninhabited island. And there the
six hundred or so human beings who had survived the rigors and
exposure of the trip, landed and made a settlement. All the elements
in human nature which men are familiar with in normal circumstances
made themselves felt here, capacity for leadership, love, jealousy,
temptation, treachery, justice, but strongest of all, hope in the
future. Algernon Adonis Percival, in spite of his name and the fact
that he was a stowaway on the doomed ship, is the strongest character
of all, and his career is the most interesting as he rises to the
governorship in quite Admirable Crichton style.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 210w
“George Barr McCutcheon, the facile creator of mythical kingdoms, has
invented a new ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ quite stupendous enough for
production by Mr Griffith.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 150w
“There is a straightaway yarn, which, if not particularly original or
strikingly dramatic, at least leads one logically from the first
chapter to the last with the feeling that one has been in company of a
good-humored entertainer. Brightly written throughout, Mr McCutcheon’s
latest novel is worthy of his reputation.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 480w
“The book is worth reading for itself and also because it brings
saliently to mind some of the things which are essential to liberty
and combined effort in civilized countries, as well as in desert
islands.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 90w
“The book was not written to prove anything for which many will be
thankful.” Caroline Singer
+ =Pub W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 180w
“It is an entertaining tale which holds the reader enthralled through
its various stages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w
=MACDONALD, GREVILLE.= North door. *$2 (1½c) Houghton
20–26987
This romance, whose scene is the coast of Cornwall more than a century
ago, has a historic background. It shows us the dawn of modern
industrialism and how a country’s prosperity may be paid for with the
blood of a once prosperous peasantry. The central figure is a saintly
but rather unorthodox priest who puts his faith in the good to the
supreme test by himself crossing the threshold of the accursed “North
door” of the church in search of the reality of sin and evil. He finds
both only to see it vanish before the higher reality of a divine
goodness. A two-fold romance runs through the story, that of a peasant
girl’s heroic love for a giant fisherman and smuggler and the highly
spiritualized romance between the priest and Lady Evangeline.
* * * * *
“In this attempt to reproduce the life of a Cornish parish during the
first decade of the nineteenth century some faults of construction are
redeemed by much charm and sincerity.”
+ − =Ath= p815 Je 18 ’20 130w
“Something of Hawthorne’s moral sense, his superstitious awe, his
sternness, his artistry, and, to a certain extent, his power of
construction are more than noticeable—they are outstanding. George
Brandes once declared that literature’s task is to give a ‘condensed
representation of a people and an age.’ If this is true, then ‘The
north door’ is surely entitled to consideration as literature.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 640w
“The book has a marked character of its own, it is unusual and
arresting.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 90w
“The portrait of Christopher Trevenna is a real, if slightly
sentimental, piece of character drawing. The author’s rather verbose
and involved style places an unnecessary obstacle in the way of the
reader’s enjoyment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 150w
=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Government of India. *$1.50 Huebsch 354
(Eng ed 20–509)
“The appearance of this informative book is stated by the author to
have been delayed by the war. He reviews the origin and evolution of
the links which connect India with ourselves, and reminds readers that
the needs of that empire cannot be met by an adjustment here and an
adjustment there: ‘they have to be viewed in their wide sweep.’ Mr
Macdonald discusses with considerable fullness the Montagu-Chelmsford
report, deals with the religious problems in India, and remarks that a
very common opinion of both Indians and English is that the Christian
missions in India thwart the nationalist movement—partly by implanting
in the minds of the people thoughts which lead them away from Indian
leadership and ideas. In the author’s judgment, the Legislative
councils should have more authority, especially in finance, and the
Viceroy’s council be made more representative.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 200w
=Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“This new volume has been produced in an international milieu which is
characterized by at least two sets of conditions. The first are those
generated by the talk of a league of nations, and the second is the
fait accompli of a socialist state in bolshevik Russia. And it is
because the author seeks to harmonize his theories with these novel
phenomena that his book acquires an importance such as is hardly
indicated by the limitations of its title.” B. K. Sarkar
+ − =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 1200w
“The trouble about Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s book on India is that
portions of it are obsolete. He describes a form of government which
is about to undergo great modifications. Little further need be said
by the way of criticism. Mr Macdonald writes with a practised hand,
sometimes even with charm. He has handled his theme with moderation
and restraint. It is a pleasure to pick up a book about India which
contains no word of bitterness, no trace of violent controversy, no
exaggeration or over-statement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 950w
=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Parliament and revolution. (New library of
social science) *$1.50 Seltzer 335
20–26685
“‘Parliament and revolution’ is a careful comparison between the
existing government in England and the aims and projects of the
Bolshevists. While the book is antibolshevist, Mr Macdonald is quick
to recognize any sound reasoning in the bolshevist theories to
denounce the flaws in the rule of Parliament. He includes a
description of the working of the soviet system in Russia, and a
discussion of ‘direct action,’ the name under which bolshevism is
discussed and advocated by the British labor party.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“Not in any sense an objective scientific study, but an assertion of
principles that deserves attention.”
+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 60w
“As a piece of argumentation ‘Parliament and revolution’ leaves a good
deal to be desired. Its logical texture is not of the finest; too
often it gives us assertion where we want demonstration; and as for
‘scientific’ and ‘unbiased,’ these adjectives, by which the book is
described in the publishers’ advertisement on the paper cover, have no
more to do with the case than the flowers that bloom in the spring.”
R. L. Schuyler
− =Nation= 110:826 Je 19 ’20 850w
“In a measure, Mr Macdonald’s book is a salutary corrective to a good
deal of loose vituperation. But there is another aspect to the matter
with which he has failed to deal. Granted the ignorance and inertia of
the modern electorate what, at bottom, are its causes?... The trade
unions have an importance which Mr Macdonald altogether fails to give
them in this study.” H. J. L.
+ − =New Repub= 22:383 My 19 ’20 1800w
“The book is one that, we warrant, will not fully satisfy any single
Socialist. One feels himself at times tantalized between enjoyment of
some excellent statement of principle or fact or analysis of some
particular question, only to draw a conclusion here and there that
appears to be a concession to conventional opinion. Yet the book will
appeal to all but the romanticists and those of fixed opinions.” James
Oneal
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The first volume of the New library of social science seems to me the
most straightforward treatise on government which has come out since
the beginning of the war.” M. H. Anderson
+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“It is to be hoped that this contribution may stimulate a further
discussion on these important questions of the technique of
revolution.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:28 Ja ’21 920w
“It is forceful in logic and classic in clearness.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 100w
“The whole book is a careful study of dangerous political tendencies
of the times and well worth reading by adherents and opponents of
socialism alike.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:417 Je 19 ’20 450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 240w
=MACDONALD, ZILLAH K.= Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. il *$2.25 (5c)
Stokes
20–17532
“This is the story of a little girl who visited the land behind the
dictionary and found out for herself that words are alive.” Eileen was
sitting in the schoolroom writing out the words she had misspelled and
trying to remember that syntax doesn’t end in tacks, when the letter X
suddenly jumped out of her inkwell and confronted her. Under his
guidance she visited Dictionary Town and there met the words who live
in English Wordland, “plain strong Anglo-Saxon words, French
aristocrat words who came over with William the Conqueror, the old
giant Greek and Latin words, foreign words from every land who have
been adopted by Mother English Language, and the happy-go-lucky slang
words who live in a gipsy camp outside of Dictionary Town.” The
whimsical illustrations are by Stuart Hay.
* * * * *
“A very clever little idea, this. With all her fun, the author tries
to be soundly etymological, which will please the educators, without
annoying the children. The illustrator, Stuart Hay, adds much with his
line-drawings to a book which is bound to give its readers a good
time.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 270w
“It will be an excellent book for supplementary reading in the
elementary grades. The story moves with much briskness and variety.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 N 13 ’20 220w
=MACDONNELL, JAMES FRANCIS CARLIN (FRANCIS CARLIN, pseud.).= Cairn of
stars. *$1.50 Holt 821
20–9075
A second volume of poems by the author of “My Ireland.” As in the
previous volume lyric verse predominates and the themes are drawn from
Irish landscape and custom and fairy lore. A few of the titles are:
The cairn of stars; A girl’s song; The black swans; The market town;
The seventh son; A Munster marriage; An Irish madonna; For a
god-child; The queen of Kerry; The coming of the fairies; The
herdsman’s son; The beggar’s blessing.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“There is more pure poetry to the square inch of expression on the
printed page of Francis Carlin than there is on the whole leaves of
printed pages by any Irish-American poet of today. ‘The cairn of
stars’ is far better than the earlier book. In the nearly three years
since ‘My Ireland,’ Mr Carlin has added a deliberately finished
technique to the instinctive technique that was his original gift. He
has learned to manage his metres in a way to bring out all the finer
shades of his moods and without impairing the spontaneity of feeling.
At the same time he has greatly broadened the scope of his interests.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 1450w
“Very tuneful and pleasurable and wholesome even if the more rare and
mysterious promise of certain earlier poems is not entirely
fulfilled.”
+ =Cath World= 112:397 D ’20 190w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 140w
“A book that is delightful to read from beginning to end. Mr Carlin
will never be a great poet, but he will always be a sincere and honest
poet of indubitable talent.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w
=MCDOUGALL, WILLIAM.= Group mind. *$5 Putnam 301
20–13131
“A sketch of the principles of collective psychology with some attempt
to apply them to the interpretation of national life and character.”
(Sub-title) The author holds that “a society, when it enjoys a long
life and becomes highly organized, acquires a structure and qualities
which are largely independent of the qualities of the individuals who
enter into its composition and take part for a brief time in its
life.” Thus a collective mental life is not merely the sum of the
mental lives of its units but is a “collective mind” or, if one
prefers, “a collective soul.” The book is a sequel to the author’s
“Introduction to social psychology” and assumes the reader’s
acquaintance with it. The contents fall into three parts: General
principles of collective psychology; The national mind and character;
The development of national mind and character. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Soundly empirical as his methods are, Mr McDougall may well fail to
convince the ardent humanitarian of the error of his ways....
Nevertheless, the problem of a national eugenics must be faced and
solved, not simply burked on sentimental grounds. Meanwhile, whatever
moral be drawn from them, the facts must first be reviewed
impartially; and Mr McDougall’s book is the model of a treatment
conceived and executed in the dispassionate spirit of science.” R. R.
M.
+ =Ath= p834 Je 25 ’20 1000w
“The rule which prevents a physician from operating upon a member of
his own family because his emotion would interfere with his judgment
is one that no scientist can afford to ignore. Mr McDougall has
ignored it. That is to say he has not searched his heart to free
himself from his own group affiliations sufficiently to approach his
subject with a clean and clear mind.” Walter Lippmann
− =New Repub= 25:82 D 15 ’20 1600w
“There are one or two of Mr McDougall’s statements to which we might
take exception; but they are few in number and of no importance to his
main argument. He is invariably impartial, lucid, and candid, making
use of no theory, however plausible, unless it will bear the strictest
scrutiny, and advancing no conclusions as proved so long as any
reasonable doubt may be entertained of their soundness.”
+ =Spec= 125:214 Ag 14 ’20 1050w
“The book is well worth reading, but the student will look in vain for
any considerable contribution or stimulating suggestion.” J. K. Hart
+ − =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 470w
“The three chapters on ‘The race-making period’ and the following one
on ‘Racial changes during the historic period’ form a singularly
illuminating study of race problems.... The defence made on page 174
of the maxim ‘My country right or wrong’ suggests that his enthusiasm
for the virtue of group loyalty is a little in danger of obscuring to
his eyes the rights of the individual conscience. A Treitschke might
with a little sophistry subscribe it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 N 11 ’20 2000w
=MCDOWALL, ARTHUR SYDNEY.= Realism; a study in art and thought. *$4
Dutton 701
(Eng ed 19–12352)
“Mr McDowall makes his position clear. The material world has, he
believes, a real existence apart from man. At the point of
consciousness its circle and our apprehension intersect, but they
remain separate circles. The problem of realism is to represent this
world that our senses claim for us, not, as Zola supposed, by a
literary photograph, not scientifically, but by ‘truth of impression
in which feeling and imagination play the essential part.’ ‘Truth for
the realist artist can never consist in ... a simple correspondence
with facts. He is an observer, but he is not a reporter. He does not
copy, but he creates a world which refers us back to our own world and
shows it to us more truly.’”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 980w
“Often the book is murky with the philosophical abstractions,
crystallizing into dogma. He has the caution of the scholar, and not
the audacity of the artist. He avoids the impertinences of brilliance,
but also its decision.”
+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 130w
=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“Mr McDowall’s book should be read. It has the awareness, the keen
interest in living problems, of the work of William James.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 700w
“Mr McDowall approaches his topic from many angles and cites a wealth
of relevant illustration, but finally leaves the impression that he
has failed to get at the heart of it. One reason of his inadequacy is
the ease with which he dismisses as obsolete the older uses of the
term realism.”
+ − =Review= 4:58 Ja 19 ’21 1200w
=MCEVILLY, MARY A.= Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. *$1.50 (6c)
Brentano’s 134
20–6732
The book is a record of automatic writing executed by the author and
bearing messages from the beyond by Meslom, an ancient Hindu, and,
with the aid of Meslom, by “L,” a victim of the war, to his mother. In
the introduction the author relates how she developed her gift. The
messages are chiefly confined to spiritual problems, to God’s creative
force and love and the growth in spiritual power and peace of both “L”
and his mother.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
“The ‘messages’ have no evidential value whatever—there is not a
single test of ‘identity.’ There are vastly more verbal expressions
than thoughts expressed. Is it not safe to assume that the central
element in the treatise, the love of God, is part of the author’s
conception of Christianity, and that the ‘messages’ simply are
subconscious elaborations of her mind? Everything points in that
direction.”
− =Cath World= 111:552 Jl ’20 550w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:208 Ag ’20 290w
“The messages are expressed with simplicity and clarity and reveal
ardent spiritual aspiration.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 200w
=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Preventive man. *$1.75 Lane
20–8449
A story of smuggling on the Dorset coast a century ago. The
“preventive man,” in the vernacular of the time, is a government
agent, who comes into the neighborhood to run down the law breakers.
In truth however, he is less interested in the smuggling than in his
own more weighty private concerns, for he has reason to believe that
his loved brother has met foul play in this very community. By a trick
he gains admittance into the house of Simeon Coffin, the miser, and
begins to gather the evidence that confirms his suspicions. At first
he associates Simeon’s niece, Horatia, with the crime and attributes
her confusion—which is really due to the possession of a piece of
smuggled silk—to her guilt. She is cleared in his eyes however and he
is ready enough to atone for her suffering and his cruelty.
* * * * *
“In spite of improbabilities, the book is well worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w
“Miss McFadden is quite successful in developing her atmosphere of
mystery, and her characters, although all of them are severely shaped
into well-known types, manage to convey a certain sense of reality.
The action of the story is swift enough to sustain the interest and it
rises at times to several thrilling scenes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 220w
“The story has everything that is necessary to make it fine, except
that touch of ability which turns a credible narrative into a romantic
one. The landscape writing is recognisably good.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
“The work is not without merit, but would benefit greatly by pruning
the description and adding to the action.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w
“A capital adventure tale of the days when smuggling was a respectable
pursuit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w
=MACFARLAN, ALEXANDER.= Inscrutable lovers; a tragic comedy. *$1.75 (4c)
Dodd
(Eng ed 20–5589)
Margaret, the daughter of Count Kettle, Irish patriot and champion of
lost causes, has been nourished on romance. As Count Kettle’s daughter
she is pointed out as the most picturesque and romantic figure in
Ireland. But she hates her position and she marries Charlie Macaig to
escape it. “I could have loved a grocer,” says Margaret in
extenuation, “just any grocer.” Charlie Macaig is the youngest member
of a firm of shipowners. He is steady, he is practical, he is
reliable, he is everything that Margaret’s familiar associates are
not. But, as it turns out, his own dreams for all his practical
business years have been of romance and adventure, and Margaret is the
fulfillment of his dreams. There is mutual shock of discovery when the
truth comes out, and then love, abetted by the Catholic church—which
is practical or romantic as you happen to look at it—triumphs.
* * * * *
“To crispness of visualization, the author adds crispness in dialogue.
Novelists cannot eschew some description; here Mr MacFarlan is little
gifted.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 430w
“‘The inscrutable lovers’ is Mr MacFarlan’s second book and he is said
to be very young. It is a very modern sort of youth that is his. His
perceptions are very sharp, but his nature seems wintry. The book is a
study in contrasting temperaments. The contrasts are very clear. They
are indeed too clear and their edges are too glittering. People are
not as simply made as all that.”
+ − =Nation= 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 240w
“It has not only brilliancy but a delicate completeness comparable to
(not like) that of Mr Hewlett’s earlier bits of romantic comedy. A
delightful piece of literary comedy.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 700w
“This charming little tale must be classified rather as an essay in
pure comedy than as a reproduction of actual life.”
+ =Sat R= 128:229 S 6 ’19 450w
=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Boy heroes in fiction. il *$1.75
(2c) Crowell
20–17319
The stories of seven boy heroes in fiction are here presented in
condensed form. The foreword says, “Some of these boy heroes of
yesterday may not be known to boys of today, partly because their
stories are imbedded in extra large volumes, which do not stop with
boy life, but include many other things. It has been the happy task,
therefore, of the present editor to disentangle and condense these
stories, presenting only the portions which pertain to the boy life of
each hero.” Contents: Little Gavroche (from “Les misérables”); David
Balfour (from “Kidnapped”); Oliver Twist; Jim Davis (from Masefield’s
“Jim Davis”); David Copperfield; Jim Hawkins (from “Treasure island”);
and John Halifax.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w
“Her volumes would have gained as much in effect as they would have
lost in length had she limited herself to quotations instead of
supplementing them with paraphrases.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w
=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Girl heroines in fiction. il *$1.75
(2c) Crowell
20–17320
The six girls chosen for this volume are Little Dorrit, Maggie
Tulliver, Ellen (from “The wide wide world”), Little Nell, Eppie (from
“Silas Marner”), and Cosette (from “Les misérables”). “Each girl is
introduced in very nearly her author’s own words, and thus preserves
her own individuality.” As in the book of boy heroes, the editor
expresses the hope that the stories as presented here may serve as an
introduction to the full-length versions.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w
=MCFEE, WILLIAM.= Captain Macedoine’s daughter. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–26979
The story of Captain Macedoine’s daughter is told by the “quiet and
occasionally garrulous” Chief of H. M. S. Sycorax, detailed to escort
convoys through the Ægean in war time. The Chief had known the
Mediterranean in the days of peace and this is a peace-time story of
plotting and intrigue, involving Captain Macedoine’s great
international bubble, the Anglo-Hellenic development company, in which
his daughter is used as a tool. From her mother the girl had a mixture
of dark blood. Mr Spenlove, the chief, who had been one of those who
fell under her spell, tells all that he knew of her tragic life and
death, drawing from it his own conclusions on the nature of love.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“A tale of strange people, strange places, strange motifs, strange
morals told with brilliant effect and satisfying completeness.” S. M.
R.
+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 360w
“This well-written novel, broader in its scope than Mr McFee’s
previous books is strong not only in its character portrayal but in
the philosophy interspersed throughout its pages.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 90w
“While ‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is not so good a story as either
‘Casuals of the sea’ or ‘Aliens,’ it has in it all the original
qualities of unconventional fiction that long ago established Joseph
Conrad and that is placing Mr McFee in the same rank of novelists.” E.
F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1200w
“William McFee’s new novel has the same elusive perfume as Conrad’s
‘Arrow of gold.’” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 380w
“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ gladdens the heart of the serious
lover of English prose, for it proves that in Mr McFee we have no mere
casual of the pen, no fortunate adventurer upon ink who triumphed by
chance, but a soberly devoted novelist from whom many years of fine
work may confidently be expected.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1100w
“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is, first of all, a masterful
portrayal of two colorful personalities.... But it is far more than
that; it is, too, a contrast between occidental and eastern
civilizations and philosophies, a commentary on human nature,
particularly an analysis of love, and an achievement in beautiful
prose.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w
“There is less sea and more siren in this novel than Mr McFee’s
readers would perhaps expect. Few readers will resist the charm of the
style; some will think the dénouement unsatisfying.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w
“Unmistakably a big, compelling, haunting book.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub. W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 420w
“The outstanding impression is the sense of atmosphere which the
narrative imparts to the reader. The narrative has many curious
ramifications, but each is an important part of the whole, and the
reader will find himself enthralled from the first to the last scene.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 640w
=MCGIBENY, DONALD.=[2] 32 caliber. *$1.75 Bobbs
20–18770
“Although the author is unusually progressive in having his villain
operate with the aid of airplane and machine gun, the general plot and
the situations created are such as might be encountered in every-day
life and modern crime. An attorney and his wife, on the way to keep an
appointment that involves the domestic happiness and honor of both,
are found at a lonely spot, the car wrecked, the man dead from a
bullet wound, the wife unconscious in the tonneau. Was it another
automobile accident, was the man murdered by the wife or did an
outsider have a part in the tragedy? These are questions that
perplexed the authorities and will perplex and mystify the
reader.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The basis and material used in the tale is excellent and would make a
capital short story.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 26 ’21 150w
“A not too lurid mystery interestingly built up and broken down, in a
rapid, easy narrative style.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The only marked defect is the author’s attempt to force the reader’s
suspicions on characters whose guilt, if ultimately proved by the
story, would shock any decent sense of plausibility.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 70w
“He has written so well, made his people so living and so pleasant,
handled his subject so surely, that it is difficult to think of this
book as a maiden essay.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 580w
“Among the better of the new detective tales, ’32 calibre,’ early
arouses the interest of the reader and holds it through a series of
adventures, with the solution of the mystery not even indicated until
the close.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 150w
=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Maureen. *$2 (1½c) McBride
20–13698
Mr MacGill’s new story of Donegal is a mingling of pathos and humor,
hard toil and grim poverty, beauty and stark tragedy. Maureen, the
daughter of Kathleen O’Malley, tastes all the sorrow and loneliness of
an illegitimate child and after her mother’s death leaves the parish.
She has won the love of young Cathal Cassidy and he would have her
stay, but long before her mother had warned her that her only
happiness would lie in marrying a man outside the parish who would not
have to suffer for her shame in the eyes of his neighbors, and to
spare Cathal this she leaves him. She meets experiences that are
bitterly cruel, but after them finds a haven with kind people and at
the end of two years returns. Cathal has been faithful and it seems
that their love is to bring them happiness, but tragedy overwhelms
them. The war and Sinn Fein have a place in the background of the
story.
* * * * *
“The characters in general are well drawn, and have that tragic
intensity which Synge and others have made us believe to be in the
Celtic blood.”
+ =Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 120w
“Unmitigated truth and sincerity produce a strong reality of
characters and atmosphere though not a pleasant story.”
+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“Such a thing to be done at all must be done exceptionally well, and
Mr MacGill, with a good style at his command, has achieved a triumph.”
G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 520w
“The minor characters are admirably drawn; the chief ones are less
vivid and convincing. The weaknesses of the story are glaring: it is
poor both in structure and in motivation. Keeran, in the final
chapters, is drawn on the lines of Dickens at his worst, and the
tragic conclusion brings the reader up with the jolt of an express
train coming to a violent halt.”
− + =Cath World= 112:547 Ja ’21 220w
“The chief and tragic emphasis falls upon youth, in spite of which the
best of the story lies in the penetrating, vivid, and thoroughly human
presentation of the old people.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w
“Much of the power of the story lies in the intermingling of quite
Russian realism, with an idealism which bursts flamelike through the
recital of brutal details. ‘Decent’ is the salutation of the people of
Dungarrow for the strangers they meet, and decent is the epithet
uppermost in the mind of the reader, in spite of Mr MacGill’s frank
exposure of the vices of his own people.” E. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 240w
“‘Maureen’ is the story of a peasant girl in Donegal, a terrible story
in many ways and a curiously fascinating one. Mr MacGill knows how to
flash a scene so vividly before your mind that it haunts your visual
memory for days afterward.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 120w
“In ‘Maureen’ there is considerable alloy, yet much good metal and
some precious. But the whole thing needs fusing.” J. C. L.
+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 400w
“‘Maureen’ is not up to ‘Children of the dead end’ or ‘Rat pit,’ but
it is well worth reading, especially to Irish folk and the legion that
love the Irish.” S. C. Daljord
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 600w
“There are very few figures in the story that evoke admiration; most
of them, to be quite frank, suggest the opposite. But their vitality
is amazing, and because of this authentic possession of the power to
make his characters live and breathe, Mr MacGill takes a prominent
place with those other admirable Irish fictioneers, St John Ervine,
Shaw Desmond, James Joyce and James Stephens.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 500w
“Mr MacGill’s story is a stern presentation not only of characters,
but of racial characteristics and psychology. It is always real and
alive. The book unrolls before the reader’s eyes a segment of life
from rural Ireland with all the reality of a picture film.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 650w
“Nothing farther removed from the individualist English novel could be
imagined. It is not that the characters are in any way lacking in
individuality. They are creatures of flesh and blood right enough,
terrible in their humanity. But it is as social rather than as
personal values that they count. There is little joy in Mr MacGill’s
book—one feels that the sun seldom shines in Donegal—but it has
creative richness and the supreme quality of truth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 400w
=MCGILVARY, MARGARET.= Dawn of a new era in Syria. il *$2.50 Revell
940.356
20–20216
“Miss McGilvary during the progress of the war was the secretary of
the Beirut chapter of the Red cross and hence had unusual
opportunities for following the trend of events. The story which she
tells, and of which she herself was a part, is of deep interest; how
an American printing house was converted into a relief bureau; how
American philanthrophy did its part in ameliorating the condition of
the unhappy people; how difficulties were thrown in the way by the
Turks; culminating presently in the arrest of the entire American
mission. She tells in thrilling language of a year of horror, and
toward the end, of the collapse of the Central powers, the decline of
German prestige, and lastly of the end of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Hers is a story very well worth the reading, for it is the story of
one who was upon the spot and was a witness of all of which she
writes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 330w
“Her book contains vivid notes on the personalities of Enver, Talaat,
and Jemal.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 140w
=MCGOVERN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Modern Japan; its political, military
and industrial organization; with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. *$5
Scribner 915.2
(Eng ed 20–9379)
“Dr McGovern spent ten years in the Far East, ‘six of which were
devoted to school and college studies in Japan.’ He is, therefore,
eminently qualified as an interpreter of Japanese thought and Japanese
ideas. He begins with an ethnographical, geographical and historical
introduction. Having discussed the early history of the Yamato race,
he proceeds to give a summary of the evolution of the country since it
was opened up by Commodore Perry’s famous visit. He tells of its
constitution and political parties, of its organization and
government, of its finances, of its efficient bureaucracy (as compared
with the cumbrous British form), its imperial socialism (as he calls
the centralization of all economic activity), of its military
efficiency (based on German models), of its naval menace, of its
industrial and commercial development, its banking system, its
agriculture, its foreign trade. The concluding section is a very brief
statement of the language and literature, the arts of sculpture,
painting, the drama, poetry and religion in its three-fold
phase.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“His book is distinctly illuminating, although we may complain that
too much space is devoted to the dry bones of political and military
matters, and not enough to the psychology of the people and its
expression in literature and the other arts.”
+ − =Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 100w
“A clear, forceful condensation.”
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“Much of Dr McGovern’s book is the expression of a full knowledge and
an open mind. It is perhaps the fairest exposition of the whole field
of Japanese thought and accomplishment to be found in the vast number
of books which have been written about Japan. Dr McGovern’s style is
not noticeable for grace.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 900w
“To those who wish to gain an insight into the potentialities of this
forward pushing nation Dr McGovern’s book offers information that is
well worth having.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 11 ’20 1550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 80w
“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been
more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the
addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if,
instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his
very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether
unexplored.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p247 Ap 22 ’20 850w
=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–17960
The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether
“Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny
Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is
handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some
disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a
band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a
pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it
because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time
possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather
blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for
ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds
is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the
drums of jeopardy.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 180w
=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
20–26106
The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He
was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for
justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts
of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s
daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father
for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who
had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose
fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set
out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s
father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored
his family name to new honor.
* * * * *
“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”
+ − =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 16:172 F ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 480w
“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and
sufficiently rapid in movement.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 500w
+ − =Pub W= 96:1692 D 27 ’19 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 230w
“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the
‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 320w
=MACHARD, ALFRED.= When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard
Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee
20–17171
A story of child life translated from the French. Popaul, a little boy
of ten whose father is at the front, adopts Marie, a Belgian refugee
and takes her home to Madame Medard. The two have many adventures,
humorous and serious, and a deep devotion develops between them. A
blinded soldier tells them the tale of Paul and Virginia and they see
the parallel to their own story. Deeply in love they go through a
marriage ceremony and regard the affair with great seriousness,
accepting Tytie, the American doll, as their child. Popaul, following
his father’s death, is adopted by a rich countess who, finally moved
by his sorrow, sees that the children cannot be separated and takes
Marie to live with her also.
=MACKAIN, F. E.= Buzzy; the story of a little friend of mine. il *$1.50
Jacobs
This story for little children relates the adventures of a teddy bear.
In the first of them Peggy, Buzzy’s little mistress, takes him out
into the snow and sets him up, back to a tree, while she makes a snow
man, and then the tea bell rings and she runs away and forgets all
about him. But Buzzy, left alone, enters into an interesting
conversation with the snow man and makes the acquaintance of a rabbit
who invites him to his home for the night. Buzzy has other adventures,
meets a princess and takes an unexpected journey to London in a suit
case. There are pictures in color and humorous drawings in black and
white by the author.
=MACKALL, LAWTON.= Scrambled eggs. il *$1.25 Stewart & Kidd 817
20–6377
“A diverting tale of barnyard life. Eustace the duck and his wife, who
believes in a communal incubator, Martha the hen who believes that the
female’s place is on the nest, and her frivolous husband Clarence, who
is always finding an attractive new pullet, have various adventures
that parody amusingly the complications of present-day
life.”—Cleveland
+ =Booklist= 16:377 Jl ’20
“The skillfully ludicrous is not half plentiful enough in this sad
world of printed pages. ‘Scrambled eggs,’ however, is just that.”
+ =Bookm= 52:348 D ’20 40w
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 50w
“The satire is amusingly carried out, and the illustrations by Oliver
Herford help a great deal.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 190w
+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 130w
“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his
qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit
of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 100w
=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Chill
hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield
20–3265
Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at
home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the
reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches,
Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon
a time, long ago before the war.
* * * * *
“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and
romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though
never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of
music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of
the abiding fragrance.”
+ =Ath= p494 Ap 9 ’20 180w
“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and
imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing
sketches that has come from the war.”
+ =Booklist= 16:271 My ’20
“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in
‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used
in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist,
and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 500w
+ =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 50w
“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained
in all her bits of prose.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 230w
=Review= 2:605 Je 5 ’20 130w
“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is
never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”
+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 150w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 80w
=MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.=[2] Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran
234
20–10742
“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been
trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the
standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch
with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He
examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the
physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the
psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib
World
* * * * *
“Preachers especially and all students of the phenomena of
Christianity will find this a fresh, stimulating book. It will add a
new accent to the usually dismal discussions of sin and salvation.”
+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 190w
“The analogy between physical and spiritual conditions enables the
writer to offer counsels for spiritual treatment which are clearly the
result of a keen insight into the characters of men and the conditions
in which they live. Readers may not be able to accept some of the
author’s theories and tabulations, but the book is an important
contribution to the study of sin, its origin, its growth, and its
remedies.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p11 Ja 2 ’19 340w
=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Rip Van Winkle. il *$1.50 Knopf 782
20–923
This version of the legend is in the form of a folk-opera in three
acts for which Reginald DeKoven has written the music. Like Dion
Boucicault’s drama, it is based on Washington Irving’s story but, the
author tells us, with more differences than resemblances to both. “The
differences have developed mainly from the consideration that I was
writing—not a story or a play, but an opera; and this constant
consideration has resulted in the two main contributions of mine which
modify the old legend—the creation of a new character, Peterkee, and
the introduction of a new element in the plot, the magic flask.”
(Preface)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“It is fair, however, to warn the reader that he will find here some
graceful verse but little poetry, many characters, but little distinct
characterization, and hardly anything of either the pathos or the
humor of the old story beloved of all readers of English.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:260 Jl ’20 190w
=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Lady Lilith. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18657
The sobriquet, Lady Lilith, is applied to Lady Barbara Neave, daughter
of a viceroy of India. From childhood on she has been a problem to her
family and has kept their nerves on edge with her surprising
escapades. Early accustomed to social prominence and adulation, her
craving for sensations soon seeks wider fields than through
conventional channels. Her excessive vanity makes her an adroit
actress, and her heartlessness enables her to walk roughshod over
everybody in search of new emotions and new rôles to play. She seems
vulnerable only in one spot: her superstition. Throughout the story
she toys with the sensation of Jack Waring’s blunt criticism of
herself and his persistent love-making. The reader is left somewhat in
doubt how much of her remorse after her final refusal of him is
genuine feeling, how much theatrical pose, and how much superstitious
fear.
* * * * *
“If Mr McKenna’s novel were witty, amusing, an aspect of the human
comedy, or just nonsense—or even melodrama—we should not protest. But
to butcher his gifts to make a snobs’ banquet is surely a very
lamentable pastime. It would be interesting to know whether he has—a
dozen, say—readers of his own sex.” K. M.
− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 420w
“The author gives us a picture of present day social and political
life in London, but we sincerely trust that his heroine is not typical
of the modern English woman.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 190w
“An engrossing picture of English society just before and during the
war.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“Two solid volumes of Sonia richly sufficed us and we rather resent
having her served up to us again; even under another name. Lady
Barbara Neave is just Sonia, only more so.” V. G.
− + =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 220w
“The most striking thing in this novel is the fact that though we see
and know Barbara in all her shallow selfishness, we fall under her
spell, even as those who make the story with her fall under it.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 1800w
+ − =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 150w
“Next to ‘Sonia,’ this is the author’s most finished and interesting
work. Indeed, he sometimes attains the high level set in that
admirable book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 420w
“One cannot fail to recognize that artistically he is at home,
conveying always a very fair impression of reality in general detail,
writing with ease and often with wit, drawing characters which are all
recognizable as types. But the significance is the question, and here,
so far, he is not convincing.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 420w
=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Sheila intervenes. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–26313
The outstanding personages of this story are Denys Playfair, an
Irishman with a family history that has made resentment towards the
English governing classes a part of his inheritance; Sheila Farling,
also Irish, slight, black-eyed, clever, full of the joy of life, and
on occasion full of mischief, and scorn and a faculty for raillery;
and Daphne Grayling, Sheila’s cousin, daughter of an old-fashioned
mother who is keeping her in leading strings even to the choice of a
husband for her, and who condemns her to a life of boredom and
inactivity. Sheila’s exuberant spirit leads her to play providence for
her friends. She engineers Denys into a political career, and noticing
the blossoming out of Daphne under Denys’s friendship, does violence
to her own feelings for him, while she engineers the two into a love
compact. Fate intervenes in the form of a serious accident to Daphne’s
ex-fiancé, which brings the latter to a realization that duty is
stronger than love. It also intervenes to acquaint Denys with Sheila’s
true feeling for him for when he collapses before her eyes from the
effects of over-work and strain, her assumed indifference likewise
collapses.
* * * * *
“Her delightful grandfather is one of the best characters and Sheila
herself is irresistible.”
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“Despite this slightness of plot, the story carries its own
sentimental interest and is continually a matter of touch and go.
Moreover the characters are delightful.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 240w
“An earlier work has been resurrected from the obscurity of the
novelist’s earlier career to share the success of his later books. In
many cases the act is justified. But in Mr McKenna’s case it seems to
us decidedly a mistake.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ’20 220w
“Yet in spite of its failings and its extremely weak—at times almost
ludicrously weak—motivation, the novel is not without its good points.
Sheila herself is attractive, and the dialogue is easy and not
infrequently even bright.”
+ − =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 500w
“Imagine a new ‘Dolly dialogues’ with a serious motive behind it, and
you get somewhere near the aim and substance of this earlier work by
the author of ‘Sonia.’” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 400w
“It is all very interesting, for Mr McKenna’s people are brilliant,
and the dinner parties, social gatherings and political conferences
scintillate with wit and sharp exchanges of opinions on public
questions of the moment. Meanwhile, the principal romance is handled
with skill by the author.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 600w
=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Poor relations. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
19–19599
A successful playwright, suddenly grown rich, is surrounded by a host
of poor relations, brothers and sisters with wives, husbands and
offspring, all more or less failures, all tactlessly anxious to drink
at the golden fountain. They drive him from his country home, they
assail him in his town house, they turn against him their slanderous
tongues when their expectations are not fulfilled. He is a good sort
and goes the full length of the bearable, but at last, in desperation,
elopes with his long-loved secretary on a honeymoon to America after
committing one revengeful act. Mindful of the internecine warfare
among his relations, he makes a present of one-fifth of his country
home to each family group respectively.
* * * * *
“The Touchwood family is one of those detestable, fascinating families
that we cannot have enough of.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 1000w
=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“Mr Mackenzie has here the material for a short story or, let us say,
a well-balanced novelette. But instead of selecting, and sorting, and
packing it down, he lets it take possession of him. There is of course
a lot of amusing stuff in it, no end of satirical material, no end of
clever and witty touches. But the book as a book is without form and
void.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 51:341 My ’20 420w
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 50w
“‘Poor relations’ is a farce. Any number of children and adults pass
through its pages, all acting exactly as children and adults act. A
plot of quite exceptional banality and incidents of incredible age and
vulgarity serve to display these life-like wares. It would be easier
to think lightly of Mr Mackenzie’s failure if one did not have to
remember what Henry James said of him. Remembering that, and
remembering Jenny Pearl, the brief story of Mr Mackenzie’s career
takes on some of the proportions of tragedy.” Gilbert Seldes
− =Dial= 68:611 My ’20 1100w
“‘Poor relations’ shows, moreover, that recognition of how strange
people really are which has always been one of Mr Mackenzie’s virtues.
He has resisted that persistent underwriting of character and
circumstance which has been the curse of refined English literature
ever since the days of Gissing, and has not been afraid to allow
fantastic people to do fantastic things.” Rebecca West
+ =New Repub= 21:362 F 18 ’20 1200w
“Written in a light ironic manner, with much deftness of phrasing and
a thorough understanding of the follies and meannesses and hypocrisies
to which his ‘poor relations’ are so exceedingly prone, it yet usually
and skilfully contrives to keep the reader in sympathy with its vain,
generous, sentimental and self-deceived hero.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 750w
“Though marred toward the end by that longwindedness which is his
besetting sin, it is exceptionally amusing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Mr Mackenzie may object to the expression: ‘this well known author
writes in an entirely new vein’ but it seems to fit the occasion. He
handles his hero with affectionate jocularity bordering on farce. Yet
the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, human and
lovable—perhaps just because of its convincing defects.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 260w
“It was with some trepidation that we opened ‘Poor relations.’ Our
delight was therefore doubly great on finding no taint of the Scarlett
novels marring its pages. Quite early in the book the principal
character remarks: ‘This passion for realism is everywhere.... Thank
goodness, I’ve been through it and got over it and put it behind me
for ever.’ Let us pray that he is speaking with the voice of his
creator.”
+ =Sat R= 128:319 O 4 ’19 1150w
“This is an ingenious and at times diverting recital, bordering on
extravaganza, but not too remotely detached from reality to be
incredible, and not too malicious in its satire to be unenjoyable.”
+ =Spec= 123:865 D 20 ’19 400w
“‘Poor relations’ is engagingly light-hearted in all its phases, with
a discernible grain of reality beneath the shell of comedy and
satire.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 600w
“The oppression which has seemed of late to brood over the work of Mr
Compton Mackenzie has cleared away, we hope never to return. In ‘Poor
relations’ the sun comes out brightly from the clouds, a gentle breeze
of humour blows the story along, and the reader from the first page to
the last enjoys himself immensely.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w
=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Vanity girl. *$2 (1½c) Harper
20–7724
It is the story of the clever scheming of a vain, selfish, heartless
but very beautiful girl. Her first step to use her beauty as an asset
was to go on the stage. As “Vanity girl,” opportunities offered to
cast her net for a titled husband. She captured the fifth Earl of
Clarehaven and was received by the family on equal terms. Her first
disappointment came when the fates denied her a son to inherit the
earldom, and her second when her foolish husband, with cards and
horses, succeeded in losing the family estate. When he is killed in
France, and the sixth Earl of Clarehaven at last arrives, the
impoverished countess still has one trump card left. She marries the
millionaire Jew, who is now owner of Clare, on the condition that he
make over the entire estate to her son.
* * * * *
“In whatever contempt Mr Mackenzie may hold his public—how is it
possible that he should dare to invite them to partake of such sickly
food? We should not waste space upon so pretentious and stupid a book
were it not that we have believed in his gifts and desire to protest
that he should so betray them.” K. M.
− =Ath= p639 My 14 ’20 760w
“This writer does have the instinct for action and, once you accept
his people as figures in a picaresque novel, you have something to tie
to, as you never do with Mr George. The ‘trouble’ here, indeed, is
that Mr Mackenzie, not being aware of his true job, deviates into
sense, that is, into interpretation, just often enough to queer his
real pitch.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 52:251 N ’20 300w
=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 1200w
− =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 80w
“As his art approaches its maturity, he adds to his native wit and
cleverness a sure mastery of technique which puts him unmistakably in
the forefront of the English novelists of the day. So clever and
interesting is Mr Mackenzie’s new novel that one regrets the more to
find, if anything, an increase in the smart nastiness that
occasionally blemishes his writing.” Stanley Went
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 1500w
=N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 700w
“Mr Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never
mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical.
Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called ‘Sylvia
Scarlett,’ I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing
novels about every one of the Vanity chorus.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 160w
“For the reader, unless he likes flippancy and fireworks for their own
sakes, the end of it all is not much better than vanity. Mr Mackenzie,
at least, is a story-teller of a sort. However encumbered with facts,
his narrative always has the charm of an adventure which, if it never
quite gets anywhere, is at least always amusingly on its way.” H. W.
Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“That this plebeian girl should step into her exalted social station
and so speedily absorb the new life and arouse love and veneration for
the Clarehaven tradition and inheritance is little short of a miracle.
But Mr Mackenzie makes it seem natural.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 470w
“Mr Compton Mackenzie will receive praise for this new novel from
those to whom it was chiefly intended to appeal; it will receive
adverse criticism from those whose judgment Mr Mackenzie has by now,
perhaps, ceased to take into account. It will have earned the one and
thoroughly deserved the other. Deliberately he has written a story of
a snob for snobs.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 720w
=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Korea’s fight for freedom. *$2 (2c) Revell
951.9
20–2360
Instead of a new edition of the author’s “Tragedy of Korea,” this is a
new book including some of the old matter and bringing the story of
Korea up-to-date. It is the story of the injustice and the cruelty
practised by Japan against Korea in its policy of imperial expansion.
“In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards
liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long
sleep, under conditions of tragic terror, that has seized hold of and
is clinging fast to, things vital to civilization as we see it,
freedom and free faith, the honor of their women, the development of
their own souls.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Opening
the oyster; Japan makes a false move; The Independence club; The new
era; The rule of Prince Ito; With the rebels; The last days of the
Korean empire; The missionaries; Torture à la mode; The people
speak—the tyrants answer; Girl martyrs for liberty; World reactions;
What can we do?
* * * * *
“This book deserves a wide reading. It breathes a real humanitarian
interest in the present unhappy fate of over ten million people; and
on its constructive side suggests a way out of a far eastern situation
full of dangers for the American people.” W. W. McLaren
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:518 Ag ’20 200w
“A well written account.”
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
=Review= 2:545 My 22 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 20w
“It is impossible not to feel admiration for the Koreans in reading
the history of its people as written by an author who understands and
sympathizes with them.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 250w
“A few minor statements are incorrect. But none acquainted with the
situation can deny the accuracy of its statements of fact, or the
propriety of its positions.” A missionary
+ − =Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 300w
“Of Mr McKenzie’s trustworthiness as a witness there can be no
question.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
=Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Pussyfoot Johnson. il *$1.50 Revell
20–20628
“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent
of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in
a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his
assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating
liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this
and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled
‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A.
McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 560w
+ =Outlook= 125:714 Ag 25 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 240w
“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to
give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg
+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 460w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 250w
=MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES.= Future of medicine. (Oxford medical
publications) *$5 Oxford 610
26–26322
“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification
of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of
‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to
diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods
in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it
may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate
instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn
how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able
to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What
the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals
outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of
clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university,
Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four
closely printed pages.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
+ =Sat R= 128:466 N 15 ’19 1200w
“One lays aside the book with a feeling of great respect and
admiration for this great and honest physician. All the same, one
cannot help feeling that the disadvantages of the present system of
teaching in the medical schools is exaggerated by the writer, and
that, were the attempt made so to alter it as to meet the demands of a
man of so keen an intellect as Sir James Mackenzie, a few giants might
be reared, but that the work of the average man would suffer.”
+ − =Spec= 122:476 O 11 ’19 1300w
“The social worker who expects to find in Dr Mackenzie’s book on ‘The
future of medicine’ a discussion of the socialization of medicine and
the solution of many of the medical problems of the future will be
disappointed. The medical and perhaps the lay reader, however, will be
amply rewarded by the brilliant and, sometimes, scathing criticism by
Dr Mackenzie of the present laboratory research and specialty aspects
of medical science.” G: M. Price
+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 Ag 14 ’19 80w
“Much thought has been devoted to the composition of this attempt to
influence the future of medicine. A good deal of this material is
highly technical, which is doubtless unavoidable, but has the
disadvantages of making the weighing of the evidence exceedingly
difficult for any except members of the medical profession.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 1400w
=MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.=[2] Story of a fortunate youth. $1.25 (7c)
Atlantic monthly press
These “chapters from the biography of an elderly gentleman”
(Sub-title) are sketchy bits from the career of a minister who began
life as a little Scotch boy in the East Highlands. His first fortune
was a “bawbee” found in the dust, then came real earnings—beginning
with six-pence and the duties of a shepherd—to help eke out the family
income—until the great country across the water beckoned him. There
the usual course from farm hand and country school-teacher to college
and the ministry are gone through, all told lovingly and in whimsical
style by the old gentleman’s daughter. The chapters are: The boy and
the bawbee; The boy and the half-crown; The boy and the dollar; The
wages of youth.
=MACKENZIE, JOHN STUART.= Arrows of desire; essays on British
characteristics. *$3.75 Macmillan 914.2
“The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is
as misleading as Ruskin’s ‘On the construction of sheepfolds.’
Professor Mackenzie’s book consists, in fact, of essays on our
[England’s] national character. He discusses ‘Henry V.’ on the
assumption that Shakespeare regarded the king as a typical Englishman.
He then considers the English character, taking in turn each of the
reproaches hurled at us by native and foreign critics. He contrasts
the sister-nations with England, and incidentally repeats what we
believe to be the fallacious statement that the Scotsman is more
democratic than the Englishman. In the end Professor Mackenzie seems
to conclude that we are not so bad after all, and that our chief
danger lies in a ‘superficial optimism.’”—Spec
* * * * *
“An analysis of British characteristics by a British professor is a
difficult task for any fair-minded man, which is probably why Mr J. S.
Mackenzie draws upon a consensus of other people’s opinions with which
to support his own. This continual reference to authorities is a
little wearisome to the flesh, the more so since Mr Mackenzie shows
himself a really competent judge of the matter, avoiding
self-gratification without the obverse fault of detraction in order to
prove himself just.”
+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“He is too attentive to detail, too eager to back up what he has to
say with chapter and verse. The professor in him is uppermost, to the
detriment of the writer. Nevertheless, in spite of these handicaps,
there is acute analysis in Professor Mackenzie’s book. In its parts
his book is good; as a whole it lacks coherence and smoothness.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan
=Review= 2:546 My 22 ’20 1300w
− + =Sat R= 130:319 O 16 ’20 820w
“It is an entertaining book.”
+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 160w
“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be
compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable
to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly
throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a
disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly
surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 Ap 1 ’20 1950w
=MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH.= Cattle and the future of
beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2
Agr20–243
A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and
increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the
University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the
chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in
agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store
cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle;
Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F.
H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.
* * * * *
“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr
Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most
likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will
circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the
farming community generally.” C. C.
+ =Nature= 105:62 Mr 18 ’20 850w
“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not
profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”
+ =Spec= 124:278 F 28 ’20 1200w
“Mr Mackenzie is original and daring in some of his suggestions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p549 O 9 ’19 200w
=MACKIE, RANSOM A.= Education during adolescence. *$2 Dutton 373
20–4028
“Basing his arguments very largely on Stanley Hall’s ‘Educational
problems,’ the author proceeds to describe what are the essentials of
a high school curriculum.” (Cleveland) “In the introduction, Dr Hall
states that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and so-called
formal studies and methods of discipline are largely a delusion and a
snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. In chapter I the author
states that the purpose of education, based not only on the needs of
society but also on the needs of the adolescent, are, according to Dr
Hall, ‘to train character, to suggest, to awaken, to graft interest,
to give range and loftiness of sentiment of view, to broaden
knowledge, and to bring everything into touch with life.’ During this
age every effort possible should be made to ‘fill and develop mind,
heart, soul, and body,’ especially with a view to vocational training.
Such training demands vitalized and humanized materials of education
and methods of instruction.” (School R)
* * * * *
“A good summary written with forceful simplicity.”
+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
=Cleveland= p91 S ’20 50w
=El School J= 21:158 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by Paul Shorey
− =Review= 2:433 Ap 24 ’20 1600w
“Taken as a whole, this book is quite suggestive and inspirational.
Those persons who find the original works of G. Stanley Hall a little
weighty will have their minds refreshed with some of his doctrines by
reading Mr Mackie’s book, in which Dr Hall’s philosophy is presented
in a very readable style, yet with less tonnage than is found in his
own works.” J: B. Clark
+ =School R= 28:717 N ’20 820w
=MCKIM, WILLIAM DUNCAN.= Study for the times. *$2.50 Putnam 150
20–21213
The author calls his study “an inquiry into thought and motive,” and
this he considers imperative in these post-war times of restlessness
and impatience, of fads and crazes, of hasty formulation of rights and
noisy demand for their concession. Although much in this mad onward
rush may be of lasting value and help towards a rejuvenation of the
race, the latter, he holds, can only be accomplished through careful
patient thought and a study of the limitations and frailties of our
own individual natures. The book deals largely with human psychology
and the findings of psycho-pathology. Contents: Introduction; Social
influences; The individual mind; The knowing function; The feeling
function; Conclusion; Index.
=MACKINNON, ALBERT GLENTHORN.= Guid auld Jock. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
19–18839
Jock had a keen relish for other people’s affairs, especially those of
Scotchmen. At the military hospital he ferreted out all such and
became their father confessor, their lawyer and general confidant. The
book is a collection of such confessions, of wrongs committed, of
secret sins, of weighted consciences. And every story had its
complement. The other man always turned up and in his turn made a
confession, and, thanks to Jock’s discretion, quick wit and sense of
humor, there was always a righting and a smoothing over. Some of the
titles are: Jock’s neebors; How Jock healed his comrade’s worst wound;
The barbed wires of misunderstanding; A prank o’ the post; A maitter
o’ conscience.
=MCKISHNIE, ARCHIE P.= Son of courage. il *$1.75 (2c) Reilly & Lee
20–17187
Billy Wilson was one of the boys in a small settlement on the north
coast of Lake Erie. He was full of fun, always ready for some boyish
deviltry and the leader among his chums. The other side of his
character was love of nature and animals, undaunted courage and love
of fair dealing. He was afraid only of ghosts and even against those
he felt secure with his rabbit’s-foot charm. His exploits are many and
exasperating but he wins the heart of his stepmother and of the
prettiest girl in the settlement and becomes instrumental in solving
several mysteries and discovering a treasure.
* * * * *
“A satisfying story of outdoor life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 70w
=MCKOWAN, EVAH.=[2] Graydon of the Windermere. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–21188
Kent Graydon of the Windermere is a young Canadian engineer who has
gone West and made good. Since his schoolboy days he has cherished the
memory of Alleyne Milburne as his ideal of womanhood. Then one summer
he meets her again in his own western country. He woos her ardently
and it is not until he loses out to his rival of earlier days that he
realizes that it is not she who embodies his ideals, but her cousin
Claire, who is “honourable and generous, sportsmanlike and fair,
sympathetic and womanly.”
=MCLACHLAN, HERBERT.= St Luke, the man and his work. *$3 (*7s 6d)
Longmans 226
20–14133
“In a dozen chapters, Mr McLachlan, lecturer in Hellenistic Greek in
the University of Manchester, discusses St Luke, the man of letters,
the linguist, the editor, the theologian, the humorist, the letter
writer, the reporter, the diarist, etc. The work gives in brief the
views of German and English Protestants and Rationalists on every
phase of the Lucan problem—authenticity, language, accuracy, doctrine
and the like.”—Cath World
* * * * *
“This is a book from which the student of the Lucan writers will learn
much, whether he is among the conservatives or the revolutionaries in
textual criticism.”
+ =Ath= p540 Ap 23 ’20 800w
+ − =Cath World= 111:686 Ag ’20 320w
“This scholarly book is to be commended to the notice of New Testament
students.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 290w
=MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW CUNNINGHAM.=[2] Steps in the development of American
democracy. *$1.50 Abingdon press 342.7
20–8377
“A small volume comprising the lectures delivered by Professor
McLaughlin at Wesleyan university. This series of lectures was the
first to be given on the George Slocum Bennett foundation ‘for the
promotion of a better understanding of national problems and of a more
perfect realization of the responsibilities of citizenship.’ The
author tells us in the preface that his purpose ‘is simply to recount
a few salient experiences which helped to make America what it is, ...
as also to describe certain basic doctrines and beliefs, some of which
may have had their day, while others have not yet reached
fulfillment.’”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“In a work of this character, the presentation of new historical facts
is not to be expected, but rather a new and fresh treatment of them
and of their significance. This latter task is what Mr McLaughlin
essayed in this series of lectures and this he has most successfully
achieved. Mr McLaughlin’s firm grasp upon the history of the country
is apparent throughout his treatment, and his discussion is
characterized by brilliant exposition and frequently enlivened by
flashes of wit and even restrained sarcasm.” H. V. Ames
+ =Am Hist R= 26:344 Ja ’21 540w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 50w
“Necessarily, the treatment of the subject is broad but it is marked
by a sense of proportion and by genuine insight.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 120w
=MCLELLAN, ELEANOR.= Voice education. *$1.75 (7½c) Harper 784.9
20–16097
The author claims to have discovered a system of scientific vocal
technique through many years of practical research work by beginning
with correcting abnormalities of speech and voice action. “This means
rectifying conditions such as hoarseness, thickness of the vocal cords
and surrounding muscles, nodules, paralyzed vocal cords, loss of high
or low notes, stuttering, and all allied phonation and action
troubles.” (Preface) The contents are: Breath; Tone versus vowel;
Attack and poise of tone; Consonants; Interpretation; Requirements of
a great career; Emotions and characteristics of singers.
* * * * *
“Every teacher and singer—and just people—would do well to take the
chapter on ‘Emotions and characteristics of the singer’ in this book
to heart. But there the practical help of the book to a singer or
teacher ends.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 150w
=MACMANUS, SEUMAS.= Top o’ the mornin’. *$1.90 (3c) Stokes
20–17081
A collection of old and new tales in the Irish dialect. Some of the
copyright dates go back to 1899. Others belong to the present year.
The titles are: The lord mayor o’ Buffalo; The Widow Meehan’s
Cassimeer shawl; The cadger-boy’s last journey; The minister’s
racehorse; The case of Kitty Kildea: Billy Baxter’s holiday; Wee
Paidin; When Barney’s trunk comes home; Five minutes a millionaire;
Mrs Carney’s sealskin; The capture of Nelly Carribin; The bellman of
Carrick; Barney Brian’s monument; All on the brown knowe; The
heartbreak of Norah O’Hara.
* * * * *
“Splendid for reading aloud and full of fun and good Irish wit.”
+ =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“Mr MacManus has a certain delicate whimsicality of utterance that
transforms his somewhat sordid characters into beings of real
interest. They provide a volume of extremely pleasant little stories,
all quite indelibly branded with the mark of the shamrock.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 220w
“Mr MacManus makes potent use of the folk-flavour: he draws his
inspiration from the touchstone of common humanity; but he never
hesitates to take what liberties he chooses with his material.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 3:238 N 17 ’20 170w
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 60w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 380w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 130w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w
=MCMASTER, JOHN BACH.= United States in the world war (1918–1920). v 2
*$3 Appleton 940.373
20–12608
This is the second volume of Professor McMaster’s history of the war.
It deals with the work of the American troops in France and ends with
the peace conference and the rejection of the peace treaty by the
United States senate. Contents: Submarines off our coast; War work at
home; Fighting in France; Peace offensives; The armistice; The
president goes abroad; The peace conference; The treaty of peace; The
treaty rejected; Appendices; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“The arrangement may be registered at once as both logical and, within
the scope of logic, rhetorical, even dramatic. He did not make as good
use as he might have done of the reports of Pershing and March. When
the chapter ‘War work at home’ is so well written it is a pity that no
attention should be paid to the efforts the enemy was making to render
that work futile.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 29 ’20 2500w
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 100w
“The second volume is a distinct disappointment. Even considering the
haste with which it must have been prepared, the single chapter
devoted to the military phase of the war is almost absurdly inadequate
and our naval participation is snubbed still more severely. The
chapter headed ‘War work at home,’ however, is well done, and the one
entitled ‘The treaty rejected,’ considering all the difficulties of
the topic, is also handled with considerable skill.”
− + =Review= 3:508 N 24 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 160w
“We do not observe that Professor McMaster has utilized any sources of
information which are not readily accessible; he seems indeed to have
relied largely upon the reports in the newspapers. The book is
disfigured by some careless mistakes.”
− + =Spec= 125:643 N 13 ’20 170w
=MCMASTERS, WILLIAM HENRY.= Revolt. il *$1.60 Small
19–18647
“William H. McMasters has produced ‘Revolt,’ a tale of the
presidential election in the year 1940. The hero is Roger Morton, a
young multi-millionaire of thirty-eight, son of the world’s first
billionaire, John Paine Morton, president of the Universal trust
company, which has controlled both political parties of the United
States for many years. This marvelous young man, being urged to do
so by one of the professors on his death bed, forms the
revolutionist party, outwits his father at every point, and elects
Dan Holman, one of his Harvard classmates as president of the United
States.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:297 Je 6 ’20 340w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 100w
“His characters are rather wooden at first, and he has to jerk hard on
the strings to make them do the next thing next, but as the story
gathers speed and momentum, they almost run away from him.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 280w
=MCMICHAEL, CHARLES BARNSLEY=, tr. Short stories from the Spanish. il
*$1.50 Boni & Liveright
20–8278
“The present volume is published with the intention of interesting
American readers in the Spanish short story—a form in which the
Spanish excel. There are three stories by Ruben Dario, three by
Jacinto Octavio Picon and one by Leopoldo Alas. In addition there is a
helpful introduction giving a short sketch of the life of each of
these authors.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The translation is on the whole effective though sometimes awkwardly
literal.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 320w
“Exquisite little word pictures of a way of living full of delicate
grace and beauty.”
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 30w
“These seven tales are marked by charm and delicacy, rather than by
strength and passion. Judge McMichael’s translation is generally
effective, although it sometimes suffers from excessively
conscientious literalness.” W. H. C.
+ − =New Repub= 23:183 Jl 7 ’20 260w
“The publishers of this volume have performed a genuine service in
offering to American readers in an attractive form these literary gems
from a language in which public interest is constantly increasing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“There is a clear simplicity and naive directness to be found in the
work of all three writers which marks them as of the same race.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 300w
=MACMURCHY, HELEN.= Almosts: a study of the feeble-minded. *$1 50 (4c)
Houghton 132
20–5606
The book is a study of “the fool” in literature, the author
maintaining that valuable suggestions for the treatment and care of
the feeble-minded can be obtained thereby. “Sometimes the poet sees
more than the scientist, even when the scientific man is playing at
his own game. The novelist can give a few points to the sociologist,
and the dramatist to the settlement worker.” The great writers have
studied the feeble-minded from life. They have “discovered long before
the modern ‘uplifter’ was born, that we must reckon with the mental
defective as one of those many things in heaven and earth that are not
dealt with by some philosophers, and yet that make a great difference
to the community and social progress.” The writers from whom the
characters are taken are: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, Bulwer
Lytton, Charles Reade, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawthorne and others.
* * * * *
“The value of the book is perhaps the greatest in pointing out
concretely to the general reader the common characteristics of
defectives through these well known examples.”
+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
“It is not only valuable, but it has as the clever author doubtless
intended, the delight of recalling to one’s mind, old time favorites
and old familiar friends.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 18 ’20 360w
=Cleveland= p74 Ag ’20 40w
=N Y Evening Post= p11 My 1 ’20 600w
“Although slight and relatively unimportant, the book will doubtless
reach many persons with its message of the need for segregation and
institutional treatment who would not have been attracted by a work
couched in the more prosaic terminology of science.” K. M. G.
+ =Social Hygiene= 6:594 O ’20 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 2 ’20 180w
“‘The almosts’ will surely help the recognition and adequate care of
the feebleminded. It should help to form public opinion.” Alexander
Johnson
+ =Survey= 44:449 Je 26 ’20 550w
=MACNAMARA, BRINSLEY.= Clanking of chains. *$1.90 Brentano’s
19–17481
“The tale is called a story of Sinn Fein, yet it is not the history of
that party or a novel that deals primarily with party matters: rather
it is the study of an individual, whose finer instincts are never
understood by his daily companions and whose efforts do not prove
immediately fruitful. Michael Dempsey, the hero, we first meet taking
the part of Robert Emmet in an amateur play given in the town of
Ballycullen. The novel, then, is only incidentally a story of Sinn
Fein, and chiefly the tale of Michael Dempsey’s two loves—Ireland and
‘Mirandolina.’ In the first case, he wooes and loses; in the second,
his victory is, one is almost sure, partly defeat.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“An extraordinary and tragic book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:345 My ’20 250w
“On the whole, ‘The clanking of chains,’ though a very readable piece
of work, does not measure up to ‘The valley of the squinting windows’;
its characterization is less clear, its incident less varied, its
impress less lasting.” I. G.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 950w
=Lit D= p94 S 4 ’20 1650w
“The story is very vivid and very interesting. Irish village life is
satirized with considerable skill. But one wonders what exactly Mr
Macnamara intends us to infer.... Emigration seems to be his own
counsel to the better spirits, as it was Dickens’s counsel in ‘David
Copperfield’ to the disappointed English Chartist. But then, as now,
this was a counsel of despair.” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:462 My 1 ’20 1050w
“This is a strong, sombre, and disquieting book.”
+ =Spec= 124:247 F 21 ’20 750w
“The picture is painted in drab colors, and in the narration of the
slender story the author is never at pains to cater to any party’s
sympathies or prejudices.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 30 ’20 180w
“The story is told in a confused way, and in several places the action
hangs fire. The book also contains too much rhetoric. But the analysis
both of the inhabitants of Ballycullen and of the problems which these
individuals personify is acute and honest. Mr Macnamara is, for a
writer on Irish topics, impartial, and he makes a great effort to
consider the case from every aspect.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 540w
=MACNAUGHTAN, SARAH BROOM.= My war experiences in two continents; ed. by
her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young). *$5 Dutton 940.48
(Eng ed 19–8145)
“The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to
some extent for her earlier book, ‘A woman’s diary of the war,’ but
there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the
description of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her
soup-kitchen at Furnes, is vivid and moving. After a year in Belgium
and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Macnaughtan went to give her
help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition
made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian
dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her
physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships
she had to endure, she was forced home by illness in the following
spring, and she died a few months later. If the chapters dealing with
this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader
feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her
pen.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Though one feels that her deliberate aim was to set down faithfully
what she saw—the result is infinitely more than that. It is a
revelation of her inner self which would perhaps never have been
revealed in times less terrible and strange.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p237 Ap 25 ’19 1200w
=Brooklyn= 12:43 N ’19 40w
+ =Pittsburgh= 24:612 D ’19 40w
+ =Sat R= 127:426 My 3 ’19 700w
+ =Spec= 122:637 My 17 ’19 200w
“The definite opinions she expresses are so often at variance with one
another that the reviewer must tear up his laboured analysis and plead
ignorance. But her inconsistency is only superficial; through it all
she is affirming her love for what is noble and disinterested.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p176 Ap 3 ’19 1100w
=MCPHERSON, LOGAN GRANT.= Flow of value. *$2.50 (2c) Century 330.1
20–1957
Proceeding from the premise that human energy ought to be directed to
the service of human kind, it is the author’s object to ascertain how
human activities can be so coordinated as to result in the general
good. His problem is to assemble the findings of economists and
sociologists into a body of scientific facts from which the trained
investigator can draw correct conclusions. The book is a continuation
of the presentation embodied in a previous volume: “How the world
makes its living,” and presents the sequence of cause and effect in
determining prices, wages, and profit. A partial list of the contents
is: Human effort and human wants; Property in matter and property in
force; Utility and utilities; The exchange of utilities and the unit
of exchange; The actual development of industry and commerce in the
United States; The relativity of human effort and the relativity of
human wants; The interrelations of effort, prices, and profit; Value;
Capital; The ultimate units of production and consumption; Money; The
trend of the monetary and banking system; Sound minds in sound bodies;
Index.
+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 80w
“The value of the present work lies in the clearness with which the
fact is developed that all commodities and services are the product of
human effort. The vigorous enforcement of this truth at a time when
the world seems bent on a hunger strike is a real service.”
+ =Review= 2:282 Mr 20 ’20 1000w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 140w
“Teachers of college courses in economics will find in Mr McPherson’s
‘The flow of value’ an admirable book for collateral reading. The
clarity of exposition, the wealth of concrete illustration, and the
refreshing novelty of some of the analysis deserve special
commendation.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 170w
=MCPHERSON, WILLIAM LENHART.= Short history of the great war. *$2.50
(3c) Putnam 940.3
20–6967
This volume “dealing particularly with its military and diplomatic
aspects and the part played in it by the United States” (Sub-title),
offers a general outline story of the war with the main object of
giving a clear and accurate running account of its origin and
progress. It is a complement to the author’s other book, “The strategy
of the great war,” and gives in detail all the outstanding facts and
principal operations of the war with appendices and an index.
* * * * *
“Because this book relates to military policy, it is equally
interesting to the trained soldier and to the intelligent civilian.”
X. Y. Z.
+ =Nation= 111:106 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“The only regret of the reader in regard to Mr McPherson’s one-volume
history of the war is that it has no maps; otherwise, within the
limitations of space set, it leaves nothing to be desired.” Walter
Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Clear and good it is, but it leaves the impression in one’s mind of
newspaper material dished up into a book. On the score of originality
of presentation, freshness of statement, vigor of style, it suffers by
comparison with Pollard’s, nor does it exhibit the same nicety of
proportion and balance.”
+ − =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 170w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 100w
+ =St Louis= 18:238 O ’20 40w
=MACQUARRIE, HECTOR.= Tahiti days. il *$4.50 (7½c) Doran 919.6
20–19772
The author was ordered to the Tahiti Islands for his health and found
it there, and now invites the reader to step onto his magic carpet and
follow him thither, to the fairy land of the South seas, to the
“Island of tranquil delight” where the gentle Polynesians will pluck
oranges for him, climb the cocoanut palms for nuts for him and regale
him with their bananas and breadfruit and where he can see the natives
diving for pearls. Among the contents are: Raratonga; The Moana;
Tahiti; Babies; The hula-hula; Hikuero, the pearl island; Pearl
diving; Breakfast on Hikuero; The Marai and Miggimiggi; Firewalking on
Tahiti; The epidemic. The book is profusely illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
“He writes of his stay in Tahiti in an interesting fashion, although
he spoils his book by his coarseness and his contempt for the moral
law. He is at his best when he describes the pearl diving near Kikuero
Island, the pagan rite of the fire-walkers of Tahiti, or the customs
of the natives.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:695 F ’21 130w
“It is a charming book, and one well calculated to disturb the
contentment of any city dweller.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p12 D 26 ’20 1450w
“It is one of the most entertaining of the recent books about
adventure in the islands of the Pacific.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“Hector MacQuarrie’s ‘Tahiti days’ is a much more creditable book than
some other recent works on the same subject. Mr MacQuarrie writes with
appreciation of the islands and the people, he writes with directness
and humor, and best of all he writes like a man, not like a snickering
little boy with naughty stories to tell.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 110w
=MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER=, ed. Famous detective stories. *$1.50 (2c)
Crowell
20–15065
The stories selected for this collection are: The purloined letter, by
Edgar Allan Poe; An interview with M. Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau; A
scandal in Bohemia, by A. Conan Doyle; The adventure of the hansom
cabs, by Robert Louis Stevenson; The adventure of the toadstools, by
Sax Rohmer; Gentlemen and players, by E. W. Hornung; The black hand,
by Arthur B. Reeve; The grotto spectre, by Anna Katherine Green; The
mystery of the steel disk, by Broughton Brandenburg; The sign of the
shadow, by Maurice Le Blanc; The mystery of the steel room, by Thomas
W. Hanshew.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
=Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 150w
“There is much entertainment in J. Walker McSpadden’s eleven ‘Famous
detective stories.’ One thing is certain, the detective story,
entertaining as it may be, is the most thoroughly standardized product
in modern literature, as bright and hard and competent as a jackknife,
and hardly one iota more humane.”
+ − =Nation= 111:354 S 25 ’20 220w
=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 130w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w
=MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER=, ed. Famous psychic stories. *$1.50 (2½c)
Crowell
20–16801
Mr McSpadden, who had compiled an earlier collection of ghost stories,
touches on the difference between the “psychic” and the “ghost” story
in his introduction. In the latter the “old fashioned spook”
predominates, while the wide range possible under the term psychic is
disclosed by his analysis of the twelve stories. These stories are:
The white old maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The facts in the case of
M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; The dream woman, by Wilkie Collins;
The open door, by Margaret Oliphant; The stalls of Barchester
cathedral, by Montague Rhodes James; The man who went too far, by E.
F. Benson; Moxon’s master, by Ambrose Bierce; The beast with five
fingers, by W. F. Harvey; From the loom of the dead, by Elia W.
Peattie; The ghoul, by Evangeline W. Blashfield; The shadows on the
wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The widow’s mite, by Isaac K. Funk.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
=Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 140w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 140w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w
=MACVEAGH, EWEN CAMERON, and BROWN, LEE D.= Yankee in the British zone.
il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.373
20–3186
The object of the book which has a foreword by Major General Wood, and
which gives an account of the good understanding and mutual
helpfulness existing between the British and American troops is to
point a lesson for preparedness so that we may not “become too well
satisfied with the outstanding fact that the war was ultimately won,”
but may plan during the new phase of our history upon which we are now
entering what to retain of and what to add to our hastily constructed
military machine. Among the contents are: Getting acquainted; Reasons
for the Yankee in the British zone; Tommy Atkins’ estate in France;
The Yanks explore and rehearse: Off for the battle of a hundred days;
The breaking of the Hindenburg line; Hun opinions of the Yankee;
Accomplishments, discoveries, and results of the Yankee in the British
zone. There are many illustrations and four appendices.
* * * * *
“The humorous tone saves the book from the charge of propagandism.”
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
“The book contains a wealth of anecdotes, which throw light on the
failings of both American and English soldiers towards each other.” O.
McK.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w
“It is good-humoured, accurate, full of incident, and a bit ‘hurrah.’”
+ =Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 40w
“A frank, brave, sportsmanly record.” Coningsby Dawson
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1200w
“The humorous as well as the serious side of soldier life comes out in
strong relief.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 120w
“The authors are announced as ‘trained observers,’ and the reader
concedes the title, adding that of trained or naturally facile
writers, for they have dressed their material with real skill.”
+ =Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 125:573 O 30 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 180w
=MAGNUSSEN, JULIUS.= God’s smile; tr. by Daniel Kilham Dodge. *$1.75
(4½c) Appleton 134
20–13992
A work translated from the Danish. The author is a Danish dramatist
whose plays have been produced at the National theater. At the age of
thirty-seven and at the height of his popularity he suddenly lost
interest in the comedy he was writing and found his attention turned
to psychic matters by a series of curious experiences. These are
described in this book. They began with table rappings, which aroused
only amusement and derision, and continued with automatic writings
which finally routed his scepticism. The book is said to have run thru
ten editions in the first month of publication in Denmark.
* * * * *
“There is little imaginative power and no trace of originality in
these supposed communications from the spirit world, which bear a
familiar stamp of vague and grandiloquent optimism. The translation
does not impress us as particularly good.”
− =Ath= p678 N 19 ’20 70w
“Deeply sincere, and well told in spite of excessive egoism and
introspection.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
“The book is spiritism watered and sugared; its ‘God’ will make
converts for atheism, and its ‘smile’ will beget pessimists.”
− =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 250w
“As a matter of fact, his self-revelation is more interesting than are
the psychical experiences that he narrates.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 320w
“Mr Magnussen begins his account in a vein of naive egotism, which—at
any rate when in the dress of another language—sometimes approaches
the comic; but as he proceeds his story assumes a literary quality by
means of its directness and simplicity.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 20w
=MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE.= Books and their writers. *$2 Dodd 824
(Eng ed 20–9510)
A series of literary essays and reviews. The author says, “All I have
sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained
from desultory reading of all kinds during the last few years.” In
part 1, Novelists and novels, he writes of Compton Mackenzie, Norman
Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Stephen McKenna, Jane Austen, Clemence
Dane, Dorothy Richardson. Part 2, Poetry and poets, is devoted to J.
C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols, Dora Sigerson, Chinese
poetry. Part 3, Books in general, contains reviews of Strachey’s
“Eminent Victorians,” Smith’s “Trivia,” and other recent works, also
papers on Alice Meynell as critic and Lafcadio Hearn. Some of the
essays are reprinted from the Fortnightly Review and To-day.
* * * * *
“A light and sketchy, appreciative and not over-critical, yet useful
contribution to the history of current literature.”
+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 90w
“There is not one author treated by Mr Mais of whom the reader will
get a just estimate, for frothy appreciation is not justice; but there
is one author whom the reader will come to know all too well, and he
is Mr Mais. Even in his interminable and ill-written summaries of
other men’s work, of which the bulk of the book consists, Mr Mais
obtrudes himself. He cannot create, he cannot judge, and with his own
clamour he deafens judgment.” O. W.
− =Ath= p542 Ap 23 ’20 1300w
“The most interesting part of Mr Mais’s ‘Books and their writers’ is,
to my mind, that devoted to novels and novelists.” K. F. Gerould
+ − =Bookm= 52:264 N ’20 460w
“Although Mr Mais’s title is commonplace, his essays are not likewise
dull. They are variable in quality, to be sure, and there is in them a
revelation of the critical faculty their writer so explicitly denies
himself.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 22 ’20 750w
“An easily readable book, full of time beguiling extracts from the
authors under review—an excellent reference book to supplement more
critical and comprehensive works on contemporary literature.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 170w
“One likes Mr Mais because he likes all sorts of things, and writes
about them with a zest which compels you to like them, too, whether
you agree with his judgments or not.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w
“He has undeniable talent, great industry, almost fanatical
enthusiasm: such qualities might carry a man far, but his untidy and
careless mind is in danger of wrecking his literary career almost at
the outset.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:280 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“Mr Mais has not much of value to say: he just flows on chatting
intelligently about the books people are reading (or supposed to be
reading) and the authors they are talking about.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 240w
=MAJOR, CLARE TREE.= How to develop your will power. (How to develop
ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Clode, E. J. 170
20–14873
This volume, which follows “How to develop your personality” and “How
to develop your speaking voice,” has chapters on Self-examination;
Will: its power, function and development; Physical dominance (three
chapters); Be courageous; Learn the value of habit; Self-control;
Self-control and business power; Business success; Will in idealism;
with a Review of chapters at the close.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 50w
=MALDCLEWITH, RONSBY, pseud.= Professor’s love-life. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–19246
“The book comprises a series of genuine letters, written by a man who
here appears under the name of Ronsby Maldclewith to his fiancée,
Katherine, a woman of the old South now some years dead. They are
published in accordance with a wish expressed by her. The young
professor, devotee of literature and art, within a few months of the
discovery of their mutual love, becomes the victim of incipient lung
trouble. The letters to Katherine—from Denver during an apparently
beneficial sojourn; from New York city, where he settles in order to
be able to consult often with great specialists; from his home, to
which he returns full of courage and hope of ultimate recovery, and
lastly from Denver, where he loses the great fight—are intensely
pathetic and from beginning to end tell a story of measureless
devotion.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 80w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 7 ’20 120w
+ =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 60w
“Were it not for beauty of language, pathos, lofty sentiment and apt
quotations, there is no denying that reading the book would at times
be depressing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 9 ’20 360w
“It would be hard to trace the impalpable quality which stamps these
letters with the seal of truth: but it is there to illustrate the law
that style is the touchstone of all fine and sincere literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 600w
=MALINS, GEOFFREY H.= How I filmed the war; ed. by Low Warren. il *$4
Stokes 940.48
(Eng ed 19–19271)
“This stirring narrative describes the innumerable adventures that
occurred to Mr Malins in the pursuit of cinematograph records of the
fighting on the western front. Mr Malins’ devotion to his job is
surpassed only by his courage.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
“Very few men have displayed such courage and devotion in winning an
empire or in winning a wife as Mr Malins has shown in taking his war
films. That he is alive to write a book (and an extremely good book)
about them is one of the incredible things of the war.”
+ =Ath= p1121 O 31 ’19 600w
“A brisk interesting account of soldiering with the camera. It gives
assurance that the scenes of war in the movies were taken at the
front, often in positions of danger.”
+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“The pictures are good, and his story, told in a very conversational
and natural way, is especially instructive.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 500w
“No doubt Mr Malins’s volume is making a stir in cinematographic
circles; but apart from them, we question if it will have a long
career as a ‘library book.’ The films themselves were efficiently
done, but they were all that counted; there was not enough stuff left
to make a readable book.”
− + =Sat R= 130:99 Jl 31 ’19 370w
“Very readable account.”
+ =Spec= 123:512 O 18 ’19 50w
“There was excellent material for a book in all these adventures, and
Lieutenant Malins writes with great spirit, if without any special
distinction of style.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p598 O 30 ’19 440w
=MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL.= Memoirs of life and literature. il *$2.50
Harper
20–16292
“Memoirs,” says the author, “represent life as seen by the writers
from a personal point of view.... Thus if any writer attempts to do
what I have done myself—namely, to examine or depict in books of
widely different kinds such aspects and problems of life—social,
philosophical, religious, and economic—as have in turn engrossed his
special attention, he may venture to hope that a memoir of his own
activities will be taken as representing an age, rather than a
personal story.” (Chapter I) The first three chapters are devoted to
the author’s family antecedents and early life and some of the other
chapters are: Winter society at Torquay; The basis of London society;
Vignettes of London life; Society in country houses; From country
houses to politics; Cyprus, Florence, Hungary; Two works on social
politics; Religious philosophy and fiction; Politics and society in
America; Literature and action. The book has an index and a number of
portraits of famous writers.
* * * * *
=Ath= p583 O 29 ’20 1300w
“To some the philosophy will seem too self-satisfied and the ease of
tone, varied only by urbane satire, indicative of a class heedlessness
of much of the passion, discontent and injustice below the surface.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
Reviewed by H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:269 N ’20 480w
“His ingenious mingling of the records of his own life and mental
progress and achievement with accounts of his contact with other men
and women of his time, give to Mr Mallock’s memoirs a rare quality.
Its pages are all filled with an exceptional sympathy for the mental
attitude of even those from whom he differed on problems of vital and
lasting importance.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 18 ’20 1800w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Dial= 70:217 F ’21 2100w
“It is with something of shock that we discover Mr Mallock’s
conservatism as unyielding as when in the complacent days before the
war he came to expound it from the rostrums of our universities.
Events have marched, but Mr Mallock has not marched with them. And
yet, disappointing though it is, Mr Mallock’s volume contains chapters
that redeem it from the commonplace.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p6 S 18 ’20 1100w
“Too much of the memoirs are snobbery, genealogical dissertations and
comments on the author’s own novels and economic studies. He possessed
the opportunity for a surprisingly good book but he has not wholly
availed himself of it.” H. S. Gorman
− + =N Y Times= p12 O 3 ’20 2100w
“What the author has given us in his books, with all sincerity, has
been, so it seems, not ‘confessions’ by any means, but his real inner
thought without compromise or unexpressed reservations. This, rather
than its suavity of style, its variety of interests, its numerous
personalities, explains the charm of the volume. There is an air of
intellectual and moral success and good-breeding about it such as one
rarely finds.”
+ =No Am= 212:713 N ’20 1850w
“His comments and anecdotes are not always agreeable or calculated to
give the reader high ideals.”
− =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 220w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 150w
“This constant didacticism goes far to spoil what is otherwise so
good. If only Mr Mallock had expended his energies more exclusively on
the descriptive and anecdotal parts of his book, he might have
produced a work of rare charm; he has the insight and the literary
skill to have done this.”
+ − =Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 950w
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 80w
=Spec= 125:470 O 9 ’20 1500w
“Delightfully entertaining work. Not once in a blue moon do lovers of
good literature fall upon anything so richly suggestive, so charmingly
satisfying.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 2300w
“Mr Mallock in the lucidity of his style, in his confident logic and
graceful sense of proportion, in his fastidiousness and his cynical
undertones, betrays the mind of the eighteenth-century aristocrat.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 S 16 ’20 1800w
=MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE.= Russian republic. *$1 (4½c) Harcourt 947
20–5655
As the basis for an opinion as to the possibilities of peace
negotiations with Soviet Russia, the author undertook an examination
of the political, social and military conditions there at first hand,
by a personal visit. The book records his findings in diary form
interspersed with interviews, conversations and personal reflections.
Throughout, the author draws a comparison with the French revolution
and concludes that the only way to head off a military dictatorship in
Russia is through one of two policies; the unthinkable one of making
war on her on a grand scale, or “to make every effort to give the
Soviet republic internal and external peace, and to establish
commercial bonds with them, to the great blessing of mankind and to
the prosperity of all countries.” Contents: Introductory; To
Petrograd; Moscow; Social reconstruction; Trotsky and the red army;
Industry; Religion and women; The peace terms; Homeward bound;
Conclusions; Appendix—Prinkipo and Nansen.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“Colonel Malone’s attitude is one of a somewhat suspicious solicitude;
he is aware of the danger of being taken in, and this gives to his
report an air of special authenticity. Perhaps the most interesting
chapter is that dealing with the Red army.”
+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 300w
“Colonel Malone’s book will be popular among sympathizers with Soviet
Russia, especially those of a more or less conservative stripe. It
explodes the grosser fabrications about Russia without implying too
much violence against what cautious folk conceive to be a properly
centered world. Its superficiality from this point of view may prove
an asset: for no one can deny that it is essentially a superficial
study.” Evans Clark
+ − =Nation= 111:47 Jl 10 ’20 750w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p90 F 5 ’20 150w
=MANDER, JANE.= Story of a New Zealand river. *$1.75 (1c) Lane
20–4462
A story by an author apparently familiar with the country of which she
writes. For its beginnings it goes back a full generation to a pioneer
age in a new country. Alice Roland is as unfitted for this life as her
husband is fitted for it. An English woman, adrift with a young child,
she accepts Tom Roland’s offer of marriage and goes with him up the
river to the wild country where he is to carve out his fortune. She
has never loved him, and finds her life, with its hardships and
recurrent child bearing, dreary enough. Then love for her husband’s
partner, David Bruce, comes to complicate the situation. Alice’s
scruples and David’s loyalty to his partner keep them from
transgression. In the meantime Alice’s daughter, Asia, grows up, with
ideals very different from her mother’s, with a sure knowledge of what
she wants, and she doesn’t let the fact that the man she loves is
already married stand in her way. There are good pictures of the New
Zealand landscape and of its developing civilization.
* * * * *
“She lacks confidence and the courage of her opinions: like the
wavering, fearful heroine, she leans too hard on England. There are
moments when we catch a bewilderingly vivid glimpse of what she really
felt and knew about the small settlement of people in the lumbercamp,
but we suspect that these are moments when she is off her guard. These
serve nothing but to increase our impatience with Miss Mander. Why is
her book not half as long, twice as honest?” K. M.
− + =Ath= p49 Jl 9 ’20 600w
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 160w
“The author not only knows her country, but those who live in it, and
she describes both with strong feeling and yet with artistic
restraint.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 250w
“The theme of this book is good but it is not good enough for 430
pages of closely printed matter. Of the characters that create ‘The
story of a New Zealand river,’ which, by the way, is an extremely bad
title, nothing but praise may be given.” H. S. G.
+ − =New Repub= 23:234 Jl 21 ’20 650w
“The novel presents an interesting picture of pioneer life on the
unnamed river and some of Alice’s struggles are well portrayed, but
there is so much reiteration and so much of what can only be called
padding that the effect of the novel is greatly weakened and it loses
its hold on the reader long before the climax is reached.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w
“The author handles this tale of an isolated New Zealand lumber camp
with considerable romantic effect.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 220w
“The authoress has a real ability to describe character and
differences of outlook; but she does not allow the plot to become lost
in disquisitions. The book would have been more emphatic if it could
have been shortened, but in its present form it is a patient study of
one example of the immemorial clash between impulse and convention.
The authoress never exactly hits the bull’s-eye, but she is always on
the target.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 220w
=MANNERS, JOHN HARTLEY.= All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast.
*$1.25 Doran 812
20–4129
These three plays: All clear; God of my faith; and God’s outcast,
“written during the horrors of the unjust and cruel war forced by
Germany upon civilisation ... founded on actual incidents, may serve
to keep alive remembrance of some of the barbarous outrages
perpetrated by the Hun on innocent and wretched peoples.” (Foreword)
They are songs of hate and the Germans, in the author’s opinion, are
“a race apart, unfit to associate with and to be shunned forevermore.”
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 480w
=MANSBRIDGE, ALBERT.= Adventure in working-class education. *$2 (*6s)
Longmans 374.2
“This book chronicles the genesis and growth of the Workers’
educational association which was founded to promote the higher
education of working men and women by means of an alliance between
co-operation, trades unionism, and university extension. It began in
1903, not without opposition and with very little financial support,
which Mr Mansbridge, to whose enthusiasm the organisation owes much of
its vitality, counts like a true fighter amongst the reasons for its
success. Mr Mansbridge and his colleagues preserved their eager
optimism even through the depressing years of the war until, at the
present day, they can number over seventeen thousand members in the
British islands and many prosperous branches in Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. The vivifying idea of the movement
is that most workers have an interest in education if they would only
realize it; and to stimulate that interest and provide facilities for
its gratification are the objects for which the association was
formed.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Ath= p814 Je 18 ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 124:85 Jl 17 ’20 480w
“This book is a short but inspiring introduction to the spirit of the
whole movement. In passages it rises to levels of fine eloquence. The
prologue should be read by every teacher; and the whole spirit of the
movement should become known to social workers and lovers of democracy
everywhere.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 320w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 40w
=MANTLE, MRS BEATRICE.= In the house of another. *$1.90 (2½c) Century
20–17410
When the heroine of the story comes back to consciousness after an
auto accident, she finds herself in a strange environment and among
unfamiliar people. She even realizes she has a husband, Alan Leland,
whose existence she has no remembrance of, and a circle of friends
whom she does not recognize. But they take her quite for granted,
which adds to her mystification. She wonders if she is out of her
mind. The difficulties of the situation are increased by Willett
Renshaw’s attitude to her which is that of a recognized lover. His
attentions are distressing to her, but she does not understand the
situation clearly enough to be able to straighten it out. Renshaw’s
attitude finally results in her separation from Alan, to her sorrow.
But she bravely tries to reconstruct her life on a new plan, until a
wise friend who realizes that there is some big trouble in her life
goes to the bottom of her fears and paves the way for her future
happiness and Alan’s.
* * * * *
“It needs a Wells or at least an Anstey (as in ‘Vice versa’ or ‘The
statement of Stella Maberly’) to carry out this idea of exchanged
personalities satisfactorily.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 90w
“As a novel written to divert and mystify, ‘In the house of another’
succeeds in its purpose.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 220w
=MANTLE, BURNS=, ed. Best plays of 1919–20, and the Year book of the
drama in America. *$2 Small 822
20–21432
This volume marks the first appearance of a new annual which attempts
to do for the professional drama what Mr Braithwaite’s anthology does
for poetry and Mr O’Brien’s year book for the short story. Mr Mantle
has selected ten of the successful plays from the New York season of
1919–20 and has presented them, partly in summary, partly in dialog.
They are: Abraham Lincoln, by John Drinkwater; Beyond the horizon, by
Eugene O’Neill: The famous Mrs Fair, by James Forbes; Declassee, by
Zoe Aikins; Jane Clegg, by St John Ervine; The jest, by Sem Benelli;
Wedding bells, by Salisbury Field; Mamma’s affair, by Rachel Barton
Butler; Adam and Eva, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton; Clarence, by
Booth Tarkington. The volume opens with “The season in review” by Mr
Mantle and the year book at the close includes surveys of the season
in London and in Paris, along with statistical summaries and other
data relating to the stage.
* * * * *
“As to at least five of the ten, there will be general acquiescence in
Mr Mantle’s choice, and as to the other five there will be general
diversity of opinion.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 360w
“Friends of the drama in America owe Mr Mantle a real debt of thanks.”
Dorothy Grafly
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 400w
“Altogether a much-needed piece of work, and well done. If the next
time Mr Mantle will include some account of the significant
achievements in stage-craft, his year-book will prove even more
valuable.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 230w
=MANUEL, HERSCHEL THURMAN.= Talent in drawing; an experimental study of
the use of tests to discover special ability. (School and home education
monographs) $1.25 Public-school 136.7
20–4546
Account of a pioneer investigation in the province of specialized
ability, or talent, conducted by Professor Whipple, Miss Genevieve L.
Coy, and Dr T. S. Henry among selected public school pupils and
college students of Urbana, Illinois. The problem the investigators
set before them was to discover “the essential psychophysical
characteristics of persons talented in drawing,” and to learn how the
test methods could best be used in the diagnosis of such talent. To
the individuals selected were given certain tests of: general
intelligence; higher thought processes; memory and learning; reading;
observation; sensory discrimination; handwriting and drawing; also
physical and motor tests. Tests given were taken from Binet-Simon,
Whipple, Thurstone and other authorities. The investigation,
completely described in this little volume, together with a list of
the tests, and a bibliography of books used, “resulted in a somewhat
detailed statement of the nature of talent in drawing and has yielded
a tentative program of tests for the measurement of this talent.”
(Conclusion)
=MAPU, ABRAHAM.= Sorrows of Noma. il *$1.50 (1½c) National bk.
publishers, 200 5th av., N.Y.
20–4891
A translation, by Joseph Marymont of the Hebrew historical romance,
“Ahavath Zion,” the first novel that appeared in Hebrew literature.
The story, beginning with sinister treachery and deceptions, and a
bitter tragedy, centers about the motive so often recurring in the
great Greek narratives—that of a noble son hidden away from evil
intrigues of enemies, and raised in rural simplicity as a lowly born
shepherd. In this case there is also a mother falsely accused by her
husband’s enemies, and a beautiful daughter. The finding of the lad
Ammon by an exalted lord’s only daughter, his restoration to his
birthright both of nobility and property, the vindication of his
mother Noma from false accusations, the inevitable punishment of the
followers of iniquity, the loves of Ammon and his sister, are
interwoven with a picture of the city of Zion during the reign of
Ahaz, and the austere fear of God and love of nation inextricable from
any conception of the ancient Hebrew.
* * * * *
“The story is well told in language borrowed for the most part from
the Old Testament, and the manners and customs of the Jewish people
are well described.”
+ =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 60w
“As a contribution to the cause of acquainting the world with Hebraic
literature, ‘Sorrows of Noma’ comes as a valuable addition. But aside
from the literary and classical considerations there is still a third
value to this book. The human interest of it.” Rose Karsner
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 430w
=MARBLE, ANNIE RUSSELL (MRS CHARLES FRANCIS MARBLE).= Women who came in
the Mayflower. $1.50 (13½c) Pilgrim press 974.4
20–8510
“This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in
the Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in the Ann and the
Fortune.... There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any
family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during
1621–1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual
matrons and maidens.” (Foreword) Contents: Endurance and adventure;
The voyage and landing; Communal and family life in Plymouth
1621–1623; Matrons and maidens who came in the “Mayflower”: Companions
who arrived in the “Fortune” and the “Ann.” Index.
* * * * *
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 200w
“A very attractive little volume. It is well worth reading.” W. A.
Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 60w
“Full of pleasant gossip about the Mayflower folks is this little
volume.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w
=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 180w
“Within its limits it is extremely comprehensive, and well worth
reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 300w
=MARCH, NORAH HELENA.= Towards racial health. *$2 (2c) Dutton 612.6
19–15994
A book on sex hygiene and sex instruction designed for parents,
teachers and social workers. It is an English work and is brought out
in America with an introduction by Dr Evangeline W. Young of Boston,
in addition to the original foreword by J. Arthur Thomson of the
University of Aberdeen. The subjects covered include: The physical
development of the child; The mental and emotional development of the
child; Care of children; Supervision—psychological aspect; Nature
study in the service of sex instruction; Further aids towards
understanding the biology of sex; Ethical training; Education for
parenthood (two chapters); Social safeguarding. Other important matter
is presented in appendices, including suggested ways of answering
children’s questions. There is a bibliography of seven pages and an
index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:290 My ’20
“The soundness of the author’s biological background is attested by
Professor J. Arthur Thomson’s commendatory foreword, while her
willingness to deal with delicate practical difficulties betrays the
sympathetic understanding and intimate personal knowledge of the
teacher.”
+ =Dial= 67:274 S 20 ’19 60w
“What Miss March has done is well done—her chapters are poorly named,
however. The American edition would be improved if statistics from
American institutions and organizations were added.” E. M. Achilles
+ − =J Philos= 17:192 Mr 25 ’20 320w
“The author exhibits a singular ignorance of the ways of real boys and
girls and is to be credited with an extensive knowledge of the
literature of the subject.” H. C. M.
− + =School R= 28:159 F ’20 140w
“It is an unusually successful attempt in this difficult field.” L. B.
+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 130w
=MARCHANT, JAMES=, ed.[2] Control of parenthood. *$2.50 (5½c) Putnam 176
20–21358
Arguments for and against birth control are presented in this volume,
to which distinguished men and women of Great Britain contribute. The
Bishop of Birmingham writes the introduction. J. Arthur Thomson and
Leonard Hill write of Biological aspects; Dean Inge and Harold Cox of
Economic aspects; Dr Mary Scharlieb, Dr F. B. Meyer and Dr A. E.
Garvie of Social and religious aspects; and Sir Rider Haggard and Dr
Marie C. Stopes of Imperial and racial aspects.
=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Adventures in interviewing. il *$4 (4c)
Lane 920
20–645
The book, the author tells us, grew out of a series of articles
dealing with war-time interviewing. He believes in making a record of
people and events while they are alive and when the interest in them
is keenest and he has met many of the commanding figures of the day.
He introduces the reader to them both by word and picture. All the
most prominent contemporary journalists, statesmen, military men,
novelists and actors pass review along with the history of the
launching of many a popular book and touches of personal friendships
with the author. The contents are: Watterson and the early days; New
York and the world’s work; A great American editor; The art of
interviewing; Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; The real Lloyd
George; Northcliffe, the king-maker; Haig and other British notables;
Kerensky and the revolution-makers; Pershing and Wood; Foch and
Clemenceau; The Wall street sphinxes; Some literary friendships; Other
literary associations; The story of “The jungle”; Plays and players.
There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p751 Je 4 ’20 120w
+ =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice
+ =Bookm= 50:562 F ’20 1550w
“Mr Marcosson’s book is good reading for the general reader and a good
text book for young writers and young newspaper men.” J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 440w
=Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 260w
“This is a rarely readable volume. It is also excellently illustrated;
the photographs with which its pages are generously adorned are
exceedingly well reproduced, and the volume takes on value, therefore,
as a popular portrait gallery.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:26 Ja 18 ’20 1200w
“It is packed with big personalities described in a most entertaining
way by a man who has a genius for interviewing and has had rare
opportunities for its exercise.”
+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 50w
“The style is already familiar to hosts of readers—popular, fluent,
rapid, pointed, occasionally showing irritating haste and
carelessness, yet never losing the good journalist’s knack of telling
his story interestingly and vividly.” E. M. Brown
+ − =Pub W= 97:181 Ja 17 ’20 220w
“A book of many limitations. Mr Marcosson is not even an observer, he
sees only the most obvious features in a man’s face and the most
conspicuous qualities in his mind. Nevertheless his book is
interesting. He sees little, but he sees clearly; and, again, he
writes barbarously, but he writes clearly.”
+ − =Review= 2:135 F 7 ’20 360w
“Mr Marcosson seems to have been especially fortunate in his
intimacies with writers.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:333 Mr ’20 120w
“Unfortunately, Mr Marcosson has not the gift of revealing his
personality in his writing, nor do any of the famous men whom he
describes emerge from his pages bright and clear-limned. His book,
indeed, is a pedestrian piece of work. But though its sole interest
lies in the various subjects presented to the reader, that interest is
substantial and well recompenses one for the momentary boredom
produced by certain appallingly vapid statements.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:589 Je 26 ’20 650w
“A bright, racy and interesting account of interviews with a host of
notables. From start to finish the personal pronoun ‘I’ looms up with
great frequency. This detracts much from the delightfulness of the
book.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 150w
=MARDEN, ORISON SWETT.= You can, but will you? (Marden inspirational
books) *1.75 (1c) Crowell 170
20–9415
A collection of the author’s essays on right living. Among the
subjects are: The new philosophy of life; The new idea of God; Facing
life the right way; Winning out in middle life; How to realize your
ambition; The web of fate; The open door; Do you carry victory in your
face?
=MARKHAM, EDWIN.= Gates of paradise, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday
811
20–7451
This is Edwin Markham’s fourth volume of verse. It is made up of short
poems arranged in eight groups: Van-couriers; At my lady’s window;
Wings for the spirit; Deeper chords; Finger-posts for the highway;
Echoes from the world war; Memorable men; Songs to the supernal woman.
There is a frontispiece portrait of the author.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“Is, at its best, rhymed moralizing: eloquent, sincere, restrained,
but withal too absorbed in immediate domestic and sociological
interests to touch the deepest mysteries of the heart of man.” R. M.
Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 100w
“‘Gates of paradise’ is pleasant for its simple yet technically
capable lines only. The thought contained therein is as old and
hackneyed as ham and eggs for breakfast. If he is not careful the
mantle of Ella Wheeler Wilcox will descend upon him.” H. S. Gorman
− + =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 150w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
=Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 420w
=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Many Junes. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–6431
Something stronger than himself had always dominated over Hugh
Lelacheur even from infancy. First it was a strong-willed father that
interfered with his destiny at the death of his mother. Later a too
well disciplined reasonableness always triumphed over his strongest
desires to make him give up what he liked best for the second best.
The best things came too late and kept his life a lonely one with few
high lights and many shadows. The shadow’s turn into bitterness and a
hardening of the heart when on a memorable June day, given over to
memory and a reliving of his past life, it comes to him that he could
offer his unloved wife a measure of spiritual companionship, as the
only remaining second best thing that he had so far withheld.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“Reaching us twelve years after its first appearance in England. ‘Many
Junes’ reveals the constant quality of Mr Marshall’s genius. It might
as well have been written yesterday, as far as internal evidence
discloses. To ‘Many Junes,’ therefore, we may turn for the reading of
a novel in its writer’s best and most characteristic manner.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 1200w
“Archibald Marshall has told the story pleasantly and neatly enough to
hold one’s interest; and yet he fortunately does not make one take the
book seriously enough to object to some of the incredibilities in the
plot.” J. C. L.
+ =New Repub= 22:428 My 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Marshall’s new novel is something of a departure from his
customary type of fiction. This new book is in a different vein, one
more serious and more sorrowful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 1100w
“The present novel has the same attractiveness with the exception that
it lacks that pervading humor which made some of Mr Marshall’s earlier
books so delightful.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 240w
“‘Many Junes’ is a rambling, disjointed series or sequence of episodes
in the life of an extremely disagreeable Englishman. Hugh Lelacheur is
a prig, a snob, and an egotist.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 250w
“The characters all are vividly portrayed flesh-and-blood people.
Altogether the story is admirably conceived and developed, and will
afford agreeable entertainment to Mr Marshall’s readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 600w
=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Peggy in Toyland. il *$2.50 Dodd
20–18754
A story about a little English girl and her two favorite dolls, one of
them made of wood, one a very handsome person known as Lady Grace.
There is a teddy bear too, and one night in her dreams the three of
them conduct Peggy to Toyland where she has many strange adventures.
* * * * *
“The illustrations have the charm of the narrative; a child would like
both story and pictures.”
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p836 D 9 ’20 170w
=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Spring walk in Provence. il *$3.50 (4½c) Dodd
914.4
20–17745
The original preface to this book is dated August, 1914, but events
immediately following that date delayed its publication. In an added
word the author says: “I have been over the manuscript again and made
a few alterations here and there, but have altered nothing that shows
it to have been written five years ago.” Among the chapter titles are:
Hills and olives; Flowers and scents; In old Provence; Aix; Les baux;
Mistral; Saint-Remy; Avignon; The palace of the popes; Vaucluse;
Villeneuve-sur-Avignon; Arles. There are illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“A volume of finished excellence, written without affectation, but
with due regard for the stateliness of English prose.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 80w
“Mr Marshall’s journeyings through Provence inspire us with a desire
to follow his footsteps.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 1350w
“The accompanying photographs are good.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p30 O 23 ’20 120w
“Mr Marshall has produced a book that is interesting and quietly
entertaining, but it is not one that will add to his reputation as a
writer of finished prose. The book bears the marks of hasty
composition, of a haste that has resulted in an occasional
slovenliness and a frequent awkwardness of expression.”
+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 720w
=MARSHALL, EDISON.= Voice of the pack. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–26323
Dan Failing, the grandson of a frontiersman, has spent all his life in
cities. In his twenty-ninth year he finds that he is far gone with
tuberculosis and is told that he has but six months to live. He feels
a yearning toward the mountain country he has never known except
through his grandfather’s stories and he goes out to the Cascades. An
old mountaineer who remembers the elder Failing takes him into his
home, altho he cannot conceal his disappointment in this weak
descendant of a mighty man. But Dan wins his host’s respect almost at
once, for he is a natural born woodsman. He regains his health and
later wins the love of Lennox’s daughter, a girl called Snowbird.
There is much of forest and animal lore in the story.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“Again and again Mr Marshall leaves his commonplace style to indulge
in some really good writing, but as often he returns to the dull
monotone.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 260w
“The story in the main is merely a woodsman’s idyl, rich in poetic
fancy—although stern in its fidelity to the truth as that woodsman
sees it—and throbbing with reverent love for nature.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w
“Mr Marshall’s story runs close to nature’s heart. Thru a most
engrossing and intimate presentation of forest life, develops a fine
love drama.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 220w
=MARSHALL, F. HENRY.=[2] Discovery in Greek lands. il *$3.40 Macmillan
913.38
“Mr Marshall has written an attractive sketch of the chief results
attained by excavations in Greater Greece since 1870. He treats the
subject historically, starting with the age of Knossos and Mycenae,
and describing under each period the main sites examined. He gives
special chapters to temples, to the famous centres like Delphi and
Olympia, and to isolated discoveries like the Sidon sarcophagi or the
fine statues dredged up near Cerigotto in 1900–1.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Though so highly compressed as to be little more than a skeleton
review, his narrative is not without interest. The illustrations that
accompany the text add much to its value.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 160w
“He provides a useful bibliography and a number of good photographs.
As an introduction to a large and fascinating subject, the book is
much to be commended.”
+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 100w
=MARSHALL, ROBERT.= Enchanted golf clubs. il *$1 (3½c) Stokes
20–3577
At the war office he was “Major the Honourable John William Wentworth
Gore, 1st Royal light hussars”; to his friends: “There goes good old
Jacky Gore, the finest sportsman living!” But he despises golf. The
beautiful American widow, Katherine Clendenin Gunter, with a fortune
of £2,000,000 sterling, is an enthusiastic golfer. To win her he
decides to play a match with a golf champion and enters into a compact
with the ghost of a cardinal to use his enchanted clubs. With the
ghost’s aid he wins the game, but not the lady.
* * * * *
“Of course what the author describes in his shallow plot could not
take place, for the book is admittedly a burlesque. But as a burlesque
it is too extravagant to be funny.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 60w
=MARTIN, EDWARD SANFORD.= Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. 2v il *$10
Scribner
20–21406
“The reader will promptly discover that this life of Mr Choate is not
so much a biography after the manner of Plutarch as a compilation. The
chief contributor, by far, is Mr Choate himself, whose writings,
public and private, make up four-fifths, or more, of the book.”
(Introd.) The first volume opens with Mr Choate’s own story of his
boyhood and youth, a fragment of autobiography dictated by him in 1914
while convalescing from an illness. The editor says further, “I have
borrowed—whenever it could be done to advantage—from newspapers,
commentators, and eulogists. A series of scrap-books, kept for forty
odd years and covering more or less Mr Choate’s experiences as
ambassador, supplemented the long series of letters which could be
drawn upon.” Volume 1 covers the period to the nineties. Volume 2
covers the years of ambassadorship to England and the period of the
war, closing with a review of his life. There are interesting
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“It is a difficult task to cover adequately the many-sidedness of such
a man in a biography unless it is systematic and well rounded. The
career of Mr Choate merits such a biography. It has not yet been
written. When it is, Mr Martin’s interesting and richly filled volumes
will be the biographer’s chief source book.” S. L. Cook
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 1450w
“The two volumes are a new thing in biography. They will constitute a
classic in editing.”
+ =N Y Times= p6 N 14 ’20 1700w
“This is an ideal method of combining biography with autobiography.”
R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
=MARTIN, EVERETT DEAN.= Behavior of crowds; a psychological study. *$2
Harper 301
20–20958
The book is somewhat of a critical enlargement on Le Bon’s “The
crowd.” Its conclusions are based on the latest research in analytical
psychology originated by Freud. The author holds that “as a practical
problem, the habit of crowd-making is daily becoming a more serious
menace to civilization. Events are making it more and more clear that,
pressing as are certain economic questions, the forces which threaten
society are really psychological.” (Foreword) As a remedy to this
menace he suggests re-education along the lines of humanism expounded
by such writers as James, Schiller, Dewey and others. Contents: The
crowd and the social problem of today; How crowds are formed; The
crowd and the unconscious; The egoism of the crowd-mind; The crowd a
creature of hate; The absolutism of the crowd-mind; The psychology of
revolutionary crowds; The fruits of revolution—new crowd-tyrannies for
old; Freedom and government by crowds; Education as a possible cure
for crowd-thinking; Index.
=MARTIN, GEORGE (MADDEN) (MRS ATTWOOD R. MARTIN).= Children in the mist.
*$1.75 (3c) Appleton
20–11222
In a series of eight sketches the writer, who has lived with the negro
in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in Florida, the Carolinas and Kentucky,
shows him as he is, neither praising him as his over-zealous advocate,
nor indulging in race hatred. It is an arraignment of the white race
for keeping this primitive people so long in confusion, discouragement
and ignorance. The stories cover the period from the emancipation to
the present and are arranged in chronological order. The stories are:
The flight; The blue handkerchief; An Inskip niggah; Pom; The sleeping
sickness; Fire from heaven; Malviney; Sixty years after.
* * * * *
“The stories are very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“The eight stories in this book are written with a commendable
intention, but that intention does not after all extend beyond a
limited field and a circumscribed aspect of the negro.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 S 8 ’20 600w
“Unfortunately, while Mrs Martin writes with the authoritative manner
of one who has known the black man intimately, she has, as she
concedes, laid no emphasis in her tales upon negroes who have, to use
her phrase, forged ahead. The result is an obvious struggle between
the complacence which comes of having met coloured people as servants
chiefly, and the feeling that it is inconsistent to deny them
opportunity and to charge their race with the consequences.” H. J. S.
+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 210w
“Mrs Martin avoids both sentiment and indignation; her tone is warm
but quiet; she lets the stern implications arise in their bare and
tragic force.”
+ =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 350w
“They are typical of the kind of studied work in short-story writing
which carefully applies principles of preparation, suspense,
contributing effect, and climax, and never achieves the dynamic
impulsion and the artistic inevitability of a directly told
unpremeditated tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 360w
“This book will prove her to have advanced in her art. Mrs Martin is
too good an artist to let the purpose obtrude itself. It is there,
none the less, and it gives her book a permanent value aside from its
quality as fiction.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 1550w
=Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 60w
“A broad vein of humor runs through the tales, but invariably there is
a serious note at the ending.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 140w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w
=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Schoolmaster of
Hessville. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–16342
The schoolmaster of Hessville, a Pennsylvania Dutch village, was John
Wimmer, fine and strong of character but with the cravings of youth in
his young body. It was flesh calling to flesh that made him love
Irene, the glowing beauty with the coarse instincts. She played cat
and mouse with him and her wiles were finally responsible for John’s
marriage to Minnie, Irene’s opposite. Minnie’s winsomeness never quite
compensated John for Irene’s more sensuous charms and when a cruel
accident deprives Minnie of her reason leaving John with two
motherless children on his hands, the now, on her part, widowed Irene,
offers her services as housekeeper and becomes John’s mistress. He has
fallen an easy prey but in time his eyes are opened, and when a
successful operation restores Minnie to him he blesses her breadth of
view that can condone his lapse.
* * * * *
“Not alone are the main characters well drawn, even the most minor
minion is unforgettably sketched. The author has studied children and
has thoroughly expressed her understanding of them.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w
=MARTIN, MABEL WOOD.= Green god’s pavilion. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes
20–14601
This novel of the Philippines shows in almost lurid colors the
irreconcilable difference between the East and the West. It is
symbolized in the figures of two women, one, Julie, an American of a
fair and spiritual beauty who goes out to Manila as a teacher and with
the spirit of a crusader. The other, a native woman, Isabel, the
“Empress of the East,” with the fierce passion of life that stops not
at evil. It is a tragic story of how the East breaks all who come to
her with the best of intentions of uplift and improvement, except they
miraculously rise from the dead for a second birth. It broke Julie and
left her for dead among the plague stricken huts of the natives. It
broke Barry McChord, the man with the “Excelsior” face, who fell a
victim to the plague after his high hopes were gone. But something
selfless in both finally triumphs over all self-deceptions, even over
death. Much philosophizing and much gruesome realism are a part of the
story.
* * * * *
“Smoothly written and vivid tale of love and faith and hardship.”
+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 220w
“From its opening chapter, the reader’s interest is caught and held.
Amy Lowell, herself, has done no more vivid color bits than this
author has introduced in descriptions of Manila. Aside from the
brilliancy of the local setting, she has woven a tale of exceeding
interest and charm, and super-excellent quality in novels of today,
its ‘third act’ is most engrossing.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 540w
“‘The green god’s pavilion’ may hardly be termed an extraordinary
novel, for it is built too obviously for thrill purposes, but it
displays an intimate knowledge of conditions in the Philippines and
presents with frequency pictures of native life that are vivid and
finely written.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 600w
=MARTYN, WYNDHAM.= Secret of the silver car. *$1.75 Moffat
20–5579
Another book of the adventures of Anthony Trent, master criminal. In
an indiscreet moment while they were shut in a caved-in dugout in
Flanders, expecting death at any moment, Trent had told the story of
his life to his unknown and unseen companion. Both escape and with the
war over, he sets himself to find this unknown “William Smith” who
knows too much about him for his own safety. He meets “William
Smith’s” sister, falls in love with her and for her sake resolves to
give up his brilliant criminal career. In her service he goes out to
the Balkans, becomes involved in international intrigue, has many
hairbreadth escapes, but secures the papers that mean so much to Lady
Daphne’s father and is rewarded with her hand.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 300w
“Nor is this book mere swashbuckling. It is written always adroitly,
sometimes humorously, and with the zest of the author’s own
enjoyment.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 Ap 24 ’20 200w
Reviewed by M. K. Reely
=Pub W= 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 320w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w
=MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY=, ed. Recent developments in European thought.
*$6.25 Oxford 901
20–17403
“This volume, which is a sequel to ‘The unity of western civilization’
(1915) and ‘Progress’ (1916), is, like them, the fruit of a course of
lectures given at a summer school at Woodbrooke, Birmingham. The
addresses composing it were given in August, 1919, and it traces the
idea of progress in European history since 1870. Among the
contributors, besides the editor, are Mr A. E. Taylor, who writes on
‘Philosophy,’ Dr F. B. Jevons, who writes on ‘Religion,’ Mr A. D.
Lindsay, of Balliol, whose subject is ‘Political theory,’ and Mr A.
Clutton Brock, who discusses ‘Art.’ Each article is followed by a
bibliographical note as a guide to further reading.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup N 11 ’20
* * * * *
=Ath= p509 Ap 16 ’20 1400w
“In spite of the difficulties of handling the vast intricate masses of
still fluid material, the contributors have given readable and yet
valuable summaries of the progress of thought. For the beginner, there
could be no better introduction to the essential contributions of
man’s recent achievement.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:114 O ’20 460w
“Naturally, the essays by different authors vary in value. The least
satisfactory is the first, on philosophy.... The most brilliant essays
are those dealing with the fields of thought most intensively
cultivated by the last generation.... Compared with the treatment
accorded history, the studies here offered of political theory and of
economic progress are slightly disappointing.... Taken as a whole, the
cumulative impression of these various lectures is greater than that
of any one taken separately.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 1000w
“The personality of each of the twelve writers is given full
expression. It makes the diversity more interesting than the unity.”
H. W. C.
+ − =Nature= 105:607 Jl 15 ’20 500w
“The aim of the writers is to trace the progress and acquisitions of
thought and give a general picture of the results obtained by modern
knowledge; and they have succeeded in producing essays that are of a
high quality and also thoroughly readable.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p247 Ap 22 ’20 2450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 N 11 ’20 110w
=MARX, MAGDELEINE.= Woman; tr. by Adele Szold Seltzer. *$1.90 (6c)
Seltzer
20–11894
A translation of a novel that is said to have created a sensation in
France. It is a record of emotional moments. The characters have no
names, no appearances. They are only personalities. The “woman” of the
story loves and marries and bears a child. While still loving her
husband she takes a lover and then loses both husband and lover in the
war. Out of these experiences she emerges invincible, with an undimmed
capacity for life and an indomitable will to live. Henri Barbusse says
in his introduction, “In no other book perhaps so markedly as in this
has the integrity of an individual been more respected, and never has
an imaginary character so consistently warded off whatever is not of
itself. You don’t even seem to feel that this ‘woman’ talks or tells a
story. You simply know what she knows.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by Theodore Maynard
− + =Bookm= 52:75 S ’20 700w
=Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w
“To those in search of a well-written book, not to mention a
contribution to real literature, Magdeleine Marx has nothing whatever
to offer. The style is wordy, pretentious and empty, a disjointed
collection of hollow phrases embodying all the platitudes of the
so-called revolt of woman.” E. A. Boyd
− =Freeman= 2:43 S 22 ’20 960w
=Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 500w
“The story is frank and sincere and full of isolated perceptions that
are both searching and beautiful. But it is also thin and scrappy and
disjointed, and the complete shadowiness of all the characters robs
its theories of the inner energy of a human content. In a word, Madame
Marx has felt very deeply and reflected intensely, and those who
agreed with her passionately have taken it for granted that she has
written a great book. But that is taking for granted far too much.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 900w
“A very great deal of it gives the reader the impression of a mind
out-stretching itself, to the point of dislocating all its joints, in
order to perceive and express something that nobody else has ever
perceived or expressed.”
− =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 850w
“The book is written in a resignedly magnanimous strain, and passages
occur, which, taken by themselves, might affect us as noble. Yet as a
whole its absence of elevation in the midst of calls to elevation is
confounding.”
− + =Review= 3:347 O 20 ’20 750w
“‘Woman,’ if nothing else, is an interesting psychological study of
the type of mind that dwells upon sex and psychoanalysis with a
neurasthenic intensity, when the world is full to overflowing with
real woman problems.” M. E. Sangster
+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:590 O ’20 260w
“It does seem to me that the book might more appropriately have been
called ‘A woman.’ For the rest, the book is perfervid in a way that we
do not quite like in America, perhaps because we are not wholly
acclimated to it. It has pages of unusual beauty, and a high degree of
unity and directness.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:350 N ’20 350w
=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Enslaved. *$2.50 Macmillan 821
20–13322
The long narrative poem of the title depicts courage born of love and
begetting the brotherhood of man even in the untamed. A fair damsel is
carried off by a pirate galley into the captivity of a khalif’s harem.
Her lover follows into slavery to rescue her. He does so with the aid
of a brother slave who must kill a traitor to accomplish their
purpose. Recaptured and brought before the khalif they are set free
because their tale causes human stirrings in the hawk breast of the
latter. The other poems are: The hounds of hell; Cap on head; Sonnets;
The passing strange; Animula; The Lemmings; Forget; On growing old;
Lyric.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 60w
“It seems to us that Mr Masefield’s first business is to regain
control of his words; and that he can only do this by deliberately
attempting a subject that bristles with psychological nuances, and
insisting that his language shall accommodate itself to them.
Otherwise we fear he will never succeed in expressing that elusive
beauty which he sees, but which at present comes to us only in
assertion or in fitful gleams through the interstices of an opaque
style.” J. M. M.
+ − =Ath= p823 Je 25 ’20 2300w
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“Mr Masefield is the single poet writing in English today who both in
popular esteem and by the most exacting critical estimate legitimately
belongs to the august line of poets who are among the chief glories of
our race: to his greatness no journalistic cavil can add or take
away.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 240w
“In this poem, [On growing old], as in so many aspects of the other
poems in this volume, one feels the shadows of the world, deepened by
the tumult of war, settling upon the radiance of a brave visionary
spirit. The thrill, the excitement, the adventures of living are all
now subdued to this key of sadness, in which the passion and beauty
that was once a flame becomes an effable glow.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 2400w
“The whole thing seems bookish, remote, unreal. The characters do not
become sufficiently interesting: seem, in fact, insufficiently
equipped with a back-ground of flesh and blood experience.” J: G.
Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:163 O 27 ’20 1050w
“One of the signs that the times are good in English poetry is the
fact that Mr Masefield keeps on writing poems which tell stories.”
Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 310w
“In his latest volume there are some serious offenses against rhyming,
euphony, and scansion, but in the larger aspects, in the essential
substance and indescribable quality of authentic poesy, he is more
richly endowed than any other living writer.” Lawrence Mason
+ =New Repub= 23:340 Ag 18 ’20 1250w
“‘Enslaved,’ his latest book of poems, offers a peculiarly fine view
of Masefield in all his variety. There is no poet in England, unless
we except Hardy, who possesses keener insight into the hearts of men.
It is this attitude toward life, this same fatalism that recognizes
the worst, yet sees the best behind, that makes John Masefield one of
the finest living figures in the whole field of English poetry.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Jl 11 ’20 2450w
“A volume which reveals anew the amazing power and versatility of that
English poet.”
+ =Outlook= 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 450w
“‘Enslaved’ is a dramatic adventure tale. But ‘Enslaved’ is likewise a
dreamy, semi-lyrical, murmurous, and caressing tale. It is
Masefieldian in its power to be both these things at once.” O. W.
Firkins
+ =Review= 3:317 O 13 ’20 600w
“The book is extraordinarily rich, for it contains beside others,
‘Forget’ and ‘On growing old,’ two of the most beautiful poems that Mr
Masefield ever wrote, and in this age of singers Mr Masefield remains
our poet of greatest achievements.”
+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 500w
=MASEFIELD, JOHN.=[2] Right Royal. *$1.75 Macmillan 821
20–18954
“In ‘Right Royal’ Mr Masefield celebrates in a narrative poem the
story of a horse-race. The story of Mr Masefield’s poem is that of a
horse with great points and virtues, for speed and endurance, but very
undependable, having lost a number of races by going panicky from
fear. He was bought by Charles Cothill, who believed that all his
potential qualities as a winner could be developed. Cothill backed his
own horse to the extent of all his possessions, which created a crisis
in his love for the woman he hoped to marry. If he lost, his love was
lost. In fact, it was win all or lose all.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“It will be acknowledged that the preliminaries of the race, the
discussions in the stables, the professional tips and omens, the
catalogue of the entries, are sandy soil for the growth of poetry. The
best of the poem has no relation to the worst; the worst might have
been sacrificed. Even in the best are imperfections, but we have
learnt to swallow Mr Masefield’s longer poems without straining at the
gnats.” E. B.
+ − =Ath= p692 N 19 ’20 600w
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“It is growing very trite to say that Mr Masefield does this thing or
that thing better than any contemporary poet. He does the things that
nobody else does and is thus in competition with himself. ‘Right
Royal’ may not be as fine a poem as ‘Enslaved,’ but no one can dispute
that it is the best narrative of a horse-race that has been written by
any modern poet.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 1500w
“‘Right Royal’ is a bad poem, both intrinsically and because it fails
to satisfy certain necessary expectations. It promised to be as good
as ‘Reynard the fox,’ but it is woefully, incredibly worse.” Mark Van
Doren
− + =Nation= 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 240w
Reviewed by W. B. D. Henderson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 N 20 ’20 1650w
Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p17 D 26 ’20 1700w
“The feeling that ‘Right Royal’ deserves to be placed below the
earlier volume [‘Reynard the fox’] may be purely a matter of
individual temperament on the part of the reviewer. In any case, it is
a volume which occupies an enviable place in the field of modern
poetry.”
+ =Outlook= 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 120w
Reviewed by G: D. Procter
+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 320w
“The weather—cloud, sun, wind, and shower—is given more prominence and
is better conceived in ‘Right Royal’; but to balance this, the
unsuccessful passages are decidedly worse than those in ‘Reynard the
fox.’ Another fault it seems to the present writer to possess, which
the incomparable ‘Reynard the fox’ does not: it is a little
monotonous. As a ‘galloping poem,’ however, it is certainly one of the
best in English.”
+ − =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 1200w
“He piles simile on simile and each simile is beautiful in itself,
each is a patch of ornament stuck on, not woven into the fabric. Mr
Masefield has told a brave tale bravely. If his courage had been like
Right Royal’s, he would have dared to leave undecorated the beauty
inherent in the tale.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p734 N 11 ’20 1050w
=MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY.= Summons. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18656
Harry Luttrell had a strong sense of military honor and of the
necessity for self-discipline. The first drove him to join the army,
the second to tear himself away from the woman he loved and accept a
post in Egypt. His friend and classmate, Martin Hillyard, had had a
chequered career: as a sailor; in a three years’ struggle for
existence in the port-towns of Spain; as an Oxford student and
successful playwright; and during the war his knowledge of Spain
serves him in good stead as a secret service agent. Stella Croyle,
Luttrell’s one-time love, in his absence eats her heart out in
neurotic, undisciplined longing and occasionally has recourse to the
comfort of drugs. While on a leave of absence during the war, Luttrell
meets Stella again without experiencing the old-time thrill and at the
same time he meets and falls in love with Joan Whitworth. Poor Stella
commits suicide under circumstances that throw suspicion on Joan.
Through his experiences in the secret service, Hillyard is enabled to
clear Joan and smooth the way for her and Luttrell.
* * * * *
“An interesting variant of the modern detective story.”
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“It is a splendid story which Mr Mason has written, based upon his
experiences in the war, full of dramatic vigor—a real novel in every
sense of the word—and permeated with the atmosphere of England, Spain,
and Egypt.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 90w
“This novel is an excellent substitute for a modern detective story.
Instead of possessing a single, unified plot it is composed of a
rosary of minor plots which endows it with somewhat of the character
of real life.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 250w
“One cannot help wishing that the important character of Joan
Whitworth were less exaggerated and more likable, for she does more
than a little to harm the book, but it is easy to forgive this
shortcoming when one remembers Martin Hillyard and the picturesque
José Medina, the very amusing Sir Chichester Splay, Millie, and
several others among the varied figures depicted on Mr Mason’s richly
colored canvas.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 660w
“Mr Mason, here as always, has an exciting and unusual story to
unfold. This novel is hardly the equal of the ‘Four feathers’ or ‘The
broken road,’ for the author attempts to ming a not very successful
humorous vein with his natural plot-and-action type of fiction
writing.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 60w
“The touch of melodrama in the last section of the book is well
conceived and exciting. The best piece of writing in the book is the
description of the night passed by Martin Hillyard on the shore of a
river in the Sudan. This vivid picture of the life of the game-hunter
in wild countries affords a striking contrast to the sophisticated
chapters at the beginning of the book.”
+ − =Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 470w
“Mr Mason has shown better form than this.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 O 21 20 650w
=MASON, ARTHUR.= Flying bo’sun. *$1.75 (4c) Holt
20–19236
The narrative, the author claims, is of his own experience. It tells
of the voyage of a sailing schooner from San Francisco to the Fiji
Islands, of the superstitious sailors’ taking alarm at the alighting
on the ship of the “flying bo’sun,” the bird of bad omen, the
subsequent death of the captain, his haunting of the cabin and
spiritualistic rappings. On the return voyage the Hindoo stowaway has
a mysterious illness and is left in a state of coma on the captain’s
bed while a terrific hurricane is raging. During a critical moment,
when all seems lost, the frail little Hindoo is suddenly seen in
charge of the wheel giving commands in the captain’s voice with the
captain’s ghost standing beside him. With the ship safe and calm
restored the Hindoo is found just coming to life on the captain’s bed.
He disclaims all knowledge of commanding a ship but is still shaken by
the memory of the hideous dream he has had.
* * * * *
“The feeling persists that, with the exception of the spiritual
phenomenon, the whole dramatic voyage actually occurred.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 90w
“As a story of the sea it ranks with the best of Jack London or Morgan
Robertson, and as a story of the uncanny it is comparable with
‘Dracula’ and ‘The master of Ballantrae.’”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w
“In spite of the undoubted accuracy of Mr Mason’s idiom, however, the
discriminating layman is likely to find less of the authentic or
communicable essence of the sea in ‘The flying b’sun’ than in the
spiritual reaction of Masefield, Conrad, Tomlinson and McFee.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 340w
=MASON, AUGUSTUS LYNCH.= Guiding principles for American voters. *$2
Bobbs 320
20–18679
“Mr Mason aims this ‘handbook of Americanism’ chiefly at the newly
enfranchised women and at the young men about to cast their first
vote. He analyzes the make-up of the government and argues for what he
aptly calls a ‘re-dedication to those principles which have made
America great’—i.e., a conservative application of the underlying
ideas of the Constitution. He objects to radical methods of taxation,
to too much government ownership, governmental price fixing, etc., and
he sees ‘Socialism’ as a menace.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“His arguments are cogently presented and supported by carefully
examined data: an excellent brief for the preservation of a
conservative republic rather than a radical democracy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 100w
“Its purpose is to popularize an argument, and it has no other value.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 50w
=MASON, WILLIAM LESLEY.= How to become an office stenographer. (Just how
ser.) il $1.50 Pitman 652
20–26543
“A handy book intended for the untrained shorthand student who is
ambitious to secure a good position without previous experience.”
(Title page) The book is adapted for use as a text in business schools
and in high school commercial departments. There are thirteen
chapters, entitled: Your attention, please! “Safety first”; What
business men expect of a stenographer; Preparedness; Your “busy” day;
Taking the business letter; Transcribing the business letter; Typing
the business letter; Typing business forms; The use and care of the
typewriter; Words: their use and abuse; Filing letters; Time-saving
office appliances. There are two appendixes giving postal regulations
and information regarding the civil service.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
=MASSENET, JULES ÈMILE FRÉDÉRIC.= My recollections. il *$3 Small
19–15403
“An autobiography telling the story of this modern French musical
leader’s career, and especially of his many works. [It is] translated,
by express desire of the author, by his friend H. Villiers Barnett.
Illustrated.”—Brooklyn
* * * * *
“Will be enjoyed by the average reader as well as the opera-goer and
student of music.”
+ =Booklist= 16:79 D ’19
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
=Bookm= 51:171 Ap ’20 180w
“A charming autobiography.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 40w
“His narrative, like his music, reveals facility, grace, and charm,
and is alternately gay and sentimental to the point of pathos. One is
not very much wiser after reading the book, but one closes it with a
certain regret at parting from such amiable company.” Henrietta Straus
+ − =Nation= 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman
=Yale R n s= 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w
=MASSEY, MRS BEATRICE (LARNED).= It might have been worse. *$1.75 (6½c)
Wagner, Harr 917.3
20–4452
An account of a motor trip from coast to coast taken in the summer of
1919, with notes on roads, hotels, and other matters of interest to
travelers. Contents: The start; New York to Pittsburgh; Ohio and
detours; On to Chicago; Through the dairy country; Clothes, luggage,
and the car; The Twin cities and ten thousand lakes; Millions of
grasshoppers; The Bad lands; The dust of Montana; A wonderland;
Westward ho! Nevada and the desert; The end of the road.
=MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN.= Letters to X. *$2.50 Dutton 824
20–26887
“In ‘Letters to X,’ H. J. Massingham discourses on a great many phases
of modern life and literature. There is hardly a modern English author
of any consequence who does not come under the appraisement of his
pen.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The book contains many excellences of detail, and reaches at times
and maintains for a while a level notably above its average.
Perspective is perhaps Mr Massingham’s outstanding quality.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p110 Ja 23 ’20 950w
“Familiar, rambling essays of a book lover that will please the
‘gentle reader’ with like leanings, particularly if he be fond of the
Elizabethans and Carolines. Their exclusive bookishness will make them
seem cold and remote to others.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
Reviewed by S. P. Sherman
=Bookm= 52:108 O ’20 1950w
“These are essays of rare quality in which the essayist is writing
continuously of the alliance between literature and life.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 1100w
“Mr Massingham’s essays are delivered ex-cathedra and in a style both
heavy and dense. He is a lover of dust covered books, but he seems
widely read rather than discriminating, and though he ranges all the
way from Richard de Bury’s ‘Philobiblon’ to John Gould Fletcher, he
hardly does much to illuminate the names which he mentions. He
declares many enthusiasms but lacks the gift of differentiation.”
− + =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“It is a pity that Mr Massingham has chosen to hide this wise, witty,
companionably learned and most comforting book under the bushel of a
title which not only gives no hint of its quality, but is actually dry
and forbidding. Of the value of good literature, of the qualities
which constitute it and of the laws of its making, he says some of the
wisest, most pertinent, things written in a long day.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 8 ’20 2650w
“The word which fits his style exactly is one of the best adjectives
in our language which the language is guilty of criminal negligence in
permitting itself gradually to lose—the word ‘lusty.’ If it were dead
instead of merely decaying, it might be recalled to life by the easy,
careless, rushing vigor of Mr Massingham’s undaunted prose.”
+ − =Review= 3:172 Ag 25 ’20 360w
“Mr Massingham’s attacks on his own age, sharp, dipped in bitterness,
aimed with truth though they are, do not really touch the monster. Bad
though the age may be, he is too impatient and petulant with it; and
he is divided in his desires.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:232 Mr 6 ’20 1050w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 40w
“Treating his work as art, susceptible to form, even in the rather
strained sense of that word which he adopts, we find it deficient in
that very quality, and especially in that element of form,
tranquillity, upon which he so insists.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 15 ’20 1300w
=MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN=, ed. Treasury of seventeenth century English
verse, from the death of Shakespeare to the Restoration (1616–1660).
(Golden treasury ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 821.08
(Eng ed 20–10754)
“Mr Massingham has marked out as his claim the most characteristic
part of the century in time, and has not excluded any kind except the
dramatic. Most of his selections are naturally lyrical, but by no
means all; and he has thus been able to find room for at least
specimen fruits from the half-wilderness gardens of ‘Pharonnida’ and
‘Cupid and Psyche.’ He has also cast his gathering net unusually wide,
and his readers will make acquaintance with authors who will pretty
certainly be new to them, such as Thomas Fettiplace and Robert
Gomersal. In giving uniform modern spelling throughout Mr Massingham
may invite censure from some purists, but certainly not in this place.
Whatever may be the case earlier, the printers’ spelling of the
mid-seventeenth century is, as he justly says, ‘only externally
archaic.’ Half its differences from present use are not uniform and
are evidently haphazard. One may not perhaps approve quite so heartily
his practice of excluding some beautiful things as ‘too well known.’
The authors are alphabetically arranged.”—Ath
* * * * *
Reviewed by G: Saintsbury
+ =Ath= p40 Ja 9 ’20 1400w
“A fresh, provocative, beautiful little book. Palgrave’s volume was
not a bit better gauged for Palgrave’s time than Mr Massingham’s is
for ours. The purest twentieth-century principles are in operation
here. Mr Massingham’s notes are lively to the end, though often they
are cleverly irrelevant and gloriously slap-dash. It is as if Mr
Saintsbury were twenty again.”
+ =Nation= 110:151 Ja 31 ’20 370w
“The completeness of the book makes it an excellent compendium for any
one studying that era, although it is to be feared that many a general
reader will be frightfully bored by the stiff artificiality that marks
many of the poems, especially after they get past the Elizabethan
era.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 170w
“The poems, as a whole, are excellently chosen, and the enthusiasm of
the introduction makes pleasant reading. The notes, with their short
biographical summaries, are especially valuable. But it needs a
certain type of mind to appreciate seventeenth century literature, and
if all readers are not stirred to the same joy in it as Mr Massingham,
it is not his fault, but that of the period.”
+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 480w
“Mr Massingham’s introduction is a delightful essay written in a style
that has caught something of the curious felicity of the poets in
whose work he has steeped himself.”
+ =Spec= 124:212 F 14 ’20 1000w
“He claims, and with justice, that the ordinary reader will find here
a whole body of poetry with which he has never before had the chance
of making acquaintance. This is a service for which the student of
English poetry will be heartily grateful to Mr Massingham. But if he
be a lover as well as student he will probably find it hard to keep
down some irritation at an anthologist who sets out with the resolve
to give him as few as possible of the poems which he is known to
like.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p129 F 26 ’20 3400w
=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Domesday book. *$4.50 Macmillan 811
20–19678
In this volume Mr Masters has told a long story in verse. The body of
Elenor Murray is found by the river near Starved Rock in Illinois and
the coroner, William Merival, sets out to assemble the evidence, the
material evidence from the man who finds the body, the doctor who
performs the autopsy and the spiritual evidence from those who had
known the girl from her birth or her parents before her. The effect of
these testimonies brought together is to throw light on the many-sided
character of one human being when all secrets are laid bare and to
show how one life, however humble or pitiful, affects countless other
lives, its influence radiating like ripples in a pool when a stone is
dropped.
* * * * *
“If Masters can rid himself of his oracular airs and the bad
Browning-Shakespeare patois with which he wearies his staunchest
admirers, there are few limits to his possible achievements. ‘Domesday
book’ is too diffuse and prosy to be a masterpiece of poetic fiction,
but it contains the seeds and strength—and the hope—of one.” L:
Untermeyer
+ − =Bookm= 52:363 Ja ’21 550w
“The great American poem of the war has come in the ‘Domesday book’
and come from the hand of the poet who laid the foundation in the
synoptic Americanism of the ‘Spoon river anthology.’ The latter was a
great work; ‘Domesday book’ is greater.... ‘Domesday book’ is a great
national topic of America’s soul symbolized in the character of Elenor
Murray.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 1900w
“The trouble with ‘Domesday book’ is chiefly that it thins this raw
material out until it becomes hopelessly prosaic. The realism of
‘Spoon river’ had the virtue of selection and of epigram. In his
latest work, Mr Masters has become extensive without any corresponding
enlargement of the imagination and the power behind his broader
canvas.” O. M. Sayler
− + =Freeman= 2:357 D 22 ’20 600w
“The total effect is often crude and heavy, now pretentious, now
hopelessly flat; and yet beneath these uncompleted surfaces are the
sinews of enormous power, a greedy gusto for life, a wide imaginative
experience, an abundance of the veritable stuff of existence—all this,
and yet not an authentic masterpiece. ‘Spoon river anthology’ still
has no rival from the hand of its creator.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 470w
“For all its largeness of intention, all its vitality and
forcefulness, ‘Domesday book’ is not, to my mind, finally articulated.
It seems to me unfinished. I do not mean that the poem is not brought
to a conclusion. It is concluded, and, I believe, appropriately
concluded. But it has parts that should have been cut away or have
been more wrought over.” Padraic Colum
+ − =New Repub= 25:148 D 29 ’20 1700w
“It could have been produced nowhere but in America and nowhere so
justly as in the Middle West. The epigrammatic compactness of ‘Spoon
river anthology’ is lacking in it, but it takes on a huge strength
that the former book lacked.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ja 16 ’21 840w
“If there be any one who does not clearly realize that life is
infinitely complex, that it is in the last analysis practically
impossible to assign responsibility for evil, that much good may be
where convention sees only evil ... if there be any one who is not
convinced of these things already or cannot learn them from his own
observations and the daily papers, he may derive great benefit from
reading Mr Masters’ book. But those to whom these things are
commonplaces will perhaps not care to wade through the poem.”
− + =No Am= 213:286 F ’21 900w
“The Edgar Lee Masters, whose ‘Spoon river anthology’ blazed a new
trail thru American literature, returns with ‘Domesday book.’ Perhaps
he is less sardonic now, but the vision of ‘Domesday book’ is broader
and it is, happily, gently suffused with a very human tolerance and
forgiveness.” G: D. Proctor
+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 430w
“The first part is very interesting, and the whole book is readable.
Its essence is prosaic, though a back door is left open through which
poetry can let herself in in a neighborly fashion, if she chooses. Her
visits are infrequent.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 4:15 Ja 5 ’21 1350w
=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Mitch Miller. il *$3.50 Macmillan
20–17009
Mitch Miller’s story is told by his friend Skeeters Kirby. It is a
story of boys and a boy’s town written for adults. Mitch has read “Tom
Sawyer” and Tom is to him a living personality. The two boys hunt for
buried treasure and try to repeat all of Tom’s exploits. They dig for
treasure in Old Salem where Lincoln lived, and an old man who knew
Lincoln talks to them of a different kind of treasure. They run away
intending to visit Tom Sawyer but are brought back home. Later their
fathers take them on a journey to Hannibal, Missouri, where they meet
life’s first disillusionment. Mitch is something of a dreamer and a
poet. He is killed stealing rides on the cars, and in the epilogue,
written thirty years after, the author can say that he is now glad
that his chum did not live to face the shattered idealism of the
present day.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“The best boy’s story in our generation of American authors has been
written by Mr Masters in ‘Mitch Miller.’” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 9 ’20 1500w
“Those who have neatly ticketed Mr Edgar Lee Masters as a cynic will
be obliged after reading ‘Mitch Miller,’ to change their label—if they
must have labels. There is, to be sure, a sub-acid quality in the
epilogue. But the mood of the book is one of dedication rather than of
challenge. Its tone is sunny and fresh and sweet; its beauty quiet and
unobtrusive. ‘Mitch Miller’ comes close to being a masterpiece with
its breadth of interpretation, and the fineness and singleness of its
mood. It is complete, even to the tragedy at the end.” C. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 250w
“The narrative is tangled in a snarl of moods. Its movement is often
thick, its wings gummed and heavy. Only in flashes does the powerful
imagination of Mr Masters shake itself free and burn with the high,
hot light which so often glows in the ‘Anthology.’ There are touches
of admirable comedy and strong strokes of character and some racy
prose; but as a whole ‘Mitch Miller’ falls regrettably between the
clear energy which might have made it popular and the profound
significance which might have made it great.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 480w
“If fidelity to nature were the whole of art, Mitch Miller would be a
perfect book, or almost perfect.... The defect in the author’s method
comes out in the end of the book.... Is there nothing in American life
significant and interesting enough to make it worth while for a boy
like Mitch to grow up? Perhaps there is not; but if that is true, it
is an artistic problem to be faced, not evaded through a petulant
dismantling of a stage well set.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 24:276 N 10 ’20 1250w
“Mr Masters’s novel is put down with mingled feelings. It has many
faults, but it has quite as many virtues. There is so much to the book
that it leaps into the mind to advise the author to write novels
henceforth and forevermore and let poetry rest.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 N 7 ’20 980w
“The book is unusual and captivating.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
“We are in the habit of looking to Mr Masters for clear-cut character
drawing and for sympathetic, if sometimes ironic, understanding of the
motives of men but we have often felt regretfully, that he seemed to
be too much interested in the morbid side of human nature. ‘Mitch
Miller’ comes as a grateful answer to that doubt.” Marguerite Fellows
+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 630w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 70w
=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Starved Rock. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
19–17050
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the poet’s first worthy successor of ‘Spoon River’; but while
displaying something of its sardonic spirit the present collection is
of far wider range.”
+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20
“He is at his ripest and surest in such mordant and merciless analyses
as Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori, The barber of Sepo. They’d never
know me now, Oh you Sabbatarians! and that profound disquisition on
Poe, Washington hospital. And the man who wrote Sagamore Hill, that
incomparable portrait of Theodore Roosevelt; who wrote Chicago and I
shall go down into this land, manifests an intimate understanding of
the American heart at its noblest.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 250w
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 20w
“In ‘Starved Rock’ there is little music but much food for thought.”
+ =Ind= 104:165 O 9 ’20 40w
“It is beginning to be apparent that Mr Masters neither can nor needs
to depart from his original tone and method. He cannot do so
profitably and there is no need, since the vein which served them
seems inexhaustible. There are not lacking here the old familiar notes
of sour, practical tragedy, of hoarse, heroic scepticism, of good,
round, pagan, Chicago fleshliness. But [the reader] is sorry for a
certain strenuous complacency which has been growing in Mr Masters
over a considerable period and which is particularly objectionable in
the present volume.”
+ − =Nation= 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 550w
“Unfortunately, Mr Masters frequently fails to sing because he fails
to simplify. He is a thinker, first of all, and the thinker is
naturally more discursive than the singer. And now a word for the best
of the book. It is a poem about Roosevelt, called At Sagamore Hill.
Here is a poem which has in it truth, dignity, vision, vitality.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 1100w
“In ‘Starved Rock,’ the reader will not starve, though he will
scarcely feast. There are the usual monologues, of which only two are
slimy. There are bulky and hazy philosophies, cosmicisms, idealisms,
feeble sedatives for bitter griefs. There is an excellent bit of
journalism, self-described in the title, Sagamore Hill. There are
landscapes of an alluring but unsatisfying picturesqueness. There are
instances of that lyric pliancy and invitation which surprise the ear
among the ruder notes of Mr Masters, and there are rare moments of
true inspiration.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Masters is the same versatile narrator who builds poems of facts
rather than of fancies, and who presents carefully analyzed characters
and situations in a cold, direct and fearless way. He is still at his
best as an analyst or narrator, and he is still unsatisfactory and
unconvincing when he wanders from matter-of-fact or satirical verse.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 20 ’20 850w
=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH.= Argonauts of faith: the adventures of the
“Mayflower” Pilgrims. il *$1.50 Doran 974.4
20–10629
In this book for boys and girls, with a foreword by Viscount Bryce,
there is a prologue comparing the embarking of the Pilgrims on their
quest for liberty to the ancient Argonauts’ quest of the Golden
fleece. The epilogue suggests that the Pilgrim fathers had their
counterparts in the heroes of “Pilgrim’s progress,” and that they
laid the keel for a new Argo—the ship of state of a new
commonwealth. The stories told are: On the great north road: The
stormy passage; The land of threatening waters; The house with the
green door; The ship of adventure; The adventures of scouting; A
clearing in the waste; Builders in the waste; Greatheart, Mr
Standfast, and Valiant-for-truth. There are a chronology, an index,
illustrations and maps.
* * * * *
“The story is so well told that it is a pity not to have had it
accurate in details.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 190w
+ =Booklist= 17:37 O ’20
“Follows history with admirable care, presents an excellent
atmosphere, and tells an absorbing story.” W. H. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
“Of all the books relating to the Pilgrims, ‘The argonauts of faith’
by Basil Mathews has the best dramatic form and the most suggestive
content for the story-teller, teacher, or librarian.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 100w
“It is a very readable account and the impression it leaves is an
accurate one.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 140w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 50w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 60w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“Basil Mathews has written an old story in an interesting way.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 80w
=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH=, ed. Essays on vocation. *$1.75 Oxford 174
“The purpose is to inculcate the importance of vocation as
distinguished from mere profession or making one’s living, and the
spirit of the book is ethical and idealistic. One of the essays,
Vocation in art, by H. Walford Davies, is an inspiring piece of
literature. The other essays are: Vocation and the ministry, by Edward
Shillito; Vocation in law, by Sir E. Pollock; Vocation in the home, by
Emily E. Whimster; Commerce as a vocation, by W. H. Somervell;
Vocation in industry, by A. Ramage; Vocation in education, by J. Lewis
Paton; The career of an elementary school teacher, by Fanny Street;
and Sir William Osler’s Vocation in medicine and nursing.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1081 O 24 ’19 100w
“As one might expect, a book of essays on vocation edited by Mr Basil
Mathews, with contributions by such people as Mr Edward Shillito, Mr
Lewis Paton and Sir William Osler could hardly be anything but good.
But a good book on vocation is not good enough. It should possess,
especially at such a time as this, a certain prophetic quality. It
ought to be constraining, irresistible. But this is just what Mr
Mathews’s book is not.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:236 N 17 ’20 840w
=MATURIN, EDITH (CECIL-PORCH) (MRS FRED MATURIN).= Rachel comforted.
*$2.50 Dodd 134
20–16938
The authenticity and truthfulness of these “conversations of a mother
in the dark with her child in the light” (Sub-title) are vouched for
in a preface by W. T. Stead and a note by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The
conversations between the author and her dead son were carried on by
means of a planchette over a period of years and the mother asserts
that she retired from the world and gave up herself, her health and
her life to them and that the one essential condition for such
communications are a perfect love on both sides. The object of the
book is to comfort other bereaved parents.
* * * * *
=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 23 ’20 420w
− =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 220w
=MAUGHAM, REGINALD CHARLES FULKE.= Republic of Liberia. il *$6.50
Scribner 916.6
20–26544
“The author, Mr Maugham, knows much of Africa, has written on Africa,
and, when he completed in 1918 the pages which are now published, he
had had for some years personal experience of life in Liberia as
British consul-general at Monrovia. He deals with Liberia from all
aspects, with its geography, history, administration and institutions,
its climate, races, birds and beasts, plants and trees. The words and
the music of the Liberian national anthem are supplied, and a very
clear account by a practised pen is made more attractive by a number
of excellent illustrations and an adequate map.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 80w
+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“His study of Liberia tries on the one hand to say pleasant things
concerning Liberia, and on the other hand to show British merchants
that now and here is their chance to exploit a rich land.” W. E. B.
DuBois
− =Nation= 111:350 S 25 ’20 330w
“All through the book Mr Maugham gives evidence of genuine sympathy
and understanding for the Liberians and their problems.”
+ =N Y Times= p6 O 10 ’20 660w
“An excellent account of Liberia.”
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 180w
“This is a timely, interesting and valuable work, giving a fairly
complete description of the Negro republic. It is written in a
kindlier tone than has sometimes been employed by other writers on the
country.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 320w
“Of this republic the present book tells us all that is to be told,
and tells it well. Owing to difficulties and delay in publication, the
book is a little complicated by two prefaces, and the editing or
revision has not been immaculate. But, taken as a whole, it is a most
interesting and informing book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1450w
=MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET.= Land of the Blessed Virgin. il *$2.50 (5c)
Knopf 914.6
A20–1263
In this book the author gives his recollections of Andalusia in a
series of sketches—the land ablaze with sunshine, opulent with
luminous soft color, with cities bathed in light, desolate wastes of
sand, dwarf palms and the flower of the broom. The character of the
country he finds typified in the paintings of Murillo and the colors
of his palette—“rich, hot, and deep”—the typical colors of Andalusia.
Some of the sketches are: The churches of Ronda; Medinat Az-Zahrā; The
mosque; Cordova; Seville; The Alcazar; Women of Andalusia; The dance;
A feast day; Before the bull-fight; Corrida de Toros; Granada; The
Alhambra; The song.
* * * * *
“Its objective descriptions are full of rich and vivid color, its
travellers’ tales are intimate and charming and its records of the
impressions made upon the mind of the author, though not without
touches of affectation, are so individual as to be far more
interesting than most chronicles.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“If the reader of ‘The land of the blessed virgin’ is not anxious to
visit Andalusia after reading these pages he is impervious to the
picturesqueness of the scene and to the rare qualities of Mr Maugham’s
style.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1300w
+ =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 340w
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w
=MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET.= Mrs Craddock. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26573
This is one of Mr Maugham’s earlier stories now first brought out in
America. It is a story with one central interest, one woman’s
passionate love for a man, its change to hate and gradual cooling to
indifference. Bertha Ley, of Court Leys, falls rapturously in love
with a handsome young tenant farmer on her estate and marries him in
the face of his lukewarm response and the disapproval of everyone
else. She is mistress of her own fortune and has but one relative, a
keen-minded acerbic aunt who believes in standing aside and letting
others follow their own courses. Bertha gives everything into Edward’s
hands and Edward proves a model English squire. But as he rises in
county estimation, Bertha’s love for him wanes and her abject devotion
gives place to distaste. She leaves him, has a brief love affair with
a quite different type of man, and comes home again to settle into a
state of apathy and indifference from which his death, under the very
circumstances she had once imagined with such poignant pain, does not
rouse her.
* * * * *
“An unusual character study.”
+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“The merits of ‘Mrs Craddock’ as a story are no less than its high
qualities as a character study, and it should have been offered to
American readers long ago.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1000w
“It has some subtlety, but moves rather heavily and joylessly.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
=MAULE, MARY KATHERINE (FINIGAN) (MRS JOHN P. MAULE).= Prairie-schooner
princess. il *$1.75 (2c) Lothrop
20–15508
A story of the crossing of the plains and the settlement of Nebraska.
The Peniman family, Quakers from Ohio, are going west in a prairie
schooner when fate throws little Nina Carroll into their hands. Her
father has been killed by an Indian arrow but there is reason to
believe that it was a white man not an Indian who was responsible.
Valuable papers relating to the little girl are stolen and nothing can
be learned of her family connections. She is adopted by the Penimans,
altho they know that she has enemies who for some reason wish to gain
possession of her. Because of their Quaker principles they treat the
Indians with kindness and justice and at several crises in the story
they are rewarded by the timely aid of their Indian friends. The
children grow up, the boys take part in the Civil war, the mystery in
Nina’s story is cleared away and Nina and Joe Peniman and two other
pairs of young people set up new homes in the prairie state.
* * * * *
“This story of the West has all the atmosphere of the region it
describes—that is to say, it is flat, monotonous, and dry.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 60w
=MAUROIS, ANDRÉ.= Silence of Colonel Bramble. *$1.25 (3½c) Lane
20–4463
This light-hearted war book is an interpretation of English, Irish and
Scotch character from the point of view of a witty Frenchman. During
the war the author acted as interpreter with a Scotch division, a
position occupied by Aurelle in his story. It is composed largely of a
series of mess-room conversations in which the different characters
are allowed to reveal themselves. The translation is by Thurfrida
Wake, with translations of Aurelle’s occasional verses by Wilfrid
Jackson. The originals of these verses are given in an appendix.
* * * * *
“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.”
+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 100w
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 30w
“The volume is interesting for its portrayal of the way a Frenchman
sees the English race.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 480w
“Those who have been the guests of British officers at the various
staff and brigade headquarters will recognize every scene and every
character in the pages of this book. It is distinctly a man’s book—a
trifle risqué at times from a Puritanic point of view, but always
witty and artistically delicate.” F: T. Hill
+ =N Y Times= 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 800w
“‘The silence of Colonel Bramble’ is the wittiest book of comment on
warfare and our national prejudices that we have yet seen. The
rendering now published is well done on the whole, but it cannot equal
the original.”
+ =Sat R= 128:226 S 6 ’19 850w
“No more sympathetic, and at the same time penetrating, appreciation
of British character has appeared than this modest collection of
sketches, which, by the way, include passages of unexpected tenderness
and restrained power.”
+ =Spec= 123:771 D 6 ’19 1350w
=MAXSON, CHARLES HARTSHORN.= Great awakening in the middle colonies.
*$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 277
20–7587
A study of the religious revival of 1740 as it affected the middle
colonies, supplementing Tracy’s “Great awakening,” (1842) which dealt
mainly with New England. Writing so many years later the author found
himself “more in sympathy than was common in Tracy’s day with the
catholicity of Whitefield and with the democratic tendencies of the
revival which were so largely responsible for the destruction of the
ecclesiastical system of New England.” (Preface) Contents:
Introduction, and pietism in Pennsylvania; Frelinghuysen, and the
beginning of the revival among the Dutch Reformed; The Tennents, and
the beginning of the revival among the Presbyterians; George
Whitefield, and his alliance with the New Brunswick Presbyterians; The
year 1740, the great awakening at high tide; The schism in the
Presbyterian church in the year 1741; Period of expansion and
organization; Whitefield the pacificator; Triumphant evangelism in an
age of unbelief; Conclusion; Bibliography (seven pages).
* * * * *
Reviewed by F. A. Christie
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:105 O ’20 730w
“This little book is a worthy treatment of a most interesting and
important movement.”
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:160 S ’20 250w
=MAXWELL, DONALD.=[2] Last crusade. il *$7.50 Lane 940.356
20–20028
“With 100 sketches in colour, monochrome and line made by the author
in the autumn and winter of 1918, when sent on duty to Palestine by
the admiralty for the Imperial war museum” reads the informing
sub-title of this book. The author further informs us that hostilities
were over when he reached his destination and he had to hurry up with
his pictures and get over the ground as quickly as possible. He thus
obtained glimpses of things and places from every point of view
without rhyme or reason and found, in sorting out his drawings, that
he was much better off than he would have been with more leisure. The
pictures with his diary and explanatory notes make the story of the
“Last crusade.” The contents are: Over old roads; Pisgah Heights; The
streets of Askelon; Chariots of iron; Abana and Pharpar; The glory of
Lebanon; The coasts of Tyre and Sidon; Sea-plane ships; The gates of
Gaza; Armageddon; The valley of death; In terra pax.
=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= For better, for worse (Eng title, Remedy
against sin). *$2 (1c) Dodd
20–8240
A story based on the injustice of the English divorce law. Feeling
herself unloved and unwanted in her own home, Claire Gilmour marries
Roderick Vaughan. She knows nothing of marriage and the feeling of
admiration and affection which she had confused with love quickly
dies. Roddy is a spendthrift and a brute. He squanders all of Claire’s
fortune he can lay his hands on and bullies her into giving him more
by threatening to take her child from her. She endures every
indignity, but the members of her family, who had disapproved of the
marriage, are set absolutely against divorce. Roddy goes to America
and Claire learns the meaning of peace. He returns and consents to a
divorce, but withdraws his consent when Claire inherits money and
brings a counter charge of infidelity against her, quite false but
easily proved true in court. Roddy and Claire are both declared
unfaithful and hence forced to live in wedlock. Claire takes the one
way open and goes away with the man who loves her and whose career has
been ruined by the divorce scandal.
* * * * *
“The author who sets out deliberately to write a novel with a purpose
must content himself with being a little less than an artist, a little
more than a preacher. In ‘A remedy against sin’ Mr W. B. Maxwell has
chosen to obscure his talents under a wig and gown that he may deliver
a tremendous attack against the monstrous injustice of our present
divorce laws. Up to a certain point we must admit that ‘A remedy
against sin’ is a great deal better than the majority of novels.” K.
M.
+ − =Ath= p543 Ap 23 ’20 780w
“The end is one that few novelists would have the courage to record,
but it is a logical end, although it is not one that readers who seek
for a novel with a ‘high moral purpose’ will approve. But since Mr
Maxwell is writing the truth about life, he has made convincing the
culmination of the tragic tale of the marriage of Roderick Vaughan and
Claire Gilmour.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 1300w
“One of the strongest pleas ever made against the existing law in
England. As a work of art the novel suffers little from the evident
propaganda, because of the clearness of characterization, and the
gradual working out of an inevitable crisis in an intolerable
situation.”
+ =Ind= 104:384 D 11 ’20 130w
“One thing about this new novel cannot, in view of its subject, be too
strongly emphasized, and that one thing is this: it is absolutely
clean. Admirable in its construction, sane and realistic in its
development, intensely interesting from beginning to end, this new
novel by W. B. Maxwell is a thoughtful, conscientious and notable
book, a book worthy of the man who wrote ‘In cotton wool’ and ‘Mrs
Thompson.’”
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 1100w
“A more moving fiction character than Claire is not often drawn—and
all the more so that the author refrains from forcing the note of
pathos. There are a few passages in the book that may offend taste by
their baldness of statement, but the impact and purport of the novel
are the reverse of immoral.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w
“The character drawing is vivid and satiric. As in other books of Mr
Maxwell, the tale unfolds with flawless logic—it has the inevitability
of a Greek tragedy.”
+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w
“Mr Maxwell’s novel with a purpose is entirely free from that
suspicion of dullness which, not always with justice, attaches to this
type of fiction.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:393 Ap 24 ’20 540w
“The story is told at great length and with considerable attention to
detail, but it is difficult to feel great interest in the heroine,
whose anæmic personality pervades the whole atmosphere of the book and
increases its dreariness.”
− + =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 120w
“The narrative is well handled—related with force and yet with
restraint. The book will, perhaps, excite more curiosity than
corrective resolution. But it is at least reasonably lifelike and
convincing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 300w
=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= Glamour (Eng title, Man and his lesson).
*$1.75 Bobbs
20–3060
“The hero of this story is a writer of popular plays who, after being
jilted by a very prominent beauty in favour of a duke, marries a more
common-place young woman, with whom he is exceedingly content.
Unfortunately his old love whistles him back, and his fall so preys on
his mind that he is about to commit suicide, when the war breaks out,
and he reflects that the enemy can probably ‘do the business’ as
expeditiously as he himself. His final redemption of character and his
wife’s forgiveness are effectively described.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Ath= p948 S 26 ’19 900w
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1450w
=Lit D= p120 Ap 17 ’20 2050w
“It is a good and satisfying book, full of the stuff of life,
beautifully told.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 1100w
“Not a new story, you surmise, only the eternal triangle. But Maxwell
has seen it from a new angle.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 360w
=Spec= 123:478 O 11 ’19 90w
“Mr Maxwell presents his characters with an imaginative intensity and
emotional fidelity that win the reader’s sympathy with them in their
dilemmas.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 320w
“In this latter part of the story there are some fine descriptions of
phases of the Somme battles; moreover, the change in Bryan from
selfishness to altruism and nobility of outlook merging into
war-weariness and a more wholesome selfishness, is excellently given.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 S 11 ’19 650w
=MAYNARD, THEODORE=, comp. Tankard of ale; an anthology of drinking
songs. *$1.75 McBride 821.08
20–18409
In his introduction the author bewails the triumph of the teetotaller
and the fact that “perfect social reform casteth out conviviality.”
“In this book,” he says, “I have tried to offer to my readers
practically the whole cream of our convivial songs. But ... I tried to
omit everything that was not English in its spirit and in its
authorship.... I have compromised to the extent of admitting poems by
Scotsmen and Irishmen, while excluding their work when in dialect....
There are some good American drinking songs, but a prohibitionist
nation does not deserve to be represented in the jolliest book in the
world.” Only a few modern songs have been included, for the author
holds that they lack spontaneity and appear to have been written out
of pleasant affectation or in order to point a moral. There is an
index of first lines.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1385 D 19 ’19 180w
=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
=Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 120w
“The collection is sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently gay for
all practical and abstemious purposes.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 260w
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 800w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 150w
+ =Spec= 122:116 Ja 24 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 80w
=MAYO, KATHERINE.= “That damn Y”: a record of overseas service. il
*$3.50 (2½c) Houghton 940.47
20–9934
Katherine Mayo, originally prejudiced against the Y. M. C. A., went to
France, so she says, on these terms: as a free agent, paying her own
expenses, and only receiving from the Y. M. C. A. the right to wear
its uniform and to examine its records. Her manuscript was not
submitted to any member of the Y. M. C. A. for criticism or approval.
The title she has given it she considers a disguised tribute: “They
both wanted and expected to find the Y everywhere.... So, as naturally
as breathing, always and all the time: ‘Where’s that damn Y?’” She
renders a high tribute to Edward Clark Carter, “the head and shaper of
the whole Y effort overseas.” The chapters giving her impressions
include: The point of view; The key man; Christmas with the A. E. F.;
The post exchange; Hot water, by gosh! Never dare judge; The way the
people’s money goes; How can we thank them? Contributing facts. There
are an index and two appendices: A. Partial lists of overseas Y
secretaries killed and disabled in service and decorations and
citations; B. Financial statement.
* * * * *
“A very timely and readable book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“The fullest, completest and most interesting account of Y. M. C. A.
activities which has yet appeared.”
+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 320w
“She tells her stories remarkably, with a crisp, dramatic style and
with vivid, forceful words. The judicial quality is not often found
mated in books with fire and force and vividness, but Miss Mayo has
achieved their commingling, in most of her work, with very great
success.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:9 Je 27 ’20 2600w
“Miss Mayo’s narrative is of many-sided interest; in style it is both
sprightly and intense; it expresses deep feeling and at the same time
shows an extraordinary grasp of facts, figures, situations. Every
sentence, stinging, appealing or probative, makes its impression.”
+ =No Am= 212:283 Ag ’20 1100w
“It would be difficult to imagine a more complete vindication of the
work as a whole than it affords. As to the book itself, it is
brilliantly written, with a vivid style, and it is full of humor and
pathos. Taken altogether, it is one of the very best war books that
has appeared.” F. H. Potter
+ =Outlook= 126:66 S 8 ’20 2450w
“We hope that no one who contributed to the Y. M. C. A. war fund will
be deterred by the title from reading this book; for in it will be
found the most complete account of the ‘Y’ work in France that has yet
been published as well as the ablest defense of its management. It is
truly an inspiring story.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 180w
“The book is frankly personal, emphasizes personalities, and in its
generous hero- and heroine-worship sometimes fails to do justice to
the less spectacular phases of the collective effort that made
possible the achievements recorded.” J. D. Spaeth
+ − =Survey= 45:72 O 9 ’20 1000w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p792 D 2 ’20 950w
=MAYRAN, CAMILLE.= Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten; tr.
by Van Wyck Brooks. (Library of French fiction) *$2 Dutton
20–11072
“Although this series of translations from the French is described by
the publishers as ‘illustrating the life and manners of modern
France,’ the first of the two exquisite tales which make up the
present volume has to do, not with France, but with Flanders. It
relates the history of the bellringer’s motherless daughter,
christened Marguerite, but always called Gotton Connixloo, telling of
her pathetic childhood, into which there entered few caresses and
little play, and of her love for the lame, red-haired smith, Luke
Heemskerck, who for her sake deserted his shrewish wife and five
little children. Very delicately, very surely, does the author trace
the slow development of remorse and of that consciousness of sin which
at last, when the German inundation swept over the countryside, caused
Gotton to become a martyr, ransoming by her sacrifice the lives of all
those in the village. ‘Forgotten,’ the second of the two tales, is
also a story of the German invasion, but a story of a very different
kind, and of a very different class of people.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The first story is told with a penetrating appreciation of lowly
life. The appeal of both stories is to those who appreciate artistic
workmanship.”
+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“As delicate as two brooches, they are as appealing to the heart as
they are fragile to the eye. Set in English by Van Wyck Brooks they
constitute an unusual ornament to the library of Franco-American
literature.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 60w
“The sympathetic quality, the deep, strong feeling, the lovely style
and fine artistry shown by these two simple tales make the volume a
welcome and a notable one.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 640w
=MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE.= Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854.
il *$5 Lane
21–207
In the introduction E. F. Richards, the editor of these letters, gives
a short sketch of the career and character of Mazzini with their
historical background and describes the various members of the English
family, the Ashursts, to whom the letters were written. The value of
the letters themselves, she says, lies in their exhibition of
Mazzini’s character, his great and tender heart, never yet adequately
shown. Explanatory paragraphs by the editor, throughout the book, help
to unify the contents. The book contains several portraits of Mazzini
and of the Ashurst family, and an index.
* * * * *
“The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the
Mazzini legend in all its magic.” D. L. M.
+ =Ath= p433 O 1 ’20 1750w
+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 700w
“A notable addition to the Mazzini literature.”
+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 700w
“Mrs E. F. Richards, as editor of the ‘Letters,’ has done her work
with a refreshing enthusiasm tempered with a rare conscientiousness
and a notable grasp of the events as well as the personnel of her
period.”
+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 760w
“The letters do not add much of importance to Mazzini’s biography, but
they help to show why he was beloved by his friends. The editor has
taken great pains with the introduction and the commentary to these
interesting letters.”
+ =Spec= 125:446 O 2 ’20 180w
“The world can never know too much of a man so noble as Mazzini. His
life is at once an inspiration and a warning to the world in its
present condition. Almost every page is a warning to those idealists
who have not learnt that the very alphabet of the art of politics is
to act gradually, step by step.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 Ag 12 ’20 1900w
=MEAD, ELWOOD.= Helping men own farms. il *$2.25 Macmillan 334
20–10715
“A practical discussion of government aid in land settlement.”
(Sub-title) The author is professor of rural institutions in the
University of California, and he devotes himself chiefly to the
methods and results of land settlement in California, that state
having taken the lead in this form of agricultural development. He
also draws extensively on Australian experience. The chapters are:
State aid in California due to economic and social needs; National
carelessness in the disposal of public lands; Australia’s influence on
the land policy of California; State aid in Italy, Denmark, Holland,
and the British Isles; Methods and results of state aided settlement
in Victoria; The practical teachings of Australian state aided
settlement; The defects of private colonization schemes as shown by
practical results in California; California’s first state settlement;
Aid to farm laborers in the Durham settlement; Social progress through
coöperation at Durham; The capital required by settlers; The lessons
of the Durham settlement; Homes for soldiers; The function of
government in social and industrial development. The California land
settlement act is given in an appendix. There is no index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
+ =New Repub= 23:180 Jl 7 ’20 840w
+ =N Y Times= p13 O 10 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 60w
=MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD.= Great menace: Americanism or bolshevism?
*$1.25 (4c) Dodd 335
20–6569
A sensational appeal to the people of the United States to arise and
combat the great menace of “ultra-radicalism.” Contents: The great
menace; The relation of the people, labor, and capital in the
impending revolution; Conditions favoring bolshevism that do not right
themselves; and reasons for faith in the people; The new patriotism;
Vital messages of religion for today; Appendix: a citizen’s working
creed.
* * * * *
− =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 50w
=MEADER, STEPHEN WARREN.= Black buccaneer. il *$1.75 Harcourt
20–16856
The story of a New England boy of colonial days who is kidnapped from
an island off the Maine coast by pirates. Among the cruel and
bloodthirsty crew he finds one friend, Job Howland, a New Englander
who is ready to abandon his reckless career. After a terrible sea
fight the two make their escape but Jeremy is recaptured and there is
every reason to believe Job dead. His life is now more filled with
danger than before but a companion is brought to join him, young Bob
Curtis of Delaware, who is held for ransom. In the meantime Job, who
has escaped, joins Bob’s father in his search for his son and the two
boys are rescued. The pirates are captured, Jeremy returns to his home
and the buried treasure for which the pirates had sought is found on
the very island from which Jeremy had been taken.
=MEARS, DAVID OTIS.= David Otis Mears, D. D., an autobiography,
1842–1893. il *$1.50 (2½c) Pilgrim press
20–9024
The autobiography is an incomplete record of Dr Mears’ life, written
for his children. It is edited and supplemented with a memoir and
notes by H. A. Davidson. The whole commemorates the career of a
successful minister who was “preeminently a man of vision, of
decision, of action.” (Editor’s note) The book falls into two parts:
The autobiography, 1842–1893; and the Chapters by the editor. The
appendix contains appreciations and resolutions and a list of
publications written or edited by Dr Mears. There are five
illustrations.
* * * * *
“As a piece of agreeable autobiography the pages by Dr Mears are
unusually interesting.”
+ =Bib World= 54:651 N ’20 100w
“The biography has many interesting features.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 320w
=MECKLIN, JOHN MOFFATT.= Introduction to social ethics. *$3 (1½c)
Harcourt
20–8267
In defining democracy the author holds that equity is more fundamental
to it than popular sovereignty and that the insistence of equality
must be limited to equality of opportunities. “Deeper than the notion
of popular rule or of equality is that of fraternity, of spiritual and
moral like-mindedness.” On this basis he looks upon the development of
a social conscience as the task of democracy. Part 1 of the book which
is Historical and introductory contains: The problem of democracy; The
religious background; Calvinism; The triumph of individualism; The
great society; Our uncertain morality. Part 2. Psychological,
contains: The organization of the moral sentiments; The social
conscience; Public opinion and the social conscience; Limitations of
the social conscience; The problem of moral progress. Part 3, The
social order, contains: The rôle of the institution in the moral
economy; The individual, and the institution; The home; The
ecclesiastical ethic; The school and the social conscience; The ethics
of private property; Mechanism and morals; The worker and the machine
process; The ethics of business enterprise; The problem of the city;
Political obligation in American democracy. There is a bibliography at
the end of each chapter, with a list of magazine articles and there is
an index.
* * * * *
“Professor Mecklin’s book, like every other that is vital, contains
many provocations to controversy, but from beginning to end it moves
in a healthy atmosphere. It is an educative book, not a package of
predigested dogmas.” A. W. Small
+ =Am J Soc= 26:245 S ’20 550w
“Largely theoretical; will appeal to the reflective reader.”
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
“For a treatise on ethics, it is exceptionally interesting; it is
unusually well written; it is peculiarly free from the conventional
jargon of the schools; in short, it is a very readable book. The main
criticism to which he exposes himself is that he does not go far
enough, and that he stops short of the natural conclusion of his own
logic.” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 1:596 S 1 ’20 1450w
“The book offers much good material for college classes and the
references at the end of each chapter make it still more useful in
this respect. It is a welcome sign of broader ethical interest by the
teacher and a contribution to further development of the field.” J. H.
Tufts
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:111 O ’20 750w
“The book is excellently written and will be enjoyed by moderate
liberals, who will find in it abundant matter with which to buttress
their liberalism. To the more radical-minded the book will make little
appeal.”
+ − =Nation= 111:381 O 6 ’20 610w
“‘An introduction to social ethics’ is one of the most interesting and
valuable [volumes dealing with the subject] that have appeared
recently.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 220w
“The chapters entitled Mechanism and morals and The workers and the
machine process are particularly good. The chapter on Public opinion
sounds somewhat less in touch than the other chapters with the
realities of today through its omission of the hurtful effects of the
various kinds of war propaganda and wartime coercion. The best thing
about the book is its repeated insistence upon a positive and creative
conception of democracy.” H: Neumann
+ − =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“A comprehensive and useful survey of its subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p879 D 23 ’20 160w
=MEES, CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH.= Organization of industrial scientific
research. *$2 McGraw 601
20–5221
“‘Conceding the value of a research laboratory, the head of a large
manufacturing firm will ask: “What will it cost?... Where shall I get
the men?... What should it do? What may I expect to get from it, and
when?... What should be its organization?” It is to answer these
questions that this book has been written.’ The discussion is based on
an extensive study of laboratories both in this country and
abroad.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
“The scope of the book and the method of presentment employed in its
preparation are excellent, and both industrialists and scientific
workers will find it interesting and informative. It is thought,
however, that most of its readers will regret that the author has
given such brief treatment to certain of the aspects of the subject,
that no attention is accorded to the co-ordination of research, and
that more space is not devoted to the systematic collection and
distribution of scientific information.” W. A. Hamor
+ − =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 23:641 S 29 ’20 270w
“The scope of the book and the sequence of chapters are admirable.
Many readers will doubtless wish that the author had gone further into
detail than is the case in many chapters. In general, however, the
book bears the marks of experience throughout, and will well repay
perusal.” A. P. M. Fleming
+ =Nature= 105:771 Ag 19 ’20 650w
“Clearly, forcefully, tersely written, this book merits a wide reading
in professional and business circles.” O. T.
+ =New Repub= 23:260 Jl 28 ’20 650w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 150w
=MEIGS, CORNELIA.= Pool of stars. il *$1.60 Macmillan
19–18455
“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman
whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from
a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its
heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in
order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance
of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the
property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow
hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and
before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she
applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and
the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of
their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly
anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the
‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There
are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”
+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20
“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and
good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C.
Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:381 N ’19 40w
“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives
color and life to that period of our history following the war with
the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to
completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main
narrative.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:91 Mr ’20 150w
“The style is vague and indefinite.”
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w
+ =Cleveland= p80 Ag ’20 50w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 220w
“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 100w
=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Relation of the judiciary to the
constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7
This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a
defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to
believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues
that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the
vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended,
both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of
the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British
colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days
are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author
has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun
and Thomas H. Benton.
* * * * *
“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high
authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual
leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 550w
“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the
subject, though it is not without value for the general reader.
Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably
be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than
for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S.
Corwin
− + =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 300w
=MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER.= Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall
378
20–18040
The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be
known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and
addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college.
The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief
misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it
makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not
made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken
too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The
determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in
educational theory; The curriculum.
* * * * *
“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare
strength and clarity.” H. T. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 260w
“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of
the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we
have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse,
well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a
new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 440w
“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or
not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a
position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a
noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved
Smith
+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 780w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the
fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 1400w
“It is written in a clear, earnest, straightforward, and convincing
style, never abstruse and never platitudinous, but always fresh and
always interesting. In spite of the author’s professed fondness for
inviting misunderstanding, the book is throughout lucid and single in
its aim.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 11 ’20 1150w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s discussion maintains a high level practically
throughout the book. He meets many of the criticisms that have been
brought against the college and liberal education.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 660w
=MEIKLEJOHN, NANNINE (LA VILLA) (MRS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN).= Cart of
many colors. (Little school-mate ser.) il *$1.65 Dutton
19–19357
“It is the tale of a small Sicilian lad, dowered with artistic gifts
and aflame with desire to make the most of his talents who, at the
instance of his wise and indulgent mother and through the kindness of
an uncle who recognizes his possibilities, accompanies the latter to
Florence, there to study art. The greater part of the story is
concerned with his life in the cultured family with whom he makes his
home in the beautiful Tuscan town, and through whom he is given
opportunity to see Rome, Siena and other cities of note. Its earlier
chapters, however, have to do with his happy days in the midst of his
own people in Palermo.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
“A well-written story of life in Italy. We have seen nowhere so
informing and so humanized an account of Italian life in America as
Miss Converse gives in her introduction.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:33 S ’19 240w
“Though throughout the tale much stress is thrown on description both
of places and customs, yet there is sufficient incident of a simple
sort to focus its interest upon the fortunes of Nello and his
associates.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 300w
“Pictures with insight and sympathy the life of children in Italy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 180w
=MEISSNER, MRS SOPHIE (RADFORD) DE.= Old naval days. il *$3 Holt
20–20090
The author of these sketches from the life of Rear-Admiral William
Radford, U.S.N. was the latter’s daughter and her record abounds in
reminiscences, private and public. The admiral began his naval career
in 1825 as midshipman on the “Brandywine” which conducted Lafayette
back to France after his visit to America. He served through the Civil
war and was retired in 1870. The book is illustrated and has an
appendix.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 80w
=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of burlesques. *$2 Knopf 817
20–26583
“The present edition includes some epigrams from ‘A little book in C
major,’ now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller
sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole
contents of the book appeared originally in the Smart Set.” (Author’s
note) Contents: Death: a philosophical discussion; From the programme
of a concert; The wedding: a stage direction; The visionary; The
artist: a drama without words; Seeing the world; From the memoirs of
the devil; Litanies for the overlooked; Asepsis: a deduction in
scherzo form; Tales of the moral and pathological; The jazz Webster;
The old subject; Panoramas of people; Homeopathics; Vers libre.
* * * * *
“Mr Mencken is a clever and witty satirist, with an encyclopædic
knowledge of the latest crazes and imbecilities.”
+ =Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 160w
=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20
“The great difficulty about this book is that it will not irritate the
intelligent and none but the intelligent can be amused by it.”
+ − =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 100w
“Satire at times extravagantly and cheaply cynical, but also at times
keen and entertaining is to be found in ‘A book of burlesques.’”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 200w
=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Prejudices: second series. *$2.50 (4c) Knopf 814
20–20969
In the present volume the author continues his tirade on American
letters, generalizing on his theme in the first essay, ‘The national
letters.’ In spite of the prophetic optimism of such men as Emerson
and Whitman and, to some extent, even the pessimistic Poe, we have so
far achieved nothing but a respectable mediocrity which he attributes
to the absence of a cultural background, and of a civilized
aristocracy. The other essays of the book are: 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. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Dial= 70:232 F ’21 80w
=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 290w
“As for his second series of prejudices, they are even as his first;
his prejudices have not changed; nor his manner of hurling them at the
fat heads of us Philistines. Some of his missiles are true dynamite,
some—in my humble opinion—are duds; but not one of them is discharged
at random.” L. W. Dodd
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 880w
“Nothing is sacred in his hands, and by the same token is he
interesting and unreliable. His style is as vigorous and bold as his
ideas. It is a little hard to keep up with Mencken, but at any rate
you will not be bored if you try.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’21 480w
=MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND.= Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331
20–17254
“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of
view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to
decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention
points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on
labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem
still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the
welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon
excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates
to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals
with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and
militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy
the existing unrest.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 31 ’20 230w
“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book
will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 200w
=MERCER, JOHN EDWARD.= Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2
Dutton 236
“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more
usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we
should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt;
but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither
biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have
the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the
solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and
Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of
the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with
that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Int J Ethics= 30:113 O ’19 100w
“Though it is doubtful whether either scientists or philosophers would
heartily endorse all the positions taken by Dr Mercer, it is pleasant
to read a book written with good temper and rationality, without
appeal to the prevalent superstitions of mediums and table-tipping.”
+ − =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 300w
“Bishop Mercer pursues an extremely interesting and richly suggestive
line of inquiry. It is one distinctly removed from that involved in
psychical research. It is the purely religious inquiry of an eminent
scholar and thinker who is familiar with all modern scientific
thought, and whose wide culture and liberal mind endow him with
vision.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 700w
=MERCIER, DESIRÉ FÉLICIEN FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, cardinal.= Cardinal Mercier’s
own story: prefatory letter by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$4 (3½c) Doran
940.3493
20–5912
The book consists chiefly of Cardinal Mercier’s correspondence with
the German governor general in protest to the latter’s régime as
imposed on the Belgians. The work of collecting and editing these
letters has been delegated by the Cardinal to Professor Fernand
Mayence, of Louvain university, who has supplied them with an
explanatory preface. Most of the correspondence is with Baron von
Bissing and Baron von der Lancken and some with Baron von
Falkenhausen. The correspondence on the Belgian deportations is of
special interest.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w
+ =Cath World= 111:390 Je ’20 1150w
“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which
makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a
definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a
moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”
+ =Ind= 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w
Reviewed by Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w
“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact
with a really great personality, and will be the better for the
feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant
figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’
The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a
story for the young as it is for the old.”
+ =No Am= 212:139 Jl ’20 1500w
“A serious omission which ought to be supplied in any new edition is
the lack of any index.” Lyman Abbott
+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 2450w
+ =Spec= 125:146 Jl 31 ’20 1550w
“The correspondence, always written in the lofty tone and closely
reasoned manner of state papers, is interesting throughout; but the
most engrossing pages of the book are those which deal with the
deportations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p392 Je 24 ’20 950w
=MEREDITH, MRS ELISABETH GRAY (LYMAN).= Terrier’s tale. il *$1 Houghton
20–19080
“Although of a retiring disposition, I have always known that I am a
person of importance, but recently I have become a person of note, and
I have been asked to write my memoirs.” Thus the terrier begins his
tale and it is full of interest and excitement and some wise
reflections. It contains: Early days; Domestic life; Concerning baths;
Sport; Travel; On being left behind; Fatherhood; Guests; Social life;
As to cats; My great adventure; Through the window; Conclusion. The
illustrations are by Mia E. Rosenblad.
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w
=MERIAM, JUNIUS LATHROP.= Child life and the curriculum. $3.60 World bk.
375
20–8866
A work by the professor of school supervision and superintendent of
university schools, University of Missouri. That the subject matter of
modern life should be used as the means of instructing boys and girls
is his thesis. “In working out the details of this curriculum the
effort has been, not, as some critics have erroneously judged, to get
away from the traditional curriculum, but, on the positive side, to
get as close as possible to the lives of children as found in the home
and in the larger community.” (Preface) The book is divided into five
parts: Point of view; The traditional curriculum; Principles in the
making of curricula; The contents of a curriculum; Methods and
results. Supplementary readings are suggested at the end of each
chapter, and special reading lists, as well as lists of songs, games,
etc., are given in appendices. In addition there is a general
bibliography of fifteen pages, followed by an index.
* * * * *
“Not a course that can be adopted in a moment or by any school, but a
virile, well presented point of view which has something of value for
every elementary teacher.”
+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“The reader may be unable to agree with all of the conclusions of the
book, but it furnishes material for critical thought, and will be of
interest to those dealing with courses of study. The manner of
presentation is somewhat tedious at times, and one feels that
occasional condensations would serve to emphasize the content.”
+ − =El School J= 21:150 O ’20 680w
“One may find some of his conclusions from well-known studies in the
field of education surprising; and may be unwilling to see measurement
deferred until after the attainment of seemingly impossible
conditions. Nevertheless he will recognize in the book and the
experiment it reports a contribution to the great effort to provide a
curriculum more closely related to life.”
+ − =School R= 28:552 S ’20 560w
=MERLANT, JOACHIM.= Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war
for independence (1776–1783); tr. by Mary Bushnell Coleman. *$2 Scribner
973.3
20–7496
“‘Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence’
is an account of the part played by our allies during the Revolution,
written by one who participated in the world war. The author is Capt
Joachim Merlant, assistant professor of the faculty of letters in the
university of Montpellier, who, after a few months with the
territorials, joined an active unit as infantry officer. Severely
wounded in 1915 he never fully recovered, and being unable to fight
resolved instead to write and talk for his cause. Thus he came to
America, and from January to May in 1916 he lectured throughout the
country. And through his gratitude toward America he decided to
investigate the Franco-American alliance of 1778–1783 and retell the
story of Rochambeau and LaFayette.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 420w
=MERRICK, HOPE (BUTLER-WILKINS) (MRS LEONARD MERRICK).= Mary-girl; a
posthumous novel. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8792
“Ezra Sheppard is a man with a consuming ideal. A devout Quaker, it is
his dream to build a seemly meeting-house instead of the dilapidated
barn where the Friends have hitherto met. The lavish terms offered for
the services of Mary in nourishing the Earl of Folkington’s heir would
convert his dream into real stone and lime. So he lets Mary go. Mary,
poor girl, with the best will in the world, finds when her year is up
that the life of a working gardener’s wife is not so pleasant as it
used to be. And Ezra behaves badly about it, too. He repents, it is
true, and realizes that his idol has cost him too dear, but not before
Mary has been brought to shame, and his repentance takes the form of
attempted arson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“‘Mary-girl’ deserves something better than so foolish and inept a
designation. If it were merely one among a thousand sentimental
romances, its title would be unobjectionable, but it is something more
than that, and it is a pity that it should be so misrepresented. As a
whole, it is a notably truthful record of a soul conflict and an
absorbingly interesting story.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 800w
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“A delightful human and unpretentious story, well written and very
interesting, the tale has realism without pessimism, sentiment without
sentimentality. A delightful book, vivid, human, dramatic at times and
always entertaining, is this story of ‘Mary-girl.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 11 ’20 750w
“The late Mrs Leonard Merrick was endowed with the rare gift of being
able to write a thoroughly sentimental story with undoubted charm. The
episode of Mary’s downfall is the least satisfactory thing in the
book. It is false to the character, and for all its disguise is mere
‘novelette’ in essence.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 250w
=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Hills of Han. il *$2 Bobbs
20–6286
“Betty Doane, the heroine, daughter of a missionary, returns to China
after six years in the United States. On the steamer she meets
Jonathan Branchy, author, explorer and newspaper man and a somewhat
unromantic love affair develops between them. The development of their
emotions is interwoven with the dangers threatening all foreigners in
China from a new society, a recrudescence of the old Boxer
organization, known as ‘the Lookers.’ The chief item in the creed of
this society is the extinction of all ‘foreign devils.’ Betty’s
position becomes increasingly difficult and complicated through the
intolerance of her father’s missionary coworkers, and through a want
of a sense of humor on the part of her lover. The adventures of the
principals attain a climax at the headquarters of a French mining
concern; this form of foreign activity excites the particular
antipathy of ‘the Lookers.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Both the story and the setting hold the reader though one dislikes
the pictures of the mission teachers and the incidents are
melodramatic. Some people will object to this.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“As for the Chinese atmosphere and personnel of the story, one may
accept them as sound—if that matters in a story of this kind, and if
atmosphere and personnel can be sound when the action is unsound or
patently artificial. All this, you may say, is the breaking of a
butterfly on the clumsy wheel of criticism. ‘Hills of Han’ is not a
butterfly; it is a sort of gilded bat with the butterfly label.” H. W.
Boynton
− =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 320w
=Dial= 69:320 S ’20 60w
“Samuel Merwin has written better novels than ‘Hills of Han,’ but it
offers agreeable entertainment for an uncritical hour.”
+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 70w
“While neither as entertaining nor as vivid as some of Mr Merwin’s
earlier romances, the story is an interesting one and has some
dramatic moments.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w
“There is good fiction stuff here, but it is clumsily put together.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w
“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel
writing.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his
descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the
unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the
story holds the reader’s close attention.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 700w
=MERZ, JOHN THEODORE.= Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192
(Eng ed 20–10637)
“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author
considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science.
The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by
a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but
he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the
method used in studying the development of the race, going back to
primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual
life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the
latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are
discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values,
the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each,
the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by
a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical
business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the
wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 850w
“Admirable both in clarity of style and depth of matter.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:63 Ja 17 ’20 900w
“The treatise, small as it is in bulk, fragmentary as it confessedly
is, is a worthy crown to a lifetime of devotion to the task of
instructing and enlightening the mind of its author and his numerous
readers as to the history and nature of themselves and the world they
live in.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p97 F 12 ’20 2000w
=MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Masks. *$1.60 Holt 812
20–8218
Here are six one-act plays of modern American life all more or less
satiric and all with the same implication as the title play. In
“Masks” we are introduced to the shabby home of a hitherto
unsuccessful dramatist at the moment of his first success. While he is
musing at his desk over the change in his fortune he is haunted by two
of the characters of a former, rejected play, which now having been
remodeled is making him rich and famous. They are the bitter
reflections of one who knows that he has killed the real artist in
himself in courting public favor. The other plays are: Jim’s beast;
Tides; Among the lions; The reason; The house.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“The present volume not only maintains the high level of those
preceding, but contains some work that challenges comparison with
anything done earlier, while suggesting a new vein. This is
particularly true of the title-piece. In all the six plays the trained
hand of the practical theatre artist is evidenced in the stage
directions and the conductment of the action.” R: Burton
+ =Bookm= 51:472 Je ’20 700w
“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader,
and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these
dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its
title seems a bit forced in treatment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 380w
“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of
characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes
− + =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 120w
“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but
they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have
become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 350w
“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he
is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are
confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling
one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one
should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little
folk-speech.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w
“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve
great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.
+ − =New Repub= 24:26 S 1 ’20 500w
“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words
or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with
its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s
readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has
been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its
form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of
modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 880w
“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the
fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the
insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton,
this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes
the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”
+ − =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 300w
“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim
little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The
rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir
James Barrie at the end.”
+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or
whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is
left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope
of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are
distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and
‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are
better than the others.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 80w
=MILES, EUSTACE HAMILTON.= Self-health as a habit. il *$2.50 Dutton 613
20–6058
“Self-health, according to Mr Eustace Miles, is mainly an affair of
balanced (vegetarian) diets, good cooking and mastication, no alcohol,
but habitual sipping of hot water, deep breathing, and ‘sensible
exercises’—more particularly the ‘daily stretch.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p62 Ja 9 ’20 40w
“While experts will probably not agree with all that Mr Miles teaches,
his advice is stimulating and helpful.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 180w
“That he has a great deal that is extremely sensible to say about the
individual’s life and habits, both physical and mental, all will
admit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 80w
=MILIUKOV, PAVEL NIKOLAEVICH.= Bolshevism: an international danger; its
doctrine and its practice through war and revolution. *$3.75 Scribner
335
(Eng ed 20–10286)
“In view of the fact that most of the criticism of bolshevism that we
are privileged to read comes from non-Russian sources, we should
welcome this attempt of a great Russian scholar and statesman to
appraise both the doctrine and the practical outcome of bolshevist
rule from an international standpoint. Professor Miliukov, who will be
remembered as the leader of the first government formed after the
revolution of 1917, here traces the progress of bolshevism through war
and revolution into a practical experiment in government and exposes
the bolshevist propaganda in other countries, showing that its leaders
are aiming at nothing short of a world-revolution.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“An informative study to be recommended to the well read, discerning
type of reader.”
+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“When finally he traces the coal-strike and the steel-strike to
Moscow, we regretfully set his volume on the shelf, in its
alphabetical order, next to Baron Munchausen.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w
“Beyond any doubt, he here renders a great service to the bolshevist
cause by using ‘propaganda stuff’ which is so easy to refute. One
might expect from a man like Miliukov a sounder criticism of
Bolshevism, because it can and must be criticized from an entirely
different angle.”
− + =Nation= 111:sup423 O 13 ’20 1150w
“The book is too detailed and assumes too much knowledge of details to
be available for the general reader, but it is for this very reason
the more valuable for students.”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 100w
“M. Miliukov’s eminence in Russian politics and his first-hand
knowledge of conditions in Europe and the United States make him a
sure guide to those engaged in public affairs; his masterly handling
and clear exposition of so complicated a subject render the reader’s
task not only easy, but pleasant.”
+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 110w
“An instructive account.”
+ =Spec= 124:725 My 29 ’20 1300w
“His facts are wonderfully correct. No honest man reading this work on
Russian politics ... can come to any other opinion than that M.
Miliukov’s work carries conviction, not only because it is well
compiled, but because it is—at times almost painfully—correct in every
detail.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Je 17 ’20 1200w
=MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE.= Sportsman’s wanderings (Eng title, Wanderings
and memories). il *$5 (5½c) Houghton
20–26324
The author fired his first gun (and almost his last) at the age of
six. At school his ornithological obsession repeatedly brought
disgrace upon him, but he lived to become one of the most versatile of
sportsmen and naturalists, as the book shows. The tropics and arctic
ice are alike familiar to him and with the motto “The great thing in
life is to live,” he has found being a “Jack of all trades” the most
interesting existence. “In turn I have been soldier, sailor, a British
consul, artist, zoologist, author and landscape gardener.” His
desultory accounts include a description of his father the painter,
and their family life, and of many distinguished personages. The
illustrations are from drawings by the author and from photographs.
Contents: When I was young; Some early experiences in shooting;
Travels in Iceland, 1889; All sorts and conditions of men; Arthur
Neumann, pioneer and elephant hunter; Scottish salmon-fishing; One
African day, 1913; The Lofoden Islands, 1915; An arctic residence,
1916; Fealar, 1918—highland deer-stalking.
* * * * *
“A story that is interesting, varied, and well spiced with anecdotes.”
+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 330w
“Here is a readable blend of lively reminiscence and first-hand
observation, without verbal or scientific excess baggage.”
+ =Dial= 68:666 My ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 220w
+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 1250w
“He ought to be able to write an interesting book, and he has done so.
His reminiscences are disjointed, as—one imagines—his life has been;
but they are alive with his own enthusiasm for describing live
things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1000w
=MILLEN, WILLIAM ARTHUR.= Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the
newer Ireland. $1.50 Stratford co. 811
20–8530
The author of these poems is an American of Irish descent who lived
eight years in Ireland as a student and who believes that the National
university of Ireland will be the salvation of the country. With his
love for the land of his fathers and sympathy for the “Newer Ireland
spirit” he combines great faith in Ireland’s men of learning. The book
falls into two parts: At the dawning; and Echoes of Erin.
* * * * *
“Mr Millen is obviously pamphleteer rather than poet. One cannot help
feeling that he would be more pleased at winning converts to his cause
than at winning laurels for himself.” F. E. A. T.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:357 F ’21 200w
=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Beauty and the
bolshevist. il *$1.50 (7c) Harper 20–18254
Ben Moreton, the radical editor of “Liberty,” runs off hastily to
Newport to prevent his brother’s marriage to Eugenia Cord, daughter of
a multi-millionaire. He is too late to do that but he does something
else, he falls in love with her sister. Crystal finds the common
ground that will unite her irate conservative father and her radical
lover and brings the story to the right ending. It appeared in
Harper’s Magazine, May-July, 1920.
* * * * *
“Not so good as some others by the author, but amusing.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“A clever and paradoxical comedy full of repartee.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w
=N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 210w
“One has come to expect clever conversation from Alice Duer Miller,
and ‘The beauty and the bolshevist’ does provide that, but it is far
from being as pleasing as some of Mrs Miller’s earlier novels.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 110w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 80w
=MILLER, ARTHUR HARRISON.= Leadership. *$1.50 Putnam 355
20–8069
“In the schooling of officers no course was included nor lectures
given in leadership as a human science or in its relation to military
success as a morale factor in peace or war.” (Preface) It is the
object of the book to standardize the acknowledged methods of
leadership in the army, and, for the sake of brevity, the methods and
“formulae,” merely, are given without their psychological reasons.
Contents: Foreword by Edward L. Munson; Leadership and morale;
Character and personality; The leader and the soldier; The leader and
the organization; Index.
* * * * *
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
=MILLER, LEO EDWARD.= Hidden people; the story of a search for Incan
treasure. il *$2.50 Scribner
20–16498
“The hair-raising adventures of a couple of shipwrecked college boys
among the wild Indians, ‘monkey men,’ reptiles and gorgeous birds of
South America, especially their adventures among a remnant of the old
Incan civilization with their horde of gold.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 40w
“A scientific novel for boys, a really sound study of a remnant of an
ancient South American tribe in interesting natural surroundings.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w
=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 80w
“Neither youth nor age need form a barrier to the enjoyment of ‘The
hidden people.’ Mr Miller is particularly fortunate in the way by
which he applies his local color.” Kermit Roosevelt
+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1150w
“Is the kind of book that will appeal to all lovers of adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Those who follow his fascinating story, gain also a knowledge of the
birds and beasts, the volcanic mountains and other interesting things
that a scientific observer may see in South America.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 80w
=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Ring-necked grizzly. il *$1.50 (2½c) Appleton
20–7922
A hunting story for boys. Sid Colvin is recovering from typhoid and
his father decides to give him a year in the open and sends him,
accompanied by his chum Scotty, out to the Rockies where the boys are
taken in charge by Big John, a trusted guide. They spend a winter in
the mountains and the story tells of their adventures and exploits,
which include, in addition to the killing of the ring-necked grizzly,
other hunting and fishing experiences, snow-blindness and an encounter
with outlaws. Mr Miller is author of “The boys’ book of hunting and
fishing” and other works.
* * * * *
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w
=MILLIGAN, HAROLD VINCENT.= Stephen Collins Foster; a biography of
America’s folksong composer. il *$2.50 Schirmer
20–9485
By a careful sifting of material the author has sought to present an
authentic account of Foster’s career, taking special pains to dispel
some of the legends that have grown up around his later years and
death. The early chapters give an interesting picture of American
pioneer society and suggest the state of development of music in
America at the time. The concluding chapter gives an estimate of
Foster’s musical attainment and an analysis of the influence of his
environment on his career. Contents: The family; Boyhood; Youth; First
songs; Ambition; Drifting; Tragedy; The composer. Among the
illustrations are several facsimile pages from Foster’s manuscript
book.
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w
=MILLIN, SARAH GERTRUDE.= Dark river. *$2 (2½c) Seltzer
(Eng ed 20–4268)
Human destinies rather than events form the interest of this South
African story. Of the three men and three women that figure in it,
John Oliver and René van Reede bungle their lives through defects in
character. George Buckle possesses the substantial social virtues that
make good in this workaday world and even enable him to take his
rebuff in love philosophically. The three women, sisters, untouched by
feminism, are more passive instruments in the hands of fate and are
reduced to watchful waiting for the right man. Alma’s marriage to
George is frustrated through the untimely interference of the flighty
René, who goes off and forgets. Hester, feeling youth slipping away
from her, marries the regenerate John, to her sorrow. Ruth, the
youngest, eventually becomes the happy wife of George, although Alma’s
shadow occasionally flits by.
* * * * *
“To read ‘The dark river’ is, after so much wind and brass, to listen
to a solo for the viola. Running through the book there is, as it
were, a low, troubled throbbing note which never is stilled. Perhaps a
novel is never the novel it might have been, but there are certain
books which do seem to contain the vision, more or less blurred or
more or less clear, of their second selves, of what the author saw
before he grasped the difficult pen. ‘The dark river’ is one of
these.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 380w
“So well does the writer of this story know her South Africa, and more
particularly the diggings, that she has not attempted to add the
glamour usually found in tales of these regions. In fact, so clearly
defined has been her purpose to tell ‘the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth’ that the story would be rather depressing in
its sombreness and worse than drab details were it not enlivened by
bits of real humor and by a delightful background of local color.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 270w
“‘The dark river’ is well written, in a clear and vigorous style, it
is interesting, it gives that sense of reality which makes us feel
that we are actually observing the lives and fortunes of a group of
living people. Moreover, it has the rare quality which distinguished
Arnold Bennett’s ‘The old wives’ tale’—it gives an effect of the
passing of time. ‘The dark river’ is a notable novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 780w
“Outside of Hardy it would be difficult to find a setting which
affords a more harmonious background for the characters whose sombre
destiny is recorded in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s ‘The dark river.’”
Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 310w
“It is written not unpleasantly, but with a serious simplicity, and
the characters introduced are well and distinctly drawn.”
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 5 ’20 90w
=MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.= Adventures of a nature guide. il *$3.50 (5½c)
Doubleday 508
20–2049
“Storm, sunshine, night, desert, stream, and forest are crowded with
waiting attractions and moving scenes. To have the most adventures and
the greatest enjoyment in a given time, ramble the wilds alone and
without a fishing-rod or a gun.” (Preface) This is the author’s advice
to nature lovers. He calls the wilderness the safety zone of the world
and declares its experiences less dangerous than staying at home;
while the hunter, armed and killing, multiplies dangers and enjoys
less variety and fewer adventures. The book gives a solitary and
unarmed camper’s adventures in the wilds of the continent. Contents:
Snow-blinded on the summit; Waiting in the wilderness; Winter
mountaineering; Trees at timberline; Wind-rapids on the heights; The
arctic zone of high mountains; Naturalist meets prospector; The white
cyclone; Lightning and thunder; Landmarks; Children of my trail
school; A day with a nature guide; Play and pranks of wild folk;
Censored natural history news; Harriet—little mountain climber;
Evolution of nature guiding; Development of a woman guide. The many
beautiful illustrations are from photographs by the author.
* * * * *
“Boy scouts will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20
Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers
=Bookm= 51:103 Mr ’20 1450w
“The humor with which he relieves a tense situation, and his keen
observations on the habits of the wild life of the mountains add to
the interest of the book. A number of remarkably good photographs.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ja ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 40w
“It is altogether a fascinating book; and its best title to
recognition is that it approaches nature study from new angles, and
with an unflagging and ever new interest.” Phillip Tillinghast
+ =Pub W= 96:1697 D 27 ’19 380w
=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 70w
=MILLS, JOSEPH TRAVIS.=[2] Great Britain and the United States. *$2.50
Oxford 327
20–9352
“An English scholar’s critical review of the historical relations
between the two countries. The book is made up mainly of extracts from
lectures that were delivered to various units of the American army of
occupation in Germany in May and June, 1919. The author naturally
takes the ground that in the family dispute of 1776 ‘Britain’s policy
was logically defensible, however unwise her action.’ In other words,
he contends that there really is a British ‘case.’”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“His audiences considered, Mr Travis Mills was outspoken indeed, and
there must have been some shaking of wise young heads over the
Kiplingesque patriotism of this Britisher. No harm is done, however,
by a ‘straight talk,’ and the lecturer advanced a sound argument when
he contended that want of understanding, rather than the intention to
oppress, produced the rupture between the American colonies and Great
Britain.”
+ =Ath= p12 Jl 2 ’20 370w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 80w
“Much of it will probably be new to English readers, whose notions of
the American revolution are derived from text-books with a strong
Whiggish bias.”
+ =Spec= 124:659 My 15 ’20 220w
=MILN, LOUISE (JORDAN) (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Invisible foe.
*$1.25 (1½c) Stokes
20–11300
This story, adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, is based on the
possibility of communication with the dead. Helen Bransby is loved by
two brothers, Stephen and Hugh. Thwarted in his love by Hugh’s success
with Helen and smarting under a business failure as well, Stephen
commits a crime which he contrives so that Hugh is blamed for it. The
only person to discover the true state of affairs is Helen’s father,
and the shock of it proves too much for his weak heart and he dies
before he can right the wrong. Helen is positive of Hugh’s innocence,
and as time goes on she is made more confident by the impelling
feeling that her father is trying to get some message thru to her from
the other world. The crisis of the story comes when she actually
receives the message, and the hiding place of the paper that clears
Hugh is psychically revealed to her.
* * * * *
“‘The invisible foe’ could easily stand on its own merits as a crime
story without the aid of the spooks.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 650w
=MILN, LOUISE JORDON (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Mr Wu; based on the
play “Mr Wu” by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
20–7524
Wu Li Chang, one of the richest, most powerful of Chinese mandarins
had had an English education and was an Oxford man. His daughter, Nang
Ping, whose mother died when she was born, and who was reared in the
utmost Chinese luxury, was betrayed by a young Englishman. How Wu, the
father punished his daughter’s transgression in the time-honored
Chinese way, by killing her, and how he took revenge on her seducer
through the latter’s mother makes an impressive tale. It abounds in
vivid descriptions of Chinese social customs and traditions and
reflections on the habits of Englishmen in China, that are not much to
the credit of our western civilization.
* * * * *
“It differs from most novelized plays in that the bones are not
visible or even suggested. Mrs Miln must have put into it sufficient
of her own personality to make the story quite her own. It is
probable, moreover, that all three authors contributed something to
the impression we have of being for the first time actually in the
heart of China.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 420w
“Though the vengeance of Wu Li Chang’s forms the climax of the book
the best and most interesting part of it is the introductory portion,
closing with the tragic fate of poor little Wu Nang Ping.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Poignant emotions and a portrayal of oriental manners and customs
combine to make ‘Mr Wu’ of more compelling interest than the ordinary
run of adventure fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 330w
=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= First plays. *$2 Knopf 822
(Eng ed 20–12856)
A volume of five plays, written during 1916 and 1917. They are not,
the author says, “the work of a professional writer, but the
recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.” The first,
“Wurzel-Flummery” is a one-act comedy in which two distinguished
members of Parliament are offered an inheritance of fifty thousand
pounds—on condition of accepting the name Wurzel-Flummery. A two-act
version of the play was produced in London in 1917. “The lucky one” is
a three-act play. “The boy comes home,” a comedy in one act, is the
one war play in the volume. “Belinda” is a comedy in three acts that
has been performed in London and in New York, where Ethel Barrymore
played the title rôle. “The red feathers,” the final piece, is an
operetta.
* * * * *
“The lightness and irresponsible gaiety of Mr Milne’s dialogue are
equalled by his wit.”
+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“They are intelligently amusing and have all the quality of admitting
a thousand technical imperfections and carrying them off with wit or
the grace of nice human relations.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 140w
“Throughout all these ‘First plays’ of Mr Milne’s the word whimsical
haunts us. It is the trademark of the school, the school of Barrie;
and as in so many plays in the Barrie manner the form has taken the
place of the substance. What these plays show is simply that no
glamour of pictorialism, no colouring of language can atone for an
indifference to the fundamental requirements of drama.” J. C. M.
− + =Freeman= 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w
“No young continental artist, discovering himself to be a playwright
during the very years of the war, would have written with this
sobriety, good humor, and straightforward realism. Such an artist
would, no doubt, have written more profoundly and imaginatively, but
also more obscurely and, in no low sense, less usefully. Mr Milne, to
be sure, is capable of being both trivial and sentimental. But his
dialogue is deft and natural, and his observation of human nature cool
and sane. His best play, The lucky one, is an admirable piece of
dramatic writing.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 280w
“Mr Milne’s plays belong to what might be termed the Barrie school of
drama. It is the idea of whimsicality raised to terms of life.
Situations that in the hands of another would be either broadly comic
or broadly depressing are made by this school of dramatists into a
fantastic realism. While these plays are extremely diverting to read,
one will sometimes doubt their adaptability to the stage.” H. S.
Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“The others are excellent entertainments, they abound in high spirits
and good nonsense, but ‘The lucky one’ cuts deeper. They are all
excellent fun, superficial, naturally, but thoroughly sound and
wholesome of its kind.”
+ − =Spec= 123:477 O 11 ’19 750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 360w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 S 18 ’19 70w
“They are delightful parlour-games, all five. They do not affect, like
the newest of Mr Shaw’s parlour-games, to be fantasies in the Russian
manner. They are modestly and tactfully and good-humouredly in the
English manner.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 700w
“‘Wurzel-Flummery’ is what high comedy should be—satirical yet not
bitter, amusing yet not farcical. The reader of a play is perhaps too
apt to dwell upon its style; but, other qualities being equal, a play
is really none the worse for being well written. And Mr Milne writes
well.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 240w
=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814
20–13982
“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed
to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the
war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be
‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of
subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the
seasons.”—Review
* * * * *
“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne
knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer
than ‘Not that it matters.’”
+ =Review= 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w
“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect
suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive
informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having
introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with
a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would
adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his
writings for the pages of a book.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 500w
“There is the satisfaction of knowing that wherever you may dip into
this book you will be amused. So much of modern literature is only
rough hewn that a finely finished work—even on goldfish—is welcome. In
that respect ‘it’ does ‘matter.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 680w
=MINNIGERODE, MEADE.= Laughing house. *$1.90 (3½c) Putnam
20–18258
Laughing house is another name for Shirley House, the ancestral home
of the Shirley family in Shirley, Connecticut. It is packed with
family lore and tradition, which Francis and Mary Elizabeth love and
respect. There they have a happy childhood, whose joys are shared by
Newell and Isabelle Rushmore and Billy Vane, who are almost as much at
home at Shirley House as the Shirleys themselves. When the children
grow up they are still the best of comrades. In fact, they know each
other so well that all their future relations are taken for granted
and it is tacitly understood that Mary Elizabeth is to marry Billy.
But then a stranger comes into their midst, a nouveau-riche neighbor
who tramples on their traditions and upsets all their calculations.
But altho her methods are a trifle ruthless, she opens the eyes of
several people to their real feelings toward various other people.
Billy suffers most, but deservedly so. Mary Elizabeth does not marry
him, but Newell, and Isabelle who had fancied herself in love with
Billy, too, finds it is Francis after all.
* * * * *
“When Mr Minnigerode is dealing with this family he is altogether
charming. Perhaps he cannot write of ugliness: when he brings in a
member of the nouveau riche, and introduces us to a vulgar and
‘designing woman,’ his skill departs.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 380w
“There is a pleasantness about the tale, and the reader will relish
the quiet old Shirley homestead, the quiet of the village and
surrounding hills, and the principal characters. The story is natural
in its telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 120w
“Slight both in matter and in length, and not free from preciosity.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 50w
=MIRZA, YOUEL BENJAMIN.= When I was a boy in Persia. (Children of other
lands) il *$1 (3c) Lothrop 915.5
20–7997
The author is a young man of Persian birth who served in the United
States navy during the war. He begins his story with an account of his
parents’ marriage, thus giving a glimpse of the Persian caste system
as well as of marriage customs. Subjects covered in other chapters
include: The birth and care of a child; Schooldays; Persian games,
amusements and massalie (stories); Persian fasts and festivals;
Persian rugs and rug-makers. The final chapter, Preparations for a far
journey, tells of the departure for America.
* * * * *
“An unaffected sincerity and a ring of truth and intimate knowledge
are the fascinating things in this story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
“This is a delightful book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w
=MISCELLANY= of American poetry, 1920. *$2 Harcourt 811.08
20–16870
“This volume is as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most
recent work of eleven American poets. These eleven form no particular
group, illustrate no single influence, constitute no one
‘movement.’... Each poet has been his own editor. As such, he has
selected and arranged his own contributions.... The poems that follow
are all new. They are new not only in the sense that they have not
been previously issued by their authors in book form but, with the
exception of seven poems, none of them has ever appeared in print.”
(Publisher’s foreword) The eleven poets are: Conrad Aiken; Robert
Frost; John Gould Fletcher; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; James
Oppenheim; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Carl Sandburg; Sara Teasdale;
Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“Some of the poems have come out in magazines; and, what is really
important, most of them are below the author’s level. For a first
number this volume might pass. But the next should be made to count by
the contributors looking ahead and planning for it. Otherwise it is
only a pleasant venture.” Stark Young
+ − =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 550w
=Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1200w
“An eminently sane and revealing experiment, and one which justifies
itself in the results.” Lisle Bell
+ =Freeman= 2:213 N 10 ’20 490w
“Containing whatever it does, it vindicates with unusual accuracy the
critical preferences which seem to prevail just now and so embarrasses
the reviewer who would like to declare something newer than that John
Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin
Arlington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg are better than other poets
today.”
+ =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 840w
“The most interesting thing about this volume is the curiously
stratified cross section which it offers of contemporary poetry in
America.” J: L. Lowes
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 25 ’20 2200w
“Here are all fashions, from free verse to the most conservative
lines, and all done with exceptional finish and comprehension of
poetic values. The book suggests in its general scheme those excellent
Georgian anthologies. But a difference must be noted between these
books and this American miscellany. In the American book is a wider
range, the dissimilitude of the poets included is far greater than
that of the Georgian group.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 D 5 ’20 1250w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 2:292 O 6 ’20 350w
=MITCHELL, ROY.= Shakespeare for community players. il *$2.50 Dutton
822.3
20–3019
“Mr Mitchell’s authority as director of the Hart House theater of the
University of Toronto and former technical director of the Greenwich
Village theater, New York, is unquestioned. Taking Shakespeare as his
text, he teaches the fundamentals of stagecraft which are applicable
to community production, starting with the choice of a play, and
discussing organization, rehearsal, stage-setting, furniture, dresses,
lighting, make-up, music and other important elements.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
+ =St Louis= 18:227 S ’20 40w
“His advice is sufficiently detailed to permit a clear grasp of all
that is required. His principles are sound and scholarly.”
+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 220w
“Many a professional man of the theatre could learn something from Mr
Mitchell’s book. The ordinary amateur actor will find it full of
‘tips.’ To the community theatre it will be necessary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 5 ’20 700w
“Suggestions on acting and stage-directing, and full illustrations
covering every phase of the text, round out the volume as one of the
most helpful of the many recent contributions to what may be termed
the practical literature of community drama.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 80w
=MIX, JENNIE IRENE.= At fame’s gateway. *$1.75 (1½c) Holt
20–6128
Josephine Prescott was a musical prodigy in her little town of
Parksburg and the admiration of her townspeople made it possible for
her to continue her studies on the piano with a famous teacher in New
York. There her personal charms secured her many friends among musical
and literary people whose Bohemian life she shared. A great violin
virtuoso chose her for his inspiration and she loved the man in him
while the artist left her indifferent. Her teacher, the great Brandt,
dubious about her artistic testing, tried her out; one year, two
years. In the third year he tells her that, with all her talent, she
will never be a great artist, for she lacks understanding. Despondent
and with all her hopes shattered, she again hears the great violinist
and suddenly awakes to the realization that she understands and
thrills to his music, that she no longer loves the man but the artist.
And outside of the hall on the sidewalk romance stands waiting for
her.
* * * * *
“Although conventional, the well-sustained suspense and the pleasant
characterization give it an interest that will appeal to women and
girls.”
+ =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“The illuminating discussions of temperament, technique and the larger
understanding necessary to genius, should prove valuable to many
seeking a career in music, or indeed in any of the arts.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w
“A moral tale but interesting, it has a lot of musical good sense and
is highly to be recommended to the concert-stage struck girl.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 50w
“The book lacks character development. The novel drags badly at times,
but some of the scenes are well written. Brandt’s speeches are usually
good, and as a whole it is a conscientious piece of work with an
excellent moral.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 180w
=MOELLER, PHILIP.= Sophie. *$1.75 Knopf 812
20–13983
Sophie Arnould, famous Parisian singer, actor and wit of the
eighteenth century, is the heroine of this comedy in three acts for
which Carl Van Vechten writes a prologue giving the historical
background of the play with a brief sketch of the life of Sophie
Arnould. Although it is based on history, says Mr Van Vechten, the
historical facts of the play are negligible while the author has
“lighted up the atmosphere and the period, and re-created character.
Sophie lives in this comedy, lives as she must have lived at the
height of her career.” We see her as a triumphant lover, get glimpses
of her as the superb artist, as the kind-hearted woman, but chiefly as
the resourceful wit who cleverly outflanks her enemies.
* * * * *
“Philip Moeller, the creator of ‘Madame Sand’ and of ‘Moliere,’ has
developed in ‘Sophie’ more searchingly his gift of satire and
sparkling repartee. The lines of his play are closely interwoven in
thought, and their significance is often multiple. In the repartee and
in the rapid interplay of ideas lies the individuality of Mr Moeller.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 450w
“The play fails not because its plot is unreal, its ‘morality’ frankly
unmoral, its characters exaggerated. All this is true of many of those
great comedies ‘which are in the best traditions of the English
stage.’ It fails because it is not good of its kind.”
− =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 200w
=MONASH, SIR JOHN.= Australian victories in France in 1918. il *$8
Dutton 940.394
20–11507
“The part played by the Australian corps under Lieutenant General
Monash in France during the closing months of the war is recorded in
this volume. The corps commanded by Lieutenant General Monash was the
largest on the western front, and while the body of his troops were
Australians it contained some imperial divisions and the 27th and 30th
American divisions. These troops went into action in the defence of
Amiens when it was menaced by the great drive of the ‘Kaiser’s
battle,’ and fought up to the taking of Montbrehain on Oct. 5.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“Not only a valuable document but a human chronicle that adds
distinctly to the literature of the war.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 730w
+ =Spec= 124:244 F 21 ’20 1050w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 850w
=MONEY, WALTER BAPTIST.= Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. il
*$2 Lane 827
20–16287
Mr Walter Herries Pollock in the introduction to this book of
reminiscences pays tribute to the author as clergyman and cricketer.
The book itself is a collection of anecdotes and stories, part of the
accumulated store from thirty years of work as a parochial clergyman.
* * * * *
“Mr Money’s anecdotes are good, but one has the tantalizing feeling as
one reads them that the printed version is only the palest reflection
of the real thing.”
+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 140w
“Embedded in Mr Money’s book of anecdotes there are an extraordinarily
large number of really delightful stories; but the book on the whole
suffers, as do most books of good stories, in being too long.”
+ − =Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’20 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 490w
=MONKHOUSE, ALLAN NOBLE.= True love. *$2 (2c) Holt
20–13704
A psychological novel with special emphasis on the psychologic
reactions of the war on its characters. Geoffrey Arden is an
introspective journalist and playwright in love with Sibyl Drew, an
actress. The war finds him on neutral ground and his comprehensive
view leaves small room for narrow enthusiasm. Nevertheless the
patriotic appeal wins out and he enlists. On proposing to Sibyl he
finds that her stage name covers a German ancestry and that she is
German to the core. They make a compact to be “chivalrous enemies” and
lovers at the same time and in this lies the gist of the story: that
to intellectually honest, well meaning people the war has presented
two phases—the one the international human aspect, the other the
national and patriotic.
* * * * *
“Mr Monkhouse is a professional novelist, quietly confident, carefully
ironical, and choosing always, at a crisis, to underrate the
seriousness of the situation rather than to stress it unduly.
Admirable as this temper undoubtedly is, it nevertheless leaves the
reader a great deal cooler than he would wish.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1259 N 28 ’19 800w
“‘True love’ adheres to a course as conventional as its title,
unrelieved by plot invention and unredeemed by emotional
significance.”
− =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 50w
“But those who like much fine and high feeling and good talk and whose
interest in character study is strong will find it very satisfying.
There is in it a great deal of clever, sometimes brilliant, and always
interesting, conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 600w
“As fiction the book is not appealing, but it is keenly and sometimes
brilliantly written.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w
+ =Sat R= 128:589 D 20 ’19 400w
“‘True love’ is an interesting and painfully engrossing story, in
which the author practises a most artistic self-effacement.”
+ =Spec= 122:733 N 29 ’19 750w
“His style is careful, neat and polished. His skill at play-writing
has taught him how to make his novels dramatic, and the book advances
in a good, orderly well-drilled fashion. Mr Monkhouse has given us a
most readable novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 620w
=MONTAGUE, JAMES J.= More truth than poetry. *$1.75 Doran 811
20–19075
A volume of reprinted newspaper verses, many of them for or about
children. Irvin Cobb, who writes the introduction, confesses that his
favorites are “Healthy” and “Thoughts on pie,” of the Doughboy
ditties, and “The Sleepy-town express.” Other poems are: The evening
suit; Around the corner; The pictures on the panes; Why the katydids
sing; Peter Pan; The mine sweepers; The road to success; The farmer’s
idle wife; In behalf of the movies.
=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= England to America. *$1 (14c) Doubleday
20–8625
A reprint of a short story that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in
September 1919. It is the story of an American soldier on leave who
visits his English friend’s family in Devonshire. The strange reserve
of his hosts puzzles him and he interprets it, as coldness towards
himself or his country. On the last day the truth comes out and he
learns that for his sake they have been concealing the tragic news
that had just preceded his own arrival. John Drinkwater writes an
appreciative introduction. The story was awarded the O. Henry memorial
prize for the best American short story of 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 40w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w
=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. *$1 (11c)
Doubleday
20–11895
A short story reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. The old southern
mountaineer known as Uncle Sam, for his likeness to that national
figure, has carried the fervor of the Civil war patriotism all through
his life. In that spirit he gives up his only son and receives the
tidings of his death in France without flinching. After the war he is
heart and soul for the treaty and at the news of its rejection by the
Senate takes his own life in the mystic belief that he is offering
atonement for his country’s failure. The story has been commended by
President Wilson.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 30w
“The simple, homely, genuine appeal of the central figure of Miss
Montague’s parable makes a much needed call to the better spirit of
the country, the real spirit of the great masses of the people.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 600w
“It is one of those rare, great little books that all patriotic people
will read eagerly and pass on to their friends, just as sixty or
seventy years ago people read and passed on ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 220w
=MOODY, JOHN.= Masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street.
(Chronicles of America ser.) per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 332
19–19139
“In the course of the forty-first volume in the Chronicles of America
series, Mr Moody discusses the necessity and value of capital as an
accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use
in the production of more wealth, and he outlines in a series of nine
chapters the leading factors in its development. His starting point is
the rise of the house of Morgan, and thereafter he chronicles briefly,
in scarcely more than two hundred pages, the development of American
railroads, the rise of the ironmasters and the Standard oil company,
with successive chapters on The steel trust merger, Harriman and Hill.
The apex of ‘high finance,’ The panic of 1907 and after, and Wall
street and the world war.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Both books are written from the Wall Street standpoint. However, Mr
Moody has given us two interesting, authoritative, and impartial
narratives describing dramatic and not unimportant episodes in our
economic history. And his firm biographies and stories of great
financial deals—accompanied as they are by a constant flow of
informing comment—enable an understanding reader to deduce more than
he specifically tells.” V: S. Clark
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w
“The entire story of the development of American capital and
capitalists is picturesque in itself and especially romantic as told
by Mr Moody.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 1250w
“One of the most fascinating volumes in the entire series.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=MOODY, JOHN.= Railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the
states. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 385
19–19138
“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading
American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who
pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in
this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of
first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author
founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and
corporation securities.’” (St Louis)
* * * * *
Reviewed by V: S. Clark
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w
“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious
pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In
the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in
transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s
volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His
bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:158 S ’20 250w
“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is
an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself
at the present time.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has
contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most
distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most
vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 70w
=St Louis= 18:100 Je ’20 30w
=MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD.= Local government in ancient India; with a
foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford
352
20–4025
“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient
India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s
survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from
the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all
sources of information. The systems of self-government, which
communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved
for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare,
were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong
social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political
changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations,
which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various
institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term
‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern
Europe.”—Eng Hist R
=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w
“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr
Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real
service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together
and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for
the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:260 Ap ’20 1050w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p433 Ag 14 ’19 1050w
=MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL.= Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5
20–20904
Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children
in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman.
Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book
exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books;
Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A
spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation
reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in
the text.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither
sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s
reading.”
+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 150w
“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn
upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and
with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 110w
Reviewed by Annette Wynne
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ja 8 ’21 520w
“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w
=MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.=[2] West and East. *$4 Scribner 266
(Eng ed 20–12838)
“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered
at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of
history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity
in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919
increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures,
setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.”
(Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no
account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have
conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different
from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth
the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists
is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious
traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold
our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders
clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page
from a multitude of footnotes and references.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 210w
=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to
Professor Moore’s book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 S 2 ’20 2000w
=MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT.= Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710
20–19679
The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for
it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The
little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world,
past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the
author and his family are reflections on historical, literary,
artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et
al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A
number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 90w
“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight
value as information.”
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd
criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running
commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that
he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”
+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 220w
“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into
the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 800w
=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 30w
“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the
stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 820w
“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and
reflection with their gardening and their reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 40w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 90w
“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently
recommended.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 270w
“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly
jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:109 Ja 31 ’20 950w
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday
20–5120
A party of three Americans hire a schooner in Manila and go out in
search of an island of gold, on the say-so of a crazy ex-captain. The
captain of the schooner and the crew, with a few exceptions, are a
criminal gang who are bound to come to their reckoning whichever way
the trip turns out. The island is reached but no gold is found, except
the gold of love between Marjorie Locke and Robert Trask. The wicked
captain and crew are outwitted, after a trial of strength, and the
party returns safely to Manila.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Sailor girl. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–5774
A tale of adventure in the China sea. Eleanor Glendon, sole owner
after her father’s death of a fleet of ships, has reason to believe
that all is not well with her affairs in the Far East and she goes out
to investigate on her own account. With a friend, Harriett Wade, she
arrives in Manila to find that the “Coral Queen” is on the point of
sailing for Hong Kong, and without warning to the captain, goes on
board. She finds that the first mate is one John Strang, accused of
complicity in a recent daring piece of piracy, and on hearing rumors
of a plot to sink the ship readily connects him with it. But she is to
learn that he is not the culprit, and following a series of stirring
events, the truth comes to light and there is a reorganization of her
company with a new man at its head and a wedding in prospect.
* * * * *
“A satisfactory adventure-comedy-romance, stirring enough but never
distressing.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 80w
“The reader will probably feel that the love story is perfunctory,
while the adventure story is hair-raising enough for anyone.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 300w
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Siberia today. il *$2 Appleton 915.7
19–19482
“As one of a number of intelligence officers dispatched by the United
States to Siberia in the summer of 1918, Mr Moore had opportunity to
see something of the diplomatic and political conditions of that
distracted country, as well as much of its peasant life. His volume is
a lively narrative devoted rather to description than to analysis.” (N
Y Evening Post) “He has much of interest to tell about the people, the
prisons, the Cossack chiefs, the work of Bolshevists, and the German
propaganda, and there are a great number of photographs.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“A breezy account with serious convictions set down in journalistic
style.”
+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 320w
“Captain Moore has a good journalistic sense, and he has enlivened his
criticisms by many vivid and lively pictures of life in Siberia
today.”
+ =Cath World= 111:682 Ag ’20 480w
=Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 60w
“An interesting journalistic account.”
+ =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 60w
“It is an easy, chatty chronicle that Mr Moore writes, filled with
apparently insignificant details, the cumulative effect of which is to
create an arresting portrayal.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 650w
+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 60w
=MOORE, GEORGE.= Avowals. *$8 priv ptd Boni & Liveright 801
19–15898
“A literary criticism in beautiful prose, much of it in the form of
imaginary conversations between Moore and Gosse in which they discuss
achievements in English fiction. Another conversation between Moore
and an American gives the author an opportunity to state his opinion
of censoring literature according to standards of morality, instead of
according to art. Discussions of Tolstoy, Tourgueneff, Kipling and
Pater, whom he admires greatly. A lecture in French on Shakespeare and
Balzac is reproduced, together with Paris impressions.” Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:196 Mr ’20
“With all its side-issues, its personalities, its portraits, its
wisdom and wit and perversity, ‘Avowals’ is fundamentally an essay on
the English novel of quite extraordinary subtlety and of rare charm
and stimulating power.” S: C. Chew
+ =Nation= 110:239 F 21 ’20 1000w
“Mr George Moore’s ‘Avowals’ is one of the most companionable books of
criticism I know.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 440w (Reprinted from New
Statesman)
“Here is Mr George Moore talking about books, and giving us the most
delightful example of printed talk that we can remember to have met
with in English.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 O 30 ’19 2100w
=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY=, comp. World beyond. (World Bible ser.) *$1.50
Crowell 208
20–12826
The compiler has selected passages from oriental and primitive
religions bearing on life, death and immortality. The selections are
arranged under three headings: The world beyond; The higher knowledge;
Life.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 430w
=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, and HOUSTON, CHARLES A.= Problems in business
law. (College of the city of N.Y. ser in commerce. civics and
technology) *$2.50 Appleton 347.7
20–9488
The present volume confines itself to stating all the various problems
of a legal nature that a business man has to deal with. It is a case
book, pure and simple, designed for use in classroom discussion and
quizzing, giving carefully selected cases, that have actually come up
for decision in court, without the answers. It is intended for
business colleges, corporation training schools, commercial high
schools and universities where business law is a subject of study.
After giving a table of the cases cited, the subjects are grouped
under: Contracts; Quasi contracts; Sales; Personal property; Chattel
mortgage; Lost property; Pledged property; Bailments; Agency;
Carriers; Master and servant; Suretyship and guaranty; Negotiable
instruments; Checks; Insurance; Partnership; Corporations; Bankruptcy.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:829 D ’20 30w
“This is perhaps the most interesting and excellent case book of
commercial law ever published for use in the classroom.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 150w
=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Little school. *$1.50 Harcourt 821
This is an enlarged edition of the book by the same title, and
contains children’s poems on subjects of everyday life and of special
interest to children as some of the titles show: Beautiful meals; To
cook; Leaf-land; A song of cleanness; Picture folk; Nursery
enactments; The house we built; The wild cherry; A child muses; Snow.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of
timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative
shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly
facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One
feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his
music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G.
Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 250w
“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown,
ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often
makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and
honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“Strange to say, he is successful in several of the poems. For the
most part, though, he does not quite hit off the elphin twist and
whimsicality of de la Mare.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 190w
=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Some soldier poets. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.09
20–17758
A series of essays on a group of young poets who are associated with
the war, concluding with an essay on The best poetry, written for the
Royal society of literature in 1912. Contents: Julian Grenfell; Rupert
Brooke; A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Robert Graves and Siegfried
Sassoon]; R. E. Vèrnede; Sorley; Francis Ledwidge; Edward Thomas; F.
W. Harvey; Richard Aldington; Alan Seeger; The best poetry.
* * * * *
“Mr Sturge Moore’s volume is interesting because it contains, besides
much acute and serious criticism, an illuminating summary of the
poet’s artistic psychology.”
+ =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 570w
=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“Within a fixed circle, Mr Moore’s criticism is honest and
impassioned, but his vision is limited by the horizons of the
nineteenth century and he abhors anything modern or irregular.”
+ − =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w
“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the
Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume
put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger
is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 860w
“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let
himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers
who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and
secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the
exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here
praises.”
− =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 560w
“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make
his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire
to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He
is also a master of the comparative method.”
+ − =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 720w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’20 80w
=MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE.= Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960
(Eng ed 20–22707)
The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious
wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to
lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy
in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of
Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the
author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European
intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He
has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the
proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an
inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are
explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest
of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2)
Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation
and reform.
* * * * *
“Mr Morel writes in a clear, hard style, without prejudice or
sentiment, and it will be impossible for any normal human being of
white origin to read these two hundred and forty pages without a
feeling of profound shame.” Llewelyn Powys
+ =Freeman= 2:522 F 9 ’21 1100w
“His attitude toward the black men is that of the liberal Englishman:
that is to say, he is opposed to the past atrocities and wants Africa
helped in every benevolent and philanthropic way. He has, however, no
conception of a self-governing, independent black Africa.” W. E. B. Du
Bois
+ − =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 640w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 280w
“The book can be judged on its merits. The merits consist in recalling
and setting forth undoubted and glaring injuries inflicted upon Africa
and the Africans by European individuals, companies, and governments,
and in warning against the danger of repeating the injustice and
wrong. The warning is needed at the present time. On the other hand,
like other books of the kind, it lends itself to criticism both in
detail and on general grounds. Though the author can discriminate and
does, when he likes, discriminate, there are wholesale and one-sided
statements and generalizations which are far too wide.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Mr 25 ’20 1200w
=MORELAND, WILLIAM HARRISON.=[2] India at the death of Akbar. *$4.50
Macmillan 954
“The opening of the seventeenth century—the period selected by Mr
Moreland—was a critical epoch in the history of India. It was
immediately antecedent to the appearance of new forces destined to
influence India profoundly, and may be described as the close of the
medieval history of India and the beginning of its modern history (it
was in the year 1608 that the English ship Hector reached Surat.) For
the economic story of the next three centuries substantial sources of
information are available, and Mr Moreland’s aim is to supply an
introduction to the study of that period. List of authorities,
5pp.’—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Certainly no one could accuse Mr Moreland of forcing from the facts a
too confident conclusion. His judgment is so cautious, so balanced, so
hesitating, that if the one object of his book had been a definite
comparison in material wealth and prosperity between 1605 and 1914, a
captious critic might complain that the results arrived at hardly
compensate for the sedulous care lavished on the inquiry. There are
many shrewd reflexions on matters political and financial, the outcome
of independent study and an original survey.” P. E. Roberts
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:455 Jl ’20 950w
“Mr Moreland’s excellent study of the condition of India in 1605, at
the death of Akbar, shows how the subject should be approached. If we
are to determine whether India has advanced or declined in wealth, we
must have some standard by which to measure the changes.”
+ =Spec= 124:794 Je 12 ’20 1650w
“It is pleasant to record a further advance in the study of Indian
economics. All scholars will be delighted that Mr Moreland has
resisted the obvious temptation to defer publication until the sources
of our information had been more fully explored. No pioneer can hope
to write the definitive work upon a subject of this magnitude, and Mr
Moreland may reasonably hope to earn the more enviable distinction of
founding a school and seeing others build upon his foundation.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p360 Je 10 ’20 1550w
=MORGAN, ANGELA.= Hail man! *$1.25 Lane 811
20–86
With a few exceptions—which include the title poem, reprinted from the
New York Times—the poems of this book appear here for the first time.
They are arranged in eight sections: Symbols; Man in light; Man in
darkness; Enchantment; Contrasts; Fancies; Tributes; Man tomorrow.
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 30w
“Her note is ecstasy con fuoco; her exaltation is unremittingly
fortissimo. Often on the point of a crashing success she fails because
of this very too-determined vigour. Miss Morgan can and has done far
better than this. Gifted with an ease and fluency, she lets her
rippling sentences run on till they become a mere babble of words.” L:
Untermeyer
− + =Dial= 68:529 Ap ’20 250w
=Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 30w
“The best things in this book are the shorter and less pretentious
poems, ‘Common things,’ ‘Steam’ and ‘Gardens.’ Many of the others have
the energy and feeling essential to the making of poetry, even the
imaginative touches, occasionally, and the love of natural beauty, but
lack the masterly touch of proportioned art which might make of these
spiritual conflagrations a serene and permanently shining light.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 360w
=MORGAN, ANNA BLUNT.= Little folks tramping and camping. il *$1.75 (3c)
Lothrop
20–17826
A bird book for children with information presented in story form. The
Marsden children learn about birds from an uncle who is an enthusiast.
Their study begins in the winter with tramps through the snow to the
haunts of cedar waxwings, grossbeaks and other winter habitants, and
for Marshall, the eldest, who is an invalid, a feeding shelf is
arranged outside the window to attract nuthatches and chickadees. The
expeditions are continued into the spring and early summer and in July
the children are taken on a camping trip where they learn more about
wild life and where Marshall grows strong and well. The birds studied
are those native to Wisconsin.
=MORGAN, BYRON.= Roaring road. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–9273
Stories of automobile racing, first copyrighted by the Curtis
Publishing Company. The titles are: The junkpile sweepstakes; The
undertaker’s handicap; The roaring road; The hippopotamus parade;
Second-hand ghosts; The bear trap. The same characters appear in all
the stories.
* * * * *
“A chain of stories, that stir the blood and keep the attention in a
manner that is sometimes called ‘breathless.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 15 ’21 290w
“Mr Morgan’s style is perfectly suited to his matter; the sharp
staccato of his sentences is like the clean-cut crash of a flaming
exhaust, and the sustained, compelling flight of his narrative matches
the speed of the plunging, pounding cars of which he writes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 450w
=MORGAN, JOHN DAVID.= Principles of electric spark ignition in internal
combustion engines. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 621.43
(Eng ed 20–12283)
“During the past few years a large amount of research has been carried
out on ignition problems, and the object in the following chapters is
to bring together the main results which are of direct value to
designers and students interested particularly in the patrol[petrol]
engine. Discussion of design and constructional details of ignition
apparatus has been excluded, for the reason that the need for
information of this kind is already well supplied.” (Preface)
Contents: Gas characteristics; Spark characteristics; Interaction of
spark and gas; Spark plug and test gap characteristics; Spark
generator characteristics; Index. References follow the chapters and
there are thirty-nine figure illustrations in the text.
* * * * *
“A wide circle of readers will feel grateful to the author for
providing in this convenient form an account of the more important
work along these lines, and for the reference which he provides to the
sources from which information in fuller detail may be obtained. Mr
Morgan puts them still further in his debt by the lucidity with which
he writes.”
+ =Nature= 104:372 D 11 ’19 340w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ja ’20 30w
=MORGAN, WILLIAM THOMAS.= English political parties and leaders during
the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (Yale historical publications)
*$2.75 Yale univ. press 942.06
20–7448
“In this book the author embodies the results of many years of
painstaking and fruitful research. He has carefully studied ‘the new
evidence that has become available in the last thirty years’—in the
archives of England and Holland, in the recent reports of the
Historical manuscripts commission, as well as in a mass of pamphlets
and periodicals—and has reread, with a keen eye, all the older
literature on the period, including the materials on which it has been
based. He has been able to show that Queen Anne was a much more
assertive person than is commonly believed, and that, from the
beginning, the Duchess of Marlborough exercised much less influence on
the policy of her sovereign than most writers on the period have
assumed. On this perplexing period when personalities counted for so
much, and when cabinet and party government were still in such an
inchoate state, new lights are thrown; moreover, much fresh vivid
detail is presented on the iniquitous methods of conducting elections
which had come into vogue.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“Building on such secure and broad foundations he has succeeded in
constructing a sound and enduring work.” A. L. Cross
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:132 O ’20 600w
“The author has been able to gain access to a large amount of hitherto
inaccessible material which has enabled him to produce a critical
discussion of this era of much value to the historical student.” E. J.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 540w
“Mr Morgan has written ably for scholars, and has performed just that
sort of task which it is incumbent upon contemporary scientific
historians to accomplish.” J. W. Krutch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 30 ’20 780w
“The book is extremely interesting, too, for its sketches of the
leading politicians, as illustrated from their correspondence. Mr
Morgan would have added to the value of his numerous citations from
unpublished papers if he had dated them. It is sometimes difficult to
follow his argument for lack of the dates of the letters to which he
refers.”
+ − =Spec= 125:340 S 11 ’20 1450w
“Professor Morgan has his merits, but he takes himself very seriously.
His predecessors on the same voyage are swept aside with minute
omniscience. He seems to us to mistake the phases of influence for the
permanence of character, and to be indiscriminate in the party labels
he applies. But in the process of his criticism he has rendered a real
service to history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p628 S 30 ’20 1850w
=MORGENSTERN, JULIAN.= Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. il
*$1.50 Union of Am. Hebrew congregations 222
19–11743
“This book is addressed to two publics: teachers in Jewish religious
schools, that their instruction may be more authoritative and
effective; and non-professional students of the Bible, to help them in
getting a first-hand knowledge of Judaism. The author stands squarely
on the assured results of thoroughgoing critical scholarship,
recognizing clearly the presence of myth, legend, and tradition in
Genesis, and relative little authentic history, but he is not content
to stop with analysis. Whereas most scholars wholly ignore the motives
and ideas controlling authors and editors in the process of producing
the book as it now stands, the investigation of these motives and
ideas is the point of departure for Rabbi Morgenstern, for whom
Genesis is ‘a Jewish work, written by Jewish authors, and edited by
Jewish thinkers, the product of Jewish religious genius, and a unit of
Jewish thought and doctrine,’ hence to be interpreted from a positive
Jewish standpoint.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The author selects his materials wisely, and his comments, critical
and practical, are discriminating. Rabbi Morgenstern has succeeded
admirably in accomplishing his purpose.”
+ =Bib World= 54:315 My ’20 300w
=Booklist= 16:258 My ’20
=Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 390w
=MORISON, JOHN LYLE.= British supremacy and Canadian self-government,
1839–1854. *$2.50 Oxford 342.71
“In ‘British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–54,’
Professor J. L. Morison of Queen’s university, Kingston, Canada, makes
an interesting study of the manner in which imperial ascendancy and
colonial autonomy were reconciled in the years of early Victorian
Canada. He emphasizes the thought that the evolution of colonial
Canada into a self-governing dominion was the wisest and best solution
of the great problem that confronted the British and Canadian
statesmen; through it, he holds, there was great gain to all
concerned—gain to the empire as well as to the people across the
Atlantic. That it caused no weakening of the tie between the mother
country and the daughter land was demonstrated, we are reminded, by
the magnificent conduct of Canada in the great war with Germany.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
“The volume is indeed thrice blest; it is felicitous in expression,
scholarly in treatment, and broad-minded in its interpretation of
public affairs. Notwithstanding its limitations, this volume easily
stands out as the best contribution to Canadian history in recent
years.” C. D. Allin
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:531 Ap ’20 900w
=Ath= p963 S 26 ’19 140w
“By far the most important contribution of the volume is the series of
vitally human studies of the four Canadian governors-general from 1839
to 1854—Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and Elgin. Apart from the personal
equipment of the author in scholarly training, fair-mindedness,
absence of racial prejudice, and attractive literary style, his work
has the great advantage of a first-hand study of documents, hitherto
unavailable, or but slightly employed by writers on Canadian history.
The closing chapter, The consequences of Canadian autonomy, is much
the least satisfactory.” Adam Shortt
+ − =Canadian Hist R= n s 1:77 Mr ’20 1450w
“In thanking Dr Morison for a very able and stimulating volume one may
be allowed to enter a caveat against the attitude of somewhat
contemptuous superiority assumed towards past statesmen.” H. E.
Egerton
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:145 Ja ’20 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 25:254 My 16 ’20 160w
“Excellent book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 O 2 ’19 1300w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Hide and seek. *$1.50 Doran 811
20–19297
A volume of Verses, Sonnets, and Translations from the Chinese,
varying from the broadly humorous to the whimsical and tender. The
“translations,” the author frankly states, are based on a rather
rudimentary knowledge of the language gleaned from laundry slips. The
poems are reprinted from the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia
Public Ledger, Life, and other periodicals.
* * * * *
“Christopher Morley is not quite so successful this time. He still
tries to blend sugary light verse with even more sugary lyrics. He is
at his best in the lowbrow translations from the ‘Chinese.’” Clement
Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 120w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 160w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Kathleen. il *$1.25 (5c) Doubleday
20–5771
The story is an Oxford undergraduate prank. The Scorpions, literary
club, agree to write a serial story on shares. In lieu of ideas they
make up a tale around certain names mentioned in a letter accidentally
found and signed Kathleen. They work themselves up into some romantic
fervor about their heroine and eventually go on an expedition to find
the real Kathleen at the address mentioned in the letter. She is all
their fancy has painted. Under various disguises they gain entrance to
her home and after an orgy of mystification, Blair, the Rhodes scholar
from Tennessee, makes a clean confession and carries off the palm of
victory.
* * * * *
“A slight and amusing tale.”
+ =Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 10w
“‘Kathleen’ is forced from beginning to end. ‘Kathleen’ is a warning
to all writers who ignore the fact that there are difficulties even in
the construction of a trifle designed for an hour’s entertainment.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 260w
+ =Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 160w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Pipefuls. il *$2 Doubleday 817
20–20442
“Pipefuls” is apropos of the brevity of the sketches in this
collection compiled from the New York Evening Post, the
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and other journals. The author
characteristically declares: “These sketches gave me pain to
write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore
we are quits.... And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for
are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in
order to earn a living?” (Preface) In one of the sketches,
Confessions of a “colyumist,” in which he expatiates on the task
of conducting a newspaper column, he thus parodies Wordsworth:
“The meanest paragraph that blows will give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for sneers.”
The illustrations are from drawings by Walter Jack Duncan.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“Short crisp amusing papers with the mellowness and pungency which are
characteristic of this fluent author’s work.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:348 D ’20 30w
“Mr Morley is like a painter who converts the commonplace into a work
of art.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 Ja ’21 30w
“In other words, if one wants to believe things honestly worth while,
despite unquestioned difficulties, if one wants to walk in the
reflected sunshine he sheds on the ‘sunny side of Grub street,’ if one
longs to see the ultimate value of unconsidered trifles, if, in fact,
one asks for a lifting grin at the bad crossings, or only some fun,
humanwise, by the way, read Christopher Morley.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 1000w
“Mr Morley, one is glad to see, seems to be shaking off the
sugar-crystals which were threatening to encase his style; and in this
volume one rejoices in passages of real charm, the product of an alert
and sensitive imagination.”
+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 180w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Travels in Philadelphia. il *$1.50
(2c) McKay 917.48
20–5213
In his introduction to this collection of sketches, originally printed
in the Evening Public Ledger, A. Edward Newton says: “Where else shall
we find simplicity, the gayety, the kindly humor, and the charm of
this gentle essayist? Who, other than Morley, could make a walk out
Market street of interest and a source of fun?... Who, but he, could
find in the commonplace, sordid, and depressing streets of our city,
subjects for a sheaf of dainty little essays, as delightful as they
are unique?” Some of the titles are: Little Italy; Meeting the gods
for a dime; Trailing Mrs Trollope; The Ronaldson cemetery; Chestnut
street from a fire escape; The recluse of Franklin square; Up the
Wissahickon; The Whitman centennial; Anne Gilchrist’s house; Penn
treaty park; At the mint; Madonnas of the curb; On the sightseeing
bus; Putting the city to bed. The illustrations are from drawings by
Frank H. Taylor.
* * * * *
“These articles combine a happy, not too studied description with
pleasant humor into a congenial guide book to Philadelphia.”
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
“The book is here for everybody to read and take pleasure in whether
or not they have ever seen Philadelphia. Perhaps some day Mr Morley
will come hither and give us a like book about Boston.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 29 ’20 650w
+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 110w
“To an old Philadelphian the insight of Mr Christopher Morley is
really wondrous.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:284 My 30 ’20 550w
=MORLEY, LINDA H., and KIGHT, ADELAIDE C.= 2400 business books and guide
to business literature. *$5 Wilson, H. W. 016
This is a revision of the work called “1600 business books,” compiled
by Sarah B. Ball and published in 1916. It has been prepared by Linda
H. Morley and Adelaide C. Kight of the Business branch of the Newark
public library, under the direction of John Cotton Dana. “The
sub-title ‘Guide to business literature’ is added to make it plain
that the book is far more than a list of 2400 volumes. It is an index
to the contents of those volumes; that is, it lists, in alphabetic
order, under 2000 different headings, the subjects which are treated
in these 2400 books. These headings are in addition to those entries
which give the names of the writers of the 2400 books and in addition
to the entries which give their titles.” (Introd.) The entries are
arranged in one alphabet, with a publishers’ directory at the close.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:136 Ja ’21
=MORRIS, EDWIN BATEMAN.= Cresting wave. *$1.75 Penn
20–4440
“An American story of a young, successful, but unscrupulous,
financier, giving a picture of society financial markets, and the
conflict of business methods and the passion of love.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“Edwin Bateman Morris’s preceding novels have prepared us for
moderately good tales from his pen, and ‘The cresting wave’ is no
disappointment.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 160w
“The author here has taken a safe course in his novel of more than
four hundred pages, and if he presents us with nothing especially new,
at least he does no violence to no tradition and does not attempt to
paint his hero in impossible colors.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:330 Je 20 ’20 400w
“‘The cresting wave’ is built upon one of the very oldest of ideas or
morals: namely, that it is better to be decent than successful, better
to serve than to grasp. Perhaps my gratitude to young William Spade
for neither trying to write a novel nor spouting free verse nor
hanging about cafes and studios in search of ‘life’ prejudices me
unduly in his favor.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 250w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 240w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p285 My 6 ’20 50w
=MORRIS, HARRISON SMITH.= Hannah Bye. *$1.75 Penn
20–7646
“The Quaker life and character is sketched in this simple and sweet
story of Hannah Bye. The scene is in a Quaker community and the
characters are varied. Here is Deborah Bye, cold, harsh,
uncompromising, whose conscience forms her whole character and whose
personality rather than her religion, forms her conscience. Her
daughter, Hannah, the heroine of the story, is a far sweeter character
and one which appeals strongly to the reader. Ruth Blake, her nearest
friend, makes the acquaintance of a city visitor to the country, of
whom Hannah warns her without success. The fall comes and Hannah, in
her effort to keep and save Ruth, draws upon herself her mother’s
anger. The peaceful home is shattered but Hannah in the end restores
its peace.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The story is restful, with here and there a dash of humor, but one
which will appeal to all in its quiet delineation of character, which
appears to be drawn from real life.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 150w
“Mr Morris’s descriptions of the country are sympathetic and reveal an
artist’s eye; he has handled the Quaker jargon with some success, but
not exhaustively or to the complete satisfaction of the insider. Any
Quaker will, certainly, take exception to the hard, domineering
character attributed to Hannah’s mother, Deborah Bye. The Quaker
meeting for worship is also incongruous, and the dance and its sequel
are inappropriately melodramatic.” W. W. Comfort
+ − =Nation= 111:621 D 1 ’20 500w
“The picture of a little rural community centered about the quaint
meeting-house of the society of Friends is delightful.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 150w
=MORRISON, ALFRED JAMES.= East by west; essays in transportation. *$1.50
(3½c) Four seas co. 382
20–26869
“A commentary on the political framework within which the East India
trade has been carried on from early times, starting with Babylon and
ending very near Babylon.” (Subtitle) The book begins with the
twentieth century before Christ describing the avenues of trade to and
from Babylon, “formed by position for a seat of empire and commerce,”
and falls into two parts, part one ending with Venice as the great
commercial center in the fifteenth century. Part two begins with the
trade ascendancy of Portugal, at the time of the discovery of America,
and ends with the Bagdad railway and “The great transportation war.”
An edition of the book was published by Sherman, French in 1917.
* * * * *
“The book was probably not designed and is certainly not adapted to
fit the needs of a serious student, but may attract the casual reader
by its rapid movement and informal style.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:138 O ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
+ =Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 140w
=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 220w
“Some of the remarks seem but remotely connected with the subject of
transportation.”
+ − =Review= 3:626 D 22 ’20 380w
“The underlying causes which caused the movements of civilization are
dealt with in a lively style, which is not often found in books of
this kind.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 120w
=MORSE, EDWIN WILSON.= Life and letters of Hamilton Wright Mabie. il *$3
(3½c) Dodd
20–20980
A biography of a distinguished author, editor and lecturer, quoting
liberally from his letters and from the letters written to him by
others. There are chapters on: Ancestry, boyhood and youth; At
Williams college in the ‘sixties; Recollections of Dr Mark Hopkins and
Emerson; In the uncongenial law; On the staff of the Christian Union;
Associate editor of the Christian Union; A memorable decade;
Non-professional activities; Literary honors; The middle period;
Ambassador of peace to Japan; The world war; The last year; Editor,
author and lecturer; Character and personality. There is an index of
names and places.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
“Mr Morse’s ‘The life and letters of Hamilton W. Mabie’ is conceived
and carried through in the spirit of its subject. It is clear,
sympathetic, and convincing.” H: Van Dyke
+ =Bookm= 52:355 Ja ’21 1150w
“Mr Morse has performed his task excellently, with sufficient fulness
and good judgment in selection of his material. The book is also well
illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w
“The reviewer does not mean to suggest that Mr Morse’s volume is dull,
but is far from exciting. The subject of it led an uneventful life, in
the sense that there were few dramatic happenings in his life.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 Ja 16 ’21 1950w
=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 90w
“Shows careful and sympathetic study of an influential American.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 600w
=MOSHER, MRS ANGE (MCKAY).= Spell of Brittany. il *$3 Duffield 914.4
20–21069
This volume by an American woman who had lived long in Brittany is
devoted largely to its history, traditions and folklore. There are
chapters on Madame de Sévigné; Folk-lore and Jeanne de Pontorson; Mont
St Michel and its legends; St Malo and Chateaubriand; A folk song of
St Malo; Dinard, Dinan and excursions; Félix de Lamennais; The legend
and pardon of St Yves; Breton wedding; Brest and the adjacent islands;
Audierne, and the legend of Ys; Saints and fairies; Nantes and Anne of
Brittany, etc. Among the illustrations are reproductions of paintings.
There is an index. The introduction by Anatole LeBraz is in the nature
of a memorial to the author, who died in 1918.
* * * * *
“Good print and make-up.”
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 80w
“Exceedingly bright and fascinating are these chapters out of the life
of a lovely woman who made the study of these people her avocation, if
not her actual vocation.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 270w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 50w
=MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA.= Finding a way out; an autobiography. *$2.50 (4½c)
Doubleday
20–10075
In writing his story it was the hope of the author “that the telling
of it would serve a useful purpose, especially at this time, in
helping to a clearer understanding of the hopes and aspirations of my
own people and the difficulties which they have overcome in making the
progress of the last fifty years which has been so frequently
described as ‘the most remarkable of any race in so short a time.’”
(Preface) Contents: Out of Africa; On a Virginia plantation; Through
reconstruction; Doing and learning; A touch of real life; Ending
student days; Black, white, and red; With north and south; From
Hampton to Tuskegee; At Tuskegee; War activities; Forward movements in
the south; Index. The author succeeded Booker T. Washington as head of
Tuskegee institute.
* * * * *
“This autobiography not only impresses one with the worth and dignity
of its writer but charms and amuses the reader with the sense of humor
and the sweetness which the author has carried with him.”
+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 110w
“If not so romantic as the autobiography of his predecessor, Dr Booker
T. Washington nevertheless this story of the life of the present head
of Tuskegee, is a document of vital interest. The chapters on From
Hampton to Tuskegee and At Tuskegee are among the most important of Dr
Moton’s autobiography.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 730w
Reviewed by M. W. Ovington
=Freeman= 1:500 Ag 4 ’20 800w
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 50w
“We wish that this volume might find its way into every public library
in the United States and into every school and church library in the
South.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 280w
“His book deserves to be read on his own account, and also for the
side lights that it throws upon negro conditions and problems.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is easy to read and is highly informing and inspiring regarding
the career of one of America’s outstanding figures in contemporary
affairs. It is bound to be read, especially by those who enjoy an
unusual autobiography.” F. P. Chisholm
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w
=MOTTELAY, PAUL FLEURY=, comp. Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim; knight,
chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, etc. il *$2 (4c) Lane
20–13086
Biographical facts are set forth in a foreword by the author. This is
followed by an introduction by Lord Moulton. The body of the book is
then devoted to the inventions of Sir Hiram Maxim, with chapters on:
Electric lighting; Maxim automatic gun; Powders; Explosives; Erosion
of guns; Fuzes; Gun for attacking Zeppelins; Lewis gun—Madsen gun;
Flight of a projectile; Aerial navigation; etc. There are seven
illustrations, appendixes and index.
* * * * *
=Ath= p604 My 7 ’20 700w
=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w
=Spec= 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w
=MOULTON, JOHN FLETCHER MOULTON, 1st baron.= Science and war. pa *80c
(7½c) Putnam 509
(Eng ed 19–15830)
This small volume contains the Rede lecture for 1919, at Cambridge
university. In beginning his enumeration of the debts the war owes to
science Lord Moulton, without apparent ironical intent, points out
that science made the war possible. He shows that the war represented
“the results of the totality of scientific progress” from the
beginning and then devotes himself to the more recent developments of
science and invention that determined the character and extent of the
war. In conclusion he warns that the next war may mean not only the
end of civilization but the self-destruction of mankind.
* * * * *
=Ath= p786 Ag 22 ’19 340w
Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg
=Nation= 111:104 Jl 24 ’20 160w
+ =Spec= 123:284 Ag 30 ’19 90w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 180w
=MOULTON, RICHARD GREEN=, ed. Modern reader’s Bible for schools; the New
Testament. *$2.25 Macmillan 225
20–5983
“‘The modern reader’s Bible’ is not a new translation. It is the
ordinary Bible (revised version), without alteration as to matter or
wording, but printed in such a way as to bring out to the eye the full
literary form and structure. This literary form and structure refers
to such things as the difference between story, song, drama,
discourse, essay: the distinction between verse and prose, together
with the delicate variations of verse which make such a large part of
the effect of poetry.” (Introd.) In addition to the general
introduction each of the three parts, Gospels, Acts, Epistles and
Revelation, has its special introduction. Some forty pages of notes
are arranged at the end and there is an index “designed to give
assistance in the more systematic reading of the New Testament.” There
is also a frontispiece map.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:355 Jl ’20
“On the whole the book seems admirably adapted to the purpose
intended—to provide a text of the New Testament with explanations
adequate and truthful yet thoroughly adapted virginibus puerisque.”
+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 200w
“Professor Moulton’s ‘Reader’s Bible,’ good as it is, does not please
everyone because he varies the order of the canon, and because he
adopts the revised version. However, we are glad to see his simplified
edition of the New Testament. It is far easier to read than any
ordinary Testament.”
+ =Spec= 125:540 O 23 ’20 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S 30 ’20 120w
=MOWAT, ROBERT BALMAIN.= Henry V. il *$3.50 Houghton 942.04
“Henry V in his day was held to be the pattern of a chivalrous knight:
round his name has centred the romance of medieval England; in his
person Shakespeare found already expressed the glory of the
Elizabethan age, the symbol of our national aspirations. The character
of Henry V has many of the faults but all the virtues of his time; ...
his kindness and good fellowship; his bravery and sense of justice;
his unremitting industry; his piety.” (Chapter I) Among the contents
are: The legendary and the real Henry; The French war; The conquest of
Normandy; The treaty of Troyes; The work and character of Henry V. The
book is illustrated and has an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
An earlier edition of this work appeared in 1915.
* * * * *
=Ath= p668 My 21 ’20 1250w
“It is natural in such a biography rather to emphasize the heroic, and
within the limits of his space Mr Mowat has given us a very readable
and on the whole accurate history. But space would not permit the
writer to add much that is new.” C. L. Kingsford
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:453 Jl ’20 1100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 500w
“Mr Mowat has written a good book, which should be widely read. He has
very rightly relied in the main upon the chief French and English
chronicles and biographies, and has avoided the tendency, rather too
common just now, to pick out erudite and often irrelevant detail from
half-read sources.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p182 Mr 15 ’20 1100w
=MUIR, EDWIN.= We moderns; enigmas and guesses. *$1.75 Knopf 192
20–26566
The volume is the fourth in the series of Free lance books, edited
with introductions by H. L. Mencken. It is a book of aphorisms after
the manner of Nietzsche and inspired by the philosophy of Nietzsche.
They are animadversions on life and all the modern aspects of life as
revealed in our art, literature, science, and religion; and are
grouped under the headings: The old age; Original sin; What is modern?
Art and literature; Creative love; The tragic view.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
“There are lapses, superficialities, but on the whole this is
criticism, of life and of literature, which must effect a change in
one’s habits of thought.”
+ − =Dial= 69:102 Jl ’20 90w
“These aphorisms are utterly without the meretricious glitter of the
common epigram; they are luminous with the sober light of truth. Like
Pascal’s ‘Pensees’ the logic that underlies the book is, in its
smaller scale, an unconstructed cathedral of thought: it demands a
certain architectural intuition of the reader. One thing is certain:
no utterances more tonic, more bracing have rent the sultry firmament
of contemporary literature.”
+ =Freeman= 1:213 My 12 ’20 2150w
“He is, on the evidence of this little volume, a thinker not lightly
to be passed by.”
+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 850w
=MUMFORD, ALFRED ALEXANDER.= Manchester grammar school, 1515–1915; a
regional study of the advancement of learning in Manchester since the
reformation. il *$8.50 (*21s) Longmans 373
20–8869
“This volume has seventeen chapters with twenty-one appendixes of
documents, tracing the history of the Manchester school for three
hundred years. The author is more interested in the personal history
of its benefactors, directors, masters, and graduates, than he is in
detailed information regarding the school’s management, support,
system of education, etc., at various periods. This is somewhat
disappointing to the American student. On the other hand the volume is
much more than a history of one school or even of the educational
forces and agencies in Manchester. There is much of value on the
educational and intellectual development of England in general, and
comment on the larger factors of an economic, social, and religious
character, which influenced the course of this development. The main
thread of the story has to do with the struggle to democratize the
school and to supplant the old classical curriculum with one which
would more directly meet the new economic and social conditions
ushered in by the industrial revolution. There are numerous
illustrations of Manchester, the school and notables connected with
it, and a good index.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“The book is a creditable piece of work, even if it does not measure
up to the high standard of scholarship which other writers have set in
their histories of similar schools.” M. W. Jernegan
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:127 O ’20 460w
“The last chapter of Dr Mumford’s book contains much valuable
material. As he was for a long time medical examiner at the school,
his testimony against military training in secondary schools is
important. Other valuable expert testimony is that given in regard to
the irregular development of the adolescent.” W. S. Hinchman
+ =Review= 2:523 My 15 ’20 1200w
=MUNDY, TALBOT.= Eye of Zeitoon. il *$2 Bobbs
20–4959
“Those who followed the fortunes of the four friends who traveled ‘The
ivory trail’ will rejoice at the opportunity here afforded of meeting
them once again and sharing the thrilling adventures which befell them
because of ‘The eye of Zeitoon.’ This same ‘Eye of Zeitoon’ was not a
precious stone of any kind, but a man named Kagig, an Armenian and a
patriot, doing his best to save his countrymen from the Turks. Two
women play important parts in the story—Gloria Vanderman, an American
girl, resolute, strong-willed and fearless, able to handle a pistol or
even a rifle in a moment of danger, and that effectively, and the
mysterious Maga Jhaere, the wild, pagan, primitive half-gypsy, a
veritable fiend at times, yet almost a child in her naïveté. She is
interesting, but not so interesting as Kagig himself.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“‘The eye of Zeitoon’ shows a great advance on ‘The ivory trail,’
which we reviewed not long ago. It has more coherence, fewer horrors,
and a descriptive quality which at times touches the point of
brilliance.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“‘The eye of Zeitoon’ has most of the Kipling tricks and some of the
Kipling virtues. As a yarn, it drags at times, its briskness of style
being in odd contrast with the sluggish action.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 210w
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“Talbot Mundy would like to be a second Rudyard Kipling and he never
will, but if you don’t insist on making invidious comparisons and if
you like hot fighting you can find a lot of interest and excitement in
this tale.”
+ − =Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 80w
“A dramatic, well-written and absorbing romance of high adventure.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“A highly interesting element is the author’s portraiture of eastern
characters.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 150w
“Mr Mundy strives valiantly after thrills and excitements, but
scarcely succeeds in rising above the level of musical comedy.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p721 N 4 ’20 50w
=MUNDY, TALBOT.=[2] Told in the East. *$2 Bobbs
20–21184
“Two of the three stories in Talbot Mundy’s ‘Told in the East’ are of
the proportions of novelets. They are based on dramatic incidents in
the Indian mutiny. The third has a humorous trend but is withal a
typical Mundy tale. The first of the trio, ‘Hookum, Hai’ has for its
central figure Bill Brown, a stoical British sergeant, who, while
assigned to an isolated outpost in command of a dozen men, is caught
in the maelstrom of the initial uprising. A typical Mundy character—a
loyal, aristocratic Rajput officer—is the hero of ‘For the salt he had
eaten,’ the second story. ‘Machassan Ah,’ the final tale, relates the
humorous experiences of two British bluejackets who go ashore at an
Arabian port in pursuit of a native who proclaims himself an
Englishman.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“None of the three tales published in the present volume is lacking in
excitement; in fact, there is a little too much of it.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 100w
“Through the magic of these printed pages, we are transported to the
India of the last century.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 670w
“The three stories will afford pleasure and entertainment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 230w
=MUNK, JOSEPH AMASA.=[2] Southwest sketches. il *$3.50 Putnam 917.8
The book describes the mesa and desert country and the coast line of
the Southwest geographically, geologically, climatologically and
ethnographically. The healthfulness, beauty and rare fascination of
the country are dwelt upon and the 133 illustrations give some idea of
the scenery and the remains of pioneer and aboriginal life. The
contents are: The mesa country; Land of the cliff dwellers; In
Hopiland; The Flagstaff region; The petrified forests of Arizona; El
Rito de los Frijoles; On the Arizona frontier; Passing of the Apache;
Ranch reminiscences; Big irrigation projects; Southwest climate;
Southern California.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 910w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 70w
“A pleasantly informal travel book. Mr Munk evidently writes with
thorough knowledge and shows an appreciative eye for the beauties and
oddities of that country and its native people. Particularly
fascinating is the description of the petrified forests of Arizona.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 18 ’21 420w
=MUNROE, JAMES PHINNEY.= Human factor in education. *$1.60 Macmillan
370.1
20–2741
“A volume defending vocational education and written by a
vice-chairman of the Federal board for vocational education. The
author tries to show that the old regime of twenty years and more ago
was a flat failure in the scheme of education in the United States.
There is strong intimation that much of the old system is still in
force. He shows how the great world war has helped bring us to our
senses in the matter of educating boys and girls in a many-sided way
rather than in a narrow way as previously. (School R) “The book does
not advocate, however, the separation of vocational from academic
schools.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
“The plea for reorganization of elementary and secondary education
could hardly be put more forcibly than is here given. To the casual
reader, however, there seems to be some overemphasis in places; but
this only makes one think more carefully.”
+ − =School R= 28:390 My ’20 600w
=MURCHISON, CLAUDIUS TEMPLE.= Resale price maintenance. pa *$1.50
Longmans 338.5
19–17749
“Dr Murchison lays the foundation for discussion of price maintenance
in the two chapters upon marketing: The organization of the market,
and Irregularities of the present retailing system. The discussion of
price maintenance is given in chapters five to eight.” (Am Econ R)
“[Other subjects discussed are] the function of the retailer, and
attempts to prevent price-cutting. Issued as Columbia university
studies in history, economics, and public law.” (Brooklyn)
* * * * *
“A serious study such as this is to be commended even though it does
not say the last word upon price maintenance.” H. R. Tosdal
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:120 Mr ’20 850w
=Brooklyn= 12:62 Ja ’20 30w
“The various forms of price maintenance and of price cutting are
described in detail, and the arguments for and against both, as well
as for the author’s own compromise position, are stated with lucidity.
If the reader remains unconvinced, the reason lies in the fact that in
actual life the problem of price determination is bound up with a
variety of other problems of equal importance to the consumer.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 43:202 N 29 ’19 320w
=MURDOCK, VICTOR.= China, the mysterious and marvellous. il *$2.50
Revell 915.1
20–20219
“Mr Murdock’s book is simply a narrative of a trip into China that
took him rather far into the interior and away from the usual route of
the tourist.” (Freeman) “He says, ‘Here is the history of the present
volume. My brother in Wichita took the letters I had written and as
they had been published in our paper, the Eagle, put them in the form
they bear. Our idea was to let me give copies of it to particular
friends.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate, we think that Mr Murdock elected to write this
story of his travels, not in English, but in journalese. Some three
hundred pages of etymological ‘jazz’ places an undue strain on the
reader’s literary nerves. And this is more the pity because the author
can command good, plain English when he wants to.” Harold Kellock
+ − =Freeman= 2:188 N 3 ’20 620w
“The text is so frisky, the words so plain and slangy, comparisons so
lacking, and the subject dealt with so personally, that I wondered at
a publisher printing such a book with paper and labor so dear.” F:
O’Brien
− =N Y Times= p7 S 5 ’20 3650w
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 50w
=MURRAY, ELSIE RIAEH, and SMITH, HENRIETTA BROWN.= Child under eight.
(Modern educator’s lib.) *$1.90 (*6s) Longmans 372.2
(Eng ed E20–581)
“The book which comes from England with this title, ‘The child under
eight,’ is a discussion of the kindergarten after the fashion that
might have been found in an American book fifteen or twenty years ago.
The titles of the various chapters indicate the temper of the writers.
There are chapters entitled The world’s mine oyster, All the world’s a
stage, Joy in making, In grassy places, etc. The book is not without
some practical suggestions for work in the kindergarten, but in the
main it is a defense of the kindergarten with some reference to modern
movements in the treatment of little children.”—El School J
* * * * *
=El School J= 20:716 My ’20 170w
+ =Spec= 124:553 Ap 24 ’20 900w
=MURRAY, GILBERT.= Our great war and the great war of the ancient
Greeks. (Creighton lecture, 1918) *$1.25 (13c) Seltzer 938
20–13139
A comparison between the Peloponnesian war and the great war in
Europe. The war between Sparta and Athens was the greatest war the
world had ever known. “Arising suddenly among civilized nations,
accustomed to comparatively decent and halfhearted wars, it startled
the world by its uncompromising ferocity.” And it ended in a peace
that was no peace and was followed by other wars, the outcome of which
was death to both combatants. Drawing on the historians and dramatists
of the time the author sets forth a picture that shows many striking
similarities to our modern experience. In conclusion he expresses a
hope that in spite of the terrible evils growing out of the recent
war, we may make use of the opportunity to build a better
international life out of the ruin. The work is dated November 7,
1918.
* * * * *
=Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“Gilbert Murray’s translations are, as always, enjoyable, even though
such words as ‘Niagara’ in the mouth of the Athenians make us a bit
suspicious that other lively expressions also may be more Murray than
Aristophanes.” J. W. Hughan
+ =Socialist R= 9:208 N ’20 220w
=MURRAY, JOHN.=[2] John Murray III, 1808–1892. il *$1.50 Knopf
(Eng ed 20–8871)
“John Murray III was the grandson of the John Murray (1745–93,
originally MacMurray!) who founded the famous publishing house in
November, 1768, and the son of John Murray, jr. (1778–1843), who is
perhaps best remembered now as friend and publisher of Byron and as
publisher of the Quarterly Review. Of John Murray III (1808–92) there
was no account adequate at all, except mere facts in the Dictionary of
national biography, until his son’s interesting article appeared in
the Quarterly Review for January, 1919. The present little book
consists of that article, revised and enlarged, followed by the
father’s paper on the ‘Origin and history of Murray’s handbooks for
travellers,’ and by some new letters to his family (1830–91), mainly
describing vividly various travels abroad and at home.”—N Y Evening
Post
* * * * *
“The letters are excellent reading, and we venture to ask for more, if
more are to be had.”
+ =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 300w
“Interesting because of his participation in literary events of real
significance, such as Scott’s announcement of his authorship of
‘Waverly’ and the publication of the ‘Origin of species.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
“One misses such anecdotes and illustrations of literary life as might
have been expected from a publisher in close contact with great
writers.”
+ − =Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“This is a very interesting and welcome little book.” L. L. MacKall
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 D 4 ’20 1250w
“The memoir has the unusual fault of being too brief, but it does
justice to its subject and adds a new and interesting chapter to the
history of English publishing.”
+ =Spec= 122:81 Ja 17 ’20 1650w
=MUSCIO, BERNARD.= Lectures on industrial psychology. 2d ed, rev il *$3
Dutton 658.7
20–13083
“A book principally composed of a series of lectures given to general
audiences at Sydney university.” (Survey) “These lectures discuss such
topics as fatigue, muscle coördination, individual differences,
scientific management, motion study, and other applications of
psychology to the life of workers.” (R of Rs)
* * * * *
=Ath= p180 F 6 ’20 1250w
“Taken as a whole, Mr Muscio’s volume may be recommended particularly
on account of its lucidity and common sense as providing what is
probably the best short account yet published in this field. In
certain places, however, these lectures are distinctly weak. The
author sometimes betrays only a distant acquaintance with the
statistical material of his subject. Another weakness of these
lectures is their too great reliance on the anecdotal method.” P. S.
Florence
+ − =Freeman= 2:117 O 13 ’20 600w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 30w
“There is no other book for the general reader that states the case
for a scientific handling of the human factor in industry more clearly
or more convincingly.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 280w
=MUZZEY, DAVID SAVILLE.= American history. il *$1.92 Ginn 973
20–10077
A prefatory note to this revised edition says, “Besides bringing the
narrative down to the spring months of the year 1920, the author has
entirely recast that part of the book following the Spanish war, and
has made considerable changes in the preceding chapters. The changes
are chiefly in the direction of added emphasis on social and economic
factors in our history. New illustrative material has been added, the
maps have been improved, and the bibliographical references brought
down to date.” The work was first published in 1911.
* * * * *
+ =School R= 28:548 S ’20 340w
=MYERS, ANNA BALMER.= Patchwork; a story of the “plain people.” il
*$1.75 (2c) Jacobs
20–5190
The “plain people” is what the religious sects, Mennonites, Amish,
etc., in the Pennsylvania Dutch country are called. Phœbe Metz was a
child of the “plain people” and this is her story from the time she
was a quaint, unusually interesting and original little “Dutchie” of
ten until she told David Eby that she would be his wife. She was fond
of the world and its vanity, her golden curls and pretty clothes. She
was frank about it; she could not be anything else but honest. And she
had the courage, likewise, to go her own way, sorely as she grieved
and shocked Aunt Maria. She went to Philadelphia to study music;
tasted and loved the world’s glitter; saw some of its wickedness too;
but when it came nigh to brushing the bloom off her youth, she escaped
unscathed to her beloved country. There among the people and things
that were a part of her very life she found herself, and when David
returned from the war with but one leg, they both knew how much they
had cared since they were children. There is much charm in the book’s
local coloring.
* * * * *
“Entertaining but with less convincing dialect and background than Mrs
Martin’s ‘Tillie.’”
+ − =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“There is a good deal of information about the ‘plain sects,’ their
ways and speech and ideas, in this perfectly innocuous little story.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 320w
=MYERS, FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY.= Human personality and its survival of
bodily death. *$4 Longmans 133.9
“This well-known work first appeared about sixteen years ago in two
volumes, each of about seven hundred pages in length. The text is here
materially condensed, and most of the appendices, which occupied about
half each volume and contained examples of phenomena analysed in the
text, are omitted. A short biographical sketch of Myers is
included.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“As Myers’ theory develops to include more and more unusual phenomena
it preserves its persuasiveness and elasticity: Myers’ patient skill
is indeed the most attractive feature of the book.” J. W. N. S.
+ =Ath= p78 Ja 16 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Dial= 69:201 Ag ’20 1150w
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p719 D 4 ’19 60w
=MYERSON, ABRAHAM.=[2] Nervous housewife. *$2.25 (4½c) Little 616.8
20–21011
“Every practicing physician, every hospital clinic, finds her a
problem, evoking pity, concern, exasperation, and despair.” (Introd.
note) By examining the various causes and forms of nervousness in
housewives, from merely deënergizing neurasthenia to highly
pathological cases, from all points of view, the book seeks to
stimulate the trend toward greater individualization in women, and to
promote a more constructive and intelligent rebellion against
old-established conditions and discontents. The book is indexed and
the chapter headings are: The nature of “nervousness”; Types of
housewife predisposed to nervousness; The housework and the home as
factors in the neurosis; Reaction to the disagreeable; Poverty and its
psychical results; The housewife and her husband; The housewife and
her household conflicts; The symptoms as weapons against the husband;
Histories of some severe cases; Other typical cases; Treatment of the
individual cases; The future of woman, the home, and marriage.
* * * * *
“Written sympathetically and sensibly for the housewife herself to
read.”
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 360w
“There is a note of pessimism about the book, despite its
wholesomeness, that strikes a discordant chord here and there. But on
the whole the book is sane, frank without being indelicate, wise, and
fairly well-written.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 270w
N
=NALKOWSKA, SOFJA RYGIER.= Kobiety (women). il *$2 (3c) Putnam
21–492
This novel of Polish life has been translated from the Polish by
Michael Henry Dziewicki. It takes the form of self-revelations of a
beautiful, intellectual and self-centered girl—the transitional woman.
Nothing matters to her but her own sensations, her own experiences.
From the height of a coldly reasoning, logical intellect she surveys
passion, coquettes with it, longs for it and, when it comes rejects
it—from an inherited instinct of chastity. In the words of a rejected
lover, she was: “A bundle of theories, of sentimental scepticism, of
self-assurance.... A poor frightened bird always popping its head
under its wing!” But then this particular lover was only a splendid
specimen of physical perfection. At the end, discouraged and
bewildered, Janka returns to her old professor, who had been sorely
grieved when she had disappointed his hopes for her and had turned her
back upon science. The confessions are in three parts: Ice-plains;
“The garden of red flowers”; A canticle of love.
* * * * *
“Specifically a story of Polish life, this very unusual book reveals
the secret springs of all human life. To read it after a long course
of the mediocre, superficial writing through which a reviewer, in the
course of his duty, must wade is like emerging from the subway and
drawing pure air into the lungs. The translator has done excellent
work and the Benda drawing is distinctive.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 380w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:451 N 10 ’20 720w
“Considered in detail, it is a curious, sometimes brilliant, and often
ludicrous work. We do not know whether the writer, for all her
subtlety and power of detachment, is the least aware of what an absurd
figure she has produced in Janka, this portentous type of modern
youth. The book is indeed surprisingly uneven, subtle and extravagant,
balanced and preposterous in turn.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p797 D 2 ’20 620w
=NAPIER, MARGARET.= Songs of the dead. *$1.50 Lane 821
20–17909
In his introduction to these poems Edward Garnett says of them that
they are unlike anything else; that they are not a “normal” product;
that they are a rough diamond from a matrix suggesting comparison with
the author of “The marriage of heaven and hell”; that in the
simplicity and intensity with which they banish from our sight
everything extraneous, alien to their passion, they are a lesson in
poetry; and that, with the conception that when we die we live on in
the grave, in our memories, in our anguish, in our desires, they are a
lesson in passionate feeling.
* * * * *
“They are poems of frustration, imperfect verbal equivalents of great
spiritual experiences, greater in intention and conception than in
realized execution. Miss Napier writes in free verse, in a curiously
tortured style full of inversions (one has the feeling that she is
trying to express, by the unnatural quality of the style, the more
than normal intensity of her emotion).”
+ − =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 160w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 480w
=N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 80w
=NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN, and MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= American credo. *$1.75
Knopf 814
20–3354
One hundred and three of the one hundred and ninety-one pages of this
“contribution toward the interpretation of the national mind”
(Sub-title) are preface, excused by the authors on the ground “having
read it, one need not read the book.” The authors’ contention is that
“deep down in every man there is a body of congenital attitudes, a
corpus of ineradicable doctrines and ways of thinking, that determines
his reactions to his ideational environment.” While the preface
consists of ratiocinations on these attitudes, doctrines and ways of
thinking the book itself is a collection of maxims and traditional
tenets that are supposed to make up the mental equipment of the
ordinary man. The first one reads: “That the philoprogenitive instinct
in rabbits is so intense that the alliance of two normally assiduous
rabbits is productive of 265 offspring in one year.” Other examples
are: “That Henry James never wrote a short sentence”; and “That German
peasants are possessed of a profound knowledge of music.”
* * * * *
=Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 140w
=Ath= p574 Ap 30 ’20 1200w
+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“None but a captious critic could find fault with the fact that the
authors’ preface occupies fully two-thirds of the book, for in that
space the truth about America and its inhabitants is told as it has
not been for some time.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 10 ’20 480w
+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w
=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 80w
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 17 ’20 260w
“The stringing together of widely held fallacies does not constitute
an ‘American credo’ any more than a collection of ‘want’ ads makes a
job. It does not describe, explain or interpret anything. The authors
themselves do not know American character, even in its major aspects,
but only its ludicrous or despicable blemishes.”
− =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 140w
“On the whole we do not gather from this repertory of popular
fallacies any very definite picture of American mentality. But one can
get from the latter half, at any rate, which does great credit to the
authors’ ingenuity, a good deal of entertainment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p190 Mr 18 ’20 280w
=NATHAN, ROBERT.= Peter Kindred. *$2 (2c) Duffield
20–1889
The story of a boy’s school and college life, and his first contacts
with the outer world. Peter’s father sends him to Phillips Exeter with
the vague intention of giving him a gentleman’s education. The two
years in this school are followed by four at Harvard and the story
traces the quiet unsensational development of his mind and character.
He makes friends, is converted to Carverism—the economic creed of a
popular professor, and in his junior year meets Joan, a Radcliffe
student. Peter and Joan are married the year after his graduation.
They set up housekeeping in a New York tenement and work and play
together and test out their theories of life. The story ends with the
birth and death of their child.
* * * * *
“Unluckily there is not quite enough ‘to him’ to command and hold our
interest and concern at the exacted pitch.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 120w
− =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 50w
“The reader possessed of sufficient pertinacity to work his way
through the first two hundred pages of ‘Peter Kindred’ will find in
the last part of the book a realistic sketch of youthful theories and
ideals at war with the economic facts of life.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 300w
“The story is well thought out and well written. Mr Nathan has put a
great deal into his work and has taken it seriously. That in itself is
more than can be said for many writers of current fiction.”
+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 240w
“The boy is a tolerably nice boy, and he does and thinks and says the
things a tolerably nice boy would. We do not deny that he is true to
fact. But what of it? Who cares? Since the author has failed to make
us care about him as a person?” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 900w
=NEALE, REGINALD EDGAR.= Electricity. il $1 Pitman 621.3
20–16269
“In this book the author attempts no more than a review of the general
nature of electricity, the methods of producing it and the services to
which it is applied.” (Preface) The book is illustrated with
forty-five figures in the text. It is issued as one of Pitman’s common
commodities and industries series.
* * * * *
“It is remarkable how complete and accurate is the information given.
The reader is, however, hurried on unpleasantly fast, and is never
allowed to pause where his interest is aroused.”
+ − =Nature= 105:804 Ag 26 ’20 230w
=NEIHARDT, JOHN GNEISENAU.=[2] Splendid wayfaring. il *$2.25 Macmillan
978
20–27591
“As a poet, picturing the savage adventure of the early days of the
Yankee invasion of the plains and mountains, Mr Neihardt has already
won his reputation: his theme is huge and his powers are not unworthy
of it. In his new volume, a prose volume, he appears again in his
chosen domain, now as an historian. The period taken is 1822 to 1831,
the event is the career of Jedediah Smith, who in the eight years of
his adventurous maturity was the first American leader to discover the
central overland route to California—later the great immigrant and
trade route—and to measure the length of the Pacific coast from Los
Angeles to the Columbia.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“Mr Neihardt gives unity and verve to his volume by making Smith the
central spirit: but it is in a truly epic mode that the story is
conceived, and hence there could not be less than a picturesque
emphasis upon the companions of the hero, among them Ashley and Henry,
builders of the fur industry, and the trapper Hugh Glass who is the
subject of one of Mr Neihardt’s best-known poems.” Hartley Alexander
+ =Bookm= 52:360 Ja ’21 580w
“All this is fascinating reading, suggesting the lurid tales, much
sought and pored over, in boyhood, but while it is fascinating, it is
history, history of the growth of the United States; as important as
the occupation of the older states and the taking of the central
portion of the present union.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 24 ’20 570w
“This task has evidently been a labour of love, for Mr Neihardt has
not felt impelled to follow the pattern of angular, unimaginative
recital into which so many books of this kind fall.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w
“A parallel work by, say McMaster, and called, say ‘Western
exploration from 1822–1831,’ would have been a valuable contribution
to the history of the West; but ‘The splendid wayfaring,’ as the title
plainly shows, is more than that; it is an American prose epic, an
absorbing tale of courage and endurance.” Walter Franzen
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 D 4 ’20 520w
“Mr Neihardt has for the subject of this prose story one of the truly
dramatic themes of American history.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:223 F ’21 110w
“Mr Neihardt has allowed himself a rather lofty flight in his opening
paragraphs, where he links his tale up with that of the western
progress of the Aryan races. In a number of other places a tendency to
ornate language may be observed. But in other respects ‘The splendid
wayfaring’ has compelling force.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 300w
“Mr Neihardt has succeeded in giving some epical quality to his heroes
and painting, as he intended to do, the mood of their adventures.” M.
C. C.
+ − =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 240w
=NEKLIUDOV, ANATOLII VASIL’EVICH.=[2] Diplomatic reminiscences before
and during the world war, 1911–1917; tr. from the French, by Alexandra
Paget. *$8 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–10794)
“A Russian diplomat’s frank statement of what he learned as Minister
to Bulgaria during the Balkan wars of 1912 and of 1913, supplemented
by his observations during the world war, when he was serving as
Minister to Sweden, and Ambassador to Spain. Writing in the firm
conviction that all who took part in the tremendous events of those
years now belong to ‘an irrevocable past,’ M. Nekliudov speaks as
freely concerning his contemporaries as if they were actually dead.”—R
of Rs
* * * * *
“M. Nekliudov, with his tears and his discontents, is not a very
interesting person. The best part of his long book is the record of
his ambassadorship in Sweden during the war, and in his comments on
certain Russian statesmen such as Stürmer and Protopopoff he has
something to say that is not without interest.”
− + =Ath= p205 Ag 13 ’20 270w
=R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w
“The style is more than clear and studiously temperate: it is at times
eloquent and pathetic, and throughout tinged with the philosophy
natural to a cultured gentleman. The English of Alexandra Paget is so
good that it must, we think, be ranked as a first-rate translation.”
+ =Sat R= 130:94 Jl 31 ’20 1000w
+ =Spec= 124:87 Jl 17 ’20 210w
“Having lost his emperor, his country and his sons, this former
representative of a departed system sees no necessity to guard certain
of those secrets which go to make up the mystery of diplomacy. In
consequence of this break with the past which fate has forced upon him
M. Nekliudov is interesting and informative.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Je 3 ’20 1300w
=NEW= Decameron; second day. *$1.90 McBride
20–8740
The first volume was published last year. Like it this second volume
is a collection of short stories by different authors, each story in
keeping with the character of its narrator. Contents: Jim of Moloch’s
bar, by Francis Carco: Bread upon the waters, by Michael Sadleir; The
history of Andrew Niggs, by Basil Blackwell; The tool, by W. F.
Harvey; The master-thief, by Dorothy L. Sayers; The affair of the
Mulhaven baby, by M. Nightingale; The vase, by Camilla Doyle; “Once
upon a time” by Bill Nobbs; A prayer perforce, by M. Storm Jameson;
Salvator Street, by Sherard Vines.
* * * * *
“In spite of serious inequalities in the work, the total result is
undoubtedly entertaining. In all the stories there is evidence of
careful workmanship, a preoccupation with literary means which is
highly satisfactory save when it aims at effect with too unchastened
self-consciousness.” F. W. S.
+ =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 520w
“Some of them are excellent, some rather poor and a few unequivocally
dull. Heralded simply as ‘Salvator street’ comes the surprise of the
book. In it Sherard Vines has succeeded in creating a character
besides writing the best story of the volume.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 350w
“The idea of vocational guidance in the telling of tales is not
altogether conducive to the best flights of the imagination. The
obligation to relate the sort of story that a master-printer, a poet,
or a psychic researcher would be apt to relate seems to have put a
restraint upon most of the contributors.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 130w
“‘The new Decameron,’ to carry on its excellent plan, must be, like
the ‘Canterbury tales’ which its general method recalls, more
variously human in substance and in modulation. Their inventiveness in
plot and ingenuity in structure are remarkable. But these are not high
qualities in fiction. ‘The new Decameron’ needs not, indeed,
cheerfulness, but sunlight; less smell of the charnel house and more
of the earth.”
− + =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 260w
“The structure of the book is cleverly contrived, and in reading it
the fact that this is the work of several hands does not obtrude
itself too violently. At its best the book is artistic, and it is
always elegant. The remoteness, the wickedness, and the nervous dread
of crudity dissociate the authors from the literary giants of past
times. All the contributors give an impression of literary taste, and
not one of them has generated a ‘human document.’”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Je 10 ’20 550w
=NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY JOHN.=[2] Book of good hunting. il *$3.50 (*10s 6d)
Longmans 799
20–18594
“Sir Henry Newbolt has put together many interesting stories about
sport. Elephants, lions, and tigers come first: then there are
chapters on deer-hunting and fox-hunting, with many extracts from Mr
Masefield’s fine poem, ‘Reynard the fox,’ and a closing chapter on
fishing. In his introductory chapter, ‘On the nature of sport,’ he
states the arguments for and against sport, and insists very strongly
on the value of true sportsmanship to the national character.”—Spec
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p649 N 12 ’20 500w
“Sir Henry Newbolt writes so pleasantly that he will attract readers
of all ages.”
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 90w
“From a literary or sporting standpoint, the book is equally
attractive.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 18 ’21 320w
“The instances of hunting experiences chosen by Sir Henry are
admirably described, and compel the reader to share the excitement of
the hunter. He brings out all the concomitants which differentiate
sport from killing.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p825 D 9 ’20 950w
=NEWLAND, H. OSMAN.= Romance of modern commerce. il *$2 Lippincott 380
20–3902
“The book is, as described in its sub-title, a popular account of the
production of a number of common commodities. It collects a mass of
miscellaneous information about wheat and other cereals, tea, coffee
and cocoa, rubber, tobacco, cotton, silk, wool, timber, paper, fruit
and wine, cattle and leather, vegetable and mineral oils, furs and
feathers, precious stones and metals.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Informative and of varying interest. Could be used by upper grades
and high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:126 My ’20 20w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 30w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p748 D 11 ’19 150w
=NEWMAN, ERNEST.= Musical motley. *$1.50 Lane 780.4
20–1630
A series of papers by an English musical critic. Among the titles are:
“L’enfant prodigue”; On instruments and their players; On musical
surgery; Criticism by code; Futurist music; The best hundred scores.
* * * * *
“Mr Newman is a musician of the nineteenth century. This must not be
taken to mean that he is an old-fashioned pedant who is out of touch
with new developments. On the contrary, he is intensely interested in
modern music and has no sentimental illusions about that of the past.
Music is for him always a thing of the living present.” E: J. Dent
+ =Ath= p1010 O 10 ’19 900w
+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
“Mr Newman is never dull, even when he is grave.” H: T. Finck
+ =Bookm= 51:169 Ap ’20 440w
“The chief attraction of Mr Newman’s book, besides its dry humor, is
its lack of dogmatism and its corresponding illumination of
speculative points.” M. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:168 Mr 31 ’20 520w
+ =R of Rs= 61:224 F ’20 80w
“He differs from a good many fashionable critics in his familiarity
with the works of the ancients, and in testing the moderns by
standards which these critics are either ignorant of, or refuse to
accept. Perhaps the wisest and sanest passages in the book are those
in which he differentiates the originality that counts from that which
does not.”
+ =Spec= 123:542 O 25 ’19 1450w
“The book is always interesting, often gay, reading. The essays on the
classics are apt, but do not go far enough; that on the grotesque is
tentative, that on obituaries might have been omitted. We should have
liked some more like ‘Originality in music’ and ‘Quotation,’ and that
on Bishop Blougram in partibus, which are full of sound judgments
delivered with a light touch.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 O 9 ’19 1300w
=NEWSHOLME, SIR ARTHUR.= Public health and insurance: American
addresses. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 614
20–12817
“Sir Arthur Newsholme has for thirty-five years been an active figure
in the public health profession of Great Britain and for eleven of
those years has served as principal medical officer of the Local
government board. In the fall of 1919 he came to the School of hygiene
and public health of Johns Hopkins as lecturer on public health
administration. The book just published is made up of addresses
delivered to public audiences in the course of visits paid to various
university and medical centers in America.” (Survey) “It is largely
devoted to the present state of public health in England and to the
progress in public health policy that has been realized within the
last fifty years.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“The sections which describe the wonderful progress made in dealing
with tuberculosis and child welfare in England during the past few
years will prove of absorbing interest to the specialist. There is
hardly a chapter in the book, however, which should not be read by
every social worker for its value as a contribution to the philosophy
of social reform.” C.-E. A. Winslow
+ =Survey= 45:259 N 13 ’20 460w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 170w
=NEWTON, ALMA (MRS ALMA NEWTON ANDERSON).= Jewel in the sand. *$1.35
(6c) Duffield
20–1890
A beautiful girl, Cynthia, tells her story in detached episodes: how
she left her barren, loveless New England home to come to New York and
study music; how after her first success love came to her. The perfect
soul union is marred by the man’s duality. She goes away, has more
half mystic experience, becomes more and more spiritualized as she
struggles with poverty and is at last rescued by the man who had
always loved her unselfishly, had renounced her and had waited. He
marries her and takes her home to the East.
* * * * *
“By dealing with life more realistically than she has yet done Alma
Newton has deepened the effect of those unique spiritual qualities
that have from the first distinguished her work.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 600w
=NEWTON, W. DOUGLAS.= Westward with the Prince of Wales. il *$2.50 (2½c)
Appleton 917.1
20–17402
The author, as special correspondent, accompanied the Prince of Wales
on his tour through Canada and the United States and gives his
impressions of the Prince, the cities and country through which they
passed, and the receptions they received, in an entertaining chatty
way.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 60w
“He has a distinctive and pleasing style. His volume is as
good-humored an account of travels as has appeared for some time.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 280w
“He draws an intimate and charming portrait of the Prince, and
furnishes at the same time, an entertaining view of Canada and some
cities of the United States as they appear to an intelligent
Englishman.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 D 5 ’20 1100w
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
=Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 200w
“Gaily, vividly, even wittily, Mr Newton sets forth what he saw;
unimportant and unpretentious as this record of a transcontinental
journey across Canada is, it will inspire readers to go and do
likewise. Mr Newton writes in a vein of amused appreciation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 1600w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 160w
=NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.= Newton chapel. $1.50 (2c) Am. Bapt.
252
20–8357
A selection from the chapel talks delivered during the year 1918–19 by
members of the faculty of the Newton theological institution. The
first is on The meaning of the New year, by President George E. Horr.
Among those that follow are: How Jesus looked at men, by Winfred N.
Donovan; The compelling power of Jesus’ personality, by Henry K. Rowe;
Freedom and service, by James P. Berkeley; The inner life, by Samuel
S. Curry; The joy of forgiveness, by Frederick L. Anderson; The spirit
of expectation, by Richard M. Vaughan; James Russell Lowell and the
preacher, by Woodman Bradbury. The chapel talks are supplemented by
seven addresses at the conference of the Baptist leaders of New
England.
* * * * *
“On the whole the talks are unified, interesting, and excellent
examples of little sermons.”
+ =Bib World= 54:433 Jl ’20 200w
“The clergy expect the scientist, the historian, the statesman to
stick to known facts, and then wonder why the church does not succeed
better while the preacher is permitted to soar off into the realms of
the imagination and preach as sacred truth that which finds its origin
in theory and its expression in cant. Of course there are good things
in the book, much sound advice, many godly admonitions, but it is
proper to call attention to a dangerous method of preaching which
succeeds in little else than furnishing ground for scepticism.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 6 ’20 300w
=NEXÖ, MARTIN ANDERSEN.= Ditte: girl alive! *$2 (2c) Holt
20–26759
This story, translated from the Danish, describes the life of poor
fisherfolk and of the poorest of small farmers. It is the story of a
little illegitimate girl left in the care of her grandparents, whose
one joy in life she becomes. When her mother, a cold, selfish, cruel
creature, now married to a rag-and-bone man and huckster, wants her as
nurse for her other children, she does not hesitate to take her away
from the blind, widowed grandmother. Ditte’s life is wretched, her
only true friend her step-father, the jovial rag-and-bone man. She
repays him by standing by him, through all his sorrows and
afflictions, with indomitable good nature and courage, until she is
forced to leave him to go into service.
* * * * *
“The loveliness in human nature and the evil also stand out in sharp
relief against the simple, often sordid background. Will interest
readers of ‘Pelle the conqueror.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“The Danish author has not been fortunate in the translation, however,
which is uneven and lacking in idiomatic grace.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 60w
“With all the straitened cruelty of its events the story has a quality
which is almost glamorous. The simple telling and lack of stress
somehow give it breadth; it is full of the effect of open spaces.
There are passages of great tenderness, and others of fresh gaiety and
resilience. Then, too a primary perception of human forces lifts the
story out of any narrow bondage.” C. M. Rourke
+ =Freeman= 2:213 N 10 ’20 420w
“The story scrupulously avoids an artificial symmetry of structure and
follows, so far as possible, the rhythm of life. The firmness and
simplicity of the style shine even through an inferior translation.”
+ =Nation= 111:303 S 11 ’20 600w
“The English version is a livid corpse, and the only function left for
a reviewer who knows the original is that of coroner. In common
honesty, Henry Holt & Co. should put on the title page of ‘Ditte: girl
alive,’ ‘Mutilated from the Danish,’ and omit the name of the innocent
author.” Signe Toksvig
− + =New Repub= 25:113 D 22 ’20 1300w
“The characters in the book are flesh-and-blood people and their drab,
dreary lives are made very real.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 620w
=Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:450 N 10 ’20 520w
=Spec= 125:744 D 4 ’20 30w
“The book deserves to be read. It is well-written, effective, and
above all, bears the earmarks of truth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 370w
“It is to be supposed that, as with ‘Pelle,’ this volume is but one of
several dealing with the same characters, and that later Ditte will
develop into womanhood. If that be so, Mr Nexö has made an interesting
first movement, though it may be hoped that later ones may have the
contrast of greater lightness; if this be all, then it can only be
regarded as an unfinished fantasia.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p701 O 28 ’20 480w
=NICHOLS, ROBERT MALISE BOWYER.= Aurelia, and other poems. *$2 Dutton
821
20–15351
“The sequence of ‘Sonnets to Aurelia’ gives the story of a
disappointed lover with his mistress whose falseness, though ugly,
intensifies the helpless passion of the man. The form of the sonnet in
which the poet tells his story is Shakspearean.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Mr Nichols, like many of the minor Elizabethan lyrists, uses the
fourteen lines of the sonnet simply for the sake of their sound, their
rich baroque handsomeness of appearance. That is the principal and, to
our mind, damning defect of his sonnets. They have no substance. The
fountains are dry, the parched stone faces open their mouths to no
purpose; we are at a loss to see why the monument was built.”
− =Ath= p765 Je 11 ’20 1200w
“Among Mr Nichols’s most potent qualities the quality of vision is the
steadiest and strongest. Among the most recent English poets he is the
richest in this endowment.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 1200w
“The result is, to my taste, like a dish flavoured with nutmeg and
cinnamon to which has been added a dash of tabasco sauce.” J: G.
Fletcher
− =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 600w
“With some of the faults of youth, Mr Nichols has all of its virtues.
He is adaptable, he is resourceful, he is restlessly eager to try new
methods, to pour his soul into an unaccustomed vessel. He has force,
eloquence, fire, and passion.”
+ − =Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 850w
* * * * *
“The conspicuous fault of ‘Aurelia’ is the insecurity of its style. Here
is a series of quasi-Shakespearian sonnets, in which we have conceits
without gracefulness, artifices aimed at intensifying rather than at
easing the situations they describe—in brief a conscious author,
magnifying an experience the content of which was meagre at the best in
imitation of a spontaneous one the experience of which is too full to be
contained.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p418 Jl 1 ’20 1000w
=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Blacksheep! blacksheep! il *$1.75 Scribner
20–7287
“At a dinner in Washington the hero, one Archibald Bennett, whose
income encourages his neurasthenia, sits next to a girl who tells him
that no man whose life motto is ‘Safety first!’ is likely to have a
very good time or escape a bored anaemia. Several days later the same
Archie goes to Maine to look at a house for his sister, and the next
thing he knows he has shot a man and is a fugitive from justice in the
stolen car driven by the ‘governor’! After that you, together with the
police forces of most of the states in the Union, are completely in
the ‘governor’s’ power.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 60w
“It is as breathlessly contrived and as diverting to follow as a
crooked street in a mediaeval town, along which anything might
happen.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 550w
“The tale furnishes pleasant diversion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 480w
=NICHOLSON, WATSON.= Anthony Aston, stroller and adventurer. *$1.25 The
author, South Haven, Mich.
20–19783
This brief monograph forms a footnote to stage history. Little has
been known of Tony Aston, the author says, “save that he was a
strolling player for many years, the author of an unsuccessful play
and the much more important Brief supplement to Colley Cibber’s
apology.” An autobiographical sketch which he happened upon in the
British museum in 1914 has been made the basis of Mr Nicholson’s
account. This sketch is appended, as is the “Brief supplement.”
* * * * *
“The reprint is welcome and every student interested in ancient
Bohemias will be delighted to hear Aston tell, with complete disregard
for syntax and in the authentic pot-house style of Ned Ward and the
other blackguard wits, of his amazingly varied career.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“The student of the stage and society will find his career interesting
for the light it throws upon the provincial and illegitimate stage of
the time, concerning which practically nothing is known.” J. W. Krutch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 380w
=NICHOLSON, WATSON.= Historical sources of DeFoe’s Journal of the plague
year. $2 Stratford co. 942.06
DeFoe’s “Journal of the plague year” which has hitherto been
classified as fiction and has been accounted as a “masterpiece of the
imagination” is here proven, by the aid of extracts from original
documents in the Burney collection and manuscript room of the British
museum, to be “a faithful record of historical facts, that it was so
intended by the author and is as nearly correct as it was humanly
possible to make it from the sources and time at his command.” The
contents are: Originals and parallels of the stories in DeFoe’s
Journal; The historical sources of the Journal; Errors in the Journal;
Summary. The appendices consist of excerpts from the original sources
of the Journal and from hitherto unpublished documents illustrative of
the plague. There is a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 90w
=Spec= 124:834 Je 19 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w
“Dr Watson Nicholson’s book suffers a little from the researcher’s
usual impatience with those who preceded him; a little more from his
sometimes odd and slack English; more still from careless
proof-reading. But those who are interested in DeFoe should read the
book, because the author does more than work his case out closely.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p418 Jl 1 ’20 800w
=NICOLAY, HELEN.= Boys’ life of Lafayette. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–16920
The author writes of Lafayette as “a very gallant, inspiring figure
uniting the old world with the new.” She tells her young readers in
the preface: “This is no work of fiction. It is sober history; yet if
the bare facts it tells were set forth without the connecting links,
its preface might be made to look like the plot of a dime novel.” The
book is illustrated and has an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
“Even tho this is pure history, as the author declares, there is a
deal of romance in the life of Lafayette to fascinate the young
reader.”
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w
=NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM.= Antichrist. (Free lance books) *$1.75
(5c) Knopf 230
20–4092
Mr Mencken has made a new translation of “The antichrist,” Nietzsche’s
last work with the exception of his “Ecce homo.” The introduction
states: “The present translation of ‘The antichrist’ is published by
agreement with Dr Oscar Levy, editor of the English edition of
Nietzsche. There are two earlier translations, one by Thomas Common
and the other by Anthony M. Ludovici.... I began this new Englishing
of the book, not in any hope of supplanting them, and surely not with
any notion of meeting a great public need, but simply as a private
amusement in troubled days. But as I got on with it I began to see
ways of putting some flavour of Nietzsche’s peculiar style into the
English, and so amusement turned into a more or less serious labour.”
Mr Mencken’s introduction offers a critical interpretation of
Nietzsche.
* * * * *
“Mr Mencken’s translation of Nietzsche’s last considerable work is
lively and energetic, and his introduction is a happy example of his
critical writing.”
+ =Ath= p557 Ap 23 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=NIVEN, FREDERICK JOHN.= Tale that is told. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
20–17825
The simple uneventful chronicle of a Scotch clergyman’s family, told
in a leisurely manner. The father is a genial egotist who had preached
to Queen Victoria at Balmoral and who never lets this fact be lost
sight of. The story follows the course of the six children’s lives
after his death, telling of their worldly success, business affairs,
love affairs and marriages. For a time three of the brothers conduct a
book store and circulating library, of which an amusing account is
given.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath= p439 O 1 ’20 820w
“He takes such a ‘slice of life’ as might delight Mr Hugh Walpole, and
he treats it quite in the manner of Mr Walpole, only—and it is an
important difference—he lacks something of his vitality. The substance
is more level, a level quality not due to restraint but to quality of
vision.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 700w
“The scenes in the library are especially good.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“The novel as a whole reflects the commonplace lives of the vast
majority of us, ‘such poor little figures struggling along in the
jungle’ with considerable accuracy.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 14 ’20 850w
“I wish I could feel the glow that so many writing people seem to be
feeling about Frederick Niven’s ‘A tale that is told.’ It is pleasant
enough, human enough in its somewhat lacklustre fashion; but in the
end not much more than ‘a long preparation for something that never
happens.’”
+ − =Review= 4:57 Ja 19 ’21 640w
“The characters are unusually alive; it is a pity that they all lack
charm. The book is well constructed; the author has distinct ability.”
+ − =Spec= 126:56 Ja 8 ’21 40w
“It is refreshing to come upon a man who can write both lightly and
profoundly and who can mingle tenderness and humor without losing the
force of either.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 380w
“It is not a story with a pattern, but there is a frame to it that
gives it bounds and a focus that gives it coherence; there is sunlight
in it—the pale northern sunlight of Scotland. The characterization is
clear and the more pungent for its tolerance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 S 30 ’20 470w
=NOGUCHI, YONÉ (MISS MORNING GLORY, pseud.).= Japanese hokkus. *$2 Four
seas co. 895
20–20445
The hokku is the seventeen syllable poem of Japan which the author
describes at some length in the preface. This preface is in itself a
prose poem in its quaint English and with the vista it opens into the
Japanese mind. The real value of the hokku, we are told, is not in
what it expresses but how it expresses itself spiritually: not in its
physical directness but in its psychological indirectness. It is “like
a spider-thread laden with the white summer dews, swaying among the
branches of a tree; ... that sway indeed, not the thread itself, is
the beauty of our seventeen syllable poem.” Of the translating of the
hokku the author says, it is like the attempt to bring down the
spider-net and hang it up in another place. The epilogue is a
reflection on the introduction of western civilization into Japan.
* * * * *
“‘Japanese hokkus’ is remarkable for at least two reasons; one,
because its poems are of that sensitive and illusive loveliness that
is rare in the realism of contemporary publications, and another
because the book links the literature of the Orient and the Occident
rather more than any other poet whom we recall.” K. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 1100w
“Whether it is because he is writing in a foreign language, or because
English cannot have packed into it the associations of thousands of
years and the treasure of half-forgotten philosophies, the Japanese
poet fails to produce the effect achieved by Waley in his
translations.” Babette Deutsch
+ − =Dial= 70:206 F ’21 230w
“To enjoy this present volume and to be deaf to Mr Walter de la
Mare—or to Shakespeare’s songs, for that matter—is to enjoy the art
page of the newspaper more than a visit to the originals in the art
gallery.” Llewellyn Jones
− + =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 600w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 110w
=NOLEN, JOHN.= New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages.
il $1 (3c) Am. city bureau, Tribune bldg., N.Y. 710
20–211
“The cities of the United States have not yet made many of those
public improvements that are so essential to modern life, especially
for the new era.... They have not yet applied in a businesslike and
economical manner the methods characteristic of the modern city
planning movement. Therefore the American city still suffers in many
ways from haphazard, piecemeal and shortsighted procedure.” (Part 1)
To show how these shortcomings are to be remedied, how the new civic
spirit is growing, what has already been done and what is the promise
of the future is the object of the book. Among the topics discussed in
the first part are: Two main divisions of city planning; Specific
needs of the smaller city; How to replan a city; How to get a city
plan into action. Part 2 contains in part: The city planning movement;
Local data as basis of city plan; Types of city plans; Elements of
city plans; Professional training and experience; New towns and new
standards; Public opinion and city planning progress.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w
“We have never seen within such small compass a clearer description of
the processes of town planning or of the principles that underlie good
planning. A special merit of the book is that it reckons with the
limitations and difficulties of the small town where at the present
time such leadership as this is most needed and where examples taken
from the costly improvement schemes of large cities are not helpful.”
B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 320w
=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Harriet and
the piper. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–13977
Harriet Fields had an emotional adventure when she was seventeen, and
her romantic fancy was captured by Royal Blondin’s talk on Yogi
philosophy, oriental religion and poetry. She even went through a
bogus marriage ceremony with him when her youthful timorousness saved
her from further disaster. Ten years later, when she is filling a
position of trust, as companion to the wife of the rich Richard Carter
and governess to his daughter Nina, Blondin crosses her path again
holding their former relationship over her as a sword, to enlist her
aid in the furtherance of his new schemes, i. e., marrying young Nina
Carter and possessing himself of her fortune. It involves Harriet in
many temptations. Twixt the overcoming of and yielding to them her
character is clarified. After Mrs Carter’s elopement and sudden death,
Harriet enters a marriage of convenience with Richard Carter, whom she
secretly loves and admires and the wooing by the husband of his new
wife forms part of the interest of the book.
* * * * *
“A lively and interesting story.”
+ − =Ath= p813 D 10 ’20 60w
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“Well worn, even threadbare as her material is, Kathleen Norris has
contrived to concoct from it a very pleasant little story, and one
which holds the reader’s attention until the last half dozen chapters,
when it begins to drag badly. It is smoothly written, and agreeable to
read.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 950w
“Readers who can put aside the insubstantial theme and the artificial
dilemmas attributed to the principals, will find some entertainment in
the flow of life and color through their vaguely troubled days.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 100w
=NORWOOD, GILBERT.=[2] Greek tragedy. $5 Luce, J: W. 882
(Eng ed 20–16119)
“The summaries and criticisms of the extant plays constitute the main
body of the book, forty-eight pages being given to Æschylus,
fifty-four to Sophocles, a hundred and forty-one to Euripides. The
book, as the author says, ‘aims to cover the whole field of the Greek
drama, both for the student and the general reader.’”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“We think that, for Euripides, his present work is sound as well as
interesting. When we turn to his treatment of Æschylus and Sophocles,
we feel that in attempting to cover the whole ground, Mr Norwood has
undertaken more than he is at present ready to perform.” J. T.
Sheppard
+ − =Ath= p10 Jl 2 ’20 1250w
“It is certainly a convenience to have in one volume the literary
criticism of the extant plays and the general history of Greek tragedy
and the antiquities of the theatre, instead of looking for them in the
two volumes of Haigh. In these subsidiary matters Professor Norwood’s
scholarship though not independent is sufficient for his purpose. He
still retains the British awe of any and all German scholarship and
the British habit of ignoring American work.” Paul Shorly
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 31 ’20 1800w
“He writes throughout as an enthusiast, and illustrates his points by
modern parallels which are always ingenious, and often happy.
Reference might have been made to the modern performances of various
plays, for the best way to understand any drama is to see it acted.
The chapter on ‘Metre and rhythm’ at the end is an excellent idea well
carried out.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:39 Jl 10 ’20 200w
=NOYES, ALFRED.= Beyond the desert; a tale of Death valley. *$1 (7½c)
Stokes
20–18658
The story is symbolic of a soul losing itself in a desert of ideas
before it emerges into the light of clear understanding. James Baxter,
an I.W.W., is a prisoner in transport and escapes from a stalled train
into Death valley in the Arizona desert. His hardships bring on
delirium and in a trance he finds himself among a halted pioneer party
of 1849. In exchanging notes on their respective civilizations with
them he comes to see the error of his ways and when he is finally
rescued he goes among his I.W.W. comrades to convince them also. He is
successful with the crowd but the infuriated leaders kill him.
* * * * *
“Though Mr Noyes’s work is earnest and readable, we wish that so
experienced a hand had not permitted polemics, poetics, and melodrama
to crowd the same pages.”
+ − =N Y Evening= Post p10 O 30 ’20 230w
“The very qualities that one admires in such a poem as ‘The
highwayman,’ depreciate when used in the prose form. It is possible
that in verse the story would not seem so lacking in vitality. The
descriptions of the desert are good; the style is fairly clear; and
yet there is a quality of unreality, of dreaminess, of
sentimentality.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 260w
=NOYES, ALFRED.= Collected poems. v 3 *$2.50 Stokes 821
A volume containing all of Mr Noyes’ poems written between October,
1913, and the present. With the two volumes published in 1913 it forms
a complete edition of the poet’s verse to date. It comprises The Lord
of Misrule and other poems; The wine-press; A Belgian Christmas eve;
The new morning; The elfin artist and other poems.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“Mr Noyes possesses a delightful singing gift in his carefree
moments—and can bore us almost to tears when the sense of his
‘message’ to the world descends upon him. When he turns to glamourous
romantic ballads and to brief, sincere, intensely spiritual lyrics,
such as ‘Paraclete,’ he is at his best.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 170w
“Whenever he writes sermons and dissertations and criticisms in verse
he fails. Whenever he writes ballads he succeeds. However, there are a
few other poems in this volume for which we should thank Mr Noyes,
notably ‘Old gray squirrel,’ the pathetic ‘Court martial’ and ‘A
victory dance.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 30 ’21 620w
=NOYES, ALFRED.= Elfin artist, and other poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821
20–17329
The elfin artist is the initial poem of this collection of verse
written by the author since the spring of 1919. Some of the other
poems are: Earth and her birds; Sea-distances; The inn of Apollo; The
Sussex sailor; In southern California; The riddles of Merlin; The isle
of memories; A ballad of the easier way; A Devonshire Christmas;
Beautiful on the bough; The bride-ale; A sky song; A return from the
air; A victory dance; The garden of peace; Four songs, after Verlaine.
* * * * *
“No Elizabethan could conceivably have written one of his poems. The
conscious romanticism, the sentimentality, the imperialism expressed
with a catch in the voice, the blurred, soft, unprecise language, the
barrel-organ tunefulness—all these things, so characteristic of Mr
Noyes, would have been impossible to an Elizabethan.”
− =Ath= p142 Jl 30 ’19 420w
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“So sharply do these poems recall the poet of ‘The barrel-organ’ that
we wonder whether the recent neglect of Noyes was reasonable; surely,
with such books as these, he will yet sing his way back into the
hearts of English readers.” S: Roth
+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 110w
“Not in any of what may be termed the petulant and irritable, spirited
poems of this collection, striking as some may be for their frank and
vehement qualities, is Mr Noyes’s reputation either sustained or
enhanced. One may truly say that the poems that spring out of the
Sussex scene, with their half-bucolic and traditional mood, alone
retain the admiration of Mr Noyes’s readers.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 1300w
“Their redeeming features are Mr Noyes’ ability to handle metre and
the very evident pleasure he takes in writing. That pleasure is a
quality quite lacking in many modern poets who write far better than
Mr Noyes.”
+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 180w
“Mr Noyes continues to write his pleasant anachronisms and it must be
admitted that he does them with the usual dexterity and
mellifluousness that is so much a part of his charm. He does possess
charm and no one will actually die of ennui while reading his lines.
But readers could far better occupy themselves with other poets, for
Mr Noyes brings nothing new to his readers, not even his thought.” H.
S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 680w
“‘The elfin artist’ is the product of the author’s mature lyric gift,
rich in variety or form and theme, and offering an equal appeal to the
emotions and to the mind.” Philip Tillinghast
+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 500w
“Mr Noyes continues to annoy the devotees of all the varieties of free
verse by his ability to use rhyme, and to observe the rules of
prosody.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 140w
“His gift to literature is twofold. He can write well himself and he
can prevent others from writing badly.”
+ − =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 700w
“With one or two exceptions, each of Mr Noyes’s poems is no better and
no worse than any of the others. To study the volume is to get the
impression of sameness, of easy fluidity, of lack both of thought and
of labour. His simplicity is not the simplicity of compression and
refinement. His responsiveness sweeps away his thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p381 Je 17 ’20 600w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 50w
=NOYES, FRANCES NEWBOLD.= My A. E. F.; a hail and farewell. *$1 (12c)
Stokes 940.373
20–11506
A book in the form of a familiar talk to A. E. F. boys by a girl who
was a Y. M. C. A. worker in France. It is an appeal to them to
remember the ideals they fought for, and to apply them in the new war
“against selfishness and materialism and intolerance and hatred.” It
is reprinted from McClure’s Magazine.
* * * * *
“A very fine and moving bit of writing is Miss Noyes’s little book,
simple, comradely, full of memories, and wise with the wisdom of Eve.
The book ought to be read by every man who served on the other side
and also by every person at home who has ever said a slighting word
about any of the phases of the welfare work for the army.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Jl 11 ’20 1100w
=NUTT, HUBERT WILBUR.= Supervision of instruction. (Riverside textbooks
in education) *$1.80 Houghton 371
20–10064
“The shifting, unprofessional character of the teaching body makes the
provision for competent supervision of instruction not only desirable,
but necessary.... The undertaking of training supervisors involves the
setting-forth of the job or activities of supervision, and the
organizing of the means by which supervisors can best be trained to
perform their duties.” (Introd.) The book is, accordingly, an
analytical discussion of the principles underlying class-room
supervision, and the devices and technique which should and which
should not be employed. It falls into two parts. Part 1, The job of
supervision, is a general survey of supervising activities. Part II[or
2?—see above], Principles underlying the supervision of instruction,
is divided into the following sections: Supervisory method; Devices of
supervision; Technique of supervision. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The book is to be welcomed as one of the first serious and successful
attempts to create a specific literature for supervisors.”
+ =El School J= 21:69 S ’20 450w
+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 180w
=NYBURG, SIDNEY LAUER.= Gate of ivory. *$2.25 (1½c) Knopf
20–19577
This is the story of Allan Conway who loved a beautiful siren of a
woman and loved her so well that he allowed himself to be saddled with
her and her husband’s crime, in order to shield her and to become an
outcast for her sake. The remarkable part of the story is that, as an
outcast, he loved her still, that he did not become a cynic—although
he did take to drink periodically—and that he was even happy in the
dream life that he now lived with his Eleanor. This life he elaborated
in every detail from the house he built for and the conversations he
had with her even to their dream child. A Peter Ibbetson with a
difference is this Allan Conway.
O
=O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD.= Prize stories, 1919. *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday
20–8630
A volume published as a memorial to O. Henry and composed of the
fifteen short stories which a committee of the Society of arts and
sciences of New York city have decided on as the best short stories of
1919. Blanche Colton Williams writes the introduction. Contents:
England to America, by Margaret Prescott Montague; “For they know not
what they do,” by Wilbur Daniel Steele; They grind exceeding small, by
Ben Ames Williams; On strike, by Albert Payson Terhune; The elephant
remembers, by Edison Marshall; Turkey red, by Frances Gilchrist Wood;
Five thousand dollars reward, by Melville Davisson Post; The blood of
the dragon, by Thomas Grant Springer; “Humoresque,” by Fannie Hurst;
The lubbeny kiss, by Louise Rice; The trial in Tom Belcher’s store, by
Samuel A. Derieux; Porcelain cups, by James Branch Cabell; The high
cost of conscience, by Beatrice Ravenel; The kitchen gods, by G. F.
Alsop; April 25th, as usual, by Edna Ferber.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“One can only wish that more of such volumes might be issued, for many
of our American writers are at their best in the short story. The ‘O.
Henry memorial award’ volume of 1919 is a book well worth reading.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 850w
+ − =Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 140w
=OAKESMITH, JOHN.= Race and nationality; an inquiry into the origin and
growth of patriotism. *$4 Stokes 320.1
19–16466
“As the result of an attempt to arrive at a lucid conception and
precise definition of ‘a nationality,’ the author thinks that he has
discovered the explanation of nationality ‘in what may be formally
called the principle of “organic continuity of common interest”‘; and
the constructive part of the book is devoted to the elucidation of
this principle. The author considers that universal and lasting peace
will be secured, not by ‘the sudden imposition of hastily manufactured
machinery,’ but by the gradual extension of the above principle from
national to international life.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p961 S 26 ’19 120w
Reviewed by F. J. Whiting
=Review= 1:705 D 27 ’19 1200w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 40w
Reviewed by I. C. Hannah
+ − =Survey= 43:504 Ja 31 ’20 360w
“This is a treatise of ability, displaying considerable knowledge of
the literature of the subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 S 11 ’19 120w
“It would not be difficult to show that there are inconsistencies in
the discussion and conclusions arrived at by Mr Oakesmith;
inconsistencies traceable largely to his desire to do justice to the
representatives of all shades of opinion. It may be more profitable
than dwelling on such points to note one or two omissions from the
volume, in particular the demands of what may be called
pseudo-nationality; that form of it which is not the slow result of
continuously operating influences, but is artificially created.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1200w
=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON (ARTHUR MIDDLETON, pseud.).= Best
short stories of 1919. *$2 (1½c) Small
The authors represented in this year’s volume are: G. F. Alsop;
Sherwood Anderson; Edwina Stanton Babcock; Djuna Barnes; Frederick
Orin Bartlett; Agnes Mary Brownell; Maxwell Struthers Burt; James
Branch Cabell; Horace Fish; Susan Glaspell; Henry Goodman; Richard
Matthew Hallet; Joseph Hergesheimer; Will E. Ingersoll; Calvin
Johnston; Howard Mumford Jones; Ellen N. La Motte; Elias Lieberman;
Mary Heaton Vorse, and Anzia Yezierski. The book contains also an
introduction by Mr O’Brien, discussing points raised by Waldo Frank’s
“Our America,” and the usual features of the Year book of the short
story.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
“Of the twenty stories an indifferent half-dozen barely pass the
average.... Sherwood Anderson’s ‘An awakening,’ and Joseph
Hergesheimer’s ‘The Meeker ritual,’ have the distinction of subtlety
and style, irrespective of theme. You feel about the other authors
that each might with a little effort have written the other’s story,
but these two of Anderson’s and Hergesheimer’s could only have been
written by themselves.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Mr 27 ’20 650w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
=Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 380w
“Mr O’Brien’s standards define themselves with precision, and a
summary of his tests will serve as test for Mr O’Brien. He has no eye
for style. The second point in literature to which Mr O’Brien is
insensitive is tone. The third and final want is the sense of
workmanship. Mr O’Brien, however, has qualities which are as
incontestable as his limitations. He has a keen, if not infallible,
sense, of the powerful in motive, the original and trenchant in
conception. Mr O’Brien’s collection will be of service to those
readers who are wise enough to grasp its limitations.”
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 520w
=O’BRIEN, GEORGE A. T.= Essay on mediaeval economic teaching. *$4.75
(*12s 6d) Longmans 330.9
20–20196
“Mr O’Brien passes in review the principal economic theories of the
medieval schoolmen, not continuing the study farther than the
beginning of the sixteenth century. In a concluding chapter he gives
reasons for a favourable estimate of the medieval economic doctrine
from the points of view of production, consumption and
distribution.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is a truism (which unfortunately is rarely true) to say of a new
book that it supplies a long felt want: but in the case of Dr
O’Brien’s essay to say so would be strictly true. Mediæval economic
theory has never before been discussed with the fullness it merited.”
+ =Cath World= 112:109 O ’20 480w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=Nation= 111:480 O 27 ’20 800w
“It is a work of learning and ability, concerned rather with the clear
and concise presentation of doctrine than with the criticism of it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 110w
“The historian who peruses this book will put it down with mixed
feelings of amusement over the wordy contest and of despair at the
unfamiliarity the combatants display with the alphabet of historical
science.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p466 Jl 22 ’20 1000W
=ODELL, GEORGE CLINTON DENSMORE.= Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving.
2v il *$12 Scribner 822.3
20–19676
“Professor Odell has undertaken to do for all Shakespeare’s plays,
tragedies and comedies, histories and dramatic romances, what has
hitherto been attempted for two of the tragedies only, in Miss Wood’s
‘Stage history of Richard III,’ and in Brereton’s rather sketchy
account of the various performances of ‘Hamlet.’ He has organized his
two volumes in eight chronological divisions: the age of Betterton
(1660–1710); the age of Cibber (1710–1742); the age of Garrick
(1742–1776); the age of Kemble (1776–1817); the leaderless age
(1817–1837); The age of Macready (1837–1843); the age of Phelps and
Charles Kean (1843–1879), and the age of Irving (1879–1902). Not only
does he give us what is to a certain extent a history of the theatres
of London, he also supplies us with what is almost (if not quite) a
history of the superb evolution of the art of scene painting.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“Students should be grateful to Professor Odell for the painstaking
manner in which he has traced the fate of Shakespeare on the English
stage. Mr Odell has attacked the subject with freshness and zest. His
enthusiasm never seems to flag.... Admire his work as I do, I am
convinced that had Mr Odell been more thoroughly in sympathy with the
new ‘unrest’ in the theater, he would have seen more clearly certain
points relating the past with the present.” M. J. Moses
+ =Nation= 111:sup660 D 8 ’20 1400w
“No better medium than the work of Professor George C. D. Odell has
thus far been provided to apprehend the gradual evolution of stage
decoration, costume, and attention to historic accuracy.” H. H.
Furness, jr
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 1650w
“It is no dry-as-dust chronicle that he has here given us. It is a
readable book that he proffers, a book abounding in apt anecdote, in
illuminating quotation and in genial comment. Although the author has
had to correct many blunders and many misstatements of many
predecessors, he spares us the acrimony of controversy.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 O 24 ’20 300w
=O’DONNELL, ELLIOT.= Menace of spiritualism. *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 134
20–6366
The author of the book, himself an investigator in the field of
psychic research and a believer in spontaneous manifestations of the
spirits of the dead, condemns the practice of spiritualism, with its
mediumistic invocations of spirits as a vice. Its dangers are many.
From the point of view of orthodox Christianity it menaces faith and
morality alike; from that of the medical profession it is injurious to
health; from that of the greater number of most eminent scientists it
is a sham; and from the point of view of common sense it is a
hotch-potch of imbecility, gullibility, and roguery. Contents:
Foreword by Father Bernard Vaughan; “Spiritualism”—what is it? How
spiritualism tries to distort the Old Testament; Spiritualism and the
New Testament; Spiritualism and the churches; The phenomenal side of
spiritualism and its effect on the health; The danger of fraud of all
kinds at séances.
* * * * *
“He delivers some shrewd blows, and in a popular manner sets forth a
strong case against spiritualists and their operations.”
+ =Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 80w
+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 40w
=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Such protests are welcome, however much they fall short of the
sanction of a high consistency; it is hardly to be expected that a
critic of Mr O’Donnell’s electric temper will find favor with those
who see in psychical research a far wider menace and a subtler attack
upon the fundamentals of sound thinking. Yet to part of the composite
clientèle from which latter-day recruits for the occult are gathered,
this earnest word of warning may prove helpful.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − =Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 250w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 80w
=O’DUFFY, EIMAR.= Wasted island. *$2 (1c) Dodd
20–16927
A story of Ireland and the Irish movement culminating in the Easter
rebellion. Bernard Lascelles, son of a successful Dublin doctor, is
brought up in ignorance of his country’s history. In fact it is part
of his father’s purpose to keep him in ignorance, fearing that the boy
may take after his uncle Christopher Reilly, who died fighting England
on the side of the Boers. Bernard is sent to an English school, but in
spite of his father’s efforts is drawn into the Nationalist and later
into the Sinn Fein movements, a letter left by his uncle Christopher
to be read on his twenty-first birthday proving the turning point in
his life. A very different bringing up is that of Stephen Ward, whose
father, a discouraged Fenian, hopes that his son may never wreck his
life in the hopeless cause but does not deny him knowledge. Both young
men oppose the Easter uprising but both are involved in it. Bernard is
wrecked by it but Stephen escapes. “‘And now,’ said Michael Ward to
his son, ‘now that everything has turned out as I told you it would,
what do you mean to do?’ ‘I suppose,’ replied Stephen, ‘we must begin
all over again.’”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“The story is long and the plot complicated but it is well told and
the interest is sustained to the close.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 350w
“Although, as an artistic piece of work, the book leaves much to be
desired, its vigour and sincerity save it from the category of the
mediocre.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 160w
“It is one-sided and its heroes are not very attractive characters,
but it is interesting and informing.”
+ − =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 90w
“Mr O’Duffy is refreshingly free from didacticism. He allows the facts
to explain for themselves, and does not make any indictment in the
bitter, devastating manner of Brinsley McNamara’s ‘The clanking of
chains.’ Regarded as a human document this book should be of great
interest and assistance to readers in America who want to understand
the Ireland which confronts them in alarming headlines.” E. A. Boyd
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 30 ’20 1300w
“The animus of the book as a whole is unmistakable. Hate for England
rather than love for Ireland is the mainspring of this active
‘patriotism.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 540w
=OEMLER, MRS MARIE (CONWAY).= Purple heights. *$2 (2c) Century
20–17411
The hero is Peter Devereaux Champneys, a boy of eleven when the story
opens. The scene is South Carolina where Peter lives in a four-roomed
cabin with his mother, who runs a sewing machine to keep herself and
Peter alive. Peter, who is considered a dunce in school, spends all
his odd moments making pictures. One day he sketches the Red
admiral—the beautiful butterfly that alighted on the milkweed pod by
the side of the road—and the Red admiral proves to be his good fairy.
His mother dies and Peter brings himself up, with the aid of Emma
Campbell, a faithful negress. An unknown uncle appears out of the West
and offers to send Peter to Paris, and so anxious is Peter to get to
Paris that he accepts the uncle’s strange terms, marriage with an
unknown Nancy Simms. His first sight of Nancy Simms is disconcerting,
for she is a red-haired virago, but he runs away to Paris immediately
after the ceremony and forgets her. In Paris he becomes famous and in
the meantime Nancy grows up to be a beautiful woman and all ends well.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“Excellent, forceful writing appears on the earlier pages. Soon the
benevolent persons enter, one after another, and they reflect urban
life. The naturalness and sincerity of the story lessen.” R. D. W.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 500w
“A new author, writing real literature, is Mrs Oemler.” Lilian Bell
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 950w
“The author knows the South, and her understanding of the black man’s
mind is demonstrated on nearly every page. ‘The purple heights’ is a
worthy successor to Mrs Oemler’s first success, ‘Slippy McGee.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 600w
“When Peter grows up and goes to Paris and becomes famous the charm
vanishes and interest lags. It is in her beginnings that the author is
most successful.”
+ − =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 200w
“Decidedly inferior to ‘Slippy McGee,’ but nevertheless an
entertaining story, with some delightful passages describing the
hero’s youth.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 30w
=OGILVIE, PAUL MORGAN.= International waterways. *$3 Macmillan 387
20–2670
“‘International waterways’ is a history of the development of maritime
enterprise. It sets forth the efforts of certain nations to secure the
exclusive enjoyment of the seas. The first part of Mr Ogilvie’s book
concludes with a critical discussion of the question of the freedom of
commercial navigation. Part II is composed of a reference manual,
where is to be found a list of all the international inland waterways
of the world, together with the treaties and laws governing the
same.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. F. Hershey
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:519 Ag ’20 700w
=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
“A valuable reference work. If there is any fault to be found with Mr
Ogilvie’s work it is a fault perhaps inseparable from the breadth of
the task and the limited size of the volume. The author has neither
the time nor the space to pause for that wealth of illustration which
the reader would like to demand. But he constantly cites his sources
and the reader who is interested in more detailed study may turn to
them.” G. H. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 29 ’20 850w
“The international lawyer, the historian, and the general student of
modern problems will each be grateful to Mr Ogilvie for his helpful
work.” M. W. Tyler
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:161 S ’20 460w
“Mr Ogilvie’s thoughtful treatise is very timely.” L. J. B.
+ =Review= 2:603 Je 5 ’20 1350w
=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 60w
“A scholarly, well-written history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 120w
“The bibliography of treaties is likely to be of much practical use in
coming years and represents a great deal of most fruitful labour. The
bibliography of works dealing with the subject, though not exhaustive,
will be helpful. An excellent index concludes a very thorough piece of
work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p265 Ap 29 ’20 1600w
=O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Secret springs. *$2 (3c) Harper 130
20–19287
The author outlines the system of a Dr X who has “largely uncovered
the mechanism by which the mind affects health” and who has evolved
this system of mental hygiene according to which he treats his
patients and directs them to safeguard themselves. It is based on the
Freudian theory of psychoanalysis from which Dr X deviates and upon
which he enlarges to some extent by not emphasising the sex element
with the same insistence. The contents consider suppressions: In love
and marriage; In health; In childhood; In happiness and success; In
Theodore Roosevelt; In character and conduct; In dreams; In religion.
* * * * *
“Mr O’Higgins is agreeably free of Freudian and sexual obsessions.”
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 50w
“It is a very cheerful book, not only because it escapes what the
writer calls the ‘unspeakable’ abstruseness and laboratory
gruesomeness of the expositions of Freud and his followers, but also
because everybody gets cured.” Renee Darmstadter
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 400w
=O’KELLY, SEUMAS.= Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. *$1.75 (4c)
Putnam
The longest tale in this collection, “The weaver’s grave,” describes
an ancient graveyard “Cloon na Morav,” the meadow of the dead. So
ancient is it that to have a right of burial there amounts to a
pedigree. It is only the weaver, newly dead, and one survivor, Malachi
Roohan, the cooper, who still have that right. On two other ancient
inhabitants of the town devolves the task of finding the weaver’s
grave. It is a well-nigh hopeless quest, related with insight and
weird humor. The rest of the book, under the heading “The golden
barque” consists of: Michael and Mary; Hike and Calcutta; The haven;
Billy the clown; The derelict; The man with the gift.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 130w
“Slight plots, delightful people and the characteristic Celtic humor.”
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“‘The golden barque’ is so finely and purely Irish that it is doubtful
whether a child could make the most of it. But these are tales with so
much literary and poetic quality that it would be unfortunate not at
least to give the child a chance.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
“There is an indescribable charm in these two Irish stories, which is
attributable to the manner in which they are told, rather than to any
extraordinary merit in plot and action.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 N 7 ’20 460w
“I shall recall the book for the long sketch with which it begins, but
which for obvious reasons is not the title-story: ‘The weaver’s
grave,’ a comedy most limited in scene and accessory, but rich in
content and perfect in form.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 190w
“His characters are new, not picked from the crowd but found here and
there in Ireland with individuality stamped all over them. They are
not very important characters, but such as they are they challenge
attention.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 180w
“If all these little stories were as beautifully told as the first,
the set would be a rare delight. They vary in merit, and usually fall
when Mr O’Kelly relies on detail, to rise again when he opens his
inner vision.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 230w
=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Story-telling ballads. il *$3 Houghton 821.08
20–21433
The anthology contains seventy-seven of the ancient ballads and
narrative poems such as were sung by minstrels and recited by gaffers
and gammers in days of old. They are intended for boys and girls from
twelve to fifteen years of age, and contain “romances, hero-tales,
faërie legends and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing
of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms,
witches, mermaids with golden combs, sad maidens, glad ones and
fearless lovers, mosstroopers, border-rievers, and kings in disguise.”
(Foreword) There are four color-prints, and the appendix contains
suggestions for teachers, a glossary and indexes of subjects, authors,
titles and first lines. The contents are grouped under the headings:
The salt blue seas; A-harrowing o’ the border; Brave hearts and proud;
Lays o’ faërie; Lays o’ wonder; Merry gestes; Sad gestes; Pretty mays
and knights so bold; For Halloween and midsummer eve; All under the
greenwood tree; O’ pilgrimage and souls so strong.
* * * * *
“Miss Olcott has selected her ballads with good taste, and the indexes
and glossary are excellent.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 D 4 ’20 100w
=OLCOTT, HARRIET MEAD.= Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. il
*$1.50 Holt
20–16112
Ten fairy stories adapted from the French and illustrated in
silhouette. The titles are: Prince Rainbow; Bleuette’s butterfly; The
frozen heart; The elf-dog; The whirling king; The magic mirror; The
queen’s treasure; The stupid princess; The flying wizard; The forest
fairy.
=OLDMEADOW, ERNEST JAMES.= Coggin *$1.75 (1½c) Century
20–818
The meeting of two human spirits for mutual uplift, development and
regeneration is the theme of the story. The Reverend Oswald Redding,
rector of a fashionable Episcopal church in Bulford-on-Deme, discovers
in little Harry Coggin, son of a rags-and-bone man, a prodigy in
intellect and spirit. In awarding him a scholarship at the grammar
school, he has thrown a bombshell into the society of notables and
inflamed the class hatred of the lowly. The story records Harry’s
brief and distressing career at the school and shows how his rare
gifts and spirit pierce the crust of the rector’s conventional
Christianity, turning him from the well-worn ruts of his career to
find God along new paths. Harry in turn receives the courage, the
incentive, the divine impulse for his genius, from the rector’s
enveloping love.
* * * * *
“The clever, respectful little boy, in this bit of his life, is
perhaps a less interesting study than the more substantial figure of
the rector. The case of the misuse of endowments and charities is
intelligently argued; but we cannot believe in the ‘conversion’ of the
socialist house-painter, and the definition of agnosticism would not
satisfy an intelligent schoolboy.”
+ − =Ath= p1274 N 28 ’19 100w
“This strange, extraordinarily attractive little personality is Mr
Oldmeadow’s discovery, and from the moment we meet him talking to
George Placker we are prepared to follow him anywhere he may like to
take us. The novel as a whole lacks proportion. The closing scenes,
with the rector for principal figure, are far too drawn out.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p143 Ja 30 ’20 700w
“A quiet picture, very life-like, appealing to readers who do not
demand much plot.”
+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“The story is the result of a literary craftsmanship worthy of
notice.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 150w
“No doubt the book is to be classed as propaganda; but propaganda is
seldom so engagingly presented. The book has faults, the more
irritating because they could have been easily avoided had the author
exerted himself a little more. Nevertheless, its vitality is
deep-rooted and its appeal is wide.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 510w
“The first of a trilogy evidently ambitious of being the English ‘Jean
Christophe.’ Though of fine craftsmanship and possessing a certain
unique charm, not on the same artistic plane.”
+ − =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 100w
“The story has charm and a warm subdued color and a savor of the earth
and of old houses in forgotten sunshine.”
+ =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 260w
“Coggin is, to tell the truth, a fearful prig, and the reader must
have a patient way with priggish and humorless virtue to bear with him
till the end of the present narrative. The story is told with a
certain skill and polish; but it is not very clearly worth telling,
for all that.”
− + =Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 60w
=OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH.= Guide to Russian literature (1820–1917). $3
(3½c) Harcourt 891.7
20–7675
Because Russian literature reproduces the spiritual struggles of men
and goes down to the very bottom of everyday existence to scrutinize
the economic, the social and the political life of the country, its
study becomes valuable not only as an art but as the surest road to
the understanding of the Russian people and conditions. The author
therefore has selected from the literary productions of the nineteenth
and twentieth century only those which have value for the present
either on account of their artistic qualities, or as representing some
aspect of Russian life. The contents are in three chronological
groups, each preceded by a general survey of the era. Part I—The
growth of a national literature; Part II—The “modernists”; Part
III—The recent tide. The book also contains a list of pronunciations
of authors’ names, an appendix on juvenile literature in Russia, and
an index.
* * * * *
“This might well be called an inspired booklist. It answers the
question ‘What shall I read to understand Russian character and
Russian life?’”
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“The grouping of the material in this rather ‘sketchy’ volume is
somewhat inadequate. Authors whose influence was very small are at
times given more attention and space than is seemly in comparison to
those who are very characteristic and important both from the
historical and psychological point of view.”
− + =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 120w
“It is fresh in its treatment, original in its scheme and far more
intelligently comprehensive than any other available handbook.”
+ =Freeman= 1:262 My 26 ’20 700w
“Mr Olgin combines an initiate’s grasp of the political and social
background of his country with an intense and catholic appreciation of
its literature and his command of incisive and pictorial English might
be envied by writers to whom the tongue is native.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − =Nation= 111:327 S 18 ’20 240w
“The book is expressly not devised as a ‘history,’ yet the American
reader or student of Russian literature will find it of much greater
value as a history than any so-called history he can lay his hands on
in English.” Clarendon Ross
+ =New Repub= 24:334 N 24 ’20 490w
“In view of the number of authors dealt with, it is only natural the
individual sections should prove more or less uneven. Some are
splendid; others are far from satisfactory. The work as a whole is an
excellent production.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 O 10 ’20 780w
“That quality of compactness which one demands in a handbook is not
invariably adhered to.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 160w
“Mr Olgin has managed to convey an exceptionally colorful and rich
picture of each of these writers, with a good deal of detail crowded
into a small space.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:350 N ’20 340w
=OLIVER, MAUDE I. G.= First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. il
*$1.50 (4c) Holt 750
20–4272
A book designed for boys and girls which may also be helpful to other
beginners in picture study. The fifty-five illustrations show examples
from American museums and art galleries, and are limited to the work
of American painters. One aim of the book is “to furnish a background
for the reading of descriptive books on art.” Consequently the author
has taken pains to introduce all the accepted art terms and phrases
and to make their meaning clear. Contents: Media (two chapters);
Classification; Color; Draughtsmanship; Values; Perspective;
Composition; Technique; Character; Conclusion—A glimpse into fairyland
(a suggested pageant).
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
=N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 40w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 70w
“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to
advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as
instructive.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:612 Je ’20 80w
=OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.= Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–9141
Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off
the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter
Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she
sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the
mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose
namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is
twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the
vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson
of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for
the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity
that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love
story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 300w
=OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI=, trs. Diaries of court ladies of
old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895
21–128
An introduction to the book by Amy Lowell describes the time and
environment in which the ladies of these diaries wrote and gives a
biographical sketch of each of them. The time was the middle of the
Heian period which lasted from 794 to 1186, when Japan was thoroughly
civilized, even “a little overcivilized, a little too fined down and
delicate” and when women occupied an advanced position—they were
educated, allowed a share of inheritance and had their own houses.
Much of the best literature of Japan has been written by women. A
common characteristic of the diaries is delicacy, rare and exquisite
taste and skill in poetic composition. The ladies are Sarashina,
Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. The illustrations are from
Japanese prints, some in color, and the appendix contains an Old
Japanese calendar and a chronological table of events connected with
the diaries.
* * * * *
“A delightful curiosity and an attractively made book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“The literary quality of the three diaries is extremely high. They
would all be eminently readable if written only yesterday. Added to
the joyment of their intrinsic merits is the fact that they present a
faithful picture of the court life of the times as well as some
singularly striking contrasts between three women of totally different
temperaments.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 D 26 ’20 2050w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w
=O’NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE.= Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts.
*$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812
20–8634
“The tragedy of the misfit. Robert Mayo, a young farm born dreamer who
longs to travel ‘beyond the horizon,’ gives up going to sea when he
finds out that Ruth Atkins loves him but refuses to sail with him. His
brother Andrew, as well fitted to be a farmer as Robert is unfitted to
be a farmer becomes a sailor. Robert marries Ruth, but they soon cease
to love each other and Robert, wasted by tuberculosis, crawls out of
the house to die ‘alone—in a ditch by the open road—watching the sun
rise.’”—Wis Lib Bul
* * * * *
“A powerful, grim ironic tragedy.”
+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Mr O’Neill is most successful with such primitive types as Ruth. When
he approaches a complex nature like Robert’s, his presentation is
weaker. ‘Beyond the horizon’ is a good drama. It might have been a
great one but for two defects that create and sustain each other,
namely the theatre-consciousness of the playwright, and the fact that
he is a too anxious father to his brood.” Lola Ridge
+ − =New Repub= 25:173 Ja 5 ’21 980w
“The appeal of ‘Beyond the horizon’ is instantaneous, but lasting.
Never is it reduced to cleverness; never does it compromise with the
American audience. Its truth is too profound and too soul-stirring to
carry in one eye a smile, in the other a tear.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 750w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 120w
=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Bridge of kisses. il *$2
(2½c) Dodd
20–17083
A story as sentimental as its title. Josephine Dale becomes engaged to
a very worthy young man, Hilary Sykes, but obviously the wrong man for
her. She frankly admits to herself that she is only doing it to give
her mother peace of mind about her future. A young bridge-builder
comes into the neighborhood on an engineering project, and, as his
mother and hers had been girlhood friends, she takes a friendly
interest in him, and that interest finally prompts her to find a wife
for him. Her efforts do not meet with signal success, since it is
obvious to everyone but Joey herself that the bridge-builder was made
for her and her alone. A happy ending is inevitable, and Mr Sykes is
consoled with a more suitable mate, so all is well.
=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Sweethearts unmet. il *$1.75
(2c) Dodd
19–18030
In the form of separate stories, confessions, so to speak, a young
girl and a young man each in turn pours out the story of his and her
life, of their longings, their love hunger and their ideals. They were
meant for each other, they had dreamt and speculated about each other,
but seemed actually destined to live lives apart till luck and chance
brought them, when it was almost, but not quite, too late, into each
other’s arms. On this the author philosophizes: many young people in
the large cities who are meant for each other never meet and end by
marrying the wrong one. Her remedy is, not social centres, or
matrimonial bureaus but a more hearty, understanding welcome of young
people in individual homes, the creation of an entirely new atmosphere
for the possibilities and needs of youth.
* * * * *
“A sentimental, very light love story of the kind that will please
young readers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“She proceeds to write the story, in her own pretty, quaint way, and a
capital story it is—wholesome as a breath of spring.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:135 Mr 21 ’20 650w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Devil’s paw. il *$1.90 (3c) Little
20–16858
Miss Catherine Abbeway, the heroine of the story, is a wonderful
woman. By birth half Russian and half English and an aristocrat, her
sympathies are entirely with the oppressed and with labor. She belongs
to a secret labor organization whose object it is to bring about an
early peace with the Central powers. Of this organization or council
all but two, and they the leaders, are honest men. The two are
scoundrels in the pay of Germany. Catherine undertakes, at great
personal risk, to intercept messages from alleged German socialists
for the council. Julian Orden, son of a peer, and anonymous author of
peace articles that are creating a stir, discovers her in the act and
takes the documents from her. But, to protect her in a compromising
situation, he proclaims her his fiancée. Later when, after some
breathless days, Catherine has discovered the sinister plot of the
pseudo labor leaders and has saved England and the Allies from
disaster, the pretense becomes fact.
* * * * *
“One of his poorer stories.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“The novel is not without ingenuity, and contains one or two fairly
dramatic scenes; but it is not so entertaining a story as ‘The great
impersonation.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 3 ’20 550w
“‘The devil’s paw’ is far from being his best work.”
− =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“The story cannot be classed among the best that Mr Oppenheim has
written, but will, nevertheless, stimulate a considerable degree of
interest.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 180w
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 40w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Great impersonation. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–629
Baron Leopold von Ragastein had been educated in England, at Eton and
Oxford. While there he had had a double in a school mate, Sir Everard
Dominey. Later they meet again in a German colony in East Africa where
von Ragastein is now military commander. The latter is a perfect type
of German efficiency and fitness, while the other, with a growing
drink habit upon him, is generally at outs with life. They exchange
confidences and when the German receives sudden orders to go to
England on a secret mission he resolves to go as Sir Everard Dominey
after first making away with the real Sir Everard. There he faces many
delicate situations, but all goes well and the tasks imposed by the
German government grow with the impostor’s daring. When the war breaks
out he out-does himself by enlisting in the Norfolk yeomanry and at
the very end comes the startling disclosure that it is after all the
real Sir Everard who had not been so drunk in Africa “but that he was
able to pull himself up when the great incentive came.”
* * * * *
“A good Oppenheim book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:205 Mr ’20
“The story pursues its course, sometimes in a lively fashion and
sometimes sluggishly, but always moving towards a goal of surprise
that will doubtless astonish many a reader. Its characters have in
them something less fairylike and more human than is customary with Mr
Oppenheim.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 7 ’20 1250w
=Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 240w
“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the
productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively
prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one
and many of the details are well managed.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Ja 11 ’20 550w
“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in
the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that
things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that
is true here.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 120w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
=Pub W= 96:1691 D 27 ’19 280w
“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”
+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 40w
“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the
Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in
character and habit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 18 ’20 420w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 200w
=ORCZY, EMMUSKA (MRS MONTAGUE BARSTOW) baroness.= His Majesty’s
well-beloved. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
19–19054
A quaintly told story of an English actor in the times of Charles II.
John Honeywood, devoted to Thomas Betterton is permitted, in his
capacity as friend and secretary, to see much of the intimate life of
that famous actor. It is he, who, in the form of a beseeching letter
to Mary Saunderson, formerly betrothed to Tom Betterton, tells of the
latter’s strange, thwarted love and passion for a lady of nobility:
the insults and outrage her family heap upon “the mountebank” who
presumes to my lady’s affections; the bitter, relentless revenge
Betterton slowly perfects and executes: and finally his utter
renunciation to save the innocence of Lady Barbara, and to restore to
her the man she loves, cleared from all dishonor. Throughout the
narrative Honeywood pleads with Mistress Saunderson that Betterton’s
love for Lady Barbara is naught but a wild infatuation, and that his
feeling for herself is still pure and unsullied. Evidently he
succeeds, for the final chapter chronicles the wedding of Thomas
Betterton, actor, and Mary Joyce Saunderson.
* * * * *
“An interesting, wholesome adventure story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w
“The tale is picturesque and dramatic, with many an unexpected twist.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Better written, we think, than this author’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’
romances and equally stirring in plot.”
+ =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 20w
“The Baroness Orczy is an old hand at this kind of story, has the
machinery under control and the lingo pat.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 150w
“It is a vivid tale, told with all the charm, color and romantic
flavor characterizing Baroness Orczy’s novels.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 O 16 ’19 60w
=O’RIORDAN, CONAL O’CONNELL (NORREYS CONNELL, pseud.).= Adam of Dublin.
*$2 Harcourt
20–20003
Adam was born in the gutter and began his career in life, at the age
of seven, selling stale papers. When he came to a sudden realization
of what that meant he went to pour out his heart in confession to
Father Innocent Feeley and found his first and truest friend. He makes
other friends too, for after Father Innocent’s intervention has
secured for him an education for the priesthood, and after the good
Father’s death occurred at a crisis in Adam’s school life that made
his position there untenable, the queer old Frenchman in Adam’s
lodging house, who was not a Frenchman at all but a German musician,
took him under his wing and saw to it that he was freed from the
clutches of the Jesuits. The book leaves young Adam—the incarnation of
the romantic soul of Ireland—on the brink of a new and freer life, of
which the reader is led to expect an account in another volume.
* * * * *
“Among so many dead novels it is a delight to hail one that is so rich
in life.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p652 N 12 ’20 960w
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“The story so far is noteworthy not so much because of its youthful
hero, as for the effortless creation of the atmosphere of Irish life.”
L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 100w
“Mr Conal O’Riordan has apparently embarked on a trilogy. However,
Adam is an amusing child. One feels resigned to meeting him again.”
+ =Spec= 125:641 N 13 ’20 70w
“It is not a story of plot, nor can it be called one of ‘child
psychology’; but it is carried through with an underlying humour and a
resourcefulness free from all the usual devices of the novelist, which
is not without its charm.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S 30 ’20 200w
“The author feels acutely and deeply, both in joy and in pain. He has
both quick sensitiveness and profound emotion, two qualities which do
not always go together. We cannot at the moment recall any book that
drags us so deep into the mire, yet keeps the light of love and hope
so steadily shining throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 O 21 ’20 560w
=ORTH, SAMUEL PETER.= Armies of labor; a chronicle of the organized
wage-earners. (Chronicles of America ser.). il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 331.87
19–19137
“As the subtitle suggests, this volume is a history of the labor
movement as expressed through workers’ organizations, rather than of
labor conditions. It touches only incidentally upon wages, hours of
work, and other features of the labor contract at different periods,
or upon the details of labor legislation. Within these limits it
covers the field. The author cites mostly secondary sources. The
volume is well indexed and contains bibliographical appendixes.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
“It is readable, concise, and comprehensive.” V: S. Clark
+ =Am Hist R= 26:122 O ’20 290w
Reviewed by L. B. Shippee
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:157 S ’20 310w
“In ‘The armies of labor’ Samuel P. Orth has written a book of great
value.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=ORTH, SAMUEL PETER.= Our foreigners; a chronicle of Americans in the
making. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 325.1
20–4766
“This book, by a professor of political science at Cornell university,
is chiefly descriptive; and, owing to limitations of space,
considerably condensed. The first two chapters cover the period prior
to 1820; and the unique fourth chapter upon Utopias in America,
describes the various communistic experiments. The negroes, Irish,
Teutons, and Orientals each have a chapter to themselves; but all the
more recent types of immigrants are mentioned, and are illustrated by
cuts from photographs. Thirteen pages are devoted to the history of
immigration legislation. A short bibliographical note is appended.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
“In general the treatment is impartial. There is lacking a certain
ethnological accent needed to bring out fundamental considerations.”
P. F. Hall
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:749 Jl ’20 320w
+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 60w
“A better perspective would have brought out more sharply the cultural
contributions of our foreigners, their political affiliations and
influence, and the setting of our immigration legislation. Mr Orth
writes well and with poise and discrimination, but he has added
nothing to our knowledge. His book is for the general reader rather
than the scholar.” G: M. Stephenson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:174 S ’20 380w
“It may be said in fact that the many statistics with which ‘Our
foreigners’ is enriched are admirable, and that the almost equally
numerous opinions which scarify the work are for the most part
violently prejudiced, wholly out of place, and not only false in
deduction but entirely misleading in the theories to which they give
rise.” E: H. Bierstadt
− + =New Repub= 24:302 N 17 ’20 1200w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=St Louis= 18:98 Je ’20 20w
=OSBORNE, JAMES INSLEY.= Arthur Hugh Clough. *$2.25 (4½c) Houghton
20–12116
The author has written the life of Arthur Hugh Clough with special
emphasis on his intellectual development and the growth of his powers
as a poet. There are interesting references to his friendships with
Emerson, Lowell, and others and to his sojourn in America. Contents:
Childhood; At Rugby; As undergraduate; As fellow of Oriel; The Bothie
of Tober-na-Vuolich; Amours de voyage; Dipsychus; Last years;
Conclusion; Index.
* * * * *
“The investigation has not, perhaps, been as thorough as it is
clearheaded.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p268 F 27 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by J. W. Krutch
+ =Bookm= 51:687 Ag ’20 1050w
“Its one drawback is a peculiar style which changes back and forth
between the past tense and the historical present.” E. F. E.
+ − |=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 1550w
“There is much in this study which the student of mid-Victorian poetry
and intellectual life will find useful and suggestive. But Mr
Osborne’s work has little charm of style, and fails to render Clough
attractive to the reader.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:831 R ’20 60w
“Mr Lytton Strachey has already devoted a few acid paragraphs to ‘this
earnest adolescent.’ But Mr Osborne is free from any such levity. To
him Clough is neither the corpus vile nor the hero: he is the occasion
none the less for some uncommonly adroit criticism.”
+ =Freeman= 1:427 Jl 14 ’20 1150w
“Mr Osborne’s temper, at least as it exhibits itself here, is almost
too well suited to his subject. A heartier, less scrupulous treatment
might have left more oxygen in the air at the really depressing end.”
M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 640w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
=N Y Times= p11 O 3 ’20 1350w
“Mr Osborne’s book is a critique rather than a biography; suggestive,
but not satisfying. He would have done better had he given us less of
his own interpretations and more of Clough’s letters, leaving the
reader to interpret their significance for himself.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 100w
“The unimportant subject is exhaustively and exhaustingly studied.
Nothing could exceed the pains with which we are told what a man who
is not made interesting thought.”
+ − =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 120w
“If there is a defect in Mr Osborne’s book, it is that he seems less
inclined to dwell on the positive qualities of Clough’s poetry than on
its shortcomings. In a psychological and critical study of Clough’s
life it is masterly; the analysis is searching, but there is sympathy
as well as justice in the author’s intuition.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p153 Mr 4 ’20 1850w
=O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY).= Alsace
in rust and gold. il *$2 (3½c) Harper 940.48
20–6294
The author says that from the rut and routine of war-work in Paris she
was conveyed “as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust
and gold and jasper hills of Alsace, where the color is laid on thick,
thick,” when she accompanied the French military mission during the
thirteen historic days preceding the armistice. In this
well-illustrated book she describes with “no polemics and no
statistics” the picturesque aspect of the country. Contents: The
journey there; All Saints’ day, November, 1918; Fête des morts,
November, 1918; Thann and old Thann; The Ballon d’Alsace; La popote;
The houses of the chanoinesses; Luncheon at Bitschwiller—the mission
in residence at St-Amarin—Saint-Odile; The “field of lies” and
Laimbach; The valley of the Thur; The re-Gallicizing of Alsace; The
Hartmannswillerkopf; “Les crêtes”—“Déjeuner” at Camp Wagram—the
Freundstein and its phantoms; Return to Masevaux; The vigil of the
armistice; Dies gloriæ.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“‘Alsace in rust and gold’ has a quality of permanence that will make
it readable ten, fifteen, twenty years hence. It should occupy an
honored place on the shelf, marked ‘Travel’ in every well-regulated
library.”
+ =Cath World= 111:689 Ag ’20 260w
+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“So long as she confines herself to impressions and sentiments the
record flows smoothly, for Mrs O’Shaughnessy is a writer of quick
perception and likely feeling. But from time to time there is a little
attempt, unconscious perhaps, to parade the knowledge she has picked
up in her long acquaintance with many lands and many men, and then
even the most indulgent reader is roused to revolt.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w
“It is a book of charm, to be read leisurely. The account of the last
few days of the war in this province, which was so vitally affected by
the outcome of the conflict, adds something worth while to the volume
of war literature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 11 ’20 450w
=O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY).=
Intimate pages of Mexican history. *$3 (3c) Doran 972
20–17983
“This book, concerning the four presidents of Mexico whom I have
personally known, contains only what I have seen myself, or what, by
word of mouth and eye in eye I have learned from those intimately
connected with the men and events of which it speaks.” (Preface) As
the wife of a diplomat the author combines intimate knowledge of
Mexican conditions with her personal reminiscences. The four
presidents are: Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Leon de la Barra, Francisco
I. Madero, and Victoriano Huerta.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“This is the most delightful of Edith O’Shaughnessy’s books. It
deserves the place of honor among books dealing with Mexico.” C. A.
Crowell
+ =Bookm= 52:270 N ’20 680w
“It is an absorbing story, told in a masterly manner, by one who
thoroughly comprehends it all and who is a master of English
composition.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 1250w
“The book under discussion is decidedly worth while.”
+ =Cath World= 112:250 N ’20 230w
“She is a brilliant writer, with a free hand and an indifferent
tread.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 2050w
“There is throughout the whole book an intimacy and warmth which, if
it does no more, can scarcely fail to make one’s mind receptive of a
broader point of view. Probably it will do more. It is not easy to see
that Mrs O’Shaughnessy’s philosophy of Mexico, realistic to the point
of cynicism, yet generous in feeling, is in any essential way wrong.”
+ =No Am= 212:716 N ’20 1000w
“The author has an advantage for which she owes thanks to no one but
herself: a vivid and picturesque style which, reinforced by deep
sincerity and an ardent enthusiasm, gives her narrative the glow of
adventurous fiction. There is much in the latter chapters more spicy
than reverential. But the author has a clear vision and her plain
speaking makes for better understanding of Mexico.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 400w
=O’SHEA, PETER F.= Employees’ magazines; for factories, offices, and
business organizations. il *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 658
20–26978
A book on house organs as a factor in employment management. The
foreword says, “The value of the printed word in organizing, educating
and managing large groups of employees in industry is greater today
than ever before.... The old paternalistic shop paper which reached
down to pat a man on the shoulder is out of date. But the modern house
magazine, alive, sincere, human and constructive, has tremendous
opportunities, that have been greatly increased by the wide-spread
growth in intelligence and interest among workmen the country over.”
Contents: The employees’ magazine as an aid to management; Promoting
cooperation by the house organ; Educational work of a house organ; How
a house organ improves morale; Democracy of an employees’ magazine;
Organization and getting material; Editorial methods and costs; A
contractor’s employees’ magazine; Magazines for offices, stores, and
sales organizations; Learning from other fields; Appendix: a brief
list of good exchanges.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 11 ’20 480w
=OSLER, SIR WILLIAM.= Old humanities and the new science. *$1.50
Houghton 375
20–7592
The book contains Sir William Osler’s inaugural address as president
of the British classical association, which proved to be his last
public utterance. It contains a memorial introduction by Dr Harvey
Cushing setting forth the unusually high and many-sided achievements
of the author as both scholar and man and describing in brief the
organization and purpose of the Classical association. One of these
purposes—the furthering of a closer cooperation between natural
science and the humanities—accounts for the choosing of “one of the
most eminent physicians in the world” as its president. Dr Osler is
said to have been “a well-nigh perfect example” of this union and his
address to have “embodied the whole spirit of this ideal.”
* * * * *
“It is a rare production, witty, learned, fraught with a high degree
of inspiration, full of sympathy for the old humanities, filled with
surprises in the portrayal of great classical writers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“The conclusion is that an eminent medico, even with a generous dose
of litteræ humaniores, is not qualified to lecture on mediævalism,
philosophy and history.”
− =Cath World= 112:250 N ’20 330w
“It is a pregnant, witty and humane discussion of the
interdependence of the two branches of learning. Osler reveals
himself here as a physician of the line of Sir Thomas Browne and the
scholar-philosophers of the renaissance.”
+ =Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 180w
+ =Nation= 111:192 Ag 14 ’20 340w
“As a whole this address of a man of science who was also a man of
letters is delightful. It is scholarly, as became the place and the
occasion, but it is never pedantic and it is never dull. Indeed, it is
often playful.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:263 My 23 ’20 1600w
“Wit and wisdom equally characterize this essay.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 13 ’20 250w
=OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT,
pseuds.).= How many cards? *$2 (2c) McBride
20–19916
A murder in New York society forms the raison d’être for this
detective story. Eugene Creveling is found dead in his library early
one April morning. McCarthy, the ex-roundsman detective of previous
stories, constitutes himself the chief investigator. He interviews the
family, social and business friends and servants of the murdered man,
and finds, as he says, “every last one of them bluffing and hedging
and lying,” except the O’Rourkes, former friends of his in the old
country, whose integrity he would swear by. He can’t understand what
the others are all working for, but gradually their motives are
uncovered, and altho they have a bearing on the character and habits
of the dead man, the identity of the murderer remains still a mystery.
Then in a flash the solution is revealed to McCarthy by a passing
glimpse of a woman’s handwriting, the last woman in the world he would
want to suspect. But thru an act of what he calls Providence she is
not brought to justice, and after all perhaps Creveling got no more
than he deserved for playing with a woman’s honor.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 110w
=OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT,
pseuds.).= Unseen hands. *$1.75 McBride
20–10735
“This story of Mr Chipperfield’s is placed before us as a mystery in
which every member of a wealthy family seems to be menaced. The mother
and the eldest son have each died under peculiar circumstances shortly
before the opening of the story. We are instantly met with strange,
murderous intention being disclosed in regard to the father and the
second son. Such intimate knowledge of the family life is disclosed
that we are forced to the conclusion that it is an ‘inside Job.’ The
problem is to find the person with motive and means for such gradual
but wholesale murder.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“It is an unlikely situation in twentieth-century America, but capable
of being quite mystifying if handled dexterously. Mr Chipperfield
guards his secret well. His situations are not always screwed up to
the highest pitch, but he does succeed in rousing false conjectures
and the general air of suspicion which successful detective fiction
demands.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 380w
“Readers of detective tales will find this book of absorbing interest;
the plot is well developed and the dénouement startling. Decidedly, Mr
Chipperfield knows how to write a detective story. ‘Unseen hands’ is
one of the best of its kind.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 350w
“The climax is not unexpected, yet possesses the elements of a
surprise. The story is entertaining of its type.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w
=O’SULLIVAN, MRS DENIS.= Mr Dimock. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–21190
Horace Dimock, a prosperous American business man and a notorious
philanderer, spends much of his time in England with his English
friends, the center of whom are Lady Freke and the widowed Crystal
McClinton, sisters and of American birth. To Crystal he is even
secretly married. As the story opens he is coming to England, at the
appeal of the sisters, to rescue his ward, Daphne O’Brien, daughter of
a former love, from the nunnery. He falls violently in love with
Daphne at first sight. His ardor diverts her from her purpose, but she
turns from him as soon as she learns of his treachery to Crystal, whom
he now seeks to divorce. At the end we find him sans Crystal and
Daphne, and reduced to the goodnatured tolerance of the friends who
had once admired him. Much of international, post war interest and of
the havoc of war plays in the story and Daphne, the would-be nun,
becomes the happy wife of a wonderful young Serbian hero.
* * * * *
“There is workmanlike writing in the book and there are moments of
some emotional power. We object to a certain romantic staginess of the
war heroes.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 15 ’21 330w
=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 400w
=OTTMAN, FORD CYRINDE.= J. Wilbur Chapman. *$2.50 Doubleday
20–12138
The biography of a distinguished and widely-known preacher written by
a personal friend. “To write his life none among his friends was so
well qualified as Dr Ottman,” says John F. Carson in his introduction.
“In all his ministry Dr Ottman was his confidant, his companion in the
home and on his world journeys, his friend and counsellor, a sharer of
his joys and sorrows. Such intimacy supplies a biographer with
materials for a sympathetic and revealing interpretation.” There are
chapters on: Lineage; Environment; College and seminary; The
Whitewater and the Hudson; Philadelphia and New York; A retrospect;
Summer conferences; Evangelism; On the way to Australia; At home and
abroad, etc., with a closing chapter on Personality. There is a
frontispiece portrait.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“With sympathetic approach and with due appreciation of Dr Chapman
himself, one lays down the book with a feeling that Dr Ottman has
fallen short of the possibilities in the case.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w
=OUR= unseen guest. *$2 (3c) Harper 134
20–3803
Philosophical discussions communicated to Joan and Darby, the
anonymous authors of this book—by a young soldier who had recently
died, or “graduated,” and was living and working “on the other side.”
In the beginning this spirit gave proof of his identity, which the
authors quite accidently found corroborated. The communications center
about “quality of consciousness.” Our development is both qualitative
and quantitative. At birth we are given quality of soul—which is
definitely fixed—a rebirth of a certain quality of consciousness,
which has been developing on the other side, into our human body.
During our earth life, if we are true to our “quality,” we develop
quantity of soul, which upon our “graduation” we bring as our
contribution to the whole of consciousness on the other side. There
are many rebirths, until the supreme consciousness is reached. Joan
and Darby at first were very material skeptics, holding fast to the
theories of subconsciousness, telepathy, etc., but in the end were
quite convinced.
* * * * *
“In view of the unconvincing and emotional quality of many of the
popular books upon psychical research, the readers of ‘Our unseen
guest’ will be inclined to [say]—‘the best thing of the kind!’”
Margaret Deland
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Je 27 ’20 1250w
“Wordy nonsense as this is, it is more coherent because more modest
than most of the revelations from the beyond; the evasion (in the
vernacular bluff) is more transparent, less likely to produce the
semblance of profundity by which the judgment is soothed to a blissful
ignorance mistaken for knowledge.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − =Review= 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 350w
=OVERTON, GRANT MARTIN.= Mermaid. il *1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–1891
A story of the sea and of sea-faring life seen from the coast and a
coast-guard station. Captain Smiley and his crew have rescued a little
girl of six, the only survivor of a wreck, and have called her
Mermaid, from the ship’s name. With the captain as Dad and the crew as
uncles she lives a life full of poetry and adventure. In spite of her
name she grows into a sane and healthy womanhood, surrounded in her
school days by boy friendships that later turn into love. From among
these she chooses Guy Vanton the lonely poet boy, shadowed by a dark
family history. In the course of the story several family histories of
the old coast town are revealed and withal much human nature, some
philosophy and the light of a new era is shown to lay old ghosts and
to conquer old fears. Mermaid’s husband, Guy, pays for his conquest
with his life, and Dick Hand, overstepping conventions with the
courage of love, reaps his reward.
=OVINGTON, MARY WHITE.= Shadow. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt
20–5123
A story of the race problem told with an effective restraint. The plot
is unusual. A white baby, for family reasons, is left in a negro
cabin, to be brought up as a negro child and until the age of
nineteen, to believe herself of negro blood. Then a dying and
repentent grandfather restores her to her name and position and she is
free to cross the line into the white world. Realizing what her fate
will be wherever her story is known, she chooses to lose herself in
New York, earning a living in the garment trades. Here she finds
herself on the edge of the labor movement, but she is never quite
drawn into it. She remains outside the conflict. The call to action
comes to her when the life of her dark brother, the playmate of her
childhood, is endangered, and to save him from the fury of a lynching
mob, enraged to the point of blood lust at thought of a negro who has
laid his hand on a white woman’s arm, she again crosses the color line
and falsely declares herself of negro birth. The story ends as it
began, in the South, with Hertha entering the beautiful southern home
of which she is to be mistress, but even within its protection, with
her lover’s arm about her, she looks ahead and knows that “the shadow
of man’s making” will always lie beside her path.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Ovington has written a novel of keen interest. She has handled
the story unfalteringly. She has shown the immense possibilities that
lie in such a theme when treated truthfully and artistically. She
treats her colored characters with the same attributes of nature and
temperament as the whites, and in so doing opens up the way to the
possibilities in the future of American fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 2000w
“In no recent book has the American negro’s problem been more
sympathetically treated than in ‘The shadow.’ She succeeds throughout
in treating them as individuals rather than as racial types and does
so with a simple and unselfconscious realism.” M. G.
+ =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 160w
“The execution is unexceptionable, but the people and the incidents
lack concreteness. No doubt Miss Ovington has seen them in the flesh.
But she has seen them as a sociologist rather than as an artist. But
this will not trouble the average reader at all. And since in most of
the novels he gets the characters are conventionalized into conformity
with the demands of intolerance and hatred, one cannot but desire a
wide popularity for this book in which the controlling spirit is one
of humanity and of the civilized instincts.”
+ − =Nation= 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 160w
“There can be no doubt of Miss Ovington’s love and sympathy for the
negroes. Each page is full of the burning resentment she feels for
their wrongs, but one cannot help wondering what her real belief is
with regard to the race.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 630w
“Miss Ovington’s book is well constructed and faultlessly written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 560w
“Incidentally, the race question is touched upon with sympathy toward
all sides of the problem.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The story is written throughout with a deep sympathy for all the
characters.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 240w
“Her black characters are drawn lovingly: for she seems to possess in
rare combination that sympathetic affection which the southern white
feels for the black when he ‘keeps his place’ together with
comprehension of the aspiring mind and soul of the black race.” M. K.
R.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 260w
=OWEN, ROBERT.= Life of Robert Owen. *$1.50 (1c) Knopf
20–26889
The book is the first of a series of economic reprints which form a
new social economic section of the famous Bohn libraries. The volumes
deal with the great writers and pioneers in the field of economics of
whom Robert Owen was the first to grasp the meaning of the industrial
revolution. The present volume has an introduction by M. Beer, a
bibliography of the works of Owen, and an index.
+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 50w
=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20
“A comparison of Owen’s ‘Life’ with contemporary records will reveal a
number of substantial discrepancies.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w
=OYEN, HENRY.= Plunderer. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–4782
Roger Payne, an energetic young northerner, buys a thousand acre tract
of “prairie” land in Florida. When he goes down to look it over he
finds that the quality of the land corresponds quite exactly to the
agent’s description, but that it is covered with about two feet of
water. With the aid of his friend Higgins, an engineer, he works out a
plan for drainage, but finds that the physical difficulties are the
least of his obstacles. One of the men in the company that sold him
the land is Senator Fairclothe, but he soon learns that this statesman
is only the catspaw for Garman, the real villain in the situation. The
senator’s beautiful daughter is engaged to Garman, but there is love
at first sight between her and Roger and the outcome of the tale,
which abounds in scenes of brutality, is the winning of the girl as
well as title to the reclaimed land.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:683 Jl ’20 290w
“The book is an adventure tale of good quality: and if the reader will
overlook its lack of plausibility it will hold his attention to the
end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“The tale is exciting and adventurous.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 200w
=OZAKI, YEI THEODORA.= Romances of old Japan. *$8.50 Brentano’s 895
“Madame Ozaki’s ‘romances’ are for the most part stories dealt with by
the popular drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are
of two types, the sanguinary and the supernatural. The first
corresponds to the earlier period of the Yedo popular stage and to the
careers of the first three Danjūrōs, famous for their impersonations
of ferocious warriors. In the present work ‘The quest of the sword,’
‘The tragedy of Kesa’ and ‘The Sugawara tragedy’ belong to this type.
The second type, represented in this book by ‘The spirit of the
lantern,’ ‘The reincarnation of Tama,’ ‘The badger-haunted temple,’
etc., corresponds to the popularity of the great ghost-impersonator
Matsusuke, who died c.1820.”—Ath
* * * * *
“These characteristic native idylls are charmingly translated.”
+ =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 70w
“It is not difficult to discover why Madame Ozaki’s material is drawn
from the stage, and not from the classical literature of Japan. Her
rendering of one or two poems in this book shows that she is
imperfectly acquainted with the older language. Her style is that of
cinema-libretti, a medium thoroughly suited to the nature of her
material. Numerous illustrations by the contemporary artists Keishū
and Hōsai add to the impression of modernity produced by the book.
Might not it have been illustrated by old theatrical woodcuts?” A. D.
W.
+ − =Ath= p1398 D 26 ’19 440w
“Mme Ozaki’s very readable tales gain by being associated with native
pictures, though the artist seems to have been influenced by western
painting.”
+ =Spec= 123:696 N 22 ’19 140w
“The illustrations are Japanese. None of them, we suppose, would be
considered anything but negligible in Japan. But to the western eye
there is hardly one which does not possess some of those qualities of
grace, decision, and style which are seldom absent from the most
trifling Japanese work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 D 11 ’19 400w
P
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= From now on. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6
Dave Henderson, through environment a crook, steals one hundred
thousand dollars, which unfortunately is coveted by other, more
hardened crooks. Scarcely has he hidden his prize securely when he is
hotly pursued. Caught and convicted, he serves five years in the “pen”
patiently, for is not the reward worth while? Released, he is a marked
man to both police and crook. Nevertheless, after hair-raising
adventures, he at last holds in his hands the hundred thousand
dollars, only to find he can no longer enjoy this stolen money.
Association with an honest, great hearted gentleman and a girl who
loves Dave, creates in him values other than material, and a desire
for clean straight living. He accepts “God’s chance,” and together
with the woman he loves, looks forward to an honest, decent,
constructive life “from now on.”
* * * * *
“As a well-constructed, plausible and exciting story, ‘From now on’
deserves unstinted praise.” A. A. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 300w
=N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 210w
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= White Moll. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–8628
The White Moll is the name Rhoda Gray has earned for herself in New
York’s East side district by always playing on the square with its
denizens. So Gypsy Nan, when dying in a slightly penitent frame of
mind, entrusts her with the secret of a crime about to be committed.
Rhoda tries to stop it, but is arrested, charged with committing it.
She escapes but her career of charity as the White Moll is thus
wrecked and she is forced for safety to disguise herself as Gypsy Nan
in which rôle she finds herself in the midst of a criminal gang. She
resolves to circumvent their schemes, and so plays the double part of
Gypsy Nan, who is hand in glove with them, and the White Moll, their
bitterest enemy and a fugitive from justice. Her part is hard, but her
luck is good, and with the “Adventurer” as her ally she finally, after
many exciting experiences, breaks up the gang and brings it to
punishment. Then she makes the gratifying discovery that the
Adventurer is not the thief she had thought him and that they had been
working for the same ends.
* * * * *
“If a thrill on every page is any consideration, here you have it.” H.
W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 140w
“As is usual in his stories of the underworld, Mr Packard’s tale is
filled with exciting adventures. He has without doubt built a place
for himself and his particular type of tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 300w
“There is no need for anyone to find life unexciting so long as there
are men in the world with imaginations like Frank L. Packard’s.”
+ =Ind= 104:381 D 11 ’20 140w
“It is a clever, absorbing story, with a certain freshness in its
theme.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 480w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 50w
=PACKARD, WINTHROP.= Old Plymouth trails. il *$3 (4c) Small 917.4
20–26567
“He who would see Plymouth and the Pilgrim land about it as the
Pilgrims saw it may do so. Nature holds grimly onto her own and
sedulously heals the scars that man makes.... Plymouth is a
manufacturing city, a residence town, a resort and a thriving business
centre all in one ... but you have only to step out of town to find
their very land all about you, traces of their occupancy, the very
marks of their feet, worn in the earth itself.... Along the old
Pilgrim trails you may step from modern culture and its acme of
civilization through the pasture lands of the Pilgrims into glimpses
of the forest primeval.” (Chapter I) A partial list of the contents
is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the
Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine
groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.
* * * * *
“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the
out-of-doors.”
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 30w
+ =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 160w
“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H.
Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of
nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his
accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =Freeman= 2:117 O 13 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 100w
+ =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 70w
Reviewed by C. L. Skinner
+ =Yale R= n s 10:181 O ’20 750w
=PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).=[2]
Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes
20–18935
When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy,
but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the
“next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had
satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the
“next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her
with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the
heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could
never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart
over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho
patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end
won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this
country and England.
* * * * *
“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points.
Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves
like a human sort.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 50w
“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she
does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain
phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein
uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with
commendable skill.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 410w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 130w
=PAGE, KIRBY.=[2] Something more. *90c Assn. press 248
20–11091
The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life”
(Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains
four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God,
in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The
last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both
material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from
entering into his true heritage.
* * * * *
“An invigorating book.”
+ =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 120w
=PAGE, THOMAS NELSON.= Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345
20–21941
Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and
followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian
people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be
found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and
economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The
first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the
Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound
under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their
evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on
through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for
their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and
united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic
struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers
herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps,
appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the
pact of London, and an index.
* * * * *
“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man,
equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper
files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of
‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page
had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote
instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of
the war.” W: McFee
− =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 1400w
“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the
benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond
recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated
against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter
Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p3 N 28 ’20 2500w
=R of Rs= 63:222 F ’21 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 80w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th
ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2
20–9556
“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is
produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for
ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed
explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many
illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of
Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with
the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition
systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in
testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 20w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley
629.2
20–4100
“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and
enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than
the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for
the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system,
as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous
illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations
easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED=, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley
623.8
20–11842
“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well
as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the
design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in
general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for
building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval
architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives
both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations.
Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the
excellent advice given in the first chapter.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p60 Jl ’20 80w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 70w
=PAGE, WILLIAM=, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William
Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9
(Eng ed 19–18954)
“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume
of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the
economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years,
largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is
given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the
economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports,
production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions
as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with
in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to
1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830
to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance
(1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform
(1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to
1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest
(1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and
Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British
empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”
+ =Ath= p745 Ag 15 ’19 1150w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 720w
“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”
+ =Spec= 122:151 Ag 2 ’19 1050w
=PAGET, STEPHEN.= Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il
*$6 Harcourt
(Eng ed 19–18661)
“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr
Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great
distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen
champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal
politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his
country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service
as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke
on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary
tricks or mannerisms.”
+ =Ath= p18 Ja 2 ’20 1900w
=Brooklyn= 12:132 My ’20 40w
“Admirable biography.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w
=Sat R= 128:513 N 29 ’19 700w
“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should
become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of
letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential
to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have
preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who
makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”
+ =Spec= 122:894 D 27 ’19 1250w
“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an
overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and
achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward
and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 1450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 90w
“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author
has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important
as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 N 27 ’19 1650w
=PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW.= Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper
20–18960
In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his
official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer
work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and
is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen
illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45
20–14468
At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American
pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their
amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed
the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an
important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book
gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call
of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton
patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral
Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude
at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the
radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s
company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war
zone and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history
of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add
to its attractiveness.” E: Breck
+ =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 600w
“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial
documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing
narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to
sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 29 ’20 3200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 310w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of
1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 973.5
20–4767
“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of
which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a
free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The
navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on
Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
Reviewed by D. R. Anderson
+ =Am Hist R= 26:112 O ’20 300w
“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of
Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes
charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for
the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of
delightful sea stories is at home.”
+ =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 270w
“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his
stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to
his talents.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton
940.45
20–7139
The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has
firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his
fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between
two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on
board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s
side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded
Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when
Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull
fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of
little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the
battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On
a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The
red sector.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the
sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the
United States navy during the great war.”
+ |=N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 650w |=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 50w
=PALAMAS, KOSTÈS.= Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889
19–19666
“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek
of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former
instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of
Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain
recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the
courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator
furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the
poems in this volume.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the
book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of
the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where
images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the
original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where
we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance
is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an
insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is
translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.
− =Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w
“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these
pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”
+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 120w
“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and
tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the
cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present
translation.” F. B. R. Hellems
+ =Class Philol= 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w
“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give
much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation
and sentiment.” Paul Shorey
+ =Review= 2:309 Mr 27 ’20 1200w
=PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay.= Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans
280
21–198
“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little
volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the
traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work,
called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force
of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is
manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly
devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a
careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 380w
=PANCHARD, EDOUARD.= Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A.
Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5
20–2273
“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin,
Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant,
New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary
lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information
about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and
as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it.
Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice
recipes.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =Bookm= 52:30 S ’20 110w
“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a
desirable acquisition.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w
“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A
potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced
cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin
+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 140w
=PANYITY, LOUIS S.=[2] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley
622.1
20–2108
“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs
of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the
text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general
cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers
even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling
methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and
contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical
and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all,
deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by
far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal
part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that
it covers nothing at all.”
+ − =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w
“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by
virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of
subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a
very wide public.” H. B. Milner
+ =Nature= 106:625 Ja 13 ’21 580w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=PARK, JOHN EDGAR.= Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50
(4½c) Houghton 814
20–7286
The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author
makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and
adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a
living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden
rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are:
“Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your
pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents
are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The
world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The
grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a
moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the
enjoying of his ideas.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 240w
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is
the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene
remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic
smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an
earthly and living contact with men and women.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 250w
=N Y Times= p15 O 10 ’20 80w
“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of
arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 290w
+ =St Louis= 18:248 O ’20 30w
“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful
companion in print or in person.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 17 ’20 280w
=PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL.= Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75
(5½c) Harcourt 331
20–5645
This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an
introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out
the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through
numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the
frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was
first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of
view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation
between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism
called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The
labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward
understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives
in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on
the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The
second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the
third from the Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:610 S ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather
than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his
friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is
said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and
not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w
“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is
so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far
fetched.” Virgil Jordan
− =Dial= 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w
=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization
of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of
his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is
admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon,
namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the
understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events
that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A.
Overstreet
+ =Nation= 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C: Merz
+ =New Repub= 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant
investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring
teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth
writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker
seems to have done when left to himself.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w
“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when
those in authority have been educated will do well to read this
delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 540w
=PARKER, DEWITT HENRY.= Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701
20–15459
The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of
Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested
in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of
art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of
the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and
Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic
experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through
the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion
of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial
arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and
religion; Bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 480w
“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w
=PARKER, SIR GILBERT.= No defence. il *$2 Lippincott
20–17085
“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth
century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the
mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a
young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes
a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he
gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the
governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early
days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor
of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:545 Ja ’21 230w
“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and
solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion
picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first
to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of
atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the
speech of the different persons in character.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 900w
“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 450w
“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity
which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable
sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such
works.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p617 S 23 ’20 460w
=PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER.= Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2
Ginn 373
20–6653
“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high
schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of
slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new
scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the
examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the
supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high
schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been
changed.” (Preface to revised edition)
=PARKS, LEIGHTON.= English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2
20–19160
In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and
his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their
experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the
English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the
chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of
Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A
by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The
boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the
wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all
is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English
cousins.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 480w
“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and
rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the
materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a
little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”
+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 280w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.= Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9714
Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An
odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys
it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in
a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he
accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and
picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of
undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s
suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints.
His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a
Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a
conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is
the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that
comes the conventional ending.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift
action.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 60w
“A lively enough yarn.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w
“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating
narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.=[2] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text
and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227
“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical
and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I
and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of
the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must
say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry
would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any
advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories
of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”
+ − =Ath= p45 Jl 9 ’20 720w
“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought
together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the
presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too
lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against
Pauline authorship.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 110w
=PARSONS, JOHN.= Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb.
il *$3.55 McBride 917.72
20–19355
The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia,
giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by
steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west,
in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending
with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and
drawings and from photographs.
* * * * *
“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and
surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great
men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual
historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of
the day.”
+ =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 270w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 23 ’20 420w
“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing
and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it
describes.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of
the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it
pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not
mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a
triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most
interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth
at a definite stage of development.”
+ − =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 100w
“An altogether entertaining book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 760w
=PARSONS, SAM JONES.= Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672
In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to
revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more
modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up
to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to
the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and
Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable
cast steel.
* * * * *
“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed
to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of
production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope
on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process;
nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various
types of iron produced.”
+ − =Nature= 105:290 My 6 ’20 430w
=PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY.= American engineers in France. il *$4
Appleton 940.373
20–16507
The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American
engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it
has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity,
because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they
did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and
holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the
Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results
a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are
in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer
organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in
France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical
engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and
sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways;
Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations,
figures, maps and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“He has covered the field in outline sufficient for the lay reader,
and with an authority that will make this one of the lasting records
of the war.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 140w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 170w
=PARTRIDGE, GEORGE EVERETT.= Psychology of nations; a contribution to
the philosophy of history. *$2.50 Macmillan 901
19–19152
“This is a psychologist’s appeal for an understanding of what is
fundamental in our national life and a warning against radical and
superficial thinking; it was written during the closing months of the
war and in the days that followed. The first part of the book is a
study of the motives of war—an analysis of such motives in the light
of the general principles of the development of society. The second
part of the book is a study of the present situation as an educational
problem, in which we have for the first time a problem of educating
national consciousness as a whole, or the individuals of a nation with
reference to a world-consciousness.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Two chapters dealing with Internationalism and the School and two
others on the Teaching of patriotism are especially sane and
well-balanced and will be suggestive to teachers of American history
who wish to base their influence for Americanization upon something
less superficial than tradition and prejudice.” W: H. Allison
+ =Am Hist R= 25:740 Jl ’20 450w
Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 130w
“Part two, on education, offers many suggestions that should interest
educators.”
+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 420w
=Brooklyn= 12:95 Mr ’20 50w
“One’s total reaction to the book is emotional. It is impressive not
as an argument or a scientific inquiry, but as a sermon. It is
edifying rather than clarifying. One is swept along much as though one
were reading a book of psalms; each sentence is an exhortation, and as
one proceeds the exhortatory force accumulates until one ends in an
‘intoxication mood’ of edification. One can not emerge from the book
without a feeling of enthusiasm for something which is critically
important, but that something is intellectually elusive.” H. W.
Schneider
+ − =J Philos= 17:441 Jl 29 ’20 3400w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 840w
“Mr Partridge has given to the public a book which doubtless will be,
as it deserves to be, widely read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 30w
“The large value of his book—which really ought to be called ‘The
education of nations’—is that it presents, compiled and digested, the
theories of many men who have dealt with a broad complex of problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 Ap 22 ’20 150w
=PATCH, EDITH MARION.= Little gateway to science. il $1 Atlantic monthly
press 595.7
20–9285
Nature stories for young children. The author calls them “hexapod
stories,” for they are all about six-footed insects, butterflies,
bees, grasshoppers and the like. The titles are: Van, the sleepy
butterfly, who was awakened by a January thaw; Old Bumble; The strange
house of Cecid Cido Domy; Poly, the Easter butterfly; Jumping Jack;
Nata, the nymph; Lampy’s Fourth o’ July; Carol; Ann Gusti’s circus;
Gryl, the little black minstrel; Luna’s Thanksgiving; Keti-Abbot, the
littlest Christmas guest. A word to the teacher follows and there are
notes, with references to other books. The pictures are by Robert J.
Sim.
* * * * *
“They are simply told without any sentimentality or ‘writing down.’
Good for school libraries as well as public.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PATERSON, WILLIAM PATERSON, and RUSSELL, DAVID=, eds.[2] Power of
prayer. *$4 Macmillan 217
20–15946
“In May, 1916, the Walker trust of the University of St Andrews
offered certain prizes on ‘the meaning, the reality and the power of
prayer, its place and value to the individual, to the church, and to
the state, in the everyday affairs of life, in the healing of sickness
and disease, in times of distress and national danger, and in relation
to national ideals and to world-progress.’ In response to this offer
one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven essays were received, coming
from all quarters of the world and written in nineteen languages. The
first prize was awarded to Rev. Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, Maryland,
and is printed as the first paper following an interesting essay by Dr
Paterson entitled ‘Prayer and the contemporary mind.’ Twenty other
papers of varying length of different aspects of the subject are also
printed.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The quality of the essay by Dr McComb warrants the decision of the
readers in his favor. This book is the most voluminous and
satisfactory study of the subject that we know.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 320w
“Most appear to have read widely. They express themselves lucidly.
They can give reasons, not unworthy of consideration, for the faith
which is in them; though, with the exception of Canon McComb, no
writer can be classed as a trained theologian of eminence. The volume
has not, in consequence, the importance of the series of essays
entitled ‘Concerning prayer,’ which Messrs Macmillan published a few
years ago. The main value of the book consists in the light which it
throws on the religious tendencies of the time.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 Ag 12 ’20 1400w
=PATON, STEWART.= Education in war and peace. *$1.50 Hoeber
20–3200
“In ‘Education in war and peace,’ the author makes an appeal for a
united effort by physicians, psychologists, and educators to search
out and develop appropriately the basic instincts and deep emotional
undercurrents which have so much to do in shaping personality,
determining character, and controlling conduct. The current tendency
to try to ‘compensate for personal inadequacy in facing the real
problems of life’ by various forms of ‘wishful thinking’ is examined
and illustrated.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ − =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His treatment is stimulating, and any educator or social worker may
read the book with the hope of receiving immediate profit from it.” F.
G. Bonser
+ =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=PATRICK, DIANA.= Wider way. *$2 Dutton
20–11891
“Veronica Quening, with a dour and brutal market gardener (who is also
a local preacher) for her father, but also with a devoted stepmother,
entirely free from traditional stepmotherliness, is quite staggeringly
fascinating, lovely, and magnetic. She has all our sympathy in her
career as school teacher, as wife for a time—after another passionate
love affair—of a German; and specially as friend of Lord Swathe, for
there is evidently a kinship between the beautiful girl and the
stately noble house. All ends well with Veronica.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Harmless and pretty and silly.”
+ − =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“Veronica, with her complexities, her ambitions, her mental and
spiritual endowments, her surface froth and her profound depths, is a
creation that would do credit to an older and more practiced hand. As
a whole, the novel is an exceptionally good first book, which reveals
a real gift for story telling and a marked faculty for producing the
illusion of reality.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 F 5 ’20 110w
=PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE.= Psychology of social reconstruction. *$2
Houghton 301
20–19443
In considering the dangers that threaten our present
civilization—reversion to barbarism, decadence, ill-timed social
reforms, et al.—the author maintains that he is not taking the usual
attitude of either advocate or critic, but that of a student of
ultimate values. He sees in our present awareness of social evils a
hopeful sign, but insists on the inadequacy of all economic and
political reforms that disregard the psychological and historical
factors. No reform can endure whose psychological basis does not rest
on human needs and does not conform to human nature. The three first
chapters are devoted to the psychological factors in social
reconstruction and the remaining four to: The psychology of work; Our
centrifugal society; Social discipline; The next step in applied
science. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 620w
=N Y Evening Post= p23 D 4 ’20 240w
“The book is eminently readable and deserves a wide response.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 160w
=PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR.= Cinema craftsmanship. il *$2 Harcourt 808.2
20–17895
The author, who is instructor in photoplay composition in Columbia
university, recognizes that the moving picture art is still in its
infancy, but says that her motive for writing this book is faith in
its future and a desire to help awaken the public to its
possibilities. Contents: The art and the science; The plot; The
characters; The setting; Adaptation; Scenario technique; Writing a
synopsis for the photoplay market; Cinema comedy; The critical angle;
The photoplay market. The scenario for the photoplay “Witchcraft” by
Margaret Turnbull, awarded a prize offered by the Famous Players-Lasky
company, is appended, together with bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“A model scenario and an excellent bibliography make the book a
complete manual for all persons interested in photoplay writing.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 N 13 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p25 N 7 ’20 90w
=PATTERSON, JOHN EDWARD.= Passage of the barque Sappho. *$2.50 Dutton
20–11150
“‘The passage of the barque Sappho’ portrays in minute detail the
voyage of a sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn,
homeward bound, to a British port. The author, J. E. Patterson, died
before the book was published, and it was prepared for the press by
his friend, C. E. Lawrence, who contributes a foreword. The narrative
purports to be the work of two individuals, and is told in the first
person. The joint contributions come from the two extremes of sea
society—the cabin and the fo’castle. One is an officer and the other
an ordinary seaman. When events are witnessed by both, it is from
different points of view. The officer and sailor write alternately,
and describe in detail all that went on above deck and in the
forecastle during the long voyage. The story ends with shipwreck in
the Sargasso sea.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 80w
“The style of the story, in so far as it may be detached from its
substance, is (but for certain passages of description) homely enough,
lacking in the ordinary ‘literary’ graces; but this in the end appears
to be a part of virtue. Beside Conrad and Bullen my copy shall take
its place with confidence.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:79 Mr ’20 700w
“The book has a historical as well as a literary value. Mr Patterson
proves by this posthumous novel his understanding of character as well
as his ability to write an impressive description. Each officer and
man of the Sappho is a distinct individual possessed of his own little
traits and peculiarities—traits and peculiarities which the author’s
leisurely method enables him fully to illustrate.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:767 D 21 ’19 650w
“Quite at variance with the usual nautical romance, the chronicle is
free from intrigues and brutality. The book is rather long (and
expensive) and is likely to prove a bit tiring to all save those
interested in the subject of seafaring.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 420w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p498 S 18 ’19 380w
=PAUL, EDEN, and PAUL, CEDAR.= Creative revolution. *$2 (*8s 6d) (4c)
Seltzer 335
The authors subtitle their book “A study of communist ergatocracy,”
using the newly coined word “ergatocracy” to signify workers’ rule. In
the opening chapter they say, “This little volume has a twofold aim,
theoretical and practical. In the theoretical field, we wish to effect
an analysis of socialist trends and to attempt a synthesis of
contemporary proletarian aims. In the sphere of practice we hope to
intensify and to liberate the impulse towards a fresh creative
effort.” Contents: Communist ergatocracy; Socialism through social
solidarity; Socialism through the class struggle; The shop stewards’
movement; Historical significance of the great war; The Russian
revolution; The third international; The dictatorship of the
proletariat; The iron law of oligarchy; Socialism through parliament
or soviet? Creative revolution; Freedom; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“Do the gifted authors realize that the atmosphere of a Marxian
library varied by stimulating conversations with trade union leaders,
is not the same as the atmosphere of a bloody revolution? Do they
clearly realize the difference? Do they, in fact, know what they are
talking about?”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’20 290w
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p11 Ja 16 ’21 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 150w
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Jl 1 ’20 1350w
“After so much has been written, camouflaged and in equivocal
language, it is a pleasure to find a book so clear-cut, so incisive
and so direct in its wording and in its thought. I still believe as
firmly as ever that the principles of pacifism represent the most
workable social philosophy. I am therefore at total variance with the
authors in their interpretation of the lessons which the Russian
revolution has taught. At the same time, I am glad to welcome their
contribution because of the splendid effect which it will have in
clarifying issues that have puzzled and baffled so many earnest souls
during the past few months.” Scott Nearing
+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:60 F ’21 420w
=PAYNE, FANNY URSULA.= Plays and pageants of citizenship. il *$1.50
Harper 792.6
20–18670
A new book of plays by the author of “Plays and pageants of
democracy,” and “Plays for anychild.” Contents: Dekanawida; The
triumph of democracy; The spirit of New England; The soap-box orator;
The victory of the good citizen; Old Tight-wad and the victory dwarf;
Rich citizens; Humane citizens.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 60w
=PAYNE, GEORGE HENRY.= History of journalism in the United States.
*$2.50 (2c) Appleton 071
20–10538
A short history of American journalism from the first newspaper to the
present day, written by a man of wide newspaper experience. Among the
early chapters are: Historic preparation for journalism; The first
newspaper in America; The first journals and their editors;
Philadelphia and the Bradfords; Printing in New York—the Zenger trial;
Rise of the fourth estate; The assumption of political power; The
“Boston Gazette” and Samuel Adams; Journalism and the Revolution;
Adams and the alien and sedition laws. Other chapters cover the
newspapers of the west, suffrage and slavery and the Civil war.
Special chapters are also devoted to such great dailies as the Sun,
the Herald and the Tribune. There are closing chapters on Editors of
the new school; After-war problems and reform and The melodrama in the
news. Interesting documents and statistics are given in appendices.
There is a valuable bibliography of twenty-nine pages, followed by an
index.
* * * * *
“The story is compact, but it moves to a lively tune, and is widely
allusive. The personal human interest is widely kept in the
foreground, and Mr Payne reveals a keen perception of the dramatic
values of his subject.” C: H. Levermore
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:107 O ’20 850w
“Will be useful to students of journalism, but it will have an
interest of its own to the general reader as it traces the growth of
journalism with the development of democracy.”
+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20
Reviewed by H: L. West
=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
“A swiftly written and vigorously phrased volume.” D. C. Seitz
+ =Freeman= 2:452 Ja 19 ’21 600w
“It is hard to tell which impresses one most in reading this book—the
author’s sincerity or his thoroughness. The book is very valuable and
intensely interesting.” C. W. T.
+ =N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 11 ’20 3150w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“He has done a creditable piece of work, amassed adequate material,
used it with discrimination and an excellent sense of selection, has
not forgotten that he had a ‘story’ to tell, and that one of the prime
requisites of a story is that it shall be interesting.” E. G. L.
+ =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 750w
“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written
and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from
beginning to end.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 220w
“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war
is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original
research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the
book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate
summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat
haphazard.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 1100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.=[2] New England
romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2
Houghton
20–19929
“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of
one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it
possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No
conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of
history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and
is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to
the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and
struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“Because of its very evident qualities of naturalness and sincerity
this little volume should escape the limbo which awaits the major part
of commemorative literature and be preserved among those works classed
as human documents.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 160w
“Told with a simple and natural beauty of language fitting for such a
theme. Incidentally it gives a graphic picture of revolutionary and
pre-revolutionary days.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 50w
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 180w
=PEAKE, C. M. A.= Eli of the downs. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18768
The narrator of the story found Eli as an old man in his cottage,
Beulah, on the downs, where he spends his last days carving fiddles,
and surrounded by the few treasures he had garnered from his
wanderings over the earth. He had always been a rare character, this
shepherd, with a rich inner life. Early in life he had married a mate
worthy of him, but it was a short happiness, and then the young
widower took to wandering. For some eight years he followed the sea
and saw many lands. Then it was surveying and ranching in Canada where
an old Chinese cook instructed him in the wisdom of Confucius and Lao
Tsu, but with failing health he turned his steps once more to England.
At Beulah cottage, lonely to the last, but emanating a silent
influence for good over the neighborhood, he ended his days in peace.
* * * * *
“The author cannot leave his characters to speak their mind, he must
speak it for them, and even reinforce their statements with a kind of
running commentary and explanatory notes which are very tiring to keep
up with.” K. M.
− =Ath= p211 F 13 ’20 280w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
“It is, on the whole, well written, and while not a particularly
engrossing volume, neither is it a dull one.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 170w
“Apart from its idea, or animus, this is a narrative of sincere and
fresh quality, varied in substance and by no means artless, though it
agreeably lacks the art of the professional story-teller.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 300w
“‘Eli of the downs’ is more than a work of promise: Mr Peake tells the
life-history of one who was ‘a shepherd at heart as well as by
profession’ with a wealth of illuminating detail, with a love of his
subject and an intimate knowledge of Wessex country life that combine
to make the story memorable and delightful.”
+ =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 460w
=PEARCE, FRANCIS BARROW.= Zanzibar; the island metropolis of eastern
Africa. il *$12 Dutton 967
(Eng ed 20–8651)
“A very substantial work by the British resident in Zanzibar,
embracing the history, politics, anthropology, resources, and
archæology of the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w
“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the
scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I
recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on
in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w
“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has
ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred
to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a
well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is
to be told of Zanzibar.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w
=PEARL, BERTHA.= Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer
20–11892
The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and
portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities.
The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the
resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence,
the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a
sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has
the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place
down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion.
In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first
generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child,
are represented.
* * * * *
“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of
a type of life which the author understands intimately.”
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“As a story it is very little more than a string of episodes reported
with pitiless minuteness. If ruthless and harrowing verisimilitude is
of service to you, accept it in this book. Why the publishers should
assert that it is a new thing, is not clear.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:69 S ’20 880w
“There is real emotional power in the author’s handling of her
calamitous theme. She seems to lose subtlety at times because of her
very sincerity; the book is in spots too wooden in its realism, and
there is some careless workmanship. But the characterization is
acute.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:407 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“There is no relief, even in the scenes between the young children,
and we wonder if the story is not too photographically realistic,
missing some worth or beauty under the bald surface.” L. W. M.
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 420w
“A rather amorphous but by no means talentless book. Miss Pearl has a
very keen and clear eye for the physical conditions of her people’s
lives—both in the Ghetto and beyond it—and a genuine gift, despite her
blunt and sprawling style, for rendering the atmosphere of bleak and
homeless places. There is no reason why Miss Pearl should not do
admirable work as she grows in self-discipline of both style and
feeling, and acquires a cooler spirit and a more tempered surface.”
+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 320w
“It does more than present a partially new viewpoint of matters with
which we are familiar, it brings a new range of material within our
understanding. Here is an American book with a straightforward story,
in the main well told and without sentimentalism.” R. V. A. S.
+ =New Repub= 23:343 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“Her descriptions are so true that one can’t help but feel that the
story is equally as true.” Rose Karsner
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 30 ’20 500w
“It is a work that is noteworthy in American literature, suggesting
Dickens and De Morgan modernized and Americanized.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 550w
“To the American reader who has previously known little or nothing
about that life, it is like the brilliant illumination from the inside
of a dark room.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 80w
“Whatever criticism may be offered lies in the possibility that even
tenement existence is not always as barren of sunshine and joys of
life as the author would have us believe. But that is not sufficiently
outstanding to detract from the authentic interest of the story.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 360w
=PEARL, RAYMOND.=[2] Nation’s food. il *$3.50 Saunders 338
20–4023
“Mr Pearl was chief of the statistical division of the Food
administration, and as such presents ‘unbiased statistical data rather
than my own opinion as to their interpretation.’ The book is made up
for the greater part of clear classifications and tables.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“With his usual thoroughness and breadth of view he has included in
his inquiry so many ramifications that his investigation covers Europe
also. It thus possesses extraordinary interest at the present time.”
E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 106:305 N 4 ’20 850w
“As a source book, this volume is warmly recommended.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 500w
=PEARSON, EDMUND LESTER.= Theodore Roosevelt. il *$1.75 (5c) Macmillan
20–16084
The book is one of the series of “True stories of great Americans,”
and is a brief biography intended to catch the interest of boys.
Contents: The boy who collected animals; In college; In politics;
“Ranch life and the hunting trail”; Two defeats; Fighting
office-seekers; Police commissioner; The rough rider; Governor of New
York; President of the United States; The lion hunter; Europe and
America; The bull moose; The explorer; The man; The great American;
Illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:124 D ’20
“He has been unwise in trying to explain Roosevelt’s war-policies to
the detriment of President Wilson, and to laud the efficiency of one
party over another—especially in his capacity as writer for children
who want the essential action of the man—Roosevelt—without the
political struggles in which he was involved.”
+ − =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 150w
“One of the best short summaries of Roosevelt’s career that have yet
appeared. The author’s treatment of the intimate, personal phases of
his subject is especially felicitous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 150w
“He has made excellent use of the new material about Mr Roosevelt
which has been available since his death, and has brought out with
skill and judgment the simplicity and singleness of Mr Roosevelt’s
Americanism.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 120w
“Mr Pearson has perhaps had more than ordinary success in confining
his story to the essential features, keeping a good sense of
proportion and never letting go the central thread of the narrative.
His book is workmanlike as well as entertaining.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w
“One cannot help feeling that the appeal would be stronger if the work
were more graphic and less controversial and the author had seen fit
to eliminate his attacks on the opponents of Roosevelt.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 20w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PECK, LORA B.= Stories for good children. il *$1.50 Little
20–18926
These fairy and folk tales are collected from all countries. Some of
them are very ancient, being traced back to the home of the Aryan race
and all are so simple in their make-up and telling that they are
offered as an aid to reading. The countries represented in the choice
are: Ireland, Scotland, England, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Persia,
Russia.
=PEDLER, MARGARET.= House of dreams-come-true. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
19–17179
Jean, though English, has never seen England until she is twenty. Then
her father, a prey to wanderlust, packs her off to some friends of
his, while he goes roaming the world. Just before she goes to England,
Jean has one magical day with an anonymous young Englishman, and to
her surprise and his apparent dismay when she arrives at Lady Anne’s
home where she is to stay she finds the elder son of the house to be
her unknown companion of Montavan. The magic still holds for both of
them, but there are many barriers between them and many bitter hours
before they finally enter their “house of dreams-come-true,” a house
“not built of stones and mortar, but just—where love is.”
* * * * *
“Not ‘deep’ but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 190w
“A fairly consistent and always readable book of fiction. The book, as
a whole, is one that will give excellent entertainment, although it is
impossible to assign it any important place in the contemporary output
of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 430w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 130w
“A thoroughly readable story, though inclining somewhat to the
sentimental.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 140w
=PEEL, GEORGIANA ADELAIDE (RUSSELL), lady.= Recollections; comp. by
Ethel Peel. il *$5 Lane
20–12214
Lady Georgiana Peel, whose recollections are compiled in the present
volume by her daughter, is the daughter of Sir John Russell and her
recollections cover the period from the early forties to the present
time. She was intimately acquainted with all the eminent people in
Queen Victoria’s reign of whom she has recorded pleasant memories with
many historical events of importance. The book is illustrated and has
an index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p4 S 5 ’20 2800w
“It is mainly a picture of the most attractive side of English social
life. It gives to the American reader a much more intimate
acquaintance with that life than he could possibly attain by any
introductions.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“It is a kindly book, written by a gracious lady, giving a picture of
an age that has passed away.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 1050w
“Lady Georgiana Peel’s engaging book of recollections ought to attract
readers of many and varied tastes. The book is attractive in its frank
simplicity.”
+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 F 12 ’20 1350w
=PENDEXTER, HUGH.= Red belts. il *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday
20–2261
The time in which the story is placed is 1784, when the quondam
colonies had not yet acquired the consciousness of a consolidated
group of states. The scene is west of the Alleghanies in what was to
be the state of Tennessee but where, at the time of the story, the
white settlers were still fighting for their existence against the
surrounding Indians aided by renegade white plotters in the interests
of Spain. It is a tale of love and adventure in which the hero John
Sevier, “Chucky Jack,” a pioneer of Americanism performs gallant deeds
of heroism and daring and not only saves his state for the Union but
lovely Elsie Tonpit from brutal outlaws and for her lover Kirk
Jackson, another true American.
* * * * *
“A stirring pioneer tale.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“Taken on the whole, ‘Red belts’ is a good example of the real
adventure story, with enough patriotic suggestion to render it of
wholesome appeal.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 600w
=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.), and
PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. new and rev ed il
*$6.50 Lippincott
“This is the revised sixth edition of the authorized biography of
Whistler. Since the original publication in two volumes in 1908 the
authors have been collecting and verifying documents, and have
received numerous suggestions and statements of facts. The new
edition, therefore, contains new materials in the text as well as new
illustrations, which include more than one hundred reproductions of
the artist’s works.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 21 ’20 640w
“The book, because of the treatment no less than because of the
subject, is vastly entertaining.”
+ =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 60w
=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 100w
=PEPPER, CHARLES MELVILLE.= Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis,
1823–1916. il *$4 (4½c) Century
20–4454
The life of “the grand old man” of West Virginia is marked by two
phases, says the biographer: “the romance of railway building, the
development of natural resources, the creation of industrial
communities” is the one, “public service, political leadership,
citizenship in its highest sense,” the other. His many-sided character
and activities were unusual. He was intensely practical and was also a
man of vision. A partial list of the contents follows: Ancestry and
youth; Pioneer railway days; International American conferences; The
Pan-American railway; Vice-presidential nomination and after;
Benefactions and philanthropies; Famous contemporaries; Personal
characteristics. There is an index and illustrations.
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Glass collector; a guide to old English glass.
(Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 738.2
A20–905
“The collector who has been in my mind when writing this book has not
very much money to spare, and none to waste. He wants to get full
value when he makes a purchase, and if a bargain comes his way so much
the better.” (Preface) To guide such a collector to know which to
choose and how to distinguish the old from the new, the real from the
sham is the object of the book. After an introductory chapter on
drinking glasses in England to the end of the seventeenth century and
seven chapters on the various kinds of wine glasses the contents are:
Cut glass; Engraved glasses; Curios; Bottles, decanters, flasks and
jugs; Opaque and coloured glass; Frauds, fakes and foreigners; Foreign
glass; Manufacturing and decorative processes; Prices; Bibliography;
Glossary; Index.
* * * * *
“Will be helpful to the amateur since it is very well illustrated and
contains hints on the detection of imitations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
+ =Spec= 122:17 Ja 4 ’19 60w
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Old English furniture and its surroundings. il
*$7.50 Scribner 749
“The period Mr Percival covers in this work is from the restoration of
the monarchy to the regency. This period he has divided into four
sections: The restoration; The end of the 17th century and the early
18th; Early Georgian; Late Georgian. To each section he has given five
chapters: Fittings and ornament decorations; Furniture; Upholstery,
wall and floor coverings; Table appointments; Decorative
adjuncts.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Int Studio= 72:164 D ’20 100w
“Mr Percival writes with unusual good sense. Moreover, he is firmly
though not pedantically for unmixed style and speaks with authority.
For the trained decorator, however, the book contains little that is
actually new or in any way suggestive.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 150w
“If one can judge at all from some of the imposing Fifth avenue shops,
people do enjoy living in period-houses, fitting up rooms in
period-furniture, buying all manner of things antique. For these
impassioned collectors, at least, Mr Percival’s book is unequivocally
useful, being clearly written and having much practical information.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 9 ’20 330w
=PERCY, EUSTACE SUTHERLAND CAMPBELL, lord.= Responsibilities of the
league. *$2 Doran 341.1
(Eng ed 20–5415)
“This is a book written in the interest of civilization. It is true
that there have been civilizations, not altogether contemptible,
without Christianity; and it is arguable that there may be
civilizations hereafter not based on state sovereignty. But the
author’s point is both true and indisputable that the revolution which
threatens both of these institutions may drag all civilization with it
unless a high intelligence commands and canalizes its forces. Lord
Eustace considers the league of nations as the potential champion of
the idea of the state and commonwealth, the possible medium by which
we may come to the spirit of a united Christendom. That, no doubt, is
his ideal: to set it off he offers a penetrating analysis of the past
and makes the profound observation that the treaty of Versailles,
which he does not defend, is the almost complete result of the two
forces of nationalism and democracy.”—Dial
* * * * *
“I do not understand all of it nor agree with all I understand, but I
am fain to mark its superior importance.” Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 1150w
“His book will provoke much dissent, but it has the supreme merit of
making its readers think on the great problems that face the world.”
+ − =Spec= 124:16 Ja 3 ’20 1400w
“The book fairly bristles with provocative suggestions. The treatment
of the basis and mainsprings of American foreign policy makes an
American gasp with envy at their insight and sympathy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 800w
“A solution must answer the conditions of the problem proposed, and
one has the feeling that Lord Eustace’s criticisms of recent policy do
not always take account of that fact. But that is a matter of
controversy. What is not a matter of controversy is the quality of
Lord Eustace Percy’s book—its breadth of outlook, its richness of
information, its penetrating candour, its analytic power, and, above
all, its depth of conviction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 650w
=PERCY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.= In April once. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811
20–15483
“Mr Percy’s book consists of a poetic drama in one act, about half a
hundred lyrics, and a longish philosophical monologue entitled ‘An
epistle from Corinth.’ The drama—‘In April once’—is a study of a
renaissance youth, Guido, who sacrifices his life out of impetuous
generosity that a leper and a jailer (though a very knightly jailer)
might tempt death.”—Bookm
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“In his lyrics, Mr Percy tastes in some degree of the divine madness
of Keats. Rare indeed is Mr Percy’s pure lyric gift: limpidity and
strength of emotion and adequacy of art.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 400w
“He is by no means distinguished, and he is somewhat too fond of his
literary good manners, but he has done some shapely, thoroughbred
exercises in elegy and exultation.”
+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“His work proves imitative in many ways.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 50w
“Finer than his ‘Sappho in Levkas,’ with all its promise, is ‘In April
once.’ This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier
book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:204 O ’20 150w
=PÉREZ DE AYALA, RAMÓN.= Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón;
Sunday sunlight. *$3 Dutton
20–12561
“Under the threefold title, ‘Prometheus: The fall of the house of
Limón; Sunday sunlight,’ the E. P. Dutton company publishes three
novelettes of Spanish life by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, which Alice P.
Hubbard has turned into English. ‘Prometheus,’ a modern tale which
parallels or parodies a Greek legend, deals sunnily with a man who,
seeking for perfect offspring, becomes the father of an oaf and
hunchback. ‘Limón’ is a murder tale. ‘Sunday sunlight’ is a tale of
ravishers which recites horrors which recall and surpass ‘Titus
Andronicus.’”—Review
* * * * *
“Those who enjoy artistry, intelligence and pages overflowing with the
evidence of original and unique talent will welcome the book and will
read it more than once.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 830w
“Señor de Ayala is all sprightliness and glow. He has a draughtsman
eye, a colorist eye, an eye reminiscent of Gautier, and he scatters
brilliancies with the prodigality of a man for whom splendor is the
only warmth.”
+ =Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 220w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Italian twins. il
*$1.75 Houghton
20–15958
The Italian twins are Beppo and Beppina, who live in an old palace on
the banks of the Arno. They are kidnapped by two vagabonds with a
monkey and a performing bear and are made to sing and dance and
entertain the country people and villagers. They are taken to Venice
but finally make their escape and after more wandering adventures
reach their home safely.
* * * * *
“Beautiful makeup and sketches.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
+ =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 160w
“One is always sorry when Mrs Perkins fails to reach her own high
mark. But this incredible tale of the kidnapping of two little
aristocrats shows no side of real Italian life.” M. H. B. Mussey
− + =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 110w
“‘The Italian twins’ is a wholesome stimulating book for children
between eight and thirteen to read and own.” E. R. Burt
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Scotch twins. il
*$1.50 Houghton
19–18221
Jock and Jean are the hero and heroine of this story, with its scenes
laid in Scotland. The pictures as in other books of the series are
from drawings by the author.
* * * * *
“A good picture of national life and customs with a rather more
dramatic plot than that of former volumes of the series.”
+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 20 ’19 300w
“Jock and Jean have, perhaps, the most exciting and amusing adventures
of any of the twins, but, as a small boy critic said, ‘They have an
absent-minded way of using occasional Scottish words and then
relapsing into plain American talk.’”
+ − =Nation= 109:780 D 13 ’19 140w
+ =Outlook= 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 40w
“‘The Scotch twins,’ Jock, the sleepy-head, and Jean, the canny little
polisher and scrubber, are just as lovable as any of their
predecessors. There is a nice little surprise, too, in the last
chapter.”
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 120w
“Anyone who has never before understood the claims of a clan will find
this and other peculiarities of Scotch life thoroughly explained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 D 19 ’19 100w
=PERRY, ALLEN MASON=, comp. Electrical aids to greater production. il
*$2 McGraw 621.3
19–10529
“Based upon a series of articles in the Electrical World, of which the
author is engineering editor. The best of practice, as developed by
the war, is presented as a practical handbook, rather than as a
text-book, full of suggestions for the installation, operation, and
maintenance, as well as the problems of layout and control. The eight
chapters cover: General power problems of industrial plants;
Distribution, transformation, switching and protection; Motors,
control, specific applications, troubles and remedies; Illumination,
selection of equipment, economies, and specific applications; Electric
furnaces, welding, etc.; Meters and measurements as applied to
industries; Handling material in industrial plants with electric
tractors; Outdoor substations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:159 F ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’19 120w
=Pratt= p20 Ja ’20 30w
=PERRY, BLISS.= Study of poetry. *$3.25 Houghton 808.1
20–9853
In attempting “to set forth in decent prose some of the strange
potencies of verse” the author has given but little space to the epic
and drama and has devoted himself more especially to the various forms
of the lyric, which to him seems to hold the future of poetry. “The
folk-epic is gone, the art-epic has been outstripped by prose fiction,
and the drama needs a theatre. But the lyric needs only a poet, who
can compose in any of its myriad forms.... Through it today, as never
before in the history of civilization, the heart of a man can reach
the heart of mankind.” Accordingly the book falls into two parts. Part
I, Poetry in general, treats of poetry in retrospect, of the province
of poetry and the poet, of rhythm and metre, rhyme, stanza and free
verse. Part II, The lyric in particular, contains: The field of lyric
poetry; Relationships and types of the lyric; Race, epoch and
individual; The present status of the lyric. There are also Notes and
illustrations, an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“While it has a genuine interest for the creator and critical
interpreter of poetry, its specific value is for that very large body
of readers who are between these two groups.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 2100w
“The book is avowedly written with the classroom’s needs in view, as
well as those of the inquiring general reader, and the former aim to
some extent vitiates the author’s treatment by imposing too eclectic
an ideal upon him. The book is a résumé of poetics rather than a
personal confession.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:235 N 17 ’20 1500w
“No critic since Matthew Arnold seems to us to have so positively as
Mr Perry the capacity to make us see more clearly and think more
accurately and sensibly about poetry and at the same time make the
seeing and the thinking increase our enthusiasm for the vital things.”
C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:308 D ’20 640w
“In the long run his book is not simple enough. He will be useful to a
certain kind of teacher; but he will move few students and he will
enkindle no poets.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 112:sup241 F 9 ’21 120w
“The fault of the book is that it contains too many long quotations
from other critics. But this very fault, in the present instance,
makes the book a presentation of the best modern critical thought on
the lyric. He will be a bold man who attempts to cover Professor
Perry’s field for many years to come.” C. E. Andrews
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Professor Perry’s volume is suggestive and stimulating. It will be
useful to the classroom teacher, to the solitary student and to the
average reader, who will gain from it knowledge certain to increase
his enjoyment of verse.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p6 S 12 ’20 2000w
“He gives an unusually clear analysis, supported by rich and apt
quotation, of the effects of poetry upon the reader. The value of his
essay lies in its vivid ability to provide us with those moments of
lucid understanding in which poetic experience is restored to us.” L.
R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 400w
“He is first of all a collector, secondly, an assayer, thirdly, and a
little less willingly, an arbiter, and, only incidentally and
reluctantly, a reasoner or controversialist.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:501 N 24 ’20 2000w
=PERRY, LAWRENCE.= For the game’s sake. (Fair play ser.) il *$1.65
Scribner
20–15706
“Half a dozen tales, each having to do with some special form of
athletics, make up Mr Lawrence Perry’s little volume entitled ‘For the
game’s sake.’ The first tells of a football ‘star’ who, being also
‘The spoiled boy,’ broke training and misbehaved himself until the
coach found it necessary to put him off the team. But there was a
sensible and eloquent girl in the case, who brought the culprit to
book in a manner which convinced him of the error of his ways. Another
tale has to do with an international tennis tournament. Baseball of
course is not neglected. Each of the tales presupposes a fairly close
acquaintance on the reader’s part with that particular game with which
it has to do.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 26 ’20 230w
“The book stands for clean playing in every sport. Each story works up
thrillingly to a dramatic climax where victory comes by the narrowest
of margins.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w
=PERRY, STELLA GEORGE (STERN) (MRS GEORGE HOUGH PERRY).= Palmetto.
*$1.90 (1c) Stokes
20–15507
Palmetto, as a child of thirteen, runs away from the only parents she
has ever known, but whom she instinctively feels are only foster
parents. She finds a refuge in New Orleans with a kindly fisherman who
adopts her and brings her up as his own daughter. Associated with him
is David Cantrelle, a lad of good birth whose family is genuinely
shocked at his choice of occupation. He loves Palmetto from the first,
and when her heart awakens and responds to his, they become engaged.
But his family objects to the match, on account of the mystery of her
birth and she determines to show them she is worth while. So she goes
to New York where she makes a conspicuous success as an actress. One
of her southern admirers follows her there, makes ardent love to her
and almost succeeds in replacing David in her heart. But she learns in
time that her love for David is deeper than any Hartley can command.
The mystery of her birth is eventually cleared up and she finds she
has as good blood in her veins as either David or Hartley.
* * * * *
“The greatest defect in this romance of the bayou region of Louisiana
is that it is somewhat overlong. Individual sentences and paragraphs
are frequently overgrown with too rank a growth of adjectives.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 500w
=PETERSON, SAMUEL.= Democracy and government. *$2 Knopf 321.8
20–104
According to the author’s initial assumption that “a government
carries into effect ideas,” the book naturally falls into two parts:
What persons should have the legal right to determine finally the
ideas to be carried into effect; and in what manner the ideas to be
carried into effect should be selected, and how they should be carried
into effect. Accordingly part 1, The ruling power of the state,
discusses the difference between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy as
one of conditions rather than of law, and defines a democratic
government as a government of the intelligent members of the ruling
race. Part 2, The organization of the government, is an inquiry into
how the ideas to be carried into effect may be selected as reliably
and carried into effect as certainly and efficiently as possible. The
contents under part 2 are: Governmental functions; Legislative
organization; Administrative organization; Judicial organization;
Direct legislation. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 60w
=Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 180w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 30w
“A book which, while blazing no new paths, is well designed to assist
the reader in forming a reasonably critical view of the state is
Samuel Peterson’s ‘Democracy and government’ which treats fundamental
political theories with knowledge of their historical importance, yet
with hard-headed sociological insight. The author is always frank,
and, while he has pronounced views of his own, he cannot be called a
doctrinaire.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ’20 400w
“His criticisms of the present governmental machinery are generally
just, but the remedies suggested might prove to be worse than the
disease. The book shows hard work and earnestness throughout, however,
and should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on the
subject.” A. G. Dehly
+ − =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 200w
=PETRUCCI, RAPHAËL.= Chinese painters; a critical study; tr. by Frances
Seaver; with a biographical note by Lawrence Binyon. il *$2 Brentano’s
759.9
20–7443
“The book comprises a comprehensive and yet compact study of painting
in China. His survey takes us back to the dim ages long before the
appearance of Buddhism in China, and then brings the reader to the
present time.” (Outlook) “It explains briefly the principles of
technique and then, as it sketches the historical evolution of
painting, reveals its dominating philosophical idea, the search for
abstract form. The author was an authority on oriental art. There are
numerous pleasing reproductions, bibliography, index of painters and
periods.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
“Concise and illuminating volume.”
+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20
“Happily the author writes for the general reader and the lover of art
rather than for the elect; his treatment of a large theme shows the
advantage of one who has a gift for luminous condensation.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 170w
“For the uninitiated in these matters, ‘Chinese painters’ is a
necessary education. For him who understands already the beauty of the
masters of China, the book is valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 26 ’20 280w
=PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN.= Course of empire; introd. by Scott
Nearing. il *$4.50 Boni & Liveright 815
20–12790
“The author of this volume held a seat in the United States senate
during the ’90s of the last century. He was active in the senate at a
turning point in the career of the nation, a period when the frontier
was disappearing, when the great oligarchies of capital were
organizing, and when the United States became a colonial power. In
short, his public career is identical with the origin of imperialism
in the United States. The book consists of a compilation of the
speeches of ex-Senator Pettigrew in the senate on these imperialist
policies as they were forming. They fall into three groups—those
dealing with the annexation of the Hawaiian islands; those dealing
with the conquest of the Philippines; and those dealing with the
antagonism of the West to the banking and trust groups of the East.
Accompanying the addresses which reveal a wide variety of information
on the part of the author, are many documents of much historical value
to the reader.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“These speeches, both concerning Hawaiian affairs and those in the
Philippines, are useful as a matter of record; they will be very
valuable to the future historian, who desires to understand the
obstacles encountered by the nation in its movement toward an expanded
civilization and world power.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 660w
“The addresses show that the author during his public career had that
capacity which is so rare in the men of a later generation who have
served in Congress. His mind was always open, and he advanced with the
progress of his time.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 940w
“Although the book comprises a vivid study of the development of
imperial policy in the United States it might better have been
compressed into half the size for the benefit of the general reader.
There are too many and too liberal quotations from Mr Pettigrew’s own
speeches.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 570w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the American merchant
marine. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 387
20–4721
To this second edition of a handbook published in 1916 nearly one
hundred pages of reprinted matter have been added. This matter is
designed to cover events since the publication of the first edition,
including the assembling of a large merchant fleet and the question of
its disposal, together with arguments for and against government
ownership and operation. The bibliography has been enlarged and
brought down to date, and the introduction and briefs have been
rewritten.
* * * * *
=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
“A volume covering intelligently and with reasonable fulness the
history and present status of the commercial fleet of the United
States.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual; constructive and
rebuttal speeches delivered in debates of American colleges and
universities during the college year, 1919–1920. v 6 *$2.25 Wilson, H.
W.
808.5
Seven subjects of timely importance are included in this volume of the
debaters’ annual: Government ownership and operation of coal mines;
The Cummins plan for the control of railroads; Affiliation of teachers
with the American federation of labor; Compulsory arbitration of
railway labor disputes; Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; The
closed shop; Suppression of propaganda for the overthrow of the United
States government (two debates). Each debate is accompanied by briefs
and a selected bibliography. “The bibliographies have been compiled
mostly by the editor, and are not limited to the material actually
used in the debate, as their main purpose is helpfulness to the
prospective debater.” (Preface) The volume is indexed.
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= As the wind blows. *$1.50 Macmillan 821
20–18071
“Mr Phillpotts sings a good deal about his beloved Dartmoor, but he
tells of other subjects, too—Gallipoli, the grave of Keats, etc.—and
he has one descriptive piece from the jungle called ‘Tiger,’ and a
longish blank verse poem staging Adam and Eve in Paradise.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Of some of his pieces one has the impression that they were written
as an exercise in verse. But in others a genuine inspiration is
apparent. ‘The neolith’ and ‘Tiger’ contain fine things.”
+ − =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 70w
“It is the reality of the atmosphere rather than the circumstance that
gives Mr Phillpotts’s verse its individuality; the taste, smell,
contour of locality, rather than the sharp and sudden force of either
crisis or event in human action that gives the unique character to his
rhythmic expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 1750w
“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is
essentially his own at the same time.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 290w
“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the
effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have
very palpable faults.”
+ − =Spec= 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Evander. *$2 Macmillan
20–4895
“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early
days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights
in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing
among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their
neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as
the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship
of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she
leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too
rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus
being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on
Festus.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is
bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 650w
“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times,
the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all
times.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:340 My ’20 460w
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs
of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The
very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the
immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 1600w
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s
books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the
case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly
needed grace and there is none.”
− + =Nation= 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and
charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w
“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy;
and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather
limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all
equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has
much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the
philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving
Mr Phillpotts high praise.”
+ =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 150w
“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”
+ − |=Spec= 123:822 D 13 ’19 100w
“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all
this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 100w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan
20–3882
“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety.
More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser,
whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in
everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost
capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him
and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that
he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid
having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is
void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two
sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the
same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that
letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes
the novel.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly
and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier
work.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on
Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is
pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and
then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:339 My ’20 520w
“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style
at its best.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 1200w
“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know
how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though
there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority
of his Dartmoor books.”
+ =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous
exposition of contrasted character.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on
‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written.
Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 440w
“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here
fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest
and best as artist and observer.”
+ =Spec= 125:215 Ag 14 ’20 530w
“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story
displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the
author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 750w
“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with
one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of
Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant
moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot;
but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’30 400w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.=[2] West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2
“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of
Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country
pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall.
Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and
river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller
through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and
art.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 130w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 260w
“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and
they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps,
the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve
their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman
+ − =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 140w
“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 90w
=PICKARD, BERTRAM.= Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2
(Eng ed 19–12869)
“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with
economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by
Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state
bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by
Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This
book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with
Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is
for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without
consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to
be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every
individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain
national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials
of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)
* * * * *
=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 50w
“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it
tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every
possible question with which a careful student of economics might
attack the scheme.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 220w
=Survey= 43:194 N 29 ’19 440w
=PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS.= Psychology of nationality and
internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321
20–458
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 90w
“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and
internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist
through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into
account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the
state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent
nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological
exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the
historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”
− + =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 150w
“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a
social force.” Ellsworth Faris
+ =Int J Ethics= 30:339 Ap ’20 330w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 300w
“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and
suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an
excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on
Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 500w
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT
EUGENE.= Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–12811
When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly
hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his
mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for.
He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert
Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to
establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well,
until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by
her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in
war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to
straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his
girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored
to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.
* * * * *
“A pleasantly written tale.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT
EUGENE.= Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–10313
A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take
charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil
reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves,
knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also
loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that
personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he
finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or
evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and
the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales
of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him,
and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause
against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian
who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird
revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINOCHET, TANCREDO.= Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South
America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3
20–17985
“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet
is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred
subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed
object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell
his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of
setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to
make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct
characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the
United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever
interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of
the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the
husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the
same subject.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so
have entered into the United States point of view as to make one
believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this
country had risen in its defense.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 300w
“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind
closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page
that one can go to sleep over.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ja 9 ’21 1750w
“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of
the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove
interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent
‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 290w
=PINSKI, DAVID.= Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4
20–9850
These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac
Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men:
greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the
end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The
phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The
cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little
heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.
* * * * *
“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is
the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method
is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is
blurred.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Brilliant but not always clear.”
+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 20w
“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the
murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:548 Ag 18 ’20 450w
“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately
silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier
plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but
his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of
life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and
these make several of his plays ineffectual.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 250w
“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and
saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he
writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an
effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not
identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately
for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force,
indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama
at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of
tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the
sensitive reader.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 320w
“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It
would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they
were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as
well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the
Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic,
from joy to the depths of sorrow.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:225 Jl ’20 310w
=PITT, FRANCES.= Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd
590.4
20–27527
A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The
following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us
is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the
older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow,
and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds
(blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field
mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the
night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The
short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.
* * * * *
“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style,
and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they
are modest.” E. B.
+ =Ath= p303 S 3 ’20 720w
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated
and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of
whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world
about them.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 400w
“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in
the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal
record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.
+ =Nature= 106:246 O 21 ’20 1700w
“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of
sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading,
and informative.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 130w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 30w
“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most
cleverly taken.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 60w
“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these
histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine
insight and the right enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p563 S 2 ’20 600w
=PLATT, AGNES.= Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd
808.2
20–17152
A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author
says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage
technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to
prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care
to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical
adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial
proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want;
Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to
select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play
when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes
at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London
conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the
drama, would do well to read this book.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 180w
=PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER.= Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life
educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636
20–8897
A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a
more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and
considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted
individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to
various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring
such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same,
but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more
important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have
been added.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm
animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting
feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently
worked out.” E. J. R.
+ =Nature= 106:659 Ja 20 ’21 210w
=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= International minds and the search for the restful.
$1.50 Nation press 814
19–16675
The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles
contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the
title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out
the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of
nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of
each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in
the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points
out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of
perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed
observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays
is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the
“Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One
of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays
are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests;
Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell:
patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben
the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms;
Feuchtersleben’s influence.
=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.= Short history of the great war. *$3.25
Harcourt 940.3
20–26545
“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a
few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical
reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he
has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and
is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as
assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record
of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the
peace conference.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something
to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and
one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well
worth reading.” A. P. Scott
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:331 Ja ’21 470w
“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and
temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular
misapprehensions.”
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 260w
=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation
of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be
generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present
prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the
great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and
sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:477 Jl ’20 190w
“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded
in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources,
as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with
admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true
history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved
Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 800w
“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of
view.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In
reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating
spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and
so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring.
Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common
sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”
+ =Review= 3:423 N 3 ’20 650w
“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical
scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’
struggle.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 120w
“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly
interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful
reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been
looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable
more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended
to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow
Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p133 F 26 ’20 1050w
=POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD.= English Catholics in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and
government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282
20–7672
“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under
Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the
counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of
his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed
the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a
whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily
considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation
Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were
transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by
their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by
Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course,
been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines
then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began
almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the
middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new
measures became evident.’”—Cath World
* * * * *
“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his
judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of
Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be
exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G.
Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:84 O ’20 1250w
+ =Cath World= 111:534 Jl ’20 1050w
“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a
critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the
whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more
evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and
factions.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:55 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted
material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars
who have laboured in the same field.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 S 2 ’20 1400w
=POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK.= League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan
341.1
20–14891
“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the
covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as
appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions
under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The
references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are
given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance
to the reader.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p462 Ap 2 ’20 130w
“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the
layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20
“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is
lucidity itself.”
+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 15 ’20 330w
=POLLOCK, JOHN.=[2] Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7
20–1771
“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to
be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath)
“We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on
the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he
stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer
of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in
possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a
disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of
plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined
the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He
worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd
until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into
Finland.” (Sat R)
* * * * *
=Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 150w
“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his
book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity.
Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik
adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr
Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.
− =Ath= p111 Ja 23 ’20 1250w
“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and
excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.”
Jacob Zeitlin
− =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 240w
“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing
Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the
first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at
London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment
would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an
English eye-witness.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 780w
“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some
of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction
of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is
a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has
lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on
the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the
loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a
country.”
+ =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 550w
“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the
volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book,
written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and
too superficial to be convincing.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p2 Ja 1 ’20 1050w
=POLLOCK, WALTER.= Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10
Van Nostrand 621.4
(Eng ed 20–10619)
“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to
explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To
enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages
of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the
general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to
vessels of various types.” (Chapter I) There are 369 illustrations and
an index.
* * * * *
“The photographic reproductions and clear and carefully executed
drawings are calculated to give sufficient detail without introducing
unnecessary complexity.”
+ =Engineer= 129:225 F 27 ’20 380w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 160w
=POOLE, ERNEST.= Blind. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan
20–18299
The theme of this novel is stated in Chapter 1: “I am blind—but no
blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin
splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to
me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who
tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home
life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as
well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After
college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with
his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform
movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in
strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive
movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to
Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war
enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its
closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s
part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.
* * * * *
“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of
a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of
the Czar are especially interesting.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 100w
“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense
for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not
because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its
blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an
ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have
been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 900w
“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as
bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually
fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at
the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive
writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”
− + =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w
“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda
alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of
its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors,
its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 270w
“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could
write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that
compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many
novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P.
Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 260w
=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327
(Eng ed 20–12064)
The present volume was originally a part of a larger unpublished work.
The chapters of that work dealing with Japan’s internal affairs were
published in 1917 under the title “Japan at the cross roads” while the
chapters dealing with Japan’s foreign affairs compose the present
book. It records the rapid imperialistic developments in Japan and its
Chinese policy and hints at the possibility of a war between America
and Japan in the making. Contents: Japan and the Anglo-Japanese
alliances; Japan’s real policy in China; The first revolution in
China, 1911–12; The second revolution in China, 1912–13; Japan,
America and Mexico, 1911–14; The twenty-one demands; Japan’s
commercial expansion, 1914–18; Note.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 750w
Reviewed by A. P. Danton
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 31 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
=Review= 3:474 N 17 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w
“In the present work special knowledge is manifest, but its value is
vitiated from the outset by the violence of the author’s unconcealed
hostility. His book is a sweeping judgment, and, like all sweeping
judgments, unjust. There is evidence of this kind of haste throughout
the book, from the literary as well as from the critical point of
view.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p462 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
=Yale R n s= 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Rachel Fitzpatrick. *$1.75 (2c)
Lane
20–11899
The heroine is an Irish girl who spends two years with wealthy
relatives in London. The Fitzpatricks belong to the gentry but are
very poor and gladly accept the offer that means two years of
education for Rachel. At the end of the two years she goes to Germany.
The war finds her there alone with her aunt’s German husband, who
takes advantage of the situation to make love to her. She runs away
and after many difficulties reaches Ireland. The course of the war and
the Irish attitude are touched upon and the story ends with Rachel’s
marriage to her sailor lover.
* * * * *
“The authoress’s naive Irish heroine is skilfully and naturally
drawn.”
+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w
“If there is a fault to be found with this story, it is that enough is
not made of the big scenes in the life of the charming heroine. Yet,
this does not, somehow, detract from the pleasure of the book, which
is charmingly written in a style that is too rapidly passing. A good
part of the pleasure derived from the story is due to its clever
characterizations.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 550w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
“A novel which is neither better nor worse than hundreds of others.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:455 My 15 ’20 140w
“What is perhaps the chief merit of quite a readable story is the
pictures of Irish life and character, of which the author has an
intimate knowledge.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 150w
=POPENOE, WILSON.= Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Rural
manuals) il *$5 Macmillan 634
20–15789
“The author is an expert, employed as agricultural explorer for the
United States Department of agriculture. On his title page he
announces his design of excluding the banana, the cocoanut, the
pineapple, citrus fruits, the olive and the fig.... He begins with the
avocado, which many people in the regions where it grows often call
the avocado pear. He displays his scientific knowledge by giving first
a botanical description of the avocado, its history and distribution,
its composition and its uses.... The story of the avocado is followed
with similar considerations of the mango, the date, the papaya and its
relatives, the loquat, the guava and its intimates, the litchi, kaki,
pomegranate, breadfruit and a great variety of other fruits of lesser
fame, about which few of us have heard.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 300w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 100w
=PORTER, ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (MRS JOHN LYMAN PORTER) (ELEANOR STUART,
pseud.).= Mary Marie. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton
20–8035
Her father had wanted to name her Mary, her mother Marie. Mary Marie
was the compromise. But there had come a time when compromise seemed
no longer possible, followed by separation and divorce. Mary Marie
spends six months of the year with her father, six with her mother,
and she tells about it in her diary. In one house she is Marie. In the
other she tries to be Mary. But after awhile things get so mixed up
she doesn’t know which she is, for she finds her mother trying to make
her into a staid, dignified Mary, while her father seems to be
encouraging the Marie side of her. And then she is the means of
bringing the two together, and the book closes with a postscript that
gives a glimpse of Mary Marie’s grown-up story.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The book is very readable, and occasionally amusing.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 4 ’20 600w
“The story falls short of what we expect from Miss Eleanor H. Porter.”
+ − =Spec= sup p782 D 3 ’20 60w
“Beneath the light tone of the narrative may be observed a serious
moral. The frequent misfortunes of divorce, especially where there are
children, are pointedly apparent here. But Mary Marie will be loved
for herself alone, for her quaint observations, for her unspoiled
character, and for her earnest efforts to understand life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S30 ’20 30w
=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Egan. *$1.90 (2c)
Dodd
20–15701
When Bronson Egan came back to Plainfield, Ohio, after four years of
service in France, he found his status very different from what it had
previously been. He went away the only son of a wealthy father, and
practically engaged to one of the city’s most attractive girls. He
came back to find his father dead, their business wrecked, and the
girl reengaged to a stay-at-home. With characteristic determination he
set himself to gain back what he had lost. It was not all plain
sailing, however, for he had keen rivals in business as well as love.
But he had staunch friends as well, and the end of the story finds him
re-established in business on a firmer basis than before, and happy in
the love of a girl who is more worthy of him than the fickle Mary.
* * * * *
“The business element is particularly well developed.”
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“Aside from occasional lapses, Mr Hall’s style is well adapted to his
material, which is in part new.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 530w
“It is the substantial characterization which makes the book finally
so satisfactory. Its fresh and rapid story-telling ought to win for it
a large general audience.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w
“There is no letup in the interest, and the business element is
especially well handled.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w
“The present story is worthy of praise especially for the consistency
and humanness of young Egan. Perhaps the financial and business sides
of the book are a little too much to the front, but, as a whole, the
novel keeps the reader’s attention on the alert, and it includes some
exceedingly good character depiction.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 170w
“The novel exists for its narrative, which is neatly conceived and
marks Mr Porter’s further growth in the art of story-telling. It flows
along with agreeable humor, and the reader’s interest is sustained
without recourse to theatricalities.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 580w
=PORTER, REBECCA NEWMAN.= Girl from Four Corners. il *$1.75 (2c) Holt
20–6861
A California story with scenes laid on a lonely ranch and in San
Francisco. Margaret Garrison, disappointed in the man she loves,
yields to Frederick Bayne’s sudden wooing and goes to live on his
ranch in Mendocino county. The marriage is unhappy, but with fine
courage she makes the best of it and trains her little daughter,
Freda, to be true to the highest ideals. Most of the story has to do
with the career of this daughter, who after her mother’s death goes to
San Francisco where she passes thru many experiences, some of them
tragic, and finally finds happiness and love.
* * * * *
“The story is entertainingly told, and toward the end a dramatic touch
is thrown in.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 120w
=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Mystery at the Blue villa. *$1.75 (2c)
Appleton
20–1695
Seventeen dramatic short stories by the author of “Uncle Abner.” The
settings in these stories are selected from many fascinatingly remote,
and also familiar places. In the title story the action takes place at
Port Said, a refuge for human derelicts, “the devil’s halfway house,”
where through cleverly playing upon a guilty man’s fear of the
supernatural, a dying sculptor gets money enough to die in the way it
pleases him. “The great legend,” narrated by a semi-French,
semi-oriental gentleman sitting beside a fire made of bleached bones,
on an undulating, moonlit desert of sand, takes us to the underworld
of Paris. “The miller of Ostend” is a tale of Belgium. “The pacifist”
is a story of the United States and a German spy. Other titles are:
The laughter of Allah; The witch of the Lecca; The new administration;
The Baron Starkheim.
* * * * *
“Though somewhat overdramatic and artificial, the plots are clever and
interesting.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 40w
“The stories are well told and the people have much more character and
individuality than is usual among inhabitants of mystery tales.”
+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 140w
“They have variety and freshness, and, if occasionally overemphasized,
they are never trite.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“In the matter of untangling a crime or running a mystery to its lair
Melville Davisson Post can give even the immortal Holmes himself quite
a brush. His latest collection in no way falls short of the Uncle
Abner tales.” E. C. Webb
+ =Pub W= 96:1694 D 27 ’19 240w
“All have the merit of sustaining the reader’s interest up to an
unexpected conclusion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Sleuth of St James’s square. *$2 (3c)
Appleton
20–18613
A book of mystery stories. There are sixteen in all, and in each of
them Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal investigation department
of Scotland yard, figures. He is not the Sherlock Holmes type of
detective, for mystery and solution seem to run side by side, instead
of being spread out like a pattern before him. Some of the tales Sir
Henry reads from the diary of an ancestor. The titles are: The thing
on the hearth; The reward; The lost lady; The cambered foot; The man
in the green hat; The wrong sign; The fortune teller; The hole in the
mahogany panel; The end of the road; The last adventure; American
horses; The spread rails; The pumpkin coach; The yellow flower; A
satire of the sea; The house by the loch. Many of the tales journey
far afield from St James’s square for their setting. Some have already
appeared in short story form in popular magazines.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“The stories are short, piquant and cleverly maneuvered, though the
mechanism which moves the puppets is sometimes a bit too evident and
there is great lack of originality in the gestures made by them either
when they pause or start up again.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 500w
“They are not only unusual in construction; they are very well
written, and with but few exceptions, close with a twist which will
surprise even the skilled and habitual reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 D 12 ’20 380w
“The author’s method is unusual and some of the tales are remarkably
good.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 130w
=POSTGATE, R. W.= Bolshevik theory. *$2 Dodd 335
The book is a sincere attempt to state what Bolshevism is and what it
is not—to clear away “the atmosphere of a dog-fight which surrounds
this subject.” (Introd.) The author claims for it that it is neither
pro-bolshevik nor anti-bolshevik. “It is a mere exposition. It is true
that a certain amount of intelligent sympathy is necessary for the
understanding of a point of view. The marks of some such sympathy may
be traced in this book. This is inevitable, for it is merely the
reflection of the author’s belief that bolshevik theories are neither
inhuman ... nor logically ridiculous.... If these assumptions are not
correct, then Bolshevism is not worth considering.” (Introd.) The
contents are: What is Bolshevism? Controversies; The dictatorship of
the proletariat; On dictatorship; The two roads; The pedigree of
Bolshevism; Extracts and comments; Syndicalism, Blanquism and
Bolshevism; Karl Kautsky; Industrial pacifism; The soviet; The future
of the soviet. There are appendices and a bibliographical note.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
=Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 210w
“R. W. Postgate has set forth in a clear and concise manner the facts
about Bolshevism.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 2 ’21 220w
=Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 140w
“His historical allusions are not to be depended upon. Many of the
rest of Mr Postgate’s references to the Bolshevists, past and present,
and to General Denikin and other anti-Bolshevists, are equally
unreliable.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 1200w
=POTTER, MIRIAM CLARK.= Rhymes of a child’s world. il *$2 Four seas co.
811
A book of little verses for children. It is a collection of poems
about the everyday things, child fancies, and lullabies. There are
three groups of poems: In the house; Outdoors at play; Twilight songs.
The illustrations are by Ruth Fuller Stevens. Many of the poems have
appeared in the Youth’s Companion, St Nicholas and Little Folks.
* * * * *
“Such quaint imagery greatly appeals to the dreamy child. The
illustrations by Ruth Fuller Stevens are especially charming and
nicely adapted to the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 160w
“Deserves to be noted for its naturalness and fidelity to childish
moods. It has a strong appeal to both old and young.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 70w
“Both verse and illustration have the subtle quality of imagination,
even when their theme sounds realistic. These poems are amusing to
children and well worth the attention of their elders.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 90w
=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay
on the Chinese written character. *$3.50 Boni & Liveright 814
20–8532
“A collection of criticisms and essays, with an essay by Fenollosa on
the Chinese written character, edited by Pound. There are short
sketches of the modern French poets with quotations; a detailed
appreciative criticism of Henry James and his works; another on Remy
de Gourmont; a group including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot Wyndham Lewis,
Lytton Strachey, the new poetry; essay by Jules Laforgue, an amusing
commentary on Genesis, a discussion of Arnaut Daniel and some sharp
raps at Greek translators, including Browning.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“An important point, however, about Mr Pound’s critical writings,
which has been generally neglected, is this: they do satisfy two very
conspicuous demands of the American public; the demand for
‘constructive criticism,’ and the demand for ‘first rate school
teaching.’” W. C. Blum
+ =Dial= 69:422 O ’20 900w
=Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 550w
“The ‘Instigations of Ezra Pound’ have this virtue—they badger and
bully us out of a state of intellectual backwardness.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 650w
− =N Y Times= 25:293 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Stimulating and provocative statements provide an intellectual shower
bath.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 320w
=POWELL, CHARLES.= Poets in the nursery. *$1.50 Lane 827
20–19194
To this collection of parodies on well-known poets, John Drinkwater
writes an introduction to the effect that although parodies are
usually a defilement of poetry and contemptible, these never outrage
our love of poetry but exercise it in a very friendly intimacy. Mr
Powell, he says, invariably catches his subject’s external manner with
easy precision, the underlying spiritual force never evades him and he
measures himself successfully against the poet’s impulse as well as
against its formal expression. While Mother Goose furnishes the
subjects the poets are: G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, Alfred Noyes, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, William Watson,
Austin Dobson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, W. E.
Henley, D. G. Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyám, Francis Thompson,
Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson.
* * * * *
“John Drinkwater’s introduction to ‘The poets in the nursery’ leads us
to expect work of high distinction, and though we find traces of
burlesque now and then, our expectations are realized.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 200w
=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= New frontiers of freedom, from the Alps to the
Ægean. il *$2.50 (5c) Scribner 914.9
20–7665
The author has traveled by motor car and by sea “from the Alps to the
Ægean, in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey,
Rumania, Hungary and Serbia” and gives his impressions of what he saw
in these countries during the year succeeding the armistice while they
and their people were in a state of political flux. “To have seen
millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty
like cattle which have been sold—these are sights the like of which
will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our
children” and, the author thinks, may serve to illustrate an important
chapter in history. Contents: Across the redeemed lands; The
borderland of Slav and Latin; The cemetery of four empires; Under the
cross and the crescent; Will the sick man of Europe recover? What the
peace-makers have done on the Danube; Making a nation to order. There
are numerous illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
“Major Powell gives an excellent description of d’Annunzio. He has
brought the same keenness of observation and ease of style to the
other portraits in this volume, which range from picturesque peasants
to exiled royalties. His treatment of the political situation in the
countries he visited is marked by clarity and fairness.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 500w
“This narrative is spirited and colorful throughout.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 80w
“A book as interesting as it is instructive.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 250w
=POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON=, ed. Social unrest. 2v $2.50 Review of reviews
co. 308
20–1056
“The two volumes entitled ‘The social unrest’ present the best current
thought of leading authorities as now focussed on the industrial and
social problems of the day. The opinions of President Wilson and
ex-president Taft are set forth side by side with those of Karl Marx,
Morris Hillquit and Sidney Webb. All schools of opinion have here at
least the privilege of utterance. The material has been edited and
coordinated by Dr Lyman P. Powell.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 60w
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 61:223 F ’20 200w
“We fear the editor’s somewhat hesitant attempt to link up these
pieces into something looking like a methodically arranged whole has
not been successful—at least we are unable to tell what the plan of
that arrangement really is. But it is the collection itself that
counts, and this is of great interest.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 280w
=POWER, RHODA.= Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. *$2 McBride 947
20–2711
“A record of domestic experiences in a bourgeois household in Rostov,
on the Don, during the old régime, the revolution, and the Bolshevik
occupation.”—Brooklyn
=Boston Transcript= p8 N 22 ’19 500w
=Brooklyn= 12:71 Ja ’20 30w
“A lively and readable little book.”
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ’19 30w
“An intimate, readable account of Bolshevism is presented in this
volume. The book is free from theorizing and statistics, but it tells
of the practical effect of Bolshevism on people who lived through the
first days of this sinister experiment.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:465 S 14 ’19 240w
“Miss Power has given us a series of vivid sketches. They are
impressionistic and full of power, but they must not be accepted as
descriptive of general conditions.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:204 Ag 30 ’19 120w
“An extremely vivid and interesting account of certain phases of the
Russian revolution from the pen of an eye-witness. One would like to
know how far this family, of the rich bourgeois type, was
representative of its class. If there were many others like it, the
appalling violence and bloodiness of the revolution cease to be matter
of wonder.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p224 Ap 24 ’19 700w
=PRATT, JAMES BISSETT.= Religious consciousness; a psychological study.
*$3.50 Macmillan 201
20–10634
“Professor Pratt’s point of view in the present volume is avowedly
scientific. He aims to describe the religious consciousness as it
presents itself for observation to the modern psychologist, that is to
say, without any attempt to press behind phenomena into the realm of
the unknown or the unknowable. An interesting feature of his treatment
is a constant use of the results of recent questionnaires sent out to
ascertain the present state of the religious consciousness among
various classes of Americans. He has studied the forms of
Protestantism in America. Roman Catholicism he has studied in Europe
and at home. Finally, he has made his pilgrimage through India, Burma,
and Ceylon, seeking initiation into the letter and the spirit of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism in mosque and shrine and temple,
from peasants, teachers, priests, and holy men. The last five chapters
of the book deal with mysticism.”—Nation
* * * * *
“‘The religious consciousness’ is a very good book. Dr Pratt knows his
subject and he knows how to write about it. There is hardly a dull
page in the nearly five hundred of this volume. Perhaps the most
valuable quality of the book is its quiet sanity.” R. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 360w
“His account of phenomena is remarkably fresh and instructive; and it
differs commendably from some of its predecessors in emphasizing
rather normal than exceptional types of experience.” S. P. Sherman
+ =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 250w
=PRENTICE, SARTELL.= Padre. *$2 Dutton 940.476
19–13304
“[This book tells the] experiences of a Red cross hospital chaplain of
the Dutch Reformed church, principally in Base hospital 101, at St
Nazaire and in Evacuation hospital 13 where wounded were received
straight from the battlefield. [It is] full of anecdotes revealing the
bravery of individuals, and the gratitude of the French people toward
Americans.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p16 F ’20 50w
“There is nothing particularly new in the narrative, although the fact
that it comes first-hand from one who saw and lived the awful scenes
he describes gives it a value of its own which cannot be gainsaid.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:516 O 5 ’19 500w
=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Silver Shoal light. il *$1.75 Century
20–16502
When Miss Joan Kirtland, who has left town very suddenly after a
disagreement with Mr Robert Sinclair, finds that the Harbor View house
cannot take her in, she is at a loss for a place to spend the night.
Captain ‘Bijah Dawson comes to her aid and suggests that the light
house people may take her in. As Captain ‘Bijah assured her, they are
“cur’ous folks,” Jim and Elspeth Pemberley and their little son Garth,
but their presence in this unusual situation is explained and Joan,
who had meant to stay a night, then a week, remains all summer. Joan,
who had thought she did not like children, is captivated by Garth and
at the end of the summer learns that Mr Sinclair is his Uncle Bob. Jim
Pemberley has aspirations toward the navy and there is a German spy
episode in the story.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Us and the bottle man. il *$1.50 Century
20–14292
The story of three delightful children who play pirates and send out a
message in a sealed bottle that brings a surprising answer and leads
to a pleasantly mysterious correspondence. And then events take a
serious turn. What had been play becomes reality and the “three poore
mariners” become castaways indeed for the length of one dreadful
night. Their rescuer is no less person than the Bottle man himself and
a war-time romance is at the same time brought to a happy culmination.
* * * * *
“Although somewhat adult in point of view, the mystery and adventure
will interest children from ten to twelve.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= On the path of adventure. il *$3.50 (5½c) Lane
940.48
20–11661
The author was war-artist correspondent for the Illustrated London
News. The present work is a record of his adventures in the early
months of the war, before the existence of war correspondents had been
“officially admitted.” The book, he says, “does not in any way claim
to be an addition to the formidable array of books on the technical
side of the war. It is, on the contrary, merely a narrative compiled
from the notes in my diary of a period during the early days of the
war when I was ‘out’ to get all the material I could.... As my
wanderings were entirely within the zone of operations, it is obvious
that the incidents I have described were always more or less connected
with the theatre of the war—but they were happenings rather behind the
scenes than on the actual battle-front.” The book is illustrated with
drawings from the author’s sketch book.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes
as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully
impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something
unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely
something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w
=Sat R= 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 50w
=PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH.= Sniping in France, with notes on the
scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword
by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44
(Eng ed 20–12124)
“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural
sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly
specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those
analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good
stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the
complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the
art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a
well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major
Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while
from the point of view of _moral_ to maintain an efficient body of
specialist snipers.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and
athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not
merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as
any detective story.”
+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 180w
“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general
reader.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 220w
“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales
and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader,
but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account
overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to
military science.”
+ =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p293 My 13 ’20 900w
=PRISONER of Pentonville=, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821
20–8220
Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in
London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in
varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his
wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others
recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol”
is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his
sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written
after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City
Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York,
writes a foreword.
* * * * *
“The emotional sincerity which constantly contrives to break through a
crust of indifferent and often absurd verse makes this series of
prison meditations a very interesting and moving human document.”
+ − =Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 80w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 950w
=PRITCHARD, MYRON THOMAS, and OVINGTON, MARY WHITE=, comps. Upward path;
with an introd. by Robert R. Moton. il *$1.35 Harcourt 810.8
20–16516
The foreword to this collection of readings for colored children says:
“To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and
poems by negro writers, which colored children could read with
interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the
traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, the
compilers have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses
which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product
of our negro writers.” All of the contributors to the volume are
negroes, among them Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E.
B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and others who have made names in
literature. In addition to these there are the less familiar names of
negro educators, social workers, ministers and lawyers, and there is
one explorer, Matthew Henson, who was with Peary at the Pole.
* * * * *
“The selections in it are ably chosen and present a great variety. But
more important is the fact that it must accomplish its intent. For
while giving pleasure, it will foster the love of tradition, and from
the evidences of past accomplishment, an honest racial pride.” M. E.
Bailey
+ =Bookm= 52:305 Ja ’21 140w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 360w
“A collection of stories and poems by negroes—many of them very good.
Perhaps whites can gain as much from it as can the blacks. The book
would be suitable for junior high schools.”
+ =English J= 9:549 N ’20 60w
=Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 170w
=PRYDE, ANTHONY.= Marqueray’s duel. *$2 (1½c) McBride
20–7060
Marqueray, to all appearances, was a globe-trotter and a sportsman. In
truth he was a secret spy in the employ of the British foreign office.
His knowledge stands him in good stead against a certain Lord
Marchmont, a millionaire Jew, implicated in illicit transactions in
South America. The latter has allowed a poor innocent Irish girl, in
reality Lady Marchmont, to consider herself duped by him and to be a
“fallen woman,” after he had turned her adrift. Phyllida is found and
rescued by Marqueray and his friend and cousin, Aubrey West. A romance
grows up between Phyllida and Marqueray, who naturally wants to
horsewhip Marchmont and free his beloved entirely from his clutches.
Before this can be done a political election and much intrigue,
involving West, intervene. In the end Marqueray is wounded by a shot
from Marchmont who himself succumbs to his vicious morphia habit. Some
fine touches of friendship and loyalty among men make one of the
features of the story.
* * * * *
“The story drags somewhat in places; but ... the book as a whole may
be read with a fair amount of satisfaction.”
+ − =Ath= p414 My 30 ’19 120w
“Very good work. Readers who liked Stephen McKenna’s ‘Sonia’ will
probably like this.”
+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“It is evidently Mr Pryde’s first novel, and it is far and above the
majority of ‘first novels.’ He writes with a good deal of style, and
his characterization is excellent to the least important actor on his
London stage.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 540w
“The book is exceedingly well written, with a steady succession of
incidents, always logical and never loosening their hold on the
interest. The book is a long one, but it never becomes tedious.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Isabel Juergens
+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 260w
“A very clever romance.”
+ =Sat R= 128:346 O 11 ’19 100w
“It is decidedly melodramatic, but the melodrama is well done.”
+ =Spec= 123:154 Ag 2 ’19 30w
“The author displays much ability for character portraiture. As a
romanticist he is not so capable.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
=PRZYBYSZEWSKI, STANISLAW.= Snow. *$1.50 Brown, N. L. 891.85
20–4039
“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated
into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife
are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with
the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with
her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is
an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic,
would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is
disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted
for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained
interest.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 220w
“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish
original, are somewhat lost in translation.”
+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 50w
“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from
a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely
hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But
action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The
characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and
love and die equally without motivation.”
− + =Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for
artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 100w
“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from
doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so
pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the
western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times
profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of
power.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 230w
=PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.=[2] Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed.
by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt
20–22545
The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My
reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist,
archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired
on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of
Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and
those portions of the original work have been selected that are most
interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to
make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 130w
=PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P.= Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand
621.43
(Eng ed 20–18166)
“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel
engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended
to present an account of the main considerations which control the
design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition
to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most
naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for
example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the
following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First
principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The
principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders
and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system;
Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure
illustrations.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 80w
=PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER=, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il
*$2.50 Putnam 902
19–16001
In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought
down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under
the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are
added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the
peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events
subsequent to August 1, 1914.
=PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).=[2] It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–19578
Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of
the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her
family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement
inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his
daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will
result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement
includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of
which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches”
does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting
course, true love runs smoothly at last.
* * * * *
“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 80w
“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how
each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author
ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 9 ’21 650w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street,
Boston, are much the best of the book.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 140w
=PYLE, KATHARINE.=[2] Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little
20–19078
This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore
translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are:
White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The
wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden
horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady
of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted
waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the
mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech;
Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful
Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The
twelve months—Czech.
Q
=QUENNELL, MARJORIE, and QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE.= History of
everyday things in England. v 2 il *$4.50 (v 1 and 2 in one volume *$9)
Scribner 914.2
(Eng ed 19–6495)
“The second volume of a history which applies real historical research
to the making of children’s books. As in the first book the authors
have described changes in building, furniture, dress, and games as
‘history in stone, wood, and fabrics.’ It is their desire to present
work as a ‘joyous sort of business’ which shall give boys and girls
the desire to take the pains with their labors which distinguished the
craftsmen. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 90w
“Charming volume.”
+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
“This second part is not nearly so good as its predecessor. Its
authors have been spoilt by success, and the latter pages of the book
in particular show, to put it mildly, signs of haste. The first
chapter, on the sixteenth century, is the best.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 1150w
“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and
those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be
given.”
+ =Spec= 124:145 Ja 31 ’20 1000w
=QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.=[2] English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29
Broadway, N.Y. 817
20–6982
“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s
irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston
a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very
extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted
by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed
to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles
Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent
supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two
portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of
Poe’s style.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 260w
“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody.
Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and
entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this
foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every
collector of Dickens or of Poe.”
+ − =Nation= 111:382 O 6 ’20 410w
=N Y Times= p9 Ag 1 ’20 2800w
“Unfortunately, the attribution of the work to Poe is sustained by
neither internal nor external evidence.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 S 16 ’20 600w
=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS (Q., pseud.).= On the art of reading.
*$2.75 Putnam 028
20–16869
The spirit of the volume can perhaps best be illustrated by two
extracts from the preface: “The real battle for English lies in our
elementary schools, and in the training of our elementary teachers. It
is there that the foundations of a sound national teaching in English
will have to be laid, as it is there that a wrong trend will lead to
incurable issues,” and “that a liberal education is not an appendage
to be purchased by the few; that humanism is, rather, a quality which
can, and should, condition all our teaching; which can, and should, be
impressed as a character upon it all, from a poor child’s first lesson
in reading up to a tutor’s last word to his pupil on the eve of a
tripos.” Contents: Apprehension versus comprehension; Children’s
reading; On reading for examinations; On a school of English; The
value of Greek and Latin in English literature; On reading the Bible;
On selection; On the use of masterpieces; Index.
* * * * *
“We find it as hard to conceive that undergraduates did not enjoy
hearing these lectures on ‘The art of reading’ as that ‘Q’ did not
enjoy delivering them. The elements of an ideal professor were always
in him. To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in
literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport,
save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to
few. ‘Q’ is among them.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p234 Ag 20 ’20 2000w
“Especially useful to elementary teachers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 50w
“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in
perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have
met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly,
so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of
his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously
he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the
pedagog.” M. J. Moses
+ =N Y Times= p5 Ja 2 ’21 2650w
“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the
subject characterize the volume.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
=Sat R= 130:219 S 11 ’20 1500w
+ =Spec= 125:472 O 9 ’20 1050w
“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the
long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor
of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King
Edward VII professor?”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 6 ’21 570w
“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the
interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His
are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an
ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their
form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of
facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe
the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The
lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their
printed form.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 S 2 ’20 3350w
R
=RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE).= New children;
talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4
20–15392
The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori
system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into
child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that
with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the
psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in
England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr
Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis;
The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the
new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson;
Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A
new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children;
The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the
book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually
sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not
necessarily final.”
+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative.
Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any
criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite
wanton and unnecessary.”
+ − =Spec= 124:619 My 8 ’20 900w
“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat
hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is
brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration
rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey
+ − =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 510w
=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI,
pseud.).= Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920
20–9932
These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the
book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and
Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the
book is well illustrated.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 350w
“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of
the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a
light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the
American reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 18 ’20 490w
=RAEBURN, HAROLD.= Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796
“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the
broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to
the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the
outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in
many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of
rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every
published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the
principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The
book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering;
Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles.
The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth
Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and
index.
* * * * *
“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His
remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert
and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes
with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges
have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new
and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from
redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn
+ − =Ath= p579 O 29 ’20 1050w
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 250w
“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment.
The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their
instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes
with conviction and refreshing candour.”
+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 900w
“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has
done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which
sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and
mountaineering.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 Ag 19 ’20 820w
=RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA=, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces.
4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7
20–18302
A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of
presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove
acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of
Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in
each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes
biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin
and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof,
Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin,
Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen
Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.
* * * * *
“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of
dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever
got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and
accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 500w
“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of
Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the
collection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 180w
=RAGSDALE, LULAH.= Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner
20–11498
“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly
and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of
Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter,
were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard
work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though
Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of
their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in
action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and
not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of
‘light reading’ for a summer day.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 390w
“An excellent story for young people.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w
=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.=[2] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–19181
This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners,
whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of
Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very
heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but
the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here.
There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry
Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there
is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All
these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the
drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for
the deserving.
* * * * *
“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest
scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just
the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 190w
“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he
knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w
“The story has ‘punch.’”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w
=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–6711
A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war.
Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen,
gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a
well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been
promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours
after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford
Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and
outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican
and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack
puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures
have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the
winning of Ramona.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn
material.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w
“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 100w
=RAINSFORD, W. H.=[2] That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane
20–20431
Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his
mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her
family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And
now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old
home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his
aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on
reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith
March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation
with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that
his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his
mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn
and it ends well.
* * * * *
“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first
novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr
Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The
only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a
trifle.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 240w
“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is
simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends
cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much
description.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w
“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the
seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults
as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations
being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes
possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip
Gray.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 510w
=RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR.= From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred
and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373
20–2288
The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th
regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction
calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He
also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy
activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly
trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and
photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate
from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the
introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and
two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the
British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval;
Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The
surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home
trail; Appendix.
* * * * *
“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is
the antithesis of war.”
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 850w
+ =Cath World= 112:116 O ’20 370w
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 200w
“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear,
expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing
sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the
maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in
books about the war.”
+ =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 460w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 170w
=RAMSAY, ROBERT E.= Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659
20–2516
A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and
publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title) Chapter one describes
a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a
month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly
or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise
which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house
organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying
principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part
2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in
applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of
appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject
of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.”
There is an index.
* * * * *
“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:228 Ap ’20
“His style is easy and readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge
of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 220w
=RAPEER, LOUIS WIN=, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner
379.17
20–4557
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and contains
articles by leading specialists and successful workers in this field.
Its object is to elucidate the general aim of the consolidated school:
social efficiency, with its subordinate aims of vital, vocational,
avocational, civic, moral efficiency. It shows how the new method
fosters cooperation, and socialization, how children may be physically
and mentally changed by suitable methods and how the consolidated
school can furnish opportunity for a school farm, homes for teachers
and a community centre. The first chapter, National and rural
consolidation, and many of the subsequent chapters are by the editor,
Louis W. Rapeer. Other chapters are: The American rural school, by
Philander P. Claxton; Community organization and consolidation, by
Warren H. Wilson; Rural economics and consolidation, by T. N. Carver;
The growth of consolidation, and Transportation of pupils at public
expense, by A. C. Monahan; A visit to a consolidated school, and The
country girl and the consolidated school, by Katherine M. Cook;
Methods and facts of consolidation, by W. S. Fogarty; The difficulties
of consolidation, by L. J. Hanifan. The book is indexed and has a
bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
“The book is to be commended on its attempt to use the problem
approach to the various topics.”
+ =El School J= 21:231 N ’20 450w
=School R= 28:796 D ’20 240w
=RASHDALL, HASTINGS.= Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Bampton
lectures, 1915) *$5.50 Macmillan 232.3
20–9571
“Mr Rashdall traces the history of the doctrine of the atonement down
from its pre-Christian origins through the New Testament, and then by
way of the Apostolic fathers, the Latin theology, the Schoolmen, and
the Reformers down to modern times. His main interest lies in the
controversy between the subjective and the objective types of
atonement doctrines.”—Nation
* * * * *
− =Ath= p412 Mr 26 ’20 420w
“Even so competent and scholarly a discussion as this of Mr Rashdall’s
carries with it a suggestion of belonging to a stage which we have
left behind us. Those who are acquainted with Mr Rashdall’s work will
find the sincerity and thoroughness of discussion which they have
learned to expect from him.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“This is one of the most important theological works that have
appeared for more than a generation. Its quality is scientific.”
+ =Spec= 124:311 Mr 6 ’20 1750w
“It is probably the most important constructive treatise on systematic
theology which has been published by an English divine during the
present century. Parts of it will be found difficult by readers who
are not experts in theology, for it deals with problems of great
complexity. But it is both subtle and lucid; it is a unity and not
patchwork; and, as compared with the reticence of some fairly recent
work, it is remarkably outspoken.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 Ap 22 ’20 1550w
=RASKIN, PHILIP M.= Songs and dreams. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
20–9428
In a foreword the author tells something of the conditions under which
his poems have been written. He learned English after the age of
nineteen, published his first book of verse in English, with an
introduction by Israel Zangwill, in London in 1914, and has since come
to New York where he now makes his home. The poems are in five groups:
Love and longing; Autumn flowers; Echoes of exile; Chequered shadow;
The dawn of a nation. Some of the poems in the third group, such as To
free Russia (1917), The Torah and “No news” are racial in theme, but
the one purely Jewish section of the book is the concluding one,
devoted to the Zionist ideal.
* * * * *
“Despite Israel Zangwill’s opinion that ‘the best of Mr Raskin’s poems
might have been written by Robert Browning,’ there is much in them
that is merely ‘pretty work’—though the same thing might be said,
heaven knows, of the famous Victorian poet. In fact, the first of this
volume, dealing, as it does, with love, is fairly puerile. But toward
the end of the volume we happen upon a collection of poems entitled
‘The dawn of a nation’ which contains one or two verses worth while.
The one poem which makes the collection notable is that called ‘After
the British declaration.’”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w
=RAVEN, CHARLES E.= Christian socialism, 1848–1854. *$6.50 Macmillan
335.7
“This work is based on the Donellan lectures delivered by the author,
who is dean of Emmanuel college, Cambridge, at Trinity college,
Dublin, in May, 1919. It traces the ‘Christian socialist’ movement
from its origin in the reaction against the ‘laissez faire’ principles
of the early 19th century to the apparent failure of the effects of
Maurice, Neale and Ludlow in 1853, after the passing of Slaney’s act,
which gave recognition to the cooperative movement. The concluding
chapter deals with the ‘Foundation of the working men’s college’ after
the breakdown of the earlier hopes of the Christian socialists.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole is a genuine contribution to English economic
history and will doubtless be received as such. Mr Raven would have
been a little more convincing in some parts if he had been less
profuse in praising his heroes and at the same time had shown more
charity for Mrs Sidney Webb and other critics of the Christian
Socialists.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup247 F 9 ’21 410w
“Mr Raven’s contribution to the history of economics is valuable, and
has obviously entailed much research. But he does not go deeply enough
into the philosophic and historic interrelation of things, such as the
relation of socialism to liberalism, or to anarchism, or to naturalism
and supernaturalism.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:397 N 13 ’20 1700w
+ − =Spec= 125:405 S 25 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 100w
“Mr Raven has found a good subject for a book and has studied it
industriously. The best part of his book is his account of the men who
made the movement, especially of Ludlow, a man far less known than he
deserves to be. But it is a pity that he tries to exalt his heroes by
depreciating every one else.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 S 16 ’20 2100w
=RAYMOND, E. T.= All and sundry. *$2.25 (3½c) Holt 920
(Eng ed 20–6135)
The book consists of a collection of striking pen pictures of
prominent contemporaries in politics and letters, as seen through a
brilliant and witty man’s eyes. The author’s avowed object is to show
the “accredited hero,” as he really is and not in the effulgence of a
halo. Among the sketches are: President Wilson; Georges Clemenceau;
John Burns; G. K. Chesterton; Sir Eric Geddes; Dean Inge; Rudyard
Kipling; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Smillie; Harold Begbie; Lord
Robert Cecil.
* * * * *
=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 60w
+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible
form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any
comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be
good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some
recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“He is particularly good in his vivid sketches of John Burns, G. K.
Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Smillie, and Lord Robert Cecil.”
+ =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 150w
“The inside analyst should be in a class by himself, and generally is.
Mr Raymond demonstrated that he was one of the leaders of that class
in ‘Uncensored celebrities,’ and ‘All and sundry’ is merely the second
volume.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 S 12 ’20 2200w
“His second volume of character sketches is a worthy companion of his
first. No one will maintain that the portraits are all equally
successful, that all are speaking likenesses.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 1450w
“Entertaining and chatty essays.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 130w
“A mind full of ideas and a flowing pen are as exhilarating a
combination as a wet sheet and a flowing sea. But they tend to run
away with one. ‘All and sundry’ does—or do—not escape this danger. Nor
does it altogether escape the contagion of war-time opinion. But it is
a refreshing volume.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 1100w
“No man can seriously pretend that he is able to write with equal
authority on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, President Wilson, M.
Clemenceau, the Bishop of London, Mr Hilaire Belloc, Sir Thomas
Beecham, and Mr Frank Brangwyn—to take only a few names at random.
Another unfortunate thing for Mr Raymond is that in his ‘Uncensored
celebrities’ he had picked out the largest plums. However, even here
Mr Raymond has his effective flashes, for he is a clever draughtsman
with the pen, especially upon political subjects. There is real
humour, as well as observation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p729 D 11 ’19 950w
=RAYMOND, E. T.= Life of Arthur James Balfour. il *$3 Little
20–20922
“Most distinct as an individual, Mr Arthur James Balfour belongs to an
easily recognisable type, represented both in England and France by a
number of statesmen who owe their fame less to any specific
performance than to the impression created by their intellectual
brilliance.... He has always been credited with an indefinable
superiority over his performances. They have been notable; but it is
vaguely felt that the man is more notable still; in the midst of his
greatest failures he was more interesting than other men in their most
triumphant success. With others the “might-have-been” is a reproach:
with men like Mr Balfour it is a tribute: they please in
disappointing.” (Chapter I) The book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Wit, irony, detachment—these a writer must have if he is to ‘do’ Mr
Balfour, and Mr Raymond has them. Why then does he leave us
unsatisfied? At bottom, we think, because he does not bring the
philosopher and the politician into any real relation.” S. W.
+ − =Ath= p808 D 10 ’20 1050w
+ =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
“His book is not ‘A life’ in any vital sense; it being a mere
enlargement of a ‘Who’s who’ entry, with a few comments and quotations
thrown in. There are, to be sure, some bright and witty things in the
book.” F. P. H.
− + =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 520w
“Concise and serviceable biography.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 110w
“Mr ‘Raymond’s’ biography of Mr Balfour is an entertaining book. He
states the facts fairly, and his comments are lively and on the whole
sympathetic. But the author is obviously conscious of difficulties.”
+ =Spec= 125:856 D 25 ’20 780w
“He has not, in spite of the claim put forward in the title, produced
what is commonly understood by a biography. The study is, in the first
place, limited to a single aspect of Mr Balfour’s many-sided
personality, and, in the second place, objective; but to say that is,
by no means, to deny that it is worth reading. Within its limitations,
it is brilliantly clever.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 900w
=RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING.=[2] Ethics and natural law. *$2 Putnam 171
20–11578
“Intuitionalism is restated and made to account for all our ethical
judgments. Conscience is asserted to be the basis of obligation, and
the whole ethical problem is treated on psychological basis, as a
conflict of the desires of the mind and of the body. All the
particular problems treated, among them courtship and marriage, social
pleasures, commercial and business relations, government, are solved
by the exhortation to keep the mind’s desires uppermost.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 140w
“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge of the
history of ethical thought by reading the book, especially the first
twelve chapters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p862 D 16 ’20 440w
=READE, WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT.= Revolt of labour against civilization.
*$1 (*3s) Longmans 331
(Eng ed 20–9138)
“The author’s main thesis we shall best summarize in his own
words:—‘Progress in civilization does always and everywhere manifest
the working of a single and fundamental law—the greater the necessity
of things, the smaller their importance.’ To pass on to the
application of his thesis to the present situation, we find him in
whole-hearted opposition to the ideal, as he conceives it, of
Bolshevism, and the labour movement in general. In this he detects the
main and imminent danger to civilization. The conflict between the
Allies and the Germans was, he holds, of comparatively minor
importance, not because he defends or justifies our enemies, but
because he discovers no plain or clear-cut conflict of principle. The
real danger he descries in the attempt, on the part of the so-called
working-class, to evade or reverse his fundamental law of
civilization, to make the satisfaction of the most primitive needs the
only social activity of any value or deserving of any reward.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p1410 D 26 ’19 100w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w
“Mr Reade has no specific remedy to propose: that indeed is a merit of
his essay, which is intended to make the reader think furiously, and
which achieves its purpose.”
+ =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 200w
=Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 300w
“Mr Reade’s book is one that provokes to disagreement; but for all
that, perhaps even because of it, it demands to be read. After all,
mere assent or dissent matters little compared with the pleasure to be
derived from contact with so vigorous and sincere an intellect, and
though we may traverse every one of his conclusions, it is with the
sense that Mr Reade is, at least in spirit, on the side of the
angels.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p728 D 11 ’19 1350w
=READE, WINWOOD.= Martyrdom of man; with an introd. by F. Legge. *$2.50
Dutton 909
“This book was published in 1872. Its author’s first intention was to
write on the part which Africa had played in the world’s story. But
the conception grew under his hands until it became a full-fledged
philosophy of history. His guiding principle of explanation is given
in the last pages of the book. ‘I give to universal history a strange
but true title—“The martyrdom of man.” In each generation the human
race has been tortured that their children might profit by their
woes.’ The successive stages in this painful upward struggle he
designates as war, religion, liberty, and intellect, and to each of
them he devotes a section of his book. But another stage is yet to be
traversed: we must in the interests of right thinking rid ourselves
forever of anthropomorphic religion. It was mainly owing to Reade’s
attack on Christianity that his book was passed over in disdainful
silence by so many. ‘The martyrdom of man’ has now reached its
twenty-first edition.”—Review
* * * * *
“Everything is made simple and clear with a few bold strokes, and the
multiplicity of the trees never obscures the woods. The lively style
is an added stimulus to the reader, for the author possessed an
undeniable talent for direct and forcible statement. When he becomes
enthusiastic in his narrative he can revivify the past as tellingly as
Macaulay, whom he resembles also in the crispness of his sentences.”
W. K. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1000w 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20
=RECOULY, RAYMOND.= Foch: the winner of the war. *$3 (4½c) Scribner
20–3252
This volume has been translated from the French by Mary Cadwalader
Jones. The author has been closely associated with Marshal Foch as a
brother-in-arms and in his estimation the co-ordinated military talent
in the Allied leaders found its highest expression “in the keen
intelligence and strategic genius of their generalissimo—Foch.” The
account of Foch’s career in the great war is preceded by a short
description of his family and earlier life. Contents: Some glimpses of
Foch; His family and his career; His lectures at the Ecole de guerre;
In command of the twentieth army corps; At the head of the ninth army;
The pursuit and the check; The battle of Flanders; The French
offensive of 1915; Verdun; The Somme; A visit to Foch; The change of
command; Foch, generalissimo; The widening battle; Illustrations,
maps, index.
* * * * *
“While Captain Recouly’s is not a very inspiring study of one of the
few men of undoubted military genius in the late war, it does help the
reader to some understanding of the man and to make clearer to him the
battles fought by Foch.”
+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 230w
=Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 4 ’20 450w
=REED, EARL H.=[2] Tales of a vanishing river. il *$3 (5c) Lane
20–22228
The river was the Kankakee, near the southern end of Lake Michigan,
and once the main confluent of the Illinois. Once it lapped its
leisurely course with many ramifications through low marsh lands,
teeming with natural beauty and bird life, the home of the Miami and
Pottowattomie Indians. Now the Indians and the beauty and the birds
are gone and a mighty ditch of straight-channelled course has drained
away the marshes. The book is an attempt at the interpretation of the
life along the river that has vanished and is illustrated with
sketches by the author. The contents are: The vanishing river; The
silver arrow; The brass bound box; The “Wether book” of Buck Granger’s
grandfather; Tipton Posey’s store; Muskrat Hyatt’s redemption; The
turkey club; The predicaments of Colonel Peets; His unlucky star.
* * * * *
“All have a rich flavor of newness, of freshness, of originality.” E.
J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 15 ’21 620w
“When you establish yourself in front of a wood fire in an easy chair
with an hour or two of leisure to look forward to, an excellent book
to have at hand is ‘Tales of a vanishing river.’”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 100w
“Mr Reed writes with a queer, mellow philosophy and humor and in a
gently meandering style which seems to recapture something of the
slow, placid course of the river whose loss he mourns.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 8 ’21 230w
“They are invariably quaint and whimsical. Perhaps the most diverting
is ‘The “wether book” of Buck Granger’s grandfather.’ Like the
companion volume on the dunes of Lake Michigan, this work is rather
unusual in character and invariably entertaining.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 420w
=REES, ARTHUR JOHN.= Hand in the dark. *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–13345
A house party at an English country home is going on. The guests are
at dinner when they are startled by a woman’s shriek of horror,
followed by the report of a pistol. They flock upstairs, to find Mrs
Heredith, a bride of three months, the victim of murder. The police
start investigations which result in the arrest of Hazel Rath, the
daughter of the housekeeper. Altho she pleads innocence there are many
suspicious things in her conduct which she refuses to explain. Philip
Heredith, husband of the murdered girl, does not believe her guilty,
and hires a private detective, who suspects Captain Nepcote, a house
guest at the time of the murder. Then, from an unexpected quarter,
comes a clue to the actual criminal, who had planned his crime with
such diabolical skill and cunning, aided by chance, that it was only
by as strange a chance that he was ever discovered.
* * * * *
“A detective story above the average, though to some readers it will
seem too long drawn out and to others too tragic.”
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“The details are rather gruesome, but the plot is one of the best of
the year.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w
“Mr Rees has set before the reader a mystery whose blind and baffling
qualities are likely to puzzle and lead astray the most astute and
skillful of lovers of detective fiction. For the author writes well,
with a good, forceful, interesting style, makes graphic and pleasing
pictures of his background, and puts vitality and individuality into
the delineation of his characters.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 620w
“The book is better written than the average crime tale.”
+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 50w
“In this detective story the murderer is really ingenious, and will
not easily be discovered. Mr Rees has spent too much time at the
beginning in picturing old-world details, and elsewhere by being
‘literary’ he delays the action of the story which is everything in a
tale of this sort.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:525 D 25 ’20 130w
“Mr Rees spins us with deft entanglements another of his first-class
mystery yarns.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 80w
=REES, BYRON JOHNSON=, ed. Modern American prose selections. $1 (1c)
Harcourt 810.8
20–10539
A selection of some twenty examples of modern American prose. The
compiler’s aim has been to bring together examples of “typical
contemporary prose, in which writers who know whereof they write
discuss certain present-day themes in readable fashion.” Among the
selections are: Abraham Lincoln, by Theodore Roosevelt; American
tradition, by Franklin K. Lane; Our future immigration policy, by
Frederic C. Howe; A new relationship between capital and labor, by
John D. Rockefeller, jr.; My uncle, by Alvin Johnson; When a man comes
to himself, by Woodrow Wilson; The education of Henry Adams, by Carl
Becker; The struggle for an education, by Booker T. Washington;
Traveling afoot, by John Finley; Old boats, by Walter Prichard Eaton.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
=REID, FORREST.= Pirates of the spring. *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–26325
The story is of a boy, Beach Traill, not clever at books, but of
unusual integrity of character, and of his friends. They are all at
the same school, three of them, and a fourth has recently been added
as a sort of disturbing element. This fourth is Evans, a handsome,
intellectual, timid lad, a bit off-caste socially, and somewhat
lacking in manly spirit and upstanding courage. Troubles come, partly
through bad influence, partly through irrepressible animal spirits,
but the boys’ uprightness finds a way out. Beach wins out with his
widowed mother and against a suitor of hers whom he detests. Beach and
Miles fight it out in fierce battle which rivets their friendship.
Palmer, the most clever, subtle and daring of the three, holds his own
through his strong sense of justice, and it is in him that Beach
eventually discovers, with an exuberant sense of happiness, his real
friend.
* * * * *
=Ath= p338 Mr 12 ’20 500w
“There is no climax in the story, but only the flow of everyday
happenings, no progress but the development of the boys’ characters;
and the whole is told in a narrative of quiet beauty.”
+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
“Lovers of boys will appreciate the sympathetic understanding of Mr
Reid’s portraying. The story gives added pleasure in its descriptions
of the countryside and is altogether an artistic delight.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 360w
“The narrative is of a singular though very quiet beauty—a beauty
gained partly by the writer’s marvellous closeness to his subject,
partly by his cool tenderness, partly by his sense of the almost pagan
interpenetration of nature and the lives of his characters.”
+ =Nation= 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“‘Pirates of the spring’ is less a story than a study of character
development during the troubled and turbulent years of adolescence, a
study handled delicately and sympathetically; with much subtlety and
many deft touches of humor. It is of course admirably written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 400w
=Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 500w
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“One thinks of this book with Richard Pryce’s ‘Christopher,’ Hugh
Walpole’s ‘Jeremy’ and E. F. Benson’s ‘David Blaize.’ But
discriminating taste will accord a higher degree of artistry to Mr
Reid’s work than to the efforts of these able delineators of
adolescent boyhood. The mentality and philosophy of boyhood are an
open book to Mr Reid.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 600w
“The boys are boys, and not merely the mouthpieces of ideas.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Mr 11 ’20 220w
=REIK, HENRY OTTRIDGE.=[2] Tour of America’s national parks. il *$4
Dutton 711
20–18059
“Colonel Reik’s book brings out the distinctive features of the
greatest of these western parks. He shows that no two of them are
alike, that each is worth seeing on its own account. While he has not
attempted to write a guide book in the ordinary sense of the term, his
chapters contain much of the kind of information that is sought in
guide books and that will be found indispensable to anyone attempting
a tour of the parks for the first time.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p30 O 23 ’20 270w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 100w
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 160w
=REPINGTON, CHARLES À COURT.= First world war, 1914–1918. 2v *$12
Houghton 940.48
20–22246
“Colonel Repington in two stout volumes has recorded his ‘personal
experience’ of the great war, and in so doing has given to the public
the first of the great books of the war that is not simply military,
political or diplomatic, but a combination of each that is focused on
the personal activity and relationship of a single individual who was
behind the scenes and in touch with almost every phase of the war.
These pages of personal experiences during the war are a ‘contribution
towards the elucidation of the truth so far as I was able to ascertain
it at the time, and will, I hope, enable many to understand better the
events of these memorable years,’ Colonel Repington declares. They are
given from his diaries as he scrupulously kept them, recording the
most trivial incidents innocently tucked away in some social
engagement of chance meeting of soldiers, statesmen, journalists, or
comments of the larger events which followed each other with such
amazing rapidity.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Colonel Repington is, in fact, so simple that we cannot take any
interest in him. His views on the war, in any important sense, are
negligible. The only portions of his diary of any interest are his
items of political and military information and the light he throws on
prominent personages connected with the war. For the rest, and except
when his professional interests are awakened and he gives lists of
troops and ‘wastage’ figures, the whole diary is at the gossip level.”
− + =Ath= p436 O 1 ’20 1250w
=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 1150w
“Colonel Repington moves between a bloodbath and a stale spittoon, and
is apparently prouder of dipping his pen in the latter than in the
former.” Shane Leslie
− =Dial= 59:64 D ’20 1050w
“The book is a curiosity. We have not been able to find in it the
slightest evidence that Col. Repington, viewing the supreme tragedy of
secular history, was even remotely aware of its human implications. He
could observe a world convulsed, and report upon it without
compassion, without gravity, without understanding.” Lawrence Gilman
− =Freeman= 2:499 F 2 ’21 1800w
“As a diarist he is intimate and unaffected and racy and explicit like
Pepys, and he is almost as disconcertingly complete.”
+ =Nation= 111:786 D 29 ’20 320w
“The self-assurance of Colonel Repington is to be noted. It is to that
self-assurance, plus his vanity, that we owe this monumental book. But
if we do not get too weary of his ‘practically no English articles are
read and discussed except mine,’ we may find illumination—most of it
unintentional—in his accounts of his work running to and fro between
the generals, the politicians and the press.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 24:274 N 10 ’20 3500w
“He has produced an extraordinarily interesting gossip-book which will
doubtless be widely read and extensively commented upon. It is
apparent from the briefest characterization of this amazing book that
it is on the delineation of society in the war that the readers will
linger longest. It is one long indiscretion.” W. C. Abbott
− + =N Y Evening Post= p2 N 27 ’20 1350w
“To an American reader the chief criticism to be made of all these
accounts of luncheons, dinners and concerts in the company of the rich
and fashionable is that they are intolerably wearisome. Colonel
Repington continually speaks of the play of wit in these high circles,
but gives very few examples of it.”
+ − =N Y Times= p1 O 24 ’20 2400w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 340w
“In short, his tendency to take his hostesses overseriously, apart
from some waste of space, does little to impair the value of an
enlightening book. His taste may be a bit at fault but rarely his
judgment.”
+ =Review= 3:559 D 8 ’20 800w
“This is the best book on the war that has appeared, and we hope it is
the last. Everybody is sick of the war, its horrors and its squabbles,
and wants to forget it. The excellence of the book consists in its
twofold claim on our attention. There is the exhaustive criticism of
the conduct of the war by a military expert of European reputation:
and there is the picture of manners in that section of society ruled
by American women, drawn by one who lived in its favour.”
+ =Sat R= 130:260 S 25 ’20 1450w
“Go into a shady part of the garden, or better still, into a damp
shrubbery and lift up some big flat stone. Underneath you will find a
quantity of crawling creatures, disturbed by the light so suddenly let
in upon them.... Such a garden adventure recurs irresistibly to the
mind as one reads Colonel Repington’s diary of the war years.... As to
the enlightenment which his book should bring in regard to the way in
which public affairs are too often handled, as to the advantages of
the lessons to be learnt, and finally as to the value of this first
step in the reform which comes with knowledge, we have no doubt
whatever.”
+ =Spec= 125:434 O 2 ’20 2900w
=REPPLIER, AGNES.= Points of friction. *$1.75 (4c) Houghton 814
20–19680
Essays reprinted from periodicals. Six have appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, two in the Century, one in the Yale Review and one in the
Nation. Contents: Living in history; Dead authors; Consolations of the
conservative; The cheerful clan; The beloved sinner; The virtuous
Victorian; Woman enthroned; The strayed prohibitionist; Money; Cruelty
and humour.
* * * * *
“Keen and original, upholding recognized standards.”
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“I find myself liking best the essay on ‘Dead authors,’ because it
gives us more of the humor we have come to look for in Miss Repplier’s
presentment of human error. But I confess myself at a disadvantage in
dealing with her: I have almost never found myself failing to agree
with her on any essential point, and my appreciation is apt to take
the form of gratitude for the distinguished expression of what would
seem to civilized people to be obvious.” K. F. Gerould
+ =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 290w
“Miss Repplier upholds many wholesome truths which in these days seem
in danger of oblivion, and her ironic shaft pierces many a sham notion
high in popular esteem. The noble art of the essay suffers at her
hands neither diminution nor dishonor. ‘Points of friction’ is a
stimulating and eminently readable book.”
+ =Cath World= 112:386 D ’20 680w
“A halfscore of the delightfully keen-witted and observant papers
which Miss Repplier is kind enough to write from time to time for the
enjoyment of appreciative readers. They are always welcome and
invariably worth while.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
“It would not be amiss to call Miss Repplier the Chesterton of
America. Both are Tories of a sort, lovers of the good things mankind
has found by long toil and is now so childishly anxious to discard.”
+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 400w
“Miss Repplier’s essays are sound in workmanship and sound but not
granitic in thought. Not often does finished and pungent phrasing
serve merely as a covering for thin or tawdry ideas. Usually there is
an edge to the thought, and it will be found suggestive to those who
may not accept all its implications.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 10 ’21 680w
=REW, SIR ROBERT HENRY.= Food supplies in peace and war. *$2.25 (*6s 6d)
Longmans 338
20–4724
“In this essay, Sir Henry Rew considers briefly the world’s supply and
demand and the extent to which the United Kingdom met its own demands
for food before and during the war, and then discusses the outlook now
that the war is ended.... [He concludes] that the cries of ‘Famine!’
are wide of the mark, inasmuch as nature, upon which the recovery of
agriculture mainly depends, never goes on strike. He thinks that after
the harvest of 1921 Europe will be producing as much food as before.
He evidently believes that the Germans are deliberately exaggerating
their troubles. He defines the British nation’s interest in
agriculture as two-fold—to secure the maximum quantity of food, and to
maintain the maximum number of persons on the land. He points out that
insurance against famine caused by war implies not only a large wheat
crop, but also a large stock of cattle, since milk and fat are as
necessary as bread. He concludes with a reminder of the importance of
the human factor in agriculture and the necessity for a life of wider
scope and variety in the villages.”—Spec
* * * * *
“A very sane and reasonable discussion of the food problem.” T. N.
Carver
+ =Am Econ R= 10:590 S ’20 260w
“It is written in popular style and in this lies its real value.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 80w
“This book is not very big, but it is full of information and of
sagacious comments on the facts set out for the reader’s benefit.”
+ =Ath= p428 Mr 26 ’20 160w
“Sir Henry Rew has the happy and unusual faculty of making statistics
interesting. The book was badly needed, for it is highly important
that the average man should realise the facts.” E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 105:320 My 13 ’20 950w
+ =Spec= 124:464 Ap 3 ’20 250w
“The book is stimulating, authoritative and well worth reading.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 440w
=REYMONT, WLADYSLAW STANISLAW.=[2] Comédienne. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–20943
The story is translated from the Polish by Edmund Obecny and relates
the fate of a young actress. Janina Orlowski is driven from home by an
insanely tyrannical father, whose choice of a husband she has refused.
Her ambition is to become an actress and she goes to Warsaw and is
taken on by a third-rate company. Her experiences there are a series
of disillusionments, the actors she meets are not interested in art
but are a sordid, coarse lot. She falls into dire poverty and on the
verge of starvation and about to become a mother, she commits suicide.
* * * * *
“It is almost inconceivable that the novel has lost anything in
translating, so delightfully lyric are the descriptions of the Polish
countryside, so poignant the characterization, so diverting the
dialogue.” W. T. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 770w
=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Also Ran.
*$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–19180
Jacynth Pennant had spent her early life away from her home, having
been adopted as a baby by an aunt. When she returned to it as a young
lady, she found an air of mystery enveloping everything. Her father,
though affectionate, was unhappy and worried. The neighborhood had not
ceased talking about the murder of Guy Warristoun some time before.
His brother Ranulf was suspected of the murder, but acquitted upon the
testimony of a chauffeur. Ran subsequently disappeared and had not
been heard of since. Shortly after Jacynth’s return, he unexpectedly
put in his appearance once more. When he persuaded Jacynth to marry
him after a short acquaintance, her impelling motive of acceptance was
that her father was under heavy obligations to him. He explained as
his reason for asking her that he wanted to put it out of her power to
marry his cousin Hector, a worthless fellow with whom she was half in
love, and to whom, though his lawful heir, he did not wish to leave
his property. His one biggest reason he did not give—he was in love
with her. How she came to realize this, after doubt and heartache for
both is the culmination of the story, and in the process of its
development is revealed the true explanation of Guy’s death and the
chauffeur’s part in it.
* * * * *
“Though not always convincing the story is wholesome and ingenious and
will interest men or women.”
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“The tale, although not very convincing and one in which it would be
easy to pick holes, is ingenious and interesting.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 3 ’20 400w
“The author makes a fairly interesting book with a happy ending to
this rather hackneyed theme.”
+ − =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w
=REYNOLDS, MYRA.= Learned lady in England, 1650–1760. il *$2.25 Houghton
396
20–26551
The book is one of the Vassar semi-centennial series, published in
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar college.
Although it is specifically limited to the learned women in England in
the period between 1650 and 1760, the first chapter is devoted to
those before 1650, beginning with Juliana Barnes, who, although a nun,
wrote a book on “hunting, hawking and fishing” in 1481. The outcome of
the research is that in all ages “there have been individual women who
by force of native endowment and through some favorable conjunction of
circumstances, have risen into prominence in realms not ordinarily
open to the women of their time,” but they have been isolated cases
and “what was actually accomplished in the century before 1760 was a
lavish sowing of seed, a steady infiltration of new ideas, a breaking
up of old certainties as to woman’s place in domestic and civic life,
and an accumulation of examples proving women capable of the most
varied intellectual aptitudes and energies.” Contents: Learned ladies
in England before 1650; Learned ladies in England from 1650–1670;
Education; Miscellaneous books on women in social and intellectual
life; Satiric representations of the learned lady in comedy; Summary;
Bibliography; Index; and illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
“It is an interesting and original piece of work and covers ground
that has hardly been touched before.” Martha Plaisted
+ =Bookm= 51:689 Ag ’20 300w
Reviewed by C. M. Rourke
=Freeman= 2:68 S 29 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 800w
“Years of research must have been devoted to gathering materials for
this illuminating treatise. The presentation is clear and orderly; nor
is it anywhere swamped by the multitudinous and clear-cut detail.”
+ =Review= 4:18 Ja 5 ’21 400w
=RHEAD, GEORGE WOOLLISCROFT.= Earth- (5c) Dodd 738
(Eng ed 20–8046)
The author of this volume, we are told by H. W. Lewer in the foreword
is a practical potter and, moreover, an artist and art examiner in
pottery to the board of education. With his help, therefore, it is
hoped that the collector will be enabled to discriminate between well
authenticated examples and worthless specimens and probably forgeries.
“The book covers the whole story of British earthenwares from those of
the Slip and Salt glazed period, now more and more sought after, to
the less coveted but still interesting specimens of the early
nineteenth century.... The illustrations include many rare examples
from well-known collections.” (Author’s preface) Among the contents
are: Early British, mediæval and sixteenth century wares; Slip wares;
English Delft wares; Wedgwood; Contemporaries and followers of
Wedgwood; Lustred wares; The makers of image toys and chimney
ornaments; Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.
* * * * *
“The subject of Mr Woolliscroft Rhead’s work is so enormous that we
can hardly complain of inadequate treatment, but it is less well
written than Mr Young’s [‘The silver and Sheffield plate collector’]
and less likely to be useful. His spelling and phraseology are also
sometimes at fault. It is further extremely inconvenient that the
plates are not numbered, which makes reference to them a complicated
matter.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w
“Mr Rhead, as an artist and a potter, writes of a subject which he
knows, and young collectors will find some useful hints in his pages.”
+ =Spec= 123:698 N 22 ’19 120w
=RHEAD, LOUIS JOHN.= Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. il *$4 (7c)
Scribner 799
20–9836
A book intended as a companion volume to the author’s “Trout stream
insects,” and like that work illustrated with pictures in color
painted from living specimens. The author states: “This book has a
two-fold object. First: to multiply largely all species of game-fish
for the people’s use by a new method and a logical system of ‘feeding’
that will more rapidly attain a better result in the conservation of
American fresh-water game-fishes.... Second: to vastly improve present
angling conditions by introducing a new and entirely superior style of
fishing with artificial nature lures in place of the live bait that is
now being employed in ever-increasing quantities.” (Preface) The
illustrations include pictures of live creatures that fish eat and of
artificial nature lures; also chart plans to show feeding places. The
book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Mr Rhead’s new volume is commended to Outlook anglers as a book which
deserves a place in every library beside the writings of George La
Branche and Dr Henshall.” H. T. Pulsifer
+ =Outlook= 125:614 Ag 4 ’20 2300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 2 ’20 250w
=RHOADES, CORNELIA HARSEN (NINA RHOADES).= Four girls of forty years
ago. (Brickhouse books) il *$1.50 (2½c) Lothrop
20–20005
A story for girls picturing the social life of New York in 1880. The
four girls, Dulcie, Daisy, Maud and Mollie, live in an old house near
Washington Square and spend their summers on the Hudson river at
Tarrytown. They live with a stepgrandmother who enforces the rule that
children should be seen and not heard, but there is an Uncle Stephen
who comes from California and takes them to see “The pirates of
Penzance,” and they have other good times. The news that their father
is coming home from China bringing a stepmother fills them with
consternation, but the dreaded stepmother proves to be their loved
friend Miss Leslie and every one is left happy at the close.
=RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD.= American towns and people. il *$3.50 (6c)
McBride 917.3
20–20209
Papers that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, touching lightly and
with humor on the external aspects of certain American cities. There
are six essays of this character: Why is a Bostonian? Who is a
Philadelphian? What is a New Yorker? The portrait of Chicago;
Washington, the cosmopolitan; Baltimore; and one other, Is there a
West? devoted to California. To these are added: The hotel guest; The
high kingdom of the movies; The American child; The society woman.
* * * * *
“Although there are serious moments and some penetrating analyses, the
sketches are on the whole light and entertaining, not thorough
studies.”
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
“Never is Mr Rhodes dull, never does brilliancy become an obsession
with him, but his writings on American days and ways are of decided
value.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 360w
“‘American towns and people’ has its classic prototype in Henry
James’s ‘The American scene,’ but it is a version highly journalized
and simplified, intended not so much to interpret as to amuse. In this
doubtless quite as important capacity, it for the most part succeeds
admirably, only at times seeming a little fatuous, a little too
effusive, a bit bland perhaps.”
+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w
“Generally speaking, Mr Rhodes only sees about one-third of his
subject. He sees the Four hundred, but not what O. Henry called the
Four million. The book is a credit to its publishers, and is
beautifully illustrated. If it is one-sided or no-sided, it is at any
rate written in a swift, bright style, illuminated by a keen sense of
the comic.”
+ − =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 1600w
“The unusually discriminating comment of this book is matched by
exceptionally good pictures.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 30w
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 50w
“To have discovered the individuality of some of our American cities
and to have in so many little things shown exactly in what it
consists, is no small achievement. So much for the social student’s
appreciation of this book. As a piece of descriptive writing, its
excellence is likely to appeal to a much wider circle.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 260w
=RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD.=[2] High life: and other stories. *$2 (3c)
McBride
20–17527
High life, the first and longest story, is an amusing skit picturing
life in a colony of exiled royalty in Switzerland. The other stories
are: The little miracle at Tlemcar; Fair daughter of a fairer mother;
The importance of being Mrs Cooper; The sad case of Quag; Springtime;
Vive l’Amerique! They have been copyrighted by the Curtis publishing
company, Collier’s, the Ridgway company, the Metropolitan and
Harper’s.
* * * * *
“It is all told with much grace, cleverness and conversation, realism,
and with a Daudetesque humor. Mr Rhodes is a cosmopolitan, and he
understands the art of the short story; only in two or three passages
is his manner of writing open to any censure.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 450w
=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the United States from Hayes to
McKinley, 1877–1896. *$2.75 Macmillan 973.8
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Mr Rhodes’s new eighth volume is not a fair continuation of his
memorable five volumes on the Civil war, or even of the sixth and
seventh in which he gave a partial picture of the next dozen years.
Its abbreviated scale of treatment affects both contents and manner of
presentation. Rarely do the related facts in this volume appear to
have meaning or to be parts of a coherent structure.... Stopping short
of McKinley’s inauguration, he fails to show the foundations of the
silver movement and the Populist party, with the result that his
picture of the second Cleveland term lacks its background. Yet he
fails also to explain the emergence of the tariff issue and the
identification of the Republican party with it, although these facts
are vital to the period of his choice. Mr Rhodes has probably not
broadened his historical repute by this volume, but he has not ceased
to be sagacious along the lines of his experience and attainment.” F:
L. Paxson
+ − − =Am Hist R= 25:525 Ap ’20 1050w
“The author’s impartiality is little short of miraculous. South and
North can read him on the Civil war without great irritation.”
+ =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“If the most recent volume of the ‘History of the United States from
Hayes to McKinley, 1877–96’ is of less importance than those which
preceded it, this is not due to any shortcomings on the part of the
author. Dr Rhodes shows the same robust good sense, severe
impartiality, and scrupulous accuracy which have secured him his
position among American historians.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:476 Jl ’20 130w
“This volume is of the same general character as the preceding volumes
and with one possible exception, deserves to rank with them. While the
style is not brilliant, it affords easy, sometimes even attractive
reading. Yet, for all that, the student of our recent history will
close the book with disappointment, a disappointment due to the
feeling that the author has failed to show a discriminating sense of
proportion. On the topics discussed the author, in most cases, can
hardly be said to have touched the bottom. The treatment of industrial
unrest falls far below chapter IV of his earlier work, dealing with
slavery.” D: Y. Thomas
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:84 Je ’20 600w
“It seems invidious to speak in any tone of disparagement of a work of
Mr James Ford Rhodes, who has given us the classic interpretation of
our history from the compromise of 1850 to the close of the
reconstruction period. And yet competent judges must feel grieved that
the ‘History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley’ is added, as
an eighth volume, to the classic seven. It is as thin as the lean kine
that followed the seven fat ones in Pharoah’s dream.”
− + =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 350w
+ =Spec= 124:624 My 8 ’20 250w
“He has industry and a judicial temperament which, though not always
quite unbiassed in regard to individuals enables him to survey
contemporary politics without evidence of partisanship. He has,
moreover, a lucid narrative style and a happy gift of choosing apt and
trenchant phrases. Not all his authorities are first-rate; but he uses
them nimbly. It is very much to be regretted that a book which
represents so much sound labour and has so much permanent value, in
the assistance which it will be to all future writers on this period,
should be so marred by petty faults.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 Jl 15 ’20 1500w
=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE), and RICE, CALE
YOUNG.= Turn about tales. il *$1.90 (8c) Century
20–16343
There are ten short stories in this book, five by Cale Young Rice, and
five by his wife, Alice Hegan Rice, arranged alternately. Mrs Rice’s
contribution includes Beulah; The nut; A partnership memory; Reprisal;
and The hand on the sill; while Mr Rice’s are entitled Lowry;
Francella; Archie’s relapse; Under new moons, and Aaron Harwood. Some
of the stories have appeared in magazine form.
* * * * *
“This volume of stories should hold its own with any collection likely
to be published this year. They cover a wide range of emotion,
background, and subject, and are of high literary merit.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 170w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 150w
=RICHARDS, MRS CLARICE (ESTABROOK).=[2] Tenderfoot bride. il *$1.50
Revell
20–21005
“A cultured eastern woman with a delight in new things and a sense of
humor describes events on a Wyoming ranch.” (Booklist) “When the
‘tenderfoot bride’ arrived it was still a lawless, pioneer land, with
cattle, cowboys, and desperadoes. Then came a pastoral age: sheep and
Mexican herders, followed by the farmer. Her record covers but sixteen
years, yet the earlier phases are as extinct as the Pharaohs. She has
caught them all in passing, and portrayed them to the life.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“She has given us more than a bit of current history, for one senses
the writer’s personality,—a growth through the delights and trials of
existence among elemental conditions to a broad vision of life and its
responsibilities. Therein lies the rare charm of the book.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 140w
=RICHARDS, CLAUDE.= Man of tomorrow. new ed *$2 Crowell 174
“A discussion of vocational success with the boy of today.”
(Sub-title) The author believes that there is special need of
attention to vocational guidance today. “Following this great world
war, civilization will take on an aspect of general reconstruction,
and hence the man of the future will need an equipment that will fit
him to take his place in a society with difficult problems to solve
and big tasks to perform.” (Preface) The book is divided into seven
parts: The need of vocational guidance; The importance of
specializing; The need of a broad foundation; Choosing a vocation;
Representative vocations; Avocations; General conditions of vocational
success. An appendix contains a word to the counselor and there is an
index. The author states that while the work is intended primarily for
men there is little in it that does not apply equally to young women.
* * * * *
“An excellent vocational guide-book. Its tone is high and the little
ethical teaching that it contains is safe and sound.”
+ =Cath World= 112:120 O ’20 220w
=RICHARDS, GRANT.=[2] Double life. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–18767
Olivia Pemberton was the wife of a semi-commercial, therefore fairly
successful novelist. She was all that a wife and mother should be
until her two children were away at school, when she became bored and
restless. Half apathetically she accompanied her husband to Newmarket
one day where he went in quest of racing atmosphere for a new novel.
It ended with a tentative, very small and haphazard bet on one of the
horses. From now on Olivia secretly takes to reading sporting papers
and making greater and greater ventures, even ordering a trainer to
buy and train a horse for her. She goes thru all the stages of the
gambling fever, sometimes on the verge of a breakdown. Twice her horse
wins and when she is dreaming of the triple crown at the Derby with
honored publicity to herself, her trainer informs her that the horse
is broken down and will race no more. But with her winnings and the
sale of the horse, she is enabled to accompany her confession to her
husband with a goodly sum of money and her complete renunciation of
gambling.
* * * * *
“The technical details will be found interesting even by neophytes,
and the whole produces that effect of coherence and facility proper to
a practised pen.”
+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 120w
=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 120w
“The book will prove entertaining, but hardly more than that.”
+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 5 20 460w
“To put it bluntly, Mr Grant Richards is not an artist. ‘Double life’
has some power to please, partly because it conveys double the number
of sensations enjoyed in the ordinary routine of life by that never
realized type—the average, everyday person.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 400w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Honor Bright. il *$1.65 (3c)
Page
20–17823
The story of an American girl’s school days in Switzerland. Honor is
an orphan and the Pension Madeleine is the only home she knows. She
speaks in the quaint French-English of her teachers and is very happy
with her school-girl companions. While on an expedition into the
mountain, she slips and sprains her ankle and is kept a prisoner in an
Alpine cottage for a time. It is a delightful experience and Honor
thereafter dreams of spending her life in the Alps, making cheese and
tending goats. But an unknown cousin from America comes to take her
away to a new and strange world.
=RICHARDSON, C. A.= Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. *$4.50
Putnam 192
(Eng ed 20–7073)
“Mr Richardson, a disciple of Professor James Ward, sets himself the
task of elaborating, on purely metaphysical lines, the case for the
‘spiritual’ and theistic pluralism which formed the basis of his
master’s ‘Realm of ends: pluralism and theism.’ Incidentally he
undertakes to answer the neo-realists in general and Mr Bertrand
Russell in particular. He accepts Mr Russell’s conclusions as valid
with limits, i.e., the limits of reality considered as objective. But,
Mr Richardson urges, Mr Russell and his school, with all their
ingenuity, do not account for the subjective reference, whereas
spiritual pluralists can account for it without detriment to the
positive results of the neo-realists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is written with great care and much subtlety. There is,
however, a tendency to rely too much on arguments from concepts,
without due inquiry into their meaning and source. In general, I think
the book would gain cogency through a larger use of empirical
material.” D. H. Parker
+ − =J Philos= 17:611 O 21 ’20 1100w
=Nature= 105:773 Ag 19 ’20 70w
“To speak bluntly, Mr Richardson is excessively difficult reading, and
some part of the fault lies with himself, and not with the subject. As
a provisional guess, one would suggest that he has thought mainly
about the general philosophic attributes of his universe, and has not
sufficiently pondered, not only the position but the capacity and
attributes of the individual who exists therein. This part of his
work, it seems to us, he will not get right until he dips down more
thoroughly into the grand question of consciousness.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:253 Mr 13 ’20 840w
“It is not easy to justify a pluralist metaphysic on intellectualist
grounds, and one cannot help feeling that, as against Mr Russell on
the one hand and Mr Bradley on the other, Mr Richardson is ‘playing
the odd’ all the time. But he plays with spirit and no mean dialectic
skill.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p15 Ja 8 ’20 580w
=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Interim. *$2 Knopf
20–9715
“Fifth in the long series of volumes published under the general title
of ‘Pilgrimage,’ Miss Dorothy M. Richardson’s new novel, ‘Interim,’
continues the history of that young woman, Miriam Henderson. So
closely connected with its predecessors as to be a part of them rather
than a separate book, ‘Interim’ would probably be almost
unintelligible to any one not possessed of a close acquaintance with
the earlier books. When ‘The tunnel’ came to an end Miriam Henderson
was apparently on the verge of leaving Mrs Bailey’s house, but we find
her still living there when we meet her in ‘Interim,’ despite the
coming of the boarders. Among these boarders there are several young
physicians from Canada, and one of them, bearing the unattractive name
of von Heber, supplies the suggestion of a plot, which is the only
thing of the kind the book contains.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“She leaves us feeling, as before, that everything being of equal
importance to her, it is impossible that everything should not be of
equal unimportance.” K. M.
− =Ath= p48 Ja 9 ’20 150w
“We prefer our novels as novels, and not following the technique of
Chinese chess explained by a politician in yachting terminology. There
are pages and pages of drivel, too.” C. W.
− =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 250w
“From no point of view could ‘Interim’ be called easy reading, and a
method of sometimes almost ignoring punctuation and printing dialogue
in solid pages does not tend to make it any the easier.”
− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 550w
“There lies the secret of Miriam’s appeal. Nothing seems to escape
her. She is never dull or unaware; she never ceases to live and to
respond to stimulus. And thus life, seen through her eyes and felt
through her emotions, comes to be an exciting business, and the world
an infinite stretch of inexhaustible delights.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 750w
=RICHARDSON, NORVAL.= Pagan fire. *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–21002
Anne Rennell was quite contented and happy as the wife of an American
politician in Washington. Franklin Rennell, too, was contented as
United States senator. He took his work seriously and was of the
eternal-boy sort of type, honest and plodding without intellectual
brilliance. The first disturbance came when political intrigue put the
flea into Anne’s ear that she was cut out for an ambassador’s wife in
Rome. Rome it must be, henceforth. Anne feels that she has a right to
her own life and happiness and that Franklin’s career must give way to
it. In Rome she blossoms out, the romance of it enters her blood and
with it an infatuation for Prince Cimino. The latter ends with a night
with the Prince at his castle in the Campagna. After that Anne has
something to live down, which, the reader trusts, she will be able to
do with the aid and the sacrifice of two devoted friends.
* * * * *
“The most human and most logical character in the book is that of
Senator Lelong. The story is pleasantly told in the slow analytical
style of the English novel.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 290w
“While Norval Richardson’s well-written novel ‘Pagan fire’ is far from
uninteresting as a story, the greater part of its claim on the
reader’s attention is derived from its quite fascinating setting.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 460w
“The interest of the novel is derived less from the actual story than
from the glorious settings of the drama.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=RICKARD, L. (MRS VICTOR RICKARD).= Cathy Rossiter. *$1.75 (1c) Doran
20–772
Cathy Rossiter, by birth of the English aristocracy, was a modern
woman who, without breaking her old ties, became interested in all
sorts of progressive movements. Her personal charms make her a
favorite in every circle from the aristocratic drawing room down to
the half-starved strikers in Sabury road. Her most intimate friend is
Dr Monica Henstock, a successful practitioner and her opposite in
character and temperament. At her house she meets John Lorrimer who is
about to propose to Monica when Cathy’s beauty and personality
intrigue and side-track him. In time Cathy marries Lorrimer and
through a complication of circumstances Monica’s and Lorrimer’s
emotions and ethics both become befuddled and Cathy after an illness
is locked up in an insane asylum on a flimsy pretext. Her experiences
at the asylum and her rescue by some of her old friends make a
thrilling tale.
* * * * *
“Mrs Victor Rickard has here achieved, without directing her energy
towards any lofty or even wayward ambition, a marked success. The
story is sheer melodrama from beginning to triumphant and happy end;
but melodrama tempered with sound observation of character.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 340w
=RICKARD, THOMAS ARTHUR.= Technical writing. *$1.50 Wiley 808
20–7844
“Mr Rickard has served as editor of three leading mining periodicals
and has written several well known professional works. He laments the
carelessness shown by engineers in the preparation of reports and
papers and has brought into this work the expansion of five lectures
which he delivered in 1916 to engineering classes in the University of
California. The many faults of composition and errors of vocabulary
are discussed and illustrated by many examples of bad writing (with
corrections) gleaned mainly from mining books and periodicals.”—N Y P
L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Mr Rickard’s exposition is vigorous and broad-minded.”
+ =Ath= p352 S 10 ’20 150w
“It is well worth discriminating perusal, the chapter on style being
particularly good. Violations of present-day typographical orthodoxy
mar nearly every page of his book. They suggest the amateur. They are
not classic. Also, in a work of this sort, it is only reasonable to
expect that the author will observe his own precepts.” W. N. P. R.
+ − =Engineering & Mining Journal= 109:1326 Je 12 ’20 780w
“The lay reader should also get much from the volume.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p40 Ap ’20 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 S 9 ’20 80w
=RIDEAL, ERIC KEIGHTLEY.= Ozone. *$4 Van Nostrand 546.2
The author begins with the Early history of ozone and its general
properties, and continues his treatment of the subject with chapters
on: The natural occurrence of ozone: Chemical production; Thermal
production; The electrolytic preparation of ozone; Production by
ultraviolet radiation and by ionic collision; Production by means of
the silent electric discharge; The catalytic decomposition of ozone;
Industrial applications; Methods of detection and analysis. There are
two indexes, to names and subjects. The author is professor of
physical chemistry in the University of Illinois and the book is
published as one of the series, A treatise on electro-chemistry,
edited by Bertram Blount.
* * * * *
“The author deals with the whole fascinating subject in a manner which
should appeal to most readers.”
+ =Engineer= 129:653 Je 25 ’20 300w
“The author has been distinctly successful in his effort to collect
and correlate the various references to ozone which occur in chemical
literature, and his monograph will be welcomed if only for that
reason. In addition, it contains a valuable summary of what is known
about ozone, and by indicating problems which remain to be solved
should also serve to promote investigation.”
+ =Nature= 106:77 S 16 ’20 300w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p52 Jl ’20 120w
=RIDEOUT, HENRY MILNER.= Foot-path way. *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–6491
A story of the Far East. Dan Towers, the hero, is an American
adventurer who has decided that it is time to go home. Fate brings him
across the path of an old friend, Parimban, an Arabian merchant.
Parimban is murdered and Towers is left with Leda, his friend’s
beautiful young daughter, on his hands. He finds a refuge for her with
a religious order and goes on his way, accepting the dangerous mission
he had earlier made up his mind to refuse. He has many adventures,
some in company with a religious fanatic, called Hury Seke, from his
habit of writing gospel messages on walls and rocks, all beginning
“Hury Seke Jehovah.” To others he is introduced by a gay young
troubadour, Runa la Flèche. In the end the beautiful ward, who had
once shown uncomfortable signs of falling in love with Towers, is more
suitably mated with Runa.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“I turn the last page and lay down the book with the sense of having
enjoyed a modest work of art instead of having been merely diverted by
a pretentious bag of tricks. I like his story, but I like still more
his way of telling it, his freedom from the slipshod smartness now
fairly encouraged as normal by editors still getting pay-ore from the
vein (or the tailings) of the Kipling-O. Henry tradition.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:581 Jl ’20 380w
=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 50w
“The tale is entertaining, swift-moving and romantic, and gives a
colorful picture of adventurous lives.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 700w
“This is not of a genre that all novel readers care for, but those who
do will find this book an excellent example of it, exciting and
amusing.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 240w
=RIDGE, LOLA.=[2] Sun-up; and other poems. *$1.50 Huebsch 811
These are free verse, imagiste poems. In the group “Sun-up,” the poet
sees the world through a child’s eyes and gives us glimpses of a
child’s soul. All the poems express modernity, a free spirit and a
turbulent world. They are grouped under the headings: Sun-up;
Monologues; Windows; Secrets; Portraits; Sons of Belial; Reveille—the
last group containing lines to Alexander Berkman, to Emma Goldman and
to Larkin.
* * * * *
“No adult knows what little girls think about, but one is willing to
believe that it is approximately what he finds here, where Freud
rather than Plato is read back into the infant mind.” D. M.
+ =Nation= 112:sup244 F 9 ’21 340w
“The series of poems from which the book takes its name are vividly
poignant renderings of the child-mind, intimate in their apperception
and flaring forth in arresting magic and color at times. Her method is
free verse, but it is a distinct free verse. It is the sudden throwing
of vivid phrases before one that conjure up limitless thoughts.” H. S.
Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 520w
=RIDSDALE, KNOWLES.= Gate of fulfillment. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam
20–6634
A story told in letters. Margaret Bevington, a very charming and
brilliant widow, answers an unusual advertisement calling for a
secretary for an invalid. The invalid, who is also a misogynist, sends
her a caustic reply declining her services, but a correspondence
develops out of the incident. Later, learning that the secretary he
had preferred to her had proved incompetent, she applies in person
under an assumed name and is engaged. She then leads a double life, as
staid, prim Martha Pratt and as witty Margaret Bevington, and the
misogynist finds himself falling in love with two women. The tonic
good sense of one and the mental stimulus of the other do their work.
He is restored to health to learn that the two characters who have
meant so much to him combine into one person.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:586 Jl ’20 200w
“This is a very commodious, even lazy, way of writing a book; and,
unless the letters are uncommonly brilliant, the result is generally
disappointing. In this case, however, Mr Ridsdale has turned out a
worthwhile correspondence in developing an ingenious though rather
slender plot. ‘The gate of fulfillment’ will be read with interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w
“It is a piquant situation, and some of its possibilities are well
realized. But it wants a light, tactful, restrained treatment of which
the author knows nothing. The letters of every one concerned are as
fulsome, as precious, and as humourless as they can possibly be; and
their prolix affectations become painfully tiresome long before the
end is reached.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 150w
=RIHANI, AMEEN F.= Descent of bolshevism. $1 (9c) Stratford co. 335
20–6355
A small book written to prove that bolshevism is of oriental origin.
The author goes back to fifth century Persia and has chapters on:
Mazdak and Mazdakism; The Khawarij; The Karmathians; The Assassins;
The Illuminati.
* * * * *
“Mr Rihani’s little book ends suddenly and without a satisfactory
conclusion. His statements must be read with great caution.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 560w
“He tells his stories roundly and underlines his morals blackly; but
his essential facts are sound.”
+ =Review= 2:682 Je 30 ’20 200w
=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Hidden treasure of Rasmola. il *$1.75
(5½c) Houghton
20–19674
This story of the digging for a treasure is a true story and a
personal experience of the author’s. The scenes portrayed are real
phases of the life of the common people of Syria and the people
participating in the enterprise were real. The psychology, beliefs and
mode of life of the people concerned are also depicted and the
thrilling part of the story is that the treasure too, to all
probabilities was real although it eluded the grasp of the diggers
thru the machinations of a clever rogue.
=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Affinities.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9275
A volume of short stories. The first is the story of a group of
married people who decide on an affinity picnic, with husbands and
wives left at home. The affair comes to grief and when the parties
concerned learn that the other set of wives and husbands have been
carrying out a similar idea there are mutual recriminations and
forgivenesses. The other stories are in like vein. Contents:
Affinities; The family friend; Clara’s little escapade; The borrowed
house; Sauce for the gander. The stories were copyrighted by the
Curtis Publishing Company and date from 1909 to 1915.
* * * * *
“Entertaining, but several readers say not up to her usual standard.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 300w
“Delightful tales each with a snap at the end.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
“Mrs Rinehart always writes entertainingly and she tempers humor with
rare human sympathy and common sense. These stories are just the thing
for hammock reading on a lazy afternoon.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 80w
“Each one as unexpected and as amusing as the others, stories that
keep you laughing and interested, stories full of the little
absurdities of human nature and the queer tricks of fate.”
+ =Lit D= p97 S 4 ’20 3050w
“If laughter really does promote health, Mrs Rinehart should take her
place among the great physicians of the age.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:295 Je 6 ’20 480w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 420w
“The studies of English life and manners would strike most English
readers as imaginative, and it is hard to believe that life in America
exactly tallies with the authoress’s description, though it may really
be like this. Anyhow it makes cheerful reading.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 120w
=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Poor wise
man. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–17961
The time of the story is immediately after the war and the
circumstances social unrest, strikes, plots, political campaigns,
mobs, riots, bombs, wise vigilance on the part of the Department of
justice and timely interferences of the American Legion. The romance
is supplied by Lily Cardew, granddaughter of the richest man in town,
just back from her war-work and much changed, and Willy Cameron, a
poor drug clerk who had been Lily’s pal in camp and is one of nature’s
noblemen. Soon after her return Lily is ensnared by the wiles of an
arch anarchist and all-round fiend. She even marries him but at that
very crisis is rescued by Willy. Many are the adventures and
hairbreadth escapes of both before their final reward.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm= 52:252 N ’20 360w
“The story is well told, but our hearts are not touched by the romance
of the impossible hero and heroine.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 150w
“Mrs Rinehart gives us a very thrilling story, and a sense of
disappointment with her method need not obscure the good points and
readable character of this ‘novel with a purpose.’”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 200w
“The novel is alive and vigorous.”
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is exceedingly timely. It states the problem between labor
and capital fairly and proves the futility of mob violence. And it
states it in the lives of very actual people.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w
“A story well worth reading.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w
=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).=[2] Truce of
God. il *$1.50 Doran
20–21966
In the days of chivalry and when the church had decreed a “truce of
God,” from Thursday of every week until Monday morning, during which
time all fighting must cease, a young French overlord had put away his
wife because she had borne him no son and because, heirless, upon his
death his estates would fall to his cousin and arch enemy, Philip of
the Black Beard. That the lady took refuge with this same Philip,
enraged Charles still more. But it came to pass on a Christmas day
that the truce of God entered the heart of Charles when he came to the
castle of Philip in search of his runaway little daughter, Clotilde.
As he goes to the bedside of his wife to ask her forgiveness he finds
that a son has indeed this day been born to him.
* * * * *
“The story is told interestingly and with effective simplicity, and
successfully reproduces the mediæval atmosphere; but the author leaves
the impression of having put an undue strain upon plausibility in
order to reach a desired conclusion.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 220w
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 370w
=RIPLEY, GEORGE SHERMAN.= Games for boys. il *$1.60 Holt 790
20–21483
A collection of games for players of the adolescent and post
adolescent age. The compiler says: “Properly played games develop
courage, initiative, generosity, cooperation, cheerfulness, loyalty,
obedience, alertness and sense of honor,” and in selecting the games
he has based his choice on these qualities. Contents: Circle games;
Opposed line games; Tag games; Quiet games; Miscellaneous games; Relay
and other races; Stalking and scouting games; Camp stunts and water
sports; Mimetic setting-up exercises; Contest and exhibition events;
Camping notes.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 80w
=RISING, LAWRENCE.= She who was Helena Cass. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–17649
Jay Sefton, a rising young novelist, acted a novel when he constituted
himself a secret detective to find Helena Cass, dead or alive. Three
years previous, her mysterious disappearance had set two continents
agog with rumors and surmises. Jay Sefton had once met her socially,
been greatly impressed by her personality and now the fever of the
search had entered his blood. In disconnected accounts the story
pieces itself together, and clue follows upon clue, revealing the rich
possibilities of an undisciplined impulsive young girl; her tragic
side-step from the conventional path; her all but murder in a Spanish
inn; her refuge in a convent; temporary return to a world that had
known her; her second escape to the convent; her motherhood and her
final discovery in a secluded rural retreat in Spain by Jay Sefton and
his wooing of her.
* * * * *
“It’s well told, too, with a slightly French touch and an intriguing
style.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 200w
“From the standpoint of style the book is decidedly jerky. It
possesses many faults, many inconsistencies, but we are obliged to
remember that the author has subordinated everything to the weaving
and unraveling of his mystery. The first is ably done, and the second
is accomplished with commendable ingenuity.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 270w
“The novel is full of Latin color, some of the descriptive bits being
powerfully photographic. All the characters are real and intensely
individualized. The development of Helena Cass from a self-centred,
selfish girl to a fine, broad, lovable character is a fine bit of
psychological analysis.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 180w
“The book is full of Spanish color, and some of the descriptive
passages are striking.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 140w
“The story is original, but its literary quality is not particularly
good.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 110w
Reviewed by L. M. Robinson
=Pub W= 98:1196 O 16 ’20 320w
=RITCHIE, ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) lady (MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE).= From
friend to friend. *$2.50 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–8889)
“‘From friend to friend,’ a little volume of recollections by
Thackeray’s daughter, Lady Ritchie, edited by her sister-in-law, Emily
Ritchie, has just been published. Lady Ritchie met many of the most
interesting people in England in the course of her long life, which
covered the period from 1838 to 1919, and in this little book she has
ranged far back into the past and given glimpses of her father, of
Tennyson and his wife, of Mr and Mrs Browning, of Adelaide Kemble and
many others. There are anecdotes of Thackeray in his younger days,
when he was beginning to write and wishing rather to paint, and later
on when he was in the full tide of literary production.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 40w
“If at times, in spite of its delicate artistry, the narrative grows a
little prim, there is usually a twinkle of humour to light it up again
before many lines are past. Our old-world hostess is too skilful to
let us get dull.”
+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 420w
=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 60w
“This little volume is slight but pleasing.”
+ =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w
“It is more enjoyable than many books of reminiscence. Lady Ritchie
abounds in good-humor.”
+ =Review= 2:522 My 15 ’20 200w
“Lady Ritchie interests and amuses us without falling either into the
distortions of malice, or the sentimentally which dwells on the ‘dear
old days,’ and leaves us as cold as if we were listening to a canting
preacher.”
+ =Sat R= 129:189 F 21 ’20 750w
“Charming little book.”
+ =Spec= 124:54 Ja 10 ’20 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 120w
“Lady Ritchie knew what was interesting and what was not; she lived
intensely in her memories, and she can take her readers to live in
them with her.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 8 ’20 1100w
=RITCHIE, ROBERT WELLES.= Trails to Two Moons. il *$1.75 (3½c) Little
20–17007
The story is of the Wyoming cattle country at the time when the
struggle for existence was on between the cattle rangers and the
sheep-raising homesteaders. Little by little the latter were
encroaching upon the former’s grazing lands. Three figures stand out
in the tale, Zang Whistler, the cattle-thieving outlaw, Original Bill
Blunt, inspector for the Stockman’s alliance, and Hilma Ring, a
sheepherder’s daughter, a dazzling but heartless beauty. A lonely life
of hardship and struggle had cut her off from all femininity and
hardened her heart. It is the taming of this shrew that tempts both
Zang and Original. Amid killings and rough horse-play, during which
Hilma has her fill of terror, loneliness and despair, nursing her
hatred for Original, the latter’s character and power finally subdue
and awaken the woman in her. Even Zang, whose wild career is but an
offshoot of his inherent integrity, receives Hilma’s recognition of
his loyalty and devotion.
* * * * *
“The story possesses a sort of crude strength besides exciting
incidents; its characters are fairly well individualized; its
descriptions are vivid, and its fights colorful. However, we cannot
say that the conversion of the heroine’s hate for the hero to love for
him is convincing. The strings that pull the character hither and
thither at this point of the story are altogether too evident.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 110w
“The story is ultra-romantic and the characters not essentially of
flesh and blood—mere types and caricatures. But the setting in which
the story occurs is painted so very vividly that it lends the air of
reality to ‘Trails to Two Moons’ which the characters themselves and
their vigorous actions lack.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 320w
=ROBBINS, CLARENCE AARON (TOD ROBBINS).= Silent, white and beautiful;
and other stories. *$1.90 (3c) Boni & Liveright
Short stories by an author who makes a specialty of the gruesome.
Contents: Silent, white and beautiful; Who wants a green bottle? Wild
Wullie, the waster; For art’s sake. There is a preface by Robert H.
Davis.
* * * * *
“If these grotesque and morbid tales were just a bit better, they
might even be great! But failing of greatness, they are so horrible as
to be occasionally funny.”
− + =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 100w
“The horror of the truth in daily life is greater than the horror Mr
Robbins seeks in his imaginative and improbable wanderings among
murderers and spirits.” R. D. W.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 350w
“Genuine horror requires a certain inner logic, a subtle plausibility
not discoverable in these stories.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 170w
“There is no doubt that he has an eerie fancy, great fertility of
invention, and not a little psychological insight. But he is unequal
to the point of eccentricity. Two of his four narratives, ‘Wild
Wullie, the waster,’ and ‘Who wants a green bottle,’ are simply inept.
‘Silent, white and beautiful,’ on the other hand, has an original and
strangely vivid central idea.”
+ − =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 230w
“Frankly tales of terror, built upon most improbable foundations, they
would be revolting in the hands of a lesser artist.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The author has dipped his pen in blood while steeping his literary
ego in diablerie, and the outcome is a feast of melodrama and
morbidity that leads logically to nightmare.”
− + =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
=ROBERTS, CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON.= Poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821
20–1006
This collection of poems falls into three parts: Poems; The dark
years; and Other poems. John Masefield writes a preface to the
collection and says of the author: “When I think of the poems, I feel
that he must be young; not young enough perhaps to have been carried
away, or destroyed, by the recent great events, but young enough to
see them clearly, to respond to them, and to realize that the tragedy
of them has been the tragedy of the young, the blasting of the young,
for the benefit and at the bidding of the old.... That, in the main,
is the tragedy of Mr Roberts’ latest and best poems, in the volume
here printed.” In another place he says of the poet: “He has a quick
eye for characters, a lively sense of rhythm, and a fondness for
people, which should make his future work as remarkable as his present
promise.”
* * * * *
“Will be liked by those who enjoy conventional poetry touching on a
note of sadness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
“These labored verses move us not at all. The book is full of echoes
and infelicitous imitations. The book, in short, is full of clichés of
thought and phrase.” H: A. Lappin
− =Bookm= 51:213 Ap ’20 100w
“The experience which has made Mr Roberts ‘old’ to his friends, has by a
curious paradox kept him gloriously young in his dreams and visions.
These poems, even embedding such grim interludes as is represented by
the ‘Charing cross’ poems, are the poems of youth; but of a youth who
has been trebly stored with the ancient wisdom and ways of the world.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 24 ’20 2150w
“Delightful poems chiefly on Arcadian themes.”
+ |=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
=Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w
“It is not enough to be high-spirited, and warm-hearted, and
quick-witted, and brave and sensitive—and this poet is all these. To
feel splendidly is one thing, to shape the feeling another. Mr Roberts
at present is apt to throw off his feeling into rhyme without due
concentration, as though assuring us of his exuberance and bidding us
be content with that.” J: Drinkwater
+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w
“The many lyric poems are a flower-garden in which the reader can
spend a long time, and to which he will want to return. Mr Roberts
writes gracefully and melodiously, and is never elaborate or
artificial.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 700w
=ROBERTS, RICHARD.= Unfinished program of democracy. *$2 Huebsch 321.8
(Eng ed 20–6572)
“‘The unfinished programme of democracy.’ by Dr Richard Roberts,
readily divides itself into two parts: the first three chapters in
which the author sets forth what he considers to be the causes of the
present crisis in democracy, and the rest of the book in which he
specifies in detail and supports with argument the measures and
changes that would, in his view, fulfil the democratic ideal.”
(Freeman). “The main lines of practical doctrine on which the
discussion is conducted are—a national minimum and a secure standard
of life universally enforced and provided for; the limitation of
profits; the elimination of the ‘social parasite’; the economic
independence of women; the abandonment of the dogma of ‘State
sovereignty’ and the recognition in the organization of government of
the geographical and the vocational unit; the growth of the spirit and
practice of social fellowship; a democratic world knit by a federation
of democratic nations.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Mr Roberts’s work is one to be read and inwardly digested.”
+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 130w
=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
=Brooklyn= 12:125 My ’20 30w
“It is only the first part of the book, in which Dr Roberts states his
social theory, that in the view of the writer of this note exposes
itself to criticism.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant
+ − =Freeman= 1:428 Jl 14 ’20 1100w
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
“The book is both refreshing and heartening and deserves a wide
reading, not only for the soundness of its ideas but for the
distinction and charm of its temper, and the vividness of its style.”
+ =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 620w
“He writes with force and charm; and he gives evidence of wide reading
and of serious reflection. But when he comes to chapter VII, ‘The
organization of government,’ his hand fails him.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 60w
“It is a scholarly book by a man of vision.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 180w
“One of the ablest of the ministers of the English Presbyterian church
here discusses the social problem in a comprehensive and practical
way, with a full appreciation of new conditions and new trends of
thought.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 O 9 ’19 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 60w
=ROBEY, GEORGE.= My rest cure. il *$1.40 (4c) Stokes 827
19–13978
The author informs his readers that he is tired of being funny, that
he has had a collapse and needs a complete rest, and he is going to
tell about his holiday in the country in his natural serious and
solemn manner. By the skin of his teeth he succeeds in escaping from
home without his wife and the entire family. His haven of rest is the
Sunrise Arms of Little Slocum. The dream and the reality of Little
Slocum are not quite the same. He almost succumbs to the ministrations
of the sewing-bee of Little Slocum mothers, but after a ten mile
flight in pajamas and mackintosh and rubber boots he catches a train
that takes him back to the city. The illustrations by John Hassall add
to the solemnity of the book.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
“It may be that Mr Robey converses too much about nothing in
particular, it may be that his humor is not that of America; but
various episodes in his book are excruciatingly funny.”
+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 350w
“We cannot say that we have been vastly exhilarated by ‘My rest
cure.’”
− =Sat R= 128:160 Ag 16 ’19 340w
=ROBINSON, ALBERT GARDNER.= Old New England houses. il *$5 Scribner 728
20–16280
“‘Old New England houses’ has about one hundred sumptuously printed
views, mostly of the type of plain, unpretentious small country houses
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which we roughly classify
as ‘colonial,’ though quite a few of the more pretentious mansion type
of house, such as were built by the wealthier merchants and
shipmasters in the larger coast towns, are included. The subjects are
selected from an artistic rather than an architectural or antiquarian
viewpoint. The first few pages are given to an untechnical talk on the
varied types and styles of houses and where one may hunt for them with
reasonable chance of success, but the greater part of the book is
devoted to the pictures of the houses themselves, an entire page being
usually given to each print.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 280w
“The text of this book is slight, not wholly unsuggestive perhaps, but
disappointing. The illustrations, however, are of positive interest.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w
Reviewed by W. B. Chase
+ =N Y Times= p2 S 12 ’20 2450w
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 70w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
“Like most books of the sort, ‘Old New England houses’ is more to be
valued for its pictures than for its text. Here the text, however, is
entirely adequate as a brief introduction to upward of a hundred
photographs.”
+ =Review= 3:479 N 17 ’20 180w
“‘Old New England houses’ will be interesting and useful.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 260w
=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Lancelot. *$1.75 Seltzer 811
20–12049
“In ‘Lancelot’ Mr Robinson has continued the study of Camelot which he
began three years ago in ‘Merlin.’” (Nation) “We open at the period in
the Arthurian triangle when Lancelot, who has seen the grail, has
determined to leave Camelot and Guinevere forever, and follow the
lonely marsh-light that the knights hailed as the true gleam.
Guinevere tempts him out of this. Arthur and his knights return, and
find what the purblind king has shut his eyes to so long. Lancelot
flees, and Guinevere is to be burnt at the stake. The greatest of the
knights returns and rescues her, taking her to his castle of Joyous
Gard; from which he later surrenders her. But the poison of the
situation has raised up enemies in the king’s own household,
especially his illegitimate son, Modred, and Lancelot, persuaded too
late to go to the king’s aid, arrives after the battle in the north,
in which king and bastard alike receive their death-wounds. He pays
one final visit to Guinevere, habited as a nun, but still enough of
her own self to listen to Lancelot’s belated plea that she rejoin him,
and now enough of her new self to refuse it. Then the passion-wrecked
knight rides away after that will-o-the-wisp whose presence men still
vainly seek without themselves.” (N Y Call)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“Any modern treatment of the Arthur material challenges comparison at
once with some of the illustrious names in English literature:
Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold, and Morris, to mention only the best
known. Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is no misbegotten changeling in this
notable company. The analysis is subtle, unsentimental, and
contagiously sympathetic.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 520w
“In this narrative Mr Robinson not only proves by reason of thought
and substance his position as the greatest of all living American
poets, but also by the supreme consciousness and evocation of beauty.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 12 ’20 1350w
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 80w
“The verse moves with dignity and attains at times even a detachable
beauty, and yet the memorable lines are comparatively few—for this
author.”
+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 120w
“It has no pictorial exuberance. Scarcely a line could be quoted for
self-sufficient imagery. For the rest, the beauty of the poem is a
low-keyed, intense but quiet beauty of cadence and rhythm. Its matter
speaks with restraint and with completion. Its power lies in the
immanence of its people and their struggle with their fate.” C. M.
Rourke
+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 550w
“The verse of ‘Lancelot’ is as athletic and spare as an Indian runner,
though it walks not runs. At the same time, he varies his verse in
admirable accord with situation and character. Since Browning there
has been no finer dramatic dialogue in verse than that spoken by
Lancelot and Guinevere and no apter characterization than the ironical
talk of Gawaine. One must go out of verse, to George Meredith and
Henry James, to find its match. But Mr Robinson has the advantage of
verse.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:622 My 8 ’20 650w
“Edwin Arlington Robinson can say more in two lines than most poets
can in several verses. His vision is somber; it is marked by an
uncompromising consistency in the handling of eternal values.” H. S.
Gorman
+ =New Repub= 23:259 Jl 28 ’20 1150w
“‘Lancelot’ is life, albeit a gray and grim vision of it. It is a
great tale, greatly told. American poetry is richer for the aching
disillusionment of Mr Robinson’s art.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p11 My 16 ’20 750w
“It has been well thought out, well felt and well made. This is not to
say that it is a great poem, however, or that no important criticism
can be brought against it. When he draws personality the lines are
firm and flawless. But can he show us the color and texture of life,
and make us feel the heat of it in those old days of myth and magic?”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 1050w
“Its supreme beauty lies in its analysis of character and motive.”
+ =Outlook= 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 780w
“Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is a finer achievement than his ‘Merlin.’
Splendidly imagined and unerringly wrought, this book reaffirms the
conviction that Mr Robinson is today the most significant figure in
American verse.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R n s= 10:205 O ’20 280w
=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Three taverns. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
20–15484
“Edwin Arlington Robinson’s new volume of miscellaneous poems, ‘The
three taverns’ is likely to earn him—if he has not already earned—a
reputation as the Henry James among poets. His fondness for portraying
the complex facets of character in an oblique light and by means of
inscrutable hints and sinuous innuendoes has led him to further
workings of the vein of dramatic lyric opened four years ago by his
famous ‘Ben Johnson entertains a man from Stratford.’ The present
collection contains seven long poems of this sort, revealing in
monolog or dialog a moment in the life of St Paul, Lazarus, Brown of
Harper’s ferry, Hamilton, and real or imagined people of lesser
note.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“‘The man against the sky’ indicated very clearly the place of the
poet, it was very high—how high we had not the standards by which to
measure. ‘The three taverns’ brings us much nearer to him, closer
within the embrace of his sympathies, and, by the same law, lifts him
much farther above us.” S: Roth
+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 500w
“The substance of the longer poems in this book is more profoundly
grounded in Mr Robinson’s philosophy of human nature and experience
than in any of his other poems. Even in the shorter poems we find this
power distilled until almost achingly the meanings break through a
speech that is simplified to a bareness of figure or illusion. Take
the poem ‘The mill’ and say if a tragedy could be so mercilessly told
with the economy of speech by any other living poet.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 1850w
“Here is a great virtue that belongs peculiarly to Mr Robinson among
American poets. His work is always packed with thought. ‘The three
taverns’ is a big book and it grows with each reading. It is the work
of lonely hours, of unfailing meditation, and of authentic genius, if
such a thing may be admitted to exist in these troublous times.” H. S.
Gorman
+ =Freeman= 2:186 N 3 ’20 1150w
“It is a sombre book, ‘The three taverns,’ sombre and polished to a
high dark sheen, and the bitter tang of it remains in the memory after
reading.” C. F. G.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 340w
“Separate enough in themselves, they yet stand with respect to each
other in a sort of pattern, like the monoliths of a Druid circle....
What holds them in the pattern is that tone of mingled wisdom and
irony, that color of dignity touched with colloquial flexibility, that
clear, hard, tender blank verse and those unforgettable eight-line
stanzas and dramatic sonnets which go to make up one of the most
scrupulous and valuable of living poets.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:453 O 20 ’20 1300w
“‘The three taverns’ is a finished product. It is a book such as only
a master, touched with the authentic fire of genius, could make
possible. Within its 120 pages is crystallized the best of modern
American poetry. No European could find better introduction to
American achievement in letters than through the poems that are
contained in ‘Three taverns.’” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ja 16 ’21 1250w
“Little of his old magic of intonation and rhythm is lacking from ‘The
three taverns,’ even though the intellectual appeal overmasters at
times the poetic.”
+ =Outlook= 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 680w
“Mr Robinson’s verse, as always, flows with limpid purity, but his
quaintly compounded vocabulary and his intellectual penetration compel
the closest attention to his pages. Readers who have the patience or
the agility to follow Mr Robinson are not meanly rewarded.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 7 ’20 450w
=ROBINSON, EDWIN MEADE (TED ROBINSON, pseud.).= Piping and panning.
*$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–16520
The author conducts a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and this is
a volume of his humorous newspaper verse. Among the titles are: To a
lady; The lecture; The story of Ug; Things I despise; Things I like;
Some Anglicisms; The drawbacks of humor; Love lyrics; We Olympians;
The critic’s apology; In various keys; The typewriter’s song; Rural
delights; Butter and eggs; The average man.
* * * * *
“Of its kind, Edwin Meade Robinson’s ‘Piping and panning’ is of a
pleasant quality. No man may trifle with the muse day after day with
impunity, but Mr Robinson has been able to command her support in a
fair average of instances. His book discloses a nimble fancy, a facile
dominion of vocabulary and verse forms, and a ready wit.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 160w
“Many of the verses, it is true, are occasional and uninspired; but
the book is a wholly satisfactory one for the good things it has in
abundance.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 180w
=ROBINSON, ELIOT HARLOW.= Maid of Mirabelle. il *$1.75 (2c) Page
20–12599
A story of the last days of the war and the period immediately
following. The scene is laid in a village of Lorraine. Here Daniel
Steele, an American Friend who has come to France to do relief and
reconstruction work, falls under the spell of Joan le Jeune, the maid
of Mirabelle. When Daniel had left home he had taken with him the
promise of his foster-sister Faith to be his wife on his return. But
for a little time Joan makes him forget Faith, and Joan, to whom he
brings the romance of strange lands, almost forgets her own soldier
lover Jean. But when Jean is under suspicion she turns to him, and
Daniel, too, recovering from a wound, finds his thoughts bound up in
Faith and is ready to return to his own country leaving Joan to her
happiness.
* * * * *
“Somewhat too sentimental in execution, but simple and pretty.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 20w
=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Uneasy street. il *$1.75 (2c) Cosmopolitan bk.
corporation
20–2645
He was an impecunious clerk before the war, but won a commission and
was swept into New York gilt-edged society by his millionaire chum
after their discharge. He goes the pace and one night of it finds him
in debt and in love and temptation staring him in the face in the form
of a trunkful of money under his hotel bed. He falls for it, takes
what he needs with intentions to refund, but is found out before that
happy event can take place. Then his manhood reasserts itself, he
returns the stolen money and makes a clean confession of his guilt to
his employer, his chum’s father. He is forgiven and is reinstated in
the good graces of his fiancée, his chum and gilt-edged society.
* * * * *
“In construction the present story is by far the best he has written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 120w
“That the story is devoid of all plausibility will not detract from
its interest to such readers as enjoy this sort of a book.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
=Pub W= 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 260w
=ROCHECHOUART, LOUIS VICTOR LÉON, comte de.=[2] Memoirs of the Count de
Rochechouart; auth. tr. by Frances Jackson. *$5 Dutton
20–17881
“These memoirs are a first-class historical document of the period
before and after the Napoleonic wars. The Count de Rochechouart was
only a lad when the revolution broke out, and practically without
money he made his way across Europe and took service with the Emperor
of Russia, whom he served until 1814, when he was appointed to a
military post under the restored Bourbons in Paris, and took a
prominent part in the refounding of royalist France.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“His narrative is of absorbing interest, in itself: material enough
for a dozen historical romances, told with vivacity, a wealth of
illuminative anecdote. The version is faithful and admirably written,
a valuable contribution to French and European history in our
language.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 360w
“The Rochechouart memoirs become thin and unsatisfactory after the
peace, and give few details of the new French society which Balzac was
afterwards to describe so brilliantly; and with the count’s retirement
into the country in 1822, they practically cease. But as they stand,
they are a valuable contribution to a period of which we can never
have too much information.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:340 O 23 ’20 630w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p648 O 7 ’20 950w
=ROE, A. S.= Chance and change in China. il *$3 (3c) Doran 915.1
20–11512
A book devoted not to political affairs but to the little alterations
in custom that indicate social change and the influence of the outside
world. Among the chapters are: The seductive city; The city of the
river orchid; The black smoke [opium]; The dragon house; The gem-hill
city; The serpent month; On the “river of broad sincerity”; The city
of western peace; The pepper month; The contemptible one [woman]; A
painted cake. The title given to this last chapter signifies “a thing
that has come to nothing,” and refers to the republic, altho the
author says, “Though to many the republic has become a ‘painted cake,’
some at least of the seeds scattered here and there in the days of its
first youth have taken root.” There are many illustrations and an
index.
* * * * *
“The accounts of travel and life in New China are fascinating, and
Miss Roe’s book both promises and provides some rare hours of
entertainment.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 400w
=Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 70w
“A varied and entertaining account of modern life in the Far East. It
is by no means a serious book. Rather it appears to be a collection of
more or less coherent reminiscences carried away by the author after
traveling through parts of the country.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 13 ’20 280w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 100w
“Her book does not lend itself to continuous reading, for it is both
discursive and disjointed. Too retiring to weave a connecting thread
out of the accidents that befell herself, too logical to put forward a
reconciliation of contradictions that defy it, too honest to suggest a
whole where she had seen but a small part, she leaves on the mind an
idea of confusion—and that, perhaps, is the truest impression she
could give of China at this period of chance and change.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 950w
=ROGET, FRANÇOIS ROGET.= Altitude and health. (Chadwick lib.) *$5 Dutton
612.27
(Eng ed SG20–68)
“Professor Roget, of Geneva, was invited by the Chadwick trustees to
form one of their panel of lectures. The subject which he treats in
the three lectures which he delivered for the Trust in 1914, and which
are contained in this volume, has become, since the development of
aviation, one of increasing importance; but the professor, though he
does not ignore aviation, explores with great care and fullness the
effect of altitude upon health and physique mainly from the point of
view of the Alpine pedestrian climber and resident.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The information contained in this book regarding climate appears on
the whole to be accurate and reasonably complete. So much cannot be
said regarding matters physiological. Whether on account of war
prejudice or other cause a large mass of valuable German work is
passed over almost in silence and even in the selections from English
and American investigators the most important modern contribution is
merely mentioned.” Yandell Henderson
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 30 ’20 1000w
“If, as undoubtedly is the case, there are still many people who dread
the effects of unmitigated fresh air, and especially that of mountain
resorts, these lectures should help to convert them to saner views.”
+ =Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 D 11 ’19 90w
=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Golden scorpion. *$1.75
(2c) McBride
20–7137
Mystery, magic and an element of indefinable horror enter into this
story by the author of the Fu Manchu tales. Gaston Max, a famous
Parisian detective, Inspector Dunbar of Scotland Yard, and Dr Keppel
Stuart, an obscure London practitioner with an unusual knowledge of
poisons, are all concerned in the case of the golden scorpion. For a
time no one of them knows who or what the scorpion may be, altho this
symbol is known in some way to be associated with a series of
mysterious deaths in both London and Paris. Dr Stuart is drawn into
the case when the beautiful and alluring Mlle Dorian comes to him as a
patient. As in the author’s other stories there is a strong tinge of
the oriental.
* * * * *
“A good mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 130w
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 530w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 220w
“It is a relief to have mystery and magic mixed up with good detective
work after so great a glut of German espionage, and the reader will
find the golden scorpion in a pleasing variety of unusual and
unexpected situations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 300w
=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).=[2] Green eyes of Bast.
*$2 (2½c) McBride
20–18256
This story is of the unreal, and presupposes the existence of hybrid
beings, half woman and half cat, born in Egypt in the month sacred to
the goddess Bast. The fate of the individual or family upon which the
enmity of such a being rests, may be imagined. The Coverly family in
England is so marked, and one by one its members meet their deaths in
various ghastly manners. To the police, who are naturally not in
possession of the secret of the cat-woman, it is very mysterious.
Altho they make many discoveries, what finally clears it all up is the
confession of the Eurasian, Dr Damar Greefe, who had brought up the
hybrid monstrosity in the interests of science. Though they are in
league together, she finally masters him and the final tragedy is his
death, for she eventually adds his murder to the already long list of
fatalities of the story.
* * * * *
“Persons of experience know that, in shockers as in life, it is not
the goal but the road there that matters, and their gratitude to the
author will suffer no diminution because the villain’s explanatory
discourse reveals some weak points in the construction of the story.”
+ − =Ath= p275 Ag 27 ’20 150w
+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 540w
“Mr Rohmer devotes himself to the production of atmosphere with his
old skill.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 130w
=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Liluli. il *$2 Boni & Liveright 842
20–11590
“In ‘Liluli’ Romain Rolland has given to the world one of the most
daring satires that have ever been written. Liluli is illusion, the
ideal, the chimera, the eternal vamp of history. The time and place of
the drama are fanciful. The stage is a ravine spanned by a footbridge.
The human race is on the march—toward a mirage. There are peasants and
intellectuals, diplomatists and socialists, satyrs and mountebanks,
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Truth and Opinion, the Gallipoulets
and the Hurluberloches (who are at war), shopkeepers, peddlers and
fettered brains. And Polichinello. He is the laughing brain. He is the
eternal mocker. He believes in nothing and smiles at all things. He is
the wisdom of folly. In the general crash on the bridge of the world,
when the human race goes into the abyss, Polichinello goes with it.
Everything collapses on him—the fighting people, furniture, crockery,
poultry, stones, earth and the grand chorus of idealists. On top of
the mess sits Liluli, her legs crossed, smiling and showing the tip of
her tongue, her fore-finger to her nose.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“The play is a farce and a savage satire all in one. It is
Aristophanic in its conception and working out, now bitter, now
blatant, now indecent, and at times blasphemous. It would have been
entirely possible to satirize hypocrisy and venality as playing potent
parts in the stirring up of war without insulting religion and its
God.”
− =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 170w
“It is a strange and powerful book, this monstrous comedy of
world-wide calamity. The logical necessity of the catastrophe, the
inevitableness with which not only the vices, but even the virtues of
her victims play into the hands of Liluli, make them susceptible to
her lure, and hasten their doom, gives this weird farce the
impressiveness of a Greek tragedy.” H. M. Evers
+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 620w
“It is a pity that M. Rolland has chosen the now dominant symbolical
forms for the embodiment of his fable. Never so much as today did art
need to speak directly. ‘Liluli’ is beautiful and memorable. But its
literary sophistication stands in the way of its broader
effectiveness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 370w
“Probably Rolland had in mind to write somewhat after the manner of
Aristophanes. Certainly he has the necessary verve and gusto and
satiric sting. But the Greek stuck to themes that could be represented
on the stage. The Frenchman has tried to sweep all humanity into the
scene, and the result is that you, the reader, have to create a brain
theater for the work in order to realize its true values. It would
have been far more effective for most people in some other form.”
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 550w
“‘Liluli’ is a memorable book. It demolishes with great Rabelaisian
and Aristophanic guffaws the ridiculous and anarchistic societies that
we live in. The book is a bridge to a new world—still nebulous, not
even yet a mirage.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:2 Jl 11 ’20 860w
=Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 30w
“‘Liluli’ is written in behalf of what is, or was or should be, a
noble cause; it is written with an art and grace which should have
fitted it to charm and to serve; yet its spirit and methods are such
as to dispel that charm and to annul that service.”
− + =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ’20 950w
“Perhaps Romain Rolland is scarcely of the race and lineage of the
master satirists, and his ‘Liluli’ may not be the ideal satire for
this crazy age; but Rolland shows many of their great traits, and
‘Liluli’ is so far the one outstanding satire of its time.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:348 O ’20 410w
“Here are all the arguments and experiences with which the pacifist is
familiar incisively personified—not without a certain strong tang of a
former literary age.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. trappers. (U.S.
service ser.) il *$1.50 (2c) Lothrop 639
19–17885
This unusually well illustrated volume follows the plan of the other
books of the series in combining information with narrative. In
telling the story of young Gavin Keary, from the time he is left alone
to shift for himself till he is engaged as a trapper by the U.S.
biological survey, the author manages to impart a great deal of
information about the work of this branch of the government service,
the conditions of modern trapping and the ways of wild animals.
* * * * *
“The average reader will find it interesting and boys will find it
even thrilling.”
+ =Booklist= 16:208 Mr ’20
“It avoids the insipidity that goes with most boys’ books and is
packed full of information about ranch life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w
=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Great demonstration. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–19435
Roger Lessing and Terry Endicott are both in love with Lucretia Dale.
She is in love with neither until on the eve of Terry’s departure for
the war, she realizes that he has her heart. But report comes that he
is dead, and half against her own will, she consents to marry though
she cannot love Roger. Roger has always been a disciple of New
thought, believing “What I desire, will come to me,” but even his
desire for Lucretia’s love cannot bring it to him. Then Terry is
miraculously returned to life from a German prison; and Roger’s desire
for Lucretia’s love is intensified. From the creed of New thought he
advances into more dangerous forms of eastern mysticism to gain his
end until finally the power that he sought to use masters him, and he
meets his death in his last effort to control Lucretia’s mind and
love.
* * * * *
“It cannot be said that the psychic element in this novel is either
interesting or convincing. On the other hand, the sketches of daily
existence in the ‘studio’ are amusing and the general atmosphere of
the story is pleasing.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 430w
=ROOSEVELT, KERMIT.= Happy hunting-grounds. *$1.75 Scribner 799
20–19277
“In the opening chapter, the author gives an intimate picture of his
father, as he remembers him in the rôle of companion during numerous
hunting expeditions. There are numerous personal incidents and
reminiscences. Other chapters have to do with hunting in America,
including trips into Mexico. ‘Book collecting in South America’
recalls another purpose of a trip into a foreign land. At the end of
the volume a sketch is given of Seth Bullock, his father’s friend,
sometimes called the ‘last of the frontiersmen,’ a type celebrated and
adored by Roosevelt.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 420w
“The volume is interesting and well written throughout—Kermit
Roosevelt has inherited his father’s knack of clear description and
vigorous English.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 130w
+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D 20 140w
“Will be welcomed by the many admirers of the former president, those
who admired him as a man, and not only as a political leader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p843 D 9 ’20 150w
=ROPER, WILLIAM W.= Winning football. il *$2 (4½c) Dodd 797
20–17071
The author distinguishes between an old and a new way of playing
football. The old way “was first and last a trial of speed and
strength and weight and courage” in which cleverness was at a discount
and mere pounds and inches at a premium. The new way is “thinking
football,” for which the author claims every manly virtue and that it
is “a splendid preparatory school for life.” Of this game the book
proposes to set forth the underlying principles. Contents: Modern
football a battle of wits; The spirit behind the team; The routine of
early season practise; Every man in every play; A real quarter-back
must have brains; Running the team; The kicking game; The schedule;
The day of the big game; Illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
“A readable unusually valuable book for any one who is coaching
football.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w
“It is not only informational, but inspirational. The attitude
throughout is that of the highminded amateur sportsman of the best
type. For this reason, if for no other, it is a book that most men and
all boys should read.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 210w
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 30 ’21 160w
=ROSE, JOSHUA.= Complete practical machinist. il $3 Baird 621.9
20–2274
In the twentieth, greatly enlarged edition of this work, the reader is
introduced “to the machine tools in which the cutting tools are used,
whereas in the earlier editions the cutting tools only were treated
upon.” (Preface) The present edition has 432 illustrations. The work
originally appeared in 1894.
=ROSEBORO, VIOLA.= Storms of youth. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8273
Just before Perry Grantley left college, a faculty incident revealed
to him in a flash what “a sporty thing” it would be to be a man. It
clinched his decision to stay in the old home town and fight the
political graft that had crept into the local government there. In the
story we follow Perry’s crusade against the insidious corruption of
the town and his personal vicissitudes in matters of the heart—how his
unguarded marriage to a flower-like girl with an unborn soul resulted
in early widowerhood and his final union with the playmate of his
youth whom he had always loved. Incidentally a picture of small town
life, its outstanding figures, with their normal, their sub- and
super-normal qualities, unfolds itself, leaving the reader with the
impression that life with its successes, its failures and its sorrows
is all a part of “the beauty and wonder.”
* * * * *
“There is a very vivid picture of the life of the town from the
beginning of the book. One must admire the author’s skill in
visualizing these varied elements.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 370w
“The characters are well realized, the situations are poignant, and
the method of narration becomes progressively more coherent and
telling.”
+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 100w
=N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 180w
“The book would be a better one if the end were reached a little
sooner. The novel contains a good many characters, but the author
keeps firm hold on each one of them, and their variety helps to give
verisimilitude to this tale of love and politics in a small American
town.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 700w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“My feeling about the whole book is that it is too elaborate a
mechanism, with a weakness at its vitals. Finally, we are reluctantly
aware of the style as artful in its polish and saliency. We feel that
the writer has labored well, but we feel that she has labored.” H. W.
Boynton
− + =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 280w
=ROSENFELD, PAUL.= Musical portraits. *$2.50 (3c) Harcourt 780
20–8863
In these “interpretations of twenty modern composers” (Sub-title) the
author characterizes the music of each and shows how each composer
reflected the age in which he lived either in its entirety or in
certain phases and according to the musician’s temperament. The
composers are: Wagner; Strauss; Moussorgsky; Liszt; Berlioz; Franck;
Debussy; Ravel; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Rachmaninoff; Scriabine;
Strawinsky; Mahler; Reger; Schoenberg; Sibelius; Loeffler; Ornstein;
Bloch. The appendix consists of short biographical notes of each
composer.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
“Mr Rosenfeld knows how to write. This fact alone would make him of
the minority among those who write at and about music. His style is
nervous, clear, ironical if not humorous, and he uses words with
precision. A well-written, interesting, sincere, exasperating book. In
other words, a book worth reading.” Deems Taylor
+ − =Dial= 69:313 S ’20 3150w
“Each is a sort of snapshot of the essential personality of a
musician, and all taken together make up a gallery of modern composers
so penetrating, vivid and trenchant that no reader is likely to forget
them. The method used is the impressionist. Inevitably, the special
pitfall of a method like Mr Rosenfeld’s is over-subjectivity and
sentimentalism, with its resultant turgidity and tendency to ‘fine
writing.’ Mr Rosenfeld’s first book of essays at once establishes him
as one of the few writers on music able really to illuminate their
subject.” D. G. Mason
+ − =Freeman= 1:332 Je 16 ’20 1600w
+ =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w
“Many of the fundamental ideas set forth have been voiced at one time
or another by the more penetrating of European critics. Yet Mr
Rosenfeld has displayed a marked faculty for reinvesting these ideas
in fresh and striking habiliments, embroidering them with such
originality and skill that they take a new aspect. The whole book, in
fact, is an astounding exhibition of virtuoso writing.” Henrietta
Straus
+ =Nation= 111:sup411 O 13 ’20 1550w
“For its many good qualities, this book is deserving of unstinted
praise. For one thing, it is, I believe, the first noteworthy attempt
to take an accurate and full-size measurement of the music makers of
our day, and for another, the critical yard stick is applied by a hand
equally as artistic as it is dexterous. The only annoyance I
experienced in reading the book was due to a feeling that, in parts,
many of the pages were overwritten.” Max Endicoff
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 260w
“Mr Rosenfeld delights in vivid colors. At moments, to be sure, one
sees a tendency to overdo this eloquence; to pass too suddenly from
rhapsody to invective, and from praise to blame. But even with such
faults—perhaps because of them—these ‘Twenty portraits’ are in their
own field unique.” C: H: Meltzer
+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 950w
“There is an abundance of subtlety, of ‘style,’ of smart theories that
are more preoccupied with themselves and their inner consistency than
with their subject-matter.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 31 ’20 380w
=ROSS, EDWARD ALSWORTH.= Principles of sociology. (Century social
science ser.) *$4 Century 301
20–9364
“This is not merely another textbook in sociology but the exposition
of a system of sociology which is the result of seventeen years of
work. The work begins with a brief treatment of social population.
In a limited but strong treatment of Social forces, Ross contends
that social laws are not physical but psychical, following Ward in
the theory that the social forces are human desires. Part III, on
Social processes, contains the bulk of the book—480 pages. This is
subdivided into thirty-eight chapters, including such subjects as
association, domination, exploitation, opposition, stimulation,
personal competition, adaptation, cooperation, stratification,
gradation, commercialization, expansion, ossification, estrangement,
individualization, liberation, and transformation. Under Social
products are treated uniformities, standards, groups and
institutions. The book closes with four chapters on sociological
principles—anticipation, simulation, individualization and
balance.”—Survey
* * * * *
“No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his
particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book,
or even only superficially acquainted with it. Henceforth the student
of social science who has not assimilated it is undertrained. It is a
luminous revelation of realities of the common life.” A. W. Small
+ =Am J Soc= 26:110 Jl ’20 1250w
+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“Mr Ross’s cardinal fault is lack of historical-mindedness. He accepts
as absolute the standards found or conceived in his own social
environment and seems generally incapable of a Kantian critique of
their validity. Yet with all its defects ‘The principles of sociology’
remains a work of real utility. Though the author’s resolute
determination not to think anything through may deter the
philosophical student, the vast scope of the book with its wealth of
illustrative material may commend it to the teacher of sociology.” R.
H. Lowie
+ − =Nation= 111:sup418 O 13 ’20 1450w
“The tone of this book is generous and whole-souled and the reader is
thereby predisposed from the outset. The style goes with the tone. It
is generously expansive to the verge of breeziness. By reason of its
qualities of tone, style, and the rest this book ought to be of use in
colleges and to the general reader.” A. G. Keller
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Few writers have the ability to present a subject in as interesting a
manner as Ross. His style is pungent, clear and clean-cut.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 680w
“It is not only the most important sociological work of the past few
months but without question the most important since the appearance of
Todd’s ‘Theories of social progress,’ and possibly since Ward’s ‘Pure
sociology.’ The book is not only a masterpiece as a scientific work
but it is intensely interesting.” G. S. Dow
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 740w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 90w
=ROSS, SIR RONALD.=[2] Revels of Orsera. *$2.50 (2c) Dutton
21–665
This medieval romance purports to be based on some historical facts
and on a manuscript by one Johannes Murinus, found in the library of
the University at Bâle. The story is illustrative of the mystical
conception that good and evil flow from the same source and are
interchangeable and the result is a novel interpretation of dual
personality. A proud mother of twins—one of whom is a deformed dwarf,
albeit with a beautiful poetic spirit—thinks that by murdering him his
spirit will enter into a corporeally beautiful demon, who obtrudes
himself upon her in a dream, and thus make spirit and body one in
beauty. She is correct in her first surmise but to her dismay, the
body of the son also lives on with the spirit of the demon she has
ousted. A second time she attempts to kill him in his new guise but
only effects another exchange.
* * * * *
“It is written with a swash-buckling air, which reproduces with
curious effectiveness the mediæval period in which it is laid.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 13 ’20 140w
“Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness
of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he
lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the
stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 600w
“The author’s invention remains at a high level throughout the story,
and it is not till near the end that the practised novel reader begins
to suspect his secret, but his vocabulary every now and then becomes
too modern for the atmosphere such a story imperatively demands.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:486 D 11 ’20 130w
“‘The revels of Orsera’ would claim admiration on its merits quite
apart from the antecedents of the author. When they are taken into
account it moves the critic to something like amazement. Regarded
merely as a story, ‘The revels of Orsera’ is continuously exciting,
prodigal of surprises and often genuinely if grotesquely humorous.”
+ =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 480w
“It is an extraordinary story, in which most of the principal
characters come to a bad end, for which the reader cannot honestly be
very sorry. But there is one thing that he will have noticed by that
time, which is that the descriptions of Alpine scenery and atmosphere,
which can only be due to personal observation, stand out with a far
brighter vividness then all the medieval fineries.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 850w
=ROSS, VICTOR.= Evolution of the oil industry. il *$1.50 (5c) Doubleday
665
20–19271
Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in
Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest
historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively
new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches
man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the industry
is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the present
time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum in
history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s petroleum
industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum as a world
industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well; Collecting and
transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and manufacturing
petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries; Petroleum on the
seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s investment in
petroleum; Petroleum in the future.
=ROTHERY, AGNES EDWARDS (MRS HARRY ROGERS PRATT) (AGNES EDWARDS,
pseud.).= Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. il *$2.50 (6½c)
Houghton 974.4
20–26574
Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a foreword,
the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip along the
earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast road,
connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel comfortably
“picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten history we
most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a pleasure trip
into history and old traditions, as the table of contents reveals:
Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the Blue hills;
Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth; Ecclesiastical
Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate shore; Marshfield,
the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes; Kingston and its
manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and chapter vignettes are by
Louis H. Ruyl.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w
“A pleasant, friendly guide book. It is charmingly illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 50w
“If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to Plymouth,
he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He will find
each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The pen-and-ink illustrations are unusually attractive.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 200w
=ROUTZAHN, MRS MARY BRAYTON (SWAIN).=[2] Traveling publicity campaigns.
il *$1.50 Russell Sage foundation 374
20–12390
The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby
M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried
on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e.
“the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other
campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor
trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a
continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of
traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning;
Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization;
The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train;
Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
=Ann Am Acad= 93:226 Ja ’21 40w
“Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will
find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews
+ =J Home Econ= 13:89 F ’21 220w
=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–1699
The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry
and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in
the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang.
He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas
Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff
although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their
methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and
killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he
realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample
restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s
daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas
becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil
woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist,
dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is
really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.
* * * * *
“Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an
unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a
singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting
reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 300w
“The tale is cheerfully improbable, swift-moving, and very
entertaining.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Peddler. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15959
The somewhat erratic peddler of the title carried his miscellaneous
stock of wares in and on an immense ex-army truck, so that his
approach was invariably heralded by a clanging and banging of
hardware. In this way he made his entry into the exclusive New England
colony where the Kirkland family of four sons and a daughter was
justly famous. To the same resort in less spectacular style came a
small band of European crooks, who proceeded at once to work silently
and effectively along their own original lines of robbery. Not until
William Kirkland was accused of the thefts, did the peddler reveal the
fact that he was there as a member of the secret police incognito. But
when an attempt upon William’s life was made, the peddler was on hand
to rescue him and to try to capture the criminals. Altho the result
was not satisfactory to him, the others concerned seemed to be quite
content, and the bonus which he claimed in the person of Diana
Kirkland reconciled him to what he considered his failure. Some of the
characters and some of the stolen jewelry figured previously in Mr
Rowland’s novel “Duds.”
* * * * *
“Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“It is a rattling tale, full of new complications and exciting
incidents. The interest does not flag, the characters are sharply
differentiated human beings, and not automata. It is an admirable
mystery story.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 120w
=ROYCE, JOSIAH.= Lectures on modern idealism. *$3 Yale univ. press 141
20–7505
“The ground covered by the book is largely the same as the substance
of Royce’s ‘Spirit of modern philosophy,’ but the treatment is wholly
different, being as professedly technical as the earlier book was not.
And, whether wisely or unwisely, the author has avoided repeating what
is contained in the ordinary histories of philosophy by emphasizing
the neglected aspects of the thinkers whose systems he
expounds.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Interesting as a pre-war study of German philosophy.”
+ =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20
Reviewed by Hartley Alexander
=Nation= 111:sup409 O 13 ’20 2600w
“Throughout, Royce’s accurate scholarship and gift of sympathetic
interpretation are at their best, but nowhere more so than in the
three lectures on Hegel’s ‘Phaenomenology of spirit.’” R. F. A. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:325 F 9 ’21 900w
“The initial presumption that we have a book here worthy of careful
study is amply justified by the reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 1150w
=RUSH, THOMAS EDWARD.= Port of New York. il *$3.50 Doubleday 387
20–10357
The purpose of this book, by the surveyor of customs of the port of
New York, is to make it easier for business men, officials, teachers
and students, to understand New York harbor, and to estimate its
importance for the city, the country, and the world. It tells its
history from the very beginning and points out five agencies as
responsible for its improvements: the cities within the port areas;
New York and New Jersey state governments; the federal government; the
projected bi-state unified port control; and extra governmental
agencies voicing the public’s demands and needs. Many drawbacks and
inefficiencies are pointed out and the fact emphasized that New York
is “first and foremost a port.” Among the contents are: Birth,
christening, and youth; Piracy and privateering abolished; Eternal
vigilance against smugglers; Giant growth in commerce; Government
far-sightedness and short-sightedness; The port awakening of New
Jersey; Forts and fortifications; New York, the nation’s first air
harbor; Advertising New York port’s nautical school; Immigration’s
gateway to America; Bibliography and illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“The port of New York is deserving of a more comprehensive and more
technical study of its processes than is provided by Thomas E. Rush.
An adequate study of the port from the transportation or engineering
point of view it emphatically is not.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 450w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Bolshevism: practice and theory. *$2
Harcourt 335
20–20991
A book containing the articles which appeared in the Nation together
with new material. Bertrand Russell writes as a communist who finds
much to criticize in the bolshevist method of putting communism into
practice. He says: “A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing
with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in
philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary
if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his
master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I
criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure
from their own ideals.” (Preface) The book is the outcome of a brief
visit to Russia. Part 1, The present condition of Russia, has chapters
on: What is hoped for Bolshevism; General characteristics; Lenin,
Trotsky, and Gorky; Art and education (written by Mr Russell’s
secretary, Miss D. W. Black); Daily life in Moscow; etc. Part 2,
Bolshevik theory, is a criticism of the materialistic conception of
history and other accepted doctrines, with chapters on: Why Russian
communist has failed; and Conditions for the success of communism.
* * * * *
“We have found the most interesting part of Mr Russell’s book to be,
on the whole, his analysis of the theory of Bolshevism.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p695 N 19 ’20 780w
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
“A clear and convincing critique of Bolshevism as a social theory.” E:
E. Paramore, jr.
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 700w
“No such remarkable book as his ‘Bolshevism: practice and theory,’ has
been published on this subject. Small as the volume is, only 192
pages, it is amazing how much he says.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 D 26 ’20 1400w
“Bertrand Russell is not a clear thinker. The chief value of this book
lies in the fact that it is a condemnation of the spirit of Bolshevism
by one whose prejudices for its avowed principles would naturally make
him its apologist if not its defender.”
− + =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 180w
=Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
“Mr Bertrand Russell’s book is likely to remain the most damning
criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered
as a faith or as a political institution. Although Mr Russell seems to
us to be no more practical than a Russian Bolshevik, he is beyond
doubt a brilliant philosopher, and often one cannot help finding
fineness in his thought, even when he seems to us least to understand
the ways of the ordinary man. Among the most interesting things in the
book are the accounts of Mr Russell’s meetings with Lenin and
Trotsky.”
+ − =Spec= 125:705 N 27 ’20 1900w
“Not the least interesting chapters are those on ‘Revolution and
dictatorship’ and ‘Mechanism and the individual,’ in which Mr Russell
reveals his own views as to the future industrial system which is to
replace the present. Mr Russell himself is sanguine as to a new
economic order emerging from the present chaos. But his grounds of
faith are unconvincing.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 N 18 ’20 1200w
=RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD.= Story of the Nonpartisan league; a chapter in
American evolution. il *$2 Harper 329
20–11024
Altho covering practically the same ground as Herbert E. Gaston’s
“Nonpartisan league” this book goes more fully into the conditions out
of which the league movement developed, bringing together much
illustrative material and documentary evidence to show the workings of
the system under which the farmer was exploited. The author says in
beginning, “I have no idea that in the succeeding pages I can remove
the fixed belief of the dwellers in cities that the farmer of America
is becoming clog-footed with wealth, but it has occurred to me that a
plain record of the tragic struggles of a large body of American
farmers for bare justice and a chance to live ... might have some
interest as a human as well as a social and political document of
facts.” The part devoted to the rise and present organization of the
league is correspondingly less complete than Mr Gaston’s, but the main
facts are sketched. The book has been carefully indexed.
* * * * *
“Rather more interestingly and dramatically written than Gaston.”
+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“Admirable book.” W. H. C.
+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 480w
“The book should be viewed as a clever piece of journalism, effective
but inaccurate. It has the earmarks of being scientific; it cites
references: it affects a certain restraint in statement. Yet the
critical reader will find its ‘citations’ ex parte, fragmentary,
undated for the most part. The book is a good example of skilled
juggling with half-truths. In short this book is not what it pretends
to be—the facts about the Nonpartisan league.” J. E. Boyle
− =J Pol Econ= 28:705 O ’20 1400w
“While this book is not to be compared with the more intimate and
comprehensive work by Mr Gaston, it is none the less a valuable
account of a movement that has been much misrepresented in the public
press.”
+ =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 240w
“Mr Russell’s defense of the league’s attitude during the war is the
best that can be put forward, and it is put forward by a sincere
patriot who risked and suffered much for his loyalty. But the country
has made up its mind on that point, and his defense, honest as it is,
is unconvincing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 18 ’20 3950w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 60w
=RUSSELL, MRS FRANCES THERESA (PEET).= Satire in the Victorian novel.
*$2.50 Macmillan 823
20–2031
“The author of this book is a professor at Leland Stanford junior
university, and her interpretation of the satiric contributions to
literature, offered by novelists of the Victorian epoch, has literary
as well as scholastic value. Written primarily as a thesis, offered at
Columbia university for the degree of doctor of philosophy, the
author’s style bears necessarily unmistakable and potent signs of
academic standards. The volume is divided into Premises, Methods,
Objects and Conclusions. After giving to her readers the groundwork of
her scheme, making certain that they understand the satiric motive,
Professor Russell passes to the categorical stage in her exposition.
She analyzes methods of satire, romantic, realistic, ironic. For this
purpose she quotes from the writers of the period she is considering,
writers such as Samuel Butler, Thomas Love Peacock, Meredith,
Disraeli, Thackeray, Trollope and Dickens. She takes pains to show us
how much ingenuity these men display in their methods of satiric
attack and how their weapons vary, likewise their skill.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“A thoroughly competent and scholarly study.”
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“What will interest the un-academic mind particularly in this treatise
is the author’s personal contribution. She offers, sometimes with a
charming unconsciousness, her philosophy of living; and more than one
of her reflections has a satiric thrust which makes us realize that
the talent for touching on the weaknesses of humanity with a deftly
humorous hand did not die with the Victorians!” D. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 600w
=Lit D= p126 Ap 17 ’20 950w
“She has a better talent for the abstract than for the concrete; her
analyses are better than her discussions of actual examples. The
reader learns much from her pages by gleaning over wide territory, but
he drives behind an inexorable chauffeur who whirls him past alluring
byways and leafy vistas. Names and ideas spin by like telephone poles.
The author has a nice ear for the turn of a sentence, but she cannot
train sentences to speak together.”
+ − =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 250w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 50w
“It is full of sustaining, gently amusing reading, and—most
important—the reader will want to read it all. There is no waste.”
+ =Spec= 124:83 Jl 17 ’20 900w
“A certain rehabilitation of the Victorians is the chief service that
Prof. Russell seems to have performed, often, seemingly, in spite of
herself.” G: B. Dutton
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 1900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 200w
=RUSSELL, RUTH.= What’s the matter with Ireland? *$1.75 Devin-Adair
914.5
20–13138
“Miss Russell has undertaken her theme objectively, in the best
reportorial sense, and by sounding a number of disparate apostles—as
widely dissimilar as De Valera, George Russell, Countess Markiewiecz
and the Bishop of Killaloe—she manages to throw light upon all phases
of the problem. The book opens with a chapter on statistics, which
bring the present plight of the country into the foreground of the
reader’s imagination, and with this accomplished, the author turns to
the narration of incidents, and to the gleaning of opinions, which are
set down with impartial emphasis.”—Freeman
* * * * *
“She succeeds in rousing our sympathy for the poor working girls of
Dublin, and the other unfortunate people of the city and the
bog-field. But when she takes up the political, she seems unable to do
justice to her subject. There is no doubt Miss Russell’s intentions
are good, but it is doubtful if such books as this will help Ireland’s
cause.”
− + =Cath World= 112:396 D ’20 210w
“She wisely refrains from any ex cathedra dogmatism on her own
account.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 140w
=RUSSELL, THOMAS.= Commercial advertising. (Studies in economics and
political science) *$2.50 Putnam 659
20–297
“Mr Russell is the president of the Incorporated society of
advertisement consultants, and was sometime advertisement manager of
the Times. He writes, therefore, with authority, and he deals fully
with such themes as the economic justification of advertising, the
functions and policy of advertising, the chief methods of advertising,
and with advertising as a career.” (Ath) “The six lectures were
delivered in the spring of this year at the London school of
economics.” (Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
“The book should be useful and suggestive to commercial men and
others.”
+ =Ath= p929 S 19 ’19 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 400w
“The six lectures are not only worthy of their academic auspices but
might well serve as models of modern academic exposition. They have
the breadth and insight that is properly called philosophic, whatever
the subject-matter may be, and the concreteness that makes a
philosophic treatment glow with interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p510 S 25 ’19 900w
=RUTZEBECK, HJALMAR.= Alaska man’s luck. *$2 Boni & Liveright
20–26890
“The book is a unique autobiographical chronicle, told in the form of
a diary, of the struggles of its author-hero to make a home for
himself in the land of the snows. Hjalmar Rutzebeck, or Svend Norman,
as he calls himself in his book, was born and raised in Denmark. He
left school at the age of twelve and has had no further formal
schooling since then. We first meet our twentieth century viking in
Los Angeles, just after he had been honorably discharged from the
United States army. With winning naïveté he tells us how he has fallen
in love with Marian. When Svend learns that the northland is as dear
to Marian as it is to him, he immediately sets out to make a stake
there.... As Svend goes on from adventure to adventure he records them
in his diary, and it is this diary, mailed to Marian piecemeal as he
went along, that is reprinted in ‘Alaska man’s luck.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Interesting specially to men or older boys.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“It must be confessed that the tale is fascinating, in spite of, or
perhaps because of its naïveté.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 120w
“An extraordinary story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 330w
“There is no self-consciousness in ‘Alaska man’s luck,’ nor is there
any suggestion of a sophisticated striving to return to the simple and
primitive.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 110w
“For his first novel, Hjalmar Rutzebeck has wisely chosen a hero of
his own race and temperament. He attains a consistent realism by
letting Svend Norman’s diaries and letters tell their own story.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 220w
“The simplicity and directness with which the author tells his
blood-stirring story, even the occasional crudities in his English,
serve to enhance rather than mar the epic quality of his narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 N 14 ’20 2250w
=RYAN, AGNES.= Whisper of fire. *$1.25 Four seas co. 811
19–18255
A series of poems arranged as: Wood, Kindling, Smoldering, Smoke,
Blaze, Smoke again, Flame, Coals, Ashes. Altho they are loosely strung
together the succession of verses tells the story of a woman’s love
life.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“Several of the verses, notably ‘I wonder,’ are compact and vivid in
imagery and spiritual message.”
+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 40w
=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Each poem is a mere fragment in free verse, a chip off the old block
of femininity. This will please readers of poetry of the hour. For the
present vogue is fragmentary. Many of these poems are trivial and
unimportant, but a few have the eloquence of reality.” Marguerite
Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:82 F 8 ’20 120w
=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Church and socialism; and other essays. (Social
justice bks.) *$1.50 University press, Brookland, Washington, D.C. 304
20–221
“A collection of papers that have appeared in various publications
during the past ten years. Only the first paper relates intimately to
the title of the book. Other topics discussed are: A living wage; The
legal minimum wage; Moral aspects of the labor union; The moral
aspects of speculation; Birth control; and Woman suffrage.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:385 Je ’20 50w
“The essay, ‘False and true conceptions of welfare,’ is to our mind
the most practical of the entire series.”
+ =Cath World= 111:392 Je ’20 280w
“They reveal a large acquaintance with economic and industrial
problems. It would be beside the point to criticize these papers
without remembering that they were written for Catholics. While we
agree with many of Dr Ryan’s conclusions, we should find it difficult
to subscribe to some of his premises and to submit to the intellectual
limitations which follow.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 110:266 F 28 ’20 280w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 90w
=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Living wage; with an introd. by R: T. Ely. *$2
Macmillan 331.2
20–1611
“A revised and abridged edition of a work that has had much influence
in bringing about the enactment of minimum-wage laws and the
acceptance of the principle that the laborer has a moral claim to at
least a decent living wage. The author is a priest of the Roman
Catholic church and a professor in the Catholic university of
America.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“It is agreeable to say that Dr Ryan argues the living wage question
better than almost anybody else.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:267 My 23 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w
“Ethically it is far in advance of the thought of a generation ago,
and many even now will find themselves unable to keep pace with it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 100w
=RYAN, WILLIAM PATRICK.= Irish labor movement. (Modern Ireland in the
making) *$2 Huebsch 331.09
(Eng ed 20–113)
In reviewing the history of Irish labor in the seventeenth, eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries the author points out how the genius of the
Irish people was submerged and its spirit broken by the enforced
assimilation of a foreign social system, a foreign speech and a
foreign character. However cruel and inhuman English dominion has
proved itself to be, the struggle for freedom has been mental and
spiritual as well as economic. “The breaking of the chains, the
unloading of the degrading burdens that we know, will inevitably lead
to the resurrection and the flowering of the workers’ deeper natures,
now blunted and buried. Then they may be artists and creators.”
Contents: Labor and the Gael; Land workers’ ordeals and deeds; William
Thompson, Robert Owen and Ralahine; Our early trade unionism; The
guilds and the unions; Illusive emancipation; O’Connell and
tragi-comedy; Weavers and “lock-ups”; Lalor and lean years; In
Davitt’s days; Connolly in the schools of labor; Connolly’s
teaching—industrial unionism; Larkin’s youth in the depths; The rise
of “Larkinism”; Up from slavery in Ulster; The struggle of 1913; The
ultimate sacrifice; Towards the commonwealth; Authorities and sources.
* * * * *
=Ath= p412 My 30 ’19 70w
S
=SACKVILLE, MARGARET, lady.= Selected poems. *$2.50 Dutton 821
“Lady Margaret Sackville is a feminine version of the late Richard
Middleton. Her themes are the themes of Middleton—the gay seasons,
love and desire with their antithesis of crepuscular quiet, a selected
Greek mythology, and the vaguely idealistic ‘dreams’ of the
romantics.” (Ath) “She writes lyrics and short plays: her subjects are
largely Greek, and, so far as effects of brightness and directness, of
clear air and frank sunshine, are concerned, the atmosphere is Greek.”
(Review)
* * * * *
“Out of her materials she makes a bright, easy poetry, which it would
be unfair to subject to the test of frequent reading. It is only at
rare intervals that something of more permanent quality, as, for
example, ‘Invitation au repos,’ rises above the level of pleasant
facility.”
+ − =Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 110w
“Lady Margaret Sackville is the possessor of charm. Original or
powerful she may not be, but charm in itself is fortune.” O. W.
Firkins
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 330w
“Lady Margaret Sackville has suffered by reason of being Lady
Margaret. The paths were made too easy for her. She set out with the
true throat of the bird at dawn, but somehow somewhere the music went
wrong. It is wrong now.”
− + =Sat R= 129:392 Ap 24 ’20 170w
“Pieces that give the effect of having been written as technical
exercises, but which are not without charm.”
+ − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 30w
=SADLER, MICHAEL.= Anchor. *$1.75 (2½c) McBride
The interest of the story centers about Laddie Macallister, an
over-sensitive, introspective young man whose self-questionings and
doubtings make him feel hopelessly adrift and unstable for all his
solid foundation of a clean and honest manhood. We meet him first as
newspaper correspondent for an English paper in Paris; later as
literary secretary for a radical London weekly. The anchor, the
“something-firm-to-cling-to” which he craves he finds in Janet Tring,
daughter of a country squire and a singularly well-poised,
straightforward bit of young womanhood. It is the character-drawing
rather than the plot that is significant in the story. Some of the
other characters that stand out are Laddie’s father, the country
parson, whose mellow wisdom and dependable love for his son are the
latter’s safe armor; Dermot Gill, the very odd, very lovable and very
radical Irishman, whose friendship Laddie picked up en route; Janet’s
cousin, the militant suffragette, proud of her prison record; and the
wily newspaper woman whose vindictive designs on Laddie rebound from
Janet’s good sense.
* * * * *
“The sentimentality of such fiction lies in its slavish worship of
youngness—the mere state and act of being young, of muddling through
youth.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 900w
“The story is lacking in form and consistency; the latter half, which
tells the love story, has the greater driving force. The character of
Laddie is, within limits, fairly clear and truthful. Mr Sadler’s
method is psychological, but not unduly so, and the story of the
partial love affairs which accompany his great love is done with some
originality and insight.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 480w
=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON, A.= South Sea foam. *$2 (2c) Doran 919.6
20–18944
In “the romantic adventures of a modern Don Quixote in the southern
seas” (Sub-title) the author has attempted to capture and hold for all
times, some of the earliest “poetic babblings” of the children of
nature of the South Sea islands before, with the advent of the
missionary, “island mythology and heathen legends were sponged off the
map of existence.” He has attempted to see the mysteries of nature
with the eyes of the primitive man and, in retelling the legends of
some old Polynesian chiefs, to remain as faithful to primitive
conceptions as is possible to a sophisticated mind. The contents give
glimpses of the author’s own adventurous youth in following the call
of the “true poetry of life” and some of his island reminiscences in:
Fae Fae; The heathen’s garden of Eden; In old Fiji; Kasawayo and the
serpent; O Le Langi the pagan poet; An old Marquesan queen; Charity
organization of the South Seas.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1395 D 26 ’19 500w
“Not the least stimulating portions are those devoted to the sailing
vessels in which the author has pursued his study of man and nature.”
Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:343 D ’20 200w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 350w
=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 70w
“The jerky transitions, the Bowdlerized legends, the tantalizing
sequels that the author ‘can’t tell,’ the dialect never heard on land
or sea, the author’s occasional verse ... contrive to trip the reader
up time after time just as the magic joy of life is beckoning him
farther into fairyland.”
− + =Nation= 111:786 D 29 ’20 260w
“Here is a chronicle of vagabonding among the isles of the South seas
that sets him who has lived amid the cities of civilization to
wondering whether or not he has squandered his life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 540w
“Much of the same delicate charm of fantasy which belongs to so many
of the Hindu stories told us by F. W. Bain distinguishes, also, these
tales of the isles in the far seas.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 380w
“It makes one long for Stevenson, who could be frank and downright
enough, but never wrote with a leer.” E. L. Pearson
− =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 300w
“Mr Safroni-Middleton gives us a glimpse of true natural poetry that
should appeal to the lover of life and beauty.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p709 D 4 ’19 320w
=ST JOHN, LARRY.= Practical fly fishing. (Outing handbooks) il *$1.25
Macmillan 799
20–3413
“As the title indicates, it is a treatise about luring the finny
inhabitants of pond, lake or other watery area into human hands,
through the medium of the ‘fly.’ There are numerous illustrations that
will please and enlighten both the amateur and the ‘old-timer.’ There
is a brief historical review of this form of fishing, while
considerable space is given over to tackle, other chapters are given
over to flies, reels, apparel, biological, preparatory and casting.
The final chapter is entitled ‘strategy,’ and deals with methods of
best making use of the tackle, reels, etc., previously
described.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 80w
“The descriptions are written in simple direct form, and are easily
understood and applied.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 160w
=ST MARS, F.= Way of the wild (Eng title, Pinion and paw). il *$2 (2c)
Stokes 590.4
20–100
Epics of the wild would truly characterize these tales of thrilling
adventures of wild things in their own haunts. They are not natural
history but stories of animals befitting their characters as men
conceive them. Thus in “Gulo the indomitable” we see the
wolverine—most hated of all the animals among themselves, with a
character “that came straight from the devil,” and with brains “that
only man, and no beast, ought to be trusted with”—and his ghoulish
escapades. The weak and the powerful, the four-footed and the winged
tribes, even the legless viper, engage our human sympathies for their
fears, their passions, their struggles and their wiles. Contents: Gulo
the indomitable; Blackie and co.; Under the yellow flag; Nine points
of the law; Pharaoh; The cripple; “Set a thief”; The where is it?
Lawless little love; The king’s son; The highwayman of the marsh; The
furtive feud; The storm pirate; When nights were cold; Fate and the
fearful; The eagles of Loch Royal; Ratel, V. C.; The day;
Illustrations.
* * * * *
“Real art here, with the scientist’s passion for strict accuracy. It
is a book for the whole family, a book to be kept and cherished and
handed on to the children as they grow old enough to appreciate it.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 150w
=SAINT-SAËNS, CAMILLE.= Musical memories; tr. by Edwin Gile Rich. il *$3
Small 780.4
19–15405
“This book is virtually an autobiography, but the story of the
author’s life is told briefly, so as to leave room for chapters on
Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Viardot, Louis Gallet, Delsarte, Victor
Hugo, which, however, are also more or less autobiographic, for these
were among his friends. The English volume omits some of the chapters
in the original French edition and changes the order of others.”
(Bookm) “Contents: Memories of my childhood; The old conservatoire;
Victor Hugo; The history of an opéra-comique; Louis Gallet; History
and mythology in opera; Art for art’s sake; Popular science and art;
Anarchy in music; The organ; Joseph Haydn and the ‘Seven words’; The
Liszt centenary at Heidelberg (1912); Berlioz’s requiem; Pauline
Viardot; Orphée; Delsarte; Seghers; Rossini; Jules Massenet;
Meyerbeer; Jacques Offenbach; Their majesties; Musical painters.”
(Pittsburgh)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:80 D ’19
“It should be in every library.” H: T. Finck
+ =Bookm= 51:171 Ap ’20 250w
“Camille Saint-Saens is not only one of France’s greatest living
composers but a musician who can write excellent and witty prose, and
an erudite scholar who knows how to impart information without being
pedantic.” Henrietta Strauss
+ =Nation= 111:75 Jl 17 ’20 320w
=Pittsburgh= 25:35 Ja ’20 70w
Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman
=Yale R= n s 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w
=SAINTSBURY, GEORGE.= Notes on a cellar-book. *$3 Macmillan 663
“Mr Saintsbury, it will be remembered, had proposed to write a history
of wine; for sundry reasons he renounced his intention; and what he
gives us in this small volume are ‘notes and reminiscences on the
subject which may ... add a little to the literature of one of the
three great joys of life.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The body of
the work is occupied by a history of Mr Saintsbury’s experiences in
keeping a wine cellar; literally, as the title has it, the record of a
cellar-book.” (Review)
* * * * *
“Here, then, is a book which few men, and no woman, could have
written, full of knowledge that comes of experience, and is therefore,
as a rule, useless to others—full of the ripe humour that
characterizes all the best things of the world.” R. S.
+ =Ath= p301 S 3 ’20 800w
“A quaint and delightful chronicle it is, and as we have a right to
expect from such a pen, interspersed with many an apt literary hint
and suggestion.” Michael Monahan
+ =Review= 3:559 D 8 ’20 2150w
“Mr Saintsbury was prevented from carrying out his original intention
of writing a history of wine, but he has done the next best thing in
giving us this book.”
+ =Spec= 125:114 Jl 24 ’20 1900w
“No man could be less of a pedant. His erudition does not obtrude
itself; it merely supplies suitably evocative expressions; the bubbles
wink, and so does he. There is the very spirit of wine in the genial
ferocity with which he denounces those who would deprive him of that
good gift.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 1000w
=SAMPSON, EMMA SPEED.= Mammy’s white folks. il *$1.50 (2c) Reilly & Lee
20–4267
Dr Andy Wallace is a shy young doctor with no use for women folks when
a baby girl is left on his doorstep. His negro Mammy persuades him to
keep the child and he brings her up as his own daughter. The story
tells of the happiness she brings to him, and of the happiness that
comes to her when she grows to womanhood. Mammy has a large part in
the story and the widow Richards and her daughter Lucile, who try to
steal Esther’s privileges, are also factors, as is Dr Jim Dudley, the
doctor’s assistant.
* * * * *
“A good wholesome story dominated by the motherly old negro’s
philosophy.”
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
=SAMPTER, JESSIE ETHEL=, ed. Guide to Zionism. il $1.50 Zionist
organization of Am. 296
20–8649
The book has grown out of an earlier publication, ‘A course in
Zionism,’ now out of print. The present volume is more than twice the
size of the first and presents as many more problems and facts
concerning the Zionist movement. Its purpose is to serve not only for
individual perusal but as a text-book for groups of students. Of its
thirty-three chapters the first ten deal with Zionist theory, history
and organization, the next ten with more specialized phases of the
movement, and the last thirteen with Palestine. Each chapter is
followed by a short bibliography and there are important appendices, a
general bibliography, an index and illustrations.
=SANBORN, MARY FARLEY (MRS FRED C. SANBORN).= First valley. *$1.75 (2½c)
Four seas co.
20–8860
A story of life after death. Tina, a pleasure-loving girl, killed in
an automobile accident, is speeded to the other world in the swift car
of Death, not knowing what is happening to her. She finds herself in
the first valley of the life to come and valiantly sets herself to
learn its ways. She makes friends with the Spade Man, who teaches her
to cultivate her garden, and with Odo, the childlike poet, and she
lends a helping hand to those who follow her to this new world, to St
Leon, the university professor who bemoans his lost career, and to
Helene, the beautiful woman whose worldly ideals have not been
abandoned. The story ends with her passage to the second valley.
* * * * *
“A curiously interesting book.”
+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 20w
“It is a little book conceived in a spirit of singular purity and
reverence, and almost faultlessly executed; without cant or
sentimentalism or any forcing of the risky note.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 250w
=SANCHEZ, MRS NELLIE (VAN DE GRIFT).= Life of Mrs Robert Louis
Stevenson. il *$2.25 (2½c) Scribner
20–3787
“Whoever reads this book from cover to cover will surely agree that no
woman ever had a life of more varied experiences nor went through them
all with a stauncher courage.” So writes Mrs Sanchez in the preface to
this biography of her sister Fanny, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.
There are thirteen chapters: Ancestors; Early days in Indiana; On the
Pacific slope; France, and the meeting at Grez; In California with
Robert Louis Stevenson; Europe and the British Isles; Away to sunnier
lands; The happy years in Samoa; The lonely days of widowhood; Back to
California; Travels in Mexico and Europe; The last days at Santa
Barbara. There are a number of portraits and other illustrations.
Letters from Henry James and others are quoted and the book closes
with an account of the services at Vailima in 1915 when the ashes of
Mrs Stevenson were carried to her husband’s resting place on the
summit of Mount Vaea.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p650 N 12 ’20 580w
“Well worth while, not only as an addition to Stevensoniana, but also
as a picture of a very interesting woman.”
+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“To the Stevensonian, this book is a mine of delight. It sets down
what has never before been sufficiently made clear, that Mrs Stevenson
was, in her own way, as remarkable and as gifted as her husband.”
Christopher Morley
+ =Bookm= 51:356 My ’20 850w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 2650w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w
“So interesting that one could wish it more extended. We are inclined
to think the book better worth while than anything that has been
printed about Stevenson since the Letters.’”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“This concise and vivid narrative reveals Mrs Stevenson clearly as the
splendid woman she was, but it also reveals her, first and last, as
the reason why the literary world today possesses some of the most
highly valued of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 3 ’20 600w
“One might venture to say she has written a manly book. She has
drawn the character of a frank and courageous woman with a
straightforwardness that would surely have pleased its possessor.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 O 28 ’20 2000w
=SANDBURG, CARL.= Chicago race riots, July, 1919. pa 60c Harcourt 326
19–19136
“Reprinted from articles contributed at the time to a Chicago
newspaper, Mr Sandburg’s description tallies with other authentic
accounts of the origin and progress of the race riots. Though he acted
merely as a reporter, the author evidently formed strong opinions of
his own as to the most promising line of action to prevent the
recurrence of this outrageous happening. Better housing, more and
better industrial opportunities, and—immediately—a thorough federal
investigation of the unsatisfactory race relationships that lead to
race conflicts seem part of such a program.”—Survey
* * * * *
“A serious and intelligent investigation into conditions which made
the race riots possible. A contribution to the solving of the negro
problem in any section of the country.”
+ =Booklist= 16:154 F ’20
“The pamphlet is naturally less constructed, less pondered than Mr
Seligmann’s careful thesis. But it has the advantage of its
journalistic method, for by personal narrative and comment it makes
vivid its statistics and analysis, and brings the general problem down
to more specific terms.” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 52:303 Ja ’21 170w
“Everyone in this country who is interested in our sharpest national
disgrace—our treatment of negro citizens ought to read this collection
of articles. Especially every Chicagoan ought to read it.” E. F. Wyatt
+ =New Repub= 22:98 Mr 17 ’20 1750w
+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 700w
+ =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 100w
=SANDBURG, CARL.= Smoke and steel. *$2 Harcourt 811
20–17899
The sections of this new book of poems are called Smoke nights, People
who must, Broken-face gargoyles, Playthings of the wind, Mist forms,
Accomplished facts, Passports, Circles of doors, Haze, Panels. Some of
the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the New Republic, Liberator, and
other periodicals.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“‘Smoke and steel’ is both an epic of modern industrialism and a
mighty pæan to modern beauty.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Bookm= 52:362 Ja ’21 360w
“Mr Sandburg has no sense of the past, no vision of the future, and so
his reality is a little huddled bunch of dried-up aspects out of which
have escaped the aspects of life about which he is so passionately
concerned. This is a great pity, because I believe there is no poet in
the country who has by nature the qualities of spirit which, if fused
and blended in the proper alembic, would not make some of the
loveliest and most convincing poems of our day.” W: S. Braithwaite
* + -|=Boston Transcript= p7 O 16 ’20 2050w
“Sandburg has lost (at least temporarily) the one and only thing which
makes him great—the ability to determine when he has written something
good. He now apparently believes that everything he writes is a poem.
He imitates Gary, and turns his product out on a quantity basis.”
Arthur Wilson
− =Dial= 70:80 Ja ’21 680w
“‘Smoke and steel’ is longer than either of the earlier volumes, and
not so uniformly good. Over many pages, it must be admitted, Mr
Sandburg has rather obviously repeated himself, has put himself
through motions that were more profitable once than they are now. But
the book as a whole has great fascination and pull. Technically, Mr
Sandburg is as interesting as any poet alive.”
+ =Nation= 111:621 D 1 ’21 750w
“This new collection establishes what ‘Chicago poems’ only promised
and ‘Cornhuskers’ plainly intimated. It proves that these states can
now claim two living major poets: Sandburg and Frost.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 25:86 D 15 ’20 1450w
“He is misty, rather than descriptive or truly evocative; he is the
whole antithesis of the imagist demand for a sharply evoked image, if
this is their demand; and, sometimes at least, it should be. We see
the smoke, and miss the steel.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 600w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1150w
“Reading these poems gives me more of a patriotic emotion than ever
‘The star-spangled banner’ has been able to do. This is America, and
Mr Sandburg loves her so much that suddenly we realize how much we
love her, too. Either this is a very remarkable poet or he is nothing,
for with the minors he clearly has no place. He has greatly dared, and
I personally believe that posterity with its pruning hand will mount
him high on the ladder of poetic achievement.” Amy Lowell
+ − =N Y Times= p7 O 24 ’20 2500w
“Mr Sandburg has introduced themes which have seldom, perhaps never,
been treated before. There is an impressive display of energy in
‘Smoke and steel.’ His poems are true to a certain kind of life, they
are undoubtedly American. They do succeed, then, in doing what they
set out to do, but whether this in itself constitutes a high and right
art is another question.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p816 D 9 ’20 1700w
=SANDERS, LLOYD CHARLES.= Patron and place-hunter; a study of George
Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. il *$5 Lane
20–5659
George Bubb Dodington was a prominent political and social figure in
the reigns of George I and George II on whom Lord Chesterfield
bestowed the sobriquet of “blest coxcomb,” on account of his supreme
conceit and ostentation, but who nevertheless had some compensating
qualities of sincerity, capacity for friendship, and courage. His
notorious diary has made him a historical figure and the present
account of his life is a picture of the England of his day. Contents:
Dodington’s ancestry; The youth of George Bubb; George Bubb,
plenipotentiary; The seizure of Sardinia; Dodington and Walpole;
Eastbury; A prince and a duke; From Walpole to Pelham; Frederick,
Prince of Wales; La Trappe; Henry Pelham; The duke of Newcastle;
Chaos; The end of the reign; Dodington’s last years. There are
illustrations.
* * * * *
“Mr Lloyd Sanders puts with ease what the usual maker of research
states heavily, and the confusions of politics for forty years up to
1762 become almost agreeable in his animated narrative.”
+ =Ath= p1285 D 5 ’19 1400w
“Casual references to Dodington abound in the political histories and
studies of social life of the eighteenth century. It must have been a
source of regret to those who study this period that no intimate
material regarding Dodington has been procurable. Mr Sanders’s volume
fulfills this want. Besides, a man that Robert Browning parlayed with
for more than 300 lines is well worth attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:241 My 9 ’20 1350w
“If it be easier, as Mr Lytton Strachy assures us, to live a good life
than to write one, Mr Lloyd Sanders deserves not only praise but
gratitude for presenting us with his admirable monograph on Bubb
Dodington. If we have a complaint to make of Mr Sanders it is that he
repeats the common saying that Bubb was a wit, but gives us no
specimens.”
+ =Sat R= 128:487 N 22 ’19 1150w
“A good biography of a second-rate man often throws more light on the
period in which he lived than a biography of a great man, who is
necessarily exceptional and abnormal. We should recommend any one
interested in the early Georgian era to read Mr Lloyd Sanders’s witty
and scholarly memoir of George Bubb Dodington, who was a typical
eighteenth-century politician.”
+ =Spec= 123:660 N 15 ’19 1500w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 24 ’20 150w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p632 N 6 ’19 80w
“Bubb’s biographer is not biassed in his favour. He makes a cold,
exhaustive investigation of the career of a place-hunter when Walpole
ruled the roost and every man had his price, and he is successful in
every respect save one. He cannot make a picturesque ill-doer of his
hero. His story constitutes not so much a page of eccentric biography
as a quaint footlight to the rather squalid politics of George the
Second.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 2150w
=SANDES, EDWARD WARREN CAULFEILD.=[2] In Kut and captivity with the
Sixth Indian division. il *$10 Dutton (*24s Murray) 940.472
(Eng ed 20–656)
“Major Sandes has written an interesting book on the earlier phase of
the war in Mesopotamia. Major Sandes was attached to the Sixth Indian
division, under General Townshend, which formed the main portion of
Sir John Nixon’s expeditionary force. He was in charge of the bridging
train which followed the army up the Tigris. He describes the capture
of Kurna, the rapid advance up to Amarah, the battle of Es Sin, where
the Turks offered a strenuous resistance, the occupation of Kut, and
the fatal advance upon Baghdad which ended at Ctesiphon. He gives a
full narrative of the retreat, which was most skilfully conducted, and
relates the history of the five months’ siege of Kut. After the
surrender in April, 1916, he was taken to Asia Minor, and remained at
Yozgad till Turkey capitulated a year ago.”—Spec
* * * * *
“It is likely to remain for some time a classic on the heroic stand of
the Kut garrison and the awful sufferings they subsequently endured.”
R. C. T.
+ =Ath= p912 S 19 ’19 1050w
“Depressing as it must needs be, the undauntable spirit which it
shows, the endurance, simplicity, modesty, lift this book into the
class of great siege narratives and give it high place among the
first-hand records of great military disasters. And so, for all its
unconscious concreteness and scattered masses of detail, it gives in
the end that purging of the spirit which Aristotle assigned to high
tragedy.”
+ =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 800w
“Major Sandes is rigidly objective; he sets down plain facts and
leaves his readers to rely on their own imaginations. We are not sure,
all the same, that his story of Kut is not rendered more remarkable by
his resolute avoidance of fine writing.”
+ =Sat R= 128:343 O 11 ’19 950w
“The story of the siege of Kut is well told by Major Sandes.”
+ =Spec= 122:544 O 25 ’19 1400w
=SANDWICH, EDWARD GEORGE HENRY MONTAGUE=, 8th earl of. Memoirs of
Edward, Earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916. il *$7 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–442)
“The ‘Memoirs of Edward, eighth earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916,’ have
been edited by Mrs Steuart Erskine from the material which Lord
Sandwich himself collected from old diaries with the object of
publishing his autobiography. Besides the intimate pictures provided
of society at home and abroad, of state visits to Berlin and St
Petersburg, of missions to Fez, and travels in many lands, the story
is told of his experiences in spiritual healing and other psychical
phenomena which became his dominant interest towards the end of his
life.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 170w
=Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 12 ’19 80w
“Such material as is found in these selections from the diary not only
furnish valuable matter for the historian, but it reveals the
personality of the diarist, and thus makes very interesting and
enjoyable reading for those who delight in following the movements,
personal and social, of human beings.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 850w
=Brooklyn= 12:133 My ’20 40w
“So varied a life clearly presented opportunities for an interesting
book. We cannot say, however, that Mrs Steuart Erskine has been
altogether fortunate in her materials. Lord Sandwich’s wit in
conversation vanishes when he tries to commit it to paper. He intended
to write his biography, but here we only get it in the raw, so to
speak.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:367 O 18 ’19 750w
“The value of these memoirs lies in the picture they afford of a
typical representative of a long-established order now apparently in
the throes of dissolution.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 O 2 ’19 1050w
=SANGER, MARGARET H.=[2] Woman and the new race. *$2 (4½c) Brentano’s
176
20–15159
In his preface to this book Havelock Ellis says that its contents are
already as familiar as A B C to the few who think, but to the millions
and to the handful of superior persons whom the millions elect to rule
them, they are not familiar, yet it is a matter of vital importance to
the race that they should be. The reason why is clearly set forth in
the book which is a plea for a free and voluntary motherhood. The
chapters are: Woman’s error and her debt; Woman’s struggle for
freedom; The material of the new race; Two classes of women; The
wickedness of creating large families; Cries of despair; When should a
woman avoid having children? Birth control—a parents’ problem or
woman’s? Continence—is it practicable or desirable? Contraceptives or
abortion? Are preventive means certain? Will birth control help the
cause of labor? Battalions of unwanted babies the cause of war; Woman
and the new morality; Legislating woman’s morals; Why not birth
control clinics in America? Progress we have made; The goal.
* * * * *
=Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 440w
“Calm, temperate, informed, sound, and winning book.”
+ =Nation= 111:597 N 24 ’20 400w
“While Mrs Sanger’s book contains nothing new to students of the
subject, it is an excellent summary of the arguments for voluntary
motherhood. In several instances, however, she overstates her case.”
B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:706 F 12 ’21 260w
=SANGER, WILLIAM CARY, jr.= Verse. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10004
The poems of this volume are arranged under the headings Tides of
commerce (Verse of the railroad); The city of toil and dreams;
Miscellaneous poems; With the armies of France; Additional war poems,
1918: In the land of the harvest. Most of the poems are reprinted from
earlier volumes by the author and the original prefaces to these
volumes appear in an appendix.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 730w
=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.=[2] Character and opinion in the United States; with
reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and academic life in
America. *$3.50 Scribner 304
20–26993
“Mr Santayana, who was professor of philosophy at Harvard, has now
come to live in Europe. In this book he looks back with intimate
knowledge and complete detachment at the intellectual life which he
has left. He is, he says, an American only by long association.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book is a keen, kindly analysis of
American life, particularly of the more subtle mental attitudes. It
seems to centralize around a conception of the American character as
vigorous, hopeful, good, somewhat childish; hampered intellectually by
conventional prohibitions and compulsions; and devoted to a liberty
based on cooperation and the spirit of live and let live.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p724 N 26 ’20 1350w
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“In ‘Character and opinion in the United States,’ Professor Santayana
has written what one is inclined to believe will become the classic
essays on William James and Josiah Royce.... What must he think of
America? On the whole, his answer to this question is an
extraordinarily kindly one. When he is most perceptive, he gives his
generalizations amiably rather than scornfully.” Harold Stearns
+ =Freeman= 2:378 D 29 ’20 3450w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
=New Repub= 24:221 O 27 ’20 1600w
“A compelling, stimulating, and essentially a significant book. The
book itself is a unique essay in interpretation, an attempt to
evaluate American character under the play of the ideas which it has
projected and by which, in turn, it has been influenced.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:729 D 22 ’20 2450w
“On the whole he is eminently fair, if not more than fair, in his
judgments. It is another question whether there is much profit in such
an attempt as he has made to analyze the temper of a people.”
+ − =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 400w
“Professor Santayana has written one of the most fascinating books
imaginable.”
+ =Spec= 126:19 Ja 1 ’21 1500w
“The book is a very original one; indeed, the two chapters on William
James and Josiah Royce belong to a new genre of literature. They are
character-studies of philosophers, studies of the reaction between
character and philosophy, which ought to be dull but are as amusing as
if he were talking scandal about the manners and habits of fashionable
ladies. His book is one of the best he has written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1850w
=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Little essays, drawn from the writings of the
author by Logan Pearsall Smith, with the collaboration of the author.
*$3 Scribner 814
20–26891
“Mr Pearsall Smith explains in his preface that this book owes its
genesis to his habit of copying out such passages as particularly
interested him in the writings of Santayana. He came to see, however,
that these extracts ‘were bound up with, and dependent upon, a
definite philosophy, a rational conception of the world and man’s
allotted place in it, which gave them a unity of interest and an
importance far beyond that of any mere utterances of miscellaneous
appreciation—any mere “adventures of the soul.”’ He therefore
persuaded Mr Santayana to arrange these extracts in such a way as to
preserve their original connection as far as possible.”—Ath
* * * * *
“We confess that we are agreeably surprised at the result. The
masterful and inclusive vision of the author of the ‘Life of reason’
appears here broken and disconnected, but not betrayed.” J. W. N. S.
+ =Ath= p143 Jl 30 ’19 1500w
“Contains a vast amount of interesting material distilled from
profound scholarship and meditation.”
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
=Bookm= 52:368 Ja ’21 130w
“Any one who has a taste for short essays will find a good feast
provided for him. While the essays can well hold their own as detached
disquisitions on special subjects, they form a catena of thought which
hangs logically together, exposing a rational philosophy. Indeed it
has been said that George Santayana has imperiled the recognition of
his philosophy by the fine robes in which he has consistently
presented it.” Robert Bridges
+ =Dial= 69:534 N ’20 5000w
=Nation= 111:221 Ag 21 ’20 1300w
“A new immortal book.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 25:321 F 9 ’21 2650w
“I believe that this publication will accomplish two things: it will
establish Mr Santayana’s reputation as one of the foremost masters of
English prose now living, and it will persuade many readers to buy the
complete works from which these essays are drawn.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 22 ’20 3050w
“It is a notable book. Professor Santayana possesses charm of style;
that merit must be accorded to him by his worst enemy, if enemy he
has. His culture is broad, and his mind is discursive, touching in its
range many points of metaphysics and art and literature and morals.”
+ =Review= 3:346 O 20 ’20 1350w
“Short though the pieces may be, they are, as a rule, brief only
through extreme compression, and the great beauty of the style in
which they are written links them together rather than divides them.
Hidden in the book there lurks the exposition of a theory of life.”
+ =Spec= 124:239 Ag 21 ’20 800w
“Even if his philosophy does not satisfy us, we must enjoy his art. If
we cannot believe that he tells us the truth about the nature of the
universe, he tells us many incidental truths about the nature of man.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 S 9 ’20 2500w
=SARETT, LEW R.= Many many moons; a book of wilderness poems. *$1.50
Holt 811
20–6453
Of these poems on Indian themes the author says that they “are in
no sense literal translations of original utterances of aboriginal
song and council-talk; they are, rather, very free, broad
interpretations ... in the light of Indian symbolism and
mysticism, of the mythology and superstition involved, and of the
attendant ceremonies.” (Preface) This is especially true of Parts
I and III of the poems, and an appendix of expository comments has
been added to make them clearer to the reader. Part II consists of
nature poems giving the atmosphere of the Indian’s environment.
The book has an introduction by Carl Sandburg and the three parts
are: Flying moccasins; Lone fires; Chippewa monologues.
* * * * *
“A book of beautiful, rugged verse.”
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“Mr Sarett makes one understand the Indian. We understand the Indian
in relation to his thoughts, moods, his customs, his legends, his
symbolism, his natural mysticism. With the poet’s full equipment, he
has psychologically become an Indian and thus his interpreter to the
outside world. ‘Many many moons’ is a remarkable book!” W: S.
Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 8 ’20 2300w
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 50w
“Noise clearly is his forte; heap big Indian talk is his best line.
The pale-face stanzas which attempt quieter and tenderer sorts of
interpretation are vacant and over-facile in their faith.” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 120w
“He does not prettify the wilderness. Especially good are ‘The granite
mountain’ and ‘God is at the anvil’ and ‘Of these four things I cannot
write.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“When Mr Sarett writes of nature he is writing with genuine feeling of
something he really knows. He has been in the wilderness.” M.
Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 290w
=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= Europe and the league of nations. *$2.50 Macmillan
341.1
“This book by Professor Sarolea of the University of Edinburgh is, as
its title implies, devoted principally to the league of nations,
although there are chapters of interest on other subjects. The author
warmly supports the league as a panacea for the ailing world.” (N Y
Times Mr 14) “He takes up a number of problems growing out of the
treaty of peace and out of the league covenant such as The status of
small nations within the covenant, America within the league, The
trial of the kaiser, The future of Poland, Germany’s political
reconstruction. The author expresses great dissatisfaction with the
economic terms of the treaty.” (N Y Times Ap 18)
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“Dr Sarolea’s book is excellent in temper and spirit, but its
sentimental idealism is unrestrained by the realities of present-day
politics.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:252 Mr 13 ’20 1300w
“‘Europe and the league of nations’ cannot be described as a weighty
book, but it is fluently and brightly written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 300w
=SASSOON, SIEGFRIED.= Picture-show. *$1.50 Dutton 821
20–3705
“The contents of the volume, in spite of its suggestive title, are not
wholly given over to the sidelights, fevers and fantasms of modern
warfare. Almost one third of the book is a record of those passages of
love which verge from the physical to the metaphysical; reflections of
an emotion that is half-celebrated, half-stifled.”—New Repub
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
“Every last utterance of Siegfried Sassoon’s makes a farce out of the
deeds of the romantic soldier-poet the world has worshipped during the
last five years.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Malcolm Cowley
=Dial= 68:621 My ’20 1600w
“He knows the secret of the clean pentameter, he is distinct and
clever and casual; yet there exists no feelable personality behind his
lines. It is not required that he have intellectual drive or spiritual
mounting-power: it merely is required that he show some sort of
intellectual edge and awareness. He does that nowhere in ‘Picture
show.’” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w
“Now we have ‘Picture show,’ a vigorous answer to those who feared
that Sassoon had ‘written himself out’ or had begun to burn away in
his own fire. The same outrage and loathing of war is in the new poems
but a darker restraint is here; an emotion remembered not so much in
tranquility as in irony. One of the most rousing of his recent poems.
Aftermath, might well be the title of this volume, so firmly does it
balance and round off his trilogy.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 22:37 Mr 3 ’20 950w
“There is a mass of the verse that is heavy and halting—far too large
a mass for so small a book. More careful pruning hereafter will lift
the worth of his collections amazingly.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 250w
“In this book Mr Sassoon describes warfare just as he did in his two
earlier books. But the last lyric in ‘Picture-show,’ [Every one sang,]
is, perhaps, the very loveliest of all the songs written to welcome
peace.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 140w
“Mr Sassoon sometimes is as shaken in his expressions as in his
emotion, and then he is apt to write as though art could not contain
him. But every poet must learn that no man feels too deeply or too
quickly to write well.... At its best here is a proud, tender poetry,
indignant often but magnanimous always, the creation of a loving and
aristocratic art.” J: Drinkwater
+ − =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 1550w
“When it comes to sheer poetry, I find in Mr Sassoon but two
outstanding merits, a feeling for phrase and a sense of the occult,
both present in the degree which redeems verse from insignificance
without lifting it to distinction.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 220w
=SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS.= Useful wild plants of the United States and
Canada. il *$3 McBride 581.6
20–26546
The purpose of the book is to call attention to certain useful wild
plants, growing in the woods, waters and open country of the United
States, that have in the past formed an important element in the diet
of the aborigines and that could be both interesting and useful to
dwellers in rural districts, to campers, vacationists and nature
students. It is copiously illustrated by photographs and line drawings
and the contents are: Wild plants with edible tubers, bulbs or roots;
Wild seeds of food value and how they have been utilized; The acorn as
human food and some other wild nuts; Some little regarded wild fruits
and berries; Wild plants with edible stems and leaves; Beverage plants
of field and wood; Vegetable substitutes for soap; Some medicinal
wildings worth knowing; Miscellaneous uses of wild plants; A
cautionary chapter on certain poisonous plants; Regional index and
general index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
=SAUNDERS, MARSHALL.= Bonnie Prince Fetlar. *$2 (2½c) Doran
20–18408
The hero of this new story by the author of “Beautiful Joe” is a
Shetland pony, and there are many other characters, both animal and
human. The scene is a Canadian farm to which the pony and his master,
a delicate boy with over-strung nerves, are sent. Neither likes the
strange, wild country at first but in time both come to love it, the
young master’s health is restored, he makes new friends with a family
of six lively Canadian children and in the end the mother he had
believed dead returns to him. All this story is told in the words of
the pony.
* * * * *
“The author of ‘Beautiful Joe’ has written a horse story which friends
of Beautiful Joe will be disappointed in. But after all, comparisons
are unnecessary—and ‘Bonnie Prince Fetlar,’ left to itself, is an
attractive book, full of incident and interest.”
+ − =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w
=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 60w
“It is hardly necessary to say that here is an offering which any
healthy boy or girl must enjoy, but to this it may be added that also
it makes a strong appeal to grown-ups.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 D 12 ’20 270w
=SAVI, ETHEL WINIFRED.= When the blood burns. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–22037
Marcelle was a typist in a London office. Her beauty attracted her
employer and his charming personality easily persuaded the
inexperienced girl that she loved him; also—since he was married to a
much older woman who would not hear of divorce—that it was right for
her to go away with him to India. The monotony of the life there soon
palled on David and he is glad, eventually, of the summons back to
England. Marcelle, left behind, suffers untold miseries and
excruciating experiences, and is finally rescued by the one friend who
has stood by her from the first and who takes her home as his wife.
The interesting feature of the story is its description of life in
India.
* * * * *
=Ath= p698 N 19 ’20 150w
“It is a very old situation upon which E. W. Savi bases her story. She
gives it no new twist, but she infuses into it so vital a sense of
reality that it draws us and holds us keenly interested in its
developments. She possesses the story-telling art in a very marked
degree, and her story is full of both the beauty and strangeness of
genuine romance.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2000w
“The author hero has been content to tell a plain, somewhat sordid,
tale of illicit love, with its inevitable penalties, which has little
more color than can be found in the records of the average divorce
suit. None of the characters commands much sympathy. As a whole, the
offering may be called just a passable novel.”
− + =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 500w
“The scenes which pass in India are much the most interesting.”
+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w
“The story has a certain sympathetic charm with a moral that cannot be
missed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 220w
“Despite a great deal of burning talk about love and passion, the
story leaves one quite cold.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 120w
=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Leerie. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–13146
“Leerie” was what the patients at the “San” lovingly called their
nurse Sheila O’Leary, and like Stevenson’s “Leerie,” she brought light
into the lives of her charges as no other nurse could. Especially to
Peter Brooks, she brought light which they both felt could never die
out. Then just on the very eve of her marriage to him, she felt the
call to go to France, and went. But she did not leave him behind for
he too found his place over there. There, after her period of service
which offered experiences both bitter and sweet, they were reunited,
“glad they had both paid their utmost for the love and happiness that
she knew was theirs now for all time.”
* * * * *
“Somewhat sentimentalized and improbable, but women and girls will
like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“The book contains the correct philosophy of life throughout, showing
that happiness comes from making others happy, from giving freely.”
+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 210w
“A vivacious story, with plenty of sentimental appeal and written with
a good deal of cleverness and ingenuity, Ruth Sawyer’s new novel
springs lightly out of the conventional lines of fiction and goes its
own gait.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 400w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w
=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russia white or red. il *$2.50 Little 947
19–18648
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“The author took with him his best gifts as critic—a quick eye, ready
critical discernment, and an easy pen. He added to these gifts
something of the historian’s grasp of the unity of events. The result
is a quite unusual freshness and lucidity in the view we get of the
Russian theatre.” T: H. Dickinson
+ =Bookm= 51:492 Je ’20 850w
“The value of his account is in its freedom from political interest.
Without prejudice toward either white or red but with sympathy for the
struggles and sufferings of both sides, he simply relates what he
observed of the surface and common movement of things.”
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 200w
“‘Russia white or red’ is free of any taint of propaganda, and among a
torrent of writings full of distorted pictures of revolutionary
Russia, it stands out as a truthful and honest if by no means profound
contribution.” M. J. Olgin
+ =New Repub= 22:426 My 26 ’20 2000w
“Altogether, the book reveals a sympathetic understanding of the
Russian masses, and an appreciation of their yearnings for freedom and
peace. It does not pretend, however, to be a serious treatise on the
fundamental changes which have come about since the revolution.”
Alexander Trachtenberg
+ =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 320w
“It is neither a complete record nor an interpretation of events, and
will appeal primarily to those who may still be interested in getting
the background of revolutionary events and vivid glimpses of daily
living during the first months of the Bolshevist régime.” Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 100w
=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russian theatre under the revolution. il *$2.50
(3½c) Little 792
20–692
The author chose the winter of 1917–1918, while the Bolshevik
revolution was in progress, for a study of the Russian theatre. It was
a time when the theatre had not significantly survived either in
England or France or even in neutral New York and war had revealed it
as being only too clearly a luxury, a pastime and an industry. But the
Russian theatre is one of profound introspection and inspiration. “Out
of their sorrows the Russians have builded all their art. And in the
days of their profoundest gloom, they return to it for the consolation
which nothing else affords.” In Moscow and Petrograd, the author
testifies, the modern theatre has been carried to its finest
achievement. Among the contents are: Plays within a play; The world’s
first theatre; The plays of Tchehoff at the Art theatre; From
Turgenieff to Gorky at the Art theatre; The Russian ballet in its own
home; The deeper roots of the Russian theatre; The Kamerny, a theatre
of revolt; Meyerhold and the theatre theatrical; Yevreynoff and
monodrama; Russian theories of the theatre. There are numerous
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20
“Interesting and remarkable book. It is a valuable contribution to the
literature of the theatre.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 800w
=Cleveland= p32 Mr ’20 170w
“A book so eager, so cordial, so intelligent, so frankly the
expression of a personal appetite that one would like to think of it
as typical of a new dispensation.”
+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 280w
+ − =Nation= 110:596 My 1 ’20 1250w
“He seems overstimulated by the shock of strangeness and the pervading
atmosphere of idealism and experiment so different from the atmosphere
of Broadway. Nevertheless, his book is tonic for the knowledge it
brings us of theatrical theories, experiments and striking
achievements in a land which is far ahead of ours so far as the
theater is concerned.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w
“The author presents his material in such a way that not only will
those interested in the theatre be attracted to it, but also those who
are drawn to the puzzling topic of the Russian revolution.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 500w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“His sincerity is unquestionable but his temper runs to hyperbole. In
spite of all doubts and deductions, Mr Sayler’s book should be read by
all students of contemporary drama. If it is not a striking history,
it is a spirited and curious novel.”
+ − =Review= 2:259 Mr 13 ’20 420w
“A comprehensive and graphic account.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 80w
“It cannot be recommended too highly when considered merely as a
source of knowledge and inspiration to those who are organizing our
theatre guilds, Greenwich Village theatres, arts and crafts
playhouses, and other steps toward a native art theatre. The casual
reader will find the chapters absorbing with a human appeal quite
lacking in most books about the theatre; but the same reader will meet
something of a jolt when he reaches the last chapter—for here are
gathered in concentrated form (and often in darkly philosophical
terms) the most recent of revolutionary theories of the stage. A
handful of Americans will find these few chapters worth more than all
the rest of the book together—worth more, too, than scores of the
usual superficial books of criticism.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:173 Ap ’20 700w
=SCHAEFER, CLEMENS T.= Motor truck design and construction. il *$2.50
Van Nostrand 629.2
20–991
“This volume has been written to fill a pressing want; to give a
practical discussion of the gasoline propelled commercial car of the
present type, and to present this subject in the plainest possible
manner by the use of numerous illustrations.” (Preface) A chapter on
the general layout of the chassis is followed by chapters devoted to
the various details, engine, cooling system, carburetion, ignition
systems, etc. The illustrations number 292, consisting largely of
figures in the text. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:229 Ap ’20 (Reprinted from Pratt p21 Ja ’20)
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p33 Ap ’20 100w
=Pratt= p21 Ja ’20 50w (Same as Quar List New Tech Bks O ’19)
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ’19 50w
=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.= Fiddler’s luck. *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–9475
Being “the gay adventures of a musical amateur.” (Sub-title) The young
son of a family in which the flute was hereditary finds a cello in the
garret and sets about to teach himself. He is sent to a musical cousin
for his education and returning, as a fairly well equipped fiddler,
has a falling out with his puppy love, Priscilla, because her progress
on the piano has not kept pace with his, and she plays an
ear-splitting fortissimo for his accompaniment. After many musical
vicissitudes in the army he comes unexpectedly on Priscilla in Paris.
She no longer strums but is a finished pianist and the harmony is now
complete.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w
“One of the most thoroly enjoyable books—whether you are a musician or
not—that you have read in a long, long while.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 170w
=Lit D= p94 S 18 ’20 2750w
“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is full of love, laughter, music and good drink. It
is worth a ton of best sellers and ‘serious studies’ in these
melancholy days that are upon us.” B. De C.
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 800w
“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is a charming series of war sketches that Mr
Schauffler tries to make impersonal, but his own engaging personality
sparkles through the sketches.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 170w
“A cheerful vein of optimism is in evidence continually, and its
influence on the reader will be anything but depressing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 120w
=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.=[2] White comrade; and other poems. *$1.50
Houghton 811
20–19672
Poetry in many forms and in many moods is represented in this volume:
the ballad, the ode, the lyric, the sonnet, thoughts of this life and
of the beyond, of the country, of love and of war. They fall into four
groups: Between two shores; Magic casements; Conflict; and Other
poems.
* * * * *
“Out of all the book—and it contains much which repays reading and
re-reading—there is nothing which more fully satisfies the high poetic
mood than does the little poem called ‘Worship,’ as lovely and
distinguished a bit of verse as Mr Schauffler has ever given us.” D.
L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 520w
=SCHEM, LIDA CLARA (MARGARET BLAKE, pseud.).= Hyphen. 2v *$6 Dutton
20–17964
“The book is really a pamphlet masquerading as a novel, and it offers
an analysis of the state of mind and fundamental character of the
large German element in the United States, and also a vision of the
ideal of American democracy as it appears to a thoroughly un-English
observer. Her hero is presented as a personification of acquired
Americanism. The son of a Prussian-American father and a Nihilist
Russian princess, he is conceived as a synthesis. Brought up in a
wholly German environment (Hoboken is thinly disguised as Anasquoit),
the boy aspires to become a ‘real American.’ Curiously enough, and yet
convincingly, he gets the strongest stimulus toward Americanism from a
young Englishman. The war disillusions him as to German kultur, and he
concludes that the only way out for those of German blood who truly
aspire to Americanism is to ‘go and fight Germany.’”—Review
* * * * *
“The story is very rich in material, a novel to be read slowly and
thoughtfully for it contains a wealth of contemporary opinion and
criticism. It is a colossal work and yet it is human.” D. L. Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 1200w
“Excellent in parts, it is dismally unsatisfactory as a whole; rich in
promise, it is a triumph of frustration. The author, apparently, drew
the plans for an imposing work of fiction, but as the business of
construction proceeded she became so engrossed in ornamental details
and features of dubious importance that she mislaid her drawings.” B.
R. Redman
− + =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 520w
“Complicated, and presenting many divergent points of view, the book
is nevertheless full of repetitions. It impresses one as a kind of
storehouse in which the author has stowed away a number of opinions on
a number of subjects; the story merely provides a sort of makeshift
for these opinions. There is no artistry shown in its construction.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1150w
“It is especially interesting to those who are concerned about the
Americanization of immigrants, because it shows so clearly what the
reactions of the newcomers are to the influences which begin to
surround them almost as soon as they set foot in their new country.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w
“Regarded merely as fiction, ‘The hyphen’ would be of small moment.
The book’s chief interest lies in its minute portrayal of many and
variant types of German-Americans both before and during the war.”
+ − =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 540w
=SCHINZ, ALBERT.= French literature of the great war. *$3 (2c) Appleton
840.9
20–8608
The author distinguishes three periods in the war literature of France
between 1914 and 1918. “The first was one of spontaneous, sudden and
strongly emotional reaction, following immediately the first
bewildering shock; the second, one of documentation on the causes of
the war and on the war itself; and the third, a period of calm
philosophical consideration of all that was involved in the gigantic
struggle.” (Introd.) Although the lyric and satirical note
predominated in the first period, memoir literature in the second, and
philosophical essays and treatises in the third, no period can be said
to have produced one type of literature to the exclusion of all
others. The contents of the book fall into two parts, part 1
discussing in successive chapters the three periods and part 2
containing: Poetry of the war; The stage and the war; War-time
fiction; Epilogue. The appendices contain a bibliography; documents
relative to the war; and a catalogue, in alphabetical order, of some
of the best war diaries and recollections. There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
“The French literature of the late war is very adequately discussed by
Professor Schinz. The chief defect of his treatise is a tinge of
partisan feeling, somewhat out of place in work of this kind, and his
attack of Romain Rolland is hardly just.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 300w
“A very interesting and scholarly account.”
+ =Cath World= 112:267 N ’20 280w
“The scholarly orderliness and completeness of Mr Albert Schinz’s
‘French literature in the great war’ contrast glaringly with its
temper. He prefers polemics to poetry. Instead of writing the history
of a literary movement which is memorable even if not great, he still
is battering the Teutonic hordes with the familiar accumulation of
civilian energy unspent on any other field.”
+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 280w
“We consider the work, as a whole, timely and important. It must have
been the labor of love, for no other motive could have produced a
result so eminently satisfactory.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:13 Jl 18 ’20 950w
+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 12 ’20 650w
“He is quite prodigiously well read in French war literature. But
unhappily there is hardly any criticism in the book, nothing profound,
nothing illuminating, nothing very thoughtful even—except for a few
passages—and none of those fortunate phrases by which the real critic
‘gets at’ the significance, the vitals, so to speak, of the work he is
discussing.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 580w
=SCHLEITER, FREDERICK.= Religion and culture. *$2 Columbia univ. press
201
19–9320
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Dr Schleiter has given us a critique of method which not only
challenges modern methods and theories but deliberately drives them
all from the field, some more gently than others.... As a preparation
for a methodology—a destruction of methods to make way for method—Dr
Schleiter’s work deserves the serious attention of all workers in the
field of origins, social and religious, and may well be the most
significant work of recent years.” A. E. Haydon
+ =Am J Theol= 24:293 Ap ’20 850w
“On page after page the false assumptions, the blundering reasoning,
and the erroneous conclusions that have hitherto characterized
comparative religion are laid bare with a detachment of judgment and a
wealth of erudition that make the book a model of criticism. Dr
Schleiter has put out of action a good many of the heavy guns that
were to batter the walls of the citadel of religion.”
+ =Cath World= 111:393 Je ’20 400w
“Dr Schleiter, though an acute critic, is not a lucid writer, and his
work is critical rather than constructive.”
+ − =Nature= 105:451 Je 10 ’20 260w
“He deserves special credit for rescuing from obscurity the principle
of convergence, i.e., the doctrine that like cultural results may
evolve from unlike antecedents. However, it is the more original
treatment of casuality that not only arrests attention but makes one
hunger for more.” R. H. L.
+ − =New Repub= 21:364 F 18 ’20 600w
“The book is a signal illustration of two characteristic features of
American thought—the tendency to concentrate on what authorities have
written about a subject rather than on the subject itself, and the
neglect to cultivate any grace or clarity of literary style.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 100w
=SCHMAUK, THEODORE EMANUEL.= How to teach in Sunday-school.
(Teacher-training handbook) $1.50 (2c) United Lutheran publication house
268
20–3582
A book devoted to the art, the method, the material and the act of
Sunday-school teaching. The author suggests that for a short and
effective teacher-training course chapters 20–22 (comprising the
discussion of the act of teaching) be used. For a more comprehensive
course the sections devoted to method and material are suggested. The
author is professor of pedagogy in the Theological seminary at
Philadelphia and has had “twenty-five years’ experience in
Sunday-school reconstruction.”
=SCHOFF, WILFRED HARVEY.=[2] Ship Tyre. il *$2 Longmans 224
20–18184
The dooms of the ship “Tyre” and of the “King of Tyre” as pronounced
in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of the book of the
prophet Ezekiel are here shown to be entirely symbolic and the
material things mentioned to refer not to any real commerce but to
matters of a political and religious significance. According to the
sub-title, the ship “Tyre” is “a symbol of the fate of conquerors, as
prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh,
Babylon and Rome.” Contents: Introduction; The tabernacle; Division of
spoil; The temple and palace; Ophir voyages: Profanation and pillage;
Captivity; The ship “Tyre”; The prince of Tyre; The king of Tyre;
Notes to the allegory; The second temple; The great city “Babylon”;
The Holy City; The pomp and the trappings; Precious stones; The
specifications compared; Date of the tradition; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 240w
=SCHOFIELD, ALFRED TAYLOR.= Modern spiritism. pa *$1.25 Blakiston 134
“Dr Schofield, a student for over thirty years of psychological
problems, and a rather copious writer upon them, especially from the
medical point of view, gives an instructive review of the history of
spiritism, and of its modern developments, and discusses, with many
examples from his own experience and with an open mind, the strange
phenomena of ‘possession,’ ‘second sight,’ etc. His own position is
that, while the facts of spiritism cannot all be explained by purely
human agencies, communications with ‘spirits’ are certainly not with
the disembodied spirits of the dead. He regards spiritism as practised
today to be full of the gravest dangers, mental and spiritual, and to
be definitely anti-Christian.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
=N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 80w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19)
“The author’s argument is trenchantly expressed and is supported by
evidence. But the fact that he has a religious belief of his own to
uphold against the beliefs of the spiritists somewhat weakens his
argument.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 120w
=SCHOFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY.= Mythical bards, and The life of William
Wallace. (Harvard studies in comparative literature) *$3 Harvard univ.
press 821.09
20–9501
“This is primarily a discussion of the authorship of the metrical
fifteenth century life of the Scottish patriot (d. 1305), which is
ascribed to ‘Blind Harry.’ Mr Schofield contends that ‘Blind Harry’ is
a pseudonym, and that the biographer was no quiet scholar or amiable
ecclesiastic like Barbour, but ‘a vigorous propagandist, a ferocious
realpolitiker without principle when it was a question of Scotland’s
place in the sun.’ The writer diverges from this problem to chapters
on ‘Blind Harry and blind Homer,’ and on Conceptions of poesy which
occupy the last two chapters.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is all readable enough and often not uninteresting: whether it
proves anything must be left to the reader to decide.”
+ − =Ath= p761 D 3 ’20 450w
“Every page of it betrays the author’s enjoyment of an opportunity to
build a huge structure of learning around—a soap bubble.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 950w
“In general, ‘Mythical bards’ is marked by the broad scholarship and
the keen vision of literary problems which have always been the chief
characteristics of the author’s work.” T. P. Cross
+ =Mod Philol= 18:53 Ag ’20 1200w
“Like most of Prof. Schofield’s books this shows originality as well
as the result of deep research, with an undoubted power of holding the
attention of the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w
=SCHOLEFIELD, GUY HARDY.= Pacific, its past and future, and the policy
of the great powers from the eighteenth century. il *$5.50 Scribner 990
(Eng ed 19–8578)
“Mr Scholefield, a New Zealander, adds materially to our knowledge.
There is a growing tendency, on wholly right and sound lines, to treat
of the vast Pacific ocean as a single unit. ‘The Pacific: its past and
future’ is a short political history of the Pacific from the first
days of European exploration and intrusion, excluding in the main the
history of Australia and New Zealand, but by no means excluding their
Pacific aspirations and policy. The appendices contain selections of
the principal treaties and conventions relating to the Pacific, and a
chronological table. The maps are adequate, the last being a map of
the whole ocean.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His book is illuminative and opportune.”
+ =Ath= p351 My 16 ’19 300w
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
“There are numerous books on the subject of the Pacific and its
problems, but in none will be found so careful and discriminating an
account of the past history as is here given. It is based mainly on
the British parliamentary papers, and, though the author has strong
views, he shows himself commendably free from exaggeration or
prejudice.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:157 Ja ’20 240w
=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 400w
“Mr Scholefield’s narrative is well arranged and most interesting.”
+ =Spec= 123:219 Ag 16 ’19 180w
“Mr Scholefield has spared no pains in consulting the best sources of
information, and gives chapter and verse for his authorities. In a
book of 311 pages, excluding appendices, he has produced a clear,
well-arranged, temperate and accurate account, which was wanted and
will be used and valued.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Je 19 ’19 1400w
=SCHOLL, FRANK B.= Automobile owner’s guide. il *$2.50 Appleton 629.2
20–14778
“The purpose of this book is to serve as a practical guide for those
who own, operate, or contemplate purchasing an automobile. The
contents cover the entire field that would be of value to the owner or
chauffeur in making his own repairs.... Technical terms, tables and
scales have been entirely eliminated.... Since there are many
different makes of cars, motors, and equipment, the functional action
of all is practically the same, therefore we use for illustration only
those which are used by the majority of manufacturers.” (Preface) An
introductory chapter gives the history of the gasoline engine and of
early automobile construction. The parts of the automobile are then
taken up chapter by chapter and a Ford supplement of sixty pages
occupies an appendix. There are 154 illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p61 Jl ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 60w
=SCOTT, ARTHUR PEARSON.= Introduction to the peace treaties. *$2 (2½c)
Univ. of Chicago press 940.314
20–7755
The book is an attempt at an altogether impartial statement of the
causes leading to the war, and the treaties and peace conference
resulting from it. The author states that he has no inside knowledge
of what went on in Paris or of any unpublished documentary material,
that he has relied largely on newspaper and magazine material,
unsatisfactory as that may be, and that his object is to give his
readers a clearer idea of what is going on in the world. “A
considerable part of the book is taken up with a detailed summary of
the treaty with Germany, including more or less extensive explanatory
comments on many of its clauses,” (Preface) and an attempt has been
made to summarize as fairly as possible the arguments on both sides.
Contents: War causes and war aims; Peace plans and negotiations during
the war; The peace conference; The framing of the treaty of
Versailles; The supplementary treaties; The Austrian settlement; The
Bulgarian settlement; Hungary; Elements of the Near-eastern
settlement; Italy, the South Slavs, and the Adriatic; Public opinion
and the settlement; References for additional reading; Index.
* * * * *
“Mr Scott’s book is an excellent illustration of the value of
perspective combined with careful study of documents, as opposed to
the impressions of first-hand observation. It seems to the reviewer
that he has succeeded admirably in a difficult task.” C: Seymour
+ =Am Hist R= 26:137 O ’20 320w
“The author’s comments are discriminating, unbiassed, and always
helpful.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 100w
“A useful aid to the reader or voter who wishes to form intelligent
opinions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 100w
“Though the author escapes the criticism of partisanship to which
Keynes, Dillon, Baker, and other commentators on the peace have been
subjected, his book lacks the interest and color of theirs. A good
many of the author’s comments upon treaty clauses might be
questioned.” Quincy Wright
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:165 S ’20 480w
“A volume which may be especially commended to students and teachers.”
W: MacDonald
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 100w
“Professor Scott’s ‘Introduction to the peace treaties’ should prove
an invaluable volume to students of the great settlement. Not all of
Mr Scott’s conclusions can be passed without challenge. For the most
part, however, Mr Scott has done his work extremely well and it was
work worth doing.” E. S. Corwin
+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“If the question of treaty ratification is to be one of the leading
issues of the coming presidential campaign, this book will prove an
invaluable source of information.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 120w
=SCOTT, CATHARINE AMY DAWSON.= Rolling stone (Eng title, Against the
grain). *$2 (2c) Knopf
20–13696
Harry King is an unusual boy. He is uncommonly well built and strong
and active. He does his own thinking in his own way, has little use
for books and the conventions, is direct and honest to a fault in his
dealings with men and a little hard. But he saves a school-fellow’s
life at the risk of his own. At an early age he runs away from school
and sees a bit of the world and on his return learns a trade and
becomes a practical engineer. But youth and strength lure him on: he
becomes a foot-ball champion and a pugilist. When his family frowns
upon such fame he goes to India. Returning, he enlists as a volunteer
in the Boer war where his love of fair dealing leads to
insubordination and he barely escapes the firing squad. Later on in
New Zealand his experiences include women. He is not averse to making
a fortune and plans for the future, but his innate restlessness plays
with opportunities and at the age of thirty-five he is back in
England, without a career and looked upon askance by his family. The
reader leaves him possessed with a new craving for a settled life, a
family and children of his own and haunted by the hazel eyes of a
young widow.
* * * * *
“Mrs Dawson-Scott has created in Harry a notable character, though not
a likeable one. Mrs Dawson-Scott has not the resource of style to fall
back on, and her descriptive powers are not of the best. As it is
written ‘The rolling stone’ is an excellent example of masculine
psychology as seen by a woman. It is not an excellent portrait of a
man.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 420w
“If the book has no weaknesses neither has it passion or exaltation.
If it is not absurd neither is it poignant, exotic, or brilliant. It
moves steadily onward, never wandering; it is competent, well-fed,
without beauty of conception or expression. It is realism without
passion or accuracy.”
+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 440w
“A minute and interesting study of character.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 950w
“In her latest work she has elected to adopt a masculine standpoint,
and we feel that she is, as a result, less convincing.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:322 O 4 ’19 300w
“As Harry is interested merely in himself, he is not very interesting
to other people. In fact, he proves himself real not by his
doings—about which one is sceptical—but by boring the reader just as
in real life he would have bored the people he met.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 600w
=SCOTT, EMMETT JAY.= Negro migration during the war; ed. by D: Kinley.
*$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 326.1
20–9134
In this volume of Preliminary economic studies issued by the Carnegie
endowment for international peace, the movement of population among
negroes during the war is handled by Emmett J. Scott, a member of that
race and secretary-treasurer of Howard university. The introduction
compares the recent migration with earlier movements of similar
character. The chapters then take up: Causes of the migration;
Stimulation of the movement; The spread of the movement; The call of
the self-sufficient North; The draining of the black belt; Efforts to
check the movement; Effects of the movement on the South; The
situation in St Louis; Chicago and its environs; The situation at
points in the middle West; The situation at points in the East;
Remedies for relief by national organizations; Public opinion
regarding the migration. There is a nine-page bibliography of books
and periodicals, followed by an index.
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 30w
“This monograph is a valuable addition to the limited number of
carefully made studies of negro life. The oversight of data about the
investigations and activities of several state governments, of the
United States Shipping board and the Department of labor, needs
correction in subsequent editions. Constructive suggestions would add
to the utility of the study.” G: E. Haynes
+ − =Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 290w
=SCOTT, JAMES BROWN=, ed. Judicial settlement of controversies between
states of the American union; an analysis of cases decided in the
Supreme court of the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 353.9
20–6766
This volume of the Publications of the Carnegie endowment for
international peace is a companion to the two volumes of cases which
precede it. It has been prepared in the belief that the experience of
the United States holds “a lesson for the world at large.” As the
editor’s preface states: “The experience of the union of American
states shows that a court of justice can be created for the society of
nations, occupying a like position and rendering equal, if not
greater, services, applying to the solution of controversies between
its members ‘federal law, state law, and international law, as the
exigencies of the particular case may demand.’” The volume is indexed.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. P. Hall
+ =Am Hist R= 26:345 Ja ’21 1100w
“Dr Scott has rendered a most useful service in bringing this material
into such form that men can readily lay their hands on it.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:167 F ’20 450w
“The absence of any classification enhances the uselessness of the
volume. By abstracting from its setting the material he presents, Dr
Scott offers a delusive palliative to a sick and suffering world. He
would have done better had he done nothing.” T: R. Powell
− =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 1000w
“A lucid and detailed analysis which may be read with interest by
laymen.”
+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 200w
=SCOTT, MARTIN J.= Credentials of Christianity. $1.50 (2½c) Kenedy 239
Father Scott, author of “God and myself,” “The hand of God,” etc.,
writes this book in the belief that “Christianity has not failed, but
mankind has failed Christianity.” The one thing that can save the
world from disaster is “the adoption in private and public life of the
principles and spirit of Christianity.” Contents: Christianity the
most startling innovation in the history of the world; Christianity’s
need of the soundest credentials; A judicial examination of the
credentials; The gospels as a historic document; The truth of the
gospel facts; The resurrection; The establishment of Christianity;
Christ Himself; Christ and the world; The world after Christ;
Christianity and men of genius; The world restorer; Your verdict.
* * * * *
“The best pages are those that contrast pagan and Christian life—the
world before Christ and after.”
+ =Cath World= 111:820 S ’20 390w
=SCOTT, SIR PERCY MORETON.= Fifty years in the royal navy. il *$6 (7c)
Doran
20–205
These reminiscences were begun, the author states, after his
retirement, by way of recreation and amusement, yet he hopes that they
will show “how opposed the navy can be to necessary reforms, involving
radical departures from traditional routine; the extent to which
national interests may be injured owing to conservative forces within,
and without, the public services; and what injury the country may
suffer from politicians interfering in technical matters, which they
necessarily do not understand.” (Preface) Contents: Entry into the
navy; A cruise around the world; With the naval brigade in Egypt;
H.M.S. Edinburgh and Whale island; H.M.S. Scylla and gunnery; How the
4.7–inch gun reached Ladysmith; Martial law in Durban; In the Far
East; The Boxer rising; Gunnery on the China station; Wei-hai-wei and
the cruise home; Gunnery muddle; Inspector of target practice; H.M.S.
Good Hope with the channel fleet; An imperial mission; Vicissitudes of
director firing; My retirement from the navy; War—back to work, 1914
and 1915; The defence of London against zeppelins; War
reflections—1915–1917.
* * * * *
“This, book is a grave pronouncement by a distinguished expert in
gunnery, and should receive the attention which it assuredly
deserves.”
+ =Ath= p1274 N 28 ’19 440w
Reviewed by C. C. Gill
+ =Bookm= 51:274 My ’20 1450w
“Altho more sober and restrained in style, Sir Percy Scott’s book is
quite as critical in substance as Lord Fisher’s.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 80w
“A work of value to anyone interested in the technique of naval
gunnery.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Ja ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 200w
“Apart from opinion on professional matters, the narrative of these
recollections is rather unequal. We get too much of ‘the mayor in
proposing the toast of “our guests” referred,’ etc., and ‘in reply I
said,’ etc.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:536 D 6 ’19 1000w
“We associate the name of Sir Percy Scott with naval gunnery. It is no
surprise, then, to find that his memoirs are mainly devoted to this
question. The book deserves careful reading, for the subject is of
prime importance.”
+ =Spec= 123:694 N 22 ’19 1750w
“His book is to be carefully read, not without skipping over shrewish
passages here and there, but with thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 N 13 ’19 2000w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 880w
=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Blue pearl. il *$1.75 (3c) Century
20–17413
This story introduces all the characters of “Boy scouts in the
wilderness.” Jim Donegan, the lumber king, offers to give the boys
$50,000 if they will bring a blue pearl like the one Joe Couteau, the
Indian boy, remembers to have seen in his childhood. Joe and Will
Bright, the heroes of the earlier book, with two chosen companions,
start on the quest. It takes them out to the Pacific coast and into
the far north to the old home of Joe’s people, and after many
adventures they return with the prize.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 20w
=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 70w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 120w
“This is a story of some literary value.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 110w
=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Everyday adventures. il $3 (4c) Atlantic monthly
press 590.4
20–19518
A book of nature essays, most of them describing personal adventures
with birds or other forms of wild life. The photographs which
illustrate the book are especially noteworthy. Contents: Everyday
adventures; Zero birds; Snow stories; A runaway day; The raven’s nest;
Hidden treasure; Bird’s-nesting; The treasure hunt; Orchid hunting;
The marsh dwellers; The seven sleepers; Dragon’s blood. The papers are
reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, the Youth’s
Companion, and other periodicals.
* * * * *
“In these papers he proves himself among the fortunate few who can be
called interpreters of outdoor things.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 150w
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 120w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 40w
=SCHRIMSHAW, STEWART.=[2] Bricklaying in modern practice. il *$1.50
Macmillan 693.2
20–4712
“The author, who is Supervisor of apprenticeship for the state of
Wisconsin, has written more inspiringly than his title suggests. He
would have the artisan appreciate his possible opportunities in the
erection of buildings that ‘shall reflect in their appearance the
character of a substantial and refined people.’ The first chapter,
largely historical, shows that lumber scarcity is leading to a wider
use of brick and that opportunity is not lacking. Materials, tools and
the outlines of practice are described. Estimating, safety and
hygiene, economics, the bricklayers’ relation to the public, trade
organizations, and apprenticeship are discussed in a way to interest
the boy or young man who leans toward the trade. The ten pages
descriptive of fire-place construction should appeal to many a lay
reader. A good glossary.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 120w
=Pratt= p19 O ’20 40w
=SEAMAN, AUGUSTA HUIELL (MRS ROBERT R. SEAMAN).= Crimson patch. il
*$1.75 (4c) Century
20–14215
Mrs Seaman’s latest mystery story for girls involves a German spy
plot. Patricia Meade is staying in a large hotel with her father, who
is on a secret government mission. He can not disclose his business to
her and she unwittingly allows an important paper to be stolen.
Suspicion falls on Virginie de Vos, the little Belgian girl with whom
Patricia has made friends. Patricia refuses to believe the girl
guilty, and with the aid of Chet Jackson, the bell boy, sets out to
find the missing paper. The two suspect one of the waiters, but he
proves to be a friend in disguise. The paper is restored, the mystery
of Virginie and her relation to her supposed aunt, Mme Vanderpoel is
disclosed and happier days dawn for the little Belgian. The story has
been running as a serial in St Nicholas.
=SECHRIST, FRANK KLEINFELTER.= Education and the general welfare; a text
book of school law, hygiene and management. il *$1.60 Macmillan 370
20–4978
“Professor Sechrist has prepared a general introduction to the study
of education. One of his early chapters deals with broad social facts
such as illiteracy and Americanization of immigrant children. He also
deals with the efforts of the federal government to subsidize
education in the states and to promote the development of higher
institutions. The third chapter treats the costs in the different
states of conducting schools of various grades. The fourth chapter has
to do with child labor, reviewing the legislation which has been
attempted and the effects of this legislation. Following these
introductory chapters there is a discussion of the material equipment
of the school and the psychological characteristics of children. One
chapter deals with the question why children are dull and reviews the
medical facts which come out in inspections of school children. There
are chapters of a psychological type and suggestions throughout of the
possibilities of standardizing the work of the school in a scientific
way.”—El School J
* * * * *
“Of the many educational books recently published this is one of the
best and deserves the attention of all teachers and school
supervisors.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 110w
+ =El School= J 20:712 My ’20 400w
“By his title and subtitle Professor Sechrist describes a rather
unusual combination of material, presented in a valuable way.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 170w
=SECRIST, HORACE.= Statistics in business: their analysis, charting and
use. il *$1.75 McGraw 310
20–4489
“A concise, practical, and systematic treatment, more particularly for
the use of business executives and students in schools of commerce.
Chapter 4 deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp.
42), with graphics; chapter 6, with averages and kindred terms.”—Am
Econ R
* * * * *
“The book will be serviceable as an introductory text.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:388 Je ’20 40w
“No city official or head of a department or a business man who has an
annual report to make can afford to miss the suggestions contained in
Mr Secrist’s book.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 100w
“The particular methods explained by Mr Secrist are not new; but they
are presented with commendable clearness and brevity.”
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 110w
=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Christmas roses, and
other stories. *$2.25 (2½c) Houghton
20–21186
The titles of these stories are: Christmas roses; Hepaticas;
Daffodils; Pansies; Pink foxgloves; Carnations; Staking a larkspur;
Evening primroses; Autumn crocuses; and in each there is something in
the delicately complicated situation or in revelation of character of
which the flower is a symbol. The stories are all English in
background and reflect the war.
* * * * *
“Quiet delicacy of style and subtle character analysis mark these nine
flower-named stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“Her understanding of character, her appreciation of beauty in all its
forms, her ability to work quietly and effectively, yet with dramatic
intensity, all make up the sum total of the satisfaction which we find
here.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 580w
“With her happy choice of words and smooth rhythm of her style, the
artistry is invisible, yet produces a telling effect. The characters
and temperaments of her people are implied and evolved, not labelled.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 480w
=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Third window. *$1.50
(10c) Houghton
20–10315
The setting of this story is the parental estate of a soldier killed
in the war, and in it his young widow, Antonia, his maiden cousin,
Miss Latimer, of contracted but acutely intensified vision, and
Captain Saltonhall, the husband’s friend and now Antonia’s lover. Miss
Latimer, whose entire limited emotional life had been concentrated on
her cousin Malcolm, has succeeded in putting Antonia in an agonized
frame of mind. The latter is torn by misgivings that, by marrying
Saltonhall, she will be unfaithful to her first husband. By certain
telepathic powers Miss Latimer obtains a knowledge of the unspoken
thoughts in the two lovers’ minds and with it conjures up a vision of
Malcolm’s sorrowing ghost standing by the fountain (seen from the
third window of the drawing-room). The result is a tragedy, for the
distressed Antonia takes an overdose of her sleeping powders.
* * * * *
=Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 850W
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“Few writers of fiction today can equal in perfection of style the
work of Anne Douglas Segwick. But ‘The third window’ has an intrinsic
interest as a story.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1200W
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w
“It is a welcome relief to find, among the flood of books that exploit
the present interest in psychic phenomena, one that is both an
artistic piece of work, and a sincere attempt to penetrate beneath the
usual morbid sentimentalism of the theme to the vital problems
involved in a belief in survival.” H. W. M.
+ =Grinnell R= 15:260 O ’20 260w
“It has much of the delicate precision of line and enhanced effect of
perspective which the frame of a fine window can give to the view
which it reveals. But the perfection in arrangement is not complete,
and the flaws which appear come close to calling in question the
validity of Miss Sedgwick’s studied placement of events and deliberate
simplification. Yet even with these lapses, ‘The third window’ keeps a
singular and exquisite beauty.” C. M. R.
+ − =New Repub= 24:101 S 22 ’20 680w
“Her characters are drawn with deftness, delicacy and skill, the book
is beautifully written in a style at once clear and subtle, and all
the values of the picture are finely maintained. Yet for all its
excellences it has one great flaw, a defect at the very root of the
argument. The reader cannot but believe that Antonia’s fondness for
Malcolm was a very superficial thing, since she was not only willing
but even anxious so quickly to put another man in his place.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 800w
“Somber in theme, the story is written with exquisite delicacy and
grasping strength.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“The redeeming features of the book are its truth to English life and
its brevity. It may be added also that the delineation of the
characters, such as they are, is quite skilfully done but there is
nothing in the book as a whole which the world could not spare without
any great sense of loss.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 130w
“So tense and subtilized is the atmosphere of Mrs de Sélincourt’s
story that we fear to breathe lest we should break its charm. Indeed,
the story is its atmosphere. It seems to emanate from and surround its
characters like the perfume of flowers. Yet they affect us at length
as if they were mere automata.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 950w
“The story is told with fine artistry and will appeal to
discriminating readers with a taste for mental analysis.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 140w
=SEGUR, SOPHIE (ROSTOPCHINE) comtesse de.=[2] Old French fairy tales. il
*$5 Penn
20–19079
“An octavo with full-page plates, both in color and in black and
white, by Virginia Frances Sterrett, is ‘Old French fairy tales,’
compiled by Comtesse de Segur.” (Springf’d Republican) “The titles
are: Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon; Good little Henry;
Princess Rosette; The little grey mouse and Our son.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20
“These tales are told in that simple and direct fashion that children
love and older folk find good. And the illustrations are in truth
among the loveliest that have ever translated fairy tale into fairy
scene.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 210w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 80w
=SEIFFERT, MARJORIE ALLEN (ELIJAH HAY, pseud.).= Woman of thirty, and
Poems of Elijah Hay. *$1.50 Knopf 811
19–19879
This is vers libre that sings. There is elusive beauty, the sweet and
the bitter of life, and the wistfulness of passing youth. The opening
piece is a morality play: The old woman, in which the new that makes
place for the old is but the old in disguise. The poems are divided
into Love poems in summer; Studies and designs; Interlude; Love poems
in autumn; and the Poems of Elijah Hay.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 100w
“The trouble with ‘A woman of thirty’ is its lack of synthesis. Colour
and a free movement, subtleties of thought and rhythm are here, but
they have not been integrated: they ravel out into many unconnected
loose ends.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:535 Ap ’20 160w
“The poems are sophisticated and a little cynical. She writes free
verse naturally, unaffectedly and effectively.”
+ − =Ind= 104:65 O 9 ’20 130w
“Her figures, elaborate and excellent as they are, do not penetrate
that core of the memory which lives on tranquilly and forever.” M. V.
D.
+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 80w
“Almost one wishes that Mrs Seiffert could produce some disassociation
in her personality. Then she might give us, besides the poems that are
all too human, much more about the harsh black birds flying in the
design—more in the style of that odd and very memorable little
morality ‘The old woman.’ These are poems that evidence intellectual
conception.” Padraic Colum
+ − =New Repub= 25:54 D 8 ’20 150w
“It must be admitted that in her failing Mrs Seiffert is better than
many who achieve their limited successes; but the dominant overtone is
an attempt at a deft sophistication, which can never quite conceal
that it is the sophistication of rural Illinois, rather than the
sophistication of Chicago, London.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 28 ’20 500w
“Mrs Seiffert writes equally well in free verse and in regularly
stressed rhythm. Her work is remarkable for a felicitous ease in
expression and a great variety of interests and ideas.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w
=SELIGMAN, V. J.= Salonica side-show. il *$4 Dutton 940.42
“There are four parts to the book, of which the first and last were
written in Macedonia during the summer of 1918. Beginning with a
description of the Seres road which was of the greatest importance for
the British line of communications and on which the writer ‘can really
claim expert knowledge’ after spending two years in various camps by
its side, he proceeds to give amusing accounts of life behind the
front among the British Tommies and Greek Johnnies.... The second
part, which explains the events that led to the final offensive of
September 15 to September 30, 1918, and gives an account of the battle
itself with more details regarding the Anglo-Greek attack at Doiran,
will prove of greater value to the historic mind.”—Review
* * * * *
“Mr Seligman’s book embodies a considerable amount of information
regarding the expedition, and is printed in a clear and readable
form.”
+ =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 80w
“There is a harmonious combination of humorous anecdote and serious
study expressed in an easy but by no means slipshod style. Equally
entertaining and instructing, the book is well worth reading.” A. E.
Phoutrides
+ =Review= 3:450 N 10 ’20 960w
“Mr Seligman treats the expedition so disconnectedly that his is a
terrible rag-bag of a book. Some of his stories are excellent.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:366 O 18 ’19 520w
“His chapter on ‘The tragedy of Constantine’ is worth reading; nothing
that he says about the allied diplomacy in regard to Bulgaria is too
strong, but he errs in putting all the blame on the British foreign
office.”
+ − =Spec= 122:411 S 27 ’19 190w
“Those who enjoyed ‘Macedonian musings’ will certainly take pleasure
in ‘The Salonica side show.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 600w
=SELIGMANN, HERBERT JACOB.= Negro faces America. *$1.75 Harper 326
20–10771
This book is a study of the negro problem in the United States today
from the friendly viewpoint of a former member of the editorial staff
of the New York Evening Post and the New Republic, who is now
connected with the National association for the advancement of colored
people, The author discusses race prejudice at length and tries to
show how many problems that most people consider to be racial are
fundamentally economic and political problems. There are chapters on
the negro in industry, the negro as scape-goat of city politics, and
the effect of the European war upon the American negro. The Chicago,
Omaha and Washington riots are explained and the Arkansas trouble of
1919 is treated under the caption “The American Congo.” There is an
appendix on the Bogalusa, Louisiana, trouble by the president of the
Louisiana state federation of labor. There is no index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 52:302 Ja ’21 300w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w
+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 20w
“‘The negro faces America’ is the best general survey yet written on
the negro in the United States. The book contains much fresh
material.” M. W. Ovington
+ =Freeman= 1:573 Ag 25 ’20 800w
“Besides reporting unanswerable facts Mr Seligmann gives us excellent
discussion of such questions as ‘social equality’ and sex
relationships.” O. G. V.
+ − =Nation= 112:121 Ja 26 ’21 890w
“Mr Seligmann has written an interesting book, a generous, ardent
piece of agitation, but its usefulness is greatly impaired by its
failure to make good upon the pretences of its arrangement. The issue
as to the evolutionary inferiority of the negro, which, if it was
relevant at all to his purpose, deserved thorough scientific
presentation, is superficially handled.” L. B. W.
+ − =New Repub= 24:151 O 6 ’20 800w
“Mr Seligmann is a vigorous writer, very journalistic, who interests
you by the rapid flow of his thought. He has considerable power in
arranging his facts, but he quotes and quotes and quotes.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 500w
“The question is here discussed in an intelligent, fair-minded
manner.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w
“His book should be read by those who wish to know what negroes think
and feel.” W: A. Aery
+ =Survey= 45:24 O 2 ’20 450w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=SERAO, MATILDE.= Souls divided; tr. from the Italian by William
Collinge. *$1.75 Brentano’s
20–7144
“The telling of a story by means of a series of letters is a fictional
form which, though once exceedingly popular, is seldom used by modern
writers. This method is employed in the new volume by Matilde Serao,
the noted Italian writer. It is the hero, Paolo Ruffo, who does all
the letter-writing, the lady to whom all his passionate epistles are
addressed never replying to any one of them. She was an orphan, Diana
Sforza, eldest daughter of an ancient house, and practically
penniless. Gifted with a rarely lovely and very sympathetic voice, she
won Paolo Ruffo’s heart by her singing. For a year he worshipped her,
followed her about from place to place, and poured out his heart to
her in a long succession of most fervent letters. Then, at last,
utterly discouraged and broken, he left his native country,
accompanied by the faithful sister upon whose shoulder he had wept
more than once, and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 80w
“‘Souls divided’ is probably a better novel than the translator has
managed to project, yet even with this allowance its theme and
substance tend toward emotional futility.”
− + =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 50w
“The story is like a pressed flower suddenly found in the pages of a
Lamartine. For a moment it gives you the nostalgia of the past. Then
it crumbles.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w
“Though it is always difficult to judge of the style of a book read
only in translation, ‘Souls divided’ would seem to be very well
written. As far as its interest and its appeal to the reader are
concerned, these will depend largely upon whether that reader is or is
not a sentimental temperament.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 400w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 540w
“The fact that the whole story, except the epilogue, is related in
Paolo’s letters to Diana is bound to give it an air of unreality,
since he is obliged to write her a detailed description of her own
wedding. But the southern passion of the letters, though it strikes
one as a little strained in our colder northern tongue, has a genuine
ring about it, and the lady reader who falls under its spell will
readily forgive such little improbabilities. The translation is above
the average.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p689 N 27 ’19 700w
=SERGEANT, ELIZABETH SHEPLEY.= Shadow-shapes; the journal of a wounded
woman, October 1918–May 1919. *$2 Houghton 940.48
20–20217
In this record of her hospital experiences the writer attempts to
envisage “a vast, embracing, unseizable truth that was essentially our
common possession. The heightened glow cast by danger and death on the
faces of the young, and its fading into the rather flat daylight of
survival; the psychological dislocation of armistice; the weariness of
reconstruction; the shift in Franco-American relations that followed
President Wilson’s intervention in European affairs; and the place of
American women in the adventures of the A. E. F.” (Preface) The three
parts of the book are: The wing of death; Pax in bello; The city of
confusion.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is, indeed, amazing that Miss Sergeant is able to make her meagre
details of vivid interest, but such is her art that she ably succeeds
in holding attention throughout the pages of this novel journal.” C.
K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 390w
“The book derives a unity from its synthesis of fragments—a shade too
clinical at times, but otherwise sharply realistic and delicately
expressed.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 50w
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 200w
“Books so concentrated, so vivid, and so sustained in their spiritual
excitement rarely get written.”
+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 170w
“How readable ‘Shadow-shapes’ is, and what is more, how full of
feeling, of generosity, of the gold of human intercourse delicately
essayed, of difficult things bravely thought out, of fine things
appreciated, of good things described with sympathy, accuracy—this
quite outweighs in my impression of it that vast excess of the
sympathy over the accuracy, of the personal over the impersonal which,
artistically at least, is a serious fault.” R. L.
+ − =New Repub= 25:268 Ja 26 ’21 1100w
“Originality is a force everywhere, and Miss Sergeant’s
‘Shadow-shapes’ is a very original volume. Miss Sergeant is an
accomplished stylist, her art conceals itself. Picture after picture
rises before us, in its very color, form and significance. If Miss
Sergeant is supremely sensitive to the drama of minds, she is no less
sensitive to the beauty of nature. Truly, every one should read this
book.” Amy Lowell
+ =N Y Times= p10 N 14 ’20 3200w
“A book of fine perceptions, enriched by a background of feeling and
intelligence.”
+ =Review= 3:622 D 22 ’20 820w
“Miss Sergeant has done much more than give a vivid record of hospital
experiences. That indeed, although interesting, is the least part of
an unusual book. The figures which Miss Sergeant draws from real life,
frequently giving initials or only first names, are extraordinarily
vivid and human.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 540w
Reviewed by E. B. Moses
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 130w
=SETON-WATSON, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Europe in the melting pot. *$1.50
Macmillan 940.3
20–2792
“One of the most authoritative writers on eastern European politics
here brings together a series of important papers which he has written
during the war. For the most part they are reproduced from The New
Europe, the weekly review which he founded in 1916 to represent the
policy of himself and of those who cooperated with him. These embraced
a league of nations, looking forward ultimately to all-round
disarmament; support of the Slav movement; an advanced democratic
programme for Russia; a federal solution for the border nations;
agrarian reform throughout eastern and southern Europe; parliamentary
control over foreign policy; equality of treatment for big and small
nations; ‘satisfied nationalism’ as ‘the first essential preliminary
to a new international order.’ A few of the papers have appeared in
the Round Table or the Contemporary Review and one in the English
Review. There are seven maps.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 180w
=Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 400w
“Especially well informed, competent, and obstinate in dealing with
southern Europe.”
+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w
“The book is the work of a historian at grips with reality, and has
the stamp of the best qualities of political writing.” N. C.
+ =Int J Ethics= 30:345 Ap ’20 180w
“The author’s history merely records diplomatic and military events.
Of history as a series of processes, dependent mainly on regional
economics and national tradition, he shows little conception.”
− =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 1200w
“His treatment of the Adriatic question in this volume seems to us
unfortunate, especially in regard to Fiume.”
+ − =Spec= 123:623 N 8 ’19 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 O 23 ’19 180w
“They are an excellent illustration of the best kind of political
writing, viz., the application of genuine knowledge and settled
principles to the immediate situation which from time to time presents
itself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p682 N 27 ’19 1300w
=SEWALL, MRS MAY (WRIGHT).= Neither dead nor sleeping; introd. by Booth
Tarkington. *$2.50 Bobbs 134
20–8214
“There is a peculiar difference between Mrs Sewall’s communications
with the world beyond and most of those with which the public is
familiar through books without number. For she says that she found the
discarnate spirits, urged and led by that of her husband, anxious to
give her help and direction. The whole of Mrs Sewall’s nearly 300
pages is filled with the continuous, detailed, personal story of her
intimate association and communication with these spirits. There is
not much about conditions of life with them, as there usually is in
books of this kind, but its place is taken instead by her account of
what they did for her, what they taught her, and what she learned of
their anxiety to help human beings. Their efforts in her behalf were
mainly inspired, she says, by their wish to make it possible for her
to give their message to humanity.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Strains certain tenets of temperate spiritualism but is brightly
written and replete with interest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 300w
“The story is told with such full detail and sincerity, all resting,
too, on the character of a woman so widely and favorably known, as to
make on any reader a profound impression.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1000w
=SEYMOUR, HARRIET AYER.= What music can do for you; a guide for the
uninitiated. *$2 Harper 780
20–22166
The author holds that we need a new scheme of education which will be
based upon the idea that man is his own salvation, that within himself
are all the possibilities for harmony and growth. The new education
must furnish the stimulus that will awaken this larger self. This
stimulus is music and in this sense music is no longer a luxury but a
necessity. Contents: Awakening to life through music; Melody, rhythm,
and harmony; Melody; Rhythm; Harmony; Music for children; Practicing;
Technique; Music for grown-ups; Phonographs and pianolas; Music and
health; The philosophy of music. The appended bibliography contains
three groups of book: books on psychology taking cognizance of music;
biographies and books on music. There is also a list of phonograph
records chosen from the catalogue of the Columbia Graphophone Company.
=SEYMOUR, WILLIAM KEAN=, ed. Miscellany of British poetry, 1919. *$2
Harcourt 821.08
A20–533
“This ‘Miscellany of poetry, 1919,’ is issued to the public as a truly
catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are
new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their
authors in book form.” (Prefatory note) Among the contributors are:
Laurence Binyon; Gilbert K. Chesterton; William H. Davies; John
Drinkwater; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Theodore Maynard; Edith Sitwell;
and Alec Waugh. There are decorations by Doris Palmer.
* * * * *
“Mr Seymour is to be congratulated on having brought together what is
on the whole a very interesting collection of verse. The list of
contributors on the cover is in itself reassuring, and when we read
the book we find that almost all of them are worthily represented.”
+ =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 180w
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
=Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 60w
=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w
“Chesterton’s St Barbara ballad contains touches as magical as his
Lepanto, although the sustained flight does not equal the earlier
chant. Lawrence Binyon is represented by verses full of magic, Davies
is his own naive self, Drinkwater is faultless and polished, Edith
Sitwell is whimsically delightful, Muriel Stuart is sharply dramatic,
and, best of all, W. W. Gibson appears in verses equal to his best.”
Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 900w
“To sum up, Mr Seymour’s book can be recommended to those who already
possess collections of contemporary poetry in which poets of more
modern temper are represented, or to those reactionaries who will read
nothing but the most conservative verse.” Marguerite Williams
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 360w
“Mr Seymour has not exercised, or indeed sought to exercise, the
faintest critical faculty in forming his collection.”
− + =Sat R= 129:391 Ap 24 ’20 950w
“There is a wholesome (one means esthetically, not morally wholesome)
departure from the preciosity, the fine-spun, over-intellectual,
finically phrased impressionism that was, in prewar days, the
distinctly Georgian note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 100w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w
=SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST HENRY.= South. new ed il *$6 (4½c) Macmillan
919.9
20–1604
The book is the story of Shackleton’s last expedition, 1914–1917,
undertaken to achieve the first crossing of the Antarctic continent.
It failed in its object, owing to the loss of one of its ships, but,
says the author: “The struggles, the disappointments, and the
endurance of this small party of Britishers, hidden away for nearly
two years in the fastnesses of the polar ice, striving to carry out
the ordained task and ignorant of the crisis through which the world
was passing, make a story which is unique in the history of Antarctic
exploration.” (Preface) Contents: Into the Weddell sea; New land;
Winter months; Loss of the Endurance; Ocean camp; The march between;
Patience camp; Escape from the ice; The boat journey; Across South
Georgia; The rescue; Elephant island; The Ross sea party; Wintering in
McMurdo sound; Laying the depots; The Aurora’s drift; The last relief;
The final phase. The appendices contain: Scientific work; Sea-ice
nomenclature; Meteorology; Physics; South Atlantic whales and whaling;
The expedition huts at McMurdo sound. There are eighty-eight
illustrations and diagrams and an index.
* * * * *
“The volume is extremely well illustrated.”
+ =Ath= p1304 D 5 ’19 40w
+ =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1100w
+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20
“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s new book adds another to those priceless
records of high human quality, and the story that it tells, aside from
its scientific value, will have many readers who will find its pages
enthralling and deeply moving.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:42 Ja 25 ’20 1500w
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 200w
“Few modern authors have so effectively utilized the pent-up force of
sturdy Anglo-Saxon monosyllables.” Philip Tillinghast
+ =Pub W= 97:607 F 21 ’20 480w
+ =R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 260w
“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s book is written in a vigorous style.”
+ =Spec= 123:862 D 20 ’19 1100w
“The story of the voyage that six men made in an open boat across
eight hundred miles of the roughest water in the world, to bring
relief to the twenty-two companions who remained on the island, rivals
the best sea tale ever written. It is good for any one to read such a
narrative as ‘South!’ We see what men may be.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 2500w
“The story is told simply, for the most part without much passion; but
there is no need for that to hold our interest. This book, and many
another like it, are written for the general reader; and the general
reader (who would not read a scientific treatise if it were set before
him) is rather prone to forget the scientific aspects of polar
exploration. Sir Ernest Shackleton yields, perhaps too far, to this
consideration.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 N 27 ’19 1250w
=SHACKLETON, ROBERT.= Book of Chicago. il *$3.50 Penn 917.7
20–19424
“To Chicago goes Mr Shackleton, after having exhausted New York,
Boston, and Philadelphia. The Art institute, the clubs, the theatres,
the elevated, the freight subway and the river all come in for his
inspection, and Mr Shackleton has apparently gone over, under, around
and through Chicago with a thoroughness that not many of its citizens
would care to duplicate. Anon, he varies a charming style by telling
stories, and by gallant attempts to rake up some worth-while poetry
that has been written concerning the city.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 120w
“For each matter which Mr Shackleton has not set down, there are a
dozen that he has. Mr Shackleton is always interesting.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 24 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 70w
“A truly interesting and broadly conceived tribute to the much abused
‘Windy city.’”
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The book is far from being a catalogue of land-marks and monuments,
or even of merits and faults. It gives to the city a personal quality,
and to the reader a sense that here is a mass of people, living,
breathing, and enjoying life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 250w
=SHAFER, DONALD CAMERON.= Barent Creighton. *$2 (2c) Knopf
20–11224
“An old time story of youthful romance and hot adventure, well
seasoned ... with simple love and pleasant humor”—thus the author
himself correctly describes his story. In the early forties, when the
hero’s fortunes are at their lowest, an old aunt leaves him a legacy
of four old keys, a box full of small gold figures of Inca gods, an
undecipherable manuscript and the family estate with 5000 acres to
hold in trust for his wife to be. The first three items point to
family secrets all of which develop and unravel in the course of the
story in quaintly romantic fashion with underground passages and
chambers and hidden treasures. Of immediate interest to Barent,
however, is to find a wife that is to save him from a debtor’s prison.
How a wealthy land greedy neighbor of the Creighton estate offers his
daughter to fill the place; how the daughter resents the bargain; how
Barent tears up the contract when he finds he loves her and faces a
variety of troubles instead; how the tables turn and how Ronella comes
to require Barent’s help; and how the two really love each other more
than gold and acres, make a fascinating tale.
* * * * *
“Very readable romance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“This is Mr Shafer’s first novel, and it is one of considerable
promise, colorful and related with no little spirit.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 360w
“A broad vein of humor rescues the tale from melodramatic lapses.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 220w
=SHANKS, EDWARD BUXTON.= People of the ruins. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes
20–17169
According to this “story of the English revolution and after,”
(sub-title), the revolution broke out in 1924. During its first
skirmishes Jeremy Tuft, physicist, is overtaken by a bomb while
inspecting a new scientific discovery. Thanks to the new “ray” he
awakens from the shock and crawls out of his hole in the ground in the
year 2074 into a ruined and degenerate world. Almost all traces of our
civilization are gone and the people are too ignorant and tired to
restore what is left or to rebuild better. What is left is a ruling
house in England, landlordism, and a degenerate industrialism in the
north of England. In the ruler—an old Jew known us the
“Speaker”—however, some of the old ambition survives. The form it
takes to desire to reconstruct, with the aid of the oldest surviving
mechanics, the onetime efficient gun. Now Jeremy Tuft is pressed into
his services and the gun becomes a fact. Immediately there is war and
more disaster in which the Speaker, his daughter Eva, and Jeremy, her
lover, all go down to destruction together.
* * * * *
“The author writes entertainingly, imaginatively, and with a creative
skill that makes his work pleasant if not nutritious reading.”
+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w
=N Y Times= p22 O 24 ’20 800w
=SHANNON, ALASTAIR.= Morning knowledge: the story of the new
inquisition. *$5 Longmans 192
“For two years and a half a prisoner of war in Turkey, the author
devoted nearly half of that period to the writing of this work. If,
perhaps, somewhat premature as a presentment of philosophy, the book
is at all events an essay at the expression of a young man’s ‘positive
assurance in the value of man as a real creator.’ Beginning with
negations, the author advances by degrees to the conclusions that
there is ‘more in life than mechanism, and more in reason than
intellect’; that intellect is ‘so formed as to grasp mechanism
wholly’; and that reason is so formed as to reflect life wholly and to
find for life a purpose which is not yet palpable, though
psychologically evident.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p125 Ja 23 ’20 120w
=Cath World= 111:691 Ag ’20 140w
“A very beautiful and a very sane philosophy will be found in these
pages. The poetry in them has a lyrical quality reminiscent of Mr W.
B. Yeats, and the prose at times glows at white heat. Although Mr
Shannon’s work is uneven, and sometimes baffling, it is never
commonplace.”
+ =Sat R= 129:373 Ap 17 ’20 490w
“The condemnation of Mr Shannon’s method lies in the obscurity of his
own conclusions.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 F 26 ’20 760w
=SHARP, DALLAS LORE.= Patrons of democracy. 80c (8c) Atlantic monthly
press 379
20–4555
Professor Sharp of the English department of Boston university, holds
that the true end of American education is not life or the getting of
a living, but “living together,” “getting-on-together.” For this
purpose the higher schools and colleges are negligible and the
secondary schools are everything; for all the fundamental things of
life are learned by the time a person reaches his eighteenth year. The
spirit of democracy is one of these fundamental things and it is a
matter of education. The book, therefore, is a plea for the common
school and an arraignment of the private, parochial and vocational
school.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“The book is a witty and idealistic appeal for a truer democracy.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 120w
+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 80w
“Dallas Lore Sharp’s belief in democracy is a tonic for us all.
Moreover, he has a simple and, within limits, entirely practical
prescription for democracy.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 1050w
=SHARP, HILDA MARY.= Pawn in pawn. *$1.90 (*7s) (1½c) Putnam
20–8275
Julian Tarrant, a distinguished English poet, comes into a fortune
somewhat late in life. He has never married and has no close kin and
he one day expresses his intention of adopting a child whom he may
make his heir—and then forgets all about it. But his friend, Richard
Drewe, who has taken him seriously, goes to the orphanage flippantly
known as the Pawn shop, and returns with a little six-year old girl.
The story thereafter is concerned with the development of this child,
her relations to her adoptive father and uncle, and to one other man,
a younger friend of the two others. An anonymously published book of
poems proves the girl to have unusual poetic talent and then the
secret of her birth and parentage is revealed. The story covers the
last years of the nineteenth century and the period up to and
including the world war.
* * * * *
=Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
=Lit D= p96 N 20 ’20 700w
“‘A pawn in pawn’ is an example of excellent writing, and in point of
vital interest and ingenuity of plot quite out of the ordinary.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 500w
“It is a tale which will really give great pleasure in the reading;
but its weak construction and the hackneyed coincidences which lie at
the back of it must prevent its ranking very high among novels of the
moment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 120w
=SHAW, CHARLES GRAY.= Ground and goal of human life. (Studies in
philosophy and religion) $3.50 N.Y. univ. press 171
“The problem which Professor Shaw presents and endeavours to solve is
the establishment of a ‘higher synthesis’ between an individualistic
egoism and a scientifico-social self-suppression. The ‘higher
synthesis,’ when he arrives at it in book three, is expounded in three
sections, The joy of life in the world-whole, The worth of life in the
world-whole (to be found in work), and The truth of life in the
world-whole (to be found rather in culture than in æstheticism).”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“In formulating his code of ethics, Dr Shaw has succeeded in adding an
illuminating and clearly written volume to the already large library
dealing with the origins and values of human conduct.” L. M. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 550w
=Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 60w
“Prof. Shaw’s presentation of his case is far from shallow and
unconsidered—and has the inestimable merit of making no concessions to
prejudices, of being absolutely unafraid. Moreover, it is a positive
and too rare joy to find a book with exact footnote knowledge of the
history of thought and literature.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 Mr 13 ’20 1350w
“It may be doubted whether this very substantial volume makes any very
definite fresh contribution either practical or theoretical to its
subject; and Professor Shaw is by no means free from the tendency
among American philosophers to avoid clear logical exposition and to
smother their thought under a heavy load of philosophic verbiage.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 180w
=SHAW, FREDERICK JOHN (BROUGHAM VILLIERS, pseud.), and CHESSON, WILFRID
HUGH.= Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865. *$2.50 Scribner 327.73
(Eng ed 19–18602)
“‘Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865,’ deals with the causes of
friction and misunderstandings between Great Britain and the United
States during the trying years of the Civil war. The reasons which,
for a time, gave prominence to the southern sympathies of the British
ruling classes, while rendering almost inarticulate the far deeper
feeling for the cause of union and emancipation among the masses of
our people, are examined and explained. W. H. Chesson, grandson of
George Thompson, the antislavery orator, who was William Lloyd
Garrison’s bosom friend, contributes a chapter which attempts to
convey an impression of the influence of transatlantic problems upon
English oratory and the writings of public men.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“While Mr Villiers’s general presentation of national attitudes is
excellent and very well worth reading in both countries, the facts of
history which are brought into his narrative are unfortunately not so
well understood by him.” E. D. Adams
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:715 Jl ’20 500w
“The whole book is instructive and very timely.”
+ =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 100w
=Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 N 13 ’19 60w
=SHEDD, GEORGE CLIFFORD.= Iron furrow. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–7422
An American engineer of indomitable grit and perseverance sees
possibilities in a barren tract of Arizona desert if the land is
irrigated. He buys the land and sets to work in the face of the
intrigues of a Mexican plutocrat, the wiles of eastern capital, his
own shortage of funds, and the inclemencies of an Arizona winter. With
all these troubles he still finds time to fall in love with a girl of
fickle affections. The successful termination of his work on the canal
is marked by the termination of his engagement by the faithless girl
and the crowning of his efforts by a true woman’s love.
* * * * *
“It is a pleasant story in a quiet key, and is restful after the many
stories where gun-play is a prominent practice.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 300w
=SHEDLOCK, MARIE L.= Eastern stories and legends. *$2 Dutton 294
20–18410
An enlarged edition of a collection of stories of the Buddha published
in 1910, now issued with a foreword by T. W. Rhys Davids and an
introduction by Annie Carroll Moore. “In India, Prof. Davids tells us,
crowds may be seen listening all night long to these tales. There are
many hundreds of them from which Miss Shedlock has selected only a
few, and of these we are assured that their appeal to an audience
never fails. She has told them again and again, and Miss Moore, of the
New York Public Library, adds her conviction of their admirable
suitability for telling.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20
“In rearranging and expanding this selection of stories from the
Buddha rebirths, Miss Shedlock has wisely freed the book from
limitations, which in the earlier edition gave it too much the
appearance of a text-book to look readable.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:315 My ’20 140w
“Discriminating and valuable selection of stories.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 60w
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 150w
=SHEEHAN, PERLEY POORE.= House with a bad name. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright
The house was an anachronism in a part of New York that had fallen
from a former grand estate. The neighborhood would have it that it was
haunted. The people living in it were anachronisms and as such full of
mystery. Old Nathan Tyrone and his daughter Mélissine lived in an
older generation in thought, in dress, in habits. They were paragons
of virtue and unworldliness, and their butler a good second to
themselves. In due time Mélissine falls in love, and, about the same
time, an evil woman appears upon the scene with blackmail and
corruption. After the death of Mélissine’s father she insinuates
herself into the house and for a time the air is dense with mystery
and evil forebodings. But before so much virtue and saintliness even
the wicked Belle becomes repentant and the evil mysteries she conjured
up fade away. All but one, which comes to light after Mélissine’s
marriage: through some estrangement between her father and
grandfather, the former had been disinherited and had unwittingly been
living on the bounty of the butler, the sole heir, all his life.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 480w
“Mr Sheehan is a facile, delicate artist in the weaving of such a
theme; the texture of it is excellent and his people, especially the
two women, are admirably real.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 150w
“With a slight, old-fashioned plot, little dramatic action and
characters that have been worn threadbare, it still must be conceded
that the lazy reader, desiring mild bookish entertainment, will find
it worth while to work his way through this placid novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 420w
“The mingling of love and mystery is well sustained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 210w
=SHEFFIELD, MRS ADA (ELIOT).=[2] Social case history; its construction
and content. *$1 Russell Sage foundation 360
20–19858
The book belongs to the Social work series and deals with the
recording of the relief workers’ cases and the purposes it subserves.
The record is made with a view to three ends: (1) the immediate
purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, (2)
the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, and (3) the
incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical
thinking. To expound these three ends from every point of view is the
purpose of the book. It is indexed and contains: The purpose of a
social case history; A basis for the selection of material; Documents
that constitute the history; Composition of the narrative; The
narrative in detail; The wider implications of case recording.
* * * * *
“‘The social case history’ is a new landmark in the profession of
social case work. No one hereafter can undertake case work without
first mastering the material and the method put into permanent form by
this book. It does for the case record, and incidentally for certain
phases of treatment, what Miss Richmond’s book on ‘Social diagnosis’
has done for investigation.” Frank Bruno
+ =Survey= 45:432 D 18 ’20 980w
=SHEFFIELD, LYBA, and SHEFFIELD, NITA C.=[2] Swimming simplified. il
$1.75 The authors, box 436, San Francisco 796
20–9362
“The purpose of this text book is to simplify the learning and
teaching of swimming from a scientific point of view. Our further
objective has been to arrange a series of lessons in their logical
progression to meet the demands of schools, playgrounds, clubs and
aquatic centers.... A special section upon the class man-procedure for
mass instruction and class management has been arranged for teachers
of swimming.” (Introd.) Contents: The method of procedure in learning
or teaching swimming; The beginner’s first lessons; Analysis of the
various swimming strokes; Racing turn—treading water—plunge for
distance; Diving; Life saving; The safety valve and the swimming and
life-saving tests; Water sports; Suggestions to instructors. There are
numerous helpful illustrations. The authors are teachers of swimming
in the San Francisco high schools and the University of California.
=SHERARD, JESSE LOUIS.= Blueberry bear. il *$1 Crowell
This biography of a bear cub forms an entertaining story for children
altho it belongs to the type of story in which human psychology is
attributed to animals. Blueberry with his father and mother lives near
the home of Farmer Green. The father is shot by one of the farmer’s
men and the little bear thereafter does all in his power to take
revenge. Finally the farmer’s boys make him a captive and take him
home with them and he learns that his father is still alive and a
prisoner. The two escape and the bear family seeks a new home in the
canebrake far from the haunts of man.
=SHERIDAN, SOLOMON NEILL.= Typhoon’s secret. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–7516
John Wentworth, a bank president’s son, is suddenly stranded, when the
bank fails and his father mysteriously disappears out to sea. John’s
friends scent a mystery and foul play connected with the failure and
send John in a wild goose chase over the Pacific in search of clues
and his father. The rest is a sea yarn full of thrilling incidents
which culminate in a yacht’s wild flight before a typhoon, a burning
ship, a companion yacht with romance on board, and finally a restored
father, a restored fortune and a bride for John Wentworth.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
=SHERINGHAM, HUGH TEMPEST.= Trout fishing memoirs and morals. il *$5
(5c) Houghton 799
The author begins his fishing reminiscences with an account of
eel-fishing by hand as a child of nine, newly escaped from London. But
he soon found that trout fishing is the sport par excellence and that
trout fishers “by-nature,” not merely because sporting fashion
prescribes it, belong to the pick of humanity. Among the contents are:
Early days; A little chalk stream; The fishing day; The fly question;
Minnow and worms; In a Welsh valley; Weather and wind; New waters.
There are illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w
“It is rather long drawn out, and not straight to the point....
Anyway, the angler who can’t learn something and get many new thrills
from the book will not be found hereabouts.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 D 26 ’20 410w
“His volume is as delightfully written as any work on angling which we
have recently seen. American anglers will find themselves very much at
home in the atmosphere of this work, even though it deals with
unfamiliar waters.”
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 600w
+ =Spec= 125:309 S 4 ’20 860w
“Mr Sheringham’s latest book on fishing is delightful for its humour
and sound English as well as for the range of its reminiscences and
its insight into the ways of trout. Its morals make it as
companionable as its memories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Je 24 ’20 920w
=SHERLOCK, CHESLA CLELLA.= Care and management of rabbits. il *$1.25
(4c) McKay 636.9
20–14848
The purpose of the book is to set forth the commercial possibilities
of rabbits and to point out to beginner and breeder alike the most
economical way to success. It is intended as a handy, companionable
guide on all phases of the care, breeding and management of rabbits. A
partial list of the contents is: Some reasons for raising rabbits; The
domesticated rabbit; The commercial breeds; The fancy breeds; The
hutches; Feeding adult stock; Feeding young stock; Breeding; Utility
value of rabbits; Fur farming; Pedigrees; Diseases and remedies;
Appendix-handy feeding schedules. The book is illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
=SHERRILL, CHARLES HITCHCOCK.= Have we a Far Eastern policy? with an
introd. by David Jayne Hill. il *$2.50 Scribner 327
20–7581
“One-half of Mr Sherrill’s book is not suggested by its title, and
deals with matters which have no political implications—with the flora
of the Hawaiian islands, with Japanese umbrellas, footwear, lanterns,
street games, chrysanthemum shows, and private gardens. As to whether
the United States has a definite Far Eastern policy, a negative is not
distinctly asserted but is clearly implied. At any rate our author
presents us with one of his own which he considers worthy of adoption
by our government. Shortly stated, it is as follows: That the United
States should refrain from all opposition to Japan’s expansion north
and west upon the continent of Asia, that is, in the regions of
Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia; that, in return, Japan should agree
to abandon her southeasterly development and transfer the Caroline and
Marshall islands to international control or to administration by
Australia; and, thirdly, that Japan, Australia, and the United States
should jointly guarantee the independence of the Philippines.”—Review
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“General Sherrill’s ten months in the East seem to have been
insufficient to awaken him to an adequate sense of the intricacy of
problems that with such bland simplicity he has undertaken to solve.”
R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 51:632 Ag ’20 420w
Reviewed by Harold Kellock
=Freeman= 2:188 N 3 ’20 580w
=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1500w
“This book, though spirited enough, lacks verity of perception, and is
typical of the thanks propaganda of foreigners who visit Japan and
spend their time with hospitable officials.” F: O’Brien
− + =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 560w
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
+ − =Review= 2:655 Je 23 ’20 850w
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 100w
=SHERWOOD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS.= Glimpses of South America. il *$4
Century 918
20–20207
The author knows South America well, as a business man having made
several prolonged trips throughout its extent. He calls his book an
informal one, covering the ground and containing information about
that part of South America that a casual visitor would be most apt to
visit and about which he would be less likely to get information from
more formal treatises. It is compiled from notes jotted down for
personal amusement and is illustrated with the author’s own
photographs. It has six maps, a geographical and a general index and
the text contains: The beaten track around South America; New York to
Kingston and Panama; Panama and the Panama canal in war time; Down the
west coast—Panama to Lima, Peru; Lima—the city of the past; Southern
Peru and northern Chile; Iquique, Antofagasta and the nitrate desert;
Valparaiso and Viña del Mar; Santiago—the capital of Chile; Over the
Andes to the Argentine Republic; Buenos Aires—the Paris of America;
Montevideo and the republic of Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and
the way home.
* * * * *
“He gives many valuable tips about hotels, boats, and railroads in an
entertaining way. His chapters on Lima and Buenos Aires are rather
long, but his chatty method of writing gives charm to the volume.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’20 90w
“‘Glimpses of South America’ is frankly a book of travel—and a very
entertaining one—but it will prove highly educational for the man who
wishes to learn something of Latin Americans, their customs, mode of
living, needs and psychology.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 30w
“Mr Sherwood’s characterizations of people and places are terse and
vivid and he makes no pretensions to an elaborate study of any of the
matters of which he treats. What he has to say is intended to be
helpful to the ordinary traveler.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 100w
“If there are traces of exaggeration, or of facetious inference, the
reader, amused thereby, will not be disposed to be too inquiring. The
work, as a whole, is vivid and informing—a thoroughly animated travel
book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 660w
=SHERWOOD, MARGARET POLLOCK.= World to mend. *$2 (2c) Little
20–17008
The story is ostensibly the journal of a working man. He was not
always thus, this son of the idle rich, of New England birth, who had
lived fifty years of inactivity, addicted to theoretical speculations
of a critical and analytical nature, when the European war broke out.
The war brings him a sudden realization that he has been but a
looker-on in life, has not been a good citizen, not in immediate touch
and sympathy with his fellow men. He must act, must become a worker,
must undertake a handicraft. He chooses cobbling, settles in a typical
New England coast town, and gradually works himself into the
confidence of his fellow townsmen and into local influence. His
journal records his experiences, is full of philosophical criticism of
American life and character in general, of the flaws in our democracy,
of our attitude to the war before our entry into it and of the
imminence of a regenerated world after the war. Our actual
participation in the war fills him with satisfaction and pride and the
hope of future greatness.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“Of the high earnestness of her mood there are visible manifestations.
The delicate play of humor which we have so often noted in her work is
absent. The poetic trend of her prose has been almost as ruthlessly
stifled. Yet in spite of the handicap of abandoning two of her largest
assets, the spell of the book is very strong. Miss Sherwood here as in
‘The worn doorstep’ has lived up to the magnitude of her
opportunities.” D. L. Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 1250w
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“The cobbler of Mataquoit is a good thinker. He thinks through his
problems, whether they be of government, economics, education,
religion or sociology. He is, moreover, the master of a high style
which sounds the tocsin of hope for literature in America once again.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 N 14 ’20 460w
=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w
“Miss Sherwood has genuine literary power, and whatever she writes is
worth reading from the point of view of style as well as for its
subject. Miss Sherwood has spiritual insight and, looking through her
eyes, we have at least a vision of how the new world should be built.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 9 ’20 360w
=SHESTOV, LEO.= All things are possible. *$2 McBride 891.7
21–480
In this collection of aphorisms the author delivers himself of his
reflections on life and literature. The work is translated from the
Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and has a foreword by D. H. Lawrence, who
sees in Shestov the final liberating struggle of the Russian psyche to
shake itself free from the bondage of an alien European civilization.
* * * * *
“There is much that is brilliant in the book, much that is even
profound. Moreover, if Hamlin Garland is right in reproaching this
part of the United States with being ‘hopelessly sane,’ its influence
here might be salutary. But we wonder whether a native of Iowa could
be cajoled into reading beyond the first two pages. Nevertheless it is
well now and then to face a defiant arraignment of the entire fabric
of our civilization.” C. M. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w
Reviewed by Stark Young
=Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 450w
“His style is clear, uncollegiate and literary.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= p19 O 3 ’20 1000w
“In any proper sense of the word there is not an atom of originality
in the book, which is merely a decoction from Dostoyevsky and
Nietzsche. To exalt Shestov as original, or as in any sense a
philosopher, is mischievous nonsense. He is interesting as an
illustration of the Slavonic nihilism which is capturing the fancy of
so many of our half-educated modern youths.”
− =Review= 3:273 S 29 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’21 540w
=SHOWALTER, NOAH DAVID.= Handbook for rural school officers. (Riverside
textbooks in education) il *$2 Houghton 379.17
20–10062
The object of the book is to stimulate the rural school officers’
interest in education. The information given is based on personal
investigation of the best plans, methods and practices now in use in
the best rural communities of the United States. The foreword is a
creed of nine paragraphs for the school trustee or director and the
ground covered in the text takes in school organization, election and
work of officers, resources and finances; school sites, plants,
furnishings, apparatus and decorations; selection of teachers; the
daily program, home and school cooperation, and supervision; the
consolidation of rural schools; manual training and home economics;
the question of lunches, health education and medical inspection, and,
lastly, citizenship. There are also illustrations, appendices and an
index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 310w
+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 210w
=SHUGRUE, MARTIN JOSEPH.=[2] Problems in foreign exchange. *$2 Appleton
332.45
The principles and methods of foreign exchange are briefly described
in the introduction to the book which falls into three parts. Part 1
consists of typical problems and solutions fully worked out. Part 2
sets problems for the student to work out. They come under the
headings; Sources of supply and demand; Par of exchange; Theory of
foreign exchange rates; Conversions in foreign exchange; Financing
imports and exports; Arbitrage transactions and finance bills; General
problems. Part 3, Appendices, contains foreign exchange documents and
tables for the simplification of foreign exchange calculations.
=SHUTE, HENRY AUGUSTUS.= Real diary of the worst farmer. il *$1.75 (1½c)
Houghton 817
20–7300
The diary begins with March 10, the appearance of the first bluebird,
and gives a delightfully humorous account of all the haps and mishaps
of an amateur farmer’s summer, until the reader takes leave of him on
November 21, meditating before his empty pork barrel—he still had his
pork barrel left—after the pigs, reared with so much effort, expense
and expectation, turned out to have been tubercular. He consoles
himself with characteristic optimism, that, in spite of a pile of
unreceipted grain bills and other debts, he now has before him the
satisfying winter pleasures of milking, bedding, feeding and caring
for his stock twice a day by lantern light. The book is dedicated to
amateur farmers, particularly to professional and salaried men, whose
love of the soil and of domestic animals takes them to the country not
for the money profit that may result, but for the interest in the life
for its own sake.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“Professionally I am inclined to condemn the book as a piece of
deliberate manufacture by a man who knows too well that he is expected
to be funny; personally I like it very well indeed.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 51:686 Ag ’20 650w
“‘The worst farmer’ satisfies all expectations with its dry wit and
skilfully woven humor.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 460w
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“The book is amusing in its way, and no doubt many amateur farmers
will find their own experiences more or less accurately reflected in
this ‘Real diary of the worst farmer.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 450w
=Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 50w
+ =St Louis= 18:228 S ’20 20w
“Aside from the humor of the book one finds the author a genuine
nature lover.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 24 ’20 370w
=SIDGWICK, CECILY (ULLMANN) (MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK), and GARSTIN,
CROSBIE.= Black knight. *$2 (2c) Holt
20–14287
When Michael Winter comes up with a jolt against the fact that his
father is a swindler and a suicide he ships for Canada with not a
friend to bid him farewell. But a compassionate young girl, noticing
his loneliness, proffers her hand as a good-bye for England and
cherishes the memory of her daring as her romance ever after. In
Canada he roughs it with the roughest and plunges with the rashest and
indeed makes a fortune but incurs a term of prison in the bargain.
Free again and rich he arrives in Paris in time to rescue his unknown
friend from the clutches of a wicked aunt. They marry first and he
pays the piper after, to settle his own and his father’s score, and
there is an interrupted honeymoon, with a happy ending.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath= p410 S 24 ’20 200w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 150w
“The workmanship of the novel bears intrinsic evidence of its
subdivision of labour. The Canadian scene is sketched with descriptive
vigour, and enlivened with incident. Mrs Sidgwick, however, scarcely
qualifies with her entries.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 210w
“The collaboration is only a juncture of opposites and not a mixture
of complementary elements. In short, however faithful and interesting
a collection of adventures the two authors may have chronicled,
however successful they may have been in parts, as a unified whole
their book fails because of a lack of unity in construction, in style,
in character and in place.”
− + =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 210w
“Life on the great wheat ranch, in lumber camps, and in other more
conventional scenes is described with vigor, knowledge, and a certain
robust sense of fun. The book holds the attention firmly.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 100w
“Having been given the first innings Mr Crosbie Garstin has scored so
fast and freely that the sequel inevitably partakes of the nature of
an anti-climax.”
+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 500w
“A live and busy story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 100w
=SIEVEKING, L. DE G.= Dressing gowns and glue. il *$1 Harcourt 827
(Eng ed 20–8231)
A book of nonsense verse, with drawings by John Nash. It is published
“with an introduction about the verses by G. K. Chesterton and an
introduction about the drawings by Max Beerbohm and something about
all concerned by Cecil Palmer” and is edited by Paul Nash.
* * * * *
“Introductions, nonsense verses, and pictures are all alike absurd and
equally delightful.”
+ =Ath= p986 O 3 ’19 100w
“Nonsense in its finer form will be found in the illustrations more
frequently and more definitely than in the text. Captain Sieveking’s
verses have got extremely pleasant qualities; some of the poems that
he calls ‘examples of blatant naughtiness’ have a real charm of idea;
but he is not sufficiently severe, and allows himself to go on writing
when the humor of the idea has already been sufficiently illustrated.”
R. E. Roberts
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 O 4 ’19 1200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 320w
“There is not quite enough of this book—that is its only flaw.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S ’19 520w
=SIMONDS, FRANK HERBERT.= History of the world war. 5v v 4–5 il ea *$5
Doubleday 940.3
=v 4–5= “The fourth volume of Mr Simonds’ ‘History of the world war’
is concerned with the crucial developments of the year 1917—the German
retreat to the Hindenburg line, the entry of America into the war, the
Russian revolution and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the French and
British offensives and reverses on the western front, the Italian
defeat, and the aggressive submarine campaign on the part of Germany.”
(R of Rs F ’20) “The fifth volume marks the culmination of his account
of the allied campaigns. He tells with dramatic vividness the full
story of American participation.” (R of Rs S ’20)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:276 My ’20 (Review of v 4)
“Here again we have, possibly displayed better than elsewhere, his
fine sense of historical proportion, his superlatively dramatic style
garnishing the most prosaic scientific manoeuvers, if important, with
all the color of romance. He has taken critical advantage of the books
by German military men published since the war.” Walter Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“The author’s running comment and interpretation are most illuminating
and instructive.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 160w (Review of v 4)
+ =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 180w (Review of v 5)
=SIMPSON, CHARLES TORREY.= In lower Florida wilds. il *$3.50 (4c) Putnam
917.59
20–15140
“A naturalist’s observations on the life, physical geography, and
geology of the more tropical part of the state.” (Sub-title) The
author has been a resident of the region he describes for more than
twenty years. He found it an almost unbroken wilderness in 1882, which
is now rapidly and forever disappearing. “Today most of its hammocks
are destroyed, the streams are being dredged out and deepened, the
Everglades are nearly drained; even the pine forests are being cut
down.” (Introd.) Many species of animals and plants, found only in
this area, have already been exterminated. The author has thoroughly
explored the territory in its virgin fecundity and describes it both
as a collector and a general naturalist. Contents: The building of the
land; The Florida keys; The Ten Thousand islands; Cape Sable; The
south shore of the mainland; The Everglades; The planting of our
flora; The lure of the piney woods; The origin of the hammocks; In the
primeval forest; Along the stream; Along the mangrove shore; The open
sea beach; The wonders of Ajax reefs; The secrets of the sea; The
story of the land snails; The beauty of the night; The survival of the
fittest. There are an index, a map, and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“The style is a curious, though pleasant, blending of the scientist’s
delight in naming, describing or explaining, and the artist’s
sensitiveness to vivid coloring, ethereal lights or deeps of forest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
Reviewed by S: Scoville, jr.
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 23 ’20 1400w
“He has written well and he has presented his material in as popular a
form as was possible, but the reviewer would be failing in his duty if
he did not warn the casual book-buyer of the scientific nature of this
volume with so attractive a title.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 250w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w
=SIMPSON, EUGENE E.= America’s position in music. *$1 (14c) Four seas
co. 780.9
20–9483
A brief essay in which the author points out “that America has for a
long time possessed a number of distinctive elements in music which
were found in no other country, therefore were inevitably American.”
He traces the pioneer efforts in American music, beginning with Lowell
Mason in 1821, and he takes special notice of the use made of Indian
and negro themes. The chronology at the end lists over ninety American
composers, with the titles of their best known works. The essay is
reprinted from “Modern music and musicians,” revised edition of 1918.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately Mr Simpson, who means well and has much common sense,
tries to write grandiloquently. It is often difficult to understand
him.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 450w
+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 180w
=SIMS, NEWELL LEROY=, ed.[2] Rural community. il *$4.50 Scribner 301
20–12477
“Regarding the present stage of rural community development as one of
transition from an individualistic to a co-operative economy, it is
the expressed purpose of the volume to bring together in organized
form the available ‘knowledge of the past communal order, both ancient
and modern, for the shaping and perfecting of the order that is to
be.’ The book is divided into three parts, each comprising four
chapters, each chapter presenting material from several sources so
organized as to constitute a comprehensive discussion of some unit
phase of the general topic. Thus, the first part treats of the Ancient
community, one chapter being given to each of the following topics:
The primitive village; The mediaeval manor; The village community in
America; and The disintegration of the village community. Part 2
considers the modern community under the headings, The modern
community defined; Types of communities; Institutions of the
community; and The evolution of the community. The latter half of the
book is devoted to Part 3, Community reconstruction.”—School R
* * * * *
=School R= 28:795 D ’20 450w
=SIMS, WILLIAM SOWDEN, and HENDRICK, BURTON JESSE.= Victory at sea. il
*$5 (4c) Doubleday 940.45
20–18578
This is not a complete history of the operations of our naval forces
during the great war, but an account of the submarine campaign and the
means by which it was defeated. Little or nothing was made public of
the anti-submarine exploits at the time of their happening owing to
the necessity for secrecy. Contents: When Germany was winning the war;
The return of the Mayflower; The adoption of the convoy; American
destroyers in action; Decoying submarines to destruction; American
college boys and subchasers; The London flagship; Submarine against
submarine; The American mine barrage in the North sea; German
submarines visit the American coast; Fighting submarines from the air;
The navy fighting on the land; Transporting two million American
soldiers to France; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“This is a very interesting book carrying with it a comprehensive and
intelligent description of the submarine and anti-submarine warfare of
the late war, and is by far the best yet made known to the world.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:332 Ja ’21 1050w
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1050w
“Among the numberless books about the war I have seen no other which
is so concise and clear and which shows the march of the main events
so unobscured by unessential details. From beginning to end, the
reader is never left in doubt on a single point.” B. A. Fiske
+ =N Y Times= p4 O 31 ’20 2600w
“The most illuminating account of the war against the submarines which
has yet appeared. It is a thrilling narrative, and we advise everybody
to read it.”
+ =Spec= 125:815 D 18 ’20 1850w
“It is in the highest degree authoritative.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p847 D 16 ’20 2100w
“The telling of this story is so attractive that the book ought to
have a wide popularity.” W: O. Stevens
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 180w
=SINCLAIR, BERTRAND WILLIAM.= Poor man’s rock. il *$1.90 (2c) Little
20–17084
A story of Puget Sound. Jack MacRae comes home from the war to find
his father dying. In a letter left to his son the father tells the
story of his youth and explains the reasons for his hatred of Horace
Gower. Jack also learns that he has been robbed of his inheritance by
Gower, and adding his father’s grievances to his own, he sets out to
compete with the rich man in the salmon industry. As an independent
buyer for his friend, Stubby Abbott, a rival canner, he makes inroads
on Gower’s business and soon merits the magnate’s open hostility. In
the meantime Jack has fallen in love with Betty Gower and the working
out of the story involves the old tangle of youthful love thwarted by
family disapproval, which in the end is triumphantly overridden.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“As a student of character, Mr Sinclair is rather clever than
profound. His interest lies primarily in the story he is telling and
not in its setting, and, fortunately, he has the power to make us
follow that story so keenly that only here and there do we miss the
background.” E. A. W.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w
“In the telling Mr Sinclair has revealed a strange mental combination
of psychologist, economist and artist. Nevertheless, ‘Poor man’s rock’
is an interesting story of an interesting phase of American endeavor.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 220w
“This is by far Mr Sinclair’s best novel. There is a great deal in it
that is worth while, and every page is real. The theme is handled with
such a blending of strength and beauty that it falls wide of the mark
of maudlin sentimentality.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 520w
“Altogether the novel is a strong piece of writing.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“Taken all in all, it’s a story that moves rapidly and with a lift
straight to the end.” L. M. Harbeson
+ =Pub W= 98:660 S 18 ’20 280w
=SINCLAIR, MAY.= Romantic. *$2 (4c) Macmillan
20–18389
This story of the first weeks of the war in Belgium is a psychological
study of cowardice. At the opening of the story Charlotte Redhead has
just broken off an episodic love affair with Gibson Herbert, her
employer. The qualities that attract her in John Conway are his
apparent cleanness and strength. The two work together as farm
laborers for a year, maintaining a very satisfactory relationship on
platonic terms. With the beginning of the war they go out, in company
with two others, as an ambulance corps. And here under danger
Charlotte sees John go to pieces. He welcomes the idea of danger and
death, but turns tail at the reality, and at the same time develops a
strain of cruelty. Charlotte gives in to the truth slowly and it is
only after he has been killed, when a psycho-analytic doctor gives her
the key, that she comes to understand, and so forgive, his weakness.
* * * * *
“It is not possible to doubt the sincerity of Miss Sinclair’s
intentions. She is a devoted writer of established reputation. What we
do deplore is that she has allowed her love of writing to suffer the
eclipse of psycho-analysis.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p552 O 22 ’20 860w
“Into ‘The romantic,’ which for its greater part is scarcely anything
more than a sketchy record of war-time incident, Miss Sinclair has put
a curious jumble of pseudo science and pretentious psychology.”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 1400w
“In ‘The romantic’ the psycho-analytic purpose stands out like a
framework. It is a semi-scientific study rather than a novel, missing
almost entirely the effect of mixed, unguided, concrete life which
belongs to fiction.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 450w
“Her Charlotte Redhead is new and authentic both as a type and as an
individual. The implications of Miss Sinclair’s fable and analysis are
of the broadest significance. It is these implications that give Miss
Sinclair’s book an extraordinary intellectual suppleness and
strength.”
+ =Nation= 111:567 N 17 ’20 600w
“A more difficult subject than this one which Miss Sinclair has chosen
it would be almost impossible to find. And she has treated it sanely,
admirably, with a certain clean honesty which renders it void of
offense. ‘The romantic’ is a most unusual and most noteworthy book.”
L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 1100w
“The story in all its poignant brevity has that assured touch of
artistry which we have a right to expect from the author of ‘The
divine fire.’” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 660w
“The book is a notable achievement in psychoanalysis, and Miss
Sinclair is to be congratulated on the close study of character which
she has given us.”
+ =Spec= 125:641 N 13 ’20 640w
“‘The romantic’ is a rather curious book in that it is written almost
spontaneously according to fixed theory. Its mechanism is flawless.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 620w
=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= Brass check. *$1; pa
*50c U. B. Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal. 071
20–11913
The book is a fierce arraignment of our present-day journalism. “When
you have read this story, you will know our journalism; you will know
the body and soul of it, you will know it in such a way that you will
not have to be told what it is doing to the movement for industrial
freedom and self-government all over the world.” (Introd.) It falls
into three parts: part 1, The evidence, which is one half of the book,
is a personal story telling what the author himself has seen and
experienced in his struggles with the press for a period of twenty
years. In part 2. The explanation, other witnesses are heard, “the
wisest and truest and best people of our country” and the author
pledges his honor that his statements are based on facts and facts
only. Part 3, The remedy, has among its contents a practical program
for a “truth-telling” weekly to be known as the National News.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H: L. West
=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
“Mr Sinclair’s book is a brave and sincere effort carried out in the
worst of all tastes—so that your attention becomes focused on the
writer instead of his writing.” Edwin Björkman
− + =Freeman= 2:212 N 10 ’20 1850w
“Is Mr Sinclair telling the truth? If he is not, the Associated press
and every newspaper he includes in his amazing revelations owe the
American public the solemn duty of bringing him to justice but if Mr
Sinclair’s statements go unchallenged by the press, every honest
American must possess himself of the facts. Fascinating as his book
is, incredible though it may appear to the dazed reader, it is a
treatise based on names, places and dates, convincing despite our
great desire to remain unconvinced.” J. J. Smertenko
+ =Grinnell R= 16:329 Ja ’21 1000w
=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 140w
“This is a most important book which every reader will want to pass on
to his neighbor. It is a complete, masterful study, and the
presentation of its facts is wholly convincing. With Mr Sinclair’s
conclusions, drawn from his facts, it is not necessary to agree. Mr
Sinclair is a Socialist. He sees everything through the spectacles of
class-consciousness. Also, at times he is humorless, and he has been
persistently naive.” E. H. Gruening
+ − =Nation= 111:72 Jl 17 ’20 1050w
“There is nothing here even remotely approximating a rational survey
of the conditions and practices of American journalism. There is a
vast deal about the topic most interesting to Mr Sinclair—and that is
Sinclair himself. The picture, while more or less true in many of its
details, is, as a whole, a caricature. Is the book worth reading? It
is; indeed, it should be widely read. But it should be read with the
intelligence and information which will enable one to sift the truth
from the mass of absurd and misleading statements which it contains.”
W. J. Ghent
− + =Review= 3:420 N 3 ’20 1350w
“The effectiveness of the facts in ‘The brass check’ for the average
reader, not to mention a hostile critic, is seriously marred by the
intermittent ‘bow-wowings’ of the writer. Can the author bring to the
tragic theme of the prostitution of modern journalism no language but
that of the yellow press? The people have been too deeply betrayed by
the illusions of language not to demand the facts without the
fireworks.” M. C. Crook
+ − =Socialist R= 8:382 My ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 160w
“A passionate, intimately personal, elaborately detailed and
documented indictment.” J. G. McDonald
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w
“For the sake of the honour of the American press—the better elements
in which cannot but be glad to see the worse exposed—one would like to
know that this book was being widely read.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 720w
=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= 100%; the story of a
patriot. *$1.20 (1½c) pa *60c Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal.
21–1179
In fiction form Mr Sinclair has told the story of the Mooney case,
bringing in other recent events that show the methods used by business
interests and their secret police, under-cover men, and agents
provocateur. Peter Gudge is near the scene of the explosion on
preparedness day. He is knocked senseless, arrested as a suspect, and
given the third degree. Taking his measure, Guffey, the chief of
police, decides that Peter is the man for his purpose and uses him
first as star witness in the Goober case and later as one of his
secret agents, detailed to spy on the “reds.” Peter is faithful and
painstaking and rises to the top in his profession, a true 100%
American. The data on which the story is built is supplied in an
appendix.
* * * * *
“Mr Sinclair has abandoned the Zolaist symbolism and declamation of
his earlier books and has chosen an intellectual and artistic method
which is none other than that of Swift. Mr Sinclair has gods and a
great subject burning, literally burning, out his heart. And so it
comes about that this pedestrian mass of graceless prose achieves—in
the most fundamental sense—literary values that young intellectuals
seeking cultural modes for our American life can never reach. The book
is a literary achievement of high and solid worth.”
+ − =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 320w
“Dealing in certain facts that we all know to be true, it carries an
impression of verisimilitude, despite elements of sentimentality and
exaggeration. It gives a graphic insight into some of the ugliest
phases of the class struggle.” G. H.
+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:30 Ja ’21 160w
=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Basil Everman. *$1.90 (2½c)
Houghton
20–5404
Basil Everman, who never once appears in person, nevertheless
dominates the entire story. The scene is laid in a small college town,
lying a little north of Mason and Dixon’s line, where “the Civil war
was still the chief topic of discussion among the older men.” The
chief characters (after Basil) are: Richard Lister, son of the
president of Walton college; Richard’s mother who is violently opposed
to the musical career on which he has set his heart; Eleanor Bent, who
has promising literary talent and with whom Richard falls in love; Mrs
Bent, formerly Margie Ginter, an innkeeper’s daughter, who conceals
Eleanor’s parentage from her; Dr Green, a physician; Thomasina Davis,
spinster, who loved Basil Everman; and Mr Utterly of Willard’s
Magazine, who has come across a story, an essay and a poem of Basil’s
so wonderful that they have sent him to Waltonville to learn all he
can about the defunct genius. The story ends happily.
* * * * *
“A good armchair story for people who enjoy this kind of character
study, which is pervaded by kindly humor and gentle satire.”
+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
=Lit D= p87 S 4 ’20 3500w
“Miss Singmaster gives us a warm and charming picture of her little
college town; she catches the external characteristics and harmless
little oddities of her people. But she will not let herself regard
their real lives with a critical eye.”
+ − =Nation= 110:401 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“Carefully and skillfully written, showing a restraint and finish far
removed from the hasty, slipshod performances of so many writers of
contemporary fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 500w
“Told with care and dignity, this novel has the quality we call
distinction.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“A fine piece of work.”
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 80w
“Both in plot and in character delineation Miss Singmaster has been
very successful in this story. ‘Basil Everman’ ought to be one of the
star volumes of the year.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 550w
=SIRÉN, OSVALD.= Essentials in art. il *$3.50 Lane 704
20–20086
The author of this volume is professor of the history of art at the
University of Stockholm and has a world reputation as lecturer on art,
especially primitive Italian art, in other European countries, in
America and Japan. The essays in this volume are: Rhythm and form; Art
and religion; Art and religion during the renaissance; The importance
of the antique to Donatello; A late Gothic poet of line. The last two
essays are profusely illustrated. The poet of line in the last essay
is Parri Spinelli, a list of whose works is appended.
* * * * *
“His book on Leonardo da Vinci is better worth reading than many
others that have been written on that, apparently inexhaustible
subject. But his new volume can hardly be said to satisfy the
expectations that the title might legitimately arouse.” E. M.
+ − =Ath= p836 Je 25 ’20 860w
“Most of the book is objective criticism of the highest order; the
essay on ‘Rhythm and form’ is both penetrating and remarkable.
Professor Sirén understands art—his volume is a distinctive
contribution to aesthetics.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w
“Really touches essentials only in the initial essay on ‘Rhythm and
form,’ in which an important matter is treated with more fulness than
precision or originality. The rest is agreeable padding from the
author’s recent magazine articles. The book is well made, and has the
merit, in a critical work, of being easy to read.”
+ =Review= 3:564 D 8 ’20 90w
“Professor Sirén is a typical modern student, who has travelled much,
and has first-hand knowledge of many arts. In his more purely
historical essays he does not, in the pursuit of facts, lose sight of
underlying principles. The essay ‘On the importance of the antique to
Donatello’ is actually marred by a too careless treatment of material
facts, and by a strange misconception of the character of Gothic art.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:97 Jl 31 ’19 1200w
“We welcome Professor Sirén’s collection of essays, for, although they
contain nothing that is very fresh in point of view, they breathe a
reasonable spirit, and state the modern position with moderation and
sense.”
+ − =Spec= 124:620 My 8 ’20 520w
“With the subject of line-drawing and rhythm, he is especially happy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 360w
“He is not a lively writer, at least in our language; and his thought
is so abstract that, dealing as it does with a subject so concrete and
particular as art, it is often hard to follow. He is, by the present
condition of aesthetic thought, forced to use a number of general
terms without defining them; we ourselves have to supply the
definition as we read, and we may supply it wrong; but those who are
really interested in the subject will find his essay [Rhythm and form]
worth reading.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p211 Ap 1 ’20 1750w
=SITWELL, OSBERT.= Argonaut and juggernaut. *$1.50 Knopf 821
20–3704
This volume by one of the young soldier-poets of Great Britain opens
with a preface poem “How shall we rise to greet the dawn?” written in
November, 1918. The four parts of the volume are entitled: The
Phœnix-feasters; Green-fly; Promenades; and War poems. In the war
poems satire predominates.
* * * * *
“Poems by one of the more notable exponents of the modern manner, who
seems as yet to be uncertain both of his aim and method.”
+ − =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 80w
“Some will applaud Mr Sitwell’s political sentiments; others, when
they read such things as ‘Sheep song,’ will be profoundly irritated.
The intensity of their irritation will be the measure of Mr Sitwell’s
success as a writer of satire. When we turn from Mr Sitwell’s
satirical to what we may be permitted to call his ‘poetical’ poems, we
are less certain in our appreciation and enjoyment.”
+ − =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 600w
“Mr Sitwell is thought by many, and doubtless considers himself, to be
extremely wild and daring, when in reality he is merely a bad rider of
his hobby. The only pieces in this volume in which he betrays genuine
feeling are some of the vers libre efforts written in protest against
the attitude of society towards the war.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 360w
“As a satirist, and he is nothing if not a satirist, he never is
vivid; he nowhere bites or breaks. His abuse is oratorical in its
plenitude, oratorical and round and blunt. He by no means has mastered
the indirectness, the cut, the slant, the side-sweep, the poetry of
satire.” M. V. D.
− =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w
“He is moved to write by unbelief in the ideals of other people rather
than by the passionate force of ideals of his own. He is a sceptic,
not a sufferer. His work proceeds less from his heart, than from his
brain. It is a clever brain, however, and his satirical poems are
harshly entertaining and will infuriate the right people. They may not
kill Goliath, but at least they will annoy Goliath’s friends.” Robert
Lynd
+ − =Nation [London]= 26:352 D 6 ’19 650w
“Mr Sitwell’s impressive title is about the only impressive thing in
his book.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 380w
+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 300w
“There are passages in these pages which show that Mr Sitwell has
embryonic poetic talent that may develop significantly, if he can get
far enough away from the disturbing moods and reflections of war to
give it free rein. He has the love of nature that is the poet’s best
teacher. In ‘Argonaut and juggernaut’ Mr Sitwell is primarily not a
poet, but a prophet. And his prophecy is full of flaming indignation
and scorn.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 1000w
“When Captain Sitwell is not occupied with telling home truths he
discloses an imaginative mind and a subtle sense of the value of
words. Nor can his word-pictures fairly be criticised as rhetorical;
each embodies an unobtrusive idea. Thus his ‘Sailor-song’ expresses
with Elizabethan freshness the Elizabethan delight in the wonders of
ocean and the life marvellous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 280w
=SKELTON, OSCAR DOUGLAS.= Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern
neighbor. (Chronicles of America ser.) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 971
20–3361
“Volume forty-nine of the series is about ‘The Canadian Dominion’ and
is by Oscar D. Skelton, professor of political science at Queen’s
university. The book takes up the story of Canada from where it was
left off by G. M. Wrong in ‘The conquest of New France’ at about 1760
and continues it to Canada’s entry into the great war.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The limitations are insignificant in comparison with the high
intrinsic merit of the whole book. Its delightful literary form,
together with its accuracy and suggestiveness, make it both the most
readable and the most valuable of the general histories of the
Canadian Dominion. The volume, in short, is a credit to Canadian
scholarship.” C. D. Allin
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:350 Ja ’21 620w
“While thoroughly Canadian and more intensely patriotic than the
self-styled scientific historians may favor, Mr Skelton is broad
visioned, never provincial. To write impartially of Quebec
Nationalists and Ontario Orangemen and of the language and separate
school questions, required the restraint of a scholar.”
+ =Cath World= 112:392 D ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 52:223 Ag ’20 40w
=SKILLMAN, WILLIS ROWLAND.= A. E. F. who they were, what they did, how
they did it. il *$2 Jacobs 940.373
20–7445
“We all have hobbies,” says the author, and his is the collection of
facts and figures. From his habit of noting down “bits of information
about army organization, divisions, insignia, casualties, dates,
awards of medals, and a dozen other subjects of interest to soldiers”
(Foreword) grew this book, and its object is to “explain, in terms any
civilian can understand, the system by which the American army
accomplished its work in France.” Among its distinctive features are
statistical tables, maps, charts, diagrams, collar insignia, officer’s
insignia, chevrons and a large colored chart of the shoulder insignia
of the United States army. The table of contents is: A soldier’s
survey of the world war; America’s part in the world war; System of
command; The American divisions; The branches of the service; Army
honors and symbols; Reminiscences; Appendix; Index.
=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Child’s book
of modern stories. il *$3.50 Duffield
20–15344
Sixty-six stories by such authors as Louisa M. Alcott, Julia Darrow
Cowles, Abbie Farwell Brown, Josephine Scribner Gates, Mary Stewart,
Patten Beard, Thornton Burgess, and others. They are grouped as: Home
tales; The story garden; Cheerful stories; and Tales and legends
beautiful. There are eight pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20
“Filled with seventy or more of the best short stories for children
that have been written in recent years.”
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 100w
“The stories have been edited with tact and put into a style easy of
comprehension by the simplest minds.”
+ =Lit D= p95 D 4 ’20 240w
“The pictures are characteristically charming.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 40w
=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. and eds.
Garnet story book. (Jewel ser.) *$1.75 (3c) Duffield
20–3194
For this collection the compilers have brought together “tales of
cheer both old and new.” The collection opens with The good-natured
bear, by Richard H. Horne, a story praised by Thackeray. The other
stories are: Christmas wishes, by Louise Chollet; The man of snow, by
Harriet Myrtle; Butterwops, by Edward A. Parry; Finikin and his golden
pippins, by Madame De Chatelaine; The story of Fairyfoot, by Frances
Browne; The snow-queen, by Hans Christian Andersen; The merry tale of
the king and the cobbler, from Gammer Gurton’s Historie; The story of
Merrymind, by Frances Browne.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 170w
=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= Adventurers of Oregon; a chronicle of the
fur trade. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Tale
univ. press 979.5
20–4768
“Constance Lindsay Skinner’s ‘Adventurers of Oregon’ describes the
Lewis and Clark expedition and the cruise of the Tonquin, through
which John Jacob Astor hoped to ‘control a mighty fur-trading system
reaching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific ocean and on to China and
India.’” (N Y Times) “The titles are: The river of the West; Lewis and
Clark; The reign of the trapper; The Tonquin; Astor’s overlanders;
Astoria under the Nor’westers, and The king of old Oregon. The period
covered is from the beginnings of exploration to the settlement of the
Oregon boundary dispute in 1846, and the themes represented by the
above chapter-heads are essentially two—discovery and exploration, and
the fur-trade.” (Am Hist R)
* * * * *
“This book is a delight. The author treats the dramatic scenes and
incidents in the background of Oregon’s history, achieving therein a
wholly unusual degree of literary perfection. Thus she has produced a
narrative which, for adult readers, deserves to take very high rank in
its special field.” Joseph Schafer
+ =Am Hist R= 26:117 O ’20 650w
“Occasionally it would seem that the effort to maintain a swiftly
moving narrative has betrayed the author into sacrificing clarity. As
a ‘Chronicle of the fur trade’ this work fulfills the purpose of the
editors of the series in presenting an interesting account of a
romantic phase of American development; historical perspective appears
to have suffered in ‘Adventurers of Oregon.’” L. B. Shippee
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:171 S ’20 660w
“The book has the true pioneering tang.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w
=SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE, and SKINNER, ADA MARIA.= Children’s plays. il
*$1.25 Appleton 812
19–1207
The authors urge the use of dramatic material in school work and have
designed these plays to that end. They say “The little plays in this
book, planned primarily for class room reading lessons, may be used
(1) for practice in oral reading, (2) for original dramatizations in
language work, (3) for school entertainments.” Some of the plays are
original, others are adaptations. Contents: Nick Bluster’s trick;
Cicely and the bears; The happy beggar; Professor Frog’s lecture;
Cock-Alu and Hen-Alie; Mother Autumn and North Wind; The one-eyed
servant; Little rebels; Everyday gold; The village shoe maker; The
faithful shepherd; A royal toy-mender; The new New year. There are
pictures by Willy Pogany.
* * * * *
“The simple, natural dialogue of these thirteen plays makes them
excellent for reading and acting or for exercises in language work.”
+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
=St Louis= 17:312 O ’19 50w
=SLATER, THOMAS.= Foundation of true morality. *$1.25 (9c) Benziger 171
20–12834
The author holds that man is not a mere physical machine but a moral
agent, endowed with freedom to choose between good and evil. What is
needed is a moral standard by which man can judge their actions. That
this standard can be supplied by the Catholic conception of Christian
morality rather than by the Protestant conception is the contention of
the book. Contents: Man a moral agent; Legalism; Casuistry; Counsels
and precepts; Sin; Grace.
=SLATTERY, JOHN T.= Dante. *$2 Kenedy 851
A course of lectures delivered before the student body of the New York
state college for teachers in 1919 and 1920. The author treats of
Dante as “Christianity’s greatest poet” and adopts for him Ruskin’s
descriptive phrase “the central man of all the world.” There are five
lectures: Dante and his time; Dante, the man; Dante’s “Inferno”;
Dante’s “Purgatorio”; Dante’s “Paradiso.” There is a preface by John
H. Finley.
=SLATTERY, MARGARET.=[2] Highway to leadership. *$1.50 Pilgrim press 174
20–19286
In a series of essays the author expounds all the qualities necessary
for leadership and incidentally the necessity of leadership. In the
first essay: “A leader—one who leads,” the illustrations of born
leadership are taken from children’s playgrounds with the conclusion
that the requirements are three: “some knowledge and the hunger for
more, an abandon of self-effacing consecration to the purpose, and a
real passion for the goal.” The other essays are: The eyes that see;
The ears that hear; The heart that feels; The mind that interprets;
The practice that prepares; The courage that faces facts; The patience
that teaches; The will that persists; The confidence that dares dream.
* * * * *
“In the clear convincing style which is usual with her, Miss Slattery
gives the world another of her inspiring volumes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 180w
=SLOANE, THOMAS O’CONOR.= Standard electrical dictionary; a complete
manual of the science; with addition by Prof. A. E. Watson. il *$5
Henley 621.3
20–12131
To this 1920 edition a second part has been added to the first. “In
this part all the recent advances in appliances, new developments and
refinements in theory have been very fully treated. The second part
includes a series of short treatises on a multitude of topics which
have arisen in the short period since the last enlarged edition
appeared. There are also a large number of what may be properly termed
definitions, which are required because of the increased terminology
of the science.” (Preface) The new section comprises 175 pages of text
with new illustrations and diagrams.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w
=SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN.= Balkans; a laboratory of history. 4th ed,
rev and enl *$2.50 Abingdon press 949.6
20–14471
“The first edition of this work was issued a few months before the
outbreak of the world war. Beginning with the fall of the Byzantine
empire, the history of this section of Europe, where the blood of so
many races have mingled that the author considers it an ethnological
museum, the history is followed down to the opening of the year 1914.
To make his story of the Balkans complete it was necessary for the
author to revise it in the light of the last six years. Seven new
chapters have been added. They make a concise and very broad sketch of
the events leading up to the war, of the war, and of events up to and
including the peace conference.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The author transforms his pre-war volume so that it becomes one of
the best books on the war that we have.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 880w
=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w
“In this difficult work he well maintains his reputation for fairness
and impartiality as an historian.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 70w
=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Easy lessons in Einstein. il *$1.35 Harcourt
530.1
20–8295
“A discussion of the more intelligible features of the theory of
relativity.” (Sub-title) Dr Slosson, literary editor of the
Independent, has attempted a simple explanation of the Einstein
theories, making use of “such crude and absurd analogies as trains and
elevators and projectiles flying through space and Coney island
mirrors.” A paper by Dr Einstein on Time, space, and gravitation is
reprinted from the London Times, and there is a bibliography of eight
pages and an index. Parts of the book have appeared in the
Independent.
* * * * *
“He is to be congratulated on the enthusiasm he has brought to what
must have been a difficult and fatiguing performance.”
+ =Ath= p618 N 5 ’20 260w
“The main points of the Einstein theory and the experiments leading to
it are explained in an interesting, informal way so that those not
trained in mathematical physics can grasp them.”
+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
“Slosson’s ‘Easy lessons in Einstein’ is a good attempt written in an
easy style far above the breezy smartness of the Sunday supplements;
it is trustworthy and throughout entertaining, if not always
instructive. There is perhaps too much about the fourth dimension and
somewhat too much striving ‘to loosen up,’ as he puts it, ‘our
conventional ideas of the fixity of time and space.’” R: F. Deimel
+ − =Freeman= 1:422 Jl 14 ’20 1700w
=Ind= 102:371 Je 12 ’20 650w
“A book with which the absolute layman may amuse himself for a few
hours.”
+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 60w
“If the reader will take the time to read this little book only as
fast as he can really understand it—say a few pages at a time, with
intervals of a day or more to let the ideas soak in, or to think them
over—he will find this both stimulating and informing.” B. C. G.
+ =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 500w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 5 ’20 650w
=SMALLWOOD, WILLIAM MARTIN, and others.= Biology for high schools, il
*$1.40 Allyn 570
20–17589
“Specifically the book aims to do six things: (1) To teach the pupil
to see accurately what he looks at and describe exactly what he sees.
(2) To teach him to think clearly and to base his conclusions upon his
facts. (3) To broaden his knowledge of his own body through the study
of the structure and functions of other animals and plants. (4) To
show him by the adaptations of plants and animals how he can adapt
himself to the varying conditions of life. (5) To make him a good
citizen through his knowledge of good food, good health and good
living conditions. (6) To teach him how biology has helped human
progress and welfare.” (Preface) The contents are in four parts:
Animal biology; Plant biology; Human biology; General biology. There
are numerous illustrations and an index.
=SMITH, CHARLES HENRY.=[2] Mennonites. $2.25 Mennonite bk. concern,
Berne, Ind.
289.7
“The volume falls into two parts: the Mennonites in Europe, and in
America. Beginning with the Anabaptists in Switzerland, and the
indigenous movements of a similar character in Germany and the
Netherlands, and their unjust and unwarranted identification by the
authorities with the tragedy at Münster, the book leads to the
systematizing of Anabaptist views by the Dutch ex-priest, Menno
Simons, after whom the religion is named. The early scattered
congregations in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Cleves-Julich, East and
West Prussia, East Friesland, Hamburg, Holstein, Bavaria, Württemberg,
Alsace-Lorraine and France, Moravia and Galicia, and their leaders all
find their place. The story is one of martyrdom, division,
confiscation, dispersion, but of abounding willingness to die for
faith. The source for much of this is Thielman von Bracht’s ‘Martyr’s
mirror,’ one of the monuments of Mennonite literature. The section
devoted to the Mennonites in America is a reworking of Dr Smith’s
earlier treatise on the ‘Mennonites in America.’ The final chapters of
Dr Smith’s study are given over to special topics.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“Dr Smith is to be complimented on the patience and skill which has
enabled him to produce what is undoubtedly the most authoritative work
on the Mennonites in our language. His impartiality in dealing with
the present-day rival branches of the sect is also worthy of
commendation.” E: Krehbiel
+ =Am Hist R= 26:310 Ja ’21 1500w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 80w
=SMITH, CHARLTON LYMAN.= Gus Harvey, the boy skipper of Cape Ann. il
*$1.65 (6c) Jones, Marshall
20–14706
A story for boys. Gus Harvey is a New York boy adopted by the captain
of a fishing vessel from Gloucester. In spite of his New York bringing
up Gus is familiar with boats and he readily adapts himself to the
life of Cape Ann, his new home. He wins a yacht race, learns to build
a boat and with his chum salvages a wreck and captures a band of
burglars. There is a glossary of marine terms.
* * * * *
“Only for the boy who understands sailing and nautical terms. Nicely
printed and illustrated.”
+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20
“The story has the quality of an old skipper’s talk.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w
=SMITH, CORINNA HAVEN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOSEPH LINDON SMITH), and HILL,
CAROLINE R. (MRS WILLIAM HILL).= Rising above the ruins in France. il
*$3.50 Putnam 914.4
20–13141
“Observations in the devastated regions of France, made since the
armistice, by two American women who have devoted themselves
wholeheartedly to the work for ‘the children of the frontier.’ By the
use of pen and camera these women undertake to show us in America
something of the destruction that the north of France has undergone
and something of the brave spirit with which the population has sought
to rebuild its devastated homes.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The authors’ pictures of the re-awakening of life are simply and
impressively sketched.”
+ =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 160w
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
+ =Cath World= 112:693 F ’21 440w
“When they speak of conditions actually witnessed they speak with the
natural authority of sincerity and lucidity. The book takes a
particular value from the large number of photographs with which it is
enriched.”
+ − =Nation= 111:331 S 18 ’20 240w
“There is little of deliberate description, there are few adjectives,
no one incident or visualization is dwelt on long. But the book is a
glimpse of life and indomitable achievement—and that is an epic
thing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 25 ’20 2100w
“It is no small praise of the narrative to say that, while by no means
purely descriptive, it matches the pictures in striking or appealing
presentation of fact.”
+ =No Am= 212:718 N ’20 980w
+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
“This incessant use of the historical present time gives their style
an air of pretentious artifice; their frequent use of direct discourse
gives it an air of fiction. So, except for the pictures and the
appendix, they have succeeded in producing only an effect of
make-believe in confusion.”
− + =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 70w
“It would be misleading to say that this record of wonderful
accomplishment is interesting throughout. Literary interest can hardly
be achieved unless the principle of progression and climax be adhered
to. Mrs Haven Smith, gives us a good many of those human touches which
one always looks for in such a book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p736 N 11 ’20 420w
=SMITH, DAVID.= Life and letters of St Paul. *$6 Doran 220.92
20–9032
“The author’s point of view in this book is well expressed in the
preface: ‘Controversy is a foolish and futile employment; and I have
endeavored to portray St Paul simply as I have perceived him during
long years of loving and delightful study of the sacred memorials of
his life and labor, mentioning the views of others only as they served
to illustrate and confirm my own. And I would fain hope that I have
written nothing discourteous, nothing hurtful.’ One of the most
attractive parts of this volume is the translation of the epistles
into modern English. The text is accompanied by a running exposition
which takes note of the thought and purpose of these rich writings,
and sets them in their historical context in a way that the average
mind can understand. On the other hand, the scholar will find a great
deal of suggestion from the extensive footnotes, which discuss the
deeper questions of Biblical learning on subjects that are not always
familiar even to the general run of scholars.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“The warmth of its style is likely to make it more acceptable as an
aid to devotion than as a contribution to historical research.”
+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 150w
“This detailed, voluminous, and interesting life of Paul is by the
author of ‘In the days of his flesh,’ and bears all the marks of
unwearied scholarship, sympathetic interpretation, and exegetical
insight that we have learned to associate with the name of Dr Smith.”
+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 450w
“Dr Smith has produced a work of genuine literature. He has a lucid
style, a finely poised imagination, deep historical insight, a rich
understanding of religious values, and a full grasp of the profoundest
scholarship. He has thus written a volume that unquestionably takes
rank with the great biographies of recent times. There is not a dull
page.” O. L. Joseph
+ =Bookm= 51:303 My ’20 1200w
=N Y Times= p29 O 17 ’20 80w
“This book is disappointing. The notes indicate that the author
possesses minute scholarship, but the text does not indicate that he
possesses spiritual insight.”
− + =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 130w
+ =Spec= 124:317 Mr 6 ’20 170w
“It is designed for the general reader rather than for the scholar,
and throughout it maintains an allusiveness to general literature and
history which will make it specially attractive to a wide circle of
readers.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Je 3 ’20 700w
=SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY.= Ben Jonson. *$1.25 Macmillan
20–4866
“After many years Ben Jonson has been admitted to the sacred circle of
English men of letters, that series of little critical biographies now
numbering more than sixty names. In Mr Smith’s belated biography we
have in his two opening chapters a recital of about all that is known
of the circumstances of Jonson’s life, the rest of the book being
given to a study of his literary work, with chapters on ‘literary
conscience,’ the comedies, masques, tragedies and poems, and a final
survey of his influence.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 1450w
“Mr Smith, in his entirely laudable anxiety to write unlike Swinburne,
has written the greater part of his book with too much caution. The
biography is all crowded into the first fifty pages and the remaining
two hundred and fifty are left wholly free for criticism: the easiest
arrangement, perhaps, but in this case not the best. It is only in the
last two chapters, those on Jonson’s literary criticism and influence,
that Professor Smith, himself an authority on sixteenth and
seventeenth century poetical theory, comes into his own and does his
author the fullest justice.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 110:206 F 14 ’20 1100w
“The new ‘Ben Jonson’ is generously written, but Mr Gregory Smith has
kept Ben’s secret. It was, of course, impossible to quote much in the
limits of space set by the conditions of the series; the more’s the
pity that it came out in a series at all. The book is too big for it;
it is so rich a harvest that one could wish the master of it had
pulled down his barns and built greater; cancelled his contract, and
made ‘Ben Jonson’ his magnum opus.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:608 Ja 31 ’20 1950w
“Mr Smith is constantly on the defensive; he is often arrogant and
peevish in his attitude towards other critics. Under his handling
Jonson becomes not only dull but a source of dullness in other men, to
wit in Mr Smith himself.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 23:342 Ag 18 ’20 500w
“Professor Smith has done full justice to Ben’s robust character
without minimizing [his] grave faults. His plays are analysed with
much ability, and their peculiar qualities are admirably explained and
illustrated with reference to the theory upon which they were
constructed. Insight and accuracy are the chief essentials in a short
account of Ben Jonson, and Professor Smith possesses both.”
+ =Spec= 124:279 F 28 ’20 550w
“For the critical study in the Men of letters series which Mr Gregory
Smith has just produced there is a place; it satisfies curiosity, it
supplies many just observations, it provides valuable matter on the
neglected masques; it only fails to remodel the image of Jonson which
is settled in our minds.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 N 13 ’19 2100w
=SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR.= Pagan. *$1.75 Scribner
20–5580
“This is a collection of twelve short stories. In ‘The pagan,’ from
which the book takes its title, there are three outstanding
characters: Ferdinand Taillandy, son of Maxime Taillandy, a wealthy
Parisian; his sister Marthe, and Peter Mason, a young American lawyer
whose firm practiced on both sides of the Atlantic. In the ‘Feet of
gold’ and ‘The end of the road’ the author draws further entertaining
pictures of the same Ferdinand Taillandy—‘poet, pagan and wanderer on
the face of the earth.’ The ‘City of light’ and ‘The bottom of the
cup’ are pathetic tales of two young sisters, daughters of a widow of
Evremont-sur-Seine, who, dazzled by the attractions of Paris, leaves
home, only to return broken and disillusioned. ‘Tropic madness’ is
decidedly humorous.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 700w
=SMITH, HENRY LOUIS.=[2] Your biggest job, school or business. *$1
Appleton 174
20–21351
These heart-to-heart talks with boys contain “Some words of counsel
for red-blooded young Americans who are getting tired of school.”
(Sub-title) The author’s object is to give the boy the necessary
incentive to develop the will-power that will enable him to go thru
with an irksome task for the sake of his future. The essays are: The
American freight train; Quitting school for business; Grindstones: A
study in tool-sharpening; A neglected art; The key to success in
study; A widespread fallacy disproved; On getting rich; The cash value
of book-learning; First lesson of the world war: Value of morale; A
square deal for the home folks; College and university training; The
home half of college preparation.
=SMITH, HERBERT ARTHUR.=[2] American Supreme court as an international
tribunal. *$3.50 Oxford 341.6
20–16853
“This small volume essays to draw an analogy between the Supreme court
of the United States, when sitting as a tribunal to try cases
involving sovereign states, and any international court that may
hereafter be established for such purpose. The author reviews the
various cases before the Supreme court in which one or both of the
litigants have been states of the union, stressing those cases in
which the jurisdiction of the court has been challenged, either
successfully or otherwise.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 180w
“Professor Herbert Smith has compiled a very useful book, deserving
close study at the present time.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 O 7 ’20 650w
=SMITH, JUSTIN HARVEY.= War with Mexico. 2v *$10 Macmillan 973.6
19–19605
“This exhaustive historical work may be regarded—although the author
does not so claim—as a sequel to his previous work, ‘The annexation of
Texas.’ Professor Smith devotes two opening chapters to the
consideration of the social, economic and political condition of
Mexico and the Mexicans, both before and since the revolt from Spanish
rule, which made it an independent state under the rule of Iturbide.
Next are considered the relations between Mexico and the United States
prior to the beginning of the war and the attitude of both powers on
the eve of war. The second volume is devoted chiefly to a description
of the war itself, the siege of Chapultepec, the capture of the
capital city, the naval operations and the final victory and the
signing of a treaty. Professor Smith has sought his material for this
exhaustive history in public documents and records of the two
governments, in collections of historical societies, and public and
private libraries, in manuscripts public and private ... and in
personal recollections of men still living, who took part in the
conflict.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The reviewer is disappointed, because it seems to him that Dr Smith
has not accomplished once for all the results that his immense labor
and impressive grasp of the subject would have enabled him to do had
he written with more regard to the necessary limitations of his
readers. It would be a grievous error, however, to infer that he has
not produced a notable book. One may not always agree with the author,
but very few will be rash enough to neglect him.” E. C. Barker
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:729 Jl ’20 1400w
=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
“This book must be regarded as the definitive work on this important
episode in the history of the expansion of our country.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 1050w
“A thoroughgoing and accurate narrative.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 40w
“Elaborate, but not very plausible.”
+ − =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 70w
“The many engagements before final victory are described with a
particularity which proves the author to have acquired a general
understanding of military matters, with an appreciative grasp of the
technique of the battlefield that make his narrative markedly
convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 1000w
“Professor Smith has labored with a keen eye for the human and
picturesque qualities in his material. At the same time this is
fundamentally the work of a painstaking scholar.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 100w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 180w
“Mr Smith has made a thorough examination of the available material,
and has built it into a monumental work which supersedes all previous
histories of the subject. His treatment of the military part is
admirable. His book is fully documented, and in every way a credit to
the American school of history.”
+ =Spec= 124:869 Je 26 ’20 350w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 70w
“The public is deeply indebted to Prof. Smith, who after years of
patient delving in the vaults of historical societies, in local
archives, in private collections, etc., has produced a scholarly and
well thought-out history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 8 ’20 600w
“The episodes are sufficiently distant to have enabled the passions
and excitements to grow cold and for their comparative importance to
be weighed and allocated in a just position in the history of the
construction of the United States. The materials are adequate, even
abundant, and the author with commendable industry has fortified his
narrative with a wealth of corroborative annotation, and a formidable
bibliography of his subject. He has, moreover, compiled a really
useful index.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Je 3 ’20 950w
=SMITH, LAURA ROUNTREE.= Like-to-do stories. il 55c Beckley-Cardy co.
A book of stories for boys and girls who are just beginning to read
for themselves. Each story has its moral, as some of the titles will
show: The little girl who liked to wash dishes; The little boy who
liked to bring in wood and water; The little girl who couldn’t tell
time; The little boy who was afraid of the dark; The little boy who
liked to hang up his coat and hat; The little girl who did a kindness
every-day.
=SMITH, LEWIS WORTHINGTON, and HATHAWAY, ESSE VIRGINIA.=[2] Skyline in
English literature. il *$2 Appleton 820.9
20–20033
The object of the book is to present the story of English literature
in continuity by eliminating minor details and minor writers and
keeping the attention on the skyline. The authors hold that
territorial expansion and intellectual expansion go together and that
while English-speaking peoples hold the forefront of the world their
literature is the greatest in the world. The book is intended for high
school use and its contents are: The English language and the English
people; The Anglo-Saxon beginning; The Norman-French expansion; The
Englishman’s house in order; The Greco-Italian expansion; The world
expansion; Spiritual and social idealism: the overthrowing of masters;
Spiritual decadence: the return of the masters; The intellectual
expansion; the age of enlightenment; The spiritual expansion; idealism
and the rebirth of song; The beauty and fullness of life; The
industrial expansion; artists, workers, thinkers; Recent and
contemporary writers. There is a list of literary places in England
with map; a chronology, a glossary, an index and illustrations.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 800w
=N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 30w
=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL=, ed. Treasury of English prose. *$1.75 (3c)
Houghton 820.8
20–5686
This collection of extracts from English prose begins with Chaucer in
the fourteenth century. From the sixteenth century there are extracts
from the “Book of common prayer,” from Sir Philip Sidney, Francis
Bacon and William Shakespeare. Beginning in the seventeenth century
with quotations from authorized versions of the Bible, there are,
moreover, such names as Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, John Milton,
Jeremy Taylor, and on through the eighteenth century, Swift, Addison,
Johnson, Burke and Gibbon. Some of the more modern writers presented
are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Shelley, Keats,
Carlyle, Emerson, Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry James, George Bernard
Shaw, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Not absolutely representative but includes some charming and
little-known prose gems by several famous poets.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
“Mr Smith has let his ear preside at every choosing, so that his
volume is as rigorously cadenced as a collection of sonnets would be.
Here with some omissions is the most perfect music which English prose
has made.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 100w
“What Mr Pearsall Smith holds to be good prose is to us only a kind of
good prose; the kind that is alembicated and, as we say, poetical. It
is the prose of conceit, imagery, and eloquence which stands over
against the prose of narration, argument, or satire. So that it would
strike even one who had no critical opinion of English prose and very
little reading in it as somewhat strange that there is not one single
piece of narrative in all this book.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 26:398 D 13 ’19 2500w
“The contents are charmingly arranged and delightfully savory and
brief.”
+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 100w
“His treasury is a book of beauty, a book to keep at one’s bed’s head,
a book to dip into, to travel with, to reread.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 22:253 Ap 21 ’20 1500w
“The anthology as it stands is now anything but representative.... The
selections from the Bible are entirely admirable. The passages from
Jeremy Taylor and Dr Donne are excellently chosen, and Mr Pearsall
Smith is to be congratulated upon his phrase from Traherne and upon
having recollected that Chaucer was not only the first English poet.
Indeed, much of the prose written by poets in this book will delight
and surprise most of Mr Pearsall Smith’s readers.”
+ − =Spec= 124:50 Ja 10 ’20 1000w
=SMITH, MABELL SHIPPIE (CLARKE) (MRS JAMES RAVENEL SMITH).=[2] Maid of
Orleans. *$1.25 Crowell
19–15636
“M. S. C. Smith has published a new volume of the old story of ‘The
maid of Orleans,’ written particularly for girls, but by no means
confined to such a constituency. To the length of nearly 300 pages the
author relates the story of the girl and the voices that guided her in
her efforts to free France from a foreign foe and set her rightful
sovereign upon the throne.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A commendable piece of work.”
+ =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 120w
+ =Outlook= 124:28 Ja 7 ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 N 30 ’19 180w
=SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD.= Christmas child, and other verse for children.
il *$1.75 Houghton 811
20–19659
Verses for children reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Outlook,
Youth’s Companion and other periodicals, including school and
educational journals. There are about twenty poems on Christmas themes
followed by others, with such titles as The fairy ring; Everybody’s
baby; The answer of the flag; Learning to knit; Easter blossoms; The
doll’s calendar.
* * * * *
“Miss Smith has the gift of sprightly versification, and her
experience as a kindergartner leads her to a knowledge of the theme
and the treatment that will please boys and girls.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 100w
=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Casting tackle and methods. il *$3 (4½c) Stewart
& Kidd 799
20–16779
Part 1, which is devoted to tackle, has chapters on The bait casting
rod; The casting reel; Terminal tackle; Casting lures; Housing the
tackle; Repair kits and methods. Part 2, on Methods, has nine
chapters: A first lesson in casting; Landing tools and how to use
them; Fishing a wadeable stream; Fishing a river from a boat; Shore
casting; Casting after dark; Lake casting from a boat; Spoons and how
to cast them; Trolling for bass. There are fourteen illustrations. The
author is angling editor of Outdoor Life, in the pages of which the
chapters of the book originally appeared. He is also author of “Trout
lore.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
“A free and easy book full of authentic information given with the
jocular assurance of the long-experienced angler.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 140w
“It is good reading; but it is meant primarily to be a guide to
catching bass by casting, and such it excellently is. That it is well
and heartily written is an added virtue.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w
=SMITH, WILLIAM WESLEY.= Pork-production. il *$3 Macmillan 636.4
20–12385
This volume of the Rural science series has been prepared by an
associate professor of animal husbandry in Purdue university. “The
material in the book has been drawn from three sources: from practical
experience; experimental studies, particularly of feeding questions;
and the results of research in the field of chemistry and biology.”
(Preface) Subjects covered include handling and feeding of the herd,
size of litters, forage crops, cereals, corn substitutes, cost of
producing pork, marketing, judging, breeds and breeding. A chapter on
The prevention of hog diseases is contributed by R. A. Craig. The
volume is illustrated with eight plates and is indexed.
* * * * *
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 50w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 60w
=SMYTH, ETHEL MARY.= Impressions that remained. 2v il *$10.50 Longmans
20–3070
Miss Ethel Smyth is an English musician and composer. In this book of
memories she writes of her childhood and girlhood in a typical
Victorian household and of her musical life in Germany, more
particularly in Leipsig where she went as a student in 1877. The story
of her friendship with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg adds a dramatic
element to the book.
* * * * *
“Relentlessly truthful about herself, she refuses to say anything that
could hurt others who still live. Her autobiography ends almost before
her artistic career began; but even so it is a wonderfully fascinating
record of a fierce, passionate and courageous life, told from the
point of view of a woman who has reached a plane of rare serenity and
detachment.” E: J. Dent
+ =Ath= p1294 D 5 ’19 1900w
“This book is a rich and irresistibly vivid panorama. The reader has
the pleasure of it that he has of a portrait gallery whose subjects,
interesting in themselves, are delineated with comprehension and an
unerring instinct of reproduction.” Pitts Sanborn
+ =Dial= 68:637 My ’20 3300w
“No one can fail to be drawn by the record of that vanished Germany.
The psychologist will study these fascinating pages for data of the
artistic temperament, its force, its egotism, its limitations, of
which it is not itself aware. But no one who begins the book can lay
it aside until he reaches the end.”
+ =Review= 2:182 F 21 ’20 950w
“Of the earlier part we can say little. Despite the fact that the
author has a nice turn for observation, an easy style, and a good
memory, we feel that much of the material is of too private a nature.
It is when the author goes to Germany that the chief interest in the
book begins.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:sup14 N 29 ’19 900w
“She writes of herself for the most part as if she were writing of
another person, with a detachment that is almost uncanny. And although
music naturally plays a large part in the narrative, these memoirs can
be read with the keenest interest by those to whom music is a sealed
book.”
+ =Spec= 124:247 Ja 10 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 4 ’20 1600w (Reprinted from Ath
and Observer [London])
“This is one of the most remarkable books of memoirs that has appeared
in recent times. The intensity of the private life which she
discloses, with something of Rousseau’s sensitiveness yet with a
mixture of lively humour quite beyond his capacity, carries the reader
away from the very outset. Without the descent into the abyss of the
second volume there would have been matter enough for admiration in
these witty pages; but it is that descent which gives the book a power
of appeal which raises it far above the merely amusing and
interesting.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 O 23 ’19 2350w
=SMYTHE, J. A.=[2] Lead, including lead pigments and the desilverisation
of lead. il $1 Pitman 669.4
The author of this booklet in the Pitman’s common commodities and
industries series assumes very little knowledge of chemistry and
physics on the part of the reader and tells the story of lead from the
time the ore is dug from the earth to its finished products. Contents:
History of lead; Lead ores: their method of occurrence and mineral
associates; The finding and mining of lead ore and the preparation of
the ore for smelting; The chemical changes involved in smelting;
Smelting in the ore-hearth; Smelting in the reverberatory furnace;
Smelting in the blast furnace; Condensation of lead fume; Softening
and desilverisation of work lead; Cupellation of alloys of silver and
lead; Properties and uses of lead and its alloys; Compounds of
lead—litharge and red lead; White lead and other lead pigments; Lead
in medicine and lead poisoning; Index, map and illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Nature= 106:241 O 21 ’20 70w
=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= Adventurous lady. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–15066
Lady Elfreda Catkin was something of an imperious young lady. Her
parents, owing to Lord Carabbas’, the father’s, impecuniosity, had
decided on a wealthy marriage for her with the newly rich, new
nobility. Lady Elfreda had decided on frustrating their plans. On the
spur of a moment opportunity offers for an exchange of rôles between
her and a poor shy little nursery governess. After a true comedy of
errors the hoax comes to light with the result that little Miss Cass
marries Lord Duckingfield and the now thoroughly emancipated Elfreda
marries George Norris, grandson of the former butler of her ladyship’s
grandfather and of a former ladies’ maid.
* * * * *
“The adventures are very little adventures and dreadfully dull.” K. M.
− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 240w
“Gay, crisp comedy shot through with a thread of genial satire.”
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“The adventures of Girlie Cass may not be morally significant to a
universe in the throes of parturition, but they surely are jolly good
fun, as Elfreda would say.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 1 ’20 520w
=Lit D= p95 O 23 ’20 1400w
“‘The adventurous lady’ is perhaps more nearly akin to the history of
the delectable Araminta than to any other of Mr Snaith’s books—a
social comedy, witty and amusing, light and sparkling as sunflecked
foam. All this it is, and yet more—an admirable illustration of what a
really good writer can do with a well-worn and somewhat trite plot.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 850w
“The tale is mildly amusing, but it is a pity that the author of ‘The
sailor’ should think it worth while to write such a trifling farce.”
− + =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 50w
Reviewed by Katharine Perry
=Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 290w
=Spec= 126:24 Ja 1 ’21 40w
“The story is obviously at variance with the class of work Mr Snaith
has done heretofore. It is a sprightly tale, written to amuse.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 400w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p705 O 28 ’20 140w
=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Truth about Christian science; the founder and
the faith. $2.40 Presbyterian bd. 289.5
21–397
It is the object of the book to ascertain and state, as accurately and
impartially and fairly as possible, the facts as to the founder and
the faith of Christian science and to discriminate between the truth
and error of the system. That it contains both is the author’s
conviction. Contents: The subsoil of Christian science; Life of Mrs
Mary Baker G. Eddy; Where did Mrs Eddy get her system of healing?
“Science and health”: (1) the making of the book; (2) the contents of
the book; Christian science teaching; The Christian science church;
Mind healing and Christian science cures; The appeal of Christian
science; Old truths newly emphasized; Index.
* * * * *
“‘The truth about Christian science’ is for the layman. It may be
heartily recommended.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 340w
“He has put together a very readable and useful account of the
movement, together with a lucid examination of its doctrines, from the
standpoint of an orthodox Christian theologist.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 300w
=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Wonderful night. *$1.25 Macmillan 232
19–18544
“Egyptian history, old Greek and Roman, Persian, Phœnician, early
Jewish, historic and prehistoric; all were preparation for the coming
of Christ. Then came the first Christmas, the wonderful night. The
writer of this version has undertaken to reconcile religion and
science, to show that all thinking men could but have expected the
thing which came to pass. It is an attempt to correlate the Christian
story with ancient and modern history.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 600w
“If it must be done it could not be done in a more finished manner,
with more attractive illustrations and illuminations.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 220w
=SODDY, FREDERICK.= Science and life. *$4 Dutton 504
(Eng ed 20–12133)
“Among the investigators of radioactive substances Professor Frederick
Soddy shares with possibly half a dozen men a position of preeminence.
To the general public he is best known through his readable little
book on ‘Matter and energy’ in the Home university library.” (Freeman)
‘Science, and life’ is the outcome of Professor Soddy’s five years’
tenure of the chair of chemistry at Aberdeen; and the addresses,
together with articles here collected with them, are devoted to two
main themes—the vast significance and importance of radioactivity, and
the need of more and better science teaching in school and university.
The Evolution of matter is the subject of one of the chapters
reprinted from the Aberdeen University Review. In appendices Professor
Soddy criticizes the financial operations of the Carnegie trust for
the universities of Scotland.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“It is surely a great merit in Mr Soddy’s book that it awakens in us
once more the feeling of adventure.... Being brought back to
realities, and finding that they are purely ‘material,’ we can
discover hope of essential change only in a profound alteration in the
material basis of life. Mr Soddy’s book is exciting because this is
exactly what he promises.” J. W. N. S.
+ =Ath= p301 Mr 5 ’20 900w
“The book is of special interest to men of science, because it brings
out their immense burden of responsibility. The chapters on
radioactivity are beautifully written, and, coming from Prof. Soddy,
are authoritative.” Ellwood Hendrick
+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:545 S 15 ’20 680w
“Given his lack of metaphysical subtlety, Professor Soddy can not be
expected to say anything particularly new or enlightening on the
relation of religion and science. Indeed, the essay devoted to that
theme is singularly pointless. On the other hand, Dr Soddy is
refreshingly clear and sound in his discussions of the relation of
science and democracy.” R. H. Lowie
+ − =Freeman= 2:20 S 15 ’20 1000w
=Int J Ethics= 31:114 O ’20 260w
“The whole story [of research in radio-activity] is told in a
condensed form in several of the essays in this volume, and it could
not be told better. Those who are interested in such subjects should
obtain the book and read it.” W. A. T.
+ =Nature= 105:1 Mr 4 ’20 1550w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p65 Jl ’20 150w
=Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 290w
“Professor Soddy, in urging the claims of the present and the future,
seems unduly contemptuous of the past. He should leave it to
undergraduates to make a bonfire of the ancient humanities, and should
remember that the study of the past serves to guide the present and
interpret the future.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:500 My 29 ’20 1150w
“Specially interesting to those who wish to know what light has been
thrown upon the inmost secrets of matter in the last few years are the
three papers entitled ‘Science and life,’ ‘The evolution of matter,’
and ‘The conception of the chemical element as enlarged by the study
of radioactive change.’”
+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 1050w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 90w
=SOME= British ballads.[2] il *$5 Dodd 821.08
(Eng ed 20–8033)
“Although this charming collection is entitled ‘British ballads,’ most
of them are Scotch, but are none the worse for that. Indeed, we
suppose it may be truly said that the best ballads are those of
Scotland. There are here such old favourites as The lass of Lochroyan,
Young Bekie, Chevy Chase, The twa corbies, Binnorie, and Get up and
bar the door. There are eleven illustrations in colour by Arthur
Rackham.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“Everybody knows the drawings in color with which Mr Rackham is wont
to embellish the classics. This new volume is, if possible, more
exquisite than those preceding. It is all that heart could wish.”
Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 160w
“It may be that when parents see Rackham’s dramatic picturing of the
ballad of ‘The twa corbies,’ they will have some misgivings as to its
suitability for young folks. For boys and girls of fourteen there is
much to be missed, if ‘Chevy Chase,’ and ‘The duke of Gordon’s
daughter,’ and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ are passed by because of nerves or
the difficulties of dialect. Rackham is always decorative, delicate,
and dramatic.”
+ − =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 190w
“It is hard to decide which is the more attractive feature of this
book—Mr Rackham’s paintings or the ballads themselves.”
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 500w
=Sat R= 128:615 D 27 ’19 70w
=SOMERVILLE, EDITH ANNA ŒNONE, and MARTIN, VIOLET FLORENCE (MARTIN ROSS,
pseud.).= Mount Music. *$2 (*7s 6d) Longmans
20–2644
“‘Mount Music’ is a tale of Ireland in transition, beginning in the
late ‘eighties’ and ending early in this century. The years in which
the action takes place mark the passing of the old régime, incarnate
in the person of Major Richard Talbot-Lowry, a genial, improvident,
dashing, and artless sportsman. And the situation is complicated for
him by the fact that his estate marches with that of a young kinsman,
a Roman Catholic and a home ruler, the playmate, and in time the
lover, of Dick’s daughter Christian. Larry Coppinger, the young home
ruler, was ‘in tune with all the world’; and if Christian yielded to
the wishes of her father when he was broken in health, she had
personally no fear of a mixed marriage. They are both attractive and
generous young people, but the finest portrait is that of Francis
Mangan, the ‘big doctor like an elephant in his hugeness and
suppleness, his dangerousness and his gentleness.’ His relations to
his father confessor and his family, his social ambitions and real
benevolence, make a wonderful amalgam.”—Spec
* * * * *
“An Irish story, charming and wise and hard to classify because it is
such a real book.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 20w
“Her Irish characters are every whit as entertaining, and presumably
as truthful as those of Mr Birmingham himself. There are none of the
stereotyped good and evil persons of modern fiction here. Everyone is
taken as he or she is, and Miss Somerville wastes no valuable time in
moralizing over the foibles of her characters. A good story,
excellently told.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 500w
“It is hard—nay, it is impossible—for an alien to write
sympathetically or truthfully of things Catholic, especially if there
be question of Catholic Ireland.”
− =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 150w
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w
“Alike in description, characterization, and dialogue preserves that
unerring felicity of phrase, wide range of sympathy, and intrepid
humour which were first exhibited in ‘An Irish cousin.’”
+ =Spec= 123:898 D 27 ’19 700w
“The authors have written many pleasanter books and many that will be
more popular, but their genius has never been more unmistakable than
in this picture of the ‘big doctor,’ so sordid and vulgar and crafty
and with something so big in him.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 1100w
=SONNICHSEN, ALBERT.= Consumers’ coöperation. *$1.75 Macmillan 334
19–16460
“John Graham Brooks gives a brief introduction to this volume. The
author gives a brief review of the history and explanation of the
cooperative movement, developed extensively throughout Europe during
the war and now being adopted to some extent in the United States,
especially in the middle western and western sections. He asserts it
to be the alternative, not an antidote, to bolshevism. The growing
importance of the procedure is illustrated by statistics. Its object,
the author shows, is to reorganize industry on a collective basis from
the point of view of the consumer; to create a consumers’ industrial
democracy. He points out that it proceeds by action, rather than by
talk.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The value of the book consists in its giving the most adequate
exposition of consumers’ coöperation yet given in this country,—a
comprehensive story of the movement, the fullest in later years, and
interesting suggestions as to future achievement.” E. P. Harris
+ =Am Econ R= 10:169 Mr ’20 450w
“The book is well written and is a clear exposition of consumer’s
co-operation.” L. E. Hagerty
+ =Am J Soc= 26:371 N ’20 360w
“Students of the coöperative movement will find some useful
information, lucidly set forth.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:363 My ’20 70w
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“Informing and of general interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 30 ’20 450w
“Of singular interest in this book is the full description which it
gives of the history of cooperation in the United States and its
present status. We cannot, however, agree with the author in his
interpretation of success and failure even though we take his
statements of fact as accurate.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 80w
=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Letters; with a chapter of biography. *$5
Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–13569)
“It has been said that the death, in action, of Charles Hamilton
Sorley constituted the greatest loss of the war to English literature.
There may be some, perhaps, who will hardly commit themselves to this;
but none will be so foolish as to deny that more than sufficient
interest in his personality was kindled by the publication, in 1916,
of his ‘Marlborough and other poems’ to justify the present appearance
of this volume. These letters, edited by his parents with admirable
restraint, form an invaluable commentary on the poems themselves. The
letters really divide themselves into three groups: those written
while at school at Marlborough; those while staying (and studying) in
Germany, first at Shwerin in Mecklenburg and then at the University of
Jena; and, lastly, those while in the army at home and in France.”—Sat
R
* * * * *
“We do not receive many such gifts as this wonderful book; the
authentic voice of those lost legions is seldom heard.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p136 Ja 30 ’20 2500w
“His published book of poems is not alone evidence of his literary
ability. His letters reveal exceptional powers and proclaim the man
that might have been.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“One approaches them prepared to find little beyond promise—a hint of
something fine cut down before fulfillment; they turn out to be very
much more than mere promise; they are in themselves achievement, the
expression of a rarely independent mind, humorous, rich and wise far
beyond its years.” R. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:231 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“Charles Sorley was a born letter-writer. As we read we feel ourselves
to be wandering pleasantly among the green places of earth, with a
brilliantly discursive boy at our side.”
+ =Sat R= 129:281 Mr 20 ’20 1000w
“They necessarily lose something of freshness and vividness when they
are put together in a book, but they are full of amusing phrases and
interesting comments.”
+ =Spec= 124:351 Mr 13 ’20 1400w
“Quite apart from any sentimental associations, it is a more
entertaining book than the average, and it has been edited by
Professor and Mrs Sorley with a perfect restraint which has been sadly
lacking in certain other books of this kind.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p726 D 11 ’19 1050w
=SOTHERN, JOHN WILLIAM MAJOR.=[2] Oil fuel burning in marine practice.
il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.12
“A manual of practical instruction in oil fuel burning: contains full
and copiously illustrated descriptions of all modern oil fuel burning
systems, together with exhaustive practical information relating to
same; intended for the use of naval and mercantile marine engineer
officers, etc.” (Sub-title) The book is in six sections; The
properties and combustion of fuel oil; Fuel oil tests; Description of
oil fuel fittings; Pressure systems of oil fuel burning; Faults in oil
fuel burning; General notes on oil fuel burning. There are 102
diagrams and other illustrations. The author is principal of Sothern’s
Marine engineering college, Glasgow, and member of the Institute of
marine engineers, London, and of other engineering societies.
=SOUTHARD, ELMER ERNEST.= Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric
problems. (Case history ser. Boston State hospital, Psychopathic dept.)
il $10 Leonard 616.8
20–2508
“A comprehensive volume setting forth the conclusions of medical
experts in a field which has recently undergone remarkable development
is Dr E. E. Southard’s ‘Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric
problems.’ The data are presented in 589 case histories from the war
literature—largely French and German—of the years 1914–1918, from
these data Dr Southard draws about 70 pages of conclusions. The book
has a bibliography by Dr Norman Fenton and an introduction by Prof.
Charles K. Mills of the University of Pennsylvania.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 130w
“Primarily of value to physicians and army surgeons, the book is
interesting even to the layman in its dramatic accounts of the
soldiers who were victims of shell-shock.”
+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 110w
“Dr Southard presents his ideas not only with the thoroughness of the
medical expert and scholar but with a certain humor and pungency,
general literary culture and full appreciation of the relations of the
subject to military service, and, incidentally, to everyday life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 350w
“The book will stand as a monument to a man of many talents. Southard
the scholar would not object to the statement that his book is as much
a part of history as of medicine.” A. Myerson, M. D.
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 190w
=SPADONI, ADRIANA.= Swing of the pendulum. *$1.90 (1c) Boni & Liveright
20–774
Opening in San Francisco and ending in New York, this long novel tells
the story of a woman’s life from youth to the beginning of middle age.
The swing of the pendulum carries her from an unfortunate early
marriage thru a passionate love affair with a man who is already bound
by wife and child, to a safe and settled union based on mutual regard
and need. Jean Norris graduates from the University of California,
turns her back on teaching as a profession, enters library work,
marries Franklin Herrick, follows Journalism, discovers the settlement
movement, comes to New York as a social worker, plunges into civic
reform, loves and loses Gregory Allen, forsakes her work to return to
San Francisco, comes back and takes it up again, and after many
emotional reactions marries her co-worker, Jerome Stuart.
* * * * *
“There is a good deal of fine characterization in this book; the
dialogue is extraordinarily natural. But the prevailing atmosphere is
sultry with sex; the middle-aged reader, at least, may find the
performance as a whole both strained and wearisome.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w
“This novel cannot be commended as a work of art. The story does not
grip, several of its chapters are so episodic that they might be
suppressed without loss, and the male characters are not men, but
marionettes.”
− =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 190w
“To hold the serious attention of serious readers through nearly five
hundred pages argues at once a kinship with the wealthy mind of the
true novelist. And such a kinship Miss Spadoni undoubtedly possesses.”
+ − =Nation= 110:208 F 14 ’20 300w
“Miss Spadoni’s imagination sends forth into a real, three-dimensioned
world a troop of pale characters cursed with congenital indistinctness
doomed from birth to wander unrecognisably in the fog of a common
origin.” R. L.
− =New Repub= 23:209 Jl 14 ’20 500w
“It is sincerely conceived and written, it shows grasp of character
and its development, and it unfolds its story interestingly. It has
also its distinct crudities, technically and ethically. Like others of
its numerous kind, its prolonged emphasis upon sex will condemn it for
a large body of readers who will feel that it gives a distorted and
unhealthy view of life.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 600w
“Any sincere study of ‘the woman alone’—to use Brieux’s phrase—is
bound to be interesting, bound, indeed, to have a certain amount of
value. In ‘The swing of the pendulum’ there is much that is crude, but
there is real thought, real study and some vividness.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 750w
“Miss Spadoni has done some notable work in the past. Some of her
short stories were of men and women, futile, and sordid, but she cut
down beneath the events of their lives to the poetry of life. She has
not, in ‘The swing of the pendulum’ kept the pace which she set
herself in those tales.” Lucy Huffaker
+ − =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 700w
“There are evidences of cuts which in places make for uncertainty of
delineation—the only blemish of an otherwise almost perfect work of
its kind.”
+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 150w
=SPARGO, JOHN.= “Greatest failure in all history.” *$2.50 (2c) Harper
947
20–14005
In this “critical examination of the actual workings of bolshevism in
Russia” (Sub-title) the author claims to have assembled evidence which
“must compel every honest believer in freedom and democracy to condemn
bolshevism as a vicious and dangerous form of reaction, subversive of
every form of progress and every agency of civilization and
enlightenment,” and to show it up as “the curse which during less than
thirty months has afflicted unhappy Russia with greater ills than
fifty years of czarism.” (Preface) Contents: Why have the bolsheviki
retained power? The soviets; The soviets under the bolsheviki; The
undemocratic soviet state; The peasants and the land; The bolsheviki
and the peasants; The red terror; Industry under soviet control; The
nationalization of industry (I-II); Freedom of press and assembly:
“The dictatorship of the proletariat”; State communism and labor
conscription; Let the verdict be rendered; Documents; Index.
* * * * *
“Although most of the evidence carries its own weight the
disinterested reader will wish in many cases for some critical
evaluation of authorities cited.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20
“Mr Spargo is a Socialist, and it is because he considers the
doctrines of Lenin and his followers a ‘grotesque travesty of Marx’s
teachings,’ and a blow to socialism, and the arch enemy of all
democracy, political, and industrial, that he exposes it as it is.
This is the great merit of the book. It compels the reader to look at
bolshevism as it is.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 680w
“His latest volume attains a level of even greater detachment and cool
judgment than its predecessors. The first uprush of hot revulsion of
feeling against a false and violent philosophy, masked in the forms of
the author’s own cause, has passed. Attacks upon the personal
characters of bolshevist leaders are practically absent. The argument
gains greatly in strength from this avoidance of personal invective.”
M. W. Davis
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 S 25 ’20 780w
“Mr Spargo’s book is a stern book, but a just one. It was much needed,
and it is especially timely now.” W: C. Redfield
+ =N Y Times= p6 Ag 8 ’20 2650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 80w
=SPARGO, JOHN.= Russia as an American problem. *$2.25 (2c) Harper 947
20–3715
The author is a sworn enemy of Bolshevist rule and thinks that Russia
is not ready for anything like a socialist state, lacking industrial
development as she does. “At present she needs capital and capitalist
enterprise.” This makes Russia an American problem and “there should
be a very clear recognition, alike by the government and the people of
the United States, of the great and far-reaching importance of
securing for this country a very large share in the immense volume of
trade which Russia’s recovery and economic reconstruction must
inevitably produce.” Contents: Russia as an American problem; Russia
and western civilization: Russia’s subjection to Germany; Japan as
Germany’s successor; Japan and Siberia; Russia’s needs and resources;
Postscriptum; extensive appendices and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20
=Lit D= p95 My 1 ’20 1400w
“The ultimate political advantage for the world of a Russia free from
economic vassalage to militaristic neighbors is obvious, but Mr
Spargo’s case would be equally strong if he did not magnify the danger
of Russia’s position; for whatever may be the reality of Japan’s
menace in Siberia the threat from Germany to European Russia or of a
German-Japanese alliance belongs for the present in the realm of
imagination.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 2000w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“Mr Spargo’s study is vitally interesting and illuminating, and it
contains a wealth of precise information which will be priceless to
business men in many lines when the time comes for meeting German
commercial rivalry in her new Mitteleuropa.” J: Corbin
+ =N Y Times= 25:127 Mr 21 ’20 1600w
“Vital and patriotic book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 9 ’20 620w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
=Survey= 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 200w
=SPEARS, RAYMOND SMILEY.= River prophet. il *$1.50 (1c) Doubleday
20–10310
A story of the “Old Mississip” and of the vagrant population—shanty
boaters, pot hunters, river pirates—that lives upon its broad waters.
Parson Elijah Rasba, from the mountains, floats down the Tug river to
the Big Sandy, down the Big Sandy to the Ohio, down the Ohio and out
onto the great river, where he exclaims “If this is the Mississippi
what must the Jordan be!” Parson Elijah is seeking a lost soul, Jock
Drones, whose mammy wants him back in the mountains, and so he joins
the motley throng that goes “dropping down” the lower river. Among the
other characters are Nelia Carline, who has left her husband, Gus
Carline, the husband in pursuit of her, Lester Terabon, a newspaper
man in search of copy, Mame Coape of the many divorces, Buck the river
gambler, and Jock Drones, the lost soul who turns back to his mammy.
* * * * *
+ |=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Legends and romances of Spain. il *$6.50 Stokes 863
20–26986
The literature of the romantic period in Spain treated by a
folk-lorist, who says, “Since the days of Southey the romantic
literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics
the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves.... I have
made an earnest endeavour to provide English readers with a conspectus
of Spanish romantic literature as expressed in its cantares de gesta,
its chivalric novels, its romanceros or ballads, and some of its
lighter aspects. The reader will find full accounts and summaries of
all the more important works under each of these heads, many of which
have never before been described in English.” (Preface) Among the
chapters are: The sources of Spanish romance; “Amadis de Gaul”;
Catalonian romances; Moorish romances of Spain; Tales of Spanish magic
and sorcery; Humorous romances of Spain. There are illustrations and a
brief bibliography.
* * * * *
“It is an honest attempt to interest the general reader in a
delightful department of literature. A book of this sort is in special
need of an index, especially as there are no detailed ‘Contents,’ only
general chapter-headings. But though there is a useful short
bibliography, there is no index at all.” G: Saintsbury
+ − =Ath= p516 O 15 ’20 900w
+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
=Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 60w
“Extremely readable.”
+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w
“The attractive page, the good print, the popular treatment, the fine
coloured illustrations, render it exactly suitable for a present to an
intelligent youth of either sex, while the accounts and summaries of
all the important works under the various headings provide a real fund
of instructive information.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 100w
“‘Legends and romances of Spain’ is not only a story book. There is a
great deal of information in it and some real research. It is not
quite up to date, perhaps.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 660w
=SPENCE, THOMAS, and others.= Pioneers of land reform. *$1.50 Knopf 333
This book is one of the series of economic reprints of the famous Bohn
libraries. It contains an introduction by M. Beer, characterizing and
comparing the three essays. The essays are: The real rights of man, by
Thomas Spence; The right of property in land, by William Ogilive; and
Agrarian justice, by Thomas Paine.
* * * * *
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1200w
=SPENDER, HAROLD.= Prime minister. il *$4 Doran
20–22843
In writing this biography the author has drawn upon “the memories of
twenty-seven years of unbroken friendship” and in summing up the
characteristics of his friend he says: “It is this combination of the
slow qualities, with the swift—of judgment with daring, of mercy with
rigour, of slow reflection with swift attack, of the zeal of the
Cambrian with the shrewdness of the Fleming—that marks him off from so
many of his race.” The first thirteen chapters are devoted to Lloyd
George’s childhood and youth and earlier career up to the beginning of
the war and the rest of the contents is: A war man (1914–1915); East
or west? (1915); Serbia (1915): Munitions (1915): The new ministry of
munitions; Premiership (1916); The saving of Italy; The Versailles
council; Victory; The peace conference; The new world; The man;
Highways and byways; Through foreign eyes. There are illustrations,
appendices and an index.
* * * * *
“This record has the force of an autobiography rather than of a
detached appraisal.”
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by D: J. Hill
+ =Bookm= 52:163 O ’20 1800w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 1800w
“The book is pitched in a high dithyrambic key which is too
laboriously sustained to be convincing and at last becomes
exasperating. The literary frills are, moreover, a trifle cheap and
shabby. Either the whole thing is the most flagrant and therefore
self-defeating sort of pamphleteering or Mr Spender’s once robust
literary sense is suffering a sad decline.” R: Roberts
− =Freeman= 1:571 Ag 25 ’20 1650w
“Mr Spender’s portrait of the Prime Minister can claim in one respect
only to be a faithful one. It is Mr Lloyd George as he appears to
himself—not to his Maker. Not merely by false interpretation of events
but by false attribution of qualities and acquirements Mr Spender
fabricates his hero.” J. A. Hobson
− =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 1400w
“It has none of the detached judgment of a historical appraisal of a
completed career. Instead it has the militant interest of a brief
presented in behalf of one of the most brilliant statesmen of modern
times. It is not biography in the highest form of that art nor is it
great literature. But Mr Spender’s work is not cheapened or vitiated
by unseeing eulogy of his subject.” W: L. Chenery
+ =N Y Times= 25:3 Je 27 ’20 3550w
“Mr Spender knows no discrimination in his eulogy: whatever his hero
has done is not only right but so conspicuously right that it needs
neither apology nor explanation. The best we can honestly say of ‘The
prime minister’ is that it will serve as a quarry from which some
future biographer may draw useful materials.”
− + =Spec= 124:427 Mr 27 ’20 750w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w
“Much the most satisfactory part of the book is that which describes
Mr Lloyd George’s birth and upbringing, his early political
activities, his entry into Parliament, and the brilliant fighting
years in which he marked himself out as a certain minister of the
crown. The history of his career as a minister down to the outbreak of
war is vague and scrappy and generally inadequate.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 350w
=SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH (PRESCOTT) (MRS RICHARD S. SPOFFORD).=
Elder’s people. il *$1.75 (2c) Houghton
20–5405
Through these stories of old New England we look into the hearts of
the country people, hear their gossip, learn to know their homely
religion, their superstitions, see the struggles they have with their
baser selves and glimpse their higher natures. We also learn to love
the sturdy souls that recur in all the stories and embody the best
that is in them all—Elder Perry, Old Steve, Miss Mahala, and others.
The stories are: The deacon’s whistle; A change of heart; A rural
telephone; The step-father; John-a-dreams; Miss Mahala’s miracle; An
old fiddler; The blessing called peace; Father James; The impossible
choice; A village dressmaker; Miss Mahala’s will; A life in a night;
Miss Mahala and Johnny.
* * * * *
“Undramatic, but interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
+ =Lit D= p102 O 23 ’20 1200w
“Mrs Spofford is not by any means a great craftsman, her limitations
are quite evident, but within her power—and she is never unduly
anxious to achieve what is beyond her—she provides some interesting
and entertaining bits of fiction.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 10 ’20 480w
“The series of short stories which makes up this chronicle contains
nothing particularly new or striking, but the tales have quite a good
deal of verisimilitude, and some of the characters are likable.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 280w
=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w
“Mrs Spofford has finely and strongly delineated a number of choice
spirits here whom one will not easily forget. She has also
incorporated much of the quiet humor of this type of people, and, all
in all, has presented here not an especially great book but a very
interesting one.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 250w
=SPRING RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR.= Poems. *$3 Longmans 821
20–17907
“Mr Bernard Holland reminds us in his preface that the late ambassador
to the United States published two books in his lifetime, a book of
verse with interludes in poetic prose ‘adapted from the Persian’ and a
prose version of a Persian love tale with a veiled mystical meaning.
Besides the Persian sonnets this volume contains ‘In memoriam, A. C.
M. L.,’ and a number of miscellaneous poems.”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
“His poems are like his personality and please us by some charm which
is not quite analysable. They are strangely different from the work of
most men of action. There are only a few poems in this book which are
absolutely bad, but, on the other hand, there is probably none which
is not marked by some flaw.”
+ − =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 850w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 720w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup O 14 ’20)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 90w
“They are true poetry. The volume may not add one to the list of great
English sonnets; but the beauty and the sincerity of these claim
attention.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 720w
=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Cornelli; tr. by Elisabeth P. Stork.
(Stories all children love ser.) il *$1.50 (3½c) Lippincott
20–17408
In his introduction to this story for children Charles Wharton Stork
regrets that its author should be known for one of her books only,
altho that one is the justly popular “Heidi.” In the present story, he
thinks “we find a deeper treatment of character, combined with equal
spirit and humor of a different kind.” It is the story of a
happy-hearted little Swiss girl who is changed into a sullen, morose
and unattractive child through the misunderstanding of two women in
whose care her father leaves her. A woman of different type, the
mother of a family of four, finds the secret of Cornelli’s unhappiness
and brings back the old sunny disposition.
* * * * *
“There is a breath of the mountain freshness which suggests ‘Heidi.’
The translation of the children’s speeches into formal English gives
them sometimes a rather stilted effect.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Toni, the little wood-carver; tr. by
Helen B. Dole. il *$1 (9c) Crowell
20–15071
From earliest childhood Toni had carved animals out of wood and his
dearest ambition is to be a wood-carver. But the cost of instruction
is beyond his mother’s means and he is sent up into the mountains to
herd the farmer’s cows. Here, overcome by the loneliness, he breaks
down and falls into a lethargy from which nothing arouses him. He is
taken to a great sanitarium where he finally recovers and finds a good
friend who provides the money for the desired training.
* * * * *
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 90w
=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Birds, and other poems.
*$1.25 Doran 821
(Eng ed A20–244)
Birds, the first poem of this collection is based on the thought that
the birds are older than man and that in the days of his infancy they
built their nests in the self-same way and with the same perfection
they do today. The other poems are: Processes of thought, Airship over
suburb, Harlequin, Winter nightfall, Two songs, and A far place.
* * * * *
“‘The birds’ is an interesting poem full of felicitous things. But it
seems somehow to lack intensity. The three poems called ‘Processes of
thought’ are naturally more personal, more intimately felt; for they
are a record of introspection. In these we seem to be getting nearer
our ideal of what the lyric inspired by science or philosophy should
be like.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p783 Ag 22 ’19 1000w
“His nature minutæ, his tenderness, his color are Wordsworthian, with
a drama, a music, a diamond-cut-diamond quality, as well as a quality
of the noblest oratory, that the old bard never knew.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 280w
“The poem after which the collection takes its name has a common idea
but one which Mr Squire expresses with uncommon vigor and suggestion.
The advantage of Mr Squire over the average American poet of similar
gifts is his ability to express sentiment without sentimentalizing the
mood.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1500w
“The difficulty with his poetry, for there is a difficulty—lies in the
unfortunate fact, that despite the obvious care he lavishes upon it,
it is too lax, too impersonal. Like everyone else who has something
new to say, Mr Squire has discovered that a new idea depends on a new
form of utterance being found to fit it. It is only a pity that he has
so few new ideas, and that he is content instead with writing poems in
which neither the idea—nor the utterance—is of the slightest
importance.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:284 D 1 ’20 900w
“His head is clearer than his poetry is fine; he is sober, and he has
a vein of reflection not wholly resembling other men’s, but the
strength that he has displayed rather than implied, and his metaphors,
of which he apparently is proud, are painfully overdeveloped.”
− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“The writing of verse is only one of Mr Squire’s innumerable
activities, and yet he is a poet of no small talent. Unlike most of
his brother Georgians, he is at his best when he is most metaphysical.
At his best he is fantastically powerful; at his worst he is florid
and bombastic. The present volume shows him more in the latter mood.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 180w
“Mr Squire in his present volume has lost none of that quiet
controlled distinction which was always his; but he seems to have got
rid of the rather hard, metallic note which was noticeable in some of
his former work. The most remarkable poem of the book is called ‘A far
place.’ To us it seems one of the most original and absolutely
successful and complete poems that Mr Squire has ever written.”
+ =Spec= 123:376 S 20 ’19 620w
“This little book is not merely a joy in itself and additional to what
is now a considerable body of work, but extremely rich in promise.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p409 Jl 31 ’19 980w
=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Books in general. (2nd
ser.) *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 824
20–16289
This is the second series of short essays, reviews and squibs on books
and writers, collected from weekly contributions to the New Statesman.
They are brilliant, witty and full of originality. Some of the topics
are: The descendants of Shakespeare; Scientific management for
Pegasus; The inferior poems of Keats; One’s favourite author defined;
Shelley’s letters; The essay in America; The humours of hymnology;
Dialect in literature; Verhaeren; On submitting manuscripts; Rupert
Brooke in retrospect.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“Even more interesting than technical success, in this sort of thing,
is the quality of mind we see at work. Mr Squire has an admirable
sanity.” K. F. Gerould
+ =Bookm= 52:263 N ’20 780w
“Mr Squire’s style is distinctly conversational. The fluent grace of
such table-talk, however, neatly disposes of the adage that all men
talk in prose.”
+ =Dial= 69:665 D ’20 70w
“Somehow the sense of leisure in ‘Books in general’ is not richly
filled; the notations are too fluent, the writing lacks spring, and
more often than not it lacks the effect of enjoyment. Scarcely one of
his papers can be read without expectancy. But the promise is seldom
fulfilled.” C. M. R.
− =Freeman= 2:382 D 29 ’20 210w
“The comments on books, politics and things in general are thoughtful,
amusing and suggestive, worth reading and thinking about.”
+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 320w
“They are informative, witty, often merely playful. Critical acumen is
shown at times, but more often the evident purpose of the papers is to
amuse.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 8 ’20 550w
“Mr Squire mentions books and publications from this country only for
the purpose of jeering at them; it is gently done, but still a jeer.
‘Books in general,’ however, includes such pleasing essays ... that
most of us will forgive ‘Solomon Eagle’ for tweaking a feather or two
of the American eagle’s tail.” E. L. Pearson
+ − =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 180w
Reviewed by P. U. Kellogg
+ =Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 680w
=STARLING, ERNEST HENRY.= Feeding of nations. *$1.90 (*5s) Longmans
338.1
20–666
“This small book of one hundred forty-five pages contains a vast store
of information concerning the principles of human nutrition and the
application of these principles to the problem of feeding the
community in times of peace and war.” (N Y Evening Post) “Dr Starling
was chairman of the Food committee of the Royal society which took up
the study of the problem of feeding the nation before the government
realized that there was a problem, and afterwards scientific adviser
to the ministry of food.” (Survey)
* * * * *
“An extremely able and attractive presentation of a difficult
subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 500w
+ =Survey= 43:656 F 28 ’20 1050w
=STEARNS, HAROLD EDMUND.= Liberalism in America: its origin, its
temporary collapse, its future. *$1.75 (2½c) Boni & Liveright 321.8
20–1878
“The core of liberal philosophy” writes the author, “is respect for
the individual and his freedom of conscience and opinion.” To trace
the foundations of this philosophy in America and to account for its
complete break-down during the war is the main purpose of this book.
The ten chapter titles are: What liberalism is; The English heritage
and the American development; American liberalism to the eve of the
war; The emotional breakdown before warhysteria; Timidity and the
seductions of office or career; President Wilson, the technique of
liberal failure; Political symbolism and the mob; Débâcle of
pragmatism; Leadership; The future. A bibliography of two pages
follows. The author was formerly associate editor of the Dial.
* * * * *
“His plea for tolerance is marked by intolerance, for good-nature with
ungenerosity in weighing the motives of others, for nonpartisanship
and detachment with evident animus and one-sided advocacy rather than
fairness and breadth of vision. Hence the value of the work as a
critique of American liberalism is very seriously impaired for the
general reader and the serious student.” C. E. Merriam
− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:511 Ag ’20 520w
“While one cannot altogether agree with the conclusions of the author
of this extremely readable exposition of liberalism, the arguments are
in most cases clear, and fairly presented.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 200w
“But for all the flat contradictions with which the book seems to
abound, it is interesting for the variety of subjects of current
interest it touches notwithstanding the author does not seem to have
completely assimilated these—as, indeed, who has? One thing that can
be said about the book in general is that it is liberal.” W. A. M.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 800w
“Herein lies the fundamental weakness of the discussion. One gathers
no clearly defined impression of what liberalism is or expects to do,
and who are the liberals. Mr Stearns writes impassionately and with a
refreshing verve that carries the reader headlong with him.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 340w
=Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 170w
“One inclines to a wish that the writer had brought to his task a
little more sympathy, a little more humility, and a great deal more
information, and the wish becomes very strong when one reaches his
discussion of Mr Wilson. In a considered estimate by a liberal thinker
one looks for a fair and balanced examination of causes and results.
Mr Stearns simplifies the president’s problems so that any
departmental clerk might have overcome them. He imputes low motives
without the least apparent justification.” Jacob Zeitlin
− =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 850w
“The book is of great value. Its analysis of American tendencies is
more balanced and inclusive than any contemporary work upon the
subject.” C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 230w
Reviewed by W. J. Ghent
− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 1150w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 50w
“It is no engaging picture of our American war mind that Mr Stearns
paints, and twenty months ago it would have been hotly resented by the
great majority of our people. That the average man of intelligence is
likely to find himself mainly in agreement with it now (although he
may hesitate to admit the fact, even to himself) is the best evidence
that the picture is essentially true.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 350w
“As a volume of broad discussions, enriched by much reflection on
books and events, and by brilliant insight into motives, this book is
a success. Yet as an ordered analysis of the basic problem of liberty
the book fails, and its chief value will be lost unless it becomes the
starting point of a much needed discussion.” G: Soule
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:197 O ’20 500w
=STEBBING, EDWARD PERCY.= Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. il
*$5 Lane 799
20–22627
This diary is published with a purpose. The author says: “The sporting
anecdotes and material selected from my note-books, which form the
greater part of the book, are designed to lead up to and emphasize the
necessity which exists of affording an adequate protection to the game
and other animals of India.” (Preface) The book is in two parts: Sport
in the big game jungles of India; and Game protection and the
provision of sanctuaries for the preservation of the Indian fauna.
There are illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author
and others.
* * * * *
“He describes his experiences fairly graphically, although, after a
few pages, we have too much confidence in his shooting to be seriously
alarmed for him.”
+ − =Ath= p473 O 8 ’20 260w
“There is a chapter on ‘Jungle lore,’ and several real tiger stories
that outdo most of those common to fiction. All the photographs are
very good, and the little pen and ink drawings, which are the
productions of five different persons, while not equal to Mr Seton’s,
carry their own individuality, and give new life to the already
entertaining text.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 210w
“A most interesting collection of reminiscences. His tiger stories are
capital.”
+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 250w
“As a faithful account of conditions as they have been during the last
quarter of a century, Mr Stebbing’s book is likely to have a definite
and permanent value; and he knows well how to entertain as well as to
instruct.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 Ag 5 ’20 750w
=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Papers and essays for churchmen; being a
series of studies on topics made timely by current events. *$1.50 (2½c)
Jacobs 204
20–1134
The only unity that the author claims for this collection of papers is
that “they were all written to be read either to or by churchmen.”
(Foreword) The author’s mental tenor is conservative and his thinking
along the lines of his convictions is vigorous. He holds that the war
has dispelled the mist of immoral emotionalism that had begun to
envelop the churches, a form of this emotionalism being the literal
interpretation of “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” He repudiates
woman’s suffrage as wholly bad, hurls anathema against labor
organisations and socialism and advises that the poor, as the
“economically sick,” are properly the charges, not of the church, but
of the state. The contents are: Effect of the war on religion; Wanted,
an American Sunday; Woman suffrage and religion; Men’s clubs and the
churches; The poor, with you always; The church and labor agitation;
Socialism—Christian and pagan; Revelation—final or progressive; The
Episcopal church; Change of name of the church; Proportionate
representation.
=STEELE, HARWOOD ELMES ROBERT.=[2] Canadians in France, 1915–1918: with
8 sketch maps. il *$8 Dutton 940.371
(Eng ed 20–10382)
“A detailed history of the operations of the Canadian Army corps,
consisting of four divisions and ‘corps troops.’ In writing this
account Captain Steele is describing in the main events that occurred
under his own observation in 1915 to the close of the war in 1918.”—R
of Rs
* * * * *
“Captain Steele has the gift of clear, straightforward description;
and there is little to be desired in the succinctness and clarity with
which he etches in a number of Homeric incidents.”
+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 80w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w
“Captain Steele’s book is admirably written and full of vivid detail.”
+ =Spec= 124:49 Jl 10 ’20 200w
=STEINER, RUDOLF.= Four mystery plays. 2v *$3 Putnam 832
20–6848
H. Collison, one of the translators of these plays, describes them as
representing “the psychic development of man up to the moment when he
is able to pierce the veil and see into the beyond.” (Introd.) They
embody the author’s occult philosophy and form one continuous series.
The characters are represented on their physical as well as on their
spiritual plane and include many types—the occult leader, the seeress,
the artist, scientist, philosopher, historian, mystic, and man of the
world, also the forces of evil in Lucifer and Ahriman. Collaborators
with the translator are S. M. K. Gandell and R. T. Gladstone. The
plays are: The portal of initiation; The soul’s probation; The
guardian of the threshold; The soul’s awakening.
* * * * *
“‘Four mystery plays’ will doubtless command the attention of the
author’s disciples, but they are too formidable to win the interest of
the average outsider. The blank verse translation is adequate, but
hardly inspired.”
+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 70w
“The only advantage gained by the play form is, perhaps, a little
simplicity in the treatment of very abstract subjects.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 N 25 ’20 110w
=STEPHENS, JAMES.=[2] Irish fairy tales. il *$5 (6½) Macmillan
20–21207
The first of these ancient folk-tales tells of the subduing of Tuan
mac Cairill, the powerful heathen, by Finnian, the Abbott of Moville.
Finnian lays siege to Tuan’s stronghold by seating himself before its
gates and fasting. Heathen etiquette forbade the attack of a
defenceless man and heathen hospitality a man’s starving before the
gates. So Finnian is admitted and at once proceeds to convert Tuan.
Thereupon Tuan, the grandson of Noah, tells his story which dates back
to the beginning of time in Ireland and is wonderful indeed. The other
tales are: The boyhood of Fionn; The birth of Bran; Oisin’s mother;
The wooing of Becfola; The little brawl at Allen; The Carl of the drab
coat; The enchanted cave of Cesh Corran; Becuma of the white skin;
Mongan’s frenzy. The full page illustrations in color and the chapter
vignettes are by Arthur Rackham.
* * * * *
“This book is written by a man who has a touch a little beyond
talent.” R. E. Roberts
+ =Ath sup= p783 D 3 ’20 180w
+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21
“It is unfortunate that in the arrangement of his book he does not
give greater heed to the various cycles in which nearly all Irish
stories belong. But lack of unity is almost the only adverse criticism
that can be brought against the book. Mr Stephens has re-told Irish
legends in a volume that should take a permanent place in literature.”
N. J. O’Conor
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 1350w
“James Stephens’ writing has the gift of everlasting youth. Arthur
Rackham’s drawings have inherent magic. Wherefore the two are
fortunately met in a new book, primarily for children, but also full
of appeal to grown-ups with a sense of humor.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“Though some of the stories as told by Mr Stephens appear to be more
in the nature of historic legends rather than fairy tales, the
collection provides good reading in which humour of a subtle kind
abounds.”
+ =Int= Studio 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
“There is enough of the hard line of beauty in his work to make one
rejoice in its amplitude.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:111 D 22 ’20 1700w
“Humor shines, here, riots in wild fancy, extravagance rides by the
side of beauty.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
“Stephens has put a lot of himself into the telling of these tales;
they are moulded by his story-telling instinct, given finish by his
English and burnished by his humor.” D. W. Webster
+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 200w
“Children may enjoy it, but, like Arthur Rackham’s exquisite
illustrations, it will be fully appreciated only by more sophisticated
readers.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 170w
+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w
“There is much good narrative, much humour, and, usually, unstrained
simplicity in the book, but above all there are passages of enchanting
beauty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 310w
=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= Nancy goes to town. *$2 (5c) Appleton
20–18766
Nancy goes to town to take nurses’ training, telling all her friends
in Mifflin that she intends to marry a rich patient. She meets two
rich patients, one an old woman, the other an old man. The two are
business rivals and they become rivals also for Nancy’s favor. One has
a nephew, the other a grandson, both put forward as candidates for
Nancy’s hand. So the rich husband is within her reach, but Nancy
chooses, after some faltering, to marry Dr Rolf Jensen, the poor young
doctor.
* * * * *
“The description of hospital life from the point of view of a lively
girl, with quick wit and a keen sense of humor, is capital.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 420w
=STEVENS, WILLIAM OLIVER, and WESTCOTT, ALLAN FERGUSON.= History of sea
power. il *$6 Doran 359
20–18945
This volume covers the evolution and influence of sea power from the
beginnings to the present time and treats naval history not from the
point of view of a sequence of battles but as a vital force in the
rise and fall of nations and in the evolution of civilization. It
traces its beginnings from the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean
long before the dawn of history to its present significance. The book
is indexed, has a list of references at the end of each chapter and
ninety-six maps, diagrams and illustrations. Contents: The beginnings
of navies; Athens as a sea power; The sea power of Rome; The navies of
the middle ages (two chapters); Opening the ocean routes; Sea power in
the North; England and the Armada; Rise of English sea power (two
chapters); Napoleonic wars (three chapters); Revolution in naval
warfare; Rivalry for world power; The world war (three chapters);
Conclusion.
* * * * *
“Though surprisingly condensed, an informative and authoritative
work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21
“It is a more objective and less theoretical study [than Mahan’s
‘Influence of sea power on history,’] with more interest for the
general reader; in addition to which it is a convenient reference
book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 620w
=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Benjy. *$1.75 (*7s) (2c) Lane
20–5234
The book recounts the fortunes of the Ainsworth family from the time
when young Dr Ainsworth drives his bride Priscilla home in the gig, to
the coming of the children—up to the number of thirteen—with its
resultant poverty; and the varied careers and fortunes of all these in
turn. Benjy, the youngest, his mother’s favorite, follows his father
into the medical profession. Outwardly his life is drab, all its
important happenings being of the nature of disappointments. The more
brilliantly endowed brother, Basil, wins and weds Benjy’s own beloved
Clara who dies in childbirth through Basil’s light-hearted want of
foresight. When Uncle Benjy adopts little Clara to save her from a bad
step-mother, death robs him of her also. Then comes the war and offers
him a welcome escape from himself.
* * * * *
“It is only when the children grow older and come into touch with the
world that Mr Stevenson fails lamentably. The quaint, old-fashioned
children are replaced by plain, strange young men and women, and the
author in his effort to convince us of Benjy’s purity of heart pours
over him such a great pale flood of sentimentality that he is drowned
before our eyes.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1371 D 19 ’19 420w
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 130w
“An almost masterly understanding of human (and English) limitations
pervades the story. It is told always with a sure judgment and
reticence.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 130w
“A calm tale; interesting incident and fairly interesting characters,
but no particular point.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 20w
“Such is the charm of Mr Stevenson’s insouciant style that we lose
consciousness of the fact that we are listening to an ‘author.’ The
author’s powers of characterization are, in fact, responsible for a
minor fault in ‘Benjy’—the diffusing of interest in too many
characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w
=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w
“It is well conceived and full of appreciation of individual
character.”
+ =Sat R= 129:234 Mr 6 ’20 60w
“Though the reader may become rather bewildered in trying to follow
each particular thread, the book is illuminated with many of the
author’s quiet touches of humour and is written with his usual
distinction of style.”
+ − =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 80w
=STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR.= Learning to write; ed. by J: W:
Rogers, jr. *$1.35 Scribner 808
20–6692
“This book is a compilation of everything R. L. S. has said on
writing, both in his essays on literary art and in the casual
observations made in his letters.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 380w
“You cannot learn much about electricity by watching the lightning in
the thunder cloud. Even if Stevenson did teach himself to write as he
says he did, which is nothing more than an improbable hypothesis,
reading his extremely characteristic and technically complex
descriptions of his methods will not help a single youngster out of
the toils and troubles of the early days of his probation.” W: McFee
− =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 1300w
“It is to be feared that Stevenson’s confidences in regard to his own
literary processes have done all too much to foster hope in the bosom
of ‘would-be’ authors.... One is inclined to take it with several
grains of salt.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 2250w
+ =School R= 28:628 O ’20 110w
“Likely to prove a gold mine of interesting information not only to
aspiring writers, but to people who are interested in books as well.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=STEWART, BASIL.= Japanese color prints and the subjects they
illustrate. il *$20 Dodd 761
“Mr Stewart knows just what collectors of Japanese prints want and do
not want. But they want a handbook of 300–odd pages, with
reproductions of signatures, lists of important sets, chronological
tables, brief biographical information; of handy format and popular
style. And such is the book before us. There are a glossary, a chapter
on ‘Forgeries and imitations,’ another on ‘Actor prints’ in general,
and an excursus on the ‘Forty-seven rōnins’ in history and on the
stage.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is no serious condemnation to say that ‘Japanese colour prints’ is
not the book on Japanese colour prints for which we are all looking.”
+ − =Int Studio= 72:33 N ’20 200w
“The ground covered is so vast that the treatment in certain cases
inevitably seems somewhat cursory. One or two inaccuracies may be
noted.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 Jl 22 ’20 640w
=STEWART, WENTWORTH.= Making of a nation. $1.50 (3c) Stratford co. 325.7
20–3491
In this discussion of Americanism and Americanization the author holds
that we cannot make American citizens of aliens by formal educational
programs, that we must take into consideration the psychology of
Americanization and treat Americanism as a thing of the spirit rather
than of naturalization papers. Certain undesirable features in our
alien population—such as foreign language newspapers, religious
worship in a foreign tongue—should be treated by a process of
elimination rather than coercion, while “all anarchistic agitators,”
and unamerican labor agitators should be summarily dealt with. As one
of the educational factors for Americanization a modified form of the
open forum is recommended. Contents: The nation’s awakening; The
nation’s task of unification; Eliminating the handicaps to
Americanism; Constructive government and nation building; Providing
conditions for Americanism—or the application of constructive
government; The neighborhood and the nation; International sentiment
and nationalism.
=STILL, JOHN.= Poems in captivity. *$2 Lane 821
20–5612
The author discovered the poet in himself during his three years of
captivity in Turkey, “where each one of us was driven to seek inside
himself some alleviation of the daily dullness, many of us there found
things we had not suspected to exist.... I found these verses, all of
which were written there, and their discovery made more happy many of
the eleven hundred and seventy-nine days I spent as a prisoner of
war.” (Foreword) The poems are in five groups: Prison verses;
Woodcraft and forest lore; Tales from the Mahawansa; Various songs and
sketches. The frontispiece is a facsimile of a part of the ms. which
was concealed in a hollow walking-stick, and some explanatory notes
are appended.
* * * * *
“Mr Still’s work is undeniably interesting, and his chosen vehicle
seems to be the right one.”
+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 100w
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 280w
“He writes fluently and the Ceylonese legends that he relates are
interesting in themselves, but his medium hardly ever touches the
authentic heights of poetry.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 100w
“The merit of Mr Still’s work is that it gives aptly and agreeably a
full, warm picture of scenes picturesque and historic.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 160w
=STOCKBRIDGE, MRS BERTHA EDSON (LAY).= What to drink; the blue book of
beverages. il *$1.50 Appleton 641.8
20–2272
In these days of prohibition this book solves the hostess’ problem of
what to serve to drink. All she needs is a stock of syrups, shrubs and
vinegars, says the author. “If, however, she is inclined to think it
an arduous task, let her turn to these recipes, and she will be
convinced that the labor and the time expended bring their own reward
in ... a delicious drink delightfully made.” (Foreword) The contents
present an exhaustive array of recipes for fruitades and punches and
drinks hot and cold—non-alcoholic cocktails, syrups, grape juice, root
beer and cider, hot drinks such as coffee, chocolate, etc., drinks for
invalids and children, sundaes and sauces, ice-creams, sherbets, etc.
There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 50w
=STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Yankee ingenuity in the war. il *$2.50
Harper 623
20–8261
It was as a reaction of the author’s patriotic pride to the slanderous
disparagements of America’s participation in the war that the book was
written and for that reason it is limited to the consideration of
distinctly American enterprise. It has, however, not been written for
the scientist or the technologist, but for the average American,
neither skilled nor interested in technical details. A partial list of
the contents is: The mobilization of science and industry; The Liberty
motor; American military airplanes; The chemical conquest of the air;
Potash, sulphuric acid, and dyestuffs; Poison gas; Some extraordinary
ship-building feats; Some Yankee tricks in undersea warfare; The
wonders of war wireless; Medical and surgical achievements. The book
is profusely illustrated from official photographs.
* * * * *
“Interesting and informative.”
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w
=STOCKLEY, CYNTHIA.= Pink gods and blue demons. *$1.50 (9c) Doran
20–10303
A story of South Africa. The pink gods and blue demons are the
lightning flashes of temptation from the facets of diamonds. Loree
Temple, a young and much indulged wife, falls under their spell. Her
husband has gone north on business leaving her alone in Kimberley. She
falls under the spell of the diamonds and so into the power of the man
who can give them to her. She is extricated through the loyalty and
generosity of another woman, and, her lesson learned, goes to join her
husband.
* * * * *
“The tale is interesting and moves swiftly forward to a sufficiently
dramatic climax.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w
“The story holds one’s attention closely.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
=STOCKTON, JAMES LEROY.= Project work in education. *$1.20 (3c) Houghton
371.3
20–14397
The book is one of the “Riverside educational monographs” edited by
Henry Suzzallo. Its object is to show what can be done to replace the
traditional teaching by isolated subjects by a more vital method built
on a practical psychological basis. The project method in brief
implies “learning to do by doing,” or “self-education through
activities,” and is the result of the working-out of the most
fundamental of modern educational principles. The book falls into two
parts, considering project work both as a method and as a subject.
Part I contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the
project method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern
American principles of education; The project method in the modern
public school; Project work in trade education. Part II contains: The
evolution of the project subject; The broader conception of the
content of the project subject; The necessity of more direct teaching
of the project subject; Summary; Outline.
=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Rising tide of color against white
world-supremacy; with an introd. by Madison Grant. *$3 Scribner 327
20–7502
“Mr Stoddard has written an analysis of the present-day relations of
the white and colored races throughout the world. What he describes as
the rising tide of the yellow, brown, black and red races is
graphically described in a series of tersely written chapters. This is
followed by an historical account of The ebbing tide of white, and the
book concludes with brief chapters on The outer dikes, The inner
dikes, and The crisis of the ages. Mr Stoddard’s immediate program,
involving what he regards as ‘the irreducible minimum,’ calls for a
thorough revision of the Versailles treaty and a provisional
understanding by which the white races will give up their tacit
assumption of domination over Asia, while the Asiatics forego their
dreams of migration to the lands of white and other races. Without
some such understanding Mr Stoddard looks forward to a race war on a
world scale.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“On the resurgence of Asia Mr Stoddard writes wisely, yielding neither
to panic nor to ignorant optimism. His views on the future of his own
North American continent display less sanity.”
+ − =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 200w
“Interesting to read in connection with Du Bois’ ‘Darkwater.’”
+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 52:301 Ja ’21 780w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 850w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is one of the long series of publications devoted
to the self-admiration of the white race. The books must be
characterized as vicious propaganda, and deserve an attention not
warranted by any intrinsic merit in their learning or their logic. The
fundamental weakness of all books of this type, and eminently so of Mr
Stoddard’s book, is a complete lack of understanding of the hereditary
characteristics of a race as against the hereditary characteristics of
a particular strain or line of descent.” Franz Boas
− =Nation= 111:sup656 D 8 ’20 980w
“A brilliant and highly suggestive survey.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 160w
“Many people will regard this book as highly dangerous and
provocative. This verdict, though it might at first sight seem just,
would be, we are convinced, short-sighted and unfair. When we say this
we do not mean that we agree with every word of the premises put
forward by Mr Stoddard or with all his conclusions; for we do not.
What we do feel, however, is that it is a book which gives with
vigour, and yet with essential moderation, most important and often
most necessary warnings.”
+ − =Spec= 125:336 S 11 ’20 1550w
+ − =Spec= 125:367 S 18 ’20 2150w
“Because of its profound knowledge and eloquence this is a book that
must be reckoned with. Had he been more moderate in his diagnosis and
prognosis of the impending racial conflict, his book may have found
fewer readers, but it would have been more convincing to the student
of history and of public affairs.”
− + =Survey= 4:450 Je 26 ’20 450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s work is more convincing and useful when he deals with
subsidiary questions, such as the real peril of Asiatic industrial
competition or the serious pressure of overpopulation brought about in
‘coloured’ lands by the humanitarian hygiene of the whites. But his
vision of the ‘rising tide of colour’ fails to carry conviction.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p692 O 28 ’20 1450w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is the work of a pseudoscientist with a
considerable skill in writing who, sincerely enough no doubt, jumbles
assumptions and facts in a plausible and dangerous combination.” N. T.
− =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 680w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=STODDART, JANE T.= Case against spiritualism. *$1.50 Doran 134
(Eng ed 20–4476)
“This book assembles articles from various writers, culling even from
believers every clause usable as antagonistic comment. It is not
backed by personal experience.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Perhaps the best Protestant manual opposing the cult.”
+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Brooklyn= 12:122 My ’20 30w (Reprinted from The Times [London]
Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19)
“It will require mightier counter-thrusts than the slight rebuff of
Miss Stoddart to make any headway against the encroachments of the
insidious brand of personalism sponsored by psychical research.”
Joseph Jastrow
− + =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 100w
“A short but effective and well-considered statement of the case.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 40w
=STOLL, ELMER EDGAR.= Hamlet; an historical and comparative study.
(Studies in language and literature) pa $1 Univ. of Minn. 822.3
20–2038
“A close analytical study; reaching the conclusion that Hamlet is
meant for an heroic, not a pathetic, figure, and not for one who
falters or who deceives himself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His results afford a wholesome check to introspective and romantic
criticism, and may be accepted as the starting-point for a reasoned
consideration of Shakespeare’s intentions.” G: F. Whicher
+ − =Nation= 110:433 Ap 3 ’20 800w
=New Repub= 25:326 F 9 ’21 360w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=STONE, GENE.= Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. il *$1.75 Crowell
20–15505
The Lees are a jolly western family living in a mountain valley in
Nevada. Nancy is a cousin from New York who comes to spend a year with
them. Nancy has been used to every luxury and there are many things
about her cousins’ way of life that surprise her. She is not used, for
one thing, to being introduced to delivery boys and she doesn’t see
Ralph Mariner’s outstretched hand. But Nancy is a “real girl” after
all. She easily adapts herself and enjoys the hearty fun and the
impromptu good times her cousins offer her, and comes to appreciate
Ralph’s worth, at the same time that he comes to see that she isn’t a
snob. Nancy changes her mind about finishing schools too and decides
to go to college and a great discovery, made on one of their
expeditions, makes it possible for the others to go too.
=STONE, GENE.= Jane and the owl. (Sage brush stories) il *$1.50 (5c)
Crowell
A series of fairy tale adventures for young readers. The initial
setting is unusual. Jane lives in the sage brush country and her
playground is a rocky canyon. Climbing its steep slopes one day, she
sits down on a broad flat rock to rest and falls asleep and then begin
her adventures in company with Oskar the owl. The stories are: Jane
and the owl; The wobbly wudgets; The tremendous terwollipers; The moon
sprites; The strike of the stylish young ladies of Fairtowers; The
land o’ nod; The joyful mermaids; Break o’ day country.
=STOREY, MOORFIELD.= Problems of today. *$1.50 Houghton 304
20–18501
A volume containing the Godkin lectures for 1920. These annual
lectures, delivered at Harvard, must deal in some manner with “the
essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen.” Mr
Storey chose five unrelated subjects of vital present interest. These
are: The use of parties; Lawlessness; Race prejudice; The labor
question; Our foreign relations. The author is a lawyer and member of
the American bar association. He has been president of the
Massachusetts civil service reform association, the Anti-imperialist
league, and of the National association for the advancement of colored
people.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“Mr Storey is at his best when he is considering conditions that are
not complex, where rightmindedness and neighborly feeling and a
willingness to do one’s share are enough to remedy human ills. When we
turn to discussion of the distribution of wealth and the relations
between employer and employed we find Mr Storey less adequate.”
+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 450w
=STORM, MARION.= Minstrel weather. il *$1.50 (8c) Harper 814
20–20910
A volume of nature essays, one for each month of the year, with such
titles as: Faces of Janus; A woodland valentine; Ways of the March
hare; The April moment; The crest of spring; Hay harvest time. The
author has a keen eye for the delicate shadings of the seasons’
changes, and the book will appeal to those of similar tastes. In
addition to the twelve essays for the months, she writes of Landscapes
seen in dreams; Hiding places; The play of leaves; The brown frontier;
Far altars.
* * * * *
“The style is full of color and highly charged with meaning. It is not
a smooth papershelled almond, but a shagbark hickory nut. If you want
the full sweetness of the kernel, you must pick it out carefully. It
well rewards the trouble. I am glad she has chosen to send out her
first book, not in some strange form of free verse, but in clear,
spicy, juicy prose. It is alluring and refreshing, a cupful of
cordial.” H: Van Dyke
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 700w
=STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.).= Present day
Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4
20–15940
“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the
battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are
devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable
Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle
ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious
Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the
final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional
guide book features are omitted. There is no index.
* * * * *
“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it
is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important
omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book
has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 540w
=STRATON, JOHN ROACH.= Menace of immorality in church and state;
messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176
20–6996
A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city,
all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of
the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of
immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time,
and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history
of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are:
Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social
vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians
attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way
of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze;
God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath
observance as social sanity.
* * * * *
“The book is all emphasis. Ring the bell for church a few times and it
has an effect; toll the bell and the stridence of its tone wearies.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w
=N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 700w
“The value and importance of his appeal, which might have been great,
are largely lost by lack of perspective, grotesque exaggeration,
superficial reasoning, and inaccurate statements of important facts.
To those abreast of the times in the field of social hygiene effort
and accomplishment, the book offers an object lesson in unscientific
method and presentation.” B. J.
− + =Social Hygiene= 6:580 O ’20 240w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 28 ’20 450w
Reviewed by F: H. Whitin
=Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 500w
=STRATTON, CLARENCE.= Public speaking. *$1.48 Holt 808.5
20–12400
“This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules
and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective
speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea
underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing
much more speaking than studying.” (Prefatory note) The chapters take
up: Speech; The voice; Words and sentences; Beginning the speech;
Concluding the speech; Getting material; Planning the speech; Making
the outline or brief; Explaining; Proving and persuading; Refuting;
Debating; Speaking upon special occasions; Dramatics. Additional
exercises are given in the two appendixes and there is an index. The
author is a member of the English department of Central high school,
St Louis, and of the Division of university extension, Washington
university.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the book is its excellent organization of the
large variety of activities which make up a worthy course in public
speaking.”
+ =School R= 28:635 O ’20 180w
=STRAUS, RALPH.= Pengard awake. *$2 Appleton
20–17317
Pengard was first discovered by some English tourists, as a bookdealer
in Chicago. According to the testimony of his friends, he had been
queer for some time and was getting queerer, disappearing from time to
time for increasingly long intervals. As he also appeared to be
suffering, Sir Robert Graeme sets himself to fathoming the mystery. A
famous English physician is requisitioned for the probe. That Pengard
is a victim of amnesia, is coming more and more under the influence of
another personality and is living in dread of complete surrender, is
certain from the start. And this is what gradually reveals itself:
John Pengard and Hartley Sylvester are one and the same person, and
the latter, author of a book that has made him famous, is gaining in
sinister influence. By the aid of psychoanalysis, hypnotism and shrewd
guesses, Dr Arne achieves the unexpected result that Pengard fades
away as a dream person and Sylvester comes to stay. After more patient
experimenting, more startling disclosures, Sylvester transforms
himself into John Mathieson, one-time pal and brother-in-arms to Sir
Robert’s dead brother.
* * * * *
“We must admit that even an inveterate novel reader will scarcely be
able to forecast the various developments which arise, and in
particular the utterly unlooked-for conclusion.”
+ =Ath= p555 O 22 ’20 130w
“The story becomes more and more baffling as we proceed. The mystery
is well worked out and the unraveling is exciting up to the very
close.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 190w
“An uncommonly good story of this kind. Based upon actual
psychological fact.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
+ =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 200w
“While the plot is clever enough to carry the book, the pleasant
literary style it is that will attract the average reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 470w
“Anybody who wants to be entertained will thoroughly enjoy this story,
but most readers will probably agree that Lucius Arne is the least
convincing part of it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p651 O 7 ’20 640w
=STRAUS, SIMON WILLIAM.= History of the thrift movement in America. il
*$1.50 (2c) Lippincott 331.84
20–7771
The book is one of Lippincott’s thrift text series edited by Arthur H.
Chamberlain. In his introduction Mr Chamberlain says of the author:
“He clearly saw the wasteful tendencies of our people, and deplored
the results, bound, he well knew, to come from them. He saw the
problem in its totality. He appreciated thoroughly the distinction
between proper spending and useless wasting; between common-sense
saving and narrow parsimony.... He alone could write the history,
indicate the need and significance and point the way of the thrift
movement, of which he is the apostle.” The book falls into two parts.
Some of the chapters in part 1 are: Characterization of thrift;
America’s record of thriftlessness; The organization of the American
society for thrift; The international congress for thrift; Resolutions
recommending the teachings of thrift in the public schools of America.
Among the contents of part 2 are: Little talks on thrift; Money-making
and money-saving; How thrift shapes the character; The need of
personal account keeping; Waste in the kitchen; Personal standards of
thrift; Thriftlessness among the poor. There is an index and five
symbolic cartoons by Rollin Kirby.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
“Certainly, the gospel of thrift which Mr Straus expounds needs to be
spread far and wide. The little talks on thrift contained in part II
will be helpful to teachers as illustrations of the thrift idea.” G:
F. Zook
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and ENGELHARDT, NICKOLAUS LOUIS.= Classroom
teacher at work in American school. il *$1.48 Am. bk. 371.2
20–7789
“This volume is one of the American education series, of which Prof.
Strayer is the general editor. It treats exhaustively of the
organization and administration of public education, as well as of the
technique employed by the teacher in his daily work. Chapters are
included dealing with records and reports, the organization of public
education, the classification and progress of children, the
measurement of the achievements of children, the health of school
children, as well as extra-curricula activities that make possible an
intelligent and sympathetic cooperation with the plans of the
administrator.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 80w
“Contains little that is new, but is a restatement of material which
is already familiar to all except elementary students of education. It
will doubtless be used in many introductory courses.”
+ − =El School J= 21:152 O ’20 500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w
=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= Sunbeams, Inc. il *$1.25 Doubleday
20–16499
Henry Bell Brown is introduced to us first as he is leaving the staff
of the New York Evening Dispatch, and is given a farewell banquet. He
is leaving to join a firm of “advertising engineers,” and subsequently
becomes H. Bell Brown. It is only when he goes into business for
himself that he rises to the glory of “Belwyn Brown.” It is his big
idea of “merchandising” (one of his favorite verbs) sunshine that
brings him success. He becomes a sort of a commercial Pollyanna
spreading Gloomer Chasers broadcast on boiler-plate pages—something on
this order: “No business is busted when there’s a smile left in the
bank.” The war threatens the business of Sunbeams, Inc., but he
enlarges its scope, goes to France and helps “win the war with
sunshine.” Upon his return he is more convinced than ever that his
name and fame shall be a household word and spares no effort to
accomplish this result. At the end of a successful banquet given in
his honor by the Pundits he is able to “indulge himself in a brief
self-gratulatory yet philosophical reflection. ‘One thing is sure,’ he
said to himself; ‘In this world a fellow gets just about what’s coming
to him.’”
* * * * *
“Not only is the story so thin that it will hardly hold together, but
it is impossible to feel any sympathy with the leading character—a
state of things which often is fatal in a work of this kind. That it
is not so in this instance is immeasurably to the credit of the
author. It affords whimsical entertainment of unique quality.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 350w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 200w
“Short story with a lot of humor and various amusing exhibitions of
psychology.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w
=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN, ed.= Spirit; the relation of God and man,
considered from the standpoint of recent philosophy and science. *$2.50
Macmillan 231
19–19611
“The movement toward a scientific and philosophical conception of God
is materially aided by the publication of a book called ‘The spirit,’
edited by Canon B. H. Streeter of the Church of England. ‘This
volume,’ says the editor, ‘puts forward a conception of
spirit—considered as God in action—which is definite but not
scholastic, and which is capable of affording a basis both for a
coherent philosophy and for a religion passionate and ethical,
mystical and practical.’ The chapter on Immanence and transcendance is
by Prof. A. Pringle-Pattison. Miss Lily Dougall writes on God in
action. The psychology of power is treated by Capt. J. A. Hadfield of
the Ashhurst neurological war hospital at Oxford. A. Clutton-Brock’s
customary distinction of mind and style is apparent in two chapters on
Spiritual experience and Spirit and matter. Other chapters are What
happened at Pentecost by Rev. C. A. Anderson Scott, The psychology of
grace, by Rev. C. W. Emmet, The language of the soul, by Miss Dougall
and Christ, the revolutionary by Canon Streeter.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 320w
“Its temper is frank, its thought, for the most part, keen and clear,
and its language, though frequently employing the terms of traditional
theology, simple and eloquent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 19 ’20 680w
“Alike in its fearlessness, in its refusal to make terms with narrow
types of orthodoxy, and in its strong Christocentric theology it is a
characteristic product of modern English religious thought. Its main
defect is that it only implicitly recognizes the affirmation of modern
research that Christianity is a synthesis.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 My 6 ’20 2300w
=STREIT, CLARENCE K.= “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” il *$1;
pa *50c Huebsch 940.318
20–19447
The booklet comes under the “Freeman pamphlets” series and is “a note
on the relation of privilege and monopoly to war.” (Subtitle) It is an
exposé of the stock and bond morality of big business and shows “that
the interests of a nation and the interests of private property are
two separate and distinct things. Whether the money and mineral
international did or did not prepare and start the war ... it is
certain that the fifty-one months during which millions of men were
killed was a most profitable era for these interests.” Some of the
topics discussed are: The basin of Briey; Interlocking directorates;
Nickel not contraband; The French trust favors Krupps; Patrioteers;
When is a fort not a fort? The agreement for a Lorraine offensive; The
flag of big business; Bloody profits.
* * * * *
“Mr Streit tells the story simply, straightforwardly, with ample
citation of authority, but almost too unjournalistically. The booklet
is marred by awkward translations and by careless proof-reading of
place names.”
+ − =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 300w
=STRINGER, ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT.= Prairie mother. il *$2 Bobbs
20–11073
“Those who met ‘Chaddie’ McKail in ‘The prairie wife’ will be glad
that Arthur Stringer has embodied her later experiences in ‘The
prairie mother.’ Many of the characters of the earlier story of the
Canadian prairie appear here. The story is in the form of a diary in
which she sets down the details leading up to, and during, her
greatest trial. The McKails have passed the first material
difficulties of home-making in the new land, and their condition
borders on opulence. But unfortunate speculation sweeps away their
broad acres and solid home, and they are faced with the necessity of
starting all over again. The ‘prairie mother’ gladly surrenders her
charming home to the husband’s titled English cousin, and moves her
household and three small tots to an unbroken half section which is in
her name. The new owner of the old home is a woman who had entrusted
funds to McKail. The former speedily proves the fly in the ointment,
for she seems to fascinate ‘Dinky-Dunk’ and ere long there is a
virtual separation. With deep sympathy, Mr Stringer details Chaddie’s
efforts to mend her broken life.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“Mr Stringer’s public is accustomed to expect good work from his pen
and we venture the opinion that in ‘The prairie mother’ he has
surpassed himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 600w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 390w
=STRONG, EDWARD KELLOGG, jr.= Introductory psychology for teachers. il
$1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
A series of lessons in psychology arranged to form a classroom course.
The author has planned the course on the well-known principles of
proceeding from the known to the unknown, of learning by doing, etc.
He describes his method in the preface: “Instead of beginning with the
most uninteresting phases of psychology and those most unknown to
students, the course takes up concrete experiences of everyday life,
relates them to the problems of learning and individual differences,
and so develops these two topics. Each general principle is discovered
by the student out of his own experience in solving specially
organized problems. Only after he has done his best is he expected to
refer to the text and by then the text is no longer basic but only
supplementary.” The sections of the book following the introduction
are devoted to: The learning process; Individual differences; Some
physiological aspects of psychology. There is a brief general review
at the close. Charts and diagrams illustrate the book, references
follow most of the chapters, and there is an index. The text is also
printed in the form of seventeen booklets. The author is professor of
vocational education, Carnegie institute of technology.
* * * * *
“There is growing up a pronounced distinction between two schools of
educational psychologists. The one is interested in dealing with the
relatively tangible outcomes of learning activities and is satisfied
to put all explanations in the form of Professor Thorndike’s easy, but
quite meaningless, formula of bonds. The other is interested in
finding out in detail the steps by which a pupil acquires his mental
results. Professor Strong may be described as belonging to the first
type. For that school he has rendered the service of getting together
a large body of interesting examples, and he has put these examples in
a more teachable form than any writers of that group who have preceded
him.”
+ − =El School J= 20:793 Je ’20 300w
=STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.=[2] Secrets of Crewe house. il *$2 (*7s 6d) (4½c)
Doran 940.342
20–22069
Crewe house was the headquarters of the department of propaganda in
enemy countries under the directorship of Viscount Northcliffe. The
story of its activities and successes during 1918 are revealed in this
book. According to a quotation from the Tägliche Rundschau on page
127, “It cannot be doubted that Lord Northcliffe very substantially
contributed to England’s victory in the world war. His conduct of
English propaganda during the war will some day find its place in
history as a performance hardly to be surpassed.” The book is indexed
and contains besides the portraits of the various members of the
committee on propaganda and other illustrations several maps and
facsimiles of the leaflets distributed by means of balloons. The
contents are: Propaganda: its uses and abuses; Crewe house: its
organization and personnel; Operations against Austria-Hungary:
propaganda’s most striking success; Operations against Germany;
Tributes from the enemy; Operations against Bulgaria and other
activities; Inter-allied cooperation; From war propaganda to peace
propaganda; Vale!
* * * * *
=Ath= p333 S 10 ’20 260w
“Although there is much that is eulogistic of his chief, Sir Campbell
does not overdraw the picture. He uses none of the arts of the
professional writer, preferring at all times to tell the story without
attempting the dramatic.” H. D. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 780w
“This complacent book is ludicrous, not because it takes for granted
that all it aimed to achieve was achieved; nor because it omits due
credit to French propaganda (more extensive than British) and Russian
(not even mentioned); but because it tries to get glory out of war.”
Heber Blankenhorn
− =Nation= 111:594 N 24 ’20 1600w
“Sir Campbell’s lively style and his keen enjoyment of what he has to
tell engross the reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 1750w
“‘Secrets of Crewe house’ is rather hastily put together, and is too
much a eulogy of Lord Northcliffe by his chief assistant. But it
contains a good deal of interesting description of the sundry
ingenious devices by which Lord Northcliffe spread his propaganda.” H:
W. Bunn
+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w
“In Lord Northcliffe’s mentality we have always been struck with a
strong vein of simplicity, which the charitable call naïveté, and the
uncharitable call knavery, or stupidity. There are two signs of this
quality in this book. Again and again it is explicitly stated that the
propaganda told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
This is childish. No propaganda could succeed which told the truth.”
− =Sat R= 130:239 S 18 ’20 1100w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 300w
“A very lively and exciting story, which the many illustrations in the
volume help to diversify. Yet the book is more than a piece of good
reading about the war, and more than a historical record. It will have
a permanent value as a handbook to the principles of propaganda in
enemy countries.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 S 2 ’20 450w
=STUCK, HUDSON.= Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. il *$6 (5c)
Scribner 979.8
20–9131
This is the author’s fourth book of Alaskan travel and describes a
journey with dog-sled around the entire Arctic coast of Alaska in the
winter of 1917–18. It is not a record of discoveries of exploration
and does not describe an already “scientifically known” people
anthropologically but rather socially during their “normal life” which
is their winter life. “My purpose was an enquiry into their present
state, physical, mental, moral and religious, industrial and domestic,
into their prospects, into what the government and the religious
organizations have done and are doing for them, and what should yet be
done.” (Preface) Besides many illustrations, two maps and an index the
book contains: From Fort Yukon to Kotzebue Sound; Kotzebue Sound to
Point Hope; Point Hope; Point Hope to Point Barrow; Point Barrow; The
northern extreme; Point Barrow to Flaxman Island; Flaxman Island and
the journey to Herschel Island; Herschel Island and the journey to
Fort Yukon.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this
narrative.” F: O’Brien
+ =Nation= 111:537 N 10 ’20 680w
“This book is readable from cover to cover—entertaining, thoughtful,
wise in its recommendations concerning our great territory, and
attractive in its illustration.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 80w
“Mr Stuck is a man of many interests, and his narrative is the more
absorbing for being discursive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p576 S 9 ’20 900w
=STUDENSKY, PAUL.= Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. *$3
Appleton 371.17
20–2739
The book is published under the auspices of the Institute for
government research, in the series Studies in administration, and is
both a critical and descriptive study of the subject. It “should be
not only a substantial contribution to the science of administration,
but an immediate and practical aid to teachers, school authorities,
legislators and all other persons interested in solving the problem of
reorganizing their own systems or establishing systems ... upon bases
that have been tested by experience and are in accordance with sound
social, economic, and financial principles.” (Editorial introd.) Part
1: The problem of teachers’ pensions, contains: The evolution of
teachers’ pensions in the United States; The teachers’ pension problem
outlined; Superannuation benefits; Disability benefits; Death and
withdrawal benefits; Determining the cost of benefits; The division of
cost between government and teachers; The government’s contribution;
The teacher’s contribution; Compulsory participation and the right to
management. In Part 2 an account is given of the movement in the
United States and an examination made of the history and present
condition of the more important systems now in existence. There is
also an appendix, actuarial tables and a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“In his efforts to inculcate the sound principles, Mr Studensky errs
rather on the side of overloading his discussion with too much detail,
which for the readers most concerned will probably lead to confusion
rather than clarification. While general agreement will be found with
the principles of a sound pension system discussed in the volume, Mr
Studensky’s acceptance of the salary scale as the basis of the pension
considerably diminishes the value of his work.”
+ − =Nation= 111:622 D 1 ’20 350w
“The book covers the subject critically and thoroughly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w
“The volume will serve the purpose of a work of reference and will be
of value to committees of teachers considering the establishment of a
pension system. The average teacher, however, will perhaps be a little
more confused by the problem after reading the book than before,
mainly because it is over-loaded by too much detail and because the
discussions of theory and practice are too widely separated.” I. L.
Kandel
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 390w
=STURGEON, MARY C.= Studies of contemporary poets, rev. and enl. *$2.50
Dodd 821.09
“These short studies, warmly presenting the merits of a number of
contemporary poets with much illustrative quotation, first appeared in
1916. The additional chapters are on John Drinkwater, ‘Michael Field,’
(Katharine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper), Thomas Hardy, J. C.
Squire, Contemporary women poets (Anna Wickham, Helen Parry Eden, Anna
Bunston, Olive Custance, Eva Gore Booth, Margaret Radford), and W. B.
Yeats.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The best one can say about Miss Sturgeon’s work is that it is the
outcome of a wide knowledge of the poets and versifiers of her time.
But she fails to do justice to whatever understanding of them that
knowledge might have given to her.”
− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 240w
“One does not receive in these pages the keen analysis, the subtle
interpretation of contemporaries such as Arthur Symons gave to his
public in ‘Studies in two literatures,’ but they do give an honest,
workable survey of the figures and qualities among the contemporaneous
poets of England that is serviceable and informative.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 840w
“The fact is that Miss Sturgeon’s criticism leans toward
sentimentalism, and not only because she tends always to stress the
good, the true, the perennially sad. Her writing clings too close to
its matter even when she is at her best, which is in interpretation of
the thought and melody in giving passages; and her exquisiteness of
appreciation tends in one way or another to impede the flow of
critical thought. One poet seems in retrospect very much like
another.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 780w
“Miss Sturgeon’s book, taken with the necessary ‘grano salis,’ has
much to recommend it. Its value as criticism would have been higher if
Miss Sturgeon had not been so uniformly enthusiastic.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Personal
prejudices. *$1.65 (4c) Houghton 814
20–16519
In these chatty essays the author gives her opinions on many subjects,
as the table of contents reveals, with much wit and humor. Her husband
in his preface to the book says of it that it is not immoral and
therefore not really modern, but commends it for its patriotic
enthusiasm. Contents: Gardens; Husbands and housekeeping; Autres
temps, autres mœurs; The lost art of letterwriting; My Bolshevist; Old
friends; New acquaintances; House and home; Quality versus equality;
Differences and distinctions; Epilogue by the favourite nephew.
* * * * *
“Sweet, homely essays with the humor which pleased readers of ‘Random
reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The odd thing is that this book of informal essays will probably
please readers of sharply different types, though perhaps not always
in the way in which the writer would choose. She has the real gift of
the familiar essayist, the gift for self-revelation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 300w
“Her originality is as clearly reflected in her refreshing style as in
her prejudices. Her commentaries sparkle with the same charming wit,
compounded of shrewd common sense and abundant humor that made such
delightful reading of her ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 30w
=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Rapids. *$1.75 (2) Appleton
20–11223
The story is a fairy tale of what the genius of one man can achieve in
developing the powers of nature. Robert Fisher Clark was a man of
vision, of action, of unusual concentration, and of hypnotic
personality. At a glance he takes in the possibilities of the Rapids
of St Mary’s and the surrounding wilderness. Immediately he is at work
developing plans and attracting the necessary money and good-will by
his personal magnetism. But the test of his greatness comes when human
covetousness and stupidity wrests the fruits of his labor from him
after the end of seven years and he is ready to acknowledge that he
has worked in the service of humanity not for his own gain. He
abandons everything, even the woman he loves, to the equally
wholehearted love of his engineer and seeks new fields for his
activity.
* * * * *
“Men will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“It is an interesting and well-told story, with vivid presentation of
its scenes. In its purpose and manner and spirit the author has made a
successful venture in turning aside a little from the usual lines of
fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 460w
=Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 620w
“A fine romance of industrial enterprise from the western world.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 40w
=SULLY, JAMES=, My life and friends. *$5 Dutton
(Eng ed 19–4187)
“James Sully’s latest book, ‘My life and friends: a psychologist’s
memories,’ is the record of a man devoted to music and literature as
well as to his technical subject. The book is not burdened with formal
information about himself. It does not tell us the date of his birth,
or the name of his wife, or the number of his children. It begins the
narrative of his life by a description of the sleepy Somersetshire
town of Bridgwater, where he was born, and ends with a chance remark
on Sicilian painted carts. It touches upon the circumstances of his
childhood in a Nonconformist family and of his early education in
Baptist schools; upon his student days in Germany under Ewald and
Lotze; upon his literary and professional work in London, where he
became professor of philosophy in University college. But it dwells
most affectionately upon his vacations and upon the men and women
whose intimacy or acquaintance he enjoyed.”—Nation
* * * * *
“An inspiring reminiscent volume.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Je 7 ’19 1400w
“A very readable contribution to biographical literature and to the
intellectual history of an important period is offered in Professor
James Sully’s volume of reminiscences.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:524 F 9 ’21 760w
+ =Nation= 109:446 S 27 ’19 250w
“His memoirs are not great in themselves: it is rather the friendships
they chronicle that add lustre to them.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
“By those who wish to enjoy the society of the superior Hampsteadians
of the last quarter of the last century, Dr Sully’s autobiography
should be read, and will certainly be relished.”
+ =Sat R= 126:sup10 N 23 ’18 1050w
“Dr Sully’s new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare,
which are much more pleasant to read than to criticise. Its merits,
like those of a well-baked cake, are diffused imperceptibly throughout
the whole mass; it does not lend itself to quotation; there are many
plums, but to savour their true excellence they have to be taken in
their original environment.”
+ =Spec= 121:460 O 26 ’18 940w
“Dr Sully contributes to literature a book of value as well as
interest in ‘My life and my friends.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 25 ’21 1100w
=SUMMERS, A. LEONARD.= Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (Pitman’s
common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 553.6
20–9018
“Until the completion of this work, there existed no comprehensive
book on the absorbing study of asbestos.... The uses and scope of
asbestos having now become universal, it has long been felt that a
book thereon was much needed, so few people really understanding the
subject; and the author (for many years closely associated with the
industry), while avoiding as far as possible too dry and tiresome
technicalities, has dealt with everything of real interest and utility
in a concise and popular style to appeal to every class of reader.”
(Foreword) There are illustrations by the author and from photographs
and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
“The volume on ‘Asbestos’ decidedly suffers by comparison with its
companion volume [on ‘Zinc’ by T. E. Lones] as the author does not
take care to avoid a number of errors, which, though common enough in
the trade, ought not to find their way into a book of this
description.”
+ − =Nature= 105:194 Ap 15 ’20 300w
“As a catalogue of finished products the volume will find use; as a
text-book covering the technical preparation of asbestos it hardly
merits consideration.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=SUMMERS, WALTER COVENTRY.= Silver age of Latin literature. *$3 Stokes
870
The period covered is from Tiberius to Trajan. The preface says: “The
term ‘Silver Latin’ is often applied loosely to all the post-Augustan
literature of Rome: in this book it has been reserved for that earlier
part of it which, in spite of a definite decline in taste and
freshness, deserves nevertheless to be sharply distinguished from the
baser metals of the imitative or poverty-stricken periods which
followed.” (Preface) A chronological table is followed by discussions
on: The declamations and the pointed style; The epic; Drama; Verse
satire; Light and miscellaneous verse; Oratory; History, biography and
memoirs; Philosophy; Prose-satire and romance; Correspondence;
Grammar, criticism and rhetoric; Scientific and technical prose. There
are notes on translations and an index.
* * * * *
“The book contains some smooth translations, of which, as might be
expected, the renderings from the satirists are probably the most
successful. Without stating any particularly fresh theory, Mr Summers
covers the old ground very thoroughly.”
+ =Ath= p435 O 1 ’20 640w
“In ‘The silver age of Latin literature,’ we are given a text-book,
admirably written and closely digested, that is an open door to a
literature that often amazes us by its evident modernity.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 1500w
“Rather dull. But Prof. Summers is full of learning on the period
which is not commonly mastered by classical students; and his record
is so thorough that it should not be neglected.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 400w
=SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM.= What social classes owe to each other. 2d ed
*$1.50 (4c) Harper 171
20–8048
This is a republication of Prof. Sumner’s book on ‘Social classes’
with an introduction by his successor to the chair of social science
at Yale university, Albert Galloway Keller. Prof. Keller thinks that
our age, more than any other, needs an unflinching statement of the
individualistic position, of laissez-faire. “At a time when the world
is menaced with the curtailment of civil liberty and the paralysis of
individual initiative through weird and grotesque developments of
socialism ... the man who takes to heart the truths of this little
book cannot be led by the nose even into that pseudo-open-mindedness
that toys with bolshevism and anarchism.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
“The book is a brilliant piece of writing, an impassioned vindication
of individualism, a resolute arraignment of the social meddling and
social doctors that were popular in 1883, are now, and perhaps always
will be.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 100w
“Plausible as all this may have sounded in 1883, it seems unfair to
the memory of an eminent scholar to resurrect a study in which such
manifestly outgrown sentiments are predominant.” Ordway Tead
− =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 220w
“Whatever we may think of such old-fashioned individualism, it is
wholesome to have a dash of it now and then, and the reading of such a
book as this, like a cold bath after a warm day, is both refreshing
and stimulating.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 270w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR.=[2] League of nations at work. *$1.75 Macmillan 341.1
20–17503
“A series of articles contributed to the New York Evening Post by
Arthur Sweetser, a member of the American peace commission, is
published in book form. Mr Sweetser writes to clear away
misconceptions and to make the purposes and the actual machinery of
the league as clear as possible. Mr Sweetser’s study covers in
detail the permanent court, the secretariat, the questions of
disarmament, minorities and mandates, international labor and health
organizations, freedom of transit, economic co-operation and open
diplomacy.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“He shows a very clear understanding of essentials and he presents his
well-digested knowledge in clear language, with simple figures to
drive home his points. As a popular elucidation of the league, Mr
Sweetser’s book is from every point of view commendable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 310w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR, and LAMONT, GORDON.= Opportunities in aviation. il
*$1 (3½c) Harper 629.1
20–2110
The authors of this volume, one a captain in the American air service,
the other a lieutenant in the Royal air force of Canada, claim that it
is the training, not the individual, that makes the pilot and that
“any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight
and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an
automobile through the streets of a large city ... he can take himself
off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more
difficult and dangerous.” (Introd.) The authors also claim that
aeronautics in the future must cease to be a highly specialized
business, that the airplane will become a conveyance of everyday
civilian use and that what they have written is based on actual
accomplishments to date. Contents: War’s conquest of the air; The
transition to peace; Training an airplane pilot; Safety in flying;
Qualifications of an airplane mechanic; The first crossing of the
Atlantic; Landing-fields—the immediate need; The airplane’s brother;
The call of the skies; Addendum.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and
Thomas James Wise. *$2 Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–9019)
Mr Gosse and Mr Wise, who edited Swinburne’s letters and a collection
of “Posthumous poems,” have prepared the first selection from his
works since the one compiled by Watts-Dunton in 1887. This early
volume, the present editors say, “was not broadly characteristic of
Swinburne’s many moods and variety of subjects.” The aim has been to
make the new selection more representative.
* * * * *
“Without having at hand the older volume of selections made by
Swinburne himself it may yet be said that the present selection is a
good one. It would have been more ‘representative’ if it had included
one or two of the ‘Songs before sunrise,’ and the omission of ‘Laus
veneris’ and especially ‘The leper’ is regrettable. What one would
like to have would be a volume of selections including these poems and
omitting the two choruses from ‘Atalanta,’ and another volume
containing the whole of ‘Atalanta.’” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p72 Ja 16 ’20 1400w
=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The present selection is, in almost every way, admirable, and
represents adequately the poetical genius of the author.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 140w
=Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 40w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 160w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w
“Lovers of Swinburne will be grateful to Mr Gosse and Mr Wise.”
+ =Spec= 124:463 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“So long as a selection contains the ‘Triumph of time,’ the ‘Garden of
Proserpine,’ ‘Hertha,’ the Atalanta choruses, and a few others, it
will content us; these we need, and beyond these whatever else is
included the editor may be at peace—we shall take it and be
satisfied.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p732 D 11 ’19 1000w
=SWINDLER, ROBERT EARL.= Causes of war. *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 902
20–1549
“This publication is based on the idea that it is idle to talk of
world peace without an intelligent world understanding. ‘The causes of
war’ is designed to meet the need of a systematic organization of the
great mass of material concerning the war. It gives all the essential
points, and is equally suited to the busy student, teacher, or general
reader. The work includes not only an outline and study of the world
war together with the official peace negotiations, but also a survey
of all the wars that preceded with particular emphasis upon those
since 1870.”—School R
* * * * *
“This volume is pertinent and timely. It is one of the most convenient
reference books on a subject of universal interest that has so far
been published, and is well-nigh indispensable for writers and
speakers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“The work is so clearly and logically written that it is particularly
valuable for use in current history classes.”
+ =School R= 28:237 Mr ’20 200w
=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran
19–18833
Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love
in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,”
the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry
Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven
years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a
love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of
Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness,
which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for
irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel,
young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and
surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won
over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex,
involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and
genuine friendship for Cherry.
* * * * *
“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly
penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably
out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are
not two distinct things, but the same.”
+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 140w
=Ath= p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w
+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:81 Mr ’20 750w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction,
he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own
lines.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w
“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly
promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age
of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the
past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more
penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w
“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of
‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a
very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and
houses.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’
appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of
the season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 150w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub= W 97:174 Ja 17 ’20 500w
“Mr Swinnerton’s sensitivism, if the term may properly be applied to
him, is on the side of the angels. Unlike many of his contemporaries,
he does not throw decency overboard because hypocrites exist, or exalt
impulse over principle.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:85 Ja 24 ’20 450w
“The book is one that almost any English novelist might have been
proud to write.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 80w
+ − =Spec= 123:773 D 6 ’19 440w
“The relationship between the two women is the theme of the book; and
as Mr Swinnerton has been at pains to endow each with character, and
to make out from his own insight how such a relation might shape
itself, the development is original enough to have an unusual air of
truth.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w
=SWINNERTON, HELEN (DIRCKS) (MRS FRANK SWINNERTON).= Passenger. *$1.50
Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–16192)
In introducing this book of poems Frank Swinnerton refers to
originality and candour as their outstanding qualities. Of the author
he says, “Whatever technical faults her verses may have they remain
altogether unspoilt by literary sophistication.” Some of the titles
are: Underground; Withholding; Then and now; Alone; Piccadilly, 1917;
America, 1917; London in war; The betrayal; Adjustment; Garden song;
Trying to sleep; The traveller; In the dark.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 300w
“Many of these pieces are happy little efforts in lyrical poems of
love or regret, and the whiffs of verse in vers libre are felicitous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= Je 3 ’20 110w
=SWISHER, WALTER SAMUEL.= Religion and the new psychology. *$2 Jones,
Marshall 201
20–12542
“A psycho-analytic study of religion,” with chapters devoted to: The
nature of the religious problem; The nature of the unconscious and its
influence on the religious life; The motivation of human life;
Determinism and free-will; Mysticism and neurotic states; The problem
of evil; Pathological religious types; The occult in modern religious
systems; Conversion and attendant phenomena; The changing basis and
objective of religion; Methods of mental and religious healing; The
religious problem in education. Two appendices are devoted to: Dreams
and dream mechanisms and Birth dreams. There is a brief bibliography
and an index. The author goes rather fully into the principles of
psycho-analysis and the book may serve as an introduction to those who
have not read widely on the subject.
* * * * *
“The most useful part of the book deals with religious education and
illustrates the baneful effects of early religious fears. The author
is dogmatic in his statements regarding the religious and non-ethical
life of primitive people. Most of the readers, familiar with
psychoanalytic literature, will turn from the book with the conviction
that a satisfactory discussion of religion and the new psychology is
hardly to be expected from within the ministerial profession. The book
would serve a useful purpose were it not unlikely to be read by those
who need it most.” E. R. Groves
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:376 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:8 O ’20
“Rarely, perhaps never, has a writer failed so signally to accomplish
his aim. The book is a heterogeneous mass of poorly digested, badly
assimilated psychology, and worse religion, while from the pedagogical
point of view that which he says has been said many times.” Joseph
Collins
− =Bookm= 52:172 O ’20 620w
=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 80w
“That much is here done to illustrate the indubitable connection
between the religious motives of mankind and other motives and
faculties, is true; it is also true that the book by swallowing the
Freudian system of sex symbols too uncritically makes itself a
candidate for laughter in that day, sure to come, when the excesses of
Freud will recall the excesses of Max Müller.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 120w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 570w
“Like many other books on psycho-analysis, this one proves that until
expounders of this theory develop greater balance or a keener sense of
humor in considering the phenomena of sex, there is small likelihood
of their labors resulting in a substantial addition to our scientific
understanding of ourselves.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p863 D 16 ’20 100w
T
=TAFT, HENRY WATERS.= Occasional papers and addresses of an American
lawyer. *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 304
20–10712
Of these addresses the author says, in his long introduction, that
“the march of events has been so rapid that little more than a
historic interest now attaches to the subjects they deal with,” but he
hopes they may stimulate the younger members of the legal profession
to greater effort in promoting the effective administration of justice
and in the duties of citizenship. The contents, in part, are: Address
to the Harvard law school students delivered in 1908; Some
responsibilities of the American lawyer; The bar in the war; Report of
the war committee; Aspects of bolshevism and Americanism; The League
of nations; Sovereignty, constitutionality and the Monroe doctrine;
What is to be done with our railroads? Some of the papers appeared in
the New York Times.
* * * * *
“Mr Taft brings to his consideration of these subjects sound
information and a forceful dignity of judgment.”
+ =Ind= 105:171 F 12 ’21 40w
“A fresh, clear viewpoint, together with that true liberalism which is
the fruit of independent thought, makes these essays enjoyable. One of
the most interesting of all is the introduction, in which there are
some critical and friendly estimates of Theodore Roosevelt and of some
of the things proposed by him—these latter more critical and not quite
so friendly, though never ungenerous or unfair.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 S 12 ’20 2100w
“They are uniformly clear, good tempered, and conservatively
progressive.”
+ =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 80w
=TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD.= Taft papers on League of nations. *$4.50
Macmillan 341.1
20–19170
The papers are edited by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack and the
former, in a long introduction, sets forth the reasons why they are an
evidence of the ex-president’s grasp of the guiding legal principles
of our government and of the attitude of mind which the best thought
and feeling of the country heartily accept as true Americanism. Among
the papers are: League to enforce peace; The Paris covenant for a
league of nations; Constitutionality of the proposals; The purposes of
the League; Self determination; Workingmen and the League; Why a
league of nations is necessary; Disarmament of nations and freedom of
the seas; President Wilson and the League of nations; Senator Lodge on
the League of nations; Representation in the League; Ireland and the
League; Answer to Senator Knox’s indictment; Guaranties of article X.
The book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Although this important collection of documents appears subsequent to
the conclusion of the ‘solemn referendum,’ and the fall of Wilsonism
in our country, it will doubtless prove of great value when the new
régime shall come in and the whole question of the League of nations
shall be definitely disposed of.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 780w
“This volume embodies much of the soundest thinking on the subject of
the League of nations that has thus far found expression in America.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:224 F ’21 120w
=TAGGART, MARION AMES.= Pilgrim maid. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday
20–5775
For the heroine of her story for girls the author has chosen Constance
Hopkins, a real maid of Plymouth who came in the Mayflower in 1620
with her father, her stepmother and younger brothers and sister. Other
real people have a place in the story too, among them John Alden and
Priscilla. The preface says, “The aim has been to present Plymouth
colony as it was in its first three years of existence; to keep to
possibilities, even while inventing incidents. Actual events have been
transferred from a later to an earlier year.... But there is fidelity
to the general trend of events, above all to the spirit of Plymouth in
its beginnings.”
* * * * *
“Interesting, though accentuating the severity of Puritan life. For
older girls.”
+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
“‘A Pilgrim maid’ is that rare thing, a really good story for girls.
It is a story first and history second.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
=TALBOT, FREDERICK ARTHUR AMBROSE.=[2] Millions from waste. il *$5
Lippincott 604
20–2995
“The present volume deals with the reclamation of waste of all kinds,
from scrap-iron to fish-offal. Although it is written from the British
standpoint, the solutions that are given of the various problems are
as applicable to American conditions. In general, each chapter
considers some particular kind of waste product, discussing both the
extent of such waste and the processes that have been developed for
utilizing these products. Wastes from the kitchen, the
slaughter-house, the fishing industry, the ash-can, the sewer, the
metal industry, and many other branches are discussed.”—Mining and
Scientific Press
* * * * *
“This timely book combines to a marked degree solidity of substance
with an entertaining style.” C: W. Mixter
+ =Am Econ R= 10:824 D ’20 950w
=Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 180w
=Brooklyn= 12:129 My ’20 30w
“The treatment is popular enough to be interesting, but not so popular
as to fail of being informative.”
+ =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:177 Ja 31 ’20 150w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 110w
“A capital book for the general reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 120w
=TALBOT, WINTHROP, comp, and ed.= Americanization. 2d ed rev. and enl.
by Julia E. Johnsen. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson. H. W. 325.7
20–8819
In this second edition the bibliography is brought down to date and
fifty-three pages of new matter are added. In these additional
reprints “special endeavor has been made to emphasize the more
concrete aspect of Americanisation.” (Explanatory note)
* * * * *
“Eminently suited to its purpose.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:358 Jl ’20
“The purely political aspects of the subject—especially the effect of
deportation proceedings—are not yet included. Perhaps the editors have
been wise in limiting their attention to the purely constructive
efforts. The book in its present form should prove very useful to
Americanization workers.”
+ =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 30w
=TANSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE.= New psychology and its relation to life. *$4
Dodd 150
(Eng ed SG20–137)
While the old psychology has over-emphasized the purely rational
faculties of the mind, the new psychology recognizes the importance of
its unconscious processes. The object of the book is to set forth the
fundamental importance of the instinctive sources of human actions,
and the part played by psychotherapy in throwing light upon normal
mental processes. Part 1 describes the scope of the new psychology and
the problem of the relationship of mind and body. The other divisions
or the contents are: The structure of the mind; The energy of the
mind; By-ways of the libido; Reasons and rationalization; The contents
of the mind. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Mr Tansley has written a really excellent exposition and summary of
the chief speculations in modern psychology.”
+ =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 220w
“The author reveals throughout his work the poise of the man who has
mastered his subject. The book will be welcomed by those who wish to
know the latest developments in psychology.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 2 ’20 810w
“His survey of the Freudian theories is both readable and clear. His
graphic method of presenting the interaction between consciousness and
the unconscious in convenient spatial diagrams is very helpful as long
as the reader guards himself against taking them too literally.” A. B.
Kuttner
+ − =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 730w
“Mr Tansley’s book is most satisfactory when he is dealing with such
matters as the interpretation of dreams, the ‘rationalisations’ by
which men try to justify conduct which is really prompted by
non-rational motives, and the great psychic complexes which correspond
to the main instincts of man. The book is less satisfactory in the
general theoretical chapters with which it opens.” H. S.
+ =Nature= 105:770 Ag 19 ’20 780w
“Mr Tansley’s book seems to me the best general survey of psychology
now available. It is the best, partly because it is the latest, but
chiefly because Mr Tansley enjoys a fine gift of exposition. He
himself has an orderly and a lucid mind, and an unfailing respect for
the reader.” W. L.
+ |=New Repub= 25:112 D 22 ’20 1000w
“Particularly interesting is his discussion of the ‘universal
complexes’ of the ego, herd, and sex which result from the play of
experience upon the primary instincts. The book is on the whole free
from those pathological exaggerations which characterize so many of
the productions of so-called psychoanalysts.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 250w
“Mr Tansley is not, however, a blind follower of these authorities; he
has preserved his independence of view, and produced an original and
stimulating discussion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 100w
=TAPPAN, EVA MARCH.= Hero stories of France. il *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 944
20–7446
These stories, written for children, begin with the first encounters
of the Gauls with the Romans under Caesar, and the gallant patriot
hero Vercingetorix’ desperate efforts to save his country from the
powerful conqueror. From the entire history of France, down to our own
time and Marshal Foch, heroic personalities are selected and among
them are: Vercingetorix; Clovis; Charlemagne; The six heroes of
Calais; Jeanne d’Arc; Coligny; Henry of Navarre; Richelieu; Lafayette;
Napoleon the Great, and “Napoleon the Little”; and Marshal Foch. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= In Lincoln’s chair. *$1 (11c) Macmillan
20–5208
In fiction form, this is a condensed story of the life of Lincoln as
told, by way of reminiscence, by Billy Brown, in his drugstore on the
public square of Springfield, Illinois, and while his listener was
seated opposite him in “Lincoln’s chair.” It brings out the salient
features of Lincoln’s life before he went to Washington, his views on
God, and their influence on his intellectual development, his early
experiences as a lawyer, and his political progress.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w
“Must a saint or hero be all sugar, without spice or salt? Miss Ida M.
Tarbell seems to think so still more in her imaginary conversation ‘In
Lincoln’s chair’ than she did a dozen years ago in ‘He knew Lincoln.’
The moment she leaves the cold path of history she falls into the most
abandoned myth-making.”
− =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 160w
=TARN, WILLIAM WOODTHORPE.= Treasure of the isle of mist. *$1.90 (5c)
Putnam
20–1903
This is a delightfully fantastic story of a student and his little
daughter Fiona who lived on the Isle of mist on the shores of a gray
sea-loch. The old hawker who came to them with a pack of buttons to
sell and who gave Fiona an old copper bangle bracelet, and the
“search” turned out in the end to have been the king of fairies. The
bracelet gave Fiona the power to talk with animals—to hold long
philosophic conversations with a centipede—and to see and talk with
the spirit of the mountain. But it was not only on account of the
bracelet that she could do this but—because she was a child and could
still see. When the treasure cave was closed up to her by a great fall
of rock she knew that now she was too old for the search. The chapters
are headed: The gift of the search; The beginning of trouble; The
haunted cave; The urchin vanishes; The oread; The king of the
woodcock; Fiona in the fairy-world; Fiona finds her treasure.
* * * * *
“Delicately imaginative and beautifully written.”
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“An exquisite fantasy of youth and autumn.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:259 N ’20 670w
“W. W. Tarn has written a book so beautiful, so whimsical, so
exquisite alike in its humor, its loveliness and its sheer charm that
it will be a dull reader indeed to whom it does not bring an abiding
joy. This is a rare and beautiful book, a real discovery.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 850w
“The fact is that Mr Tarn, apart from his lovely scenery, has adorned
his tale with a remarkably bushy moral, excellent for Fionas and
Urchins as such, but un-fairyish.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p740 D 11 ’19 900w
=TASSIN, ALGERNON DE VIVIER.= Craft of the tortoise. *$1.50 Boni &
Liveright 812
19–18735
A satirical play in four acts tracing the evolution of the present
status of woman, especially her social supremacy over man, from the
ancient faraway beginnings to the present day. The play is built on
the premise that woman, at first a slave, subjugated to man’s will and
power, had to resort to trickery, exploitation of her sex attractions,
and a clever use of clothing and adornment, in order to get ahead of
her lord and owner; and that she finally made a complete reversal of
social conditions. In his long introduction, brilliant and with a
certain Bernard Shaw piquancy, the author is complimentary to neither
sex. Having in his introduction compared woman with the tortoise in
the fable racing with the gamboling hare, the author has titled the
four acts respectively: The tortoise finds herself; Tortoise turns the
first corner; Tortoise strikes her gait; Tortoise on the home stretch.
The first three are remotely laid in that past so alluring to the
imagination, the last is a satiric picture of modern life.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“In the preface, Mr Tassin’s style reminds one of Chesterton in its
sharp shafts of wit and depths of irony. The first and second acts are
excellent in their humor and sardonic style, the third lapses
momentarily, and the fourth merely ‘carries on.’”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 280w
“The plays hover between satire and burlesque, and contain much that
is arbitrary, didactic, and as inept as the figurative title; but they
contrive to be both entertaining and provocative.”
+ − =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“An ingenious and sometimes witty satire.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The source of this play in Mr Tassin’s mind was some moment of
extreme irritation over the modern American woman. But to jump to the
conclusion, as many would at once, that he is an anti-feminist, would
be quite erroneous. The play has wit, it has wisdom, it has keen
characterization of the purely intellectual sort, and it has dramatic
energy.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:148 Ja 31 ’20 1100w
“Undoubtedly in many respects this dramatic symposium is outrageously
unfair. It is a bit of special pleading, at once vigorous and shallow,
which it would be absurd to take too seriously. And it is marred by a
spice of somewhat cheap and unattractive cynicism. But it is a piece
of literary and dramatic workmanship of highly superior quality.” J.
R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 800w
“It is quite amusing in parts, although it is written to the length of
prolixity. Mr Tassin’s characterizations are entertaining; he scores
his points with consistency if one accepts his premises, and reveals a
genuine humor that is admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 460w
“In spite of a satyrical vein which makes many of the scenes amusing,
the entertainment is too heavy for continuous enjoyment. The known
facts of anthropology and history are in places perverted into
grotesque misstatements.” B. L.
− + =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 110w
=TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM.= Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. *$2
Macmillan 337
20–1763
“A collection of papers and addresses covering the phases of the
tariff controversy now chiefly under discussion in the United States
by the Henry Lee professor of economics at Harvard (who has been
chairman of the United States tariff commission).”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “The papers have been taken from talks to various audiences
and periodical articles from 1904 to date discussing the tariff pro
and con in a form usable by the general reader.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:616 S ’20 140w
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w
“Useful to high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“Dr Taussig’s authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful,
even-tempered criticism, is preeminent.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is characterized by more of unity than usually attaches to
such a collection, and the reader will find in it a coherent,
consistent presentation of the author’s views on the main issues of
the tariff question. In a time marked by the uncertainties and
confusions which characterize domestic conditions and foreign
relations today, it is not surprising to find the author chary of
dogmatism as to the future course of events.” F: C. Mills
+ =J Philos= 17:334 Je 3 ’20 360w
“Each problem is handled with the author’s characteristic
open-mindedness. Each conclusion is reached after painstaking
analysis, with a realization that future developments and changes in
economic factors may take from an argument all its force.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:524 Je ’20 300w
Reviewed by Bertram Benedict
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 850w
“There is no safer guide on these topics than Dr Taussig. He was never
an opportunist, but ever a preacher of the true word, with little if
any reference to partisan expediency. Therefore, he is able to
reproduce his arguments for the most part without change. Dr Taussig
is a popular as well as an authoritative writer.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 18 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=TAWNEY, RICHARD HENRY.= Acquisitive society. *$1.40 Harcourt 330
20–21421
The author holds that no change of system or machinery can avert those
causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or
quarrelsomeness of human nature. But it can create an environment in
which these qualities are not encouraged; it can offer people an end
on which to fix their minds, thus, in the long run directing their
practical activity. To think of the economic organization of society
on the basis of function rather than of rights, is a habit of mind to
be encouraged. It implies three things: that proprietary rights shall
be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service
and abolished when they are not; that the producers shall stand in
direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on;
that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon
the professional organization of those who perform it. Contents:
Rights and functions; The acquisitive society; The nemesis of
industrialism; Property and creative work; The functional society;
Industry as a profession; The “vicious circle”; The condition of
efficiency; The position of the brain worker; Porro unum necessarium;
Index.
* * * * *
“The author uses sound logic and pertinent historic facts to maintain
his cause and there can be little doubt that this book will exert a
great influence for good, for his theory is perfectly consistent with
Christian principle.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 240w
“This little book is destined, we believe, to be regarded as a classic
masterpiece upon its subject. The treatment is at once profound and
brilliant; brilliant because it gives powerfull and worthy expression
to profound thought.” D. S. Miller
+ =New Repub= 23:130 Je 23 ’20 2300w
“He advocates revolutionary doctrines with temperateness and a
seasoned mind. He writes of the ‘nemesis of industrialism,’ but with
no trace of fanaticism.” R. B. Perry
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 650w
“Cleverly written pamphlet. It is encouraging to find that one
Socialist at least is on the right track.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 660w
=TAYLOR, EMERSON GIFFORD.= New England in France, 1917–1919. il *$5
Houghton 940.373
20–19427
The book is the record of the Twenty-sixth division of the American
Expeditionary force, whose organization, personnel and record as a
fighting unit are typical of American fighting troops in the field, on
the march, in billets, or in the heat of battle. It is also the story
of volunteer American citizens, non-professional soldiery. The
contents in part are: Organizing the division; Overseas; Settling down
in France; The chemin des dames; On the march; The Le Reine (Boucq)
sector; The fights at Bois Brulé and Seicheprey; The affairs of May
and June; The Aisne-Marne offensive; The Saint-Mihiel offensive; In
the Meuse-Argonne offensive; Before the armistice and after. The book
is illustrated and indexed and has six maps.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w
=TAYLOR, FRANCES LILIAN.=[2] Two Indian children of long ago. il 70c
Beckley-Cardy 398.2
A book that combines information about the Indians with stories drawn
from Indian myth and legend. “The author has endeavored to describe
child life in the wild-rice region west of the Great Lakes ... and to
retell some of the most interesting stories enjoyed by Indian
children. The aim of the book is to gratify the American child’s
natural interest in primitive life by stories of our own land and to
increase his respect for all that is original and worthy in the lives
of the first Americans.”
=TAYLOR, IDA ASHWORTH.= Joan of Arc, soldier and saint. il *$1.50 (2½c)
Kenedy
A very simple and direct presentation of the life story of Joan of
Arc. A prefatory note states: “The list of the lives of Joan is long;
but some are too lengthy, some too much weighted with historical
complications and details of campaigns, some too full of more or less
controversial matter, to commend themselves to young readers. The
following narrative is purely a personal record of her deeds and
ideals, recounted, whenever possible, in her own words or in those of
contemporary chronicles and in the archives of her tragic condemnation
as heretic, her death as martyr, and her triumphant rehabilitation.”
There are eight black and white illustrations by W. Graham Robertson.
=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday
20–10312
In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew
up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best
to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father
had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself
and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for
several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded
to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running
along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in
whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its
way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their
paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on
account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 500w
“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the
book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive
faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while
achievement in the future.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w
=TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON.= Personnel administration;
its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1
20–13089
“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth
the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the
administration of human relations in industry; and they take up
seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and
safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.),
rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical
and Metallurgical Engineering
* * * * *
“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable
and timely volume.” T. T. Read
+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:642 S 29 ’20 1150w
“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the
industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although
not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works
manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is
nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately
rare.” P. H. Douglas
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:790 N ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 230w
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 40w
“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize
the writing.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 450w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Little garden the year round. il *$2.50
Dutton 716.2
20–181
“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and
American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It
isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any
enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the
uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows
the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have
said about them and various other things that are more or less
essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He
writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some
realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of
one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going
about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker
must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids,
and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full
knowledge of his subject.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 70w
+ =Review= 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 220w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Pleasures of collecting; being sundry
delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American,
European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749
20–17080
“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the
contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the
antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the
gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to
them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like
that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this
little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured
in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.”
(Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting;
Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz;
Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English
drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces;
Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica;
Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations,
an extended bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of
others.”
+ =Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 800w
“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find
it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet
the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book
opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires.
Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove
entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into
shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the
glass.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 280w
=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).= Flame and shadow. *$1.75
Macmillan 811
20–19070
“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this
latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes
from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present
shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those
who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful
beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the
mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of
St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and
of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden
places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people
are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale,
Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean,
straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism
in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Bookm= 52:361 Ja ’21 600w
“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an
image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is
indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by
the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W.
S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 1200w
“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it
is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the
temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals
for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock
love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 360w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 150w
“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1750w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 30w
=TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS.= Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd
20–18246
A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The
woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors;
The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored
illustrations by Herbert Paus.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 20w
“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely
repetitions of the play.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 160w
“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able
to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus
has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and
this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 190w
+ =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w
=TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.=[2] Last days of the
Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947
20–21942
The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an
account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with
the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by
N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk
archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak
régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen
years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is
taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s
narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape;
Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile
in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without
trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of
the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three
are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of
the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical
index of names.
* * * * *
“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this
tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and
importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is
diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part
of the book is the more interesting.”
+ − =Ath= p518 O 15 ’20 580w
=Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21
“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate
statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his
charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is
really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human
document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and
poignant interest.” J: Bunker
+ − =Bookm= 52:364 Ja ’21 800w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 480w
=R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w
=Spec= 125:572 O 30 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 S 23 ’20 1050w
=TEN-MINUTE= talks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330
20–18322
Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In
preparing them for American publication, only such editorial
interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make
the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects
are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars
of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an
article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What
is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The
upward path.
* * * * *
“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are
easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book
than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 9 ’20 130w
“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too
advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor
much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it
could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands
of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in
conventional economics for secondary schools or even college
freshmen.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 180w
“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily
expressed in compressed form.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 260w
=TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY.= Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a
young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–5765)
“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s
journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his
family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came
from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays
accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his
wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in
nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told
from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his
letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the
Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which
struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion
killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a
career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest
way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:17 O ’19 30w
“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West
Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye
for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he
met.”
+ =Nation= 109:254 Ag 23 ’19 240w
“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists
of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are
those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of
condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as
good.”
+ =Sat R= 127:205 Mr 1 ’19 660w
“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of
description.”
+ =Spec= 122:141 F 1 ’19 520w
=TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.= Bruce. *$2 Dutton
20–7674
“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert
Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by
the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early
history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences,
and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named
Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name
of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed,
is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a
beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in
the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas.
Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a
courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was
stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a
soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his
happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune.
Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human
friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 260w
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 310w
“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so
entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written
war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 210w
=THATCHER, EDWARD.= Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680
20–661
“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives
a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade
pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Ath= p717 My 28 ’20 80w
“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”
+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20
“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the
inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who
delights to handle tools.”
+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER).= Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century
20–9139
“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his
own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor
in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few
moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay
the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course;
and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to
maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the
servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left
evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one
of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and,
characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the
other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the
murderer.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot
better worked out than the average.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as
thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most
certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather
too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 240w
=Cleveland= p72 Jl ’20 30w
“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated
of fiction readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 140w
=THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE.= Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920
20–15938
“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may
justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art
by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In
this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at
the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate
rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the
development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect
ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s
three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant
direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to
the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the
biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In
the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as
possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work
as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to
discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real
flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical
faculty gives especial value to his comment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 210w
“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is
conspicuous.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 350w
“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 30w
+ =Review= 3:425 N 3 ’20 390w
“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of
literary criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 180w
=THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.=[2] Kentucky
superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3
20–18391
“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad
luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches,
hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are
brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are
altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of
the volume.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”
+ =Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 170w
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 190w
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 280w
“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and
classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious
beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p857 D 16 ’20 880w
=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304
20–13787
In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make
for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray
incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as
a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker
in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He
sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative
methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes
it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the
middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by
practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents:
Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business
methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social
group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion
and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest;
Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some
suggestions; Notes and index.
* * * * *
“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author
has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system.
They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean
much to the interest of readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 320w
+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 50w
Reviewed by C. S. Parker
=Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=THOMAS, GEORGE HOLT.= Aerial transport. il *$12 (*30s) Doran 629.1
(Eng ed 20–13149)
The author was one of the first to advocate aircraft as a weapon in
war-time and is now interested in proving its value in commerce, for
high-speed travel and mail service. His object in this book is to
supply “between the covers of a single volume, and written in a quite
informal, non-technical way, a clear, uncoloured statement of just
what a commercial aircraft can do, and also—which is just as
important—what it cannot do.” (Foreword) The contents, after an
introduction by Viscount Northcliffe, are: First considerations
(Essence of the problem—length of stages—loads—speed—risk—etc.);
Progress—immediate and future; “The air express”; Speeding up the
business letter; Meteorology in commercial flying; Some general
conclusions, with special reference to airships; Some questions of L.
S. D.; Flying and the law; Aerial transport in remote places, with
some notes as to passenger-carrying; Aerial photography and patrol.
The book is profusely illustrated, has an appendix, an index, and four
infolded maps.
* * * * *
“Mr Holt Thomas is an enthusiast, but a reasonable and restrained
enthusiast. As the book is somewhat discursive and contains many
repetitions, it is a pity he did not see that a proper index was
provided.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 4 ’20 930w
=THOMAS, SHIPLEY.= History of the A. E. F. il *$6 Doran 940.373
20–19161
In the foreword to the volume, Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander
says of the author that he “has taken great pains to present
historical facts in an attractive, readable form and to show to the
mind a realistic picture of the whole scene of operations.” After
giving the history of events, from the arrival of Pershing in France
to the armistice, he devotes four chapters to: Auxiliary arms; The
services of supply; Division histories; A visitor’s guide. The book
has illustrations, maps and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“Amid the great multiplicity of books on the war in its various phases
which have appeared since the armistice there is none which, in the
present or the future, is of more intensive value than this.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 620w
“It is written with unflagging energy and interest, is thoroughly
readable, and its author is the very embodiment of the type and spirit
of the thousands of young officers from civil life who made such
admirable leaders of our troops in action.” F. V. Greene
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 24 ’20 3950w
“It is the opinion of those most competent to judge that his story of
America’s participation in the war is as accurate and complete as it
can be made at this time.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, CHARLES THADDEUS.= Peace conference day by day; a
presidential pilgrimage leading to the discovery of Europe. *$2.50
Brentano’s 940.314
20–9820
“Mr Thompson is the superintendent of the Associated press foreign
service. He acted as special correspondent in reporting the
proceedings of the Peace conference, and Colonel House has vouched for
his accuracy. This book gives a circumstantial account of the writing
of the peace treaty and the League of nations covenant.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 190w
“This is by far the most interesting and valuable of the contributions
to our post-war literature. Mr Thompson’s work seems to be an honest,
unbiased effort to present the reader with the facts as he saw them.
His training enabled him to get at the inside of many situations that
were decidedly complex. All this wealth he gives most liberally to his
readers in a vivid, chatty way that entertains and enlightens.”
+ =Cath World= 112:248 N ’20 450w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 230w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 18 ’20 3300w
“Such a useful volume as this should assuredly have had an index. The
work is not only extraordinarily informative but equally
entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 200w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w
=THOMPSON, FRANK VICTOR.= Schooling of the immigrant. *$2 Harper 371.9
20–18396
This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted
by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen
T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the
preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas
respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is
being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national
unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a
realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of
education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically,
persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and
nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration;
Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching
English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations;
The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in
citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.
* * * * *
“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found
invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.”
A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:498 F ’21 420w
“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community
which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting
in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of
means by which these may be improved.”
+ =School R= 28:788 D ’20 750w
“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant
education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 70w
=THOMPSON, HOLLAND.= New South; a chronicle of social and industrial
evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 975
19–19140
“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the
purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently
presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by
a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the
industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by
the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems
have an important place.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics.
One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book
is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise
of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:146 O ’20 360w
“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and
Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is
new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the
wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is
probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:159 S ’20 500w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE.=
Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–11520)
“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the
life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and
daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until
his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson
wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and
magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of
Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert
and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number
of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of
Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and
elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a
posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec
* * * * *
“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to
whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with
pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The
references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we
could have wished that letters other than those dealing with
scientific matters were more plentiful.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 180w (Reprinted from
Engineering Ag 6 ’20)
“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”
+ =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w
=Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w
=THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN.= Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S.
Patton. *$2 Scribner 811
20–6690
“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’
is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate
poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and
friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older
literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey,
Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian
occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up
practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from
1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd
gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the
spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the
beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.”
E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1500w
+ =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 260w
“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and
culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical,
but never great.” M. Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 750w
=THOMPSON, MARGARET J.= Food for the sick and the well: how to select it
and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5
20–1484
Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and
suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction
that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the
sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest
student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General
considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and
cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.
* * * * *
“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should
prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”
+ =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 100w
=THOMS, CRAIG S.= Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230
20–272
“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the
temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to
apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout
institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations,
religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can
build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called
for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always
possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious
life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to
one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution;
The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.
=THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR.= System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570
20–18325
Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the
University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius
professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The
subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical,
dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the
biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable,
but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit
the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the
system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.”
His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry
which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as
a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface)
Volume 1 contains ten lectures on The realm of organisms as it is;
Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution
of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen
pages and an index.
* * * * *
“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate
world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a
contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are
unimportant.”
+ − =Ath= p478 O 8 ’20 1150w
“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as
the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:101 D ’20
“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are
astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.”
E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 70w
“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes
stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the
beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that
is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.
+ − =Nature= 106:494 D 16 ’20 1950w
“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome
for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of
the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge
of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are
grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful
book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 1900w
=THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES=, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton
841.08
20–26552
This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to
the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the
collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the
author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part
of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems
are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise
chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious
notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.
* * * * *
“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense
of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to
harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our
surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the
failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p209 F 13 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility
and literary tact.”
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 60w
“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”
+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 70w
“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished
poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in
handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds
poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in
the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w
“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is
intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”
+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w
“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material
with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 60w
=THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE.= Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan
820.9
20–16291
“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the
English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in
this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the
difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character
today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the
groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily
concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four
chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more
or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis
of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began
to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty,
Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and
machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike
predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than
in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative
symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of
them.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but
this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and
presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But
the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the
student of history or of literature can be told within the small
compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and
brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so
large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 410w
“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people
who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 780w
“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement
of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of
literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly
enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having
found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.”
W. H. B.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:333 Ja ’21 400w
“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically
unconvincing.” Pierre Loving
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w
“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the
comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works.
He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to
be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing
which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 O 17 ’20 1800w
“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to
avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his
matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and
so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The
resulting impression is of confused admiration.”
+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 130w
=Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 260w
“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we
should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it.
That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D ’20 230w
=THORNLEY, ISOBEL D.= England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a
preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of
history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04
20–4567
“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume
of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and
Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged
widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to
illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic,
and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The work is admirably done.”
+ =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 240w
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 210w
=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam
20–1212
This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls
them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to
the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are
“settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older
and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near
Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to
them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank,
with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and
the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to
bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations
are by Emile Verpilleux.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his
characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout
his pastoral.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 700w
“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most
gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an
excellent digestion.”
+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 120w
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 80w
+ =Lit D= p89 Je 26 ’20 2150w
“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in
the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more
substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de
Casseres
− =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 800w
“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and
unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but
with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w
“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an
American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the
book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed
under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but
anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the
worthwhile class.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 260w
=THWING, ANNIE HAVEN.= Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston,
1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4
20–19769
The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be
Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and
their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets
survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened.
“Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two
vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town
invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents
are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The
West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is
illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does
not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good
reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and
old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 130w
“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer
than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a
life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical
society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w
“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be
imitated in all of our important cities.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 160w
“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to
the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint
picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 500w
+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w
=TITUS, HAROLD.= Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–4711
Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society
girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her
fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her
new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the
place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the
easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West
and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many,
including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts
off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her
enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for
foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a
very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story
comes to a peaceful close.
* * * * *
“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its
plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of
the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 520w
“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The
last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure
tales.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w
=TODD, ARTHUR JAMES.= Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan
361
19–18666
“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years
social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern
social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social
progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands
of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A most readable book for social workers”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an
effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it
follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard
thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a
trifle obvious.”
− =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 15 ’20 270w
“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all
trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will
welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and
methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty
+ − =Survey= 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=TOMLINSON, H. M.= Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910
(Eng ed 19–15918)
This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various
publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain
impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K.
Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among
all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose
work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative
prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as
war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old
junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s
walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.
* * * * *
“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to
have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M.
Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life,
but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which
the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the
sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole
pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they
are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you
cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker
+ =Bookm= 51:474 Je ’20 1050w
“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a
misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that
never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one
along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage
across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate
in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send
your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and
acceptance.”
+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w
“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned
unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West
+ =New Repub= 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w
“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the
reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”
+ =Sat R= 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w
“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the
fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it
disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly
perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All
this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the
nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset
by the highly placed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w
=TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS.= Builder of the new South; being the story
of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday
20–18666
The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational
and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are
epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new
South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of
diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and
highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new
South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding
universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new
South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the
contents of the book)
* * * * *
“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American
history.”
+ =Booklist= 17:114 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 240w
=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE).= Joanna
builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–18300
“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s
own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a
hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working
housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and
herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from
business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the
cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second
ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in
the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right
one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the
material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner,
quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 300w
“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters
are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are
anything but that.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 280w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p22 F 6 ’21 850w
Reviewed by D. W. Webster
+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w
“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty
of entertainment in the story as a whole.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 150w
=TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.= Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century
20–16345
David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what
turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried
the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in
him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart
he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close
that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of
crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of
a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town,
his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her
father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in
church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth
escapes.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today
is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable
story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in
atmosphere.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 130w
“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the
presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr
Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it.
Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and
we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book
he has written.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.=[2] Animal husbandry. il
$1.40 Am. bk. 636
20–6658
“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural
classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is
consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection
with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious
texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock
judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y
Evening Post
* * * * *
“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the
intelligent student of modern farming.”
+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 60w
“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise.
Occasionally important information is left out.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 180w
=TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.= Chapters in the administrative history of
mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea
*$7 (*12s) Longmans 354
20–14380
“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual
curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French
scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the
English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret
seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English
diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to
explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next
step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its
administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their
instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The
wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr
Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages
such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its
present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of
English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest
to the death of Richard II.”—Ath
* * * * *
“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the
luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a
descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and
originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of
controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of
exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more
sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:78 O ’20 1200w
“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the
more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence.
And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly
technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine
and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is
not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of
England.’” F. M. P.
+ =Ath= p174 Ag 6 ’20 2150w
“This is the most important contribution to the study of English
history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks
new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and
a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent
scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w
“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional
development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation
of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval
institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”
+ =Review= 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w
“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again,
in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in
the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”
+ =Spec= 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w
=TOWARDS= reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280
20–6733
“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the
church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both
words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In
different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give
expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible
unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the
means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested
by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the
churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to
the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in
the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church
conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had
never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a
practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a
general contribution to the problem.”
+ − =Ath= p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w
+ − =Bib World= 54:203 Mr ’20 400w
=Sat R= 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w
“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual
understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of
reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without
increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of
very disputable assertions.”
+ − =Spec= 123:215 Ag 16 ’19 900w
=TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.= Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8
20–3199
An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the
United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and
individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest
effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely
used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups,
etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more
virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves.
Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily
cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the
cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author
urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of
all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and
“pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C.
Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr
Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the
volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.
* * * * *
“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and
vigorous than the first.”
+ =Booklist= 16:292 My ’20
“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress,
its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account
of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the
ground of bias.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 220w
“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic,
alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing
therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the
remedy is.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 300w
=TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.= My campaign (Eng title, My
campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42
20–16919
“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of
the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s
contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military
affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him,
but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign
which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend
took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to
General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and
in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and
he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth
division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath
* * * * *
“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of
British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific
warfare.”
+ =Ath= p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w
=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w
“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and
Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with
considerable skill.”
+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 130w
“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer
from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual
detail.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w
=TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND=,
marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–12812
The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two
sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and
forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations.
Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her
age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in
disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.
* * * * *
“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility
who peeps into its pages.”
− =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 520w
“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written
for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of
incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”
− =Sat R= 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w
“A quite negligible tale.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 50w
=TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Measure your mind;
the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136
20–7589
This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific
methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in
both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in
charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every
class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades,
from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in
ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental
development and to young men and young women striving for
self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of
their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the
intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents:
Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests;
What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types
of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in
education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests;
The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices,
charts and diagrams.
* * * * *
“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been
carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely
not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men
because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of
industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional
classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading.
The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization
and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content
are meritorious.” C: L. Stone
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:830 D ’20 350w
“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one
has the advantage of simplicity.”
+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts
of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique
feature.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 120w
+ =Cleveland= p89 S ’20 50w
“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in
thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for
industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood
+ =J Philos= 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w
“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general
education of the public.”
+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w
=TRACY, LOUIS.= Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.
20–16931
This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of
life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who
becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they
concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater”
Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the
majority tell of the various problems that the English government
meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle
Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar
prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar
dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of
the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the
Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.
* * * * *
“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or
characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically
wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was
in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find
no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise
of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to
be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.
− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 580w
+ − =N Y Times= p19 O 24 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w
=TRACY, LOUIS.= Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.
20–2642
“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a
magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village
and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked
forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful
little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get
mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him
to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the
beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment
when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’
Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that
was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’
and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one
of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an
extremely important share in the development of events which was to
bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:284 My ’20
“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor
and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w
“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are
real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this
kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w
“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer
Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and
sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.”
Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w
=TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.= Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6289
“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of
Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which
is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is
Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them;
and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of
shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of
protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and
brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of
the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like
Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his
face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the
law itself.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by
entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w
“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust
attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity
which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It
is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w
=TRAVEL= stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8
20–16861
Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for
this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William
Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in
India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays
are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious
clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by
Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in
the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five
illustrations.
* * * * *
“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
“An entertaining, informative volume.”
+ =Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 40w
=TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).= Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane
20–7528
All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and
unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo
grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When
she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with
Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father.
Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her
in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see
him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to
America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she
is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her
mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted
with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts
an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her
senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for
another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.
* * * * *
“The tale is clever and readable.”
+ =Ath= p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w
“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the
impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace
material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a
hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary
grace.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w
“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that
characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 240w
“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character
of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his
impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he
encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he
knew her more intimately.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p673 N 20 ’19 500w
=TRENCH, HERBERT.= Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822
19–12898
“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon
over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and
the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it
are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be
straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is
the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the
unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from
Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take
him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason.
The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the
story of his failure and death.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene
between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather
Browning-like blank verse.”
+ =Ath= p477 Je 13 ’19 150w
“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and
dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any
case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined;
there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate
prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to
English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one
hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public
has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p584 Jl 11 ’19 1450w
=Brooklyn= 12:88 F ’20 30w
“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the
few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w
“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are
not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But
these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of
characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room
at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy.
It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of
production.”
+ − =Spec= 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w
“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every
character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding
presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even
Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly
immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should
return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless
rehabilitation.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w
=TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS=, eds. Colonial
prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8
The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an
earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of
culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The
growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology
is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the
effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a
transplanted race.” (Introd.)
=TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.= Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the
life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans
20–7584
“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second
Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced
the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord
Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to
later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the
hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective
scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act.
Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached
himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of
the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour
of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in
November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty
years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired
statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her
from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country
pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs,
radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary
reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever
displayed.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is
too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing
into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really
is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey
lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a
political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:90 O ’20 760w
“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who
knows little of English political history will find it interesting on
account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A.
G. Porritt
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:733 N ’20 560w
“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.
+ =Ath= p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w
“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in
sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous
advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their
opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his
work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w
+ =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w
“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains
the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most
eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own
superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably
that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England.
This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w
“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so
thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch,
so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is
well worth waiting for.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w
=Outlook= 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w
“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably
presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the
past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical
perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the
stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”
+ =Review= 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w
“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but
praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his
writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of
effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which
mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”
+ =Sat R= 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a
sober historian and states the facts fairly.”
+ =Spec= 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)
“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays
reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 830w
“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be
better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as
a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right
reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not
willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the
last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which
only incidentally come within its scope.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w
=TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).= Short
history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the
attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945
20–6767
The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy
while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London
school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly
calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the
subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an
inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She
disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or
made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work
already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German
scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary
writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible
for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century
preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions
(395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of
the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183);
Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy
in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy
(1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of
Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are
twenty-four illustrations and six maps.
* * * * *
“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with
marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense
of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced,
well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it
widely read.” L. C.-M.
+ =Ath= p237 Ag 20 ’20 1050w
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the
presentation of the material, satisfactory.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:687 F ’21 130w
“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least
satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the
fifty years since 1870.” W. M.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:628 O ’20 370w
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w
“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper
hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by
individuals and extract from that story not what was merely
entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter
Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w
“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author
does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art,
literature, science, and religion.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w
“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is
likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 70w
“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed
hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject.
Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”
+ =Spec= 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w
“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her
reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions
that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and
reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh,
lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 Jl 8 ’20 1600w
=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2
(3c) Huebsch 130
A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to
sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and
foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books,
pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an
unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have
contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles
are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the
urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the
dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday
actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic
temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a
glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an
index.
* * * * *
“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of
psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20
“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly
popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly
arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most
alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely
illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays,
as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly
uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases
analyzed.” C. M. S.
− + =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 440w
“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature,
this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the
subject.” W: J. Fielding
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 650w
“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of
literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who
wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of
psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and
satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K.
Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins
− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 1250w
“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass
a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and
abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is
not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the
intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the
animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr
Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of
Freud and his followers.”
+ − =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 850w
“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions,
which are not impressive.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w
“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and
uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation
both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of
some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 280w
=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130
This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at
interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.”
Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and
regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic
treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical
notes follow the chapters.
* * * * *
“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the
four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung,
Adler, and Kempf.”
+ − =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w
“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more
meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined
psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through
his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 520w
=TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE)=, comp. Dreams and
voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08
It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present
some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in
recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with
the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with
a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.
* * * * *
“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives
the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same
character.”
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w
“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much
capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief
from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 220w
=TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.= As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes
811
20–17896
Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources
but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with
a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is
under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful
child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.
* * * * *
“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of
poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the
dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 200w
=TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN.= History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of
social science 321.03
“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the
chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day
when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first
empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her
imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of
imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have
displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the
book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history
both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked
them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the
author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our
political structure to head us either towards an empire or an
industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern
imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of
Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of
France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of
England—of India—of America.
* * * * *
“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient
documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of
light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the
customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one
defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.”
James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 1050w
=TUELL, HARRIET EMILY.= Study of nations; an experiment in social
education. (Riverside educational monographs) *80c Houghton 909
20–5596
This is a plea that we substitute for our old “dry as dust” method of
teaching history “an elementary study of nationality.” In a high
school course such as this book proposes, “each nation is carefully
considered by itself, that pupils may gain a definite impression of
its individual characteristics. First it is viewed as it appears
today; then its development is briefly traced. After this historic
background has been sketched in, an attempt is made to evaluate the
peculiar gifts of the country and its people to the sum of modern
civilization.” (Preface) This is a pioneer book, for the use of
teachers, and, as such, the main part of it is devoted to helpfully
suggestive material, outlines, and comments upon the following
nations: France, England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hungary,
Turkey and the Balkan states, China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands
(“a nation in the making”). The book includes a complete
bibliographical list, and a connected outline of all the chapters. The
chapters on China and Japan were contributed by Dr K. S. Latourette.
Dr Tuell is the head of the department of history, Somerville high
school, Massachusetts.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
“Books of this sort are undoubtedly useful to teachers who have access
to well-equipped libraries and are themselves trained to get the
materials out of these libraries, but the movement which Miss Tuell
represents will hardly be successful until someone has prepared in
detail and in a form that can be presented to children the materials
that she has gone over in outline. The book is in this sense a first
step in the direction of actual school use of this sort of material.”
+ − =El School J= 20:547 Mr ’20 380w
=School R= 28:312 Ap ’20 380w
=TUOHY, FERDINAND.=[2] Secret corps. *$2 Seltzer 940.485
(Eng ed 20–11008)
“Captain Tuohy deals with all the methods of espionage and
counter-espionage practised during the war, enlivening his exposition
here and there with anecdotes. He explains incidentally the value of
seemingly harmless military details to an alert enemy and thus
justifies the censorship. He declares that our own system proved
highly efficient and that our French allies had, after February, 1916,
to implore the assistance of our secret service in Germany as all
their own agents had been captured. The British system was based on
the principle that each agent should know and be known to his chief
alone.”—Spec
* * * * *
“‘The secret corps’ is thrilling in its every paragraph, and, speaking
personally, it is the first book of the war we have enjoyed for two
years.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 170w
“This volume has value unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any other
that has dealt with the same material.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 30 ’21 420w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 340w
=Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 160w
=TURNER, EDWARD RAYMOND.= Europe, 1789–1920. *$3.50 Doubleday 940.2
20–17882
The raison d’être of the book is the alteration in historical
perspective wrought by the last few years which makes the epoch since
1789 “the most important and interesting in the history of mankind. It
began with a revolution whose effects are not yet all measured; it
ended with another whose consequences can scarcely yet even be guessed
at.” (Preface) During this period immense changes took place in the
relations of people with each other, with their governments, with
capitalists and employers, in the attitude of people toward the
problems of the world in which they lived, and in their habits of
thought. The book falls into two parts: 1789–1871; and 1871–1920. The
outstanding points of part one are the old Europe before, during and
after the French revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the rise of
Prussia after 1870 and the condition of Russia during the period. Part
two begins with the military triumphs of Germany between 1864–1871,
its subsequent development and that of the other great powers, and
treats of events before and during the great war. There are numerous
maps, a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an appendix and an
index.
* * * * *
“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the
years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent
historical work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 300w
“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial,
one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a
book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not
very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s
task is very well done.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p5 D 19 ’20 2700w
“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like
those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the
best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but
useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s
value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the
present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and
upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”
+ =No Am= 213:138 Ja ’21 750w
=TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON.= Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt
973
20–18058
Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in
American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical
association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on
American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the
Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and
in the Report of the American historical association for the same year
and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same
theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and
American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream;
it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the
Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it
gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other
papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The
old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The
significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The
problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of
the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state
university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer
democracy.
* * * * *
“Interesting to students or general readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 880w
+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 720w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by
writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to
be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be
accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker
+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w
“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier
history and written at different times, they might well have been
written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information,
clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is
readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 800w
=N Y Times= p10 N 7 ’20 1500w
“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment
demand a better format?”
+ − =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w
“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the
view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of
Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American
historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in
our national development.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 200w
“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a
compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent
general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood
by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be
thankful to have it brought to his attention.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1050w
“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the
American attitude toward social problems and the course which social
work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt
+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 200w
=TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE.= Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf
20–17178
The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all
its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man,
Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser
and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous
sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which
keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only
sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last
death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down
upon him, burying the dead man under it.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“The plot of ‘Hagar’s hoard’ is unconvincing as regards its chief
motive. Then, too, the characters are sadly stock-in-trade. Even the
negroes are grossly machine-made and lack warmth and conviction, and
the author certainly has overlooked a fine opportunity to add color
and the throb of life to a fairly interesting tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 320w
“Mr Turner has unfortunately made a full-length novel out of what
should have been a long short story, or at most, a novelette. The plot
is of the very slightest. The merit of the book lies in its excellent
description of the fever-stricken town, but excellent as this is it
becomes wearisome when repeated again and again.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 700w
=TURNER, JOHN HASTINGS.= Place in the world. *$1.75 Scribner
20–3578
“The heroine of ‘A place in the world,’ Iris Iranova, is an
illegitimate and temperamental young woman of about twenty-five.
Married to an over-amiable Russian, she lost her temper and stuck a
knife into him. This inconsiderate action made it necessary for her to
leave Russia and come to England, where she is living very comfortably
when the book opens. Following a whim, she decides to settle for a
time in an English suburb, and it is with her relations with the
persons she meets there that the novel is principally concerned. Among
these persons two are of especial importance—a really charming old
clergyman, broad-minded, sympathetic and possessed of a keen and
abundant sense of humor, and Henry Cumbers, an apparently fussy and
insignificant little man who, in time of stress and sorrow, proves
that he has splendid stuff in him.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Mr Turner has a clever pen, and the fluttering of the dovecotes
caused by Iris’s unconventionality gives him scope for a number of
incisive character-sketches. Mr Turner is to be congratulated on the
keenness of his observation as well as the liveliness of his style.”
+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 100w
“Fairly amusing.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 300w
“Mr Turner has written a charming novel, fresh and vivid in dialogue,
with characters that live in every pulse and gesture.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1000w
“Witty comedy.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w
“The plot of the tale is extremely slight and at times the novel drags
badly, but the style is often agreeable and the characters of Henry
Cumbers and of the Rev. John Heslop are very well drawn indeed.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 300w
“Mr Turner’s ‘Simple souls’ was amusing; this novel goes deeper. It is
fine workmanship as to its writing, and in its essence it makes for
soundheartedness and human tolerance.”
+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 60w
“The especial merit of the book is the Rev. John Heslop, a character
any writer might have been proud to invent.”
+ =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 124:354 Mr 13 ’20 40w
“Mr Turner’s fiction challenges comparison with that of Mr Locke, not
because he imitates the latter’s method, but chiefly because his work
falls within the same general field of whimsical personalities, kindly
humor, and pleasing romance so long cultivated by Mr Locke. The
characters charm and delight and provide the zest to an unusually
entertaining story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 580w
=TURNER, JOHN KENNETH.= Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social
science 327
20–3857
This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back
of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American
people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the
interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the
author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its
solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and
prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an
opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must
stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico,
enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our
fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an
equal.”
* * * * *
“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the
Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a
great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume,
‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of
information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton
+ − =Survey= 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w
=TURNER, W. J.= Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821
20–3700
“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is
especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much
of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians.
Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which
sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.”
(N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art
is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse
forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre
subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and
Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious
rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the
magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 51:456 Je ’20 800w
“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for
the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr
Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W.
S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 600w
“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing,
the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic
masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the
mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it.
He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w
+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and
beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures
before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss
Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that
is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w
=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century
20–16341
This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern
mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a
dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson
Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her
teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father
suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac
Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion
Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken
to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light
and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been
investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship.
A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling
adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a
ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower
preservation.
* * * * *
“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w
“It would be worth while to put up with the disagreeable little
heroine if young folks could learn from this to enjoy wild-flowers in
their native setting.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
“A real story with plenty of action and thrills.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 O 24 ’20 140w
“Here is that rarity, a good story for girls.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 120w
=TUSSAUD, JOHN THEODORE.= Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. il *$5 Doran 791
20–27479
The story of the famous wax works, established in Paris during the
revolution and later brought to London, written by one of the
great-grandsons of the founder, the present proprietor of the
exhibition. Madame Tussaud, altho a young girl at the time of the
revolution, was already famed as a modeler in wax and had been a
favorite at court. She was conscripted and compelled to model the
guillotined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marat murdered in
his bath, and other horrors, a number of which are reproduced in the
illustrations. The story is brought down to the present day,
describing many of the recent additions, with illustrations. Hilaire
Belloc has written an introduction and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p109 Ja 23 ’20 1650w
+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
“The amazing feature of the book is, however, the manner in which its
author has made so intrinsically interesting and romantic a theme dull
and commonplace. It is evident that he possesses absolutely no
qualifications for his task. He is simply adept at the compilation of
a scrap-book. Yet his subject is so fascinating that it is better to
have his account of Madame Tussaud’s life and work than none at all.”
E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1450w
+ =Cath World= 112:686 F ’21 250w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 130w
“‘Romance’ is possibly a strong word for this book, and is applicable
only where some story connected with a character in the collection is
told. Sometimes this takes Mr Tussaud far afield. But as a collection
of anecdotes it ranks almost with Siboutie’s ‘Souvenirs of a
Parisian.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 31 ’20 1700w
“Mr Tussaud has appreciated the value of his materials both from the
historic point of view and from the viewpoint of human interest. His
narrative, like his wax figures, simply presents facts of undeniable
interest. But it is the pictures that make the book unique.”
+ =No Am= 213:287 F ’21 520w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 80w
“The book is often pleasantly gruesome.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 8 ’20 780w
=TUTTLE, W. C.= Reddy Brant: his adventures. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–18257
A series of short stories reprinted from Boy’s Life. The hero is
fourteen-year-old Reddy Brant, a young vagrant who wanders into the
cattle country of the far West. His adventures are many and exciting
and aided by his native wit and courage, with the occasional help of
coincidence, he acts as both agent of justice and angel of mercy. The
titles are: A rooting tooter; The go-getters; The clean-up kid; A
sage-brush Santa Claus; The jump of a forty-five; Reddy’s
muzzle-loader; A bunkie of the buckaroos; Reddy Brant—thinker; When
Reddy wondered why; Good-night, knight; Three wise men and a star.
* * * * *
“There is a genuine flavor of old-time American humor in the telling,
and an unusual spirit of good fellowship.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 80w
“There are more adventures to the square inch in this book than any
other that has come to hand since ‘The three musketeers.’ The manner
of telling is swift, humorous, breezy. Reddy is a find.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 40w
=TWEEDALE, CHARLES L.= Man’s survival after death: or, The other side of
life in the light of Scripture, human experience, and modern research.
*$6 Dutton 218
“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of
existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly
based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This
method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences
that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human
experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of
communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave.
Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his
evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation
in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds
the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by
reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that
faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory
whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not
hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of
faith.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 310w
“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated
occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not
only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with
admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and
spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and
lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 600w
=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c)
Stokes
20–15067
There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the
beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty
Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the
solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is
revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs
Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids
remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own
confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs
Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the
love story of Letty there is a happy ending.
* * * * *
“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly
handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it
is treated in a modern way.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 300w
“A very good mystery story.”
+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 60w
“If this ‘novel of love and mystery’ is somewhat crudely melodramatic
and makes considerable demands on the improbable, Mrs Tweedale at
least gives her readers plenty of incident.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 70w
=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Ghosts I have seen, and other psychic
experiences. *$2 (2c) Stokes 133
19–19376
Supernatural experiences of a lifetime are recorded here. The author
has the convictions of the theosophist, and in these pages there are
occasionally brief essays on reincarnation, spiritualism, the “other
side.” Unlike most current spiritualistic books, there is here no
argument on alleged “irrefutable evidence.” The author is a psychic,
has seen these things, we may believe or not. At any rate, reading at
midnight, in a dimly lit house alone, we cannot remain indifferent.
Some of the titles are: “Silk dress” and “rumpus”; The ghost of Prince
Charlie; The invisible hands; Peacock’s feathers—the skeleton hand at
Monte Carlo; I commit murder; The angel of Lourdes; “The new Jeanne
d’Arc”; Auras. An interesting picture of Madame Blavatsky (in the
flesh) is presented in this book.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 120w
“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors
from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being
as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.”
Cornelia Van Pelt
+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 360w
=Review= 2:183 F 21 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 700w
=TYRRELL, GEORGE.= Letters *$7 Dutton
(Eng ed 21–197)
“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre,
author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of
a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been
interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism
claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not
all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the
intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and
undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter
moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a
veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will
be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel
ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his
tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”
+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 7 ’21 840w
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 6 ’20 500w
“These highly interesting letters have been published, as we are told,
with the view of showing Tyrrell in ‘his lighter and brighter, as in
his sadder and graver moods.’ We must confess to finding him sometimes
equally depressing in both. His humour has a tinge of that
professional flippancy (as lay-people esteem it) which seems common to
clergymen of every denomination. The ‘letters of advice’ included in
this collection show us Father Tyrrell at the best, wise, comforting,
sympathetic, with no thought but the welfare of his correspondents.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:519 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Miss Petre has done well to publish this selection from his
correspondence. He was a many-sided man, and his letters reflect his
many-sidedness.”
+ =Spec= 124:695 My 22 ’20 1350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 450w
“Miss Maud Petre has shown good judgment in issuing this collection of
George Tyrrell’s letters as a supplement to his ‘Autobiography and
life.’ It is plain that Tyrrell was a born correspondent. He expresses
himself with more ease in a letter than in a volume. And he would, we
think, have spared both himself and his church much trouble had he
written more letters and published fewer books.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p253 Ap 22 ’20 900w
=TYRRELL, ROSS.= Pathway of adventure. *$1.90 (2c) Knopf
20–8517
Stuart Wayne, writer of detective stories, finds himself involved in a
genuine plot. He picks up a note dropped by a girl in a passing taxi
and it starts him on the road of adventure and mystery. It is an
appeal for help from a girl held imprisoned in an abandoned house in
the Chicago suburbs. Through a lucky chance he gains entrance to the
house and talks to the girl, Zaida Grayson, but his presence is
discovered, with all but fatal consequences to himself, and the gang
of crooks, with their fair prisoner, eludes him. But he has learned
enough of her story to gain a clue and to connect it with the sudden
death of Patrick Cullom, the iron king, whose young granddaughter is
to inherit his wealth. With the aid of the secret service the band of
kidnappers and murderers are brought to justice and by his own
devotion and daring he wins the girl.
* * * * *
“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the
Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of
adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w
“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to
sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 160w
U
=ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD.= “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817
Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her
story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a
share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the
helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In
particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest
her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own
love story develops happily.
* * * * *
“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that
one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 200w
“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of
Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville
wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the
‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w
=UNCENSORED= letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48
20–14006
These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper,
in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by
candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s
fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters
mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes
of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened
generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys.
Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The
engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.
* * * * *
“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal
narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits.
Will be liked better later on.”
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 220w
“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that
one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that
this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has
done,’ does not seem extravagant.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w
=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Jacopone da Todi; poet and
mystic—1228–1306; a spiritual biography. *$6 Dutton
20–4482
“Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable Italian mystical poet, was born
soon after the death of St Francis of Assisi, about 1228 or 1230,
while Dante was yet in the prime of his manhood. Living in the world
until he was forty, a shrewd lawyer, a man of vivid temperament, of
wide culture and refined tastes, he received at that age his first
religious call. For the next ten years he wandered about as a
missionary hermit and in 1278, being then about fifty, he became a
Franciscan lay brother. Miss Underhill’s book is divided into two
parts of about equal length. The first is devoted to Jacopone’s life,
set in its proper historical environment. In the remaining part of the
book Miss Underhill gives us a chronological selection from his
mystical poems, so well known as the Laude, accompanied in the fellow
page by an English translation (also into poetry) by Mrs Theodore
Beck.”—Cath World
* * * * *
“Miss Underhill has a fine flow of language, a nice choice of
adjectives, and a thorough, if somewhat undiscriminating, knowledge of
the literature of her subject. Altogether her book is well done in its
way, and it is not the slightest use wishing, as we do, that it had
been done in another.” R. S.
+ − =Ath= p636 My 14 ’20 760w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 1500w
+ =Cath World= 111:819 S ’20 620w
“The biographer’s comprehension of the worldly accomplishments of her
subject and her equal insight into his spiritual attainments, is
strikingly the counterpart of that two-sidedness which she emphasizes
in the man himself. The bibliography apart from its immediate value as
indicating the sources of the present work, will be of service to
those interested in the whole subject of Christian mysticism.”
Marianne Moore
+ =Dial= 70:82 Ja ’21 1650w
“When the romantic personality falls into the hands of the scholar
there is necessarily something of glamour and delight lost. This is
what has happened in this austerely spiritual biography of Evelyn
Underhill.” L. C. Willcox
+ − =N Y Times= 25:169 Ap 11 ’20 1200w
“Friar Jacopone was a poet of extraordinary power, and the fire, ease,
and accomplishment of his rather erotic mystic poems are astonishing.”
+ =Spec= 124:426 Mr 27 ’20 1450w
“The materials are rather flimsy for the construction of a biography.
We cannot agree with Miss Underhill that Jacopone was a great poet.
Intense religious feeling, vividly and forcibly expressed, does not of
itself constitute poetry, and beyond such expression Jacopone does not
often rise.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 Ap 15 ’20 4100w
=UNDERHILL, RUTH MURRAY.= White moth. *$2 Moffat
20–20002
“Miss Underhill has converted the old fable of the ant and the
grasshopper into a very modern romance which she calls ‘The white
moth.’ Hilda Plaistead is the earnest plodder, Guy Nearing the gay and
irresponsible hero, and the setting is the town of Cato. The two have
a childhood engagement, become widely separated, and in the final
chapter again discover that they were always meant for each other, but
it is only after Guy has learned the folly of being jack of all trades
and master of none.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“We can scarcely claim for Miss Underhill’s story either originality
of substance or of treatment. What she does accomplish is an
exceedingly readable and very human story, which possesses certain
scenes of quiet and insistent realism.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 5 ’21 250w
“High school days are described as well as in Booth Tarkington’s
‘Seventeen.’ The characters are all well drawn. However, the true
merit of the book is in taking some new aspects of life, such as the
business rivalry between man and woman or the problems of factory
management and using them to construct a good old-fashioned romance
which holds the attention from start to finish.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 140w
“It is a real romance and has a charming atmosphere.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=UNSEEN= doctor. *$1.75 (5c) Holt 134
20–15457
The book is one of the Psychic series and describes the cure of a case
of illness of fifteen years’ standing in the course of a year and
eight months by an invisible spirit doctor. It contains a preface by
J. Arthur Hill, testimonials by several personal friends of the
patient and a report by the physician long in charge of the case in
the flesh. The contents are: A chance paragraph; A chain of
coincidences; The first interview; A further surprise; The invisible
hand; Experiences and experiments; Fellow-lodgers; Royal progress;
Learning to walk; “My little girl”; Six months later; Comments and
criticisms; Appendix and index. The book was published in England as
“One thing I know, or, The power of the unseen.”
* * * * *
“‘The unseen doctor’ is as respectable a book of psychic experiences
as has come to the public. There is no doubt that it is a record of
real experiences. But, respectable as the book is, it still leaves
open the eternal question, ‘Why should spirit doctors cling to the
earth, and why have they no concerns of their own?’”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 320w
“As a ‘psychic’ tale the book is futile and foolish, indeed, rather
fertile in folly.”
− =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 230w
“There is nothing fantastic in the story, and it is told with such
convincing truth that the reader seems to have no choice save to
accept it on its face value.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 330w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern American poetry. *$1.40 Harcourt 811.08
20–1516
“In his anthology, ‘Modern American poetry’ Louis Untermeyer has
selected 132 poems by 80 authors, arranged them effectively, with
brief notices for each writer and handy indices. Old favorites are
here; ‘Little boy blue’ rubs shoulders with ‘The purple cow,’ and
‘When the frost is on the punkin’ with ‘A stein song.’ Franklin P.
Adams, Oliver Herford, and Carolyn Wells are represented.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“All the best recent things are here.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 70w
“This verse is remarkable for vigor and energy, form being sacrificed
for content. An interesting feature is the group of seven poems on
Lincoln by seven different poets.”
+ =Cleveland= p41 Ap ’20 60w
“Though it too often misses the authentic current, is too often led
away into stagnant marshes, it is perhaps as good a map as we yet
possess. The editor is a better conversationalist than guide.”
+ − =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 60w
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w
“It is a comprehensive and unusually satisfying collection.”
+ =Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 130w
Reviewed by R. P. Utter
=Nation= 110:237 F 21 ’20 420w
“The present reviewer’s quarrel with Louis Untermeyer’s ‘Modern
American poetry’ is not so much because of its selections and
omissions—both often very wise ones—as because of Untermeyer’s
attitude of mind in his introduction. It is the typical attitude of
the poets of our present little ‘renaissance,’ and perhaps one should
hardly quarrel with it, but smile at it. You would suppose poetry that
was honest, fresh, contemporary, had never been written before.” W. P.
Eaton
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 18 ’20 1000w
“If there be any critic in the country who ought not to make a
schoolbook, that critic is Louis Untermeyer. He is much too
brilliantly individual and his likes and dislikes are too pronounced.
It is a book of verse that young people probably will like, if they
like verse at all. Many of the selections included are humorous.... A
good professor would make a better anthology for use in schools.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
− + =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 480w
+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w
“The criticism may be raised that Mr Untermeyer has been too generous
to the ultra-moderns. But the selections of Carl Sandburg, John Gould
Fletcher and Alfred Kreymborg are chosen with discrimination, and
serve to accomplish the editor’s purpose.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 26 ’20 300w
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
“This book is a delightful one to read; it has a distinct
individuality, and if Mr Untermeyer, in avoiding the beaten track,
does not always publish the finest work of his poets, he recovers many
a line that has been undeservedly forgotten.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern British poetry. *$2 Harcourt 821.08
20–13991
A companion volume to Mr Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry.’ Over
seventy-five poets are represented, ranging from Thomas Hardy, born in
1840, to Robert Graves, born in 1895. Among the others are Alice
Meynell, William Watson, Francis Thompson, A. E. Housman, Ernest
Dowson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, W. W.
Gibson, John Masefield, Ralph Hodgson, Harold Monro, John Drinkwater,
Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Irene Rutherford McLeod, Richard
Aldington, Robert Nichols and Charles H. Sorley. In an introduction
the editor discusses the new influences and tendencies.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w
“A few months ago saw the birth of Mr Untermeyer’s book of ‘Modern
American poetry,’ a work remarkable as showing the wide variety of
theme and treatment which is at least one characteristic trait of
American poetry today. Now Mr Untermeyer, for some obscure reason,
essays the same feat with ‘Modern British poetry.’ And the result is
conspicuously a failure.” J: G. Fletcher
− =Freeman= 2:116 O 13 ’20 1100w
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 50w
“The disproportionate amount of space allotted to the various poets
gives a false emphasis: Mr Hardy, Mr Bridges and Mr Russell have each
less than three pages, while Mr Chesterton has nine and Mr Kipling and
Mr Noyes (Mr Noyes!) twelve each. The anthologist is tolerant of many
schools; but his eye is more on the present than on the immediate
past.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 800w
“Aside from the small flecks the book presents itself as an admirable
attempt and one that, through its delightful snapshots of the poets
prefixed to each writer’s work, should inveigle readers into a closer
scrutiny of British verse.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w
“The editor’s taste is sensitive, and his curious bitterness towards
the Victorians, which is the main drawback to his liberality, does not
greatly affect the catholicity of the work.”
+ =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 280w
+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= New Adam. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–16871
As an introduction to this book of poems Mr Untermeyer reprints “A
note on the poetry of love” from the New Republic. He comments on the
artificiality of the love poetry of the preceding age and notes that
in our day there is a tendency to return “to the upright vigor, the
wide and healthy curiosity” of our earlier ancestors, the
Elizabethans. Among the poems of the book are: The new Adam, Hands,
Asleep, Summer storm, A marriage, Wrangle, Equals, Supplication, The
eternal masculine, Windy days, The embarrassed amorist, Words for a
jig, Disillusion, The prodigal.
* * * * *
“There is nothing about love or woman in this collection, except it be
in the verses called ‘The wise woman,’ that is new in love poetry, and
there is many a mood and theme that has been both artistically and
emotionally better expressed by any number of poets in the past ‘two
centuries.’” W: S. Braithwaite
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w
“There is in this recent work of Mr Untermeyer’s a note that is
singular in American poetry. It shows a writer who has become curious
about the soul.” H. S. Gorman
+ =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 320w
“Mr Untermeyer is casual, as he promised, and flippant, and frank, and
dutifully vulgar; but seldom is his effect other than that of an agile
pen tracing a facile passion.”
− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 160w
“Neither the rhapsodic nor the mocking quality, however, gives the
substance of Untermeyer’s work. The roots of his power lie deeper.
Upright vigor, wide and healthy curiosity describe his own work
excellently.” Babette Deutsch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 860w
“One of Mr Untermeyer’s most marked traits is a delightful
whimsicality. It crops up again and again throughout the volume, for,
strangely enough, this book, which purports to be so revealing, is
really extremely reticent. But a dissatisfaction obtrudes itself. Why,
oh why, has Mr Untermeyer, master of so many differing forms, chosen
to follow Heine in his tight little rhythms and mathematically cut
stanzas? In Mr Untermeyer’s case, the effect is not exactly what I
imagine he hopes.” Amy Lowell
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 10 ’20 3500w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 70w
=USHER, ABBOTT PAYSON.= Introduction to the industrial history of
England. il *$2.50 Houghton 330.942
20–5634
The book is a narrative of all the historical facts in the industrial
development from the earliest beginnings to the present time, which
presumably explains the word introduction in the title. The ground
covered is shown in the contents: Forms of industrial organization;
The rise of the crafts in antiquity; Crafts and craft gilds in
medieval France; The population of England: 1086–1700; Village and
manor; The traders and the towns; The development of gilds in England;
The woolen industries: 1450–1750; The enclosure movement and land
reform; The industrial revolution; The East India company and the
vested interests; The new cotton industry; The reorganization of the
metal trades; The rise of the modern factory system; The rise of
collective bargaining; The protection of health and welfare by the
state; The development of the railway; The government and the
railways; Combinations and monopolies; Incomes, wages, and social
unrest; Selected references; Index, maps, figures, and graphs.
* * * * *
“His exposition is generally clear. The balance of general statement
and of particular fact is in most chapters good. The author is usually
a trustworthy guide. The most serious weakness of the work, when it is
appraised as a manual for college undergraduates, lies in its plan
rather than in its execution. I think, however, that few teachers who
examine the book will dissent from the conclusion that it would be
greatly improved if a large part, almost one third of the whole, were
cut out, and if the space saved were used for the consideration of the
topics now omitted.” Clive Day
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:572 S ’20 1050w
“The facts are presented with scholarly care, but the style is not too
technical.”
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 490w
“Marked by scholarliness and originality.”
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 10w
“English industrialism, is, primarily, a consequence of certain
philosophic ideas, but the author fails to comprehend this major fact,
not from any lack of knowledge of the complexities of economic
organization, but rather, one surmises because such intricacies are
too much for him. He has not seen the wood for the trees, and he fears
generalizations—except the one implied throughout the book, that there
are no generalizations possible.” R. W.
− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 980w
“The book shows throughout the discriminatory use of the latest
available results of research and much painstaking original work. The
controversial treatment, the careful qualification in discussion, as
well as occasional heaviness in style, make the book unsuited for an
undergraduate text.”
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:520 Je ’20 500w
+ − =New Repub= 23:341 Ag 18 ’20 1650w
“It is encyclopædic in its character and is much more full in dealing
with the mechanical aspects and the mechanical development of industry
than with the history of the men, women, and children who have been
engaged in the industries of England. In this respect it is a
disappointing book.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 170w
“It is no small task to formulate a general text-book covering so
enormous a field and involving many disputatious matters. Professor
Usher has, however, accomplished this with skill. Some of his chapters
are inadequate. In his discussion of land reform and the inclosure
movement, for example, the plight of the evicted peasant farmers seems
to be poorly understood. A similar criticism of a narrowness of
sympathy, or at any rate of an inadequacy of understanding, might be
directed against the final chapter. Professor Usher has a very thin
knowledge of the British labor situation today.” W. L. C.
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 300w
=USHER, ROLAND GREENE.= Story of the great war. il *$2.50 Macmillan
940.3
19–19080
“Professor Usher begins his story with the assassination of the
Archduke of Austria; but he shows beyond doubt that the war really
began months before this event. The German attitude in 1914 is
described; the reports of spies concerning the French and the Russian
preparedness and the British reluctance to enter into war. With these
preliminaries, which include the first five chapters of his book,
Professor Usher begins his narrative with the story of the campaign on
Paris and the wonderful strategy displayed by General Joffre, followed
by the aggressiveness of Foch.... He traces the work of Hindenburg;
the entrance of the British and the Italians into the struggle; the
submarine campaign and the incident of the Lusitania; ... the German
offensive of 1918; the entrance of America into the war;
Chateau-Thierry and the surprising fighting qualities of the American
soldier; St Mihiel, the crumbling of the German line; and the final
crash and fall.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Many of the illustrations, taken from newspapers published in the
most acute moments of the war, are full of extreme feeling. The book,
therefore, does not tend to form cool and restrained views of the
world war. Probably the author did not wish to form such views. Its
strong point is in its large amount of information presented clearly
and directly.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:136 O ’20 300w
“It is distinctive for the clearness of statement, an interpretation
rather than a catalogue of events. May be read with interest by upper
grade pupils or grown-ups. Good illustrations and maps.”
+ =Booklist= 16:165 F ’20
“Professor Usher’s story is told with wonderful vigor, great
picturesqueness and with a rare comprehension of causes and of
effects. His final brief discussion of the query, ‘Who won the war?’
is illuminating and beyond doubt thoroughly correct in its findings.”
E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 550w
“It was to be expected that what was written under the stress of war
should partake largely of the character of propaganda, but the war is
now a matter of history and we have a right to expect that historical
students will try to assume a more judicial attitude toward the events
of the past few years. The chief objection to Mr Usher’s work is that
its viewpoint is that of 1917.” L. M. L.
− + =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:76 Je ’20 330w
“It is a serious handicap to American history that much of it is now
written to meet the needs of the immature mind, that is, for the
college audience. Professor Usher has composed a ‘story of the war’ in
which the bright boy will find just what he wants, but in which the
thoughtful man can grasp little to satisfy him.” Preserved Smith
− + =Nation= 110:302 Mr 6 ’20 220w
“This history is terse, clear, and well proportioned. It will serve
satisfactorily as a ready reference book and for schools, and will
help in reading the more elaborate histories that will later appear.”
+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 40w
“The volume is attractively illustrated.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 100w
+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w
V
=VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY.= Whitewash. *$1.90 (1c) Doran
20–7763
The past, the present, and the future are represented in this story,
and, as must be expected, clash. Lady Selina Chandos, widow of the
Squire of Upworthy, writes with a quill and carries on her husband’s
work along his lines. Consequently the picturesque village of Upworthy
is in a state of decay, and sickness and death lurk between the rotten
floors and leaking thatched roofs. Her daughter Cicely has been at
school and her chum there was Tiddy, the very incarnation of modernity
and daring feminism. Also the old parish doctor, owing to conditions
in the village, is obliged to take on a partner in the person of young
Dr Grimshaw. Lady Selina’s nearest neighbor is Lord Wilverley, an
up-to-date landlord. Of course there is trouble and not until Lord
Selina’s son, Brian, is dead in France, the village in revolt, the
manor house in ashes, and Cicely has jilted Lord Wilverley and
declared her love for Grimshaw, does Lady Selina realize that
whitewashing time is over and a new day has dawned.
* * * * *
“A trenchant indictment of obsolete systems of estate-management.”
+ =Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w
“In spite of its sociological theme, a well told story untainted by
preachiness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20
“All this seems very serious, and somewhat in the nature of a social
and political tract for the times, but the discussion of conditions in
the village of Upworthy and on the Chandos estate are so closely
interwoven into the story that they are made much more effective than
if they were direct propaganda. The love element in the story is
ingenious.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 1400w
“The story is mediocre in characterization but rich in the dramatic
portrayal of a wealth of incident.”
+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
“It is pleasant, leisurely writing with some excellent character
drawing.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 180w
“In a characteristic English country home the old and the new order
strive for supremacy in Mr Vachell’s new novel. And the story through
which he portrays the conflict between them is a fine piece of
workmanship, telling a real story—which so much English fiction does
not—and having a compact framework and an ample supply of interesting
and illuminating incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 550w
“The novel is capital both for its entertainment and its picture of
old and new English society.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
“The dénoûement is ingeniously contrived, with a good curtain, and
throughout there is no lack of animated and appropriate, if
undistinguished, dialogue. Yet the book leaves us with far less
sympathy for the representatives of either régime than Mr Galsworthy’s
more serious studies of patricians and rebels.”
+ − =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 420w
“Mr Vachell invariably writes in an optimistic vein and with due sense
of the humorous and romantic possibilities of a situation. But the
serious under-current is always visible beneath the sun-tipped waves
of the author’s light mood.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w
“It is the sudden confrontations, the changes of fortune and the
impact of fate against fate that go to make the book, and they make it
in spite of Mr Vachell’s deficient insight into character. The
dialogue is clever, amusing, enterprising; but it does not seem to be
just exactly what the given person must have said on the given
occasion. Mr Vachell supplies a good plot, and the plot is nine-tenths
of the novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 350w
=VALLANCE, AYMER.=[2] Old crosses and lychgates. il *$7.50 Scribner 718
(Eng ed 20–18244)
“Mr Vallance sees in the erection of crosses a suitable way to
memorialize England’s dead in the great war. ‘It is hoped,’ he says,
‘that it might prove useful to gather together a collection of
examples of old crosses and lychgates, as affording the most
appropriate form of monuments for reproduction or adaptation to the
needs of the present.’ In his historical and descriptive studies of
the crosses to be found in England and Wales, except for some
unclassified varieties, Mr Vallance classifies them under five types
to which he devotes a chapter each. They are the monolith crosses, the
shaft-on-steps type, the spire-shaped or Eleanor crosses, preaching
and market crosses.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The volume is richly illustrated in lithograph of over two hundred
crosses and lychgates with many plans and details in line, making with
the documentary and historical and descriptive text a fascinatingly
instructive work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
+ =Sat R= 130:96 Jl 31 ’19 820w
“Mr Vallance surveys his field both widely and closely, and we find
but few occasions of criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Je 3 ’20 1100w
=VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH.= Dark mirror. il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–5778
“Priscilla Main, the heroine, is subject from childhood to strangely
realistic dreams. She is a wealthy young society woman and artist; but
in the dreams she assumes another personality and moves in an
unfamiliar environment. In the dream existence she associates with
denizens of the underworld in ‘the street of strange faces,’ and is
known as ‘Red Carnahan’s girl.’ She is loved by Mario, who belongs to
another world, but dwells in the lawbreakers’ region of the city, and
who wants to remove her from those unwholesome surroundings. Priscilla
grows to love this man of her dreams. The dreams become so vivid and
distressing that the girl seeks the aid of a psychoanalyst who loves
her, and who undertakes to solve the mystery of her wandering ego. The
mental experimentalist gradually is able to harmonize dreams with
reality and startling data from the realm of psychology are brought to
light.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Plausible though slightly overdrawn. The end is unexpected and also
fresh.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 250w
=VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR.= What happened to Europe. *$1.50 (3c)
Macmillan 940.314
20–8050
For the second edition of this work Mr Vanderlip has written a new
preface of twenty-one pages in which he analyzes the financial and
economic development in Europe in the ten months following the writing
of his book. “On the whole,” he says, “the events which have since
occurred have been in harmony with the broad analysis made last May
[1919].” He believes that America has missed a great opportunity and
thinks that there is now little that we can do. “Our first task now is
to put our own house in order.” Descriptive note with critical
excerpts for the first edition will be found in the Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p17 Ag 15 ’20 460w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 140w
=VAN DIEREN, BERNARD.=[2] Epstein. il *$12.50 (26c) Lane 735
Jacob Epstein, whose genius the author of this volume compares to that
of Rembrandt, is said to be one of the greatest living sculptors. He
belongs to that order of original creative minds “who have made the
world, made humanity what it is in its best aspects. Human achievement
is their work, human thought takes its foundation from what they have
recognized and revealed, and the sum total of knowledge progresses by
cumulative effect from one of such masters to the next one.” As it is
the author’s opinion that words can not help in the appreciation of an
art that does not speak to the spectator in its own language, the
observations of the book are chiefly devoted to the problems of
appreciation and understanding of art in general. The book contains
fifty reproductions in collotype of the sculptor’s work.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 330w
“The reproductions are beautiful in the profoundest sense. The volume
is an accessible enrichment to the world of art.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 120w
“In spite of a treatise as heavy-handed as any ever inflicted by
pretentious and empty shoptalk the illustrations of the sculptor’s art
still interest and entrance. It is characteristically absurd that a
public which does not buy a sculptor’s work should purchase a
comparatively expensive book about him in which none of his spirit
lives and which, while it contains his apotheosis as a divinity,
contains still more the apotheosis of up-to-date studio and café
commonplace.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 1200w
=N Y Times= p9 D 26 ’20 340w
“If we gather anything from it all, it is a general impression that
most people who interest themselves in the arts are fools, and that Mr
Van Dieren has tried to say so in a hundred and thirty pages with a
persistent implication that he is not one of them. As for Mr Epstein,
if we wish to add to our knowledge of him, we must look at the fifty
plates considerately separated from the text at the end of the book.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p349 Je 3 ’20 1550w
=VAN DOREN, MARK.= Poetry of John Dryden. *$3 Harcourt 821
20–19675
“This is an effort to brighten the most neglected side of the greatest
neglected English poet. There is some novelty, I hope, in a treatment
on an extended and more or less enthusiastic scale of Dryden’s
non-dramatic verse as a body, with attention to the celebrator, the
satirist, the journalist, the singer, and the story-teller all
together.” (Preface) The contents are: The making of the poet; False
lights; The true fire; The occasional poet; The journalist in verse;
The lyric poet; The narrative poet; Reputation; conclusion; Appendix;
Index.
* * * * *
“His study of a great poet and a great dramatist is a singular
mingling of contradictions and it is hardly necessary as an
introduction to a poet who needs no introduction.” E. F. Edgett
− =Boston Transcript= p1 D 18 ’20 1800w
“Mr Van Doren has read his English poetry devouringly up to Dryden and
down from him, with the purpose of showing from whom the poet received
each genre, what he did to each, and what it became in the hands of
his successors. By letting in these sidelights skilfully and
relevantly, he manages, without clogging his exposition, to make his
discussion of Dryden a compendious history of poetic form. The effect
upon the reader is, as I can testify, almost riotously stimulating.”
S. P. Sherman
+ =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1600w
“Our debt to America in the matter of criticism and true scholarship
applied to English literature grows greater year by year. An admirable
example of the thoroughness, nay, of the exhaustive quality of
American criticism, even when it is most sympathetic and least
pedantic, is to be found in this delightful study of John Dryden. The
present writer must confess to a personal interest in Mr Van Doren’s
book because it happens that the American critic’s judgment, not
merely in the whole, but in the parts, agrees in an uncanny way with
his own.”
+ =Spec= 125:739 D 4 ’20 1600w
=VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES.= Grand canyon of the Colorado; recurrent
studies in impressions and appearances. il *$2 Scribner 917.91
20–4459
“The book of the northern rim [of the Grand canyon] has yet to be
written, but Professor Van Dyke has studied the scenery from the
southern side and in his recently published book ‘The Grand canyon of
the Colorado,’ gives us a popular account of the geology of the
region. He protests against the naming of the great temples and buttes
of the canyon after the gods of India. The views from a number of the
southern points are described and details are given of the principal
trails to the river. Reference is made to the animals, birds, and
trees, and to the discoverers and prehistoric inhabitants of the
canyon.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“Will delight readers, especially those of a slight scientific bent,
who are not traveling.”
+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
Reviewed by Le Roy Jeffers
+ =Bookm= 51:360 My ’20 900w
“The most complete, picturesque and satisfactory account of the Grand
canyon that we have.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w
“Written with all his graceful style and imagery, it may be called a
literary guidebook of a superior kind. About half the book is devoted
to the rock structure of this geologist’s paradise, and as these pages
have not only been carefully prepared by the author but have been read
in proof by Mr Ransome, of the Geological survey, they may be accepted
as accurate.” F: S. Dellenbaugh
+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 400w
“It is a good book for a pleasant afternoon. Mr Van Dyke does not
philosophize or preach or rub in his colors so intensely that he
forces you to yawn. There are none of the clichés of the improving
book here.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:284 My 30 ’20 200w
“Here is an exceptionally good book about the Grand canyon.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ’20 220w
=VAN DYKE, TERTIUS.= Songs of seeking and finding. *$1.50 Scribner 811
20–6369
“It would have been rather disappointing if the music of many little
(and unpronounceable) rivers, spilled down his boyhood years, had not
left song in the heart of the master of Avalon’s son. So it is not at
all surprising to discover that ‘Songs of seeking and finding’ is a
book of very pleasant and profitable verse. The strong, virile faith
behind the poems—their wholesome Christianity—impresses the reader
more than the polish of their lines. Mr Van Dyke pleads for real
values of life and real religion.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Tertius Van Dyke writes poetry in the manner of his father, but not
quite so well.”
+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 50w
“The best things in the book seem to me to be ‘The war-makers,’
because there is a bit of good healthy rage in it, and ‘A minister
learns about life,’ because it has a good idea in it and ends at just
the right moment.” M. Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 300w
“Mr Van Dyke is more successful in poems thus reflective than in his
lyrics, though in them the same forceful spirit is unmistakable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 310w
=VANE, DEREK.= Ferrybridge mystery. *$2 Moffat
20–17412
“A suburb of London is the scene of Derek Vane’s story. Basil Monck, a
member of the London stock exchange, whose antecedents are unknown to
his most intimate acquaintances, is found shot dead in his home. There
is not the slightest clue to the identity of the murderer, but there
are many people who might logically be suspected of the crime. Monck
had more enemies than friends; he was generally known to have used his
fascinating personality unscrupulously in his dealings with women, and
more than one man blamed him for the loss of a fortune. Motives for
the murder are plentiful and every man or woman who had cause to hate
Monck falls naturally under suspicion.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It is a pleasure occasionally to find one story of the kind which
justifies the publisher’s contention. The latest book by Miss Derek
Vane is a worthy example. It is above the average of its kind.” C. H.
O.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 540w
“In choosing the character upon whom to settle responsibility for
Monck’s death, the author has displayed a courage and an originality
that may react against the popularity of her story.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 370w
=VANE, GEORGE (VISCONDE DE SARMENTO).= Waters of strife. *$1.75 (2c)
Lane
20–12603
Beginning before the war in England we get a glimpse of the pre-war
intrigues carried on by a German count, exiled in England, and his
accomplices. But the greater part of the story transpires on Belgian
soil in war-time showing up the ruthlessness of the Germans, and the
indignities to which the Belgians were subjected. The heroism of an
American boy and girl of Belgian descent furnish most of the thrills,
and some fine friendships among the English aristocracy and the
middle-class are depicted.
* * * * *
“The story is full of vigor and coloring befitting the day and scene
in which it is laid.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 160w
“The book is very badly constructed and the character drawing
amateurish, but the account of Aline’s experiences in Belgium is
interesting and occasionally dramatic.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 450w
“The book has some good episodes, but in the ordinary way it is
difficult to work up much excitement, principally because the heroes
and scoundrels alike ignore probabilities.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 130w
=VAN LOON, HENDRIK WILLEM.=[2] Ancient man. il *$3 Boni & Liveright 571
“‘Ancient man’ is to be the first of a series of nine history books in
story form, which ‘will explore the intricate wilderness of the bygone
ages’ and in summing up ‘try to show where the human race has lived up
to its highest possible achievements and wherein it has failed to rise
above the status of the earliest cavemen.’ (Ind) “It begins about
fifty thousand years ago with a broad sketch of prehistoric man,
struggling against elemental nature. It skips to the Nile and comes on
down the ages to the Phoenecians.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“The text is terse, up to date, and thoroughly interesting.” A. C.
Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 110w
“The famous historian undertook this task for his own boys, eight and
twelve years old, and he has sensed unfailingly the way to stimulate
the interest and satisfy the curiosity of youngsters of about that
age.”
+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 250w
“Absorbingly interesting. This is the way to tell history to
children—and to the rest of us.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 130w
=VANSITTART, ROBERT GILBERT.= Singing caravan; a Sufi tale. *$2 Doran
821
(Eng ed 19–14218)
The device of the pilgrimage, with alternating narrative and song, is
put to new uses by this young English poet. For the end of the matter
is not mere entertainment by the way, but philosophical discussion, in
which the views of the watchmen, the merchant, the scholar, the
sheikh, the sceptic, and even the camel, are represented.
* * * * *
“‘The singing caravan’ hammers mysticism into clean, efficient verse,
which in its ease and correctness, displays the immense technical
equipment of the recent English poets; but his subject matter shows
the lack of freshness and homeliness that handicaps the Georgian poets
as a group in comparison with their American rivals.”
+ − =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 50w
“Eastern mysticism and the imagery of the caravan form the vehicle by
which Mr Vansittart conveys his mind upon final things; but there is
no affectation of the Orient in his thought, and even his words are
straightforward and plain; he has Schubert’s knack of turning common
phrases into bewitching melody.”
+ =Spec= 123:118 Jl 26 ’19 50w
“The charm of Persian landscape, the wealth of Persian poetry have
been woven into these tales, and they may be read just as profitably
for the pictures they paint as for the lessons they teach.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 150w
“‘The singing caravan’ is ‘a tale of Persian mystics,’ and with the
Persian mystics we are few of us on intimate terms. But its rich and
clear colouring, innocent of purple patchwork, though ‘local,’ may
none the less charm the untravelled; and the poem may be enjoyed
either for its landscape and characters, its allegory, its remarkable
craftsmanship, or for the sake of the mind and spirit which are
revealed in it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 Ag 21 ’19 1000w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= In the garret. *$2 (3c) Knopf 780.4
20–926
From the garret of his memory the author produces many things,
scrutinizes them whimsically and chats about them at random. The
things are authors and books and music and people he has met.
Contents: Variations on a theme by Havelock Ellis; A note on Philip
Thicknesse; The folk-songs of Iowa; Isaac Albéniz; The holy jumpers;
On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music;
Sir Arthur Sullivan; On the rewriting of masterpieces; Oscar
Hammerstein: an epitaph; La tigresse; In the theatres of the purlieus:
Mimi Aguglia as Salome, Farfariello, The negro theatre, The Yiddish
theatre, The Spanish theatre.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 80w
+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
“He has a magnificent way of being unimportant. His touch is light and
artistic. His culture is Hunekeresque. His scholarship is musicianly,
sometimes jazzy.” Mary Terrill
+ =Bookm= 51:193 Ap ’20 350w
+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 80w
“The author does himself injustice by opening with the least
attractive essay in the book, though it shows the most erudition....
It is when he surveys the American scene that we go all the way with
Mr Van Vechten.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 5 ’20 800w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Tiger in the house. il *$5 Knopf 636.8
“I have written, how skilfully I cannot tell, on the manners and
customs of the cat, his graces and calineries, the history of his
subjugation of humankind. Through all the ages, even during the dark
epoch of witchcraft and persecution, puss has maintained his
supremacy, continued to breed and multiply, defying, when convenient,
the laws of God and man, now our friend, now our enemy, now wild, now
tame, the pet of the hearth or the tiger of the heath, but always
free, always independent, always an anarchist who insists upon his
rights, whatever the cost. The cat never forms soviets; he works
alone.” (Apotheosis) The illustrations are many and beautiful. There
is an exhaustive bibliography and an index and the contents are: By
way of correcting a popular prejudice; Treating of traits;
Ailurophobes and other cat-haters; The cat and the occult; The cat in
folklore; The cat and the law; The cat in the theatre; The cat in
music; The cat in art; The cat in fiction; The cat and the poet;
Literary men who have loved cats; Apotheosis.
* * * * *
“The book is a revelation concerning the more or less important part
which cats have played in history and literature.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 160w
“The suggestive ingenuity of its title is matched by the far-reaching
skill with which he has amassed and arrayed his facts so as to make
them into a continuous story that blends both fact and the
imagination.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 1600w
“Mr Van Vechten is less fortunate in his choice of pictures than in
his text.” J. W. Krutch
+ =Nation= 112:sup243 F 9 ’21 780w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 150w
=VAN VORST, MARIE.= Fairfax and his pride. *$1.75 Small
20–4010
“Miss Van Vorst’s narrative is the story of the struggles of Antony
Fairfax to gain distinction as a sculptor. He is largely self-taught,
but soon after coming to New York in 1880, at the age of twenty-three,
we find him perfecting an epoch-making piece of modeling in the studio
of a famous sculptor. The latter steals the credit for Fairfax’s work,
and starts the young man on the career which threatens to snuff out
his ambition and great talents. It is after this mischance that
Fairfax becomes successively fireman and engineer for the New York
Central. His railroad service ends abruptly with the receipt of a
small inheritance from an admirer. This takes him to Paris, where he
establishes his fame, experiences a brief romance, and finally has the
satisfaction of confounding the man who stole the early fruits of his
genius.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Not as interesting as ‘Big Tremaine’ and will not be as popular.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20
“It is safe to say that no American novel of the season so far
surpasses the quality of ‘Fairfax and his pride.’ It tells a story
that takes you astray and brings you back to the main current of
events with surprising interest. The characters are all well drawn. We
close the book with the consciousness that here is a real American
novelist.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1550w
=N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 320w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 160w
“The young sculptor and his difficulties do not produce a very lively
impression. Miss Van Vorst never brings her readers into intimate
touch with him, and the short, jerky chapters are irritating in their
effects.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 550w
=VAN WESEP, HENDRIKUS BOEVE.= Control of ideals. *$2 (5c) Knopf 171
20–18312
This “contribution to the study of ethics” (Sub-title) is concerned
primarily with the problem of war prevention. The author holds that
man is more an imaginative than a rational animal and apt to mistake
his imaginative world for the world of reality. By learning to control
our ideals we learn to distinguish between an ideal and a fixed idea
and to live by rather than die for them. The book takes up in turn the
origin, nature, and function of human ideals and the supreme worth of
the individual and of human life. Contents: Variety of ideals;
Attitude toward ideals; Assimilation of ideals; The survival of
ideals; Nations; Development of self-consciousness; Society versus the
individual; Utopianism; Democracy; Tolerance; Harmony; Symbiosis;
Atomism; Functions of ideals; Moral courage; Index.
* * * * *
“Scholarly but written for the layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“His optimism seems a little too easy for a disillusioned
civilization, but at least he is intelligible, a great recommendation
for any one educated among the fogs of metaphysics.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w
=VAST, HENRI.= Little history of the great war. il *$2 Holt 940.3
20–20075
A short history of the war, translated from the French by Raymond
Weeks of Columbia university. Contents: The German race—pangermanism;
The environment—William II and Europe (1900–1914); The critical
moment—responsibility for the war; The sudden attack—battle of the
Marne; Eastern front—Serbia and Russia (1914–1916); Distant theaters
of war—in the Orient—on the sea and in the colonies; The Italian
effort—the army of Saloniki; Retrospective preparation (1915–1916);
The ruin of Russia (1916–1918); American aid; Peace offensives;
Victory—capitulation of Germany. There are twenty-seven maps, but no
index.
* * * * *
“A wonderfully compact story of the war, composed with characteristic
French clarity.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w
=VAUGHAN, WALTER.=[2] Life and work of Sir William Van Horne. il *$5
Century
20–20625
The life of Sir William Van Horne is something of a romance, he having
made his way from a poor boy in Illinois to an English peerage. He
gained his fame and his fortune as a builder of railroads of which the
Canadian Pacific was his greatest achievement. With his natural
abilities, says his biographer, he would have achieved greatness in
any field; as a military commander, as an engineer or architect, as a
painter or in the natural sciences. The book has several maps,
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the book is its really vivid picture of a striking
personality.” Allan Nevins
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 29 ’21 1250w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 100w
=VEBLEN, THORSTEIN B.= Place of science in modern civilization, and
other essays. *$3 Huebsch 330.4
20–6953
“The assumptions of the existing economic order are studied in
Thorstein Veblen’s latest book, ‘The place of science in modern
civilization.’ This is a carefully selected series of papers published
in economic journals during the past twenty years, and sums up the
principles of an economic attitude so popular among modern economists
that it has been entitled ‘Veblenism.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“If these old essays are valuable, in the face of all that their
author has since contributed, it is because of their emphasis upon the
spirit of his work; because, as much as anything he has done, they
show the impulse and intention of his scholarship. There are here, as
elsewhere, passages that rouse impatience because of the author’s very
carelessness of pragmatism.” Babette Deutsch
+ − =Dial= 69:79 Jl ’20 1250w
“There are serious difficulties in the way of a ‘scientific’ treatment
of economics, over which Mr Veblen does not help us, and many of which
he does not see. A keen critic, he is not a close or clear thinker;
destructively valuable, we can hardly follow him as a constructive
leader.” F. H. Knight
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:518 Je ’20 1100w
“The book is a rich contribution to economic and social literature,
and is, in a way, Mr Veblen at his scientific best.” H. A. Overstreet
+ =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 500w
“Nowhere in them is there any indication of that subtle wit, the
telling thrust, the finely pointed characterization that rewarded the
hours of toil through his other writings. While our author’s standing
as a humanist is enhanced by the essays, his reputation as an
economist will not be.” N. W. Wilensky
− + =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 1050w
“One cannot help wondering whether Mr Veblen himself knows what an
excellent literary quality his writings have, and what a boon to the
jaded reader is the absence in his work of certain conventional
literary virtues—solemnity, geniality, sonority, and the like.”
+ − =No Am= 211:424 Mr ’20 1350w
“The position of Mr Veblen is so deserving of attention that one must
regard his involved style and ponderous vocabulary as a misfortune.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 580w
“Several of them are on academically important topics which,
nevertheless, the more general public that has become interested in
the author’s theories can afford to skip. Others deal with fundamental
issues which the layman should try to understand. Among these we would
class the three papers on the preconceptions of economic science which
demonstrate the shifts in the boundaries of that science, and
especially the newer emphasis on its human aspects.”
+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 150w
=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= Port Allington stories, and others. *$1.90
(2c) Doran
20–21335
A volume of short stories by an English author who was killed in the
war, issued now as he had prepared them for publication, with a
preface by his wife. Some of them had appeared in Harper’s Magazine.
Contents: “This is Tommy”; The greatness of Mr Watherstone; The
outrage at Port Allington; The offense of Stephen Danesford; Soaring
spirits; The bad Samaritan; The sunk elephant; The adventure of the
Persian prince; The smoke on the stairs; On the raft; Madame Bluebird;
The missing princess; A night’s adventure; The maze.
* * * * *
“Deftness of phrasing, and a sense of character and of the social
ironies mark a volume of tales whose sarcasm is never bitter and whose
laughter is always good-natured.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 310w
“Nowhere except in Mrs Wharton’s matchless ‘Xingu,’ and possibly in Mr
Benson’s current ‘Queen Lucia,’ have the humors of feminine club-made
culture been more amusingly displayed.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 300w
=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= War poems, and other verses. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–20444
Edmund Gosse in his introduction gives a biographical sketch of the
author, an Englishman of French descent who, altho past military age,
enlisted at the beginning of the war and was killed in 1917. Among the
war poems are England and the sea, The call; The Indian army; A legend
of the fleet; To the United States; Christmas, 1914; To Canada; Before
the assault. These are followed by a small group of “other verses” on
such themes as The July garden, Friendship, To an English sheep-dog.
The volume was published in England in the fall of 1917.
* * * * *
+ =Lit D= p33 F 16 ’18 100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 250w
“In Lieutenant Vernède’s unhesitating and uncompromising verse the man
sustains the poet, but the poet merits that support.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 57:333 Mr ’18 230w
“Some of the finest poems that have come from the trenches. They are
instinct with an exalted patriotism.”
+ =Spec= 120:14 Ja 5 ’18 320w
=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Islands and their mysteries. il *$1.75
Duffield 551.42
20–20916
The author offers this volume as a companion to “The ocean and its
mysteries.” It explains in a non-technical manner how islands are
formed, how they resemble or differ from one another, how they become
covered with vegetation, and are inhabited by animal life and many
other puzzling and interesting features of islands and insular life.
Imaginary trips to imaginary islands of various types hold the young
reader’s attention. Contents: The romance of islands; Islands and
islands; Volcanic islands; Coral islands and other islands; Island
life; Island vegetation; A ramble on a lake island; An island in the
sea; Exploring an island in a tropical river; A visit to an island in
tropical seas; The island of salt; The island of pearls; When people
dwell in a volcano; Islands of the frozen seas. There are
illustrations.
* * * * *
“The story is an extremely fascinating one and although designed
undoubtedly for the reading of adults, cannot fail to be both
interesting and instructive to boys and girls in their teens, whose
minds are beginning to expand and to reason and inquire into the
causes of things.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 330w
“Always he retains a human viewpoint, so that his book reflects the
wonder and mystery of life instead of degenerating into a mere
scientific treatise.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 Ja 8 ’21 480w
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 80w
“Although the style, which smacks somewhat of the elementary
geography, grows a bit monotonous at times, he leaves one wishing for
more.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 200w
=VESTAL, SAMUEL CURTIS.= Maintenance of peace. *$5 (2c) Putnam 341
20–9987
“The foundations of domestic and international peace as deduced from a
study of the history of nations.” (Sub-title) At the hands of history,
going as far back as ancient Assyria, the author endeavors to prove
that peace can only be secured on a basis of militarism and
preparedness and on a “balance of power” rather than on a world
confederacy or a league of nations. Sea power ought naturally to
belong to the nation weakest in land power, in order that the balance
of power may be maintained and “freedom of the seas” can be little
more than a phrase. Of pacifism he will have none for it teaches “a
spiritless doctrine of cowardice.” Preparedness is as necessary for
the maintenance of domestic peace as of peace between nations. A
partial list of the contents is: The domestic peace of nations; The
integration of nations; World federation; The balance of power; Early
history of the balance of power; The thirty years’ war; Part taken by
England in maintaining the balance of power since the treaty of
Utrecht; Lessons that should be drawn from attempts to overthrow the
balance of power and establish world empires; The Holy alliance;
Arbitration as a panacea for war; Neutralization of small states;
Disarmament; Germany prepares for world conquest; Growth of pacifism
outside of Germany; Index.
* * * * *
“Many new ideas are broached in this thoughtful volume, which is
worthy of the close study of statesman and militarist.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w
=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w
=VILLARS, MEG.= Broken laugh. *$2 (1c) McBride
The heroine, a very simple and trusting little English girl, who
answers to the name of Kissy-Girl, is betrayed at the age of seventeen
and goes to London alone to await the birth of her child. A chance
clue from a newspaper sends her to Paris in search of the man and she
is there decoyed into a house of ill fame. Refusing to become one of
the professional inmates she is allowed to remain as a servant. In
this capacity she meets Jim Crighton, an Englishman who falls in love
with her and takes her to Brussels. He has made up his mind to marry
her when the war breaks out. He enlists and succeeds to a title. His
intention to marry Kissy remains, but a German bomb puts an end to
everything.
* * * * *
“If she had been content to develop her whole story in the milieu she
knows best, she would probably have produced a really effective
narrative.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 60w
“A novel of more than usual literary excellence. The reader’s sympathy
with this story will depend almost entirely upon his conception of the
importance of conventionally fixed morality.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 N 7 ’20 470w
“Like much latter-day fiction, this work has numerous touches of
interest and reality; but, as a whole, gives an effect of weakness.”
− + =Sat R= 129:193 F 21 ’20 230w
“Such a tale might be sensational, but, in Miss Villars’s telling, it
is delicate.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 420w
“Obviously the war should not have been allowed to intrude; it spoils
everything. But one day she may write a book as good from cover to
cover as the first hundred pages of ‘The broken laugh.’”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 480w
=VILLIERS, FREDERIC=, il. Days of glory. il *$5 Doran 940.49
20–4792
“The sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front.” (Sub-title)
The volume consists of a series of fifty full-page illustrations
showing scenes at the front, each accompanied by brief descriptive
comment. Philip Gibbs contributes an introduction, “A salute to
Frederic Villiers.”
* * * * *
“A well made book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:277 My ’20
“It is worth whole tomes of verbal description. The pictures are vivid
and accurate.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 560w
“Villiers represents the type of the old-guard war correspondent at
its best. The sketches in ‘Days of glory’ have no special artistic
merit. They look very old fashioned beside the modern methods of
Nevinson and Nash. In character they are topographical, anecdotal,
documentary. There is no doubt that they possess a certain historical
significance.”
+ =Nation= 111:785 D 29 ’20 250w
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w
“The artistic merit of Mr Villiers’s work consists not merely in the
personal element wrought into the pictures as contrasted with the
mechanical work of a camera, but also in the fact that here are
pictures at which no camera had a chance in 1914–15, and the other
pictures which no camera could have furnished with all the license in
the world.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 360w
=VILLIERS, FREDERIC.= Villiers, his five decades of adventure. 2v il *$6
(7½c) Harper
20–20650
Two volumes devoted to the life of a veteran war correspondent and
artist. He was born in 1851, in England, and his first association
with wars came in 1870 when he went over to Paris to pick up material
for a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war. The next adventure that
offered was the war between Serbia and Turkey in 1876, and others
followed, taking him to every part of the earth, down to the great
war. The volumes are illustrated.
* * * * *
“These tales of five decades of adventure must be placed among the
greatest of autobiographies.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 750w
“Here between covers are the dramatic figures and the stirring events
of two and a half generations presented by a writer trained throughout
a lifetime in the art of bringing out all the high lights and shades
of dramatic contrasts.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 12 ’20 2600w
“With long practice in telling the public what it wanted to know, it
might go without saying that this autobiography is chatty and
interesting from start to finish.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 21 ’21 520w
=VINCENT, FLORENCE SMITH.= Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. il *$2
Stokes
20–18753
A nature-fairy story for children. Peter is a little boy who has no
playmates. For saving the life of an oak tree that his father had
wanted to cut down, he is rewarded with the friendship of all the
living things. He not only learns their language, he is able at will
to make himself smaller and smaller until he meets butterflies and
grasshoppers and crickets on equal terms. He can enter their houses,
climb up spider web ladders and ride on a butterfly’s back. So he
learns of their ways, and finds out that they are just as wise, and
sometimes wiser, than humans.
=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Growing up. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–12378
“This book is concerned solely and entirely with the growing up of a
small family of children and the trials, perplexities and mooted
questions which the parents of those children faced every day of their
lives in their effort to do the right thing by their offspring.” (N Y
Times) “Very likely many who start this book will be impressed with a
sense of familiarity since Tom and Alice Marcey and their three
children have already seen the light some years ago in the pages of a
magazine, but we must know Robert and Sara and Jamie in book form to
fully appreciate them.” (Boston Transcript)
* * * * *
“Will delight all modern troubled parents and other grownups.”
+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
“One of the most interesting characteristics of the book is the
breadth of its appeal. The children are so natural, their parents are
so natural, that it seems impossible that anyone could fail to find
something attractive in their story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 450w
“The tale presents a more or less deft but quite obvious mixture of
pedagogy and feminism, in an ample solution of juvenile prattle and
misdemeanour. The whole, however, is so well spiced with humour and
sweetened with domestic sentiment that (to quote the publisher’s
tribute) ‘the tired business man and the weary housewife will find a
real release in reading it.’” H. S. H.
+ =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 580w
“Her humor is fresh and rich and delicate. One may quite forget her
psychological implications and yield to the mirth and human charm of
her story and her people.”
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 440w
“Mrs Vorse’s story, though backed by sound psychology and keen
observation, is yet light fiction. Its merit is rather in the
contribution it makes to the growing volume of child thought, to the
explanation of such pieces as ‘The young visiters’ than in the
intrinsic value of either the tale or the style.” Henrietta Malkiel
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 500w
“It is a most engaging book. The freshness, the humor and the
spontaneity that characterized Mrs Vorse’s former novel are equally
manifest here, along with a deeper purpose and a greater
significance.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 820w
“Every one who enjoyed ‘The Prestons’ will be glad to read ‘Growing
up.’”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“This story is as delightful as ‘The Prestons,’ and that is saying
much for it. The author has an uncanny understanding of children and
the problems that they offer to conscientious parents.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 40w
=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).=[2] Men and steel. *$2 (3c) Boni &
Liveright 331.89
After a graphic description of the power of iron and of how coal, iron
and steel rule our civilization, of the great machines in the mills to
which man is but a negligible adjunct, of the mill towns—the slummiest
and the comparatively decent—all with the common motive: “Man is puny;
Industry great”—the author gives the history of the great steel strike
which she has personally followed up and observed in detail. The book
falls into four parts: Strike background; The steel strike; Silence;
The dying strike.
* * * * *
“Skillfully written the book is, but it proves next to nothing, for
throughout the author uses the individual’s story (easy to find among
several hundred thousand people) to prove broad truths.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 170w
“It is a beautiful and a terrible book, because like a true work of
art it embodies the elemental beauty and terror of life.”
+ =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 780w
“This book of Mary Vorse’s is a thrilling and a perfectly sane and
down-on-the-ground contribution to the history of that historic steel
strike of last winter. It is a book really of stories—of stories of
men and of women and of children and of homes.” W: Hard
+ =New Repub= 25:51 D 8 ’20 1000w
“At the beginning of chapter II there is a really powerful bit of
writing.... And there are other pieces of really good writing in the
book. The rest too frequently tends toward the bathos of film captions
and magazine stories. The story she tells is not only improbable, but
she puts her own opinions and feelings into the mouths of her Slovaks
with a ruthless roughness. Where they do not speak as she would have
them she makes them think her thoughts.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 1200w
“On the whole, she has done an illuminating bit of work. It is
propaganda rather than detached painting, but it is propaganda of a
high quality. At times one regrets that the artist in Mrs Vorse was
not more rigorous in its exactions on the other side of her
personality, but, after all, no one else has given so moving a picture
of the routine of life in the steel towns.” W. L. C.
+ − =Survey= 45:676 F 5 ’21 220w
=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Ninth man. il *$1.25 (7½c) Harper
20–15068
This story, set in a medieval Italian city, is a study of hate and
fear. Mazzaleone, the conqueror of the city, has decreed that it shall
mete out its own punishment and to each ninth person passing in review
before him he has given a black disc which signifies power over life
or death. For within thirty days each possessor of a disc may
designate secretly one who is to be put to death. First mad lust for
life breaks loose, then hatred and revenge, and lastly fear. But among
the frenzied populace there moves one who preaches love and
forgiveness and who offers to take on himself the death for all. This
is Brother Agnello, who carries one of the black discs and who was
first shown the way to keep his own hands clean and then the way to
redeem his townsmen.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 370w
“It is a colorful tale, and will appeal to those who have found
pleasure in the earlier Italian stories of Maurice Hewlett and the
romances of James Branch Cabell’s invention.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 90w
W
=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Belonging. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–15700
The heroine is a beautiful English girl married to a French count. She
does not love him but is devotedly loyal during his long and hopeless
illness. Two men love her, Charles Carton, who had been the object of
her girlish devotion, and Julian Guise. Following her husband’s death
she becomes engaged to Julian. Jealousy between the two men leads to a
struggle and Carton is killed. Julian, who is severely injured, is
taken away by his father and kept in ignorance of what follows. The
guilt is placed on Sara and she suffers a year’s imprisonment. When
she meets Julian after her release he is terribly changed but a second
meeting brings explanations and reconciliation.
* * * * *
“Taking well-worn material, Miss Wadsley has used it so skillfully and
with so firm, yet delicate, a literary touch that it comes near to
being a masterpiece in its way. If the subject enjoyed a higher moral
tone this commendation could be given without qualification.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 540w
=Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 40w
“We cannot say that in the matter of construction this story is very
successful.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 140w
=WALDMAN, LOUIS.= Albany: the crisis in government; with an introd. by
Seymour Stedman. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 335
20–12624
“This is the story of the suspension, trial and expulsion from the New
York State legislature of the five Socialist assemblymen. It was
written by one of the expelled members. It is an ex parte report of
the case, to which an introduction is supplied by one of the attorneys
for the defense.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 80w
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“The illustrations scattered through the volume might well have been
omitted, partly because they are copies of cartoons and partly because
they are poorly done. The introduction by Seymour Stedman is lucid and
interesting.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 170w
=Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 120w
“Written by one of the victims of the injustice, the book is of course
extremely partisan. Yet if one may judge from a generous reading of
the newspaper accounts of the trial, it is fairly representative. The
proofreading is poor, and there are further evidences of undue haste
in preparation and printing. But for all that it is a book well worth
anybody’s reading and reflection.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:89 Jl 28 ’20 1600w
“The line of cleavage in public opinion as to the merits of this case
is not likely to be materially modified by the publication of this
book. It is, however, an interesting and readable account of a famous
episode.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 100w
“Mr Waldman’s book is convincingly written and his argument forceful.
The author tells his story in a fair and straightforward manner.” L.
D. Lasker
+ =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 440w
=WALEY, ARTHUR=, tr. Japanese poetry, the Uta. *$3.25 Oxford 895
20–14302
“The poems here translated are from the Manyo Shu anthology
(Ten-thousand leaves collection), compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi, who
died in 785, and are considered as the beginnings of Japanese poetry
as an art. ‘The translations in this book,’ says Mr Waley, ‘are
chiefly intended to facilitate the study of the Japanese text; for
Japanese poetry can only be rightly enjoyed in the original. The
original texts of the poems accompany the translations, and notes on
grammar are given to facilitate the student who wishes to master the
originals.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Mr Waley comes not halfway, but all the way to meet an intelligent
ignorance. He is instructive without severity; he is learned, but
affable. His translations have, we think, every indispensable quality
of good literal translation—especially a kind of negative rhythmical
and tone value, and distinction of vocabulary without a trace of
preciousness or squeamishness.” F. W. S.
+ =Ath= p12 Ja 2 ’20 950w
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 380w
“It is decidedly difficult to find anything in the literature of the
West which recalls these brief lyrics, which confine within seventeen
or at most within thirty-one syllables the passion of a life or the
shadowing imminence of death.” Babette Deutsch
+ =Dial= 70:204 F ’21 800w
“The volume shows the scholarly care and literary taste which were the
charms of Mr Waley’s previous translations, and nobody could wish for
a better introduction to Japanese poetry; but the poems do not give
the same thrill as those little decorative masterpieces—the Chinese
translations. Some of them seem to be too purely decorative.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p646 N 13 ’19 820w
=WALISZEWSKI, KAZIMIERZ.= Poland the unknown; tr. from the French.
*$2.25 Doran 943.8
(Eng ed 20–6295)
It is the contention of the author that the characteristics of the
Polish people and of their national ideals has always been quite
distinct from those of western Europe and that, as a vanquished
nation, she has for nearly a century and a half presented not her own
face but a mask to the world. That her exceptional virtues rather than
her failings have been the chief cause of her undoing and that of all
the nations that participated in the latter, Prussia has been the
arch-criminal, is the object of the book to show. Contents: The enigma
of a nation’s fate; The Polish paradox; Ideas and principles; Organs
of government; Anarchy; The crisis; The catastrophe; Beyond the grave;
Resurrection; Conclusion.
* * * * *
“M. Waliszewski’s book is largely a vigorous and effective polemic
against the misrepresentations of Polish history so long and
systematically inspired by Berlin and St Petersburg. Unfortunately,
his own views as to the causes of Poland’s downfall are nowhere very
concisely summed up. The author may be criticized for great
carelessness in the matter of names and dates.” R. H. L.
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:316 Ja ’21 750w
=Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 100w
“It is written in a somewhat ebullient manner which, although it makes
agreeable reading, is not altogether favourable to processes of
reasoned argument. We do not wish to suggest that M. Waliszewski is
consciously prejudiced, but he is perhaps too closely affected by the
conditions he describes to judge them dispassionately.” P. S.
+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 520w
“M. Waliszewski is an excellent sales-agent who knows his literary and
historical wares and knows, also, how to spread them before his
customers with tact and grace; but for all that, his work will hardly
serve as a reliable guide for future historians of the Polish
question—if only because, having spent most of his life in Paris, be
writes with a decidedly French accent.” H. W. van Loon
− + =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 620w
“Unfortunately for his main purpose, he has felt called upon to
develop his thesis in a detail which makes the book rather difficult
reading for anyone not intimately acquainted with Polish history.” M.
A. Chickering
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 70w
“Being written as a corrective it tends to give a somewhat one-sided
view if taken only in itself without reference to the mass of
literature which it seeks to controvert. Even so it is of very
considerable interest, especially in regard to the history of the
nineteenth century.
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 170w
=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s rainy day
stories. il *75c (2c) Harper
These rainy day stories are quite properly fairy tales, with such
titles as Princess Cantilla, The tree of swords, The silver
horseshoes, The blue castle, Nardo and the princess, The enchanted
boat, The gingerbread rock, and so on. The book belongs to the Sandman
series and is illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
+ =Ind= 104:396 D 11 ’20 50w
=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s stories of
Drusilla doll. il *75c (2c) Harper
A book of stories for very little people. Drusilla is an unbreakable
doll, and it is very lucky for her that she is, for her adventures are
many and dreadful and only an unbreakable could have survived them.
The book belongs to a series of Sandman’s stories and is illustrated
by Rhoda C. Chase.
=WALKER, HENRY CRAGIN.= Jimmy Bunn stories. il *$1.75 (8c) Century
A book of animal stories for little folks. As in the older folk lore
of many lands the rabbit and the wolf are pitted against one another,
and the nimble wits of Jimmy Bunn, here as always, are more than a
match for the craft of his adversary. The black and white
illustrations are by Hope-Innes.
* * * * *
“Fortunately this is not one of that new type of children’s books
attempting to compete with the moving pictures. Its language is
simple; its faint moralizing successfully camouflaged.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 100w
=WALKER, SYDNEY FERRIS.= Electric mining machinery. il $5 Pitman 622
20–9652
A British work by a member of the Institution of electrical engineers,
who is also author of “Electricity in mining,” “Electricity in houses
and workshops,” and other works. The author says, “I have endeavoured
to explain every little point that, from my own experience, I think
may trouble mining men.” The book is illustrated with 132 figures and
is indexed.
=WALLACE, DILLON.= Ragged inlet guards; a story of adventure in
Labrador. il *$1.50 (2½c) Revell
20–2262
Four boys on a Labrador coast were left as the mainstay of their
families went when their fathers and big brothers went to the war.
They constituted themselves the Ragged inlet guards, and did men’s
work. Their home life, their hunting experiences and adventures are
described in the book and the climax of the story is their capture of
a German wireless station which brought them a medal each from King
George.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
“Stirring book of adventure. Librarians will find it in great demand
among their younger patrons.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 200w
=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Four just men. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–15957
The “Four just men” are a conscientious little band who are not
satisfied with justice as it is meted out by law, and therefore take
certain cases of wrong-doing into their own hands. The first case that
this book records is that of Sir Philip Ramon, English Secretary of
foreign affairs. He intends to introduce an aliens’ extradition bill
in Parliament which if put thru will exile from England one Garcia,
and virtually hand him over to the “corrupt and vengeful government”
which is persecuting him. The Four just men are determined this shall
not happen and are even willing to resort to taking Sir Ramon’s life
that the bill may not go thru. He is warned of his danger and the
police take unprecedented precautions but their protection proves
inadequate and the Four just men have another success to add to their
list. The second case the story takes up has to do with the “Red
hundred,” an anarchistic body whom the Four just men work against. One
of their number almost meets his Waterloo in this adventure, but
finally makes his escape thru the cleverness of the rest of the band.
* * * * *
“Readers of crime and mystery tales will find this book entirely
satisfying. The dénouement is startling.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 300w
“The action is absorbing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 160w
=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Green rust. *$1.60 Small
20–4011
“‘The green rust’ is the story of Oliva Cresswell, the granddaughter
and heiress of a millionaire, but ignorant of the fact, and of a
conspiracy to destroy the wheat crop of the world by a new mildew—the
green rust—of a most virulent and aggressive type. The dangers she
runs from those engaged in the conspiracy, who are anxious to obtain
control of her money to finance an enormous wheat speculation, and the
protection she receives from the most unlikely persons, make up a
story full of excitement.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“His hero is disappointing because his judgment is so often bad, his
resource meagre and his foresight dull. Its character drawing is
sufficiently sharp for its purpose.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w
“The whole narrative is breathless, sometimes even confusing, in its
rapid melodrama, but it has a grip that never loosens. It is
essentially a story of ‘action.’ The characterization does not yield
novelty in any instance.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 580w
=Sat R= 128:392 O 25 ’19 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 18 ’19 140w
=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.=[2] Stars in the pool; a prose poem for lovers.
*$2 Dutton
20–20966
“The tale is about King Telwyn’s daughter, Roseheart. Here came, sent
by his father, King Lokus, to learn from the wise King Telwyn
‘somewhat of life and living in the great world,’ the young Prince
Flame. And Flame ‘looking upon the Princess Roseheart, drew one great
breath, and loved her with the love of a man’s heart. And Roseheart,
when she looked into the eyes of Flame, and his heart therein, knew
him for her lord, and loved him.’ Flame met the Old gray woman of
Shadows who told him that she ‘was Sorrow, and the Way of destiny, and
the Shadow of things.’ And Flame had to experience these things on a
quest which was prefigured to him in a vision. On his wanderings he
met with many natural and spiritual adventures, coming back in the end
when he had searched and found the truth beyond self, to wed the
Princess Roseheart and realize the meaning of love.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“An exquisite tale that has the shimmering grace and spiritual charm
of the romantic spirit of chivalry.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 330w
“‘The stars in the pool’ tells in dainty fashion a story which is part
fairy tale, part allegory.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 540w
=WALLAS, GRAHAM.= Life of Francis Place, 1771–1854. 3d ed *$3.50 Knopf
A20–157
“The American edition of Graham Wallas’ life of Francis Place is
chiefly a reprint of the original edition printed in 1898. The career
of Francis Place spanned the beginnings and the early development of
the industrial revolution. Born in 1771, he was a young man when the
fires of the French revolution illuminated the world. He was a trade
unionist when unions were outlawed by Parliament as conspiracies. He
engaged in bitter industrial struggles and paid those terrible
penalties which are exacted only of working men who are loyal to their
fellows. He became a liberal, and after he had made a fortune he was
an influence in the politics of the kingdom. To his efforts are
attributable some of the important beginnings of social
legislation.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Ath= p118 Mr ’19 30w
=Booklist= 16:168 F ’20
“Mr Wallas’s biography of Francis Place is a valuable contribution to
the economic, the social and the political history of England.” E. F.
E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 10 ’20 1750w
“It is almost idle to praise it now, for it has taken its place among
the accepted masterpieces of English political biography. It is
difficult to overestimate the significance that attaches to his
portrait.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 68:614 My ’20 2900w
Reviewed by R: Roberts
+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 1250w
“Good, timely reading.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 80w
“His account of this fascinating pioneer of the British labor movement
is a classic in biographical research.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 350w
=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH=, ed. Sovietism; the A B C of Russian
bolshevism—according to the bolshevists. *$2 Dutton 335
20–10515
“This is a summary of bolshevist utterances, made with a view to
showing what the real aims of the bolshevist leaders are. The official
documents and decrees, the speeches of Lenine and other leaders, the
published opinions of Maxim Gorky, acclaimed as the greatest
Bolshevist writer, are the chief sources from which Mr Walling has
drawn in formulating this ‘A B C of Russian bolshevism.’ Mr Walling
assumes that the public wants to know ‘what the bolsheviki actually
stand for—according to a fair summary of their own acknowledged words
and deeds.’”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The book should do much as an antiseptic against the bolshevist
poison.” A. W. Small
+ =Am J Soc= 26:250 S ’20 130w
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w
“Scattered material makes it better for reference than for straight
reading. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:56 N ’20
“His encyclopædic labours would be more convincing if it were not for
his careless habit of misquotation and of quoting isolated sentences
which when placed in their context convey a far different meaning.”
Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“Granted that all of his conclusions are supportable, Mr Walling’s
method of establishing the case is far from satisfactory. What is
needed at this time is less political opinion and more economic
facts.” W. E. Atkins
− + =J Pol Econ= 28:710 O ’20 900w
“Nine-tenths of the book is made up of quotations taken chiefly from
the hostile press. It is worthy of note that Mr Walling seems to have
found one of the clues of bolshevist philosophy: he emphasizes the
militarization of industry which took place in some parts of Russia
and which is incompatible with the principle of industrial democracy.
It is really a strong point, and one should begin with it; but
unfortunately Mr Walling mentions it only accidentally and then again
dives into the characteristic anti-bolshevist hysteria.” Gregory
Zilboorg
− =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 190w
“We do not know of any book from which the American reader can get a
better photograph of Russian Bolshevism as portrayed and interpreted
by the Bolshevists themselves.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 220w
“The conclusions reached are irrefutable. Mr Walling is entirely fair
in his selections and it is unnecessary for him to indulge in an
argumentative attack.”
+ =Review= 3:270 S 29 ’20 1550w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 900w
=WALPOLE, HUGH SEYMOUR.= Captives. *$2 (1c) Doran
20–20321
Captives of their inheritance and environment are the two leading
figures of this psychological novel. Maggie Cardinal’s youth had been
loveless and her father’s, the miserly, sordid, unlovable vicar’s,
religion repellent to her. His death, when Maggie was nineteen, was a
liberation; now she would lead her own life. But she only escapes to
more fanatical religion, in the house of her aunts, and her natural
truthfulness and the absence of early training in conventional forms,
make her both a religious and social rebel. Martin Warlock’s early
fetters had been different. His intense love for his father, preacher
of the Kingscote Brethren, had included the father’s religion. Long
years of wandering over the earth had preserved the love but dimmed
the religion. The love becomes Martin’s chain. It also becomes his
conscience when Maggie’s trust confronts him with his past life. To
save Maggie from himself he goes away. The story resolves itself into
Maggie’s courageous struggles to remain true to her self and to her
love for Martin in spite of her marriage to an unloved clergyman and
of the demands of conventional society.
* * * * *
“We cannot, with the best will in the world, see in the result more
than a task—faithfully and conscientiously performed to the best of
the author’s power—but a ‘task accomplished,’ and not even
successfully at that. For we feel that it is determination rather than
inspiration, strength of will rather than the artist’s compulsion,
which has produced ‘The captives.’” K. M.
− =Ath= p519 O 15 ’20 1150w
“One is especially interested in the environment, but feels a lack of
the spontaneity of other Walpole novels.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“A long looked-for and worthy successor in the Walpole line. It is
bigger in theme than its predecessors, more than ever a novel of life
as opposed to the episodic novel.”
+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 180w
“Its criticism of life in general, and specifically with the elements
of life with which it deals, presents a many sided view so that we are
able to understand clearly the weaknesses and strength of all the
characters. As a chronicle of these times and as a portrayal of people
we all may easily come into contact with, it is an eloquent example of
the consummate art of a literary artist.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 1400w
“‘The captives’ makes Mr Walpole’s previous books look like agreeable
fragments. For the wealth of substance here is not more notable than
the display of architectonic power. ‘The captives’ scarcely ranks
below ‘Clayhanger’ and not very greatly below ‘Of human bondage,’ and
is, therefore, one of the foremost British novels of the period.”
+ =Nation= 111:735 D 22 ’20 1050w
“No reader will set ‘The captives’ down without the figure of Maggie
Cardinal having been permanently limned upon his memory. The portrait
is consistent throughout. The pictures of the band of religious
fanatics, some of them charlatans, and of their sincere leader are
particularly forceful. Mr Walpole’s method is that of the realist, but
he has scarcely employed it to the best of its possibilities.”
+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w
“In distinction of literary workmanship Mr Walpole is at his best in
this story.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 330w
“While the direct subject of the volume concerns the religious
teachings of one narrow sect in England, which he designates as the
Kingscote Brethren, the application of his theme is as wide as the two
continents.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 350w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 200w
“The book is full of perturbed and uneasy striving, and is elemental
both in its energy and the simplicity of its theme.”
+ =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 640w
“The characters are essentially unlovely though undeniably strong.
Despite all this, it is a story of rare power—sober, to be sure, but
never morbid—and one that emphasizes the author’s advanced position in
the ranks of contemporary novelists.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 620w
“There is something wanting to make the æsthetic pleasure of reading
this book as intense as it should be, which argues something wanting
in the performance. It is not that one misses the mystery and
excitement of ‘The dark forest,’ and ‘The secret city,’ but there is
the unavoidable feeling that, after the keenest appreciation of so
much artistic skill, it should be possible to put the book down with
the exhilaration of having read a masterpiece; and it is not
possible.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 S 30 ’20 900w
=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.= Medieval medicine. *$2.75 Macmillan 610.9
“This book, by an American medical authority, belongs to the series of
Medical history manuals, edited by Dr John D. Comrie. It embraces the
history of about 1,000 years, during which the achievements in
medicine and surgery were quite as remarkable as the achievements of
the middle ages in other spheres.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 110w
“The volume is fully within the comprehension of any educated reader,
and is as entertaining as a novel.”
+ =Cath World= 112:112 O ’20 570w
“As to the learning and competence for his task, no question can be
raised, but the method he elects to adopt is one which has brought
much work on the history of science into not unjustified contempt.” C:
Singer
− + =Nature= 105:127 Ap 1 ’20 950w
+ =Spec= 124:831 Je 19 ’20 1250w
“Severe compression has been necessary; but the process has not
interfered with the lucidity or the interest of this instructive
little book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 70w
=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.=[2] Religion and health. *$2.25 (2c) Little 265.8
20–21211
The argumentation of the book turns on the influence of the mind on
the body and attempts to show how a trusting faith in God tends to
produce an equilibrated mind, which is the foundation of psychic
health, and, by interaction, of physical health. The book is indexed
and contains much sound advice as to the way of achieving both kinds
of well-being. The contents are: Can we still believe? Prayer;
Sacrifice; Charity; Fasting and abstinence; Holydays and holidays;
Recreation and dissipation; Mortification; Excesses; Purity; Insanity;
Nervous disease; Dreads; Suffering; Pain; Suicide and homicide;
Longevity; The Bible and health; Health and religion.
=WALSH, THOMAS.= Don Folquet, and other poems. *$1.50 Lane 811
20–4773
The title poem has for its theme an episode of French history and
tells how Don Folquet, a trader’s son, was first celebrated at the
court of Toulouse as Prince of song, how he tired of court life and
became a monk and later the Bishop of Toulouse and as such pronounced
a ban on the city for its wickedness. Among the other poems are a
Mother Goose sonnet series; Murillo paints “The assumption”; Catullus
anent his Lesbia; The sigh for Deirdre; Ad limina.
* * * * *
=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 160w
“Mr Walsh has composed a medieval and monastic narrative in effete,
Tennysonian pentameters which singly are good but which in the
aggregate are wearisome.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 40w
“To this reviewer ‘Don Folquet’ is less interesting than other things
in the book. It is a poem for those who would forget reality. ‘The
brownstone row,’ written in the kind of unrhymed cadence now in vogue,
shows that Mr Walsh could do something with reality if romance charmed
him less.”
+ − =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 600w
“The execution falls short of the motive. Its merit is confined to
grace, and the grace is confined to landscape.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 60w
=WALSH, THOMAS=, ed. Hispanic anthology. $5 Putnam 861.08
20–20332
“A collection of translations, ‘by northern Hispanophiles, of Spanish
poems into English verse,’ offered as an affectionate tribute to the
Spanish poet of today, whether he writes in the old world or the new.
Dr Walsh, besides contributing a large portion of the versions, has
garnered almost eight hundred pages of translations into something
like a chronological unity, providing the selections with short
prefatory notes and interspersing them with some twenty-nine portraits
of ancient and modern Spanish poets.”—Freeman
* * * * *
“With the material at hand he has produced a creditable collection
that should be at the elbow of every Hispanic student.”
+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 190w
“Masefield’s rendering of Gustave Adolfo Becquer’s ‘They closed her
eyes,’ is one of the most beautiful poems in the collection.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 250w
“Catholic readers will especially rejoice to possess, in this
delightful form, some of the most impressive work of the great Spanish
mystical poets, Fray Luis de Leon, St John of the Cross, and St
Teresa.”
+ =Cath World= 112:542 Ja ’21 270w
“A valuable book not alone for its well-arranged collection of poems,
but for the fine reproductions of famous portraits and for the
biographical notes.”
+ − =Dial= 70:233 F ’21 100w
“The volume, despite its shortcomings, should be owned by every
Hispanophile; it represents a pioneer-effort in a field agape with
pitfalls, and, however much one may criticize the result as it now
stands, Dr Walsh, by the mere fact of having initiated it and brought
it forth, has earned the thanks of his fellow enthusiasts.” I:
Goldberg
+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 720w
“Never has Spanish poetry been done so good or complete a turn in
English as Mr Walsh now does it.” D. M.
+ =Nation= 111:784 D 29 ’20 600w
“Mr Walsh has not only edited this volume, providing it with valuable
typographical and critical notes, but he has supplied it with the bulk
of the translations, translations which show him possessed in an
uncommon degree of one of the most valuable, as it is one of the most
unselfish of literary gifts.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 9 ’21 1800w
“The plan of his anthology is remarkable for its comprehensive
inclusion of selections from the work of every significant figure in
Hispanic poetry from the unknown author of the ‘Poema del Cid’ to the
latest of Porto Rican modernistas, born in 1898. Equally important,
and especially so from the point of view of the American reader
unacquainted with the Spanish language, is the finely judicious
selection which Mr Walsh has made in choosing not only the original
Spanish poems most representative of their authors but the
translations into English which constitute the anthology. For the most
part these translations are of highly poetic quality.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:237 O 6 ’20 820w
=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Psychology of dreams. *$3 (2½c) Dodd 135
20–9817
The author views dreams from many points of view and is not pledged to
any one theory. He presents the theories made popular by recent
writers on psycho-analysis, but also sets forth the opinions of
Freud’s critics. Contents: Historical sketch; The mind in sleep; The
material of dreams; The instigators of dreams; The peculiarities of
dreams; Dreams as wishes; The effects of dreams; Typical dreams;
Prodromic dreams; Prophetic dreams; Nightmare; Night terrors;
Somnambulism; Miscellany; The analysis of dreams; Day-dreams. There
are two indexes, to proper names and to subjects. The author is a
practicing physician and he has endeavored to make the work as
practical as possible with a view “toward aiding sufferers from
nervous affections, as well as toward promoting a better understanding
of various normal and abnormal mental processes.”
* * * * *
“What he has written is a book of popular medicine rather than one of
popular psychology. Upon psychology he does not appear to have any
theories, and his very opinions are undecided. But when he writes
about the ‘night terrors’ of children and the best means of mitigating
them, he is full of common sense, and proves himself an admirable
popular doctor.”
+ =Ath= p553 O 22 ’20 120w
“For all practical purposes, ‘The psychology of dreams’ is an adequate
exposition of interesting data, carefully collected. The chapter on
prodromic dreams is perhaps as interesting as any in the book.” C. K.
H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 320w
“The chapter dealing with daydreams is especially interesting and
instructive and, like the other chapters, is written in so clear a
manner that the beginner will have little difficulty in becoming
acquainted with the dream mechanism and its meaning. On the whole it
can be said that the work is an excellent medium for the student who
wishes to become acquainted with the workings of the unconscious.” L.
P. Clark
+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:983 O ’20 300w
Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 11 ’20 2900w
“Not intended for professional reading, but distinctly popular in its
appeal, this book will have lively interest for the general reader who
likes to be entertained while he is being instructed. There are many
sensible hygienic suggestions.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“Dr Walsh might have made his point of view clearer, but he at least
presents attractively a good deal of interesting material.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 210w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 80w
=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Yours for sleep. *$2.50 Dutton 613.7
20–3569
“The title of Dr William S. Walsh’s book, ‘Yours for sleep,’ is
somewhat misleading, as appears from the first sentence in his
preface: ‘The object of this little volume is not only to help the
sleepless to sleep, but also to instruct them on a few of the
principles of right living, a disregard of which is most often the
sole cause of their disorder.’ People who are not in the pink of
condition will be interested in the author’s treatment of such
subjects as indigestion, eye defects, diseases of the teeth and gums,
value of exercise and fresh air, and general hygiene.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“No one has written more helpfully or collected more valuable
information for the sleepless than Dr William S. Walsh.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 220w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w
“It is a valuable contribution to the subject and amply repays
perusal. The book is evidently the product of reflection, erudition
and experience.” J. E. Kelly, M. D.
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 200w
=WALSTON, SIR CHARLES (SIR CHARLES WALDSTEIN).= Eugenics, civics and
ethics; a lecture delivered to the summer school of eugenics, civics and
ethics on August 8th, 1919, in the Arts school, Cambridge. *$1.60
Macmillan 171
“A strong plea is made in this lecture for the organisation and
development of the study of ethics, or, as the author prefers to call
it, ethology. The interdependence of eugenics and civics, and the
foundation of both in ethics, are discussed, and warning is given
against striving to produce the perfect physical specimen of man
without due consideration of character and mental attributes. Towards
the end of the lecture the progressive nature of ethical codes is made
clear, and great stress is laid on the importance of the establishment
of our ideal of the perfect man and the teaching of such practical
ethics in both schools and homes.”—Nature
* * * * *
=Nature= 105:804 Ag 26 ’20 100w
“This lecture provides an excellent introduction to the author’s
somewhat forbidding larger works.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 100w
=WALTERS, L. D’O.=, comp. Anthology of recent poetry. *$1.75 Dodd 821.08
20–20447
An anthology of modern British verse. Harold Monro, who writes the
introduction, supplies the key to the collection when he says, “The
best poetry is always about the earth itself and all the strange and
lovely things that compose and inhabit it.” The first object, he says
later, is to give pleasure. “Moreover, it is adapted to the tastes of
almost any age, from ten to ninety, and may be read aloud by
grandchild to grandparent as suitably as by grandparent to grandchild.
It is an anthology of poems, not of names.” Among the poems and their
authors are April, by William Watson; The lake isle of Innisfree, by
W. B. Yeats; The donkey, by G. K. Chesterton; The south country, by
Hilaire Belloc; The west wind, by John Masefield; Full moon, by Walter
de la Mare; A dead harvest, by Alice Meynell; The great lover, by
Rupert Brooke; Star-talk, by Robert Graves; Stupidity street, by Ralph
Hodgson; The oxen, by Thomas Hardy.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
“It is a good coat-pocket anthology.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 30w
=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 110w
“This collection includes some charming things by living hands of real
distinction, and some others which make us regret young poets lost in
the war. The anthologist has given us real pleasures, and we forego
the reviewer’s privilege of grumbling about the inclusion of this or
the exclusion of that.”
+ =Sat R= 130:398 N 13 ’20 190w
“The poems are few but well chosen from the standpoint of the seeker
after clear language and well-defined images. There is little of that
strained impressionism and hazy, finespun introspection which are the
bane of modern verse.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 270w
=WALTON, GEORGE LINCOLN.= Oscar Montague—paranoiac. il *$1.50 (3c)
Lippincott
19–15667
In this novel Dr Walton embodies the ideas prevalent in his
non-fiction books, “Why worry,” “Those nerves,” and others. Ruth
Fulton, chronic fusser, in a fit of pique, jilts her steady
serious-minded fiancé and marries the town rake, who thinks most men
are against him. Oscar, their son, grows up spoiled, idle, badly
educated, boon companion of ruffians and loafers. He has the obsession
that everyone is in a conspiracy against him, and secretly cherishes
the illusion that one Nicky Bennett is trying to harm him.
Accidentally meeting Nicky when in an evil mood he pulls out a
revolver and shoots him; pleads insanity to escape the electric chair,
but once inside the asylum finds that the law refuses to let him out.
The daughter of Ruth and Gerrold is normal and lovable, and happily
marries the son of her mother’s old sweetheart, after having by a bit
of clever detective work “on her own,” saved the lad from being
falsely convicted for the murder of her father.
* * * * *
“The characters are clearly drawn, and are thoroughly lifelike people,
whose lives, without anything brilliant or startling, are full of
quiet interest, humorous or pathetic.”
+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 130w
“Amateurish is the only adjective to describe adequately this novel,
with its wooden puppets in place of characters and its obviously
mechanical situations. The book’s two redeeming features, are the
occasional flashes of whimsical humor the author displays, and the
disarmingly naïve manner in which he pokes fun at his own inexperience
as a novelist.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 700w
“The only person of any interest in the book is the daughter, Helen,
and the only episode of any interest is Helen’s discovery of the real
culprit who had run over and killed her father. This has not much to
do with Oscar Montague—paranoiac, who is quite a secondary character
in a poor novel.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 160w
=WARD, HARRY FREDERICK.= New social order. *$2.50 Macmillan 304
19–19067
“Prof. Harry F. Ward of Union theological seminary, in his new book,
‘The new social order,’ writes on social and industrial change both
from economic and from ethical standpoints. His book considers in part
1 the underlying principles of the new order, in part 2, various
programs, such as those proposed by the British labor party, the
Russian soviets, the league of nations, various movements in the
United States, and the churches.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Dr Ward has been developing a very unusual fluency of speech, mental
power, and moral insight that appear strikingly in this book. Although
some of the chapters on the principles might well have been a little
shorter and crisper, the style is always interesting, at times rising
to natural and impressive eloquence; and the thought is throughout
clear and weighty. This is one of the most important books for the
citizen of this generation to read thoughtfully, and read at an early
date.” C. J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 25:645 Mr ’20 1100w
Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 260w
=Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“Dr Ward has rendered a real service in bringing together in compact
form so many expressions of the new spirit. He knows that they are
signs rather than realities, but it is a poor skipper who cares not
which way the veering flaw blows. Christians and pagans will do well
to ponder them.” C: A. Beard
+ =New Repub= 23:208 Jl 14 ’20 950w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 80w
“In this latest of his several volumes Professor Ward makes his most
notable contribution to the religious interpretation of the changing
social order. Professor Ward’s discussion of the controverted points
dealt with is frank and fearless, notwithstanding, perhaps the more
because of, the criticism he has all along met from certain
ecclesiastical and special interest groups.” Graham Taylor
+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 150w
“The chapter on the Russian soviet constitution is far and away the
ablest and clearest statement yet given to us upon that very important
subject. Mr Ward is to be envied for his twofold gift of grasping
details and of strong speculative thinking; and this combination makes
his book a singularly valuable and safe guide for the student.” R. R.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 150w
=WARD, JOHN.= With the “Die-hards” in Siberia. *$2.50 (3c) Doran 957
20–7944
The author commanded a detachment of British troops sent to Siberia to
support Kolchak. He blames his own government for its halfhearted
support of the enterprise it had undertaken, and is especially bitter
against the Americans and the Japanese. The book was written, he says,
“for the private use of my sons in case I did not return.” Among the
chapters are: From Hong Kong to Siberia; Bolshevik successes; Japanese
methods and Allied Far-eastern policy; Administration; Omsk; Along the
Urals; Russian labour; In European Russia; American policy and its
results; Japanese policy and its results; General conclusions. There
is an index.
* * * * *
“Colonel Ward is too innocent for a propagandist. We knew Colonel Ward
had been no nearer to Moscow than had we in London, but we have
received an impression that in far-away Siberia he fought desperately
against the Red armies. Why did the coalition permit their friend to
write a book and give the show away so completely? We find that
Colonel Ward never met the disciplined armies of Trotsky, and, except
for one engagement, the whole campaign was a series of affairs with
Bolshevik bands.”
− =Nation= [London] 27:78 Ap 17 ’20 480w
“Colonel Ward’s book is bound to furnish material for controversy. His
narrative is couched in a style that is the acme of plain speaking; he
wastes no time in euphemisms or diplomatic circumlocution, but
fearlessly handles facts as they come to him. From all internal
evidence his book has the air of a straightforward, truthful
narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 26 ’20 1000w
“Colonel Ward’s narrative makes a vivid and fascinating picture of
stirring events and gives throughout the impression of keen
observation and sincerity.”
+ =Review= 3:532 D 1 ’20 1500w
“There is nothing small about this book. The countries he traversed,
the observations he made, and the cause he worked for, all convey a
sense of space and sanity, which no niggling pen could have produced.
There is no delicate tracery of outlines here, no precious selection
of words to convey an atmosphere and the genial author does not deal
in suggestions and impressions, but relies almost entirely on
forthright facts.”
+ =Sat R= 129:306 Mr 27 ’20 850w
“Colonel Ward’s account is very welcome because it is obviously honest
and sincere.”
+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Mr 18 ’20 1150w
=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= Harvest. il *$2 (2½c)
Dodd
20–6288
When Rachel Henderson took the Great End farm near Ipscombe to lead an
independent life as a woman farmer, she had had a past in Canada. She
had been married to a worthless man, had lost her child, had been
divorced and—more than that—when fleeing from her husband’s cruelty,
had succumbed to the sympathy and protection of Dick Tanner, a
neighboring farmer, and had stayed with him for three days and nights.
When, in the course of events at Great End farm, she becomes engaged
to a young American captain, from a near-by camp, still guarding her
secret, she faces a spiritual struggle. After all the confessions are
made and the lover also has achieved a victory over his time honored
prejudices, a bullet from the former, now hate-crazed husband, kills
her in her lover’s arms.
* * * * *
“Mrs Ward cannot be judged by ‘Harvest,’ It is a plain mystery novel;
it bears the impress of her desire to emerge from the library and to
walk in the cornfields—in the new land which is war-time England. But
she is unhappy in such surroundings and her serenity is gone.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p606 My 7 ’20 600w
“It would be an injustice to Mrs Ward to say that ‘Harvest’ is in any
degree worthy of a novelist of her reputation, or indeed of many a
novelist of lesser reputation. ‘Harvest,’ in common with its immediate
predecessor, ‘Helena,’ and many of her later stories, might have been
written by any one of a hundred English fiction writers of the hour.
It is utterly conventional in form, and commonplace in plot and
characterization.” E. F. E.
− =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 1400w
“Written in that smoothly flowing style to which Mrs Ward’s readers
have so long been accustomed, the book, while not indeed equal to her
best, shows no falling off from the standard set by her recent work,
but on the contrary rises somewhat above it. The novel contains some
lovely pictures of the English country.” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 1000w
=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“It is with peculiar pleasure that one recognizes in the late Mrs
Humphry Ward’s posthumous novel, ‘Harvest,’ the qualities that have
marked the very best of her fiction writing. This tale of rural
England in war time is notable for the balance and unity of theme and
development. It is almost astonishingly superior, for instance, to
‘Helena.’”
+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 200w
“I for one should be unhappy if it were necessary for me to remember
Mrs Ward by this book.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 2:680 Je 30 ’20 420w
=Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 400w
“Mrs Ward does not make these women seem very real. She idealizes
their ‘trim’ appearance in pseudo-masculine attire and at no time
visualizes their lives and pursuits from their own standpoint.
Sympathy, and an earnest effort at understanding, however, are always
apparent.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 460w
=WARNE, FRANK JULIAN.= Workers at war. (Century New world ser.) *$3
Century 331
20–17812
From a dispassionate, conservative point of view the author reviews
the present industrial situation with its resultant high cost of
living. He accords high praise to the statesmanship of President
Wilson in controlling the situation during the war and to the
activities of the National war labor board. That the government now
fails to realize the three essentials of industrial justice: a fair
profit, a fair wage and a fair price is due to the present autocratic
system of corporate organization of production. The remedy lies in the
democratization of the corporation and in an American federation of
consumers. A partial list of the contents is: The workers and the
world war; The government as the employer; The Wilson administration’s
labor policy; The National war labor board; The government, wages, and
the cost of living; The vicious cycle and the labor union; Democracy
in industry; The three parties to production; Industrial autocracy and
the corporation.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Natlor= 111:534 N 10 ’20 370w
=N Y Times= p15 N 7 ’20 140w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 60w
“The book is valuable as a summary of governmental labor policies
during the war, as a record of the achievements of labor and the
effect of autocratic control on the wage earner and the consumer.” J.
D. Hackett
+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 280w
=WARREN, ARTHUR.= London days. *$2.50 (3c) Little
20–17401
This book of reminiscences begins in 1878, when the author, fresh from
Boston, arrived in London at the age of eighteen. He made the choice
because “history already made and rounded and woven into legend, the
scenes among which men have lived and wrought through centuries,
shaping the rich past on which we build the present” fascinated him
more than the prospect of pioneering in the West. The period covers
nineteen years of Journalism, nine of them as correspondent for the
Boston Herald, and combines with memories and impressions of London
those of celebrated personages. Contents: First glimpses of London;
London in the late seventies; A Norman interlude; I take the plunge;
Browning and Moscheles; Patti; John Stuart Blackie; Lord Kelvin;
Tennyson; Gladstone; Whistler; Henry Drummond; Sir Henry Irving; Henry
M. Stanley; George Meredith; Parnell; “Le brav’ général” (Boulanger);
Index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
=Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 20w
“As journalism the writing is good; it does not assume to be more.
Gossipy, wholesome, harmless, never profound, but lighted up here and
there by almost poetic touches of admiration and of reverence, these
reminiscences should well suit those who desire an easy introduction
to the charm of biography.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 300w
“Despite the fact that in many cases he insists on writing an old
story as if it were still of vital interest, he has preserved some
anecdotes that merited survival and he has drawn the portraits of
several famous Britons with commendable skill.”
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1450w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 60w
“His estimate not only of men, but of the social and literary forces
of modern London, are trenchantly expressed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 13 ’20 430w
“It is a book to evoke enthusiasm for his literary style as well as
for the human interest that attaches to the people whose names are
chapter headings here.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 8 ’20 430w
=WARREN, HOWARD CROSBY.= Human psychology. il *$5 Houghton 150
19–16728
The author distinguishes between genetic and descriptive psychology:
the one dealing with mental growth and mental progress from species to
species; the other with mental life as it actually exists. The
interest of the book centers mainly on the latter, the static view of
psychology. At the end of each chapter is a list of collateral reading
and some practical exercises intended to train the student in precise
critical observation of mental phenomena. The contents are: The
science of psychology; The organism; The neuro-terminal mechanism;
Physiology of the neuron; Stimulation, adjustment, and response;
Behavior; Conscious experience; The senses; The components of mental
states; Primary mental states; Secondary mental states; Succession of
mental states; Attitudes; Character and personality; Organized mental
life. The appendix deals with some debatable problems for the benefit
of the advanced students and contains: The mind-body relation;
Mechanism and purpose; Neural activity; The visual process. There are
also illustrations and tables; directions for performing the exercises
and an index.
* * * * *
“Comprehensiveness, thoroughness, clear definitions, elaborate
classifications and an open-minded, progressive outlook are what
characterize this work. And it is not only comprehensive, in that it
covers the entire field of descriptive psychology, but it is
comprehensive in its grasp of the subject.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 800w
“Professor Warren’s book is interesting not only in itself, but also
in the indication which it gives of the phases of psychology which may
be expected to survive after this period of devotion of the science to
its practical applications.”
+ =El School J= 20:392 Ja ’20 480w
“In sum, this is a most scholarly work, which in the beginning, and
generally in outward semblance, gives promise of breaking fairly away
from the traditions that produced the behavioristic schism, but which
is found to be still heavily burdened with the inheritance of
formalism, only partially offset by its clearness, criticism, humor,
and tolerance.” F. L. Wells
+ − =Mental Hygiene= 4:982 O ’20 660w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Nation= 111:15 Jl 8 ’20 90w
“Professor Warren’s work as a whole would be an excellent introduction
for beginners in psychology, though it is, of course, a work of
interest for advanced students also.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 300w
=WASHBURN, CLAUDE CARLOS.= Order. *$2 (1½c) Duffield
20–4014
Marville, the beautiful residential suburb of a big city was law and
order incarnate—order with all its ugly sordid features pruned away,
beautified and civilized. Into it blows its antithesis, the spirit of
romance in the person of Peter Gresham, Englishman, packed off to
America by his aristocratic relatives. He literally explodes into
Marville in a train wreck, becomes its hero, and later upsets the
tranquillity of everybody with whom he comes in contact. The reactions
of this spirit of romance on law and order form the substance of the
story. By one man and one woman it is understood. Peter himself does
not understand but is it, and when it brings him in contact with
Annette Cornish, beautiful young wife of an elderly man, there is
fire. Others are simply stimulated, bewildered, shaken out of their
repose for the nonce. Annette and pretty Elsie Cook succumb completely
to its spell. Annette, disciplined and broken-in by order from
childhood, fears it and is broken by it. Elsie, the half-savage, gives
herself to it unstintingly, but comes out with flying colors by dint
of a saving remnant of hard practical sense. Peter turns his back on
it all and is killed at Neuve Chapelle.
* * * * *
“Exceptionally interesting story. Here we have a book of ideas which
is never didactic, but presents both sides of a case with striking
fairness, a tale whose plot springs from the natural interplay of
character upon character, and whose lights and shadows are managed
with notable artistry.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 100w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 320w
=WASHBURNE, CARLETON W.= Common science. il *$1.60 World bk. 502
20–15542
The book belongs to the New-world science series edited by John W.
Ritchie. It is based on a collection of 2000 questions asked by school
children in the upper elementary grades over a period of a year and a
half. These questions are sorted and classified according to the
scientific principles involved in answering them. The object of the
method is to lead the child from an interest and curiosity in a
specific phenomena to a general principle and to arouse his
imagination by making it clear to him what part it plays in his own
life. The contents are grouped under the headings: Gravitation;
Molecular attraction; Conservation of energy; Heat; Radiant heat and
light; Sound; Magnetism and electricity; Electricity; Mingling of
molecules; Chemical change and energy; Solution and chemical action;
Analysis. There are appendices, an index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“The book should be of value in conserving and developing the science
interests of children of junior high-school age.”
+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 350w
=WASSERMANN, JACOB.= World’s illusion; auth. tr. by Ludwig Lewisohn.
(European library) 2v *$4 (1½c) Harcourt
20–22159
This is the first book by this author, a Viennese novelist, to appear
in English. It was written, he says, during the last years of the war:
“Only in this way could I keep contact with and faith in humanity.” It
has nothing to do with the war, but is a picture of pre-war society in
central Europe, a brilliant, feverish picture of a society in the
first hectic stages of decay, resting on insecure foundations of
poverty, misery and crime. The first volume is devoted to the life of
the upper classes, represented by Crammon, the Austrian aristocrat,
Christian Wahnschaffe, son of a German captain of industry, Eva Sorel,
the dancer, and almost countless others. The scenes flit from capital
to capital with the haste and inconsistency of a screen drama. In the
second volume we have in contrast the dregs of society, for Christian,
in search of truth, has descended to the lowest depths. He gives up
his fortune, studies medicine to fit himself for a field of usefulness
and in the end cuts himself off entirely from his family and
disappears, to continue his search elsewhere.
* * * * *
“Despite the penny-dreadful stuff there is a breath of serenity that
reveals the artist in complete mastery of his material and despite the
frank consideration of sex, there is an indubitable chastity hovering
over all these pages. In fact, were one to select a single word with
which to describe the mood of the work as a whole, he would most
probably say, austerity.” I. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
+ − =Freeman= 2:545 F 16 ’21 2550w
“It would hold the interest through all its 787 pages if there were
nothing in it save its arresting procession of grotesque incidents,
but there is something more, and that something is an ironical quality
that suggests the manner of the great Russians. All his characters,
high and low, are pathological cases. Thus the chronicle, to an
American, cannot carry much conviction despite its fine passion and
its vivid detail.” H. L. Mencken
+ − =Nation= 111:sup668 D 8 ’20 880w
“Wassermann has created a work of strange and sombre power. The
translation is unusually good.” E. A. Boyd
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 1750w
“The book’s chief values lie in its interpretation of modern
industrial society as Wassermann sees it. But surely not all European
society is degenerate. Humanity as a whole is not portrayed in ‘The
world’s illusion.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 1050w
=WATKIN, EDWARD INGRAM.= Philosophy of mysticism. *$5 Harcourt 149.3
The author differentiates between the mystic and his mystical
experiences, and the metaphysics of mysticism. The mystic, he says,
can not adequately state his experiences in terms of discursive
reason, nevertheless the philosophy of mysticism is “the body of truth
about the nature of ultimate reality and of our relationship to it to
be derived from the content of mystical experience.” (Preface) He
regards the Catholic church as the best vehicle of expression for this
body of truth. The contents are: The divine immanence; Unity of God;
The transcendence of God; The relation between the soul and God; Views
of the mystic way; The negative way; The active night; Mystical
experience previous to the night of spirit; The passive night of
spirit; Purgatory and the passive night of spirit; The transforming
union: or mystical marriage; On the mystical interpretation of
Scripture; The witness of nature mysticism to the teaching of Catholic
mysticism studied in the mysticism of Richard Jefferies; St John the
poet; Epilogue; Notes.
* * * * *
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 170w
“Mr Watkin’s book is written exclusively for his co-religionists, and
others will not find it worth while to study it.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Je 17 ’20 420w
=WATSON, E. L. GRANT.= Deliverance. *$2 (2½c) Knopf
20–3264
The author tells us that in this his third novel he has tried to
portray the spiritual emancipation of a woman whose “love for the
increasing light of her own spirit ... becomes more precious than even
the unique love of woman for man.” (Preface) The scene is laid in
contemporary England. The principal characters are Susan Zalesky, who
is brought up in the country by her aunt, Mrs Dorothy Tyler; Paul
Zalesky, Susan’s father, a philanderer, who carries on a secret love
affair with Dorothy; Tom Northover, the “primitive male,” who marries
Susan but makes “no claims upon her soul”; Noel Sarret, a young
painter with whom Tom, who believes that the only test of morality is
“the sincerity of the emotion,” goes to live shortly before the birth
of Susan’s child; and Martin Hyde, a gentle young painter who loves
Susan.
* * * * *
“However one takes it, it is a novel exposition; there is much reality
in these persons, not least in the figure of Susan’s irresponsible and
almost incorrigible father.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w
“If he had nothing else, he would be sure to win recognition for the
sheer beauty of his workmanship. Indeed it is easier to quarrel with
some of the natural results of his process of spiritual emancipation
than with his illustrations of it in characters, or with his manner of
setting it forth.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ =Dial= 68:794 Je ’20 2500w
“His story is not quite as persuasive as his philosophy. His women are
suspiciously fine in fibre and amazingly articulate. Attractive as
they are, they remain a little dim. And the dimmest of all is Susan,
whom Mr Watson adores and through whose words and actions he chiefly
projects his sense of the new moral world that is being created by all
sorts of people in many places today.”
+ − =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 600w
“Just what Susan Zalesky emancipates into is a little difficult to
conceive, and sounds, on the whole, much less interesting than the
rather fascinating story of her procedure. Judged more freely,
however, ‘Deliverance’ is interesting and delightful for other
qualities than its processes. It comes in many ways as near the art of
the Russian novelists as any English novel.” R. V. A. S.
+ − =New Repub= 24:128 S 29 ’20 430w
“Each reader will determine for himself whether or no Mr Watson’s
message is worth this unpleasant ragout.”
− =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 550w
=WATSON, JOHN BROADUS.= Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
il *$2.50 Lippincott 150
20–447
“A treatise on the new American methods in psychology known as
behaviourism. The essential feature of this school is that it regards
man purely as a ‘reacting mass,’ and endeavours to determine his
reactions without importing into the observation preconceived ideas,
affecting interpretation. The present author, indeed, does not find it
necessary to use such terms as ‘sensation,’ ‘perception,’ ‘attention,’
‘will,’ ‘image,’ and the like. He states that he does not know what
they mean, and he suggests that no one succeeds in using them
consistently.”—Ath
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p557 Ap 23 ’20 120w
“By consistently disregarding all the essential steps in ‘thinking’ in
which most psychologists (and the world at large) are interested, and
by cavalierly treating the problems in which the behaviorist happens
not to be interested, he produces a ‘psychology’ which is as true as
the railway maps of any one company showing only the towns on its
line, with its own route straight and prominent, and rival systems
indicated if at all by lightly drawn and circuitous detours.” Joseph
Jastrow
− =Nation= 111:15 Jl 3 ’20 850w
“The present writer as he reads the book finds himself in continual
expectation that now he is coming to the end of the physiology and the
beginning of the psychology, but is continually disappointed. This
book may inspire, and will direct, the student to practical researches
of the highest interest to the advance of science. To this extent
every psychologist will welcome it. It is difficult to find anything
in its principle to disagree with, save only its limitation and
negation.” H. W. Carr
+ − =Nature= 105:512 Je 24 ’20 900w
=WATSON, ROBERT.=[2] Stronger than his sea. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18387
Much of the charm of the story lies in the quaint Scotch dialect of
its characters and much of Sandy Porter’s winsomeness in his Scotch
sturdiness. Five when his father died, he began to help his mother
support the family when he was six. He carried milk to the customers
of a dairy night and morning throughout his school years and still
found time for boyish mischief. How he led his schoolmates in a strike
against a superannuated tyrannical master, and other escapades is
amusingly told. In old Doctor Telford he had a wise friend who kept an
eye on him and made things possible without making them too easy for
him. So it was that the penniless boy reached his goal and became a
veterinary surgeon. He also won the old doctor’s daughter, Doreen,
altho there was a rival and Sandy blundered in his impulsiveness. But
his poetry helped.
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“The story of the young man Sandy is fully as attractive, if not so
adventurous as that of the child, and both are delightfully told.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 F 9 ’21 190w
“‘Stronger than his sea’ illustrates perfectly the difference between
the novel that is literature and the story that is simon-pure
entertainment. It is good of its kind—‘light fiction’ that scarcely
aspires to the artistic dignity of holding the mirror up to life.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 440w
=WATTS, MRS MARY STANBERY.=[2] Noon mark. *$2.50 Macmillan
20–18922
“It is emphatically an American story, full of the flavor of American
life—American life, that is to say, as it is lived in such a small
middle-western city as that one in which the scene of ‘The noon mark’
is laid. As this story progresses, the dominant figure is discovered
to be that of Nettie Stieffel, whose father was in the accounting
department of the Travelers and Traders’ bank. Clean-minded and
clean-hearted, generous, brave, efficient, unimaginative and
consequently a little hard, without an ounce of romance in her
composition, honest and loyal to the core, and incidentally very good
looking, she develops into an easily recognized type of American
business woman, capable, hard-working, intelligent and dependable.
When we leave her she is a married woman who has, as she herself says,
‘everything anybody could want,’ including a motor car—and
happiness.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It is a story to be placed, by those who respond to this
story-teller’s genial-ironic kind of thing, beside ‘The Boardman
family’ and ‘The rise of Jennie Cushing,’—not a great novel but a real
and solid one.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 380w
“It is, indeed, a small fragment of American life that Mrs Watts has
described in ‘The noon mark,’ but it is a very real fragment and an
extremely realistic portrayal of it.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 1400w
“Mrs Watts’s new novel is more rewarding in transit than in
termination. The conclusion is indefinite in its effect, ending on an
interrogation which does not flow naturally out of the materials with
which the author started.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“In the loose-jointed aggregation which is our United States, there
can be, we must conclude, no ‘American’ novel. There can be only
sectional novels, the portraiture of a sort, of a class. Of these Mrs
Watts is a valuable chronicler. She is selective. It is not the light
of imagination that lives in her books, but the steady rays of the
impartial sun.” Alice Brown
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 880w
“The author’s comments on it all are cleverly phrased, with occasional
touches of irony which lend spice to the story. She is a realist,
unspoiled by pessimism.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 950w
“In construction and the centralizing of interest in one large
situation the novel is less successful than some of its predecessors.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
“Her localism, as always, is faultless. But it is in characterization,
the ultimate test, that she achieves most. Her Nettie Stieffel is as
actual and unescapable a person as Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt—or her
own Jennie Cushing.” H. W. Boynton
+ |=Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 440w
“The story is not so organic as Mrs Watts’s best, but will arouse a
considerable degree of interest among readers.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 670w
=WAUGH, ALEC.= Loom of youth; with a preface by Thomas Seccombe. *$1.90
(1½c) Doran
20–8276
This novel of English school life was written some three years ago
when the author was barely past seventeen. It is a boy’s criticism of
the English public school, its emphasis on sports at the expense of
scholarship, its lack of mental discipline, its low standard of
morals, and the dull formalism of its teaching, written while these
matters were fresh in mind. Midway in his school course Gordon
Caruthers accidentally discovers the delights of English poetry and
Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti influence his development. The story is
carried into the first years of the war and the author shows how
school life was affected by outward events. For one thing, the glamor
was stripped from athleticism and school sports.
* * * * *
“He has not ranted. He has not preached. But he has spoken the truth
as it appeared to him, swiftly, unalterably. It must remain, I think,
for a long time, as one of the few remarkable records of school life
which this generation or any generation has furnished.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1050w
“‘The loom of youth’ is apt to bore American readers because the
viewpoint is annoying, and the action and dialogue not sufficient to
stimulate reading.”
− + =Cath World= 111:693 Ag ’20 380w
“There are very definite signs of youth in the minuteness of detail in
all matters and in the exhaustive descriptions of cricket and football
matches, but the writing on the whole is astonishingly mature.”
+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 280w
“What is fresh in the book is its clear insight into the morality of
the boys, especially in their relations with the masters and its
objective projection of its complex and busy scene.”
+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 300w
“A very evident sincerity and an infinite patience in the
transcription of details give a value to this book altogether greater
than that of most of the innumerable books about Harrow, Eton, and
other similar institutions.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 23:94 Je 16 ’20 550w
“The breath of a dogged sincerity, a determination to set down nothing
but the truth, emanates from every page. As a narrative of sustained
power and interest the book holds up well. Mr Waugh’s characters are
broadly drawn but they do give forth an intimate sense of reality. It
is the meticulous eye of Mr Waugh that plays a large part in the
book’s success.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“The book is one which will probably be of far greater interest to an
English than to an American audience. It would seem to be, take it all
in all, a book of no little promise.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 600w
“Everything in this really spirited book is sane, equable,
intellectually mature. It may be read either as a narrative of a boy’s
school days or as a treatise on education. Remarkable to relate, it is
about equally instructive and diverting from either point of view.
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 550w
=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Wang the
ninth. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–16797
Shrewdness, courage, loyalty, honesty and resourcefulness are this
remarkable Chinese boy’s equipment. Of the poorest peasantry, he is
early an orphan, and in shifting for himself he comes to be a groom in
the household of one of the “foreign devils.” During the Boxer
rebellion he remains with his master, partly from ignorance of what it
is all about, partly from self-interest and an instinct of loyalty. He
is sent on a dangerous mission to the allied army, bearing the message
rolled up in his ear. Reaching the army after a perilous journey he is
given a return message. This is too bulky for his ear, so in a moment
of panic of discovery, he swallows it. Of this he calmly informs his
master, when at last, spent and exhausted, he returns to him, adding,
“and by your blessing I shall now die a natural death.”
* * * * *
“The book is throughout written, at least theoretically, from the
native point of view, and has, in consequence, an unusual and
fascinating quality.”
+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 120w
“There are many dramatic adventures and a rich background of Chinese
life.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“A good picture of peasant childhood in China as well as a first-rate
adventure story for boys.”
+ |=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w
“A highly interesting book, worth while both for its story element and
for the faithful picture of the humble inner life of the great
sleeping empire off in the yellow West.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 260w
“The tale is one of adventure and courage, and the character of the
Chinese boy is unusual and decidedly interesting.”
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 80w
=WEAVER, GERTRUDE (RENTON) (MRS HAROLD BAILLIE WEAVER) (G. COLMORE,
pseud.).= Thunderbolt. *$1.90 Seltzer
20–7061
“Mrs Bonham takes her engaged daughter for a trip on the continent. In
Germany Dorrie injures a foot and is sent with her French maid to
Professor Reisen, a famous clinician with whom Mrs Bonham has become
acquainted. Instead of taking the girl to the doctor’s private office,
the blundering maid takes her to a clinic conducted by Dr Reisen for
experimental purposes. Shortly after this a suspicious sore appears on
Dorrie’s arm, followed by a similar one on her lip. Alarmed by the
sores, Mrs Bonham takes her daughter to a specialist in Paris, and is
filled with horror when she learns the name of the disease with which
Dorrie was inoculated in Dr Reisen’s clinic. Back in England Mrs
Bonham tells Dorrie’s fiancé what has happened. The young man promptly
ends the engagement. Dorrie does not learn of her lover’s defection
and is kept ignorant of her disease. The old nurse, who has been sent
for, realizes the truth of Dorrie’s statement that it would kill her
if her fiancé stopped loving her. She determines that Dorrie must
never learn the truth, and, by a noble and tragic sacrifice, keeps it
from her.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 80w
“This sorry fable is quite devoid of the melodramatic ‘punch,’ the
thrill of spurious horror which was, obviously, its one attainable
merit. Honestly written, it would have been a rattling shilling
shocker. Aping the sober garb and earnest manners of a modern novel,
it has succeeded in being hailed—for various reasons—as a
masterpiece.”
− =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 280w
“‘The thunderbolt’ has all the exquisite artistry of Swinnerton at his
best, and a realism as ultimate and magic as Leonard Merrick’s. It is
hard to overpraise this book, and you are unfair to yourself if you do
not acquaint yourself with it.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 1350w
“The two parts of the book might have been written by different
authors in different ages. Absolutely nothing prepares the reader for
the shock he receives when the author launches her thunderbolt. An
ugly story with an undeniable dramatic dénouement.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 550w
“Having once read the book, no competent judge of good craftsmanship
would dare refuse to acknowledge the unfaltering purpose, the patient
insistent building up, the cumulative power of this grim book.” Calvin
Winter
+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 380w
=Sat R= 127:484 My 17 ’19 60w
“It might have been, within its limits, a little masterpiece. But in
the groping for tragedy the author fails and the conclusion is merely
shocking. The most captivating human figure is the nurse, Hannah.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 5 ’19 460w
=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= Divine personality and human life.
(Library of philosophy) *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 231
20–12837
“This volume contains the second part of the Gifford lectures,
delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1918–1919.” (Nation) “In
the first series of these lectures, ‘God and personality,’ it was
argued that by a ‘personal God’ is meant a God with whom a personal
relationship is possible for his worshippers; that such a relationship
is associated with the higher forms of religious experience; that in
Christianity certain difficulties which attach to the conception of
the personality of God are avoided by the assertion that God is not a
single person; and it was claimed, not indeed that this position was
free from difficulties, but that it was attended by fewer and less
serious difficulties than its rivals. In the present course
personality in man is examined in the light of these conclusions; the
various activities in which this human personality expresses
itself—economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political, and
religious—being viewed in relation to the supreme spiritual reality
revealed to us in the experience given in religion. The three
concluding lectures consider the rank to be assigned in the kingdom of
reality to the finite individual person.” (Spec)
* * * * *
“A careful reader will very seldom even suspect him of confusion in
ideas; there is hardly a word and—once the sentences have been
construed—hardly an argument to baffle an intelligent schoolboy. Yet,
with all these pitfalls avoided, we are defrauded of a good
philosophical style, the worthy yet popular expression of a valuable
thought, by the elementary failure to construct an unambiguous and
balanced sentence.”
+ − =Ath= p74 Jl 16 ’20 750w
“It belongs to the front ranks of its class. Altogether the reading of
the book is a rich experience, and its comparative freedom from the
jargon of the philosophical schools makes it available for a much
wider circle of readers than is usually the case with this kind of
literature.” R. R.
+ =Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 880w
“In Mr Webb, terminology is reduced to a minimum. His argument can be
followed by any fairly well read man without difficulty, and this is
no small praise.”
+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 1400w
“Mr Webb could not, we think, publish a book that did not contain
acute and illuminating pages, but he certainly does not show here
anything like the constructive force, or the lucidity of exposition,
which marked his earlier volume.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p790 D 2 ’20 980w
=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= God and personality; being the Gifford
lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1918–1919.
(Library of philosophy) *$3 Macmillan 231
19–14097
“All students of the philosophy of religion know that Mr C. C. J.
Webb, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, has, within the last few
years, won for himself a position in the front rank among
philosophical critics and defenders of religion. Mr Webb’s argument
[in this book] amounts to a philosophical defense of the Christian
conception of and belief in God. Mr Webb’s emphasis falls wholly on
the value of ‘religious experience’ as affording the profoundest clues
to the nature of the world we live in. He holds that religious
experience testifies to the reality of God and of the worshipper’s
personal intercourse with God. More than this, he holds that the
doctrine of the trinity, with its distinction of three persons within
the Godhead, renders in language admittedly metaphorical, a
differentiation within the all-enfolding divine life which is required
for an adequate interpretation of religious experience in its highest,
i.e., Christian form.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“A fine and characteristic specimen of the best type of modern Oxford
philosophy. Unlike so many modern English philosophers, Mr Webb has an
admirably pure and simple vocabulary. It is the more to be regretted
that his syntax is often obscure and even inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath= p333 My 16 ’19 800w
+ =Booklist= 16:221 Ap ’20
“Mr Clement C. J. Webb has written a book on ‘God and personality’
which is a remarkable achievement in more ways than one. He has
managed to discuss a difficult and abstract problem in delightfully
clear and often beautiful language. And in doing so he has shown that
he possesses in considerable degree the quality of which real
philosophers are made. Mr Webb’s answers are interesting, and in the
main we may agree with them, but they are certainly not
incontestable.” Lincoln MacVeagh
+ − =Dial= 68:785 Je ’20 1650w
“From Aristotle to Bergson, from the fathers of the church to
Benedetto Croce, from Dante to H. G. Wells, he moves with equal
mastery, and when he measures swords with Bradley or Bosanquet, the
honors are not all on their side.” R. F. A. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:163 Mr 31 ’20 1650w
=Sat R= 127:584 Je 14 ’19 850w
=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).=[2]
Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. *$4.25
(*13s 6d) Longmans 335
20–18152
“The volume falls into three parts. The first is a survey of the
existing signs and agencies of collectivism: the democracies of
consumers (cooperative societies, friendly societies, municipalities,
and national services); the democracies of producers (trade unions,
copartnership concerns, and professional associations); and finally
the political democracy of king, lords, and commons. The second part
of the volume deals with the national structure that is to be set up
in the socialist commonwealth. The lords are to be swept away and
there are to be two parliaments—one political and the other social.
Both are to be elected by universal suffrage but the idea of a
vocational or economic soviet is utterly rejected. In the third part
the authors propose to administer nationalized interests through
special committees of the social parliament—one committee for
each.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Ath= p809 D 10 ’20 680w
=Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
“The idea that foreign affairs, the maintenance of order, the
administration of justice, colonies, and defense can be separated from
cities, municipalities, and national services; economics seems utterly
chimerical. The third part of the volume is real, stimulating,
suggestive. It is here that the Webbs have laid all students of
government under a great debt. They do not speculate, but with clear
eyes face the terrible tangle of realities that must make up any order
new or old.” C: A. Beard
+ − =Nation= 111:sup664 D 8 ’20 1250w
“There is no field of social organization they do not enter; and there
is no field where their analysis is not at once amazingly suggestive
and incomparably well-informed. Not indeed, that there is not ample
room for criticism and even criticism of fundamentals. What Mr and Mrs
Webb have done is to cast a light upon the mechanism of government
such as it has not had since Mr Graham Wallas’s ‘Human nature in
politics’ in one field, and Bagehot’s ‘English constitution’ in
another.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:198 O 20 ’20 1100w
“It deserves the careful study of every person who desires to see a
better system, and who is anxious that that system be inaugurated with
the maximum of intelligence, the minimum of pain.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 190w
“Lenin would contemptuously sweep the whole thing aside as lackeyism
in the interests of the bourgeoisie. We are not prepared to do that,
but we cannot help arriving at a like degree of condemnation for
entirely different reasons.”
− =Spec= 124:240 Ag 21 ’20 1650w
“What the authors fail to appreciate is that to forbid the social
parliament to interfere with conduct by making it criminal will be of
no effect; the body in control of the price system can enforce
conformity to prescribed economic conduct by methods which, though
subtler, are no less effective than the criminal law—methods by which
the present capitalists exercise their dictatorship. This criticism is
not intended to detract from the merits of an extraordinarily able
work.” R. L. Hale
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 750w
=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).= History
of trade unionism. rev ed *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 331.87
20–10724
“‘The history of trade unionism,’ is issued in a revised edition. The
original work, published in 1894, broke off in 1890. The present
edition carries the story on to the beginning of 1920. There is little
alteration in the main part of the book, which describes the origin
and progress of trade unionism in the United Kingdom.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
Reviewed by J: R. Commons
+ =Am Econ R= 10:834 D ’20 1350w
“They are quite clear in their own minds as to the relative importance
of facts and ideas.”
+ =Ath= p762 Je 11 ’20 320w
“Americans particularly will find this study of value, because the
British labor movement is more like our own than that of any other
country, and its differences from ours are consequently more
significant.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 110:803 Je 12 ’20 950w
“The new part of the work would be very valuable if it stood alone,
but it gains immensely from coming after the story of the building-up
of the movement.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:76 Ap 17 ’20 1200w
“In solidity of knowledge, in massiveness of generalization, in the
firm grasp of complex details, Mr and Mrs Webb have certainly no
superiors and possibly no equals. If they lack any single quality, it
is an inability to make the institution reflect the men who build it.”
H. J. L.
+ − =New Repub= 22:359 My 12 ’20 1450w
“The authors unite a thorough knowledge of their subject with a
sympathetic understanding of the struggle of the masses, making a
combination that is rare in historians. A number of appendices and a
good index, together with good binding and paper, make this work
heartily welcome.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 750w
“Mr Webb, like most Fabian Socialists, is cultured, persuasive,
smooth-spoken. In the gentlest words possible he has pronounced the
failure of trade unionism. We can be grateful to him for his exposure
of its vices.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 900w
“‘The history of trade unionism’ might easily have been a very great
work; even as it stands it possesses high merit; but its partisanship
divests it of authority, and the reader must be continually on his
guard lest he accept its statements without independent evidence of
their truth.”
+ − =Spec= 124:621 My 8 ’20 850w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 180w
“I cannot feel that even the Webbs have been able to achieve the same
objectivity in dealing with the almost contemporary records as they
did with earlier data and still it is of more value to have their
original great work brought up to-date than it would be to obtain a
separate narrative covering only recent industrial history.”
+ − =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w
“It remains unchallenged, after a generation not by any means barren
in books on industrial affairs, as the standard work on the rise and
development of trade unions. It is a pity that the greater part of the
section given to the railway trade unions in the new edition should be
too biased to be historical.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 600w
“A vital change is to be noted in his viewpoint. A quarter of a
century ago he wrote primarily as a scholar, though from a frankly
avowed moderate socialist standpoint. Now he writes, equally frankly,
as an avowed political partisan, as a statesman of the Labor party.
Despite all this Mr Webb’s analysis of the present labor and political
conditions in Great Britain is invaluable. It is not difficult, after
his bias is once known, to allow for his prejudices.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:220 O ’20 800w
=WEBLING, PEGGY.= Saints and their stories. il *$5 (9c) Stokes 922
The stories of saints related in this edition de luxe are: St
Christopher; St Denis; St Helena; St Alban; St George; St Nicholas; St
Ambrose; St Martin; St Augustine of Hippo; St Bride; St Gregory the
Great; St Augustine of Canterbury; St Etheldreda; St Swithin; St
Dunstan; St Hugh of Lincoln; St Zita; St Francis of Assisi; St
Catherine of Siena; St Joan of Arc. There are eight full page
illustrations in color by Cayley Robinson.
* * * * *
“Written particularly for Catholic children, but with much in it to
interest all young lovers of beautiful stories.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 150w
“The volume’s chief value lies in the narrative of those saints not
well known. The illustrations are beautiful.”
+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 50w
=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Mary Wollaston. *$2 (1½c) Bobbs
20–18250
Two emotional situations complicate this novel. One is the triangular
relationship involving Mary, her father, and Paula, her beautiful
stepmother. The other grows out of the fact that Mary, while engaged
in war work in New York, has had a casual love affair with a young
soldier bound for overseas. Once she tries to tell her brother, but he
will not listen. Again she tries to tell her father, but he refuses to
believe, thinking that Mary in her innocence doesn’t know what she is
talking about. Finally she flings the truth in the face of young
Graham Stannard, who in asking her to marry him, persists in treating
her as a whited saint. The situation is saved by Anthony March, who
listens to Mary’s story, understands it and loves her none the less
for it. Anthony also resolves the difficulty in the other situation.
Anthony is a composer of genius and Paula is an opera singer, and
there is much musical talk in the story.
* * * * *
“This will be pronounced immoral by some readers. The analysis of
women’s thoughts and emotions is illuminating; a book that women
rather than men will read.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
“Mary Wollaston and her Anthony March have discovered that
‘sentimentality is the most cruel thing in the world’; but it would be
difficult to find another word for the atmosphere with which this
story invests its realism of fact. That is why I for one find little
health in it.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 400w
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 60w
“This novel has both the faults and the merits of its subject-matter,
which is a representative cross-section of American metropolitan life
in the immediate wake of the great war. It has neither faults nor
merits of its own. To apply to it the canons of literary criticism
would be an empty futility, for it has nothing to do with literature.
It is, in three words, a competent realistic novel.” Wilson Follett
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 1950w
“The most interesting thing about ‘Mary Wollaston’ and the chief
reason for reading it is that it is so accurately contemporary. The
young generation seem to be frightening their elders in these days,
and perhaps this novel will explain the fear without allaying it.” W:
L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 640w
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“It is most cleverly compact and as neat as a good play in its action.
But the climax lacks something of convincing the reader. ‘Mary
Wollaston’ is well worth reading. And if read, it demands to be
thought about. If you like stimulating novels, you cannot find a more
satisfying one than Mr Webster’s latest.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ − =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 350w
“One finds that the title is inappropriate. Indeed, not a few will
conclude that Mary never quite attains a position of first
importance.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 550w
=WEBSTER, NESTA H.= French revolution; a study in democracy. *$8 Dutton
944.04
“‘The siege of the Bastille—the march on Versailles—the two invasions
of the Tuileries—the massacres of September—and finally the reign of
terror—these form the history of the French people throughout the
revolution. The object of this book is, therefore, to relate as
accurately as conflicting evidence permits, the true facts about each
great crisis, to explain the motives that inspired the crowds, the
means employed to rouse their passions; and thereby to throw a truer
light on the role of the people, and ultimately on the revolution as
the great experiment in democracy.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 24
* * * * *
“The method of the book is as unscientific as the conception of the
problem. It was a pure waste of time to write such a book, and it is
unfortunate that it was ever published, for it is attractively
written, has all the earmarks of a scientific work, and may do much
harm, if it finds its way into public libraries and into the hands of
readers incapable of forming a correct estimate of its value.” F. M.
Fling
− =Am Hist R= 25:714 Jl ’20 600w
“That there is a kernel of truth in each of these factors which
fomented trouble and disorder in France, as there is at the bottom of
every caricature, none will deny; but to magnify them a hundred-fold
as the great cause of the revolution is to caricature, not correct,
history. Mrs Webster’s volume is exceedingly interesting: it may lead
historians to pay more attention to these new factors which she
emphasizes.” S. B. Fay
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:732 N ’20 470w
“The book is interesting reading. A good deal of the evidence accepted
by Mrs Webster is very shaky, since it consists of accounts given
after the ending of the terror by men who wished to exculpate
themselves at the expense of their colleagues.” B. R.
+ − =Ath= p943 S 26 ’19 1850w
“It overstates its case in an endeavor to emphasize the dangers and
the downright wickedness of revolutions and revolutionaries. It is,
perhaps, too long. Certainly it is prejudiced. But it is a good piece
of work, and good reading, for all that, and any account of the French
revolution must reckon with it and the material on which it is based.”
W. C. Abbott
+ − =Bookm= 51:570 Jl ’20 1850w
“The style is fascinating, the temper sincere, and the argument
(granting the hypotheses) convincing. But there are faults of method,
prejudices of standpoint, and manipulations of material, which make
the book not only a most biased interpretation of the French
revolution but one of the most mischievous and malicious attacks on
democracy that have come to our notice. The book is called ‘a study in
democracy’; it is a studied insult to democracy from cover to cover.”
D. S. Muzzey
− + =Nation= 111:300 S 11 ’20 2200w
“Allowing for Mrs Webster’s tenderness for that old régime, to which
in other respects she is only just, she deserves our devout thanks for
having shown that the French revolution was not at all a democratic
movement. To a large circle of younger readers who are more and more
getting their knowledge of historical events from text books and
novels, this volume will prove a real delight.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Je 27 ’20 2350w
“She has written an interesting and ingenious survey from her own
special angle, but one can not help feeling that the angle is a
somewhat narrow one.”
+ − =Review= 2:653 Je 23 ’20 1300w
“Is there anything left to be said on the subject? Frankly, we thought
not, and the first glance at Mrs Webster’s book seemed to confirm this
opinion. Yet Mrs Webster makes good. The style of the book has no
particular individuality: it is plain, straightforward and devoid of
ornament. But the author is scrupulous in affording ample data for
every statement made.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:386 O 25 ’19 900w
+ =Sat R= 129:29 Ja 10 ’20 950w
“Mrs Webster, by drawing largely on Royalist and Moderate sources,
supplies a much-needed corrective to the many books which glorify even
the wild and wicked excesses of the revolution. Yet she goes too far
in suggesting that the revolution was unnecessary and disastrous.”
+ − =Spec= 123:245 Ag 23 ’19 1700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 100w
“Mrs Webster’s book is full of vivacious interest, and the lines of
her argument are followed through the mass of detail with an artistic
skill. Her ardour communicates to the reader a desire to get close to
facts. But the facts may not be the same as Mrs Webster’s, for though
she has read extensively and marshalled her authorities, her use, and
often her choice, of them shows how strongly she is bent on proving a
case. So she does not convince us that her book is the one true
history of the revolution.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Ag 21 ’19 1650w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 9:879 Jl ’20 1150w
=WEIGALL, ARTHUR EDWARD PEARSE BROME.= Madeline of the desert. *$2 (1½c)
Dodd
20–20189
Madeline had been born beyond the pale of respectable society at Port
Said in Egypt; had grown up in ignorance of conventional morality and
lived in open defiance of it until she was twenty-three. But there had
been growing pains and a crisis came when she must either die or be
reborn. Father Gregory—retired from ecclesiastical honors in England
to a hermitage in the desert—and his nephew, Robin Beechcroft, the
young explorer, help her to a rebirth. The former points her to her
supreme need, Christ, the latter loves and makes her his wife. The
story traces Madeline’s unfoldment as a woman, a thinker and a seer.
She and Robin pass through trials, even tragedies, but it is
Madeline’s fineness and clear-sightedness that at last saves the day
for them both.
* * * * *
“Under its appearance of superficiality there is a quite unusual and
remarkable understanding of the character of Madeline.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 580w
“Mr Weigall’s novel grows weaker with the turning of pages, and there
is no marvelous rising above climax after climax. Madeline, vivid at
first, becomes more and more pallid as the tale progresses.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 310w
“It is impossible to withhold from Mr Weigall a tribute of admiration
for the amazing fluency and fertility of imagination which enable him
to make a long story out of very scant material. Whether the story was
worth making is another question.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w
“The author’s vivid pictures of Egyptian life are explained by the
fact that he has lived in Egypt a great deal, and has the faculty of
presenting pleasingly and convincingly that which he sees. On the
whole, he has presented to the world a very readable, as well as
clever, book.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 220w
=WEIGLE, LUTHER ALLAN.= Talks to Sunday-school teachers. *$1.25 Doran
268
20–6997
“While much of the subject matter is in essence that contained in ‘The
pupil and the teacher,’ it is given here in the form of delightful
chatty chapters, supplementing the previous work. The book brings the
same pleasure and information that often comes from the question
period following a lecture. The first chapters deal with the pupil and
seem to be repetition of much that has already appeared for the use of
the teacher of religious education, though special mention should be
made of chapter 12, ‘How religion grows.’ The last chapters are most
suggestive, especially ‘Learning by doing’ and the ‘Dramatic method of
teaching.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Professor Weigle is a trained pedagogue who has lost neither his
enthusiasm, his love of youth, nor his sound common sense, and is
excellently fitted to be the teacher of teachers that he proves
himself to be by the test of his last book.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 170w
“Written popularly and made effective for more intensive work by
chapter questions and carefully chosen bibliographies.”
+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
“The lists for further reading at the end of each chapter are
excellent and quite up to date.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 110w
=WELLES, WINIFRED.= Hesitant heart. *$1 Huebsch 811
20–6983
Poems reprinted from the North American Review, the Century, the
Liberator, Contemporary Verse and other periodicals. Among the titles
are: The hesitant heart; From a Chinese vase; The unfaithful April;
Driftwood; Threnody; Love song from New England; Moonflower; Surf;
Setting for a fairy story.
* * * * *
“Miss Welles’s is an art at times as ingenuous as Emily Dickinson’s
though always classical in its impeccable taste.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 280w
“The mood of the book is April’s mood. The process by which the poems
arrive at bloom is exactly the process by which April arrives at
fulfilment. You can only feel the pulse of it, the subtle and
mysterious thrill in it, and by that realization know without defining
the loveliness of a miracle.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 3 ’20 1800w
“Like a handful of golden pollen scattered on the wind is the little
book of Winifred Welles’ poems, ‘The hesitant heart.’ Simple, fresh,
luminous, of the early morning, they are as whimsical as charm itself,
and as reticent in their cool distinction.”
+ =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 100w
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“Hers is a limited gamut, an obviously restricted range. Yet, within
that range, her voice is pure, the art is skilful and the melodies
exquisite. None of the younger singers has communicated with more
charm her accents of soft delight mingled with a perturbed
wistfulness. Even her more intense affirmations have a timid
tenderness.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 550w
“‘The hesitant heart’ is a lovely collection of fragile lyrics. Miss
Welles has a deft and magical touch all her own, a slight and
restrained magic, but an authentic one.”
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 180w
“Miss Welles is no purveyor of novelties. She cannot be called
original, or even inventive. Yet she has a magic of lyrical speech
that gives the reader a sense of new delight and of a new personality
in the world of lyric artists.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w
“Her technique is much like that of Miss Millay, although she is not
so mature as an artist. But this is not to say that Miss Welles has
imitated Miss Millay. She is very much herself.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 220w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w
=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON)=, comp. Book of humorous verse.
*$7.50 Doran 827
20–20663
This volume is intended for everyone of the human race who possesses
the power of laughter. The compiler calls attention to the book as a
compilation, not a collection, as no cover of one book could contain
the latter. The poems are classified under the headings: Banter; The
eternal feminine; Love and courtship; Satire; Cynicism; Epigrams;
Burlesque; Bathos; Parody; Narrative; Tribute; Whimsey; Nonsense;
Natural history; Juniors; Immortal stanzas. The book is indexed for
authors, titles and first lines.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
“As a whole. Miss Wells has done a most excellent piece of work that
should be an addition to the library of every lover and maker of
verse.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 520w
“Here at last is a collection of humorous lyrics, chosen and set in
order by an expert anthologist, who is also an expert humorist.”
Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p3 D 12 ’20 1600w
“‘The book of humorous verse’ has done in its province what Burton
Stevenson’s ‘Home book of verse’ has done for all poetry.” E. L.
Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 300w
=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON).= Raspberry jam. il *$1.60 (2½c)
Lippincott
20–7522
Sanford Embury is found one morning dead in bed. He was an
exceptionally healthy man, and absolutely no reason can at first be
discovered for his death. His proud, hot tempered wife is at once
suspected, for the two had many tiffs about money matters, for
although Embury was rich, it pleased his pride to give his wife no
ready spending money. Detectives are called in, investigations made.
No headway is gained until Fleming Stone and his irresponsible “kid”
helper, Fibsy McGuire, appear on the scene. Then the mystery slowly
clears, through the aid of a “spook,” a trumped up medium, a pot of
raspberry jam and certain information in regard to a “human fly.” Mrs
Embury is acquitted, the real murderer at once arrested, and a long
delayed love comes at last into its own.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 350w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
=Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 240w
=Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 70w
“The story stirs a lively interest in the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 160w
“As is common in detective stories of this type, Miss Wells makes
considerable demands on her readers’ credulity or ignorance.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 160w
=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Outline of history. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan 909
20–19599
Mr Wells’ “plain history of life and mankind” (Sub-title) is in two
volumes, composed of nine books, as follows: The making of our world;
The making of man; The dawn of history; Judea, Greece and India; Rise
and collapse of the Roman Empire; Christianity and Islam; The great
Mongol empire of the land ways and the new empires of the sea ways;
The age of the great powers; The next stage in history. The work has
been written with the advice and editorial help of Mr Ernest Barker,
Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert
Murray. It is illustrated with maps, time diagrams and drawings by J.
F. Horrabin.
* * * * *
“A history of this kind is just what is wanted at the present day.
There are now sufficient scientific and historical data to make the
attempt possible; it is time we had a glimpse of the wood: we have had
innumerable examinations of the separate trees.”
+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 400w
“In praising so large a work, one must presumably begin with its
arrangement. Arrangement is a negative quality, but a great one: it is
the faculty of not muddling the reader, and Wells possesses it in a
high degree. Selection is of course a more controversial topic, and
here the critics can get going if they think it worth while. A third
merit is the style. The surface of Wells’ English is poor, and he does
not improve its effect when he tints it purple. But it does do its
job. Arrangement, selection, style; so these make up the case for his
‘Outline,’ and it is an overwhelming case.” E. M. F.
+ =Ath= p8 Jl 2 ’20 1100w
“Now for the defects, and the first of them is a serious one. Wells’
lucidity, so satisfying when applied to peoples and periods, is
somehow inadequate when individuals are thrown on to the screen. The
outlines are as clear as ever, but they are not the outlines of living
men. He seldom has created a character who lives and a similar failure
attends his historical evocations.... Such are the defects of the
book; but, as the previous article indicated, they are entirely
outweighed by its great merits.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p42 Jl 9 ’20 1950w
“It has been a great book, finely planned, well arranged, full of
vivid historical sketches and of telling raps upon the knuckles and
noses of the great, but as soon as it starts for the stars its charm
decreases.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p690 N 19 ’20 1500w
=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“The great thing which Wells has done—and it is, unqualifiedly, a very
great thing—is to state the evolutionary concept of history as a
continuing, growing entity, in terms readily understandable of the
common man. It is not too much to call it the most potentially
formative book of our day.” H. L. Pangborn
+ =Bookm= 52:358 Ja ’21 950w
“In his entire career Mr Wells has never written a more important book
than this. It is a superlatively fascinating piece of writing, in all
its details and as a whole, and it proves that the best historian is
the man with imagination who has created, or who is capable of
creating, real literature.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 2850w
“This is the true and lasting value of the work of Wells—that he has
given our world a greatest common historical denominator.” H. W. van
Loon
+ =Dial= 70:202 F ’21 720w
“History as seen through the temperament of Mr Wells is novel,
piquant, and entertaining. Mr Wells has no sense of time, for he
discusses events in the remote past as if they were still happening.
This gives vividness to his story and truthfulness, too.... With the
chapter on Buddhism the ‘Outline’ reaches its high water mark. From
thence on, a startling change is noticeable. And the change is for the
worse. J. S. Schapiro
* + − =Nation= 112:sup224 F 9 ’21 9250w
“There is one criticism that I should like to make. Mr Wells has
written political history and overlooked economic facts.... One cannot
help wishing that Mr Wells had restrained his enthusiasm a little by
omitting Book 1, and thus clipping off several hundred million years
from the period which he was seeking to cover. He might also have
eliminated Book 2 on ‘The making of man.’ I am glad that there was
someone in the English-speaking world brave enough and earnest enough
and with enough leisure time to write it.” Scott Nearing
+ − =N Y Call= p8 N 29 ’20 1500w
“It is eminently readable. Mr Wells could not write dull if he tried
to. The first impression made by his volumes is deepened by their
study. It is that Mr Wells has undertaken a task too great for his
powers and equipment. Mr Wells has, of course, read widely and
industriously. Yet his sources are plainly meagre. They are almost
exclusively English.”
− + =N Y Times= p1 N 14 ’20 2550w
“Certain sections—the early chapters upon the origin of the earth and
of man upon the earth, the part dealing with the rise and spread of
Buddhism, for examples—are excellent when read by themselves.” E. L.
Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w
“Most of us think of history only in terms of the records of
particular nations, races or periods. Mr Wells ventures on a far
bolder conception—viewing all human history as one whole. If the work
did nothing more than to fix definitely this new viewpoint it would be
worth while.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 220w
“High-school history teachers and students will read the work with
profit. They certainly come more nearly being world-history than any
previous work in the field.”
+ =School R= 29:155 F ’21 900w
+ =Spec= 122:698 N 22 ’19 190w
“It is good to take a broad view of history, and Mr Wells has done a
real service to his generation by writing this entertaining ‘Outline.’
He has found a talented illustrator in Mr Horrabin, whose numerous
maps and diagrams and reconstructions of extinct mammals are very
attractive and helpful. There are also many photographs, well chosen
and well reproduced.”
+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 300w
“There is room for Mr Wells’s ‘Outline of history,’ for the hand of
the specialist has lain heavy on this branch of scholarship, and the
books which give a bird’s-eye view of world history are few and not
very accessible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 21 ’19 380w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
London Nation)
“The ‘History’ is a remarkable one: there should be more books as
readable and provocative and daring.” P. B. McDonald
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 880w
“Magnificent as is the panorama which Mr Wells unfolds, the details of
it are sometimes questionable.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 1050w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 S 23 ’20 2000w
“Mr Wells’s work should find its way into all but the most bigoted
sectarian colleges and even into the schools, as supplementary reading
for both teacher and pupil.” J. H. Robinson
+ =Yale R= n s 10:412 Ja ’21 2650w
=WELSH, JAMES C.= Underworld. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes
20–17082
A story of the British coal industry by the author of “Songs of a
miner.” While yet a mere boy Robert Sinclair sits up long past his bed
time to listen to the talk between his father and Robert Smillie, and
it is the inspiration of that remembered conversation that sends him
far in the growing labor movement. Robert goes into the pit at twelve
years and on that very day there is an accident in the mine that kills
his father and brother and leaves him his mother’s chief support. The
story pictures the hard conditions in a disorganized industry, the
tyranny of the foreman and his control of the private lives of the
men, and the discouraging efforts to form a union. Robert loses the
girl he loves and in the end meets his father’s fate in the mine while
trying to save others. His mother is left desolate and the author’s
final plea is to the men to stand firm together and protect their
women folk from such tragedies.
* * * * *
“James Welsh, the miner, has rough-hewn a rather powerful and readable
tract.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w
+ =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 180w
“As he commands a fluent and forcible pen, complete mastery of the
dialect, and an unflinching realism in the treatment of details, his
work claims attention as well as respect.”
+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 670w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 170w
=WENDELL, BARRETT.= Traditions of European literature, from Homer to
Dante. *$6 Scribner 809
20–20996
This book has developed from lectures given at Harvard between 1904
and 1917. The author says: “Years of dealing with Harvard students had
shown me not only that Americans now know little of the literary
traditions of our ancestral Europe, but also that they are seldom
aware even of the little they know.” (Introd.) He adopts the point of
view of “English-speaking Americans of the twentieth century of the
Christian era” and concerns himself with those traditions of
literature “which, we need not ask why, have chanced among ourselves
to survive the times of their origin.” His task is somewhat simplified
by the fact that during the period covered, from Homer to Dante, the
traditions “originating in the primal European civilisation of Greece,
and extending throughout imperial dominion of Rome, remained for many
centuries a common possession of all Europe.” It has been possible
therefore to treat the subject as a whole. This is done in five books:
The traditions of Greece; The traditions of Rome; The traditions of
Christianity; The traditions of Christendom; The traditions of the
middle ages. Bibliographical suggestions occupy twenty-three pages and
there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
“Nothing brings a keener joy to the heart of a conscientious reviewer
than to have in his hands to appraise and to praise a book which seems
to him altogether good—worthy in theme, comprehensive in conception,
shapely in plan and skillful in execution. This joy is mine now that I
have read this admirable example of interpretive scholarship.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p3 D 26 ’20 1750w
=WEST, WILLIS MASON.= Story of modern progress; with a preliminary
survey of earlier progress. (Allyn and Bacon’s ser. of school histories)
il $2 Allyn 940.2
20–7751
This work is a successor to the author’s “The modern world” written
with a redistribution of time to give more space and emphasis to the
period since 1870. The author says, “I have taken glad advantage of
the chance to write a new book, better suited, I hope, to elementary
high-school students; and I have used the treatment in the ‘Modern
world’ only when I have found it simpler and clearer than any change I
could make today.” (Foreword) An unusual amount of space has been
given to English history, while American history, which is sure of
full treatment elsewhere, is omitted “except where the connection of
events demands its introduction.” Contents: Introduction: a survey of
earlier progress; Age of the reformation, 1520–1648; England in the
seventeenth century; The age of Louis XIV and Frederick II, 1648–1789;
The French revolution; Reaction, 1815–1848; England and the industrial
revolution; Continental Europe, 1848–1871; England, 1815–1914; Western
Europe, 1871–1914; Slav Europe to 1914; The war and the new age. There
is a list of books for high schools, followed by an index and
pronouncing vocabulary.
* * * * *
“This present ‘Story of modern progress’ is consoling in a measure,
but also provoking. The writer has some straight views, then again,
the three-hundred-year-old tradition enfolds him.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:824 S ’20 550w
“For a one-year course in modern European history there is possibly no
better text on the market.”
+ =School R= 28:549 S ’20 280w
=WESTERVELT, GEORGE CONRAD, and others.= Triumph of the N.C.’s. il *$3
Doubleday 629.
20–7597
The N.C.’s are flying boats as distinguished from hydroaeroplanes and
the present volume contains the story of their design and building and
of their first achievements. In part 1 Commander G. C. Westervelt
tells “How the flying boats were designed and built”—the immense
number of details that had to be worked out, the numerous tests that
had to be conducted, and the many troublesome features that had to be
corrected. Part 2—The “lame duck” wins—is Lieut.-Commander A. C.
Read’s story of the transatlantic flight of the N. C. 4. Part 3
contains the log of the N. C. 3 by Commander H. C. Richardson, who
also gives an account of previous attempts at transatlantic flight.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
“The story of the crossing is told in lively and readable narrative,
with picturesque details and with unassuming modesty.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 500w
=WESTON, GEORGE.= Mary minds her business. il *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–4960
Of the long line of Josiahs of the firm of Josiah Spencer & son,
successful manufacturers, Mary’s father was the last. His cousin,
Stanley Woodward, had long been figuring on the eventuality of
Josiah’s demise, to get entire control of the business. But he had not
counted on Mary. His first shock came when Mary had herself chosen
president of the corporation and proceeded, with the coaching of a
friendly judge and business councilor to run things for herself. And
run them she did in a most revolutionary manner. She employed women to
such an extent that the factory was finally worked entirely by women
on a greater level of efficiency than ever. Other reforms went hand in
hand—a rest room, nurseries, kindergarten, laundry, an orchestra of
one hundred pieces all played by women. Of course there was fighting
to do, Uncle Stanley to be over-ruled, his son Burdon to be shown his
place. When the scheme was out of the woods and the most pressing
suitor married off, the woman in Mary was alone and aweary and it was
then that Archey Forbes, the construction engineer, came into his own.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“The light story has sometimes, under Mr Weston’s pen, developed a
diaphanous quality, which has made us wonder why it was worth writing
at all. Now in surprising manner Mr Weston has discovered some
ideas—not very new ones perhaps, but nevertheless things of
substance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w
“Brightly written, full of action, and with a love interest kept
discreetly subordinate to that of the extremely efficient Mary’s
management of the factory, this story also has the merit of dealing
with a question which many will think has been thoroughly answered—the
proper sphere of women in this age.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 400w
=WEYL, MAURICE.= Happy woman. *$1.75 (2c) Kennerley
20–6129
The distinctive feature of this story is its character drawing. There
is Henry Hardwick, a man of decided ability but with just that grain
of iron lacking in his make-up that would make him a success in his
enterprises and the master of his domestic circumstance. Fred
Pemberton’s efficiency, on the other hand, verges on hardness and
almost wrecks his love-life, deep and true though it is. The two
leading women of the tale are likewise opposites, but both in the end
can claim the title. Ruth Bernstein, proud, reticent, an unusually
able business woman, but feminine in the best sense when off guard, is
happy when she yields to her love for Fred Pemberton. Dowdy, voluble,
irresponsible Mrs Hardwick is happy when she discovers that her “gift
of gab” can be put to good use in swaying and winning admiration from
an audience.
* * * * *
“‘The happy woman’ is that rather unusual thing—a genuinely realistic
novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 850w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w
=WHALE, GEORGE.= British airships: past, present and future. il *$2 (4c)
Lane 629.1
20–9651
Without attempting a lengthy and highly technical dissertation on
aerostatics the book briefly describes the main principles underlying
airship construction. It then gives a general history of the
development of the airship to the present day before taking up the
British airship, which had been practically neglected prior to the
twentieth century. The contents, with many illustrations and charts
are: Early airships and their development to the present day; British
airships built by private firms; British army airships; Early days of
the naval airship section—Parseval airships, Astratorres type, etc.;
Naval airships: the nonrigids; Naval airships: the rigids; The work of
the airship in the world war; The future of airships.
* * * * *
“A useful account, well illustrated.”
+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 40w
“It is a pity that the usefulness of the book is hampered by the
absence of an index.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 80w
=WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH.=[2] In old Pennsylvania towns. il *$5 (6c)
Lippincott 974.8
21–155
The author describes a motor trip thru Pennsylvania, on which
Lancaster, Lebanon, Gettysburg, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh,
Wilkes-Barré, Bethlehem and other towns were visited. Philadelphia and
Germantown are omitted, as too well known, for it is the author’s
purpose to call attention to the quaint and unusual. The pictures show
many of the interesting old Pennsylvania houses.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 29 ’20 460w
“The illustrations will delight all who are interested in early
American architecture.” M. K. Reely
+ =Pub W= 98:1891 D 18 ’20 300w
=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Age of innocence. *$2 (1½c)
Appleton
20–18615
The milieu of the story is New York “society” in the early seventies.
It describes the old aristocracy who took life “without effusion of
blood,” who “dreaded scandal more than disease,” who “placed decency
above courage” and who considered “nothing more ill-bred than
‘scenes.’” Newland Archer was one of the few whose vision penetrated
this crust of conventionality and he fell in love with the one
off-color member of the tribe just as he had engaged himself to its
most perfect product. Ellen Olenska, wife of a profligate European
count, had left her husband and returned to America at this critical
moment and Archer hastens his marriage to May Welland before he
becomes too deeply involved with Ellen. Ellen’s fine sense of honor
and of human kindliness, on the other hand, holds him to his compact
and puts the ocean between herself and Archer by returning to Europe.
Almost thirty years later, Archer has the satisfaction of seeing his
own children step out freely and joyously on the road that had been
closed to him.
* * * * *
“The time and the scene together suit Mrs Wharton’s talent to a
nicety.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 620w
=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“On the book’s enduring quality it is idle to speculate. The slight
theme beaten out with delicate care is the fashion of the day, and the
best examples will no doubt remain. What is certain, however, is that
a multitude of readers today will read with a well-justified delight
this picture of New York in the ‘seventies.’” A. E. W. Mason
+ =Bookm= 52:360 D ’20 780w
“As a matter of fact, the author of ‘The age of innocence’ is not the
Mrs Wharton of ‘The valley of decision,’ ‘The house of mirth,’ ‘Ethan
Frome’ or of any one of the several volumes of short stories with
which her reputation was made. She is the Mrs Wharton—with some of her
skill and much of her knowledge of life remaining—of a new era that
demands yellow pages in its fiction as well as yellow newspapers in
its journalism. Until she becomes again the Mrs Wharton of a decade
ago, she certainly cannot maintain her once high place among the
novelists of today.” E. F. Edgett
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 1200w
“One must occasionally be grateful in a day devoted, on the one hand,
to detail, and on the other to a futuristic sketchiness, for a
literary gift as serene as Mrs Wharton’s. Her new novel, ‘The age of
innocence,’ is the perfect fruit of an austere and disciplined art.”
L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 240w
“The interest of the story lies, not with the doings of the rather
wooden characters of the book, but with the picture it purports to
give of New York some fifty years ago. Here the author is clearly at
fault in portraying a society of such portentous dullness and also in
representing the town as devoid of anything else. The book is full of
anachronisms which are sure to be noticed by old New-Yorkers.”
− =Lit D= p52 F 5 ’21 880w
“‘The age of innocence’ is a masterly achievement. In lonely contrast
to almost all the novelists who write about fashionable New York, she
knows her world. In lonely contrast to the many who write about what
they know without understanding it or interpreting it, she brings a
superbly critical disposition to arrange her knowledge in significant
forms.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 580w
“Someone told me that ‘The age of innocence’ was ‘a dull book about
New York society in the seventies.’ This is amusing. It is,
undoubtedly, a quiet book, and quietness is dullness to the
jazz-minded. It is really a book of unsparing perception and essential
passionateness, full of necessary reserve, but at the same time full
of verity.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 24:301 N 17 ’20 1450w
“Mrs Wharton’s story-telling method is precise and neat, and it is her
own. What surprises us, however, in ‘The age of innocence’ is the
pervasive glint of oblique criticism that dazzles our eyes from almost
every page. And that criticism is no wise lessened because it happens
to be leveled against New York society of the ’70s. Is New York, or
America, so different in the year 1920?” Pierre Loving
+ =N Y Call= p10 D 12 ’20 1100w
“A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense, which has
nothing to do with size, a credit to American literature—for if its
author is cosmopolitan, her novel, as much as ‘Ethan Frome,’ is a
fruit of our soil.” H: S. Canby
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w
“By the side of the absolute mastery of plot, character and style
displayed in her latest novel, ‘The house of mirth’ seems almost
crude. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name America,
and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the
twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.”
W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p1 O 17 ’20 1950w
“Mrs Wharton’s new novel is in workmanship equal to her very best
previous work. In its adequate dealing with a large motif this is a
book of far more than ephemeral value.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 620w
“The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that
exquisitely satisfies one’s sense of fitness, and as always with Mrs
Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event. One
revels recognizingly in her clean-cut distinction of style, the
inerrant aptness of adjectives, the vivisective phrase.” Katharine
Perry
+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 520w
“The limitations of the present note on Mrs Wharton’s new story may be
revealed by the confession that the annotator’s delight in it as a
picture is greatly tempered by his distrust of its leading male
figure. I don’t much like this Newland Archer, and I don’t quite
believe in his existence; and this doubt curdles my faith in the
integrity of the story as a whole.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 1100w
“From a literary point of view, this story is on a level with Mrs
Wharton’s best work. As a retrospect of the early ‘seventies, it is
less satisfactory, being marred by numerous historical lapses.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 360w
“The picture is so finished, so convincing, and withal so
entertaining, that the study of these pages is recommended to all
students of manners.”
+ =Spec= 126:55 Ja 8 ’21 720w
“The greatest defect in the book is that of the character of Ellen,
whom her creator constantly asserts to be charming, but who does not
in the least produce that effect on the reader.” Lilian Whiting
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 720w
“Altogether Mrs Wharton has accomplished one of the best pieces of her
work so far. As for her picture of the times, how is any of us over
here to criticize it, beyond saying that it is full of vivacity and of
character and of colour, and that there is not a point in it which
seems to be false?”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1200w
“This theme, the contrast of times and manners, dealt with in some of
her short stories, is one Mrs Wharton handles with skill.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w
=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= In Morocco. il *$4 Scribner 916.4
20–17098
“In 1918 Mrs Wharton, under the guidance of a French military mission,
in a French army motor, spent a month traveling in Morocco. Her
account of her travels in a country without a guide book is for the
benefit of the travelers who she feels sure will flood the land when
the war is over. All the properties of an Arabian Nights tale are
here.” (Nation) “In the space of one month a military automobile
carried her from Tangier to Marrakech, from Rabat to Fez. She entered
the sacred city of Moulay Idriss, the surviving stronghold of the
Idrissite rule; she walked the streets of ancient Salé, the
‘Phoenician counting house and breeder of Barbary pirates’; she
examined the ruins of Volubilis, the African outpost of the Roman
legions; and she enjoyed the hospitality of his Majesty the Sultan
Moulay Youssef and his favorites in ‘the happiest harem in Morocco.’”
(N Y Times)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“Edith Wharton’s ‘In Morocco’ is a model of restrained and rounded
prose, as well as a vivid picture of oriental richness.” Margaret
Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 920w
“‘In Morocco’ adds another swiftly-told, graceful, vivid, and yet
informative travel book to Mrs Wharton’s globe-trotting shelf.”
+ =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w
“The best thing a returned traveler can do is to give you not facts
but atmosphere. Edith Wharton in ‘In Morocco’ does this for you
excellently well, partly because she is so impersonal, never intruding
her own reactions, simply bringing up the scene around you with all
its blinding sunlight, desert heat and vivid colors.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Irita Van Doren
=Nation= 111:479 O 27 ’20 680w
“The combination of authenticated facts and illuminating comment makes
her book fascinating.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 150w
“The publication of ‘In Morocco,’ by Mrs Wharton, is practically
simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, ‘The age of
innocence.’ Both of these books add security to their author’s
position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose.
Never before has Mrs Wharton enjoyed so ideal an opportunity to
display her gifts of colorful description as she does in this volume.”
B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 980w
“Nothing seen by her sensitive, unsparing eye is omitted, and her
nervous style never fails to convey the effect at which she aims.”
+ =Sat R= 130:339 O 23 ’20 360w
+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 200w
“The duration of her visit—one month—was fortunately too short for her
to carry out her intention of writing a guide-book. One writes
‘fortunately,’ for her book would have lost in broad suggestiveness
far more than it would have gained from precision in detail. With her
knowledge of other countries and peoples, her sensitiveness, her gift
of vivid description, and her unobtruded skill in ordered
presentation, she does more than one would have thought possible to
convey what was suddenly revealed to her eyes to those who will never
see it with their own.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 O 7 ’20 1200w
=WHEAT, GEORGE SEAY=, ed.[2] Municipal landing fields and air ports. il
*$1.75 Putnam 629.1
20–22004
The book is a compilation with chapters by the chief of the army air
service, General Menoher, the director of naval aviation Captain
Craven and their officers in charge of landing field operations. The
most acute and immediate problem now facing commercial aeronautics is
the need for flying routes and landing fields. It is the object of the
book to present all that this involves in concrete form. Besides
illustrations, diagrams, a map and an appendix containing a list of
landing fields on file in the office of the chief of air service, the
contents are: The need for landing fields; The present plight of
flight; How to construct a field; Aircraft hangers; Aerial routes;
Naval air ports; Airplanes and seaplanes.
=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Lawyer’s study of the Bible; its answer
to the questions of today. *$1.50 Revell
19–19947
“Mr Wheeler’s book is really a study of life, and he uses the Bible in
interpreting life. His chapter titles indicate this characteristic of
his volume: they are such as The presence of God in the soul of man;
Prayer; Socialism; War; Labor, capital, and strikes; Immortality.
Incidentally he asks what light does the Bible throw on these
problems?”—Outlook
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 24 ’19 550w
=Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 220w
“Perhaps the most important feature for the average reader is the
adaptation of legal procedure into rules for the study of the Bible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 180w
=WHIBLEY, CHARLES.= Literary studies. *$3 Macmillan 820.4
20–1521
“Five of these eight studies are from the ‘Cambridge history of
English literature.’ They deal with phases of literature in the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. The others are
on Rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare’s time (a chapter in
‘Shakespeare’s England,’ 1916), Sir Walter Raleigh (from Blackwood’s),
and Jonathan Swift, a Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge, 1917.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup N 13 ’19
* * * * *
“Mr Whibley is as readable as ever.”
+ =Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 70w
“He has the first requisite of a critic: interest in his subject, and
ability to communicate an interest in it. His defects are both of
intellect and feeling. He has no dissociative faculty. There were very
definite vices and definite shortcomings and immaturities in the
literature he admires; and as he is not the person to tell us of the
vices and shortcomings, he is not the person to lay before us the work
of absolutely the finest quality.” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p1332 D 12 ’19 1350w
Reviewed by Augustine Birrell
+ =Nation= 111:159 Ag 7 ’20 20w
“Mr Whibley, by being included among the journalists, dignifies
journalism. His way is not that of the headline, nor are his literary
manners those of the siren in a fog—a not unfair description of much
that appears in the journal to which he is a weekly contributor it?)
acquired the habit of writing for the sake of filling a column.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 N 13 ’19 60w
“It is very convenient to have these essays detached from the larger
volumes in which they first appeared. Here they express the author’s
own mind, they support and answer one another, not dressed and drilled
by an editor in company not of their own choice. Here there is harmony
among them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p691 N 27 ’19 2000w
=WHIPPLE, GUY MONTROSE.= Classes for gifted children. (School and home
education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 371.9
19–14686
Detailed account of an experiment successfully carried out in the year
1917 in the public school of Urbana, Illinois, consisting of selecting
and training especially gifted, or super-average children. Fifteen
pupils from the fifth grade, also fifteen from the sixth, constituted
the special class. Of these thirty, it was found eight had been
wrongly selected as gifted. The remaining twenty-two completed a two
years’ course in one, without forcing or fatigue, in addition to
gaining certain cultural advantages. Through tests applied, and
results observed, a more reliable standard of selecting children than
that of teachers’ marks was evolved. The book includes an analytical
study of talent in drawing, with an annotated bibliography, and it
closes with a partial bibliography on gifted children and education.
Dr Whipple, formerly professor of education, University of Illinois,
is at present professor of applied psychology, Carnegie institute of
technology.
=WHITAKER, ALBERT CONSER.= Foreign exchange. *$5 (2c) Appleton 332.4
20–1958
The book, the author suggests, will serve the double purpose of a
practical business manual, and a treatise in economics. “Stated
briefly, the subjects of study in this volume are the methods or
proceedings and the forms or documents of foreign-trade settlement,
banking, and financing. Belonging with these, the international
movement of gold and the measures taken to influence it are examined
at length.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Means of
payment and commercial paper; The negotiability of commercial paper;
Discount and interest; Commercial banking; The rates of exchange; The
bank credit and letter of credit; Foreign money market factors;
Speculation in exchange; The mint price and the market price of gold;
Standard money; Monetary systems of the leading nations; Specie
shipments; Addendum and index.
* * * * *
“This volume is probably in many ways the most satisfactory that has
appeared up to the present time on foreign exchange.” M. J. Shugrue
+ =Am Econ R= 10:370 Je ’20 450w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w
=WHITAKER, CHARLES HARRIS.= Joke about housing. *$2 Jones, Marshall
331.83
20–6282
Housing is here treated as a problem of land values. The remedy for
present conditions is “for the state to put an end to the frightful
waste involved in our present riotous development of land, and thus
make the house a stable element of our national life, free from the
destructive effects of speculation in land which forces speculation in
building and which always brings communal disaster in its train.” The
subject is discussed in seven chapters: Why do we have houses? The
house and the home—a world program; Houses and wages; The employer and
the housing question; The two plants; What are the possible ways out
of the dilemma in housing? The general problem of land control. In the
appendixes two prize essays on the solution of the housing problem are
reprinted. The author is editor of the Journal of the American
Institute of Architects.
* * * * *
“The style in which the book is written should make this book one of
the most popular works on housing. Like all books devoted to the
presentation and emphasis of one fundamental idea the work suffers
from lack of perspective in so far as its use as a work upon which a
thoroughly constructive housing program could be built.” Carol
Aronovici
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:244 S ’20 370w
=Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
Reviewed by L: Mumford
+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 440w
“Some will no doubt assert that he lays too much stress upon the idea
that the solution hangs upon the disallowance of speculation in land.
Possibly this single subject is over stressed. But relative emphasis
is a matter of little importance. What is of importance is that the
subject of land and profit and speculative adventuring has been
intimately connected with housing in the sense of cause and effect.
The importance of this change of base, so to speak, in approaching the
problem can not be overrated.” F. L. A.
+ =J Am Inst of Architects= 8:342 S ’20 1050w
=N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The book is written from a full heart and with sympathetic
understanding for the aspirations of common folks; it is one of the
most readable tracts from the ‘left wing’ of the housing movement that
we have seen.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 360w
=WHITE, BENJAMIN.=[2] Gold, its place in the economy of mankind. il $1
Pitman 669.2
20–21980
In the volume of the Common commodities and industries series devoted
to gold, chapters take up: Its appreciation—ancient and modern; Its
properties and distribution; The production of early times; The
production of the nineteenth century; Present production and
prospects; The evolution of British coinage; The mintage of the world;
The gold standard; The movements of gold; Stocks; Industrial use; Gold
and the great war. There are illustrations, tables, an index and a
brief list of works consulted.
* * * * *
“The tables should be of interest to students of commercial geography
and economics.”
+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 80w
=WHITE, BENJAMIN.= Silver, its intimate association with the daily life
of man. il $1 Pitman 669.2
(Eng ed 18–801)
In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries the
author treats his subject under three heads; Production; Industrial
consumption; Utility as money, past and future. There are several
illustrations and tables and two folding charts. Some of the tables
are based on the annual reports of the director of the United States
mint. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Contains much of service to teachers and students.”
+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 60w
=WHITE, MRS GRACE (MILLER).= Storm country Polly. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–8242
The scene of the story is a squatter colony on the shores of Lake
Cayuga. The colony is known as Silent City and Jeremiah Hopkins is its
unofficial mayor. His daughter Polly is the story’s heroine. Polly,
the one person in Evelyn Robertson’s confidence, knows the story of
Evelyn’s secret marriage to Oscar Bennett. Evelyn desires release, for
she is now in love with Marc MacKenzie, the man making war on the
squatters, and Bennett will grant it only on condition that Polly
agrees to marry him. And Evelyn, who might intercede with MacKenzie,
promises to do so if Polly will pay the price, but Polly cannot, for
she is in love with Robert Percival, Evelyn’s cousin. Marc carries out
his threats. Daddy Hopkins is sent to jail, wee Jerry is torn from
Polly’s arms and her love is turned to hate. But not for long and love
triumphs all round in the end.
* * * * *
“A more apt title for the book would have been ‘Storm country
Pollyanna,’ for the leading figure in the novel is so good that it
almost hurts to think of her. In spite of the archaic construction and
material of the story, it manages to sustain a certain amount of
interest.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 200w
=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Ambush. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11893
In the days when the Hudson’s Bay company, north of Lake Superior, is
fighting two rival fur trading companies, Paul Carlisle is factor of
one of their most important posts. In addition to his never-ending
disturbances with the Free traders and the Northwest Fur company, his
position is further complicated by the fact that he is in love with
Joan Wayne, daughter of the Free trader’s chief. And as if being his
business rival were not enough, Ralph Wayne is in addition Paul’s
bitter personal enemy, for a reason which Paul at first can not
understand. But the cause of this enmity is made clear to him
presently by Richelieu, the third party in this three-cornered
rivalry, the manager of the Northwest Fur company, and also in love
with Joan. Eventually Paul wins out both in business and love, after a
series of exciting and dramatic events.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Foaming fore shore. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–16344
A tale of the sea. Cap’n Walter Taylor is a fisherman in Newfoundland
waters, but becomes a fugitive as the result of breaking some of the
fishing regulations. He takes refuge in the Magdalen Islands and there
finds Madeline Boucher, with whom he speedily falls in love. But
Jacques Beauport, his hereditary enemy, as his father before him had
hated him, has been on the field first, and considers Madeline engaged
to him. He seeks Taylor out to return him to justice, but Taylor has
no idea of tamely submitting to this, and the chase grows exciting
before its finish. Finally a decision of the Hague tribunal puts
Taylor in the right, but not before Beauport has lost his life in his
spiteful attempt to make Taylor suffer. The story is full of
descriptions of fishing and sailing in the turbulent northern waters.
=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Killer. il *$1.75 (1c) Doubleday
20–9477
“The killer,” which opens this collection, is a story of novelette
length. It is a story of the old West with a central character whose
malignity and propensity for killing extends even to birds and
insects. He never kills men, but has only to nod to one of his Mexican
servitors and the desired deed is accomplished. How a reckless young
cowboy took a dare and asked for a night’s lodging at his ranch and
what followed form the substance of the story. Two shorter tales, The
road agent and The tide, come next and the remainder of the book is
taken up with three descriptive essays reminiscent of Mr White’s
earlier work in “The forest.” The titles are: Climbing for goats;
Moisture, a trace; The ranch.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20
“‘The killer,’ the first story in Stewart Edward White’s new book, is
crammed with action, exciting, unexpected, mysterious; in the last
story, ‘The ranch,’ nothing happens at all and yet the chances are
that you will read them both with interest and joy. The moral of which
of course is that the important thing about a tale is the way you tell
it.”
+ =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 150w
“The essays in the volume are entirely delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 550w
“Mr White knows the old land of the cowboys, desert, ranches, and
border raiding settlements as do few writers of the present day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 380w
“Mr White belongs to the school of American literature which has been
more popular than any other in this country principally because we
ourselves have nothing similar to it. From the point of view of
construction his stories are, as he himself allows, irregular, but for
sheer gustiness they are hard to equal.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 360w
=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Rose dawn. *$1.90 (1c) Doubleday
20–21290
This novel follows “Gold” and “The grey dawn” and completes Mr White’s
California trilogy. It is a story of the transition period of the
eighties when the great ranchos of the cattle era began to give place
to irrigation and the small fruit farm, and pictures the land boom
that heralded the change. It opens with a fiesta at Corona del Monte,
the rancho of Colonel Peyton, an old time Californian, who with his
wife, Allie, dispenses hospitality to all comers with the high-handed
manners of the old days. Other characters are Brainerd, the easterner
who experiments with irrigation on a small scale, foreseeing the
future of the country from a scientific point of view, and Patrick
Boyd, who recognizes its financial future. The romance of the story
develops between Daphne Brainerd and Kenneth Boyd, and the plot turns
on the rallying of all the colonel’s friends, including Sing Toy, his
cook, to save Corona del Monte. The story ran as a serial in the
Saturday Evening Post.
* * * * *
“Mr White has always written good books, but he has never written as
good a novel as ‘The rose dawn.’ Incidentally it is by far the best of
his California trilogy.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 440w
“The book is written by one who loves to write. We have the leisurely
style of the Victorians. The writer goes into byways of description
and character drawing, forcing us to his mood. In the art of
description he is unusually gifted. One could not imagine this book
dramatized, the action is of so little importance. The story,
nevertheless, is delightful.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 300w
“In this sequel to ‘Gold’ and ‘The grey dawn,’ there is all the charm,
scenic coloring and clean-cut delineation of character which
distinguished the earlier works.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 O 31 ’20 380w
“With much to commend it as narrative and as descriptive of
California, ‘The rose dawn’ is an addition to the White novels that
many readers will welcome.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 150w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w
=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.= Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and
after. $1.75 Hoeber 940.3
19–15865
“The author sees in the social upheavals incident to the war and after
merely a reflection on a huge and unprecedented scale of the phenomena
which the psychiatrist encounters daily in frustrated individual
lives. It is because of this that he endeavors to apply some of the
psychological principles which have been found to be of help in
adjusting individual lives for the purpose of a better understanding
of the changes that have come with the war and as an aid to their
adjustment.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The brevity of the book will make it difficult for readers
unacquainted with psychoanalytic literature. If it leads some of these
into the more extended discussions of the psychology of war it will
accomplish what doubtless was the purpose of the author.” E. R. Groves
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 150w
Reviewed by A. R. Hale
+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 650w
“The psychiatrist adds his hope to the hopes of the advocates of a
league of nations that shall make it possible to outgrow war, as men
in socialized communities have outgrown their older, cruder ways. Such
a confirmation of our political hopes by scientific analysis is
encouraging; and Dr White maintains his thesis with skill and
interest.”
+ =Nation= 110:114 Ja 24 ’20 650w
“The book is an interesting contribution to individual and social
psychology and is written with the lucidity characteristic of the
author. It ought to prove of considerable help to those interested in
the problems of individual and social maladjustment.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 360w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Hidden trails. il *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday
20–12058
This tale starts merrily with two wild west killings before the
twentieth page, and whiskey and shots follow one another briskly
thruout the book. Johnny Ramsay, “an impulsive young man of uncertain
temper,” is the hero. He undertakes to earn the reward offered for the
capture of the bandits who are making the life of Sunset county
exciting at the time. He has two pals in partnership with him in his
private detective work, Racey Dawson and Telescope Laguerre, but to
Johnny belongs most of the credit. The bandits prove to be a large
band, and it is no easy job to round them all up, but Johnny very
nearly accomplishes it. His life is not always safe; once he comes
perilously near being lynched, but thanks to a girl, he is spared. The
tale is certainly not lacking in adventure, with a dash of romance
added.
* * * * *
“There is a clever, though somewhat involved plot which keeps the
reader guessing. The dialect and style seem crude in spots. On the
order of ‘The Virginian,’ though not so well done.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Though the story possesses a definite human appeal, is entertaining,
and contains several suggestive bits of landscape description, it is
not done with deftness or a sure touch.” L. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 430w
“It shows so firm a touch, such sure and skillful handling of
materials and so good an eye for local color that it bespeaks for Mr
White a cordial welcome to the realms of authorship and gives hopeful
promise of his future work.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 300w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Lynch lawyers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–625
A story of the wild West opening with a stage coach robbery. The
occurrence is one of a chain of daring deeds and, much to the
discomfort of Red Kane, the evidence seems to point to a recently
arrived “nester,” Ben Lorimer. At first sight Red had fallen
hopelessly in love with Lorimer’s daughter Dot and he knows that a man
who takes a stand against her father will have no chance with the
girl. He protects the father from a lynching mob, is shot and nursed
back to health by the girl. Eventually after much action and many
complications the mystery of Lorimer’s past is cleared away and all
ends well.
* * * * *
“The story as a whole is a masterpiece of remarkable conversation, and
excellent descriptions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 250w
“Written along thoroughly familiar lines, the story is considerably
longer and very much slower in movement than are the majority of such
tales. The book contains a fair amount of bloodshed, and gunplay
enough to satisfy the most exacting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 300w
“A cowboy story with wild excitement in every chapter and a strong
touch of romance to offset the sensationalism.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 20w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.=[2] Paradise Bend. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–18297
A story with all the features of the western thriller. Tom Loudon is
in love with Kate Saltoun, his employer’s daughter and when he learns
that she is engaged to Sam Blakely he throws up his job and leaves. He
had long suspected that Blakely is responsible for the frequent
disappearances of cattle, but “Old Salt” had refused to believe his
neighbor guilty and Kate sides with her father. With Tom’s departure
for Paradise Bend Blakely manages to throw the blame on him and he
narrowly escapes arrest and lynching. Sudden death lies in wait and is
averted in countless other forms before the story closes, with the
villains receiving their just deserts and the lovers happy.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Nothing in this book distinguishes it from the crops of mediocre
western novels which glut the market year after year and which all
seem to be made according to a standard recipe.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 120w
“What ‘Paradise Bend’ lacks in literary finish and pretensions to
intellectual pabulum it replaces with a plenitude of skill in
construction and dialogue.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 430w
=WHITEHOUSE, VIRA (BOARMAN) (MRS NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE).= Year as a
government agent. il *$3 (4c) Harper 940.48
20–2700
When our country entered the war Mrs Whitehouse was appointed by
George Creel as representative for Switzerland of the Committee on
public information. Her duties were to give every possible publicity
to American news through the press, through special articles and
pamphlets and motion-picture reels. The book is an accurate, honest
account of her experiences, throwing interesting sidelights on
diplomacy open and otherwise. Not until the difficulties she
encountered in the American legation at Berne drove her to abandon her
undertaking and return to America, did she in her second attempt
succeed in breaking through the diplomatic armor plate and in gaining
a foothold for her work. The contents are: My appointment; Diplomatic
methods; The vanishing news service; Apparent defeat; To America and
back; At work; Success under difficulties; One thing after another;
Swiss problems; The approaching end; Grief and adventure; Strife and
confusion; The end of the year. There are illustrations and appendices
containing the correspondence and cablegrams between Washington and
the American legation on the one hand and Mrs Whitehouse on the other.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 13 ’20 460w
“She writes of important international work from an agreeably personal
angle.”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 220w
“Our conviction that her story is essentially true is not only because
of her own definiteness and of the evidence the older diplomatic
tradition gives about itself in the appendix, but also because of our
general experience throughout the reign of war psychology. Mrs
Whitehouse has the gift of taking the reader along with her in her
adventure.” Edith Borie
+ =New Repub= 23:67 Je 9 ’20 1100w
“Aside from its historical interest, the book has fascination as a
narrative, for Mrs Whitehouse possesses the very great gift of
unconsciousness. The story runs as simply as though she were telling
it over a table, and there is a delightful, if somewhat caustic, vein
of humor that gives color to the whole.” G: Creel
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1700w
“A reading of her book, interesting as it is, leaves one in doubt as
to whether it is an apologia or a suffrage tract. Further, it exposes
again the error of creating an extra-legal government department, the
Committee on public information, with authority to act abroad in
matters of foreign policy independently of the Department of state.”
+ − =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 380w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 50w
“Besides being a woman of invincible courage and executive ability, as
her work in Switzerland proved, Mrs Whitehouse shows in her book that
she has a sense of humor and pleasing ability as a writer.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 300w
“In a delightfully straightforward style Mrs Whitehouse has told the
story of her work in Switzerland.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:120 Je ’20 80w
=WHITELEY, OPAL STANLEY.= Story of Opal (Eng title, Diary of Opal
Whiteley). il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–19873
This “Journal of an understanding heart” (Sub-title) is the diary of
an orphan, brought up in a lumber camp, and is ascribed to the end of
her sixth and to her seventh year. Before her adoption by strange
people she evidently had a careful bringing up and careful instruction
from a loving mother, as the outpourings of her childish heart and
bits of her history reveal. The records are remarkable for the deep
and loving insight into nature and the child’s communion with animal
and plant life, which they reveal. Parts of the diary have appeared in
the Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
“We have no space to pursue our analysis into details. An amateur
Sherlock Holmes will find much of interest in this volume. For
instance, is the vocabulary consistent? Is the idiom consistent? Is
the ignorance consistent? For the rest, and in spite of Earl Grey’s
‘sheer delight’ in the book, we find it flat, dreary, utterly
uninteresting, a reductio ad absurdum of, as we have hinted, the
American sentimental novel.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p372 S 17 ’20 1400w
“Nature lovers and lovers of childhood especially will be delighted by
it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“The truest thing about the journal to my own mind is its truth of
emotion—it is the absolute record of a child’s emotion.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:258 N ’20 740w
“Completely delightful book.” C. H. O.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2200w
“That it is a beautiful and touching and piercingly honest revelation
of an imaginative child’s spirit seems to me evident beyond cavil.”
Christopher Morley
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 1200w
“The question asked with regard to ‘The young visiters’ is being
repeated in connection with the present book—‘Could a child really
write it?’ Only a child could have written ‘The story of Opal.’ No
adult could put into language such innocent and spontaneous grace
combined with such freshness of perception.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p14 O 3 ’20 1900w
“If ever the word unique is appropriate to a literary production,
certainly it is here. The reader sometimes tires of the singular
manner and strange expressions in the diary, but he never fails to
feel the genuine fineness and charm of Opal’s love for animals and
trees and all of out-of-doors, and her sweetness and affection toward
the few human beings who responded to her appeal.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ − =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 120w
“The book is so incessantly sentimental as to be very tiresome reading
to most English people—Americans seem to have stronger stomachs.
Again, the inverted style is tedious—almost perhaps as tedious as the
humour.”
− =Spec= 125:504 O 16 ’20 750w
“The style of the diary is irresistible. Full of quaint phrases,
unconscious humor, the profound philosophies of childhood, the
sentences move along in solemn, yet sparkling procession.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 720w
“It is not safe to dogmatize upon the limits of precocity, but the
hand at work in many passages is prima facie not that of the
six-year-old, but of the more mature professional humorist. Whatever
be the solution, the main interest of the book is its vitality of
imagination and its pregnancy of issues bearing upon child life
remains unaffected.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 13 ’20 230w (Reprinted from London
Observer)
“We may say without absurdity that the child has a style. And it
reaches, particularly towards the end of the diary, a rare poetic
suggestiveness. We hope that Opal Whiteley will write the other books
she planned in childhood, but we do not expect them to be like this
book; it is one of those inspirations which can seldom be repeated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p593 S 16 ’20 2500w
=WHITHAM, G. I.= St John of Honeylea. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane
20–7526
When Evelyn St John was ten he was left an orphan in the keeping of a
hard aunt. Of his father’s family he knew nothing. By force of
character and personal charm he holds his own, makes friends and
achieves a sheep farm at the Cape, when at the age of thirty he falls
heir to the ancestral estate of the St John’s, Honeylea, in the south
of England. In reality he had inherited much more: dark mysteries, a
curse and the hatred and suspicions of a neighborhood. Honeylea had
once been abbey land, had been wrested from the monks, who still
haunted the woods where they had been murdered and had cursed the
place. What became the banqueting hall of Honeylea had once been a
church and all the St Johns had come to grief—the curse and their own
pride being their undoing. The modern skepticism and moral courage of
the present St John struggles bravely against the atmosphere and
hidden malignity of the place which he loves for its beauty. Not until
he has learned to pray as a last refuge from despair and the house is
burned, is the curse lifted and fortune in love returns to a St John.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 40w
“A very good bit of character work, an intensely absorbing story, this
will appeal equally to those who love realistic tales of today, and to
the fortunate folk who are made happy by medieval legends of days of
old. For the book has both.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 480w
“Those who read ‘Mr Manley’ will not need to be told that G. I.
Whitham knows how to write an interesting story. And ‘St John of
Honeylea’ is an improvement on her earlier book, more convincing and
better written, to say nothing of its possession of an unusually
romantic and picturesque atmosphere.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 600w
“It is a good book, and many interesting people are to be met in it;
not the least of whom are two who live only in the descriptions of the
neighbours who have known them, ‘Uncle Charles,’ and his nephew and
successor Cecil, the two last owners of the house. They are perhaps
more distinctly drawn than any of the actual characters of the story.”
+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 480w
“The subject sounds familiar, but Mr Whitham has treated it in an
original way.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p694 N 27 ’19 450w
=WHITIN, CORA BERRY.= Wounded words. *$1 Four seas co. 793
20–1007
A little book of rhymed charades designed by the author for the
entertainment of convalescent soldiers. At the end a key is provided
by which answers may be tested.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 140w
=Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 70w
“Mrs Whitin has been more concerned with ingenuity of expression than
with Tennysonian polish of her verses.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 2 ’20 120w
=WHITING, GERTRUDE.= Lace guide for makers and collectors. il *$15
Dutton 746
20–2109
“While this is a book which few people would enjoy for leisure
reading, it represents the work of years of careful study of a subject
which is nearest and dearest to the author’s heart. The work was
produced, with the cooperation of lace experts of the Metropolitan
museum for the guidance of students, makers, collectors and
classifiers of bobbin laces. The author explains in detail the general
rules for making various laces. These rules are expanded to include
all variations from the simple grounds to the most complex stitches of
many patterns of laces.” (Springf’d Republican) “The book is profusely
illustrated with plates giving key designs, with accompanying
directions to show students of lace how certain meshes are woven, to
aid those planning to produce lace, and to assist classifiers and
collectors in identifying laces. The book also contains a bibliography
and lace nomenclature in five languages.” (Nation)
* * * * *
“There is an increasing interest in lacemaking and lace collecting in
this country, and Miss Whiting’s thorough technical knowledge as
imparted in this book will do much to foster the movement.”
+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 280w
“The author has undertaken an arduous task, which she accomplishes
with seeming ease. The explanations are made yet more valuable by the
excellent photographs.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 380w
=WHITING, JOHN D.= Practical illustration; a guide for artists. il *$3
Harper 741
20–21999
The book deals with the problems peculiar to the work of the
illustrator and the commercial designer and proposes to acquaint him
with actual conditions in the publishing world. It is offered as a
textbook for the teacher of “applied art” and a guide to the student.
It is indexed and profusely illustrated—many of the plates in
color—and the contents are: Looking over the field; Pictorial art for
reproduction; Concerning illustrations; Concerning cover designs;
Concerning commercial designs; Filling “rush orders”; Mechanical
reproduction; Processes in color; Some concrete examples; The
published art of tomorrow.
=WHITLATCH, MARSHALL.= Golf; for beginners—and others. il *$2 (4c)
Macmillan 796
The author had disdained golf as a mollycoddle game but when he tried
it, it hit him hard. He spent much time—wasted it—copying the style of
professional experts, till he came to the conclusion that—barring a
few fundamentals—it is an individual game for which each player must
develop his own method. The object of the book is to call attention to
the fundamental principles that must be observed under every form or
method. The book is well illustrated and some of the chapter headings
are: Balance the foundation of golf; Getting the power into the ball;
Accuracy—not distance; Making the swing; Ease rather than effort; The
part the body plays; On the putting green.
* * * * *
“There is little advice in it which may not be found in other books of
its kind, but Mr Whitlatch has suited his instructions particularly to
the man who takes up golf in middle age with the handicap that his
years force upon him. The illustrations are rather more radical than
the text.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 1 ’20 390w
=WHITMAN, ROGER BRADBURY.=[2] Tractor principles. il *$2 Appleton 621.14
20–17311
Tractors are far from being as standardized as automobiles and there
are almost as many types and designs as there are tractor makers. A
man competent to handle and care for one type may be at a loss as to
how to handle another. The purpose of the book is to describe and
explain all the mechanisms in common use so that anyone may be able to
identify and understand the parts of any make. The contents are:
Tractor principles; Engine principles; Engine parts; Fuels and
carburetion; Carbureters; Ignition; Battery ignition systems;
Transmission; Tractor arrangement; Lubrication; Tractor operation;
Engine maintenance; Locating trouble; Causes of trouble. The book is
indexed and carefully illustrated.
=WHITMAN, WALT.=[2] Gathering of the forces. il 2v *$15 Putnam 814
The books contain the editorials, essays, literary and dramatic
reviews and other material written by Walt Whitman as editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. The editors of the collection
are Cleveland Rodgers and John Black, the latter contributing a
foreword, inspired by the spirit of Whitman, and the former a sketch
of Whitman’s life and work. The contents fall into seven parts with
classification of the articles as follows: Part 1—Democracy: American
democracy; Europe and America; Government; Patriotism. Part
2—Humanity: Hanging, prison reform, unfortunates; Education, children;
Labor, female labor; Emigrants; England’s oppression of Ireland. Part
3—Slavery and the Mexican war: The extension of slavery; The union of
states; War with Mexico; The Oregon boundary dispute. Part 4—Politics;
Political controversies; Two local political campaigns; Civic
interests; Free trade and the currency system. Part 5—Essays,
personalities, short editorials; General essays; Personalities of the
time; “The art of health”; Short editorials; Whitman as a paragrapher.
Part 6—Literature, book reviews, drama, etc. Part 7—Two short stories
not included in Whitman’s published works: The love of Eris; A legend
of life and love. The books are illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. F. Edgett
=Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 1550w
“To those who knew him only by his great and minor poems or by the
stories of his vanities and eccentricities, these volumes will be a
revelation. They reveal his soul as it grew; and nothing will be more
surprising than their conventional form, their respect for the current
conventions of morality, and their unforced and clear style.” M. F.
Egan
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 2 ’21 3000w
“It is a human document, a great side-light on Whitman’s poems, and
incidentally, a mine of information on a host of matters of temporary
and local interest.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 99:168 Ja 15 ’21 600w
=WHO= was who. *$6.50 Macmillan 920
(Eng ed 20–14622)
“This book fills the gap between the standard biographical
dictionaries and the current Who’s who. It contains the notices,
reprinted from former volumes of Who’s who, of those more or less
well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of
their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small
type.”—Spec
* * * * *
“There is no reason why ‘Who was who’ should not be a democratic work
instead of what it is now. There is even no reason why it should not
be readable. Accidental exclusion must always occur; deliberate ought
never. We commend to the editors the ‘Modern English biography’ of
Frederic Boase, as a model of hard fact, of brevity, and yet of
amplitude. At the same time, we recognize the greatness of their task
and the great usefulness (in the right quarter) of their volume.”
+ − =Ath= p79 Jl 16 ’20 280w
Reviewed by Ralph Bergengren
=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 2250w
+ − =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 370w
“As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the
more because many of the persons named will never figure in the
‘Dictionary of national biography’ if, as we hope, that great work
should be continued.”
+ =Spec= 124:88 Jl 17 ’20 90w
“Apart from its utility as an indispensable book of reference for the
man of affairs, ‘Who was who’ will remain as a permanent store house
of information about the personalities of one of the most important
and critical epochs of British history.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 220w
=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER).= Boardwalk. *$1.60
(3½c) Harcourt
20–773
Omitting all the rose-garden atmosphere of her novels, Margaret
Widdemer has written a series of short stories about boys and girls of
high school age. The scene is one of the summer resort towns along the
Atlantic coast during the months of the year when the boardwalk
belongs to the young people who live there the year round. The titles
are: Changeling; Rosabel Paradise; Don Andrews’ girl; Black magic; The
congregation; The fairyland heart; Good times; Oh, Mr Dreamman;
Devil’s hall.
* * * * *
“Clear cut, interesting little sketches into which the same people
step again and again until one knows quite the whole village.”
+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20
“We must admit of them all that they piece together with their small
tragedies and happinesses into what seems a very truthful
representation of an American town. Whether or not these stories meet
with the immediate popularity of ‘The rose garden husband,’ it must be
conceded that Miss Widdemer has done a more difficult thing and
revealed a more mature and a surer art.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 850w
“It is a sordid, tawdry, unwholesome atmosphere, the sort of
atmosphere that one would shun if the ideas back of the stories and
their psychology, for they are primarily stories of character, were
not really interesting. Is the skill with which it is done a
sufficient excuse for painting dead fish and tinsel?”
− + =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w
“Her delving into the substrata of inarticulate being is sometimes
faltering, and her presentation of the less obvious springs of human
emotion is not always convincing, but her distinct penchant for
transferring to paper the elusive quality of personality is
undeniable.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:145 Mr 28 ’20 650w
“On the whole, it is a strong and searching collection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 420w
=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER)=, comp. Haunted hour.
*$1.75 Harcourt 821.08
20–5609
The little volume presents an anthology of ghost-poems and contains
only such poems as treat of the return of spirits to earth. Even so no
attempt has been made at inclusiveness, but the selections range from
the earliest ballads to the present time. With an opening poem by Nora
Hopper Chesson: “The far away country,” the poems are arranged under
the headings: “The nicht atween the sancts an’ souls”; “All the little
sighing souls”; Shadowy heroes; “Rank on rank of ghostly soldiers”;
Sea ghosts; Cheerful spirits; Haunted places; “You know the old, while
I know the new”; “My love that was so true”; Shapes of doom; Legends
and ballads of the dead. There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 70w
“A most unusual anthology of real merit and charm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 120w
=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER).= I’ve married
Marjorie. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–13699
Married in haste, Marjorie Ellison has had ample leisure to repent
while her soldier husband has been away in France. Now on the eve of
his return she is badly upset at the thought of the reunion. When
Francis comes, it is as bad as she had feared. With the best
intentions on both sides, he frightens her, and she hurts him. Hot
tempers and strained nerves almost complete a tragedy of separation.
But Francis is really in love with Marjorie and so he ventures on an
experiment before giving her up entirely. In a delightful spot in the
Canadian woods, his scheme is tried out, a scheme which leads through
storm and stress to final joy and happiness for both.
* * * * *
“This will be liked by young girls and many women, though some readers
will find it light and sentimental.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
“Her theme in ‘I’ve married Marjorie’ is cut from the sheerest
gossamer material. Also it possesses all the old essential ingredients
of cuteness, wistful humor and the necessary serious touch that brings
the theme to a sweet conclusion. But there is a sparkling sanity about
it.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ag 22 ’20 550w
“A lively and amusing tale. Not a big book nor a provable story, but
agreeable ‘summer reading.’”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 80w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w
=WIENER, LEO.= Africa and the discovery of America. 2v ea $5 Innes &
sons 970
20–7013
The book is archaeological and etymological, showing how many of the
plants believed to have been indigenous to America, and how much of
the language and customs of the Indians, have an African origin.
Besides a long list of the sources quoted, illustrations, a word and a
subject index, the book contains: The journal of the first voyage and
the first letter of Columbus; The second voyage; Tobacco; The bread
roots.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate that one so well trained in this field of study
should not have undertaken to present his material in a more logical
and readable manner. He is not always convincing, and is often
dogmatic.” E. L. Stevenson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:102 O ’20 550w
“It is not to be expected that a work like this can pass unchallenged,
and the soundest of criticism and the most profound of scholarship
should be invoked before an exact estimate can be made of its value.
But the erudition displayed in this volume is enough to make us wait
with impatience Professor Wiener’s second volume.” G. H. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 13 ’20 1050w
“Worthless as a scholarly contribution, the book provides the
psychologist with a valuable example of distorted erudition and
methodological incompetence.”
− =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His book indicates the widest scholarship.” W. E. B. Du Bois
+ =Nation= 111:350 S 25 ’20 390w
=WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY.= Problems of law; its past, present, and future.
*$1.50 Scribner 340
20–26999
“Professor Wigmore discusses the law’s evolution, its mechanism in
America, and its problems as they relate to world legislation and
America’s share therein. These lectures constituted one series of the
Barbour-Page foundation lectures at the University of Virginia.” (N Y
Evening Post) “It is assumed by Dean Wigmore that a new age is at
hand, for which a considerable amount of new legislation will be
required, and in view of this fact he urges that our legislators must
be made experts ‘(1) by reducing their numbers, (2) by giving them
longer terms, (3) by paying them enough to justify it [that is,
apparently, the work of legislation] as a career for men of talent,
(4) by making their sessions continuous.’” (Review)
* * * * *
“Three clarifying lectures for the thoughtful layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
“Dean Wigmore demonstrates anew the wide range of his intellectual
rummaging and the queer quirks of his marvelous mind. The second
lecture on ‘Methods of law making’ is intelligible and sensible.”
+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 500w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 90w
Reviewed by E: S. Corwin
=Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 250w
=WILDE, OSCAR FINGALL O’FLAHERTIE WILLS.= Critic in Pall Mall. *$1.50
Putnam 824
(Eng ed A20–616)
A selection from the reviews and miscellaneous writings of Oscar Wilde
made by E. V. Lucas. The papers were contributed to the Irish Monthly,
Pall Mall Gazette, Woman’s World and other journals and date from 1877
to 1890. At the end under the heading Sententiæ Mr Lucas has grouped a
number of briefer extracts from other reviews.
* * * * *
“The extent to which Wilde was a deliberate poseur is made very clear
by this book, for here there is very little pose. In these reviews,
chiefly from the Pall Mall Gazette, we see Wilde as a critic with
strong common sense, general good taste and with an outlook on life
and literature sufficiently ordinary to be indistinguishable from that
of half-a-hundred other critics of his time and of ours.”
+ − =Ath= p1258 N 28 ’19 600w
“It has all his delights and all his superficialities and all his
faults.”
+ − =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 110w
“There is nothing especially characteristic about the collection
except, perhaps, a lightness of touch that distinguishes its contents
from the ordinary book-review, and while they reveal the delicacy of
Wilde’s taste and the sincerity of his delight in art and letters they
reveal his limitations, also, and the shallowness of his intellectual
draught.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 250w
“There is certainly no adequate reason why these forgotten writings of
Oscar Wilde should be sought out and set in order, and sent forth in a
seemly little tome of two hundred pages. Their resurrection does not
add anything to his reputation, nor does it detract anything. It does
not enlarge our knowledge of the writer or cast any new light upon the
character of the man.” Brander Matthews
− + =N Y Times= 25:69 F 8 ’20 3400w
“These modest criticisms impress one collectively as good-natured,
orthodox, and sensible. Its art vibrates between distinction and
mediocrity—which is another way of saying that it is undistinguished.”
+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 330w
“Collections of this kind usually do no honour to their author. But in
this case the result is a contribution to literature; in the first
place, because the selection has been made by Mr E. V. Lucas, and in
the second place, because it illustrates not only Wilde’s gift for
perverse banter, but also his genuine scholarship and his ability to
perform plain, downright work in an honest, craftsmanlike way.”
+ =Spec= 124:492 Ap 10 ’20 1450w
“These chapters are slight, but they are models of literary criticism
of the less formal and serious type. Apart from style their
superiority over the contemporary causerie lies chiefly, perhaps, in
the cultivated background that they denote in the writer and
presuppose in the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 10 ’20 800w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p605 O 30 ’19 1350w
=WILDMAN, EDWIN.= Famous leaders of industry. il *$2 (3c) Page 926
20–3587
This is a book for boys about boys who have gained success, wealth,
honor, and prestige in the business world. It contains more than
twenty-six sketches of successful men, among them: Philip Danforth
Armour—California pioneer and Chicago packing king; P. T. Barnum—the
world’s greatest showman; Alexander Graham Bell—immortal telephone
inventor, and humanitarian; James Buchanan Duke—American tobacco and
cigarette king; Henry Ford—the Aladdin of the automobile industry;
Hudson Maxim—poet, philosopher, and wizard of high explosives; John
Davison Rockefeller,—oil king and world’s greatest industrial leader;
John Wanamaker—America’s foremost retail merchant and originator of
the department store; Orville and Wilbur Wright—who achieved immortal
fame as airship inventors. A portrait accompanies each sketch.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:317 Je ’20
“In these conventionally laudatory portraits of a group of American
inventors and business men there is no departure from the old Sunday
school type of ‘helpful’ stories for the young except in a decided
journalistic snappiness of style.” E. S.
+ =Survey= 44:323 My 29 ’20 140w
=WILKINSON, MRS MARGUERITE OGDEN (BIGELOW).= Bluestone. *$1.50 Macmillan
811
20–11184
A volume of lyrics. In her preface the author touches on the relation
of lyric poetry to music as she employs it in the composition of her
poems. Contents: Bluestone; Songs from beside swift rivers; Songs of
poverty; Preferences; Love songs; Songs of an empty house; Songs of
laughter and tears; Whims for poets; California poems; The pageant.
* * * * *
“Songs with a wide appeal because they are mostly ‘themes of the
folk.’ The appreciation of nature and outdoor feeling are keen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“There is an undoubted poetic element in these poems of Mrs Wilkinson,
but it is dew rather than flame. And being excellently even in
craftsmanship, there is no poem that fails to satisfy the reader’s
interest in being what it is.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 1050w
“Marguerite Wilkinson has decided moral and metrical spring without
conspicuous originality; though she is deeply touching here in Songs
of an empty house, on the childless state.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“Mrs Wilkinson undoubtedly possesses a deal of talent; it is evident
throughout her work, cropping out in felicitous stanzas here and
rhythmical lines there, but she allows an occasional triteness to
retard the success of the book as a whole.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 590w
=Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 560w
=WILLARD, FLORENCE, and GILLETT, LUCY HOLCOMB.=[2] Dietetics for high
schools. il *$1.32 Macmillan 613.2
20–12948
“Home economics teachers will be interested to learn that a much
needed textbook of dietetics has recently appeared. The content of the
book is especially significant in view of the experience of both
authors as teachers of the subject and of one of them as worker with
actual problems of malnutrition and of family feeding on low incomes
in the Association for improving the condition of the poor. The book
starts with a comparison of the weights and heights of the girls in
the class with the standards for their ages. Following this is a study
of food values as to fuel, protein, mineral, vitamines, and the
requirements of a good diet. Following the general study of the basis
for planning meals, the authors make an interesting and concrete
section of the book by selecting a family containing children of
various ages and discussing the marketing problems of this family. The
high-school girl thus makes application of her earlier nutrition study
to actual food purchase for the family’s need.”—School R
* * * * *
“This book is a distinct contribution to the very small group of
elementary textbooks in nutrition. The work is accurate and
up-to-date. The points are supported and illustrated by suitable
tables and charts in such number as to constitute a unique feature of
a beginner’s book in nutrition. One specially commendable feature is
the fact that it may be used quite as appropriately as a textbook for
boys as for girls.” M. S. Rose
+ =J Home Econ= 12:513 N ’20 300w
“A splendid and thoroughly scientific body of material makes the book
a well-rounded and teachable text.”
+ =School R= 28:798 D ’20 360w
=WILLIAMS, ARIADNA TYRKOVA- (MRS HAROLD WILLIAMS).= From liberty to
Brest-Litovsk. *$6 Macmillan 947
19–18461
“This is a narrative of events from the first uprisings of the
revolution in March, 1917, to the ratification of the peace with
Germany a year later. Herself a member of the Petrograd municipal
council and the Moscow conference, Mrs Williams has described in
detail the cabinet crises and political vicissitudes of the
provisional government and the steady trend of the socialist center
toward bolshevism. Less complete is her account of the first months of
the bolshevist régime and its negotiations with Germany at
Brest-Litovsk.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 220w
“Although the book is emotionally coloured with righteous anger and
hatred towards the Bolsheviks, we cannot but welcome it as an honest
attempt to narrate the history of the first year of the Russian
revolution.” S. K.
+ − =Ath= p1367 D 19 ’19 1100w
“The facts here recorded will be most impressive to all who keep even
an approximately open mind on the Russian question.”
+ − =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 150w
“She might have made her book a skilful and telling arraignment of her
political opponents if she could have restrained her quite
intelligible hatred and indignation. She betrays her prejudice and
weakens her case most seriously in loading on the Bolsheviki the blame
for all that Russia has suffered since the beginning of the
revolution.” Jacob Zeitlin
− + =Nation= 110:399 Mr 27 ’20 360w
“When we had finished this long book of Mrs Harold Williams, we asked
ourselves why it left us with the taste of the dust of Dead Sea
apples. The answer is, we believe, that nothing is so barren as
perpetual denunciation. Only a political controversialist could be
quite so self-blind as Mrs Williams.”
− =Nation [London]= 26:402 D 13 ’19 700w
“This book may be recommended as a storehouse of facts, and it is to
be hoped that the author will in due course produce another volume,
bringing the story down from Brest-Litovsk to the present day.”
+ =Sat R= 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 540w
“She shows an intimate knowledge of the political convulsions of 1917,
and she describes them in a clear and forcible style. The dominant
note of the book is amazement that the Russian people, with their many
good qualities, could have allowed themselves to be dominated by a
gang of scoundrels.”
+ =Spec= 123:579 N 1 ’19 1450w
“Partisan and patriot Mrs Williams is, and the reader will not find in
her description of the storm-tossed waters of the revolution any clear
perception of its deeper currents. But the reader will find in her
book a useful chronicle of events and an interesting and vivid
representation of the political kaleidoscope and of the opinion of no
small part of the Russian intelligentsia during that momentous year.”
Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“A connected account of the first phase of the Russian revolution has
been badly needed. Mrs Williams has a clear picture in her own mind of
what led to Bolshevism, and her main theme is easy to trace throughout
the book. In these days, when many English liberals join in the
foolish denunciation of nearly all Russian liberals as
counter-revolutionaries without examining the positive side of their
policy, it is useful to see the aims and policy of the provisional
government clearly and sympathetically restated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p618 N 6 ’19 1000w
=WILLIAMS, BEN AMES.= Great accident. *$2 (1½c) Macmillan
20–5226
This is a story of American provincial politics and of education gone
wrong. The way Winthrop Chase, junior, had been brought up by a well
meaning father and mother had brought out strongly the negative side
of his character. He always did the thing he was told not to do and
was fast becoming a drunkard. Shrewd old Ames Caretall, congressman,
returns from Washington just as a mayoral election is coming on. He
resolves to take a gambler’s chance with young Wint and uses his
influence to have him elected mayor over the head of Wint’s own
father. How the “joke” does the trick, knocks manhood into Wint, and
develops him into a sober, unusually decent, honorable and lovable
character is the burden of the story.
* * * * *
“This town and its inhabitants stand out with remarkable clearness,
and it is well worth while for English men and women to read of it.
They will see for themselves how different is their country from that
huge one which speaks the same language.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p16 Ja 7 ’21 1300w
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“This is a capital story. There are a number of well-drawn subsidiary
personages, making the life of the small town vivid and often amusing.
Its atmosphere is distinctive and typical.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 650w
=Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 110w
“It is a perfectly good idea and the characters are interesting
enough, but the author seems to be a little bit tired; it all needs to
be keyed up to a higher pitch.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It will go far toward dispelling in the average reader’s mind the
illusion that a realistic presentation of American life must
necessarily be dull, morbid and unduly sophisticated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 600w
“The merit of the tale lies in its portrayal of small town life, of
the men who control or try to control the political destinies of the
friendly little town of Hardiston, and in an easy and agreeable
style.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 400w
“Two romances and a broad vein of humor balance the political
narrative, making an entertaining if rather unlifelike American tale.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w
=WILLIAMS, GAIL.= Fear not the crossing. $1.25 (9c) Clode, E. J. 134
20–1895
A series of spirit communications given to the author through
automatic handwriting by the spirit of a man who had but recently
died, and who found it at first very difficult to adjust himself to
conditions on the other side. The messages are given from day to day,
and describe the life beyond death, its great beauty, satisfying joy,
its boundless service for others, and its superiority to our
flesh-bound existence. Advice is given too for our greater serenity of
the spirit while still in the flesh. Think of God, pray to Him, in
order that His power may radiate through you, and enable you to do the
tasks assigned to you, is the advice frequently repeated by this
spirit control. He speaks often of love as the most beautiful earthly
force. A new note in this book is its description of the temporary
agony of the soul newly awakening “on the other side of death.”
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“The just complaint that most spirit revelations are of such trivial
and childish nature, finds no grounds here, as the matters treated are
all of large and worthy import.” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:610 F 21 ’20 360w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 90w
=WILLIAMS, HENRY SMITH.= Witness of the sun. il *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday.
20–16495
When John Theobold is killed in his office, some one has to be found
to fasten the murder to, as is usual in such cases. The guilty man
seems to be Señor Cortez, a fiery Brazilian, jealous of Theobold’s
interest in his wife, with Frank Crosby, the murdered man’s private
secretary, as his accomplice. The case comes to trial, and the counsel
for the defense springs a surprise. With the aid of Jack Henley, a
bright office boy with an interest in photography, he presents proof,
substantiated by actual pictures taken on the spot, showing that
Cortez and Crosby could not have committed the crime, and who did and
why. But all surprises are not yet over: the counsel for the defense
learns that no amount of circumstantial evidence ever proves anything,
it only shows that things might have happened in a certain way, but
they might also have happened in some other way, and in this case they
did.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 130w
“The plot and its solution evince striking ingenuity on the part of Mr
Williams.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 200w
=WILLIAMS, JAMES MICKEL.=[2] Foundations of social science. *$6 Knopf
301
The book is an analysis of the psychological aspects of the social
sciences and emphasizes the vital relation of social psychology to the
other social sciences, pointing out how the advancement of the latter
is dependent on the development of the former. Although the
assumptions of social science are in their last analysis, all resting
on human nature, they have relied too much on the traditional social
relations and have failed to discriminate between “a motive that is
essential in traditional political relations, or in traditional
economic relations and one that is essential in human nature.” Also
they have allowed mass phenomena to obscure the individual and have
lost sight of the fact that only through the operation of certain
instinctive dispositions of individuals do they act as groups. The
volume falls into four parts: Social psychology and political science;
Social psychology and jurisprudence; Social psychology as related to
economics, history and sociology; The field and methods of social
psychology. Appended is a partial list of the books, documents and
articles referred to in the text, and an index of subjects.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 840w
=WILLIAMS, JENNIE B.= Us two cook book, rev and enl ed *$1.50 Harper
641.5
In this cook book “every recipe has been carefully estimated and
tested—the ingredients reduced so as to supply the requirements of
two.” (Preface) Contents: Soups; Fish; Meats; Poultry and game;
Entrees; Vegetables; Eggs; Beverages; Breads, cakes, etc.; Desserts;
Fruits, pickles and sauces; Miscellaneous. Tables for cooking and
measuring come at the end. There is no index. The book was copyrighted
in Canada in 1916.
=WILLIAMS, LLEWELLYN W.= Making of modern Wales. *$2.25 Macmillan 942.9
“The recorder of Cardiff, in this well-organized, well-documented, and
well-indexed treatise, studies the processes, legal, political, and
social, by which mediæval was transformed into modern Wales. He
devotes much space to the story of Catholicism in Wales after the
reformation, and to an account of the Courts of great session—subjects
on which far less has been written than on the council of the Marches,
the history of Welsh nonconformity, and other main topics. His last
chapter deals with the bilingual problem.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 90w
=Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 280w
“The author’s chapter on the Great sessions, which were abolished in
1830, is the best account of them that has yet been written.”
+ =Spec= 122:48 Ja 10 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 70w
“The solid value of Mr Williams’s researches arouses gratitude and
deep respect. We should, however, describe his work as research of the
second—the organizing stage, chiefly—rather than of the first stage.
The chapter on the reformation is extremely interesting. The chapter
on the Welsh Catholics is the most picturesque and attractive in the
book, and probably contains the most generally unfamiliar information.
The most workmanlike and most original chapter is that on the king’s
Court of great sessions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p625 N 6 ’19 1400w
=WILLIAMS, SIDNEY CLARK.= Unconscious crusader. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–4708
This is a story of present-day journalism and of James Radbourne, who
started as reporter on a daily paper and ended as proprietor of one.
All the ups and downs of a newspaper career, all the rivalries and
jealousies between staff and managers of different papers come out in
the story and how James Radbourne took the straight course until he
won out and made himself a name for honest journalism. He did not know
that some one was watching this course, but when she was satisfied
that it was the right one she came and asked for a job. It was
“Miladi.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20
“When we turn from the world of business and politics to that of
romance the atmosphere is clean and fresh. The setting for the romance
is deliciously funny.” G. L. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 400w
“‘An unconscious crusader’ will hardly set the world aflame, yet it is
readable and affords a glimpse of the inside workings of a newspaper
office.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 420w
“An attempt, not wholly successful, is made to weave in a love story,
or rather an alleged one. It detracts from the interest of the story,
rather than adds to it.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 340w
=WILLIAMS, WAYLAND WELLS.= Goshen street. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes
20–17177
Goshen street is a New England country road. David Galt, who is born
on a Goshen street farm, is given an education thru the benevolence of
a millionaire who makes a hobby of sending poor and promising boys to
college. He goes into journalism afterwards and rises high in his
profession, but Goshen street always remains an influence in his life.
It is Sylvia Thornton who first brings David to her father’s attention
and as he continues to make his way up in the world David holds to the
intention of marrying Sylvia, but instead he marries Naomi Fiske. The
war comes, David is first a correspondent, then a soldier. Naomi dies
of influenza while nursing in France and after the war David and
Sylvia again meet in Goshen street.
* * * * *
“Interesting, well written, a truthful picture of Connecticut farm
people.”
+ =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Although the scenes in New York are interesting, and although David’s
wife Sylvia is an artistic triumph, particularly because she is so
difficult, it is Goshen street itself, David’s ancestral home, and his
father, mother and brother, to which my memory returns most fondly.
The descriptions of the street are admirable examples of English
style. This book has such fine quality that it sharpens one’s appetite
for the next.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 330w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 130w
=WILLIAMS, WHITING.= What’s on the worker’s mind. il *$2.50 Scribner
331.8
20–17086
“Mr Williams was a prominent official in a large steel fabricating
concern. He wished to fit himself for the position of employment
manager, and thought it a part of his preparation to find out what it
was like to be a workman. Therefore he left home with a few dollars in
his pocket and looked for a job. This is the story of his adventures
in a basic steel plant, a rolling mill, a coal mine, an oil refinery,
a shipyard, and other resorts of toil.”—Nation
* * * * *
“Reveals without bitterness or antagonizing radicalism the
unsatisfactory lives of the workers. Vivid and worth while, but will
not be popular.”
+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
Reviewed by Harold Waldo
+ =Bookm= 52:556 F ’21 640w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 390w
“An unusual and interesting book.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 D ’20 30w
“As a first-hand account of actual working and living-conditions in
the great basic industries, Mr Williams’s ‘What’s on the worker’s
mind’ is of considerable value for the author is an excellent
reporter. But as an analysis of what the worker is actually thinking
and doing about his problems, and in so far as it proposes solution
for these problems, the book falls far short of its mark.” W: Z.
Foster
+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 880w
“The narrative of his adventures is of extraordinary interest and his
conclusions are worth attention.”
+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 100w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 650w
“Short as the book’s economic perspective is, its central contribution
remains intact; its psychological analysis is penetrating and
original. Its educational value can be literally tremendous.” Ordway
Tead
+ − =New Repub= 25:266 Ja 26 ’21 1500w
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Not only are the observations obviously timely, but they have a force
that results from their having been derived from actual experience.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 1150w
=WILLIAMS-ELLIS, CLOUGH, and WILLIAMS-ELLIS, A.= Tank corps; with an
introd. by H. J. Elles. il *$5 (4½c) Doran 940.4
20–3588
Major-General Ellis commander of the tank corps, in his introduction
to the volume, calls attention to the “difficulties of dealing
concisely, even by comment, with the kaleidoscopic events of two and a
half crowded years—with the questions of organisation, training,
personnel, design, supply, fighting, reorganisation, workshops,
experiments, salvage, transportation, maintenance.” This states in a
nutshell the enormous problem solved by the tank in its rapid and
forced evolution while the war was in process. The first chapter is
intended for the civilian who, thanks to the censorship, “has had no
opportunity of making himself familiar with the tactical opportunities
and problems that the use of tanks has introduced or with the
conditions under which tank crews fight.” It contains several plans
and diagrams showing the general arrangement and construction of this
formidable machine. There are other illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Ath= p64 Ja 9 ’20 90w
“Excellent and well illustrated book.”
+ =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 630w
“The tank corps was one of the miracles of the war, and its history
was bound to be one of the best romances. It is good to have the full
story told so soon and by such competent chroniclers. The authors give
us all the technical information that is needed, and at the same time
they fit the achievement of the tank corps into the great movements of
the campaign. The style is never for a moment ponderous or dull.” J:
Buchan
+ =Spec= 123:691 N 22 ’19 2100w
“A vivid military treatise.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 600w
“A confused collection of details instead of a coherent story. The
confusion is not helped by the absence of maps. The book is a
disappointment; but no mistakes can entirely rob of their interest the
first full accounts that have been published of the terrible struggles
of the tanks in the Flanders mud during the third battle of Ypres.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 850w
=WILLIAMSON, CHARLES NORRIS, and WILLIAMSON, ALICE MURIEL (LIVINGSTON)
(MRS CHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON).= Second latchkey. il *$1.60 (2c)
Doubleday
20–7290
Annesley Grayle meets the man who calls himself Nelson Smith under
romantic circumstances and marries him without knowing his real name
or anything about him. As paid companion to a crabbed old lady she has
found life dreary and colorless. He brings love and joy into it and
she adores him and asks no questions. Shortly after it becomes
apparent to the reader that the man is a very clever jewel thief. The
heroine however is slower witted and when the truth is forced home to
her she is crushed and believes her love dead. There follows a period
of estrangement and penitence spent on the hero’s ranch in Texas,
followed by reconciliation.
* * * * *
“A tale of plot, whose surprises and thrills are never balked by the
improbable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“The Williamsons have succeeded in concentrating our entire interest
in their plot, and though—as is natural in this type of story—we
should not be likely to read the book a second time, it is equally
likely that we should be inclined to read the next Williamson book
upon the recommendation of this.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w
“The authors have not allowed a trifle like probability to stand in
their way, but the tale holds the reader’s interest, and Annesley is a
charming heroine. Smoothly and pleasantly written, ‘The second
latchkey’ is an agreeable and an entertaining romance of things as
they are not.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 500w
=WILLIS, GEORGE.= Philosophy of speech. *$2.50 Macmillan 404
(Eng ed 20–17996)
“Mr Willis’s book is not so much a connected system of philosophy as a
series of thoughts on various subjects connected with the faculty of
speech. Beginning with a discussion of the origins of speech, he goes
on to show the connection of the history of speech with the history of
thought; he devotes a chapter to metaphor, another to grammar, another
to the question of spelling and spelling reform, others to purism and
correct speech, and a final section to speech and education.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 130w
“One does not always agree with Mr Willis, but one can never find him
anything but very entertaining and stimulating.”
+ − =Ath= p601 My 7 ’20 600w
“This is, indeed, a strange book. It seems to be a survival from the
linguistic dark ages. The author does not disclose any intimacy with
Anglo-Saxon, with Gothic or with old high English, nor does he show
any scholarship in comparative philology.” Brander Matthews
− =N Y Times= 25:24 Je 27 ’20 2500w
“The present writer has not for years come across a book in which
highly disputable assertions were mixed up with facts with such
complete impartiality. Nothing could be more admirable than the
author’s attack upon the ordinary grammar-books, and his exposition of
the causes which have led to the extraordinary muddle-headedness of
these compilations.”
+ − =Spec= 124:523 Ap 17 ’20 780w
=WILLOUGHBY, D.= About it and about. *$5 Dutton 824
(Eng ed 20–10519)
“These essays, most of which appeared in Everyman, consist of comment
on questions of the day, written from a ‘moderate’ point of view.”
(Ath My 21 ’20) “Roughly speaking, Mr Willoughby touches on all the
burning or still glowing topics of the day, on peace and war, on
housing, on labour, on Ireland, on servants civil and domestic, and
many other more or less immediate doubts and difficulties.” (Ath Je 11
’20)
* * * * *
“Readably and brightly written.”
+ =Ath= p686 My 21 ’20 40w
“The rational good-humor characteristic of the book, a really precious
quality at this time, naturally brims over in laughter, spontaneous
and frequent enough to convey to the reader a feeling of expectant
animation. Occasionally, the easy note of mirth has been forced.” F.
W. S.
+ − =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 640w
“A witty, animated, keen-sighted, judicious and mature product of
journalism. Informing and revealing sentences abound.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 1 ’20 660w
“The author is implicit in it—‘his vaunts, his feats.’ He is often
amusing. Mr Willoughby’s detachment is aloofness; from his Olympian
height he scans the depths—or would if the depths were not shallows.
His knowledge, however, does not come of patient observation, but from
the study of the authorities.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 My 13 ’20 630w
=WILLOUGHBY, WESTEL WOODBURY.= Foreign rights and interests in China. $6
Johns Hopkins 327
20–8714
“Professor Willoughby, of the Johns Hopkins university, served as
legal adviser to the Chinese republic during the war. He has used his
special knowledge to compile a statement of the rights conferred by
treaties or agreements of an official character upon foreigners and
foreign powers in China. As he says, the situation is ‘complicated in
the extreme,’ for China permits all kinds of extra-territorial rights
and suffers ‘spheres of interest, “special interests,” war zones,
leased territories, treaty ports, concessions, settlements and
legation quarters’ to infringe on her sovereignty, to say nothing of
commercial concessions and revenue services under foreign
control.”—Spec
* * * * *
“As a work of reference the volume may be highly commended.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:138 O ’20 500w
“His explanations and comments are thorough-going and illuminating.
They are never wearisome, as legal discussions sometimes are.” E. B.
Drew
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:727 N ’20 500w
“It has a quality that renders it easily read from beginning to end.
This happy issue must be ascribed in due degree to the author’s
admirable style and control of his material; but while the book is a
model of what a thesis should be, it possesses, besides its usefulness
as a work of reference, a human interest that is altogether
compelling.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 111:sup421 O 13 ’20 1100w
+ =Spec= 124:767 Je 5 ’20 210w
“The work is well done and is an addition of permanent value to the
literature on the Far East.” W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=WILSON, CAROLYN CROSBY.=[2] Fir trees and fireflies. *$1.75 Putnam 811
Poems on varied themes. Among the titles are: Mid winter; The
patchwork quilt; Houseless; On the arrogance of lovers; Roads;
December; Two songs for my child; Late March. These miscellaneous
verses are followed by a series of love sonnets. Some of the pieces
are reprinted from Vanity Fair, New Republic, Pagan and Vassar
Miscellany.
* * * * *
“There is a certain nicety of phrasing, evenness and melody of line
that raises them out of the ordinary and yet they are by no means
pallid bits. Throughout, there is upon these poems, some greater, some
less, the unmistakable hallmark of distinction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“At its best Miss Wilson’s verse has a tight-lipped irony about it; or
it may even develop into humor that is broad but never blatant. At its
worst her poetry is quite a different matter; without ever being badly
written, it is pompously and conventionally emotional.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 80w
=WILSON, EDWIN BIDWELL.= Aeronautics. il *$4 Wiley 629.1
20–4713
“The introduction to the book includes the ideas underlying simple
flight and the aerodynamics of aerofoils. In the chapter on ‘Motion in
two dimensions’ are collected with proofs the fundamental theorems in
dynamics. The principles are carried step by step to the consideration
of stability, and are then illustrated by example. The study of motion
in three dimensions is committed to a following chapter. The last
chapter in the section devoted to rigid dynamics applies the equations
developed to the stability of the aeroplane. The rest of the book is
devoted to ‘Fluid mechanics.’”—Nature
* * * * *
“It is very clearly written, and will be particularly valuable to
advanced students of the subject for many reasons. On the other hand,
it will not appeal strongly to the less advanced worker.”
+ =Nature= 106:173 O 7 ’20 600w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ja ’20 50w
=WILSON, MRS MARY A.= Mrs Wilson’s cook book. *$2.50 Lippincott 641.5
20–17378
According to the title page the author was “formerly Queen Victoria’s
cuisiniere,” as well as instructor in domestic science in the
University of Virginia summer school and for the United States navy.
The present volume contains her best recipes, set forth, as she says,
not in the heavy cook book style, but in a more intimate manner “as if
housewife and author were conversing upon the dish in question.” The
recipes follow one another without arrangement or order but an index
provides a guide to the contents.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 130w
=WILSON, MAY (ANISON NORTH, pseud.).= Forging of the pikes. *$1.90 (1½c)
Doran
20–4710
The pikes are forged for the rebels of the Upper Canadian rebellion of
1837. The hero Alan’s sympathies are with the rebels the while his
whole being is in the toils of his love for Barry. Barbara Deveril,
the supposed daughter of the tavern-keeper is Indian in appearance and
in her love for the forest and Indian traditions. She is Alan’s
“Oogenebahgooquay”—the wild rose woman. One day, soon after the
appearance of a dazzlingly handsome stranger, an Englishman, she
disappears from the woods and the countryside, leaving Alan with his
grief and his suspicion. While the rebellion and its dangers, and a
brief sojourn in Toronto engage Alan, Barry is living through her
short and sorrowful romance as the Indian-wed wife of the handsome
Englishman. But they were meant for each other and the sick,
disillusioned and widowed Barry finds herself still linked to life by
her love for Alan.
* * * * *
“The description of country life, of the woods and of nature is vivid.
The historical portions, on the other hand, are unsatisfactory.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 My 1 ’20 380w
“The story part of the book is an entirely secondary affair,
conventional and not particularly interesting. To the average American
reader the best of the tale will be the picture it gives of Canadian
life at the time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 280w
“The style is flowing and simple and has an agreeable if not strictly
synchronous flavor of Pepys.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 160w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 140w
=WILSON, PHILIP WHITWELL.= Irish case before the court of public
opinion. il *$1.25 Revell 941.5
20–12207
“Mr P. Whitwell Wilson, who has more than once written for this Review
and who is now living in the United States as a special correspondent
of the London Dally News, has produced for American readers a little
volume entitled ‘The Irish case before the court of public opinion.’
Mr Wilson was formerly a Liberal member of Parliament and also for a
number of years worked in harmony with men like the late Mr Redmond
and the other nationalist leaders. Mr Wilson, however, is wholly
opposed to the present Sinn Fein movement for a separate Irish
republic, and he undertakes in this book to show how, one after
another, the real grievances of Ireland have been remedied.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Whether one agrees with Mr Wilson or not, one cannot help admiring
his extremely lucid and convincing defence of Great Britain’s Irish
policy. Partisan it is, but books on the Irish question have a
tendency to be strongly pro-Irish or pro-English, and Mr Wilson sets
forth his case in a very tolerant manner.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 200w
“It is almost unbelievable that any competent journalist who
undertakes to discuss Sinn Fein should be still ignorant of the
meaning of those two words, yet that is the plight of Mr Wilson. Since
he has not yet discovered the meaning of two simple words now
universally familiar to every newspaper reader, it is not surprising
that his references to the financial relations of Ireland and England
teem with incredible misstatements.” E. A. Boyd
− =Freeman= 1:547 Ag 18 ’20 1650w
“A remarkably fair-minded and adequate summary of the reasons for
viewing with distrust the Sinn Fein propaganda.”
+ =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w
“Whether or not one agrees with the conclusions presented by Mr P.
Whitwell Wilson, one must appreciate the good temper and moderation
with which he argues.”
+ − =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 400w
=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w
“His book is valuable from the standpoint of its convenient recital of
recent political history in relation to Ireland, and should have a
wide reading.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 240w
=WILSON, THEODORE PERCIVAL CAMERON.=[2] Waste paper philosophy; with an
introd. by Robert Norwood. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–20440
The author of these papers and poems had been a schoolmaster before
his enlistment in 1914. He was killed in 1918. Waste paper philosophy,
part I of the book, is composed of short prose essays written for his
son. Part 2 contains his poems, the first of which, Magpies in
Picardy, was printed in the Literary Digest in February, 1917.
* * * * *
“Among the many poems inspired by the late war, ‘Magpies in Picardy’
has stood out as one of the very best. To every schoolboy in our land
should a copy of ‘Waste paper philosophy’ be given. One closes the
little book tenderly, for here is the record of a rare spirit.” C. K.
H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 800w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 200w
=WILSON, WOODROW.= Hope of the world. *$1 (2c) Harper 353
20–13562
This volume of speeches continues the series that began with “Why we
are at war.” It contains “Messages and addresses delivered by the
president between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, including
selections from his countrywide speeches in behalf of the treaty and
covenant.” In making the selection from the addresses on the peace
treaty and the League of nations the aim has been to avoid repetition
and to present “the more cogent and significant portions of Mr
Wilson’s appeal to the public.” Among the state papers are included
the message on the high cost of living, letter to the national
industrial conference, appeal to the coal miners, and message to the
new Congress.
* * * * *
“Nearly all have in greater or less degree the characteristic merits
with which we have become familiar, and the title chosen for the
collection hits very well the note of earnest, almost wistful,
conviction that gives impressiveness and driving force to practically
everything that President Wilson has said. There is much material here
for reflection, and it is presented with the lucidity and grace that
we have learned to respect.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 150w
=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Science and morals. *$2.75 Kenedy
215
“Sir Bertram Windle, the distinguished Roman Catholic scientist, now
professor of anthropology in St Michael’s college, Toronto, collects
here (with some revision) nine essays which he has contributed to the
Dublin Review, the Catholic World, America and Studies. Apart from the
title essay he writes on Theophobia and Nemesis; on the narrowness of
the strictly scientific, especially the biological view (Within and
without the system); on the relation of the Roman church to science
(Science in ‘bondage’); Science and the war; Heredity and
‘arrangement’; Special creation; Catholic writers and spontaneous
generation; and he reviews Mr F. H. Osborn’s ‘The origin and evolution
of life.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 50w
“This is worth while and very much worth while. It is worth while as a
readable and popularly rendered contribution to apologetical
literature; it is very much worth while because it is a contribution
from a recognized scientist on a subject of wide scientific
consequence.”
+ =Cath World= 111:253 My ’20 360w
=Int J Ethics= 31:120 O ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
=WISE, JENNINGS CROPPER.= Turn of the tide. *$1.50 (3c) Holt 940.373
20–4806
Cantigny, Château Thierry, and the second battle of the Marne are the
three operations in which the American troops made their initial
appearance in battle in the great war and which mark the transition of
the Allies from the defensive to the offensive and the turn of the
tide of victory in their favor. The author was a member of the
Historical section of the General staff of the American expeditionary
force for a number of months after the armistice, had access to the
archives at General headquarters, came in contact with many of the
leaders of the war and visited and made a careful study of every
battlefield of which he writes. The three battles are the subjects of
the three chapters of the book which also has a number of maps and
appendices.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 150w
=WISTER, OWEN.= Straight deal; or, The ancient grudge. *$2 (2c)
Macmillan 327
20–7009
The ancient grudge is the American feeling of ill-will toward England.
This anti-English prejudice is explained by the author as a “complex”
founded on false history teaching in childhood and fostered by Great
Britain’s enemies. He reviews the history of our relations with
England from the revolution down and says in conclusion: “In this
many-peopled world England is our nearest relation. From Bonaparte to
the Kaiser, never has she allowed any outsider to harm us. We are her
cub. She has often clawed us, and we have clawed her in return.... Her
good treatment of us has been to her own interest.... If we were so
far-seeing as she is, we also should know that her good will is
equally important to us.”
* * * * *
“Mr Wister’s purpose in his new book commands our sympathies. He has
good intentions, but he is just a shade too friendly. He presses our
hand a little too enthusiastically.”
− + =Ath= p825 Je 25 ’20 730w
=Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“Mr Wister is too good a writer of fiction to be quite satisfactory as
a historian. He relies too much upon imagination and invention; he
deals with historic personages as though they were characters in a
novel, to be managed as the requirements of the plot dictate. The fact
is that this book of Mr Wister’s, like his earlier ‘Pentecost of
calamity,’ is a product of war psychology. It is a case of off with
the old hate, on with the new.” R. L. Schuyler
− =Bookm= 51:566 Jl ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“Hysterical and rather silly book. To put it bluntly, Mr Wister has
far to go before he recovers from the panic psychology of the war. Mr
Wister is the victim of economic innocence and of a sincere
admiration, which does him credit, for English civilization.” H. S.
− + =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 900w
“Makes many true and effective points, but is a little exclusive in
its attitude towards nations outside the frontiers of Anglo-Saxondom.”
+ − =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w
“Mr Wister’s frivolity and fatuity are basic. He has his grip on the
facts of Anglo-American history. In this region he escapes being a
jingo and, what is more, he escapes being a toady, at least nine times
out of ten. But once he tries to grip the facts of the world, outside
Anglo-America, he is dangerously sentimental and at sea.” F. H.
− =New Repub= 22:319 My 5 ’20 1250w
“His is not a calm judicial mind; he is very much a partisan and a
fighter. His vehemence now and then runs to the choler of the elderly
man who dogmatizes angrily from his club window. Apropos of America’s
attitude toward England, we learn the writer’s opinion of Roosevelt,
of Secretary Daniels, of Admiral Sims, and so on. I for one regret his
occasional fling of cynicism.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 1150w
“Mr Owen Wister has written a good book; and in writing it he has done
a good deed. Mr Wister knows the English at home and abroad; he is an
American of the Americans, but he is a grandson of Fanny Kemble and he
has both relatives and relations in England. He is therefore unusually
well equipped to discuss the social usages and the national
peculiarities of the two countries.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 2300w
“A very readable book. We do not agree with him, or with the
politicians and the press men, in thinking that friendship can be
ensured by books, and speeches, and leading articles.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:404 My 1 ’20 1550w
“Unfortunately, the book will not attain its end. For this Mr Wister
is himself to blame. Much of the work is trivial arguments. It will
not be any better to write our history with deliberate sympathies than
with deliberate antipathies.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 550w
=WITHAM, GEORGE STRONG.= Modern pulp and paper making; a practical
treatise. il $6 Chemical catalog co., 1 Madison av., N.Y. 676
20–19275
The author has had thirty-seven years’ practical experience in the
pulp and paper industry. He is now manager of mills for the Union bag
and paper corporation, Hudson Falls, N.Y. His aim in this book has
been “to describe the equipment and processes actually used in pulp
and paper plants on this continent today.... No attempt has been made
to describe every piece of equipment ever used in the industry.
Neither has the author attempted to deal with the historical aspect.
Also, while recognizing the great importance of chemistry in
connection with papermaking, no chemical considerations have been
introduced which would not readily be comprehended by one with no
special knowledge of that science.” (Preface) Contents: Processes by
which pulp is produced; Materials from which pulp is produced;
Varieties of paper; The saw mill; The wood room; The sulphite mill;
The acid plant; The soda process; The sulphate process; The ground
wood mill; Bleaching; The beater room; The machine room; The finishing
room; General design of pulp and paper plants; The power plant;
Testing of paper and paper materials; Paper defects: their cause and
cure; Personnel; Useful data and tables; Index. There are over 200
figures in the text.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:101 D ’20
“This is the first book on the subject of paper-making that we have
ever read that is really worth while; it is a practical treatise on
paper technology that bears the stamp of genuine authority. One
subject, however, in the book which has been somewhat summarily dealt
with is that relating to the dyeing and coloring of paper. In its
typographical makeup the present volume is a credit to its
publishers.”
+ − =Color Trade J= 7:118 O ’20 460w
“For ‘the man on the job’ this is, on the whole, a much more
satisfactory work than that of Cross and Bevan; moreover it deals only
with American practice. The practical aspect of the book should be
emphasized.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p69 Jl ’20 100w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= Kid Scanlan. *$1.75 (2½c) Small
20–10733
Kid Scanlan, welterweight champion, goes into the movies and this is
the story of his adventures as told by his manager, Johnny Green.
Among the titles of chapters, each of which constitutes a short story,
are: Lay off, Macduff; Pleasure island; Lend me your ears; The unhappy
medium; Life is reel! Hospital stuff.
* * * * *
“This book may be scoffed at by the more intellectual, but the
wideness of its appeal is evident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“A humorous mixture of extravagance and slang in Witwer’s happiest
vein.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 110w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c)
Doubleday
20–9784
A combination of baseball and the movies. Ed Harmon, “the undisputed
monarch of the diamond,” continues the series of letters to his friend
Joe, and tells what happened after he brought his French wife, Jeanne,
to New York. Jeanne not only learns English, she undertakes to teach
that language to her husband. She also goes into the movies, and drags
her reluctant husband with her. Jeanne’s relatives come from France to
pay a surprise visit, but as suddenly return, inspiring their
son-in-law to give three cheers for prohibition. The stories are:
There’s no base like home; She supes to conquer: A fool there wasn’t;
So this is Cincinnati!; The merchant of Venus; The freedom of the
shes; A word to the wives; The nights of Colombus; The league of
relations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:76 N ’20
“Abounding in picturesque slang, unusual figures of speech and shrewd
comment on present-day tendencies and foibles.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 70w
“In a certain way, Witwer’s stories remind one of Keystone comedies,
although, of course, they are not quite so far-fetched in their
incongruous situations. This kind of patter is handled with skill by
Mr Witwer, who hardly ever descends to a too-obvious cheapness.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 200w
=WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE.= Little warrior. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–18298
Jill Mariner is an American girl brought up in England. In her,
cheerfulness and impulsive kindliness are counterbalanced by pride and
quick temper. Between the two she never succumbs to any situation, but
fights her way through. There are abrupt changes in her circumstances.
From possessing a fortune and being engaged to an English peer, she
drops to the position of chorus girl in an American musical comedy.
After a brief but stormy career of a tragi-comical nature—with the
emphasis on the comical—and after being wooed a second time by Sir
Derek, she decides that she loves Wally Mason, her girlhood chum and
now a writer of musical comedy in New York, best.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“So much of current fiction is touched with glowering realism or
sour-mouthed cleverness that such real spontaneity and good humor as
Mr Wodehouse’s is irresistible.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:343 Ja ’21 290w
“The author manages to play upon even such a light-eroded spot as
Forty-second street and Broadway with such piquant and Americanesquely
touch-and-go ironical sparkle, such color and deft comedy tempo, as to
leave with the reader an illusion of freshness and a complex of
winning aftertones.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 200w
“The gay comedy-romance is a top-notcher of its kind. The reader who
doesn’t chuckle over this melange of English and American slang will
have to be determinedly gloomy.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 530w
“The tale is capital burlesque with a warm touch of human nature.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
=WOLCOTT, THERESA HUNT=, ed. Book of games and parties for all
occasions. il *$2 Small 793
20–19282
The material for the book has largely been compiled from the
entertainment page of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The contents are
intended to furnish entertainments for home, school and church
parties, beginning with New Year’s Eve, extending throughout the year
and taking in all the holidays of a general and private character,
with invitations, menus for special occasions, appropriate rhymes and
poetry, illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Jehovah. *$2 Dutton 811
20–8539
A long narrative poem with frequent lyric interludes. The time is 1034
B. C., in the reign of David. David’s forces under Joab, sweeping
south, spoiling and conquering in the name of their God, Jehovah, meet
the resistance of the Kenites, the hill dwellers of Mount Sinai whose
tribal God Jehovah is. Demanding tribute for their king and worship
for their God, the Israelites are faced with the Kenites’ claim for
priority in Jehovah worship, Moses having learned it from his Kenite
father-in-law, Jethro. In the conference that follows two conceptions
of Jehovah are set forth. The tribal god of the Kenites is opposed to
the imperialist god of Israel. By trickery Joab outwits the weaker
forces and falls upon them unawares to slay and exterminate, all for
the glory of Jehovah. Toward the end a new conception of God is
developed, the God of brotherhood as visioned by the prophet Jotham.
The poem was awarded one of the Lyric poetry prizes for 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“If it won the Lyric prize, it was hardly for its lyrism. Still, the
poem is dramatic, the characterization interesting, and some of the
passages genuinely powerful.”
+ − =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 90w
“When Clement Wood wrote ‘Jehovah’ he took the chance at being dull on
the bigger chance of successfully writing a poem about an evolving
god. He fails, and he is dull; but there is a sort of leaden grandeur
about the attempt.” R. D.
− + =Freeman= 1:382 Jl 7 ’20 120w
“It has, curiously, a flavor of ‘Beowulf’ rather than of the Hebrew
poets and prophets. It is written in a variety of verse forms, many of
them interesting.”
+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 80w
“‘Jehovah’ suffers from a too constant strenuousness of reach and a
too mighty savagery of diction; there is more motion than flow, more
activity than strength. Yet certain of the songs genuinely mount; and
Uz, the wrinkled patriarch, spokesman for the Kenites, is a triumph in
portraiture.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“The various songs about Jehovah sung by the two conflicting tribes of
warriors, are replete with beauty that is made more significant and
meaningful because there are depths to the thoughts expressed. There
is an unmistaken classic air about Clement Wood’s ‘Jehovah.’” Alvin
Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 430w
“The grim expectancy in the tale is a strong point. There are cases,
unfortunately, in which the vocabulary, not the conception, is
herculean, in which it is only the dictionary that bares its thews.”
O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 380w
“The poem is a faithful attempt to produce a visualization of men and
events of 3000 years ago. It is hardly distinguished, but it shows
considerable knowledge of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 210w
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Mountain. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8518
“Pelham Judson grows up on the mountain, the son of the successful
exploiter of its resources in iron; goes to Yale and absorbs the
conventional social ideals (including an exploit as a strikebreaker);
leads an almost preposterously chaste life, which he compensates for
after his marriage to Jane by a delayed affair with Louise; returning
to Adamsville after graduation, becomes converted to the cause of
labor and socialism and is one of the leaders in the long drawn-out
strike in the mines. The result of the conversion is, of course,
permanent estrangement from his father and mother, the former the
leader of the standpat forces.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“A heterogeneous mass of capital and labour, love and catastrophe. Mr
Wood’s masterful portrayal of the negro race, however, furnishes a
background which puts his high-lights to shame and leaves us the hope
that he will visualize the white race with equal clarity.”
− + =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w
“Love, it may be said, Mr Wood presents more convincingly than
economics. The characters of his story, never clearly realized, make
sudden and inexplicable shifts of attitude to meet the necessities of
a somewhat vaguely conceived plot, just as his social theories are
strained to make destructive facts work toward constructive ends.” H.
S. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 360w
“One looks in vain for a single passage of supreme beauty, for one
arresting phrase; yet there is in the book an undercurrent of power
rare in a first novel.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:285 N ’20 620w
“From the point of view of art the mind is unpersuaded and the
imagination a blank. The book is all haste and over-eagerness. The
creative hand has scarcely touched it yet.”
− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 340w
“This is an uncommonly fine bit of work, for a first novel. The
working class type is a real one, not a caricature. Yet the chief
protagonists, Pelham Judson in particular, do not come into the
reader’s experience with that unerring finality which is always the
mark of sure imaginative creation. They are not inconsistent; they are
plausible; they are unfailingly interesting. But they are mere
sketches, not realities.” H. S.
+ − =New Repub= 23:286 Ag 4 ’20 1250w
“With ‘Mountain’ Clement Wood has added 335 pages to the little heaps
of worthwhile contemporary literature.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 600w
− =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 330w
“The novel reflects truthfully and interestingly an ardent if not
entirely substantial type of temperament.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 300w
=WOOD, ERIC FISHER.= Leonard Wood: conservator of Americanism. il *$2
(3c) Doran
20–3861
The author admires the subject of his biography as the conservator and
champion of Americanism, for his work at Plattsburg, his pleas for
preparedness and his dignified reticence about himself. His flawless
record in the past the author hopes gives just grounds for predicting
a still greater career for him in the future. “He has ever been a true
prophet in all matters pertaining to the political and military
welfare of his native land, its allies and dependencies. He has never
had to make excuses, for although the administrative tasks
successively allotted to him have been vast in scope, he has never in
any one of them fallen short of exceptional success.” (Conclusion)
Contents: Ancestry and boyhood; Personal characteristics; As a
surgeon; The Geronimo campaign; The Spanish-American war; Governor of
Santiago; The Wood method; Appointed governor of Cuba; Governor of
Cuba; Turning their government over to Cubans; The conquest of yellow
fever; The Rathbone case; Governor of the Moro province; Dato Ali; The
military administrator; The conservator of Americanism; The world war;
Illustrations, appendix and index.
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 60w
=R Of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 220w
“A most interesting and most readable book.”
+ =Spec= 124:48 Jl 10 ’20 1900w
“Although Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wood is an indifferent biographer,
his book contains several oases of competent writing. Thus he gives a
graphic sketch of the Geronimo campaign, and his account of the Cuban
operations is soldierly and useful.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Je 17 ’20 850w
=WOOD, FREDERIC JAMES.= Turnpikes of New England and evolution of the
same through England, Virginia and Maryland. il $10 Jones, Marshall 386
20–1059
“A detailed history of each of the many turnpike companies, such as is
here furnished, offers a great deal to interest the engineer, and,
from one point of view, summarizes the economic development of the
country from the close of the revolution to the middle of the
nineteenth century.” (Review) “The author, an engineer, has included
everything—engineering problems, history, finance, management,
vehicles, description.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20
“It is written in a fascinating style, full of good humor, replete
with stories and historical incidents, and its enthusiastic verve
carries the reader from start to finish.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1000W
“A handsome volume of which both author and publisher have reason to
be proud.”
+ =Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 300w
=WOOD, IRVING FRANCIS.=[2] Heroes of early Israel. il *$2 Macmillan
220.9
20–17159
“‘Heroes of early Israel’ is one of the Great leaders series. It seeks
to tell in a popular manner the stories of the old Hebrew heroes whose
lives are too often lost for the young in the more difficult portions
of the Bible.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“The book is intended especially for use in schools, but many will
like to put it into the hands of their children as an introduction to
Biblical study.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=WOOD, LEONARD.= Leonard Wood on national issues; comp. by Evan J.
David. pa *$1.25 (8c) Doubleday 308
20–7495
“In compiling this book the object has been to collect representative
statements from the speeches and writings of General Leonard Wood on
national problems.” (Compiler’s introd.) Among the subjects covered
are: How Cuba won self-determination; Capital, labor and the golden
rule; American women—today and tomorrow; War and peace; The league of
nations; The farmer—his rights and wrongs; Teachers, moulders of the
future; Immigration without assimilation: Americanization. In addition
to the compiler’s introduction there is a foreword by Edward S. Van
Zile.
=WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Roamer, and other poems. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–7800
The greater part of the book is taken up by “The roamer,” a long poem
in four books symbolizing the soul’s pilgrimage through the ages and
its upward progress. A sonnet sequence, Ideal passion, Poems of the
great war, and a group of Sonnets and lyrics complete the volume.
* * * * *
“For those who like conventional, idealistic poetry.”
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“Mr Woodberry’s lines are penned with such precision, dignity, and
grace, and express so noble an enterprise, that one feels they should
not be allowed to perish without protest. And yet they fail to stir.
Is it that Mr Woodberry is too much merely the inheritor of Victorian
maladies and philosophies?” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 320w
“As an occasional poet Mr Woodberry is not exciting after the occasion
has passed; in the present period of enforced listlessness toward the
war, his poems on that occasion, at least, seem good work thrown away,
seem good words robbed of their right to ring. Mr Woodberry is more
surely a poet when he is a Platonist, as in ‘Ideal passion,’ on the
whole the most vibrant portion of his recent output.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 220w
“Professor Woodberry’s book must be accounted one of the genuine
poetical achievements of the year, but it will hardly make a wide
appeal to this generation.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 380w
“‘Ideal passion’ is excellent, while the ‘Roamer’ is valuable only to
specialists in literature or disciples of Mr Woodberry. The shorter
poems in the volume are vastly better than the ‘Roamer,’ but attain no
equality with ‘Ideal passion.’” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 800w
=WOODHOUSE, HENRY.= Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. il *$6
Century 629.1
20–5220
“The bulk of this book is devoted to a description of existing
machines, but in the first chapter the author declares that for
commercial success the aeroplane should be built to carry twenty tons
of useful load, and considers how this can be done. Other chapters
consist largely of reprints of papers and documents, many from
American sources, relating to aeroplane and seaplane engineering in
the U.S.A. navy, the theory of flight, rigging, alinement, maintenance
and repairs, and the value of plywood in fuselage construction.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p474 Jl 22 ’20 80w
=WOODHOUSE, THOMAS, and KILGOUR, P.= Cordage and cordage hemp and
fibres. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman
677
20–7601
An introductory chapter suggesting something of the early history of
cordage is followed by: Definition of cordage and sources of fibres;
Classification of fibres; The cultivation of hemp; Retting, breaking
and scutching; The cultivation of plants for hard fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for hemp and other soft fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for manila and other hard fibres;
Twines, cords and lines; Ropes and rope-making; Yarn numbering;
Marketing. There are 31 illustrations and an index. The authors are
connected with the Dundee technical college and school of art.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 50w
=WOODS, ARTHUR.= Policeman and public. *$1.35 Yale univ. press 352.2
20–1368
“‘The policeman and public,’ by Lieut.-Col. Arthur Woods, former
police commissioner of New York city, places in book form the author’s
lectures in the Dodge course at Yale on the ‘Responsibilities of
citizenship.’ Points discussed are: The puzzling law; The policeman as
Judge; The people’s advocate; Methods of law enforcement; Esprit de
corps; Reward and punishment; Grafting; Influence; Police leadership;
and The public’s part.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Throughout the book is a sympathetic discussion of the problems from
the standpoint of the policeman. At the same time Mr Woods appreciates
the reasons for the sometimes hostile attitude of the public toward
the police.” J. L. Gillin
+ =Am J Soc= 25:794 My ’20 600w
Reviewed by G. H. McCaffrey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:527 Ag ’20 340w
“A popular and interesting presentation of the problems and methods of
the police, and of the ways in which the public may cooperate to add
effectiveness to the service.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“Colonel Woods has done a great service to the policemen of the entire
country by putting their case fairly before the public.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 120w
“The little book is instructive and intensely interesting.”
+ =Cath World= 111:118 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w
“Entertaining and instructive, not only to those connected with an
important branch of municipal government and to applicants for places
therein but to the public generally.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 30 ’19 300w
“They are made lively reading by a mass of illustrative anecdotes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 100w
=WOODS, GLENN H.= Public school orchestras and bands. il $2 Ditson 785
20–9484
In realization of the growing importance of music in our educational
curriculum this book is offered to meet in particular the needs of the
teacher who has no knowledge of instrumental music. It emphasizes
three essentials for the instrumental work in the public school
system: that the instruments for the band and orchestra be supplied to
the children; that the work begin in the lower grades of the
elementary schools and be carried through the high school; and that
the instruction be given by special teachers of instrumental music.
Among the contents are: Importance of instrumental instruction;
Preparation of teachers: How to organize instrumental instruction;
Instruction in the elementary schools; Instruction in the high
schools; Conducting; Suggestions about tuning; How to assemble an
orchestra score; Transposition; List of band and orchestra music, and
instruction books. There is an appendix and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“For music leaders who lack professional training this book will be
most helpful. It is practical, concise, and is written by one who has
first-hand knowledge of the problem.”
+ =El School J= 21:318 D ’20 220w
=WOODWORTH, HERBERT G.= In the shadow of Lantern street. *$1.75 (1½c)
Small
20–3063
The hero of this story is a little boy in China when the story opens.
He knows nothing of his parentage and believes himself to be Chinese.
But he really is white and his American father, altho unwilling to
recognize his son, still takes him, at sixteen, back to the United
States and educates him. Most of the story is taken up with the tale
of the young man’s striving to accommodate himself to American ideals,
especially in relation to women. Two women come into his life, Bess
and Barbara. To Bess he found marriage to mean the reversal of the
Chinese idea—her husband was to become her chattel. Fortunately he
found out in time and with Barbara is promised the happiness that
comes with love that means partnership.
* * * * *
“It is apparent that Mr Woodworth knows China well, for he has framed
in these early pages a picture that is very foreign and that contains
a large number of realistic details. If Mr Woodworth had succeeded in
keeping his entire novel as vivid as these early chapters it would
have been no mean achievement.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 1000w
“There is some good material in the book, but the treatment lacks
color, and shows no sense either of dramatic values, of style or of
character. Such faint interest as the story has flickers out entirely
as soon as the hero leaves China, which he does on the sixty-third
page.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w
“The early portions of the narrative are interesting because of an
atmosphere of adventure and exploration; the later phases are
speculative and analytical.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 250w
=WOOLF, LEONARD SIDNEY.= Empire and commerce in Africa; a study in
economic imperialism. *$7 Macmillan 960
(Eng ed 20–3421)
“Omitting consideration of Egypt, Mr Woolf records in detail the
history of those portions of Africa which fell under the influence of
European imperialism. Separate chapters are devoted to Algeria, Tunis,
Tripoli, Abyssinia, Zanzibar, and the Belgian Congo. In all cases the
sequence of events as disclosed by the narrative is much the same. The
awakening of covetous desire in the hearts of European statesmen; the
entering wedge of commercial or financial enterprize, ostensibly
promoted by private initiative but in reality fostered by the state;
the eventual declaration by the home government of its intention to
guarantee the integrity of the economic advantages thus gained by its
citizens; the marking out of spheres of influence; the friction
aroused between the powers by the crossing of imperialistic purposes,
and the threat of war; the adjustment of these international
differences by the devious methods of diplomacy, and the final
emergence of the victor secure in the possession of the spoils. No
patriotic bias is shown in the record. France, Italy, England,
Germany, and Belgium are accused impartially of sordid motives and
heartless conduct. A generous equipment of maps illustrates the text,
and a reproduction of the necessary documents lends support to the
narrative of diplomatic intrigue.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
“A high order of merit is shown by the writer in his skillful
disentangling of the strands of intrigue in which the imperialistic
aims of the rival states are involved, and in the accomplishment of
his main intent: to set forth clearly the sequence of events which
discloses the true purpose of Europe in its penetration into Africa.
Even those readers who cannot agree that a single motive actuates the
modern state in its imperial policy will find this study of the
progress of empire in Africa illuminating and suggestive.” E. S.
Furniss
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:575 S ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W. E. B. Du Bois
=Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 580w
“This is a book of great value and startling candor. It will remind
some of a Veblen satire, but it is more concrete and human than that.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 700w
“The merits of the book are that it bears evidence of much research,
though always on the one side and directed to proving what the author
wants to prove, and that it is not greatly disfigured by
indiscriminate abuse or by anti-patriotic bias.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 5 ’20 1950w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Night and day. *$2.25
Doran
20–19042
A long and slow-moving story dealing with a criss-crossing of love
affairs. Katharine Hilbery, granddaughter of the poet Alardyce, is
engaged with her mother in writing the poet’s life. Her father is
editor of a literary review and all her associations are of a literary
character. In secret however her predilections are for mathematics and
she spends lonely midnight hours with Euclid. She becomes engaged to
William Rodney, author of poetic dramas, altho she feels herself drawn
to Ralph Denham, a masterful young man of no family or position. Ralph
maintains a platonic friendship with Mary Datchet, a suffrage worker,
who loves him and refuses his lukewarm offer of marriage for that
reason. Katharine’s cousin Cassandra comes to town and captivates
William, setting Katharine free to marry Ralph. This leaves everyone
provided for except Mary, who continues to devote her life to causes.
Considerable care is devoted to the delineation of minor characters.
* * * * *
“It is impossible to refrain from comparing ‘Night and day’ with the
novels of Miss Austen. There are moments, indeed, when one is almost
tempted to cry it Miss Austen up-to-date. It is extremely cultivated,
distinguished and brilliant, but above all—deliberate. There is not a
chapter where one is unconscious of the writer, of her personality,
her point of view, and her control of the situation.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1227 N 21 ’19 1350w
“The half expressed thought, the interrupted sentences by which the
action of ‘Night and day’ proceeds, are baffling. Carry this sort of
thing a few steps further and you have Maeterlinck. Yet even this
intent study of a fragmentary and delicate thing strikes one as in the
spirit of Tennyson’s ‘flower in the crannied wall’ whose complete
comprehension means comprehension of what God and man is.” R. M.
Underhill
+ − =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“‘Night and day’ is perhaps less fine than ‘The voyage out’; it is not
quite all of a piece as the other book almost miraculously is, or
perhaps the ancient fact that comedy is less impressive than tragedy
weighs in its effect. But it is an ample book.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 350w
“This novel of Mrs Woolf’s is profoundly irritating. She has devoted
such fine ability, such remarkable understanding, to the description
of the doings of people profoundly unimportant and insignificant.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w
“All of the characters are drawn with art; their thoughts and actions
are minutely observed and dissected. In point of literary style the
book is distinctive.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 450w
“The narrative moves tardily along, and to the story, as such, one
becomes somewhat indifferent. But in fresh characterization of its
people and in charming pictures of England, especially of London, the
work never fails.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 200w
“Round each scene and round the tale as a whole sound sympathetic
notes, that are not definitely struck, but respond to those which are.
We feel the dignity of a love-story worthily told. We see much more
than we are shown. ‘Night and day’ is a book full of wisdom.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1250w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Voyage out. *$2.25
(1½c) Doran
20–8627
In this kaleidoscopic picture of real life, people come and go with
all their commonplace attributes. They are natural people and act
naturally without any dramatic high lights to throw them into relief.
To make the events transpire in a little world of their own a
shipboard is chosen and a tourist’s hotel on a South-American mountain
side. Helen Ambrose, wife of a Greek scholar, is put in charge of a
niece, twenty years her junior, who at the age of twenty-four is still
a child in world wisdom and experience. Helen, with rare insight and
good sense, undertakes to initiate her into a larger life. In South
America they meet the tourists—a variety of types compressed into a
miniature world. Here Rachel unfolds and the greatest of experiences,
love, comes her way, and there it all ends. Rachel falls a victim to
the treacherous climate.
* * * * *
“To the reviewer, the opportunity to read about people who are real,
but intelligent, is an unusual delight. These people employ
self-control and common sense, even as you and I, and the plot
proceeds without misunderstanding or murder.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“The story is strangely lacking in construction. It has neither
beginning nor end nor single point of view, but it is thoroly
interesting, a distinctly unusual book.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 250w
“For all its tragic interest ‘The voyage out’ is not low-keyed; it
even has a slight buoyancy of tone, as if clear perception itself
brought a continual zest to its writer. Mrs Woolf has the diversity of
power which makes the great writer of narrative.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 1150w
“This English novel gives promise in its opening chapters of much
entertainment. Later, the reader is disappointed. That the author
knows her London in its most interesting aspects there can be no
doubt. But aside from a certain cleverness—which, being all in one
key, palls on one after going through a hundred pages of it—there is
little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre
novels which make far less literary pretension.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 450w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 620w
“As a first novel, it shows promise but is not well-rounded. Portrayal
of women and scholarly elderly men is keen and well handled; that of
younger and ‘red-blooded’ young men somewhat unsatisfactory.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 380w
=WOOLMAN, MRS MARY (SCHENCK).= Clothing: choice, care, cost.
(Lippincott’s family life ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 646
20–26997
“This book faces the every-day living conditions of the people and
treats clothing in its selection, use, care and cost. It is the result
of many years of personal experience in technical and popular
instruction in textiles and clothing to college students, ... to
women’s clubs, to young wage earners, ... to buyers and managers in
the retail trade, and recently, during the war, as a textile
specialist in the service of the government among home keepers and
extension leaders.” (Preface) Contents: Thrift in clothing; Woolen and
worsted clothing; Cotton clothing; Silk clothing; Linen for clothing
and household; Clothing accessories; Clothing and health; Intelligent
shopping; Serviceable clothing; The clothing budget and the wardrobe;
The care, repair and renovation of clothing; Dyeing, laundry and spot
removal; A clothing information bureau; Planning for clothing
progress; Appendix—made-over garments, with charts, bibliography,
glossary; Illustrations and index.
* * * * *
“Useful to students, housekeepers and retail dealers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
=WORKS, JOHN DOWNEY.= Juridical reform. *$1.50 (3c) Neale 347
20–1529
“A critical comparison of pleading and practice under the common law
and equity systems of practice, the English judicature acts, and codes
of the several states of this country, with a view to greater
efficiency and economy.” (Sub-title) “This little book is intended not
only to point out some of the changes in the laws of pleading,
practice, and procedure, necessary to mitigate present conditions
resulting in interminable delays and enormous expense in maintaining
the courts and the administration of justice, but also to show that a
large part of the delays, and consequent unnecessary expense of
litigation, is not brought about by defective laws alone but by the
dilatory and faulty administration of the laws we have.” (Preface)
Contents: Courts; Actions; Pleadings; The demurrer; Empaneling juries;
Examination of witnesses; Taking cases under advisement; Briefs;
Written opinions; Findings; Continuances; Appeals; Rules of court;
Reports of decisions; Efficiency; Appendix.
* * * * *
“He writes with an apparent knowledge of his subject and with a high
degree of common sense and authority.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 120w
“There is much in this little volume that entitles it to the attention
of every voter, certainly of every public-spirited lawyer.” E: S.
Corwin
+ =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 380w
=WRAY, W. J., and FERGUSON, R. W.=, eds. Day continuation school at
work. *$3 (*8s 6d) Longmans 374.8
20–18400
“The editors have brought together the discussions of twelve
individual contributors, each paper constituting a chapter of the book
and dealing with some more or less specific phase of the writer’s
experience in organizing and conducting the scheme of training
described. The introductory chapter, written by one of the editors, is
a general discussion of the necessity for continued education and the
relation of day continuation schools to the national educational
system. The next chapter is a rather full description of the plan of
administration of a girls’ continuation school, written by the
head-mistress. This is followed by a similar account of a boys’ school
by its head-master. In each case explicit statements are made
concerning the curriculum, grading, discipline, and the usual problems
of administration. The several chapters following, each written by an
instructor in one or the other of these schools, take up such topics
as Problems of class teaching in a boys’ day continuation school, The
teaching of mathematics and science in a day continuation school for
boys, Physical training in a girls’ school, and Arts and crafts. The
last two chapters present the employers’ own statement of their
attitude toward continuation education and their impressions of the
value of the plan here described.”—School R
* * * * *
=School R= 28:714 N ’20 400w
“‘A day continuation school at work’ has particularly interesting
sections dealing with camp and outdoor schools, but it does not
achieve quite the modern spirit.”
+ − =Spec= 125:404 S 25 ’20 100w
Reviewed by M. C. Calkins
+ =Survey= 45:610 Ja 22 ’21 520w
=WRIGHT, GEORGE E.= Practical views on psychic phenomena. *$1.60 (4c)
Harcourt 130
20–27481
There is still much confusion of thought, even among people of
considerable general culture, on the subject of super-normal
phenomena, says the author. In order to help the reader to steer
clear, on the one hand, of illogical skepticism and, on the other, of
unreasoning credulity, the book endeavors to lay down the broad lines
on which an examination of the published records in the chief
departments of psychical research should be carried out, and to
summarize briefly the evidence and put forward the conclusions to
which they have led the author. Contents: Evidence in general;
Telepathy; Physical phenomena; Materialization and spirit photography;
Communication with the disembodied: (1) the methods; (2) the evidence;
Conclusion.
* * * * *
“This sensible and restrained introduction for the layman gives an
unbiased summary of the evidence in the case for psychical research.”
+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 950w
“He approaches the whole subject in a singularly cautious spirit; and
his careful and candid examination of the nature of evidence in
psychical research and of different theories is worth reading.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 160w
=WRIGHT, HENRY PARKS.= Young man and teaching. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50
Macmillan 371
20–2127
“In ‘The young man and teaching,’ by Henry Parks Wright, the author,
who is dean of Yale college, discusses every aspect of the teaching
profession, laying particular emphasis on the psychological
qualifications of the man who would devote his life to teaching. Among
the chapter headings are the following: Teaching as a profession;
Objections to the vocation considered; Personal qualifications;
Educational preparation; Instruction; Government; Rules and penalties;
Teaching in college, and others.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“His book is thorough and suggestive.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 130w
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 100w
“Some of the author’s sentiments are tinged with those of the ‘old
school,’ but a majority of his thoughts about teaching are strictly up
to date and unquestionably true.”
+ − =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w
=WRIGHT, ROWLAND.= Disappearance of Kimball Webb. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–819
Mystery and adventure story centering about a man who disappears as if
by magic the night before his proposed wedding to a beautiful young
heiress. All efforts to find him prove for weeks in vain. Some think
him spirited away by ghosts. Elsie, the heiress, is implored by her
relatives to marry some one else, for if she does not marry soon, by
the conditions of the will, she loses her fortune. But for her there
is no one but Webb. Finally after desperate efforts, and dreadful
adventures, the mystery is solved at last. Webb is brought back in
time to save the fortune, and the “master mind” who has spirited the
bridegroom away and kept him basely hid is one least expected.
* * * * *
“The characters are the mere sketches which pass in most latter-day
mystery fiction. The style is slipshod, the dialogue barren, the
action forced. Mr Wright has a new idea, cleverly developed in its
essential details. With this he stops short.” C. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“A somewhat new idea is used as vehicle, showing that modern mystery
fiction can be based on a single unsolved point. But the supporting
material is inferior, in comparison, and causes the story to prove
somewhat disappointing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 220w
=WYATT, EDWIN M.=[2] Blue print reading. il $1 Bruce pub. co. 744
20–16615
“This book is the result of several years teaching of blueprint
reading in night schools and several years teaching of drafting
preceding it.... Essentially it is a tried text, one that has been
used to teach the reading of drawings to one class of mixed trades,
one class of ship carpenters, two classes of house carpenters, and one
class of machinists. It has been designed to suit as wide a range of
trades as possible. Usually each new principle is illustrated by both
a machine and an architectural example.” (Preface) The book is
illustrated with twenty-nine plates, and questions and problems follow
the chapters.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“A valuable addition to the library of manual training teachers and
craftsmen wishing to be fluently versed in the universal language of
mechanical drawing.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:244 D ’20 50w
=WYLD, HENRY CECIL KENNEDY.= History of modern colloquial English. *$8
Dutton 420.9
(Eng ed 20–9723)
“This book may be described, in one way, as a documented history of
English pronunciation from Chaucer to the present day; in another, as
an attempt to show that, ‘during the last two centuries at least, the
modifications which have come about in the spoken language are the
result of the influence not primarily of regional, but of class
dialects,’ the final result being the ‘public school English’ which is
now the normal spoken idiom of the educated classes. In chapter I the
author surveys in broad outline the various problems dealt with in
minute detail later in the book. Chapter II, dealing with ‘Dialect
types in middle English, and their survival in the modern period,’
contains an elaborate phonetic description of the three main
contributory dialects. Chapter IV, on ‘From Henry VIII to James I,’
shows us the English language arriving at the self-conscious period.
With chapter V, ‘Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,’ we are on
modern ground. Chapters VI to IX deal with the phonetic history of the
modern language and the origin of inflections. The final chapter, on
‘Colloquial idiom,’ gives us examples of familiar speech from John
Shillingford (1447) to Miss Austen; and there are some final sections
on the trimmings of speech, such as greetings, epistolary formulas,
expletives, compliments, etc.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Professor Wyld is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a very
valuable, and evidently laborious, piece of work. We would suggest
that he should so far consider the intelligent layman as to publish an
abridged edition, with a few characteristic examples replacing the
ponderous mass of phonetic detail which concludes each chapter, and,
above all, that he should add an index.” E. W.
+ − =Ath= p669 My 21 ’20 1350w
“It may be well to indicate what strikes one as its only defect—that
he takes the insular attitude not uncommon among British scholars.
This caveat once filed, it is only fair to say that Professor Wyld has
done very well indeed what was well worth doing.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ag 29 ’20 2250w
“No matter how familiar the outlines of the story, no one can follow
Professor Wyld’s version of it without finding his interest in it
quickened and enlarged on every page.” H. M. Ayres
+ − =Review= 3:386 O 27 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 20w
“Professor Wyld commands a fluent style, but not of the highest order.
Of minor errors and slips there is too large a number. To end on a
fault-finding note would be to give a false impression of our
appreciation of this notable book. We hasten to set down our tribute
to the author’s courage and enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 2100w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Children of storm (Eng title, Brodie and the
deep sea). *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–18388
The story of an unequal marriage. Ursula Seton, daughter of one of
England’s wealthiest families, and Adam Brodie, son of an humble
grocer, are married as the result of a brief wartime romance. After
the war, and Adam’s return, they try to make the necessary
adjustments. The first attempt is made in Ursula’s home. Although her
family mean to be sympathetic and kind, Adam is independent and
sensitive and the experiment fails. A second attempt is tried out in
Adam’s humble circumstances. Here the pettiness of everyday drudgery
wears upon Ursula until she can stand it no longer. The two seem to
have come to a deadlock when a new element enters into their affairs.
Ursula’s grandfather, who has confidence in Adam, leaves him the
management of the steel industry which has brought the family their
wealth. In grappling with the problems which this position brings,
Adam grows and develops in mind and soul until Ursula sees again in
him the man with whom she had fallen in love.
* * * * *
“The domestic scenes revealing their difficulties are perhaps the best
in the book.”
+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 110w
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“Miss Wylie’s straightforward and felicitous style is an unmixed
delight.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 390w
“The author fails signally to answer the question she raises.
‘Children of storm’ contains some dramatic passages and some
character-revealing dialogue, but the author cannot be said to meet
satisfactorily the artistic demands of her self-imposed, ambitious
theme.”
− + =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 560w
“The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband’s
endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite convincing.
The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind
for the improvement of the life of the workers, but she does not quite
succeed in imparting them to the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 124:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“In the first chapters Miss Wylie writes with truth and without
partisanship, so that you see this struggle from every side,
sympathize with every character and feel their inevitable sorrows. It
is ... partly perhaps that Miss Wylie was in a hurry to bring her tale
out of tragedy to a triumphant conclusion, which makes the end of the
book melodrama. It is good melodrama, but by comparison with the first
part of the book superficial and theatrical.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 Jl 1 ’20 600w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Holy fire, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–8791
Michael Gregorovitch, of the title story, is a Russian priest. He was
a man of peace, a non-resistant, he loved and prayed for his enemies
and he kept the lamp burning before the altar of the little church—the
light of God that had not gone out for two hundred years. The night
the village was sacked the women implored him to give the signal from
the belfry, to sound the tocsin, for the peasants to break forth from
their hiding and kill the invaders. But the priest standing before the
holy fire remained firm—although his house was burned, his wife and
little grandson killed, he would not countenance killing. When the
ruffians entered the church, he did not resent their insults—they put
out the holy fire that had burned for two hundred years and the priest
escaped to the belfry and gave the signal. The other stories are:
Thirst; The bridge across; “Tinker—tailor—”; Colonel Tibbit comes
home; “‘Melia, no good”; A gift for St Nicholas; John Prettyman’s
fourth dimension; An Episcopal scherzo.
* * * * *
“Most of them are marked by tense emotion, but frequently there are
gleams of humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 300w
“Miss Wylie’s work is frankly colored with sentiment. She does not
ignore the sensibility of the race which was not ashamed to sob over
Colonel Newcome and even Little Nell.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 160w
=WYLLARDE, DOLF.= Temperament: a romance of hero-worship. *$2 (½c) Lane
(Eng ed 20–12952)
Joan Delamere, of English parentage, was born in the tropics and had
an exotic temperament. She was a musical genius, imaginative and
romantic to a degree. She dreamt dreams and fashioned them in music.
While still a child the personality of a certain Lord Oswald Lancaster
fired her imagination and became her hero. Chance encounters with him
at long intervals kept the fire burning, but not till the hero was
sixty and Joan thirty did they come to know and love each other. As a
child she had made a vow never to marry and her union with Lord Oswald
remained an illicit one. When an older obligation claimed the latter,
Joan hid herself from him and the world on her native Seychelles
islands where she died a lonely death in giving birth to her son.
* * * * *
“The book is not quite as compact as the theme demands, and this
diffuseness militates a bit against its complete success but in a
large measure the theme, in its ample treatment, is developed in a
surprisingly interesting manner. The reader will find much to satisfy
him in the book by considering Joan as a feat in portraiture.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 780w
“As usual with this author, we are attracted, half in our own despite,
by the sheer cleverness often revealed in dialogue, characterisation
and description.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:100 Jl 31 ’20 240w
“Her sentimental adventures are not completely convincing, and Lord
Oswald Lancaster is of so commonplace and unattractive a type that the
reader will have very little sympathy with Joan Delamere’s obsession.”
− =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“The events of the tale are plausible, and the persons behave quite
naturally and credibly. To that extent the book is a skilful and
successful piece of fiction. Yet it is very far indeed from being a
good novel in any more serious sense than that. The reason is that the
persons, though carefully imitated from life, are only lay figures.
They are the product not of an act of creative imagination, but of
skilled and painstaking manufacture.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 360w
Y
=YATES, L. B.= Autobiography of a race horse. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–10769
A story of horse racing containing considerable inside information on
racing methods, comparisons of English and American systems of
training and riding, and something of the history of racing in
America. Like the ugly duckling, the horse who is made the narrator of
the story shows little promise in early youth, but the young master
who buys the colt at auction for a paltry thirty dollars is justified
in his judgment. He tells of his training, his stable companions and
his first races, adding also an account of a race into the Cherokee
Strip at the time it was opened for settlement.
* * * * *
“An extremely entertaining romance, filled with authentic gossip of
past eras on the American track. The story has many thrilling moments
that are lightened by a deft humorous touch that makes the book
pleasing to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w
=YATES, RAYMOND FRANCIS.= Boys’ book of model boats. il *$2 Century
623.8
20–17511
This book for boys has chapters on: Why a boat floats; The hull; How
to make simple boats, with and without power drive; Steam and electric
propulsion; An electric launch; A steam launch; An electrically driven
lake freighter; An electric submarine-chaser; Boat fittings; The
design of model steam-engines; A model floating dry-dock; Operation of
flash steam power plants for model boats; Sailing yachts; Two-foot
sailing yacht. There are seven full-page illustrations and 166 figures
in the text. A dictionary of marine terms is given in an appendix.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
“Would require a good deal of material and of manual dexterity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 40w
=YEATS-BROWN, FRANCIS CHARLES CLAYPON.= Caught by the Turks. il *$2 (4c)
Macmillan 940.47
20–997
In his preface to the story Owen Wister assures the reader that the
tale is true. This is well for it is as strange as fiction. A young
soldier in an aeroplane was captured with his pilot by the Turks near
Baghdad. He is a prisoner of war for nearly three years; escapes, is
recaptured and escapes again. He adopts various disguises, once as a
woman, once as a Hungarian mechanic, and his adventures and
experiences are altogether unusual and romantic. Life in a Turkish
prison camp is likewise very different from the prison camp of the
western front.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
“A war book that is readable on every page.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 40w
“The narrative is lively and humorous, and the author writes an easy
style. We ought to know more about the Turk’s character and habits
than we do: and the book before us will help our education and
stimulate our interest in the Ottoman barbarian.”
+ =Sat R= 128:614 D 27 ’19 260w
“The author tells the story in a straightforward conversational
manner. Humor is not the least of his characteristics, and he shows
ability to distinguish between the important and the nonessential.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 300w
“A vividly told tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 30w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 440w
=YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, ed. New world of science, il *$3 Century 509
20–18328
The book is one of the Century New world series and its object is to
show the impetus given to research in the various branches of science
by the war. The various chapters are written by specialists in the
subjects under discussion and the contents fall into groups according
to the role in the war of each science. The contributors to the
respective groups are: Physical science, Robert A. Millikan, Augustus
Trowbridge, Herbert E. Ives; Chemistry, Arthur A. Noyes, Charles E.
Munroe, Clarence J. West; The earth sciences (geography and geology),
Douglas W. Johnson; Engineering, A. D. Kennelly, Henry M. Howe;
Biology and medicine, Vernon Kellogg, Frederick F. Russell, John W.
Hanner, Victor C. Vaughan; Psychology, Robert M. Yerkes. The relations
of the war to progress in science is treated by George Ellery Hale and
James R. Angell. The book is illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“It is excellently illustrated; a record of great value and interest.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 270w
=YEZIERSKA, ANZIA, pseud.= Hungry hearts. *$1.90 (3c) Houghton
20–18936
The Russian immigrant in the ghetto, reaching out with hungry heart to
higher things, is the subject of this collection of sketches. There is
something fierce and savage and to our sober self-control almost
unreasonable in this cry for beauty, life and freedom that rings from
the heart of this oppressed race in the voice of one of their number.
The sketches are: Wings; Hunger; The lost “beautifulness”; The free
vacation house; The miracle; Where lovers dream; Soap and water; “The
fat of the land”; My own people; How I found America.
* * * * *
“Very intense, with a touch of sadness or bitterness here and there,
but vivid and appealing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
+ =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 120w
“The characters in these ten stories of imaginative squalor are truly
conceived as portraits, but their speech is too often falsely poetic,
Miss Yezierska has a firm command over her subject-matter; when she
restrains herself she is artistic.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 60w
“It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant books produced by an
adopted American.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:310 D ’20 150w
“When she leaves the East side neighborhood to which her art is native
she never quite has the look of reality. And yet she has struck one or
two notes that our literature can never again be without, and she
deserves the high credit of being one of the earliest to put those
notes into engaging fiction.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“When one considers her own struggles to become an American her
detachment strikes one as little short of miraculous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 190w
“Many realistic tales of New York’s ghetto have been written; but in
point of literary workmanship and in laying bare the very souls of her
characters, the superior of Miss Yezierska has not yet appeared.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 280w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 220w
“Quite in addition to fulfilling her purpose of making her
far-from-mute race even more articulate, Mrs Yezierska has succeeded
in making some very readable stories. They are not only Jewish; they
are human.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 190w
=YOAKUM, CLARENCE STONE, and YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, eds. Army mental
tests. il *$1.50 Holt 136
20–6757
“The purposes of psychological testing are (a) to aid in segregating
the mentally incompetent, (b) to classify men according to their
mental capacity, (c) to assist in selecting competent men for
responsible positions.” (Introd.) Although the results given in the
present volume are based almost entirely on military needs and
indicate the success of this service in the army, it has been prepared
in the hope that it may suggest possible uses of similar methods in
education and industry. Contents: Making the tests; Methods and
results; The examiner’s guide for psychological examining in the
army—Directions for giving the army mental tests; Army tests in the
Students’ army training corps and colleges; Practical applications;
Army test record blanks and forms.
* * * * *
“Suggestive to an instructor or employment manager, as it gives a
practical illustration of what might be done with these tests in a
commercial way.”
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
Reviewed by P. S. Florence
=Freeman= 1:477 Jl 28 ’20 250w
Reviewed by F. L. Wells
+ =J Philos= 17:304 My 20 ’20 550w
“If the American army was not actually as wonderful as the peruser of
these tests might suppose, we must realize that, as far as the theory
of mental tests is concerned, an exceedingly valuable piece of work
was nevertheless performed. They appear, as far as the reader can
judge, to have vindicated themselves completely.”
+ =Spec= 125:673 N 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 110w
=YORK, THOMAS A.= Foreign exchange; theory and practice. $2.50 Ronald
332.4
20–3331
“The author’s purpose is to explain the operation of the exchanges
between gold standard countries under normal financial conditions. In
the introductory chapters he discusses the meaning of the gold
standard, or what constitutes money in a gold standard country. A
hypothetical method of treatment is proposed in the theoretical part
of the discussion. In the last few chapters the hypothetical
assumptions are abolished and attention is given to practical foreign
exchange operations as conducted in the New York market.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:848 D ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 210w
=YOUNG, FLORENCE ETHEL MILLS.= Almonds of life. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–23027
When Fred Wootten marries a beautiful young wife and brings her home
to South Africa he surprises all his friends, not least of them George
and Maud Allerton. Mrs Allerton welcomes the bride and does all in her
power to make her happy in her new home. But neither she nor the
hapless husband is aware of the sudden passion that awakens between
George Allerton and Gerda Wootten and up to the moment of flight both
are unaware of what is impending. George and Gerda go to England.
Wootten is willing to set his wife free but for the sake of her
children Maud refuses to consider divorce. Eventually Gerda comes to
feel the guilt of her action and sends George from her. The title is
taken from a Chinese proverb, “Almonds come to those who have no
teeth.”
* * * * *
“The book is smoothly written, but it has no especial charm of style,
nor any particular quality either of discernment or of drama to
freshen its more than well-worn plot. The proofreading is strikingly
careless.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 150w
=Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 30w
“She has given George Allerton’s wife sterling qualities and then
wasted them all. The author, in fact, has taken throughout the book a
low view of love, and love has spread his wings and flown away. We
have seldom found so little love in a book which contained so much
talk of it. Being what it is, however, it is a well-told story.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 470w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Poems, 1916–1918. *$2 Dutton 821
20–9079
“This book contains poems which appeared in Mr Brett Young’s first
volume of verse, ‘Five degrees south.’ But there is a large number of
new poems.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p718 D 4 ’19) “Mr Brett
Young’s finer poems are of two kinds—reverie and fantasy. Both are in
the nature of dreams; the one a brooding on love or beauty, a scene, a
memory; the other on adventure, heathenish maybe, and magical, of the
imagination.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)
* * * * *
“His ardent appreciation of the richer, more obvious kinds of beauty
makes him a remarkably picturesque writer. He possesses, in modernized
form, a great measure of the talent of that much neglected writer,
Thomas Moore.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1335 D 12 ’19 240w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:434 O ’20 60w
“The difficulty is that Mr Young has not made his verse the true
instrument of his experiences. He writes about them, rather than
records them. And the way in which he writes about them is by echoing
other poets.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 320w
“Young has already made an enviable reputation as a prose writer, but
it is quite safe to assert that his poetry immediately gives him a
much higher place in English letters than he has occupied heretofore.
There is not a mediocre poem, not a verse without its modicum of
aesthetic satisfaction and impressionistic suggestion for the reader.
The reviewer can but advise lovers of poetry to secure it as soon as
possible.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 900w
“Mr Francis Brett Young tries experiments in metres that are more
crafty than wise. He is prone also to that kind of verse in which
things well said and things not nearly so well said are set forth in
undiscriminating proximity.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
“Mr Brett Young has a distinguished, ardent, and promising muse.”
+ =Spec= 122:177 F 7 ’20 400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 D 4 ’19 30w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 900w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Young physician. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8520
“This story proceeds by definite stages. First of all we have the boy
in the English public school. We find him suffering keenly from the
roughness and cruelty of public school life. His own escape from this
torment is in his dreams. He confides these dreams to his mother and
she responds with an understanding which tightened the bond between
them. After his mother has died, Edwin’s father has a period of
poignant self-revelation. He takes Edwin on a bicycle trip to the
country where his boyhood was spent. His father uses rather undue
influence in persuading him to give up his chosen career in order to
study medicine. It is easy to understand that the father longs to see
his own personal ambitions fulfilled in the boy, but after the first
Edwin himself becomes interested in the work. We see him in the
medical school, in the dissecting room. When he discovers late in his
medical school course that his father is planning to marry again,
Edwin is forced to leave home by an interior urge too strong to be
overborne. It is their definite point of cleavage.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Readable, yes, eminently readable—readable to a fault. If only Mr
Young could forget the impatient public and let himself be carried
away into places where he thinks they do not care to follow!” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1067 O 24 ’19 1100w
“Mr Young has given us a genuine achievement, one with real revelation
for every reader who likes to experience contact with the deeper
currents of individual life. Edwin Ingleby should, if this book has
the fate it deserves, become one of the characters with whom
acquaintance is considered a prerequisite of good taste in fiction.”
D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1250w
=Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 460w
“The book is an interesting, if somewhat morbid, study of life, as
seen by a youth in the egotistic years between boyhood and manhood.
The main theme is the hero himself—to the detriment of several
deserving minor characters.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:469 N 15 ’19 450w
“But for the episode of Rosie Beaucaire and one more rather tiresome
and trivial incident Mr Brett Young would have succeeded in producing
a long and interesting work of fiction in which the relations of sex
played no part whatever.”
+ − =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 200w
“Perhaps the most striking thing about the book is the ease with which
Mr Young blends poetry and realism—out of some such blend as this the
great novels of the next few decades must be written. Probably Mr
Young has not attained his finest balance yet. He seems to have the
power of using the modern spirit to classical ends.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 700w
“If more novelists wrote as well as Mr Brett Young, whose style is
attractively clear and simple, the world would be a happier place; but
manner is not everything, and the matter of Edwin Ingleby’s life is
comparatively wanting in dramatic interest. We wish the author could
convey to his imagination the very obvious zest which moves his pen.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 550w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT, and YOUNG, E. BRETT.= Undergrowth. *$2 Dutton
20–19050
“The story which it tells is the story of a conflict between modern
men and the ancient pagan forces, the ‘old gods’ who from prehistoric
times have dominated the lonely Welsh valley in which the action is
laid. This conflict manifests itself at once physically and
spiritually. Physically, in the endless series of accidents which
befall those engaged in building the great dam that is to restrain the
waters of the Dulas; spiritually, in their effect upon the characters
and souls of Forsyth, the young engineer with whose coming to take
charge of the work on the dam the book begins, and his predecessor,
Carlyon, the dead man whose diary and whose influence form important
parts of the narrative.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“As a short story, it would be a decided success, as a long one it is
overelaborated.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 370w
“‘Undergrowth’ is a novel of atmosphere. Characters and incidents
alike are of value to Mr Young only as they can help to make more
vivid the picture he is painting of the rugged, fear-inspiring
mountains of South Wales.” D. L. M.
+ =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 150w
“We wonder whether lack of conciseness, rather than any lack in
imagination or expression, is not the great rift in this book. And at
the last the imagination slips the noose. The book becomes
hysterical.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 460w
“The book is interesting, dramatic at times, and full of a strange,
compelling beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 740w
=YOUNG, GEOFFREY WINTHROP=, ed.[2] Mountain craft. il *$7.50 Scribner
796
“This book comprises 609 pages in all; about 394 pages are occupied by
Mr Young in person in a discussion of what he justly calls ‘Mountain
craft.’ Of the remainder, sixty-three are occupied by Mr Arnold Lunn
with a section on Mountaineering on ski, which leaves 162 pages for
eleven other contributors and the index.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 280w
“In the result the book is disproportioned and ill-arranged; it
affords some compensations. Mr Lunn’s article is a very valuable
treatise on a subject which deserves more attention. Captain Farrar
finds it possible in a small space to say all that is necessary about
equipment and outfit, writing, as he always does, with complete
mastery of detail and admirable conciseness. Mr Spenser on photography
is helpful and adequate.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 N 18 ’20 2300w
=YOUNG, GEORGE.= New Germany. *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt 943
(Eng ed 20–4808)
There is a note of optimism for Germany in this book—the Germany that
has learned “to lift up its eyes to the hills” in all its misery—and a
grave note of warning for the Entente. “The mistake we are all making
about Germany ... is that we can’t realize what Germany today is
like.... Germany has given up. It carried on until it collapsed, and
now lies semi-comatose; and we, still absorbed in our quarrel, keep
pestering it with solicitors and foreclosures instead of patching it
up with doctors and food.” The author is, since the armistice, a
special correspondent of the London Daily News in Germany. Contents:
The revolution; The reaction; The council republics; Ruin and
reconstruction; Council government; The treaty of Versailles; The
constitution. The appendix contains a copy of the constitution with
notes, and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:729 N ’20 180w
+ =Ath= p633 My 14 ’20 1050w
“This able analysis of a complicated situation makes good
supplementary reading to Keynes.”
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
“Admirable little book.” H: W. Nevinson
+ =Freeman= 1:404 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“On the whole, although necessarily impressionistic and journalistic
in character, the work is an intelligent account of the political
transformations in Germany since the armistice, lively and readable at
all times, penetrating and brilliant in places.”
+ =Nation= 111:77 Jl 17 ’20 280w
“Mr Young, it must be added, is a companionable guide to this unknown
land. He saw Germany in the fever of revolution, when to see it was an
adventure, and we doubt whether any observer who was there, German or
foreigner, saw half so much. He came to his work, moreover, with a
background of intimate knowledge of the old Germany. On the folly of
the peace treaty he writes with knowledge and with passion. Mr Keynes
from the outside has traced its economic effects. Mr Young from within
has sketched its no less tragic psychical results.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:816 Mr 13 ’20 1700w
“It is an expert view Young presents.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 23:129 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Mr Young’s interpretation is liberal and fairminded.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 800w
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“‘The new Germany’ is not a profound book and it is frequently marred
by bad writing, but it is one of the best accounts of political and
economic events in Germany since the armistice.”
+ − =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 40w
− =Spec= 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“The writer has first hand knowledge of German political and economic
conditions, and sound intelligence and an understanding of political
theory illuminate his judgments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 14 ’20 400w
“Mr Young has, as all who know his other writings would anticipate,
produced a book which is not only interesting and at times amusing and
clever, but also parts of which deserve serious consideration by
students of contemporary politics. Clever, perhaps too clever; for
some there will be too much of the cheap jest and the facile
alliteration. Mr Young has certainly done more than any other writer
to help us in understanding what happened.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p131 F 26 ’20 1400w
“Despite a journalistic fondness for euphuistic phrases in their
extreme form, Mr Young holds the reader’s attention. Of real value are
the final chapters on the new German constitution, and the appendix,
which contains the text of the constitution with illuminating
annotations.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 360w
=YOUNG, P. N. F., and FERRERS, AGNES.=[2] India in conflict. *$1.40
Macmillan 266
“This ambitious title covers a manual for missionary workers in India.
But the authors—representatives of the Anglican church—know that India
is more interesting than missions, and it is of India that they write.
In a hundred and fifty pages they give the reader a clear impression
of the ignorance and poverty met in the teeming native villages, and
of the obstacles to true missionary work springing from the fact that
even if the ill-paid missionary lives in the poorest, barest cabin, he
seems a marvel of wealth to most natives. They define the great needs
of rural India as, first, medical aid, and second, schools of a
Montessori type.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 110w
“An instructive study of Indian conditions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=YOUNG, W. A.= Silver and Sheffield plate collector. (Collector’s ser.)
il *$2.50 Dodd 739
(Eng ed 20–26554)
“A guide to English domestic metal work in old silver and old
Sheffield plate.” (Sub-title) In view of the considerable literature
already gathered around the above subject the author avers that no
previous writer has surveyed the field solely from the standpoint of
domestic requirements and that “the present volume seeks to furnish
something about any and every class of article made of silver or
Sheffield plate that was made between the years 1697 and 1840,
provided it was of such sort as might have had a place in the homes,
or about the persons of the well-to-do and middle classes.” (Introd.)
Contents: Some history and a little law; Some sources of information;
Marks on old metal wares; The craft of the silversmith and the plater;
Six chapters on “The quest” for the various kinds of utensils;
Bibliography; A glossary of terms used in connection with the
silversmiths’ craft and the plater’s trade; Appendix; Index and over
one hundred illustrations.
* * * * *
“Mr Young’s introduction is valuable and interesting, as is his first
chapter. The illustrations are well chosen and excellently
reproduced.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 100w
=YOUNGHUSBAND, SIR GEORGE JOHN.=[2] Jewel house. il $5 Doran 739
A work by the Keeper of the jewel house in the Tower of London. “Some
of the most interesting chapters in the book are those devoted to the
description of the chief pieces of the regalia and to the history of
the more famous gems. There is a full account of the sovereign’s three
crowns—Edward the Confessor’s crown, the Imperial state crown, and the
Imperial crown of India—of the Queen’s crowns, the Prince of Wales’s
crown as eldest son of the king, and the different sceptres and orbs.
The Koh-i-nur is, of course, one of the historic jewels dealt with by
Sir George in a special chapter. Another gem with a story is the Black
Prince’s ruby, presented to him after the battle of Najera by his ally
Don Pedro of Castille.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p10 D 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 680w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p696 O 28 ’20 1300w
Z
=ZAMACOÏS, EDUARDO.= Their son; The necklace. (Penguin ser.) *$1.25
(3½c) Boni & Liveright
19–18640
Two stories translated from the Spanish by George Allan England. In
the first, an honest, faithful, industrious locomotive engineer
marries a young girl of provocative beauty. In his zeal to get on, and
to provide properly for her in case he should suddenly die, he insists
on their taking as boarder a friend of his who is fond of “wine,
women, and song.” Not until three years pass does he learn that his
friend has been too intimate with his wife; and although he knows it
must cost him his home, his delight in his wife and his gay little
son, he kills his deceiving friend in a duel. After twenty years in
prison he returns to a wife hardened and made ugly by work, and a
dissolute son. He is happy again, prosperity comes; but another duel
occurs through no fault of his, in which he is killed by the son who
is not his son. The second is a passionate story of the power of a
courtesan over a young student from the country. The translator
contributes an appreciative estimate of the author.
* * * * *
“‘Their son’ is a novelette of a very high order of merit. The action
is rapid, the pathos bare and virile, the observation of circumstance
exact. ‘The necklace’ is more hectic in atmosphere and the theft of
the jewels is somewhat wildly conceived.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 150w
“The themes of both of the novelettes are antique, but the style is
direct, simple and vigorous. Here is a book worth reading.” A. W.
Welch
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 280w
“We predict for Señor Zamacois a high appreciation among American
readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 750w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 150w
“This author has been compared to both Balzac and Maupassant; but it
seems to us that his nearest double in French fiction would be Anatole
France, with whom he has in common a fine irony which directs the
thought of the reader to fundamental ills in present-day social
relationships.”
+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 200w
=ZANELLA, NORA.= By the waters of Fiume. *$1.35 (*3s 6d) Longmans
940.3436
20–4795
“This little book purports to have been written by an English girl who
married a young Italian of Fiume just before the war. The husband had
to serve as a conscript in the Austrian army, and was shot for
refusing to fire on the Italians. The wife survived him only a few
months. Whether or not the story is true it represents faithfully
enough the Italian sentiments of the majority of the people of Fiume
and their sufferings during a war in which all their sympathies were
with the Allies and against their Austrian and Croatian oppressors.”
(Spec) The facts of the author’s life are told by her sister, Madame
de Lucchi, in an introduction.
* * * * *
“You can tell what Fiume is like by reading the early pages of this
book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 260w
=Spec= 123:446 O 4 ’19 100w
“It is a moving record of love, expressed with great exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 70w
=ZILBOORG, GREGORY.= Passing of the old order in Europe. *$2.50 (4c)
Seltzer 940.5
The author has lived through the war as an observer and is not writing
an academic treatise or a book based on authorities but claims merely
to be analysing his own experiences. It is his conviction that “in the
course of the struggles of the present-day world, humanity has
developed a very serious disease.... The disease is mob psychosis. The
contagion was carried by the war, by revolution, by political lying,
by diplomatic betrayal, social disturbances and moral suppression.”
(Introd.) The book concerns itself with the diagnosis of the disease
and the possibilities of restoring health. Contents: The impasse of
politics; The debauch of European thought; The morass of war; The
recovery of revolution; Revolutionary contradictions; Additional
contemplations; Light and shadows; Consequences and possibilities.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 62:558 D ’20 120w
“It is an important contribution, full of apposite citation from an
unusually wide range of knowledge and personal experience of
penetrating criticism and suggestive generalization. This message just
now deserves a wide hearing.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 560w
=ZIMMERN, HELEN, and AGRESTI, ANTONIO.= New Italy. *$2 (3c) Harcourt
914.5
(Eng ed 19–264)
The authors say in the foreword that Italy’s glorious past stands in
the way of comprehension of her present, that she is still for the
average Englishman and American the land of the renaissance and the
Risorgimento, or the country of the picturesque brigand and lazzarone,
while in fact the modern Italian is not a romanticist but a
positivist, not an excitable, emotional individual but a reflective
one. The great change that has come over the people, especially during
the last twenty years, has surprised even the nation itself into
knowing itself for the first time. The endeavor of the book is to give
a short, synthetic view of Italy as she was at the outbreak of the
war, as she is today and as she is likely to be after the conclusion
of peace, for Italy’s entrance into the war marks the end of the book.
The three main divisions of the contents are politics, civil
questions, and Italy and the great war. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“They know and love the old Italy, and they have packed much valuable
information into their book, despite haphazard statistics and
recurrent bellicose homilies on the war. There is need of an
authoritative book on new Italy; this is not it.”
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 220w
“The book provides a certain amount of guidebook information about
Italian history, education, industry, etc. But, as an interpretation
of ‘New Italy,’ it is a total failure.” A. C. Freeman
− + =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 580w
“The volume as a whole is thoroughly satisfactory, and our only regret
is that its brief compass does not permit a fuller development of the
subjects with which it deals.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:14 Je 27 ’20 700w
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 80w
“Miss Helen Zimmern and Signor Agresti have tried to explain modern
Italy to English readers, and their survey is both compact and
intelligent. The writers have not quite got to the root of Italy’s
discontents.”
+ − =Sat R= 125:848 S 14 ’18 1050w
=Spec= 121:231 Ag 31 ’18 1400w
“So far as it goes it gives a clear outline of the progress of Italy.
But her present developments are among the most interesting in all
Europe, and this book, ending the survey where it does, hardly
prepares us to understand them.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 23 ’20 280w
“She has written numerous books on Italy, and she has written better
ones, not a little better.” F. O. Beck
+ − =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 15 ’18 110w
=ZOOK, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Company of royal adventurers trading into
Africa. $1.10 Journal of negro history, 1216 You st., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 382
20–4623
This monograph is reprinted from the Journal of negro history, (April,
1919) and is a contribution to the history of the slave trade. The
time period covered is 1660–1672. Contents: Early Dutch and English
trade to West Africa; The royal adventurers in England; On the west
coast of Africa; The royal adventurers and the plantations;
Bibliography; Index. The author is professor of modern European
history in Pennsylvania state college.
* * * * *
“On the whole Dr Zook has presented a clear and straightforward
account of the company’s activities and relationships.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:541 Ap ’20 550w
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:523 Je ’20 400w
=ZWEMER, SAMUEL MARINUS.= Influence of animism on Islam; an account of
popular superstitions. il *$2 Macmillan 297
20–8879
The object of the book is to show how animism, the superstitious
belief in spirits, witches and demons, on which all pagan religions
are founded, still controls Islam in its popular manifestations.
Mohammedanism, as an outgrowth of paganism, Judaism and Christianity,
is characterized as a religion of compromise, that has easily yielded
to the pagan survivals in the countries over which it has spread its
influence. That these superstitions are popular expressions that have
nothing to do with the monotheism of Islam, does not make them less
pernicious. The contents are: Islam and animism; Animism in the creed
and the use of the rosary; Animistic elements in Moslem prayer; Hair,
finger-nails and the hand; The ‘Aqiqa’ sacrifice; The familiar spirit
or Qarina; Jinn; Pagan practices in connection with the pilgrimage;
Magic and sorcery; Amulets, charms and knots; Tree, stone and serpent
worship; The Zar: exorcism of demons. There are illustrations and a
bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
=Lit D= p102 S 4 ’20 1600w
=N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 4 ’20 1000w
“His book is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 150w
Footnote 2:
This book is mentioned for the first time in this issue.
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Agricultural education
Development of agricultural instruction in secondary schools. H. P.
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Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
Chosen and annotated for general libraries by the Applied Science
Reference Department Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nos. 14–17 FEBRUARY, 1921
=Fuel oil in industry.= S. O. Andros. Shaw pub. co. 244p. $3.75.
A timely book giving information about the properties of fuel
oil, its value as compared with coal, and details of methods
of using it in industrial plants, locomotives, steamships,
heating of buildings, etc. Contains a chapter on colloidal
fuel, which consists of pulverized coal held in suspension in
oil.
Author is editor of _Oil News_.
=Inventions=; their development, purchase and sale. W. F. Baff.
Van Nostrand. 230p. $2.00.
Written by a patent attorney, the book discusses how an
inventor, having secured his patent, may sell or otherwise
realize on it, the many points being considered in detail.
=Boy bird house architecture.= L. H. Baxter. Bruce. 61p. $1.00.
Designed to encourage a liking for birds, to teach something of
their habits, how to construct and put up houses to attract
the various kinds of birds, and how to conduct bird house
contests. Illustrated with half-tones and twenty plates of
drawings showing details of design and construction of bird
houses, and feeding devices.
Author is director of Manual Training, Public Schools, St.
Johnsbury, Vermont.
=Armature winding and motor repair=; practical information and
data covering winding and reconnecting procedure for direct and
alternating current machines, compiled for electrical men
responsible for the operation and repair of motors and
generators in industrial plants and for repairmen and armature
winders in electrical shops. D. H. Braymer. McGraw. 515p. $3.00.
A practical book for repairmen who have to do with the locating
of troubles and the repair of electric motors in repair shop
work, power station work, and industrial plants. The matter is
for the most part a compilation from various sources.
Author is managing editor of _Electrical World_.
=Forest products: their manufacture and use.= N. C. Brown. Wiley.
471p. $3.75.
Treats of the production, manufacture and use of many important
forest products, but not of lumber. Chapters are devoted to
wood pulp and paper; tanning materials; veneers; cooperage;
turpentine, tar, pitch; wood distillation; charcoal; railroad
ties; piles and piling; posts; mine timbers; fuelwood;
shingles; maple syrups and sugar; rubber; dyewoods and
materials; excelsior; cork. A bibliography accompanies each of
the 22 chapters.
Author is professor of forest utilization, New York College of
Forestry, Syracuse University.
=The wireless experimenter’s manual, incorporating “How to conduct
a radio club.”= Describes parliamentary procedure in the
formation of a radio club; the design of wireless transmitting
and receiving apparatus, long distance receiving sets, vacuum
tube amplifiers, radio telegraph and telephone sets, the tuning
and calibration of transmitters and receivers, general radio
measurements and many other features. Completely revised and
rewritten. E. E. Bucher. Wireless press. 350p. $2.25.
One of the best books for the amateur wireless experimenter.
Author is instructing engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of America.
=The essentials of business law.= rev. ed. F. M. Burdick.
Appleton. 361p.
A high school text-book, plainly written, designed to teach
“those legal principles and ideas involved in ordinary
business affairs,” and some of their applications.
The last previous ed. was published in 1908; the present ed. has
been revised and the necessary changes made to bring it into
conformity with present day practice.
Author is Dwight professor of law in Columbia University Law
School.
=How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm.=
H. C. Campbell. Stanton. $2.00.
Contains plain directions for using concrete for the usual
purposes in town and country, and in addition tells how to
construct tennis courts, flower boxes, lawn seats, etc. Fully
illustrated.
=What bird is that?= A pocket museum of the land birds of the
Eastern United States arranged according to season. F. M.
Chapman. Appleton. $1.25.
Eight colored plates, supposed to represent as many cases in a
natural history museum and showing pictures of three hundred
birds arranged according to season, in their proper colors and
drawn to scale. The text of this book gives an entry for each
one of the birds, describing its appearance, its length in
inches, its range, the dates of its arrival in various places,
its habits, and refers by number to its picture in the colored
plates.
Author is curator of birds in the American Museum of Natural
History.
=Language for men of affairs.= 2 v. Ronald. 1136p. $8.00.
V. 1. Talking business. J. M. Clapp. Considers voice production,
enunciation, vocabulary, construction of sentences, and
business conversation. Has sections on the preparation and
delivery of business addresses.
Author is lecturer on the language of business, New York
University.
V. 2. Business writing. J. M. Lee. ed. Considers business
English in written form for correspondence, advertising,
journalism, report-writing, preparing copy for the printer,
proof-reading, etc.
Editor is director, department of journalism, College of the
City of New York.
The work is an important contribution to the literature of the
subject and valuable to executives, salesmen and others
engaged in business.
=The hen at work=: a brief manual of home poultry culture. Ernest
Cobb. Putnam. 233p. $1.50.
A book on keeping hens for egg production. Considers breeds,
housing, hatching, raising chickens, diseases, etc. Contains a
chapter on ducks.
=American machinists’ handbook and dictionary of shop terms=: a
reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods
and definitions. 3d. ed. thoroughly rev. and enl. F. H. Colvin
and F. A. Stanley. McGraw. 758p. $4.00.
Revision of a standard machine shop and drafting room reference
book, enlarged by 160 pages above the last previous ed.,
published in 1914, and the original text revised where
necessary.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of
_American Machinist_.
=Automotive ignition systems=; prepared in the extension division
of the University of Wisconsin. E. L. Consoliver, and G. I.
Mitchell. McGraw. 269p. $2.50 (Engineering education series)
Correspondence school text book dealing plainly with the various
gasoline engine ignition systems used on automobiles, trucks,
tractors and airplanes. Addressed to workers who have to
install, adjust, and repair ignition systems in factories and
shops, and to automobile owners.
Authors are connected with the mechanical engineering
department, University of Wisconsin.
=Submarine warfare of today=; how the submarine menace was met and
vanquished, with descriptions of the inventions and devices
used, fast boats, mystery ships, nets, aircraft, etc., also
describing the selection and training of the enormous personnel
used in this new navy. C. W. Domville-Fife. Lippincott. 304p.
$2.25. (Science of today series)
An interesting, popularly written book. Describes conditions as
they were at the beginning of the war, and tells of the
measures adopted and the devices employed to meet the
submarine menace by convoying ships, laying mines, and
destroying enemy submarines. Fully illustrated.
Author was of the staff of the British school of submarine
mining, and has written other books on submarines.
=Traveling salesmanship.= A. W. Douglas. Macmillan. 153p. $1.75.
“This little book is not merely the usual study of the
psychology of Salesmanship, but rather the result of forty
years’ close contact with the traveling salesmen of one of the
largest distributing mercantile organizations of this
country.” _Preface._
Contains chapters on the nature and function of salesmanship,
preparations for the road, work on the road, contact with
customers, competition and prices, some phases of selling,
claims, the human equation.
The author is chairman, committee on statistics of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
=Experimental wireless stations; their theory, design,
construction and operation; including wireless telephony, vacuum
tube and quenched spark systems=; a complete elementary course
of instruction in and on account of sharply tuned modern
wireless installations. New 1920 ed. P. E. Edelman. Henley.
392p. $3.00.
A revised and enlarged edition of a successful amateur’s book on
wireless communication. Some knowledge of the fundamentals of
electricity and mathematics on the part of the reader is
presupposed.
=Direct-current motor and generator troubles.= T. S. Gandy and E.
C. Schacht. McGraw. 270p. $2.50.
A book for the man concerned with the selection, operation, care
and repair of direct-current electrical machinery. Discusses
types of motors and generators, and their uses; their
installation, starting and operation; switchboards; troubles
and their remedies; tests and repairs, etc.
Senior author is designing electrical engineer of direct-current
machinery, General Electric Company.
=Advanced shop drawing=; prepared in the extension division of the
University of Wisconsin. V. C. George. McGraw. 147p. $1.60.
Correspondence school text book. A book for the student who,
having had training in elementary mechanical drawing requires
practice in its applications to special phases of the subject.
The book has chapters on working drawings; gearing; isometric,
cabinet and shaded drawings; patent office, structural and
electrical drawings; piping layouts, and sheet metal work.
Well illustrated with line drawings.
Author is instructor in mechanical engineering, University of
Wisconsin.
=Every step in canning=: the cold-pack process. G. V. Gray.
Forbes. 253p. $1.25.
Plain directions for canning in glass and tin by the one period,
cold-pack process. Tells how to can fruits and vegetables; to
make and can soups, jellies, jams and preserves; to dry fruits
and vegetables; to cure, smoke and preserve meats; to preserve
eggs, etc.
Addressed to those who are concerned with canning and preserving
at home.
Author was formerly associate professor of home economics, Iowa
State College.
=Food facts for the home-maker.= L. S. Harvey. Houghton. 314p.
$2.50.
“This book is intended to be a help to the young housekeeper who
is starting out in the new home without either a knowledge of
science or the technical training which could help her. The
book is also intended to help those women who have kept house
for years and who are excellent cooks and careful planners. It
should give a scientific foundation to their technical
skill ... perhaps showing them ways in which they may shorten
processes and thus save time and energy.” _Preface._
Considers the various articles of diet and their food values,
kitchen arrangement and equipment, buying food for infants and
young children, school children, invalids. Contains recipes,
and could supplement cook books.
Partly based on lectures to classes. Author is town dietitian,
Brookline, Mass.
=Concrete work=; a book to aid the self-development of workers in
concrete and for students in engineering. W. K. Hatt and W. C.
Voss. v. 1. Wiley. 451p. $4.00. (Wiley technical series:
Industrial texts).
The first book in a series of industrial texts written by
teachers who trained men in military schools during the War,
the methods and materials worked out in that practice being
utilized in the preparation of these texts. The object of the
authors is to present scientific principles with their
practical applications in a manner intelligible to the worker
or novice in concrete work, in order to enable him to fit
himself for a foreman’s position or enter into business as a
local contractor. The present work is in 2 vols., the second
of which is now in press, and the matter is so arranged that
the two should be used together.
Authors are respectively professor of civil engineering, Purdue
University, and head, department of architectural
construction, Wentworth Institute.
=Motor car upholstering=; a plainly written book on the
fundamentals of motor car trimming and upholstering. Phila.,
Hirst-Roger Co. 180p. $2.50.
Designed as an instruction book in vehicle trimming for men
taking up that kind of work. Describes the materials, tools
and methods employed, and contains many illustrations.
The matter is well prepared and reliable.
Trade publication of a firm which manufactures automobile
carpets.
=The new stone age.= H. E. Howe. Century. 289p. $3.00.
By the “new stone age” is meant the age of concrete
construction. The present book, written for the layman, tells
of the materials employed and of many uses to which they are
applied. The treatment is general, no details being given. A
timely book in view of the wide field of applications of
concrete in building and engineering work.
=The new merchant marine.= E. N. Hurley. Century. 296p. $3.00.
The former chairman of the United States Shipping Board tells in
this book of how the problem of supplying ships for war
demands was met, and discusses the future of the American
merchant marine, foreign fields of commerce and related
topics.
=Elements of retail salesmanship.= P. W. Ivey. Macmillan. 247p.
A text-book for store classes in salesmanship, or for individual
reading. Author writes from personal experience and bases his
book on lectures to store classes. Considers knowing the
goods, knowing the customer, personality, the selling process,
and store system and method. Problems are provided for each of
the nine chapters, and a bibliography of business books is
appended.
Author is associate professor of economics and commerce,
University of Nebraska.
=The engines of the human body=, being the substance of Christmas
lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
Christmas 1916–1917. Arthur Keith. Lond. Williams. 204p. 12s.
6d.
At the Christmas holiday season the Royal Institution of Great
Britain invites some eminent scientist to deliver popular
lectures to young people. In the lectures which make up this
book the author considers the human body from an engineering
standpoint: the bones as levers, the muscles as internal
combustion engines, the heart as a pump, the nerves as a
telephone system, etc. It is an interesting boys’ book on
physiology, and would interest some more mature readers.
=Splendors of the sky.= I. E. Lewis. Duffield 343p. $1.50.
Interesting chapters on astronomy written for the general
reader. Valuable as a popular account of recent progress in
astronomy. Illustrated. Appeared originally in a daily
newspaper.
=Artificial light, its influence upon civilization.= M. Luckiesch.
Century. 366p. $2.50. (The century books of useful science.)
The author traces the methods of producing and uses of
artificial lighting from its earliest forms of which we have
knowledge to the present day, and considers how human progress
has been advanced by the overcoming of darkness. The book is
interestingly written and well illustrated.
Author is director of applied science, Nela research laboratory,
National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company.
=The motor cycle handbook=: the construction, operation, care and
repair of modern types of motor cycles, their accessories and
equipment. H. P. Manly. Drake. 320p. $1.50.
A practical book describing and illustrating in considerable
detail various types of motor cycles, their engines, fuel
systems, electrical equipment, transmissions, running gear,
etc. Contains chapters on power attachments and side cars, and
on motor cycle repairs.
The author has written several practical books on the
automobile.
=Automobile electric systems=; an analysis of all the systems now
used on motor cars with 200 wiring diagrams and giving special
attention to trouble shooting and repairs. D. P. Moreton and D.
S. Hatch. 591p. $3.50.
Describes and illustrates in detail the various electrical
installations employed in igniting the gas, starting the motor
and supplying light for the lamps of automobiles of all types.
Particular attention is given to systems used on Ford cars.
The book is addressed to car owners and repairmen, and some
knowledge of the fundamental principles of the electric
circuit is presupposed.
The same authors’, “Electrical equipment of the motor car”, (U.
P. C. book co., 1920, $3.50) considers the more elementary
phases of the subject, without describing the special
installations which form the subject of the more recent book.
Senior author is associate professor of electrical engineering,
Armour Institute of Technology.
=Practical trade mathematics for electricians, machinists,
carpenters, plumbers and others.= J. A. Moyer and C. H. Sampson.
Wiley. 172p. $1.50.
A practical elementary mathematics for adult students. All the
problems relate to operations familiar to the men in their
various occupations, and unusual mathematical terms are
avoided. Numerous problems and worked-out examples are
provided, the electrical problems being grouped separately.
Senior author was formerly in charge of division of electrical
calculations in the General Electric Company; the junior
author is head of technical and mathematical departments,
Huntington School, Boston, Mass.
=Interior electric wiring.= A. L. Nelson. American Technical
Society. 265p. $2.50.
A practical book, of the correspondence school type, on the
installation of electric wiring in buildings, with directions
for wiring for special purposes.
=Shop mathematics=; a treatise on applied mathematics dealing with
various machine-shop and tool-room problems, and containing
numerous examples illustrating their solution and the practical
application of useful rules and formulas. Erik Oberg and F. D.
Jones. Industrial press. 280p. $3.00.
A practical mathematics designed to teach the machinist or
apprentice learning machine shop practice how to perform the
calculating necessary in his work.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of
_Machinery_.
=The English of commerce.= J. B. Opdycke. Scribner. 435p. $2.00.
A high school text-book teaching the choice of words, spelling,
construction of sentences, paragraphs and letters for business
purposes. Contains also sections on newspapers and magazines,
advertising, business talk, sales and advertising literature,
abbreviations and special terms, proofreading, business forms,
etc. Examples of good and bad usage are given in the various
sections. The book could be studied with profit by young
business people who have gone through school without
instruction in the writing of business English.
=Motor boats and boat motors=; design, construction, operation and
repair; a complete handbook for all interested in motor boats,
considering all details of modern hulls and marine motors. Deals
with boat construction, design and types of power plants,
installation of engines, and all phases of motor boat and engine
care, operation and repair. Written by a corps of experts;
compiled and edited by V. W. Page. Includes complete working
drawings and full instructions for building five boats, ranging
in size from a sixteen-foot general utility model to a
twenty-five foot raised cabin cruiser, by A. C. Leitch. A
special chapter on seaplanes and flying boats is included. Fully
illustrated with 374 illustrations. Henley. 524p. $4.00.
Part I. The hull and fittings.
Part II. The power plant and its auxiliaries.
A useful book for all interested in motor boats; their design,
construction, equipment, navigation and care. Well
illustrated, the plans of boat design being drawn to scale.
=Pitman’s common commodities and industries.= Pitman. $1.00. 2s.
6d.
A collection of thin monographs, written in nontechnical style
by authoritative British authors for the general reader.
Suitable for general libraries. About thirty volumes have
appeared. The following are recent publications:
Furniture. H. E. Binstead.
Carpets and the carpet trade. R. S. Brinton.
Knitted fabrics. J. T. Chamberlain and J. H. Quilter.
Zinc and its alloys. T. E. Lones.
Clays and clay products. A. H. Searle.
Asbestos. A. L. Summers.
Gas and gas making. W. H. Y. Webber.
Coal. F. H. Wilson.
Cordage and cordage hemp. T. Woodhouse and R. Kilgour.
=Personal efficiency in business.= E. E. Purinton. McBride. 341p.
$1.60.
Interesting discussion of business efficiency principles and
methods, for the guidance of business men ambitious to succeed
in office work, salesmanship or as executives.
=Technical writing.= T. A. Rickard. Wiley. 178p. $1.50.
An instructive book on the writing of English as it applies to
engineering reports, papers, articles for the press, etc.
Numerous examples of bad grammar, incorrect use of words and
faulty construction of sentences are provided, and much good
advice on correct technical writing is given. The matter is
based on lectures delivered before engineering classes.
Author is editor of the _Mining and Scientific Press_.
=House painting, glazing, paper hanging and whitewashing=: a book
for the householder. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. A. H. Sabin. Wiley.
143p. $1.00.
Instructive book for householders interested in knowing about
materials and methods employed in exterior and interior house
painting, varnishing, painting structural metal,
floor-finishing, glazing, papering, whitewashing, kalsomining,
mixing paints, etc. A book for the amateur.
Author is consulting chemist of the National Lead Company, and
writes from large experience in paint and varnish
manufacturing.
=Bricklaying in modern practice.= Stewart Scrimshaw. Macmillan.
182p. $1.20.
An elementary text-book designed to teach the fundamentals of
the bricklaying trade, and a source of information concerning
the trade. Emphasis is placed upon trade ethics and
Americanization. Considers briefly the history of bricklaying,
materials of the trade, tools and apparatus, practical
bricklaying, special phases of bricklaying, theory of the
trade, safety and hygiene, economics of bricklaying, the
bricklayers relation to the public trade organizations,
apprenticeship. Each of the eleven chapters is followed by a
summary, questions, and literature references.
Author is supervisor of apprenticeship for the State of
Wisconsin.
=Pattern making.= J. A. Shelley. Industrial Press. 332p. $3.00.
Practical book on the making of wood patterns and core-boxes for
foundry castings. Explains and illustrates in detail actual
operations in laying out and constructing patterns and
core-boxes; the tools, machinery and materials employed, and
contains other information valuable to the pattern maker and
student. Fully illustrated with original halftones and line
drawings.
Author is instructor in pattern making, Pratt Institute, and
writes from experience as a practical pattern maker.
=The world’s food resources.= J. R. Smith. Holt. 634p. $3.50.
An interesting book on the world’s food resources of all kinds;
where and how produced, the possibilities of increasing
production and of employing foods not now estimated at their
real value. Considers also the cost of production of various
foodstuffs in comparison with their nutritive values and, in
general, the whole question of food supply from an economic
standpoint.
Author is professor of economic geography in Columbia
University.
=Industrial Spanish.= C. F. Sparkman. Allyn. 259p. $1.40.
A Spanish reader entirely in the Spanish language, providing
reading exercises relating to the trades, business,
manufactures, engineering, agriculture, professions, etc.,
with many illustrations. A section on grammar and a vocabulary
are appended.
Author is assistant professor of Spanish, Purdue University.
=The practice of presswork.= C. R. Spicher. Pittsburgh. Author.
240p. $3.60.
Authoritative, practical book describing the mechanism and
operation of various types of printing presses; the
“make-ready” operation for printing; printing inks; rollers,
etc. Contains chapters on automatic feeders, paper-making,
typesetting machines, photo-engraving, electric drive.
A good text-book for schools where printing is taught, and
contains much that is instructive for those who are interested
in printing and photo-engraving for advertising or other
purposes.
Author is instructor in presswork, Carnegie Institute of
Technology.
=Swoope’s lessons in practical electricity=; an elementary text
book. Ed. 16, rewritten, revised and enlarged by H. N. Stillman
and Erich Hausmann. Van Nostrand. 625p. $2.50.
A complete revision of a good elementary textbook which has been
largely used for nearly twenty years. In the present edition
the matter has been brought up to date and some additional
chapters added. It is a valuable text-book for schools or for
home study.
Dr Hausmann, the surviving reviser, is professor of physics at
the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
=Tires and vulcanizing=; a comprehensive and practical manual of
rubber tires, tire repairing and vulcanizing, including all
necessary information and instructions on rubber, compounds,
cotton and repair materials; the construction of pneumatic tires
together with their use, injuries and abuse. H. H. Tufford.
Henley. 410p. $2.00.
An instruction book for beginners or for those employed in tire
repairing, describing in detail the materials, tools and
operations employed in the various processes. The book is
plainly written and illustrated.
Author was formerly chief vulcanizing instructor in a U. S. army
school.
=Operation and care of vehicle-type batteries.= (Prepared with the
cooperation of the construction division of the Army, War
Department.) Wash., Government Printing office. 94p. Paper 30c.
(U.S. Bureau of Standards circular, No. 92.)
An authoritative book on storage batteries for electric tractors
and trucks. Describes in detail lead-acid and iron-nickel
types of batteries, their construction, testing, charging,
storage, etc. Contains U. S. Government specifications and a
glossary of terms.
=A practical course in roof framing=; the underlying principles
and their application to practical work, especially written for
foremen, journeymen and apprentice woodworkers, and as a
textbook for schools. R. M. Van Gaasbeek. Drake. 151p. $1.50.
Plainly written, practical home study book for carpenters and
apprentices, or a text book for trade schools. Illustrated
with 72 line drawings and halftones made for the book.
Author is head of department of woodworking, Pratt Institute.
=Electric welding.= Ethan Viall.
A comprehensive treatise, largely a compilation from various
sources, describing the apparatus and operations employed in
arc and resistance welding for manufacturing and repairing
purposes. The different makes of apparatus now in use are
described and illustrated, and many examples of work performed
are given. Contains chapters on the physical properties and
metallurgy of arc-fused steels. The book is fully illustrated.
Author is editor of _American Machinist_.
=Furniture for small houses=; a book of designs for inexpensive
furniture with new methods of construction and decoration. P. A.
Wells. Lond., Batsford, and N. Y. Dutton. 35p. text, and 57
plates. 10½ × 7½ in. 12s. 6d. American price $7.00.
An English book of furniture for small town and country houses.
The articles are severely plain in design, small in size, and
inexpensive to make. An experienced amateur could make any of
the pieces. Pictures of the furniture and detailed drawing for
its construction are given.
Author is head of cabinet department, London County Council
Shoreditch Technical School, where all the furniture shown in
the book was originally made. The text describes the woods
used and decorations employed.
=The automobile repairman’s helper=; a pocket book for the
mechanic, owner, chauffeur, and student, covering every trouble
likely to be found in all the standard cars and including
chapters on inspection and lubrication, drills, taps and lathes,
welding storage, batteries, cylinder and piston ring work,
bearings, axle adjustments, repairing tops, mudguards, lamps,
etc. 2v. S. T. Williams. Each vol. has 448p. $3.00 per vol.
V. 1 appeared in 1918.
The books contain plain instructions for performing all kinds of
repair work on automobiles. Fully illustrated.
=Modern pulp and paper-making=; a practical treatise. G. S.
Witham, Sr. The chemical catalog company, inc. 599p. $6.00.
Treats in a practical manner of the materials, plant, and all
the operations employed in the production of pulp and paper,
according to American practice, quite the best practical book
on the subject and valuable in any community where the paper
industry is carried on. Paper manufacturers, dealers, salesmen
and others interested in the subject, may gain much
information from the book.
Author is manager of Mills, Union Bag and Paper Corporation,
Hudson Falls, N.Y.
=Clothing=; choice, care, cost. M. S. Woolman. Lippincott. 289p.
(Lippincott’s family life series.)
An instructive book on the clothing and accessories which make
up the wardrobe, especially of women and children. Describes
the various materials: cotton, linen, silk, and leather, and
discusses their uses, cost, care and repair. Contains chapters
on thrift, shopping, dyeing, laundry, spot removal, and
related matter.
Author writes from experience as teacher and textile specialist.
Subject, Title and Pseudonym Index
To Author Entries, March, 1920—February, 1921
A. E. F. Skillman, W. R. (Je ’20)
Abandoned farmers. Cobb, I. S. (D ’20)
Abbotscourt. Ayscough, J:, pseud. (Je ’20)
=Ability tests=
Goddard, H: H. Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. (D
’20)
Trabue, M. R., and Stockbridge, F. R. Measure your mind. (My ’20)
Yoakum, C. S., and Yerkes, R. M., eds. Army mental tests. (My ’20)
About it and about. Willoughby, D. (D ’20)
Abraham Lincoln. Hill, J: W. (Ja ’21)
Accepting the universe. Burroughs, J: (N ’20)
=Accounting=
Carthage, P. I. Retail organization and accounting control. (Ja
’21)
Hodge, A. C., and McKinsey, J. O. Principles of accounting (D ’20)
=Acids=
Adlam, G: H: J. Acids, alkalis and salts. (Jl ’20)
Acquisitive society. Tawney, R: H: (Ja ’21)
Adam of Dublin. O’Riordan, C. O. (Ja ’21)
=Adams, Charles Francis, 1807–1886=
Adams, C: F., and others. Cycle of Adams letters. (Ja ’21)
=Adams, Charles Francis, 1835–1915=
Adams, C: F., and others. Cycle of Adams letters. (Ja ’21)
=Adams, Henry, 1838–1918=
Adams, C: F., and others. Cycle of Adams letters. (Ja ’21)
Adams, H: Letters to a niece and prayer to the Virgin of Chartres.
(Ja ’21)
Administration of village and consolidated schools. Finney, R. L.,
and Schafer, A. L. (Ag ’20)
Adolescent girl. Blanchard, P. M. (Ag ’20)
Adorable dreamer. Kirby, E. (O ’20)
Advancing hour. Hapgood, N. (O ’20)
Adventure in working-class education. Mansbridge, A. (D ’20)
Adventurers of Oregon. Skinner, C. L. (D ’20)
Adventures and enthusiasms. Lucas, E: V. (O ’20)
Adventures in interviewing. Marcosson, I: F: (Mr ’20)
Adventures in Mother Goose land. Gowar, E: (O ’20)
Adventures in southern seas. Forbes, G: (Ja ’21)
Adventurous lady. Snaith, J: C. (N ’20)
Adventures of a modern occultist. Bland, O. (N ’20)
Adventures of a nature guide. Mills, E. A. (Mr ’20)
=Advertising=
Allen, F: J. Advertising as a vocation. (My ’20)
Durstine, R. S. Making advertisements. (Ja ’21)
Ramsay, R. E. Effective house organs. (Ap ’20)
Russell, T: Commercial advertising. (Ap ’20)
Advice. Bodenheim, M. (N ’20)
Aerial transport. Thomas, G: H. (S ’20)
=Aeronautics=
Brown, A. W., and Bott, A. J: Flying the Atlantic in sixteen
hours. (Jl ’20)
Sweetser, A., and Lamont, G. Opportunities in aviation. (Mr ’20)
Westervelt. G: C., and others. Triumph of the N. C.’s. (Je ’20)
Wilson, E. B. Aeronautics. (D ’20)
Woodhouse, H: Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. (N ’20)
=Aeronautics, Commercial=
Thomas, G: H. Aerial transport. (S ’20)
Wheat, G: S., ed. Municipal landing fields and air ports. (F ’21)
Æsthetic attitude. Langfeld, H. S. (F ’21)
Affable stranger. McArthur, P. (F ’21)
Affinities. Rinehart, M. (Jl ’20)
=Africa=
=Description and travel=
Baker, E. Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. (D
’20)
=Economic conditions=
Woolf, L. S. Empire and commerce in Africa. (O ’20)
=History=
Morel, E. D. Black man’s burden. (Ja ’21)
=Africa, East=
=Description and travel=
Anderson, W: A. South of Suez. (O ’20)
=Africa, South=
Leyds, W. J. Transvaal surrounded. (N ’20)
Africa and the discovery of America. Wiener, L. (Ja ’21)
After-death communications. Bazett, L. M. (N ’20)
After the day. Bennett, R. (F ’21)
Against the grain. Eng title of Rolling stone. Scott. C. A. Dawson.
(Mr ’20)
Age of innocence. Wharton, E. N. (N ’20)
Agrarian crusade. Buck, S. J. (D ’20)
=Agricultural colonization=
Mead, E. Helping men own farms. (Ag ’20)
=Agricultural extension work=
Routzahn, M. B. Traveling publicity campaigns. (F ’21)
=Agricultural societies=
Buck, S. J. Agrarian crusade. (D ’20)
=Agriculture=
Findlay, H., ed. Handbook for practical farmers. (Ja ’21)
Aims of teaching in Jewish schools. Grossmann, L: (Ap ’20)
Air pirate. Gull, C. A. E: R. (N ’20)
Airplane photography. Ives, H. E. (Mr ’20)
=Airships=
Whale, G: British airships. (Jl ’20)
=Alaska=
=Description and travel=
Cameron, C. Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. (F ’21)
Kent, R. Wilderness. (Ap ’20)
Alaska man’s luck. Rutzebeck, H. (Ja ’21)
Albany: the crisis in government. Waldman, L: (S ’20)
=Alcoholism=
Towns, C: B. Habits that handicap. (Mr ’20)
=Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836–1907=
Aldrich, L. Crowding memories. (N ’20)
Alf’s button. Darlington, W. A. (S ’20)
Aliens’ text book on citizenship. Beck, H. M. (O ’20)
All and sundry. Raymond, E. T. (Jl ’20)
All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast. Manners, J: H. (Mr
’20)
All things are possible. Shestov, L. (O ’20)
All-wool Morrison. Day, H. F. (S ’20)
Allegra. Harker, L. A. (Ap ’20)
Almonds of life. Young. F. E. M. (O ’20)
Almosts. MacMurchy, H. (My ’20)
=Alsace-Lorraine=
O’Shaughnessy, E. L. Alsace in rust and gold. (My ’20)
Also Ran. Reynolds, G. M. (N ’20)
Altitude and health. Roget, F. R. (D ’20)
Ambush. White, S: A. (N ’20)
=America=
City club of Chicago. Ideals of America. (Je ’20)
=Discovery and exploration=
Dark, R: Quest of the Indies. (D ’20)
Wiener, L. Africa and the discovery of America. (Ja ’21)
America and the new era. Friedman, E. M., ed. (D ’20)
America first. Evans, L. B. (Ja ’21)
America via the neighborhood. Daniels, J: (Ja ’21)
American army in the European conflict. Chambrun, J. A. de P. de,
and Marenches, C: de. (Mr ’20)
American boys’ handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft. Beard, D. C. (D
’20)
American business law. Frey, A. B. (Jl ’20)
=American colonization society=
Fox, E. L. American colonization society, 1817–1840. (D ’20)
American credo. Nathan, G: J., and Mencken, H: L: (Ap ’20)
American democracy. Forman, S: E. (F ’21)
American democracy versus Prussian Marxism. Birdseye, C. F. (O ’20)
American engineers in France. Parsons, W: B. (D ’20)
American foreign policy. Carnegie endowment for international peace.
Division of intercourse and education. (D ’20)
American guide book to France and its battlefields. Garey, E. B.,
and others. (Ag ’20)
American history. Muzzey, D: S. (O ’20)
American labor year book, 1919–1920. (D ’20)
=American literature=
Boynton, P. H. History of American literature. (Mr ’20)
=Collections=
Rees, B. J., ed. Modern American prose selections. (Ag ’20)
American medical biographies. Kelly, H. A., and Burrage, W. L. (N
’20)
American police systems. Fosdick, R. B. (Ja ’21)
American school toys and useful novelties in wood. Kunou, C: A. (My
’20)
American soul. Farriss, C: S. (F ’21)
American Supreme court as an international tribunal. Smith, H. A. (F
’21)
American towns and people. Rhodes, H. G. (Ja ’21)
American world policies. Hill, D: J. (Ag ’20)
=Americanism=
Emerson, G. New frontier. (Ag ’20)
Americanism versus bolshevism. Hanson, O. (Mr ’20)
=Americanization=
Beck, H. M. Aliens’ text book on citizenship. (O ’20)
Bogardus, E. S. Essentials of Americanization. (Ag ’20)
Daniels, J: America via the neighborhood. (Ja ’21)
Davis, P., and Schwartz, B., eds. Immigration and Americanization.
(Mr ’20)
Drachsler, J. Democracy and assimilation. (F ’21)
Stewart. W. Making of a nation. (My ’20)
Talbot. W., comp. and ed. Americanization. (Jl ’20)
Thompson, F. V: Schooling of the immigrant. (N ’20)
Americanization of Edward Bok. Bok, E: W: (D ’20)
Americans all. Heydrick, B: A., ed. (O ’20)
Americans by adoption. Husband, J. (Jl ’20)
American’s London. Hale, L. (O ’20)
America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. Gallagher, P. (O ’20)
America’s position in music. Simpson, E. E. (Ag ’20)
Among the Ibos of Nigeria. Basden, G: T: (Ja ’21)
=Amusements=
Ripley, G: S. Games for boys. (Ja. ’21)
=Anarchism and anarchists=
Ganz, M., and Ferber, N. J. Rebels. (Ap ’20)
Anchor. Sadler, M. (My ’20)
Ancient Allan. Haggard, H: R. (Je ’20)
Ancient man. Van Loon, H. W. (F ’21)
=Andalusia=
Maugham, W: S. Land of the blessed Virgin. (S ’20)
Anderson Crow, detective. McCutcheon, G: B. (Je ’20)
=Anecdotes=
D’Oyly, W. H. Tales retailed of celebrities and others. (N ’20)
Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865. Shaw, F: J:, and Chesson, W. H.
(My ’20)
Animal husbandry. Tormey, J: L., and Lawry, R. C. (F ’21)
=Animals=
Burgess, T. W. Burgess animal book for children. (D ’20)
Ingersoll, E. Wit of the wild. (D ’20)
=Animals, Legends and stories of=
Bates, K. L. Sigurd our golden collie. (Ap ’20)
Eaton, W. P. On the edge of the wilderness. (D ’20)
Hawkes, C. Master Frisky. (O ’20)
Long, W: J. Wood-folk comedies. (N ’20)
Lytle, J: H. Story of Jack. (F ’21)
St Mars, F. Way of the wild. (O ’20)
Animated cartoons. Lutz, E. G: (Je ’20)
=Animism=
Zwemer, S: M. Influence of animism on Islam. (Ag ’20)
Anne. Hartley, O. (N ’20)
Answer to John Robinson. (N ’20)
=Antarctic regions=
Shackleton, E. H: South. (Ap ’20)
Anthology of another town. Howe, E. W. (Ja ’21)
Anthology of magazine verse for 1919. Braithwaite, W: S. B., ed. (Ap
’20)
Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year book of newspaper
poetry. Davis, F. P., ed. (F ’21)
Anthology of recent poetry. Walters, L. D’O. (D ’20)
Anthony Aston. Nicholson, W. (Ja ’21)
Antichrist. Nietzsche, F. W. (Je ’20)
Apocalypse of John. Beckwith, I. T. (O ’20)
=Application for positions=
Gunion, P. C. Selling your services. (Je ’20)
Applied business law. Bush, C. H. (My ’20)
Applied science for metal workers. Dooley, W: H: (Mr ’20)
Applied science for wood-workers. Dooley, W: H: (Mr ’20)
=Aranha, Joseph Graça.= See Graça, Aranha, J. P. da
=Arbitration, Industrial=
Beman, L. T., comp. Selected articles on the compulsory
arbitration and compulsory investigation of industrial
disputes. (N ’20)
=Archaeology=
Marshall, F. H: Discovery in Greek lands. (F ’21)
Archaic England. Bayley, H. (D ’20)
=Architecture, Colonial=
Cousins, F., and Riley, P. M. Colonial architecture of Salem. (My
’20)
Robinson. A. G. Old New England houses. (N ’20)
=Arctic regions=
Stuck, H. Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. (Je ’20)
=Argentine Republic=
=Description and travel=
Dreier, K. S. Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point
of view. (F ’21)
Argonaut and Juggernaut. Sitwell, O. (Ap ’20)
Argonauts of faith. Mathews, B. J. (Ag ’20)
Arguments and speeches. Evarts, W: M. (My ’20)
=Arlen, Michael=, pseud. See Kouyoumdjian, D.
=Armenia=
=History=
Aslan, K. Armenia and the Armenians from the earliest times
until the great war (1914). (Je ’20)
Armies of labor. Orth, S: P. (D ’20)
=Arms and armour=
Dean, B. Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. (O ’20)
Army and religion. (Mr ’20)
Army mental tests. Yoakum, C. S., and Yerkes, R. M., eds. (My ’20)
Army of 1918. McCormick, R. R. (D ’20)
Army with banners. Kennedy, C: R. (My ’20)
=Arnot, Frederick Stanley, 1858–1914=
Baker, E. Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. (D
’20)
Arrows of desire. Mackenzie, J: S. (Jl ’20)
=Art=
Clutton-Brock, A. Essays on art. (Ap ’20)
Gibran, K. Twenty drawings. (Je ’20)
Sirén, O. Essentials in art. (D ’20)
=Art, Commercial=
Whiting, J: D. Practical illustration. (Ja ’21)
=Art, Japanese=
Stewart, B. Japanese color prints. (Ja)
Art of biography. Thayer, W: R. (D ’20)
Art of fighting. Fiske. B. A. (Je ’20)
Art of interesting. Donnelly, F. P. (N ’20)
Artificial light. Luckiesh, M. (Ag ’20)
=Artists=
Birnbaum, M. Introductions. (Jl ’20)
As the wind blew. Troubetzkoy, A. (D ’20)
As the wind blows. Phillpotts, E. (S ’20)
=Asbestos=
Summers, A. L. Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (My ’20)
Ask and receive. Crane, A. M. (F ’21)
=Asquith, Mrs Margot (Tennant), 1864–=
Asquith, M. Margot Asquith, an autobiography. (D ’20)
=Aston, Anthony, 1712–1731=
Nicholson, W. Anthony Aston. (Ja ’21)
At fame’s gateway. Mix, J. I. (My ’20)
At random. Creevey, C. A. (N ’20)
At the sign of the Red swan. Elwell, A. (Ag ’20)
At the sign of the Two heroes. Aldon, A. (O ’20)
=Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway company=
Bradley, G. D. Story of the Santa Fe. (Jl ’20)
=Athletics=
Clark, E. H. Track athletics up to date. (Ag ’20)
=Atlantic coast line railroad=
Dozier, H. D. History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. (Je
’20)
Atlantida. Benoit, P. (S ’20)
Aurelia, and other poems. Nichols, R. M. B. (O ’20)
=Austen, Jane, 1775–1817=
Firkins, O. W. Jane Austen. (Ap ’20)
Australian victories in France in 1918. Monash, J: (Ja ’21)
=Austria=
=Foreign relations=
Gori[)c]ar, J., and Stowe, L. B. Inside story of Austro-German
intrigue. (Ap ’20)
=Authorship=
Cushing, C: P. If you don’t write fiction. (Ag ’20)
Hearn. L. Talks to writers. (D ’20)
Klickmann, F. Lure of the pen. (My ’20)
Stevenson, R. L: B. Learning to write. (Ag ’20)
Autobiography. Carnegie, A. (N ’20)
Autobiography of a race horse. Yates, L. B. (Ag ’20)
Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. (S ’20)
Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. Cody, W: F: (Jl ’20)
Automobile owner’s guide. Scholl, F. B. (N ’20)
Automobile starting, lighting, and ignition. Pagé, V: W. (D ’20)
=Automobiles=
Pagé, V: W. Model T Ford car. (D ’20)
Schaefer. C. T. Motor truck design and construction. (Mr ’20)
Scholl, F. B. Automobile owner’s guide. (N ’20)
=Electric equipment=
Pagé, V: W. Automobile starting, lighting, and ignition. (D ’20)
=Lighting=
Collins, A. F: Motor car starting and lighting. (S ’20)
=Starting devices=
Collins, A. F: Motor car starting and lighting. (S ’20)
=Autumn=
Keeler, H. L. Our northern autumn. (D ’20)
=Aviation=
Dargon, J. Future of aviation. (D ’20)
Avowals. Moore, G: (My ’20)
Awakening. Galsworthy, J: (Ja ’21)
=Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685–1750=
Forkel, J. N. Johann Sebastian Bach. (D ’20)
Bad results of good habits and other lapses. Park, J: E. (Je ’20)
=Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1887–=
Bairnsfather, B. Bairnsfather case. (F ’21)
Bairnsfather case. Bairnsfather, B. (F ’21)
=Balfour, Arthur James, 1848–=
Raymond, E. T. Life of Arthur James Balfour. (Ja ’21)
=Balkan states=
Sloane, W: M. Balkans. (S ’20)
=History=
Buxton, N. E:, and Leese, C. L. Balkan problems and European
peace. (S ’20)
Balkans. Sloane, W: M. (S ’20)
=Ballads=
Olcott, F. J. Story-telling ballads. (Ja ’21)
Some British ballads. (F ’21)
Ballads of old New York. Guiterman, A. (Mr ’20)
=Bands (music)=
Woods, G. H. Public school orchestras and bands. (Je ’20)
=Banks and banking=
McCaleb, W. F. Present and past banking in Mexico. (Ap ’20)
Barbarous soviet Russia. McBride, I: (S ’20)
=Barbelllon, W. N. P., pseud.= See Cummings, B. F:
Barent Creighton. Shafer, D. C. (S ’20)
Barry Leroy. Bailey, H: C. (Je ’20)
=Barstow, Mrs Montague.= See Orczy, E.
=Baseball=
Frost, H., and Wardlaw, C: D. Basket ball and indoor baseball for
women. (S ’20)
Basil Everman. Singmaster, E. (Ap ’20)
=Basket ball=
Frost, H., and Wardlaw, C: D. Basket ball and indoor baseball for
women. (S ’20)
Battle of Jutland. Bellairs. C. W. (Je ’20)
=Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st earl of, 1804–1881=
Buckle, G: E. Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield. (O
’20)
Beautiful Mrs Davenant. Tweedale, V. (O ’20)
Beauty and the bolshevist. Miller, A. (D ’20)
Beck of Beckford. Blundell, M. E. (F ’21)
Bedouins. Huneker, J. G. (Je ’20)
Before and now. Harrison, A. (Je ’20)
Before the war. Haldane, R: B. H. (Ap ’20)
Beginner’s history of philosophy. Cushman, H. E. (Ap ’20)
Behavior of crowds. Martin, E. D. (Ja ’21)
Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. Keith, A. B. (Ap ’20)
=Belgium=
Edwards, G: W. Belgium old and new. (F ’21)
Linden, H. V. Belgium. (F ’21)
=German occupation=
Mercier, D. F. F. J. Cardinal Mercier’s own story. (My ’20)
=History=
Essen, L. van der. Short history of Belgium. (Ap ’20)
Belgium old and new. Edwards, G: W. (F ’21)
Belonging. Wadsley, O. (O ’20)
Bengal fairy tales. Bradley-Birt, F. B. (Ja ’21)
Benjy. Stevenson, G: (Je ’20)
=Bentley, John Francis, 1839–1902=
L’Hôpital, W: de. Westminster cathedral and its architect. (My
’20)
=Berkshire hills=
Eaton, W. P. In Berkshire fields. (N ’20)
=Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht, graf von,
1862–=
Bernstorff, J. H. A. H. A. My three years in America. (Ag ’20)
Bertram Cope’s year. Fuller, H: B. (My ’20)
Best American humorous short stories. Jessup, A., ed. (S ’20)
Best plays of 1919–20. Mantle, B., ed. (D ’20)
Best psychic stories. French, J. L:, ed. (S ’20)
Best short stories of 1919. O’Brien, E: J. H., ed. (Ap ’20)
Better letters. (My ’20)
Better world. Dennett, T. (F ’21)
Between you and me. Lauder, H. (Ap ’20)
=Beverages=
Stockbridge. B. E. What to drink. (Ap ’20)
Beyond the desert. Noyes, A. (D ’20)
Beyond the horizon. O’Neill, E. G. (S ’20)
=Bible. Whole=
=About the Bible=
Wheeler, E. P. Lawyer’s study of the Bible. (Ap ’20)
_Literary character_
Genung, J: F. Guidebook to the Biblical literature. (My ’20)
=Bible. Old Testament=
=About the Old Testament=
Schoff, W. H. Ship “Tyre.” (F ’21)
=Parts of the Old Testament=
_Job_
Jastrow, M., jr. Book of Job. (Ja ’21)
=Single books=
_Genesis_
Morgenstern, J. Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis.
(D ’20)
_Isaiah_
Gordon, A. R. Faith of Isaiah. (D ’20)
=Stories=
Wood, I. F. Heroes of early Israel. (F ’21)
=Bible. New Testament=
=Parts of the New Testament=
_Epistles_
Kennedy, H. A. A. Theology of the Epistles. (F ’21)
Parry, R. St J: Pastoral epistles. (F ’21)
=Single books=
_Revelation_
Beckwith, I. T. Apocalypse of John. (O ’20)
=Texts=
Moulton, R: G., ed. Modern reader’s Bible for schools. (Je ’20)
=Bibliography=
Guthrie, A. L., comp. Index to St Nicholas. (Ap ’20)
=Bickerstaffe-Drew. Francis Browning Drew, 1858–= See Ayscough, J:,
pseud.
Big-town round-up. Raine, W: M. (F ’21)
=Biography=
Courtney, J. E. Freethinkers of the nineteenth century. (S ’20)
Dombrowski, E. German leaders of yesterday and today. (S ’20)
Ellis, J. Fame and failure. (S ’20)
Fryer, E. M. Book of boyhoods. (D ’20)
Hutchinson, H. G. Portraits of the eighties. (S ’20)
Raymond, E. T. All and sundry. (Jl ’20)
Thayer, W: R. Art of biography. (D ’20)
=Dictionaries=
Grove, G: Dictionary of music and musicians. (F ’21)
Kelly, H. A., and Burrage, W. L. American medical biographies.
(N ’20)
Who was who. (D ’20)
=Biology=
East, E: M., and Jones, D. F. Inbreeding and outbreeding. (Ag ’20)
Smallwood, W: M., and others. Biology for high schools. (O ’20)
Thomson, J: A. System of animate nature. (Ja ’21)
=Bird houses=
Baxter, L. H. Boy bird house architecture. (My ’20)
=Birds=
Chapman, F. M. What bird is that? (Je ’20)
Hudson, W. H. Birds in town and village. (Je ’20)
Hudson, W. H. Birds of La Plata. (F ’21)
Morgan, A. B. Little folks tramping and camping. (N ’20)
Birds. Squire, J: C. (D ’20)
Birds of La Plata. Hudson, W. H. (F ’21)
=Birmingham, George A.=, pseud. See Hannay, J. O.
=Birth control=
Marchant, J., ed. Control of parenthood. (F ’21)
Sanger, M. H. Woman and the new race. (F ’21)
Birth of God. Heidenstam, K: G. V. von. (My ’20)
Black Bartlemy’s treasure. Farnol, J. (Ja ’21)
Black buccaneer. Meader, S. W. (N ’20)
Black gold. Elliott, L. W. (F ’21)
Black knight. Sidgwick, C., and Garstin, C. (O ’20)
Black man’s burden. Morel, E. D. (Ja ’21)
Blacksheep! blacksheep! Nicholson, M. (Jl ’20)
Blind. Poole, E. (D ’20)
Blind wisdom. Hall, A. B. (F ’21)
Blood of things. Kreymborg, A. (F ’21)
Blood red dawn. Dobie, C: C. (Jl ’20)
Bloom of cactus. Bennet, R. A. (Mr ’20)
Blower of bubbles. Baxter, A. B. (Mr ’20)
Blue pearl. Scoville, S:, jr. (N ’20)
Blue print reading. Wyatt, E. M. (F ’21)
=Blue prints=
Wyatt, E. M. Blue print reading. (F ’21)
Blue room. Hamilton, C. (D ’20)
Blue smoke. Baker, K. (My ’20)
Blueberry bear. Sherard, J. L: (O ’20)
Bluestone. Wilkinson, M. O. (O ’20)
Boardwalk. Widdemer, M. (Mr ’20)
=Boats and boating=
Yates, R. F. Boys’ book of model boats. (N ’20)
Bobbins of Belgium. Kellogg, C. (My ’20)
Bobby and the big road. Lindsay, M. M. (O ’20)
=Bohemians=
Capek, T: Cechs (Bohemians) in America. (Mr ’20)
=Böhme, Jacob. 1575–1624=
Böhme, J. Confessions of Jacob Boehme. (F ’21)
=Bok, Edward William, 1863–=
Bok. E: W: Americanization of Edward Bok. (D ’20)
Bolshevik adventure. Pollock, J: (F ’21)
Bolshevik Russia. Antonelli, É. (Mr ’20)
Bolshevik theory. Postgate, R. W. (D ’20)
=Bolshevism=
Antonelli, É. Bolshevik Russia. (Mr ’20)
Cause of world unrest. (D ’20)
Comerford, F. New world. (N ’20)
Goode, W: T: Bolshevism at work. (Je ’20)
Hanson, O. Americanism versus bolshevism. (Mr ’20)
Hapgood, N. Advancing hour. (O ’20)
Macdonald, J. R. Parliament and revolution. (Ag ’20)
Mead, G: W. Great menace. (Ag ’20)
Miliukov, P. Bolshevism. (O ’20)
Postgate, R. W. Bolshevik theory. (D ’20)
Rihani, A. F. Descent of bolshevism. (Ag ’20)
Russell, B. A. W: Bolshevism. (Ja ’21)
Spargo, J: “Greatest failure in all history.” (S ’20)
Walling, W: E. Sovietism. (S ’20)
Bomber gipsy. Herbert, A. P. (Jl ’20)
Bonnie Prince Fetlar. Saunders, M. (N ’20)
Book of boyhoods. Fryer, E. M. (D ’20)
Book of bravery. Lanier, H: W. (Ja ’21)
Book of burlesques. Mencken, H: L: (Mr ’20)
Book of Chicago. Shackleton, R. (Ja ’21)
Book of games and parties. Wolcott, T. H., ed. (D ’20)
Book of good hunting. Newbolt, H: J: (F ’21)
Book of humorous verse. Wells, C., comp. (Ja ’21)
Book of Job. Jastrow, M., jr. (Ja ’21)
Book of marionettes. Joseph, H. H. (Jl ’20)
Book of Marjorie. (My ’20)
Book of modern British verse. Braithwaite, W: S. B., ed. (My ’20)
Book of R. L. S. Brown, G: E: (Ap ’20)
Book of Susan. Dodd, L. W. (O ’20)
Book of the damned. Fort, C: (Ap ’20)
Book of the Severn. Bradley, A. G. (N ’20)
=Books and reading=
Bostwick, A. E. Librarian’s open shelf. (O ’20)
Quiller-Couch, A. T: On the art of reading. (D ’20)
Squire, J: C. Books in general. (S ’20)
Books and their writers. Mais, S. P. B. (O ’20)
=Books for boys and girls=
Abbott, J. L. Highacres. (D ’20)
Adams, K. Mehitable. (Ja ’21)
Aldon, A. At the sign of the Two heroes. (O ’20)
Anderson, R. G. Seven o’clock stories. (Ja ’21)
Armfield, C. Wonder tales of the world. (N ’20)
Ashmun, M. E. Marian Frear’s summer. (S ’20)
Ault, N. Dreamland shores. (Ja ’21)
Babson, R. W. Central American journey. (My ’20)
Bailey, C. S. Broad stripes and bright stars. (My ’20)
Bailey, C. S. Wonder stories. (O ’20)
Baldwin, J., and Livengood, W: W. Sailing the seas. (F ’21)
Barbour, R. H:, and Holt, H. P. Mystery of the Sea-lark. (O ’20)
Barclay, V. C. Danny again. (O ’20)
Bassett, S. W. Paul and the printing press. (O ’20)
Bosschère, J. de. City curious. (N ’20)
Bowen, W: Enchanted forest. (F ’21)
Bradley-Birt, F. B. Bengal fairy tales. (Ja ’21)
Brady, L. E. Green forest fairy book. (Ja ’21)
Bryant, A. E., ed. Treasury of hero tales. (O ’20)
Burgess, T. W. Burgess animal book for children. (D ’20)
Butler, E. P. Swatty. (Ap ’20)
Carrington, H. Boy’s book of magic. (N ’20)
Chaffee, A. Lost river. (O ’20)
Chandler, A. C. More magic pictures of the long ago. (My ’20)
Cheley, F. H. Overland for gold. (F ’21)
Children’s story garden. (Je ’20)
Chisholm, L., and Steedman, A., comps. Staircase of stories. (My
’20)
Colum, P. Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. (Ja ’21)
Colum, P. Children of Odin. (D ’20)
Dana, E. N. Story of Jesus. (N ’20)
Davies, E. C. Boy in Serbia. (O ’20)
Dyer, W. A. Sons of liberty. (Ja ’21)
Eaton, W. P. On the edge of the wilderness. (D ’20)
Edwards, C. Treasury of heroes and heroines. (D ’20)
Eells, E. S. Tales of enchantment from Spain. (N ’20)
Elias, E. L. Abraham Lincoln. (N ’20)
Elias, E. L. Periwinkle’s island. (N ’20)
Evans, L. B. America first. (Ja ’21)
Evison, M. Rainbow gold. (N ’20)
Fabre, J. H. C. Secret of everyday things. (N ’20)
Fillmore, P. H. Shoemaker’s apron. (N ’20)
Forsey, M. S. Jack and me. (N ’20)
Fraser, C. C. Boys’ book of sea fights. (N ’20)
Fraser, C. C. Young citizen’s own book. (N ’20)
Friedlander, G. Jewish fairy book. (N ’20)
Fryer, E. M. Book of boyhoods. (D ’20)
Fyleman, R. Fairies and chimneys. (N ’20)
Gardner, G. New Robinson Crusoe. (S ’20)
Garis, H. R. Rick and Ruddy. (O ’20)
Goldsmith, M. I wonder why. (O ’20)
Gordon, M. D. Crystal ball. (O ’20)
Gowar, E: Adventures in Mother Goose land. (O ’20)
Graham, J. C. It happened at Andover. (N ’20)
Grattan-Smith, T. E. True blue. (N ’20)
Gray, J. Rosemary Greenaway. (S ’20)
Greenberg, D: S. Cockpit of Santiago Key. (My ’20)
Griffis, W: E. Swiss fairy tales. (O ’20)
Hasbrouck, L. S. Hall with doors. (N ’20)
Hawkes, C. Master Frisky. (O ’20)
Holland, R. S. Refugee rock. (N ’20)
Ingpen, R., ed. One thousand poems for children. (F ’21)
Kay, B. Elizabeth, her folks. (D ’20)
Kay, B. Elizabeth, her friends. (D ’20)
Kelland, C. B. Catty Atkins. (Mr ’20)
Kellogg, V. L. Nuova. (N ’20)
Knipe, E. and A. A. Mayflower maid. (O ’20)
Laboulaye, E. R. de. Laboulaye’s fairy book. (N ’20)
Laing, M. E. Hero of the longhouse. (F ’21)
Lamprey, L. Masters of the guild. (N ’20)
Langford, G: Pic, the weapon maker. (O ’20)
Lanier, H: W. Book of bravery. (Ja ’21)
Lansing, M. F., and Gulick, L. H. Food and life. (My ’20)
Latham, H. S. Jimmy Quigg, office boy. (D ’20)
Latham, H. S. Marty lends a hand. (My ’20)
Levinger, E. E. New land. (F ’21)
Lindsay, M. M. Bobby and the big road. (O ’20)
Lisle. C. Diamond rock. (N ’20)
Livingston, R. Land of the great out-of-doors. (N ’20)
Lofting, H. Story of Dr Dolittle. (Ja ’21)
Lord, K. Little playbook. (Ag ’20)
Macdonald. Z. K. Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. (N ’20)
McFee, I. N. Boy heroes in fiction. (N ’20)
McFee, I. N. Girl heroines in fiction. (N ’20)
Machard, A. When Tytie came. (O ’20)
Mackain, F. E. Buzzy. (N ’20)
Marshall, A. Peggy in Toyland. (N ’20)
Mathews, B. J. Argonauts of faith. (Ag ’20)
Meader, S. W. Black buccaneer. (N ’20)
Meigs, C. Pool of stars. (My ’20)
Meiklejohn, N. Cart of many colors. (My ’20)
Miller, W. H. Ring-necked grizzly. (O ’20)
Morgan, A. B. Little folks tramping and camping. (N ’20)
Olcott, F. J. Story-telling ballads. (Ja ’21)
Olcott, H. M. Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. (O ’20)
Oliver, M. I. G. First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. (Ap
’20)
Patch, E. M. Little gateway to science. (Je ’20)
Payne, F. U. Plays and pageants of citizenship. (D ’20)
Peck, L. B. Stories for good children. (F ’21)
Perkins, L. Italian twins. (N ’20)
Perkins, L. Scotch twins. (My ’20)
Potter, M. C. Rhymes of a child’s world. (N ’20)
Price, E. B. Us and the bottle man. (O ’20)
Pritchard, M. T., and Ovington, M. W., comps. Upward path. (O ’20)
Pumpelly, R. Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly. (F ’21)
Pyle, K. Tales of wonder and magic. (F ’21)
Rhoades, C. H. Four girls of forty years ago. (N ’20)
Richards. L. E. Honor Bright. (O ’20)
Rolt-Wheeler, F. W: Boy with the U.S. trappers. (My ’20)
Saunders, M. Bonnie Prince Fetlar. (N ’20)
Scoville, S:, jr. Blue pearl. (N ’20)
Seaman, A. H. Crimson patch. (O ’20)
Segur, S. Old French fairy tales. (F ’21)
Sherard, J. L: Blueberry bear. (O ’20)
Skinner, A. M. and E. L., comps. Child’s book of modern stories.
(Ja ’21)
Skinner, A. M. and E. L., comps, and eds. Garnet story book. (My
’20)
Skinner, E. L. and A. M. Children’s plays. (My ’20)
Smith, C. L. Gus Harvey. (Ja ’21)
Smith, L. R. Like-to-do stories. (O ’20)
Smith, M. S. Maid of Orleans. (F ’21)
Smith, N. A. Christmas child. (Ja ’21)
Spyri, J. Cornelli. (N ’20)
Spyri, J. Toni, the little wood-carver. (O ’20)
Stephens, J. Irish fairy tales. (F ’21)
Stone, G. Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. (N ’20)
Stone, G. Jane and the owl. (O ’20)
Taggart, M. A. Pilgrim maid. (My ’20)
Tappan, E. M. Hero stories of France. (Je ’20)
Taylor, F. L. Two Indian children of long ago. (F ’21)
Taylor, I. A. Joan of Arc. (O ’20)
Teixeira de Mattos, A. L: Tyltyl. (N ’20)
Travel stories. (O ’20)
Turpin, E. Treasure mountain. (O ’20)
Tuttle, W. C. Reddy Brant. (O ’20)
Van Loon, H. W. Ancient man. (F ’21)
Vincent, F. S. Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. (N ’20)
Walker, A. Sandman’s rainy day stories. (O ’20)
Walker, A. Sandman’s stories of Drusilla doll. (O ’20)
Walker, H: C. Jimmy Bunn stories. (N ’20)
Wallace, D. Ragged inlet guards. (Mr ’20)
Wildman, E. Famous leaders of industry. (My ’20)
Wood, I. F. Heroes of early Israel. (F ’21)
Books in general. Squire, J: C. (S ’20)
=Booth, William, 1829–1912=
Begbie, H. Life of William Booth. (My ’20)
=Borneo=
=Description and travel=
Lumholtz, K: S. Through central Borneo. (D ’20)
Borrowdale tragedy. Dawson, W: J. (F ’21)
=Boston=
=History=
Thwing, A. H. Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston,
1630–1822. (D ’20)
Bostwick’s budget. Dowst, H: P. (F ’21)
=Botany=
Densmore, H. D. General botany for universities and colleges. (My
’20)
Keeler, H. L. Our northern autumn. (D ’20)
Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. Colum, P. (Ja ’21)
Boy bird house architecture. Baxter, L. H. (My ’20)
Boy heroes in fiction. McFee, I. N. (N ’20)
Boy in Serbia. Davies, E. C. (O ’20)
=Boy scouts=
Baden-Powell, R. S. S. Scoutmastershlp. (S ’20)
Boy with the U.S. trappers. Rolt-Wheeler, F. W: (My ’20)
=Boys=
Cheley, F. H. Stories for talks to boys. (Ap ’20)
Clark, T: A. High school boy and his problems. (N ’20)
Livermore, G: G. Take it from Dad. (F ’21)
Smith, H: L: Your biggest job, school or business. (F ’21)
Boy’s book of magic. Carrington, H. (N ’20)
Boys’ book of model boats. Yates, R. F. (N ’20)
Boys’ book of sea fights. Fraser, C. C. (N ’20)
Boys’ life of Lafayette. Nicolay, H. (N ’20)
Brass check. Sinclair, U. B. (Ap ’20)
=Brazil=
Cunninghame Graham, R. B. Brazilian mystic. (Ag ’20)
Brazilian mystic. Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Ag ’20)
Breathless moment. Coxon, M. (S ’20)
=Bricklaying=
Scrimshaw, S. Bricklaying in modern practice. (F ’21)
Bride of Corinth. France, A., pseud. (F ’21)
=Bridge, Sir Frederick, 1844–=
Bridge, F: Westminster pilgrim. (My ’20)
=Bridge, Norman, 1844–=
Bridge, N. Marching years. (Ja ’21)
Bridge of kisses. Onions, B. (D ’20)
Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. Jeffery, G: H. E. (Jl ’20)
Brief history of the great war. Hayes, C. J. H. (Jl ’20)
Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth century. Hughes, E: A.
(Jl ’20)
British airships. Whale, G: (Jl ’20)
British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. Dane, E. (D
’20)
British corn trade. Barker, A. (F ’21)
British labor conditions and legislation during the war. Hammond. M.
B. (Je ’20)
British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–1854. Morison,
J: L. (O ’20)
=Brittany=
Mosher, A. Spell of Brittany. (Ja ’21)
Broad stripes and bright stars. Bailey, C. S. (My ’20)
Brodie and the deep sea. Eng title of Children of storm. Wylie, I.
A. R. (N ’20)
Broken laugh. Villars, M. (O ’20)
Broken lights. Hughes, G. (D ’20)
Broken music. Low, B: R. C. (F ’21)
=Brooke, Rupert, 1887–1915=
De la Mare, W. J: Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination.
(My ’20)
Brown Wolf. London, J. (F ’21)
Bruce. Terhune, A. P. (S ’20)
=Budget=
Cleveland, F: A., and Buck, A. E. Budget and responsible
government. (Jl ’20)
=Massachusetts=
Gulick, L. H. Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. (Jl ’20)
=Buffalo Bill=, pseud. See Cody, W: F:
Builder of the new South. Tompkins, D. A. (Ja ’21)
Burgess animal book for children. Burgess, T. W. (D ’20)
=Burroughs, John, 1837–=
Barrus, C. John Burroughs. (D ’20)
=Business=
Babson, R. W. Fundamentals of prosperity. (F ’21)
Collins, A. F: and V. D. Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling.
(Je ’20)
De Haas, J. A. Business organization and administration. (S ’20)
Frederick, J. G: Great game of business. (F ’21)
Hanson, D. L: Business philosophy of Moses Irons. (Ja ’21)
Kelly, F. C. Human nature in business. (Jl ’20)
Secrist, H. Statistics in business. (D ’20)
=Business books=
Morley, L. H., and Kight, A. C. 2400 business books and guide to
business literature. (N ’20)
=Business correspondence.= See Commercial correspondence
=Business language=
Clapp, J: M. Talking business. (Ag ’20)
=Business law.= See Commercial law
Business man’s English, spoken and written. Bartholomew, W. E., and
Hurlbut, F. (F ’21)
Business philosophy of Moses Irons. Hanson, D. L: (Ja ’21)
Business research and statistics. Frederick, J. G: (N ’20;
Business writing. Lee, J. M., ed. (Ag ’20)
Buzzy. Mackain, F. E. (N ’20)
By-paths in Sicily. Heaton, E. O. (D ’20)
Bye-paths in curio collecting. Hayden. A. (N ’20)
By the waters of Fiume. Zanella, N. (Jl ’20)
Cairn of stars. MacDonnell, J. F. C. (Jl ’20)
Caius Gracchus. Gregory, O. (Ja ’21)
Caliban. George. W. L. (O ’20)
=California=
=History=
Canfield, C. L., ed. Diary of a forty-niner. (Ja ’21)
=Missions=
_Fiction_
Chase, J. S. Penance of Magdalena. (Ag ’20)
Call of the surf. Heilner, V. C., and Stick, F. (N ’20)
=Campbell, John Archibald, 1811–1889=
Connor, H: G. John Archibald Campbell. (Je ’20)
=Camping=
Beard, D. C. American boys’ handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft.
(D ’20)
Can the church survive in the changing order? Fitch, A. F. (F ’21)
Canaan. Graça Aranha, J. P. da. (Ap ’20)
=Canada=
=Description and travel=
Newton, W. D. Westward with the Prince of Wales. (S ’20)
=History=
Skelton, O. D. Canadian Dominion. (D ’20)
=Politics and government=
Morison, J: L. British supremacy and Canadian self-government,
1839–1854. (O ’20)
Canadian Dominion. Skelton, O. D. (D ’20)
Canadians in France, 1915–1918. Steele, H. E. R. (F ’21)
Canteening overseas. Baldwin, M. (F ’21)
Canticle of Pan. Bynner, W. (Jl ’20)
=Cape Cod=
Bangs, M. R. Old Cape Cod. (D ’20)
Brigham, A. P. Cape Cod and the Old colony. (O ’20)
Chatham, D. and M., pseuds. Cape Coddities. (Jl ’20)
Cape Currey. Juta, R. (S ’20)
Captain Macedoine’s daughter. McFee, W: (D ’20)
Captives. Walpole, H. S. (D ’20)
Cardinal Mercier’s own story. Mercier, D. F. F. J. (My ’20)
Care and feeding of children. Holt, L. E. (Ag ’20)
Care and management of rabbits. Sherlock, C. C. (O ’20)
Careers for women. Filene, C. (Ja ’21)
=Carleton, S.=, pseud. See Jones, S. C.
=Carlin, Francis=, pseud. See MacDonnell, J. F. C.
=Carnegie, Andrew, 1835–1919=
Carnegie, A. Autobiography. (N ’20)
Lynch, F: H: Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie. (F ’21)
=Carpets=
Brinton, R. S. Carpets. (My ’20)
Carroll, Dixie, pseud. See Cook, C. B.
Cart of many colors. Meiklejohn, N. (My ’20)
Case against spiritualism. Stoddart, J. T. (D ’20)
Case for liberty. Haynes, E. S. P. (D ’20)
=Cast Iron=
Parsons, S. J. Malleable cast iron. (S ’20)
Casting tackle and methods. Smith, O. W. (N ’20)
Casual laborer and other essays. Parker, C. H. (My ’20)
Cathy Rossiter. Rickard, L. (Ap ’20)
=Cats=
Van Vechten, C. Tiger in the house. (Ja ’21)
=Cattle=
Mackenzie, K. J. J. Cattle and the future of beef-production in
England. (Jl ’20)
Catty Atkins. Kelland, C. B. (Mr ’20)
Caught by the Turks. Yeats-Brown, F. C: C. (Ap ’20)
Cause of world unrest. (D ’20)
Causes of war. Swindler, R. E. (My ’20)
=Cechs=
Capek, T: Cechs (Bohemians) in America. (Mr ’20)
Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war. Barton, G:
(Mr ’20)
Celia and her friends. Brunner, E. (S ’20)
Celia once again. Brunner, E. (S ’20)
=Cement=
Blount, B.; Woodcock, W: H.; and Gillett, H: J. Cement. (Ja ’21)
Campbell, H: C. How to use cement for concrete construction for
town and farm. (Je ’20)
Central American journey. Babson, R. W. (My ’20)
Chance and change in China. Roe, A. S. (Ag ’20)
Chanteys and ballads. Kemp, H. H. (D ’20)
Chaos and order in industry. Cole, G: D. H. (N ’20)
=Chapman, J. Wilbur, 1859–1918=
Ottman, F. C. J. Wilbur Chapman. (Ag ’20)
Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. Tout,
T: F: (Ja ’21)
Character and opinion in the United States. Santayana, G: (F ’21)
Character-training of children. Forbush, W: B. (Ap ’20)
=Charades=
Whitin, C. B. Wounded words. (S ’20)
Charles Chapin’s story. Chapin, C: (N ’20)
=Chartism=
Lovett, W: Life and struggles of William Lovett. (S ’20)
Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. Cameron, C. (F ’21)
Cheery way. Bangs, J: K. (S ’20)
=Chemistry=
Gibson, C: R. Chemistry and its mysteries. (Je ’20)
Kingzett, C: T: Popular chemical dictionary. (Ag ’20)
Rideal, E. K. Ozone. (Ja ’21)
=History=
Harrow, B: Eminent chemists of our time. (F ’21)
=Chemistry, Inorganic=
Darling, E. R. Inorganic chemical synonyms. (Mr ’20)
=Chemistry, Technical=
Greenwood, H. C. Industrial gases. (Ag ’20)
=Chemists=
Harrow, B: Eminent chemists of our time. (F ’21)
Cherry Isle. Close, E. (D ’20)
=Chess=
Capablanca, J. R. My chess career. (Jl ’20)
=Chicago=
=Description=
Shackleton, R. Book of Chicago. (Ja ’21)
Chicago race riots, July, 1919. Sandburg, C. (Mr ’20)
Child life and the curriculum. Meriam, J. L. (Jl ’20)
Child under eight. Murray, E. R., and Smith, H. B. (D ’20)
=Children=
Chrisman, O. Historical child. (F ’21)
Dunn. C. F: W: Natural history of the child. (My ’20)
=Care and hygiene=
Evans, E. Problem of the nervous child. (My ’20)
Holt, L. E. Care and feeding of children. (Ag ’20)
=Charities and protection=
Loeb, S. I. Everyman’s child. (N ’20)
Children in the mist. Martin, G: (S ’20)
Children of Odin. Colum, P. (D ’20)
Children of storm. Wylie, I. A. R. (N ’20)
Children of the slaves. Eng title of Soul of John Brown. Graham, S.
(Ja ’21)
=Children’s books.= See Books for boys and girls.
=Children’s literature=
Moore, A. C. Roads to childhood. (D ’20)
=Children’s plays=
Lord, K. Little playbook. (Ag ’20)
Payne, F. U. Plays and pageants of citizenship. (D ’20)
Skinner, E. L. and A. M. Children’s plays. (My ’20)
=Children’s poetry=
Smith, N. A. Christmas child (Ja ’21)
Children’s story garden. (Je ’20)
Child’s book of modern stories. Skinner, A. M. and E. L., comps. (Ja
’21)
Chill hours. Mackay, H. G. (Ap ’20)
=China=
=Description and travel=
Murdock, V: China, the mysterious and marvellous. (D ’20)
=Foreign relations=
Willoughby, W. W. Foreign rights and interests in China. (D ’20)
=Politics and government=
Cheng, S. Modern China. (My ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Dewey, J: and H. A. Letters from China and Japan. (Ag ’20)
Roe, A. S. Chance and change in China. (Ag ’20)
China collector. Lewer, H. W: (My ’20)
Chinese coat. Lee, J. B. (O ’20)
Chinese label. Davis, J. F. (Je ’20)
=Chinese labor camps=
Klein, D. With the Chinks. (Jl ’20)
=Chinese language=
=Writing=
Pound, E. L. Instigations of Ezra Pound. (S ’20)
Chinese painters. Petrucci, R. (S ’20)
=Chipperfield, Robert Orr=, pseud. See Ostrander, I. E.
Chips of jade. Guiterman, A. (F ’21)
=Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832–1917=
Martin. E: S. Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. (Ja ’21)
Chords from Albireo. Barney, D. (Ag ’20)
Chorus girl. Chekhov, A. P. (Ag ’20)
Christian adventure. Gray, A. H. (Jl ’20)
Christian faith and the new day. McAfee, C. B. (Je ’20)
=Christian life=
Fiske, D: Perils of respectability. (S ’20)
Kent, C: F., and Jenks, J. W. Jesus’ principles of living. (D ’20)
Page, K. Something more. (F ’21)
=Christian science=
Snowden, J. H: Truth about Christian science. (Ja ’21)
Christian socialism. Raven, C: E. (Ja ’21)
Christian task. Du Bois, J. H. (S ’20)
=Christianity=
Clutton-Brock, A. What is the kingdom of Heaven? (D ’20)
Du Bois, J. H. Christian task. (S ’20)
Gray, A. H. Christian adventure. (Jl ’20)
McAfee, C. B. Christian faith and the new day. (Je ’20)
Nietzsche, F. W. Antichrist. (Je ’20)
Rashdall, H. Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Je ’20)
Scott, M. J. Credentials of Christianity. (O ’20)
Thoms, C. S. Essentials of Christianity. (My ’20)
=History=
Lake, K. Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. (Ja
’21)
Christine of the young heart. Clancy, L. B. (D ’20)
Christmas child. Smith, N. A. (Ja ’21)
Christmas roses. Sedgwick, A. D. (Ja ’21)
=Church=
Fitch, A. P. Can the church survive in the changing order? (F ’21)
Church and industrial reconstruction. Committee on the war and the
religions outlook. (O ’20)
=Church and social problems=
Blachly, C. D. Treatment of the problem of capital and labor in
social-study courses in the churches. (D ’20)
Steele, D: M. Papers and essays for churchmen. (Mr 20)
Church and socialism. Ryan, J: A. (D ’20)
Church and world peace. Cooke, R: J. (F ’21)
=Church history=
Headlam, A. C. Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion. (Ja
’21)
Pollen, J: H. English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
(N ’20)
=Church of England=
Henson, H. H., and others. Church of England. (Ag ’20)
=Church unity=
Eliot, C: W: Road to unity among the Christian churches. (My ’20)
Guild, R. B., ed. Community programs for cooperating churches. (N
’20)
Headlam, A. C. Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion. (Ja
’21)
Palmer, E. J. Great church awakes. (Ja ’21)
Towards reunion. (My ’20)
=Church work=
Guild, R. B., ed. Community programs for cooperating churches. (N
’20)
=Churches=
=Jerusalem=
Jeffery, G: H. E. Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. (Jl
’20)
Cinema craftsmanship. Patterson, F. T. (D ’20)
City curious. Bosschère, J. de. (N ’20)
City of endless night. Hastings, M. M. (D ’20)
=City planning=
Nolen, J: New Ideals In the planning of cities, towns and
villages. (Ap ’20)
=Civilization=
Day, C. S., jr. This simian world. (Ag ’20)
Eckel, E. C. Coal, iron and war. (S ’20)
Clanking of chains. MacNamara, B. (My ’20)
Class-room republic. Craddock, E. A. (D ’20)
Classes for gifted children. Whipple, G. M. (Mr ’20)
=Classical education=
Osler, W: Old humanities and the new science. (Je ’20)
Classroom teacher. Strayer, G: D., and Engelhardt, N. L: (D ’20)
Claude’s second book. Bamber, L. K. (O ’20)
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). 1835–1910=
Brooks, V. Ordeal of Mark Twain. (O ’20)
Paine, A. B. Short life of Mark Twain. (D ’20)
=Clocks and watches=
Brearley, H. C. Time telling through the ages. (O ’20)
=Clothing and dress=
Poole, B. W. Clothing trades industry. (F ’21)
Woolman, M. Clothing. (D ’20)
=Clothing trade=
Budish, J. M., and Soule, G: H: New unionism in the clothing
industry. (S ’20)
Clothing trades industry. Poole, B. W. (F ’21)
Cloud of witnesses. De Koven, A. (Ag ’20)
Clouds and cobblestones. Flexner, H. (D ’20)
Cloudy Jewel. Lutz, G. L. H. (D ’20)
=Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819–1861=
Osborne, J. I. Arthur Hugh Clough. (Jl ’20)
Coal, iron and war. Eckel, E. C. (S ’20)
=Coal mines and mining=
Bulman, H. F. Coal mining and the coal miner. (D ’20)
Hodges, F. Nationalisation of the mines. (D ’20)
Coat without a seam. Cone, H. G. (Jl ’20)
Cockpit of Santiago Key. Greenberg, D: S. (My ’20)
=Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill, pseud.) 1846–1917=
Cody, L. Memories of Buffalo Bill. (Mr ’20)
Cody, W: F: Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. (Jl ’20)
Coggin. Oldmeadow, E. J. (Mr ’20)
Collected legal papers. Holmes, O. W. (Ja ’21)
Collected poems. De La Mare, W. J: (Ja ’21)
Collected poems. Hardy, T: (D ’20)
Collected poems. Johnson, R. U. (Mr ’20)
Collected poems. Noyes, A. (D ’20)
=Collectors and collecting=
Hayden, A. Bye-paths in curio collecting. (N ’20)
Teall, G. C. Pleasures of collecting. (N ’20)
College and commonwealth. MacCracken, J: H: (Ja ’21)
College and new America. Hudson, J. W: (S ’20)
College teaching. Klapper, P., ed. (Je ’20)
=Colleges and universities=
Hudson, J. W: College and new America. (S ’20)
MacCracken, J: H: College and commonwealth. (Ja ’21)
Meiklejohn, A. Liberal college. (D ’20)
=Colmore, G.=, pseud. See Weaver, G.
Colonial architecture of Salem. Cousins, F., and Riley, P. M. (My
’20)
Colonization of North America. Bolton, H. E., and Marshall, T. M. (F
’21)
Come seven. Cohen. O. R. (N ’20)
Comédienne. Reymont, W. S. (F ’21)
=Commerce=
Friedman, E. M. International commerce and reconstruction. (Jl
’20)
Morrison, A. J. East by west. (Je ’20)
Newland, H. O. Romance of modern commerce. (N ’20)
Commerce and industry. Page, W:, ed. (D ’20)
Commercial advertising. Russell, T: (Ap ’20)
=Commercial correspondence=
Bartholomew, W. E., and Hurlbut, F. Business man’s English, spoken
and written. (F ’21)
Better letters. (My ’20)
Lee. J. M., ed. Business writing. (Ag ’20)
Mason, W. L. How to become an office stenographer. (Ap ’20)
=Commercial law=
Bush, C. H. Applied business law. (My ’20)
Conyngton, T: Business law. (Je ’20)
Frey, A. B. American business law. (Jl ’20)
Moore. J. H., and Houston, C: A. Problems in business law. (Ag
’20)
Common science. Washburne, C. W. (O ’20)
Common sense and labour. Crowther, S: (Je ’20)
=Communism=
Paul. E. and C. Creative revolution. (Ja ’21)
=Community centers=
Daniels, J: America via the neighborhood. (Ja ’21)
Hanifan, L. J. Community center. (D ’20)
Community programs for cooperating churches. Guild, R. B., ed. (N
’20)
Company of royal adventurers trading in Africa. Zook, G: F: (O ’20)
Complete poems of Francis Ledwidge. Ledwidge, F. (Ap ’20)
Complete practical machinist. Rose, J. (Ap ’20)
=Compressed air=
Daw, A. W. and Z. W. Compressed air power. (O ’20)
=Conduct of life=
Cheley, F. H. Stories for talks to boys. (Ap ’20)
Hill, J. L. Worst boys in town. (Ap ’20)
Marden, O. S. You can, but will you? (Jl ’20)
Confessions of Jacob Boehme. Böhme, J. (F ’21)
=Congo, Belgian=
Keith, A. B. Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. (Ap ’20)
=Conjuring=
Carrington, H. Boy’s book of magic. (N ’20)
Connecticut wits and other essays. Beers, H: A. (F ’21)
=Connell, Norreys=, pseud. See O’Riordan, C.
Conquering hero. Gibbon, J: M. (N ’20)
Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. Lock, H. O. (F ’21)
Conquest of the old Southwest. Henderson, A. (Je ’20)
=Conservation of resources=
Fairbanks, H. W. Conservation reader. (Jl ’20)
Conservation reader. Fairbanks, H. W. (Jl ’20)
Consolidated rural school. Rapeer, L: W., ed. (D ’20)
Constantine I and the Greek people. Hibben, P. (Ag ’20)
Constitution and what it means today. Corwin, E: S: (N ’20)
Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. Webb,
S. and B. (F ’21)
Constitutional history of the Louisiana purchase. Brown, E. S. (Ag
’20)
Consumers’ coöperation. Sonnichsen, A. (My ’20)
Contemporary drama of France. Chandler, F. W. (My ’20)
Contemporary drama of Italy. MacClintock, L. (Mr ’20)
Contemporary French politics. Buell, R. L. (Ja ’21)
Contemporary verse anthology. (F ’21)
Control of ideals. Van Wesep, H. B. (N ’20)
Control of parenthood. Marchant, J., ed. (F ’21)
Controllers for electric motors. James, H: D. (Mr ’20)
=Cook, Mrs George Cram.= See Glaspell, S.
=Cookery=
Harvey, L. S. Food facts for the homemaker. (Ap ’20)
Judson, C. Junior cook book. (Ag ’20)
Panchard, E. Meats, poultry and game. (Je ’20)
Thompson, M. J. Food for the sick and the well. (Mr ’20)
Williams, J. B. Us two cook book. (N ’20)
Wilson, M. A. Mrs Wilson’s cook book. (N ’20)
=Cookson, Mrs Roger.= See Tremayne, S., pseud.
=Cooperation=
Sonnichsen, A. Consumers’ coöperation. (My ’20)
=Cordage=
Woodhouse, T:, and Kilgour, P. Cordage and cordage hemp and
fibres. (My ’20)
Cornelli. Spyri, J. (N ’20)
Corsair in the war zone. Paine, R. D. (O ’20)
Cosmic relations and immortality. Holt, H: (D ’20)
=Cossacks=
Cresson, W: P. Cossacks. (Je ’20)
=Costume design=
Hughes, T. Dress design. (Ja ’21)
=Cotton=
Daniels, G: W: Early English cotton industry. (D ’20)
Goulding, E. Cotton and other vegetable fibres. (Ag ’20)
Counsel of the ungodly. Brackett, C: (S ’20)
=Country churches=
Gill, C: O., and Pinchot, G. Six thousand country churches. (My
’20)
Country sentiment. Graves, R. (Jl ’20)
Course of empire. Pettigrew, R: F. (Ja ’21)
=Course of study=
Meriam, J. L. Child life and the curriculum. (Jl ’20)
=Courtney, Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st baron, 1832–1918=
Gooch, G: P. Life of Lord Courtney. (N ’20)
Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. Stone, G. (N ’20)
Cousin Sadie. Anderton, D. (F ’21)
=Coutts, Thomas, 1735–1822=
Coleridge, E. H. Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. (My ’20)
Craft of the tortoise. Tassin, A. de V. (Mr ’20)
Cream of curiosity. Hine, R. L. (F ’21)
Creative revolution. Paul, E. and C. (Ja ’21)
Credentials of Christianity. Scott, M. J. (O ’20)
Cresting wave. Morris, E. B. (Ag ’20)
Crimson patch. Seaman, A. H. (O ’20)
Crimson tide. Chambers, R. W: (Mr ’20)
Critic in Pall Mall. Wilde, O. F. O. W. (Jl ’20)
=Criticism=
Lewisohn, L., ed. Modern book of criticism. (Jl ’20)
Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston, 1630–1822. Thwing,
A. H. (D ’20)
Cross pull. Evarts, H. G: (My ’20)
=Crosses=
Vallance, A. Old crosses and lychgates. (F ’21)
Crowding memories. Aldrich, L. (N ’20)
=Crown jewels=
Younghusband, G: J: Jewel house. (F ’21)
Cruise of the “Scandal.” Bridges, V: (Ag ’20)
Cry of youth. Lombardi, C. (Jl ’20)
Crystal ball. Gordon, M. D. (O ’20)
=Cuba=
=History=
Johnson, W. F. History of Cuba. (D ’20)
Currency and credit. Hawtrey, R. G. (F ’21)
Current social and industrial forces. Edie, L. D., ed. (Jl ’20)
Cycle of Adams letters. Adams, C: F., and others. (Ja ’21)
Czechoslovak stories. Hrbkova, S. B., tr. and ed. (Ag ’20)
Daisy Ashford: her book. Ashford, D. (S ’20)
Dame school of experience. Crothers, S: M. (Ja ’21)
Dangerous inheritance. Forrester, I. L. (D ’20)
Danny again. Barclay, V. C. (O ’20)
=Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321=
Slattery. J: T. Dante. (Ag ’20)
=Dardanelles=
Callwell, C: E: Dardanelles. (Mr ’20)
Dark mirror. Vance, L: J. (Ag ’20)
Dark mother. Frank, W. D: (D ’20)
Dark river. Millin, S. G. (D ’20)
Dark wind. Turner, W. J. (Jl ’20)
Darkwater. Du Bois, W: E: B. (Ap ’20)
=Davies, John Langdon-.= See Langdon-Davies, J:
=Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823–1916=
Pepper, C: M. Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis. (Ap ’20)
Dawn of a new era in Syria. McGilvary, M. (D ’20)
Dawn of modern medicine. Buck, A. H: (D ’20)
=Dawson-Scott, Catherine Amy.= See Scott, C. A. Dawson-
Day before yesterday. Armstrong, D: M. (N ’20)
Day-book of Walter Savage Landor. Landor, W. S. (Ap ’20)
Day continuation school at work. Wray, W. J., and Ferguson, R. W.,
eds. (D ’20)
Day of the crescent. Hubbard, G. E. (F ’21)
Days and events. Livermore, T: L. (Mr ’20)
Days of glory. Villiers, F:, il. (Je ’20)
Dead man’s gold. Dunn, J. A. E. (S ’20)
Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. Hudson, W: H: (F ’21)
Dead men’s money. Fletcher, J. S. (D ’20)
=Death=
Mercer, J: E: Why do we die? (Ap ’20)
Death of Titian. Hofmannsthal, H. H. von. (My ’20)
=Debates=
Phelps, E. M., ed. University debaters’ annual, 1919–1920. (Ja
’21)
=Debs, Eugene Victor, 1855–=
Karsner, D: Debs. (Ag ’20)
Deburau. Guitry, S. (F ’21)
Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York. Fox, D. R. (D
’20)
=Defoe, Daniel, 1661–1731=
Nicholson, W. Historical sources of Defoe’s Journal of the plague
year. (S ’20)
Degradation of the democratic dogma. Adams, H: (Ap ’20)
=Dehan, Richard=, pseud. See Graves, C. I. M.
Dehydrating foods. Andrea, A. L. (D ’20)
=Delafield, E. M.=, pseud. See De la Pasture, E. E. M.
Deliverance. Watson, E. L. G. (Ap ’20)
=Democracy=
Becker, C. United States: an experiment in democracy. (S ’20)
Birdseye, C. F. American democracy versus Prussian Marxism. (O
’20)
Brown, I. J: C. Meaning of democracy. (F ’21)
Cope, H: F: Education for democracy. (Jl ’20)
Douglas, C. H. Economic democracy. (My ’20)
Lee, G. S. Ghost in the White House. (S ’20)
Peterson, S: Democracy and government. (Mr ’20)
Roberts, R: Unfinished program of democracy. (S ’20)
Sharp, D. L. Patrons of democracy. (My ’20)
Democracy and assimilation. Drachsler, J. (F ’21)
Democracy and government. Peterson, S: (Mr ’20)
Democracy and ideals. Erskine, J: (Ag ’20)
Descent of bolshevism. Rihani, A. F. (Ag ’20)
Developing executive ability. Gowin, E. B. (My ’20)
Development. Bryher, W. (Ja ’21)
Devil’s paw. Oppenheim, E: P. (D ’20)
Diamond rock. Lisle, C. (N ’20)
Diana of the Ephesians. Humphreys, E. M. J. (Ap ’20)
Diantha goes the primrose way. Hughes, A. M. (D ’20)
Diaries of court ladies of old Japan. Omori, A. S., and Kochi Doi,
trs. (Ja ’21)
Diary of a forty-niner. Canfield, C. L., ed. (Ja ’21)
Diary of a journalist. Lucy, H: W: (F ’21)
Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. Stebbing, E: P. (Ja ’21)
Diary of Opal Whiteley. Eng title of Story of Opal. Whiteley, O. S.
(O ’20)
=Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870=
Quickens, Q., pseud. English notes. (F ’21)
Dictionary of music and musicians. Grove, G: (F ’21)
Diesel engine design. Purday, H. F. P. (N ’20)
=Diet=
Donnelly, A. How to reduce. (Ja ’21)
Willard, F., and Gillett, L. H. Dietetics for high schools. (F
’21)
Dietetics for high schools. Willard, F., and Gillett, L. H. (F ’21)
=Diplomacy=
Heatley, D: P. Diplomacy and the study of international relations.
(S ’20)
Diplomatic reminiscences before and during the world war, 1911–1917.
Nekliudov, A. V. (F ’21)
Direct and indirect costs of the great world war. Bogart, E. L. (Je
’20)
=Disabled=
=Rehabilitation=
Gilbreth, F. B. and L. E. Motion study for the handicapped. (N
’20)
Disappearance of Kimball Webb. Wright, R. (Ap ’20)
Discovery in Greek lands. Marshall, F. H: (F ’21)
Disease and remedy of sin. Mackay, W: M. (F ’21)
Ditte: girl alive! Nexö, M. A. (O ’20)
Divine event. Harben, W: N. (N ’20)
Divine personality and human life. Webb, C. C: J. (N ’20)
=Divorce=
Chesterton, G. K. Superstition of divorce. (Je ’20)
Gallichan, C. G. Women’s wild oats. (Jl ’20)
Do the dead still live? Heagle, D: (Jl ’20)
Doctor of Pimlico. Le Queux, W: T. (S ’20)
Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion. Headlam, A. C. (Ja
’21)
=Dogs=
Meredith, E. G. Terrier’s tale. (D ’20)
=Poetry=
Frothingham, R., comp. Songs of dogs. (N ’20)
=Dollar=
Fisher, I. Stabilizing the dollar. (My ’20)
Domesday book. Masters, E. L. (Ja ’21)
Domnei. Cabell, J. B. (F ’21)
Don Folquet, and other poems. Walsh, T: (O ’20)
Door of the unreal. Biss, G. (Ja ’21)
Double life. Richards, G. (F ’21)
Doughboy’s religion. Lindsey, B: B., and O’Higgins, H. J. (Mr ’20)
=Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813–1861=
Howland, L: Stephen A. Douglas. (Ja ’21)
Dover patrol. Bacon, R. H. S. (Ap ’20)
=Draftsmanship=
Bishop, C. T: Structural drafting and the design of details. (F
’21)
Dragon. Gregory, I. A. (O ’20)
=Drama=
Chandler, F. W. Contemporary drama of France. (My ’20)
Hamilton, C. Seen on the stage. (Ja ’21)
MacClintock, L. Contemporary drama of Italy. (Mr ’20)
Platt, A. Practical hints on playwriting. (N ’20)
=Dramas=
Baker, G: P. Modern American plays. (O ’20)
Bennett, A. Sacred and profane love. (Mr ’20)
Bierstadt, E: H., ed. Three plays of the Argentine. (Ap ’20)
Bolton, G. Light of the world. (Ja ’21)
Brighouse, H. Three Lancashire plays. (O ’20)
Dixon, T: Man of the people. (S ’20)
Drinkwater, J: Pawns. (Ja ’21)
Eliot, S: A., ed. Little theater classics. (Mr ’20)
Ferber, E., and Levy, N. $1200 a year. (O ’20)
Forbes, J. Famous Mrs Fair. (Ja ’21)
47 workshop. Plays of the 47 workshop. (D ’20)
France, A., pseud. Bride of Corinth. (F ’21)
Furness, H. H. Gloss of youth. (N ’20)
Galsworthy, J: Plays. (Je ’20)
Glaspell, S. Plays. (Ag ’20)
Goldring, D. Fight for freedom. (Ag ’20)
Gorky, M., pseud. Night’s lodging. (Ap ’20)
Grantham, A. E. Wisdom of Akhnaton. (N ’20)
Gregory, I. A. Dragon. (O ’20)
Gregory, O. Caius Gracchus. (Ja ’21)
Guild, T. H. Power of a god, and other one-act plays. (My ’20)
Guitry, S. Deburau. (F ’21)
Harvard university. Dramatic club. Plays of the Harvard dramatic
club. (D ’20)
Heidenstam, K: G. V. von. Birth of God. (My ’20)
Hill, F: T. High school farces. (Ja ’21)
Hofmannsthal, H. H. von. Death of Titian. (My ’20)
Kennedy, C: R. Army with banners. (My ’20)
Kreymborg, A. Plays for merry Andrews. (F ’21)
Lawrence, D: H. Touch and go. (Ag ’20)
Lee, V., pseud. Satan the waster. (O ’20)
Leslie, N. Three plays. (My ’20)
MacKaye, P. W. Rip Van Winkle. (Mr ’20)
Manners, J: H. All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast. (Mr
’20)
Mantle, B., ed. Best plays of 1919–20. (D ’20)
Middleton, G: Masks. (My ’20)
Milne, A. A. First plays. (Jl ’20)
Moeller, P. Sophie. (My ’20)
O’Neill, E. G. Beyond the horizon. (S ’20)
Percy, W: A. In April once. (D ’20)
Pinski, D: Ten plays. (My ’20)
Przybyszewski, S. Snow. (My ’20)
Rolland, R. Liluli. (S ’20)
Steiner, R. Four mystery plays. (My ’20)
Tassin, A. de V. Craft of the tortoise. (Mr ’20)
Trench, H. Napoleon. (Ap ’20)
=Drawing=
Manuel, H. T. Talent in drawing. (Ap ’20)
Dreamland shores. Ault, N. (Ja ’21)
=Dreams=
Constable, F. C. Myself and dreams. (Ap ’20)
Walsh, W: S. Psychology of dreams. (Jl ’20)
Dreams and voices. Trine, G. S. (Ja ’21)
Dress design. Hughes, T. (Ja ’21)
Dressing gowns and glue. Sieveking, L. de G. (Je ’20)
=Dressmaking=
Hughes, T. Dress design. (Ja ’21)
Drift of pinions. Keable, R. (Je ’20)
Droonin’ water. Eng title of Dead men’s money. Fletcher, J. S. (D
’20)
=Drug habit=
Towns, C: B. Habits that handicap. (Mr ’20)
Drums of jeopardy. MacGrath, H. (N ’20)
=Dryden, John, 1631–1700=
Van Doren, M. Poetry of John Dryden. (Ja ’21)
Duds. Rowland, H: C. (Mr ’20)
Dynamic symmetry. Hambidge, J. (S ’20)
=Eagle, Solomon=, pseud. See Squire, J: C.
Early English cotton industry. Daniels, G: W: (D ’20)
Early Persian poetry. Jackson, A. V. W. (Ag ’20)
Early theories of translation. Amos, F. R. (D ’20)
Earthenware collector. Rhead, G: W. (My ’20)
East by west. Morrison, A. J. (Je ’20)
=Eastern question=
Gallagher, P. America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. (O ’20)
Jastrow, M., jr. Eastern question and its solution. (My ’20)
=Eastern question (Balkan)=
Powell, E. A. New frontiers of freedom. (Je ’20)
=Eastern question (Far East)=
McKenzie, F: A. Korea’s fight for freedom. (Mr ’20)
Sherrill, C: H. Have we a Far Eastern policy? (Ag ’20)
Eastern stories and legends. Shedlock. M. L. (D ’20)
Easy lessons in Einstein. Slosson, E. E. (Je ’20)
Echo. Tremayne, S., pseud. (Jl ’20)
=Economic conditions=
Barron, C. W. World remaking. (Ap ’20)
Economic consequences of the peace. Keynes, J: M. (Mr ’20)
Economic democracy. Douglas, C. H. (My ’20)
Economic history of Rome to the end of the republic. Frank, T. (F
’21)
Economic liberty. Cox, H. (D ’20)
Economic statesmanship. Barker, J. E. (F ’21)
=Economics=
Carlton, F. T. Elementary economics. (My ’20)
Carver, T: N. Elementary economics. (F ’21)
Douglas, C. H. Economic democracy. (My ’20)
Fay, C. R. Life and labour in the nineteenth century. (N ’20)
Furniss, E. S. Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism.
(N ’20)
Gardner, G. New Robinson Crusoe. (S ’20)
Kirkaldy, A. W. Wealth. (F ’21)
Leacock, S. B. Unsolved riddle of social justice. (Mr ’20)
McPherson, L. G. Flow of value. (My ’20)
Mendelsohn, S. Labor’s crisis. (D ’20)
O’Brien, G: A. T. Essay on mediaeval economic teaching. (N ’20)
Sumner, W: G. What social classes owe to each other. (Je ’20)
Tawney, R:. H: Acquisitive society. (Ja ’21)
Ten-minute talks with workers. (O ’20)
=Eddy, Mary Morse (Baker) Glover, 1821–1910=
Snowden, J. H: Truth about Christian science. (Ja ’21)
=Eden, Emily, 1797–1869=
Eden, E. Miss Eden’s letters. (My ’20)
Edge of doom. Battersby, H: F. P. (Je ’20)
Editorial. Flint, L. N. (Ja ’21)
=Education=
Athearn, W. S. National system of education. (Jl ’20)
Branom, M. E. Project method in education. (My ’20)
Clow, F: R. Principles of sociology with educational applications.
(S ’20)
Coursault, J. H. Principles of education. (D ’20)
Edwards, A. S. Fundamental principles of learning and study. (F
’21)
Langdon-Davies, J: Militarism in education. (Mr ’20)
MacCracken, J: H: College and commonwealth. (Ja ’21)
Paton, S. Education in war and peace. (D ’20)
Smith, H: L: Your biggest job, school or business. (F ’21)
Stockton, J. L. Project work in education. (O ’20)
=Great Britain=
Jones, H: A. Patriotism and popular education. (S ’20)
Mansbridge, A. Adventure in working-class education. (D ’20)
Mumford, A. A. Manchester grammar school. (N ’20)
=History=
Cubberley, E. P. Readings in the history of education. (F ’21)
Cubberley, E. P. History of education. (Ja ’21)
=Statistics=
Ayres, L. P. Index number for state school systems. (F ’21)
=United States=
Munroe. J. P. Human factor in education. (D ’20)
=Education, Elementary=
Meriam, J. L. Child life and the curriculum. (Jl ’20)
=Education, Higher=
Meiklejohn, A. Liberal college. (D ’20)
=Education, Secondary=
Mackie, R. A. Education during adolescence. (D ’20)
Education and the general welfare. Sechrist, F. K. (N ’20)
Education during adolescence. Mackie, R. A. (D ’20)
Education for democracy. Cope, H: F: (Jl ’20)
Education in war and peace. Paton, S. (D ’20)
=Education of children=
Forbush, W: B. Character-training of children. (Ap ’20)
Forbush, W: B. Home-education of children. (Ap ’20)
Kirkpatrick, E. A. Imagination and its place in education. (D ’20)
Murray, E. R., and Smith, H. B. Child under eight. (D ’20)
Radice, S. New children. (O ’20)
Sechrist, F. K. Education and the general welfare. (N ’20)
Strayer, G: D., and Engelhardt, N. L: Classroom teacher. (D ’20)
Whipple, G. M. Classes for gifted children. (Mr ’20)
=Educational measurements=
Manuel, H. T. Talent in drawing. (Ap ’20)
Whipple, G. M. Classes for gifted children. (Mr ’20)
Educational sociology. Chancellor, W: E. (Ag ’20)
=Edward Albert, Prince of Wales=
Newton, W. D. Westward with the Prince of Wales. (S ’20)
Edwards, Agnes, pseud. See Rothery, A. E.
Effective house organs. Ramsay, R. E. (Ap ’20)
Effects of the war on money, credit and banking in France and the
United States. Anderson, B: M. (Je ’20)
Efficiency Edgar. Kelland, C. B. (Jl ’20)
=Efficiency, Industrial=
Chellew, H: Human and industrial efficiency. (N ’20)
Egan. Porter, H. E. (N ’20)
Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. MacDonald, Z. K. (N ’20)
=Einstein theory.= See Relativity (physics)
Einstein theory of relativity. Lorentz, H. A. (D ’20)
Elder’s people. Spofford, H. E. (My ’20)
=Electric controllers=
James, H: D. Controllers for electric motors. (Mr ’20)
=Electric engineering=
Clarkson, R. P. Elementary electrical engineering. (F ’21)
Perry, A. M., comp. Electrical aids to greater production. (My
’20)
Electric mining machinery. Walker, S. F. (O ’20)
Electrical aids to greater production. Perry, A. M., comp. (My ’20)
=Electricity=
Neale, R. E. Electricity. (Jl ’20)
=Dictionaries=
Sloane, T: O. Standard electrical dictionary. (S ’20)
Elementary economics. Carlton, F. T. (My ’20)
Elementary economics. Carver, T: N. (F ’21)
Elementary electrical engineering. Clarkson, R. P. (F ’21)
Elementary forge practice. Harcourt, R. H: (Ja ’21)
Elementary lessons in English idiom. Bascom, L. M. (N ’20)
Elements of retail salesmanship. Ivey, P. W. (Jl ’20)
Elfin artist. Noyes, A. (O ’20)
Eli of the downs. Peake, C. M. A. (O ’20)
Elizabeth, her folks. Kay, B. (D ’20)
Elizabeth, her friends. Kay, B. (D ’20)
Elizabethan Ulster. Hamilton, E. W: (S ’20)
Eminent chemists of our time. Harrow, B: (F ’21)
Emperor of Elam. Dwight, H. G. (Ja ’21)
Empire and commerce in Africa. Woolf, L. S. (O ’20)
Employees’ magazines. O’Shea, P: F. (O ’20)
=Employment management=
Benge, E. J. Standard practice in personnel work. (Ja ’21)
Frankel, L. K., and Fleisher, A. Human factor in industry. (S ’20)
Empress Eugenie in exile. Carey, A. (D ’20)
Enchanted forest. Bowen, W: (F ’21)
Enchanted golf clubs. Marshall, R. (Mr ’20)
End of a dream. Jenkin, A. M. N. (Jl ’20)
=Engineering=
Horton, C: M. Opportunities in engineering. (Je ’20)
=Engineering, Mining=
Allen, A. W. Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and practice. (F
’21)
Walker, S. F. Electric mining machinery. (O ’20)
=Engineering education=
Baker, R. P., ed. Engineering education. (My ’20)
=Engines=
Decker, W. F. Story of the engine. (N ’20)
Lind, W. L. Internal-combustion engines. (F ’21)
Purday, H. F. P. Diesel engine design. (N ’20)
=England=
=Description and travel=
Bradley, A. G. Book of the Severn. (N ’20)
Phillpotts, E. West country pilgrimage. (F ’21)
=History=
Bayley, H. Archaic England. (D ’20)
Morgan, W: T: English political parties and leaders during the
reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (D ’20)
Thornley, I. D. England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485. (D ’20)
=National characteristics=
Mackenzie, J: S. Arrows of desire. (Jl ’20)
=Social conditions=
Dilnot, F. England after the war. (N ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Parks, L. English ways and by-ways. (D ’20)
Quennell, M. and C: H: B. History of everyday things in England.
(Jl ’20)
England after the war. Dilnot, F. (N ’20)
England to America. Montague, M. P. (Je ’20)
English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Pollen, J: H. (N
’20)
=English fiction=
Russell, F. T. Satire in the Victorian novel. (Je ’20)
=English language=
Bartholomew, W. E., and Hurlbut, F. Business man’s English, spoken
and written. (F ’21)
Bascom, L. M. Elementary lessons in English idiom. (N ’20)
Lee, J. M., ed. Business writing. (Ag ’20)
Rickard. T: A. Technical writing. (N ’20)
Willis, G: Philosophy of speech. (O ’20)
=Composition=
Gay, R. M. Writing through reading. (Jl ’20)
=History and criticism=
Wyld, H: C. K. History of modern colloquial English. (D ’20)
=English literature=
Goldring, D. Reputations. (O ’20)
Gosse, E. W: Some diversions of a man of letters. (Ap ’20)
Mais, S. P. B. Books and their writers. (O ’20)
Mallock. W: H. Memoirs of life and literature. (O ’20)
Massingham, H. J: Letters to X. (S ’20)
Smith, L. W., and Hathaway, E. B. Skyline in English literature.
(F ’21)
Thorndike, A. H. Literature in a changing age. (D ’20)
=Collections=
Smith, L. P., ed. Treasury of English prose. (Ap ’20)
=History and criticism=
Pound, E. L. Instigations of Ezra Pound. (S ’20)
Whibley, C: Literary studies. (Ap ’20)
English madrigal verse, 1588–1632. Fellowes, E. H., ed. (Ja ’21)
English notes. Quickens, Q., pseud. (F ’21)
=English poetry=
Bayfield, M. A. Measures of the poets. (D ’20)
=Collections=
Fellowes, E. H., ed. English madrigal verse. (Ja ’21)
Massingham, H. J:, ed. Treasury of seventeenth century English
verse. (D ’20)
Untermeyer, L:, ed. Modern British poetry. (S ’20)
Walters, L. D’O. Anthology of recent poetry. (D ’20)
=History and criticism=
Brooke, S. A. Naturalism in English poetry. (Ja ’21)
=English poets=
Sturgeon, M. C. Studies of contemporary poets. (Ja ’21)
English political parties and leaders during the reign of Queen
Anne, 1702–1710. Morgan, W: T: (D ’20)
English ways and by-ways. Parks, L. (D ’20)
English wife in Berlin. Blücher von Wahlstatt, E. M. (Ja ’21)
=Engraving=
Brooks, A. M. From Holbein to Whistler. (Ja ’21)
Enjoying life. Cummings, B. F: (O ’20)
Enslaved. Masefield, J: (S ’20)
=Epstein, Jacob, 1880–=
Van Dieren, B. Epstein. (F ’21)
Equipment of the workers. (Mr ’20)
Erskine Dale, pioneer. Fox, J:, jr. (D ’20)
Essay on mediaeval economic teaching. O’Brien, G: A. T. (N ’20)
=Essays=
Arnold, J. B. School of sympathy. (D ’20)
Barton, B. It’s a good old world. (O ’20)
Beers, H: A. Connecticut wits and other essays. (F ’21)
Bostwick, A. E. Librarian’s open shelf. (O ’20)
Bostwick, A. E. Library essays. (O ’20)
Bourne, R. S. History of a literary radical. (F ’21)
Bourne, R. S. Untimely papers. (Ag ’20)
City club of Chicago. Ideals of America. (Je ’20)
Clark, F. E. Gospel of out of doors. (Ag ’20)
Cook, E: T. More literary recreations. (My ’20)
Creevey, C. A. At random. (N ’20)
Crothers, S: M. Dame school of experience. (Ja ’21)
Cummings, B. F: Enjoying life. (O ’20)
Dreiser, T. Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. (Je ’20)
Du Bois, W: E: B. Darkwater. (Ap ’20)
Fisher, H. A. L. Studies in history and politics. (D ’20)
Fowler, W: W. Roman essays and interpretations. (Je ’20)
Frazer, J. G: Sir Roger de Coverley, and other literary pieces. (O
’20)
Gass, S. B. Lover of the chair. (My ’20)
Gerould, K. Modes and morals. (Mr ’20)
Gosse, E. W: Some diversions of a man of letters. (Ap ’20)
Grandgent, C: H. Old and new. (N ’20)
Gwynn, S. L. Irish books and Irish people. (Ja ’21)
Harper, G: M. John Morley, and other essays. (F ’21)
Holliday, R. C. Men and books and cities. (Ja ’21)
Huneker, J. G. Bedouins. (Je ’20)
Inge, W: R. Outspoken essays. (My ’20)
Kirkland, W. M. View vertical. (N ’20)
Kouyoumdjian, D. London venture. (My ’20)
Lankester, E. R. Secrets of earth and sea. (Ja ’21)
Lowell, J. R. Function of the poet. (Jl ’20)
Lucas, E: V. Adventures and enthusiasms. (O ’20)
Mackenzie, J: S. Arrows of desire. (Jl ’20)
Mais, S. P. B. Books and their writers. (O ’20)
Marvin, F. S., ed. Recent developments in European thought. (D
’20)
Mencken, H: L: Prejudices. (Ja ’21)
Milne, A. A. Not that it matters. (O ’20)
Morley, C. D. Pipefuls. (D ’20)
Park, J: E. Bad results of good habits and other lapses. (Je ’20)
Pollak, G. International minds and the search for the restful. (Jl
’20)
Repplier, A. Points of friction. (N ’20)
Ryan, J: A. Church and socialism. (D ’20)
Santayana, G: Little essays. (O ’20)
Scoville, S:, jr. Everyday adventures. (N ’20)
Shestov, L. All things are possible. (O ’20)
Squire, J: C. Books in general. (S ’20)
Storm, M. Minstrel weather. (Ja ’21)
Sturgis, E. M. Personal prejudices. (N ’20)
Tomlinson, H. M. Old Junk. (Ap ’20)
Van Vechten, C. In the garret. (Mr ’20)
Wilde, O. F. O. W. Critic in Pall Mall. (Jl ’20)
Willoughby, D. About it and about. (D ’20)
Wilson, T. P. C. Waste paper philosophy. (F ’21)
Windle, B. C. A. Science and morals. (D ’20)
Essays in common sense philosophy. Joad, C. E. M. (Ag ’20)
Essays on art. Clutton-Brock, A. (Ap ’20)
Essays on vocation. Mathews, B. J. (Ja ’21)
Essays on wheat. Buller, A. H: R. (S ’20)
Essentials in art. Sirén, O. (D ’20)
Essentials of Americanization. Bogardus, E. S. (Ag ’20)
Essentials of Christianity. Thoms, C. S. (My ’20)
Essentials of social psychology. Bogardus, E. S. (Ja ’21)
=Esthetics=
Colman, S:, and Coan, C. A. Proportional form. (Je ’20)
Langfeld, H. S. Aesthetic attitude. (F ’21)
Parker, D. H: Principles of æsthetics. (D ’20)
=Etching=
Brooks, A. M. From Holbein to Whistler. (Ja ’21)
=Ethics=
Hill, O. A. Ethics, general and special. (F ’21)
Kane, R. Worth. (O ’20)
Raymond, G: L. Ethics and natural law. (F ’21)
Van Wesep, H. B. Control of ideals. (N ’20)
Walston, C: Eugenics, civics, and ethics. (Ja ’21)
=Ethics, Christian=
Slater, T: Foundation of true morality. (Jl ’20)
Ethics and natural law. Raymond, G: L. (F ’21)
=Eugenics=
Dunlap, K. Personal beauty and racial betterment. (Ja ’21)
Walston, C: Eugenics, civics, and ethics. (Ja ’21)
Eugenics, civics, and ethics. Walston, C: (Ja ’21)
=Eugénie, empress consort of Napoleon III, 1826–1920=
Carey, A. Empress Eugénie in exile. (D ’20)
Fleury, M. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. (S ’20)
=Europe=
=Economic conditions=
Keynes, J: M. Economic consequences of the peace. (Mr ’20)
=History=
Belloc, H. Europe and the faith. (D ’20)
Breasted, J. H:, and Robinson, J. H. History of Europe, ancient
and medieval. (O ’20)
Turner, E: R. Europe, 1789–1920. (Ja ’21)
=Industries=
Allen, N. B. New Europe. (Je ’20)
=Politics and government=
Harrison, A. Before and now. (Je ’20)
Seton-Watson, R. W: Europe in the melting pot. (My ’20)
=Social conditions=
Folks, H. Human costs of the war. (Jl ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Hamilton, F: S. Vanished pomps of yesterday. (Jl ’20)
Europe, 1789–1920. Turner, E: R. (Ja ’21)
Europe and the faith. Belloc, H. (D ’20)
Europe and the league of nations. Sarolea, C: (Je ’20)
Europe in the melting pot. Seton-Watson, R. W: (My ’20)
=European literature=
Wendell, B. Traditions of European literature. (Ja ’21)
=European war, 1914–1919=
Barton, G: Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war.
(Mr ’20)
Creel, G: War, the world, and Wilson. (Ag ’20)
Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, O. T. O: M. In the world war (My
’20)
Doyle, A. C. History of the great war. (Ap ’20)
Frothingham, T: G. Guide to the military history of the world war,
1914–1918. (N ’20)
Hayes, C. J. H. Brief history of the great war. (Jl ’20)
Home—then what? (Ap ’20)
Literary digest history of the world war. (My ’20)
McPherson, W: L. Short history of the great war. (Je ’20)
Pollard, A. F: Short history of the great war. (Jl ’20)
Simonds, F. H. History of the world war. (O ’20)
Usher, R. G. Story of the great war. (Mr ’20)
Vast, H. Little history of the great war. (Ja ’21)
=Addresses, sermons, etc.=
Keppel, F: P. Some war-time lessons. (My ’20)
=Aerial operations=
Hall, J. N., and Nordhoff, C: B., eds. Lafayette flying corps.
(D ’20)
Haslett, E. Luck on the wing. (Ja ’21)
Knappen, T. M. Wings of war. (D ’20)
=Anecdotes=
Dimmock, F. H., ed. Scouts’ book of heroes. (F ’21)
=Campaigns and battles=
Callwell, C: E: Dardanelles. (Mr ’20)
Dane, E. British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918.
(D ’20)
Haig, D. H Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. (My ’20)
Hamilton, I. S. M. Gallipoli diary. (N ’20)
Kluck, A. von. March on Paris and the battle of the Marne, 1914.
(S ’20)
Monash, J: Australian victories in France in 1918. (Ja ’21)
Rainsford, W. K. From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred
and seventh infantry. (Mr ’20)
Sandes, E: W. C. In Kut and captivity with the Sixth Indian
division. (F ’21)
Seligman, V. J. Salonica side-show. (D ’20)
Townshend, C: V. F. My campaign in Mesopotamia. (N ’20)
Williams-Ellis, C. and A. Tank corps. (Ap ’20)
Wise, J. C. Turn of the tide. (My ’20)
=Canada=
Steele, H. E. R. Canadians in France, 1915–1918. (F ’21)
=Causes=
Gori[)c]ar. J., and Stowe. L. B. Inside story of Austro-German
intrigue. (Ap ’20)
Haldane. R: B. H. Before the war. (Ap ’20)
Loreburn, R. T. R. How the war came. (My ’20)
=Censorship=
Brownrigg. D. E. R. Indiscretions of the naval censor. (Je ’20)
=China=
Klein, D. With the Chinks. (Jl ’20)
=Cost=
Bogart, E. L. Direct and indirect costs of the great world war.
(Je ’20)
=Economic aspects=
Anderson, B: M. Effects of the war on money, credit and banking
in France and the United States. (Je ’20)
Barker, J. E. Economic statesmanship. (F ’21)
Baruch, B. M. Making of the reparation and economic sections of
the treaty. (D ’20)
Fayle, C: E. Seaborne trade. (F ’21)
Friedman, E. M. International commerce and reconstruction. (Jl
’20)
Smith, C. H., and Hill, C. R. Rising above the ruins in France.
(S ’20)
Streit, C. K. “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” (O ’20)
Vanderlip, F. A. What happened to Europe. (S ’20)
=Ethical aspects=
Lee, V., pseud. Satan the waster. (O ’20)
=France=
Burke, K. Little heroes of France. (N ’20)
Holt, L. Paris in shadow. (Ja ’21)
Smith, C. H., and Hill, C. R. Rising above the ruins in France.
(S ’20)
Story, A. M. S. Present day Paris and the battlefields. (N ’20)
=Germany=
Blücher von Wahlstatt, E. M. English wife in Berlin. (Ja ’21)
Falkenhayn, E. G. A. S. von. German general staff and its
decisions. (Ap ’20)
Ludendorff, E. von. General staff and its problems. (F ’21)
Ludendorff, E. von. Ludendorff’s own story. (Mr ’20)
=Great Britain=
MacVeagh, E. C., and Brown, L. D. Yankee in the British zone.
(Mr ’20)
=Greece=
Hibben, P. Constantine I and the Greek people. (Ag ’20)
=Hospitals, charities, etc.=
Bakewell, C: M. Story of the American Red cross in Italy. (D
’20)
Davies, E. C. Ward tales. (Jl ’20)
Fife, G: B. Passing legions. (Ja ’21)
Jones, R. Service of love in war time. (N ’20)
=Influence and results=
Folks, H. Human costs of the war. (Jl ’20)
=Ireland=
Escouflaire, R. C. Ireland an enemy of the allies? (Je ’20)
=Italy=
Bakewell, C: M. Story of the American Red cross in Italy. (D
’20)
Page, T: N. Italy and the world war. (Ja ’21)
=Labor problems=
Hammond. M. B. British labor conditions and legislation during
the war. (Je ’20)
=Literature=
Schinz, A. French literature of the great war. (Jl ’20)
=Medical and sanitary affairs=
Brereton, F: S. Great war and the R. A M. C. (N ’20)
=Naval operations=
Bacon, R. H. S. Dover patrol. (Ap ’20)
Corbett, J. S. Naval operations. (S ’20)
Domville-Fife, C: W: Submarine warfare of today. (D ’20)
Evans, E: R. G. R. Keeping the seas. (Ag ’20)
Fayle, C: E. Seaborne trade. (F ’21)
Fisher, J: A. F. Memories and records. (Ap ’20)
Leighton, J: L. Simsadus: London. (Jl ’20)
Paine, R. D. Corsair in the war zone. (O ’20)
Sims, W: S., and Hendrick, B. J. Victory at sea. (N ’20)
=Palestine=
Dinning, H. W. Nile to Aleppo. (D ’20)
Maxwell, D. Last crusade. (F ’21)
=Peace=
Keynes, J: M. Economic consequences of the peace. (Mr ’20)
Scott, A. P. Introduction to the peace treaties. (Je ’20)
_See also_ Peace conference, 1919
=Persia=
Hale, F: From Persian uplands. (D ’20)
=Personal narratives=
Adam, H. P. Paris sees it through. (Ap ’20)
Baldwin, M. Canteening overseas. (F ’21)
Beaman, A. A. H. Squadroon. (N ’20)
Bishop, H. C. W. Kut prisoner. (Jl ’20)
Gibbs, P. H. Now it can be told. (My ’20)
Guttersen, G. Granville. (Je ’20)
Hankey, D. W: A. Letters of Donald Hankey. (Mr ’20)
Haslett, E. Luck on the wing. (Ja ’21)
Herringham, W. P. Physician in France. (My ’20)
History of the American field service in France. (N ’20)
Jones, E. H: Road to En-Dor. (Je ’20)
Lawrence, D. Sapper Dorothy Lawrence. (My ’20)
Ludendorff, E. von. Ludendorff’s own story. (Mr ’20)
Macnaughtan, S. B. My war experiences in two continents. (My
’20)
Malins, G. H. How I filmed the war. (Ap ’20)
Prentice, S. Padre. (My ’20)
Price, J. M. On the path of adventure. (Ag ’20)
Prichard, H. V. H. Sniping in France (Ja ’21)
Repington, C: A. First world war. (D ’20)
Sergeant, E. S. Shadow-shapes. (Ja ’21)
Uncensored letters of a canteen girl. (S ’20)
Zanella, N. By the waters of Fiume. (Jl ’20)
=Pictorial works=
Villiers, F:, il. Days of glory. (Je ’20)
=Prisons and prisoners=
Bishop, H. C. W. Kut prisoner. (Jl ’20)
Hoffman, C. In the prison camps of Germany. (Ja ’21)
Keith, E. A. My escape from Germany. (Mr ’20)
Yeats-Brown, F. C: C. Caught by the Turks. (Ap ’20)
=Propaganda=
Stuart, C. Secrets of Crewe house. (F ’21)
Whitehouse, V. Year as a government agent. (Mr ’20)
=Reconstruction=
_See_ Reconstruction (European war)
=Regimental histories=
Brereton, F: S. Great war and the R. A. M. C. (N ’20)
Hall, J. N., and Nordhoff, C: B., eds. Lafayette flying corps.
(D ’20)
Rainsford, W. K. From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred
and seventh infantry. (Mr ’20)
Taylor, E. G. New England in France, 1917–1919. (D ’20)
=Religious aspects=
Army and religion. (Mr ’20)
Committee on the war and the religious outlook. Missionary
outlook in the light of the war. (Je ’20)
Committee on the war and the religious outlook. Religion among
American men. (Je ’20)
Dennett, T. Better world. (F ’21)
Lindsey, B: B., and O’Higgins, H. J. Doughboy’s religion. (Mr
’20)
=Secret service=
Felstead. S. T. German spies at bay. (D ’20) Tuohy, F. Secret
corps. (F ’21)
=Serbia=
Gordon-Smith. G. From Serbia to Jugoslavia. (Je ’20)
=Siberia=
Ward, J: With the “Die-hards” in Siberia. (Jl ’20)
=Social work=
Egan, M. F., and Kennedy, J: J. B. Knights of Columbus in peace
and war. (D ’20)
Hoffman, C. In the prison camps of Germany. (Ja ’21)
Hungerford, E: With the doughboy in France. (F ’21)
Mayo, K. “That damn Y.” (Jl ’20)
=Submarine operations=
Domville-Fife, C: W: Submarine warfare of today. (D ’20)
=Syria=
McGilvary, M. Dawn of a new era in Syria. (D ’20)
=Territorial questions=
Seton-Watson. R. W: Europe in the melting pot. (My ’20)
=Turkey=
Sandes, E: W. C. In Kut and captivity with the Sixth Indian
division. (F ’21)
=United States=
Bernstorff, J. H. A. H. A. My three years in America. (Ag ’20)
Bourne, R. S. Untimely papers. (Ag ’20)
Chambrun, J. A. de P. de, and Marenches, C: de. American army in
the European conflict. (Mr ’20)
Chase, J. C. Soldiers all. (My ’20)
Creel, G: How we advertised America. (Ag ’20)
Crozier, W: Ordnance and the world war. (Jl ’20)
Johnston, R. M. First reflections on the campaign of 1918. (My
’20)
Knappen, T. M. Wings of war. (D ’20)
McCormick, R. R. Army of 1918. (D ’20)
McMaster, J: B. United States In the world war (1918–1920). (O
’20)
MacVeagh, E. C., and Brown, L. D. Yankee in the British zone.
(Mr ’20)
Parsons, W: B. American engineers in France. (D ’20)
Sherwood. M. P. World to mend. (N ’20)
Stearns, H. E. Liberalism In America (Ap ’20)
Stockbridge, F. P. Yankee ingenuity in the war. (Je ’20)
Thomas, S. History of the A. E. F. (D ’20)
=European war and science=
Moulton, J: F. M. Science and war. (Ap ’20)
Evander. Phillpotts, E (My ’20)
Eve of Pascua. Graves, C. I. M. (S ’20)
Everybody’s world. Eddy, S. (O ’20)
Everyday adventures. Scoville, S:, jr. (N ’20)
Everyday Americans. Canby, H: S. (O ’20)
Everyday mouth hygiene. Head, J. (Mr ’20)
Everyman’s child. Loeb, S. I. (N ’20)
=Evolution=
Bury, J: B. Idea of progress. (N ’20)
Collins, A. F: and V. D. Wonders of natural history. (Ja ’21)
Thomson, J: D. System of animate nature. (Ja ’21)
Evolution of Sinn Fein. Henry, R. M. (Ja ’21)
Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. Gulick, L. H. (Jl ’20)
Evolution of the oil industry. Ross, V: (Ja ’21)
=Executive ability=
Gowin, E. B. Developing executive ability. (My ’20)
Exit Betty. Lutz, G. L. H. (Jl ’20)
=Explosives=
Barnett. E: de B. Explosives. (Ag ’20)
Levy, S. I. Modern explosives. (F ’21)
Eye of Zeitoon. Mundy, T. (Je ’20)
Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. Clark, E. (D ’20)
Fair value. Hartman, H. H. (My ’20)
Fairfax and his pride. Van Vorst, M. (Jl ’20)
Fairies and chimneys. Fyleman, R: (N ’20)
=Fairy tales=
Griffis, W: E. Swiss fairy tales. (O ’20)
Faith of a Quaker. Graham, J: W: (D ’20)
Faith of Isaiah. Gordon, A. R. (D ’20)
Fame and failure. Ellis, J. (S ’20)
=Family=
Galbraith, A. M. Family and the new democracy. (Mr ’20)
Famous detective stories. McSpadden, J. W., ed. (O ’20)
Famous leaders of industry. Wildman, E. (My ’20)
Famous Mrs Fair. Forbes, J. (Ja ’21)
Famous psychic stories. McSpadden, J. W., ed. (N ’20)
Farm and garden tractors. Collins, A. F: (Ja ’21)
=Farm animals=
Plumb, C: S. Types and breeds of farm animals. (O ’20)
=Farm life=
Shute, H: A: Real diary of the worst farmer. (Je ’20)
=Farm management=
Findlay, H., ed. Handbook for practical farmers. (Ja ’21)
Farmer of Roaring Run. Dillon, M. C. (Mr ’20)
Fear not the crossing. Williams, G. (Ap ’20)
=Feeble-minded=
Goddard, H: H. Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. (D
’20)
MacMurchy, H. Almosts. (My ’20)
Feeding of nations. Starling, E. H: (O ’20)
Fellowship of the picture. Dearmer, N. (D ’20)
Feminism and sex-extinction. Kenealy, A. (N ’20)
Ferrybridge mystery. Vane, D. (N ’20)
=FICTION=
=Adolescence=
Reid, F. Pirates of the spring. (Ap ’20)
Widdemer, M. Boardwalk. (Mr ’20)
=Adventure=
Barbour. R. H:, and Holt, H. P. Joan of the island. (Ag ’20)
Bindloss, H. Lister’s great adventure. (F ’21)
Bindloss, H. Wyndham’s pal. (Mr ’20)
Cook. W, V: Grey fish. (S ’20)
Cram, M. Lotus salad. (Ag ’20)
Dingle, A. E. Gold out of Celebes. (Jl ’20)
Elwell, A. At the sign of the Red swan. (Ag ’20)
England, G: A. Flying legion. (O ’20)
Farnol, J. Black Bartlemy’s treasure. (Ja ’21)
Grimshaw. B. E. Terrible island. (D ’20)
Gull, C. A. E: R. Air pirate. (N ’20)
Harris. C. F. Wings of the wind. (S ’20)
London, J. Hearts of three. (F ’21)
McCutcheon. G: B. West wind drift. (D ’20)
MacGrath. H. Drums of jeopardy. (N ’20)
Martyn, W. Secret of the silver car. (Je ’20)
Miller, L. E: Hidden people. (Ja ’21)
Moore, F: F. Isle o’ dreams. (Ap ’20)
Mundy, T. Eye of Zeitoon. (Je ’20)
Nicholson, M. Blacksheep! blacksheep! (Jl ’20)
Oyen, H: Plunderer. (Je ’20)
Parker, G. No defence. (N ’20)
Rutzebeck, H. Alaska man’s luck. (Ja ’21)
Scott, C. A. Dawson-. Rolling stone. (Mr ’20)
=Animal stories=
Comfort, W. L., and Dost, Z. K. Son of power. (D ’20)
Evarts, H. G: Cross pull. (My ’20)
Keon, G. Just Happy. (Ag ’20)
Lytle, J: H. Story of Jack. (F ’21)
Meredith, E. G. Terrier’s tale. (D ’20)
Terhune, A. P. Bruce. (S ’20)
Yates, L. B. Autobiography of a race horse. (Ag ’20)
=Artists=
Van Vorst, M. Fairfax and his pride. (Jl ’20)
=Authorship=
Hutten zum Stolzenberg, B. Happy house. (Ap ’20)
=Automobile stories=
Morgan, B. Roaring road. (Ag ’20)
=Baseball=
Witwer, H. C. There’s no base like home. (Ag ’20)
=Business=
Dowst, H: P. Man from Ashaluna. (F ’21)
Kelland, C. B. Youth challenges. (D ’20)
Morris, E. B. Cresting wave. (Ag ’20)
Porter, H. E. Egan. (N ’20)
Weston, G: Mary minds her business. (Ap ’20)
=Character studies=
Bacon, F. Lightnin’. (My ’20)
Boucicault, R. B. Rose of Jericho. (My ’20)
Carswell, C. Open the door. (S ’20)
Dane, C. Legend. (Ap ’20)
Dawson, W: J. Borrowdale tragedy. (F ’21)
De La Pasture, E. E. M. Tension. (D ’20)
Dodd, L. W. Book of Susan. (O ’20)
Fuller, H: B. Bertram Cope’s year. (My ’20)
Gale, Z. Miss Lulu Bett. (My ’20)
Galsworthy, J: In chancery. (N ’20)
Gibbon, M. M. Jan. (Ja ’21)
Goldring, D. Margot’s progress. (Jl ’20)
Hall, H. S. Steel preferred. (N ’20)
Hawkins, A. H. Lucinda. (Ja ’21)
Hewlett, M. H: Mainwaring. (N ’20)
Holding, E. S. Invincible Minnie (My ’20)
Holdsworth, E. Taming of Nan. (Ap ’20)
Johnston, H. H. Mrs Warren’s daughter. (Jl ’20)
MacGrath, H. Man with three names. (Mr ’20)
McKenna, S. Lady Lilith. (N ’20)
Maugham, W: S. Mrs Craddock. (Ag ’20)
Peake, C. M. A. Eli of the downs. (O ’20)
Rickard, L. Cathy Rossiter. (Ap ’20)
Sadler, M. Anchor. (My ’20)
Sharp, H. M. Pawn in pawn. (Jl ’20)
Singmaster, E. Basil Everman. (Ap ’20)
Swinnerton, F. A. September. (Mr ’20)
Underhill, R. M. White moth. (Ja ’21)
Weyl, M. Happy woman. (Ap ’20)
Wyllarde, D. Temperament. (S ’20)
=Cheerful stories=
Abbott, J. L. Happy house. (Jl ’20)
Adams, S: H. Wanted: a husband. (Je ’20)
Champion, J. Sunshine in Underwood. (Jl ’20)
Clancy, L. B. Christine of the young heart. (D ’20)
Kelley, E. M. Outside inn. (N ’20)
Lutz, G. L. H. Cloudy Jewel. (D ’20)
Miller, A. Beauty and the bolshevist. (D ’20)
Sterrett, F. R. Nancy goes to town. (Ja ’21)
Street, J. L. Sunbeams, Inc. (D ’20)
Tompkins, J. W. Joanna builds a nest. (D ’20)
=Children, Stories about=
Boyer, W. S. Johnnie Kelly. (N ’20)
Butler, E. P. Swatty. (Ap ’20)
Croy, H. Turkey Bowman. (N ’20)
France, A., pseud. Little Pierre. (F ’21)
Galsworthy, J: Awakening. (Ja ’21)
Gatlin, D. Missy. (D ’20)
McKishnie, A. P. Son of courage. (D ’20)
Masters, E. L. Mitch Miller. (D ’20)
Porter, E. Mary Marie. (Je ’20)
Vorse, M. M. Growing up. (S ’20)
=Christmas stories=
Rinehart, M. Truce of God. (F ’21)
=Court-room scenes=
Hill, F: T. Tales out of court. (D ’20)
=Crime and criminals=
Gregory, J. Ladyfingers. (Je ’20)
Leverage, H: Where dead men walk. (Ag ’20)
Packard, F. L. From now on. (Mr ’20)
Packard, F. L. White Moll. (Jl ’20)
Roche, A. S. Uneasy street. (Mr ’20)
Rowland, H: C. Duds. (Mr ’20)
Williamson, C: N. and A. M. Second latchkey. (Je ’20)
=Detective stories=
_See_ Mystery stories
=Divorce=
Maxwell, W: B. For better, for worse. (N ’20)
=Economic problems=
Cadmus and Harmonia, pseuds. Island of sheep. (Ap ’20)
=Enterprise=
Sullivan, A. Rapids. (S ’20)
=European war=
Abdullah, A. Man on horseback. (Ap ’20)
Battersby, H: F. P. Edge of doom. (Je ’20)
Bazin, R. F. N. M. Pierre and Joseph. (Je ’20)
Blasco Ibáñez, V. Enemies of women. (F ’21)
Cook, W. V: Grey fish. (S ’20)
Gibbs, G: F. Splendid outcast. (Ap ’20)
Gibbs, P. H. Wounded souls. (N ’20)
Herbert, A. P. Secret battle. (Mr ’20)
Jeffery, J. E. Side issues. (N ’20)
Kelly, T: H. What outfit, Buddy? (My ’20)
Latzko, A. Judgment of peace. (Ap ’20)
Mackay, H. G. Chill hours. (Ap ’20)
Mason, A. E: W. Summons. (D ’20)
Maurois, A. Silence of Colonel Bramble. (Jl ’20)
Mayran, C. Story of Gotton Connixloo. (Ja ’21)
Montague, M. P. England to America. (Je ’20)
Oppenheim, E: P. Devil’s paw. (D ’20)
Robinson, E. H. Maid of Mirabelle. (O ’20)
Sawyer, R. Leerie. (S ’20)
Sinclair, M. Romantic. (D ’20)
Zanella, N. By the waters of Fiume. (Jl ’20)
_Belgium_
Vane, G: Waters of strife. (S ’20)
_Great Britain_
Ayres, R. M. Richard Chatterton, V. C. (Jl ’20)
Baxter, A. B. Parts men play. (Ja ’21)
Benson, E: F: Robin Linnet. (Mr ’20)
Benson, S. Living alone. (My ’20)
Copplestone, B. Last of the Grenvilles. (Ap ’20)
Dawson, C. W: Little house. (N ’20)
Frankau, G. Peter Jameson. (My ’20)
Galsworthy, J: Tatterdemalion. (My ’20)
Hamilton, C. M. William—an Englishman. (Jl ’20)
Jenkin, A. M. N. End of a dream. (Jl ’20)
Jepson, E. Pollyooly dances. (Ag ’20)
Locke, W: J: House of Baltazar. (Mr ’20)
Maxwell, W: B. Glamour. (Ap ’20)
Onions, B. Bridge of kisses. (D ’20)
_United States_
Austin, M. No. 26 Jayne street. (Je ’20)
Montague, M. P. Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. (S ’20)
Poole, E. Blind. (D ’20)
Schem, L. C. Hyphen. (Ja ’21)
Sherwood, M. P. World to mend. (N ’20)
=Fairy tales=
Tarn, W: W. Treasure of the isle of mist. (Jl ’20)
=High cost of living=
Dodge, H: I. Skinner makes it fashionable. (Je ’20)
=Historical novels=
_Canada_
Wilson, M. Forging of the pikes. (My ’20)
_Cape Colony_
Juta, R. Cape Currey. (S ’20)
_Discovery & exploration (17th century)_
Forbes, G: Adventures in southern seas. (Ja ’21)
_Egypt_
Couperus, L: M. A. Tour. (Jl ’20)
Haggard, H: R. Ancient Allan. (Je ’20)
_England_
Hudson, W: H: Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. (F ’21)
Locke, G. E. Ronald o’ the moors. (O ’20)
McCarthy, J. H. Henry Elizabeth. (S ’20)
MacDonald, G. North door. (O ’20)
McFadden, G. V. Preventive man. (Jl ’20)
Orczy, E. His Majesty’s well-beloved. (Ap ’20)
_France_
Bailey, H: C. Barry Leroy. (Je ’20)
Brooks, C: S. Luca Sarto. (Ap ’20)
_Iceland_
Hewlett, M. H: Light heart. (Jl ’20)
Hewlett, M. H: Outlaw. (Ap ’20)
_Italy_
Drummond, H. Maker of saints. (S ’20)
Vorse, M. M. Ninth man. (O ’20)
_Jerusalem_
Mapu, A. Sorrows of Noma. (Ap ’20)
_Middle ages_
Ross, R. Revels of Orsera. (F ’21)
_United States_
Daviess, M. T. Matrix. (Ap ’20)
Fox, J:, jr. Erskine Dale, pioneer. (D ’20)
Gregg, F. M. Founding of a nation. (O ’20)
Lynn, M. Free soil. (Ja ’21)
Maule, M. K. Prairie-schooner princess. (N ’20)
Peadexter, H. Red belts. (Mr ’20)
Shafer, D. C. Barent Creighton. (S ’20)
White, S. E: Rose dawn. (D ’20)
=Horse racing=
Richards, G. Double life. (F ’21)
Yates, L. B. Autobiography of a race horse. (Ag ’20)
=Humor and satire=
Ashford, D. Daisy Ashford: her book. (S ’20)
Beerbohm, M. Seven men. (D ’20)
Cannan, G. Windmills. (Ag ’20)
Darlington, W. A. Alf’s button. (S ’20)
Dickson, H. Old Reliable in Africa. (D ’20)
Dodge, H: I. Skinner makes it fashionable. (Je ’20)
Huxley, A. L. Limbo. (Ag ’20)
Irwin, W. A. Trimmed with red. (Ag ’20)
Kelland, C. B. Efficiency Edgar. (Jl ’20)
Leacock, S. B. Winsome Winnie. (Ja ’21)
Mackall, L. Scrambled eggs. (D ’20)
Mackenzie, C. Poor relations. (Mr ’20)
Marshall, R. Enchanted golf clubs. (Mr ’20)
Putnam, N. It pays to smile. (F ’21)
Street, J. L. Sunbeams, Inc. (D ’20)
Ullman, A. E: “Line’s busy.” (N ’20)
=Immigrants in America=
Cournos, J: Mask. (Mr ’20)
Yezierska, A. Hungry hearts. (D ’20)
=Industrial conditions=
Hall, H. S. Steel preferred. (N ’20)
=Jewish life=
Pearl, B. Sarah and her daughter. (Jl ’20)
=Journalism=
Dodge, L: Whispers. (Je ’20)
George, W. L. Caliban. (O ’20)
Macaulay, R. Potterism. (D ’20)
Williams, S. C. Unconscious crusader. (Je ’20)
Williams, W. W. Goshen street. (N ’20)
=Law and lawyers=
Train, A. C. Tutt and Mr Tutt. (Je ’20)
=Legends and folktales=
Shedlock, M. L. Eastern stories and legends. (D ’20)
_Flemish_
Coster, C: T. H. de. Flemish legends. (N ’20)
_Irish_
MacManus, S. Top o’ the mornin’. (N ’20)
_Japanese_
Ozaki, Y. T. Romances of old Japan. (Mr ’20)
=Letters (stories in letter form)=
Lucas, E: V. Verena in the midst. (N ’20)
Ridsdale, K. Gate of fulfillment. (Je ’20)
=Locality, Novels of=
_Adirondacks_
Longstreth, T: M. Mac of Placid. (O ’20)
_Africa_
Battersby, H: F. P. Edge of doom. (Je ’20)
Benoit, P. Atlantida. (S ’20)
Burroughs, E. R. Tarzan the untamed. (O ’20)
Dickson, H. Old Reliable in Africa. (D ’20)
Stockley, C. Pink gods and blue demons. (Ag ’20)
_Alaska_
Rutzebeck, H. Alaska man’s luck. (Ja ’21)
_Arizona_
Noyes, A. Beyond the desert. (D ’20)
_Armenia_
Inchbold, A. C. Love and the crescent. (S ’20)
_Boston_
Brown, A. Wind between the worlds. (S ’20)
_Brazil_
Elliott, L. W. Black gold. (F ’21)
Graça Aranha, J. P. da. Canaan. (Ap ’20)
_California_
Chase, J. S. Penance of Magdalena. (Ag ’20)
Porter, R. N. Girl from Four Corners. (My ’20)
White, S. E: Rose dawn. (D ’20)
_Canada_
Binns, O. Mating in the wilds. (S ’20)
Cody, H. A. Glen of the high north. (O ’20)
Cullum, R. Heart of Unaga. (N ’20)
Curwood, J. O. Valley of silent men. (O ’20)
Durkin, D. Heart of Cherry McBain. (N ’20)
Footner, H. Fur bringers. (D ’20)
Gibbon, J: M. Conquering hero. (N ’20)
Kendall, R. S. Luck of the mounted. (F ’21)
McKowan, E. Graydon of the Windermere. (F ’21)
Pinkerton, K. S. and R. E. Long traverse. (S ’20)
Pinkerton, K. S. and R. E. Penitentiary Post. (Ag ’20)
Sidgwick, C., and Garstin, C. Black knight. (O ’20)
Stringer, A. J: A. Prairie mother. (N ’20)
White, S: A. Ambush. (N ’20)
_Cape Cod_
Cooper, J. A. Tobias o’ the light. (Ag ’20)
Lincoln, J. C. Portygee. (Je ’20)
_Chicago_
Borden, T. M. Romantic woman. (My ’20)
Webster, H: K. Mary Wollaston. (D ’20)
_China_
Lamb, H. Marching sands. (My ’20)
Merwin, S: Hills of Han. (D ’20)
Miln, L. J. Mr Wu. (Ap ’20)
Weale, B. L. P. Wang the ninth. (Ja ’21)
_Connecticut_
Minnigerode, M. Laughing house. (D ’20)
_Egypt_
Bradley, M. Fortieth door. (Ap ’20)
Weigall, A. E: P. B. Madeline of the desert. (D ’20)
_England_
Anstruther, E. H. A. Husband. (Jl ’20)
Baxter, A. B. Parts men play. (Ja ’21)
Johnston, H. H. Mrs Warren’s daughter. (Jl ’20)
O’Sullivan, Mrs D. Mr Dimock. (F ’21)
_England (London)_
Brunner, E. Celia and her friends. (S ’20)
Brunner, E. Celia once again. (S ’20)
Cannan, G. Time and eternity. (My ’20)
Desmond, S. Passion. (Jl ’20)
Ervine, S. G. Foolish lovers. (Jl ’20)
Pryde, A. Marqueray’s duel. (Jl ’20)
Woolf, V. Night and day. (N ’20)
_England (Oxford)_
Morley, C. D. Kathleen. (Ap ’20)
_England (provincial and rural)_
Ayscough, J:, pseud. Abbotscourt. (Je ’20)
Benson, E: F: “Queen Lucia.” (S ’20)
Blundell, M. E. Beck of Beckford. (F ’21)
Brighouse, H. Marbeck inn. (Ap ’20)
Buckrose, J. E., pseud. Young hearts. (S ’20)
Easton, D. Golden bird. (S ’20)
Galsworthy, J: In chancery. (N ’20)
Gambier, K. Girl on the hilltop. (Ag ’20)
Hicks Beach, S. E. Shuttered doors. (Je ’20)
Hocking, J. Passion for life. (Jl ’20)
Kaye-Smith, S. Tamarisk town. (Jl ’20)
Lorimer, N. O. With other eyes. (O ’20)
Marshall, A. Many Junes. (Je ’20)
Merrick, H. Mary-girl. (S ’20)
Oldmeadow, E. J. Coggin. (Mr ’20)
Pedler, M. House of dreams-come-true. (S ’20)
Phillpotts, E. Miser’s money. (Je ’20)
Rainsford, W. H. That girl March. (F ’21)
Stevenson, G: Benjy. (Je ’20)
Swinnerton, F. A. September. (Mr ’20)
Thurston, E. T. Sheepskins and grey russet. (Je ’20)
Turner, J: H. Place in the world. (My ’20)
Vachell, H. A. Whitewash. (Jl ’20)
Ward, M. A. Harvest. (My ’20)
Whitham, G. I. St John of Honeylea. (Je ’20)
_Far East_
Rideout, H: M. Foot-path way. (Je ’20)
_Florida_
Oyen, H: Plunderer. (Je ’20)
_Germany_
Henry, S. O. Villa Elsa. (Je ’20)
_India_
Comfort, W. L., and Dost, Z. K. Son of power. (D ’20)
Lowis, C. C. Four blind mice. (D ’20)
Mundy, T. Told in the East. (F ’21)
Savi, E. W. When the blood burns. (D ’20)
Tracy, L: Sirdar’s sabre. (D ’20)
_Ireland_
Carleton, W: Stories of Irish life. (Mr ’20)
Ervine, S. G. Foolish lovers. (Jl ’20)
Galway, C. Towards the dawn. (D ’20)
Hannay, J. O. Up, the rebels! (Mr ’20)
Hinkson, K. Love of brothers. (D ’20)
MacFarlan, A. Inscrutable lovers. (Ap ’20)
MacGill, P. Maureen. (Je ’20)
MacNamara, B. Clanking of chains. (My ’20)
O’Duffy, E. Wasted island. (N ’20)
O’Kelly, S. Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. (D ’20)
O’Riordan, C. O. Adam of Dublin. (Ja ’21)
Page, G. Paddy-the-next-best-thing. (F ’21)
Poore, I. M. Rachel Fitzpatrick. (S ’20)
Somerville, E. A. O., and Martin, V. F. Mount Music. (Je ’20)
_Italy_
Forster, E: M. Where angels fear to tread. (Ap ’20)
Hudson, S. Richard Kurt. (Jl ’20)
Kennard, J. S. Memmo. (Ja ’21)
Lombardi, C. Cry of youth. (Jl ’20)
_Kansas_
Lynn, M. Free soil. (Ja ’21)
_Kentucky_
Buck, C: N. Tempering. (Je ’20)
_Louisiana_
Perry, S. G: Palmetto. (N ’20)
_Mexico_
Grogan, G. William Pollok, and other tales. (Je ’20)
_Minnesota_
Lewis, S. Main street. (N ’20)
_Mississippi river_
Spears, R. S. River prophet. (Ag ’20)
_Nebraska_
Maule, M. K. Prairie-schooner princess. (N ’20)
_New England_
Bassett, S. W. Wall between. (D ’20)
Brown, A. Homespun and gold. (Ja ’21)
Gerould, G. H. Youth in Harley. (O ’20)
Howells, W: D. Vacation of the Kelwyns. (N ’20)
Spofford, H. E. Elder’s people. (My ’20)
Williams, W. W. Goshen street. (N ’20)
_New York (city)_
Austin, M. 26 Jayne street. (Je ’20)
Bullard, A. Stranger. (Jl ’20)
Chamberlain, G: A. Taxi. (Ag ’20)
Corbett, E. F. Puritan and pagan. (Ja ’21)
Duganne, P. Prologue. (N ’20)
Forman, H: J. Fire of youth. (Ap ’20)
Frank, W. D: Dark mother. (D ’20)
Hudson, H:, 2d, pseud. Spendthrift town. (D ’20)
Hughes, R. What’s the world coming to? (Jl ’20)
Pearl, B. Sarah and her daughter. (Jl ’20)
Raine, W: M. Big-town round-up. (F ’21)
Spadoni, A. Swing of the pendulum. (Ap ’20)
Wharton, E. N. Age of innocence. (N ’20)
_New York (state)_
White, G. Storm country Polly. (Jl ’20)
_New Zealand_
Mander, J. Story of a New Zealand river. (My ’20)
_Ohio_
Anderson, S. Poor white. (D ’20)
Anderton, D. Cousin Sadie. (F ’21)
_Paris_
Audoux, M. Marie Claire’s workshop. (D ’20)
_Pennsylvania_
Deland, M. W. Old Chester secret. (D ’20)
Martin, H. R. Schoolmaster of Hessville. (N ’20)
Morris, H. S. Hannah Bye. (Ja ’20)
Myers, A. B. Patchwork. (My ’20)
_Philippine islands_
Martin, M. W. Green god’s pavilion. (O ’20)
_Rome_
Richardson, N. Pagan fire. (Ja ’21)
_San Francisco_
Dobie, C: C. Blood red dawn. (Jl ’20)
Spadoni, A. Swing of the pendulum. (Ap ’20)
_Scotland_
Douglas, O. E. Penny plain. (D ’20)
Niven, F: J: Tale that is told. (D ’20)
Watson, R. Stronger than his sea. (F ’21)
_South Africa_
Dell, E. M. Top of the world. (N ’20)
Millin, S. G. Dark river. (D ’20)
Young, F. E. M. Almonds of life. (O ’20)
_South Carolina_
Oemler, M. Purple heights. (N ’20)
_South seas_
Barbour, R. H:, and Holt, H. P. Joan of the island. (Ag ’20)
Conrad, J. Rescue. (Je ’20)
Grimshaw, B. Terrible island. (D ’20)
_Switzerland_
In the mountains. (N ’20)
_United States (middlewestern)_
Dell, F. Moon-calf. (D ’20)
Howe, E. W. Anthology of another town. (Ja ’21)
Watts, M. S. Noonmark. (F ’21)
_United States (northwestern)_
Sinclair, B. W: Poor man’s rock. (D ’20)
_United States (southern)_
Griffiths, G. Lure of the manor. (Ag ’20)
Hoffman, M. E. Lindy Loyd. (O ’20)
Olmstead, F. Stafford’s Island. (Je ’20)
Ragsdale, L. Next-besters. (S ’20)
Sampson, E. S. Mammy’s white folks. (S ’20)
Turner, G: K. Hagar’s hoard. (N ’20)
_United States (southwestern)_
Barry, R: H. Fruit of the desert. (S ’20)
Bennet, R. A. Bloom of cactus. (Mr ’20)
Dunn, J. A. E. Dead man’s gold. (S ’20)
Gregory, J. Man to man. (D ’20)
Hooker, F. C. Long dim trail. (N ’20)
Shedd, G: C. Iron furrow. (Ap ’20)
White, S. E: Killer. (Jl ’20)
_United States (western)_
Abbott, K. Wine o’ the winds. (Ag ’20)
Bower, B. M., pseud. Quirt. (Jl ’20)
Brand, M. Trailin’! (Jl ’20)
Burt, K. N. Hidden Creek. (O ’20)
Coolidge, D. Wunpost. (N ’20)
Croy, H. Turkey Bowman. (N ’20)
Dorrance, E. A. and J. F. Glory rides the range. (Jl ’20)
Dunn, J. A. E. Turquoise Cañon. (Ap ’20)
Grey, Z. Man of the forest. (Mr ’20)
Hendryx, J. B. Gold girl. (Ag ’20)
Lynde, F. Girl, a horse and a dog. (S ’20)
Marshall, E. Voice of the pack. (Je ’20)
Raine, W: M. Oh, you Tex! (Ag ’20)
Richards, C. E. Tenderfoot bride. (F ’21)
Ritchie, R. W. Trails to Two Moons. (D ’20)
Titus, H. Last straw. (Jl ’20)
White, W: P. Hidden trails. (O ’20)
White, W: P. Lynch lawyers. (Jl ’20)
White, W: P. Paradise Bend. (F ’21)
_Virginia_
Bailey, T. Trumpeter swan. (D ’20)
Johnston, M. Sweet Rocket. (D ’20)
_Wales_
Evans, C. My neighbors. (My ’20)
Young, F. B. and E. B. Undergrowth. (Ja ’21)
_Washington (state)_
Kyne, P. B. Kindred of the dust. (Ag ’20)
_West Virginia_
Dillon, M. C. Farmer of Roaring Run. (Mr ’20)
=Marriage=
Borden, T. M. Romantic woman. (My ’20)
Byrne, D. Foolish matrons. (N ’20)
Couperus, L: M. A. Inevitable. (D ’20)
Edginton, H. M. Married life. (Ag ’20)
Hamilton, C. His friend and his wife. (Je ’20)
Harris, C. M. Happily married. (Ap ’20)
Kerr, S. Painted meadows. (Je ’20)
Widdemer, M. I’ve married Marjorie. (S ’20)
Wylie, I. A. R. Children of storm. (N ’20)
=Moving picture stories=
Luther, M. L. Presenting Jane McRae. (S ’20)
Witwer, H. C: Kid Scanlan. (Ag ’20)
Witwer, H. C: There’s no base like home. (Ag ’20)
=Musicians=
Close, E. Cherry Isle. (D ’20)
Leadbitter, E. Rain before seven. (Jl ’20)
Mix, J. I. At fame’s gateway. (My ’20)
Schauffler, R. H. Fiddler’s luck. (Jl ’20)
=Mystery stories=
Allison, W: Secret of the sea. (Ap ’20)
Allison, W: Turnstile of night. (D ’20)
Benoit, P. Secret spring. (Je ’20)
Biss, G. Door of the unreal. (Ja ’21)
Brebner, P. J. Ivory disc. (Ag ’20)
Brown, E. A. That affair at St Peter’s. (Jl ’20)
Burt, K. Red lady. (Je ’20)
Camp, C: W. Gray mask. (Jl ’20)
Capes, B. E: J. Skeleton key. (Ag ’20)
Chalmers, S. Greater punishment. (Ag ’20)
Child, R: W. Vanishing men. (S ’20)
Cobb, T: Silver bag. (Je ’20)
Cohen, O. R. Gray dusk. (Jl ’20)
Crabb, A., pseud. Samuel Lyle, criminologist. (N ’20)
Curtiss, P. E. Wanted: a fool. (Ja ’21)
Davis, J. F. Chinese label. (Je ’20)
Dawson, W: J. Borrowdale tragedy. (F ’21)
Dodge, L: Whispers. (Je ’20)
Fletcher, J. S. Dead men’s money. (D ’20)
Fletcher, J. S. Paradise mystery. (Ag ’20)
Fletcher, J. S. Talleyrand maxim. (Mr ’20)
Forrester, I. L. Dangerous inheritance. (D ’20)
Foster, J: Searchers. (Ag ’20)
Fox, D: Man who convicted himself. (O ’20)
Ganachilly, A. Whispering dead. (Ag ’20)
Graham, A. Follow the little pictures! (Ag ’20)
Hanshew, M. E. and T: W. Riddle of the frozen flame. (Jl ’20)
Hay, J. Melwood mystery. (My ’20)
Hay, J. “No clue!” (N ’20)
Jepson, E. Loudwater mystery. (S ’20)
Johnston, W: A. Mystery in the Ritsmore. (Ag ’20)
Jones, S. C. La Chance mine mystery. (Je ’20)
Leblanc, M. Secret of Sarek. (Je ’20)
Le Queux, W: T. Doctor of Pimlico. (S ’20)
Level, M. Tales of mystery and horror. (O ’20)
Levison, E. Hidden eyes. (F ’21)
Lincoln, N. S. Red seal. (Je ’20)
Lowndes, M. A. Lonely house. (O ’20)
Luehrmann, A. Triple mystery. (Ag ’20)
McGibeny, D. 32 caliber. (F ’21)
McSpadden, J. W., ed. Famous detective stories. (O ’20)
Mantle, B. In the house of another. (D ’20)
Oppenheim, E: P. Great impersonation. (Mr ’20)
Ostrander, I. E. How many cards? (Ja ’21)
Ostrander, I. E. Unseen hands. (O ’20)
Parrish, R. Mystery of the silver dagger. (Je ’20)
Post, M. D. Mystery at the Blue villa. (Ap ’20)
Post, M. D. Sleuth of St James’s Square. (D ’20)
Rees, A. J: Hand in the dark. (S ’20)
Reynolds, G. M. Also Ran. (N ’20)
Rising, L. She who was Helena Cass. (N ’20)
Rohmer, S., pseud. Golden scorpion. (Jl ’20)
Rohmer, S., pseud. Green eyes of Bast. (F ’21)
Rowland, H: C. Peddler. (N ’20)
Sheehan, P. P. House with a bad name. (D ’20)
Sheridan, S. N. Typhoon’s secret. (Ap ’20)
Thayer, L. Unlatched door. (N ’20)
Tracy, L: Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. (My ’20)
Tweedale, V. Beautiful Mrs Davenant. (O ’20)
Tyrrell, R. Pathway of adventure. (Ag ’20)
Vane, D. Ferrybridge mystery. (N ’20)
Wallace, E. Four just men. (N ’20)
Wells, C. Raspberry jam. (Ap ’20)
Williams, H: S. Witness of the sun. (N ’20)
Wright, R. Disappearance of Kimball Webb. (Ap ’20)
=Mysticism=
Newton, A. Jewel in the sand. (Ap ’20)
=Negro problem=
Ovington, M. W. Shadow. (Ap ’20)
=Negroes=
Cohen, O. R. Come seven. (N ’20)
Martin, G: Children in the mist. (S ’20)
=Nurses and nursing=
Sawyer, R. Leerie. (S ’20)
=Politics=
Day, H. F. All-wool Morrison. (S ’20)
McConn, M. Mollie’s substitute husband. (O ’20)
Roseboro’, V. Storms of youth. (Je ’20)
Williams, B. A. Great accident. (My ’20)
=Prehistoric times=
Langford, G: Pic, the weapon maker. (O ’20)
=Prophecies (novels of the future)=
Hastings, M. M. City of endless night. (D ’20)
McMasters, W: H: Revolt. (Jl ’20)
Shanks, E: B. People of the ruins. (N ’20)
=Psychic phenomena=
Harben, W: N. Divine event. (N ’20)
Johnston, M. Sweet Rocket. (D ’20)
=Psychological stories=
Barker, D. A. Great leviathan. (F ’21)
Beresford, J: D. Imperfect mother. (Jl ’20)
Bryher, W. Development. (Ja ’21)
Caine, W: Strangeness of Noel Carton. (O ’20)
Castle, A. and E. John Seneschal’s Margaret. (D ’20)
Davis, N. Other woman. (Jl ’20)
Hall, G. S. Recreations of a psychologist. (Ja ’21)
Hamsun, K. Hunger. (D ’20)
Jenkin, A. M. N. End of a dream. (Jl ’20)
King, B. Thread of flame. (O ’20)
Monkhouse, A. N. True love. (S ’20)
Richardson, D. M. Interim. (Ag ’20)
Sedgwick, A. D. Third window. (Jl ’20)
Sinclair, M. Romantic. (D ’20)
Straus, R. Pengard awake. (Ja ’21)
Vance, L: J. Dark mirror. (Ag ’20)
Walpole, H. S. Captives. (D ’20)
Walton, G: L. Oscar Montague—paranoiac. (Ap ’20)
Washburn, C. C. Order. (Ap ’20)
Watson, E. L. G. Deliverance. (Ap ’20)
Webster, H: K. Mary Wollaston. (D ’20)
Woolf, V. Voyage out. (Jl ’20)
Young, F. B. Young physician. (Ag ’20)
Young, F. B. and E. B. Undergrowth. (Ja ’21)
=Quaker life=
Morris, H. S. Hannah Bye. (Ja ’21)
=Railroad stories=
Lynde, F. Wreckers. (Jl ’20)
=Reincarnation=
Barclay, F. L. Returned empty. (N ’20)
=Religion=
Garborg, A. Lost father. (S ’20)
Humphrey, Z. Sword of the spirit. (F ’21)
=Roman Catholic faith=
Clarke, I. C. Lady Trent’s daughter. (S ’20)
Clarke, I. C. Ursula Finch. (F ’21)
=Romance=
Cabell, J. B. Domnei. (F ’21)
Farnol, J. Geste of Duke Jocelyn. (N ’20)
Wallace, E. K. Stars in the pool. (F ’21)
=School and college life=
Fitzgerald, F. S. K. This side of paradise. (Je ’20)
Graham, J. C. It happened at Andover. (N ’20)
Nathan, R. Peter Kindred. (My ’20)
Waugh, A. Loom of youth. (Je ’20)
=Sea stories=
Allison, W: Secret of the sea. (Ap ’20)
Connolly, J. B. Hiker Joy. (Je ’20)
Conrad, J. Rescue. (Je ’20)
Copplestone, B. Last of the Grenvilles. (Ap ’20)
Forbes, G: Adventures in southern seas. (Ja ’21)
Hawes, C: B. Mutineers. (D ’20)
Leverage, H: Shepherd of the sea. (Mr ’20)
McFee, W: Captain Macedoine’s daughter. (D ’20)
Mason, A. Flying bo’sun. (D ’20)
Moore, F: F. Isle o’ dreams. (Ap ’20)
Moore, F: F. Sailor girl. (My ’20)
Overton, G. M. Mermaid. (Mr ’20)
Paine, R. D. Ships across the sea. (Je ’20)
Patterson, J: E: Passage of the barque Sappho. (My ’20)
Price, E. B. Silver Shoal light. (O ’20)
Sheridan, S. N. Typhoon’s secret. (Ap ’20)
Tooker, L: F. Middle passage. (N ’20)
White, S: A. Foaming fore shore. (N ’20)
=Secret service=
Sinclair, U. B. 100%. (Ja ’21)
=Sex problems=
Hamilton, C. Blue room. (D ’20)
=Short stories=
Abdullah, A., and others. Ten-foot chain. (D ’20)
Aleichem, S. Jewish children. (N ’20)
Andreïeff, L. N. When the king loses his head. (S ’20)
Annunzio, G. d’. Tales of my native town. (Ap ’20)
Baxter, A. B. Blower of bubbles. (Mr ’20)
Bridges, V: Cruise of the “Scandal.” (Ag ’20)
Brown, A. Homespun and gold. (Ja ’21)
Brown, D., and Phoutrides, A., trs. Modern Greek stories. (S
’20)
Brunner, E. Celia and her friends. (S ’20)
Brunner, E. Celia once again. (S ’20)
Carleton. W: Stories of Irish life. (Mr ’20)
Cather, W. S. Youth and the bright Medusa. (N ’20)
Clemenceau, G. E. B: Surprises of life. (O ’20)
Cobb, I. S. From place to place. (Mr ’20)
Cohen, O. R. Come seven. (N ’20)
Cotter, W. Sheila and others. (Ja ’21)
Cutting, M. S. Some of us are married. (Ag ’20)
Dell, E. M. Tidal wave. (Ap ’20)
Dostoevskii, F. M. Honest thief. (Ap ’20)
Dunsany, E: J: M. D. P. Tales of three hemispheres. (Mr ’20)
Dwight, H. G. Emperor of Elam. (Ja ’21)
Easton, D. Golden bird. (S ’20)
Evans, C. My neighbors. (My ’20)
Ferber, E. Half portions. (Jl ’20)
Fitzgerald, F. S. K. Flappers and philosophers. (N ’20)
French, J. L:, ed. Best psychic stories. (S ’20)
Galsworthy, J: Tatterdemalion. (My ’20)
Gittins, H. N. Short and sweet. (S ’20)
Graves, C. I. M. Eve of Pascua. (S ’20)
Grogan, G. William Pollok, and other tales. (Je ’20)
Hall, G. S. Recreations of a psychologist. (Ja ’21)
Heydrick, B: A., ed. Americans all. (O ’20)
Hichens, R. S. Snake-bite, and other stories. (Mr ’20)
Howells, W: D., ed. Great modern American stories. (S ’20)
Hughes, R. Momma. (Ja ’21)
Hutten zum Stolzenberg, B. Helping Hersey. (Ag ’20)
Irwin, W. A. Suffering husbands. (Ag ’20)
James, H: Master Eustace. (D ’20)
Jeffery, J. E. Side issues. (N ’20)
Jessup, A., ed. Best American humorous short stories. (S ’20)
Johnson, A. Under the rose. (O ’20)
Keable, R. Drift of pinions. (Je ’20)
Level, M. Tales of mystery and horror. (O ’20)
Linderman, F. B. On a passing frontier. (Ag ’20)
London, J. Brown Wolf. (F ’21)
McCutcheon, G: B. Anderson Crow, detective. (Je ’20)
Mackay, H. G. Chill hours. (Ap ’20)
Mackinnon, A. G. Guid auld Jock. (O ’20)
MacManus, S. Top o’ the mornin’. (N ’20)
McMichael, C: B., tr. Short stories from the Spanish. (D ’20)
McSpadden, J. W., ed. Famous detective stories. (O ’20)
McSpadden, J. W., ed. Famous psychic stories. (N ’20)
Martin, G: Children in the mist. (S ’20)
Morgan, B. Roaring road. (Ag ’20)
Mundy, T. Told in the East. (F ’21)
New Decameron. (D ’20)
O’Brien, E: J. H., ed. Best short stories of 1919. (Ap ’20)
O. Henry memorial award. Prize stories 1919. (Jl ’20)
O’Kelly, S. Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. (D ’20)
Paine, R. D. Ships Across the sea. (Je ’20)
Pérez de Ayala, R. Prometheus. (D ’20)
Perry, L. For the game’s sake. (D ’20)
Post, M. D. Mystery at the Blue villa. (Ap ’20)
Post, M. D. Sleuth of St James’s Square. (D ’20)
Ragosin, Z. A., comp. Little Russian masterpieces. (D ’20)
Rhodes, H. G. High life. (F ’21)
Rice, A. C. and C. Y. Turn about tales. (O ’20)
Rinehart, M. Affinities. (Jl ’20)
Robbins, C. A. Silent, white and beautiful. (Ja ’21)
Sedgwick, A. D. Christmas roses. (Ja ’21)
Smith, G. A. Pagan. (S ’20)
Spofford, H. E. Elder’s people. (My ’20)
Tracy, L: Sirdar’s sabre. (D ’20)
Train, A. C. Tutt and Mr Tutt. (Je ’20)
Tuttle, W. C. Reddy Brant. (O ’20)
Vernède, R. E. Port Allington stories. (N ’20)
White, S. E: Killer. (Jl ’20)
Widdemer, M. Boardwalk. (Mr ’20)
Wylie, I. A. R. Holy fire. (Ag ’20)
Yezierska, A. Hungry hearts. (D ’20)
=Smuggling=
McFadden, G. V. Preventive man. (Jl ’20)
=Social conditions=
Desmond, S. Passion. (Jl ’20)
Lewis, S. Main street. (N ’20)
Rinehart, M. Poor wise man. (D ’20)
=Social problems=
Banning, M. C. This marrying. (My ’20)
=Socialism=
Wood, C. Mountain. (S ’20)
=Society novels=
Bartley, N. I. Gorgeous girl. (My ’20)
Brackett, C: Counsel of the ungodly. (S ’20)
Wharton, E. N. Age of innocence. (N ’20)
=Spiritualism=
Brown, A. Wind between the worlds. (S ’20)
Miln, L. Invisible foe. (O ’20)
Sanborn, M. F. First valley. (O ’20)
=Sport and recreation=
Morgan, B. Roaring road. (Ag ’20)
Marshall, R. Enchanted golf clubs. (Mr ’20)
Perry, L. For the game’s sake. (D ’20)
Witwer, H. C: Kid Scanlan. (Ag ’20)
Yates, L. B. Autobiography of a race horse. (Ag ’20)
=Supernatural phenomena=
French, J. L:, ed. Best psychic stories. (S ’20)
Harrison, M. S. Tall villa. (Mr ’20)
Judson, J. Stars incline. (Ap ’20)
McSpadden, J. W., ed. Famous psychic stories. (N ’20)
Roof, K. M. Great demonstration. (F ’21)
Ross, R. Revels of Orsera. (F ’21)
=Theater and stage life=
Boucicault, R. B. Rose of Jericho. (My ’20)
Chapin, A. A. Jane. (Je ’20)
Cooper, H: St J. Sunny Ducrow. (My ’20)
Corbett, E. F. Puritan and pagan. (Ja ’21)
Harker, L. A. Allegra. (Ap ’20)
Mackenzie, C. Vanity girl. (O ’20)
Reymont, W. S. Comédienne. (F ’21)
Wodehouse, P. G. Little warrior. (D ’20)
=Thrift=
Dowst, H: P. Bostwick’s budget. (F ’21)
=Translated stories=
_Bohemian_
Hrbkova, S. B., tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Ag ’20)
_Danish_
Jacobsen, J. P. Niels Lyhne. (Jl ’20)
Nexö, M. A. Ditte: girl alive! (O ’20)
_Dutch_
Couperus, L: M. A. Inevitable. (D ’20)
Couperus, L: M. A. Tour. (Jl ’20)
_French_
Audoux, M. Marie Claire’s workshop. (D ’20)
Benoit, P. Atlantida. (S ’20)
Clemenceau, G. E. B: Surprises of life. (O ’20)
France, A., pseud. Little Pierre. (F ’21)
France, A., pseud. Seven wives of Bluebeard. (F ’21)
Guillaumin, E. Life of a simple man. (F ’21)
Marx, M. Woman. (Ag ’20)
Maurois, A. Silence of Colonel Bramble. (Jl ’20)
Mayran, C. Story of Gotton Connixloo. (Ja ’21)
_German_
Wassermann, J. World’s illusion. (Ja ’21)
_Greek_
Brown, D., and Phoutrides, A., trs. Modern Greek stories. (S
’20)
_Hebrew_
Mapu, A. Sorrows of Noma. (Ap ’20)
_Italian_
Annunzio, G. d’. Tales of my native town. (Ap ’20)
Serao, M. Souls divided. (My ’20)
_Norwegian_
Bojer, J. Power of a lie. (Jl ’20)
Bojer, J. Treacherous ground. (Jl ’20)
Garborg, A. Lost father. (S ’20)
Hamsun, K. Hunger. (D ’20)
_Polish_
Nalkowska, S. Rygier-. Kobiety (women). (D ’20)
Reymont, W. S. Comédienne. (F ’21)
_Portuguese_
Graça Aranha, J. P. da. Canaan. (Ap ’20)
_Russian_
Andreïeff, L. N. Satan’s diary. (D ’20)
Andreïeff, L. N. When the king loses his head. (S ’20)
Chekhov, A. P. Chorus girl. (Ag ’20)
Dostoevskii, F. M. Honest thief. (Ap ’20)
Ragosin, Z. A., comp. Little Russian masterpieces. (D ’20)
_Spanish_
Blasco Ibáñez, V. Enemies of women. (F ’21)
Blasco Ibáñez, V. Woman triumphant. (Je ’20)
McMichael, C: B., tr. Short stories from the Spanish. (D ’20)
Pérez de Ayala, R. Prometheus. (D ’20)
Zamacoïs, E. Their son; The necklace. (Mr ’20)
_Yiddish_
Aleichem, S. Jewish children. (N ’20)
Kobrin, L. Lithuanian village. (O ’20)
=Unclassified=
Agate, J. E. Responsibility. (Je ’20)
Aumonier, S. One after another. (O ’20)
Bain, F. W:, tr. Substance of a dream. (Ap ’20)
Barcynska, H. Rose o’ the sea. (N ’20)
Bartley, N. I. Gray angels. (N ’20)
Bell, J: K. Peculiar major. (Ap ’20)
Chambers, R. W: Crimson tide. (Mr ’20)
Chambers, R. W: Slayer of souls. (Jl ’20)
Cobb, T: Mr Preston’s daughter. (D ’20)
Coxon, M. Breathless moment. (S ’20)
Crockett, S: R. Light out of the east. (Ag ’20)
Foster, M. Trap. (O ’20)
Goodwin, J: Without mercy. (F ’21)
Grozier, E. A., ed. One hundred best novels condensed. (Je ’20)
Hall, A. B. Blind wisdom. (F ’21)
Hartley, O. Anne. (N ’20)
Humphreys, E. M. J. Diana of the Ephesians. (Ap ’20)
Irwin, F. Poor dear Theodora! (My ’20)
Kirby, E. Adorable dreamer. (O ’20)
Lawrence, C. E. God in the thicket. (Ja ’21)
Lee, J. B. Chinese coat. (O ’20)
Lutz, G. L. H. Exit Betty. (Jl ’20)
McKenna, S. Sheila intervenes. (Ap ’20)
Norris, K. Harriet and the piper. (S ’20)
Nyburg, S. L. Gate of ivory. (D ’20)
Onions, B. Sweethearts unmet. (Ap ’20)
Patrick, D. Wider way. (S ’20)
Phillpotts, E. Evander. (My ’20)
Snaith, J; C. Adventurous lady. (N ’20)
Taylor. K. H. Yellow soap. (Ag ’20)
Townshend, G. E. G. E. T. Widening circle. (S ’20)
Tremayne, S., pseud. Echo. (Jl ’20)
Villars, M. Broken laugh. (O ’20)
Wadsley, O. Belonging. (O ’20)
Wallace, E. Green rust. (Je ’20)
Weaver, G. Thunderbolt. (Ag ’20)
Woodworth, H. G. In the shadow of Lantern street. (Jl ’20)
Fiddler’s luck. Schauffler, R. H. (Jl ’20)
Field artillery instruction. Carter, A. H., and Arnold, A. V. (Ag
’20)
Fifty years in the royal navy. Scott, P. M. (Ap ’20)
Fight for a free sea. Paine, R. D. (D ’20)
Fight for freedom. Goldring, D. (Ag ’20)
Fighting without a war. Albertson, R. (Ap ’20)
=Filing=
McCord, J. N. Textbook of filing. (My ’20)
=Finance=
Barron, C. W. World remaking. (Ap ’20)
Foxwell, H. S. Papers on current finance. (My ’20)
Moody, J: Masters of capital. (D ’20)
=Great Britain=
Hobson, J: A. Taxation in the new state. (My ’20)
=Mexico=
McCaleb, W. F. Present and past banking in Mexico. (Ap ’20)
Finding a way out. Moton, R. R. (Jl ’20)
Fir trees and fireflies. Wilson, C. C. (F ’21)
Fire of youth. Forman, H: J. (Ap ’20)
First plays. Milne, A. A. (Jl ’20)
First reflections on the campaign of 1918. Johnston, R. M. (My ’20)
First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. Oliver, M. I. G. (Ap ’20)
First valley. Sanborn, M. F. (O ’20)
First world war. Repington, C: A. (D ’20)
=Fisheries=
Jenkins, J. T. Sea fisheries. (F ’21)
Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. Rhead, L: J: (Je ’20)
=Fishing=
Cook, C. B. Goin’ fishin’. (Ja ’21)
Heilner, V. C., and Stick, F. Call of the surf. (N ’20)
Holden, G: P. Idyl of the split bamboo. (Ja ’21)
Rhead, L: J: Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. (Je ’20)
St John, L. Practical fly fishing. (Je ’20)
Sheringham, H. T. Trout fishing memories and morals. (N ’20)
Smith, O. W. Casting tackle and methods. (N ’20)
Five books of youth. Hillyer, R. S. (Ag ’20)
Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point of view. Dreier,
K. S. (F ’21)
Flame and shadow. Teasdale, S. (D ’20)
Flappers and philosophers. Fitzgerald, F. S. K. (N ’20)
Flemish legends. Coster, C: T. H. de. (N ’20)
Fleurs-de-lys. Thorley, W. C:, tr. and ed. (Je ’20)
=Florida=
=Description and travel=
Simpson, C: T. In lower Florida wilds. (O ’20)
Flow of value. McPherson, L. G. (My ’20)
=Flowers=
Teall, G. C. Little garden the year round. (Ap ’20)
Flying bo’sun. Mason, A. (D ’20)
Flying legion. England, G: A. (O ’20)
Flying the Atlantic in sixteen hours. Brown, A. W., and Bott, A. J:
(Jl ’20)
Foaming fore shore. White, S: A. (N ’20)
=Foch, Ferdinand, 1851–=
Recouly, R. Foch: the winner of the war. (Je ’20)
=Folk lore=
Armfield, C. Wonder tales of the world. (N ’20)
Bradley-Birt, F. B. Bengal fairy tales. (Ja ’21)
Coster, C: T. H. de. Flemish legends. (N ’20)
Eells, E. S. Tales of enchantment from Spain. (N ’20)
Fillmore, P. H. Shoemaker’s apron. (N ’20)
Glinski, A. J. Polish fairy tales. (F ’21)
Gregory, I. A., comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of
Ireland. (Je ’20)
Ozaki, Y. T. Romances of old Japan. (Mr ’20)
Safroni-Middleton, A. South sea foam. (Je ’20)
Spence, L: Legends and romances of Spain. (D ’20)
Stephens, J. Irish fairy tales. (F ’21)
Follow the little pictures! Graham, A. (Ag ’20)
=Food=
Andrea, A. L. Dehydrating foods. (D ’20)
Harvey, L. S. Food facts for the homemaker. (Ap ’20)
Lansing, M. F., and Gulick, L. H. Food and life. (My ’20)
=Food adulteration and inspection=
Leach, A. E. Food inspection and analysis. (D ’20)
Food for the sick and the well. Thompson, M. J. (Mr ’20)
Food inspection and analysis. Leach, A. E. (D ’20)
=Food supply=
Pearl, R. Nation’s food. (F ’21)
Rew, R. H: Food supplies in peace and war. (Jl ’20)
Starling, E. H: Feeding of nations. (O ’20)
Foolish lovers. Ervine, S. G. (Jl ’20)
Foolish matrons. Byrne, D. (N ’20)
Foot-path way. Rideout, H: M. (Je ’20)
=Football=
Camp, W. C. Football without a coach. (O ’20)
Roper, W: W. Winning football. (N ’20)
For better, for worse. Maxwell, W: B. (N ’20)
For the game’s sake. Perry, L. (D ’20)
=Foreign exchange=
Shugrue, M. J. Problems in foreign exchange. (F ’21)
Whitaker, A. C. Foreign exchange. (Mr ’20)
York, T: A. Foreign exchange. (Ja ’21)
Foreign rights and interests in China. Willoughby, W. W. (D ’20)
Foreign trade of the United States. Ford, L. C., and Ford, T: F. (Ja
’21)
Forerunner. Gibran, K. (D ’20)
=Forest products=
Brown, N. C. Forest products. (Mr ’20)
=Forests and forestry=
Henry, A. Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Ja
’21)
Ise, J: United States forest policy. (N ’20)
Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. Henry, A. (Ja ’21)
=Forging=
Harcourt, R. H: Elementary forge practice. (Ja ’21)
Forging of the pikes. Wilson, M. (My ’20)
Forgotten shrines. Farrar, J: C. (Jl ’20)
Fortieth door. Bradley, M. (Ap ’20)
=Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826–1864=
Milligan, H. V. Stephen Collins Foster. (D ’20)
Foundation of true morality. Slater, T: (Jl ’20)
Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation. Freundlich, E. (F
’21)
Foundations of social science. Williams, J. M. (F ’21)
Founding of a nation. Gregg, F. M. (O ’20)
Four blind mice. Lowis, C. C. (D ’20)
Four girls of forty years ago. Rhoades, C. H. (N ’20)
Four just men. Wallace, E. (N ’20)
Four mystery plays. Steiner, R. (My ’20)
=Fox, George, 1624–1691=
Jones, R. M. Story of George Fox. (My ’20)
Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells. Clapham, R: (Ja ’21)
Fragment on the human mind. Merz, J: T. (Ag ’20)
=France=
Dell, R. E: My second country. (Je ’20)
=Biography=
Tappan, E. M. Hero stories of France. (Je ’20)
=Description and travel=
Dodd, A. B. Up the Seine to the battlefields. (Je ’20)
Garey, E. B. American guide book to France and its battlefields.
(Ag ’20)
Gibbons, H. A. Riviera towns. (Ja ’21)
Marshall, A. Spring walk in Provence. (N ’20)
=History=
Boulenger, J. Seventeenth century. (Ag ’20)
Davis, W: S. History of France. (Ag ’20)
Duruy, V: History of France. (D ’20)
_Revolution_
Gooch, G: P. Germany and the French revolution. (F ’21)
Webster, N. H. French revolution. (Je ’20)
_Restoration, 1814–1848_
Rochechouart, L: V: L. Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart.
(F ’21)
_2nd empire, 1852–1870_
Fleury, M. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. (S ’20)
_3rd republic, 1870–_
Deschanel, P. E. L: Gambetta. (N ’20)
=Politics and government=
Buell, R. L. Contemporary French politics. (Ja ’21)
France and ourselves. Gibbons, H. A. (My ’20)
Free soil. Lynn, M. (Ja ’21)
=Free speech=
Chafee, Z., jr. Freedom of speech. (Ja ’21)
=Free trade and protection=
Taussig, F. W: Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. (Je ’20)
Freedom of speech. Chafee, Z., jr. (Ja ’21)
=Freedom of the press=
Lippmann, W. Liberty and the news. (Ap ’20)
Sinclair, U. B. Brass check. (Ap ’20)
Freethinkers of the nineteenth century. Courtney, J. E. (S ’20)
=French literature=
Duclaux, M. Twentieth century French writers. (S ’20)
French literature of the great war. Schinz, A. (Jl ’20)
French music of today. Jean-Aubry, G. (Je ’20)
=French poetry=
Pound. E. L. Instigations of Ezra Pound. (S ’20)
=Collections=
Thorley, W. C:, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. (Je ’20)
=Translations into English=
Boni, A., ed. Modern book of French verse. (Ag ’20)
French revolution. Webster, N. H. (Je ’20)
Frenchwoman’s impressions of America. Bryas, M. de and J. de. (Jl
’20)
=Friends, Society of=
Graham, J: W: Faith of a Quaker. (D ’20)
Jones, R. Service of love in war time. (N ’20)
From friend to friend. Ritchie, A. I. (Je ’20)
From Holbein to Whistler. Brooks, A. M. (Ja ’21)
From liberty to Brest-Litovsk. Williams, A. T. (Je ’20)
From Newton to Einstein. Harrow, B: (Jl ’20)
From now on. Packard, F. L. (Mr ’20)
From Persian uplands. Hale, F: (D ’20)
From place to place. Cobb, I. S. (Mr ’20)
From Serbia to Jugoslavia. Gordon-Smith, G. (Je ’20)
From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred and seventh infantry.
Rainsford, W. K. (Mr ’20)
=Frontier and pioneer life=
Faris, J: T. On the trail of the pioneers. (Je ’20)
Hayes, E. Wild turkeys and tallow candles. (D ’20)
Frontier in American history. Turner, F: J. (D ’20)
Frontier of control. Goodrich, C. L. (Ja ’21)
Fruit of the desert. Barry, R: H. (S ’20)
=Fruits=
Popenoe, W. Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Ja ’21)
Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. Kershaw, J: B. C. (D
’20)
=Fuels=
Kershaw, J: B. C. Fuel, water, and gas analysis for steam users.
(D ’20)
Function of the poet. Lowell, J. R. (Jl ’20)
Fundamental principles of learning and study. Edwards, A. S. (F ’21)
Fundamentals of prosperity. Babson, R. W. (F ’21)
Fur bringers. Footner, H. (D ’20)
=Furniture=
Percival, M. Old English furniture and its surroundings. (Ja ’21)
=Future life=
Moore, J. H., ed. World beyond. (O ’20)
Our unseen guest. (Ap ’20)
Future of aviation. Dargon, J. (D ’20)
Future of medicine. Mackenzie, J. (D ’20)
Gallipoli diary. Hamilton, I. S. M. (N ’20)
=Gambetta, Leon Michel, 1838–1882=
Deschanel, P. E. L: Gambetta. (N ’20)
=Games=
Ripley, G: S. Games for boys. (Ja ’21)
Wolcott, T. H., ed. Book of games and parties. (D ’20)
Games for boys. Ripley, G: S. (Ja ’21)
Garden of peace. Moore, F. F. (N ’20)
=Gardening=
Dillistone, G: Planning and planting of little gardens. (Ja ’21)
Teall, G. C. Little garden the year round. (Ap ’20)
=Gardner, Augustus Peabody, 1865–1918=
Gardner, A: P. Some letters. (My ’20)
Garnet story book. Skinner, A. M. and E. L., comps. and eds. (My
’20)
Garo jungle book. Carey, W:, and others. (Mr ’20)
=Garos=
Carey, W:, and others. Garo jungle book. (Mr ’20)
=Gas=
Kershaw, J: B. C. Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. (D
’20)
=Gas, Natural=
Panyity, L: S. Prospecting for oil and gas. (F ’21)
=Gas and oil engines=
Morgan, J: D: Principles of electric spark ignition in internal
combustion engines. (D ’20)
Pollock, W. Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. (Ja ’21)
Gate of fulfillment. Ridsdale, K. (Je ’20)
Gate of ivory. Nyburg, S. L. (D ’20)
Gate of temptation. Eng title of Ivory disc. Brebner, P. J. (Ag ’20)
Gates of paradise. Markham, E. (Jl ’20)
Gathering of the forces. Whitman, W. (F ’21)
General botany for universities and colleges. Densmore, H. D. (My
’20)
General introduction to psychoanalysis. Freud, S. (N ’20)
General staff and its problems. Ludendorff, E. von. (F ’21)
Geology of the mid continent oilfields. Bosworth, T: O. (O ’20)
George Tyrrell’s letters. Tyrrell, G: (D ’20)
Georgian poetry, 1918–1919. (My ’20)
German days. (O ’20)
German general staff and its decisions. Falkenhayn E. G. A. S. von.
(Ap ’20)
German leaders of yesterday and today. Dombrowski, E. (S ’20)
=German literature=
Gooch, G: P. Germany and the French revolution. (F ’21)
German spies at bay. Felstead, S. T. (D ’20)
=Germany=
Berger, M. Germany after the armistice. (Jl ’20)
German days. (O ’20)
Ludendorff, E. von. General staff and its problems. (F ’21)
Young, G: New Germany. (Je ’20)
=Biography=
Dombrowski, E. German leaders of yesterday and today. (S ’20)
=Colonies=
Fletcher, C: B. Stevenson’s Germany. (S ’20)
=Description and travel=
Franck, H. A. Vagabonding through changing Germany. (Ag ’20)
Howells, W: D. Hither and thither in Germany. (Mr ’20)
=Foreign relations=
Gori[)c]ar, J., and Stowe, L. B. Inside story of Austro-German
intrigue. (Ap ’20)
Haldane, R: B. H. Before the war. (Ap ’20)
_Russia_
Levine, I: D. Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. (O ’20)
Germany and the French revolution. Gooch, G: P. (F ’21)
Geste of Duke Jocelyn. Farnol, J. (N ’20)
Ghost in the White House. Lee, G. S. (S ’20)
Ghosts I have seen. Tweedale, V. (Ap ’20)
=Guild socialism=
Hobson, S. G. National guilds and the state. (S ’20)
Girl, a horse and a dog. Lynde, F. (S ’20)
Girl from Four Corners. Porter, R. N. (My ’20)
Girl heroines in fiction. McFee, I. N. (N ’20)
Girl on the hilltop. Gambier, K. (Ag ’20)
=Girls=
Blanchard, P. M. Adolescent girl. (Ag ’20)
=Gladstone, Catherine (Glynne) (Mrs William Ewart Gladstone),
1812–1900=
Drew, M. Mrs Gladstone. (Je ’20)
Glamour. Maxwell, W: B. (Ap ’20)
Glamour of prospecting. Cornell, F. C. (F ’21)
Glass collector. Percival, M. (My ’20)
=Glassware=
Percival, M. Glass collector. (My ’20)
Glen of the high north. Cody, H. A. (O ’20)
Glimpses of South America. Sherwood, F. A. (D ’20)
Glory rides the range. Dorrance, E. A. and J. F. (Jl ’20)
Gloss of youth. Furness, H. H. (N ’20)
=God=
Baldwin, C: S. God unknown. (O ’20)
Streeter, B. H., ed. Spirit. (Jl ’20)
Webb, C. C: J. Divine personality and human life. (N ’20)
Webb, C. C: J. God and personality. (My ’20)
God in the thicket. Lawrence, C. E. (Ja ’21)
God unknown. Baldwin, C: S. (O ’20)
God’s smile. Magnussen, J. (N ’20)
Goin’ fishin’. Cook, C. B. (Ja ’21)
Going afoot. Christy, B. H. (Je ’20)
=Gold=
White, B: Gold. (F ’21)
Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Cram, R. A. (D ’20)
Gold girl. Hendryx, J. B. (Ag ’20)
Gold out of Celebes. Dingle, A. E. (Jl ’20)
Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. O’Kelly, S. (D ’20)
Golden bird. Easton, D. (S ’20)
Golden scorpion. Rohmer, S., pseud. (Jl ’20)
Golden whales of California. Lindsay, N, V. (Jl ’20)
=Goldoni, Carlo, 1707–1793=
Kennard, J. S. Goldoni and the Venice of his time. (Jl ’20)
Goldoni and the Venice of his time. Kennard, J. S. (Jl ’20)
=Golf=
Dunn, J: D., and Jessup, E. H. Intimate golf talks. (Ja ’21)
Hammond, D. Golf swing. (Ja ’21)
Whitlatch, M. Golf, for beginners—and others. (Jl ’20)
Golf swing. Hammond, D. (Ja ’21)
Gorgeous girl. Bartley, N. I. (My ’20)
Goshen street. Williams, W. W. (N ’20)
Gospel of out of doors. Clark, F. E: (Ag ’20)
=Government=
Burton, T. E. Modern political tendencies. (Mr ’20)
Government of India. Macdonald, J. R. (D ’20)
=Gracchus, Caius Sempronius, 159–121 B.C.=
=Drama=
Gregory, O. Caius Gracchus. (Ja ’21)
=Graham, Robert Bontini Cunninghame.= See Cunninghame Graham, R. B.
=Grain trade=
Barker, A. British corn trade. (F ’21)
=Grand Canyon=
Van Dyke, J: C: Grand canyon of the Colorado. (Je ’20)
Grand canyon of the Colorado. Van Dyke, J: C: (Je ’20)
=Grant, Douglas=, pseud. See Ostrander, I. E.
Granville. Guttersen, G. (Je ’20)
=Gravitation=
Freundlich, E. Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation. (F
’21)
Gray angels. Bartley, N. I. (N ’20)
Gray dusk. Cohen, O. R. (Jl ’20)
Gray mask. Camp, C: W. (Jl ’20)
Graydon of the Windermere. McKowan, E. (F ’21)
Great accident. Williams, B. A. (My ’20)
Great adventure of Panama. Bunau-Varilla, P. (My ’20)
Great awakening in the middle colonies. Maxson, C: H. (D ’20)
=Great Britain=
=Army=
Adam, W: A: Whither? (D ’20)
=Biography=
Fletcher, C: R. L. Historical portraits, 1700–1850. (D ’20)
=Colonies=
Fletcher, C: B. Stevenson’s Germany. (S ’20)
Gillespie, J. E: Influence of oversea expansion on England to
1700. (F ’21)
Leyds, W. J. Transvaal surrounded. (N ’20)
=Commerce=
Barker, A. British corn trade. (F ’21)
=Economic conditions=
Barker, J. E. Economic statesmanship. (F ’21)
Cole, G: D. H. Chaos and order in industry. (N ’20)
Cox, H. Economic liberty. (D ’20)
Page, W:, ed. Commerce and industry. (D ’20)
Usher, A. P. Introduction to the industrial history of England.
(Mr ’20)
=Foreign relations=
Haldane, R: B. H. Before the war. (Ap ’20)
Wister, O. Straight deal. (Je ’20)
_United States_
Mills. J. T. Great Britain and the United States. (F ’21)
=History=
Mowat, R. B. Henry V. (D ’20)
_19th century_
Hughes, E: A. Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth
century. (Jl ’20)
Lucy, H: W: Diary of a journalist. (F ’21)
=Intellectual life=
Warren, A. London days. (N ’20)
=Navy=
Bacon, R. H. S. Dover patrol. (Ap ’20)
Brownrigg, D. E. R. Indiscretions of the naval censor. (Je ’20)
Evans, E: R. G. R. Keeping the seas. (Ag ’20)
Fisher, J: A. F. Memories and records. (Ap ’20)
Scott, P. M. Fifty years in the royal navy. (Ap ’20)
=Politics and government=
Buckle, G: E. Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield.
(O ’20)
Harrison, A. Before and now. (Je ’20)
Haynes, E. S. P. Case for liberty. (D ’20)
Laski, H. J. Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham.
(S ’20)
Macdonald, J. R. Parliament and revolution. (Ag ’20)
Tout, T: F: Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval
England. (Ja ’21)
Great Britain and the United States. Mills, J. T. (F ’21)
Great church awakes. Palmer, E. J. (Ja ’21)
Great demonstration. Roof, K. M. (F ’21)
Great fire of London in 1666. Bell, W. G: (D ’20)
Great game of business. Frederick, J. G: (F ’21)
Great impersonation. Oppenheim, E: P. (Mr ’20)
Great leviathan. Barker, D. A. (F ’21)
Great menace. Mead, G: W. (Ag ’20)
Great modern American stories. Howells, W: D., ed. (S ’20)
Great south land. Koebel, W: H: (Ap ’20)
Great steel strike and its lessons. Foster, W: Z. (O ’20)
Great war and the R. A. M. C. Brereton, F: S. (N ’20)
Greater punishment. Chalmers, S. (Ag ’20)
“Greatest failure in all history.” Spargo, J: (S ’20)
=Greece=
Hibben, P. Constantine I and the Greek people. (Ag ’20)
Marshall, F. H: Discovery in Greek lands. (F ’21)
=History=
Caldwell, W. E. Hellenic conceptions of peace. (Mr ’20)
=Greece, Modern=
=History=
Gibbons, H. A. Venizelos. (D ’20)
=Greek drama=
Norwood, G. Greek tragedy. (F ’21)
=Greek poetry=
=Translations into English=
Palamas, K. Life immovable. (My ’20)
Greek tragedy. Norwood, G. (F ’21)
Green eyes of Bast. Rohmer, S., pseud. (F ’21)
Green forest fairy book. Grady, L. E. (Ja ’21)
Green god’s pavilion. Martin, M. W. (O ’20)
Green rust. Wallace, E. (Je ’20)
=Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832–1895=
Gresham, M. Life of Walter Quintin Gresham. (Je ’20)
=Grey, Charles, 2d earl, 1764–1845=
Trevelyan, G: M. Lord Grey of the reform bill. (Je ’20)
Grey fish. Cook, W. V: (S ’20)
Ground and goal of human life. Shaw, C: G. (Ap ’20)
Group mind. McDougall, W: (N ’20)
Growing up. Vorse, M. M. (S ’20)
Guards come through, and other poems. Doyle, A. C. (My ’20)
Guid auld Jock. Mackinnon, A. G. (O ’20)
Guide to Russian literature. Olgin, M. J. (Je ’20)
Guide to the military history of the world war, 1914–1918.
Frothingham, T: G. (N ’20)
Guide to Zionism. Sampter, J. E., ed. (S ’20)
Guidebook to the Biblical literature. Genung, J: F. (My ’20)
Guiding principles for American voters. Mason, A. L. (D ’20)
Gulf of misunderstanding. Pinochet, T. (Ja ’21)
Gus Harvey. Smith, C. L. (Ja ’21)
Habits that handicap. Towns, C: B. (Mr ’20)
Hagar’s hoard. Turner, G: K. (N ’20)
Hail, man! Morgan, A. (My ’20)
Half portions. Ferber, E. (Jl ’20)
Hall with doors. Hasbrouck, L. S. (N ’20)
=Hamilton, Alexander, 1757–1804=
Ford, H: J. Alexander Hamilton. (Ag ’20)
Hamlet. Stoll, E. E. (Je ’20)
Hand in the dark. Rees, A. J: (S ’20)
Hand-made fables. Ade, G: (Ap ’20)
Handbook for practical farmers. Findlay, H., ed. (Ja ’21)
Handbook for rural school officers. Showalter, N. D: (Jl ’20)
Handbook of American government. Bartlett, W: H. (S ’20)
Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and practice. Allen, A. W. (F
’21)
Handbook on health and how to keep it. Camp, W. C. (My ’20)
Handbook to the league of nations. Butler, G. G. (My ’20)
Hands off Mexico. Turner, J: K. (Jl ’20)
Hannah Bye. Morris, H. S. (Ja ’21)
Happily married. Harris, C. M. (Ap ’20)
Happy bride. Jesse, F. T. (D ’20)
Happy house. Abbott, J. L. (Jl ’20)
Happy house. Hutten zum Stolzenberg, B. (Ap ’20)
Happy hunting grounds. Roosevelt. K. (D ’20)
Happy woman. Weyl, M. (Ap ’20)
=Harbors=
Rush, T. E. Port of New York. (Jl ’20)
Harriet and the piper. Norris, K. (S ’20)
=Hartley, Catherine Gasquoine.= See Gallichan, C. G.
Harvest. Ward, M. A. (My ’20)
Haunted hour. Widdemer, M. (Ap ’20)
=Havana=
Hergesheimer, J. San cristóbal de la Habana. (Ja ’21)
Have we a Far Eastern policy? Sherrill, C: H. (Ag ’20)
=Hay, Elijah=, pseud. See Seiffert, M. A.
Head of the house. Eng title of Lister’s great adventure. Bindloss,
H. (F ’21)
=Health=
Roget, F. R. Altitude and health. (D ’20)
=Heart=
=Diseases=
Bishop, L: F. Heart troubles. (S ’20)
Heart of Cherry McBain. Durkin, D. (N ’20)
Heart of New England. Brown, A. F. (N ’20)
Heart of the world. Jones, J. H:, jr. (Ag ’20)
Heart of Unaga. Cullum, R. (N ’20)
Hearts of three. London, J. (F ’21)
Heavens and earth. Benét, S. V. (F ’21)
Hellenic conceptions of peace. Caldwell, W. E. (Mr ’20)
Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. Dean, B. (O ’20)
Helping Hersey. Hutten zum Stolzenberg, B. (Ag ’20)
Helping men own farms. Mead, E. (Ag ’20)
Henry Elizabeth. McCarthy, J. H. (S ’20)
=Henry V, king of England, 1387–1422=
Mowat, R. B. Henry V. (D ’20)
Hero of the longhouse. Laing, M. E. (F ’21)
Hero stories of France. Tappan, E. M. (Je ’20)
=Heroes=
Dimmock, F. H., ed. Scouts’ book of heroes. (F ’21)
Lanier, H: W. Book of bravery. (Ja ’21)
Heroes of early Israel. Wood, I. F. (F ’21)
Hesitant heart. Welles, W. (My ’20)
Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. Dreiser, T. (Je ’20)
Hidden Creek. Burt, K. N. (O ’20)
Hidden eyes. Levison, E. (F ’21)
Hidden people. Miller, L. E: (Ja ’21)
Hidden trails. White, W: P. (O ’20)
Hidden treasure of Rasmola. Rihbany, A. M. (F ’21)
Hide and seek. Morley, C. D. (D ’20)
High company. Lee, H. S. (O ’20)
High life. Rhodes, H. G. (F ’21)
High school boy and his problems. Clark, T: A. (N ’20)
High school farces. Hill, F: T. (Ja ’21)
=High schools=
Parker, S: C. Methods of teaching in high schools. (Jl ’20)
Highacres. Abbott, J. L. (D ’20)
Higher psychical development. Carrington, H. (N ’20)
Highway to leadership. Slattery, M. (F ’21)
Hiker Joy. Connolly, J. B. (Je ’20)
Hills of Han. Merwin, S: (D ’20)
His friend and his wife. Hamilton, C. (Je ’20)
His Majesty’s well-beloved. Orczy, E. (Ap ’20)
Hispanic anthology. Walsh, T:, ed. (D ’20)
Historical child. Chrisman, O. (F ’21)
Historical portraits, 1700–1850. Fletcher, C: R. L. (D ’20)
Historical sources of Defoe’s Journal of the plague year. Nicholson,
W. (S ’20)
=History=
Reade, W. Martyrdom of man. (Ag ’20)
=Outlines, syllabi, etc.=
Putnam, G: P., comp. Tabular views of universal history. (Ap
’20)
=Philosophy=
Adams, H: Degradation of the democratic dogma. (Ap ’20)
Partridge, G: E. Psychology of nations. (My ’20)
=Study and teaching=
Hasluck, E. L: Teaching of history. (F ’21)
Tuell, H. E. Study of nations. (Mr ’20)
=History, Ancient=
Murray, G. Our great war and the great war of the ancient Greeks.
(Ag ’20)
=History, Modern=
West, W. M. Story of modern progress. (Jl ’20)
=History, Universal=
Bryce, J. B. World history. (F ’21)
Wells, H. G: Outline of history. (D ’20)
History and power of mind. Ingalese, R: (Ag ’20)
History of a literary radical. Bourne, R. S. (F ’21)
History of American literature. Boynton, P. H. (Mr ’20)
History of Cuba. Johnson, W. F. (S ’20)
History of education. Cubberley, E. P. (Ja ’21)
History of Europe, ancient and medieval. Breasted, J. H:, and
Robinson, J. H. (O ’20)
History of everyday things in England. Quennell, M. and C: H: B. (Jl
’20)
History of France. Davis, W: S. (Ag ’20)
History of France. Duruy, V: (D ’20)
History of imperialism. Tucker, I. St J: (Ja ’21)
History of journalism in the United States. Payne. G: H: (Ag ’20)
History of modern colloquial English. Wyld, H: C. K. (D ’20)
History of Persian literature under Tartar dominion. Browne, E: G.
(F ’21)
History of sea power. Stevens, W: O., and Westcott, A. F. (Ja ’21)
History of the A. E. F. Thomas, S. (D ’20)
History of the American field service in France. (N ’20)
History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. Dozier, H. D. (Je ’20)
History of the great war. Doyle, A. C. (Ap ’20)
History of the Japanese people. Brinkley, F., and Kikuchi, D. (O
’20)
History of the thrift movement in America. Straus, S. W: (Ap ’20)
History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley. Rhodes, J. F.
(Ag ’20)
History of the world war. Simonds, F. H. (O ’20)
History of trade unionism. Webb, S. and B. (Je ’20)
Hither and thither in Germany. Howells, W: D. (Mr ’20)
=Holland, Henry Fox, 1st baron, 1705–1774=
Ilchester, G. S. H. F. Henry Fox. (N ’20)
Holy fire. Wylie, I. A. R. (Ag ’20)
Home—then what? (Ap ’20)
=Home economics=
Cooley, A. M., and Spohr, W. Household arts for home and school.
(My ’20)
Cooley, A. M., and others. Teaching home economics. (My ’20)
Willard, F., and Gillett, L. H. Dietetics for high schools. (F
’21)
Home-education of children. Forbush, W: B. (Ap ’20)
Homespun and gold. Brown, A. (Ja ’21)
Honest thief. Dostoevskii, F. M. (Ap ’20)
Honor Bright. Richards, L. E. (O ’20)
=Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874–=
Kellogg, V. L. Herbert Hoover. (Je ’20)
Lane, R. Making of Herbert Hoover. (N ’20)
Hope of the world. Wilson, W. (Jl ’20)
=Horses=
=Poetry=
Frothingham, R., comp. Songs of horses. (N ’20)
=Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden, 1857–1916=
Paget, S. Sir Victor Horsley. (D ’20)
Hosiery manufacture. Davis, W: (O ’20)
Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. Pollock, W. (Ja ’21)
=Hours of labor=
Leverhulme, W: H. L. Six-hour shift and industrial efficiency. (Jl
’20)
House of Baltazar. Locke, W: J: (Mr ’20)
House of dreams-come-true. Pedler, M. (S ’20)
House of dust. Aiken, C. P. (N ’20)
=House organs=
O’Shea, P: F. Employees’ magazines. (O ’20)
Ramsay, R. E. Effective house organs. (Ap ’20)
House with a bad name. Sheehan, P. P. (D ’20)
Household arts for home and school. Cooley, A. M., and Spohr, W. (My
’20)
Housing and the housing problem. Aronovici, C. (S ’20)
=Housing problem=
Aronovici, C. Housing and the housing problem. (S ’20)
Knowles, M. Industrial housing. (Ja ’21)
Whitaker, C: H. Joke about housing. (Ag ’20)
How I filmed the war. Malins, G. H. (Ap ’20)
How it feels to be fifty. Butler, E. P. (Ag ’20)
How many cards? Ostrander, I. E. (Ja ’21)
How presidents are made. Dunn, A. W. (Je ’20)
How the war came. Loreburn, R. T. R. (My ’20)
How to become an office stenographer. Mason, W. L. (Ap ’20)
How to develop your will power. Major, C. T. (N ’20)
How to reduce. Donnelly, A. (Ja ’21)
How to study music. Farnsworth, C: H. (D ’20)
How to teach in Sunday-school. Schmauk, T. E. (Ag ’20)
How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm.
Campbell, H: C. (Je ’20)
How to write special feature articles. Bleyer, W. G. (Mr ’20)
How we advertised America. Creel, G: (Ag ’20)
Human and industrial efficiency. Chellew, H: (N ’20)
Human costs of the war. Folks, H. (Jl ’20)
Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. Goddard, H: H. (D ’20)
Human factor in education. Munroe, J. P. (D ’20)
Human factor in industry. Frankel, L. K., and Fleisher, A. (S ’20)
Human nature in business. Kelly, F. C. (Jl ’20)
Human personality and its survival of bodily death. Myers, F: W: H:
(Ag ’20)
Human psychology. Warren, H. C. (Jl ’20)
Human traits and their social significance. Edman, I. (N ’20)
Humanism in New England theology. Gordon, G: A. (My ’20)
Humanizing industry. Feld, R. C. (O ’20)
=Humor=
Ade, G: Hand-made fables. (Ap ’20)
Cobb, I. S. Abandoned farmers. (D ’20)
Cobb, I. S., and Rinehart, M. R. Oh, well, you know how women are!
and Isn’t that just like a man! (My ’20)
Robey, G: My rest cure. (Ap ’20)
Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. Money, W. B. (O ’20)
Hunger. Hamsun, K. (D ’20)
Hungry hearts. Yezierska, A. (D ’20)
=Hunting=
Caswell, J: Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. (S ’20)
Clapham, R: Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells. (Ja ’21)
Newbolt, H: J: Book of good hunting. (F ’21)
Roosevelt, K. Happy hunting grounds. (D ’20)
Stebbing, E: P. Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. (Ja ’21)
Husband. Anstruther, E. H. A. (Jl ’20)
=Hygiene=
Camp, W. C. Handbook on health and how to keep it. (My ’20)
Miles, E. H. Self-health as a habit. (D ’20)
Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians.
(Ja ’21)
=Hygiene, Public=
Henry, A. Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Ja
’21)
Hyphen. Schem, L. C. (Ja ’21)
I wonder why. Goldsmith, M. (O ’20)
=Ibos (Nigeria)=
Basden, G: T: Among the Ibos of Nigeria. (Ja ’21)
Idea of atonement in Christian theology. Rashdall, H. (Je ’20)
Idea of progress. Bury, J: B. (N ’20)
Ideals of America. City club of Chicago. (Je ’20)
Idling in Italy. Collins, J. (D ’20)
Idolatry of science. Coleridge, S. (F ’21)
Idyl of the split bamboo. Holden, G: P. (Ja ’21)
If you don’t write fiction. Cushing, C: P. (Ag ’20)
=Ignition devices=
Pagé, V: W. Automobile starting, lighting, and ignition. (D ’20)
=Illinois=
=Social life and customs=
Reed, E. H. Tales of a vanishing river. (F ’21)
=Illustrating of books=
Whiting, J: D. Practical illustration. (Ja ’21)
Imagination and its place in education. Kirkpatrick, E. A. (D ’20)
=Immigration=
Davis, P., and Schwartz, B., eds. Immigration and Americanization.
(Mr ’20)
Drachsler, J. Democracy and assimilation. (F ’21)
Orth, S: P. Our foreigners. (D ’20)
Immigration and Americanization. Davis, P., and Schwartz, B., eds.
(Mr ’20)
=Immortality=
Heagle, D: Do the dead still live? (Jl ’20)
Tweedale, C: L. Man’s survival after death. (D ’20)
Imperfect mother. Beresford, J: D. (Jl ’20)
=Imperial trans-Antarctic expedition, 1914–1917=
Shackleton, E. H: South. (Ap ’20)
=Imperialism=
Tucker, I. St J: History of imperialism. (Ja ’21)
Impressions that remained. Smyth, E. (My ’20)
In April once. Percy, W: A. (D ’20)
In Berkshire fields. Eaton, W. P. (N ’20)
In chancery. Galsworthy, J: (N ’20)
In Kut and captivity with the Sixth Indian division. Sandes, E: W.
C. (F ’21)
In Lincoln’s chair. Tarbell, I. M. (My ’20)
In lower Florida wilds. Simpson, C: T. (O ’20)
In Morocco. Wharton, E. N. (D ’20)
In old Pennsylvania towns. Wharton, A. H. (F ’21)
In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. Crawford, M. C. (Jl ’20)
In the garret. Van Vechten, C. (Mr ’20)
In the house of another. Mantle, B. (D ’20)
In the mountains. (N ’20)
In the prison camps of Germany. Hoffman, C. (Ja ’21)
In the shadow of Lantern street. Woodworth, H. G. (Jl ’20)
In the tracks of the trades. Freeman, L: R. (N ’20)
In the world war. Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, O. T. O: M. (My ’20)
Inbreeding and outbreeding. East, E: M., and Jones, D. F. (Ag ’20)
=Income=
Pickard, B. Reasonable revolution. (My ’20)
Index number for state school systems. Ayres, L. P. (F ’21)
Index to St Nicholas. Guthrie, A. L., comp. (Ap ’20)
=India=
Bannerjea, D. N. India’s nation builders. (N ’20)
Ladd, G: T. Intimate glimpses of life in India. (Mr ’20)
=History=
Moreland, W: H. India at the death of Akbar. (F ’21)
=Politics and government=
Macdonald, J. R. Government of India. (D ’20)
Mookerji, R. Local government in ancient India. (D ’20)
Young, P. N. F., and Ferrers, A. India in conflict. (F ’21)
India at the death of Akbar. Moreland, W: H. (F ’21)
India in conflict. Young, P. N. F., and Ferrers, A. (F ’21)
=Indiana=
=Description and travel=
Parsons, J: Tour through Indiana in 1840. (O ’20)
=Indians of North America=
Laing, M. E. Hero of the longhouse. (F ’21)
=Social life and customs=
Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. (S ’20)
India’s nation builders. Bannerjea, D. N. (N ’20)
Indiscretions of the naval censor. Brownrigg, D. E. R. (Je ’20)
Industrial administration. Berriman, A. E., and others. (Ja ’21)
=Industrial arts=
Griffith, I. S: Teaching manual and industrial arts. (Ag ’20)
Industrial gases. Greenwood, H. C. (Ag ’20)
Industrial housing. Knowles, M. (Ja ’21)
=Industrial management=
Muscio, B. Lectures on industrial psychology. (N ’20)
Tead, O., and Metcalf, H: C. Personnel administration. (D ’20)
=Industrial relations=
Baker, R. S. New industrial unrest. (Je ’20)
Bloomfield, D., comp. Selected articles on modern industrial
movements. (Ag ’20)
Goodrich, C. L. Frontier of control. (Ja ’21)
Holmes, J: H. Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes?
(Je ’20)
Leverhulme, W: H. L. Six-hour shift and industrial efficiency. (Jl
’20)
Litchfield, P. W. Industrial republic. (Jl ’20)
Thomas, E: Industry, emotion and unrest. (O ’20)
Industrial republic. Litchfield, P. W. (Jl ’20)
=Industrial research=
Mees, C: E: K. Organization of industrial scientific research. (S
’20)
=Industrialism=
Eckel, E. C. Coal, iron and war. (S ’20)
=Industry and state=
Berriman, A. E., and others. Industrial administration. (Ja ’21)
Industry, emotion and unrest Thomas, E: (O ’20)
Inevitable. Couperus, L: M. A. (D ’20)
Inflation and high prices. Academy of political science. (F ’21)
Influence of animism on Islam. Zwemer, S: M. (Ag ’20)
Influence of oversea expansion on England to 1700. Gillespie, J. E:
(F ’21)
Influence of Puritanism on the political and religious thought of
the English. Flynn, J: S. (F ’21)
=Inland navigation=
Ogilvie, P. M. International waterways. (Je ’20)
Inorganic chemical synonyms. Darling, E. R. (Mr ’20)
Inscrutable lovers. MacFarlan, A. (Ap ’20)
=Insects=
Herrick, G. W. Insects of economic importance. (O ’20)
Inside story of Austro-German intrigue. Gori[)c]ar, J., and Stowe,
L. B. (Ap ’20)
Inside story of the peace conference. Dillon, E. J. (Mr ’20)
=Insomnia=
Walsh, W: S. Yours for sleep. (S ’20)
Instigations of Ezra Pound. Pound, E. L. (S ’20)
=Insurance, Marine=
Huebner, S. S. Marine insurance. (D ’20)
Intellectuals and the wage workers. Cory, H. E. (My ’20)
Interim. Richardson, D. M. (Ag ’20)
Internal-combustion engines. Lind, W. L. (F ’21)
International commerce and reconstruction. Friedman, E. M. (Jl ’20)
International labor legislation. Ayusawa, I. F: (Ja ’21)
=International law and relations=
Allen, S. H. International relations. (D ’20)
Burton, T. E. Modern political tendencies. (Mr ’20)
Heatley, D: P. Diplomacy and the study of international relations.
(S ’20)
Hicks, F: C: New world order. (S ’20)
Ogilvie, P. M. International waterways. (Je ’20)
Vestal, S: C. Maintenance of peace. (Jl ’20)
International minds and the search for the restful. Pollak, G. (Jl
’20)
International relations. Allen, S. H. (D ’20)
International waterways. Ogilvie, P. M. (Je ’20)
=Internationalism=
Hobson. J: A. Morals of economic internationalism. (Ja ’21)
Jastrow, M. jr. Eastern question and its solution. (My ’20)
Intimate glimpses of life in India. Ladd, G: T. (Mr ’20)
Intimate golf talks. Dunn, J: D., and Jessup, E. H. (Ja ’21)
Intimate letters from Petrograd. Crosley, P. S. (F ’21)
Intimate pages of Mexican history. O’Shaughnessy, E. L. (N ’20)
Introduction to modern logic. Lodge, R. C. (Mr ’20)
Introduction to social ethics. Mecklin, J: M. (Jl ’20)
Introduction to sociology. Findlay, J. J: (N ’20)
Introduction to the history of Japan. Hara, K. (F ’21)
Introduction to the industrial history of England. Usher, A. P. (Mr
’20)
Introduction to the peace treaties. Scott, A. P. (Je ’20)
Introduction to trade unionism. Cole, G: D. H. (Mr ’20)
Introductions. Birnbaum, M. (Jl ’20)
Introductory psychology for teachers. Strong, E: K., jr. (D ’20)
=Inventions=
Baff, W: E. Inventions, their development, purchase and sale. (Je
’20)
Hopkins, N. M. Outlook for research and invention. (Mr ’20)
Mottelay, P. F. Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim. (Ag ’20)
Stockbridge, F. P. Yankee ingenuity in the war. (Je ’20)
Invincible Minnie. Holding, E. S. (My ’20)
Invisible foe. Miln, L. (O ’20)
=Ireland=
Chesterton, G. K. Irish impressions. (Mr ’20)
Hannay, J. O. Irishman looks at his world. (Ap ’20)
Lockington, W. J. Soul of Ireland. (My ’20)
Lynd, R. Ireland a nation. (Ap ’20)
Russell, R. What’s the matter with Ireland? (Ja ’21)
=Economic conditions=
Ryan, W: P. Irish labour movement. (Ja ’21)
=History=
Cole, G. A. J. Ireland the outpost. (D ’20)
Hamilton, E. W: Elizabethan Ulster. (S ’20)
Johnson, T: C. Irish tangle and a way out. (Je ’20)
=Politics and government=
Dawson, R: Red terror and green. (Je ’20)
Henry, R. M. Evolution of Sinn Fein. (Ja ’21)
Wilson, P. W. Irish case before the court of public opinion. (O
’20)
Ireland an enemy of the allies? Escouflaire, R. C. (Je ’20)
Irish books and Irish people. Gwynn, S. L. (Ja ’21)
Irish case before the court of public opinion. Wilson, P. W. (O ’20)
Irish fairy tales. Stephens, J. (F ’21)
Irish impressions. Chesterton, G. K. (Mr ’20)
Irish labour movement. Ryan, W: P. (Ja ’21)
Irish tangle and a way out. Johnson, T: C. (Je ’20)
Irishman looks at his world. Hannay, J. O. (Ap ’20)
Iron furrow. Shedd, G: C. (Ap ’20)
Is America worth saving? Butler, N: M. (Je ’20)
Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes? Holmes, J: H.
(Je ’20)
Island of sheep. Cadmus and Harmonia, pseuds. (Ap ’20)
=Islands=
Verrill, A. H. Islands and their mysteries. (F ’21)
Islands and their mysteries. Verrill, A. H. (F ’21)
Isle o’ dreams. Moore, F: F. (Ap ’20)
Isn’t that just like a man! Rinehart, M. With Cobb, I. S. Oh, well,
you know how women are! (My ’20)
It happened at Andover. Graham, J. C. (N ’20)
It might have been worse. Massey, B. (My ’20)
It pays to smile. Putnam, N. (F ’21)
=Italian drama=
MacClintock, L. Contemporary drama of Italy. (Mr ’20)
Italian emigration of our times. Foerster, R. F. (My ’20)
=Italian literature=
Collins, J. Idling in Italy. (D ’20)
Italian twins. Perkins, L. (N ’20)
=Italy=
Foerster, R. F. Italian emigration of our times. (My ’20)
Zimmern, H., and Agresti, A. New Italy. (Jl ’20)
=Description and travel=
Gibbons, H. A. Riviera towns. (Ja ’21)
=History=
Cotterill, H: B. Italy from Dante to Tasso. (D ’20)
Page, T: N. Italy and the world war. (Ja ’21)
Trevelyan, J. P. Short history of the Italian people. (Je ’20)
Italy and the world war. Page, T: N. (Ja ’21)
It’s a good old world. Barton, B. (O ’20)
I’ve married Marjorie. Widdemer, M. (S ’20)
Ivory disc. Brebner, P. J. (Ag ’20)
Jack and me. Forsey, M. S. (N ’20)
=Jacopone da Todi (Jacobus de Benedictis) c. 1230–1306=
Underhill, E. Jacopone da Todi. (D ’20)
=James, Henry, 1843–1916=
James. H: Letters of Henry James. (My ’20)
=James, William, 1842–1910=
James, W: Letters. (Ja ’21)
=Jameson, Mrs Annie Edith (Foster).= See Buckrose, J. E. pseud.
Jan. Gibbon, M. M. (Ja ’21)
Jane. Chapin, A. A. (Je ’20)
Jane and the owl. Stone, G. (O ’20)
=Japan=
Greenbie, S. Japan real and imaginary. (Jl ’20)
McGovern, W: M. Modern Japan. (Je ’20)
=Foreign relations=
Pooley, A. M. Japan’s foreign policy. (O ’20)
=History=
Brinkley, F., and Kikuchi, D. History of the Japanese people. (O
’20)
Hara, K. Introduction to the history of Japan. (F ’21)
=Social life and customs=
Dewey, J: and H. A. Letters from China and Japan. (Ag ’20)
Omori, A. S., and Kochi Doi, trs. Diaries of court ladies of old
Japan. (Ja ’21)
Japanese color prints. Stewart, B. (Ja ’21)
Japanese hokkus. Noguchi, Y. (D ’20)
=Japanese poetry=
Noguchi, Y. Japanese hokkus. (D ’20)
=Translations into English=
Waley, A., comp. Japanese poetry. (N ’20)
Japan’s foreign policy. Pooley, A. M. (O ’20)
=Java=
Kartini, R. A. Letters of a Javanese princess. (D ’20)
=Jeanne d’Arc, 1412–1431=
Smith, M. S. Maid of Orleans. (F ’21)
Taylor, I. A. Joan of Arc. (O ’20)
Jehovah. Wood, C. (S ’20)
=Jerusalem=
Jeffery, G: H. E. Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. (Jl
’20)
=Jesus Christ=
=Art=
Dana, E. N. Story of Jesus. (N ’20)
=Biography=
Lees, G: R. Life of Christ. (D ’20)
=Birth=
Snowden, J. H: Wonderful night. (Jl ’20)
=Teaching=
Horne, H. H. Jesus, the master teacher. (O ’20)
Jesus’ principles of living. Kent, C: F., and Jenks, J. W. (D ’20)
Jewel house. Younghusband, G: J: (F ’21)
Jewel in the sand. Newton, A. (Ap ’20)
Jewish children. Aleichem, S. (N ’20)
Jewish fairy book. Friedlander, G. (N ’20)
Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. Morgenstern, J. (D
’20)
=Jews=
Cause of world unrest. (D ’20)
Goodhart, A. L. Poland and the minority races. (D ’20)
Levinger, E. E. New land. (F ’21)
=Education=
Grossmann, L: Aims of teaching in Jewish schools. (Ap ’20)
=Restoration=
Sampter, J. E., ed. Guide to Zionism. (S ’20)
Jimmy Bunn stories. Walker, H: C. (N ’20)
Jimmy Quigg, office boy. Latham, H. S. (D ’20)
Joan of the island. Barbour, R. H:, and Holt, H. P. (Ag ’20)
Joanna builds a nest. Tompkins, J. W. (D ’20)
John Morley, and other essays. Harper, G: M. (F ’21)
John Redmond’s last years. Gwynn, S. L. (Ap ’20)
John Seneschal’s Margaret. Castle, A. and E. (D ’20)
Johnnie Kelly. Boyer, W. S. (N ’20)
=Johnson, William Eugene, 1862–=
McKenzie, F: A. Pussyfoot Johnson. (O ’20)
Joke about housing. Whitaker, C: H. (Ag ’20)
=Jonson, Ben, 1573?–1637=
Smith, G: G. Ben Jonson. (Ap ’20)
=Journalism=
Bleyer, W. G. How to write special feature articles. (Mr ’20)
Chapin, C: Charles Chapin’s story. (N ’20)
Flint, L. N. Editorial. (Ja ’21)
Lippmann, W. Liberty and the news. (Ap ’20)
Marcosson, I: F: Adventures in interviewing. (Mr ’20)
Payne, G: H: History of journalism in the United States. (Ag ’20)
Sinclair, U. B. Brass check. (Ap ’20)
Judgment of peace. Latzko, A. (Ap ’20)
Judicial settlement of controversies between states of the American
union. Scott, J. B., ed. (Jl ’20)
Junior cook book. Judson, C. (Ag ’20)
=Junior high schools=
Briggs, T: H: Junior high school. (S ’20)
Koos, L. V. Junior high school. (S ’20)
Junk-man. Le Gallienne, R: (N ’20)
Juridical reform. Works, J: D. (Ap ’20)
Just Happy. Keon, G. (Ag ’20)
=Justice, Administration of=
Works, J: D. Juridical reform. (Ap ’20)
=Jutland, Battle of, 1916=
Bellairs, C. W. Battle of Jutland. (Je ’20)
=Kankakee river=
Reed, E. H. Tales of a vanishing river. (F ’21)
Kathleen. Morley, C. D. (Ap ’20)
=Keble, Howard=, pseud. See Bell, J: K.
Keeping the seas. Evans, E: R. G. R. (Ag ’20)
Kentucky superstitions. Thomas, D. L. and L. B. (F ’21)
Kid Scanlan. Witwer, H. C: (Ag ’20)
Killer. White, S. E: (Jl ’20)
=Kilmer, Joyce, 1886–1918=
Kilmer, A. K. Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. (D ’20)
Kindred of the dust. Kyne, P. B. (Ag ’20)
Kinds of poetry. Erskine, J: (S ’20)
=Kitchener of Khartum. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, earl, 1850–1916=
Arthur, G: C. A. Life of Lord Kitchener. (Jl ’20)
=Knights of Columbus=
Egan, M. F., and Kennedy, J: J. B. Knights of Columbus in peace
and war. (D ’20)
Kobiety (women). Nalkowska, S. Rygier-. (D ’20)
=Kongo. See Congo=
=Korea=
Cynn, H. H. Rebirth of Korea. (Ja ’21)
=History=
McKenzie, F: A. Korea’s fight for freedom. (Mr ’20)
Korea’s fight for freedom. McKenzie, F: A. (Mr ’20)
Kossovo: heroic songs of the Serbs. (Ag ’20)
Kut prisoner. Bishop, H. C. W. (Jl ’20)
=Labor and capital=
Crowther, S: Why men strike. (Jl ’20)
=Labor and laboring classes=
American labor year book, 1919–1920. (D ’20)
Bloomfield, D., comp. and ed. Selected articles on problems of
labor. (Ap ’20)
Brooks, J: G. Labor’s challenge to the social order. (Jl ’20)
Cory, H. E. Intellectuals and the wage workers. (My ’20)
Crowther, S: Common sense and labour. (Je ’20)
Edie, L. D., ed. Current social and industrial forces. (Jl ’20)
Furniss, E. S. Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism.
(N ’20)
Lescohier, D. D. Labor market. (My ’20)
Mendelsohn, S. Labor’s crisis. (D ’20)
Reade, W: H: V. Revolt of labour against civilization. (Je ’20)
Thomas, E: Industry, emotion and unrest. (O ’20)
=Great Britain=
Berriman, A. E., and others. Industrial administration. (Ja ’21)
Cole, G: D. H. Chaos and order in industry. (N ’20)
Cole, G: D. H. Introduction to trade unionism. (Mr ’20)
Cole. G: D. H. Labour in the commonwealth. (Mr ’20)
Equipment of the workers. (Mr ’20)
Fay, C: R. Life and labor in the nineteenth century. (N ’20)
Gleason, A. H. What the workers want. (Jl ’20)
Goodrich, C. I. Frontier of control. (Ja ’21)
Hammond, J: L. L. and B. Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. (My ’20)
Hammond, M. B. British labor conditions and legislation during
the war. (Je ’20)
=Ireland=
Ryan, W: P. Irish labour movement. (Ja ’21)
=United States=
Beard, M. Short history of the American labor movement. (Je ’20)
Carlton, F. T. Organized labor in American history. (Je ’20)
Day, J. R. My neighbor the workingman. (F ’21)
Feld, R. C. Humanizing industry. (O ’20)
Foster, W: Z. Great steel strike and its lessons. (O ’20)
Gompers, S: Labor and the common welfare. (Ap ’20)
Gompers, S: Labor and the employer. (O ’20)
Interchurch world movement. Commission of inquiry. Report on the
steel strike of 1919. (O ’20)
Orth, S: P. Armies of labor. (D ’20)
Parker, C. H. Casual laborer and other essays. (My ’20)
Storey, M. Problems of today. (N ’20)
Warne, F. J. Workers at war. (D ’20)
Williams, W. What’s on the worker’s mind. (D ’20)
Labor and the common welfare. Gompers, S: (Ap ’20)
=Labor laws and legislation=
Ayusawa, I. F: International labor legislation. (Ja ’21)
Labor market. Lescohier, D. D. (My ’20)
Labor’s challenge to the social order. Brooks, J: G. (Jl ’20)
Labor’s crisis. Mendelsohn, S. (D ’20)
Laboulaye’s fairy book. Laboulaye, E. R. de. (N ’20)
Labour in the commonwealth. Cole, G: D. H. (Mr ’20)
=Labrador=
Cabot. W: B. Labrador. (F ’21)
Grenfell, A. E., and Spalding, K. Le petit nord. (Ap ’20)
=Lace and lace making=
Kellogg, C. Bobbins of Belgium. (My ’20)
Whiting, G. Lace guide for makers and collectors. (Ja ’21)
Lace guide for makers and collectors. Whiting, G. (Ja ’21)
La Chance mine mystery. Jones, S. C. (Je ’20)
Ladies of Grécourt. Gaines, R. L. (S ’20)
Lady Lilith. McKenna, S. (N ’20)
Lady Trent’s daughter. Clarke, I. C. (S ’20)
Ladyfingers. Gregory, J. (Je ’20)
=Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert de Motier, marquis de,
1757–1834=
Nicolay, H. Boys’ life of Lafayette. (N ’20)
Lafayette flying corps. Hall, J. N., and Nordhoff, C: B., eds. (D
’20)
Lancelot. Robinson, E. A. (Ag ’20)
=Land=
Spence, T:, and others. Pioneers of land reform. (S ’20)
Land of the blessed virgin. Maugham, W: S. (S ’20)
Land of the great out-of-doors. Livingston, R. (N ’20)
Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. Lake, K. (Ja ’21)
=Landscape gardening=
Dillistone, G: Planning and planting of little gardens. (Ja ’21)
Last crusade. Maxwell, D. (F ’21)
Last days of the Romanovs. Telberg, G: G., and Wilton, R. (F ’21)
Last of the Grenvilles. Copplestone, B. (Ap ’20)
Last of the Mayflower. Harris, J. R. (D ’20)
Last straw. Titus, H. (Jl ’20)
=Latin America=
Enock, C. R. Spanish America. (D ’20)
=Foreign relations=
_United States_
Latané, J: H. United States and Latin America. (O ’20)
Latin American [mythology]. Alexander, H. B. (F ’21)
=Latin language=
Fowler, W: W. Roman essays and interpretations. (Je ’20)
=Latin literature=
Summers, W. C. Silver age of Latin literature. (Ja ’21)
=Lauder, Sir Harry (MacLennan), 1870–=
Lauder, H. Between you and me. (Ap ’20)
Laughing house. Minnigerode, M. (D ’20)
=Law=
Holmes, O. W. Collected legal papers. (Ja ’21)
Wigmore, J: H: Problems of law. (D ’20)
=History=
Bigelow, M. M. Papers on the legal history of government. (Ap
’20)
Law in the modern state. Duguit, L. (Jl ’20)
=Lawyers=
Baldwin, S. E. Young man and the law. (Je ’20)
Lawyer’s study of the Bible. Wheeler, E. P. (Ap ’20)
=Lead=
Smythe, J. A. Lead. (F ’21)
Leader of men. Anderson, R. G. (Je ’20)
=Leadership=
Miller, A. H. Leadership. (Je ’20)
Slattery, M. Highway to leadership. (F ’21)
=League of nations=
Black, H. Lest we forget. (F ’21)
Butler, G. G. Handbook to the league of nations. (My ’20)
Creel, G: War, the world, and Wilson. (Ag ’20)
Dennett, T. Better world. (F ’21)
Eddy, S. Everybody’s world. (O ’20)
Hicks, F: C: New world order. (S ’20)
Hill. D: J. American world policies. (Ag ’20)
Percy, E. S. C. Responsibilities of the league. (Jl ’20)
Pollock, F: League of nations. (Ja ’21)
Sarolea, C: Europe and the league of nations. (Je ’20)
Sweetser, A. League of nations at work. (F ’21)
Taft, W: H. Taft papers on League of nations. (Ja ’21)
Wilson, W. Hope of the world. (Jl ’20)
League of nations at work. Sweetser, A. (F ’21)
Learned lady in England, 1650–1760. Reynolds, M. (Jl ’20)
Learning to write. Stevenson, P. L: B. (Ag ’20)
Lectures on industrial psychology. Muscio, B. (N ’20)
Lectures on modern idealism. Royce, J. (Jl ’20)
Leda. Huxley, A. L. (O ’20)
=Lee, Robert Edward, 1807–1870=
Farriss, C: S. American soul. (F ’21)
Leerie. Sawyer, R. (S ’20)
Legend. Dane, C. (Ap ’20)
Legends and romances of Spain. Spence, L. (D ’20)
Leonard Wood on national issues. Wood, L. (My ’20)
Lest we forget. Black, H. (F ’21)
Letters. James, W: (Ja ’21)
Letters. Sorley, C: H. (Je ’20)
Letters from China and Japan. Dewey, J: and H. A. (Ag ’20)
Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. Levine, I: D. (O ’20)
Letters of a Javanese princess. Kartini, R. A. (D ’20)
Letters of Anton Tchehov to his family and friends. Chekhov, A. P.
(Je ’20)
Letters of Donald Hankey. Hankey, D. W: A (Mr ’20)
Letters of Henry James. James. H: (My ’20)
Letters of travel. Kipling, R. (Jl ’20)
Letters to a niece and prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. Adams, H:
(Ja ’21)
Letters to a young man on love and health. Gallichan, W. M. (O ’20)
Letters to X. Massingham, H. J: (S ’20)
Liberal college. Meiklejohn, A. (D ’20)
=Liberalism=
Stearns, H. E. Liberalism in America. (Ap ’20)
=Liberia=
Maugham, R. C: F. Republic of Liberia. (Jl ’20)
=Liberty=
Haynes, E. S. P. Case for liberty. (D ’20)
Liberty and the news. Lippmann, W. (Ap ’20)
=Liberty of the press.= See Freedom of the press
Librarian’s open shelf. Bostwick, A. E. (O ’20)
Library essays. Bostwick, A. E. (O ’20)
Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. Baker, E. (D ’20)
Life and labour in the nineteenth century. Fay, C: R. (N ’20)
Life and letters of Hamilton Wright Mabie. Morse, E. W. (Ja ’21)
Life and letters of St Paul. Smith, D: (Je ’20)
Life and struggles of William Lovett. Lovett, W: (S ’20)
Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis. Pepper, C: M. (Ap ’20)
Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim. Mottelay, P. F., comp.. (Ag ’20)
Life and work of Sir William Van Horne. Vaughan, W. (F ’21)
=Life boats=
Blocksidge, E. W. Ships’ boats. (D ’20)
Life immovable. Palamas, K. (My ’20)
Life in the circles. Lane, A., and Beale, H. S. (F ’21)
Life of a simple man. Guillaumin, E. (F ’21)
Life of Arthur James Balfour. Raymond, E. T. (Ja ’21)
Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield. Buckle, G: E. (O
’20)
Life of Christ. Lees, G: R. (D ’20)
Life of Francis Place. Wallas, G. (Je ’20)
Life of James McNeill Whistler. Pennell, E. and J. (D ’20)
Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. Martin, E: S. (Ja ’21)
Life of Leonard Wood. Holme, J: G. (My ’20)
Life of Lord Courtney. Gooch, G: P. (N ’20)
Life of Lord Kitchener. Arthur, G: C. A. (Jl ’20)
Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. Sanchez, N. (My ’20)
Life of Robert Owen. Owen, R. (S ’20)
Life of Sir Stanley Maude. Callwell, C: E: (Ja ’21)
Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. Coleridge, E. H. (My ’20)
Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. Gresham, M. (Je ’20)
Life of William Booth. Begbie, H. (My ’20)
Light heart. Hewlett, M. H: (Jl ’20)
Light of the world. Bolton, G. (Ja ’21)
Light out of the east. Crockett, S: R. (Ag ’20)
=Lighting=
Luckiesh, M. Artificial light. (Ag ’20)
Lighting the home. Luckiesh, M. (N ’20)
Lightnin’. Bacon, F. (My ’20)
Like-to-do stories. Smith, L. R. (O ’20)
Liluli. Rolland, R. (S ’20)
Limbo. Huxley, A. L. (Ag ’20)
Limits of socialism. Boucke, O. F. (Jl ’20)
=Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865=
Barton, W: E. Paternity of Abraham Lincoln. (D ’20)
Barton, W: E. Soul of Abraham Lincoln. (Ap ’20)
Drinkwater, J: Lincoln: the world emancipator. (D ’20)
Elias, E. I. Abraham Lincoln. (N ’20)
Farriss, C: S. American soul. (F ’21)
Hill, J: W. Abraham Lincoln. (Ja ’21)
Tarbell, I. M. In Lincoln’s chair. (My ’20)
=Drama=
Dixon, T: Man of the people. (S ’20)
Lincoln: the world emancipator. Drinkwater, J: (D ’20)
Lindy Loyd. Hoffman, M. E. (O ’20)
“Line’s busy.” Ullman, A. E: (N ’20)
=Liquor problem=
Calkins, R., and Peabody, F. G. Substitutes for the saloon. (Je
’20)
Lister’s great adventure. Bindloss, H. (F ’21)
=Literary criticism=
Gayley, C: M., and Kurtz, B: P. Methods and materials of literary
criticism. (S ’20)
Literary digest history of the world war. (My ’20)
Literary snapshots. Glaenzer, R: B. (N ’20)
Literary studies. Whibley, C: (Ap ’20)
=Literature=
Glaenzer, R: B. Literary snapshots. (N ’20)
Hearn, L. Talks to writers. (D ’20)
Moore, G: Avowals. (My ’20)
Pollak, G. International minds and the search for the restful. (Jl
’20)
=History=
Wendell, B. Traditions of European literature. (Ja ’21)
Literature in a changing age. Thorndike, A. H. (D ’20)
Lithuanian village. Kobrin, L. (O ’20)
Little essays. Santayana, G: (O ’20)
Little folks tramping and camping. Morgan, A. B. (N ’20)
Little garden the year round. Teall, G. C. (Ap ’20)
Little gateway to science. Patch, E. M. (Je ’20)
Little heroes of France. Burke, K. (N ’20)
Little history of the great war. Vast, H. (Ja ’21)
Little hours in great days. Castle, A. and E. (F ’21)
Little house. Dawson, C. W: (N ’20)
Little Pierre. France, A., pseud. (F ’21)
Little playbook. Lord, K. (Ag ’20)
Little Russian masterpieces. Ragosin, Z. A., comp. (D ’20)
Little school. Moore, T: S. (S ’20)
Little theater classics. Eliot, S: A., ed. (Mr ’20)
Little warrior. Wodehouse, P. G. (D ’20)
=Live stock=
Tormey, J: L., and Lawry, R. C. Animal husbandry. (F ’21)
Living alone. Benson, S. (My ’20)
Living wage. Ryan, J: A. (Jl ’20)
=Lloyd George, David, 1863–=
Spender, H. Prime minister. (Ag ’20)
Local government in ancient India. Mookerji, R. (D ’20)
=Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821–1896=
Birrell, A. Frederick Locker-Lampson. (S ’20)
=Logic=
Lodge, R. C. Introduction to modern logic. (Mr ’20)
=London=
=Antiquities=
Bell, W. G: Unknown London. (Je ’20)
=Description and travel=
Blake, A. H. Things seen in London. (D ’20)
Dasent, A. I. Piccadilly in three centuries. (F ’21)
=Fire, 1666=
Bell, W. G: Great fire of London in 1666. (D ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Hale, L. American’s London. (O ’20)
London days. Warren, A. (N ’20)
London venture. Kouyoumdjian, D. (My ’20)
Lonely house. Lowndes, M. A. (O ’20)
Long dim trail. Hooker, F. C. (N ’20)
Long traverse. Pinkerton, K. S. and R. E. (S ’20)
=Longevity=
Goizet, L: H. Never grow old. (N ’20)
Looking back. Fortescue, S. J: (D ’20)
Loom of youth. Waugh, A. (Je ’20)
Lord Grey of the reform bill. Trevelyan, G: M (Je ’20)
Lost father. Garborg, A. (S ’20)
Lost river. Chaffee, A. (O ’20)
Lotus salad. Cram, M. (Ag ’20)
Loudwater mystery. Jepson, E. (S ’20)
Love and the crescent. Inchbold, A. C. (S ’20)
Love of brothers. Hinkson, K. (Ap ’20)
Lover of the chair. Gass, S. B. (My ’20)
=Lovett, William, 1800–1877=
Lovett, W: Life and struggles of William Lovett. (S ’20)
Luca Sarto. Brooks, C: S. (Ap ’20)
Lucinda. Hawkins, A. H. (Ja ’21)
Luck of the mounted. Kendall, R. S. (F ’21)
Luck on the wing. Haslett, E. (Ja ’21)
Ludendorff’s own story. Ludendorff, E. von. (Mr ’20)
=Luke, Saint=
McLachlan, H. St Luke, the man and his work. (S ’20)
Lure of the manor. Griffiths, G. (Ag ’20)
Lure of the pen. Klickmann, F. (My 20)
Lynch lawyers. White, W: P. (Jl ’20)
Lynching bee. Leonard, W: E. C. (F ’21)
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846–1916=
Morse, E. W. Life and letters of Hamilton Wright Mabie. (Ja ’21)
Mac of Placid. Longstreth, T: M. (O ’20)
=Machine-shop practice=
Rose, J. Complete practical machinist. (Ap ’20)
=Maciel, Antonio Vicente Mendes, 1842?–1897=
Cunninghame Graham, R. B. Brazilian mystic. (Ag ’20)
Madeline of the desert. Weigall, A. E: P. B. (D ’20)
Maid of Mirabelle. Robinson, E. H. (O ’20)
Maid of Orleans. Smith, M. S. (F ’21)
Main street. Lewis, S. (N ’20)
Maintenance of peace. Vestal, S: C. (Jl ’20)
Mainwaring. Hewlett, M. H: (N ’20)
Make your will. Blakemore, A. W. (F ’21)
Maker of saints. Drummond, H. (S ’20)
Making advertisements. Durstine, R. S. (Ja ’21)
Making of a nation. Stewart, W. (My ’20)
Making of Herbert Hoover. Lane, R. (N ’20)
Making of modern Wales. Williams, L. W. (O ’20)
Making of the reparation and economic sections of the treaty.
Baruch, B. M. (D ’20)
Making tin can toys. Thatcher, E: (My ’20)
=Malet, Lucas=, pseud. See Harrison. M. S.
Malleable cast iron. Parsons, S. J. (S ’20)
Mammy’s white folks. Sampson, E. S. (S ’20)
Man and his lesson, Eng title of Glamour. Maxwell, W: B. (Ap ’20)
Man from Ashaluna. Dowst, H: P. (F ’21)
Man of the forest. Grey, Z. (Mr ’20)
Man of the people. Dixon, T: (S ’20)
Man of tomorrow. Richards, C. (Ag ’20)
Man on horseback. Abdullah, A. (Ap ’20)
Man to man. Gregory, J. (D ’20)
Man who convicted himself. Fox, D: (O ’20)
Man with three names. MacGrath, H. (Mr ’20)
Manchester grammar school. Mumford, A. A. (N ’20)
Man’s survival after death. Tweedale, C: L. (D ’20)
Man’s unconscious passion. Lay, W. (F ’21)
Manual of the timbers of the world. Howard, A. L. (Ja ’21)
Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. Popenoe, W. (Ja ’21)
=Manual training=
Baxter, L. H. Boy bird house architecture. (My ’20)
Griffith, I. S: Teaching manual and industrial arts. (Ag ’20)
Kunou, C: A. American school toys and useful novelties in wood (My
’20)
=Manuscripts=
Hine, R. L. Cream of curiosity. (F ’21)
Many Junes. Marshall, A. (Je ’20)
Many many moons. Sarett, L. (M ’20)
Marbeck inn. Brighouse, H. (Ap ’20)
March on Paris and the battle of the Marne, 1914. Kluck, A. von. (S
’20)
Marching sands. Lamb, H. (My ’20)
Marching years. Bridge, N. (Ja ’21)
Margaret book. Clark, A. (Je ’20)
Margaret Fuller. Anthony, K. (N ’20)
Margot Asquith, an autobiography. Asquith, M. (D ’20)
Margot’s progress. Goldring, D. (Jl ’20)
Marian Frear’s summer. Ashmun, M. E. (S ’20)
Marie Claire’s workshop. Audoux, M. (D ’20)
=Marine engineering=
Sothern, J: W: M. Oil fuel burning in marine practice. (F ’21)
Marine insurance. Huebner, S. S. (D ’20)
=Marionettes=
Joseph, H. H. Book of marionettes. (Jl ’20)
Marqueray’s duel. Pryde, A. (Jl ’20)
=Marriage=
Galbraith, A. M. Family and the new democracy. (Mr ’20)
=Marriage customs and rites=
Holliday, C. Wedding customs then and now. (Ap ’20)
Married life. Edginton, H. M. (Ag ’20)
Marty lends a hand. Latham, H. S. (My ’20)
Martyrdom of man. Reade, W. (Ag ’20)
=Marx, Karl, 1818–1883=
Loria, A. Karl Marx. (D ’20)
Mary-girl. Merrick, H. (S ’20)
Mary Marie. Porter, E. (Je ’20)
Mary minds her business. Weston, G: (Ap ’20)
Mary Wollaston. Webster, H: K. (D ’20)
Mask. Cournos, J: (Mr ’20)
Masks. Middleton, G: (My ’20)
=Massachusetts=
=Budget=
Gulick, L. H. Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. (Jl ’20)
=Description and travel=
Chatham, D. and M., pseuds. Cape Coddities. (Jl ’20)
Packard, W. Old Plymouth trails. (Jl ’20)
=History=
Rothery, A. E. Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth (Jl ’20)
Massage and exercises combined. Jensen, A. (N ’20)
=Massinger, Philip, 1583–1640=
Cruickshank, A. H. Philip Massinger. (D ’20)
Master Eustace. James, H: (D ’20)
Master Frisky. Hawkes, C. (O ’20)
Masters of capital. Moody, J: (D ’20)
Masters of the guild. Lamprey, L. (N ’20)
Mating in the wilds. Binns, O. (S ’20)
Matrix. Daviess, M. T. (Ap ’20)
=Maude, Sir Frederick Stanley, 1864–1917=
Callwell, C: E: Life of Sir Stanley Maude. (Ja. ’21)
Maureen. MacGill. P. (Je ’20)
=Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens, 1840–1916.=
Mottelay, P. F., comp. Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim. (Ag ’20)
=Mayflower (ship)=
Harris, J. R. Last of the Mayflower. (D ’20)
Mayflower maid. Knipe, E. and A. A. (O ’20)
=Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805–1872=
Mazzini, G. Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854. (Ja
’21)
Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854. Mazzini, G. (Ja
’21)
Meaning of democracy. Brown, I. J: C. (F ’21)
Meaning of socialism. Glasier, J: B. (O ’20)
=Mears, David Otis, 1842–1915=
Mears, D: O. David Otis Mears, D. D. (O ’20)
Measure your mind. Trabue, M. R., and Stockbridge, F. R. (My ’20)
Measures of the poets. Bayfield, M. A. (D ’20)
Meats, poultry and game. Panchard, E. (Je ’20)
=Mechanical drawing=
Bishop, C. T: Structural drafting and the design of details. (F
’21)
French. T: E.. and Svensen, C. L. Mechanical drawing for high
schools. (My ’20)
Medal collector. Johnson, S. C. (Ja ’21)
=Medals=
Johnson, S. C. Medal collector. (Ja ’21)
Medical missions. Lambuth, W. R. (F ’21)
=Medicine=
Mackenzie, J. Future of medicine. (D ’20)
=History=
Buck, A. H: Dawn of modern medicine. (D ’20)
Walsh, J. J. Medieval medicine. (N ’20)
Medieval medicine. Walsh, J. J. (N ’20)
Mehitable. Adams, K. (Ja ’21)
=Melcombe, George Bubb Dodington, baron, 1691–1762=
Sanders, L. C: Patron and place-hunter. (My ’20)
Melwood mystery. Hay, J. (My ’20)
Memmo. Kennard, J. S. (Ja ’2l)
Memoirs of Edward, eighth earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916. Sandwich, E:
G: H: M. (O ’20)
Memoirs of life and literature. Mallock, W: H. (O ’20)
Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart. Rochechouart, L: V: L. (F ’21)
Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. Fleury, M. (S ’20)
Memories and records. Fisher, J: A. F. (Ap ’20)
Memories of a marine. Aston, G: (D ’20)
Memories of Buffalo Bill. Cody, L. (Mr ’20)
Memories of George Meredith. Butcher, A. M. (Ap ’20)
Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. Kilmer, A. K. (D ’20)
Men and books and cities. Holliday, R. C. (Ja ’21)
Men and steel. Vorse, M. M. (F ’21)
Men, manners and morals in South America. Bland. J: O. P. (Ag ’20)
Menace of immorality in church and state. Straton, J: R. (Jl ’20)
Menace of spiritualism. O’Donnell, E. (Je ’20)
=Mennonites=
Smith, C: H: Mennonites. (F ’21)
=Mental hygiene=
Ingalese, R: History and power of mind. (Ag ’20)
=Merchant marine=
Phelps, E. M., comp. Selected articles on the American merchant
marine. (Mr ’20)
=United States=
Hurley, E: N. New merchant marine. (Ag ’20)
Krafft, H. F:, and Norris, W. B. Sea power in American history.
(F ’21)
=Mercier, Desiré Félicien François Joseph, cardinal, 1851–=
Kellogg, C. Mercier, the fighting cardinal of Belgium. (My ’20)
=Meredith, George, 1828–1909=
Butcher, A. M. Memories of George Meredith. (Ap ’20)
Ellis, S. M. George Meredith. (N ’20)
Mermaid. Overton, G. M. (Mr ’20)
Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. McEvilly, M. A. (Jl ’20)
=Metal work=
Dooley, W: H: Applied science for metal workers. (Mr ’20)
=Metaphysics=
Cannan, G. Release of the soul. (Ag ’20)
Hoernlé, R. F. A. Studies in contemporary metaphysics. (Ap ’20)
Methods and materials of literary criticism. Gayley, C: M., and
Kurtz, B: P. (S ’20)
Methods of teaching in high schools. Parker, S: C. (Jl ’20)
=Mexico=
=History=
O’Shaughnessy, E. L. Intimate pages of Mexican history. (N ’20)
_Revolution, 1910–_
Blasco Ibáñez, V. Mexico in revolution. (O ’20)
=Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858–1918=
Howe, M. A. D. George von Lengerke Meyer. (Ap ’20)
Middle passage. Tooker, L: F. (N ’20)
Militarism in education. Langdon-Davies, J: (Mr ’20)
=Military art and science=
Fiske, B. A. Art of fighting. (Je ’20)
Foch, F. Precepts and Judgments. (O ’20)
Foch, F. Principles of war. (O ’20)
=Military training, Compulsory=
Langdon-Davies, J: Militarism in education. (Mr ’20)
Millions from waste. Talbot, F: A. A. (F ’21)
=Mind and body=
Walsh, J. J. Religion and health. (F ’21)
Mind-energy. Bergson, H. L: (N ’20)
Minstrel weather. Storm, M. (Ja ’21)
Miscellany of American poetry. (O ’20)
Miscellany of British poetry. Seymour, W: K., ed. (Ap ’20)
Miser’s money. Phillpotts. E. (Je ’20)
Miss Eden’s letters. Eden, E. (My ’20)
Miss Lulu Bett. Gale, Z. (My ’20)
Missionary outlook in the light of the war. Committee on the war and
the religious outlook. (Je ’20)
=Missions=
Moore, E: C. West and East. (F ’21)
=Africa=
Baker, E. Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. (D
’20)
=India=
Carey, W:, and others. Garo jungle book. (Mr ’20)
=Korea=
Cynn, H. H. Rebirth of Korea. (Ja ’21)
=Labrador=
Grenfell, A. E., and Spalding, K. Le petit nord. (Ap ’20)
=Syria=
Bliss, D. Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss. (D ’20)
=Missions, Medical=
Lambuth, W. R. Medical missions. (F ’21)
Missy. Gatlin, D. (D ’20)
Mr Dimock. O’Sullivan, Mrs D. (F ’21)
Mr Preston’s daughter. Cobb, T: (D ’20)
Mr Wu. Miln, L. J. (Ap ’20)
Mrs Craddock. Maugham, W: S. (Ag ’20)
Mrs Gladstone. Drew, M. (Je ’20)
Mrs Warren’s daughter. Johnston, H. H. (Jl ’20)
Mrs Wilson’s cook book. Wilson, M. A. (N ’20)
Mitch Miller. Masters, E. L. (D ’20)
=Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787–1855=
Hill, C. Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. (S ’20)
Model T Ford car. Pagé, V: W. (D ’20)
Modern American plays. Baker, G: P. (O ’20)
Modern American poetry. Untermeyer, L:, ed. (My ’20)
Modern American prose selections. Rees, B. J., ed. (Ag ’20)
Modern book of criticism. Lewisohn, L., ed. (Jl ’20)
Modern book of French verse. Boni, A., ed. (Ag ’20)
Modern British poetry. Untermeyer, L:, ed. (S ’20)
Modern China. Cheng. S. (My ’20)
Modern explosives. Levy, S. I. (F ’21)
Modern Greek stories. Brown, D., and Phoutrides, A., trs. (S ’20)
Modern Japan. McGovern, W: M. (Je ’20)
Modern political tendencies. Burton, T. E. (Mr ’20)
Modern pulp and paper making. Witham, G: S. (O ’20)
Modern reader’s Bible for schools. Moulton, R: G., ed. (Je ’20)
Modern roads. Boulnois, H: P. (D ’20)
Modern science and materialism. Elliot, H. S: R. (Mr ’20)
Modern spiritism. Schofield, A. T. (Je ’20)
Modes and morals. Gerould, K. (Mr ’20)
=Mohammedanism=
Bury, G: W. Pan-Islam. (Je ’20)
Zwemer, S: M. Influence of animism on Islam. (Ag ’20)
Mollie’s substitute husband. McConn, M. (O ’20)
Moments with Mark Twain. Clemens, S: L. (My ’20)
Momma. Hughes, R. (Ja ’21)
=Money=
Fisher, I. Stabilizing the dollar. (My ’20)
Hawtrey, R. G. Currency and credit. (F ’21)
=Mongolia=
Bulstrode, B. Tour in Mongolia. (Ja ’21)
=Monroe doctrine=
Hall, A. B. Monroe doctrine and the great war. (Jl ’20)
=Montessori method=
Radice, S. New children. (O ’20)
Moon-calf. Dell, F. (D ’20)
Moons of grandeur. Benet, W: R. (D ’20)
=Moral education=
Bryant, S. Moral and religious education. (Ag ’20)
=Morale=
Hall, G. S. Morale. (S ’20)
Morals of economic internationalism. Hobson, J: A. (Ja ’21)
More Christian industrial order. Coffin, H: S. (Jl ’20)
More literary recreations. Cook, E: T. (My ’20)
More magic pictures of the long ago. Chandler, A. C. (My ’20)
More truth than poetry. Montague, J. J. (D ’20)
=Morgan, Emanuel=, pseud. See Bynner, W. (Jl ’20)
Morning knowledge. Shannon, A. (S ’20)
=Morocco=
=Description and travel=
Wharton, E. N. In Morocco. (D ’20)
Motion study for the handicapped. Gilbreth, F. B. and L. E. (N ’20)
=Motor boats=
Pagé, V: W., ed. Motor boats and boat motors. (Ja ’21)
Motor boats and boat motors. Pagé V: W., ed. (Ja ’21)
Motor car starting and lighting. Collins, A. F: (S ’20)
Motor truck design and construction. Schaefer, C. T. (Mr ’20)
Mount Music. Somerville, E. A. O., and Martin, V. F. (Je ’20)
Mountain. Wood, C. (S ’20)
Mountain craft. Young, G. W., ed. (F ’21)
=Mountaineering=
Mills, E. A. Adventures of a nature guide. (Mr ’20)
Raeburn, H. Mountaineering art. (Ja ’21)
Young, C. W., ed. Mountain craft. (F ’21)
Mountaineering art. Raeburn, H. (Ja ’21)
=Moving picture plays=
Patterson, F. T. Cinema craftsmanship. (D ’20)
=Moving pictures=
Lang, E., and West, G: Musical accompaniment of moving pictures.
(Jl ’20)
Lutz, E. G: Animated cartoons. (Je ’20)
Municipal landing fields and air ports. Wheat, G: S., ed. (F ’21)
=Murray, John, 1808–1892=
Murray, J: John Murray III. (F ’21)
=Music=
Newman, E. Musical motley. (My ’20)
Seymour, H. A. What music can do for you. (D ’20)
Van Vechten, C. In the garret. (Mr ’20)
=Dictionaries=
Grove, G: Dictionary of music and musicians. (F ’21)
=Instruction and study=
Farnsworth, C: H. How to study music. (D ’20)
=Music, American=
Simpson, E. E. America’s position in music. (Ag ’20)
=Music, French=
Jean-Aubry, G. French music of today. (Je ’20)
=Musical accompaniment=
Lang, E., and West, G: Musical accompaniment of moving pictures.
(Jl ’20)
Musical memories. Saint-Saëns, C. (My ’20)
Musical motley. Newman, E. (My ’20)
Musical portraits. Rosenfeld, P. (Je ’20)
=Musicians=
Bispham, D: S. Quaker singer’s recollections. (Ap ’20)
Rosenfeld, P. Musical portraits. (Je ’20)
Saint-Saëns, C. Musical memories. (My ’20)
Smyth, E. Impressions that remained. (My ’20)
=Dictionaries=
Grove, G: Dictionary of music and musicians. (F ’21)
Mutineers. Hawes, C: B. (D ’20)
My A. E. F. Noyes, F. N. (Ag ’20)
My campaign in Mesopotamia. Townshend, C: V. F. (N ’20)
My chess career. Capablanca, J. R. (Jl ’20)
My escape from Germany. Keith, E. A. (Mr ’20)
My kingdom for a horse! Allison, W: (D ’20)
My life and friends. Sully, J. (Ja ’21)
My neighbor the workingman. Day, J. R. (F ’21)
My neighbors. Evans, C. (My ’20)
My quarter century of American politics. Clark, C. (Ap ’20)
My recollections. Massenet, J. E. F. (My ’20)
My rest cure. Robey, G: (Ap ’20)
My second country. Dell, R. E: (Je ’20)
My three years in America. Bernstorff, J. H. A. H. A. (Ag ’20)
My war experiences in two continents. Macnaughtan, S. B. (My ’20)
Myself and dreams. Constable, F. C. (Ap ’20)
Mystery at the Blue villa. Post, M. D. (Ap ’20)
Mystery in the Ritsmore. Johnston, W: A. (Ag ’20)
Mystery of space. Browne, R. T. (Mr ’20)
Mystery of the Sea-Lark. Barbour, R. H:, and Holt, H. P. (O ’20)
Mystery of the silver dagger. Parrish, R. (Je ’20)
=Mysticism=
Böhme, J. Confessions of Jacob Boehme. (F ’21)
Böhme, J. Six theosophic points, and other writings. (My ’20)
Watkin, E: I. Philosophy of mysticism. (O ’20)
Mythical bards, and the life of William Wallace. Schofield, W: H: (D
’20)
=Mythology=
Bailey, C. S. Wonder stories. (O ’20)
=Mythology, Latin American=
Alexander, H. B. Latin American [mythology]. (F ’21)
Nancy goes to town. Sterrett, F. R. (Ja ’21)
Napoleon. Trench, H. (Ap ’20)
Narcotic drug problem. Bishop, E. S. (Ap ’20)
=Narcotics=
Bishop, E. S. Narcotic drug problem. (Ap ’20)
=National characteristics, American=
Canby, H: S. Everyday Americans. (O ’20)
Erskine, J: Democracy and ideals. (Ag ’20)
Nathan, G: J., and Mencken, H: L: American credo. (Ap ’20)
Pinochet, T. Gulf of misunderstanding. (Ja ’21)
Rhodes, H. G. American towns and people. (Ja ’21)
Santayana, G: Character and opinion in the United States. (F ’21)
National defense, Selected articles on. Johnsen, J. E., comp. (F
’21)
National evolution. Davies, G: R. (Jl ’20)
National government of the United States. Kimball, E. (My ’20)
National guilds and the state. Hobson, S. G. (S ’20)
=National nonpartisan league=
Gaston, H. E. Nonpartisan league. (My ’20)
Russell, C: E: Story of the nonpartisan league. (Ag ’20)
=National parks=
Reik, H: O. Tour of America’s national parks. (F ’21)
National system of education. Athearn, W. S. (Jl ’20)
=Nationalism and nationality=
Oakesmith, J: Race and nationality. (Mr ’20)
Pillsbury, W. B. Psychology of nationality and internationalism.
(Ag ’20)
Nationalisation of the mines. Hodges, F. (D ’20)
Nation’s food. Pearl, R. (F ’21)
=Natural history=
Collins, A. F: and V. D. Wonders of natural history. (Ja ’21)
Eaton, W. P. In Berkshire fields. (N ’20)
Ingersoll, E. Wit of the wild. (D ’20)
Pitt, F. Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. (N ’20)
Scoville, S:, jr. Everyday adventures. (N ’20)
Stebbing, E: P. Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. (Ja ’21)
Natural history of the child. Dunn, C. F: W: (My ’20)
=Natural theology=
Burroughs, J: Accepting the universe. (N ’20)
Naturalism in English poetry. Brooke, S. A. (Ja ’21)
=Naturalization=
Beck, H. M. Aliens’ text book on citizenship. (O ’20)
=Nature=
Burroughs, J: Accepting the universe. (N ’20)
Koons, F. T: Outdoor sleeper. (N ’20)
Mills, E. A. Adventures of a nature guide. (Mr ’20)
Storm, M. Minstrel weather. (Ja ’21)
=Nature study=
Hawkes, C. Trails to woods and waters. (My ’20)
=Naval history=
Stevens, W: O., and Westcott, A. F. History of sea power. (Ja ’21)
Naval operations. Corbett, J. S. (S ’20)
Negro migration during the war. Scott, E. J. (O ’20)
=Negroes=
Du Bois, W: E: B. Darkwater. (Ap ’20)
Fleming, W: H: Slavery and the race problem in the South. In
Treaty-making power. (O ’20)
Graham, S. Soul of John Brown. (Ja ’21)
Kerlin, R. T: Voice of the negro, 1919. (Ja ’21)
Morel, E. D. Black man’s burden. (Ja)
Moton, R. R. Finding a way out. (Jl ’20)
Pritchard, M. T:, and Ovington, M. W., comps. Upward path. (O ’20)
Sandburg, C. Chicago race riots, July, 1919 (Mr ’20)
Seligmann, H. J. Negro faces America. (Ag ’20)
Storey, M. Problems of today. (N ’20)
=Colonization=
Fox, E. L. American colonization society, 1817–1840. (D ’20)
=Fiction=
Martin, G: Children in the mist. (S ’20)
=Migration=
Scott, E. J. Negro migration during the war. (O ’20)
Neighbors. Gibson, W. W. (F ’21)
Neither dead nor sleeping. Sewall, M. (S ’20)
Nervous housewife. Myerson, A. (F ’21)
=Nervous system=
Ash, E. L. Problem of nervous breakdown. (Ag ’20)
Carroll, R. S. Our nervous friends. (My ’20)
Myerson, A. Nervous housewife. (F ’21)
Never grow old. Goizet, L: H. (N ’20)
New Adam. Untermeyer, L: (N ’20)
New children. Radice, S. (O ’20)
New Decameron. (D ’20)
=New England=
=Social life and customs=
Peabody, R. S. and F. G. New England romance. (F ’21)
New England in France, 1917–1919. Taylor, E. G. (D ’20)
New England romance. Peabody, R. S. and F. G. (F ’21)
New Europe. Allen, N. B. (Je ’20)
New frontier. Emerson, G. (Ag ’20)
New frontiers of freedom. Powell, E. A. (Je ’20)
New Germany. Young, G: (Je ’20)
=New Guinea=
Beaver, W. N. Unexplored New Guinea. (Mr ’20)
New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages. Nolen, J:
(Ap ’20)
New industrial unrest. Baker, R. S. (Je ’20)
New Italy. Zimmern, H., and Agresti, A. (Jl ’20)
New land. Levinger, E. E. (F ’21)
New merchant marine. Hurley, E: N. (Ag ’20)
=New Mexico=
James, G: W. New Mexico. (Je ’20)
New poems. Lawrence, D: H. (Ag ’20)
New psychology and its relation to life. Tansley, A. G: (O ’20)
New Robinson Crusoe. Gardner, G. (S ’20)
New social order. Ward, H. F: (My ’20)
New South. Thompson, H. (D ’20)
New unionism in the clothing industry. Budish, J. M., and Soule, G:
H: (S ’20)
New world. Comerford, F. (N ’20)
New world of science. Yerkes, R. M., ed. (D ’20)
New world order. Hicks, F: C: (S ’20)
=New York=
=Politics and government=
Fox, D. R. Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York.
(D ’20)
=New York (city)=
=Harbor=
Rush, T. E: Port of New York. (Jl ’20)
=Poetry=
Guiterman, A. Ballads of old New York. (Mr ’20)
=Newspapers=
Payne, G: H: History of journalism in the United States. (Ag ’20)
Newton chapel. Newton theological institution. (Jl ’20)
Next-besters. Ragsdale, L. (S ’20)
=Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 1868–1918=
Telberg, G: G., and Wilton, R. Last days of the Romanovs, (F ’21)
Niels Lyhne. Jacobsen, J. P. (Jl ’20)
=Nigeria=
=Social life and customs=
Basden, G: T: Among the Ibos of Nigeria. (Ja ’21)
Night and day. Woolf, V. (N ’20)
Night’s lodging. Gorky, M., pseud. (Ap ’20)
Nile to Aleppo. Dinning, H. W. (D ’20)
Ninth man. Vorse, M. M. (O ’20)
“No clue!” Hay, J. (N ’20)
No defence. Parker, G. (N ’20)
No. 26 Jayne street. Austin, M. (Je ’20)
Nonpartisan league. Gaston, H. E. (My ’20)
Noon mark. Watts. M. S. (F ’21)
=North, Anison=, pseud. See Wilson, M.
=North America=
=History=
_Colonial period_
Bolton, H. E., and Marshall. T: M. Colonization of North
America. (F ’21)
North door, MacDonald, G. (O ’20)
Not that it matters. Milne, A. A. (O ’20)
Notes on a cellar-book. Saintsbury, G: (Ja ’21)
Now it can be told. Gibbs, P. H. (My ’20)
Nuova. Kellogg, V. L. (N ’20)
Nursery-manual. Bailey, L. H. (Je ’20)
=Nurses and nursing=
Hill, H. W. Sanitation for public health nurses. (F ’21)
Occasional papers and addresses of an American lawyer. Taft, H: W.
(Ag ’20)
=Occult sciences=
Bland, O. Adventures of a modern occultist. (N ’20)
Ingalese, R: History and power of mind. (Ag ’20)
=Occupations, Choice of=
Mathews, B. J. Essays on vocation. (Ja ’21)
Ocean shipping. Annin, R. E. (Ag ’20)
Ocean steamship traffic management. Huebner, G. G. T. (Ag ’20)
=Oceania=
Freeman, L: R. In the tracks of the trades. (N ’20)
October. Bridges, R. (O ’20)
Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man!
Cobb, I. S., and Rinehart, M. (My ’20)
Oh, you Tex! Raine, W: M. (Ag ’20)
=Ohio=
=Social life and customs=
Hayes, E. Wild turkeys and tallow candles. (D ’20)
=Oil as fuel=
Sothern, J: W: M. Oil fuel burning in marine practice. (F ’21)
Oil fuel burning in marine practice. Sothern, J: W: M. (F ’21)
=Oil industry=
Bosworth, T: O. Geology of the mid continent oilfields. (O ’20)
=Oil shales=
Alderson, V: C. Oil shale industry. (N ’20)
Old and new. Grandgent, C: H. (N ’20)
Old Cape Cod. Bangs, M. R. (D ’20)
Old Chester secret. Deland, M. W. (D ’20)
Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. Rothery, A. E. (Jl ’20)
Old crosses and lychgates. Vallance, A. (F ’21)
Old English furniture and its surroundings. Percival, M. (Ja ’21)
Old French fairy tales. Segur, S. (F ’21)
Old humanities and the new science. Osler, W: (Je ’20)
Old junk. Tomlinson, H. M. (Ap ’20)
Old naval days. Meissner, S. de. (Ja ’21)
Old New England houses. Robinson, A. G. (N ’20)
Old Plymouth trails. Packard, W. (Jl ’20)
Old Reliable in Africa. Dickson, H. (D ’20)
On a passing frontier. Linderman, F. B. (Ag ’20)
On the art of reading. Quiller-Couch, A. T: (D ’20)
On the edge of the wilderness. Eaton, W. P. (D ’20)
On the path of adventure. Price, J. M. (Ag ’20)
On the trail of the pioneers. Faris, J: T. (Je ’20)
One after another. Aumonier, S. (O ’20)
One hundred best novels condensed. Grozier, E. A., ed. (Je ’20)
100%. Sinclair, U. B. (Ja ’21)
One thousand poems for children. Ingpen, R., ed. (F ’21)
Open gates to Russia. Davis, M. W. (Mr ’20)
Open the door. Carswell, C. (S ’20)
Open vision. Dresser, H. W. (Je ’20)
=Operas=
Annesley, C:, pseud. Standard operaglass. (Je ’20)
MacKaye, P. W. Rip Van Winkle. (Mr ’20)
=Opium=
LaMotte, E. N. Opium monopoly. (Je ’20)
Opportunities in aviation. Sweetser, A., and Lamont. G. (Mr ’20)
Opportunities in engineering. Horton, C: M. (Je ’20)
Ordeal of Mark Twain. Brooks, V. (O ’20)
Order. Washburn, C. C. (Ap ’20)
Ordnance and the world war. Crozier, W: (Jl ’20)
=Ore treatment=
Allen, A. W. Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and practice. (F
’21)
=Oregon=
=Discovery and exploration=
Skinner, C. L. Adventurers of Oregon. (D ’20)
Organization of industrial scientific research. (S ’20)
Organized labor in American history. Carlton, F. T. (Je ’20)
Organized self-government. Dawson, E. (Ag ’20)
Oscar Montague—paranoiac. Walton, G: L. (Ap ’20)
=Ossoli, Sarah Margaret (Fuller) marchese d’, 1810–1850=
Anthony, K. Margaret Fuller. (N ’20)
Other woman. Davis. N. (Jl ’20)
Our America. Frank, W. D: (Ag ’20)
Our economic and other problems. Kahn, O: H. (Ag ’20)
Our foreigners. Orth, S: P. (D ’20)
Our great war and the great war of the ancient Greeks. Murray, G.
(Ag ’20)
Our nervous friends. Carroll, R. S. (My ’20)
Our northern autumn. Keeler, H. L. (D ’20)
Our unseen guest. (Ap ’20)
Our Wisconsin. Doudna, E. G: (D ’20)
Our women. Bennett, A. (N ’20)
=Outdoor life=
Clark, F. E: Gospel of out of doors. (Ag ’20)
Outdoor sleeper. Koons, F. T: (N ’20)
Outdoors and in. Crowell, J. F. (O ’20)
Outlaw. Hewlett, M. H: (Ap ’20)
Outline of history. Wells, H. G: (D ’20)
Outlook for research and Invention. Hopkins, N. M. (Mr ’20)
Outside inn. Kelley, E. M. (N ’20)
Outspoken essays. Inge, W: R. (My ’20)
Outstanding days. Herrick, C. A. (Ag ’20)
Overland for gold. Cheley, F. H. (F ’21)
=Owen, Robert, 1771–1858=
Owen, R. Life of Robert Owen. (S ’20)
Ozone. Rideal, E. K. (Ja ’21)
=Pacific ocean=
Scholefield. G. H. Pacific. (Ap ’20)
Paddy-the-next-best-thing. Page, G. (F ’21)
Padre. Prentice, S. (My ’20)
Pagan. Smith, G. A. (S ’20)
Pagan and Christian creeds. Carpenter, E: (Ap ’20)
Pagan fire. Richardson, N. (Ja ’21)
=Paget, Violet.= See Lee, V., pseud.
Painted meadows. Kerr, S. (Je ’20)
=Painting=
Oliver, M. I. G. First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. (Ap
’20)
=Painting, Chinese=
Petrucci, R. Chinese painters. (S ’20)
=Paints=
Jennings, A. S. Paints and varnishes. (Jl ’20)
=Palestine=
Lock, H. O. Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. (F
’21)
=Description and travel=
Maxwell, D. Last crusade. (F ’21)
Palmetto. Perry, S. G: (N ’20)
=Panama canal=
Bunau-Varilla, P. Great adventure of Panama. (My ’20)
=Pan-Americanism=
Lockey, J. B. Pan-Americanism. (Ag ’20)
Pan-Islam. Bury, G: W. (Je ’20)
=Paper making and trade=
Chalmers. T: W. Paper making and its machinery. (Ag ’20)
Witham, G: S. Modern pulp and paper making. (O ’20)
Papers and essays for churchmen. Steele, D: M. (Mr ’20)
Papers on current finance. Foxwell, H. S. (My ’20)
Papers on the legal history of government. Bigelow, M. M. (Ap ’20)
=Parables=
Gibran, K. Forerunner. (D ’20)
Paradise Bend. White. W: P. (F ’21)
Paradise mystery. Fletcher, J. S. (Ag ’20)
=Paris=
Adam, H. P. Paris sees it through. (Ap ’20)
=Description=
Story, A. M. S. Present day Paris and the battlefields. (N ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Edwards, A. H. Paris through an attic. (Jl ’20)
Paris in shadow. Holt, L. (Ja ’21)
Paris through an attic. Edwards, A. H. (Jl ’20)
Parliament and revolution. Macdonald, J. R. (Ag ’20)
=Parliamentary reform=
Trevelyan, G: M. Lord Grey of the reform bill. (Je ’20)
=Parodies=
Castier, J. Rather like.... (Ag ’20)
Powell, C: Poets in the nursery. (D ’20)
=Parties=
Wolcott, T. H., ed. Book of games and parties. (D ’20)
Parts men play. Baxter, A. B. (Ja ’21)
Passage of the barque Sappho. Patterson, J: E: (My ’20)
Passenger. Swinnerton, H. (N ’20)
Passing legions. Fife, G: B. (Ja ’21)
Passing of the new freedom. Beck, J. M. (N ’20)
Passing of the old order in Europe. Zilboorg, G. (D ’20)
Passion. Desmond, S. (Jl ’20)
Passion for life. Hocking, J. (Jl ’20)
=Pasteur, Louis, 1822–1895=
Duclaux, E. Pasteur. (O ’20)
Pastor of the Pilgrims. Burgess, W. H. (O ’20)
Pastoral epistles. Parry, R. St J: (F ’21)
Patchwork. Myers, A. B. (My ’20)
Paternity of Abraham Lincoln. Barton, W: E. (D ’20)
Paths of inland commerce. Hulbert, A. B. (D ’20)
Pathway of adventure. Tyrrell, R. (Ag ’20)
Patriotism and popular education. Jones, H: A. (S ’20)
Patron and place-hunter. Sanders, L. C: (My ’20)
Patrons of democracy. Sharp, D. L. (My ’20)
=Patti, Adelina (Baroness Cederstrom), 1843–1919=
Klein, H. Reign of Patti. (N ’20)
=Paul, Saint=
Baldwin, C: S. God unknown. (O ’20)
Smith, D: Life and letters of St Paul. (Je ’20)
Paul and the printing press. Bassett, S. W. (O ’20)
Pawn in pawn. Sharp, H. M. (Jl ’20)
Pawns. Drinkwater, J: (Ja ’21)
=Peabody, Ephraim, 1807–1856=
Peabody, R. S. and F. G. New England romance. (F ’21)
=Peabody, Mrs Mary Jane (Derby), 1807–1892=
Peabody, R. S. and F. G. New England romance. (F ’21)
=Peace=
Caldwell, W. E. Hellenic conceptions of peace. (Mr ’20)
Cooke, R: J. Church and world peace. (F ’21)
Jay, W: War and peace. (Je ’20)
=Peace conference, 1919–=
Baruch, B. M. Making of the reparation and economic sections of
the treaty. (D ’20)
Bass, J: F. Peace tangle. (D ’20)
Dillon, E. J. Inside story of the peace conference. (Mr ’20)
Gallagher, P. America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. (O ’20)
Harris, H. W. Peace in the making. (Ag ’20)
Haskins, C: H., and Lord, R. H. Some problems of the Peace
conference. (O ’20)
Keynes, J: M. Economic consequences of the peace. (Mr ’20)
Scott, A. P. Introduction to the peace treaties. (Je ’20)
Thompson, C: T. Peace conference day by day. (S ’20)
Peace in the making. Harris, H. W. (Ag ’20)
Peace tangle. Bass, J: F. (D ’20)
=Pearson, George Conover=, pseud. See Gunion, P. C.
Peculiar major. Bell, J: K. (Ap ’20)
Peddler. Rowland, H: C. (N ’20)
=Peel, Lady Georgiana Adelaide (Russell), 1836–=
Peel, G. A. Recollections. (S ’20)
Peggy in Toyland. Marshall, A. (N ’20)
Penance of Magdalena. Chase, J. S. (Ag ’20)
Pengard awake. Straus, R. (Ja ’21)
Penitentiary Post. Pinkerton, K. S. and R. E. (Ag ’20)
=Pennsylvania=
=Description and travel=
Wharton, A. H. In old Pennsylvania towns. (F ’21)
Penny plain. Douglas, O. E. (D ’20)
People of destiny. Gibbs, P. H. (O ’20)
People of the ruins. Shanks, E: B. (N ’20)
Perils of respectability. Fiske, C: (S ’20)
Periwinkle’s island. Elias, E. L. (N ’20)
Perpetual light. Benet, W: R. (Mr ’20)
=Persia=
=Description and travel=
Hale, F: From Persian uplands. (D ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Mirza, Y. B: When I was a boy in Persia. (Jl ’20)
=Persian literature=
Browne, E: G. History of Persian literature under Tartar dominion.
(F ’21)
=Persian poetry=
Jackson, A. V. W. Early Persian poetry. (Ag ’20)
Personal beauty and racial betterment. Dunlap, K. (Ja ’21)
Personal prejudices. Sturgis, E. M. (N ’20)
Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie. Lynch, F: H: (F ’21)
=Personality=
Webb, C. C: J. God and personality. (My ’20)
Personnel administration. Tead, O., and Metcalf, H: C. (D ’20)
Peter Jameson. Frankau, G. (My ’20)
Peter Kindred. Nathan, R. (My ’20)
Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. Vincent, F. S. (N ’20)
Le petit nord. Grenfell, A. E., and Spalding, K. (Ap ’20)
=Petroleum=
Panyity, L: S. Prospecting for oil and gas. (F ’21)
Ross, V: Evolution of the oil industry. (Ja ’21)
=Philadelphia=
=Description=
Morley, C. D. Travels in Philadelphia. (My ’20)
=Philately=
Johnson, S. C. Stamp collector. (My ’20)
=Philosophy=
Bergson, H. L: Mind-energy. (N ’20)
Blood, B: P. Pluriverse. (Ja ’21)
Cushman, H. E. Beginner’s history of philosophy. (Ap ’20)
Dewey, J: Reconstruction in philosophy. (N ’20)
Hoernlé, R. F. A. Studies in contemporary metaphysics. (Ap ’20)
Joad, C. E. M. Essays in common sense philosophy. (Ag ’20)
Merz, J: T. Fragment on the human mind. (Ag ’20)
Richardson, C. A. Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. (D
’20)
Royce, J. Lectures on modern idealism. (Jl ’20)
=Philosophy, Hindu=
Carrington, H. Higher psychical development. (N ’20)
Philosophy of mysticism. Watkin, E: I. (O ’20)
Philosophy of play. Gulick, L. H. (Je ’20)
Philosophy of speech. Willis, G: (O ’20)
=Photography=
Gamble, W: Photography and its applications. (Jl ’20)
Hammond, A. Pictorial composition in photography. (S ’20)
=Photography, Aerial=
Ives, H. E. Airplane photography. (Mr ’20)
=Physical education=
Camp, W. C. Handbook on health and how to keep it. (My ’20)
Jensen, A. Massage and exercises combined. (N ’20)
Physician in France. Herringham, W. P. (My ’20)
=Physicians=
=Biography=
Kelly, H. A., and Burrage, W. L. American medical biographies.
(N ’20)
Physiology and national needs. Halliburton, W: D. (Ja ’21)
=Pianoforte=
=Instruction and study=
Brower, H. M. Self-help in piano study. (F ’21)
Pic, the weapon-maker. Langford, G: (O ’20)
Piccadilly in three centuries. Dasent, A. I. (F ’21)
Pictorial composition in photography. Hammond, A. (S ’20)
Picture-show. Sassoon, S. (Je ’20)
Pierre and Joseph. Bazin, R. F. N. M. (Je ’20)
=Pilgrim fathers=
Burgess, W. H. Pastor of the Pilgrims. (O ’20)
Crawford, M. C. In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. (Jl ’20)
Griffis, W: E. Young people’s history of the Pilgrims. (Je ’20)
Lord, A. Plymouth and the Pilgrims. (D ’20)
Marble, A. R. Women who came in the Mayflower. (Jl ’20)
Mathews, B. J. Argonauts of faith. (Ag ’20)
Pilgrim maid. Taggart, M. A. (My ’20)
Pilgrimage. Gorell, R. G. B. (O ’20)
Pinion and paw. Eng title of Way of the wild. St Mars, F. (O ’20)
Pink gods and blue demons. Stockley, C. (Ag ’20)
Pioneers of land reform. Spence, T:, and others. (S ’20)
Pipefuls. Morley, C. D. (D ’20)
Piping and panning. Robinson, E. M. (N ’20)
Pirates of the spring. Reid, F. (Ap ’20)
=Place, Francis, 1771–1854=
Wallas, G. Life of Francis Place. (Je ’20)
Place in the world. Turner, J: H. (My ’20)
Place of science in modern civilization, and other essays. Veblen,
T. B. (My ’20)
Plainsman, and other poems. Carpenter, R. (F ’21)
Planning and planting of little gardens. Dillistone, G: (Ja ’21)
=Plant propagation=
Bailey, L. H. Nursery-manual. (Je ’20)
=Plants=
Saunders, C: F. Useful wild plants of the United States and
Canada. (Je ’20)
=Play=
Gulick, L. H. Philosophy of play. (Je ’20)
Plays. Galsworthy, J: (Je ’20)
Plays. Glaspell, S. (Ag ’20)
Plays and pageants of citizenship. Payne, F. U. (D ’20)
Plays for merry Andrews. Kreymborg, A. (F ’21)
Plays of the 47 workshop. 47 workshop. (D ’20)
Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. Harvard university. Dramatic
club. (D ’20)
=Pleading and practice=
Works, J: D. Juridical reform. (Ap ’20)
Pleasures of collecting. Teall, G. C. (N ’20)
Plunderer. Oyen, H: (Je ’20)
=Pluralism=
Blood, B: P. Pluriverse. (Ja ’21)
Richardson, C. A. Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. (D
’20)
Pluriverse. Blood, B: P. (Ja ’21)
=Plymouth, Mass.=
Lord, A. Plymouth and the Pilgrims. (D ’20)
Plymouth and the Pilgrims. Lord, A. (D ’20)
Pocket guides to public speaking. Kleiser, G. (My ’20)
=Poems, Books of=
Adams, F. P. Something else again. (D ’20)
Aiken, C. P. House of dust. (N ’20)
Ananda Achārya. Snow-birds. (D ’20)
Ault, N. Dreamland shores. (Ja ’21)
Baker, K. Blue smoke. (My ’20)
Barker, H. G. Songs in cities and gardens. (Mr ’20)
Barney, D. Chords from Albireo. (Ag ’20)
Barr, A. E. Songs in the common chord. (Ap ’20)
Barrett, W. A. Songs from the journey. (Je ’20)
Benét, S. V. Heavens and earth. (F ’21)
Benet, W: R. Moons of grandeur. (D ’20)
Benet, W: R. Perpetual light. (Mr ’20)
Bennett, R. After the day. (F ’21)
Benshimol, E. Tomorrow’s yesterday. (N ’20)
Bodenheim, M. Advice. (N ’20)
Boni, A., ed. Modern book of French verse. (Ag ’20)
Bowman, A. A. Sonnets from a prison camp. (Je ’20)
Bradford, G. Prophet of joy. (O ’20)
Braithwaite, W: S. B., ed. Anthology of magazine verse for 1919.
(Ap ’20)
Braithwaite, W: S. B., ed. Book of modern British verse. (My ’20)
Bridges, R. October. (O ’20)
Brown, A. F. Heart of New England. (N ’20)
Buck, H. S. Tempering. (Je ’20)
Bunker, J: J. L. Shining fields and dark towers. (Mr ’20)
Burke, T: Song book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. (F ’21)
Burt, M. S. Songs and portraits. (O ’20)
Bynner, W. Canticle of Pan. (Jl ’20)
Carpenter, R. Plainsman, and other poems. (F ’21)
Clark, A. Margaret book. (Je ’20)
Cone, H. G. Coat without a seam. (Jl ’20)
Conkling, G. W. Wilderness songs. (Jl ’20)
Conkling, H. Poems by a little girl. (Je ’20)
Contemporary verse anthology. (F ’21)
Coutts, F. B. T: M.- Spacious times and others. (Je ’20)
Cromwell, G. Poems. (My ’20)
Crowell, J. F. Outdoors and in. (O ’20)
Davis, F. P., ed. Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year
book of newspaper poetry. (F ’21)
De La Mare, W. J: Collected poems. (Ja ’21)
Doyle, A. C. Guards came through, and other poems. (My ’20)
Eliot, T: S. Poems. (My ’20)
Farrar, J: C. Forgotten shrines. (Jl ’20)
Flexner, H. Clouds and cobblestones. (D ’20)
France, A., pseud. Bride of Corinth. (F ’21)
Frothingham, R., comp. Songs of dogs. (N ’20)
Frothingham, R., comp. Songs of horses. (N ’20)
Fyleman, R. Fairies and chimneys. (N ’20)
Gayley, C: M., and Flaherty, M. C:, comps. Poetry of the people.
(S ’20)
Georgian poetry, 1918–1919. (My ’20)
Gibson, W. W. Neighbors. (F ’21)
Gorell, R. G. B. Pilgrimage. (O ’20)
Graves, R. Country sentiment. (Jl ’20)
Guiterman, A. Ballads of old New York. (Mr ’20)
Guiterman, A. Chips of jade. (F ’21)
Hardy, T: Collected poems. (D ’20)
Herbert, A. P. Bomber gipsy. (Jl ’20)
Hillyer, R. S. Five books of youth. (Ag ’20)
Hughes, A. M. Diantha goes the primrose way. (D ’20)
Hughes, G. Broken lights. (D ’20)
Huxley, A. L. Leda. (O ’20)
Ingpen, R., ed. One thousand poems for children. (F ’21)
Jesse, F. T. Happy bride. (D ’20)
Johnson, R. U. Collected poems. (Mr ’20)
Jones, H. Well of being. (Je ’20)
Jones, J. H:, jr. Heart of the world. (Ag ’20)
Kemp, H. H. Chanteys and ballads. (D ’20)
Kerr, R. W. War daubs. (Je ’20)
Kip, A. L. Poems. (Ag ’20)
Knibbs, H: H. Songs of the trail. (D ’20)
Kossovo: heroic songs of the Serbs. (Ag ’20)
Kreymborg, A. Blood of things. (F ’21)
Lawrence, D: H. New poems. (Ag ’20)
Ledwidge, F. Complete poems of Francis Ledwidge. (Ap ’20)
Lee, H. S. High company. (O ’20)
Le Gallienne, R: Junk-man. (N ’20)
Leonard, W: E. C. Lynching bee. (F ’21)
Lincoln, E. C. Rhymes of a homesteader. (My ’20)
Lindsay, N. V. Golden whales of California. (Jl ’20)
Lomax, J: A. Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp. (My ’20)
Low, B: R. C. Broken music. (F ’21)
MacDonnell, J. F. C. Cairn of stars. (Jl ’20)
Markham, E. Gates of paradise. (Jl ’20)
Masefield, J: Enslaved. (S ’20)
Masefield, J: Right Royal. (F ’21)
Masters, E. L. Domesday book. (Ja ’21)
Masters, E. L. Starved Rock. (Ag ’20)
Maynard, T., comp. Tankard of ale. (O ’20)
Millen, W: A. Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the newer
Ireland. (Jl ’20)
Miscellany of American poetry, 1920. (O ’20)
Montague, J. J. More truth than poetry. (D ’20)
Moore, T: S. Little school. (S ’20)
Morgan, A. Hail, man! (My ’20)
Morley, C. D. Hide and seek. (D ’20)
Napier, M. Songs of the dead. (D ’20)
Nichols, R. M. B. Aurelia, and other poems. (O ’20)
Noguchi, Y. Japanese hokkus. (D ’20)
Noyes, A. Collected poems. (D ’20)
Noyes, A. Elfin artist. (O ’20)
Percy, W: A. In April once. (D ’20)
Phillpotts, E. As the wind blows. (S ’20)
Potter, M. C. Rhymes of a child’s world. (N ’20)
Powell, C: Poets in the nursery. (D ’20)
Prisoner of Pentonville. (Jl ’20)
Raskin, P. M. Songs and dreams. (O ’20)
Ridge, L. Sun-up. (F ’21)
Roberts, C. E. M. Poems. (Mr ’20)
Robinson, E. A. Lancelot. (Ag ’20)
Robinson, E. A. Three taverns. (N ’20)
Robinson, E. M. Piping and panning. (N ’20)
Ryan, A. Whisper of fire. (Ap ’20)
Sackville, M. Selected poems. (N ’20)
Sandburg, C. Smoke and steel. (N ’20)
Sanger, W: C., jr. Verse. (S ’20)
Sarett, L. Many many moons. (My ’20)
Sassoon, S. Picture-show. (Je ’20)
Schauffler, R. H. White comrade. (F ’21)
Seiffert, M. A. Woman of thirty. (Mr ’20)
Seymour, W: K., ed. Miscellany of British poetry. (Ap ’20)
Sieveking, L. deG. Dressing gowns and glue. (Je ’20)
Sitwell, O. Argonaut and Juggernaut. (Ap ’20)
Some British ballads. (F ’21)
Spring Rice, C. A. Poems. (Ja ’21)
Squire, J: C. Birds. (D ’20)
Still, J: Poems in captivity. (My ’20)
Swinburne, A. C: Selections. (D ’20)
Swinnerton, H. Passenger. (N ’20)
Teasdale, S. Flame and shadow. (D ’20)
Thompson, J: R. Poems. (Je ’20)
Thorley, W. C:, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. (Je ’20)
Trine, G. S. Dreams and voices. (Ja ’21)
Troubetzkoy, A. As the wind blew. (D ’20)
Turner, W. J. Dark wind. (Jl ’20)
Untermeyer, L:, ed. Modern American poetry. (My ’20)
Untermeyer, L:, ed. Modern British poetry. (S ’20)
Untermeyer, L: New Adam. (N ’20)
Van Dyke, T. Songs of seeking and finding. (D ’20)
Vansittart, R. G. Singing caravan. (Ap ’20)
Vernède, R. E. War poems. (N ’20)
Waley, A., comp. Japanese poetry. (N ’20)
Walsh, T: Don Folquet, and other poems. (O ’20)
Walsh, T:, ed. Hispanic anthology. (D ’20)
Walters, L. D’O. Anthology of recent poetry, (D ’20)
Welles, W. Hesitant heart. (My ’20)
Wells, C., comp. Book of humorous verse. (Ja ’21)
Widdemer, M. Haunted hour. (Ap ’20)
Wilkinson, M. O. Bluestone. (O ’20)
Wilson, C. C. Fir trees and fireflies. (F ’21)
Wilson, T. P. C. Waste paper philosophy. (F ’21)
Wood, C. Jehovah. (S ’20)
Woodberry, G: E: Roamer, and other poems. (Je ’20)
Young, F. B. Poems, 1916–1918. (S ’20)
Poems by a little girl. Conkling, H. (Je ’20)
Poems in captivity. Still, J: (My ’20)
=Poetry=
Aiken, C. P. Scepticisms. (Ag ’20)
Erskine, J: Kinds of poetry. (S ’20)
Gayley, C: M., and Kurtz, B: P. Methods and materials of literary
criticism. (S ’20)
Perry, B. Study of poetry. (Ag ’20)
Poetry of John Dryden. Van Doren, M. (Ja ’21)
Poetry of the people. Gayley, C: M., and Flaherty, M. C:, comps. (S
’20)
=Poets, English=
Moore, S. Some soldier poets. (Ag ’20)
Poets in the nursery. Powell, C: (D ’20)
Points of friction. Repplier, A. (N ’20)
=Poland=
Boswell, A. B. Poland and the Poles. (Ap ’20)
Goodhart, A. L. Poland and the minority races. (D ’20)
Waliszewski, K. Poland the unknown. (S ’20)
=Police=
Fosdick, R. B. American police systems. (Ja ’21)
Woods, A. Policeman and public. (Ap ’20)
Policeman and public. Woods A. (Ap ’20)
Polish fairy tales. Glinski, A. J. (F ’21)
=Political science=
Bigelow, M. M. Papers on the legal history of government. (Ap ’20)
Jones, H: Principles of citizenship. (D ’20)
Laski, H. J. Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham.
(S ’20)
Peterson. S: Democracy and government. (Mr ’20)
Storey, M. Problems of today. (N ’20)
Political systems in transition. Fenwick, C: G. (D ’20)
Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham. Laski, H. J. (S
’20)
=Politics=
McCabe, J. Taint in politics. (O ’20)
Pollyooly dances. Jepson, E. (Ag ’20)
Pool of stars. Meigs, C. (My ’20)
Poor dear Theodora! Irwin, F. (My ’20)
Poor man’s rock. Sinclair, B. W: (D ’20)
Poor relations. Mackenzie, C. (Mr ’20)
Poor white. Anderson, S. (D ’20)
Poor wise man. Rinehart, M. (D ’20)
Popular chemical dictionary. Kingzett, C: T: (Ag ’20)
=Porcelain=
Lewer, H. W: China collector. (My ’10)
Pork-production. Smith, W: W. (S ’20)
Port Allington stories. Vernède, R. E. (N ’20)
Port of New York. Rush, T. E: (Jl ’20)
=Portraits=
Fletcher, C: R. L. Historical portraits, 1700–1850. (D ’20)
Portraits of the eighties. Hutchinson, H. G. (S ’20)
Portygee. Lincoln, J. C. (Je ’20)
Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism. Furniss, E. S.
(N ’20)
Potterism. Macaulay, R. (D ’20)
=Pottery=
Rhead, G: W. Earthenware collector. (My ’20)
Power of a god, and other one-act plays. Guild, T. H. (My ’20)
Power of a lie. Bojer, J. (Jl ’20)
Power of prayer. Paterson. W: P., and Russell, D:, eds. (F ’21)
Practical fly fishing. St John, L. (Je ’20)
Practical hints on playwriting. Platt, A. (N ’20)
Practical illustration. Whiting, J: D. (Ja ’21)
Practical views on psychic phenomena. Wright, G: E. (Ag ’20)
Practice and theory of Bolshevism. Eng title of Bolshevism. Russell,
B. A. W: (Ja ’21)
Prairie mother. Stringer, A. J: A. (N ’20)
Prairie-schooner princess. Maule, M. K. (N ’20)
=Pratt, Mrs Harry Rogers.= See Rothery, A. E.
=Prayer=
Crane, A. M. Ask and receive. (F ’21)
Paterson, W: P., and Russell, D:, eds. Power of prayer. (F ’21)
=Preaching=
Donnelly, F. P. Art of interesting. (N ’20)
Fitch, A. P. Preaching and paganism. (F ’21)
Preaching and paganism. Fitch, A. P. (F ’21)
Precepts and judgments. Foch, F. (O ’20)
Prejudices. Mencken, H: L: (Ja ’21)
Present and past banking in Mexico. McCaleb, W. F. (Ap ’20)
Present day Paris and the battlefields. Story, A. M. S. (N ’20)
Presenting Jane McRae. Luther, M. L. (S ’20)
=Presidents (United States)=
Dunn, A. W. How presidents are made. (Je ’20)
Presidents and pies. Anderson, I. W. (Je ’20)
Preventive man. McFadden, G. V. (Jl ’20)
=Prices=
Academy of political science. Inflation and high prices. (F ’21)
Friday, D: Profits, wages, and prices. (N ’20)
McPherson, L. G. Flow of value. (My ’20)
Murchison, C. T. Resale price maintenance. (My ’20)
Prime minister. Spender, H. (Ag ’20)
Primitive society. Lowie, R. H. (Ag ’20)
Principles of accounting. Hodge, A. C., and McKinsey, J. O. (D ’20)
Principles of æsthetics. Parker, D. H: (D ’20)
Principles of citizenship. Jones, H: (D ’20)
Principles of education. Coursault, J. H. (D ’20)
Principles of electric spark ignition in internal combustion
engines. Morgan, J: D: (D ’20)
Principles of sociology. Ross, E: A. (S ’20)
Principles of sociology with educational applications. Clow, F: R.
(S ’20)
Principles of war. Foch, F. (O ’20)
Prisoner of Pentonville. (Jl ’20)
Prisoner of Trotsky’s. Kalpaschnikoff, A. (Ag ’20)
Prize stories 1919. O. Henry memorial award. (Jl ’20)
Problem of nervous breakdown. Ash, E. L. (Ag ’20)
Problem of the nervous child. Evans, E. (My ’20)
Problems in business law. Moore, J. H., and Houston, C: A. (Ag ’20)
Problems in foreign exchange. Shugrue, M. J. (F ’21)
Problems of law. Wigmore, J: H: (D ’20)
Problems of today. Storey, M. (N ’20)
Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. (Ja
’21)
Professor’s love-life. Maldclewith, R., pseud. (Ap ’20)
Profits, wages, and prices. Friday, D: (N ’20)
=Prohibition=
McKenzie, F: A. Pussyfoot Johnson. (O ’20)
Project method in education. Branon, M. E. (My ’20)
Project work in education. Stockton, J. L. (O ’20)
Prologue. Duganne, P. (N ’20)
Prometheus. Pérez de Ayala, R. (D ’20)
Proofs of the spirit world. Chevreuil, L. (S ’20)
Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. Henslow, G: (Mr ’20)
Prophet of Joy. Bradford, G. (O ’20)
Proportional form. Colman, S:, and Coan, C. A. (Je ’20)
=Prospecting=
Cornell, F. C. Glamour of prospecting. (F ’21)
Prospecting for oil and gas. Panyity. L: S. (F ’21)
=Proverbs=
Guiterman, A. Chips of jade. (F ’21)
Psychical miscellanea. Hill, J: A. (Je ’20)
=Psychical research=
Carrington, H. Higher psychical development. (N ’20)
Dresser, H. W. Open vision. (Je ’20)
Hill, J: A. Psychical miscellanea. (Je ’20)
Holt, H: Cosmic relations and immortality. (D ’20)
Magnussen, J. God’s smile. (N ’20)
Myers, F: W: H: Human personality and its survival of bodily
death. (Ag ’20)
Wright, G: E. Practical views on psychic phenomena. (Ag ’20)
=Psychoanalysis=
Coriat, I. H: Repressed emotions. (F ’21)
Freud, S. General introduction to psychoanalysis. (N ’20)
Lay, W. Man’s unconscious passion. (F ’21)
Low, B. Psycho-analysis. (Jl ’20)
O’Higgins, H. J. Secret springs. (D ’20)
Swisher, W. S: Religion and the new psychology. (D ’20)
Tridon, A. Psychoanalysis. (Ap ’20)
Tridon, A. Psychoanalysis and behavior. (N ’20)
=Psychology=
Constable, F. C. Myself and dreams. (Ap ’20)
Edman, I. Human traits and their social significance. (N ’20)
McKim, W: D. Study for the times. (Ja ’21)
Tansley, A. G: New psychology and its relation to life. (O ’20)
Warren, H. C. Human psychology. (Jl ’20)
Watson, J: B. Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. (Ag
’20)
=Psychology, Educational=
Edwards, A. S. Fundamental principles of learning and study. (F
’21)
Strong, E: K., jr. Introductory psychology for teachers. (D ’20)
=Psychology, Pathological=
Hollingworth, H. L. Psychology of functional neuroses. (D ’20)
Mackay, W: M. Disease and remedy of sin. (F ’21)
Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. Watson, J: B. (Ag
’20)
Psychology of dreams. Walsh, W: S. (Jl ’20)
Psychology of functional neuroses. Hollingworth, H. L. (D ’20)
Psychology of nationality and internationalism. Pillsbury, W. B. (Ag
’20)
Psychology of nations. Partridge, G: E. (My ’20)
Psychology of social reconstruction. Patrick, G: T: W. (D ’20)
=Public health=
Hill, H. W. Sanitation for public health nurses. (F ’21)
Newsholme, A. Public health and insurance. (Ja ’21)
Public health and insurance. Newsholme, A. (Ja ’21)
=Public opinion=
Lippmann, W. Liberty and the news. (Ap ’20)
Public school orchestras and bands. Woods, G. H. (Je ’20)
=Public speaking=
Burton, A. Public speaking made easy. (N ’20)
Donnelly, F. P. Art of interesting. (N ’20)
Kleiser, G. Pocket guides to public speaking. (My ’20)
Stratton, C. Public speaking. (O ’20)
=Publicity=
Routzahn, M. B. Traveling publicity campaigns. (F ’21)
=Pumpelly, Raphael. 1837–=
Pumpelly, R. Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly. (F ’21)
=Puppet-plays=
Joseph, H. H. Book of marionettes. (Jl ’20)
Puritan and pagan. Corbett, E. F. (Ja ’21)
=Puritans=
Flynn, J: S. Influence of Puritanism on the political and
religious thought of the English. (F ’21)
Purple heights. Oemler, M. (N ’20)
Pussyfoot Johnson. McKenzie, F: A. (O ’20)
Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling. Collins, A. F: and V. D.
(Je ’20)
=Pyeshkoff, Alexei Maximovich.= See Gorki, M., pseud.
=Q.=, pseud. See Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T:
Quaker singer’s recollections. Bispham, D: S. (Ap ’20)
=Quakerism=
Graham, J: W: Faith of a Quaker. (D ’20)
=Quarries and quarrying=
Howe, J. A. Stones and quarries. (Ja ’21)
“Queen Lucia.” Benson, E: F: (S ’20)
Quest of the Indies. Dark, R: (D ’20)
Quirt. Bower, B. M., pseud. (Jl ’20)
=Rabbits=
Sherlock, C. C. Care and management of rabbits. (O ’20)
Race and nationality. Oakesmith, J: (Mr ’20)
=Race problems=
Stoddard, L. Rising tide of color against white world-supremacy.
(Jl ’20)
Rachel comforted. Maturin, E. (D ’20)
Rachel Fitzpatrick. Poore, I. M. (S ’20)
=Radford, William, 1809–1890=
Meissner, S. de. Old naval days. (Ja ’21)
Ragged inlet guards. Wallace, D. (Mr ’20)
Railroad builders. Moody, J: (D ’20)
=Railroads=
=United States=
Bradley, G. D. Story of the Santa Fe. (Jl ’20)
Dozier, H. D. History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. (Je
’20)
Moody, J: Railroad builders. (D ’20)
Rain before seven. Leadbitter, E. (Jl ’20)
Rainbow gold. Evison, M. (N ’20)
Rapids. Sullivan, A. (S ’20)
Raspberry jam. Wells, C. (Ap ’20)
Rather like.... Castier, J. (Ag ’20)
Raymond Robins’ own story. Hard, W: (Mr ’20)
=Readers=
Pritchard, M. T:, and Ovington M. W., comps. Upward path. (O ’20)
=Readers, Geographical=
Babson, R. W. Central American journey. (My ’20)
=Readers, Supplementary=
Fairbanks, H. W. Conservation reader. (Jl ’20)
Readings in the history of education. Cubberley, E. P. (F ’21)
Real democracy in operation. Bonjour, F. (Jl ’20)
Real diary of the worst farmer. Shute, H: A: (Je ’20)
=Realism=
McDowall, A. S. Realism. (D ’20)
Realities of war. Eng title of Now it can be told. Gibbs, P. H. (My
’20)
Reasonable revolution. Pickard, B. (My ’20)
Rebels. Ganz, M., and Ferber, N. J. (Ap ’20)
Rebirth of Korea. Cynn, H. H. (Ja ’21)
Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. Hillis, N.
D. (Jl ’20)
Recent developments in European thought. Marvin, F. S., ed. (D ’20)
=Recollections=
Aldrich, L. Crowding memories. (N ’20)
Allison, W: My kingdom for a horse! (D ’20)
Armstrong, M. Day before yesterday. (S ’20)
Asquith, M. Margot Asquith, an autobiography. (D ’20)
Aston, G: G. Memories of a marine. (D ’20)
Bispham, D: S. Quaker singer’s recollections. (Ap ’20)
Bliss, D. Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss. (D ’20)
Clark, C. My quarter century of American politics. (Ap ’20)
Fortescue, S. J: Looking back. (D ’20)
Hamilton, F: S. Vanished pomps of yesterday. (Jl ’20)
Huneker, J. G. Steeplejack. (N ’20)
Jonescu, T. Some personal impressions. (Mr ’20)
Livermore, T: L. Days and events. (Mr ’20)
Lucy, H: W: Diary of a Journalist. (F ’21)
Mackenzie, J. K. Story of a fortunate youth. (F ’21)
Mallock, W: H. Memoirs of life and literature. (O ’20)
Massenet, J. E. F. My recollections. (My ’20)
Meissner, S. de. Old naval days. (Ja ’21)
Millais, J: G. Sportsman’s wanderings. (Mr ’20)
Money, W. B. Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. (O ’20)
Nekliudov, A. V. Diplomatic reminiscences before and during the
world war, 1911–1917. (F ’21)
Peel, G. A. Recollections. (S ’20)
Ritchie, A. I. From friend to friend. (Je ’20)
Scott, P. M. Fifty years in the royal navy. (Ap ’20)
Sully, J. My life and friends. (Ja ’21)
=Reconstruction (European war)=
Bass, J: F. Peace tangle. (D ’20)
Dilnot, F. England after the war. (N ’20)
Hillis, N. D. Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide
bolshevism. (Jl ’20)
Hobson, J: A. Morals of economic internationalism. (Ja ’21)
Zilboorg, G. Passing of the old order in Europe. (D ’20)
=United States=
Crowder, E. H. Spirit of selective service. (My ’20)
Fenwick, C: G. Political systems in transition. (D ’20)
Reconstruction in philosophy. Dewey, J: (N ’20)
=Recreation=
Grey, E; G. Recreation. (My ’20)
Recreations of a psychologist. Hall, G. S. (Ja ’21)
Red belts. Pendexter, H. (Mr ’20)
=Red cross=
Bakewell, C: M. Story of the American Red cross in Italy. (D ’20)
Fife. G: B. Passing legions. (Ja ’21)
Hungerford, E: With the doughboy in France. (F ’21)
Red lady. Burt, K. (Je ’20)
Red seal. Lincoln, N. S. (Je ’20)
Red terror and green. Dawson, R: (Je ’20)
Reddy Brant. Tuttle, W. C. (O ’20)
=Redmond, John, 1851–1918=
Gwynn, S. L. John Redmond’s last years. (Ap ’20)
Refugee rock. Holland, R. S. (N ’20)
Reign of Patti. Klein, H. (N ’20)
Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. Meigs, W: M. (O ’20)
=Relativity (physics)=
Einstein, A. Relativity. (N ’20)
Freundlich, E. Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation. (F
’21)
Harrow, B: From Newton to Einstein. (Jl ’20)
Lorentz, H. A. Einstein theory of relativity. (D ’20)
Slosson, E. E. Easy lessons in Einstein. (Je ’20)
Release of the soul. Cannan, G. (Ag ’20)
=Religion=
Dodwell, C. E. W. Righteousness versus religion. (D ’20)
Dole, C: F. Religion for the new day. (F ’21)
Pratt, J. B. Religious consciousness. (D ’20)
Schleiter, F: Religion and culture. (Ag ’20)
Walsh, J. J. Religion and health. (F ’21)
Webb, C. C: J. Divine personality and human life. (N ’20)
=History=
Cooke, G: W. Social evolution of religion. (S ’20)
Religion among American men. Committee on the war and the religious
outlook. (Je ’20)
Religion and health. Walsh, J. J. (F ’21)
Religion and the new psychology. Swisher, W. S: (D ’20)
Religion for the new day. Dole, C: F. (F ’21)
Religion of the spirit world. Henslow, G: (N ’20)
=Religions=
Carpenter, E: Pagan & Christian creeds. (Ap ’20)
Religious consciousness. Pratt, J. B. (D ’20)
=Religious education=
Athearn, W. S. National system of education. (Jl ’20)
Blachly, C. D. Treatment of the problem of capital and labor in
social-study courses in the churches. (D ’20)
Graves, F. P. What did Jesus teach? (Je ’20)
Grossmann, L: Aims of teaching in Jewish schools. (Ap ’20)
Weigle, L. A. Talks to Sunday-school teachers. (D ’20)
Remedy against sin. Eng title of For better, for worse. Maxwell, W:
B. (N ’20)
Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss. Bliss, D. (D ’20)
Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Gorki, M., pseud. (F ’21)
Report on the steel strike of 1919. Interchurch world movement.
Commission of inquiry. (O ’20)
Repressed emotions. Coriat, I. H: (F ’21)
Republic of Liberia. Maugham, R. C: F. (Jl ’20)
Reputations. Goldring, D. (O ’20)
Resale price maintenance. Murchison, C. T. (My ’20)
Rescue. Conrad, J. (Je ’20)
=Research=
Hopkins, N. M. Outlook for research and invention. (Mr ’20)
Responsibilities of the league. Percy, E. S. C. (Jl ’20)
Responsibility. Agate, J. E. (Je ’20)
Retail organization and accounting control. Carthage, P. I. (Ja ’21)
=Retail trade=
Carthage, P. I. Retail organization and accounting control. (Ja
’21)
Returned empty. Barclay, F. L. (N ’20)
Revelations of Louise. Crockett, A. S. (N ’20)
Revels of Orsera. Ross, R. (F ’21)
=Revere, Paul, 1735–1818=
Dyer, W. A. Sons of liberty. (Ja ’21)
Revolt. MacMasters, W: H: (Jl ’20)
Revolt of labour against civilization. Reade, W: H: V. (Je ’20)
Rhymes of a child’s world. Potter, M. C. (N ’20)
Rhymes of a homesteader. Lincoln, E. C. (My ’20)
Richard Chatterton, V. C. Ayres, R. M. (Jl ’20)
Richard Kurt. Hudson, S. (Jl ’20)
Rick and Ruddy. Garis, H. R. (O ’20)
Riddle of the frozen flame. Hanshew, M. E. and T: W. (Jl ’20)
=Rifles=
Caswell, J: Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. (S ’20)
Right Royal. Masefield, J: (F ’21)
Righteousness versus religion. Dodwell, C. E. W. (D ’20)
Ring-necked grizzly. Miller, W. H. (O ’20)
Rip Van Winkle. MacKaye, P. W. (Mr ’20)
Rise of South Africa. Cory, G: E: (Mr ’20)
Rising above the ruins in France. Smith, C. H., and Hill, C. R. (S
’20)
Rising tide of color against white world-supremacy. Stoddard, T. L.
(Jl ’20)
=Rita=, pseud. See Humphreys, D. H.
River prophet. Spears, R. S. (Ag ’20)
=Riviera=
Gibbons, H. A. Riviera towns. (Ja ’21)
Riviera towns. Gibbons, H. A. (Ja ’21)
Road to En-Dor. Jones, E. H: (Je ’20)
Road to unity among the Christian churches. Eliot, C: W: (My ’20)
=Roads=
Boulnois, H: P. Modern roads. (D ’20)
=New England=
Wood, F: J. Turnpikes of New England. (D ’20)
Roads to childhood. Moore, A. C. (D ’20)
Roamer, and other poems. Woodberry, G: E: (Je ’20)
Roaming through the West Indies. Franck, H. A. (N ’20)
Roaring road. Morgan, B. (Ag ’20)
=Robert II, duke of Normandy, 1054?–1134=
David, C: W. Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. (F ’21)
Robin Linnet. Benson, E: F: (Mr ’20)
=Robinson, John, 1575–1625=
Burgess, W. H. Pastor of the Pilgrims. (O ’20)
=Rochechouart, Louis Victor Leon, comte de, 1788–1858=
Rochechouart, L: V: L. Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart. (F
’21)
=Rocky mountains=
Mills, E. A. Adventures of a nature guide. (Mr ’20)
Rolling stone. Scott, C. A. Dawson-. (Mr ’20)
Roman essays and interpretations. Fowler, W: W. (Je ’20)
Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. Tussaud, J: T. (D ’20)
Romance of modern commerce. Newland, H. O. (N ’20)
Romances of old Japan. Ozaki, Y. T. (Mr ’20)
=Romanov, House of=
Telberg, G: G., and Wilton, R. Last days of the Romanovs. (F ’21)
Romantic. Sinclair, M. (D ’20)
Romantic woman. Borden, T. M. (My ’20)
=Rome=
=History=
Frank, T. Economic history of Rome to the end of the republic.
(F ’21)
Ronald o’ the moors. Locke, G. E. (O ’20)
=Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858–1919=
Anderson, R. G. Leader of men. (Je ’20)
Bishop, J. B. Theodore Roosevelt and his time shown in his own
letters. (N ’20)
Farriss, C: S. American soul. (F ’21)
Iglehart, F. C. Theodore Roosevelt. (Mr ’20)
Leary, J: J., jr. Talks with T. R. (Je ’20)
Pearson, E. L. Theodore Roosevelt. (O ’20)
Roosevelt, K. Happy hunting grounds. (D ’20)
Rose dawn. White, S. E: (D ’20)
Rose o’ the sea. Barcynska, H. (N ’20)
Rose of Jericho. Boucicault, R. B. (My ’20)
Rosemary Greenaway. Gray, J. (S ’20)
=Royal African company of England=
Zook, G: F: Company of royal adventurers trading into Africa. (O
’20)
=Royal houses=
Radziwill, C. Secrets of dethroned royalty. (S ’20)
=Ruck, Berta.= See Onions, B. R.
Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination. De la Mare, W. J:
(My ’20)
Rural community. Sims, N. L., ed. (F ’21)
=Rural schools=
Finney, R. L., and Schafer, A. L. Administration of village and
consolidated schools. (Ag ’20)
Rapeer, L: W., ed. Consolidated rural schools. (D ’20)
Showalter, N. D: Handbook for rural school officers. (Jl ’20)
=Russia=
Spargo, J: Russia as an American problem. (Mr ’20)
=Description and travel=
Lansbury, G: What I saw in Russia. (D ’20)
=Economic conditions=
Davis, M. W. Open gates to Russia. (Mr ’20)
Russell, B. A. W: Bolshevism. (Ja ’21)
=Foreign relations=
_Germany_
Levine, I: D. Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. (O ’20)
_United States_
Cumming, C. K., and Pettit, W. W:, comps. and eds.
Russian-American relations, March, 1917–March, 1920. (Jl
’20)
=History=
_Revolution_
Antonelli, E. Bolshevik Russia. (Mr ’20)
Bullard, A. Russian pendulum. (Ag ’20)
Cantacuzène, Princess. Russian people. (Ag ’20)
Clark, E. Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. (D ’20)
Crosley, P. S. Intimate letters from Petrograd. (F ’21)
Hard, W: Raymond Robins’ own story. (Mr ’20)
Hindus, M. G. Russian peasant and the revolution. (S ’20)
Kalpaschnikoff, A. Prisoner of Trotsky’s. (Ag ’20)
McBride, I: Barbarous soviet Russia. (S ’20)
Malone, C. I. Russian republic. (My ’20)
Pollock, J: Bolshevik adventure. (F ’21)
Power, R. Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. (Ap ’20)
Sayler, O. M. Russia white or red. (Ag ’20)
Spargo, J: “Greatest failure in all history.” (S ’20)
Walling. W: E. Sovietism. (S ’20)
Williams, A. T. From liberty to Brest-Litovsk. (Je ’20)
Zilboorg, G. Passing of the old order in Europe. (D ’20)
=Intervention by allies=
Albertson, R. Fighting without a war. (Ap ’20)
=Literature=
Olgin, M. J. Guide to Russian literature. (Je ’20)
=Social conditions=
Hindus, M. G. Russian peasant and the revolution. (S ’20)
Russia as an American problem. Spargo, J: (Mr ’20)
Russian-American relations, March, 1917–March, 1920. Cumming, C. K.,
and Pettit, W. W:, comps. and eds. (Jl ’20)
=Russian drama=
Sayler, O. M. Russian theatre under the revolution. (Mr ’20)
=Russian fiction=
=Collections=
Ragosin, Z. A., comp. Little Russian masterpieces. (D ’20)
Russian peasant and the revolution. Hindus, M. G. (S ’20)
Russian pendulum. Bullard, A. (Ag ’20)
Russian people. Cantacuzène, Princess. (Ag ’20)
Russian republic. Malone, C. L. (My ’20)
Russian theatre under the revolution. Sayler, O. M. (Mr ’20)
=Rygler-Nalkowska, Sofja.= See Nalkowska, S. Rygler-.
=Sacraments=
Cram, R. A. Gold, frankincense and myrrh. (D ’20)
Sacred and profane lore. Bennett, A. (Mr ’20)
Sailing the seas. Baldwin, J., and Livengood, W: W. (F ’21)
Sailor girl. Moore, F: F. (My ’20)
St John of Honeylea. Whitham, G. I. (Je ’20)
St Luke, the man and his work. McLachlan, H. (S ’20)
=St Nicholas (periodical)=
Guthrie, A. L., comp. Index to St Nicholas. (Ap ’20)
=Saints=
Hall, G. Stories of the saints. (My ’20)
Webling, P. Saints and their stories. (N ’20)
=Salesmen and salesmanship=
Ivey, P. W. Elements of retail salesmanship. (Jl ’20)
Salonica side-show. Seligman, V. J. (D ’20)
=Salvation army=
Begbie, H. Life of William Booth. (My ’20)
Samuel Lyle, criminologist. Crabb, A., pseud. (N ’20)
San Cristóbal de la Habana. Hergesheimer, J. (Ja ’21)
Sandman’s rainy day stories. Walker, A. (O ’20)
Sandman’s stories of Drusilla doll. Walker, A. (O ’20)
=Sandwich, Edward George Henry Montagu, eighth earl of, 1839–1916=
Sandwich, E: G: H: M. Memoirs of Edward, eighth earl of Sandwich.
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=Sanitation=
Hill, H. W. Sanitation for public health nurses. (F ’21)
Sanitation for public health nurses. Hill, H. W. (F ’21)
Sanity in sex. Fielding, W: J: (Jl ’20)
Sapper Dorothy Lawrence. Lawrence, D. (My ’20)
Sarah and her daughter. Pearl, B. (Jl ’20)
Satan the waster. Lee, V., pseud. (O ’20)
Satan’s diary. Andreieff, L. N. (D ’20)
=Satire=
Mencken, H: L: Book of burlesques. (Mr ’20)
Satire in the Victorian novel. Russell, F. T. (Je ’20)
Scepticisms. Aiken, C. P. (Ag ’20)
=School administration=
Craddock, E. A. Class-room republic. (D ’20)
Hanus, P. H. School administration and school reports. (S ’20)
=School finance=
Burgess, W. R. Trends of school costs. (Ja ’21)
School of sympathy. Arnold. J. B. (D ’20)
=School reports=
Hanus, P. H. School administration and school reports. (S ’20)
Schooling of the immigrant. Thompson, F. V: (N ’20)
Schoolmaster of Hessville. Martin. H. R. (N ’20)
=Schools=
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Sechrist, F. K. Education and the general welfare. (N ’20)
=Schools, Continuation=
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Adams, H: Degradation of the democratic dogma. (Ap ’20)
Coleridge, S. Idolatry of science. (F ’21)
Dooley, W: H: Applied science for metal workers. (Mr ’20)
Dooley, W: H: Applied science for woodworkers. (Mr ’20)
Elliot, H. S: R. Modern science and materialism. (Mr ’20)
Lankester, E. R. Secrets of earth and sea. (Ja ’21)
Soddy, F: Science and life. (D ’20)
Veblen, T. B. Place of science in modern civilization, and other
essays. (My ’20)
Washburne, C. W. Common science. (O ’20)
Yerkes, R. M., ed. New world of science. (D ’20)
Science and morals. Windle, B. C. A. (D ’20)
Science and war. Moulton, J: F. M. (Ap ’20)
Scientific spirit and social work. Todd, A. J. (My ’20)
Scotch twins. Perkins, L. (My ’20)
=Scotland=
=Social life and customs=
Hunter, G: M. When I was a boy in Scotland. (Jl ’20)
Scoutmastership. Baden-Powell, R. S. S. (S ’20)
Scouts’ book of heroes. Dimmock, F. H., ed. (F ’21)
Scrambled eggs. Mackall, L. (D ’20)
=Sculpture=
Van Dieren, B. Epstein. (F ’21)
Sea fisheries. Jenkins, J. T. (F ’21)
=Sea power=
Stevens, W: O., and Westcott, A. F. History of sea power. (Ja ’21)
Sea power in American history. Krafft, H., F:, and Norris, W. B. (F
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Seaborne trade. Fayle, C: E. (F ’21)
Searchers. Foster, J: (Ag ’20)
Second latchkey. Williamson, C: N. and A. M. (Je ’20)
Secret battle. Herbert, A. P. (Mr ’20)
Secret corps. Tuohy, F. (F ’21)
Secret of everyday things. Fabre, J. H. C. (N ’20)
Secret of Sarek. Leblanc, M. (Je ’20)
Secret of the sea. Allison, W: (Ap ’20)
Secret of the silver car. Martyn, W. (Je ’20)
Secret spring. Benoit. P. (Je ’20)
Secret springs. O’Higgins, H. J. (D ’20)
Secrets of Crewe house. Stuart, C. (F ’21)
Secrets of dethroned royalty. Radziwill, C. (S ’20)
Secrets of earth and sea. Lankester, E. R. (Ja ’21)
Seeing the Far West. Faris, J: T. (D ’20)
Seeing the West. Dumbell, K. E. M. (O ’20)
Seen on the stage. Hamilton, C. M. (Ja ’21)
=Seine river=
Dodd, A. B. Up the Seine to the battlefields. (Je ’20)
Selected articles on modern industrial movements. Bloomfield, D.,
comp. (Ag ’20)
Selected articles on national defense. Johnsen, J. E., comp. (F ’21)
Selected articles on problems of labor. Bloomfield, D., comp, and
ed. (Ap ’20)
Selected articles on the American merchant marine. Phelps, E. M.,
comp. (Mr ’20)
Selected articles on the compulsory arbitration and compulsory
investigation of industrial disputes. Beman, L. T., comp. (N ’20)
Selected articles on the employment of women. Bullock, E. D., comp.
(Mr ’20)
Selected poems. Sackville, M. (N ’20)
Selections. Swinburne, A. C: (D ’20)
Self-health as a habit. Miles, E. H. (D ’20)
Self-help in piano study. Brower, H. M. (F ’21)
Self-training. Hunt, H. E. (Je ’20)
Selling your services. Gunion, P. C. (Je ’20)
=Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, c 4. B.C.-A.D. 65=
Holland, F. C. Seneca. (Jl ’20)
September. Swinnerton, F. A. (Mr ’20)
=Serbia=
=Social life and customs=
Davies, E. C. Boy in Serbia. (O ’20)
=Serbian poetry=
Kossovo: heroic songs of the Serbs. (Ag ’20)
=Sermons=
Banks, L: A. Winds of God. (F ’21)
Newton chapel. Newton theological institution. (Jl ’20)
Service of love in war time. Jones, R. (N ’20)
Seven men. Beerbohm, M. (D ’20)
Seven o’clock stories. Anderson, R. G. (Ja ’21)
Seven wives of Bluebeard. France, A., pseud. (F ’21)
Seventeenth century. Boulenger, J. (Ag ’20)
=Severn river=
Bradley, A. G. Book of the Severn. (N ’20)
=Sex=
Fielding, W: J: Sanity In sex. (Jl ’20)
Galbraith, A. M. Family and the new democracy. (Mr ’10)
Lay, W. Man’s unconscious passion. (F ’21)
Sex-education of children. Forbush, W: B. (Ap ’20)
=Sex hygiene=
Gallichan, W. M. Letters to a young man on love and health. (O
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=Sex Instruction=
Blanchard, P. M. Adolescent girl. (Ag ’20)
Forbush, W: B. Sex-education of children. (Ap ’20)
March, N. H. Towards racial health. (Ap ’20)
Shadow. Ovington, M. W. (Ap ’20)
Shadow-shapes. Sergeant, E. S. (Ja ’21)
Shadow-show. Curle, J. H. (Jl ’20)
=Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616=
Furness, H. H. Gloss of youth. (N ’20)
Odell, G: C. D. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. (Ja ’21)
=Authorship=
Looney, J. T: “Shakespeare” identified. (Jl ’20)
=Criticism and Interpretation=
Stoll, E. E. Hamlet. (Je ’20)
Shakespeare for community players. Mitchell, R. (Jl ’20)
Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. Odell, G: C. D. (Ja ’21)
“Shakespeare” identified. Looney, J. T: (Jl ’20)
She who was Helena Cass. Rising, L. (N ’20)
Sheepskins and grey russet. Thurston, E. T. (Je ’20)
Sheila and others. Cotter, W. (Ja ’21)
Sheila intervenes. McKenna, S. (Ap ’20)
=Shell-shock.= See Shock
Shepherd of the sea. Leverage, H: (Mr ’20)
Shining fields and dark towers. Bunker, J: J. L. (Mr ’20)
Ship “Tyre.” Schoff, W. H. (F ’21)
=Shipping=
Annin, R. E. Ocean shipping. (Ag ’20)
Huebner, G. G. T. Ocean steamship traffic management. (Ag ’20)
Ships across the sea. Paine, R. D. (Je ’20)
Ships’ boats. Blocksidge, E. W. (D ’20)
=Shock=
Southard, E. E. Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems.
(S ’20)
Shoemaker’s apron. Fillmore, P. H. (N ’20)
=Shooting=
Caswell, J: Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. (S ’20)
Short and sweet. Gittins, H. N. (S ’20)
Short history of Belgium. Essen, L. van der. (Ap ’20)
Short history of the American labor movement. Beard, M. (Je ’20)
Short history of the great war. McPherson, W: L (Je ’20)
Short history of the great war. Pollard, A. F: (Jl ’20)
Short history of the Italian people. Trevelyan, J. P. (Je ’20)
Short life of Mark Twain. Paine, A. B. (D ’20)
=Short stories=
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=Siberia=
Moore, F: F. Siberia today. (My ’20)
=Sicily=
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Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence.
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Some British ballads. (F ’21)
Some diversions of a man of letters. Gosse, E. W: (Ap ’20)
Some letters. Gardner, A: P. (My ’20)
Some of us are married. Cutting M. S. (Ag ’20)
Some personal impressions. Jonescu, T. (Mr ’20)
Some problems of the Peace conference. Haskins, C: H., and Lord, R.
H. (O ’20)
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Some war-time lessons. Keppel, F: P. (My ’20)
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=Sommerville, Frankfort=, pseud. See Story, A. M. S.
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Son of power. Comfort, W. L., and Dost, Z. K. (D ’20)
Song book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. Burke, T: (F ’21)
Songs and dreams. Raskin, P. M. (O ’20)
Songs and portraits. Burt, M. S. (O ’20)
Songs from the journey. Barrett, W. A. (Je ’20)
Songs in cities and gardens. Barker, H. G. (Mr ’20)
Songs in the common chord. Barr, A. E. (Ap ’20)
Songs of dogs. Frothingham, R., comp. (N ’20)
Songs of horses. Frothingham, R., comp. (N ’20)
Songs of seeking and finding. Van Dyke, T. (D ’20)
Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp. Lomax, J: A., comp. (My ’20)
Songs of the dead. Napier, M. (D ’20)
Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the newer Ireland.
Millen, W: A. (Jl ’20)
Songs of the trail. Knibbs, H: H. (D ’20)
Sonnets from a prison camp. Bowman, A. A. (Je ’20)
Sons of liberty. Dyer, W. A. (Ja ’21)
Sophie, Moeller, P. (My ’20)
=Sorley, Charles Hamilton, 1895–1915=
Sorley, C: H. Letters. (Je ’20)
Sorrows of Noma. Mapu, A. (Ap ’20)
Soul of Abraham Lincoln. Barton, W: B. (Ap ’20)
Soul of Ireland. Lockington, W. J. (My ’20)
Soul of John Brown. Graham, S. (Ja ’21)
Souls divided. Serao, M. (My ’20)
=South=
Thompson, H. New South. (D ’20)
=Industries and resources=
Tompkins, D. A. Builder of the new South. (Ja ’21)
South. Shackleton, E. H: (Ap ’20)
=South Africa=
Cory, G: E: Rise of South Africa. (Mr ’20)
=Description and travel=
Cornell, F. C. Glamour of prospecting. (F ’21)
=South America=
Domville-Fife, C: W: States of South America. (F ’21)
Koebel, W: H: Great South land. (Ap ’20)
=Description and travel=
Sherwood, F. A. Glimpses of South America. (D ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Bland, J: O. P. Men, manners and morals in South America. (Ag
’20)
South of Suez. Anderson, W: A. (O ’20)
South sea foam. Safroni-Middleton, A. (Je ’20)
=South sea Islands=
MacQuarrie, H. Tahiti days. (D ’20)
=Southwest=
Munk, J. A. Southwest sketches. (F ’21)
Southwest sketches. Munk, J. A. (F ’21)
Sovietism. Walling, W: E. (S ’20)
=Space=
Browne, R. T. Mystery of space. (Mr ’20)
Spacious times and others. Coutts, F. B. T: M.- (Je ’20)
=Spanish America=
Enock, C. R. Spanish America. (D ’20)
=Spanish-American literature=
Goldberg, I: Studies in Spanish-American literature. (My ’20)
=Spanish literature=
Farnell, I. Spanish prose and poetry. (F ’21)
Spence, L: Legends and romances of Spain. (D ’20)
=Spanish poetry=
Walsh, T:, ed. Hispanic anthology. (D ’20)
Spanish prose and poetry. Farnell, I. (F ’21)
=Special days=
Herrick, C. A. Outstanding days. (Ag ’20)
Spell of Brittany. Mosher, A. (Ja ’21)
Spendthrift town. Hudson, H:, 2d, pseud. (D ’20)
=Spies=
Barton, Q: Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war.
(Mr ’20)
Spirit. Streeter, B. H., ed. (Jl ’20)
Spirit of selective service. Crowder, E. H. (My ’20)
Spiritism. Coakley, T: F. (D ’20)
Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. Richardson, C. A. (D ’20)
=Spiritualism=
Bamber, L. K. Claude’s second book. (O ’20)
Bazett, L. M. After-death communications. (N ’20)
Carrington, H. Your psychic powers and how to develop them. (My
’20)
Chevreuil, L. Proofs of the spirit world. (S ’20)
Coakley, T: F. Spiritism. (D ’20)
Crockett, A. S. Revelations of Louise. (N ’20)
Dearmer, N. Fellowship of the picture. (D ’20)
De Koven, A. Cloud of witnesses. (Ag ’20)
Henslow, G: Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. (Mr ’20)
Henslow, G: Religion of the spirit world. (N ’20)
Humphreys, E. M. J. Truth of spiritualism. (Ag ’20)
Jones, E. H: Road to En-Dor. (Je ’20)
Kernahan, C. Spiritualism. (Je ’20)
Lane, A., and Beale, H. S. Life in the circles. (F ’21)
Lane, A., and Beale, H. S. To walk with God. (F ’21)
McEvilly, M. A. Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. (Jl ’20)
Maturin, E. Rachel comforted. (D ’20)
O’Donnell, E. Menace of spiritualism. (Je ’20)
Our unseen guest. (Ap ’20)
Schofield, A. T. Modern spiritism. (Je ’20)
Sewell, M. Neither dead nor sleeping. (S ’20)
Stoddart, J. T. Case against spiritualism. (D ’20)
Tweedale, V. Ghosts I have seen. (Ap ’20)
Unseen doctor. (O ’20)
Williams, G. Fear not the crossing. (Ap ’20)
=Spitsbergen=
Brown, R. N. R. Spitsbergen. (Mr ’20)
Splendid outcast. Gibbs, G: F. (Ap ’20)
Splendid wayfaring. Neihardt, J: G. (F ’21)
Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. Caswell, J: (S ’20)
Sportsman’s wanderings. Millais, J: G. (Mr ’20)
Spring walk in Provence. Marshall, A. (N ’20)
Squadroon. Beaman, A. A. H. (N ’20)
Stabilizing the dollar. Fisher, I. (My ’20)
Stafford’s Island. Olmstead, F. (Je ’20)
Staircase of stories. Chisholm, L., and Steedman, A., comps. (My
’20)
Stamp collector. Johnson, S. C. (My ’20)
Standard electrical dictionary. Sloane, T: O. (S ’20)
Standard operaglass. Annesley, C:, pseud. (Je ’20)
Standard practice in personnel work. Benge, E. J. (Ja ’21)
Stars in the pool. Wallace, E. K. (F ’21)
Starved Rock. Masters, E. L. (Ag ’20)
=State, The=
Duguit, L. Law in the modern state. (Jl ’20)
=State rights=
Scott, J. B., ed. Judicial settlement of controversies between
states of the American union. (Jl ’20)
States of South America. Domville-Fife, C: W: (F ’21)
=Statistics=
Frederick, J. G: Business research and statistics. (N ’20)
Statistics in business. Secrist, H. (D ’20)
=Steel construction=
Beck, E. G: Structural steelwork. (D ’20)
=Steel industry and trade=
Vorse, M. M. Men and steel. (F ’21)
Steel preferred. Hall, H. S. (N ’20)
=Steel strike, 1919=
Foster, W: Z. Great steel strike and its lessons. (O ’20)
Interchurch world movement. Commission of inquiry. Report on the
steel strike of 1919. (O ’20)
Vorse, M. M. Men and steel. (F ’21)
Steeplejack. Huneker, J. G. (N ’20)
=Stenographers=
Mason, W. L. How to become an office stenographer. (Ap ’20)
Stephen A. Douglas. Howland, L: (Ja ’21)
Steps in the development of American democracy. McLaughlin, A. C. (F
’21)
=Stevenson, Fanny (Van De Grift) Osbourne (Mrs Robert Louis
Stevenson) d. 1914=
Sanchez, N. Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. (My ’20)
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, 1850–1894=
Brown, G: E: Book of R. L. S. (Ap ’20)
Fletcher, C: B. Stevenson’s Germany. (S ’20)
Stevenson’s Germany. Fletcher, C: B. (S ’20)
=Stirling, Arthur=, pseud. See Sinclair, U. B.
=Stone=
Howe, J. A. Stones and quarries. (Ja ’21)
Stones and quarries. Howe, J. A. (Ja ’21)
Stories for good children. Peck. L. B. (F ’21)
Stories for talks to boys. Cheley, F. H. (Ap ’20)
Stories of Irish life. Carleton, W: (Mr ’20)
Stories of the saints. Hall, G. (My ’20)
Storm country Polly. White, G. (Jl ’20)
Storms of youth. Roseboro’, V. (Je ’20)
Story of a fortunate youth. Mackenzie, J. K. (F ’21)
Story of a New Zealand river. Mander, J. (My ’20)
Story of a style. Hale, W: B. (D ’20)
Story of Dr Dolittle. Lofting, H. (Ja ’21)
Story of George Fox. Jones, R. M. (My ’20)
Story of Gotton Connixloo. Mayran, C. (Ja ’21)
Story of Jack. Lytle, J: H. (F ’21)
Story of Jesus. Dana, E. N. (N ’20)
Story of modern progress. West, W. M. (Jl ’20)
Story of Opal. Whiteley, O. (O ’20)
Story of the American Red cross in Italy. Bakewell, C: M. (D ’20)
Story of the engine. Decker, W. F. (N ’20)
Story of the great war. Usher, R. G. (Mr ’20)
Story of the nonpartisan league. Russell, C: E: (Ag ’20)
Story of the Santa Fe. Bradley, G. D. (Jl ’20)
=Story telling=
Chandler, A. C. More magic pictures of the long ago. (My ’20)
Story-telling ballads. Olcott, F. J. (Ja ’21)
Straight deal. Wister, O. (Je ’20)
Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. Tracy, L: (My ’20)
Strangeness of Noel Carton. Caine, W: (O ’20)
Stranger. Bullard, A. (Jl ’20)
Stronger than his sea. Watson, R. (F ’21)
Structural drafting and the design of details. Bishop, C. T: (F ’21)
Structural steelwork. Beck, E. G: (D ’20)
Studies in contemporary metaphysics. Hoernlé, R. F. A. (Ap ’20)
Studies in history and politics. Fisher, H. A. L. (D ’20)
Studies in Spanish-American literature. Goldberg, I: (My ’20)
Studies of contemporary poets. Sturgeon, M. C. (Ja ’21)
Study for the times. McKim, W: D. (Ja ’21)
Study of nations. Tuell, H. E. (Mr ’20)
Study of poetry. Perry, B. (Ag ’20)
Study of the physical vigor of American women. Jacobs, E. E. (F ’21)
Study of the weather. Chapman, E. H. (Je ’20)
=Sturge, Joseph, 1793–1859=
Hobhouse, S. Joseph Sturge. (D ’20)
=Subconsciousness=
Hunt, H. E. Self-training. (Je ’20)
=Submarine warfare=
Domville-Fife, C: W: Submarine warfare of today. (D ’20)
Domville-Fife, C: W: Submarines and sea power. (D ’20)
Submarine warfare of today. Domville-Fife, C: W: (D ’20)
Submarines and sea power. Domville-Fife, C: W: (D ’20)
Substance of a dream. Bain, F. W:, tr. (Ap ’20)
Substitutes for the saloon. Calkins, R., and Peabody, F. G. (Je ’20)
=Success=
Babson, R. W. Fundamentals of prosperity. (F ’21)
Jackson, B. B., and others, comps. Thrift and success. (Mr ’20)
Marden, O. S. You can, but will you? (Jl ’20)
Suffering husbands. Irwin, W. A. (Ag ’20)
=Sully, James, 1842–=
Sully, J. My life and friends. (Ja ’21)
Summons. Mason, A. E: W. (D ’20)
Sun-up. Ridge, L. (F ’21)
Sunbeams, Inc. Street, J. L. (D ’20)
=Sunday schools=
=Teaching=
Schmauk, T. E. How to teach in Sunday-school. (Ag ’20)
Sunny Ducrow. Cooper, H: St J. (My ’20)
Sunshine in Underwood. Champion, J. (Jl ’20)
=Superstition=
Thomas, D. L. and L. B. Kentucky superstitions. (F ’21)
Superstition of divorce. Chesterton, G. K. (Je ’20)
Supervision of instruction. Nutt, H. W. (Jl ’20)
Surprises of life. Clemenceau, G. E. B: (O ’20)
Swatty. Butler, E. P. (Ap ’20)
Sweet Rocket. Johnston, M. (D ’20)
Sweethearts unmet. Onions, B. (Ap ’20)
=Swimming=
Sheffield, L. and N. C. Swimming simplified. (F ’21)
Swimming simplified. Sheffield, L. and N. C. (F ’21)
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909=
Kernahan, C. Swinburne as I knew him. (Je ’20)
=Swine=
Smith, W: W. Pork-production. (S ’20)
Swing of the pendulum. Spadoni, A. (Ap ’20)
Swiss fairy tales. Griffis, W: E. (O ’20)
=Switzerland=
=Politics and government=
Bonjour, F. Real democracy in operation. (Jl ’20)
Sword of the spirit. Humphrey, Z. (F ’21)
=Syria=
McGilvary, M. Dawn of a new era in Syria. (D ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Rihbany, A. M. Hidden treasure of Rasmola. (F ’21)
System of animate nature. Thomson, J: A. (Ja ’21)
Tabular views of universal history. Putnam, G: P., comp. (Ap ’20)
Taft papers on League of nations. Taft, W: H. (Ja ’21)
=Tahiti=
=Description and travel=
MacQuarrie, H. Tahiti days. (D ’20)
Taint in politics. McCabe, J. (O ’20)
Take it from Dad. Livermore, G: G. (F ’21)
Tale that is told. Niven, F: J: (D ’20)
Talent in drawing. Manuel, H. T. (Ap ’20)
Tales of a vanishing river. Reed, E. H. (F ’21)
Tales of enchantment from Spain. Eells, E. S. (N ’20)
Tales of my native town. Annunzio, G. d’. (Ap ’20)
Tales of mystery and horror. Level, M. (O ’20)
Tales of three hemispheres. Dunsany, E: J: M. D. P. (Mr ’20)
Tales of wonder and magic. Pyle, K. (F ’21)
Tales out of court. Hill, F: T. (D ’20)
Tales retailed of celebrities and others. D’Oyly, W. H. (N ’20)
Talking business. Clapp, J: M. (Ag ’20)
Talks to Sunday-school teachers. Weigle, L. A. (D ’20)
Talks to writers. Hearn, L. (D ’20)
Talks with T. R. Leary, J: J., jr. (Je ’20)
Tall villa. Harrison, M. S. (Mr ’20)
Talleyrand maxim. Fletcher, J. S. (Mr ’20)
Tamarisk town. Kaye-Smith, S. (Jl ’20)
Taming of Nan. Holdsworth, E. (Ap ’20)
Tank corps. Williams-Ellis, C. and A. (Ap ’20)
Tankard of ale. Maynard, T., comp. (O ’20)
=Tanks, Military=
Williams-Ellis, C. and A. Tank corps. (Ap ’20)
Tarzan the untamed. Burroughs, E. R. (O ’20)
Tatterdemalion. Galsworthy, J: (My ’20)
Tavern. Eng title of Cape Currey. Juta, R. (S ’20)
Taxation in the new state. Hobson, J: A. (My ’20)
Taxi. Chamberlain, G: A. (Ag ’20)
=Teachers=
=Salaries, pensions, etc.=
Burgess, W. R. Trends of school costs. (Ja ’21)
Studensky, P. Teachers’ pension systems in the United States.
(Mr ’20)
Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. Studensky, P. (Mr
’20)
=Teaching=
Klapper, P., ed. College teaching. (Je ’20)
Nutt, H. W. Supervision of instruction. (Jl ’20)
Parker, S: C. Methods of teaching in high schools. (Jl ’20)
Strayer, G: D., and Engelhardt, N. L: Classroom teacher. (D ’20)
Wright, H: P. Young man and teaching. (Jl ’20)
Teaching home economics. Cooley, A. M., and others. (My ’20)
Teaching manual and industrial arts. Griffith, I. S: (Ag ’20)
Teaching of history. Hasluck, E. L: (F ’21)
Technical writing. Rickard, T: A. (N ’20)
=Teeth=
=Care and hygiene=
Head, J. Everyday mouth hygiene. (Mr ’20)
Temperament. Wyllarde, D. (S ’20)
Tempering. Buck, C: N. (Je ’20)
Tempering. Buck, H. S. (Je ’20)
Ten-foot chain. Abdullah, A., and others. (D ’20)
Ten-minute talks with workers. (O ’20)
Ten plays. Pinski, D: (My ’20)
Tenderfoot bride. Richards, C. E. (F ’21)
=Tennyson, Harold Courtenay, 1896–1916=
Tennyson, H. C. Harold Tennyson, R. N. (D ’20)
Tension. De La Pasture, E. E. M. (D ’20)
Terrible island. Grimshaw, B. E. (D ’20)
Terrier’s tale. Meredith, E. G. (D ’20)
Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. Woodhouse, H: (N ’20)
Textbook of filing. McCord, J. N. (My ’20)
=Textile industry and fabrics=
Beaumont, R. Union textile fabrication. (O ’20)
Davis, W: Hosiery manufacture. (O ’20)
That affair at St Peter’s. Brown, E. A. (Jl ’20)
“That damn Y.” Mayo, K. (Jl ’20)
That girl March. Rainsford, W. H. (F ’21)
That human being, Leonard Wood. Hagedorn, H. (Je ’20)
=Theater=
Hamilton, C. M. Seen on the stage. (Ja ’21)
Mitchell, R. Shakespeare for community players. (Jl ’20)
Sayler, O. M. Russian theatre under the revolution. (Mr ’20)
Their son; The necklace. Zamacoïs, E. (Mr ’20)
Theodore Roosevelt and his time. Bishop, J. B. (N ’20)
=Theology=
Gordon, G: A. Humanism in New England theology. (My ’20)
McAfee, C. B. Christian faith and the new day. (Je ’20)
Rashdall, H. Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Je ’20)
Theology of the Epistles. Kennedy, H. A. A. (F ’21)
There’s no base like home. Witwer, H. C: (Ag ’20)
These things shall be. Lansbury, G: (O ’20)
Things seen in London. Blake, A. H. (D ’20)
Third window. Sedgwick, A. D. (Jl ’20)
32 caliber. McGibeny, D. (F ’21)
This marrying. Banning, M. C. (My ’20)
This side of paradise. Fitzgerald, F. S. K. (Je ’20)
This simian world. Day, C. S., jr. (Ag ’20)
=Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851–1916=
Thompson, J. S. and H. G. Sylvanus Phillips Thompson. (D ’20)
Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after. White, W: A. (Jl
’20)
Thread of flame. King, B. (O ’20)
Three Lancashire plays. Brighouse, H. (O ’20)
Three plays. Leslie, N. (My ’20)
Three plays of the Argentine. Bierstadt, E: H., ed. (Ap ’20)
Three taverns. Robinson, E. A. (N ’20)
=Thrift=
Jackson, B. B., and others, comps. Thrift and success. (Mr ’20)
Straus, S. W: History of the thrift movement in America. (Ap ’20)
Through central Borneo. Lumholtz, K. S. (D ’20)
Thunderbolt. Weaver, G. (Ag ’20)
Tidal wave. Dell, E. M. (Ap ’20)
Tiger in the house. Van Vechten, C. (Ja ’21)
=Timber=
Howard, A. L. Manual of the timbers of the world. (Ja ’21)
Time and eternity. Cannan, G. (My ’20)
Time telling through the ages. Brearley, H. C. (O ’20)
To walk with God. Lane, A., and Beale, H. S. (F ’21)
=Tobacco habit=
Towns, C: B. Habits that handicap. (Mr ’20)
Tobias o’ the light. Cooper, J. A. (Ag ’20)
=Toby, M. P.=, pseud. See Lucy, H: W:
Told in the East. Mundy, T. (F ’21)
=Tolstoi, Leo Nikolaievich, count, 1828–1910=
Gorki, M., pseud. Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. (F
’21)
Tomorrow’s yesterday. Benshimol, E. (N ’20)
=Tompkins, Daniel Augustus, 1851–1914=
Tompkins, D. A. Builder of the new South. (Ja ’21)
Toni, the little wood-carver. Spyri, J. (O ’20)
Top o’ the mornin.’ MacManus, S. (N ’20)
Top of the world. Dell, E. M. (N ’20)
Touch and go. Lawrence, D: H. (Ag ’20)
Tour. Couperus, L: M. A. (Jl ’20)
Tour in Mongolia. Bulstrode, B. (Ja ’21)
Tour of America’s national parks. Reik, H: O. (F ’21)
Tour through Indiana in 1840. Parsons, J: (O ’20)
Towards racial health. March, N. H. (Ap ’20)
Towards reunion. (My ’20)
Towards the dawn. Galway, C. (D ’20)
=Toys=
Kunou, C: A. American school toys and useful novelties in wood.
(My ’20)
Thatcher, E. Making tin can toys. (My ’20)
Track athletics up to date. Clark, E. H. (Ag ’20)
Tractor principles. Whitman, R. B. (F ’21)
=Tractors=
Collins, A. F: Farm and garden tractors. (Ja ’21)
Whitman, R. B. Tractor principles. (F ’21)
=Trade unions=
Budish, J. M., and Soule, G: New unionism in the clothing
industry. (S ’20)
Cole, G: D. H. Introduction to trade unionism. (Mr ’20)
Gompers, S: Labor and the common welfare. (Ap ’20)
Gompers, S: Labor and the employer. (O ’20)
Webb, S. and B. History of trade unionism. (Je ’20)
Traditions of European literature. Wendell, B. (Ja ’21)
Trailin’! Brand, M. (Jl ’20)
Trails to Two Moons. Ritchie, R. W. (D ’20)
Trails to woods and waters. Hawkes, C. (My ’20)
=Translation=
Amos, F. R. Early theories of translation. (D ’20)
=Transportation, Inland=
Hulbert, A. B. Paths of inland commerce. (D ’20)
Transvaal surrounded. Leyds, W. J. (N ’20)
Trap. Foster, M. (O ’20)
=Travel=
Anderson, W: A. South of Suez. (O ’20)
Curle, J. H. Shadow-show. (Jl ’20)
Curle, R: Wanderings. (Ag ’20)
Kipling, R. Letters of travel. (Jl ’20)
Millais, J: G. Sportsman’s wanderings. (Mr ’20)
Travel stories. (O ’20)
Traveling publicity campaigns. Routzahn, M. B. (F ’21)
Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly. Pumpelly, R. (F ’21)
Travels in Philadelphia. Morley, C. D. (My ’20)
Treacherous ground. Bojer, J. (Jl ’20)
Treasure mountain. Turpin, E. (O ’20)
Treasure of the isle of mist. Tarn, W: W. (Jl ’20)
Treasury of English prose. Smith, L. P., ed. (Ap ’20)
Treasury of hero tales. Bryant, A. E., ed. (O ’20)
Treasury of heroes and heroines. Edwards, C. (D ’20)
Treasury of seventeenth century English verse. Massingham, H. J:,
ed. (D ’20)
Treatment of the problem of capital and labor in social-study
courses in the churches. Blachly, C. D. (D ’20)
Treaty-making power. Fleming, W: H: (O ’20)
=Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 1858–1917=
Beerbohm, M., comp. Herbert Beerbohm Tree. (F ’21)
Trends of school costs. Burgess, W. R. (Ja ’21)
Trimmed with red. Irwin, W. A. (Ag ’20)
Triple mystery. Luehrmann, A. (Ag ’20)
Triumph of the N.C.’s. Westervelt, G: C., and others. (Je ’20)
Trout fishing memories and morals. Sheringham, H. T. (N ’20)
Truce of God. Rinehart, M. (F ’21)
True blue. Grattan-Smith, T. E. (N ’20)
True love. Monkhouse, A. N. (S ’20)
Trumpeter swan. Bailey, T. (D ’20)
Truth about Christian science. Snowden, J. H: (Ja ’21)
Truth of spiritualism. Humphreys, E. M. J. (Ag ’20)
=Turkey=
Hubbard, G. E. Day of the crescent. (F ’21)
Turkey Bowman. Croy, H. (N ’20)
Turn about tales. Rice, A. C. and C. Y. (O ’20)
Turn of the tide. Wise, J. C. (My ’20)
Turnpikes of New England. Wood, F: J. (D ’20)
Turnstile of night. Allison, W: (D ’20)
Turquoise Cañon. Dunn, J. A. E. (Ap ’20)
=Tussaud, Mme Marie (Gresholtz), 1760–1850=
Tussaud, J: T. Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. (D ’20)
Tutt and Mr Tutt. Train, A. C. (Je ’20)
$1200 a year. Ferber, E., and Levy, N. (O ’20)
Twentieth century French writers. Duclaux, M. (S ’20)
Twenty drawings. Gibran, K. (Je ’20)
2400 business books and guide to business literature. Morley, L. H.,
and Kight, A. C. (N ’20)
Two Indian children of long ago. Taylor, F. L. (F ’21)
Tyltyl. Teixeira de Mattos, A. L: (N ’20)
Types and breeds of farm animals. Plumb, C: S. (O ’20)
Typhoon’s secret. Sheridan, S. N. (Ap ’20)
=Tyrrell, George, 1861–1909=
Tyrrell, G: George Tyrrell’s letters. (D ’20)
Uncensored letters of a canteen girl. (S ’20)
Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. Montague, M. P. (S ’20)
Unconscious crusader. Williams, S. C. (Je ’20)
Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. Power, R. (Ap ’20)
Under the rose. Johnson, A. (O ’20)
Undergrowth. Young, F. B. and E. B. (Ja ’21)
Underworld. Welsh, J. C. (N ’20)
Uneasy street. Roche, A. S. (Mr ’20)
Unexplored New Guinea. Beaver, W. N. (Mr ’20)
Unfinished program of democracy. Roberts, R: (S ’20)
Union textile fabrication. Beaumont, R. (O)
=United States=
=Aeronautics, Military=
Knappen, T. M. Wings of war. (D ’20)
=Army=
Carter, A. H., and Arnold, A. V. Field artillery instruction.
(Ag ’20)
Crowder, E. H. Spirit of selective service. (My ’20)
Crozier, W: Ordnance and the world war. (Jl ’20)
McCormick, R. R. Army of 1918. (D ’20)
Parsons, W: B. American engineers in France. (D ’20)
_Expeditionary force_
Chase, J. C. Soldiers all. (My ’20)
Noyes, F. N. My A. E. F. (Ag ’20)
Skillman, W. R., A. E. F. (Je ’20)
Taylor, E. G. New England in France, 1917–1919. (D ’20)
Thomas, S. History of the A. E. F. (D ’20)
=Biography=
Husband, J., Americans by adoption. (Jl ’20)
Wildman, E. Famous leaders of industry. (My ’20)
=Church history=
Maxson, C: H. Great awakening in the middle colonies. (D ’20)
=Commerce=
Ford, L. C., and Ford, T: F. Foreign trade of the United States.
(Ja ’21)
=Commerce (Inland)=
Hulbert, A. B. Paths of inland commerce. (D ’20)
=Constitution=
Corwin, E: S: Constitution and what it means today. (N ’20)
=Constitutional history=
Meigs, W: M. Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. (O
’20)
=Constitutional law=
Scott, J. B., ed. Judicial settlement of controversies between
states of the American union. (Jl ’20)
=Defences=
Johnsen, J. E., comp. Selected articles on national defense. (F
’21)
=Description and travel=
Bryas, M. de and J. de. Frenchwoman’s impressions of America.
(Jl ’20)
Dumbell, K. E. M. Seeing the West. (O ’20)
Gibbs, P. H. People of destiny. (O ’20)
Johnson, C. What to see in America. (Ap ’20)
Massey, B. It might have been worse. (My ’20)
Munk, J. A. Southwest sketches. (F ’21)
Rhodes, H. G. American towns and people. (Ja ’21)
=Economic conditions=
Beard, M. Short history of the American labor movement. (Je ’20)
Carlton, F. T. Organized labor in American history. (Je ’20)
Friday, D: Profits, wages, and prices. (N ’20)
Goodrich, C. L. Frontier of control. (Ja ’21)
Kahn, O: H. Our economic and other problems. (Ag ’20)
Thomas, E: Industry, emotion and unrest. (O ’20)
=Foreign relations=
Carnegie endowment for international peace. Division of
intercourse and education. American foreign policy. (D ’20)
Hill, D: J. American world policies. (Ag ’20)
Storey, M. Problems of today. (N ’20)
Wister, O. Straight deal. (Je ’20),
_Far East_
Gallagher, P. America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. (O ’20)
Sherrill, C: H. Have we a Far Eastern policy? (Ag ’20)
_France_
Gibbons, H. A. France and ourselves. (My ’20)
_Great Britain_
Mills. J. T. Great Britain and the United States. (F ’21)
Shaw, F: J:, and Chesson, W. H. Anglo-American relations,
1861–1865. (My ’20)
_Latin America_
Latané, J: H. United States and Latin America. (O ’20)
Lockey, J. B. Pan-Americanism. (Ag ’20)
_Mexico_
Turner, J: K. Hands off Mexico. (Jl ’20)
_Russia_
Cumming, C. K., and Pettit, W. W., comps. and eds.
Russian-American relations, March, 1917–March, 1920. (Jl
’20)
=History=
Brown, E. S. Constitutional history of the Louisiana purchase.
(Ag ’20)
Evans, L. B. America first. (Ja ’21)
Muzzey. D: S. American history. (O ’20)
Neihardt, J: G. Splendid wayfaring. (F ’21)
Turner, F: J. Frontier in American history. (D ’20)
_Colonial period_
Gregg, F. M. Founding of a nation. (O ’20)
_Revolution_
Merlant, J. Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war
for independence. (Ja ’21)
_War of 1812_
Paine, R. D. Fight for a free sea. (D ’20)
_War with Mexico, 1845–48_
Smith, J. H. War with Mexico. (Mr ’20)
_Civil war_
Adams, C: F., and others. Cycle of Adams letters. (Ja ’21)
Livermore, T: L. Days and events. (Mr ’20)
_1865–_
Haworth, P. L. United States in our own times, 1865–1920. (O
’20)
Pettigrew, R: F. Course of empire. (Ja ’21)
Rhodes, J. F. History of the United States from Hayes to
McKinley. (Ag ’20)
=Immigration=
Orth, S: P. Our foreigners. (D ’20)
=Intellectual life=
Canby, H: S. Everyday Americans. (O ’20)
Frank, W. D: Our America. (Ag ’20)
Santayana, G: Character and opinion in the United States. (F
’21)
=Military training=
Johnsen, J. E., comp. Selected articles on national defense. (F
’21)
=Navy=
Fraser, C. C. Boys’ book of sea fights. (N ’20)
Krafft, H. F:, and Norris, W. B. Sea power in American history.
(F ’21)
Leighton, J: L. Simsadus: London. (Jl ’20)
Paine, R. D. Corsair in the war zone. (O ’20)
=Police system=
Fosdick, R. B. American police systems. (Ja ’21)
=Politics and government=
Bartlett, W: H. Handbook of American government. (S ’20)
Beck, J. M. Passing of the new freedom. (N ’20)
Butler, N: M. Is America worth saving? (Je ’20)
Clark, C. My quarter century of American politics. (Ap ’20)
Cleveland, F: A., and Buck, A. E. Budget and responsible
government. (Jl ’20)
Dawson, E. Organized self-government. (Ag ’20)
Dunn, A. W. How presidents are made. (Je ’20)
Fenwick, C: G. Political systems in transition. (D ’20)
Forman, S: E. American democracy. (F ’21)
Fraser, C. C. Young citizen’s own book. (N ’20)
Kimball, E. National government of the United States. (My ’20)
Lee, G. S. Ghost in the White House. (S ’20)
McLaughlin, A. C. Steps in the development of American
democracy. (F ’21)
Mason, A. L. Guiding principles for American voters. (D ’20)
Peterson, S: Democracy and government. (Mr ’20)
Taft. H: W. Occasional papers and addresses of an American
lawyer. (Ag ’20)
=Race question=
Seligmann, H. J, Negro faces America. (Ag ’20)
=Social conditions=
Friedman, E. M., ed. America and the new era. (D ’20)
=Social life and customs=
Erskine, J: Democracy and ideals. (Ag ’20)
McArthur, P. Affable stranger. (F ’21)
Pinochet, T. Gulf of misunderstanding. (Ja ’21)
Rhodes, H. G. American towns and people. (Ja ’21)
=Supreme court=
Smith, H. A. American Supreme court as an international
tribunal. (F ’21)
=Territorial expansion=
Henderson, A. Conquest of the old Southwest. (Je ’20)
Pettigrew, R: F. Course of empire. (Ja ’21)
=Treaties=
Fleming, W: H: Treaty-making power. (O ’20)
=United States. Labor, Department of=
Babson, R. W. W. B. Wilson and the Department of labor. (My ’20)
United States: an experiment in democracy. Becker, C. (S ’20)
United States forest policy. Ise, J: (N ’20)
United States in our own times, 1865–1920. Haworth, P. L. (O ’20)
United States in the world war (1918–1920). McMaster, J: B. (O ’20)
University debaters’ annual, 1919–1920. Phelps, E. M., ed. (Ja ’21)
Unknown London. Bell, W. G: (Je ’20)
Unlatched door. Thayer, L. (N ’20)
Unseen doctor. (O ’20)
Unseen hands. Ostrander, I. E. (O ’20)
Unsolved riddle of social Justice. Leacock, S. B. (Mr ’20)
Untimely papers. Bourne, R. S. (Ag ’20)
Up, the rebels! Hannay, J. O. (Mr ’20)
Up the Seine to the battlefields. Dodd, A. B. (Je ’20)
Upward path. Pritchard, M. T:, and Ovington, M. W., comps. (O ’20)
Ursula Finch. Clarke, I. C. (F ’21)
Us and the bottle man. Price, E. B. (O ’20)
Us two cook book. Williams. J. B. (N ’20)
Use of the story in religious education. Eggleston, M. W. (S ’20)
Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada. Saunders, C: F.
(Je ’20)
Vacation of the Kelwyns. Howells, W: D. (N ’20)
Vagabonding through changing Germany. Franck, H. A. (Ag ’20)
Vaka, Demetra. See Brown, D.
Valley of silent men. Curwood, J. O. (O ’20)
=Valuation=
Hartman, H. H. Fair value. (My ’20)
=Van Horne, William Cornelius, 1843–1915=
Vaughan, W. Life and work of Sir William Van Horne. (F ’21)
Vanished pomps of yesterday. Hamilton, F: S. (Jl ’20)
Vanishing men. Child, R: W. (S ’20)
Vanity girl. Mackenzie, C. (O ’20)
=Varnishes=
Jennings, A. S. Paints and varnishes. (Jl ’20)
=Vases, Greek=
Hambidge, J. Dynamic symmetry. (S ’20)
=Vegetable fibres=
Goulding, E. Cotton and other vegetable fibres. (Ag ’20)
=Venizelos, Eleutherios, 1864–=
Gibbons, H. A. Venizelos. (D ’20)
Verena in the midst. Lucas. E: V. (N ’20)
Verse. Sanger, W: C., jr. (S ’20)
Victory at sea. Sims, W: S., and Hendrick, B. J. (N ’20)
View vertical. Kirkland, W. M. (N ’20)
Villa Elsa. Henry, S. O. (Je ’20)
=Villages=
Sims, N. L., ed. Rural community. (F ’21)
=Villiers, Brougham=, pseud. See Shaw, F: J:
=Villiers, Frederic, 1852–=
Villiers, F: Villiers, his five decades of adventure. (Ja ’21)
Villiers, his five decades of adventure. Villiers, F: (Ja ’21)
=Vinci, Leonardo da, 1452–1519=
Holmes, C: J: Leonardo da Vinci. (F ’21)
Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. Gregory, I. A., comp,
and ed. (Je ’20)
Vocal mastery. Brower, H. M. (D ’20)
=Vocational education=
Munroe, J. P. Human factor in education. (D ’20)
=Vocational guidance=
Center, S. S., comp. Worker and his work, (O ’20)
Filene, C. Careers for women. (Ja ’21)
Richards, C. Man of tomorrow, (Ag ’20)
Voice education. McLellan, E. (O ’20)
Voice of the negro. Kerlin, R. T: (Ja ’21)
Voice of the pack. Marshall, E. (Je ’20)
Voyage out. Woolf, V. (Jl ’20)
=Wages=
Friday, D: Profits, wages, and prices. (N ’20)
Hutchinson, E. J. Women’s wages. (Ap ’20)
Ryan, J: A. Living wage. (Jl ’20)
=Wales=
Williams, L. W. Making of modern Wales. (O ’20)
=Description and travel=
Bradley, A. G. Book of the Severn. (N ’20)
=Walking=
Christy, B. H. Going afoot. (Je ’20)
Wall between. Bassett, S. W. (D ’20)
=Wall street=
Moody, J: Masters of capital. (D ’20)
=Wallace, Sir William, 1270?–1305=
Schofield. W: H: Mythical bards, and The life of William Wallace.
(D ’20)
Wanderer. McAuley, M. E., ed. (D ’20)
Wanderings. Curle, R: (Ag ’20)
Wanderings and memories. Eng title of Sportsman’s wanderings.
Millais, J: G. (Mr ’20)
Wang the ninth. Weale, B. L. P. (Ja ’21)
Wanted: a fool. Curtiss, P. E. (Ja ’21)
Wanted: a husband. Adams, S: H. (Je ’20)
=War=
Jay, W: War and peace. (Je ’20)
Partridge, G: E. Psychology of nations. (My ’20)
Swindler, R. E. Causes of war. (My ’20)
War daubs. Kerr, R. W. (Je ’20)
War poems, Vernède. R. E. (N ’20)
War, the world, and Wilson. Creel, G: (Ag ’20)
War with Mexico. Smith, J. H. (Mr ’20)
=Ward, Arthur Sarsfield.= See Rohmer, S., pseud.
Ward tales. Davies, E. C. (Jl ’20)
=Washington, George, 1732–1799=
Farriss. C: S. American soul. (F ’21)
=Washington, D. C.=
=Social life and customs=
Anderson. I. W. Presidents and pies. (Je ’20)
Waste paper philosophy. Wilson, T. P. C. (F ’21)
=Waste products=
Talbot, F: A. A. Millions from waste. (F ’21)
Wasted island. O’Duffy. E. (N ’20)
Water in nature. Finch, W: Coles-, and Hawks, E. (Mr ’20)
Kershaw, J: B. C. Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. (D
’20)
Waters of strife. Vane, G: (S ’20)
=Wax modeling=
Tussaud, J: T. Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. (D ’20)
Way of the wild. St Mars, F. (O ’20)
We moderns. Muir, E. (Je ’20)
Wealth. Kirkaldy, A. W. (F ’21)
=Weather=
Chapman, E. H. Study of the weather. (Je ’20)
Wedding customs then and now. Holliday, C. (Ap ’20)
=Welfare work in industry=
Frankel, L. K., and Fleisher, A. Human factor in industry. (S ’20)
Well of being. Jones, H. (Je ’20)
=West=
=Description and travel=
Faris, J: T. Seeing the Far West. (D ’20)
Reik, H: O. Tour of America’s national parks. (F ’21)
=Discovery and exploration=
Neihardt, J: G. Splendid wayfaring. (F ’21)
=History=
Turner, F: J. Frontier in American history. (D ’20)
West and East. Moore, E: C. (F ’21)
West country pilgrimage. Phillpotts, E. (F ’21)
=West Indies=
=Description and travel=
Franck, H. A. Roaming through the West Indies. (N ’20)
West wind drift. McCutcheon, G: B. (D ’20)
=Westminster abbey=
Bridge, F: Westminster pilgrim. (My ’20)
=Westminster cathedral=
L’Hôpital, W. de. Westminster cathedral and its architect. (My
’20)
Westward with the Prince of Wales. Newton. W. D. (S ’20)
What bird is that? Chapman, F. M. (Je ’20)
What did Jesus teach? Graves, F. P. (Je ’20)
What happened to Europe. Vanderlip, F. A. (S ’20)
What I saw in Russia. Lansbury, G: (D ’20)
What is the kingdom of Heaven? Clutton-Brock, A. (D ’20)
What music can do for you. Seymour, H. A. (D ’20)
What outfit, Buddy? Kelly, T: H. (My ’20)
What social classes owe to each other. Sumner, W: G. (Je ’20)
What the workers want. Gleason, A. H. (Jl ’20)
What to drink. Stockbridge, B. E. (Ap ’20)
What to see in America. Johnson, C. (Ap ’20)
What’s on the worker’s mind. Williams, W. (D ’20)
What’s the matter with Ireland? Russell, R. (Ja ’21)
What’s the world coming to. Hughes, R. (Jl ’20)
=Wheat=
Buller, A. H: R. Essays on wheat. (S ’20)
When I was a boy in Persia. Mirza, Y. B: (Jl ’20)
When I was a boy in Scotland. Hunter, G: M. (Jl ’20)
When the blood burns. Savi, E. W. (D ’20)
When the king loses his head. Andreïeff, L. N. (S ’20)
When Tytie came. Machard, A. (O ’20)
Where angels fear to tread. Forster, B: M. (Ap ’20)
Where dead men walk. Leverage, H: (Ag ’20)
“Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” Streit. C. K. (O ’20)
Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. Olcott, H. M. (O ’20)
Whisper of fire. Ryan, A. (Ap ’20)
Whispering dead. Ganachilly, A. (Ag ’20)
Whispers. Dodge, L: (Je ’20)
=Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 1834–1903=
Pennell, E. and J. Life of James McNeill Whistler. (D ’20)
White comrade. Schauffler, R. H. (F ’21)
White Moll. Packard, F. L. (Jl ’20)
White moth. Underhill, R. M. (Ja ’21)
Whitewash. Vachell, H. A. (Jl ’20)
Whither? Adam, W: A: (D ’20)
=Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892=
Bazalgette, L. Walt Whitman. (Mr ’20)
Whitman, W. Gathering of the forces. (F ’21)
Who was who. (D ’20)
Why do we die? Mercer, J: E: (Ap ’20)
Why men strike. Crowther, S: (Jl ’20)
Widening circle. Townshend, G. E. G. E. T. (S ’20)
Wider way. Patrick, D. (S ’20)
Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. Pitt, F. (N ’20)
Wild turkeys and tallow candles. Hayes, E. (D ’20)
Wilderness. Kent, R. (Ap ’20)
Wilderness mine. Bindloss, H. (O ’20)
Wilderness songs. Conkling, G. W. (Jl ’20)
=Will=
Major, C. T. How to develop your will power. (N ’20)
William—an Englishman. Hamilton, C. M. (Jl ’20)
William Pollok, and other tales. Grogan, G. (Je ’20)
=Wills=
Blakemore, A. W. Make your will. (F ’21)
=Wilson, William Bauchop, 1862–=
Babson, R. W. W. B. Wilson and the Department of labor. (My ’20)
=Wilson, Woodrow, 1856–=
Beck, J. M. Passing of the new freedom. (N ’20)
Creel, G: War, the world, and Wilson. (Ag ’20)
Dodd, W: E: Woodrow Wilson and his work. (My ’20)
Hale, W: B. Story of a style. (D ’20)
Wind between the worlds. Brown, A. (S ’20)
Windmills. Cannan, G. (Ag ’20)
Winds of God. Banks, L: A. (F ’21)
=Wine=
Saintsbury, G: Notes on a cellar-book. (Ja ’21)
Wine o’ the winds. Abbott, K. (Ag ’20)
Wings of the wind. Harris, C. F. (S ’20)
Wings of war. Knappen, T. M. (D ’20)
Winning football. Roper, W: W. (N ’20)
Winsome Winnie. Leacock, S. B. (Ja ’21)
Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. Stuck, H. (Je ’20)
=Wisconsin=
=History=
Doudna, E. G: Our Wisconsin. (D ’20)
Wisdom of Akhnaton. Grantham, A. E. (N ’20)
Wit of the wild. Ingersoll, E. (D ’20)
With other eyes. Lorimer, N. O. (O ’20)
With the Chinks. Klein, D. (Jl ’20)
With the “Die-hards” in Siberia. Ward, J: (Jl ’20)
With the doughboy in France. Hungerford, E: (F ’21)
Without mercy. Goodwin, J: (F ’21)
Witness of the sun. Williams, H: S. (N ’20)
=Woman=
Bennett, A. Our women. (N ’20)
Kenealy, A. Feminism and sex-extinction. (N ’20)
Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians.
(Ja ’21)
Sanger, M. H. Woman and the new race. (F ’21)
=Employment=
Bullock, E. D., comp. Selected articles on the employment of
women. (Mr ’20)
Clark, A. Working life of women in the seventeenth century. (Je
’20)
Filene, C. Careers for women. (Ja ’21)
=Health and Hygiene=
Jacobs, E. E. Study of the physical vigor of American women. (F
’21)
Myerson, A. Nervous housewife. (F ’21)
=History and condition=
Reynolds, M. Learned lady In England. (Jl ’20)
=Social and moral questions=
Gallichan, C. G. Women’s wild oats. (Jl ’20)
Woman. Marx, M. (Ag ’20)
Woman and the new race. Sanger, M. H. (F ’21)
Woman of thirty. Seiffert, M. A. (Mr ’20)
Woman triumphant. Blasco Ibañez, V. (Je ’20)
Women who came in the Mayflower. Marble, A. R. (Jl ’20)
Women’s wages. Hutchinson, E. J. (Ap ’20)
Women’s wild oats. Gallichan, C. G. (Jl ’20)
Wonder stories. Bailey, C. S. (O ’20)
Wonder tales of the world. Armfield. C. (N ’20)
Wonderful night. Snowden, J. H: (Jl ’20)
Wonders of natural history. Collins, A. F: and V. D. (Ja ’21)
=Wood, Leonard, 1860–=
Hagedorn, H. That human being, Leonard Wood. (Je ’20)
Hobbs, W: H. Leonard Wood. (Ap ’20)
Holme, J: G. Life of Leonard Wood. (My ’20)
Wood, E. F. Leonard Wood. (Ap ’20)
Wood, L. Leonard Wood on national issues. (My ’20)
Wood-folk comedies. Long, W: J. (N ’20)
=Woodwork=
Dooley, W: H: Applied science for wood-workers. (Mr ’20)
Worker and his work. Center, S. S., comp. (O ’20)
Workers at war. Warne, F. J. (D ’20)
Working life of women in the seventeenth century. Clark, A. (Je ’20)
World beyond. Moore, J. H., comp. (O ’20)
World history. Bryce. J. B. (F ’21)
World remaking. Barron, C. W. (Ap ’20)
World to mend. Sherwood. M. P. (N ’20)
World’s illusion. Wassermann, J. (Ja ’21)
Worst boys in town. Hill, J. L. (Ap ’20)
Worth. Kane, R. (O ’20)
Wounded souls. Gibbs, P. H. (N ’20)
Wounded words. Whitin, C. B. (S ’20)
Wreckers. Lynde, F. (Jl ’20)
Writing through reading. Gay, R. M. (Jl ’20)
Wunpost. Coolidge, D. (N ’20)
Wyndham’s pal. Bindloss, H. (Mr ’20)
Yankee in the British zone. MacVeagh, E. C., and Brown, L. D. (Mr
’20)
Yankee ingenuity in the war. Stockbridge, F. P. (Je ’20)
Year as a government agent. Whitehouse, V. (Mr ’20)
=Yearbooks (devotional, etc.)=
Bangs, J: K. Cheery way. (S ’20)
Year’s at the spring. Eng title of Anthology of recent poetry.
Walters, L. D’O. (F ’21)
Yellow soap. Taylor, K. H. (Ag ’20)
You can, but will you? Marden, O. S. (Jl ’20)
Young citizen’s own book. Fraser, C. C. (N ’20)
Young hearts. Buckrose, J. E., pseud. (S ’20)
Young man and teaching. Wright, H: P. (Jl ’20)
Young man and the law. Baldwin, S. E. (Je ’20)
=Young men’s Christian associations=
Mayo, K. “That damn Y.” (Jl ’20)
Young people’s history of the Pilgrims. Griffis, W: E. (Je ’20)
Young physician. Young, F. B. (Ag ’20)
Your biggest job, school or business. Smith, H: L: (F ’21)
Your psychic powers and how to develop them. Carrington. H. (My ’20)
Yours for sleep. Walsh, W: S. (S ’20)
Youth and egolatry. Baroja y Nessi, P. (S ’20)
Youth and the bright Medusa. Cather, W. S. (N ’20)
Youth challenges. Kelland, C. B. (D ’20)
Youth in Harley. Gerould, G. H. (O ’20)
=Zanzibar=
Pearce, F. B. Zanzibar. (S ’20)
=Zinc=
Lones, T: E. Zinc and its alloys. (My ’20)
=Zionism=
Sampter, J. E. Guide to Zionism. (S ’20)
=Zoology=
Cockerell, T. D. A. Zoology. (Je ’20)
Directory of Publishers
Abingdon Press, 150 5th Av., N.Y,
Imprint adopted by the Methodist Book Concern for books of general
interest.
Acad. of Political Science, Columbia Univ., 116th St. & Broadway,
N.Y.
Allyn. Allyn & Bacon, 50 Beacon St., Boston;
1006 S. Michigan Av., Chicago.
Am. Bapt. American Baptist Pub. Society (The Judson Press) 1707
Chestnut St., Philadelphia;
16 Ashburton Pl., Boston;
125 N. Wabash Av., Chicago;
514 N. Grand Av., St. Louis.
Am. Bk. American Book Co., 100 Washington Square, N.Y.;
330 E. 22d St., Chicago.
Am. Photographic Pub. Co., 221 Columbus Av., Boston.
Am.-Scandinavian Foundation. 25 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Am. S. S. Union. Am. Sunday School Union (Union Press), 1816
Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Am. Unitar. American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon St., Boston.
Appleton. Daniel Appleton & Co., 29–35 W. 32d St., N.Y.;
533 S. Wabash Av., Chicago.
American agents for Crosby Lockwood & Son, London.
Selling agents for the Cortina Acad. of Languages, and
University of Pennsylvania publications.
Assn. Press. 347 Madison Av., N.Y.
Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc., 8 Arlington St., Boston.
Badger. R: G. Richard G. Badger (The Gorham Press), 194–200 Boylston
St., Boston.
Baird. Henry Carey Baird & Co., 2 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Barse & Hopkins, 21–39 Division St., Newark, N.J.
Beckley-Cardy Co., 312 W. Randolph St., Chicago.
Benziger. Benziger Bros., 36–38 Barclay St., N.Y.;
214 W. Monroe St., Chicago.
Blakiston. P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia.
Bloch. Bloch Pub Co., 16 W. 23d St., N.Y.
Bobbs. Bobbs-Merrill Co., University Square, Indianapolis, Ind.;
185 Madison Av., N.Y.
Boni & Liveright, 105 W. 40th St., N.Y.
Boston Music Co., 26 West St., N.Y.
Bradley, M. Milton Bradley Co., 49 Willow St., Springfield, Mass.
Brentano’s, 5th Av. & 27th St., N.Y.
Brown, Nicholas L., 123 Lexington Av., N.Y. (Selling agent for
Acropolis pub.)
Bruce Pub. Co., 2020 Montgomery Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2 Jackson Place,
Washington, D.C.;
407 W. 117th St., N.Y.
Century. Century Co., 353 4th Av., N.Y.
Christian Herald Pub. Co., Room 92, Bible House. N.Y.
Clode, E. J., 156 5th Av., N.Y.
Columbia Univ. Press, Lemcke & Buechner, agents, 30–32 E. 20th St.,
N.Y.
Cornhill Co., 45 Cornhill St., Boston.
Cosmopolitan Bk. Corporation. 119 W. 40th St. N.Y. (formerly
Hearst’s International Lib.).
Crowell. T. Y. Crowell Co., 426–428 W. Broadway, N.Y.
Devin-Adair Co., 437 5th Av., N.Y.
Ditson. Oliver Ditson Co., 178–179 Tremont St., Boston
Dodd. Dodd, Mead & Co., 4th Av. & 30th St., N.Y.
Doran. George H. Doran Co., 244 Madison Av., N.Y.
Purchased the business of A. C. Armstrong & Son.
Doubleday. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N.Y.
Acquired the book department of the McClure Co. and the Baker &
Taylor Co.
Duffield. Duffield & Co., 211 E. 19th St., N.Y.
Formerly Fox, Duffield & Co.
Dutton. E. P. Dutton & Co., 681 5th Av., N.Y.
Encyclopedia Press, Inc., 23 E. 41st St., N.Y.
Extension Press, 223 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.
Four Seas Co., 188 Dartmouth St., Boston.
French, S: Samuel French, 28 W. 38th St., N.Y.
Funk. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 354–360 4th Av., N.Y.
Acquired the publications of Cassell & Co.
Ginn. Ginn & Co., (Educational text-bks.) 15 Ashburton Place,
Boston;
2301–2311 Prairie Av., Chicago.
Gorham. E. S. Gorham, 7–11 W. 45th St., N.Y. N.Y.
Gray. H. W. Co., 2 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Sole agents for Novello
Gregg. Gregg Publishing Company, 77 Madison Av., N.Y.;
623 S. Wabash Av., Chicago.
Harcourt. Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1 W. 47th St., N.Y.
Harper. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square. N.Y.
Harvard Univ. Press, 29 Randall Hall. Cambridge, Mass.;
19 E. 47th St., N.Y.
Henley. Norman W. Henley Pub. Co., Putnam Bldg., 2 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Hoeber. Paul B. Hoeber, 69 E. 59th St., N.Y.
Holt. Henry Holt & Co., 19 W. 44th St., N.Y.
Houghton. Houghton, Mifflin Co., 4 Park St., Boston;
16 E. 40th St., N.Y.;
2451–2459 Prairie Av., Chicago;
278 Post St., San Francisco.
Huebsch. B. W. Huebsch, 116 W. 13th St., N.Y.
Innes & Sons, 1311 Sansom St., Philadelphia.
International Bk. Pub Co., 5 Beekman St., N.Y.
Jacobs. G: W. Jacobs & Co., 1628 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md.
Jones, Marshall. Marshall Jones Co., 212 Summer St., Boston.
Kenedy. P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 44 Barclay St., N.Y.
Kennerley. Mitchell Kennerley, Park Av. & 59th St., N.Y.
Knopf. Alfred A. Knopf, 220 W. 42d St., N.Y.
Lane. John Lane Co., 786 6th Av., N.Y.
Hossfeld publications now handled by Peter Reilly.
Lemcke. Lemcke & Buechner, 30–32 E. 20th St., N.Y.
Agents for the Columbia University Publications formerly sold by
Macmillan.
Leonard. W. M. Leonard, 711 Boylston St., Boston.
Lippincott. J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Sq., Philadelphia.
Little. Little, Brown & Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston.
Longmans. Longmans, Green & Co., 443–449 4th Av., cor. 30th St.,
N.Y.
Publish the Columbia University studies in history, economics and
public law, formerly published by Macmillan.
Sole Am. agents for Edward Arnold, London.
Lothrop. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 93 Federal St., Boston.
A consolidation of The Lee & Shepard Co. and the Lothrop Co.
Luce, J: W. John W. Luce & Co., 212 Summer St., Boston.
Lutheran Pub. Soc. See United Lutheran Publication House.
Macaulay Co., 15 W. 38th St., N.Y.
McBride. Robert M. McBride & Co., 7 W. 16th St., N.Y.
Formerly McBride, Nast & Co.
McCann. James A. McCann, 188 W. 4th St., N.Y.
McClurg. A. C. McClurg & Co., 330–352 E. Ohio St., Chicago.
Purchased the book business of Library Shelf.
McGraw. McGraw-Hill Bk. Co., 239 W. 39th St., N.Y.
Consolidation of the McGraw Pub. Co. and the Hill Pub. Co.
Purchased the business of the Clark Bk. Co., and the book
department of Engineering News Pub. Co.
McKay. David McKay, 604–608 S. Washington Square, Philadelphia.
Macmillan. The Macmillan Co., 66 5th Av., N.Y.
Acquired the business of the Outing Co., and Sturgis & Walton.
Agents for the Cambridge University Press and for the Society for
Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Manual Arts Press, 237 N. Monroe St., Peoria, Ill.
Moffat. Moffat, Yard & Co., 30 Union Sq., N.Y.
Morehouse Pub. Co., 1801–1811 Fond du Lac Av., Milwaukee, Wis.
Formerly Young Churchman Co.
Mosby, C. V. Mosby Medical Bk. & Pub Co., Grand Av., & Olive St.,
St. Louis.
Nation Press, 20 Vesey St., N.Y.
Neale. Neale Pub. Co., 440 4th Av., N.Y.
N.Y. Univ. Press, 32 Waverly Place. N.Y.
Norman, Remington Co., 308 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.
Oxford. Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press) (American branch),
35 W. 32d St., N.Y.
Agents for the publications of Henry Frowde.
Page. Page Co., 53 Beacon St., Boston.
Acquired the business of Dana Estes & Co., for which George Sully
& Co. are the selling agents.
Paulist Press, 120 W. 60th St., N.Y.
Penn. Penn Pub. Co., 926 Filbert St., Philadelphia.
Prices of their juvenile books have been put on a net basis.
Pilgrim Press, 14 Beacon St., Boston;
19 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.
Pitman. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 2–6 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Presbyterian Bd. Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath
School Work (Westminster Press), 1319 Walnut St., Philadelphia.
Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton. N.J.
Public-School. Public-School Pub. Co., Bloomington, Ill.
Putnam. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Putnam Bldg., 2–6 W. 45th St., N.Y.
Rand. Rand-McNally & Co., Rand-McNally Bldg., Chicago;
40 E. 22d St., N.Y.;
455 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Rand School of Social Science, 7 E. 15 St., N.Y.
Reilly & Lee. Reilly & Lee Co., 1006–12 S. Michigan Av., Chicago.
Formerly Reilly & Britton Co.
Revell. Fleming H. Revell & Co., 158 6th Av., N.Y.;
17 N. Wabash Av., Chicago.
Review of Reviews Co., 30 Irving Pl., N.Y.
Reynolds Pub. Reynolds Publishing Company, 416 W. 13th St., N.Y.
Ronald. Ronald Press Co., Evening Post Bldg., 20 Vesey St., N.Y.
Russell Sage Foundation, 130 E. 22d St., cor. Lexington Av., N.Y.
S. V. M. Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 25 Madison
Av., N. Y.
Saunders. W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington Square, Philadelphia.
Schirmer. G. Schirmer. 3 E. 43d St., N.Y.
Scribner. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 597 6th Av., N.Y.;
608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
Seltzer. Thomas Seltzer, Inc., 5 W. 50th St., N.Y.
Formerly Scott & Seltzer
Seymour. Seymour, Daughaday, & Co., 610 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
Shaw, A. W. A. W. Shaw Co., Cass, Huron & Erie Sts., Chicago; 299
Madison Av., N.Y.
Sherman. F: Fairchild, 1790 Broadway, N.Y.
Silver. Silver, Burdett & Co., 126 5th Av., N.Y.;
218–223 Columbus Av., Boston.
Small. Small, Maynard & Co., 41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston.
Stanton & Van Vliet Co., 501 Plymouth Court, Chicago.
Stewart & Kidd Co., Cincinnati, O.
Stokes. F. A. Stokes Co., 443–449 4th Av., N.Y.
Stratford Co., 12 Pearl St., Boston.
Sully, George Sully & Co., 373 4th Av., N.Y.
Formerly Sully & Kleinteich.
Selling agents of the Dana Estes & Co. publications of which the
Page Co. are the proprietors.
Sunwise Turn, Inc., 51 E. 44th St., N.Y.
Union of Am. Hebrew Congregations, 62 Duttenhofer Bldg., Cincinnati,
O.
United Lutheran Publication House, 9th & Sansom St., Philadelphia;
437 5th Av., N.Y.;
159 N. State St., Chicago;
Second National Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh
A consolidation of the Lutheran Publication Society and the
General Council Publishing House
Univ. of Cal. Univ. of California, Berkeley, Cal.
Address University Press, California Hall, Berkeley.
Univ. of Chicago Press, 58th St. & Ellis Av., Chicago.
Univ. of Ill. Press, Urbana, Ill.
For Univ. studies, address Editor, 161 Administration Bldg.,
Urbana, Ill.
Univ. of Minn., Minneapolis, Minn.
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Van Nostrand. D. Van Nostrand Co., 8 Warren St., N. Y.
Wagner, Harr. Harr Wagner Pub. Co., 239 Geary St., San Francisco,
Cal.
Acquired the publications of the Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co.
Warne. Frederick Warne & Co., 26 E. 22d St., N.Y.
Warwick & York, Inc., 10 Centre St., Baltimore, Md.
Watt. W. J. Watt & Co., 31 W 43d St., N. Y.
Wilde. W. A. Wilde Co., 120 Boylston St., Boston;
Rand-McNally Bldg., Chicago.
Wiley. John Wiley & Sons. 432 4th Av., N.Y.
Wilson, H. W. H. W. Wilson Co., 958–964 University Av., N.Y.
Womans Press, 600 Lexington Av., N.Y.
World Bk. World Book Co., Park Hill, Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y.;
2126 Prairie Av., Chicago.
Purchased the business of the Globe School Book Co.
Yale University Press, 143 Elm St., New Haven, Conn.;
19 E. 47th St., N.Y.
Zionist Organization of Am., 55 5th Av., N.Y.
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