Chapter XI
tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface) There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.
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“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
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“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
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=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
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“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.
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“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.
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“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
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“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
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“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.
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+ =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.
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+ =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
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“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.
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+ =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
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“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
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“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
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+ =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
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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.”
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‘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.
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“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.
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+ =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.
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+ =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
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“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
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.
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“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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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+ =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
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=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.
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“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
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+ =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.
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=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.
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“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.
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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+ =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
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“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
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“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.
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“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.
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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
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=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
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.
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=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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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“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.
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“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.
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+ =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
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“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.
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+ =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.
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“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.”
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=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.
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“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.
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=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.
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+ =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.
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+ =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
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.
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“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
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“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.
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=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.
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“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)
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+ =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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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+ =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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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+ =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.
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=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
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=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
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“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
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“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
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=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
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“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
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“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.
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“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
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.” (