Chapter 1
) The contents report all the important events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The judgment; The public. There is an index.
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“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men in the British labor situation.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant
+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w
“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for understanding the situation.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 150w
“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:855 D ’20 1550w
“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w
“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose his head.”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w
+ =Survey= 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w
=GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.=[2] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst Biggs. il *$5 Lane
21–658
These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in the forest hut.
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“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
“An exceptionally attractive book.”
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w
“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 220w
=GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT.= Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150
20–7588
“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’” (Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)
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=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting and appealing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w
=GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI.= Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68
20–18316
The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being. The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.
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“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 80w
“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably lucid.” Van Buren Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1850w
=GOLDBERG, ISAAC.= Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50 Brentano’s 860
20–2423
“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets, Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru, Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and political points of view are quoted in both the original and translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w
“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to hand.” J. B. T.
+ − =Ath= p902 D 31 ’20 520w
“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w
“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value. It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 750w
“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of world literature.” T: Walsh
+ =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American writers.” H. K.
+ =New Repub= 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w
“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately, however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things. In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w
“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at times sparkling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre) *$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12048
In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground that she has learned to love another. The development of the play brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a preface and there is an introduction by the author.
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“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than dialogue.”
+ − =Ath= p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w
“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes
− + =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan
− =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w
“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 50w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer
20–9785
The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her. At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she loves.
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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:67 S ’20 700w
“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w
“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C. F. L.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 220w
“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is convincingly inevitable.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w
“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a ‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w
“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover to cover.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w
“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer 824
20–17759
These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H. Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking back. There is an index.
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“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon public idols.”
+ − =Ath= p827 Je 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. E. Roberts
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w
+ − =Nation= 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w
“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of genuine, worth-while information.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 640w
“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”
− + =Sat R= 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w
“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’ The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does not obtrude his political opinions.”
+ − =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w
“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w
“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is undistinguished and sometimes slack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 300w
=GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.).= I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c) Sully 504
20–1376
A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions, giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.” The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air, Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity, Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.
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=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331
20–224
“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)
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=Am Econ R= 10:365 Je ’20 70w
+ − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:97 Mr ’20 40w
“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E. D. Strong
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:257 O ’20 850w
“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A. F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book. The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of the American federation of labor.” James Oneal
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 30w
“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part, no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 17 ’20 140w
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton 331.8
20–12195
“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under the major headings.” (Survey)
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“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official unionism on important labor issues.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:791 N ’20 530w
“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters. In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience. When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur Gleason
− + =Nation= 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty years.” J. D. Hackett
+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.=[2] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50 (*14s) Longmans 830.9
20–8640
“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German institutions.”—Sat R
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+ =Ath= p605 My 7 ’20 1200w
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w
“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”
+ =Sat R= 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w
“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it, for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.= Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–13567)
“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party. Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself, and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and opinions.” G. L. D.
+ =Ath= p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 600w
“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not attach to the man.”
+ =Sat R= 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like ‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an instructive contribution to contemporary history.”
+ − =Spec= 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w
“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w
=GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS.= Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 335
20–6220
The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government” and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia; Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene; Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of rest; Conclusions.
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=Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock
+ − =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”
+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks had done or proposed to do.”
− =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w
“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes his book of very little value.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F19 ’20 260w
=GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN.= Poland and the minority races. *$2.50 Brentano’s 914.38
20–15472
“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Ath= p521 O 15 ’20 200w
“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise rather sordid recital.”
+ =Cath World= 112:405 D ’20 190w
“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:358 F ’21 250w
=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w
“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief for either side.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p6 D 12 ’20 2150w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
=Spec= 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a government commission no reference is made to the final report of the commission.” M. A. Chickering
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w
“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which, though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more elaborate works.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w
=GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN.= Frontier of control: a study of British workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1
20–20526
Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning complete self-government in industry.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
=GOODWIN, JOHN.=[2] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–14762
The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of shrewd moves on both sides.
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“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood. In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden characterizations.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 140w
“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 290w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=GORDON, ALEXANDER REID.= Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist. (Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224
(Eng ed 20–6575)
“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job, Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 130w
=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c) Houghton 285
20–5985
This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard Theological Review for April, 1907.
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=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w
“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 600w
=GORDON, MARY DANIEL.= Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little
20–17022
A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol, drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they are successful in the object of their quest.
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“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 210w
“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 110w
=GORDON-SMITH, GORDON.= From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories, reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7
20–6737
To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters. The introduction contains a brief history of the political and military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which, the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is an insert general map of the Balkan war area.
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=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 630w
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w
“The book is of absorbing interest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w
“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 60w
=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans 821
20–18248
“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript
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=Ath= p472 O 8 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w
“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 580w
=GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER.= Inside story of Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3 (3½c) Doubleday 940.311
20–5203
Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the volume, points out its object as being an examination into three fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire) pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder. Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s back. There is an appendix.
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“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”
+ =Booklist= 16:274 My ’20
“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties. Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w
“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 160w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).= Night’s lodging; scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.) *$1 Four seas co. 891.7
20–26568
This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T. Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with an equally short characterization of his dramas.
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“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read. Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the stage?”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).=[2] Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch
The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”; always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
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Reviewed by S. Koteliansky
=Ath= p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w
“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w
“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w
“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 250w
“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p3 Ja 9 21 3100w
“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug ‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”
+ =Spec= 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w
“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive as their subject was strong and excessive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50 Scribner 824
A20–530
“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings. Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli, and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on: Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript
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“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w
=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature of criticism.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w
“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries, and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates. He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 68:777 Je ’20 1550w
“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past. His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w
“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w
“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w
“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles lettres, but of the best brand.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w
“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays that make up the volume now before us. The best and most characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily the most striking.”
+ =Spec= 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 O 2 ’19 1100w
=GOULDING, ERNEST.= Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677
This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents: Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an index.
=GOWAR, EDWARD.= Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little
20–16169
Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which are by Alice Bolam Preston.
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w
“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 100w
“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 70w
=GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON.= Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658
19–11576
“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine, good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order. Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
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“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”
+ =Am Econ R= 9:829 D ’19 130w
=Booklist= 16:192 Mr ’20
+ =Pittsburgh= 24:456 O ’19 30w
=GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA.= Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.
20–4216
Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.” The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.
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“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance. Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg
+ − =Bookm= 51:232 Ap ’20 560w
“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both the Americas.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w
“As a piece of writing, due allowance being made for a wretched translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way. In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the Brazilian civilization of today.”
− + =Nation= 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w
“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His
## book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its
powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective mind.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w
“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the
## book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the
## book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 3 ’20 850w
=GRAHAM, ALAN.= Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–13547
Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious treasures.
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=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A good mystery story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”
+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w
“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure, a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w
=GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER.= It happened at Andover; well, most of it did, anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–15954
A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover, written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy; The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.
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“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 70w
“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’; but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6
(Eng ed 20–23038)
“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’ set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the ‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published, is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post
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“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking. The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current practices.”
+ =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w
“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of
## partisanship.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 120w
“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force. But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong, thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas
− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 720w
“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1
20–21927
This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors, visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively a negro problem.
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“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its simple, unescapable effect.”
+ =Ath= p615 N 5 ’20 570w
“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 2 ’21 1100w
“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and ‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w
“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with subsequent chapters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 1600w
“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments. Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C. Willcox
+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w
“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple desire to learn the truth.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads, Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than his own side of the question.”
− + =Sat R= 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w
+ =Spec= 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w
“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master. But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret differently.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 2500w
=GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.= Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814
20–14542
“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’ (Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages, New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)
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“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and amusing.”
− + =Ath= p811 D 10 ’20 240w
“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which should interest every student of language. If there were more philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross
+ =Mod Philol= 18:55 Ag ’20 500w
“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument, are at times rich in illustration.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w
“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w
+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w
“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof. Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure and will do so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 70w
=GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.= Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822
20–17687
A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his policy of peace.” (Preface)
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“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”
+ =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 160w
“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period, the play might have a success in representation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 My 13 ’20 450w
=GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.= True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt
20–14285
An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl, Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.
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“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and, unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 160w
=GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).= Eve of Pascua, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–12450
With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic. A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost. Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped into the former’s place with the blind mother.
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“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 70w
=Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w
“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w
“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of ‘Richard Dehan.’”
+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w
=GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.= What did Jesus teach? an examination of the educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232
19–18243
“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders, and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican
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“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.
+ =Am J Theol= 24:475 Jl ’20 150w
“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon the ethical content of the teaching.”
+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:220 Ap ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAVES, ROBERT.= Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821
20–6375
To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.
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“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think, suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue. It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve simplicity.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 50w
“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the stern reality of life.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”
+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 80w
“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its meaning.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w
“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w
“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”
+ =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w
“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with a future before him.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w
=GRAY, A. HERBERT.= Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230
20–8352
“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book. It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs, never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths. Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom; Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human nature? The resources of the disciple.
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“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a long time.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 320w
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAY, JOSLYN.= Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner
19–15554
“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did. Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times
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“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their teens.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w
“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their teens.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w
=GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.= Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.) *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
20–775
A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited. From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.
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“Much information about customs and country.”
+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this
## particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w
+ =Cath World= 111:412 Je ’20 90w
=GREENBIE, SIDNEY.= Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2
20–9726
It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2. The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There are many illustrations and an index.
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+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 400w
“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time; best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 90w
“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator, the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w
“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense, it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ =No Am= 212:719 N ’20 480w
“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.
+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 40w
“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 360w
“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people; and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes without malice.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 O 21 ’20 900w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.= Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8
(Eng ed Agr20–1194)
This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died shortly before the publication of his book.
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“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech= Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w
+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w
=GREGG, FRANK MOODY.= Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran
This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden, accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.
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“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can, and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 560w
“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to history in this form.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w
“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for adolescent study.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w
“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.= Dragon; a wonder play in three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822
20–13121
An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo, accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from start to finish.
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“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w
“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 240w
“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w
“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing, imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”
+ − =Spec= 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w
“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to carry the interest from beginning to end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 330w
“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these super-serious times.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 270w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady=, comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam 398.2
20–26541
These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray, and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth; Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts; Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.
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“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.
+ =Ath= p550 O 22 ’20 1250w
=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class; folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w
“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening, but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum
+ =Dial= 69:300 S ’20 1400w
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w
“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race must have this book.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w
“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”
+ =Outlook= 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w
“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general psychologist.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w
“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”
− =Sat R= 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 S 23 ’20 1700w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–8277
Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ... burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all ends happily.
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=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble that he is a little hard to bear.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w
“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”
+ − =NY Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w
“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks much of the probability in his previous stories.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 120w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
20–19919
When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much. Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.
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“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort of blind, blundering vigor.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 120w
“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 380w
=GREGORY, ODIN.= Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812
20–13984
“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who, forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace.... In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted, when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d Republican)
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“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry, sandy beach.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w
“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter of the old forms.” C. M. S.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 480w
“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ’20 720w
“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are not there.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 480w
=GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL), and SPALDING, KATIE.= Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour. il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19
20–5733
In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell, and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique illustrations tell a story of their own.
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“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right illustrations.”
+ =Booklist 16:309 Je ’20=
“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her husband’s accounts.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous temperament.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w
“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine viewpoint.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w
=GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM).= Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand
20–3856
“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography [is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs
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=Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w
“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w
“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 160w
=GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount.= Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824
20–5788
The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the purpose of observing birds.
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“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound. We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w
“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic warmth and color.”
+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w
“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very frequently abused—‘cultured.’”
+ =Outlook= 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w
“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w
“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”
+ =Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w
“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GREY, ZANE.= Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper
20–2265
Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl, newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp witnesses an unusual honeymoon.
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“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane Grey.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done, while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of the splendid Ranger.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w
“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide spaces.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs, which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book is among the author’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w
“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell
20–13979
The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains, where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country. Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss; The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren of the Rhine.
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+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 80w
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 180w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il *$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4
20–10074
“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls. Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance; Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state; Index; Illustrations.
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“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate, thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer
+ − =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 90w’
“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the reader.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 380w
“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”
+ − =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p15 O 3 ’20 80w
“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2 Manual arts press 371.42
20–10299
This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary connections between the more general courses in educational psychology and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.
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“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction, nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose in an admirable degree.”
+ =El School J= 21:236 N ’20 640w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p67 Jl ’20 80w
“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 120w
=GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS).= Lure of the manor. *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
A20–1264
The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent, is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent, also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s real character.
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“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming forced and artificial.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w
“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of being artificial and exaggerated.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 190w
=GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL.= Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan
20–19507
This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island, reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island. Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a satisfactory conclusion.
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=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 90w
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 230w
“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 170w
“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is most prodigal of her good things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 630w
=GROGAN, GERALD.= William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane
20–7728
This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico, where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales, The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.
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+ =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 80w
“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 500w
“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w
“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is the all-important one will enjoy the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 280w
=GROSSMANN, LOUIS.= Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377
19–27517
“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this ‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music, etc.”—Am J Soc
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“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 25:502 Ja ’20 340w
“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”
+ =Booklist= 16:42 N ’19
“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=GROVE, SIR GEORGE.=[2] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6 Macmillan 780.3
This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an historical introduction with chronological register of names; the second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index. The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired that this volume should include continuations of those articles that relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”
=GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS=, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il *$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3
20–6493
A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction. They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H. Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,” “Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.
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“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind it in quality.” A. A. W.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a starving man.”
− =N Y Times= 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w
=GUILD, ROY BERGEN=, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261
20–17803
The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service; Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will; Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D.D.; Appendix.
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+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 630w
=N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 100w
=GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND.= Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il $1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812
20–84
The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university; Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman, University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury, University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.
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“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”
+ =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 90w
“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical expertness.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 500w
=GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.=[2] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden. *$2 Stokes
“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times
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+ =Ath= p1050 O 17 ’19 50w
“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w
“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its charm as a human document.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1050w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.= Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811
20–3010
In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been “martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood, piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period; Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.
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“A delightfully whimsical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked it.” W. A. Barrett
+ =Bookm= 51:476 Je ’20 700w
“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet. These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w
“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w
+ − =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 80w
“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat disappointingly worked out.”
+ =Ind.= 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w
“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth its price twice over.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w
+ =N Y Times= 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w
“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the season.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 240w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.=[2] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895
20–19184
“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan, clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call
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“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of philosophy.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w
“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich proverb-literature which exists in English.”
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w
“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w
“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w
=GUITRY, SACHA.=[2] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842
This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in “The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. *$2.50 Macmillan 336
20–10284
This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal research and the training school for the public service. Its object is to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are: The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system; Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system; Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.
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“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:712 N ’20 450w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 320w
“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 60w
“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 200w
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790
20–4701
Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals; The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression; Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth; Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization; Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds; Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.
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“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 200w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 My 8 ’20 650w
“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his treatment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w
“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and educators as well.” S. L. Jean
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.).= Air pirate. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–26883
The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to death more than once.
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=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into plausibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 40w
=GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.).= Selling your services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg., N.Y. 658
20–6660
Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell, that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are here edited and collected into book form by the author. John Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case alive; Index.
=GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE=, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis Wilson, H. W. 051
The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
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“Indispensable aid.”
+ =Booklist= 16:296 Je 20
=GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE.= Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44
19–15645
“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in ‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w
“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few short pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p16 O 19 ’19 220w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes 891.6
A20–768
“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907, representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered, severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland (1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 140
=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 40w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 170w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans
20–5238
“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty, and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the seal of his blood.’”—Ath
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“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the general reader.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:134 O ’20 520w
=Ath= p1365 D 12 ’19 160w
“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading for those informed on Irish politics.”
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w
“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w
“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w
=Sat R= 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w
“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel that he is an honourable political opponent.”
+ − =Spec= 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w
“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule.... Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w
“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His work is one which every student of modern politics should read and read at once. There has been no more important publication on the Irish question during recent years.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 N 13 ’19 950w
Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor
=Yale R= n s 10:210 O ’20 270w
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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe
20–8515
A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document. “Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the administration, should seek to make the man who most patently possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”
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“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and continual preparedness.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w
“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of General Wood.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 50w
=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans
20–5230
“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain, and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians, warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings. There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka. There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests, warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)
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=Ath= p274 F 27 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
=Lit D= p121 S 18 ’20 1500w
“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide them for him.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w
“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”
+ − =Sat R= 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w
“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid reality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 600w
=HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl.= Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15 Dutton 940.342
20–762
“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the information of the people at home and were quite apart from the detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in large scale.”—Springf’d Republican
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“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision. The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”
+ =No Am= 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w
“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the campaigns that it describes.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”
+ =Spec= 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w
=HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan.= Before the war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42
20–3879
The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,” he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.” Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.
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“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first hand account.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 250w
=Lit D= 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the surface of things.” Carl Becker
+ − =Nation= 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w
=Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w
“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges hatched in the fever of fear.”
+ =Sat R= 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w
“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has brought much unmerited odium on the author.”
+ − =Spec= 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w
=HALE, FREDERICK.= From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5
(Eng ed 20–11662)
“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home, describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition to Baku.”—Spec
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“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.
+ =Ath= p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w
“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells. It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 100w
“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”
+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w
=HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE).= American’s London. il *$2 (1½c) Harper 914.21
20–26752
An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The
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“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”
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“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining. Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 870w
“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”
+ =Lit D= p94 N 20 ’20 1550w
“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most intimate confidences.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 26 ’20 2200w
“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who would have it otherwise?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 280w
=HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD.= Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch
An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of “Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be, it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents: Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions; Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League of nations speeches.
=HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.=[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs
20–17531
Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner. For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear, she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages, finally arriving at the real thing.
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“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as the novelist.” W. T. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 600w
“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 520w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w
=HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT.= Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327
20–2059
“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the present.”—Booklist
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“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite conventional.” J. S. R.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:150 O ’20 370w
“A convenient summary.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 80w
“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin
+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w
=HALL, GRACE.= Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922
20–7587
“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of the saints according to their century and one according to their days.
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=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Morale, the supreme standard of life and conduct. *$3 Appleton 170
20–13129
The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (