Chapter 1

) She was born December 16, 1787, and was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.

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“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart. There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.

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“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia, and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w

“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s

## book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and

brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w

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“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in ‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”

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=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 1150w

=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1

20–11020

As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters, which are reprinted from the North American Review are: Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League; The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s “points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is indexed.

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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the old order in return.”

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=Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w

“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration. His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish

+ − =Nation= 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w

“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by him.”

− =N Y Times= p5 S 5 ’20 2450w

“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and therefore of a value far transcending that of most political discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”

+ =No Am= 212:424 S ’20 1150w

“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or Paris league.”

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“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the belief that American independence and true internationalism are not incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 140w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812

20–19677

A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume.... The three simple little farces included herein were written for a boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play, “Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second, “A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a boy scout play.

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“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’ and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been anticipated.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p15 N 13 ’20 130w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes

20–18659

The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case; Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers; Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long; War.

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“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 230w

=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w

“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w

=HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.=[2] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35 Macmillan 614

19–19494

“The development of public health nursing in the United States has naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15 ’20)

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“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which can be heartily recommended.”

+ =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w

“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water, milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price

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“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases, on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant in form.” C. E. A. Winslow

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=HILL, JAMES LANGDON.= Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252

20–3809

A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.

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+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 470w

=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130

20–26542

“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says, “I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again? Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc; Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.

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“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative source.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow

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“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous quotations of both prose and verse.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w

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=HILL, JOHN WESLEY.= Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam

20–21413

The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.

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“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”

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=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 190w

“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today. ‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster

+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w

=HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.=[2] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan 170

20–15460

“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is, perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 270w

“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question discussed more fairly.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:690 F ’21 100w

“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous. The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w

“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 240w

“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained, devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father Hill’s.” H: Neumann

+ − =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w

=HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.= Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314

20–2359

The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people; France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth; Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love their country; Notes, and references to authorities.

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=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 40w

“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental principles.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w

=HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.= Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811

20–7792

“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons, Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable, from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w

“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 1050w

“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold (and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is especially successful in the sonnet.”

+ =Cath World= 112:118 O ’20 90w

“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place among the books of the season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w

“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist, atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w

“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in ‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 150w

=HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.= Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c) Holt 914.7

20–14675

In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer; Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land; The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.

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“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:364 Ja ’21 490w

“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that, excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book, ‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.

− + =Freeman= 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w

“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:307 D ’20 560w

“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters, without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w

“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it, and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w

=HINE, REGINALD L.=[2] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040

20–18243

“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally good.”—Sat R

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“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its externals one of the best for many months.”

− + =Ath= p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w

“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.” G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:622 O ’20 400w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w

“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it was written. It is a book for the country house table.”

+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w

“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are they altogether without their value for the historian.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w

=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Love of brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger

20–3710

Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people; and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha, grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving her mother while still in disgrace.

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=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”

+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 160w

“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a definite form, finely moulded.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 S 25 ’19 220w

=HISTORY= of the American field service in France; Friends of France, 1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373

20–15471

“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume, ‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections, new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston Transcript

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“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 700w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 70w

=HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.= Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam

20–6726

The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel; “Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum;

## Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles

concerning General Leonard Wood.

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“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans

− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:719 N ’20 310w

=Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w

“Serviceable and readable volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 70w

=HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.= Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton

“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery, Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration and peace.” (Ath)

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“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.

+ − =Ath= p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w

=Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 30w

=Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w

=Spec= 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4

20–21968

“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and risk-taking.”

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=Nation= 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w

=Survey= 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 336.42

(Eng ed 20–114)

The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1: Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue. Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of imperial to local taxation; Index.

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“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of outstanding influence.” C. L. King

+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 700w

=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w

“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like. But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.” R. R.

+ − =Nation= 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w

“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of this volume.” L: Jacobs

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w

“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in

## particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so

nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war burdens.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w

Reviewed by Lawson Purdy

* + =Survey= 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w

“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed ‘needs’ of the state.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w

=HOBSON, S. G.= National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6

(Eng ed 20–16216)

“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D. H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of western civilization.”—Ath

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“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild proposals.” J: G. Brooks

+ =Am Econ R= 10:858 D ’20 750w

=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G: Soule

+ − =Nation= 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w

“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard

− + =New Republic= 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w

“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”

− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w

“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 40w

“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes along, and to find the right words for them.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1050w

=HOCKING, JOSEPH.= Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell

Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.

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“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w

=HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.= Principles of accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657

20–17381

Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume: those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics; those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those who expect to become business executives of one kind or another. Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information; The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting accounting facts; Appendix.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 50w

=HODGES, FRANK.= Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R. Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2

(Eng ed 20–6078)

“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital, namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific development of that industry; and that different and competitive systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work more efficiently and economically than a number of small and overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath

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“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance of scientific detachment.”

+ =Ath= p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w

“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation whether they like it or not.”

− =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w

“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the rules of logic.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w

=HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED.= Studies in contemporary metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104

20–4123

The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop” and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and

## activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and

enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On “doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances” in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of religion; Index.

* * * * *

“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

Reviewed by H. B. Alexander

+ =Nation= 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be congratulated on a work of permanent value.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 900w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w

=HOFFMAN, CONRAD.= In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press 940.472

20–21330

Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A. thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment. In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an American woman in Berlin.

=HOFFMAN, MARIE E.= Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones, Marshall

20–8234

“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery, their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to pass.”—Boston Transcript

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“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people, and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their environment.” F. M. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 400w

“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true local color.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w

=N Y Times= p17 Je 27 ’20 270w

=HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von.= Death of Titian. (Contemporary ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832

20–6845

This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.

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“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in it.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 270w

“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in

## particular, lose most everything.”

− =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 50w

“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.” E. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w

“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w

“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 150w

=HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER.= Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd 799

20–21340

While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp outfit.

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“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these attractive pages.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w

=HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY.= Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–5229

As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”

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+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 150w

“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene

+ =Bookm= 51:565 Jl ’20 550w

“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w

“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about her, she isn’t.”

+ =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w

“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”

+ =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w

“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our common experience.” Signe Toksvig

+ − =New Repub= 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w

“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’ though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.” Oliver Herford

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 750w

“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

=Pub W= 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w

“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks, pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w

=HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL.= Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton

19–19359

Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.

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“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with considerable power.”

+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 120w

“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”

+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more genial, less tense and stormy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w

“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w

“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the

## book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”

+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w

“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than heretofore.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w

“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness, but sees in both the movement of life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 O 9 ’19 460w

=HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL.= Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans

20–12858

“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear ‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating apologist.”—Review

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“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:467 Jl ’20 460w

“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is ripely philosophical.”

+ =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w

“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers

+ =Review= 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w

“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and schoolmasters.”

+ =Sat R= 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w

“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people want.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w

=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs

20–17657

Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger, Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.

=HOLLIDAY, CARL.= Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co. 392.5

19–13678

This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents: Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies; The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.

* * * * *

“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 180w

=HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES.= Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran 917.3

20–20548

Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill, Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas, William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors and book sellers and others.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 950w

“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”

+ =Cath World= 112:692 F ’21 320w

“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell

− =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w

“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving

+ − =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w

“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book covers.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w

=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI.= Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2 Appleton 616.8

20–17971

The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation, analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed. As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration; Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses; Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement, methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric hospital; Index.

=HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR.= Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday

20–5732

A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days; Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army; The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are four illustrations from photographs.

* * * * *

“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

=HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.=[2] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford 759.5

20–2853

“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath

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=Ath= p1049 O 17 ’19 100w

=Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w

“A brilliant, though concise, study.”

+ =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w

=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331

20–7773

Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements, not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem: co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.

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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced, you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.

+ =Nation= 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 250w

Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher

=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w

=HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.= Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340

20–22316

These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918. They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency; Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law; Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland; Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton; Natural law.

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“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by T: R. Powell

+ =Nation= 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w

“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen

+ =New Repub= 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 40w

=HOLT, HENRY.= Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton 134

20–26562

“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers the three most important developments during the years since the work first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20

“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:204 Ag ’20 820w

“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is the nobility of spirit which informs it.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w

=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w

=HOLT, LEE.= Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane

The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present

## book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to

determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A “portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day, those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”

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“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 80w

“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter of first-rate interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 100w

=HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT.= Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton 649.1

20–7343

The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide for the period of infancy.”

=HOME=—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran 940.373

20–4692

The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F. Hudson.

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=Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w

=HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER.= Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories) *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–17651

The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.

* * * * *

“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that they are as accurate as they are vivid.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 480w

“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the average.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 120w

=HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE.= Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van Nostrand 609

19–16654

The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some indifference of the past; American war research; The education for research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six portraits.

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“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct for solving things.”

+ =Electrical R= 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w

“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain government officials and legislators of the higher type will find stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and appreciation of engineering.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w

“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical education.” B: C. Gruenberg

+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ja ’20 40w

“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”

+ − =Review= 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w

=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232

20–14228

The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says, is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are illustrations and a bibliography.

=HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS.= Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620

20–6879

This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects. It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions” in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics; Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The personal side.

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 100w

=HOWARD, ALEXANDER L.= Manual of the timbers of the world, their characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1

“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country. This special part of the work is followed by a more general one, dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec

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“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 570w

“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more use than its author modestly imagines.”

+ − =Spec= 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w

=HOWE, EDGAR WATSON.= Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf

20–20449

A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.

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“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison, Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 90w

=HOWE, J. ALLEN.= Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2

“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.

=HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE.= George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd

20–726

The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings; Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy; Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The final years. Illustrations and an index.

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“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:345 My ’20 1650w

“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be especially interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

Reviewed by Lindsay Swift

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 F 28 ’20 1900w

=N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w

“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official ‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w

“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w

Reviewed by E: G. Lowry

+ =Review= 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w

=R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 140w

“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive studies of the world war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN=, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–11148

“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days, to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of the course of American short story writing during the past half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here too.”

+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w

“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking than his selections.”

− + =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 240w

“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is here revealed.”

+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w

“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke

+ =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w

“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called a classic.”

+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w

“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w

“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and dignities of the short story as a kind.”

+ − =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3

20–2699

Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of which have been selected from the original volume.

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=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 1000w

“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle, as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about its business!”

+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w

“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr Howells’ should score a large popularity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 340w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–16794

Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical, always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher, a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.

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+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 1500w

“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.

− + =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w

“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w

“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.” Carl Van Doren

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 1900w

“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black

+ =N Y Times= p1 O 3 ’20 1950w

“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w

“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w

“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with simplicity.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p829 D 9 ’20 850w

=HOWLAND, LOUIS.= Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner

20–7497

“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured. Sources are not cited.”—Booklist

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w

“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose

+ =Review= 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w

=HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B.=, tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield

20–8884

The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda; Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes each translation and there are appendices.

* * * * *

“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.=[2] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6

“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:129 O ’20 560w

“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 900w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 180w

=Spec= 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w

=HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud.= Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton

20–22444

New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property, increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.

* * * * *

“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 130w

“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”

+ − =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w

“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 120w

“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w

“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the

## book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 210w

=HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM.= College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378

20–12841

Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort. This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind; The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind; How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms of culture; How may these things be? Index.

* * * * *

“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865, right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe. Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J. W. G.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:261 O ’20 400w

“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as his criticism.”

+ − =No Am= 212:573 O ’20 1250w

“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come to pass.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 330w

“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w

=HUDSON, STEPHEN.= Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf

A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife, and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design. In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of following.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1153 N 7 ’19 460w

“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of its inner veracity.”

+ =Nation= 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w

“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w

“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also, slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 O 16 ’19 650w

=HUDSON, W. H.= Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2

20–2104

“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J. Detmold.”—Booklist

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“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”

+ =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds which he describes and makes real.” J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w

“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study of natural history.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w

“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional bits that are Hudson at his best.”

+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w

“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact, and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”

+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w

“The book is well worth reading.”

+ =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w

“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 O 23 ’19 1000w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2

“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his ‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w

“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w

“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the species here described in their natural haunts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 1450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton

20–23046

“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”

+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 140w

“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must have a permanent place in our libraries.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 1050w

“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w

“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s genius.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p823 D 9 ’20 960w

=HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT.= Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3 Appleton 387

20–9794

The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean rates and regulation. There is an index.

* * * * *

“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”

+ =Am Econ R= 10:595 S ’20 80w

“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 40w

=HUEBNER, SOLOMON S.= Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2

20–16525

The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations; Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of the various types of policies); Index

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 140w

“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine insurance offices.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 170w

=HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA.= Diantha goes the primrose way, and other verses. *$1.35 Harper 811

20–6682

The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved objects.

* * * * *

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:61 S ’20 580w

=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w

=HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08

(Eng ed 20–3437)

A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland, consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853); The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements (two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on The British empire. There is an index.

* * * * *

“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or illuminating.” C. F. Lavell

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:133 O ’20 350w

“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300 pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to finish with unabated interest.”

+ =Sat R= 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w

=HUGHES, GLENN.= Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811

20–11395

From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.

* * * * *

“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–20946

Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper; You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other magazines.

* * * * *

“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good, while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all, an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 580w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper

20–8631

Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a “professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists, quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions on prohibition and social conditions generally.

* * * * *

“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading, though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w

“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely put together.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, TALBOT.= Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391

The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface) Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the development of costume in the different centuries including the nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.

=HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.= Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380

20–4902

“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals, based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph under review the author has brought together the best results of his earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our commercial development.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a fair balance.” E. L. Bogart

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:145 O ’20 340w

“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’ published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:153 S ’20 550w

“An extremely readable volume.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w

=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).=[2] Sword of the spirit. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8516

“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other. Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature. The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”

− + =Cath World= 112:544 Ja ’21 330w

“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes

20–2263

The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen, consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 40w

“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with improbable power.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w

“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention throughout 500 closely printed pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 250w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134

20–7778

“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism, with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not ‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”

− + =Ath= p1301 D 5 ’19 60w

“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana, interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation, ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”

− =Cath World= 111:553 Jl ’20 320w

“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4

20–5751

Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an “extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks, Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of

## part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;

The vision malefic.

* * * * *

“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to what he says.”

− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w

+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20

“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them. As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres

+ =Bookm= 51:231 Ap ’20 900w

“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the arts in most of the centuries.”

+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w

“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 580w

“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres

+ − =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w

“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators of the Mencken-Nathan order.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w=

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

=Yale R= n s 10:187 O ’20 250w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner

20–16114

“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres

+ =Bookm= 52:267 N ’20 800w

“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull, hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 140w

“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive, versatile, individual.” J. B. A.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1350w

“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly human book.” B. D.

+ =N Y Times= p8 S 12 ’20 2000w

“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w

“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years. One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships, but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective. Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w

“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w

“Both volumes well repay perusal.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 50w

“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects Philadelphia as the most interesting?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1700w

=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.=[2] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477

20–20074

“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book, meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve, as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor; Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.

* * * * *

“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 580w

+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w

+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 140w

“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w

=HUNT, H. ERNEST.= Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131

(Eng ed SG19–89)

In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory; The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves; Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.

* * * * *

“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in hand.”

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

=HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON.= When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1

20–7945

The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of: The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea, returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20

“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn many things in a pleasing way.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 180w

=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.= New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387

20–11687

This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships; Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w

“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed instruction in practice and methods.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 190w

=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly press 920

20–10511

The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent, foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz; Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.

* * * * *

“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w

“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”

− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w

“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w

“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference book.”

+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 90w

“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In the first place, since the constitution does not provide for conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no ‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.

− =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w

=HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE.= Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4

19–18237

“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and although occasional references are made to the work of women during the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since 1914.”—Am J Soc

* * * * *

“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:609 S ’20 450w

“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary Van Kleeck

+ − =Am J Soc= 25:497 Ja ’20 200w

=Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”

+ =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w

“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig

+ =New Repub= 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w

“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w

=HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON.= Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner 920

(Eng ed 20–22470)

“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s ‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne, George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G. Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript

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“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these 300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p830 Je 25 ’20 550w

“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some recent writers.” Theodore Maynard

+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w

“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w

“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its judgment.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w

“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a circumspect critic of their public activities.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 1350w

=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Happy house. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–1214

Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story, that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.

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“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:204 Ap ’20 400w

“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 450w

“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”

+ =Cath World= 111:407 Je ’20 210w

=Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

=Lit D= p97 S 18 ’20 2650w

“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w

“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character drawing.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w

“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 280w

=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Helping Hersey. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–26758

A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino; Three times; A Berlin adventure.

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“Slight but entertaining.”

+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in one volume by one author.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w

=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821

20–16190

In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism. The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art; First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round; Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.

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“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book, but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to print them.” J. M. M.

− + =Ath= p699 My 28 ’20 1500w

“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry. His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war, and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 1850w

“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires; for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley

+ − =Dial= 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w

“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination to write something better than the conventional prettifications which people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w

“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 19 ’20 1250w

=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Limbo. *$1.75 Doran

20–12115

A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop; The death of Lully.

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“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 100w

“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”

+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w

“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is without doubt.” H. S. G.

+ =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w

“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a certain achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w

“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the effervescence of his spirits.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w

“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”

− + =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w

“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 460w

“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state, what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth having.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 5 ’20 800w

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=IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE.= Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him. il $1.50 Christian herald pub.

19–14241

“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint. He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious life.”—Boston Transcript

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“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of Roosevelt’s personality.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 160w

=Nation= 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w

“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w

=R of Rs= 62:419 O ’20 950w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 180w

=ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of.= Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner

(20–4450)

“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things. What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history is primarily a biography. But during at least the first five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House, at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence, much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page. The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker

+ =Am Hist R= 26:87 O ’20 750w

+ =Ath= p206 F 13 ’20 1700w

“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry, have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”

− + =Sat R= 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w

“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his ‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”

+ =Spec= 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w

“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p73 F 5 ’20 3650w

=In= the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

20–19505

The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs ‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on life and books.

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“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up, is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w

+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 520w

“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression. Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w

“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 580w

“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present

## book is her first.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 500w

“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of touch.”

+ =Sat R= 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w

=Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w

“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and power.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w

“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of analysis.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w

=INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD).= Love and the crescent; a tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes

20–11299

The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war. It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights, deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.

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“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very interesting.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w

“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a real live human being.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w

=INGALESE, RICHARD.= History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 131

20–10777

The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past, present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers; Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of opulence. There is an index.

=INGE, WILLIAM RALPH.= Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204

20–18249

“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions. To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec

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“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”

+ − =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 250w

“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness, epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his fearlessness.”

+ =Ath= p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w

+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20

“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal consequences.” O. L. Joseph

+ − =Bookm= 51:237 Ap ’20 700w

“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w

“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”

+ − =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w

“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the ‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w

“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals, institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D. S. M.

+ =New Repub= 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w

“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”

+ =Review= 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w

+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)

“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 N 6 ’19 2050w

=INGERSOLL, ERNEST.= Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5

“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead, whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and excellently illustrated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 160w

=N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 500w

=INGPEN, ROGER=, ed.[2] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs 821.08

20–19453

This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs; Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise; Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.

=INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.= Report on the steel strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89

20–16529

In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint. These findings justify the strike in its central phase and substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference; Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian findings); Appendices and index.

* * * * *

“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M. Janes

+ =Am Econ R= 10:877 D ’20 1900w

=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“One of the most important documents in the history of American industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W: Z. Foster

+ =Freeman= 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w

“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult. This work is invaluable.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 D 12 ’20 370w

Reviewed by L. K. Frank

+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 90w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman, newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s commission.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w

=INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS.= Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press 613

20–15934

The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25, 1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes, contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health; The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in marriage.

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“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these discussions.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w

=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam

20–6636

Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her. She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.

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“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w

“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400 pages.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w

=Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w

=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Suffering husbands. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran

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A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled; Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.

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=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w

=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–6843

A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists. Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin, Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in the end to Oliver and his mules.

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+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 370w

“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph Cheyney

− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w

“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is intended to caricature.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w

“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

=ISE, JOHN.= United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9

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“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard

+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w

“A well written and nontechnical book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 24 ’20 260w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w

=IVES, HERBERT EUGENE.= Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott 778

20–7599

Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate the text and there is an index.

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=Booklist= 16:268 My ’20

“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and useful information.”

+ =Cleveland= p88 O ’20 30w

“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual for class or self instruction.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w

+ =Spec= 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w

=IVEY, PAUL WESLEY.= Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan 658

20–3332

“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of personality which make a successful salesman; these include enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N Y Evening Post

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“An interesting and practical book for department store classes. Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”

+ =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20

“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a good one of its kind.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 150w

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=JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS.= Early Persian poetry. il *$2.25 Macmillan 891.5

20–7452

“From the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi” (Sub-title) is the ground covered by this book, which aims “to give succinctly the main outlines of the several early periods, ... and to illustrate, by translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of the various authors.... Many of the citations are only small fragments of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked almost as shades from the far-distant past.... Some of the reliques of their works, however, are longer and have a fuller metrical tale to tell. The episode of Suhrab and Rustam, moreover, is a well-known classic in literature.” (Preface) Contents: Persian poetry of ancient days; The new awakening of Persian song after the Muhammadan conquest; the Tahirid and Saffarid periods; Rays from lost minor stars: earlier Samanid period; Rudagi, a herald of the dawn; Snatches of minstrel song; from the later Samanid period to the era of Mahmud of Ghaznah; Dakiki; The round table of Mahmud of Ghaznah: court poetry; Firdausi, and the great Persian epic; The Shah-namah; some selections translated; Epilogue. There are illustrations, a list of works of reference, a list of abbreviations, an alphabetical list of poets, a note on Persian pronunciation and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“Much as we must admire Professor Jackson’s zeal and fervor ... yet one can not but feel a sense of disappointment at the amateurishness of some of his versions, with their often clumsy use of ‘did’ and their woodeny structure.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 650w

“Professor Jackson has added immeasurable value to his book by a large number of original translations that are skillfully done and still retain poetry in their phraseology. The author’s hope of carrying on his work is commendable, and it is to be desired that circumstances make it possible.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 200w

=JACKSON, BENNETT BARRON, and others=, comps. Thrift and success. il *$1.25 Century 331.84

19–12737

A compilation arranged by the superintendent and two teachers of the Minneapolis public schools. “Several selections are devoted to the general aspects of thrift, but the editors have wisely included a considerable number of selections describing such thrift agencies as savings banks, farm mortgages, postal savings banks, life insurance, and government bonds. The opportunities for wise investment, as well as the necessity for saving, are thus brought clearly to the reader’s attention. The book includes several little plays which teach a thrift lesson. There are, too, inspiring talks intended to stimulate children to make a success of themselves. A number of biographical sketches of prominent Americans of the past and present are included.” (Survey)

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“A valuable occasional reader or teacher’s manual.”

+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20

“All the selections teach definite, crisp lessons, and teachers interested in thrift instruction will find the book extremely suggestive.” G: F. Zook

+ =Survey= 42:760 Ag 23 ’19 140w

=JACOBS, EDWIN ELMORE.=[2] Study of the physical vigor of American women; pref. by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. $1.50 Jones, Marshall 612

The author presents the results of some statistical studies made among college women. The outcome of the study is to show “that there is no real evidence of the decline in the physical vigor of the women of America.” And arguing that “the male half of the population of a country can neither be very far ahead or behind the female part in its general health,” he holds that his conclusions may apply to the population as a whole. The investigation was carried out along four lines: fertility, longevity, anthropological measurements and women’s athletics. There is a five-page list of references.

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=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20

=JACOBSEN, JENS PETER.= Niels Lyhne; tr. from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen. (Scandinavian classics) $2 (2½c) Am.-Scandinavian foundation

20–1700

A novel by the author of “Marie Grubbe.” It has been called a spiritual autobiography and in her introduction the translator sketches the relation of the novel to Jacobsen’s own life. It is the story of a dreamer who always falls short in his contacts with reality. Niels Lyhne’s mother spends her life in one long day dream, broken by disillusionments from which she hastens to take refuge in still further dreams. The infusion of this temperament in her son, though mixed with his father’s sterner stuff, renders all his efforts futile. The story opens with a beautiful account of Niels’s childhood with its friendship for two boy companions, and is carried through two love episodes, and a short period of happy marriage to his death in the war of 1864.

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“The novel has the quality of a late autumn afternoon, a windless, tranquil hour of waiting, when both strong desire and strong regret are absent, and when in a mood of reverie and forgiveness we let the world glide from us. A sense of something honey-sweet, faded, and delicate pervades it. How deeply Jacobsen was the literary artist the Larsen translation unfortunately little reveals. Though it is more faithful to the original than the general run of translations to which we here in America have become accustomed, its prosiness and stiffness, its air of being all too patently the translation, prevent it from representing Jacobsen quite fairly.” Paul Rosenfeld

+ − =Dial= 68:644 My ’20 2150w

“The account of Niels Lyhne’s boyhood has a depth of insight even in matters of sex that is rare in the romance writers. Later the narrative seems a little hurried and huddled as though vitality to exhaust his subject had gradually failed the author. But this uncommonly sensitive translation of a memorable book is cordially to be welcomed.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w

=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= New Mexico; the land of the delight makers. (See America first ser.) il *$5 Page 917.89

20–6434

This is the third book about the southwest, a land he knows intimately, that Mr James has contributed to this series. California and Arizona were the subjects of the first books and he has found in New Mexico a theme of equal interest. As set forth in the long subtitle the aspects of New Mexico covered include “the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life, and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate accounts of its progressive counties, cities and towns.” Two interesting chapters deal with literature and art and among the illustrations are a number from paintings by artists of the Taos colony. There is a bibliography and the book is indexed.

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“Like others of the series, a beautiful picture book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

=JAMES, HENRY.= Letters of Henry James. 2v il *$10 Scribner

20–6773

In editing these volumes of letters, Mr Percy Lubbock has had a wide field for selection. For, as he says of Henry James, “He was at all times a copious letter-writer, overflowing into swift and easy improvisation to his family and to the many friends with whom he corresponded regularly. His letters have been widely preserved, and several thousands of them have passed through my hands, ranging from his twenty-fifth year until within a few days of his last illness.” (Introd.) In addition to the introduction which opens volume 1, the editor has contributed brief illuminating prefaces to the sections into which the volumes are divided. These divisions, for volume 1, are: First European years: 1869–1874; Paris and London: 1875–1881; The middle years: 1882–1888; Later London years: 1889–1897; and Rye, 1898–1903. Volume 2 comprises: Rye: 1904–1909; Rye and Chelsea: 1910–1914; and The war: 1914–1916. Notes are often provided for individual letters and an index adds to the value of the admirably edited work.

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Reviewed by Sydney Waterlow

+ − =Ath= p537 Ap 23 ’20 2350w

“The portrait they paint of the novelist and his surroundings is so clear that the editor has needed merely to add here and there a prefatory note. These and the introduction are finely appreciative and adequate.”

+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20

“The editor, Mr Lubbock, has compassed a dangerous undertaking in his selection and, while he offers many letters which illustrate the social side of his hero, he justly lays stress on the inclusion of literary themes. These letters bid fair to become a classic in English literature.” J. G. Huneker

+ =Bookm= 51:364 My ’20 2700w

“Throughout them we find an abundance of literary comment upon his fellow writers which is pungent and vigorous, even if not always convincing.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 10 ’20 1500w

Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes

+ =Dial= 69:83 Jl ’20 3700w

“Mr Lubbock tells us that James left behind him scarcely a document that revealed any trace of the origins of his work. Of the origins of his spirit, his point of view, he yields us scarcely more in the way of documentary evidence. One apprehends him here indeed in certain aspects of intimacy as the son, as the brother, as, if not the friend, at least the fellow-artist, as, perhaps most warmly, the uncle. It is only—only—as the man that he foils our question.” V. W. B.

+ − =Freeman= 1:164 Ap 28 ’20 1700w

=Lit D= p89 Jl 10 ’20 3450w

“All the more, however, finding him thus restricted as to race and sympathies and images, do we find ourselves admiring the magnificent passion with which he worked at his art. His famous prefaces to his novels and tales are accepted as an indispensable handbook to the art of fiction. No less may his letters be considered indispensable to those serious students and fellow-artists who wish to observe a genius massively revolving and tirelessly experimenting.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 2000w

* =Nation [London]= 27:178 My 8 ’20 1550w

“I am brash enough to venture the prediction that the best book of Henry James’s, the one with the widest appeal, the one with the most permanent interest, the one most easily read, is not to be found among those which he wrote for publication, but is this collection of his correspondence. What these letters bring before us vividly is a warm-hearted James, devoted to his family and dowered with the gift of friendship.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 2750w

“Whatever has been deleted does not harm that which gives pleasure and delight, surprising us by the clarity and directness of its style and by the warm sentiment of its friendship.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 380w

“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.” Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 211:682 My ’20 3000w

“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses

+ =Outlook= 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w

“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English adoption.” S. P. Sherman

+ − =Review= 3:706 Jl 7 ’20 2350w

“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified as it was humanly attractive.”

+ =Spec= 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w

“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 1400w

=JAMES, HENRY.= Master Eustace. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer

“The five stories in this volume, together with the four included in ‘A landscape painter,’ appeared originally in American periodicals, but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book form in this country. The present volume, along with ‘A landscape painter,’ makes accessible to the American public the nine short stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in English editions of his works.” (Preface) The five stories, all written later than “A landscape painter” are: Master Eustace; Longstaff’s marriage; Théodolinde; A light man; and Benvolio.

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“It is not to be imagined that because the stories in this collection are primarily concerned with the interplay of character they are slow-moving narratives, with a tendency to be diffuse. On the contrary, they are well-knit and direct in conception, and executed with richness, deftness in phrase and mood, and a quiet but keen wit.” Lisle Bell

+ =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 540w

“No one need look for masterpieces among tales that Henry James declined to put between covers. The poorest inclusion in the book, and one of James’s very poorest bits of writing, is ‘Theodolinde.’ The

## book is valuable but not invaluable.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 320w

“They are written in a style transparently clear and straightforward, and are decidedly romantic in substance and form. Nothing in this book is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 160w

=JAMES, HENRY DUVALL.= Controllers for electric motors. il *$3 Van Nostrand 621.317

20–174

“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction; Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259 illustrations and an index.

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=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20

=JAMES, WILLIAM.= Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press

20–23198

“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21

“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 52:557 F ’21 1150w

“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do these. They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’; they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the chronicle of a notable family.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 2150w

“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the world will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the most beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have been printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things about persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard, which should not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps

+ − =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 1650w

“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift, we may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w

“As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man, like William James, so there can never be another collection of letters like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care for genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will find the book a treasure-house.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 2600w

=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Book of Job; its origin, growth and interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223

20–27474

The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.

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+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21

“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 8 ’20 1150w

“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w

“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd

+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w

=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c) Lippincott 327

20–7859

The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the great war.

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=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted does not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to educate public opinion in this country on a question that involves us all, whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.

+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w

“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble faith as Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w

=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

Reviewed by M. H. Anderson

=Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 170w

=JAY, WILLIAM.= War and peace. *$1 Oxford 341.6

20–3783

As one of its publications the Carnegie endowment for international peace has issued a reprint of “War and peace,” published in 1842, with an introduction by James Brown Scott. William Jay, the author, was the son of John Jay, who helped frame the first peace treaty with Great Britain. Of his plan for maintaining peace, Mr Scott says, “Starting from the premise that we are free agents, that war is an evil, William Jay maintains that the extinction of other evils shows that war itself may be eliminated by the gradual growth of a public opinion against it and by the creation of agencies which nations can create and use just as individuals have created and used them.” The plan he outlines involves the creation of an international tribunal with power to arbitrate.

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“The book still has its importance, and the plan proposed has in fact made its way into many treaties.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=JEAN-AUBRY, G.= French music of today; tr. by Edwin Evans. (Lib. of music and musicians) *$2 Dutton 780.9

(Eng ed 19–17080)

“The first two sections deal with French music and German music and The French foundations of present-day keyboard music. Among the composers touched on in two sections called Studies and physiognomies and Sketches for portraits are Massenet, Debussy, Roussel, Chabrier, D’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Dukas, Ravel, and de Sévérac. A section on Music and poetry contains essays on Baudelaire and music and Verlaine and the musicians; the concluding section is on French music in England; and to this little volume M. Gabriel Fauré adds a preface.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Only the first chapter of the book is new, the others ranging over various periods, and in some cases dating as far back as 1906 and 1907, when the modern French achievement was virtually an unknown quantity in England.” (Ath)

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“Makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in clarity.”

+ − =Ath= p114 Mr ’19 60w

“M. Jean-Aubry is one of those enthusiastic apologists who almost disarm criticism by their sheer ingenuousness. Were it a volume of recent production, and a serious attempt at criticism, one would indeed be compelled to call his judgments in question on almost every page. A pamphlet which was opportune in 1909 may be rather tiresome ten years later.” R. O. M.

− + =Ath= p757 Ag 15 ’19 550w

“The critical judgments of some of the older chapters and the propagandist tendency make the book somewhat untimely.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:13 O ’19 30w

“M. Jean-Aubry has given us the point of view of the modern French composer toward his art. The value of this contribution alone more than offsets any charge of propagandism that the book may bring forth, a charge that is partially refuted by the very fact that much of its contents was written long before the war.” Henrietta Straus

+ =Nation= 110:527 Ap 17 ’20 650w

Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer

=Review= 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w

“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids technicalities.”

+ =Spec= 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w

“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w

“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a whirlpool of words.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w

=JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT.= Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. il *$3.50 Putnam 726

20–9215

The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work closes with chronological tables and index.

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“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of enlargement.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 100w

“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they go to Jerusalem and after they return.”

+ =Spec= 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w

“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 20w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1150w

=JEFFERY, JEFFERY E.= Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer

20–14708

A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine, they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul; Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way of epilogue.

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“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of kindliness.’”

+ =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w

“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”

+ =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w

“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p11 D 19 ’20 210w

“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w

=JENKIN, A. M. N.= End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane

20–7429

Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple, intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina herself.

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“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his plot.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 130w

“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 400w

“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and downright awful power.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w

“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this affection.”

− =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w

“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w

=JENKINS, J. T.=[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2

“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling. Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last chapter.”—Ath

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+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 100w

“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his text.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 280w

“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”

+ =Spec= 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w

=JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR.= Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667

20–18167

The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length. The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material. Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.

=JENSEN, ALBRECHT.= Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author, box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7

20–19054

“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises; Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises; General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the body. There are eighty-six illustrations.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 70w

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w

=Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w

=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf

20–22232

When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun, it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his

## actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or

household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which gives the actual murderer away.

* * * * *

“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”

+ − =Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 140w

“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 520w

“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty of opportunities here.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 420w

“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”

+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w

=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w

“A detective story of exceptional merit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 170w

=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield

20–3191

Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board. But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s dancing.

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“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom into popular ballerinas.”

− + =Ath= p475 O 8 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”

+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 70w

=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821

20–20439

The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom: “In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty stays her foot; Lover’s cry.

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“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point, perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 680w

=JESSUP, ALEXANDER=, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright

20–12376

“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W. Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others, including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious interest.”

+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 50w

“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w

“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work involving critical selection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 120w

=JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON.= Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2 Harcourt 192

(Eng ed 20–6885)

“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie, which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion, but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican

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“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important than those noticed by him.”

+ − =Ath= p539 Je 27 ’19 80w

“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by all who are interested in philosophy without being professional philosophers.” B. R.

+ =Ath= p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w

=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w

=Brooklyn= 12:28 N ’19 50w

=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w

“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense, does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey

− + =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w

“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of today.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w

“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p492 S 18 ’19 1000w

=JOHNSEN, JULIA E.=,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3 (Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7

This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service, Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in 1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.

=JOHNSON, ARTHUR.= Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–15533

The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918 volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”

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“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities of Henry James.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 400w

“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w

=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= What to see in America. (American highways and byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3

19–19488

“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home, but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.

* * * * *

“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full contents by states with mention of attractions.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say, but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward English.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w

“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for reference.”

+ =Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 40w

“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history to add the right tincture of romance.”

+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w

“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here photographed.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w

“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the ‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w

“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended to public-school geography classes.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w

=JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD.= Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ. press 811

20–1009

The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems; Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems; Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war; Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time poems.

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“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent laureate.”

+ =Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 120w

“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.” H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 60w

“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 1900w

“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar and the citizen of the world.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w

=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 Dodd 737

The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards; Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals; British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and index.

=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383

The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps, desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war; Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms with a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w

=JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO.= Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham 941.5

20–5597

“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the

## book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr

Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w

=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co., inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91

20–10078

“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w

“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment can ill afford.” C. H. Haring

− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 30 ’20 1550w

“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital interest and importance to the people of this country.”

+ =No Am= 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w

“A well-written history.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w

=JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON.= Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan

20–7923

“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’ taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren, consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In 1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother. The description of the experiences of these two women especially during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and well done.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay Dombeys’ will like this.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 2100w

“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.

− + =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w

+ − =Lit D= p97 O 9 ’20 1700w

“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”

+ − =Nation= 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w

“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”

+ =Nature= 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w

“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization, with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself (she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w

“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels and the war: 1914.’”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w

“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w

“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w

“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with the initials G. B. S.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w

“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We, unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w

=JOHNSTON, MARY.= Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper

20–18509

The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary. There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual nature.

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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 470w

“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her

## book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 520w

“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will, at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 270w

=N Y Times= p21 N 21 ’20 400w

“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too conscious effort at poetic expression.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 10 ’20 250w

=JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON.= First reflections on the campaign of 1918. *$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373

20–5656

The author, who was attached to the general staff at General Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics; The replacement system; Our army of the future.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

=N Y Times= p27 O 10 ’20 400w

=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c) Little

20–10309

The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire, Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of international significance, in which great sums of money are involved. Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the end, when she foils their schemes.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w

“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w

“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w

=JONES, ELIAS HENRY.= Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47

20–7946

This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and ‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a postscript and appendices.

* * * * *

“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a real and lasting service.”

+ =Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 100w

“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w

“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”

+ =Spec= 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 380w

=JONES, SIR HENRY.= Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320

20–12226

“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics

* * * * *

“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.

− + =Ath= p270 My 2 ’19 530w

=Int J Ethics= 30:115 O ’19 160w

“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A. by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”

− =Sat R= 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w

“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument is singularly clear.”

+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w

=JONES, HENRY ARTHUR.= Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370

20–10632

“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training of actors, English politics before the war, national training for national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion, reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers, have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the plainest economic laws.’”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p283 My 2 ’19 170w

− =Ath= p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w

“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought out criticism.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:83 F ’20 40w

“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”

+ =Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w

“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”

+ − =N Y Times= 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w

“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or as a treatise upon education.”

+ − =No Am= 212:428 S ’20 1850w

“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w

+ =St Louis= 18:56 Ap ’20 40w

“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w

=JONES, HERBERT.= Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821

20–7866

A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of that city.

* * * * *

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 30w

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 200w

“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling, or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which fills the rest of the book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w

=JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr.= Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811

19–16027

The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight; Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.

* * * * *

“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w

=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan 940.47

20–10376

“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says, ‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work; it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors. Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation

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“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of singular and effective devotion and courage.”

+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 200w

=Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21

+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w

“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed account of a great work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w

“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too, for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt

+ − =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w

“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his story more summarily.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p690 O 28 ’20 1250w

=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan

19–1571

“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of definition.”—R of Rs

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“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:202 Mr ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w

“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the Society of Friends with masterly art.”

+ =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w

“A compact and well-written volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w

=JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.).= La Chance mine mystery. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.

* * * * *

“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable

## action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going

on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 170w

“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 520w

“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men and women alike.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will satisfy the most blasé reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

=Pub W= 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w

=JONESCU, TAKE.= Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923

20–3876

The author of this volume was former prime minister of Roumania. Of this English version Viscount Bryce writes in the introduction: “the descriptions it contains are for the most part vigorous sketches rather than portraits. Some, however, may be called vignettes, more or less finished drawings, each consisting of few lines, but those lines sharply and firmly drawn. Intermingled with this score of personal sketches there are also a few brief essays or articles which set before us particular scenes, little fragments of history in which the author bore a part, all relating to the persons who either figured in the war, or were concerned with the intrigues from which it sprang.” Contents: Monsieur Poincaré; Prince Lichnowsky; Count Berchtold; The marquis Pallavicini; Count Goluchowsky; August 2, 1914; Kiderlen-Waechter; Count Aehrenthal; Count Czernin; Count Mensdorff; England’s antipathy to war; The responsibility for the war; King Charles of Roumania; Herr Riedl; Count Szeczen; Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace; Baron Banffy; Roumanian policy; Tragedy; Count Tisza; Talaat Pasha; Prince von Bülow; Taticheff; France and the Teuton; A cousin of Tisza; New Italy; Why four last Germans; Eleutherios Venizelos; The kaiser.

* * * * *

“Some light is thrown on the events immediately preceding the war, and although the book is almost diplomatically polite, we see once more of what poor quality these official great men usually are.”

+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w

+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20

=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w

+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 80w

“Through all the back-stage chat which a diplomat loves we catch sharp flashes which throw into new relief many of the great events connected with the war.” H. F. Armstrong

+ =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 520w

+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 400w

“The book, being what it is, naturally does not contain or profess to contain the matured contribution to the history of the last decades which we hope some day to have from his pen; but none the less it will be useful to many and can be read with pleasure by all.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p704 D 4 ’19 1300w

=JOSEPH, MRS HELEN (HAIMAN).= Book of marionettes. il *$5 Huebsch 792

20–26461

“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people, though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of operating them.”—Outlook

* * * * *

“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets themselves.”

+ =Booklist= 16:268 My ’20

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w

“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.” Maurice Browne

+ =Freeman= 2:18 S 15 ’20 1600w

“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic, airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 1300w

“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the indispensable erudition.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 2500w

“Amusing and whimsical book.”

+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 330w

“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject, it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 310w

=JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON).= Junior cook book. $1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5

20–10578

The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain, nourishing food without any other help than the directions given. Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship. Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies; Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves; Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.

* * * * *

“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”

+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w

=JUDSON, JEANNE.= Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–2647

Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated, emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George, the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth, however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere that hangs over Gloria and her household.

=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults now in vogue.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 60w

=JUTA, RÉNÉ.= Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt

20–13976

The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta, discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a woman) was a leper.

* * * * *

“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least. Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.” G. M. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 460w

“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying of the characters.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w

=Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w

“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w

“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:122 Ag 7 ’20 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w

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=KAHN, OTTO HERMANN.= Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304

20–11152

A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.

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=Am Econ R= 10:810 D ’20 30w

=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”

+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 140w

“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w

“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”

+ =No Am= 212:426 S ’20 1350w

“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are

## particularly good.”

+ =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 300w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w

=KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW.= Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday 947

20–14311

The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the deliverer.

=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

Reviewed by W: Hard

* =New Repub= 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w

“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w

“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any such illusion.”

+ =No Am= 212:431 S ’20 750w

“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter

+ =Outlook= 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w

=KANE, ROBERT.= Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170

“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath

=Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w

“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index has been omitted.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:825 S ’20 370w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w

=KARSNER, DAVID.= Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright

20–978

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21

“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the literature of the day.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 160w

“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”

+ =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 80w

“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter

+ =Nation= 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w

“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait, which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w

=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w

“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the historical sources to the extent that he might under different circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is excellent.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w

“Not needed by all small libraries.”

+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:123 Je ’20 50w

=KARTINI, raden adjeng.= Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf

20–20025

The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her achievements in that direction.

+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20

“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 1100w

“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid manner.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 600w

“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however, her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the

## book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”

+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 100w

“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w

+ =Nation= 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w

“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.

+ =New Repub= 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w

=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–18511

Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.

* * * * *

“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”

+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w

“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w

=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–18510

After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,” Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister, and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part. And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.

* * * * *

+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 130w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w

=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton

20–7297

“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath

* * * * *

“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’ creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself—an invention rather than a copy.”

+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w

“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted, and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it, so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p881 S 12 ’19 1200w

“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19)

“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 1500w

“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”

+ − =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 70w

“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book ‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H. S. G.

+ =Freeman= 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w

“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly move the reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w

“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w

“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which observation and local knowledge are happily united to very considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”

+ =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w

=KEABLE, ROBERT.= Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton

20–15963

“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times

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“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:257 My ’20 300w

“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w

=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580

20–10564

Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent, omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers; Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth; Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English names.

+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w

=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE.= Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75 Oxford 967

(Eng ed 19–12919)

“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial

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=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 50w

=Dial= 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w

“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious, exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:290 Ap ’20 950w

Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois

+ =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w

“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state is exact and scholarly.”

+ =Spec= 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w

“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for affairs, and financial skill.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w

=KEITH, ERIC A.= My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47

20–2039

Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of which the third was successful. This American edition of the book contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.

* * * * *

“Vigorously written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20

“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w

+ =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w

“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 28 ’18 70w

=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper

20–1213

Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.

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“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w

“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is written in an entertaining vein.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w

=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper

20–7299

They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 120w

=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper

20–18251

“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 230w

=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs

20–7519

“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w

“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w

=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746

20–5590

“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.

* * * * *

“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:269 My ’20

“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”

+ =Boston Transcript= My 19 ’20 230w

+ =Cath World= 112:398 D ’20 170w

Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman

+ =J Home Econ= 12:425 S ’20 340w

“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”

+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.

+ =St Louis= 18:223 S ’20 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 26 ’20 840w

=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Mercier; the fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton

20–5667

The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book, parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal Mercier’s works concludes the book.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w

“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”

+ =Cath World= 111:687 Ag ’20 380w

“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris

+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w

“An authentic and illuminating biography.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 70w

+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w

“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout reverence.” M. K. Reely

+ − =Pub W= 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w

+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w

=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–8244

A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,” describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food administration, and the American relief administration. Four appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and speeches.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w

“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”

+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w

=R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w

=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton

20–17603

A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.

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+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w

“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”

+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 60w

“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey

− =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w

“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for nature lore before.” Robert Hunting

+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w

“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 120w

=KELLY, FRED CHARTERS.= Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658

A20–714

“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey

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“Interesting but rather obvious.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20

“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements of conduct.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 260w

“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w

=KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN.= American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926

20–14756

To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.

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“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne

+ =N Y Times= p14 O 31 ’20 2500w

=KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD.= What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper

20–3794

As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of the grave in France.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a success.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w

=KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD.= Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811

20–12187

“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis) “Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)

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“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this volume.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 1300w

=Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 40w

“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found ‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are gathered here.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w

“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before, though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren

− + =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w

“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 160w

=St Louis= 18:247 O ’20 30w

=KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.=[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane

20–17967

“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past. A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to justice.”—N Y Times

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“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping, straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 160w

“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery, admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 80w

=KENEALY, ARABELLA.= Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396

(Eng ed SG20–92)

“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath

=Ath= p621 My 7 ’20 120w

“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman

− =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 30 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w

“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length, and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:436 My 8 ’20 800w

“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”

+ − =Spec= 125:20 Jl 3 ’20 500w

=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6 Macmillan 852

20–8020

Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who, across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life, a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work, the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an index and three illustrations.

* * * * *

=Ath= p266 Ag 27 ’20 2150w

+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French and Italian citations.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 900w

“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”

+ =Nation= 111:511 N 3 ’20 250w

“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 720w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 60w

+ =Spec= 125:476 O 9 ’20 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 350w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 Ag 26 ’20 1250w

=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–19583

The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson, Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims, and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s innocence, true love comes to its own.

* * * * *

“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern Italy.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 90w

“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know his Venice.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 470w

=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822

20–6980

An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:271 My ’20

=Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 260w

“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 520w

“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught, and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues of its journey.”

− + =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 380w

“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment, falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is, is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:255 Jl ’20 380w

=KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.=[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230

20–15157

“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second

## part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main

independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the theology of the developing church.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1016 O 10 ’19 60w

“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”

+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 240w

=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.= Jesus’ principles of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232

20–12830

“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the other in political science, have worked together to expound the teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this volume.”

+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 180w

“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal and of the abstract.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 470w

“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”

− =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 100w

“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the reader.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w

=KENT, ROCKWELL.= Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il *$5 Putnam

20–6728

Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is that which we believe it to be.”

* * * * *

“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art, we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w

+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

Reviewed by H: McBride

=Dial= 69:91 Jl ’20 800w

“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening

+ =Freeman= 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w

“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like ‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the wilderness.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w

“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’ is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys is not a mere surmise.”

+ =Outlook= 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w

“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is ‘Wilderness.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w

“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a born, though very unequal draughtsman.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w

=KEON, GRACE.= Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair

20–5124

“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and felt that she really could not take him into her household of six small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father, Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 120w

“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”

+ =Cath World= 111:696 Ag ’20 120w

“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w

=KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL.= Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia univ. press 940.373

20–3590

Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia, and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American scholarship; What have we learned?

* * * * *

=Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w

=KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS.= Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1

20–13602

“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w

“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist, not only without effective protest but largely with their acquiescence.” E. A. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 260w

“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”

+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w

“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w

“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”

+ =No Am= 212:575 O ’20 300w

“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America. Typographically the book is not attractive.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w

“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”

+ =Review 3:538 D 1= ’20 300w

“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably turned aside.” Jessie Fauset

+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w

=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134

20–17391

Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy, while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.” Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.

* * * * *

“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its details.”

+ − =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w

+ =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 60w

=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane

20–8544

This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”; Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”

* * * * *

=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 40w

+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 51:569 Jl ’20 920w

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 1450w

“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s ‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”

+ =Cath World= 111:831 S ’20 90w

“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression of their real greatness.”

+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w

“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means destitute of revealing touches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w

“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 D 11 ’19 750w

=KERR, R. WATSON.= War daubs. *$1 Lane 821

20–5692

This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.” Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w

“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”

− + =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 80w

“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 My 8 ’20 220w

=N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w

“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the verse into a real and true medium of expression.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 60w

=KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD).= Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–7762

Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s unfaithfulness.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

=Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 120w

“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief characters are very real.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that ‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent craftsmanship.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w

“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality. Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 300w

“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy) husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so attractive a feature in some American novels.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w

=KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.= Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543

The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The

## chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus

has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.” (Preface to the second edition)

* * * * *

“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to every industrial chemist.”

+ =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w

=KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.= Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94

20–2057

As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to “re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.

* * * * *

“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C. J. Bushnell

+ =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 640w

“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg

− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 750w

“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of individuals.” C. L. King

+ − =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 300w

“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination. In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and domination.”

+ + − =Ath= p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w

“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to widely differing political factions.”

+ =Booklist= 16:199 Mr ’20

“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip

+ =Bookm= 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w

“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle

+ − =Dial= 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w

“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may understand.” W: C. Bullitt

+ + =Freeman= 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w

=Lit D= p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w

“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral indignation.” H. J. Laski

+ + =Nation= 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w

+ =Nation [London]= 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w

“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are yet hanging.” A. A. Young

+ − =New Repub= 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w

“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve. Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league of nations.” P. D. Cravath

+ + − =N Y Sun and Herald= p11 F 2 ’20 3600w

“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet, and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the ‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen

− =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w

=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w

“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”

+ − =Review= 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 210w

“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages of this book.”

+ =Sat R= 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w

Reviewed by Arthur Gleason

+ =Socialist R= 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w

“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last, ‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves attention.”

− + =Spec= 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w

“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation [London] 26:426 D 20 ’19)

=Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w

“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he appears to have little interest or understanding.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w

“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires. Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual treatment than he himself proposes.”

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:94 Mr ’20 260w

“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour

− + =Yale R= n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w

=KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.= Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer; with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s

20–10008

“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July 30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w

+ =Cath World= 112:255 N 20 220w

“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay, and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of these memories.”

+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w

=KIMBALL, EVERETT.= National government of the United States. *$3.60 (1½c) Ginn 342.7

20–5064

The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical origins and the development of our national political institutions and the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered, authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution; Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance; Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United States and there is an index.

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“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the essential principles of our national political system which will give him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.” Ralston Hayden

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:722 N ’20 880w

+ =Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is no new interpretation of our national system, but there is compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:154 S ’20 620w

“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly, discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a reasonable degree of readability.”

+ =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w

+ =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 150w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w

“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science. Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that even a layman without any training in political science can understand.” J: E: Oster

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w

=KING, BASIL.= Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper

20–14599

A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it, returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will open up to him.

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“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit; only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to be an error.”

+ − =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 170w

“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King, and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 800w

+ =Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 320w

“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally fastidious reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w

“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers, the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w

=KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.= Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van Nostrand 540.3

(Eng ed 20–10609)

A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.

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“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.

+ − =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w

“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p25 Ap ’20 20w

=KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.= Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811

20–10006

Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity, Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and birds in sonnet and short lyric form.

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“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w

=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910

20–9990

In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between 1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889 published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in 1913.

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“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the greater the obstruction.” V. W.

− + =Ath= p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w

+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w

“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly over-stimulated nervous system.”

− =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w

“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight of Monadnock.’”

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w

=New Repub= 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w

“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic, not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews

+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w

“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow, these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”

+ − =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w

“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.

+ =St Louis= 18:231 S ’20 60w

“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us see things and understand things.”

+ =Spec= 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w

“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as inevitably out of date.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w

“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 120w

=KIRBY, ELIZABETH.= Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran

20–15953

Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness. First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius, held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy prince at last.

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“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 240w

“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she compels the reader to share.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w

=KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.=[2] Wealth: its production and distribution. *$2.25 Dutton 330

“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land, labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican

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=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 70w

=KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.= View vertical, and other essays. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–17902

Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman; Gift-books and book-gifts.

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“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the

## particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and

directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip suits a cat.”

+ =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 130w

“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w

“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen perception of just what her own position ought to be.”

+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w

“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w

=KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.= Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15

20–8868

“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, ‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes.

## Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters

describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining, stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training. Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic, geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School R

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“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to all students of educational psychology.”

+ =El School J= 21:153 O ’20 290w

“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K. Gordon

+ − =J Philos= 18:54 Ja ’21 150w

+ =School R= 28:638 O ’20 420w

=KLAPPER, PAUL=, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3

20–5826

A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S. P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E. Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2 covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany a number of the papers and there is an index.

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+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual and prospective college teachers.”

+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 290w

=KLEIN, DARYL.= With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.48

20–6740

The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple, jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The

## book is illustrated.

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“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the crop of war books.”

+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 60w

+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these ‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating, free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 150w

“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial humanity.”

+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 280w

“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 160w

=KLEIN, HERMAN.= Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century

20–17976

Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for which she had designated the author of the present volume as her collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

Reviewed by H: T. Finck

=Bookm= 52:166 O ’20 1250w

“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 17 ’20 2450w

=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p773 N 25 ’20 1300w

=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk 808.5

Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371); Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it (20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for speakers and writers (20–7283).

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“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H. H. F.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 17 ’20 550w

“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worth appreciably more than all of Mr Kleiser. His additions to it subtract from it by hiding it from the casual gaze.”

− + =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 220w

“The suggestions are sensible, sound, comprehensive, and written in terse and understandable language. Many practiced speakers could improve their style by following them.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a May 30 ’20 150w

=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH).= Lure of the pen. *$2.50 (4c) Putnam 808

20–6889

In her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to write; but sometimes it is possible to help the beginners to an understanding of what it is better not to write.” She tells these beginners why they fail, emphasizes the need of training, tells them three essentials in training and how to acquire them. She also tells them how to give themselves a course in observation and how to assess spiritual values. The contents are in five parts: The mss. that fail; On keeping your eyes open; The help that books can give; Points a writer ought to note; Author, publisher, and public.

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“The author gives much good advice (a great deal of it very elementary) to literary aspirants.”

+ − =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 120w

“Practical in many respects, the book is of little use in teaching the ‘would-be author’ how to become an artist. Miss Klickmann’s instruction is from an editorial standpoint, not from the artist’s, and as such her volume has its value for the novice who knows no better than to believe that literary greatness and fame come with a successful appearance in the magazines.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 550w

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w

“Her book is remarkably well done, and may very well help some real talent on its way; and, apart from that, it is written in so lively a style, so full of piquant anecdote and illustration, that it is a pity that the more sophisticated reader, who would really much more enjoy it than the ‘would-be’ author for whom it is written, is not likely to encounter it.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 900w

“Miss Klickmann’s work is adapted not only to people without knowledge but to people without brains. There is an iteration of the familiar, an elaboration of the simple, an elucidation of the clear.”

− =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 650w

“It might be said that if a young writer fails to profit by this inspirational book he had better leave off his attempts to write.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 100w

“The substance of the teaching is helpful, and the manner encouraging without being effusive.”

+ =Spec= 122:737 Je 7 ’19 300w

“On the professional side, her suggestions are of great practical value. If any adverse criticism can be made, it is that she does not classify thoroughly her comment on the various types of material discussed. Miss Klickmann’s advice is not effusively or obscurely pedantic. It is all breezy and to the point.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 800w

“She wields herself a very bright and ready pen, and out of the abundance of her experience she gives in a flow of headed paragraphs helpful advice on every side of the subject.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Je 5 ’19 100w

=KLUCK, ALEXANDER VON.= March on Paris and the battle of the Marne, 1914. il *$3.50 Longmans 940.4

(Eng ed 20–10378)

“Alexander von Kluck, generaloberst, has written a book about his Belgian and French adventure. It was completed in February, 1918, on the eve of the great German offensive in Picardy. It is the personal observations, impressions and opinions of a commanding general who reviews his own actions in the quietude of his study and illustrates them with the orders issued to him and by him, but with very little information beyond the manoeuvres of his own army in the field and almost none of the enemy. Evidently the sub-title to the book, ‘The battle of the Marne,’ is a characterization of the British editors, for the author calls it ‘The battle on the Ourcq’ and devotes the last third of the book to it. Still, if the British editors have given the book a title which shall more pointedly appeal to readers of English, they have also furnished the book with something far more important: Footnotes by the experts of the Committee of imperial defense. These notes check up von Kluck’s data, correct his errors, and often qualify his conclusions.”—N Y Times

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“His book lacks the attractive personality and humor of Ludendorff’s, the intimate observations of von Hindenburg’s. There is nothing picturesque about it. All the same, as has been said, the military historian will find therein a mine of academic information which he cannot afford to leave unexplored.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 25 ’20 2650w

=Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1150w

“A valuable contribution to military history.”

+ =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 430w

=KNAPPEN, THEODORE MACFARLANE.= Wings of war; with an introd. by D. W. Taylor. il *$2.50 Putnam 940.44

20–15470

“This book describes in detail the contribution made by the United States to aircraft invention, engineering and production during the world war. Five of the most important chapters are devoted to the origin, development and production of the famous Liberty engine. Mr Knappen is among those who believe that in spite of all the revelation of Congressional investigations made during the past two years the aircraft achievements of our government, considering our unpreparedness at the outset, were highly creditable.”—R of Rs

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=Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 110w

=KNIBBS, HENRY HERBERT.= Songs of the trail. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–19670

Poems of the far West and the cattle trails. Among the titles are: I have builded me a home; The pack train; The hour beyond the hour; The sun-worshipers; Gods of the red men; Arizona; Trail song; Waring of Sonora-Town; The long road West; Old San Antone.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“This is the West, seen first hand but seen through the perspective of Mr Knibbs’ Harvard training. One may suspect that these westerners are a bit more intellectual than the average cowpuncher, but the poems perhaps are the more readable for it.” C. F. G.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 290w

“Good, honest work of its kind, with occasional beauty and much narrative interest. ‘The wind’ is a strong and individual poem, especially fine in atmosphere and imagery. Mr Knibbs is far more of a poet than the much advertised Robert W. Service.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 150w

=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Mayflower maid. il *$1.90 (3c) Century

20–16501

A story of the coming of the Pilgrims. Barbara Gorges is a timid motherless girl who starts out with her father from Leyden in the Speedwell. When the Speedwell and the Mayflower are obliged to run in to Plymouth, Barbara’s father becomes the victim of a fatal accident and she is left an orphan. Fortunately for her, she is taken under the protection of Myles Standish and his wife Rose. The story then follows closely the historical narrative, and describes the trip across the Atlantic, the landing at Plymouth, the first hard winter, the death of Rose Standish, the relations with the Indians, the love story of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and finally that of Myles Standish and Barbara herself.

* * * * *

“More interesting than Taggart’s ‘Pilgrim maid,’ gives a good picture of life in the colony.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=KNOWLES, MORRIS.= Industrial housing. *$5 McGraw 331.83

20–16847

“Morris Knowles, an engineer of vast experience and the chief engineer of the housing division of the United States Shipping board, understanding the need of the interdependence of engineer, architect, town planner, landscape gardener, sanitarian, utility designer, contractor, real estate agent and the public spirited business man and city official in the development of a successful city plan and in the solution of the housing problem, has written the book, ‘Industrial housing.’ Housing is taken in its broadest meaning, with all its relations to other problems. The town plan, streets and pavements, water supply, sewerage, waste disposal and public utilities are some of the specifically municipal problems treated in this work. Illustrations and charts, a good bibliography and an analytical index complete its usefulness.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes

* * * * *

“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial housing.”

=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w

“The book is a store of invaluable information.”

+ − =Survey= 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w

=KOBRIN, LEON.= Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I: Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s

20–6127

“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where ‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of the soul of the new world.”—New Repub

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+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“The whole work is frankly realistic, softening no oaths and tempering no vices. Yet withal, it is a refreshing bit of reading, for despite the bitterness and ugliness floating like scum on the waters of that ghetto life, one never quite loses consciousness of the great deep cleanness beneath it all. In that Kobrin proves himself a master: his realism is suggestive and translucent, not blunt and opaque.” L: Brown

+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 920w

“Leon Kobrin has lived the life he writes about. His bitter realism is no creation of fancy; the atmospherical color is without blemish.” Alvin Winston

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ap 25 ’20 420w

“Once in a while, a race produces an author capable of presenting its message in language of so great simplicity and force that his writings can be appreciated anywhere in an adequate translation. The Jewish race possesses such a writer in Leon Kobrin.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 7 ’20 240w

=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Great south land. *$4.50 (5c) Dodd 918

A20–884

The book treats of the republics of Rio de la Plata, and southern Brazil of today. These countries the author, in his introduction compares to the ugly duckling which turned out a swan. Already before the war they had steadily risen in importance and “there is no doubt that the shifting sands of international politics and the racing centres of power have left these South American states in an economic position stronger than any which they have previously enjoyed.” Part 1 contains: Buenos Aires of yesterday and today; The Argentine capital in war time; Cosmopolitan influences; Some topical episodes; The work of the British in Argentina; Argentina’s political prospects; Internal and external affairs; Rio and its surroundings; British and Americans in South America; The press of the eastern republics. Part 2 is devoted to the industrial points of the various states and there is an index.

* * * * *

“A map would have been helpful to the reader.”

+ − =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 50w

=Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“Mr Koebel is essentially a writer sympathetic to the lands of which he writes. What his book loses in depth it gains by virtue of this sympathy, by its author’s earnest desire to see things from the South American angle, without in the least abandoning the attitude of a man alive to the defects of those whom he is describing. It is a stimulating work by a sane and just writer.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:223 My 2 ’20 1300w

“Mr W. H. Koebel’s last addition to the, by now, rather lengthy series of books which he has written on Spanish-America, is disappointing.... He obviously knows as well as anybody that the problems are there and call for answer. But he does little more than indicate their presence, and then wander in generalities and descriptions, not without occasional repetitions.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p640 N 13 ’19 850w

=KOONS, FRANK THOMAS.= Outdoor sleeper. *$1 (6c) Norman, Remington co. 613.79

20–13861

A little book inspired by the sleeping porch. The author writes of outdoor sleeping as a source of health and pleasure. There are chapters on: The first night; Outdoor toggery; The birds; The romping children of the night; The chastened hours of the morn; The trees; Summer; Winter; The stars; Health and happiness. A star map serves as frontispiece. The book was first copyrighted by the Journal of the Outdoor Life.

=KOOS, LEONARD VINCENT.= Junior high school. *$1.36 Harcourt 373

20–10298

The author calls attention to the great dissimilarity that still prevails in the junior high school movement in every aspect of organization and function. He holds that the experimental stages of the movement should now be reviewed and stock be taken of the current opinions and practices, with a view towards clarifying thought as to its peculiar educational purposes. With an introduction by Henry Suzzallo the contents are: The movement for reorganization; The peculiar functions of the junior high school; The test of the organization; The program of studies; Other features of reorganization; The standard junior high school; Tables and graphs.

* * * * *

“In six chapters Professor Koos has presented an analysis which goes to the heart of the junior high school movement. The book is a striking example of what can be done by way of giving information without becoming drearily encyclopedic.”

+ =El School J= 21:71 S ’20 1000w

=KOSSOVO=; heroic songs of the Serbs. *$1.25 Houghton 891.8

20–10292

These ballads, translated by Miss Helen Rootham and printed with the original on alternate pages, come with an introduction by Maurice Baring and an historical preface by Janko Lavrin. Mr Baring says of them that their colors are primitive like those of the primitive painters, their similes are taken from a first-hand communion with the sights and facts of nature and their emotions are the primitive emotions of man. But their soul is saturated with the Christian faith of the Crusaders and they sing the sorrow of Serbia, the unspeakable anguish of a people who are victorious in defeat. In the historical preface Janko Lavrin divides the Serbian folk-songs into four groups of which this, the Kossovo-cycle, deals with the heroic battles fought on the Kossovo plain against the Turks. The songs are: The fall of the Serbian empire; Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Militsa; The banquet on the eve of the battle: a fragment; Kossanchitch and Milosh: a fragment; Musitch Stefan; Tsaritsa Militsa and the Voyvoda Vladeta; The maiden of Kossovo; The death of the mother of the Jugovitch; The miracle of Tsar Lazar.

* * * * *

“Miss Rootham’s simple and dignified translation makes it possible for English readers to appreciate the heroic quality of the originals.”

+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 60w

“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs make them very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w

“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w

“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w

=KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.).= London venture. *$1.50 Dodd 824

20–4439

The author is an Armenian who has dropped his real name for a more pronounceable signature. The book consists of a series of “self-conscious” essays wherein the author under the guise of reminiscences discourses on men and writers, women and love, on death, friendship and modes of living. It is a book of moods also and the writer fits in the subject or person to fit the mood. The chapter vignettes are from drawings by Michel Sevier.

* * * * *

“The chief merit of the book is that the author has taken great pains with his style, which is considerably more attractive than the substance of the book.”

+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 70w

“Set forth with a cynical humor which narrowly escapes brilliance, much of the narration is downright fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 18 ’20 350w

“A curious introspective fragment of a story told in a succession of spasms of introspection. It suffers from its form, but as it was evidently written for occasional serial publication, that could not be avoided. The book and its illustrations have a certain charm.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 50w

“It is difficult exactly to understand the ‘challenge’ of this book or what the writer meant to do with it. There is undoubtedly a fascination hard to analyse about the book and the personality revealed in it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 250w

=KRAFFT, HERMAN FREDERIC, and NORRIS, WALTER BLAKE.=[2] Sea power in American history; with an introd. by William S. Benson. il *$4 Century 973

20–22044

The object of the book is to make clear the importance of sea power in both its military and commercial aspects. For this purpose it traces out and connects up into one continuous story the rise, development, and present condition of both branches, showing their mutual dependence upon each other. Biographical sketches are given of such outstanding figures in our naval development as Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, David Porter, John Ericsson, David G. Farragut and Alfred T. Mahan. Among the contents are: The defeat of British sea power gives America independence; The rise of commercial sea power in America during the Napoleonic wars; Sea power dominates the War of 1812; Sea power aids national expansion; The blockade a decisive instrument of sea power in the Civil war; Sea power splits the confederacy in two; Sea power in the Pacific; American sea power in the world war. The

## book is indexed and illustrated, with maps and diagrams of naval

## actions.

=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Blood of things. *$2 Brown, N. L. 811

20–13986

Mr Kreymborg’s second book of “free forms” contains verses grouped under such titles as: A five and ten cent store; Zoology; Arias and ariettes; Crowns and cronies, etc.

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=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w

“Nine-tenths of ‘Blood of things’ is unintelligible, or if intelligible is irrelevant to any human concern. The one-tenth which is intelligible and relevant is diffuse to the point of evaporation.”

− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 240w

“Mr Alfred Kreymborg’s new book is decidedly interesting to read, but it is more often merely interesting than lifting and compact with genuine poetry. Mr Kreymborg is inconclusive; his gestures are tentative; he does not strike fire with sufficient frequency to establish him firmly as an authentic poet.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 640w

“A critic who is unprejudiced and willing to be convinced by the free versifiers will acknowledge that there are one or two poems that are pretty poor. He would probably set aside the book with the comment that Mr Kreymborg has done some things well, but that anybody could do what Mr Kreymborg has done if he would consent to go just a little bit crazy.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 340w

=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Plays for merry Andrews. $2 Sunwise turn 812

The five plays are: Vote the new moon; Uneasy street; The silent waiter; At the sign of the thumb and the nose; and Monday.

* * * * *

“Their unreality and irony are invigorating and real, and Gordon Craig was quite right in considering them as a test for actors. The title should warn the professionals off and attract the amateur.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w

“There is no doubt that Mr Alfred Kreymborg has both talent and intelligence. But he has not reached the stage of any clear communication. The lilt of these playlets haunts the ear but teases the mind. There is a vertigo in the oddly rhythmed prose. But the intentions are dark, and where the darkness lifts they seem perilously commonplace.” Ludwig Lewisohn

− + =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 130w

“Almost all of his plays possess that direct appeal to children, although they are often too abstruse or fantastical for older audiences. To enjoy them completely one must have an open mind, unprejudiced by stage conventions. The whole volume, with its delightful caricatures, with its humors, with its tongue-in-the-cheek bombast, is very reminiscent of Dickens.” Malcolm Cowley

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 460w

=KUNOU, CHARLES A.= American school toys and useful novelties in wood. il *$1.25 Bruce pub. co. 680

20–26563

The author is supervisor of manual training in Los Angeles, where toy making has for some years made up part of the course of study in this department. During the war interest in the subject was greatly stimulated by the sale of the children’s products for the benefit of the Red cross. A general preliminary discussion of toy making, its educative value, the materials used, etc., is followed by a series of fifty-two plates with designs for toys.

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=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“This book gives excellent toy working drawings.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 70w

=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Kindred of the dust. il *$1.75 (1½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–8274

For the scene of his story the author creates a feudal fief in the Pacific northwest. Hector McKaye, head of the Tyee Lumber Company, is known as “the laird,” his son Donald as “the young laird.” Donald comes home from college and a trip around the world to find his old chum Nan Brent the mother of a nameless child. Nan had believed herself married and to protect the real wife of the man who had deceived her is keeping his identity secret and bearing her shame. Donald finds that he loves Nan and is willing to marry her. Interference on the part of his mother and sisters drives her away. Donald is stricken with typhoid and to save his life his mother telephones to Nan to return. Following his recovery steps are again taken to prevent the marriage but Donald is obdurate. A break with his father results. The war comes, Donald enlists, goes to France, comes home again and there is a happy reunion, with a copy of Nan’s marriage license turning up to prove her innocent intentions.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

“The story is powerful and holds the attention of the reader in an unusual manner.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 350w

“For sustained interest and constructive workmanship Mr Kyne seems, in ‘Kindred of the dust,’ to have outdone his previous efforts. Wholesome, entertaining story.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 450w

“The hero is almost too noble to be true.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 280w

“A strong, straightforward, unaffected story, seasoned, and not overseasoned, with sentiment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 70w

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=LABOULAYE, EDOUARD RENÉ-LEFEBRE DE.= Laboulaye’s fairy book; tr. by Mary L. Booth. il *$2.50 (5c) Harper

20–19778

This book of fairy tales, translated from the French, was copyrighted in America in 1886. Kate Douglas Wiggin has written an introduction for the new edition. The titles are: Yvon and Finette; The castle of life; Destiny; The twelve months; Swanda, the piper; The gold bread; The story of the noses; The three citrons; The story of Coquerico; King Bizarre and Prince Charming. The pictures are by Edward G. McCandlish.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:126 D ’20

+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 130w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 220w

“Delightful collection of tales.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 70w

=LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL.= Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations in the winter of 1899–1900. il *$3 Badger, R. G. 915.4

19–15644

“In his observations of Indian life Professor Ladd was chiefly concerned with educational, social and religious conditions. For the study of these he had unusual opportunities. This book gives a summary of what he learned from personal interviews with the viceroy and secretary of education in Calcutta, with natives and missionaries, and with Hindu philosophers. Professor Ladd also describes the social customs of the people and outlines some of the political reforms that are demanded by the native leaders.”—R of Rs

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“Although the book makes no contribution to the literature regarding India, it is interesting as reflecting the impressions of an American professor concerning the practices and cults of the Indian peoples.”

+ =Bib World= 54:430 Jl ’20 220w

=Boston Transcript= p4 N 5 ’19 440w

“Whether the generalizations he makes, based upon conditions as he observed them two decades ago, still hold true in full or not, they are interesting as reflecting the reaction of a foreigner, well equipped by his training in educational and philosophical work, to an alien and intricate civilization.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 300w

=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 100w

=LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON.= Socialism in thought and action. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 335

20–3555

The author is secretary of the Intercollegiate socialist society and editor of the Socialist Review. The important service of his book is that it gives an up-to-date treatment of the new developments in socialism and relates them to the movements of the past. It covers “the socialist criticism of present day society, the socialist theory of economic development, the socialist conception of a future social state and the activities, achievements, and present status of the organized socialist movement in various countries of the world.” (Preface) It is divided into two almost equal parts: Socialist thought, and The socialist movement. The work is intended to serve as a textbook for college classes and study groups, and “as a ready reference book for the thinkers and doers who have come to realize that an intelligent understanding of this greatest mass movement of the twentieth century is absolutely essential to enlighten citizenship.” There is a select bibliography on socialism and allied subjects, and an index.

* * * * *

“Of especial interest is the discussion of the Russian revolution, and recent developments in European and American socialism, concerning which the data are the latest available.” G. S. Watkins

+ =Am Econ R= 10:633 S ’20 480w

“Throughout the entire work differences of opinion are given; arguments are sound and the proof offered scientific. In fact it is a splendid presentation of this movement. Not only does the book deserve serious attention but it would make an excellent text.” G. S. Dow

+ =Am J Soc= 26:374 N ’20 630w

Reviewed by L. M. Bristol

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w

=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

“Dr Laidler has that discreet receptivity for conflicting opinion and dogma which gives his work, within the limits of socialism, the stamp of a firm, intelligent neutrality.”

+ =Dial= 68:670 My ’20 120w

“As a text book, Mr Laidler’s volume is invaluable. It reveals a ceaseless and remorseless study and reading of the socialist movement in all its manifestations and in all the questions that have aroused controversy. Impartial as a text book, it is yet vivid as a chronicle of events caught almost on the wing.” H. S.

+ =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 160w

“On its interpretive side, Comrade Laidler has used his material judiciously and his presentation is such that no charge of bias will be made by the reader, whatever may be the latter’s own view. His attitude is an objective one. A very good index rounds out one of the best contributions that has come from the pen of any American socialist author.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 28 ’20 900w

=Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 120w

“Probably as full and clear a statement of modern socialistic concepts as can be had in the English language.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

“As a book it suffers from two distinct faults. In the first place it tries to cover too much ground. No one can write a competent survey of every aspect of socialism in a moderate-sized volume. The book attempts, in the second place, a treatment of the most recent events in the socialistic movement at a time when the evidence for anything more than a bare and jejune statement of congressional resolutions is simply not available. Yet the book transcends these deficiencies. It shows, even to an outsider, what immense justification there is for a faith in the prospects of socialism.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Socialist R= 8:379 My ’20 600w

“Any one interested in the labor movement will use his book several times a week. Its mass of facts is not a mess, but an orderly mobilized compilation.” Arthur Gleason

+ − =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 370w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 Jl 29 ’20 110w

=LAING, MARY ELIZABETH.=[2] Hero of the longhouse. (Indian life and Indian lore) il *$1.60 (2½c) World bk.

21–649

The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C. Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for school children.

=LAKE, KIRSOPP.= Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3 Macmillan 270.1

“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus. The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“There is no mistaking the keenness of Prof. Lake’s thought or the brilliant cogency of his style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 12 ’20 1000w

“On many matters we must strongly dissent from him; but his work will be useful to every student of early Christianity, if only because it compels its readers to re-examine the presuppositions of their religious thought and to test their theories of the church’s development. If we say that the author of this work raises far more questions than he answers, he might be expected to reply that this precisely was his purpose.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p733 N 11 ’20 960w

=LAMB, HAROLD.= Marching sands. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton

20–5227

The American exploration society sends Captain Gray to the Desert of Gobi to find the lost tribe of the Wusun, supposed to be the remnant of an Aryan race, the original inhabitants of China. At the same time an English rival expedition starts on the same quest. The expeditions are facing the dangers not only of the desert but of the hostile Chinese Buddhist priests and of the leper colony with which Wusun is surrounded. By the time the desert is reached the American expedition consists of only one member, Captain Gray, and a Kirghiz guide. He comes upon the English expedition under Sir Lionel Hastings and his niece Mary. Being rivals they part company, each bent on reaching Wusun first. Sir Lionel is killed after he had set foot on its environs. Mary is taken captive by the Chinese and placed in charge of the Wusun. By sheer pluck Gray penetrates into the stronghold and puts up a gallant fight for Mary and the reader takes leave of them free but alone in the “infinity of Asia.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“Mr Lamb has written a gripping tale abounding in thrills and mystery, adventure and danger, bravery and love; and the narrative of this search for a hidden city presents a unique and exciting plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 320w

“While rather slow in getting into action, this tale is thrilling in the extreme after it once gets its American explorer into the Gobi desert.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 160w

=LAMBUTH, WALTER RUSSELL.=[2] Medical missions: the twofold task. il $1 S. V. M. 266

20–9358

“The growth of medical work in Christian missions is a romantic

## chapter in the record of the extension of the kingdom of God on earth.

The writer draws from a wide range of material and experience and presents the great work of medical missions in a most attractive form. The book furnishes a mighty appeal to the young man or woman who is looking forward to the practice of medicine and surgery as a life-work. One is forced to face the need of the world and to decide whether it is right to remain in one’s own land struggling for a practice, or whether it is far better to go where the need is desperate and invest life there.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“The pictures are well chosen; the specific examples of effective missionary service are stimulating; the field of study is wide and is surveyed with discrimination. An excellent book for private reading or class study.”

+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 160w

“Unfortunately the book is propaganda and the references to the adventures of the medical missionary are drowned in a misrepresentation of heathendom. Although he, Bishop Lambuth, does voice the cry for service in an antiquated religious idiom, he is really bigger than his creed and values humanity more than proselyting.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 280w

=LAMOTTE, ELLEN N.= Opium monopoly. *$1 Macmillan 178.8

20–2983

“‘The opium monopoly,’ by Ellen N. LaMotte, the author of ‘The backwash of war,’ ‘Peking dust,’ ‘Civilization,’ etc., is a remarkable monograph on the ‘opium question,’ based upon government blue book reports, statistical extracts and official data. In this work, the author discusses the problems of opium monopoly and consumption in India, the Malaya peninsula, Siam, Hongkong, Srawak, Turkey, Persia, Mauretius, British Borneo and British Guiana, and gives a brief outline of the history of the opium trade in China and of Great Britain’s opium monopoly.”—N Y Call

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“National pharisaism and a strong anti-English feeling are a conspicuous part of the writer’s equipment, but the facts which she adduces must give us to think.”

+ − =Ath= p685 My 21 ’20 80w

“Well documented.”

+ =Booklist= 16:258 My ’20

“One of the best arguments yet advanced against the mandatory system pieced together at Paris.”

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 50w

Reviewed by C: R. Hargrove

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 840w

“Miss LaMotte, in spite of her rather obvious desire to have her fling at Britain, is at the same time evidently actuated by a desire to reveal a grievous state of affairs. Having exposed the outstanding features of the cultivation and sale of opium by the British, it is obviously Miss LaMotte’s duty to continue her interesting investigations in this country.”

+ =Lit D= p89 My 1 ’20 900w

“Miss LaMotte’s little book might be taken more seriously if she were not at such pains to paint Great Britain black. It is idle to draw fine moral distinctions between the British government which sells opium to the Japanese and the Japanese who smuggle it into China. The whole trade is bad enough in all conscience, however, and to have attacked it is to have done something useful.”

+ − =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 340w

“Miss LaMotte did a great service to the cause of human justice when she wrote her admirable work. It will prove a valuable asset in rousing the conscience of the civilized people of the world against this gigantic international crime of drugging nations. Let us hope that the book will soon be translated into various languages of the civilized nations and the truth spread broadcast to remedy the wrongs of the helpless millions.” Taraknath Das

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 25 ’20 2750w

“Miss LaMotte’s book is intended as a severe indictment of Great Britain’s policy with regard to opium. Her account would, however, be a fairer one if consideration were given to the British side of the case as presented, for example, by Sir John Strachey in his ‘India: its administration and progress.’”

+ − =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 280w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w

“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan

+ =Socialist R= 8:315 Ap ’20 400w

“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 2200w

“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first, the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese especially; second, the danger that the United States will take China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 550w

=LAMPREY, LOUISE.= Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes

20–18171

Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal; Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.

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+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20

=LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.= Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828

(Eng ed 20–16302)

“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself, and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications, an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R

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+ =Ath= p1037 O 17 ’19 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ja 31 ’20 550w

“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who, liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life, and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us continually aloft.”

+ =Sat R= 128:507 N 29 ’19 1850w

“Charming little book.”

+ =Spec= 123:511 O 18 ’19 140w

“To glance through an admirable volume of selections from Landor, such as that edited by John Bailey is to be filled with delight and regret. What writer of the second rank has more to yield to the discoverer than he? What prose more squarely can support the weight of the exactest scrutiny than his?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 8 ’19 280w (Reprinted from Ath)

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p564 O 16 ’19)

“As, however, Mr Bailey implies by making a day-book of his selections, Landor not only constantly said beautiful things beautifully, but as constantly things that stand the wear and tear of daily life. No doubt the blank page at the end of this charming little

## book is provided to hold a good resolution—namely, whatever else may

happen in nineteen twenty-one, to read Landor through.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 850w

=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).=[2] Life in the circles. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

20–19176

This book is a continuation of the volume entitled “To walk with God,” and contains “further lessons received through automatic writing.” (Sub-title) There are lessons on will, knowledge, joy, truth, understanding, sympathy, and love.

* * * * *

“The level of intelligence of the sending spirits is not very high—a grade or two above the kindergarten.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 30 ’20 80w

=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).=[2] To walk with God. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

20–6367

A series of “lessons” which the authors received in the form of automatic writings. An introduction gives the circumstances under which the messages were received and the lessons have to do with the power of love, helpfulness, kindness and the need for spiritual guidance. The authors say: “We realise that it will be said that there is nothing new in the teaching, and we admit that there is repetition to what seems an unnecessary degree, but we pledge our word that we have put nothing of our own into the text.” (Introd.)

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“The fact that the wife of the Secretary of the interior and the daughter of James G. Blaine are the recipients of these messages will make a certain demand for the book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

=LANE, MRS ROSE (WILDER).= Making of Herbert Hoover. *$3.50 (4½c) Century

20–18582

Herbert Hoover represents America, says the author, and his is the spirit of five generations of American pioneers. His life began at the end of one pioneer age and the beginning of the other. His ancestors had been sturdy pioneers of Quaker stock—his father a blacksmith. They had conquered the soil, he conquered the world of finance. Much of the material of the book has been collected by Charles Kellogg Field, classmate and friend of Hoover.

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“Written with the interest in really delightful settings and small circumstances of life such as a novelist employs to characterize a hero. Children will like this book.”

+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

“It is a story of a wonderful career, written with a brightness and a dash that captivates and enthralls.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 580w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w

=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 100w

“The book is readable for its vivid presentation of an active and adventurous career.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 330w

=LANG, EDITH, and WEST, GEORGE.= Musical accompaniment of moving pictures. il pa *$1.25 Boston music co.; Schirmer 780

20–4471

“A practical manual for pianists and organists and an exposition of the principles underlying the musical interpretation of moving pictures.” (Sub-title) There are three parts: Equipment; Musical interpretation; The theatrical organ. Musical scores are given and there is an index.

* * * * *

“Not exhaustive but very suggestive to the player and illuminating to the listener.”

+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

“It is a book we can warmly commend.”

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 260w

=LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN.= Militarism in education; a contribution to educational reconstruction. 80c Headley bros., London; for sale by Survey 371.43

19–12681

“The author contrasts the German and English systems of education, gives an account of the scholastic methods adopted in Norway, deals at considerable length with the aims of real physical training, devotes a chapter to boy scouts, and brings many arguments against compulsory national service, to which he is strongly opposed.”—Ath

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=Ath= p475 Je 13 ’19 50w

“The faults of anti-militarist literature are usually rancour, sentimentality, and exaggeration. Mr Langdon-Davies has escaped all three. The merit of this book consists in its clearness and its shortness, in the fact that the author knows what he wants to prove, and proceeds to prove it without fuss or sentiment and with considerable moderation.”

+ =Ath= p621 Jl 18 ’19 550w

=Brooklyn= 12:62 Ja ’20 30w

“From the point of view of physical health, Mr Langdon-Davies gives many proofs from experienced educationists of the deleterious effects on children of military training. In a valuable chapter on the psychological aims of physical education, he points out that character must be built on the basis of instinct and that ‘the cornerstone of the superstructure is the acquirement of habit and self-control.’” B. U. Burke

+ =Nation= 110:335 Mr 13 ’20 1150w

=LANGFELD, HERBERT SIDNEY.=[2] Aesthetic attitude. *$3.50 Harcourt 701

21–113

The author holds that a sense of beauty is as vital to the complete existence of the individual and of the race as is the sense of justice and that a nascent appreciation of what is beautiful can be developed into a strong, useful and satisfying reaction to the world of colors, sounds and shapes. The emphasis of the book, therefore, is put upon a description of the nature of appreciation and of the mental processes involved therein, ... its wider applications to the problems of human happiness. He concludes that “whenever we are able to adjust ourselves successfully to a situation, so that our responses are unified into a well-integrated or organized form of action, we call that situation beautiful, and the accompanying feeling one of æsthetic pleasure.” The contents are: Introduction; The science of beauty and ugliness; The æsthetic attitude (two chapters); Empathy; Illustrations of empathy from the fine arts; Unity and imagination; Illustrations of unity from the fine arts; Balance and proportion; Illustrations of balance from the fine arts; The art impulse; Conclusion; Index.

=LANGFORD, GEORGE.= Pic, the weapon-maker. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–13544

“Like Kipling’s ‘Jungle stories,’ but laid in western Europe perhaps 40,000 years ago, the story of ‘Pic, the weapon-maker,’ is George Langford’s popularization as fiction of such facts as science has revealed about the cave men of the Mousterian era. Pic, the ape-boy, with the hairy mammoth and the wobbly rhinoceros, formed a triple alliance of friendship and adventure. Pic was in search of the secret of cutting flints in such a way as to put a fine edge on them without spoiling them in the attempt, and before the story closes he has found it and made it the key to renewed fellowship with the tribe that had cast him out. As to the scientific quality of the story no less an authority than Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American museum of natural history, writes a brief approving introductory note.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 17:37 O ’20

“Anthropology and adventure are jumbled—naively, at times—in this story which, for all its prehistoric licence, still clings to the technique of Stratemeyer and other weavers of juvenile romance.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 280w

“A troublesome fault is the author’s imaginative cocksureness. A higher degree of vagueness would actually have yielded an impression of greater exactness here. But where all is dark and chaotic, much must be forgiven to the first imaginative explorers. It is certain that Mr Langford’s book will fruitfully awaken the interest of the young in the remote past of the race, nor will maturer minds read it without some fresh light on dim places.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:190 Ag 14 ’20 260w

“The characterization of the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros is not the least clever part of this whimsical, fanciful and yet true story of this little, prehistoric man, and it is with real regret that the book is laid aside as the story closes.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 650w

“An unusual and a powerful juvenile. The spirit and narrative of the book will be enjoyed even by children too young to attempt the reading for themselves.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 97:1296 Ap 17 ’20 180w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 60w

=LANIER, HENRY WYSHAM.= Book of bravery; third series. il *$2.50 Scribner 920

20–15939

“This is a book of courage, wherein people in their daily pursuits meet with obstacles which they surmount through excellences of character. The man who is paid for his brave work, like the life-saver, the policeman, the fireman, is none the less brave and his deed is none the less fraught with the tingling quality of bravery. In the missionary field and on the battlefield Mr Lanier finds material for this volume.”—Lit D

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=Booklist= 17:123 D ’20

“It is a collection worth making.”

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w

+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 90w

“For the inspiration of these volumes, children and parents alike may well be grateful to Mr Lanier.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 60w

“The stories are vividly presented, and the book is one to stir the heart of youth.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w

=LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY.= Secrets of earth and sea. il *$3.50 Macmillan 504

“These popularly written chapters on a wide variety of scientific and anthropological topics, such as What is meant by a species? Species in the making; The biggest beast; The earliest picture in the world; The art of pre-historic men; The swastika; etc., form a sequel to the same author’s ‘Science from an easy chair’ and ‘Diversions of a naturalist,’ and like them is mainly a reprint, with considerable additions, of articles published in daily or weekly papers.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup S 23 ’20

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=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

“The essays are entertaining but have no high literary qualities. Men like Shaler, Burroughs, Muir, Mills, and Slosson have done this sort of book far better in America.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’29 140w

+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 2 ’21 3100w

“Let it be said at once that ‘Secrets of earth and sea,’ though extremely interesting, is not in the best sense as diverting as was ‘Science from an easy-chair.’ The subjects treated are delightfully interesting to the layman but the style is unfortunately rather redundant and heavy.”

+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 190w

“The book is indicative of what will be common in that happy day when science will be written about as fully and as charmingly as purely literary subjects are today.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 3 ’20 350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 90w

“Parents and guardians who are desirous of introducing their boys to the study of natural science and who, in pursuance of that praiseworthy aim, are looking for a book which, while sound and exact in statement, is yet light and easy to read and, above all, has no tincture of the school classroom, would do well to think of Sir Ray Lankester’s ‘Secrets of earth and sea.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p831 D 9 ’20 370w

=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= These things shall be. $1 (5½c) Huebsch 261

In these six essays the author proclaims himself a revolutionist and downright hater of the existing order but he does not see salvation in a terrific cataclysm with hopes of a new order arising from the ruins of the old. He pins his faith upon a change of heart in individual men and women and in the message “Ye must be born again.” The spirit of the essays is faith in a God of love and in the teachings of Christ of human brotherhood and love and cooperation. Mr Lansbury is editor of the London Daily Herald.

=Ath= p166 Ja 30 ’20 80w

“He has nothing startlingly new to say, but the serenity and steadfastness of his faith in humanity and in a society of individuals living the gospel of Christian love, will afford comfort and reassurance to minds tired for the moment of their searching.”

+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

+ =Survey= 44:355 Je 5 ’20 310w

=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= What I saw in Russia. *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright 914.7

21–434

In his introduction to the American edition of this book, Matthew F. Boyd, after reviewing the attitude towards Russia of the European powers, of which France is now the only one still openly hostile, finds that the United States has once more become the arbiter of world destiny and that her policy towards Russia will decide the future of the world. George Lansbury went to Russia to discover what was the spirit moving the men and women responsible for the revolution. He found it to be that of a band of people striving to build the New Jerusalem, that they are actuated by purely moral and religious motives and are doing what Christians would call the Lord’s work. Contents: Finland to Moscow; Lenin and other leaders; Lenin, bolshevism and religion; Co-operation, trade and business; Trade unions and labour organization; Children and education; Law and order; Prisoners and captives; About people; Public health; Moscow to London; Appendix.

* * * * *

“The chapter on religion will interest churchmen.”

+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

“Any one who wishes to gain a vivid picture of life in Soviet Russia, drawn with entire honesty and animated by sympathy and good will should, by all means, read Mr Lansbury’s book.” A. C. Freeman

+ =N Y Call= p10 D 19 ’20 420w

=LANSING, MARION FLORENCE, and GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Food and life. il 68c Ginn 613.2

20–5746

The book has been suggested by the new importance that the war has placed on food as a universal human need and on the desirability of a full knowledge of its potentialities even for children. “From its pages the child will learn the facts he should know concerning the great food business into which he is born and in which he is a partner.... There is hardly a virtue or an ideal of family, community, and world life which does not take a natural place in a study of the fundamental human problem of food.” (Preface) Every aspect of the food problem, the personal, the social, the economic and the scientific is entertainingly put before the child in detached stories. The contents are: A life business; The food tether; In business for yourself; Food as fuel; Our dally bread; The magic touch; Likes and dislikes; A world appetite; The first step; The moment of eating; In the world’s food market; The pitcher and the loaf; The gift of a garden; Kitchen service; Food and money; For future use; Food and health; Food and the government; At a world table. In Facts and figures are given tables, charts and lists of a scientific nature. The book has an index and illustrations.

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+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20

=LASKI, HAROLD JOSEPH.= Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham. (Home univ. lib.) *75c (1c) Holt 320.9

20–14002

The author holds that the eighteenth century began with the revolution of 1688, that it was a period of quiet after a storm and can make little pretence to discovery, but that its stagnation was mainly on the surface and that the period was fruitful of much thought resulting in future activity. The significance of Locke—who alone in this period confronted the general problems of the modern state—of Burke, Hume, Adam Smith and their contemporaries, forms the subject matter of the book. Contents: Introduction; The principles of the revolution; Church and state; The era of stagnation; Signs of change; Burke; The foundation of economic liberalism; Bibliography and index.

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=Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The method of treatment is not coldly analytical but genial and speculative. Care is taken to relate political theory to ethics; there are flashes of penetration into matters psychological; but economics receives scant consideration. To the present reviewer neglect of economics seems fatal. The truth seems to be that Mr Laski has written a conventional story, bolstered up English political mythology, and left the great muddle of so-called ‘political thought’ just about where he found it.” C: A. Beard

− + =New Republic= 24:303 N 17 ’20 1200w

“A really admirable little book.” F: Pollock

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w

“There are a few obscurities of phrase throughout the book, and a few far-fetched judgments. But, on the whole, Mr Laski writes brilliantly and suggestively, evincing a clear comprehension of essentials, against a background of necessary learning. It is his most broadly considered and best-balanced work.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 1250w

=LATANÉ, JOHN HOLLADAY.= United States and Latin America. *$2.50 Doubleday 327

20–14147

“This book is based on a smaller volume ... ‘The diplomatic relations of the United States and Spanish America,’ which contained the first series of Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history. That volume has been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming in.... I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty years.” (Preface) Contents: The revolt of the Spanish colonies; The recognition of the Spanish-American republics; The diplomacy of the United States in regard to Cuba; The diplomatic history of the Panama canal; French intervention in Mexico; The two Venezuelan episodes; The advance of the United States in the Caribbean; Pan Americanism; The Monroe doctrine; Index and maps of South America and the Caribbean.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:166 Ja ’21

“The American people are thoughtless, careless, heedless concerning the questions that affect them as regards Latin America, because they are ignorant of those questions. But should they be fed with misstatements like this?” S. de la Selva

− =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 580w

=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 60w

=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Jimmy Quigg, office boy. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan

20–18923

A new story for boys by the author of “Under orders” and “Marty lends a hand.” At fourteen Jimmy goes to work as office boy in a big publishing house and the story shows the opportunities for advancement open to the boy who is industrious and willing to learn. One of Jimmy’s fellow workers, Fred Garson, has different ideals. He introduces Jimmy to the Office boys’ league and attempts to organize a strike. Fred disappears and with him some of the company’s funds. Jimmy, who refuses to believe his friend guilty, does some amateur detective work, clears Fred’s name and circumvents a group of bomb plotters in the bargain.

* * * * *

“There is a pronounced moral flavor, but it is quite wholesome.”

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 60w

“Mr Latham improves in his narrative style and cumulative interest of plot.”

+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 140w

“The author understands the types he has drawn, and he understands also the universal boy.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 13 ’20 140w

“The theme of Americanization inspires the book, but first of all it is a good story, a delightful bit of character study, and it is written by a man who knows his job.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w

=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Marty lends a hand. il *$1.60 (3½c) Macmillan

19–16144

Marty, the young hero of this story for boys and girls, is in his sophomore year in high school. He has won first honors in the sophomore oratorical contest and is to play “Tony Lumpkin” in the class production of “She stoops to conquer.” And then just at that happy moment an accident to his father takes him out of school to shoulder the responsibilities of a bread winner. He finds an original way of earning a living—growing mushrooms in an abandoned mine. The mine proves to be the secret hiding place of German plotters and Marty sees that they are brought to justice. But the chief interest of the story is in the mushroom experiment, and thru cooperation of his loyal friends, it succeeds beyond Marty’s fondest hopes. His father recovers and takes charge of the new business and Marty looks forward to a return to school.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:175 F ’20

“A distinct advance over his book of last year.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 50:382 N ’19 60w

“Mr Latham knows his boys and girls, and he makes them not mere automatons but living figures on the stage he has set so skilfully.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 8 ’19 400w

“‘Marty lends a hand’ is a good story for young readers for the same reason that ‘Under orders’ was a good story for them, because it is what they are themselves when they are what they should be—simple, wholesome, natural and unconsciously democratic.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:636 N 9 ’19 500w

=LATZKO, ANDREAS.= Judgment of peace. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–1372

“The author of that bitter polemic against warfare, ‘Men in war,’ repeats his denunciation in ‘The judgment of peace.’ Lt. Latzko has written an argument rather than a novel. The thesis is that war is a diplomats’ game and wholly evil for the ‘impotent pieces.’ The hero of the book is George Gadsky, a pianist, who volunteered, submitted to arbitrary discipline, and ‘felt crushed, torn out of his real self, degraded to the level of a shabby, beaten sneak.’ The overbearing, stupid sergeant, the stay-at-home enthusiast and the families rivaling each other in iron crosses and deaths are scored. One ringing declaration in this novel is contained in the words of the Frenchman, Merlier: ‘Have not these four years taught every nation that you cannot seek to enslave others without robbing yourself of all freedom?’”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

“Were it not for the devout prayer for human brotherhood which is made throughout the book, it would, not merely by its grimness and gloom, but by its lightning flashes of revelation, leave the night more black.” M. E. Bailey

+ =Bookm= 51:206 Ap ’20 650w

“The ‘Judgment of peace’ appears to be the work of one who has gone through intense suffering by reason of the war, and whose life has become permanently embittered. Few writers equal his descriptions of the bloody agonies of the battlefield and his pictures of soldiers, but his outlook on life is morbid and gloomy.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:108 Ap ’20 360w

“His story fails as art because it is forever running into bald propaganda, as propaganda because its grounds are emotions instead of thoughts.”

− =Dial= 68:536 Ap ’20 80w

“Like ‘Men in war,’ ‘The judgment of peace’ is swift and strong, lucid and incandescent, appalling and irresistible. Latzko’s fierce arraignment and mighty tract should be welcomed by lovers of peace and should be kept alive in order that an epic memory all plumes and purple may not go down from our generation.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 600w

“‘The judgment of peace’ is a book of hate—hate not for ‘enemy’ countries, but for selfish rulers and militarists everywhere. So far, so good—but the author goes too far; his condemnation of ruthless militarism, of selfish uncontrolled power, is good and true; his apparent assumption that all rulers, all governments, all holders of power everywhere, are thus actuated by utter selfishness, is neither. And one is left, at the end of this absorbing, brilliant, thoughtful and passionate book, with the sense that after all the author has not got us very far on the road toward the brotherhood of man.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 700w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 420w

“Patience is somewhat strained by the manner of this book; the protest is not new, and the tale is rather hastily and crudely constructed. The most effective part comes near the end, where Gadsky as a prisoner of war gets to know a French soldier.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 240w

“A significant book, comparable with Barbusse’s ‘Under fire.’ Not for the smaller libraries.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 50w

=LAUDER, SIR HARRY (MACLENNAN).= Between you and me. $2.50 McCann

19–18483

“‘I’m no writin’ a book so much as I’m sittin’ doon wi’ ye all for a chat,’ Harry Lauder says in his first chapter; and he carries the plan through to the last. The book is a biography, a Scot’s philosophy of life, and a shrewd discourse on current social problems, combined.”—Outlook

* * * * *

“A book which will be liked only by the enthusiastic Lauder-ites. It is written in Scotch dialect which often runs unevenly into pure English. Not as good as ‘A minstrel in France.’”

+ − =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20

“Sir Harry mentions the possibility of two more books. We shall welcome them eagerly, as we always welcome him, but we cannot help hoping that, despite the charm of his gossipy style, the next ones will have to some degree the skeleton of an outline.” I. W. L.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 850w

+ =Dial= 68:403 Mr ’20 60w

“Readers who are not frightened at a glimpse of Scotch dialect will love the book for its genuine human note, its humor, and its underlying pathos.”

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w

“This book gives Lauder and his message in a unique and inimitable way. It is well worth reading as Lauder himself is worth hearing.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 100w

=LAWRENCE, C. E.= God in the thicket. *$2 Dutton

“It is a delicately worked narrative of a glittering world peopled by pantomime folk, whose names have been familiar to us all from childhood—Harlequin and Columbine, Pierrot, Punchinello, Aimée and Daphne, and many others. They live in the Forest of Argovie; and their life is the pantomime life, with its queer, sudden approaches to the greyer conditions of human existence and irresponsible withdrawals to the spangled regions of fantasy.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The god of the title is none other than he of the pipes and the goat-thighs, Pan himself.” (N Y Times)

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=Cath World= 112:688 F ’21 130w

“In many passages here there is a surplus of adjectives, a lack of precision and reality. There are times when the author writes with a pleasing irony that would be even more enjoyable if the vein were not overdone.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 140w

“Very delicately, very gracefully written, a little too long perhaps, but full of quaint conceits, poetically fanciful and therefore a good deal out of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 550w

“A little masterpiece.”

+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 60w

“It is perhaps refreshing in these prosaic days to exist for an hour in the world of fantasy.”

+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w

“It is a pretty story, which fails rather disappointingly to be something more.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Je 10 ’20 550w

=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= New poems. *$1.60 Huebsch 821

20–17904

Mr Lawrence prefaces his collection of new poems with a discussion of the nature of poetry, saying in part, “Poetry is, as a rule, either the voice of the far future, exquisite and ethereal, or it is the voice of the past, rich, magnificent.... The poetry of the beginning and the poetry of the end must have that exquisite quality, perfection which belongs to all that is far off.... But there is another kind of poetry: ... the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present.” And it is for this third type of poetry, he continues, that new poetic forms must be forged. Among the poems of the book are: Apprehension; Coming awake; Suburbs on a hazy day; Piccadilly Circus at night; Parliament Hill in the evening; Bitterness of death; Seven seals; Two wives; Autumn sunshine.

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“The more stringent their form the better these poems are; and when, as in Phantasmagoria, Mr Lawrence finds a subject suited to his strained and ‘pent-up’ manner, he ‘gets his effect’ very wonderfully.”

+ − =Ath= p66 F ’19 220w

“Mr Lawrence’s ‘New poems’—like the overwhelming bulk of ‘the rare new poetry’—seems inspired less by any remote touch of divine madness, than by a labored and sophisticated anxiety to exemplify a theory. Mr Lawrence has none of the brilliancy of Miss Lowell, none of the power of Mr Lindsay. His slim new book offers the pathetic spectacle of a shabby manikin pirouetting in caricature of the muse.” R. M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 52:59 S ’20 880w

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w

“Apart from a brilliant preface, there is scarcely anything in this book which is pitched at the same level of intensity as the best poems in ‘Look, we have come through.’ The touch is somewhat slacker and vaguer, the feeling less fused with the words. ‘New poems’ contains as least one poem which I am almost inclined to set higher than anything Lawrence has ever done. This is the poem called ‘Seven seals.’” J: G. Fletcher

+ − =Freeman= 1:451 Jl 21 ’20 900w

“Mr Lawrence’s preface poses spontaneity as an ideal, promising poetry that ‘just takes place.’ That is interesting, but it does not explain Mr Lawrence’s poetry, which here as always betrays elaborate trouble in its preparation.”

+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 50w

“His ‘New poems’ reasserts his place among the most gifted, the most arresting of the English poets.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 630w

“As you read the whole volume through it seems to you more and more that he feels too intensely about a great many things. There is this difference between him and older sentimentalists, that they were at the mercy of pleasant feelings, while he is often at the mercy of unpleasant; but it is still the same poet’s disease, and in both cases the feelings seem too intense for their cause.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p67 F 6 ’19 1100w

=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= Touch and go. (Plays for a people’s theatre) $1.25 Seltzer 822

20–12050

Altho the background of this drama is a strike in a British colliery it is not intended as a propaganda play. The author is concerned with the tragic element in the struggle between capital and labor. He has defined tragedy as “the working out of some immediate passional problem within the soul of man.” The play also represents his idea that a “people’s” theater should deal with people, with men and women, not with stage types.

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“Mr Lawrence, of course, cannot escape his genius. The secondary qualities of ‘Touch and go’ are superior to the big things in the work of many other dramatists.” Gilbert Seldes

+ − =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w

“Mr Lawrence’s new play, ‘Touch and go,’ seems to indicate that, while the author may have gained compensations in other ways, he has lost, temporarily, it is to be hoped, under the blighting strains and trials of the last few years, some of the vital energy that is essential to a dramatist.” Elva de Pue

− + =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 390w

“This is a play serious in purpose, of vital contemporaneous interest, unexceptionable motive and written with knowledge and ability, which is nevertheless ineffective, because while it exhibits a comprehensive sense of existing conditions and states its problem very clearly, it has nothing to offer or suggest in the way of a possible solution except a series of benevolent platitudes.” J. R. Towse

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 680w

“The preface is so excellent, so much in the manner of the great English tradition that it holds, and urges, and ends by being, I think, even better than the play, a fine little masterpiece of eight pages.” Amy Lowell

+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 22 ’20 2000w

“The only thing amusing in the little volume is the preface, which is entertaining enough. Mr Lawrence does not make this mistake of open didacticism when he writes poetry. Why, oh! why, does he write drama like this?”

− + =Spec= 125:279 Ag 28 ’20 360w

“The preface has been most stimulating and formative. Preface and play, however, are widely separated. Never once are we led to feel the promised reality of the characters. The story moves in a confusion of the fundamental details.” Dorothy Grafly

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 440w

“His characters are overdrawn, and his action has to do with struggles of temperament rather than of contrasting philosophies.”

− =Survey= 44:592 Ag 20 ’20 100w

“The strength of the play lies in its picture of colliery life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 80w

=LAWRENCE, DOROTHY.= Sapper Dorothy Lawrence; the only English woman soldier. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Lane 940.48

20–5239

Miss Lawrence gives this account of her exploits in France as a soldier of the Royal engineers, 51st division. 179th tunnelling company. It was as a last desperate effort to get to the war that she plotted and struggled her way into the ranks. Twelve times she had applied for various forms of war work and had been turned down. Her efforts to go as newspaper correspondent met the same fate. The Tommies were more accommodating and helped her to accomplish her purpose. Contents: At Creil; Sleeping in Senlis forests; In soldier’s clothes; On the march for the trenches; Arrest; Tried at Third army headquarters; In a convent; On board.

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=Spec= 123:411 S 27 ’19 200w

“A brightly written tale of pluck, energy, and determination.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 11 ’19 100w

=LAY, WILFRID.=[2] Man’s unconscious passion. *$2 Dodd 157

20–18051

Dr Lay, author of “Man’s unconscious conflict” and “The child’s unconscious mind,” writes here of the part which the unconscious plays in love and marriage. Contents: The total situation; Conscious and unconscious passion; Affection is not passion; Insight; The transfer of passion; The emotion age.

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+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w

“Dr Lay’s book is written in a most readable and interesting style and should make a great appeal to all those interested, professionally or otherwise, in this dominant and important phase of individual human life and its relation to the tissue of the whole social organism.” S. W. Swift

+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 880w

=LEACH, ALBERT ERNEST.= Food inspection and analysis. 4th ed il *$8.50 Wiley 543.1

20–5902

“This manual, designed for the use of analysts, health officers, chemists and food economists, has been revised and enlarged to the extent of ninety pages; new material having been added or substituted for material in earlier editions. The former arrangement of chapters has been retained but the list of references at the end of chapters has been left out and, instead, more attention has been given to footnote references. A special feature is the final chapter by G. L. Wendt, ‘Determination of acidity by means of the hydrogen electrode.’ The book includes such subjects as food, its functions, proximate components, and nutritive value; general methods of food analysis including microscope and refractometer; milk and milk products; flesh foods; eggs; cereal grains; tea, coffee, and cocoa; edible oils and fats; sugar; as well as artificial food colors, food preservatives, artificial sweeteners, flavoring extracts, and substitutes.”—J Home Econ

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=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20

+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 240w

“As a whole, however, the new edition well maintains the reputation of the work. It contains so much trustworthy information that chemists concerned with foodstuffs will find it invaluable.” C. S.

+ − =Nature= 106:141 S 30 ’20 560w

=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Unsolved riddle of social justice. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane 330

20–1689

The author sees in the present state of human society an extraordinary discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness and analyzes the reasons for the present-day social unrest. He points to the complete breakdown of the Adam Smith school of political economists with their doctrine of “natural liberty” and laissez-faire. In asking “What of the future?” the author finds himself confronted with the phenomenon of modern socialism. This he relegates to the realm of beautiful but impracticable dreams and suggests as a mid-way course that the government should supply work for the unemployed, maintenance for the infirm and aged, and education and opportunity for children, and should enforce a minimum wage and shorter working hours. Contents: The troubled outlook of the present hour; Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; The failures and fallacies of natural liberty; Work and wages; The land of dreams: the utopia of the socialist; How Mr Bellamy looked backward; What is possible and what is not.

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“Dr Leacock writes with great clarity and force. While the limits of the volume do not permit detailed treatment of any of the topics taken up, the reader will find every page suggestive and will be thankful for a chance to see the woods instead of the trees.” O. D. Skelton

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:522 Ag ’20 360w

“Written in a vigorous, easy, though not humorous, style, that will make it popular with those who seek a middle track.”

+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

“The author of ‘Literary lapses,’ and all the rest of them, could not be dull if he tried. His new volume on the problems of modern life is fully as live as any of his humorous sketches, and nearly as readable.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 Mr 13 ’20 1250w

+ =Cleveland= p44 Ap ’20 50w

“A readable and frequently keen analysis of industrial society. Professor Leacock’s delicately manipulated scalpel cuts perilously close to the heart of the price system, in his perception of the paradox of value.... While the honest sunlight of criticism declares the insufficiency of individualist economics, the light that Professor Leacock throws upon socialism—taking Bellamy’s bleak vision of bureaucracy as sample—is almost a moonbeam from the larger lunacy.”

+ − =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w

“The riddle is not only unsolved when Professor Leacock tackles it, but it remains so when he has finished with it. The author has merely re-stated the problem in a lucid and concise manner and fused it with a sort of primer of economics, and comes out in the end with a middle-of-the-road vagueness as his major contribution to the subject.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 100w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w

Reviewed by C. E. Ayres

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:439 My ’20 550w

“Stephen Leacock is far from happy in his study of ‘The unsolved riddle of social justice.’ He reveals himself as a clever man, of course, but not as a serious economic thinker. He, surely, cannot be so ignorant as this book would lead one to infer.”

− + =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 550w

“As a book for the general reader this little treatise can scarcely be too much commended. It is eminently humane in spirit, sensible, serious without being ‘dead serious,’ and thorough on the essential points. The author seems to know how average, educated people think and feel about the present state of society, and to have an unusually good idea of how to write for persons who do not know much about political economy.”

+ =No Am= 211:430 Mr ’20 750w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 750w

“It is sound common sense doctrine that he preaches, and for that reason it will be popular with but few people in these days of emotional ‘thinking.’”

+ =Review= 2:234 Mr 6 ’20 750w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 40w

“Professor Leacock’s book is an appeal to pure reason; it is argumentative, but not quarrelsome; it is progressive in its aims, but it is not revolutionary. His picture may be overdrawn and too highly coloured, but it substantially represents what many thoughtful and clear-sighted men see today when gazing upon the eastern and western worlds.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:501 My 29 ’20 950w

“There is much good sense in this attractive book.”

+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 250w

“His solution may seem to be inadequate; but without doubt Mr Leacock has written a valuable popular analysis and has stated sane and forward-looking remedies.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 19 ’20 180w

“Mr Leacock’s treatment of the problem is not intentionally humorous or flippant, but it is surprisingly superficial. As soon as he comes to a discussion of the social thought that governs the demands of large masses at the present time, he becomes positively absurd. Mr Leacock is most successful where he pricks current misconceptions.” B. L.

− + =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 220w

“He does not overload his subject with the useless ballast of philosophic jargon, or obscure a poverty of thought by abundance of words. His book is short, lucid, always to the point, and sometimes witty.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 350w

=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Winsome Winnie, and other new nonsense novels. *$1.50 Lane 817

20–21990

This is a sequel to “Nonsense novels,” published in 1911. Again the author parodies the style of various popular types of fiction. Among the numbers in this second series are Winsome Winnie: or, Trial and temptation, narrated after the best models of 1875; The split in the cabinet: or, The fate of England, a political novel of the days that were; Who do you think did it? or, The mixed-up murder mystery; Broken barriers, or Red love on a blue island; and Buggam Grange, a good old ghost story. The stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine.

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“While this later volume lacks to a slight degree the fresh spontaneity of Mr Leacock’s older books, there are plenty of sincere laughs left.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 140w

“The great majority of readers will find ‘Winsome Winnie’ almost as good as the author’s best books. In other words: the work of a man who, in the silence of Mr Dooley, is the most amusing writer in North America.” E. L. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 490w

“Despite his delicious drolleries, Mr Leacock’s book of verbal cartoons contains an amazing amount of truthful criticism—doubly effective because its form and oblique method of delivery rob it of all malice.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 D 19 ’20 670w

“A book of parodies which is as amusing as the first series. ‘Winsome Winnie’ and ‘Who do you think did it?’ are as good as any of the sketches which Professor Leacock has ever written.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 540w

“It will be a very superior person who does not laugh the first time he reads Mr Leacock’s version of these jocular subjects. But as the laugh comes from the verbal surprise or from the technical improvement in an established joke, it is not likely to be repeated.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p795 D 2 ’20 600w

=LEADBITTER, ERIC.= Rain before seven. *$2 (2c) Jacobs

20–9473

Michael Lawson was an awkward, shy and colorless youth, the fourth and youngest in a family of waning fortunes. As a gawky boy of fifteen he falls in love with the daughter of his tutor, Vicar Hargrieves. Some years later, Isobel’s heartless flirtations give him his first deep emotional experience. At school he discovers his love and talent for music and finds a patron who finances his musical education. But funds fail before he has launched upon a career, and he is reduced to playing in a picture-drome. He meets with a succession of failures and becomes a tramp. As such he is discovered by his sister Rosie—his family having been ignorant of his whereabouts for years. His brother, a successful scientist and inventor, takes him on in business. Michael makes good, drops music altogether, achieves tranquillity of heart and wins the love of a dear quiet girl, who had adored him even as a child.

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“The first novel of a very grave and very garrulous young Englishman who has not yet discovered how many things have been said before. The trail of his story is lost under an underbrush of truisms, though through the brambles one catches glimpses of landscape not unlike some of Mr Mackenzie’s milder panoramas.”

− + =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 100w

“It is rather more than a good example of the usual thing.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w

=LEARY, JOHN J., Jr.= Talks with T. R. il *$3.50 (4c) Houghton

20–11574

Extracts from the diaries of a veteran newspaper man who had been for many years in the habit of recording carefully his conversations with Theodore Roosevelt. These are now arranged under appropriate headings, some few of which are: Roosevelt and 1920; Dewey and Fighting Bob; The break with Taft; The attempt on his life; Clashes with the Kaiser; On election eve, 1916; Senator Lodge’s fist fight; Roosevelt’s one talk with Mr Wilson; Roosevelt on labor; Loyalty; Germans in America; Colonel Roosevelt on boys; Pershing and Wood. There are a number of illustrations.

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“The picture is less attractive than that of the writer of the letters to his children, or of the state papers that have been included in Mr Bishop’s selection, but it seems to present with fidelity one of the poses of the most versatile statesmen of our day. The absence of an index makes the book more difficult to use than it need have been.” F: L. Paxson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:149 O ’20 400w

“A wonderful readable book about a wonderful personality.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 450w

“The volume is a racy, authentic, well-considered work, but instead of revealing the inner springs of motive, instead of a transvaluation of strenuous values, it merely adds to the sum total of current impressions.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 280w

“Better than any photograph or any biography I know, they give you the feeling of having talked with the man in the flesh.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 110w

“It is in all respects one of the best Roosevelt books we have ever seen, and in some respects the best.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 Ag 15 ’20 1700w

“It is all vastly entertaining, though one wonders whether the obligation of discretion which private conversation implies has not in certain cases been prematurely sacrificed in the interest of impartial history.”

+ =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 580w

“‘Talks with T. R.’ is an unusually interesting book. It is a really valuable book. It is certain to be read; it deserves to be read. The author of the book had done well to omit certain virulent assaults on living Americans, notably President Wilson.”

+ − =Review= 2:656 Je 23 ’20 350w

+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w

“It is a readable and informing book. The principal criticism that may be made concerns the typography and make-up of the volume. It could be condensed nearly fifty per cent without detracting from its readableness.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 550w

=LEBLANC, MAURICE.= Secret of Sarek. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.

20–5586

“To put into his narrative the right degree of thrill, the correct dose of horror, M. Leblanc takes us to the gloomy island of Sarek, off the coast of Brittany, which has the cheerful nickname of ‘Island of the coffins,’ and there plunges his characters into a welter of murder, mystery and terror that has few parallels in this kind of fiction. Strange figures robed in white, flitting in and out of the woods on the island, make one suspect that the ghosts of the druids of ancient times, or else descendants of theirs dwelling in caves beneath the island, have got on the rampage in the modern world. Arsène Lupin, the peerless solver of mysteries, arrives on the island in his little private submarine. He takes the situation in hand with his usual combination of ability, bravery and luck. Things move fast from the moment that he sets foot on the old stamping ground of the druids. It would be unfair to tell the series of strokes of genius, combined with strokes of the incredible luck, whereby Arsène Lupin circumvents the atrocious Vorski and makes it possible for ‘The secret of Sarek’ to have a happy ending.”—N Y Times

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=Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookman= 51:584 Jl ’20 230w

“Suffice it to say that it is an enthralling story, carried forward breathlessly amid a whirl of shooting, stabbing, crucifying and general bloodshed, cleverly raised above most of its kind by a really baffling atmosphere of mystery, a genuine thriller among thrillers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 700w

Reviewed by E. C. Webb

=Pub W= 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 250w

“The book is full of eerie mysteries and disasters violent enough to merit honourable mention in a competition with Greek tragedies and tinged with a suggestion of archaic survivals and black magic which will pleasantly thrill even a jaded reader.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 180w

=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Complete poems of Francis Ledwidge. *$2.50 Brentano’s 821

20–2931

Francis Ledwidge, the young Irish poet, lost his life in the war. His poems are brought together in this volume, with an introduction by Lord Dunsany. “Readers familiar with his work will find all of the favorites in this volume—June, To my best friend, Desire in spring, and others. They will find also his poems written during the great war. It is interesting to note that he did not write much of battle and all that went with it, but made his songs out of memories or out of new glimpses of beauty.” (N Y Times)

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“His scope was limited. Trees, flowers and the recurring seasons were his theme. But he evidently believed in these things, and did not write of nature because since Wordsworth’s day, it is the correct thing to do. Ledwidge was a countryman and loved the country; the desire to express himself came, and he moulded into what are often exquisite forms, the simple country thoughts which were natural in him.”

+ =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 340w

+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“A book which many lovers of modern Irish poetry will rejoice to possess. In many of the poems there is evidence of a delicate and fragrant talent, but one refuses to speak, as the editor so confidently does, of Ledwidge’s genius.” H: A. Lappin

+ − =Bookm= 51:215 Ap ’20 160w

“It is difficult to predict what his future development might have been, but at least there is nothing in this collection to justify the editor in speaking so confidently of his protégé as a genius. Although there is here a great deal of fragrant and delicate imagination, and much keen and intimate observation of sky and tree and field and bird, there is nothing quite so full of Irish reality as any one of a dozen lyrics one might mention by Joseph Campbell or Padraic Colum, for example.”

+ − =Cath World= 110:827 Mr ’20 260w

“There is little in the slight evidence before us to indicate that he would have made his place by sheer power; his success, had he lived, and had he obtained it, would have been of the idiosyncratic sort. And success of this sort he would, I think, no doubt have obtained. For through all his work runs a strain of lyric magic.” Conrad Aiken

+ − =Dial= 68:376 Mr ’20 1900w

“Francis Ledwidge was an honest songster, a poet of the blackbird in a time of hawks and vultures. He was in no sense an important poet, it must be said.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w

“When it is said that he is somewhat unvarying and that he is sometimes immature it remains to be said that in everything Francis Ledwidge wrote there is the shapely and the imaginative phrase.” Padraic Colum

+ − =New Repub= 22:190 Ap 7 ’20 680w

“He knew the simplicities and austerities of wild life in fields and woods so well that he could borrow from them a little sternness to go with the sweetness of his song.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Ja 18 ’20 500w

“It is simple, sincere, beautiful. Yet it is always quiet and restful. It is not emotional, it soothes. The pictures are gems.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ’20 900w

“It is true that he is ‘the poet of the blackbird,’ that his ‘small circle of readers’ will turn to his work for its mildness, sweetness, and serenity, ‘as to a very still lake ... on a very cloudless evening.’ But that small circle must not be disappointed to discover that his limpidity and naturalness are often blurred with the derivative, that his taste is uncertain, ... that his imagination is less active than his fancy. Complete poems, unflawed by inequalities of tone and workmanship are therefore rare.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1700w

“It is impossible to read these again without realizing that Ledwidge is Ireland’s foremost poet of landscape, a poet who will undoubtedly win lasting recognition.” N. J. O’Conor

+ =Yale R n s= 10:207 O ’20 130w

=LEE, GERALD STANLEY.= Ghost in the White House. *$2 Dutton 342.7

20–8716

“‘The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction,—by a kind of ghost of the nation, called the People.’ Gerald Stanley Lee gives expression to what he regards as the common aspiration of the people—a yearning to emerge from the ghost stage and to take on tangible shape and substance through which to give expression and to render service. This transformation must be wrought through the organization of the people—the consumers—into a large club or league with branches and chapters. Thus organized, the individual would have a channel for the expression and application of their constructive thought. On the individual is the responsibility of arming himself with knowledge adequate for good judgment, with perspective for sound progress, with vision for comprehensive planning. Then shall the President be simply the chief of a practical religion.”—Survey.

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“Mr Lee writes for the most part in words of one syllable, a style admirably suited to reflect his own mental processes.” H. K.

− =Freeman= 2:333 D 15. ’20 190w

=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 80w

“The author has thought, or mused, a lot, but he has hardly studied the problems at all. He fancies that economics is a very simple science—and so it is, his economics. He has not the faintest conception of the real forces that are now reshaping the industrial world.”

− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 430w

“Mr Lee’s book is thought provoking, stimulating, and much of it is true. It will provoke thought in persons who do not habitually think. One is not quite sure whether a good book like this helps or hinders one.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 4 ’20 3000w

“It is a remarkably successful attempt to formulate the definite, practical desires of the plain people.”

+ =R of Rs= 42:109 Jl ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 4 ’20 670w

“It deserves to be widely read. It deals in a fascinating way with a common experience and a serious problem. While it does not solve this old problem, it serves a good purpose by stimulating new interest and new thought.” A. J. Lien

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 200w

=LEE, HARRY SHERIDAN.= High company. *$1.50 Stokes 811

20–16183

A collection of war poems under the subtitle “sketches of courage and comradeship,” mostly hospital scenes full of pathos and touches of humor. Contents: The upper room; The pipe and the fire; Angeline; April hearts; The hidden wound; Trees; Baldur the bright god; Winged heels; Ninette and Rintintin; Deferred payment; “Soldiers three”; Biddle’s kid; The good brown earth; The roll of honour; Pudgyfist visits the hospital; Lights out; The pie lady; “Every dog has his day”; “All in the blue unclouded weather”; Buddies; The shadow of the cloud; “Men of good will.”

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+ =Cath World= 112:402 D ’20 170w

“The wounded doughboys are depicted with humor, sympathy, and originality, but the free verse form often degenerates into literal and banal prose.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’ 20 90w

“The tribute is beautiful in spirit, beautiful in expression.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 380w

=LEE, JAMES MELVIN=, ed. Business writing. (Language for men of affairs) il $4 Ronald 808

20–9490

This volume has been prepared by a number of writers connected with the business department of colleges, and with business periodicals and is intended to help business men to write reports, articles for trade papers, make effective speeches at dinners, conventions or clubs, and to instruct advertising writers. The seven divisions of the book are headed: Essentials of writing; The reinforcement of reading; Letter for men of affairs; Report-writing; Advertising copy; The journalism of business; Mechanical and incidental. The appendices consist of bibliographies for both volumes and there is an index. The companion volume on “Talking business” is by John Mantle Clapp.

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=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w

+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w

=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Chinese coat. *$1.75 (6c) Scribner

20–14288

To Eleanor More and her husband, Richard, a blue Chinese coat that she could not afford to buy became a kind of a symbol. The desire to give it to her stayed with her husband all thru their early married life—while their family was growing up and even after the children were men and women. Their pilgrimage to a far country to at last gain possession of the coat is the climax of a story which is part allegory and part romance.

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“A quiet tale of married life told with a charming simplicity and a touch of symbolism.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“Companionable, sweet and comfortable, filling the mind with dreams of times when, unwillingly and under pressure, we were forced to let the great desire go.”

+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 60w

“A sweet little story, charmingly told, and illustrating the lovable qualities of husband and wife.”

+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 60w

“A story that is remarkably compact and sustained in interest throughout. Throughout it is woven the glimmering web of poetry, and this is due partly to the theme itself and partly to the simplicity of the prose. One feels upon reading the story that Mrs Lee possesses unsuspected talents. The idealism and symbolic qualities of ‘The Chinese coat’ are never in doubt. It is a book to be read.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 480w

“A charmingly simple story that has just enough of a plot to hold it together.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 80w

=LEE, VERNON, pseud. (VIOLET PAGET).= Satan the waster. *$2.50 Lane 822

20–16301

Vernon Lee’s satirical allegory, “The ballet of the nations,” was published in 1915 and was reviewed in the Book Review Digest at that time. It is now reprinted here, with prologue and epilogue which take account of the deeper causes leading to the war and of the chaos that has followed it. In the trilogy thus completed Satan appears as “the waster of human virtues.” And since the greater and more useless the waste, the greater his delight, he finds his chief joy in self-sacrifice which is vain, and the author, who in the furnace of the war has come to doubt and question all accepted values, suggests that what the world needs in place of self-sacrifice is that altruism “which is respect for the other rather than renunciation of the self.” This and other philosophical aspects of the war are discussed in the Introduction and in the notes which follow the play.

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=Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 190w

“We are casting about for a reason why a book so honest, intelligent, well-written, clever, should not stimulate but depress, should be a tiresome book. We may mention that the masque, ‘Satan the waster,’ occupies 110 pages out of about 340; the remainder consists of introduction and notes. That is a damning—or at least a damnable—fact.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p299 S 3 ’20 640w

=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“It is an interesting discussion of our international imbecilities and sets forth with pomp those precise opinions whose less elegant expression recently sent several hundred Americans to jail.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w

“Enormously stimulating and quickening book. It ought to be one of the real factors in that spiritual re-adjustment which is now a major democratic necessity.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 24:244 N 3 ’20 3650w

“Her satire fails because never from beginning to end can the reader believe in it. It is merely an expression of her opinions in a very artificial form; and, whether or no we agree with them, we would rather have them expressed in the natural form of argument.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p389 Je 24 ’20 3200w

“It embodies the reaction to the world war of one of the sanest minds and most finished stylists of her day. One who compares Romain Rolland’s dramatic satire ‘Liluli’ with this work, is struck with the similarity in purpose, in point of view, in fundamental concept, and even in their common form of cosmic burlesque. Neither the great Frenchman nor the great Englishwoman has written a ‘play’ in the ordinary sense, but each has made an uncommon contribution to literature.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 320w

=LEES, GEORGE ROBINSON.= Life of Christ. il *$5 Dodd 232

20–18310

Considering it of supreme importance to be able to visualize the scenery amid which the life of Christ was laid, the writer of this volume spent six years in Palestine during which he learned “how real was the life of Christ in the scenes depicted in the records of the Evangelist.” Thus with much local and historic coloring the life of Jesus is reinterpreted from the accounts of the apostles which are closely followed. The book is indexed and has one hundred and twenty-five full page illustrations.

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“Inevitably it provokes comparison with Renan in point of literary style, if not in actual treatment, for Mr Lees is a convinced believer. His style fails badly by the test. Though a book of this kind is not greatly to our taste, we cannot but acknowledge the author’s devotion.”

− + =Ath= p868 D 24 ’20 90w

“His narrative is plain, simple, understandable, but not marked by either remarkable scholarship or remarkable insight.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 90w

=LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.= Junk-man, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811

20–17992

With a wealth of imagery and a poet’s wisdom all life is mirrored in these poems in the time-honored garb of rhyme and metre. The first line of the poem “On re-reading Le morte d’Arthur,” “Here learn who will the art of noble words” can be applied to this collection, the author’s first since the war.

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+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“If his extreme youth was a little hectic with the heady wine of passion his maturity has grown beautifully sane with the philosophic mind. He was never more youthful than now, when he has recaptured the song of the lark, regained the lightness of foot that measures the pace of any gypsy up hill and down dale, and with an eye for illusions that any lover might envy.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 1300w

=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 130w

“It is a sad day for poetry when an authentic craftsman attains such facility that he writes from sheer momentum. This, we suspect, is what has happened in the case of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, whose new book, ‘The junkman’ is the mere shell of poetry—the forms without the feeling.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 200w

+ =Ind= 194:246 N 13 ’20 150w

“It is compact with beauty, filled with all those things that we instinctively know to be the real marks of authentic poetry. The flare, the passion, the abiding sense of things that may not readily be put into words, are all here. It is the sort of poetry that endures, that becomes memorable and takes place in the memories and hearts of its readers.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 10 ’20 1500w

“A collection of verse that equals anything this prolific author has done.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 400w

=LEIGHTON, JOHN LANGDON.= Simsadus: London; the American navy in Europe. il *$4 (11c) Holt 940.45

20–9639

“Sims—Admiral—U.S.” explains the title of the book. It was the cable address of Admiral Sims’ headquarters in London. The author was connected with the Intelligence section of Admiral Sims’ staff and as such is conversant with the inside facts and history of our naval operations. The book gives his personal impressions and disclaims official sanction. A partial list of the contents: The situation in April, 1917; Admiral Sims in London; The establishment of bases; Submarines off the American coast; A discussion of submarines and their methods; The distraction of submarines; Why American troopships were not sunk; The end of the submarine campaign; The man on the bridge (in homage); Appendix, charts and illustrations.

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“After the host of war books which have kept our heads buzzing with anecdotes and statistics incoherently packed into a jumbled whole it is not only refreshing but instructive to read a clear, sane, and comprehensive exposition of our naval activities in Europe as set forth by Mr Leighton.” P. E. Stevenson

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Je 27 ’20 1000w

“It is something of a relief to find a war-book that does not strain one’s nerves, or overwhelm one with facts, and that has hardly any note in it of propaganda, or eulogy, or criticism. Mr Leighton has given a clear-cut, well-ordered account of what our navy did in connection with the British navy.”

+ =No Am= 212:862 D ’20 1050w

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w

“Pervading his book is a whole-hearted devotion to his chief, which goes beyond mere professional loyalty and suggests kinship with the spirit that surrounded Nelson. Readers of Admiral Sims’s own book can hardly fail to discern the secret of this spirit and it is pleasant to find it reflected from the pages of his subordinate.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 6 ’21 860w

=LE QUEUX, WILLIAM TUFNELL.= Doctor of Pimlico; being the disclosure of a great crime. *$1.75 Macaulay co.

20–1211

“Weirmarsh is a criminal who operates all over the continent of Europe, as well as in England, and, possessing certain hypnotic powers, he finds it easy to bend other wills to his for his own profit. So not only is Sir Hugh Elcombe—with his splendid record as a British officer in several hard campaigns, including the great war just ended—made a pitiful object by his fear of an ‘exposure’ by Weirmarsh, but Sir Hugh’s beautiful stepdaughter, Enid Orlebar, who seems to be a perfect example of the high-class modern English girl is also under his baleful shadow. She is loved by the middle-aged cosmopolite who is intended to be the hero of the book. He is a talented author of mystery romances which bring him an income of several thousand pounds sterling a year. His real name, under which he writes, is Walter Fetherston. But he has a penchant for amateur detective work—he avers that he always ‘lives’ his romances—and when he is engaged in trying to get to the bottom of some criminal mystery he calls himself John Maltwood.”—N Y Times

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=Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 50w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 180w

“The story rambles on—always fluent and in well-chosen terms, with colorful pictures of various localities in Europe obviously made by one who knows them personally, but singularly deficient in suspense, dramatic action, humor, or any other of the qualities which make for real interest in an up-to-date work of fiction.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 140w

=LESCOHIER, DON DIVANCE.= Labor market. (Social science text-books) *$2.25 Macmillan 331

19–19765

“The purpose of this volume is to show the necessity for a national organization to control the problem of employment. In the course of his discussion the author presents much information concerning conditions of the labor market in this country and offers many suggestions to officials of employment offices, university students and teachers, legislators and the general public.”—R of Rs

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“The book is an authoritative and constructive study of an important question; and its essential merit lies in the fact that it is based on experience. The general aspects of the question, however, are not neglected and the bibliography and references show that the subject has been studied as a whole.” G: M. Janes

+ =Am Econ R= 10:605 S ’20 940w

“The subject is covered very fully and is presented in a popular style. Will be valuable to labor managers, students of economics, and progressive business executives.”

+ =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

“Of interest to all students of practical economic questions.”

+ =Cleveland= p54 My ’20 40w

“A workmanlike book ... that fills a gap in economic literature.”

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 40w

“It is neither novel nor exciting. It is a sober and well-balanced study of the way in which the sale of labor in the employment market is organized. If Mr Lescohier’s book has a fault, it is his inclination to regard the general background of the present industrial system as permanent. But as a survey of machinery Mr Lescohier’s book is of real value.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 320w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w

“In this volume Professor Lescohier has rendered a singularly opportune public service. It is enormously important to have available at this time such a clear discussion of the nature of the labor market and of the significance for the country of the sundry labor and immigration policies proposed.”

+ =Survey= 44:318 My 29 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 60w

=LESLIE, NOEL.= Three plays: Waste; The war fly; For king and country. *$1.50 Four seas co. 822

20–7067

There is tragedy in all of these realistic one-act plays. In Waste we have a dying consumptive girl whose last hours see a grief and poverty-stricken mother, a drunken father, and her lover turning from her to her younger sister. In the War-fly two strangers meet in a hotel restaurant and the one entertains the other with a gruesome fancy about flies as the devil’s emmisaries. In For King and country an aged village couple have one son returned from the war blind and while they are discussing the future of the other son and his war bride this other is brought home mad.

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“Each and all of his three plays reveal him as a playwright with ideas, and as one whose own acting has enabled him to see dramatic values and to cause them to live in plays of his own. There is the reality of life in them as well as a feeling for the theatre that makes them actable. They hit the centre of the target.” A. A. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 450w

“Of Mr Noel’s three one-act plays the second, The war-fly, is quite dark in drift and meaning and so one suspects that neither matters greatly. His first and third plays, on the contrary, Waste and For king and country, are drenched with significance because they strain after no symbolism and are philosophical because they are true.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 180w

“The three plays contained in Noel Leslie’s book are rather exasperating. In each one of them the author handles an excellent theme, makes fair headway with it and then does not quite realize the possibilities of his plots.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 140w

“The plays are set with an actor’s solicitude, and each begins with a promise which is overcast by partial disappointment.”

+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 100w

“They really are workmanlike in structure, are well written, and display some grasp of character and ability to devise dramatic situations. In ‘The war fly,’ the author shows that he can devise a tragic fantasy of some original power.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 180w

=LEVEL, MAURICE.= Tales of mystery and horror. il *$2 (3½c) McBride

20–18255

These stories are translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin. Henry B. Irving provides an introduction in which he says: “Reminding one of Edgar Allan Poe more than any other, M. Level employs the method of O. Henry in the service of the horrible.” The stories, which are all brief—have the titles: The debt collector; The kennel; Who? Illusion; In the light of the red lamp; A mistake; Extenuating circumstances; The confession; The test; Poussette; The father; For nothing; In the wheat; The beggar; Under chloroform; The man who lay asleep; Fascination; The bastard; That scoundrel Miron; The taint; The kiss; A maniac; The 10.50 express; Blue eyes; The empty house; The last kiss.

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“He has Poe’s predilection for supernatural and gruesome themes, something of de Maupassant’s technique of compression, a flair for the ‘irony of fate’ formula, which was so characteristic of O. Henry’s plot, and a kinship with Burke’s nostalgie de la boue. But there the likeness ends, he has none of the qualities mentioned in a degree sufficient to raise him to the level of the men he suggests.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 740w

“In spite of their subject-matter, the stories neither shock me morally, chill my blood with their horror, nor affect me with their pathos. A skillful machinist, not an artist, seems to have been at work.” E. L. Pearson

− + =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 480w

=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Shepherd of the sea. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday

20–26194

This is a story of the icy North, of ice-floes, of shipwreck, of starvation and mutiny at a whaling station, of an overland trip in a dog-sled, deprivation and hunger and narrow escape from freezing. A missionary sea-captain who is out to fight the whiskey traffic with the Eskimos and to carry the word of God to them, picks up Buck Traherne when his motor-boat had capsized in the Strait. Traherne is just out of college at Seattle and a tenderfoot. The life on ship-board puts strength into him and he becomes, with the shepherd, the mainstay of the castaway crew on Herschel Island. Moona—half Eskimo and half Scotch—the shepherd’s ward, loves him and after the rescue has come, and the arctic flowers have once more lifted their heads, the charm she has knitted into Traherne’s muffler shows its potency.

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+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 51:80 Mr ’20 260w

“Memories of ‘Captains courageous’ seem to filter through the beginnings of Mr Leverage’s tale. Nevertheless, the plot would pass very well by itself if the author had the style and strength to render it into a forcible and plausible narrative. Unfortunately, he has not.” G. M. H.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 550w

“The tale contains an abundance of adventure, and the author seems to know the country and the life whereof he writes, but the book is marred by a style so very jerky that it soon gets upon the reader’s nerves.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 380w

=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Where dead men walk. *$1.75 Moffat

20–1210

“A story of the underworld, Mr Leverage’s new novel, ‘Where dead men walk,’ recounts the adventures of one Vilos Holbrook. He had lived a lazy, comfortable life until his uncle, Colonel Bishop, who had control of the modest fortune left him by his father, was swindled out of it while himself endeavoring to swindle a supposedly dying man. Only a few hours before he learned of the loss of his fortune, curiosity had induced him to attend the disreputable ‘Three students’ ball,’ where he had seen Gypsy Cragen dance, and later talked with her. When he presently discovered that she had been one of the gang of swindlers who had gotten the better of his uncle, he protected her, and later joined the little organization of thieves to which the Gypsy and her father, formerly a noted safeblower, belonged. This he preferred to earning an honest living as an electrical engineer. Also he took first to whisky, and then, under the Gypsy’s tutelage, to opium, which he found at the end of that path over the roof described as the one ‘where dead men walk.’”—N Y Times

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“Stories of the underworld invariably possess a certain fascination. Mr Leverage has written a fair sample of this type of novel.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w

“The story is entertaining in its way and contains one really clever situation. But the style is unpleasantly staccato, and the construction leaves a good deal to be desired.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:76 F 8 ’20 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 80w

=LEVERHULME, WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, 1st baron.= Six-hour shift and industrial efficiency. *$3.50 (4c) Holt 331

20–11378

The book is the American edition of the author’s “Six-hour day,” abridged and rearranged by Frank Tannenbaum, with an introduction by Henry R. Seager. Lord Leverhulme’s remedies for the defects of modern industry are based on actual experience and are summed up in the word co-partnership. He looks upon the employer as the senior partner in an industry and the employees as the junior partners, with the confidence that under such wisely planned leadership complete cooperation will gradually result. Contents: The problem of industrial efficiency; The six-hour shift; Harmonizing capital and labor; Co-partnership; Co-partnership and business management; Co-partnership and efficiency; Co-operative aspect of business; Health and housing; Shop committees and shop efficiency; Industrial administration; The workers’ interest in productivity; Principles of reconstruction; Socialism, or equality vs. equity. There is an index.

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=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20

=Lit D= p106 S 4 ’20 1600w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ’20 150w

=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. $3 Stokes 327

20–15556

These letters, “copied from government archives in Moscow, unpublished before 1920,” are “the private letters from the Kaiser to the Czar found in a chest after the Czar’s execution and now in possession of the Soviet government.” In his introduction the author reprints comments on the letters from various English papers and from Professor Walter Goetz. As the letters were written in English they are printed as written. Four of the letters are given in facsimile.

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=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

Reviewed by A. C. Freeman

=N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 580w

“While not as important as the telegrams which were published in 1917, these letters from the Kaiser to the Czar are extremely interesting as historical documents completing the picture. They reveal the author far better than any biographer could reveal him.” Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 10 ’20 2550w

“They are only half satisfactory as correspondence because there are no letters of reply from the Czar to the Kaiser. Regrettably incomplete as the present volume is, no book, we think, could present a greater revelation of the Kaiser’s character. Such a book should have had an index.”

+ − =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 400w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 140w

“Mr Grant’s excellent introduction explains everything that needs explanation, and ample footnotes clear up the personal and other allusions which might perplex readers who are not close students of foreign politics.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p867 D 23 ’20 900w

=LEVINGER, MRS ELMA EHRLICH.=[2] New land. $1.25 Bloch

20–10306

“This little collection of stories written for children, of ‘Jews who had a part in the making of our country,’ belongs in part to historical biography with a large fictional element and in part to pure fiction with a historical setting.”—Survey

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“The particular ideal of the author of ‘The new land’ to be sure, is not Christian but patriotic virtue, but her method of approach is sadly reminiscent of the Sunday school library of old time. Nevertheless the tales are all carefully and enthusiastically told and often rise to intrinsic human interest.” C. K. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 140w

“The stories are well written; they have a collective ‘moral,’ of course, but this does not obtrude itself, nor is it narrowly nationalistic.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 120w

=LEVISON, ERIC.=[2] Hidden eyes. *$1.75 Bobbs

20–16929

“Mysterious bank robberies at Jacksonville, Fla., furnish the plot of ‘Hidden eyes.’ The most complicated locks and burglar-proof bank vaults are opened without delay by a most adroit and elusive thief. Robbery after robbery occurs and the detective force is well-nigh demoralized. The detective chief, however, has a latent suspicion of a young chemist named Thornton, who is an expert in steel and safe locks. Thornton is taken in the very act of a midnight foray. But this is far from clearing the mystery. That duty is accomplished by a local doctor who dabbles in psychoanalysis and auto-suggestion.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 360w

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 370w

“The dénouement is quite unexpected and furnishes the biggest thrill of all.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 120w

=LEVY, S. I.=[2] Modern explosives. il $1 (3½c) Pitman 662.2

The contents of this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries are: Modern explosives and their raw materials; The chemistry of explosives manufacture; The acids section of an explosives factory; The manufacture of propellant explosives; Preparation of the high explosives; Explosives in war and peace; Chemistry and national welfare. Index and illustrations.

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“Although avoiding technical details, the author has given a reasonable and well-balanced treatment of his subject in the space at his disposal. One or two slips may be noted. The final chapter, on ‘Chemistry and national welfare,’ although not directly connected with the subject, is very apposite at the present time.”

+ − =Nature= 106:340 N 11 ’20 180w

=LEWER, H. WILLIAM.= China collector; a guide to the porcelain of the English factories. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4½c) Dodd 738

“This book has been written to enable the enthusiastic collector of china, even after he has passed through his apprenticeship, and acquired a certain amount of experience, to form a correct judgment of that branch of ceramics embraced under the designation of old English porcelain.” (Foreword) The book has a prefatory note by Frank Stevens explaining the illustrations of which there are thirty-two and the marks. The distinctive features of each factory are treated under the titles of history, paste, glaze, decoration, production, characteristics, noted artists, chronology, and marks. The factories discussed are: Bow; Bristol; Caughley; Chelsea; Chelsea-Derby; Coalport; Derby; Longton Hall; Lowestoft: Nautgarw; New Hall; Pinxton; Plymouth; Rockingham; Spode; Swansea; Worcester. There is a chronograph, a bibliography, a tabular index of factories, an index of names and a general index.

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Main street. *$2 (1c) Harcourt

20–18934

In telling the story of Main street, Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the author has tried to tell the story of all America. His Main street “is the continuation of Main streets everywhere.” It is a story of dull mediocrity, complacent and satisfied with itself. Carol Milford, one year out of college, marries Dr Will Kennicott and goes with him to his home town, Gopher Prairie, in the wheat belt. Carol hates Main street at sight and in the six or eight years of her life that are chronicled does not hate it less, altho in the end she comes to see it with larger eyes and to endure it. One after the other she attempts reform measures, including a little theater venture, but her efforts meet defeat. She has her fling of defiance, and spends one of the war years in Washington, but comes back again, still rebellious. “I may not have fought the good fight,” says Carol, “but I have kept the faith.”

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“One of the few really good American novels of today.”

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“The book is too long, rather tedious. But it has a humanity, a popular note which will appeal to thousands.” S. M. R.

+ − =Bookm= 52:372 D ’20 100w

“The total impression one derives is that neither Jane Austen nor George Eliot depicted the provincial England of the past with more vividness than that with which Mr Lewis portrays the present-day American small town.” S. A. Coblentz

+ =Bookm= 52:357 Ja ’21 800w

“He knows the American small town for what it is, history in that respect being the supreme achievement in American fiction. But when he creates a protest against it, an attack upon its vicious existence, through the symbol of Carol Kennicott he comes nearer to the function of a treatise than the process of art. Kennicott is masterly drawn.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 1700w

“The atmosphere of the sordid smug little burg is well done.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 80w

“At times, Mr Lewis makes one feel that he has treated his people as mere incidents in an environment, that he has pictured them, not without malice, like Dickensian gargoyles. But there are scenes in his book as sensitively felt as some in Mr Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Winesburg, Ohio.’ These exceptional passages of his book are an earnest of the restraint and mastery which one will have the right to expect of his later work.” H. J. Seligmann

+ − =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 750w

“His dialogue, which he uses very freely, is brilliant. The exactness of this dialogue is a literary achievement of a very high order. Mr Lewis has given literary permanence to the speech of his time and section. But the dialogue in ‘Main street’ is anything but literature in the sense of Verlaine; it is living talk. ‘Main street’ would add to the power and distinction of the contemporary literature of any country.”

+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 820w

“‘Main street’ is pioneer work. Some formulae it does help to perpetuate. Some garishness and crudity it does unpleasantly employ in its anxiety to be effective and pat. But while the novelistic hen does not necessarily lay better if surrounded by strong artificial light, the light in ‘Main street’ is on the whole natural, honest and oh so amazingly illuminating.” F. H.

+ − =New Republic= 25:20 D 1 ’20 1500w

“‘Main street’ is a book to possess and treasure. What the critics have overlooked is just this: that Carol’s idealism was at least as superficial and worthless as the faults of Main street. Carol is more than a blind would-be leader of the blind; she is a butterfly aspirant for the leadership of the apsychosaurus.” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 300w

“Dealing with material that is rarely subtle, Mr Lewis can be subtle enough himself. Besides his gift for character and situation, he has also a knack at satire and caustic epigram, with so enormous an acquaintance with the foibles and folklore of the Middle West that he has literally set a new standard for novels dealing with the section.” Carl Van Doren

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 20 ’20 2000w

“A remarkable book. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing. It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than their revealing talk.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 N 14 ’20 1600w

“Gopher Prairie is untypical in human sympathy, in generous instincts, in kindness of heart. Its people are not merely heavy in mind, ludicrously dead to art and literature and world movements; they are selfish, grasping, slanderloving, ignoble. Carol herself is a shallow sort of reformer. This is the strongest criticism to be made on ‘Main street.’” R. D. Townsend

+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 400w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 98:1889 D 18 ’20 200w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 690w

“It is full of the realism of fact, colored by rather laborious and overclever satire. But it has no sustained action, whether as realism or as satire. It is a bulky collection of scenes, types, caricatures, humorous episodes, and facetious turns of phrase; a mine of comedy from which the ore has not been lifted.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w

“Mr Lewis has fashioned one of the year’s most notable volumes of fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w

“He is particularly adept in reproducing the vernacular. Whether the picture as a whole and his judgments on it are equally true may be a matter for disagreement. But as a sincere attempt to deal honestly with middle-western life the novel is noteworthy.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 90w

=LEWISOHN, LUDWIG=, ed. Modern book of criticisms; ed. with an introd. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books) *85c Boni & Liveright 801

20–11399

“An anthology of passages (of about six pages or less each in length) from modern authors dealing with the principles of literature, art, and criticism, divided into four parts according to the nations represented by the authors drawn upon—for France, Anatole France, Lemaître, Remy de Gourmont; for Germany, Hebbel, Dilthey, Volkelt, R. M. Meyer, Hofmannsthal, Mueller-Freienfels, Alfred Kerr; for England, George Moore, G. B. Shaw, Arthur Symons, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, W. L. George, T. MacDonagh, J. C. Powys; for America, Huneker, Spingarn, Mencken, Lewisohn, F. Hackett, Van Wyck Brooks, and Randolph Bourne.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“Mr Lewisohn’s group of critics are restless impressionists, almost destitute of doctrine.” S. P. Sherman

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“Connoisseurs of critical personality as such will miss Mr More and Mr Sherman in this volume, inasmuch as they are men of a particularly vivid and dramatic force. The critics whom Mr Lewisohn does put in his collection speak for the most part superbly.” C. and M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:219 Ag 21 ’20 1250w

“He has done his task in commendable fashion.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 240w

“A book which begins with selections from Anatole France and Jules Lemaitre is bound to be useful, for the critical writings of these men are less accessible than one could wish. Furthermore, Mr Lewisohn has made a number of translations of his own from German writers. It is this foreign background which gives the book its chief value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 100w

=LEYDS, WILLEM JOHANNES.= Transvaal surrounded. *$8 Dutton 968

(Eng ed 20–23043)

“In continuation of this author’s monumental work on the annexation of the Transvaal, this volume was completed and prepared for publication in June, 1914, just previous to the opening of the great world war. At that critical time its publication did not seem prudent and its appearance was delayed. In the preceding volume the relations of the Boers and the British government were reviewed from the first settlements in South Africa to the London convention of 1884.... With the events which followed this volume is concerned and especially with the British policy, which was systematically followed by each succeeding cabinet, of gradually surrounding this struggling republic by a barrier of British territory, which effectually deprived it of all opportunity of outward expansion. An appendix reproduces a large number of original documents of great value to the student of this period, who desires to make a close and exhaustive study of this really little understood feature in English-African history.”—Boston Transcript

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+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 600w

“Dr Leyds is far too sweeping in his charges, due in large measure to his hatred of everything British and to his inexperience of native affairs. The book is one to be read and studied by all who desire to see both sides of a bad patch in our colonial history.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 4 ’20 2200w

=L’HOPITAL, WINEFRIDE DE.= Westminster cathedral and its architect; with an introd. by W. R. Lethaby. 2v il *$12 (5c) Dodd 726

(Eng ed 20–13853)

These volumes are a memorial to a great architect by his daughter. Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to the making of the architect. Together the books contain 160 illustrations and numerous architectural plans. Partial contents of volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedral idea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional problems; Description and details of exterior; Description and details of interior; The adaptation and development of Byzantine architecture as exemplified in the cathedral; The mosaics; Appendices. Volume 2 contains the architect’s life history and the story of his architectural training and career and an index.

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“Though her literary style is frequently clumsy and never particularly good, she had the necessary facts at her disposal and upon the whole has used them well. A more skilled biographer would have given us more of Bentley.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:821 S ’20 500w

“On the technical and intellectual side, the work might have been composed by an architect having no relation to Bentley, and this it is which gives a special attraction to these 700 pages. There is but one trace of feeling that might perhaps be deprecated: a certain sensitiveness lest, in arranging for the interior completion of the cathedral, the present or future authorities may be lacking in loyalty to the ideals of the architect.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 1100w

“The fact that so large and so admirable a book on a modern architect has appeared in this country is a matter for congratulation to the author, the publishers, and the architectural profession. Undoubtedly it was needed. One can justifiably criticize the arrangement, for it leads to a certain amount of repetition.”

+ − =Spec= 124:461 Ap 3 ’20 700w

“The account of the cathedral in this book is very full and interesting, and illustrated with plans both final and preliminary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p739 D 11 ’19 2300w

=LINCOLN, ELLIOTT CURTIS.= Rhymes of a homesteader. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–5608

Many of these poems are in dialect, among them The varmint, Angela, An evening with Browning, The phonograph, The game of games and The old-timer remarks. Others, such as The sunflower road, Montana night, Hills, Wheel tracks, Wild geese, and A song of the wire fence, are descriptive of the wild beauty of the northwest country. Some of the poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland and Sunset.

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“Lack the poetic beauty of Piper on the same subject, but will have many readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

“Elliott C. Lincoln deals with two types of verse, descriptive and dialect-narrative, with rather more discrimination than Robert Service, but by no means as much vigor. The descriptive verse is melodious, if often conventional.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w

“The sociologist often can learn more about America and the American people from this homespun verse without literary distinction than from the smooth rhymes that flow in and around the poetry reviews. Eugene Field was the outstanding master of the homelier craft. A successor of his, perhaps superior in wealth and charm of diction, more direct, more sensitive, is Elliott C. Lincoln.”

+ =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 170w

=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Portygee. il *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–6287

Portygee is the old Cape Cod term for foreigner expressive of both contempt and suspicion. It is applied with all its hidden meaning to Albert Miguel Carlos Speranza, when he comes to live with his grandparents, old sea captain Zelotes Snow and his wife, after the death of his father, a Spanish opera singer. The latter had eloped with the captain’s only daughter, who had died unforgiven by the old man. Albert, aged seventeen, fresh from a fashionable New York school, has much to live down and to live up to in South Harniss: his inclination to write poetry and his dislike for business, in the first place; and his grandfather’s expectations of him in the second. Little by little and with struggles on both sides, that endear the two leading characters to the reader, both win out. Albert comes to occupy first place in the old man’s heart and is no longer a Portygee, while he gains his own ends, becomes an author, a war hero, and marries the best girl in town.

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=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The reader of ‘The Portygee’ will find within its pages a somewhat conventional story, but he will find also, as in everything Mr Lincoln has written, a sure understanding of the people of Cape Cod, and an entertaining chronicle of its life and scenes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 24 ’20 1500w

“Another inimitable Cape Cod story.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 40w

“He can tell a very good story, as he does in ‘The Portygee,’ his psychology, tho somewhat obvious, is true, but his thoroly ‘wholesome’ humor lacks the faintest alleviation of subtlety. Cape Cod deserves a better interpreter.”

+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 100w

“‘The Portygee’ is a pleasant, amusing little story, which Mr Lincoln’s admirers will no doubt greatly enjoy.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 480w

“There is hearty fun in the book, and there is also sound philosophy and fine Americanism.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w

“This book brings back the smell of the moors, the salt sea, and the thick encompassing fogs.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 60w

“A pleasant tale, which will be enjoyed by all lovers of Lincoln.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 80w

=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Red seal. il *$1.75 (3c) Appleton

20–4266

A burglar forces his way into a fashionable Washington home, is caught and taken to court where the McIntyre twins, whose house he had entered, appear against him. His sudden death in the courtroom demands an inquest and an autopsy, which reveal the fact that Jimmie Turnbull, cashier of the Metropolis Trust Company, while masquerading as a burglar, was killed by poison. His engagement to Helen McIntyre complicates the situation. Harry Kent, lover of the twin sister Barbara, takes up the case. Missing securities and a mysterious envelope sealed with a red B further complicate matters. The characters all suspect one another and the reader suspects everyone in turn. Eventually Harry Kent solves the mystery, and the miserable shoulders of the clever forger take the guilt of all phases of the perplexing crime.

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+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“There is nothing unusually clever in the structure of the story. By concealing essential facts, by raising a new question with every incident, and by answering none, the author puzzles rather than creates suspense. The story is indeed so confusing as to be in danger of being tiresome.” G. H. C.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 300w

“‘The red seal’ has the great merit of being really mysterious. The author has managed very cleverly in the way she contrives to conceal all clues that might lead one to discover the true culprit, holding them back until the very end. The tale moves swiftly and holds the reader’s interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 360w

“As in so many cinema plots, everyone seems to be ready to believe anything about anybody, to act in the most compromising manner for apparently inadequate motives, and to prevaricate with voluble insincerity at all times and in all places. With such allies at her disposal, Miss Lincoln makes so formidable a defence of her mystery that only the most experienced reader will penetrate it before the time appointed for unveiling.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 220w

=LIND, WALLACE LUDWIG.=[2] Internal-combustion engines. il $2.20 Ginn 621.43

20–6497

The author has treated of internal combustion engines, their principles and application to automobile, aircraft, and marine purposes. “The endeavor has been to arrange and present the subject matter in such a manner as to bring it well within the comprehension of the average student. For more advanced students, who have a knowledge of thermodynamics, the writer has presented in