Chapter III

the theoretical considerations of the various cycles which are applicable to internal-combustion engines.” (Preface) There are 120 illustrations, a trouble chart and an index.

* * * * *

“For its purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice, although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp and appreciate.”

+ =Nature= 106:210 O 14 ’20 180w

=LINDEN, HERMAN VANDER.=[2] Belgium, the making of a nation; tr. by Sybil Jane. (Histories of the nations ser.) *$3.75 Oxford 949.3

(Eng ed 20–9824)

“This volume is a translation of Professor H. vander Linden’s ‘Vue générale de l’histoire de Belgique’ with the addition of three chapters dealing with the history of the modern kingdom since 1831, written specially for this English edition. The original title tells us that the reader must not expect to find in this work more than a historical sketch. The writer makes no higher claim for it.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Monographs are valuable if their scope be limited, but any small volume covering centuries has the defects of its qualities. In this instance the reader might have gained had the author limited himself to a consideration of modern Belgium. The later chapters are richer in individuality and indicate what the author can do in character-sketches.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:355 Ja ’21 420w

=Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 640w

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 120w

“The best portions of this book are the numerous sections dealing with the social and economical conditions and progress of the Belgic provinces at various epochs of their chequered history. The strictly historical narrative does not deserve the same unqualified praise.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p344 Je 3 ’20 1650w

=LINDERMAN, FRANK BIRD.= On a passing frontier. *$1.75 Scribner

20–10052

“These glimpses of past or passing phases of life in Montana get a sure grip on the reader, in spite of their sombre quality. Bad men, bad language, and bad whisky figure prominently in the sketches, but most of the experiences ring true.” (Outlook) “His characters run the usual gamut of western tales, and each possesses a picturesque individuality, correctly shaded.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“These sketches of the Little Rockies will rank well in the front class of fiction.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 160w

“The stuff of good literature, though not in any final form, appears in ‘On a passing frontier,’ short stories without too much art, but also without too much decoration, which bring the Little Rockies very near home.”

+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w

=LINDSAY, MAUD MCKNIGHT.= Bobby and the big road. il *$1.50 (9c) Lothrop

20–26565

Bobby has always lived in the city but when he is five years old his father and mother take him to live in a little brown house by the side of a country road. The story tells of his little adventures while making friends with the birds and animals and flowers. He makes other friends too and goes to the circus and spends a happy Christmas. The story is suitable for children who have just learned to read.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20

+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 30w

“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for grown-up readers, too.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 29 ’20 140w

=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Golden whales of California; and other rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

20–2832

In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan, John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II, Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is crumbling down, and others.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M. Weaver

− + =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 650w

“With this volume Mr Lindsay certainly regains all he seems to have lost in his previous collection, and he now settles permanently in the very forefront of the half a dozen contemporary poets whose fame will last beyond the generation in which they were born.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 1500w

=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 100w

“Two impulses dominate Lindsay’s latest volume; two tendencies that are almost opposed in mood and mechanics. Sometimes the Jerusalem theme is uppermost; sometimes the jazz orchestration drowns everything else. Frequently, in the more successful pieces, there is a racy, ragtime blend of both. But a half-ethical, half-aesthetic indecision, an inability to choose between what most delights Lindsay and what his hearers prefer is the outstanding effect—and defect—of his new collection.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Dial= 68:789 Je ’20 1200w

“There is an impression abroad that ‘The golden whales’ falls a little below ‘General William Booth,’ ‘The Congo,’ and ‘The Santa Fe trail.’ It does do that; yet it stands well up among Mr Lindsay’s better poems, which is to say, among the better poems of contemporary America.” M. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 350w

“In this volume it is poems like Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan and Kalamazoo and The golden whales and The comet of prophecy and My lady is compared to a young tree and The statue of old Andrew Jackson and the Roosevelt poems and the Alexander Campbell poems which show the increasing self-possession of a singer who really lives with wonder and abides with dreams. The fascination of Lindsay is that this wonder and these dreams are drawn from common American life.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 21:321 F 11 ’20 1300w

“‘The golden whales’ is a book thoroughly alive, thoroughly jolly and thoroughly fit for chanting in typical Vachelese. His idiom, as well as his whimsical exaggeration, roars on every page.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w

“The book, taken by and large, might be a parody on Mr Lindsay, all the Mr Lindsays.... And yet one knows very well what has happened. The superstition has got him, the group-consciousness has sucked him down. Mr Lindsay has listened too readily to his kind public, his critical faculty, never strong, has been smoked and blurred by incense.” Amy Lowell

− + =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 2850w

“In this writer there have always been two elements: the poet, and what I shall unceremoniously, but not disrespectfully, call the urchin.... The poet and the urchin lived apart: they could not find each other. They have found each other, in my judgment, in the ‘Golden whales,’ and their meeting is the signal for Mr Lindsay’s emergence into the upper air of song.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 700w

“Many persons have become needlessly alarmed and excited over Mr Lindsay’s importance as a poet. He is original, very original, both in form and in substance, and he is exhilarating—if it be only the exhilaration induced by the jingling tambourine.... The new book shows Mr Lindsay performing at top speed—facile, self-confident, clever, sometimes brilliant, his viewpoints as healthy and entertaining as ever.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 1 ’20 480w

“Mr Lindsay’s ‘The golden whales of California’ is a disappointment. In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the ‘jazz bird’s screech’ and ‘monkey-shines and didoes.’” E: B. Reed

− + =Yale R= n s 10:203 O ’20 150w

=LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, and O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Doughboy’s religion, and other aspects of our day. *$1.25 (8c) Harper 940.478

20–1683

In his introduction Harvey J. O’Higgins, giving an appreciation and brief survey of Judge Lindsey’s career, says that it is as an advocate of a moral alliance that he speaks in the book—“for although the actual writing of the book has been a work of collaboration, the message is his message and the spirit of its utterance is, as nearly as possible, his.” This is the message: “The Christian religion is not a religion of individual salvation and selfish virtue. It is a religion of love and self-sacrifice and humility.” It is a religion of doing rather than of church-going and the American junker will have to accept it if the lessons of the war are to be fruitful ones. The four essays of the book are: The doughboy’s religion; The junker faith; Horses’ rights for women; A league of understanding.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“There has been so much nonsense about the religion of the American soldier written and spoken by members of the Y. M. C. A. that it is refreshing to hear the subject treated intelligently by a real man. It is not strange that the famous judge of the juvenile court should be the man to understand the doughboy as others have failed to understand him.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 600w

“The publication, at this date, seems to be an afterthought. However, the book will have some interest, since it presents the thoughts of a man so well-known as Judge Lindsey.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 140w

“These essays are thought-provoking and written with Judge Lindsey’s usual fiery sincerity.”

+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 120w

“Judge Lindsey spares no one in his discussion and is judicious in his summary of the case.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 10 ’20 450w

=LIPPMANN, WALTER.= Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323

20–4814

Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20

“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w

=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 160w

=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 90w

Reviewed by H. J. Laski

=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 480w

“Mr Walter Lippmann is one of the editors of the New Republic, and consequently may be presumed to know all about liberty; but he has never been a newspaper man and, while he knows a good deal about news, most of what he knows is not true.”

− =N Y Times= 25:129 Mr 21 ’20 3200w

“The programme which the author proffers is a worthy one. Would that it could be attained! Progress toward its attainment will, however, require considerable soul-searching and inner reformation on the part of responsible persons connected with the handling of the news; and this is likely to require rather large drafts on the bank of time.” W. J. Ghent

+ =Review= 2:571 My 29 ’20 1250w

“However much one may disagree with some of Mr Lippmann’s statements and views, there is no doubt that he renders a public service by directing his critical mind to the press and its influence. It is courageous thinking of this kind that will help the public to become more exacting in its demand on the press.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1300w

“A calm, impersonal and general survey.” J. G. McDonald

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w

=LISLE, CLIFTON.= Diamond rock. il *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt

20–16154

A boys’ story of the revolutionary war. The Quaker settlement in Chester county, Pennsylvania, had been very remote from the scene of war and had taken little interest in its progress, but with the battle of the Brandywine in the summer of 1777, it is brought close to them. On that very day Joe Lockhart, fishing along the creek, encounters an attractive stranger who teaches him how to catch trout with a worm. Later Joe and his chum, Amos Rambo, pick up a paper which shows the stranger to have been a spy. Joe carries the evidence to Washington’s headquarters and reports and is sent on a mission thru the British lines. He meets the stranger again and learns that he is a spy on the right side. Thereafter the two boys see something of all the stirring events that follow, including the Paoli massacre.

=LITCHFIELD, PAUL WEEKS.= Industrial republic. *$1 (8c) Houghton 331.1

20–10139

The booklet is a study in industrial economics by the vice-president and factory manager of the Goodyear Tire and rubber company. Government and management, says the author, are synonymous terms, the one being applied to the political, the other to the industrial world and the war has focussed attention on the faults of both. After a brief outline of the evolution of capital and the wage system and its present antagonism the author points out the necessity of giving labor the control of the management of an industry while safe-guarding the interests of capital. In illustration he describes the Goodyear representation plan. Contents: Expansion of political democracy; The labor-capital opposition—genesis and growth; Present status of the labor-capital opposition; Clues to the solution; Rights involve duties; The industrial republic; Industrial citizenship; The Goodyear representation plan.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“The book should prove of real interest to social workers and to business men. It maintains a consistent point of view throughout and develops logically to its conclusion.” Alexander Fleisher

+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w

=LITERARY= digest history of the world war; comp. by Francis W. Halsey. 10v il with subscription to Literary digest *$12 Funk 940.3

20–646

“This work covers the titanic struggle as it was fought on land, by sea, in the air, on all fronts in all parts of the world, by the thirty nations involved in the conflict. The first six volumes deal chiefly with the outbreak of the war and its causes, and the long and bitter struggle on the western front, including America’s entrance and

## participation, and carrying the story down to the signing of the

armistice, the occupation of the Rhine valley, and the meeting of the peace conference in Paris. The seventh is devoted to Russia’s share in the war, the revolution, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the rule of the Bolsheviki. In the eighth is to be found the story of the war in the Balkans, Turkey, and Palestine, while the ninth deals with Italy’s war effort and the story of the submarine warfare. The tenth contains the history of sea battles and of commerce raiding, an adequate description of the work of the Peace conference, sketches of fifty military and political leaders, a chronology that fills forty pages, and an index to the whole work. The volumes are all copiously illustrated.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The internal political events in the various countries are nearly altogether neglected, except of course the revolutions in Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. In this method of treatment there can be only a feeble attempt to evaluate the significance of the various factors entering into the huge conflict. The account lacks, too, as is natural, the simple direct style of Usher’s ‘Story of the great war.’ Nevertheless it is a comprehensive piece of work well done and extremely well suited to the clientele to whom it is directed.” G: F. Zook

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:720 Jl ’20 670w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Bookm= 51:115 Mr ’20 80w

=N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 100w

“Mr Halsey approached his task with a true perspective and justly saw and accurately described the part taken by each nation involved in its due relation to the whole conflict and the final victory.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 1250w

“The present work is certainly full of fine material and will itself be constantly and permanently valuable for reference and study.”

+ =Outlook= 123:515 D 17 ’19 200w

“In common justice to the author, we must give him praise for his skill in so reducing, condensing, and digesting the immense mass of material at his command as to produce a continuous and even narrative.”

+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 150w (Review of v 10)

=LIVERMORE, GEORGE GRISWOLD.=[2] Take it from Dad. il *$2 Macmillan 817

20–21986

Letters from a father to his son in preparatory school, letters full of friendly advice and good counsel with a mixture of homely anecdote from the father’s experience. There are amusing illustrations by Bert Salg.

* * * * *

“A new kind of boys’ book—and a good kind, too.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w

“It is not difficult to imagine that fathers with boys of eighteen will find Mr Soule an altogether enjoyable companion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 240w

=LIVERMORE, THOMAS LEONARD.= Days and events, 1860–1866. il *$6 (3c) Houghton 973.7

20–5734

This posthumous book, published by the author’s family and recording Colonel Livermore’s experiences in the Civil war, was begun immediately after the conclusion of the war, while its events were still fresh in his mind. Henry M. Rogers in his introduction gives a brief sketch of the author’s life.

* * * * *

“Colonel Livermore has been known for a long time by his work on ‘Numbers and losses in the Civil war,’ which has been one of the most valuable contributions to our military history. The work now before us is of an entirely different character and reflects the ability of the author from a new and no less interesting angle.” Eben Swift

+ =Am Hist R= 25:734 Jl ’20 600w

“The volume ought to take its place as a real ‘source book’ for commentators on the history of that conflict. There is much of entertainment in the narrative, which is frank to a degree and often vigorous, fresh, and significant in its criticisms.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w

=LIVINGSTON, ROBERT.= Land of the great out-of-doors. il *$1.75 (9c) Houghton

20–17525

When they are about five and six years old, Penrose and Penelope, known as Pen and Penny, are taken to the country to live on a farm. This little story tells of their daily life, beginning in the spring time and continuing to Christmas. In some of the chapters Pen tells of his doings, in others Penny gives her view of things. The colored pictures are by Maurice Day.

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w

“The impersonator frequently forgets, in his desire to have the valuable information imparted, that he is under contract to use the speech of childhood. However, the stories will undoubtedly find favor with the little folk, and their atmosphere is fresh and wholesome.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

“It will prove excellent to read aloud, or to give to children who are just beginning to read for themselves.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 80w

=LOCK, H. O.=[2] Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. *$3 Dutton 956.9

20–4566

“The history begins with the ancient Egyptians, relates the campaigns and conquests of the Jews, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, the picturesque warriors of the Crusades, the French, and then the British. The intervening history is briefly sketched, to make a connected narrative. The book has an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, commander-in-chief of the British forces in Palestine.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”

+ =Spec= 122:86 Ja 17 ’20 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 60w

=LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON.= Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas co.

20–94

This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful, however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares Lady Edris’s fate.

* * * * *

“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”

− + =Cath World= 111:408 Je ’20 140w

=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane

20–26105

The hero is a man of great intellectual power, dynamic physical energy and sudden quixotic impulses. After he has spent eighteen years of voluntary exile in China—self imposed because he fears to compromise the girl he loves—and two years of hermitlike seclusion on the moor with a fascinating and erudite young Chinese student, a German bomb from a zeppelin shocks him into a dazed knowledge of the European war. Wide awake, action hungry, he scorns his former achievements as a mathematical genius and brilliant Chinese scholar, plunges into political activities, gets “hitched on to” the war, and becomes the man of the hour. The old distasteful personal ties are broken through his wife’s death and the lapse of the years. New ones are forged and he learns that he has a fine son of whom he had not even dreamed. Life in London has become sweet and full and he desires no change. But once more the quixotic impulse asserts itself—a sacrifice becomes necessary for the sake of his officer son’s career, and he is off to China again.

* * * * *

“A typically interesting Locke story. The book ends rather weakly.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“Mr Locke has written many stories better than ‘The house of Baltazar,’ but there are few of them in which his neglected opportunities were greater. The truth is that he, like many other novelists, is obsessed by the necessity of making the war and its far-reaching effects a part of his fiction.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1260w

+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 20w

+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“But, after all, it is Baltazar himself who is the book, and he is always a joy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 1150w

+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 200w

“A captious reader might complain that Mr Locke has tried to do too many things at once, that a single novel simply has not sufficient space to include the big issues of feminism, profiteering, labour unrest and the thousand and one elements of contemporary social upheaval. But Mr Locke’s readers are not inclined to be captious.” F. T. Cooper

+ − =Pub W= 97:173 Ja 17 ’20 550w

“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is exceedingly well imagined.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 130w

“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”

+ − =Spec= 124:462 Ap 3 ’20 550w

“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter element is supplied by the Chinaman.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 650w

“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 F 26 ’20 550w

=LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE.= Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan 327

20–7662

The author’s preface points out that Pan-Americanism has passed through three periods, the first, characterized by a tendency toward solidarity, the second, by an opposite tendency toward separation and distrust, the third marked by a revival of the earlier trend. This

## book is devoted to the first of these periods, extending to about 1830

and embracing the years of revolution and the formation of new states. The eleven chapters are devoted to: Meaning of Pan-Americanism; Formation of new states; Failure of monarchical plots; United States and Hispanic American independence; International complications; Hispanic America and the Monroe doctrine; Early projects of continental union; The Panama congress; British influence; Attitude of the United States; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. There is a bibliography of nineteen pages, followed by an index. The work was completed as an “academic task” at Columbia university under the direction of Professor John Bassett Moore.

* * * * *

“A thorough and authoritative study.”

+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21

“With the substance of the book little fault can be found. It is timely and valuable. The arrangement and style are likely, however, to elicit some adverse criticism. The style abounds in colloquialisms, redundant words, and inexact expressions. But these slight imperfections do not seriously detract from or obscure the thought of an otherwise excellent work.” W: R. Manning

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 870w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 60w

=Spec= 125:471 O 9 ’20 1600w

“Interesting and scholarly study.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w

=LOCKINGTON, W. J.= Soul of Ireland; with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.75 Macmillan 941.5

20–824

“The gist of this [book is] that ‘Ireland is a proof, that the whole world may see, of the joy of life and sanity of outlook that spring from the Catholic church, the church of the tabernacle’: aliter that ‘the Irishman fearlessly stands before the whole world and unhesitatingly proclaims that his greatest pride and his greatest glory is the heritage that was given him by St Patrick—our Holy Catholic faith.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

“Father Lockington employs a bombastic style unfortunately characteristic of a class of books about Ireland, books against which nearly all the younger Irish writers have revolted. It is surprising to find an author of Mr Chesterton’s literary standing writing an introduction to ‘The soul of Ireland’: readers who care for literature will be wise to go no further.” N. J. O’C.

− =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 180w

“Long, sickly, sentimental rhapsody, in the rococo style.” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 150w

“It is written in a lofty, almost poetic, style, and a deep religious fervor pervades it throughout.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 500w

“Even those who stand outside the sacred circle for which he writes and who can not share the glowing devoutness of his symbolism must be moved by the enthusiastic tenderness with which this Jesuit priest idealizes the land of his ministry.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 70w

=LODGE, RUPERT CLENDON.= Introduction to modern logic. $2 (1c) Perine bk. co., 1413 University av., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 160

20–5668

An introductory text book prepared by an assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Minnesota. “By ‘modern’ logic is understood that body of logical theories and methods which is usually associated with the names of Lotze, Sigwart, Bradley, Bosanquet, Wundt, Erdmann and Dewey.... The traditional or Aristotelian logic, which has played so great a part in the past history of thought, is entirely omitted from consideration, as are also symbolic logic and the various attempts at inventing a logical calculus. For all such omissions, as well as for what is included, the sole justification is the nature of an introductory treatise.” (Preface) The book is in three parts: Judgment; Inference; and Scientific method. Each chapter is followed by references and exercises and there is an index to authorities referred to in the text as well as a general index.

* * * * *

“In this purpose to develop comprehensively the constructive theory of ‘modern logic,’ the author has admirably succeeded. The presentation marches. Compactness, explicitness, the constant use of illustration, and clarity in development are its outstanding features.” C. I. Lewis

+ − =J Philos= 17:498 Ag 26 ’20 1200w

=LOEB, MRS SOPHIE IRENE (SIMON).= Everyman’s child. il *$2 Century 362.7

20–17501

The author is the president of the New York city Board of child welfare and has personally studied the child welfare work done in various European countries and in the United States. The book describes the urgency of state laws to protect the children of the poor and what has already been done in that direction through the Widow’s pension law. Among the contents are: The cry of the children; What is being accomplished; Homes instead of institutions for the children of Uncle Sam; Importance of home life to children; How children keep out of children’s court; How the other half dies; The unwanted child; Boarded-out children. There are illustrations and an appendix.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

“Miss Loeb’s book is written with care and out of her manifold experience; but it is written also in enthusiasm. The book represents the most progressive thoughts on these problems and is worthy of a careful reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 290w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 40w

=LOFTING, HUGH.= Story of Dr Dolittle; being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts. il *$2.25 Stokes

20–18925

A very jolly nonsense story. Dr Dolittle loves animals and fills his house with queer pets, to the dismay of many of his patients. His sister warns him that if he keeps on none of the best people will have him for a doctor. But he loves animals better than he does the best people and the result is that his practice all falls off. So he gives up being a people’s doctor to become an animal doctor. He learns their language, Polynesia his parrot acting as his teacher. When the opportunity comes to go to Africa to cure the monkeys of a strange disease he is ready for it, and there he has most curious and interesting adventures. The illustrations are by the author.

* * * * *

“The most delightful nonsense story of the year.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 360w

“An invigorating, fascinating tale, its quaintness enhanced by the droll illustrations.”

+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 60w

“It is a pleasant surprise to open a volume whose illustrations appeal because of their inherent nonsense, and to find the author, who is as well the illustrator, maintaining a delightful sense of proportion in his imagination.”

+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 200w

“This is the best ‘animal’ story we remember to have come across in a long time, imbued with a real love and understanding of animals and with a humor which is fresh and quaint.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p19 D 4 ’20 240w

“Is as fascinating as it is queer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 250w

=LOMAX, JOHN AVERY, comp.= Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp; with a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. *$1.75 Macmillan 811.08

19–18742

“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert H. Knibbs.”—Booklist

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=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”

+ − =Nation= 110:306 Mr 6 ’20 280w

“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book, the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’ are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation of that life.” Natalie Curtis

+ =Nation= 111:591 N 24 ’20 2200w

“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 550w

“The volume is essentially a book of the soil, truly interpretative of an element of our national life which has practically faded away.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 26 ’20 500w

“This new collection of songs written by and for cowboys is more interpretive of the American spirit than the third-rate material from Greenwich village with which most of our literary periodicals fill their pages. Somewhat surprising, perhaps, to those whose idea of its life is taken from films and fiction, is the chastity of thought and diction in this folk-literature of the Far West. Its realism, and often its humor, is altogether delightful.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w

=LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA.= Cry of youth. *$2 (1½c) Appleton

20–5773

Margaret Randolph, an American girl alone in Rome, meets Fra Felice Estori, a young Franciscan monk. He is as beautiful as a youthful god and quite ignorant of the ways of the world, for almost all his life has been spent within monastery walls. Margaret is also a devout Catholic and she knows their meetings are unwise but the two are drawn irresistibly together until both are faced with the fact of their love and the necessity for separation. The young monk, altho he has not taken his final vows, is to be sent to South America on a mission. With breaking hearts they part. But an artist friend who takes an interest in the two tricks them into coming to his lonely mountain castle and leaves them there alone. The outcome is that they resolve never to part and Fra Felice becomes lost to the world. Then follows the strange story of their lonely life, the birth and death of their child, separation, misunderstanding and final reunion, with the ancient title of Prince Estori restored to its rightful owner.

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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 270w

=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Brown Wolf, and other Jack London stories; as chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews. il *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan

21–380

These stories have been collected into one volume by the chief scout librarian of the Boy scouts of America, in the hope that they will serve to exercise both the boy’s mind and conscience by teaching him to see and feel life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it, and thereby to develop the emotional muscles of the spirit that open up new windows to the imagination and add some line or color to life’s ideals. The stories are: Brown Wolf; That spot; Trust; All gold canyon; The story of Keesh; Nam-Bok the unveracious; Yellow handkerchief; Make westing; The heathen; The hobo and the fairy; “Just meat”; A nose for the king.

=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Hearts of three. *$2.50 Macmillan

20–17822

“A posthumous story by Jack London, in which descendants of the famous pirate, Sir Henry Morgan, engage in a rival hunt for his treasure buried somewhere in the South Sea islands.” (Outlook) “‘Hearts of three’ is not an original work; it is the translation of a scenario by Mr Charles Goddard, who, as Jack London himself informs us was responsible for ‘The perils of Pauline,’ ‘The exploits of Elaine,’ and similar alliterative masterpieces. The result of this collaboration, as might be supposed, is a novel with a wealth of action, piled up without discrimination.” (Freeman)

* * * * *

“It has occasional moments of good writing when Jack London, the novelist, snatches the pen away—impatiently and not without considerable vexation, one likes to imagine—from the scenario-writer.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 300w

“The idea of the tale is bold and its execution is spirited.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w

=LONES, THOMAS EAST.= Zinc and its alloys. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 669.5

GS20–328

The preface points out important changes in the zinc industry due to the war. The chapters then take up: Zinc: its history, properties, and uses; Zinc ores and other sources of zinc; Dressing zinc ores; Calcining and roasting zinc ores; Zinc smelting; Hydrometallurgical processes; Alloys of zinc. The book is illustrated with twenty-three figures and is indexed.

* * * * *

“The book possesses the virtues of being up to date and reasonable in price.”

+ =Engineer= 129:301 Mr 19 ’20 100w

“An excellent example of what such books ought to be. It is a pity that the author did not keep clear altogether of chemical equations, which he might easily have done in a purely popular treatise, as he has been somewhat unfortunate in their use. In a future edition the author might with advantage devote a little space to the galvanising of iron.”

+ − =Nature= 105:193 Ap 15 ’20 350w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p34 Ap ’20 100w

+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 20w

=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Wood-folk comedies; the play of wild-animal life on a natural stage. il *$3 (4c) Harper 590.4

20–18326

It is the author’s contention that animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome comedy; that there is absolutely no such thing as a struggle for existence in nature; that the woods when they are white with snow are quite as cheery as the woods of spring or summer; and that the wood-folk are invincibly cheerful. On this basis the tales are written and great is the fun thereof. Contents: Morning on Moosehead; The birds’ table; Fox comedy; Players in sable; Wolves and wolf tales; Ears for hearing; Health and a day; Night life of the wilderness; Stories from the trail; Two ends of a bear story; When beaver meets otter; A night bewitched; The trail of the loup-garou; From a beaver lodge; Comedians all. There are eight illustrations in color.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20

“Very readable.”

+ =Spec= 125:822 D 18 ’20 30w

“Mr Long is least satisfying when he is forcing the note of sentimental optimism (‘animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome comedy’), and best worth reading when he tells a plain tale of animals’ habits or adventures in the landscapes which he describes so well.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 150w

=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Mac of Placid. *$1.90 (1½c) Century

20–14293

Mr Longstreth, who has written a book on the Adirondacks, as well as one on the Catskills, here makes his appearance as a novelist. His hero, Anson MacIntyre, is born in the “wolf winter” of 1869 and he tells his own story up thru the eighties. His beginnings are not promising, but two things unite to make a man of him, his deep love for his native woods and his love for Hallie Brewster. These two forces and one other, his friendship with R. L. S. For no less person than Stevenson appears as a character in the story. The two skate together on Saranac lake and become intimate companions. Mac’s romantic devotion to Hallie and his rivalry with Ed Touch appeal to the fiction writer’s imagination and he takes a hand in the wooing. Other real people, the Bakers and Dr Trudeau, are mentioned in the story.

* * * * *

“Lovers of Stevenson, the man, must add ‘Mac of Placid’ to the volumes of Stevensonia which have been accumulating so rapidly in the past decade.... The fundamental difficulty with Mr Longstreth’s book is that his characters, no matter how real to him, even though they may be actually alive, often fail to live.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 780w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 270w

“The portrayal of Stevenson is vivid. Not the least interesting detail of the work is the colorful description of the Adirondack country and the rigorous joys of a winter there.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 240w

=LOONEY, J. THOMAS.= “Shakespeare” identified. *$5 Stokes 822.3

20–7795

A book written to prove that the plays of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. The author states that his interest in the problem was awakened after years of study of “The merchant of Venice,” thru which he gained “a peculiar sense of intimacy with the mind and disposition of its author.” Convinced that this author had nothing in common with William Shakespeare of Stratford he set about finding the contemporary who best met the requirements. His search led him to Edward de Vere. The one play which does not fit into his scheme is “The tempest.” The book has a frontispiece portrait and an index.

* * * * *

“The effort of Mr Looney to solve this conflict is a little unfortunate in some respects, though most interesting in many others. A schoolmaster by profession, he is inclined to speak like one. Mr Looney thinks he has proved his theory. Of course, he has not. But he has opened most promising vistas, and it is to be hoped that his leads will be followed up.” Edwin Björkman

+ − =Bookm= 51:677 Ag ’20 3350w

“Mr Looney’s dominant fault is that his work is wholly inferential. However much we may be convinced that De Vere, had he been a genius, might have written such plays as Shakespeare’s, there is no tangible fact to connect them with him.” Joseph Krutch

− =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 580w

“The argument connecting Oxford with the Shakespearean plays has the abundance of strained literary and personal analogies, and the amazing absence of common sense which characterize most Baconian endeavors.” J: Corbin

− =N Y Times= 25:18 Je 27 ’20 1600w

“The volume appears to have all the paraphernalia of scholarship but little of its critical spirit.”

− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w

− =Sat R= 129:308 Mr 27 ’20 800w

“That we cannot agree with his conclusions we attribute partly to some grave defects which seem to us to exist in his reasoning, and partly to some general considerations which he appears to have overlooked.”

− =Spec= 124:425 Mr 27 ’20 1500w

“Mr Looney’s honesty enables us to see, a little more clearly than was evident from the essays of previous adventurers of the same kind, how this zeal for attributing the plays and poems of Shakespeare to some titled contemporary originates and grows.... Unencumbered by any inconvenient knowledge at first hand of what he is writing about, Mr Looney proceeds to build up his case very easily. Almost any man’s life could be illustrated from Shakespeare’s plays, and Mr Looney makes them illustrate the life of the Earl of Oxford.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p149 Mr 4 ’20 1550w

=LORD, ARTHUR.= Plymouth and the Pilgrims. *$1.50 Houghton 974.4

20–19250

This book comprises the Colver lectures for 1920 given at Brown university. The three lectures are entitled: Plymouth before the Pilgrims; The Pilgrims before Plymouth, and Plymouth and the Pilgrims. The first discusses “some of the political, geographical, and legal conditions which determined the settlement at Plymouth”; the second considers “some of the economic, social, and religious influences which directed and shaped the Pilgrim migration from England and Holland to the New World.” The third lecture takes up those incidents of special interest in Pilgrim history which may be useful in considering present problems and may “perhaps serve to illustrate in what particulars the lives and examples of the Pilgrims have contributed in shaping the American policy.” Mr Lord is president of the Pilgrim society and chairman of the Pilgrim tercentenary commission.

* * * * *

“Mr Lord throughout displays the depth of his legal attainments.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 460w

“Altogether, the book moves swiftly and is well documented. Perhaps, however, his sympathy with the movement inclines him to an overestimate of the Pilgrim attitude toward freedom of worship.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 180w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w

“An outline of the essential facts the American citizen must know if he is to celebrate intelligently the landing of the Mayflower.”

+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 200w

=LORD, KATHARINE.= Little playbook. *$1.50 Duffield 812

20–9126

The plays have frequently been produced by the author and others and are intended for the needs of schools, clubs, settlements and playgrounds. Pantomime and dancing play a large part in them and music is desirable, but they do not require elaborate staging or costumes. In the introduction the author gives advice and suggestions for their production in order to insure the greatest amount of self-expression on the part of the children. The plays are: The greatest gift (a Christmas play); Katjens’ garden; June magic (a little play for the garden); The minister’s dream (a Thanksgiving fantasy); The day Will Shakspere went to Kenilworth (a pageant play); The Yuletide rose (a Christmas miracle play). Directions for the scenery and costumes are given at the end of each play.

* * * * *

“All of the plays are written in an amusing and simple manner and should prove a delight for children.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 200w

=LOREBURN, ROBERT THRESHIRE REID. 1st earl.= How the war came. *$3 (3c) Knopf 940.311

(Eng ed 19–15817)

The book is a plea for open diplomacy under all conditions. Although the author puts the immediate responsibility for the war on the shoulders of the military power of Germany, he shows that the indirect but more fundamental cause is to be found in the clandestine transactions in the foreign affairs of all countries. He throws much light on the historical antecedents of the war in continental Europe, and exposes the unprecedented schemes of conquest all over the world undertaken by England and her allies even during the war itself. Contents: Introductory; Storm centre in the Balkans; Storm centre in Alsace-Lorraine; Great Britain is drawn into a French alliance; Attitude of Great powers in 1914; How the continent came to war; How Great Britain came into the war; Sir Edward Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914; Belgium; Was it inevitable? Remedies; Appendix (Sir E. Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914); Map of the Balkans.

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=Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 200w

“Whatever be one’s personal views upon this thesis, it is impossible not to admit and to admire the ability with which the book is written. And it has something more than mere ability.” L. W.

+ =Ath= p999 O 10 ’19 500w

+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“Lord Loreburn’s pages, an analysis as dispassionate as may be of the whole miserably intricate business of the telegrams of July, 1914, destroy whatever remains of the unphilosophic hope that all the evil was compact and corruptingly on one side.” Sganarelle

+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 150w

“Such an application of commonsense, honesty, and plain speaking should go far towards allaying the virulence of war hatreds and deflating national conceits.”

+ − =Nation= 109:826 D 27 ’19 1750w

“If the book is to be regarded merely as a historical essay, still it is one of the neatest and clearest ever written. Those who do not believe that the work of peacemaking was completed once for all at Versailles will place a far higher value on Earl Loreburn’s book.” Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 21:272 Ja 28 ’20 1850w

“Lord Loreburn has done the present and succeeding generations a real service by disentangling and rearranging, with all the skill of his profession, the capital events. Everybody should read the book, though everybody will not agree with the conclusions of its learned author.”

+ =Sat R= 128:270 S 20 ’19 850w

− =Spec= 123:410 S 27 ’19 240w

“One may dissent from his reading of the facts, but it is impossible not to respect the admirable forensic temper with which they are presented.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S 18 ’19 550w

=LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON.= Einstein theory of relativity. *$1 Brentano’s 530.1

20–5628

“‘The Einstein theory of relativity’ has an introduction of twenty-four pages reprinted from various sources, followed by a small forty-page article by Lorentz, translated from a Dutch paper. Lorentz, it may be added, is one of the greatest of living physicists and came perilously near anticipating Einstein’s work of fifteen years ago. The article is devoted almost entirely to the gravitational aspect of relativity.”—Freeman

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=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 20w

+ − =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 90w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 30w

=LORIA, ACHILLE.= Karl Marx; authorised tr. from the Italian. *$1.50 (6c) Seltzer 335

21–881

A sketch of Marx’s life and an exposition and criticism of his doctrines compose Professor Loria’s monograph. The long foreword by the translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, is an analysis and criticism of Loria and of Loria’s attitude toward Marx.

* * * * *

“A brilliant appraisal of the life and works of the ‘Father of modern socialism.’ Contains an excellent foreword by Eden and Cedar Paul.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w

=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= With other eyes. *$1.90 Brentano’s

20–8363

“Much of this pleasant story is alluringly set in the ‘Island valley of Avalon.’ The heroine is of Acadie, and is fittingly named Evangeline. She and her widowed mother have come from Nova Scotia, and settle at Glastonbury, where the mother marries an amiable old doctor, and the daughter falls in love with his son. But while Evangeline is on a visit to a Welsh manor belonging to her friend, a young clergyman arrives on the scene. Later after losing a foot at the front, he comes to an understanding with Evangeline. The story incidentally gives some sort of answer to the problem whether women ought to be ‘saddled for life’ with men whom they no longer love or respect, merely because they have ‘given themselves to their country.’”—Ath

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=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 100w

“The story proceeds along lines that remain unhackneyed, even when the book becomes, virtually, a war novel. It is a grave, thoughtful piece of work that does the author credit. Its principal defect rises from an error in judgment, which seeks to divide interest and space almost equally with a secondary story.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:828 S ’20 280w

“The novel contains some gracefully written descriptions of Glastonbury and of Wales.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 420w

“We recommend it as much above the average of the ordinary novel.”

+ =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 D 25 ’19 120w

=LOVETT, WILLIAM.= Life and struggles of William Lovett in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom; with some short account of the different associations he belonged to and of the opinions he entertained. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf

20–26886

The books belong to the series of Economic reprints and come with an introduction by R. H. Tawney who says of them that they are more than an autobiography inasmuch as Lovett “was the spokesman of the political labour movement which started with the formation of the London Working men’s association and which developed into Chartism.”

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 70w

+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 480w

“Not a wholly reliable historical document.” R: Roberts

+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1000w

=LOW, BARBARA.= Psycho-analysis; a brief account of the Freudian theory. *$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 130

20–9413

The author of this brief introduction to psycho-analysis is a member of the British psycho-analytical society, and Ernest Jones, president of the society, writes an introduction for the book. In part he says, “That the deductions made from psycho-analytical investigations are both novel and not easily acceptable, Miss Low makes plain in her book, and she has not adopted the easier way of concealing these attributes of them. She has chosen the loftier aim of attempting to present all aspects of the psycho-analytical theory fairly and straightforwardly, and yet to bring them within reach of those who have made no previous study of the subject.” The chapters take up: The scope and significance of psycho-analysis; Mental life—unconscious and conscious; Repressions; The rôle of the dream; Treatment by psycho-analysis; Probable social and educational results. A list of reference books is given in an appendix.

* * * * *

“The ‘popular’ style of this book defeats, to some extent, the author’s purpose. We should have liked the exposition to be more clear-cut and reserved. As it is, the reader will have some difficulty in grasping the root ideas of the Freudian theory, although, if he is patient, he will find a good deal of information in this book.”

+ − =Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 80w

“Worth while in defining the science, but too condensed for serious study.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w

“About the first work on psycho-analysis that can be recommended for general reading is Barbara Low’s ‘Psycho-analysis.’ Of course, Miss Low exaggerates the field to which psycho-analysis is applicable, as she does its therapeutic value.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 280w

=LOW, BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS.=[2] Broken music. *$2 Dutton 811

20–20973

“From the four volumes of poems which he had published at intervals during the last ten years or so Mr Low has selected his best work to make this collection of his art. These four volumes, ‘The sailor who sailed,’ ‘A wand and strings,’ ‘The house that was’ and ‘The pursuit of happiness,’ have been much admired and praised by the most discerning critics here and abroad, in spite of which they have had a very moderate circulation.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“There are many of us who would not willingly suppress or forget a good deal of the work in the four volumes of Mr Low’s that he has seen fit not to include in this representative collection, but what he has gathered here makes a very fine spiritual attraction that will win him an increasingly wide circle of new admirers. I think when you get at the core of Mr Low’s art you will find above everything else beautiful thought; and beautiful thought is scarcely to be found without a very intense and passionate emotional foundation.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 1400w

“After a careful reading we remain of our old opinion that the leading poem, ‘The vigil-at-arms,’ is Mr Low’s best effort. Elsewhere Mr Low’s work lacks freshness and individuality.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 130w

=LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.= Function of the poet; and other essays. *$5 (10c) Houghton 814

20–26550

The essays and reviews in this volume have here for the first time been collected into book form and are edited with a preface by Albert Mordell. According to this preface they sustain Lowell’s reputation as one of our great American critics and are in nowise inferior in literary merit to the volumes collected by himself. The essays on poetry and belles-lettres in the volume are: The function of the poet; Humor, wit, fun, and satire; The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare); The imagination: Critical fragments. Among the reviews of contemporary writers are: Henry James: James’s tales and sketches; Poetry and nationality; W. D. Howells: Venetian life; Edgar A. Poe; Thackeray; Roundabout papers; and the three last essays are: Forster’s life of Swift; Plutarch’s morals; A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.

* * * * *

“Especially interesting will be his criticisms of contemporaries—Henry James, Longfellow, Whittier, Howells, Poe and Thackeray.”

+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“They are pleasant, scholarly, informal; they polish off literary subjects gracefully, even if not dazzlingly.”

+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 80w

“Mr Mordell has brought together a surprising number of uncollected essays and reviews by Lowell. What is even more surprising in a collection of this kind is that it reveals its author at his best. If Lowell has little to offer a generation which, like ours, expects from literature the very bread of life, he has virtues our contemporary criticism singularly lacks. He has the judgment we gladly dispense with and the verbal felicity we despise, for the lack of which the future will despise and dispense with most of us.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:357 Je 23 ’20 1050w

“Throughout the book, as generally in Lowell, are paragraphs, sometimes pages, notable for their beauty, vision, wit, and eminently quotable.”

+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 470w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 2450w

“Lowell’s abstract reasoning on literature is highly abstract and highly succinct, and its promises for the eye or the palate are not always redeemed in the intellectual stomach. The reviews of contemporaries are very urbane, very judicious, rather measured, rather distant, a little formal.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w

“The mingled wisdom and humor of Lowell are apparent everywhere.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 27 ’20 840w

=LOWIE, ROBERT HARRY.= Primitive society. *$3 Boni & Liveright 572

20–7731

“Beginning with the custom of marriage. Dr Lowie studies it through the practice of polygamy, with its side-shoots of polygyny, polyandry, sexual communism, to the family, with its various units, to the kinship usages. The Sib organization, with its history and ramifications, is analyzed and illustrated, the first half of the study of primitive society on its individual side ending at the stage of The position of woman. Then in turn such questions are studied as Property, Associations, Theory of associations, Rank, Government, and Justice.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The reviewer, a teacher of sociology, is one of a large group who are grateful to Dr Lowie for his service in writing this book.”

+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 w

“Useful for its expansion of data commonly found only in briefer outlines.”

+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 380w

“‘Primitive society’ is a worth-while book. It is interestingly written and valuable and readable, even for an amateur anthropologist or sociologist. Its factual solidity makes it of permanent worth in any library.”

+ =Cath World= 111:684 Ag ’20 330w

“Dr Lowie’s book may be recommended as the most informative, lucid, and keenly critical introduction to the study of primitive social organizations that the reviewer is aware of. It deserves the most careful study. Fortunately for the non-professional reader, ‘Primitive society’ is an eminently readable book. The style is crisp and rapid.” E: Sapir

+ =Dial= 69:528 N ’20 2500w

“It would be indeed surprising if ‘Primitive society’ did not win for itself the position of an indispensable guide in a difficult domain.”

+ =Freeman= 1:377 Je 30 ’20 1550w

“All in all, Mr Lowie’s book will do much to render more life-like and substantial our current conceptions of a primitive community.” E: Sapir

+ =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 1550w

“Principles or viewpoints are handled with equal skill, the didactic or dogmatic is avoided, indeed, let me say, with extraordinary skill. Dr Lowie is critical of old categories, but not, like many a critic, merely to make way for new, he never handicaps himself with classification. Obviously ‘Primitive society’ will be a welcome book—at least to those who want to know how things are before asking why they are.” E. C. Parsons

+ =New Repub= 24:245 N 3 ’20 1550w

“He has produced a work that will serve as a comprehensive textbook for the student, and that is written in a manner interesting enough to engage the attention of the general reader. His material has been correlated and arranged with skill, and he cites his authorities with a marked care.”

+ =N Y Times= p12 O 31 ’20 1100w

“Dr Lowie reviews the rich material of social organization with a new insight: he discards simple solutions, too much dominated by the

## active social ties as we know them, and by the desire to read

evolutionary conclusions into historical data.” Joseph Jastrow

+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 740w

=LOWIS, CECIL CHAMPAIN.= Four blind mice. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane

20–19509

The story is of two married couples in the English colony of Rangoon. Douglas Selbridge is an overworked official and Delia, consequently, a neglected and bored wife. Major Brattlethwaite and his wife are living apart and the latter is nothing but a rumor. The major seeks the company and solace of Delia until matters become strained between herself and her husband. When the absent Mrs Brattlethwaite suddenly appears upon the scene to vanish again immediately, at the same time that the body of a murdered woman is discovered in the jungle, a crisis is reached. A fortunate solution of the mystery not only saves an innocent man from the gallows, but straightens out the domestic relations of the two couples satisfactorily.

* * * * *

“From the point of the murder the story maintains a high level of interest, and reaches a satisfactory conclusion. The domestic and boarding-house scenes have engaging touches of novelty, which suggest a feminine hand.”

+ =Ath= p212 Ag 13 ’20 270w

“The native scenes are more interesting than the troubles of the white folks, the descriptions of the rains, the heat, and native life being well above the average in vividness and picturesque quality.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 70w

=Spec= 124:244 Ag 21 ’20 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 130w

=LOWNDES, MRS MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC).= Lonely house. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–10307

Lily Fairfield is a young English girl who has been ordered a change of scene for her health, and therefore has come to visit some distant connections by marriage at their home, “La Solitude,” near Monte Carlo. She finds “La Solitude” to be a lonely isolated house, and leads a rather quiet life, altho shortly it is enlivened by the return of Beppo, the son of the Count and Countess Polda, whose paying-guest she is. As she is something of an heiress, she soon realizes that it is the hope of Beppo’s parents that he will marry her. Indeed the desire for money seems to bulk very large in their lives. But a young Scotsman, Angus Stuart, has already filled the place in her heart that Beppo hopes to occupy, altho she is rather slow to realize the fact. “La Solitude” becomes even more unbearable to her than before after two robberies resulting in murder have been committed nearby, but it is not until an attack is made on Angus Stuart that the real criminals are discovered, and Lily realizes what danger she has been in and how she has escaped it.

* * * * *

=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 80w

=Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 420w

“A melodramatic though not unconvincing mystery story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

“The background and atmosphere of these players is wherein Mrs Lowndes has excelled herself. It is all too unfortunate that so able a writer should seek to satisfy shallow desire for excitement rather than to gratify literary taste: of the latter Mrs Lowndes would be very capable should she wish to produce, not a best-seller, dependent upon its author’s noteworthy name, but work of real merit.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:111 O ’20 300w

“It is an eery tale, with plenty of atmosphere, one that will keep its readers hanging on the turn of the pages.”

+ =Lit D= p89 O 9 ’20 2350w

“The tale is well written and cleverly developed, incident following incident in a way which keeps the reader’s interest always on the alert, and makes convincing a plot which, though highly melodramatic, is by no means improbable.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 770w

=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Adventures and enthusiasms. il *$2 Doran 824

20–26998

The book contains a collection of short sketches on a variety of subjects such as episodes from life, reminiscences of people and places, reflections and whimsical thoughts. The style is leisurely and full of quiet humor. Some of the sketches are: The perfect guest; A morning call; Possessions; Drake and his game; Davy Jones; Thoughts at the ferry; Telephonics; Thackeray’s school fellow; The newness of the old; On finding things. Fourteen of the sketches bear the common heading: In and about London.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“Mr Lucas would be the first to admit that he challenges comparison with Lamb, and that the advantage is Lamb’s.” N. F. Gerould

+ − =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 320w

“His work is invariably diverting, delicate, sparkling, adapted to the subtlest appreciations.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 80w

=Boston Transcript= p7 S 1 ’20 780w

+ =Cath World= 112:263 N ’20 350w

“The title under which Mr E. V. Lucas harnesses his latest collection of essays, ‘Adventures and enthusiasms,’ suggests an intensity which is seldom substantiated in the text. These sketches move at a jogging pace, guided by a slack rein, and rarely touched by the whip of fancy.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 520w

“He writes of all sorts of ordinary, everyday things like aunts and telephones and punctuality, with pleasant leisureliness, with whimsicality and with deep enjoyment.”

+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 100w

“Both the adventures and the enthusiasms are mild. Mr Lucas’s taste is generally impeccable and sane.”

+ − =Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 170w

“Mr Lucas’s stories verge upon essays and his essays hover upon the edge of narrative, real or fictitious. They are not easy to classify—and that is another way of saying they make the pleasantest kind of book in the world.” E. L. Pearson

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 S 25 ’20 800w

“‘Adventures and enthusiasms’ impresses you with its feeling of leisure, of the fullness of time, of the charm of idleness. Life runs full here but not in the impetuous desperate rush of spring, with the sounds of torrents and winds.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 800w

“Of all his volumes of essays none is better than his latest.”

+ =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 270w

=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Verena in the midst; a kind of story. *$1.90 Doran

20–17824

In this novel in letters, Verena, a maiden lady of some wealth, is the central figure. She has met with an accident to her spine and is obliged to be bed-ridden for months. All the letters are to, from and about her and they all are revealing as to the characters of the writers. The various relatives come to her for counsel and advice and make her the recipient of their confidences. The most frequent interchange of letters is between Verena and an old friend, Richard Haven, the friend that “never disappoints.” His daily message of good cheer, his ever ready counsel, and his daily contribution of poetry, for the sleepless invalid to memorize, are the best parts of the book.

* * * * *

“‘Verena in the midst’ is not to be taken seriously. With the exception of the nephew Roy, who is quite amazingly made known to us, there has been, on the part of the author, no serious attempt at revelation.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p332 S 10 ’20 680w

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“It implies no forgetfulness of Mr Lucas’s more solid achievements to say that he is perhaps the chief of those English writers who are doing the little things supremely well. And his fecundity in finding these little things to do is hardly less than his facility in treating them.” Stanley Went

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 400w

“This book is full of humorous twists and surprises and odd bits and ideas and pleasant letters and anecdotes and—I am afraid I shall have to use the poor, over-worked word—whimsicalities.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w

“Mr Lucas has surpassed himself. And yet, as is often the case, the idea is so simple that almost anyone might have thought of it.... Almost anyone could have thought of the idea, but is there anyone but Mr Lucas who could have carried it out with so near an approach to perfection?”

+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 750w

“Most of the characterization is very good. To accuse Mr Lucas of slightness of tenuity would be to invite the retort that that was the idea. It is after all a book with which from many writers we should be content.”

+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 350w

“Apart from the kindly humor which is their main ingredient, Mr E. V. Lucas’s little nibbles at the novel are in themselves amusing to the critic. The form of fiction appeals to him provided that he can use it on his own terms. He can think of the most delightful sets of people and give them appropriate names; he can write all their letters for them and, at a pinch, carry on their conversation; but always on the condition that they keep still and remain strictly true to type. Unfortunately, in real novels as in real life, it is difficult to keep people still.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 S 2 ’20 800w

“In Mr Lucas’ familiar style. It is the sort of thing he does with great deftness.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w

=LUCKIESH, M.= Artificial light: its influence upon civilization. (Century books of useful science) il *$2.50 (2½c) Century 628.9

20–11163

The aim of this book is “to show that artificial light has become intricately interwoven with human activities and that it has been a powerful influence upon the progress of civilization.” (Preface) The early chapters deal with primitive forms of lighting, covering such subjects as: The art of making fire; Primitive light-sources; The ceremonial use of light; Oil-lamps of the nineteenth century, and Early gas-lighting. Among the chapters devoted to modern lighting are: The science of light-production; Lighting the streets; Lighthouses; Artificial light in warfare; Signaling; Light and safety; Light and health; Spectacular lighting; Lighting the home; Lighting—a fine art? Reading references come at the close. The author, who is director of applied science, Neia Research laboratory, has written also “Color and its applications,” “The lighting art,” etc.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

“Written in a simple yet finished style it gives the general reader a comprehensive and engaging account of illumination.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p68 Jl ’20 150w

“The story is told in a surprisingly interesting way. Altogether the

## book may be regarded as a model for such monographs.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w

+ =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 250w

“An interesting treatment of a fascinating subject.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 120w

=LUCKIESH, M.= Lighting the home, il *$2 Century 644.3

20–17579

The book considers the problem of artificial lighting both from a utilitarian and an aesthetic point of view. “Light,” says the author, “is the most powerful medium we have for creating or accentuating the mood of a room.... Attention to apparently insignificant details of lighting equipment does much toward converting a house into a home.” Among the contents are: Light as an expressive medium; Safeguarding vision; The functions of fixtures; Various rooms; Novelties in lighting; Colored light. There are illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

“Could be used in high school libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 230w

=LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (TOBY, M. P., pseud.).=[2] Diary of a journalist. $6 Dutton

“Politicians, statesmen, authors, actors, painters, princes, journalists, social leaders, and men and women in many other professional walks of life throng the pages of Sir Henry Lucy’s volume. It covers a long period of years from 1885 almost to the present day, and it is rich in the personality encountered by a newspaper writer and editor who has come into daily contact with the events and the people of his time. In his previous volume entitled ‘Sixty years in the wilderness,’ Sir Henry Lucy has told a consecutive story of his career, in this latest volume he supplements it with material which resulting from ‘the habit dominant through many years of daily noting interesting events coming within personal observation’ yields ‘a collection personally, politically and historically interesting.’”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Except for a few jokes, we find very little of interest in this record. In his phrases we sometimes recognize the flavour of the official biography. In particular he has one trick very characteristic of those works. It is to make statements about his hero, with the air of suggesting an exceptional virtue, which hold good of practically everybody in the world.”

− + =Ath= p551 O 22 ’20 330w

“An entertaining book of personal reminiscence.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w

“‘Recollections of a journalist’ would perhaps be a more suitable title, and certainly Sir Henry Lucy’s recollections are singularly rich and varied.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 29 ’21 420w

+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 9 ’21 1450w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ’20 180w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20)

“The worst that one can say about Sir Henry Lucy’s diary is that no one would ever have suspected it of being a diary if the author had not so labelled it. It has obviously been revised in the light of subsequent events. Why has the book no index? It is just the sort of book that especially needs one.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 750w

=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.=[2] General staff and its problems: the secret history of the relations between the High Command and the German Imperial government as revealed by official documents; tr. by F. Appleby Holt. 2v *$15 Dutton 940.343

20–22469

“The statements in Ludendorff’s first volume were so bold that there arose a demand for the source on which he based many of his sensational assertions. This demand the former Quartermaster-General of the German armies now seeks to meet in a second volume.” (N Y Times) “Among the documents included are the report of the conference between Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Pless, when the unrestricted submarine campaign was finally decided upon, and the violent letters exchanged between the chancellor, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the foreign office revealing the internal difficulties of Germany in 1916. The matter of American participation, as the German authorities viewed and discussed it, is gone into thoroughly.” (Springf’d Republican)

* * * * *

Reviewed by Simeon Strunsky

=N Y Evening Post= p1 Ja 29 ’21 2900w

Reviewed by T. R. Ybarra

=N Y Times= p3 D 5 ’20 1850w

=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 150w

=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.= Ludendorff’s own story, August 1914–November 1918. il 2v *$7.50 (3c) Harper 940.343

20–4133

“The great war from the siege of Liege to the signing of the armistice as viewed from the grand headquarters of the German army.” (Subtitle) What the author calls the first commandment for a German “unselfish submission and the sinking of the ego in national discipline” characterizes this grim account of one who, with an eye single, was bent on the winning of the war. Volume 1 falls into two parts: the author’s career as chief of the general staff on the eastern front; and from his appointment as first quartermaster-general. Volume 2 begins with the entente offensive in the first half of 1917, the Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war and ends with the armistice and the end of Ludendorff’s military career. The books contain many maps and each has a loose map in a cover pocket. Volume 2 has an index.

* * * * *

“He gives a wealth of interesting comment and ex parte statement of motives, intentions, and expectations, which he does not prove. His treatment of the administrative and political sides of the war is the best part of the work. His accounts of battles are in many cases unsatisfactory. As a whole the translation is good.” J: Bigelow

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:503 Ap ’20 1200w

“Of interest, not only for the record of military events by one of the most prominent military leaders, but also for the light it throws on the mental attitude and processes of the author.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:359 My ’20 170w

“The one great military book which the war has so far produced is the strange record of General Ludendorff.”

+ =Ath= p1286 D 5 ’19 1550w

=Booklist= 16:275 My ’20

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 950w

=Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 100w

=Lit D= p109 Ap 17 ’20 2550w

+ − =Nation= 110:sup481 Ap 10 ’20 1350w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

=N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 3200w

Reviewed by M. H. Anderson

=Pub W= 97:608 F 21 ’20 300w

+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 120w

“Ludendorff may be read with profit by those interested in the handling of troops in contact with the enemy.... He exhibits the best and the worst qualities of the old-fashioned amongst regular soldiers. He knows his work as a handler of fighting men, but outside the realms of factors he is a simple and bewildered soul. And, let it be repeated, as a strategist, he is almost infinitely naive.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:417 N 1 ’19 2300w

“General Ludendorff has written a very able and interesting book on the war. It is not a good military history, though the summary accounts of the earlier Russian campaigns are instructive. The numerous plans and diagrams by the author are valuable also in their way. But the book throws a flood of light on the hopes and fears of the great general staff, and on the relations between the German army leaders and the politicians in Berlin. To an English reader, of course, this typical Prussian author must be unsympathetic.”

+ − =Spec= 123:505 O 18 ’19 2100w

“Ludendorff’s war memoirs are the most solid contribution to the strategical history of the war that has yet appeared. To the military student the most valuable portion is that dealing with the Russian campaign of 1914 and 1915; but in spite of the great military eminence of the writer, this is a book for the plain citizen rather than the soldier, for quite half of it is politics.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 O 16 ’19 1850w

=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Triple mystery. *$1.75 Dodd

20–7518

“Here Adele Luehrmann has evolved a situation where three men of prominence of the same nationality and presumably of similar interests, all die with sudden and unexplained mystery within a few days of each other. The first effort seems to be to throw suspicion upon Olive Thrace, who has reason to be anxious to be rid of Zarady, the great concert master. The second death brings in the element of the girl with the squirrel cap. The actual solution of the triple mystery is a surprise.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w

“The author has not succeeded at any point in really intriguing the reader. The characters are obviously puppets to string the story on: sheep fattened for slaughter. The dénouement is lacking in ingenuity.”

− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 220w

=LUMHOLTZ, KARL SOFUS.= Through central Borneo; an account of two years’ travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner 919.11

20–16918

“Reaching the island which has been the object of his journey, Mr Lumholtz first gives us a comprehensive idea of its climate and the biological conditions which there exist, its natural resources, its population, history, government and racial problems. Presently he plunges into the jungle and shows us first its wonderful vegetation, and next its strange people. He takes us up the vast rivers, noting the habits of the people by the way. To his narrative the author adds a considerable number of folklore stories drawn directly from the natives, stories doubtless handed down orally for many generations. The author embellishes his volumes with profuse illustrations, many of them from photographs taken by himself.”—Boston Transcript

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“A happy combination of scientific study with journalistic ease of style and choice of interesting material.”

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 110w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 650w

“Because he went into such an unknown region his book has the atmosphere of Hakluyt or Purchas. The photographs which illustrate the book are excellent.” J. F. Gould

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 960w

“The author’s style is one of extreme simplicity, and his material is presented in a form that should prove attractive to scientist and layman alike.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 1150w

“Mr Lumholtz knows how to write entertainingly as well as how to observe with scientific accuracy.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w

=LUTHER, MARK LEE.= Presenting Jane McRae. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–10734

When Jane McRae is first presented she is acting as waitress in her step-father’s hotel in a small “up-state” New York town. Here she comes in contact with Stuart Pendleton, a young civil engineer, and with Arthur Gault, a movie singer. With Stuart she falls in love, but refuses to marry him when she learns of his previous entanglement with another woman. Leaving unbearable conditions at home, she goes to New York to support herself. At the end of her resources, she again meets Arthur Gault, who is now a moving picture director. He gets her a small part in his picture and finally persuades her to marry him. She becomes more and more successful as an actress, but is not happy. She realizes that her marriage to Arthur was a mistake, but does not see the way out. But when the war comes and frees her from him, the manner of his death leaves her still with an unanswerable question. “It did not occur to her that she was free.”

* * * * *

“To tell the truth all this business of Jane and the engineer, from beginning to end, is unreal and commonplace. Jane herself is least credible and desirable whenever that young man is brought on the scene. Except his good looks and his fine phrases, there is nothing or next to nothing ‘to him.’ What ‘makes’ the book is its study of Jane in relation to the movie man.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 52:70 S ’20 650w

“On the whole, it is a quick-moving and interesting tale.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 180w

“Very long and not very interesting. Some of the motion-picture parts of the book are not unentertaining, while of the characters Arthur Gault is by all odds the best, at times becoming a real human being.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w

“An agreeable little comedy of life not without serious import also.”

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w

=LUTZ, EDWIN GEORGE.= Animated cartoons. il *$2.50 Scribner 778

20–3350

“E. G. Lutz answers many an unspoken question about the movies by telling very explicitly how an artist gets motion into his drawings. After two chapters of history upon their origin and development he goes into a description of the successive steps in the production of various kinds of screen pictures in action. It all seems very simple after being carefully explained in both text and illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 100w

=Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p39 Ap ’20 70w

=Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w

“The book is interesting as catering to the universal desire to see the wheels go round.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 25 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 90w

=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Cloudy Jewel. il *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott

20–20648

Julia Cloud, at her mother’s death, is free to choose between living the life of a drudge in her selfish sister’s household, or struggling along alone on insufficient finances. She is trying to make her decision when her niece and nephew from California put in an unexpected appearance, and they have a delightful suggestion for her future. They are coming east to college and propose taking her along to make a home for them and be a real mother to them, for though well-to-do, they are orphans. This plan they carry out and she plays her part wholly to their satisfaction. She feels a keen responsibility for their welfare and at first their lack of any religious ideals grieves her deeply. But they become interested in the Christian Endeavor society in a little church and gradually come to be leaders in it as well as in college life. There they make friendships which finally grow into deeper relations, and the story ends in two romances.

* * * * *

“It may be safely prophesied that Mrs Lutz, if she continues to spin more novels of the type of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ will doubtless lure into her fold a large proportion of the followers of Harold Bell Wright. Within the pages of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ one may find the telling and sure-fire ingredients of an American best seller.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 300w

“Mrs Lutz will beguile many hours for those who do not wish to be aroused or excited by what they read, and her books will have a wholesome influence wherever they are read.” K. O.

+ =Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 270w

=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Exit Betty. il *$1.75 (2c) Lippincott

20–13974

When Betty Stanhope met her bridegroom in the crowded church where the ceremony was to take place, to her horror she found he was not the man she had promised to marry. A timely fainting spell permitted her to escape from the church, and it was fortunate for her that she ran across Jane Carson just outside. Jane took the excited girl to her room where Betty told enough of the story to convince Jane that she was the victim of the cupidity of her scheming stepmother. Jane sent her to her mother in the country where Betty successfully eluded pursuit, until by Jane’s keenness, aided by her friend Jimmie and Jimmie’s employer, Warren Reyburn, Betty slipped forever from the clutches of those who had tried to rob her of her inheritance. Incidentally a double romance developed for her and Jane.

* * * * *

“Melodrama of the crudest kind and religious sentiment equally crude are blended in a whole which, curiously enough, pleases rather than repels.”

+ − =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 40w

“Of course it is a very old plot, this of the cruel step mother, but Mrs Lutz manages to centre our interest entirely in Betty and to arouse our sympathies to the point where we do not greatly care that some of her plot elements are distinctly hackneyed.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 420w

=LYNCH, FREDERICK HENRY.=[2] Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie. il $1.50 Revell

“‘Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie’ furnishes an intimate picture of the late ironmaster and philanthropist, in which many phases of his character are depicted. In the course of much close association, Dr Lynch, as a member of the executive committee of the New York Peace society, enjoyed opportunities of learning what the canny Scotsman thought concerning many other things than iron and libraries.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 250w

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 70w

=LYND, ROBERT.= Ireland a nation. *$2 (3c) Dodd 941.5

20–1230

In this thorough sifting of the Irish problem, the author, an Englishman, does not spare England. Of her habit of not taking Ireland seriously he says that if it is persisted in “it will bring ruin not only on Ireland but upon England and on our European civilization generally. If Ireland is not ... given her freedom equally with every other nation in Europe, another great world-war is as certain as the rising of tomorrow’s sun.... Every nation on the earth that desires to do wrong to another takes fresh heart when it thinks of the example of England in Ireland.” Contents: Why it is important to realize that Ireland is a nation; The historical thread; Sinn Fein; The insurrection of 1916; Ulster: the facts of the case; The hesitating sort of Liberal and Irish self-determination; One man’s views on Dominion home rule; The Irish soldier; Ireland’s record in the war; The soldiers’ sacrifice; The English in Ireland: a scene; Another scene: the drums of Ulster; The witness of the poets; A note on Irish literature; Voices of the new Ireland (from various writers); Common-sense about the little nations; Epilogue.

* * * * *

“Interestingly written though somewhat lacking in unity.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“It is devoid of all appearances of sentimentality, yet the very calmness with which the argument is followed gives a force to the book which passion itself could hardly sustain.”

+ =Cath World= 112:259 N ’20 500w

+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 550w

“‘Ireland a nation’ stands above and apart from the vast majority of books on the subject. It owes this distinction not only to its author’s brilliant handling of a complicated theme, to his sense of selection, and to his gift of distilling the essence of long-drawn-out controversies into a witty phrase, but primarily to the fact that he lifts the issue to a new and higher plane. Where other writers take it for granted that the dispute is one between two nations. Mr Lynd confronts the rulers of Great Britain with their pledges not to Ireland but to the civilized world, and insists that an Irish settlement is to England’s allies, no less than her enemies, the ‘acid test’ of whether these pledges are more than mere empty words.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:50 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 100w

=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w

“He is well informed and presents his views with clearness and force, as befits an editor of the London Daily News. But his book will fail through over-statement to carry conviction to his opponents.”

+ − =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w

“If his pages have at times the intractable vehemence which belong to his nationality, they are no less lit up with the wit and sparkle that seldom desert a man of his race.” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:461 My 1 ’20 600w

=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 30 ’20 280w

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Girl, a horse and a dog. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner

20–14290

When Jaspar Dudley’s will was read, instead of the fortune which his grandson Stanford Broughton expected, he received only a vague legacy which at first he chose to disregard entirely. For it read something as follows: “Your portion ... was worth, at its latest valuation, something like $440,000.... When you find it, you will be able to identify it by the presence of a girl with brown hair and blue eyes and small mole on her left shoulder, a piebald horse ... and a dog with a split face—half black and half white.” With just this information and certain indefinite geographical data, “Stannie” finally starts on the trail of his inheritance. He has less trouble in locating it than might be expected. But then his troubles begin, for he finds it to be a flooded mine, which is nevertheless highly desirable to a certain mining engineer. He determines to pump it out, and ascertain its value. His attempts to do this, and the efforts of his rival to thwart him, and gain possession himself, make the story, with, of course, some rivalry for the blue-eyed girl as well.

* * * * *

“Rather well told and interesting to readers of western stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“Plenty of dash in this story, and genuinely interesting from beginning to end.”

+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 110w

“‘The girl, a horse and a dog’ is a book built frankly for amusement purposes, but it is more substantial than the usual run of adventure stories. Mr Lynde possesses the power to develop character in a consistent manner, to afford the reader glimpses of types which live, and to do this without halting the steady flow of a narrative that steadily rises in its interest.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 650w

“A lively tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 60w

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Wreckers. il *$1.75 Scribner

20–5584

“Graham Norcross, whose private stenographer and confidential clerk, Jimmie Dodds, tells the tale of their adventures, was anything but anxious to become general manager of the much-abused Pioneer short line. That unfortunate railroad had for some time been nothing but an instrument for a little group of Wall street speculators to make money with; they juggled its stock about, stinted it in equipment and everything else, and abused it generally. Now, squeezed dry, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. And to make bad matters worse, at its headquarters in Portal City every wellpaid post was filled by some cousin or nephew or brother-in-law of the stock speculators who controlled the road. This was a part of the proposition which faced Graham Norcross when he started out to make the Pioneer short line an honest and a paying concern. By the scheme finally carried out, it was arranged that one section of ‘the country—and the employes—had a railroad of their own,’ a railroad whose stock was controlled by the people most interested in its welfare.”—N Y Times

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“A railroad story which will interest men and boys.”

+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 700w

“The story maintains the author’s reputation as a teller of entertaining tales.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 140w

=LYNN, MARGARET.= Free soil. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan

20–20945

A story of the fight for free soil in Kansas in the fifties. Among the New England recruits to the free soil population are John and Ellen Truman, who give up ease and security and take their two young children into the new and strange land. With them goes Ellen’s cousin Harvey Sayre, young and high-spirited and ripe for adventure. Later another cousin, Phoebe Murray, comes for a visit, and refusing to be sent back to safety, remains to play her part with the other women. Even before reaching Kansas the Trumans have a taste of the tense relations between North and South and they are in the heart of the struggle from the moment of their arrival. Another struggle no less interesting is revealed within the ranks of the free-soilers, between the advocates of violence and those who stand for peaceful methods. The figure of John Brown as he moves through these pages differs somewhat from popular legend. The love story of Phoebe and Lewis Hardie, the high courage of the women, and the author’s very evident love for the prairies lighten the somberness of the story.

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“Miss Lynn has not only made her story interesting and her characters alive; she has pictured the country itself as few writers have pictured it. ‘Free soil’ is a noble book, a living book, a book to read and to remember. In its blending of fiction and history it is a notable achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 550w

“As fiction pure and simple the novel has no great art, but it has historical reality and wide human sympathy. As a sketch of western living conditions in early days the book is also satisfying.” E. C. Willcox

+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 140w

=LYTLE, JOHN HORACE.=[2] Story of Jack. il $1.50 Pettibone-McLean co., Dayton, O.

20–10081

“The scene of the title story is laid in the Klondike land in the Klondike days. Jack is a real dog, and a great one, who will win straight to the heart of every reader.” (Cath World) “The tragic adventure of Jack is followed by other stories, each directed to a

## particular foible of the dog-lover—the pioneer dog who spends his life

by racing with a message of an Indian uprising, the unwelcome mongrel who rescues a child from drowning and is welcome ever after, the spaniel who is taught to point golf balls and so saves his master in a desperate match, and so on.” (Review)

* * * * *

“These are stories of live people and live dogs told in a live way.”

+ =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w

“They are capital tales, all of them; and if the limits of canine intelligence are overstepped, what harm is done?”

+ =Review= 3:626 D 22 ’20 190w

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=MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD.= Christian faith and the new day. *90c (4c) Macmillan 230

20–6365

The author’s subject is theology—theology as adapted to the needs of the day. He says in his preface, “Visitors to theological seminaries often tell young men they are not to preach their theology, whereas in any sound way of speaking it is the only thing they are to preach.” The book is addressed “not to technical theologians but to working ministers and thoughtful laymen.” Contents: The call to reconstruction; The Christian theology of God; The Christian theology of salvation; The church; A concluding word. The author is a professor in McCormick theological seminary, Chicago.

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=Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

=MCARTHUR, PETER.=[2] Affable stranger. *$1.50 (4c) Houghton

20–20446

The author is a Canadian farmer and journalist who visited the United States in the capacity of friendly observer. He was interested

## particularly in the state of public opinion as it concerns Canada and

Great Britain and his method was to keep as quiet as possible and let the other person do the talking. Some of his chapters, which were contributed first to the Toronto Globe, are: Back to the primitive; Registering reform; A burden of farmers; Organized for profit; Old home week; The ward leader; The soul of Canada; A land of upper berths.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 80w

=MACAULAY, ROSE.= Potterism. *$2 Boni & Liveright 20–19045

“‘Potterism’ is a newspaper novel. The idea is Potterism. It is a more inclusive idea than the one which was once covered by the word ‘bromide.’ Potterism also takes in the bromide, but generally speaking it means ‘muddle and cant—second-rate sentimentalism and cheap short-cuts and mediocrity.’ It is personified in Mr Potter (afterward Lord Pinkerton) owner of the Pinkerton Press, and in his wife, ‘Leila Yorke,’ the novelist. But the Potters are such perfect symbols that even their own children, Jane and Johnny, help to form the Anti-Potter league. There are three or four other members of the league, and the book follows their fortunes, which take a slightly melodramatic turn. In the end the president of the league is killed in Russia and the Potter-Pinkerton Press goes on forever.”—New Repub

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“In this new novel by Miss Macaulay it is not only her cleverness and wit which are disarming. It is her coolness, her confidence, her determination to say just exactly what she intends to say whether the reader will or no.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 380w

“Shrewd, vigorous and interesting to many readers. Most amusing to those who can appreciate subtle humor.”

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“Even to a confirmed Potterite the keen thrust of Miss Macaulay’s wit must afford a fearful delight. Here is a good antidote for the oversexed novel.”

+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 220w

“There is no doubt but what Miss Macaulay looks at her day and its state of mind much as Cervantes looked at his, and her result in fiction is in kind if not in degree the same. In degree it is far ahead of its kind beyond anything done by her contemporaries. For all its clever caricature and exhilarating interest the story is downright English.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 1150w

“As a sophisticated picture of modern life the book is exceedingly well done; as a solution of the problem it sets before us it fails, chiefly because in the author’s philosophy there is no solution—at least no workable solution.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:694 F ’21 300w

“It is cleverly conceived and cleverly written, but it is a little too hasty to be complete.” E. P.

+ − =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w

“In ‘Potterism’ Miss Macaulay has sketched for us a clever, amusing, and, on the whole, convincing picture of the state of the British mind during and immediately after the war. Her book pushes as close to the current hour as it can without lapsing into mere journalism.” Edwin Björkman

+ =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 490w

“Miss Macaulay’s narrative technique shares the keenness and distinction of her intellectual outlook. Each section of the book is told by one of its characters and thus the characterization is of a rare completeness and inwardness. The section written by Lelia Yorke is masterly.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 620w

“Miss Macaulay is so competent in reaching her aim that one is forced to wonder why she didn’t make her book a little smoother and more varied in style, and a little less awkward in form.” S. T.

+ − =New Repub= 24:280 N 10 ’20 460w

“The story is taken up at different stages by the principal figures, and Miss Macaulay shows real skill in her power of representing the facts as they appear to each, colored by the style and the preoccupations of the individual.” E. A. Boyd

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1050w

“Add to this penetrating observation and trenchancy of expression a finished style and good powers of characterization and it is not difficult to understand why Miss Macaulay’s fictional commentary on present day foibles was praisefully acclaimed in London, where it has already run into several editions.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 850w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

+ =Pub W= 98:1887 D 18 ’20 340w

“What gives it distinction is the range and flexibility of its idea.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 550w

“In these days of Potterism, trade-union tyranny, and fiscal oppression, we are not often, as they used to say in the eighteenth century, ‘merry.’ Yet Miss Macaulay’s novel amused and refreshed us. The satire is playful, delicate, and mordant.”

+ =Sat R= 129:543 Je 12 ’20 800w

“The book is rightly named ‘tragi-farcical,’ and therein lies its weakness, for the abruptness of the alternations are extreme. The greatest tragedies have not excluded comedy, but the introduction of farce produces a confusion of tones.”

+ − =Spec= 124:833 Je 19 ’20 640w

“The effect of abstraction is unfortunately heightened by the author’s device of telling part of the story in her own person, part in the persons of the different characters, a proceeding for which we can see no good reason. It would have been better if she had written all in the person of the unworldly Laurence Juke. In his instalment we have the Miss Macaulay whom we knew before, afraid neither of pity nor enthusiasm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p348 Je 3 ’20 950w

=MCAULEY, MARY ETHEL=, ed. Wanderer; or, Many minds on many subjects; with an introd. by Charles Alexander Rook. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 040

20–11654

“In the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Miss Mary Ethel McAuley, calling herself the ‘Wanderer,’ showed an extraordinary ingenuity in putting nice questions in casuistry and in eliciting a wide variety of answers to them, many of which now appear in this volume.” (Review) “‘Can a radical be a Christian?’ ‘Is our present marriage system perfect?’ ‘Is it possible for the dead to materialize?’ ‘Should we have birth control?’ ‘Is the mystic a human need?’ ‘Are the ministers more muzzled than the editors?’ ‘Would George Sand be received in genteel society today?’ ‘Was Tolstoi a prophet?’—these are a very few of the many vital or bizarre questions asked by Miss McAuley and tackled by Sir Tom, Doctor Dick, and Plain Harry and Lizzie.” (N Y Call)

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=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 250w

“Nobody could possibly accept half the opinions in this book, but some of them are enlightening, many are interesting, and the “‘Wanderer’ idea is excellent.” A. W. Welch

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 360w

=Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 240w

=MCBRIDE, ISAAC.= Barbarous soviet Russia. il *$2.50 Seltzer 914.7

20–12209

“Favorable pictures of present-day life in Russia under the Bolshevist régime, as sketched by an American traveler. Mr McBride gave special attention to labor conditions, education, the status of women, and the character of the soviet leadership. Interesting documents, including a report on the financial situation of Russia, are included in an appendix.”—R of Rs

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 500w

“What we have not yet seen is a book which combines a frank confrontation of the point of view of the Soviets with a clear-eyed estimate of its principles and a fair description of the successes or failures resulting in the operation. Mr Isaac McBride has failed to write such a book, but he has at least shown that the materials for it are not lacking.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 1400w

“Not the least attractive feature of the book is a number of excellent illustrations. A great deal of valuable and interesting information about the labor laws and the industrial condition of soviet Russia is contained in a long appendix.” A. C. Freeman

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 680w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 50w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Taint in politics. *$2 Dodd 172.2

“This anonymous attack on the political world of the day deserves attention as a searching and forcible exposure of many undoubted abuses. Lack of principle, lightly disguised corruption, privileged incompetence, a pampered and leisurely civil service, slavish adherence to party, the substitution of oligarchy for any true democracy—these and such like features of public life are trenchantly and often convincingly attacked; and some historical chapters at the beginning trace the evolution of political corruption back to the middle ages. Though the writer has some suggestions at the end as to shorter parliaments, saving of parliamentary time, and, more broadly, the fundamental need of popular education, he is almost solely destructive; he is ‘not so much concerned with the method of purification as the establishment of the disease,’ and it is a real merit that he is absolutely impartial in his onslaught on the two—or three—parties and on the coalition.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“The value of this anonymous criticism of present-day political affairs would be greatly enhanced were the writer able to confirm the hope held out at the commencement, that in spite of his summary dismissal of politics as everywhere and always more or less tainted, his attitude might eventually be something more than negative.”

− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 200w

“The reader is likely to find, in this volume, additional reasons for congratulation that America has not become a partner in the international gaminghouse. The chapter on American conditions is disappointingly superficial.” C. N.

+ − =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 280w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 80w

=Sat R= 129:565 Je 19 ’20 700w

“The thoughtful reader will not, of course, forget that there is another side to the question.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 My 6 ’20 280w

=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Present and past banking in Mexico. *$2 (3c) Harper 332.15

20–4614

On the ground that the degree of banking development of a country measures the degree of civilization, comfort, and economic development, the book attempts “to trace the history of the credit institutions of the country from their initial stages down to the present time. Effort has been made to stress the salient facts in the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of banking in our neighboring republic.” (Preface) The book is published under the auspices of the Doheny foundation and a partial list of the contents is: Early stages of banking and finance; Through the crisis of 1884; Origin of the Banco nacional; High tide of bank concessions; General law for institutions of credit; The transition period; Adoption of the gold standard; Eve of the Madero revolution; Huerta and the banks; Regime of the Constitucionalistas. There is a bibliography and an index.

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“Dr McCaleb has succeeded in furnishing the only comprehensive account of banking developments in Mexico. It is not easy for American readers to understand the statements of Mexican banks because of the differences in the terminology used, which grow largely out of differences in banking practice. Dr McCaleb has done much to make understandable the statements which he cites.” A. N. Young

+ =Am Econ R= 10:844 D ’20 940w

+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 30w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 50w

=MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY.= Henry Elizabeth. *$2 (1½c) Lane

20–13543

Henry Elizabeth’s mother had wanted a girl and her name was to have been Elizabeth. When he was born a boy the Elizabeth stood with the addition of Henry, Young Braginton, for he was the master of the manor-house, grew up a country bumpkin much given to drinking, eating and women. He was a young giant. One day, after a drunken bout, he encounters a most beautiful woman, such as he had never seen. It changes his career. He resolves to give up his old life, go up to London, become one of Queen Elizabeth’s courtiers, and make himself worthy of his beauty. He falls in with a former court jester who takes his education in hand, and little by little makes himself master of all the gallant practices, including swordsmanship. He has many adventures, serves Elizabeth and is granted favors, and has the opportunity, most coveted, to champion the cause of his lady love and rid her of her enemies. Although he had not won her at the end of the story the reader hopes that he will yet succeed. The picture of London in Elizabeth’s time is one of the quaint features of the story.

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+ =Ath= p307 S 8 ’20 160w

“It is characteristic of Mr McCarthy that it has all the excitement and rapidity of a good swashbuckling tale with a most polished workmanship and better style than is the case of most books of the kind.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 420w

“The story is written in that leisurely way that enables the author to reproduce in fine detail much of the social background of the time with which it deals and also to accentuate the feeling of its unhurrying pace. But this is all done without apparent effort and as an integral part of the story, which moves swiftly enough when the time for action comes.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w

“A capital tale of the days of Queen Bess. It is just historical enough and not too much so. A tale which has incident, action, humor, and character depiction.”

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 80w

“Mr McCarthy is one of our most acceptable historical novelists. His people are real; and neither they nor he drop into the mannerisms of style or the pat dialogue too common among his rivals.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w

=MACCLINTOCK, LANDER.= Contemporary drama of Italy. *$1.50 (2c) Little 852

20–1987

The book is one of the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. Comparatively little is known to the English-speaking public of modern Italian dramatists. The object of the book is to fill the gap. The author holds that the Italian is realistic rather than romantic and his modern literature is characterized by fidelity to life and the intellectualization of its themes rather than by emotionalism. Even romanticism contained the germs of the modern movement and an increasingly intelligent public demands more and more discussion and solution of vital questions and urgent problems. The contents are: The foundations; Giuseppe Giacosa; The early realists; Gabriele D’Annunzio; The later realists; Roberto Bracco; Actors and

## acting, the popular theatre, the dialect theatre; The younger

generation; Futurism and other isms; Bibliographical appendix; Index.

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“Without that special charm which transforms such a book into one of popular appeal, but still interesting and useful in its suggestiveness to the drama student and general reader.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

=Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 70w

“Mr MacClintock is very agile, very well-informed, his touch is light and his taste is catholic.”

+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 200w

“His book is excellent in every way, a model for the other contributors to the Contemporary drama series. It is founded upon indefatigable investigation, at once broad and deep. It is informed with a fine critical spirit. It is logically planned and proportioned. It is written in clear English. And it is as unfailingly interesting as it is unhesitatingly instructive.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:226 My 2 ’20 2100w

“In spite of occasional infelicities of expression and errors of fact or of judgment, it is a distinctly valuable contribution to the study of modern Italian literature. Dr MacClintock’s first chapter, and his last, ‘Futurism and other isms,’ are the least satisfactory part of his book, since they involve broad generalizations based on a profound knowledge of the background. This knowledge he does not yet sufficiently possess, if one may judge from his tendency to accept and incorporate the views of previous writers.” K. McKenzie

+ − =Review= 3:452 N 10 ’20 1000w

=MCCONN, MAX.= Mollie’s substitute husband, il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–14216

“Professor” John Merriam, principal of the Riceville high school, on account of his startling likeness to the “Boy senator,” George Norman, was induced to represent that gentleman under rather amazing circumstances. The Reform league of Chicago was trying to secure better traction conditions in that city and upon Senator Norman rested the decision, and it was his intention to veto the measure. Then what was simpler than for the enterprising Reform league to kidnap the senator and substitute his double—John Merriam, who would put the thing thru for them in short order. He agreed to play the part, which involved playing husband to Mollie June, with whom he had been in love since she was a school girl. The situation naturally led to complications both public and private, and all the people concerned were led a merry chase escaping detection. A happy outcome at times seemed impossible—but at length it is achieved for all except the unfortunate Senator Norman himself—and perhaps he deserved his fate.

* * * * *

“The story is brisk and brilliant, if complicated in plot.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 290w

“A certain levity of style with which he writes disarms criticism and adds to the entertainment he has provided.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 550w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w

=MCCORD, JAMES NEWTON.= Textbook of filing. il *$2 Appleton 651

20–4539

“Based on our experience in training thousands of girls and women for filing positions no matter what methods were involved, or what

## particular manufacturer’s system was employed, this book has been

compiled.... Its purpose is to instruct in the different methods of filing, which are limited, while the different systems are numerous and must be reduced to a possible four methods.... Office routine, short cuts, cross reference and different refinements and ramifications all come in for proper consideration and the volume is equally as valuable as a reference book as a textbook.” (Preface) Contents: Filing equipment; Routing; Alphabetic methods; Numeric filing; Geographic methods; Subject and decimal methods; Automatic system; Card indexing; Transferring; Legal filing; Insurance; Real estate; Follow-up methods; Banking; Sales; Manufacturing; Stocks and bonds; Card ledgers; Appendix; Index. The author is director of the New York school of filing.

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“A clear, simple presentation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 120w

=MCCORMICK, ROBERT RUTHERFORD.= Army of 1918. *$2 Harcourt 940.373

20–19162

A work by a member of General Pershing’s staff, with chapters on: The background of the army; The inspired ambassador; Early days of the A.E.F.; The great division; Germany’s last offensive; A few technical points; The pursuit from the Marne; The American offensives; Some elements of national defense; New weapons and their use; The general staff; The crime of silence; The only solution. The solution offered in the concluding chapter is a strong military establishment with a trained army based on European, preferably French, models.

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“It should be read by everyone who is interested in our future military policy.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 100w

=MACCRACKEN, JOHN HENRY.= College and commonwealth, and other educational papers and addresses. *$3 Century 378

21–159

The collection consists largely of college addresses delivered at opening or commencement exercises, including, as the title essay of the book, the author’s inaugural address as president of Lafayette college. One of the leading ideas in this collection is the superiority of individualism to conformity, communism or state control. Even the desirability of cooperation is set forth with certain reservations. The war with its problems furnishes some of the topics. Among the titles are: The college and the individual; Liberty and cooperation; War and education; The college and the shadow of war; Federal leadership in education; Why the trust idea is not applicable to education; The college man and freedom; The education of women; Broader education of engineers; Scientific method and therapeutic impulse; Religion and education.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 240w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Anderson Crow, detective. il *$2 (3½c) Dodd

20–4957

Anderson Crow, besides being the detective of the title, held a number of important municipal offices in the town of Tinkletown, including those of deputy marshal, deputy superintendent of the fire department, commissioner of water-works and others. His zeal on the trail of crime was therefore keen, and he rarely was outwitted, whether he was capturing German spies, or solving the mystery of a suicide or following up the effects of hard cider in the Foreign missionary society. His understudy was Alf Reesling, the village drunkard, who had been sober for twenty-five years, but who was living on the reputation of one hilarious week of his youth. Harry Squires, the editor of the weekly Banner, was a thorn in the side of the detective, although but for him some of his successes would have been failures.

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+ − =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The tales are written in a farcical, extravagant style which, when applied to characters obviously intended to represent everyday human beings, needs a strong dash of humor to make it palatable. Mr McCutcheon has not made them funny enough. The illustrations, by the author’s famous brother, are full of ‘pep’ as one would expect them to be.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 300w

“Good fun.”

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w

“While sketchy and episodical, the narrative is well knit. It is, perhaps, not far from the truth to say that Mr McCutcheon’s story is a satire on the detective creation of the fiction writers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 280w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= West wind drift. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–18655

The Doraine, in the treacherous days of the war, sailed one day from a South American port carrying a thousand souls. And from that day she was never seen again, and was eventually reported lost with all on board. But two German spies might have given a fuller report if they had told of their work before they dropped off onto the launch that was awaiting them in the middle of the South Atlantic. The Doraine was left to helplessly drift, at the mercy of wind and tide. So finally she was borne to the shores of an uninhabited island. And there the six hundred or so human beings who had survived the rigors and exposure of the trip, landed and made a settlement. All the elements in human nature which men are familiar with in normal circumstances made themselves felt here, capacity for leadership, love, jealousy, temptation, treachery, justice, but strongest of all, hope in the future. Algernon Adonis Percival, in spite of his name and the fact that he was a stowaway on the doomed ship, is the strongest character of all, and his career is the most interesting as he rises to the governorship in quite Admirable Crichton style.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 210w

“George Barr McCutcheon, the facile creator of mythical kingdoms, has invented a new ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ quite stupendous enough for production by Mr Griffith.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 150w

“There is a straightaway yarn, which, if not particularly original or strikingly dramatic, at least leads one logically from the first chapter to the last with the feeling that one has been in company of a good-humored entertainer. Brightly written throughout, Mr McCutcheon’s latest novel is worthy of his reputation.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 480w

“The book is worth reading for itself and also because it brings saliently to mind some of the things which are essential to liberty and combined effort in civilized countries, as well as in desert islands.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 90w

“The book was not written to prove anything for which many will be thankful.” Caroline Singer

+ =Pub W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 180w

“It is an entertaining tale which holds the reader enthralled through its various stages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w

=MACDONALD, GREVILLE.= North door. *$2 (1½c) Houghton

20–26987

This romance, whose scene is the coast of Cornwall more than a century ago, has a historic background. It shows us the dawn of modern industrialism and how a country’s prosperity may be paid for with the blood of a once prosperous peasantry. The central figure is a saintly but rather unorthodox priest who puts his faith in the good to the supreme test by himself crossing the threshold of the accursed “North door” of the church in search of the reality of sin and evil. He finds both only to see it vanish before the higher reality of a divine goodness. A two-fold romance runs through the story, that of a peasant girl’s heroic love for a giant fisherman and smuggler and the highly spiritualized romance between the priest and Lady Evangeline.

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“In this attempt to reproduce the life of a Cornish parish during the first decade of the nineteenth century some faults of construction are redeemed by much charm and sincerity.”

+ − =Ath= p815 Je 18 ’20 130w

“Something of Hawthorne’s moral sense, his superstitious awe, his sternness, his artistry, and, to a certain extent, his power of construction are more than noticeable—they are outstanding. George Brandes once declared that literature’s task is to give a ‘condensed representation of a people and an age.’ If this is true, then ‘The north door’ is surely entitled to consideration as literature.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 640w

“The book has a marked character of its own, it is unusual and arresting.”

+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 90w

“The portrait of Christopher Trevenna is a real, if slightly sentimental, piece of character drawing. The author’s rather verbose and involved style places an unnecessary obstacle in the way of the reader’s enjoyment.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 150w

=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Government of India. *$1.50 Huebsch 354

(Eng ed 20–509)

“The appearance of this informative book is stated by the author to have been delayed by the war. He reviews the origin and evolution of the links which connect India with ourselves, and reminds readers that the needs of that empire cannot be met by an adjustment here and an adjustment there: ‘they have to be viewed in their wide sweep.’ Mr Macdonald discusses with considerable fullness the Montagu-Chelmsford report, deals with the religious problems in India, and remarks that a very common opinion of both Indians and English is that the Christian missions in India thwart the nationalist movement—partly by implanting in the minds of the people thoughts which lead them away from Indian leadership and ideas. In the author’s judgment, the Legislative councils should have more authority, especially in finance, and the Viceroy’s council be made more representative.”—Ath

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=Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 200w

=Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“This new volume has been produced in an international milieu which is characterized by at least two sets of conditions. The first are those generated by the talk of a league of nations, and the second is the fait accompli of a socialist state in bolshevik Russia. And it is because the author seeks to harmonize his theories with these novel phenomena that his book acquires an importance such as is hardly indicated by the limitations of its title.” B. K. Sarkar

+ − =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 1200w

“The trouble about Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s book on India is that portions of it are obsolete. He describes a form of government which is about to undergo great modifications. Little further need be said by the way of criticism. Mr Macdonald writes with a practised hand, sometimes even with charm. He has handled his theme with moderation and restraint. It is a pleasure to pick up a book about India which contains no word of bitterness, no trace of violent controversy, no exaggeration or over-statement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 950w

=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Parliament and revolution. (New library of social science) *$1.50 Seltzer 335

20–26685

“‘Parliament and revolution’ is a careful comparison between the existing government in England and the aims and projects of the Bolshevists. While the book is antibolshevist, Mr Macdonald is quick to recognize any sound reasoning in the bolshevist theories to denounce the flaws in the rule of Parliament. He includes a description of the working of the soviet system in Russia, and a discussion of ‘direct action,’ the name under which bolshevism is discussed and advocated by the British labor party.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Not in any sense an objective scientific study, but an assertion of principles that deserves attention.”

+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

+ =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 60w

“As a piece of argumentation ‘Parliament and revolution’ leaves a good deal to be desired. Its logical texture is not of the finest; too often it gives us assertion where we want demonstration; and as for ‘scientific’ and ‘unbiased,’ these adjectives, by which the book is described in the publishers’ advertisement on the paper cover, have no more to do with the case than the flowers that bloom in the spring.” R. L. Schuyler

− =Nation= 110:826 Je 19 ’20 850w

“In a measure, Mr Macdonald’s book is a salutary corrective to a good deal of loose vituperation. But there is another aspect to the matter with which he has failed to deal. Granted the ignorance and inertia of the modern electorate what, at bottom, are its causes?... The trade unions have an importance which Mr Macdonald altogether fails to give them in this study.” H. J. L.

+ − =New Repub= 22:383 My 19 ’20 1800w

“The book is one that, we warrant, will not fully satisfy any single Socialist. One feels himself at times tantalized between enjoyment of some excellent statement of principle or fact or analysis of some

## particular question, only to draw a conclusion here and there that

appears to be a concession to conventional opinion. Yet the book will appeal to all but the romanticists and those of fixed opinions.” James Oneal

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 1000w

“The first volume of the New library of social science seems to me the most straightforward treatise on government which has come out since the beginning of the war.” M. H. Anderson

+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 320w

“It is to be hoped that this contribution may stimulate a further discussion on these important questions of the technique of revolution.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:28 Ja ’21 920w

“It is forceful in logic and classic in clearness.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 100w

“The whole book is a careful study of dangerous political tendencies of the times and well worth reading by adherents and opponents of socialism alike.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:417 Je 19 ’20 450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 240w

=MACDONALD, ZILLAH K.= Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. il *$2.25 (5c) Stokes

20–17532

“This is the story of a little girl who visited the land behind the dictionary and found out for herself that words are alive.” Eileen was sitting in the schoolroom writing out the words she had misspelled and trying to remember that syntax doesn’t end in tacks, when the letter X suddenly jumped out of her inkwell and confronted her. Under his guidance she visited Dictionary Town and there met the words who live in English Wordland, “plain strong Anglo-Saxon words, French aristocrat words who came over with William the Conqueror, the old giant Greek and Latin words, foreign words from every land who have been adopted by Mother English Language, and the happy-go-lucky slang words who live in a gipsy camp outside of Dictionary Town.” The whimsical illustrations are by Stuart Hay.

* * * * *

“A very clever little idea, this. With all her fun, the author tries to be soundly etymological, which will please the educators, without annoying the children. The illustrator, Stuart Hay, adds much with his line-drawings to a book which is bound to give its readers a good time.”

+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 270w

“It will be an excellent book for supplementary reading in the elementary grades. The story moves with much briskness and variety.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 N 13 ’20 220w

=MACDONNELL, JAMES FRANCIS CARLIN (FRANCIS CARLIN, pseud.).= Cairn of stars. *$1.50 Holt 821

20–9075

A second volume of poems by the author of “My Ireland.” As in the previous volume lyric verse predominates and the themes are drawn from Irish landscape and custom and fairy lore. A few of the titles are: The cairn of stars; A girl’s song; The black swans; The market town; The seventh son; A Munster marriage; An Irish madonna; For a god-child; The queen of Kerry; The coming of the fairies; The herdsman’s son; The beggar’s blessing.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“There is more pure poetry to the square inch of expression on the printed page of Francis Carlin than there is on the whole leaves of printed pages by any Irish-American poet of today. ‘The cairn of stars’ is far better than the earlier book. In the nearly three years since ‘My Ireland,’ Mr Carlin has added a deliberately finished technique to the instinctive technique that was his original gift. He has learned to manage his metres in a way to bring out all the finer shades of his moods and without impairing the spontaneity of feeling. At the same time he has greatly broadened the scope of his interests.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 1450w

“Very tuneful and pleasurable and wholesome even if the more rare and mysterious promise of certain earlier poems is not entirely fulfilled.”

+ =Cath World= 112:397 D ’20 190w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 140w

“A book that is delightful to read from beginning to end. Mr Carlin will never be a great poet, but he will always be a sincere and honest poet of indubitable talent.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w

=MCDOUGALL, WILLIAM.= Group mind. *$5 Putnam 301

20–13131

“A sketch of the principles of collective psychology with some attempt to apply them to the interpretation of national life and character.” (Sub-title) The author holds that “a society, when it enjoys a long life and becomes highly organized, acquires a structure and qualities which are largely independent of the qualities of the individuals who enter into its composition and take part for a brief time in its life.” Thus a collective mental life is not merely the sum of the mental lives of its units but is a “collective mind” or, if one prefers, “a collective soul.” The book is a sequel to the author’s “Introduction to social psychology” and assumes the reader’s acquaintance with it. The contents fall into three parts: General principles of collective psychology; The national mind and character; The development of national mind and character. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Soundly empirical as his methods are, Mr McDougall may well fail to convince the ardent humanitarian of the error of his ways.... Nevertheless, the problem of a national eugenics must be faced and solved, not simply burked on sentimental grounds. Meanwhile, whatever moral be drawn from them, the facts must first be reviewed impartially; and Mr McDougall’s book is the model of a treatment conceived and executed in the dispassionate spirit of science.” R. R. M.

+ =Ath= p834 Je 25 ’20 1000w

“The rule which prevents a physician from operating upon a member of his own family because his emotion would interfere with his judgment is one that no scientist can afford to ignore. Mr McDougall has ignored it. That is to say he has not searched his heart to free himself from his own group affiliations sufficiently to approach his subject with a clean and clear mind.” Walter Lippmann

− =New Repub= 25:82 D 15 ’20 1600w

“There are one or two of Mr McDougall’s statements to which we might take exception; but they are few in number and of no importance to his main argument. He is invariably impartial, lucid, and candid, making use of no theory, however plausible, unless it will bear the strictest scrutiny, and advancing no conclusions as proved so long as any reasonable doubt may be entertained of their soundness.”

+ =Spec= 125:214 Ag 14 ’20 1050w

“The book is well worth reading, but the student will look in vain for any considerable contribution or stimulating suggestion.” J. K. Hart

+ − =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 470w

“The three chapters on ‘The race-making period’ and the following one on ‘Racial changes during the historic period’ form a singularly illuminating study of race problems.... The defence made on page 174 of the maxim ‘My country right or wrong’ suggests that his enthusiasm for the virtue of group loyalty is a little in danger of obscuring to his eyes the rights of the individual conscience. A Treitschke might with a little sophistry subscribe it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 N 11 ’20 2000w

=MCDOWALL, ARTHUR SYDNEY.= Realism; a study in art and thought. *$4 Dutton 701

(Eng ed 19–12352)

“Mr McDowall makes his position clear. The material world has, he believes, a real existence apart from man. At the point of consciousness its circle and our apprehension intersect, but they remain separate circles. The problem of realism is to represent this world that our senses claim for us, not, as Zola supposed, by a literary photograph, not scientifically, but by ‘truth of impression in which feeling and imagination play the essential part.’ ‘Truth for the realist artist can never consist in ... a simple correspondence with facts. He is an observer, but he is not a reporter. He does not copy, but he creates a world which refers us back to our own world and shows it to us more truly.’”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 980w

“Often the book is murky with the philosophical abstractions, crystallizing into dogma. He has the caution of the scholar, and not the audacity of the artist. He avoids the impertinences of brilliance, but also its decision.”

+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 130w

=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w

“Mr McDowall’s book should be read. It has the awareness, the keen interest in living problems, of the work of William James.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 700w

“Mr McDowall approaches his topic from many angles and cites a wealth of relevant illustration, but finally leaves the impression that he has failed to get at the heart of it. One reason of his inadequacy is the ease with which he dismisses as obsolete the older uses of the term realism.”

+ − =Review= 4:58 Ja 19 ’21 1200w

=MCEVILLY, MARY A.= Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. *$1.50 (6c) Brentano’s 134

20–6732

The book is a record of automatic writing executed by the author and bearing messages from the beyond by Meslom, an ancient Hindu, and, with the aid of Meslom, by “L,” a victim of the war, to his mother. In the introduction the author relates how she developed her gift. The messages are chiefly confined to spiritual problems, to God’s creative force and love and the growth in spiritual power and peace of both “L” and his mother.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

“The ‘messages’ have no evidential value whatever—there is not a single test of ‘identity.’ There are vastly more verbal expressions than thoughts expressed. Is it not safe to assume that the central element in the treatise, the love of God, is part of the author’s conception of Christianity, and that the ‘messages’ simply are subconscious elaborations of her mind? Everything points in that direction.”

− =Cath World= 111:552 Jl ’20 550w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:208 Ag ’20 290w

“The messages are expressed with simplicity and clarity and reveal ardent spiritual aspiration.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 200w

=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Preventive man. *$1.75 Lane

20–8449

A story of smuggling on the Dorset coast a century ago. The “preventive man,” in the vernacular of the time, is a government agent, who comes into the neighborhood to run down the law breakers. In truth however, he is less interested in the smuggling than in his own more weighty private concerns, for he has reason to believe that his loved brother has met foul play in this very community. By a trick he gains admittance into the house of Simeon Coffin, the miser, and begins to gather the evidence that confirms his suspicions. At first he associates Simeon’s niece, Horatia, with the crime and attributes her confusion—which is really due to the possession of a piece of smuggled silk—to her guilt. She is cleared in his eyes however and he is ready enough to atone for her suffering and his cruelty.

* * * * *

“In spite of improbabilities, the book is well worth reading.”

+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w

“Miss McFadden is quite successful in developing her atmosphere of mystery, and her characters, although all of them are severely shaped into well-known types, manage to convey a certain sense of reality. The action of the story is swift enough to sustain the interest and it rises at times to several thrilling scenes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 220w

“The story has everything that is necessary to make it fine, except that touch of ability which turns a credible narrative into a romantic one. The landscape writing is recognisably good.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w

“The work is not without merit, but would benefit greatly by pruning the description and adding to the action.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w

“A capital adventure tale of the days when smuggling was a respectable pursuit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w

=MACFARLAN, ALEXANDER.= Inscrutable lovers; a tragic comedy. *$1.75 (4c) Dodd

(Eng ed 20–5589)

Margaret, the daughter of Count Kettle, Irish patriot and champion of lost causes, has been nourished on romance. As Count Kettle’s daughter she is pointed out as the most picturesque and romantic figure in Ireland. But she hates her position and she marries Charlie Macaig to escape it. “I could have loved a grocer,” says Margaret in extenuation, “just any grocer.” Charlie Macaig is the youngest member of a firm of shipowners. He is steady, he is practical, he is reliable, he is everything that Margaret’s familiar associates are not. But, as it turns out, his own dreams for all his practical business years have been of romance and adventure, and Margaret is the fulfillment of his dreams. There is mutual shock of discovery when the truth comes out, and then love, abetted by the Catholic church—which is practical or romantic as you happen to look at it—triumphs.

* * * * *

“To crispness of visualization, the author adds crispness in dialogue. Novelists cannot eschew some description; here Mr MacFarlan is little gifted.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 430w

“‘The inscrutable lovers’ is Mr MacFarlan’s second book and he is said to be very young. It is a very modern sort of youth that is his. His perceptions are very sharp, but his nature seems wintry. The book is a study in contrasting temperaments. The contrasts are very clear. They are indeed too clear and their edges are too glittering. People are not as simply made as all that.”

+ − =Nation= 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 240w

“It has not only brilliancy but a delicate completeness comparable to (not like) that of Mr Hewlett’s earlier bits of romantic comedy. A delightful piece of literary comedy.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 700w

“This charming little tale must be classified rather as an essay in pure comedy than as a reproduction of actual life.”

+ =Sat R= 128:229 S 6 ’19 450w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Boy heroes in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell

20–17319

The stories of seven boy heroes in fiction are here presented in condensed form. The foreword says, “Some of these boy heroes of yesterday may not be known to boys of today, partly because their stories are imbedded in extra large volumes, which do not stop with boy life, but include many other things. It has been the happy task, therefore, of the present editor to disentangle and condense these stories, presenting only the portions which pertain to the boy life of each hero.” Contents: Little Gavroche (from “Les misérables”); David Balfour (from “Kidnapped”); Oliver Twist; Jim Davis (from Masefield’s “Jim Davis”); David Copperfield; Jim Hawkins (from “Treasure island”); and John Halifax.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w

“Her volumes would have gained as much in effect as they would have lost in length had she limited herself to quotations instead of supplementing them with paraphrases.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Girl heroines in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell

20–17320

The six girls chosen for this volume are Little Dorrit, Maggie Tulliver, Ellen (from “The wide wide world”), Little Nell, Eppie (from “Silas Marner”), and Cosette (from “Les misérables”). “Each girl is introduced in very nearly her author’s own words, and thus preserves her own individuality.” As in the book of boy heroes, the editor expresses the hope that the stories as presented here may serve as an introduction to the full-length versions.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w

=MCFEE, WILLIAM.= Captain Macedoine’s daughter. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–26979

The story of Captain Macedoine’s daughter is told by the “quiet and occasionally garrulous” Chief of H. M. S. Sycorax, detailed to escort convoys through the Ægean in war time. The Chief had known the Mediterranean in the days of peace and this is a peace-time story of plotting and intrigue, involving Captain Macedoine’s great international bubble, the Anglo-Hellenic development company, in which his daughter is used as a tool. From her mother the girl had a mixture of dark blood. Mr Spenlove, the chief, who had been one of those who fell under her spell, tells all that he knew of her tragic life and death, drawing from it his own conclusions on the nature of love.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“A tale of strange people, strange places, strange motifs, strange morals told with brilliant effect and satisfying completeness.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 360w

“This well-written novel, broader in its scope than Mr McFee’s previous books is strong not only in its character portrayal but in the philosophy interspersed throughout its pages.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 90w

“While ‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is not so good a story as either ‘Casuals of the sea’ or ‘Aliens,’ it has in it all the original qualities of unconventional fiction that long ago established Joseph Conrad and that is placing Mr McFee in the same rank of novelists.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1200w

“William McFee’s new novel has the same elusive perfume as Conrad’s ‘Arrow of gold.’” A. W. Welch

+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 380w

“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ gladdens the heart of the serious lover of English prose, for it proves that in Mr McFee we have no mere casual of the pen, no fortunate adventurer upon ink who triumphed by chance, but a soberly devoted novelist from whom many years of fine work may confidently be expected.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1100w

“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is, first of all, a masterful portrayal of two colorful personalities.... But it is far more than that; it is, too, a contrast between occidental and eastern civilizations and philosophies, a commentary on human nature,

## particularly an analysis of love, and an achievement in beautiful

prose.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w

“There is less sea and more siren in this novel than Mr McFee’s readers would perhaps expect. Few readers will resist the charm of the style; some will think the dénouement unsatisfying.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w

“Unmistakably a big, compelling, haunting book.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub. W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 420w

“The outstanding impression is the sense of atmosphere which the narrative imparts to the reader. The narrative has many curious ramifications, but each is an important part of the whole, and the reader will find himself enthralled from the first to the last scene.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 640w

=MCGIBENY, DONALD.=[2] 32 caliber. *$1.75 Bobbs

20–18770

“Although the author is unusually progressive in having his villain operate with the aid of airplane and machine gun, the general plot and the situations created are such as might be encountered in every-day life and modern crime. An attorney and his wife, on the way to keep an appointment that involves the domestic happiness and honor of both, are found at a lonely spot, the car wrecked, the man dead from a bullet wound, the wife unconscious in the tonneau. Was it another automobile accident, was the man murdered by the wife or did an outsider have a part in the tragedy? These are questions that perplexed the authorities and will perplex and mystify the reader.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The basis and material used in the tale is excellent and would make a capital short story.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 26 ’21 150w

“A not too lurid mystery interestingly built up and broken down, in a rapid, easy narrative style.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w

“The only marked defect is the author’s attempt to force the reader’s suspicions on characters whose guilt, if ultimately proved by the story, would shock any decent sense of plausibility.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 70w

“He has written so well, made his people so living and so pleasant, handled his subject so surely, that it is difficult to think of this book as a maiden essay.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 580w

“Among the better of the new detective tales, ’32 calibre,’ early arouses the interest of the reader and holds it through a series of adventures, with the solution of the mystery not even indicated until the close.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 150w

=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Maureen. *$2 (1½c) McBride

20–13698

Mr MacGill’s new story of Donegal is a mingling of pathos and humor, hard toil and grim poverty, beauty and stark tragedy. Maureen, the daughter of Kathleen O’Malley, tastes all the sorrow and loneliness of an illegitimate child and after her mother’s death leaves the parish. She has won the love of young Cathal Cassidy and he would have her stay, but long before her mother had warned her that her only happiness would lie in marrying a man outside the parish who would not have to suffer for her shame in the eyes of his neighbors, and to spare Cathal this she leaves him. She meets experiences that are bitterly cruel, but after them finds a haven with kind people and at the end of two years returns. Cathal has been faithful and it seems that their love is to bring them happiness, but tragedy overwhelms them. The war and Sinn Fein have a place in the background of the story.

* * * * *

“The characters in general are well drawn, and have that tragic intensity which Synge and others have made us believe to be in the Celtic blood.”

+ =Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 120w

“Unmitigated truth and sincerity produce a strong reality of characters and atmosphere though not a pleasant story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“Such a thing to be done at all must be done exceptionally well, and Mr MacGill, with a good style at his command, has achieved a triumph.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 520w

“The minor characters are admirably drawn; the chief ones are less vivid and convincing. The weaknesses of the story are glaring: it is poor both in structure and in motivation. Keeran, in the final chapters, is drawn on the lines of Dickens at his worst, and the tragic conclusion brings the reader up with the jolt of an express train coming to a violent halt.”

− + =Cath World= 112:547 Ja ’21 220w

“The chief and tragic emphasis falls upon youth, in spite of which the best of the story lies in the penetrating, vivid, and thoroughly human presentation of the old people.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w

“Much of the power of the story lies in the intermingling of quite Russian realism, with an idealism which bursts flamelike through the recital of brutal details. ‘Decent’ is the salutation of the people of Dungarrow for the strangers they meet, and decent is the epithet uppermost in the mind of the reader, in spite of Mr MacGill’s frank exposure of the vices of his own people.” E. L.

+ =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 240w

“‘Maureen’ is the story of a peasant girl in Donegal, a terrible story in many ways and a curiously fascinating one. Mr MacGill knows how to flash a scene so vividly before your mind that it haunts your visual memory for days afterward.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 120w

“In ‘Maureen’ there is considerable alloy, yet much good metal and some precious. But the whole thing needs fusing.” J. C. L.

+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 400w

“‘Maureen’ is not up to ‘Children of the dead end’ or ‘Rat pit,’ but it is well worth reading, especially to Irish folk and the legion that love the Irish.” S. C. Daljord

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 600w

“There are very few figures in the story that evoke admiration; most of them, to be quite frank, suggest the opposite. But their vitality is amazing, and because of this authentic possession of the power to make his characters live and breathe, Mr MacGill takes a prominent place with those other admirable Irish fictioneers, St John Ervine, Shaw Desmond, James Joyce and James Stephens.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 500w

“Mr MacGill’s story is a stern presentation not only of characters, but of racial characteristics and psychology. It is always real and alive. The book unrolls before the reader’s eyes a segment of life from rural Ireland with all the reality of a picture film.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 650w

“Nothing farther removed from the individualist English novel could be imagined. It is not that the characters are in any way lacking in individuality. They are creatures of flesh and blood right enough, terrible in their humanity. But it is as social rather than as personal values that they count. There is little joy in Mr MacGill’s book—one feels that the sun seldom shines in Donegal—but it has creative richness and the supreme quality of truth.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 400w

=MCGILVARY, MARGARET.= Dawn of a new era in Syria. il *$2.50 Revell 940.356

20–20216

“Miss McGilvary during the progress of the war was the secretary of the Beirut chapter of the Red cross and hence had unusual opportunities for following the trend of events. The story which she tells, and of which she herself was a part, is of deep interest; how an American printing house was converted into a relief bureau; how American philanthrophy did its part in ameliorating the condition of the unhappy people; how difficulties were thrown in the way by the Turks; culminating presently in the arrest of the entire American mission. She tells in thrilling language of a year of horror, and toward the end, of the collapse of the Central powers, the decline of German prestige, and lastly of the end of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Hers is a story very well worth the reading, for it is the story of one who was upon the spot and was a witness of all of which she writes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 330w

“Her book contains vivid notes on the personalities of Enver, Talaat, and Jemal.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 140w

=MCGOVERN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Modern Japan; its political, military and industrial organization; with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. *$5 Scribner 915.2

(Eng ed 20–9379)

“Dr McGovern spent ten years in the Far East, ‘six of which were devoted to school and college studies in Japan.’ He is, therefore, eminently qualified as an interpreter of Japanese thought and Japanese ideas. He begins with an ethnographical, geographical and historical introduction. Having discussed the early history of the Yamato race, he proceeds to give a summary of the evolution of the country since it was opened up by Commodore Perry’s famous visit. He tells of its constitution and political parties, of its organization and government, of its finances, of its efficient bureaucracy (as compared with the cumbrous British form), its imperial socialism (as he calls the centralization of all economic activity), of its military efficiency (based on German models), of its naval menace, of its industrial and commercial development, its banking system, its agriculture, its foreign trade. The concluding section is a very brief statement of the language and literature, the arts of sculpture, painting, the drama, poetry and religion in its three-fold phase.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“His book is distinctly illuminating, although we may complain that too much space is devoted to the dry bones of political and military matters, and not enough to the psychology of the people and its expression in literature and the other arts.”

+ − =Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 100w

“A clear, forceful condensation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“Much of Dr McGovern’s book is the expression of a full knowledge and an open mind. It is perhaps the fairest exposition of the whole field of Japanese thought and accomplishment to be found in the vast number of books which have been written about Japan. Dr McGovern’s style is not noticeable for grace.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 900w

“To those who wish to gain an insight into the potentialities of this forward pushing nation Dr McGovern’s book offers information that is well worth having.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 11 ’20 1550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 80w

“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if, instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether unexplored.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p247 Ap 22 ’20 850w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–17960

The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether “Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the drums of jeopardy.

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=Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 180w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday

20–26106

The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored his family name to new honor.

* * * * *

“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”

+ − =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 16:172 F ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 480w

“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and sufficiently rapid in movement.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 500w

+ − =Pub W= 96:1692 D 27 ’19 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 230w

“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the ‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 320w

=MACHARD, ALFRED.= When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee

20–17171

A story of child life translated from the French. Popaul, a little boy of ten whose father is at the front, adopts Marie, a Belgian refugee and takes her home to Madame Medard. The two have many adventures, humorous and serious, and a deep devotion develops between them. A blinded soldier tells them the tale of Paul and Virginia and they see the parallel to their own story. Deeply in love they go through a marriage ceremony and regard the affair with great seriousness, accepting Tytie, the American doll, as their child. Popaul, following his father’s death, is adopted by a rich countess who, finally moved by his sorrow, sees that the children cannot be separated and takes Marie to live with her also.

=MACKAIN, F. E.= Buzzy; the story of a little friend of mine. il *$1.50 Jacobs

This story for little children relates the adventures of a teddy bear. In the first of them Peggy, Buzzy’s little mistress, takes him out into the snow and sets him up, back to a tree, while she makes a snow man, and then the tea bell rings and she runs away and forgets all about him. But Buzzy, left alone, enters into an interesting conversation with the snow man and makes the acquaintance of a rabbit who invites him to his home for the night. Buzzy has other adventures, meets a princess and takes an unexpected journey to London in a suit case. There are pictures in color and humorous drawings in black and white by the author.

=MACKALL, LAWTON.= Scrambled eggs. il *$1.25 Stewart & Kidd 817

20–6377

“A diverting tale of barnyard life. Eustace the duck and his wife, who believes in a communal incubator, Martha the hen who believes that the female’s place is on the nest, and her frivolous husband Clarence, who is always finding an attractive new pullet, have various adventures that parody amusingly the complications of present-day life.”—Cleveland

+ =Booklist= 16:377 Jl ’20

“The skillfully ludicrous is not half plentiful enough in this sad world of printed pages. ‘Scrambled eggs,’ however, is just that.”

+ =Bookm= 52:348 D ’20 40w

+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 50w

“The satire is amusingly carried out, and the illustrations by Oliver Herford help a great deal.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 190w

+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 130w

“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 100w

=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Chill hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield

20–3265

Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches, Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon a time, long ago before the war.

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“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of the abiding fragrance.”

+ =Ath= p494 Ap 9 ’20 180w

“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing sketches that has come from the war.”

+ =Booklist= 16:271 My ’20

“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in ‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist, and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 500w

+ =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 50w

“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained in all her bits of prose.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 230w

=Review= 2:605 Je 5 ’20 130w

“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”

+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 150w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 80w

=MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.=[2] Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran 234

20–10742

“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib World

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“Preachers especially and all students of the phenomena of Christianity will find this a fresh, stimulating book. It will add a new accent to the usually dismal discussions of sin and salvation.”

+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 190w

“The analogy between physical and spiritual conditions enables the writer to offer counsels for spiritual treatment which are clearly the result of a keen insight into the characters of men and the conditions in which they live. Readers may not be able to accept some of the author’s theories and tabulations, but the book is an important contribution to the study of sin, its origin, its growth, and its remedies.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p11 Ja 2 ’19 340w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Rip Van Winkle. il *$1.50 Knopf 782

20–923

This version of the legend is in the form of a folk-opera in three acts for which Reginald DeKoven has written the music. Like Dion Boucicault’s drama, it is based on Washington Irving’s story but, the author tells us, with more differences than resemblances to both. “The differences have developed mainly from the consideration that I was writing—not a story or a play, but an opera; and this constant consideration has resulted in the two main contributions of mine which modify the old legend—the creation of a new character, Peterkee, and the introduction of a new element in the plot, the magic flask.” (Preface)

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=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

“It is fair, however, to warn the reader that he will find here some graceful verse but little poetry, many characters, but little distinct characterization, and hardly anything of either the pathos or the humor of the old story beloved of all readers of English.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:260 Jl ’20 190w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Lady Lilith. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–18657

The sobriquet, Lady Lilith, is applied to Lady Barbara Neave, daughter of a viceroy of India. From childhood on she has been a problem to her family and has kept their nerves on edge with her surprising escapades. Early accustomed to social prominence and adulation, her craving for sensations soon seeks wider fields than through conventional channels. Her excessive vanity makes her an adroit actress, and her heartlessness enables her to walk roughshod over everybody in search of new emotions and new rôles to play. She seems vulnerable only in one spot: her superstition. Throughout the story she toys with the sensation of Jack Waring’s blunt criticism of herself and his persistent love-making. The reader is left somewhat in doubt how much of her remorse after her final refusal of him is genuine feeling, how much theatrical pose, and how much superstitious fear.

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“If Mr McKenna’s novel were witty, amusing, an aspect of the human comedy, or just nonsense—or even melodrama—we should not protest. But to butcher his gifts to make a snobs’ banquet is surely a very lamentable pastime. It would be interesting to know whether he has—a dozen, say—readers of his own sex.” K. M.

− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 420w

“The author gives us a picture of present day social and political life in London, but we sincerely trust that his heroine is not typical of the modern English woman.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 190w

“An engrossing picture of English society just before and during the war.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“Two solid volumes of Sonia richly sufficed us and we rather resent having her served up to us again; even under another name. Lady Barbara Neave is just Sonia, only more so.” V. G.

− + =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 220w

“The most striking thing in this novel is the fact that though we see and know Barbara in all her shallow selfishness, we fall under her spell, even as those who make the story with her fall under it.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 1800w

+ − =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 150w

“Next to ‘Sonia,’ this is the author’s most finished and interesting work. Indeed, he sometimes attains the high level set in that admirable book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 420w

“One cannot fail to recognize that artistically he is at home, conveying always a very fair impression of reality in general detail, writing with ease and often with wit, drawing characters which are all recognizable as types. But the significance is the question, and here, so far, he is not convincing.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 420w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Sheila intervenes. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–26313

The outstanding personages of this story are Denys Playfair, an Irishman with a family history that has made resentment towards the English governing classes a part of his inheritance; Sheila Farling, also Irish, slight, black-eyed, clever, full of the joy of life, and on occasion full of mischief, and scorn and a faculty for raillery; and Daphne Grayling, Sheila’s cousin, daughter of an old-fashioned mother who is keeping her in leading strings even to the choice of a husband for her, and who condemns her to a life of boredom and inactivity. Sheila’s exuberant spirit leads her to play providence for her friends. She engineers Denys into a political career, and noticing the blossoming out of Daphne under Denys’s friendship, does violence to her own feelings for him, while she engineers the two into a love compact. Fate intervenes in the form of a serious accident to Daphne’s ex-fiancé, which brings the latter to a realization that duty is stronger than love. It also intervenes to acquaint Denys with Sheila’s true feeling for him for when he collapses before her eyes from the effects of over-work and strain, her assumed indifference likewise collapses.

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“Her delightful grandfather is one of the best characters and Sheila herself is irresistible.”

+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Despite this slightness of plot, the story carries its own sentimental interest and is continually a matter of touch and go. Moreover the characters are delightful.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 240w

“An earlier work has been resurrected from the obscurity of the novelist’s earlier career to share the success of his later books. In many cases the act is justified. But in Mr McKenna’s case it seems to us decidedly a mistake.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ’20 220w

“Yet in spite of its failings and its extremely weak—at times almost ludicrously weak—motivation, the novel is not without its good points. Sheila herself is attractive, and the dialogue is easy and not infrequently even bright.”

+ − =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 500w

“Imagine a new ‘Dolly dialogues’ with a serious motive behind it, and you get somewhere near the aim and substance of this earlier work by the author of ‘Sonia.’” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 400w

“It is all very interesting, for Mr McKenna’s people are brilliant, and the dinner parties, social gatherings and political conferences scintillate with wit and sharp exchanges of opinions on public questions of the moment. Meanwhile, the principal romance is handled with skill by the author.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 600w

=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Poor relations. *$1.90 (2c) Harper

19–19599

A successful playwright, suddenly grown rich, is surrounded by a host of poor relations, brothers and sisters with wives, husbands and offspring, all more or less failures, all tactlessly anxious to drink at the golden fountain. They drive him from his country home, they assail him in his town house, they turn against him their slanderous tongues when their expectations are not fulfilled. He is a good sort and goes the full length of the bearable, but at last, in desperation, elopes with his long-loved secretary on a honeymoon to America after committing one revengeful act. Mindful of the internecine warfare among his relations, he makes a present of one-fifth of his country home to each family group respectively.

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“The Touchwood family is one of those detestable, fascinating families that we cannot have enough of.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 1000w

=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Mr Mackenzie has here the material for a short story or, let us say, a well-balanced novelette. But instead of selecting, and sorting, and packing it down, he lets it take possession of him. There is of course a lot of amusing stuff in it, no end of satirical material, no end of clever and witty touches. But the book as a book is without form and void.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Bookm= 51:341 My ’20 420w

+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 50w

“‘Poor relations’ is a farce. Any number of children and adults pass through its pages, all acting exactly as children and adults act. A plot of quite exceptional banality and incidents of incredible age and vulgarity serve to display these life-like wares. It would be easier to think lightly of Mr Mackenzie’s failure if one did not have to remember what Henry James said of him. Remembering that, and remembering Jenny Pearl, the brief story of Mr Mackenzie’s career takes on some of the proportions of tragedy.” Gilbert Seldes

− =Dial= 68:611 My ’20 1100w

“‘Poor relations’ shows, moreover, that recognition of how strange people really are which has always been one of Mr Mackenzie’s virtues. He has resisted that persistent underwriting of character and circumstance which has been the curse of refined English literature ever since the days of Gissing, and has not been afraid to allow fantastic people to do fantastic things.” Rebecca West

+ =New Repub= 21:362 F 18 ’20 1200w

“Written in a light ironic manner, with much deftness of phrasing and a thorough understanding of the follies and meannesses and hypocrisies to which his ‘poor relations’ are so exceedingly prone, it yet usually and skilfully contrives to keep the reader in sympathy with its vain, generous, sentimental and self-deceived hero.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 750w

“Though marred toward the end by that longwindedness which is his besetting sin, it is exceptionally amusing.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“Mr Mackenzie may object to the expression: ‘this well known author writes in an entirely new vein’ but it seems to fit the occasion. He handles his hero with affectionate jocularity bordering on farce. Yet the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, human and lovable—perhaps just because of its convincing defects.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 260w

“It was with some trepidation that we opened ‘Poor relations.’ Our delight was therefore doubly great on finding no taint of the Scarlett novels marring its pages. Quite early in the book the principal character remarks: ‘This passion for realism is everywhere.... Thank goodness, I’ve been through it and got over it and put it behind me for ever.’ Let us pray that he is speaking with the voice of his creator.”

+ =Sat R= 128:319 O 4 ’19 1150w

“This is an ingenious and at times diverting recital, bordering on extravaganza, but not too remotely detached from reality to be incredible, and not too malicious in its satire to be unenjoyable.”

+ =Spec= 123:865 D 20 ’19 400w

“‘Poor relations’ is engagingly light-hearted in all its phases, with a discernible grain of reality beneath the shell of comedy and satire.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 600w

“The oppression which has seemed of late to brood over the work of Mr Compton Mackenzie has cleared away, we hope never to return. In ‘Poor relations’ the sun comes out brightly from the clouds, a gentle breeze of humour blows the story along, and the reader from the first page to the last enjoys himself immensely.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w

=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Vanity girl. *$2 (1½c) Harper

20–7724

It is the story of the clever scheming of a vain, selfish, heartless but very beautiful girl. Her first step to use her beauty as an asset was to go on the stage. As “Vanity girl,” opportunities offered to cast her net for a titled husband. She captured the fifth Earl of Clarehaven and was received by the family on equal terms. Her first disappointment came when the fates denied her a son to inherit the earldom, and her second when her foolish husband, with cards and horses, succeeded in losing the family estate. When he is killed in France, and the sixth Earl of Clarehaven at last arrives, the impoverished countess still has one trump card left. She marries the millionaire Jew, who is now owner of Clare, on the condition that he make over the entire estate to her son.

* * * * *

“In whatever contempt Mr Mackenzie may hold his public—how is it possible that he should dare to invite them to partake of such sickly food? We should not waste space upon so pretentious and stupid a book were it not that we have believed in his gifts and desire to protest that he should so betray them.” K. M.

− =Ath= p639 My 14 ’20 760w

“This writer does have the instinct for action and, once you accept his people as figures in a picaresque novel, you have something to tie to, as you never do with Mr George. The ‘trouble’ here, indeed, is that Mr Mackenzie, not being aware of his true job, deviates into sense, that is, into interpretation, just often enough to queer his real pitch.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 52:251 N ’20 300w

=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 1200w

− =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 80w

“As his art approaches its maturity, he adds to his native wit and cleverness a sure mastery of technique which puts him unmistakably in the forefront of the English novelists of the day. So clever and interesting is Mr Mackenzie’s new novel that one regrets the more to find, if anything, an increase in the smart nastiness that occasionally blemishes his writing.” Stanley Went

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 1500w

=N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 700w

“Mr Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical. Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called ‘Sylvia Scarlett,’ I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing novels about every one of the Vanity chorus.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 160w

“For the reader, unless he likes flippancy and fireworks for their own sakes, the end of it all is not much better than vanity. Mr Mackenzie, at least, is a story-teller of a sort. However encumbered with facts, his narrative always has the charm of an adventure which, if it never quite gets anywhere, is at least always amusingly on its way.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w

“That this plebeian girl should step into her exalted social station and so speedily absorb the new life and arouse love and veneration for the Clarehaven tradition and inheritance is little short of a miracle. But Mr Mackenzie makes it seem natural.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 470w

“Mr Compton Mackenzie will receive praise for this new novel from those to whom it was chiefly intended to appeal; it will receive adverse criticism from those whose judgment Mr Mackenzie has by now, perhaps, ceased to take into account. It will have earned the one and thoroughly deserved the other. Deliberately he has written a story of a snob for snobs.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 720w

=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Korea’s fight for freedom. *$2 (2c) Revell 951.9

20–2360

Instead of a new edition of the author’s “Tragedy of Korea,” this is a new book including some of the old matter and bringing the story of Korea up-to-date. It is the story of the injustice and the cruelty practised by Japan against Korea in its policy of imperial expansion. “In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long sleep, under conditions of tragic terror, that has seized hold of and is clinging fast to, things vital to civilization as we see it, freedom and free faith, the honor of their women, the development of their own souls.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Opening the oyster; Japan makes a false move; The Independence club; The new era; The rule of Prince Ito; With the rebels; The last days of the Korean empire; The missionaries; Torture à la mode; The people speak—the tyrants answer; Girl martyrs for liberty; World reactions; What can we do?

* * * * *

“This book deserves a wide reading. It breathes a real humanitarian interest in the present unhappy fate of over ten million people; and on its constructive side suggests a way out of a far eastern situation full of dangers for the American people.” W. W. McLaren

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:518 Ag ’20 200w

“A well written account.”

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

=Review= 2:545 My 22 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 20w

“It is impossible not to feel admiration for the Koreans in reading the history of its people as written by an author who understands and sympathizes with them.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 250w

“A few minor statements are incorrect. But none acquainted with the situation can deny the accuracy of its statements of fact, or the propriety of its positions.” A missionary

+ − =Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 300w

“Of Mr McKenzie’s trustworthiness as a witness there can be no question.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

=Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Pussyfoot Johnson. il *$1.50 Revell

20–20628

“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled ‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A. McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 560w

+ =Outlook= 125:714 Ag 25 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 240w

“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg

+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 460w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 250w

=MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES.= Future of medicine. (Oxford medical publications) *$5 Oxford 610

26–26322

“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of ‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four closely printed pages.”—Spec

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=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

+ =Sat R= 128:466 N 15 ’19 1200w

“One lays aside the book with a feeling of great respect and admiration for this great and honest physician. All the same, one cannot help feeling that the disadvantages of the present system of teaching in the medical schools is exaggerated by the writer, and that, were the attempt made so to alter it as to meet the demands of a man of so keen an intellect as Sir James Mackenzie, a few giants might be reared, but that the work of the average man would suffer.”

+ − =Spec= 122:476 O 11 ’19 1300w

“The social worker who expects to find in Dr Mackenzie’s book on ‘The future of medicine’ a discussion of the socialization of medicine and the solution of many of the medical problems of the future will be disappointed. The medical and perhaps the lay reader, however, will be amply rewarded by the brilliant and, sometimes, scathing criticism by Dr Mackenzie of the present laboratory research and specialty aspects of medical science.” G: M. Price

+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 Ag 14 ’19 80w

“Much thought has been devoted to the composition of this attempt to influence the future of medicine. A good deal of this material is highly technical, which is doubtless unavoidable, but has the disadvantages of making the weighing of the evidence exceedingly difficult for any except members of the medical profession.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 1400w

=MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.=[2] Story of a fortunate youth. $1.25 (7c) Atlantic monthly press

These “chapters from the biography of an elderly gentleman” (Sub-title) are sketchy bits from the career of a minister who began life as a little Scotch boy in the East Highlands. His first fortune was a “bawbee” found in the dust, then came real earnings—beginning with six-pence and the duties of a shepherd—to help eke out the family income—until the great country across the water beckoned him. There the usual course from farm hand and country school-teacher to college and the ministry are gone through, all told lovingly and in whimsical style by the old gentleman’s daughter. The chapters are: The boy and the bawbee; The boy and the half-crown; The boy and the dollar; The wages of youth.

=MACKENZIE, JOHN STUART.= Arrows of desire; essays on British characteristics. *$3.75 Macmillan 914.2

“The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is as misleading as Ruskin’s ‘On the construction of sheepfolds.’ Professor Mackenzie’s book consists, in fact, of essays on our [England’s] national character. He discusses ‘Henry V.’ on the assumption that Shakespeare regarded the king as a typical Englishman. He then considers the English character, taking in turn each of the reproaches hurled at us by native and foreign critics. He contrasts the sister-nations with England, and incidentally repeats what we believe to be the fallacious statement that the Scotsman is more democratic than the Englishman. In the end Professor Mackenzie seems to conclude that we are not so bad after all, and that our chief danger lies in a ‘superficial optimism.’”—Spec

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“An analysis of British characteristics by a British professor is a difficult task for any fair-minded man, which is probably why Mr J. S. Mackenzie draws upon a consensus of other people’s opinions with which to support his own. This continual reference to authorities is a little wearisome to the flesh, the more so since Mr Mackenzie shows himself a really competent judge of the matter, avoiding self-gratification without the obverse fault of detraction in order to prove himself just.”

+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“He is too attentive to detail, too eager to back up what he has to say with chapter and verse. The professor in him is uppermost, to the detriment of the writer. Nevertheless, in spite of these handicaps, there is acute analysis in Professor Mackenzie’s book. In its parts his book is good; as a whole it lacks coherence and smoothness.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 1100w

Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan

=Review= 2:546 My 22 ’20 1300w

− + =Sat R= 130:319 O 16 ’20 820w

“It is an entertaining book.”

+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 160w

“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 Ap 1 ’20 1950w

=MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH.= Cattle and the future of beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2

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A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle; Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F. H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.

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“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the farming community generally.” C. C.

+ =Nature= 105:62 Mr 18 ’20 850w

“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”

+ =Spec= 124:278 F 28 ’20 1200w

“Mr Mackenzie is original and daring in some of his suggestions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p549 O 9 ’19 200w

=MACKIE, RANSOM A.= Education during adolescence. *$2 Dutton 373

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“Basing his arguments very largely on Stanley Hall’s ‘Educational problems,’ the author proceeds to describe what are the essentials of a high school curriculum.” (Cleveland) “In the introduction, Dr Hall states that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and so-called formal studies and methods of discipline are largely a delusion and a snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. In