Chapter I

) The first three chapters are devoted to the author’s family antecedents and early life and some of the other chapters are: Winter society at Torquay; The basis of London society; Vignettes of London life; Society in country houses; From country houses to politics; Cyprus, Florence, Hungary; Two works on social politics; Religious philosophy and fiction; Politics and society in America; Literature and action. The book has an index and a number of portraits of famous writers.

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=Ath= p583 O 29 ’20 1300w

“To some the philosophy will seem too self-satisfied and the ease of tone, varied only by urbane satire, indicative of a class heedlessness of much of the passion, discontent and injustice below the surface.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

Reviewed by H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:269 N ’20 480w

“His ingenious mingling of the records of his own life and mental progress and achievement with accounts of his contact with other men and women of his time, give to Mr Mallock’s memoirs a rare quality. Its pages are all filled with an exceptional sympathy for the mental attitude of even those from whom he differed on problems of vital and lasting importance.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 18 ’20 1800w

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

=Dial= 70:217 F ’21 2100w

“It is with something of shock that we discover Mr Mallock’s conservatism as unyielding as when in the complacent days before the war he came to expound it from the rostrums of our universities. Events have marched, but Mr Mallock has not marched with them. And yet, disappointing though it is, Mr Mallock’s volume contains chapters that redeem it from the commonplace.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p6 S 18 ’20 1100w

“Too much of the memoirs are snobbery, genealogical dissertations and comments on the author’s own novels and economic studies. He possessed the opportunity for a surprisingly good book but he has not wholly availed himself of it.” H. S. Gorman

− + =N Y Times= p12 O 3 ’20 2100w

“What the author has given us in his books, with all sincerity, has been, so it seems, not ‘confessions’ by any means, but his real inner thought without compromise or unexpressed reservations. This, rather than its suavity of style, its variety of interests, its numerous personalities, explains the charm of the volume. There is an air of intellectual and moral success and good-breeding about it such as one rarely finds.”

+ =No Am= 212:713 N ’20 1850w

“His comments and anecdotes are not always agreeable or calculated to give the reader high ideals.”

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Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

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“This constant didacticism goes far to spoil what is otherwise so good. If only Mr Mallock had expended his energies more exclusively on the descriptive and anecdotal parts of his book, he might have produced a work of rare charm; he has the insight and the literary skill to have done this.”

+ − =Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 950w

+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 80w

=Spec= 125:470 O 9 ’20 1500w

“Delightfully entertaining work. Not once in a blue moon do lovers of good literature fall upon anything so richly suggestive, so charmingly satisfying.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 2300w

“Mr Mallock in the lucidity of his style, in his confident logic and graceful sense of proportion, in his fastidiousness and his cynical undertones, betrays the mind of the eighteenth-century aristocrat.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 S 16 ’20 1800w

=MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE.= Russian republic. *$1 (4½c) Harcourt 947

20–5655

As the basis for an opinion as to the possibilities of peace negotiations with Soviet Russia, the author undertook an examination of the political, social and military conditions there at first hand, by a personal visit. The book records his findings in diary form interspersed with interviews, conversations and personal reflections. Throughout, the author draws a comparison with the French revolution and concludes that the only way to head off a military dictatorship in Russia is through one of two policies; the unthinkable one of making war on her on a grand scale, or “to make every effort to give the Soviet republic internal and external peace, and to establish commercial bonds with them, to the great blessing of mankind and to the prosperity of all countries.” Contents: Introductory; To Petrograd; Moscow; Social reconstruction; Trotsky and the red army; Industry; Religion and women; The peace terms; Homeward bound; Conclusions; Appendix—Prinkipo and Nansen.

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=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“Colonel Malone’s attitude is one of a somewhat suspicious solicitude; he is aware of the danger of being taken in, and this gives to his report an air of special authenticity. Perhaps the most interesting

## chapter is that dealing with the Red army.”

+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 300w

“Colonel Malone’s book will be popular among sympathizers with Soviet Russia, especially those of a more or less conservative stripe. It explodes the grosser fabrications about Russia without implying too much violence against what cautious folk conceive to be a properly centered world. Its superficiality from this point of view may prove an asset: for no one can deny that it is essentially a superficial study.” Evans Clark

+ − =Nation= 111:47 Jl 10 ’20 750w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p90 F 5 ’20 150w

=MANDER, JANE.= Story of a New Zealand river. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

20–4462

A story by an author apparently familiar with the country of which she writes. For its beginnings it goes back a full generation to a pioneer age in a new country. Alice Roland is as unfitted for this life as her husband is fitted for it. An English woman, adrift with a young child, she accepts Tom Roland’s offer of marriage and goes with him up the river to the wild country where he is to carve out his fortune. She has never loved him, and finds her life, with its hardships and recurrent child bearing, dreary enough. Then love for her husband’s partner, David Bruce, comes to complicate the situation. Alice’s scruples and David’s loyalty to his partner keep them from transgression. In the meantime Alice’s daughter, Asia, grows up, with ideals very different from her mother’s, with a sure knowledge of what she wants, and she doesn’t let the fact that the man she loves is already married stand in her way. There are good pictures of the New Zealand landscape and of its developing civilization.

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“She lacks confidence and the courage of her opinions: like the wavering, fearful heroine, she leans too hard on England. There are moments when we catch a bewilderingly vivid glimpse of what she really felt and knew about the small settlement of people in the lumbercamp, but we suspect that these are moments when she is off her guard. These serve nothing but to increase our impatience with Miss Mander. Why is her book not half as long, twice as honest?” K. M.

− + =Ath= p49 Jl 9 ’20 600w

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 160w

“The author not only knows her country, but those who live in it, and she describes both with strong feeling and yet with artistic restraint.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 250w

“The theme of this book is good but it is not good enough for 430 pages of closely printed matter. Of the characters that create ‘The story of a New Zealand river,’ which, by the way, is an extremely bad title, nothing but praise may be given.” H. S. G.

+ − =New Repub= 23:234 Jl 21 ’20 650w

“The novel presents an interesting picture of pioneer life on the unnamed river and some of Alice’s struggles are well portrayed, but there is so much reiteration and so much of what can only be called padding that the effect of the novel is greatly weakened and it loses its hold on the reader long before the climax is reached.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w

“The author handles this tale of an isolated New Zealand lumber camp with considerable romantic effect.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 220w

“The authoress has a real ability to describe character and differences of outlook; but she does not allow the plot to become lost in disquisitions. The book would have been more emphatic if it could have been shortened, but in its present form it is a patient study of one example of the immemorial clash between impulse and convention. The authoress never exactly hits the bull’s-eye, but she is always on the target.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 220w

=MANNERS, JOHN HARTLEY.= All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast. *$1.25 Doran 812

20–4129

These three plays: All clear; God of my faith; and God’s outcast, “written during the horrors of the unjust and cruel war forced by Germany upon civilisation ... founded on actual incidents, may serve to keep alive remembrance of some of the barbarous outrages perpetrated by the Hun on innocent and wretched peoples.” (Foreword) They are songs of hate and the Germans, in the author’s opinion, are “a race apart, unfit to associate with and to be shunned forevermore.”

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=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 480w

=MANSBRIDGE, ALBERT.= Adventure in working-class education. *$2 (*6s) Longmans 374.2

“This book chronicles the genesis and growth of the Workers’ educational association which was founded to promote the higher education of working men and women by means of an alliance between co-operation, trades unionism, and university extension. It began in 1903, not without opposition and with very little financial support, which Mr Mansbridge, to whose enthusiasm the organisation owes much of its vitality, counts like a true fighter amongst the reasons for its success. Mr Mansbridge and his colleagues preserved their eager optimism even through the depressing years of the war until, at the present day, they can number over seventeen thousand members in the British islands and many prosperous branches in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. The vivifying idea of the movement is that most workers have an interest in education if they would only realize it; and to stimulate that interest and provide facilities for its gratification are the objects for which the association was formed.”—Spec

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=Ath= p814 Je 18 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:85 Jl 17 ’20 480w

“This book is a short but inspiring introduction to the spirit of the whole movement. In passages it rises to levels of fine eloquence. The prologue should be read by every teacher; and the whole spirit of the movement should become known to social workers and lovers of democracy everywhere.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 320w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 40w

=MANTLE, MRS BEATRICE.= In the house of another. *$1.90 (2½c) Century

20–17410

When the heroine of the story comes back to consciousness after an auto accident, she finds herself in a strange environment and among unfamiliar people. She even realizes she has a husband, Alan Leland, whose existence she has no remembrance of, and a circle of friends whom she does not recognize. But they take her quite for granted, which adds to her mystification. She wonders if she is out of her mind. The difficulties of the situation are increased by Willett Renshaw’s attitude to her which is that of a recognized lover. His attentions are distressing to her, but she does not understand the situation clearly enough to be able to straighten it out. Renshaw’s attitude finally results in her separation from Alan, to her sorrow. But she bravely tries to reconstruct her life on a new plan, until a wise friend who realizes that there is some big trouble in her life goes to the bottom of her fears and paves the way for her future happiness and Alan’s.

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“It needs a Wells or at least an Anstey (as in ‘Vice versa’ or ‘The statement of Stella Maberly’) to carry out this idea of exchanged personalities satisfactorily.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 90w

“As a novel written to divert and mystify, ‘In the house of another’ succeeds in its purpose.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 220w

=MANTLE, BURNS=, ed. Best plays of 1919–20, and the Year book of the drama in America. *$2 Small 822

20–21432

This volume marks the first appearance of a new annual which attempts to do for the professional drama what Mr Braithwaite’s anthology does for poetry and Mr O’Brien’s year book for the short story. Mr Mantle has selected ten of the successful plays from the New York season of 1919–20 and has presented them, partly in summary, partly in dialog. They are: Abraham Lincoln, by John Drinkwater; Beyond the horizon, by Eugene O’Neill: The famous Mrs Fair, by James Forbes; Declassee, by Zoe Aikins; Jane Clegg, by St John Ervine; The jest, by Sem Benelli; Wedding bells, by Salisbury Field; Mamma’s affair, by Rachel Barton Butler; Adam and Eva, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton; Clarence, by Booth Tarkington. The volume opens with “The season in review” by Mr Mantle and the year book at the close includes surveys of the season in London and in Paris, along with statistical summaries and other data relating to the stage.

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“As to at least five of the ten, there will be general acquiescence in Mr Mantle’s choice, and as to the other five there will be general diversity of opinion.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 360w

“Friends of the drama in America owe Mr Mantle a real debt of thanks.” Dorothy Grafly

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 400w

“Altogether a much-needed piece of work, and well done. If the next time Mr Mantle will include some account of the significant achievements in stage-craft, his year-book will prove even more valuable.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 230w

=MANUEL, HERSCHEL THURMAN.= Talent in drawing; an experimental study of the use of tests to discover special ability. (School and home education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 136.7

20–4546

Account of a pioneer investigation in the province of specialized ability, or talent, conducted by Professor Whipple, Miss Genevieve L. Coy, and Dr T. S. Henry among selected public school pupils and college students of Urbana, Illinois. The problem the investigators set before them was to discover “the essential psychophysical characteristics of persons talented in drawing,” and to learn how the test methods could best be used in the diagnosis of such talent. To the individuals selected were given certain tests of: general intelligence; higher thought processes; memory and learning; reading; observation; sensory discrimination; handwriting and drawing; also physical and motor tests. Tests given were taken from Binet-Simon, Whipple, Thurstone and other authorities. The investigation, completely described in this little volume, together with a list of the tests, and a bibliography of books used, “resulted in a somewhat detailed statement of the nature of talent in drawing and has yielded a tentative program of tests for the measurement of this talent.” (Conclusion)

=MAPU, ABRAHAM.= Sorrows of Noma. il *$1.50 (1½c) National bk. publishers, 200 5th av., N.Y.

20–4891

A translation, by Joseph Marymont of the Hebrew historical romance, “Ahavath Zion,” the first novel that appeared in Hebrew literature. The story, beginning with sinister treachery and deceptions, and a bitter tragedy, centers about the motive so often recurring in the great Greek narratives—that of a noble son hidden away from evil intrigues of enemies, and raised in rural simplicity as a lowly born shepherd. In this case there is also a mother falsely accused by her husband’s enemies, and a beautiful daughter. The finding of the lad Ammon by an exalted lord’s only daughter, his restoration to his birthright both of nobility and property, the vindication of his mother Noma from false accusations, the inevitable punishment of the followers of iniquity, the loves of Ammon and his sister, are interwoven with a picture of the city of Zion during the reign of Ahaz, and the austere fear of God and love of nation inextricable from any conception of the ancient Hebrew.

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“The story is well told in language borrowed for the most part from the Old Testament, and the manners and customs of the Jewish people are well described.”

+ =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 60w

“As a contribution to the cause of acquainting the world with Hebraic literature, ‘Sorrows of Noma’ comes as a valuable addition. But aside from the literary and classical considerations there is still a third value to this book. The human interest of it.” Rose Karsner

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 430w

=MARBLE, ANNIE RUSSELL (MRS CHARLES FRANCIS MARBLE).= Women who came in the Mayflower. $1.50 (13½c) Pilgrim press 974.4

20–8510

“This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in the Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in the Ann and the Fortune.... There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during 1621–1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual matrons and maidens.” (Foreword) Contents: Endurance and adventure; The voyage and landing; Communal and family life in Plymouth 1621–1623; Matrons and maidens who came in the “Mayflower”: Companions who arrived in the “Fortune” and the “Ann.” Index.

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+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 200w

“A very attractive little volume. It is well worth reading.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 60w

“Full of pleasant gossip about the Mayflower folks is this little volume.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w

=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 180w

“Within its limits it is extremely comprehensive, and well worth reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 300w

=MARCH, NORAH HELENA.= Towards racial health. *$2 (2c) Dutton 612.6

19–15994

A book on sex hygiene and sex instruction designed for parents, teachers and social workers. It is an English work and is brought out in America with an introduction by Dr Evangeline W. Young of Boston, in addition to the original foreword by J. Arthur Thomson of the University of Aberdeen. The subjects covered include: The physical development of the child; The mental and emotional development of the child; Care of children; Supervision—psychological aspect; Nature study in the service of sex instruction; Further aids towards understanding the biology of sex; Ethical training; Education for parenthood (two chapters); Social safeguarding. Other important matter is presented in appendices, including suggested ways of answering children’s questions. There is a bibliography of seven pages and an index.

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=Booklist= 16:290 My ’20

“The soundness of the author’s biological background is attested by Professor J. Arthur Thomson’s commendatory foreword, while her willingness to deal with delicate practical difficulties betrays the sympathetic understanding and intimate personal knowledge of the teacher.”

+ =Dial= 67:274 S 20 ’19 60w

“What Miss March has done is well done—her chapters are poorly named, however. The American edition would be improved if statistics from American institutions and organizations were added.” E. M. Achilles

+ − =J Philos= 17:192 Mr 25 ’20 320w

“The author exhibits a singular ignorance of the ways of real boys and girls and is to be credited with an extensive knowledge of the literature of the subject.” H. C. M.

− + =School R= 28:159 F ’20 140w

“It is an unusually successful attempt in this difficult field.” L. B.

+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 130w

=MARCHANT, JAMES=, ed.[2] Control of parenthood. *$2.50 (5½c) Putnam 176

20–21358

Arguments for and against birth control are presented in this volume, to which distinguished men and women of Great Britain contribute. The Bishop of Birmingham writes the introduction. J. Arthur Thomson and Leonard Hill write of Biological aspects; Dean Inge and Harold Cox of Economic aspects; Dr Mary Scharlieb, Dr F. B. Meyer and Dr A. E. Garvie of Social and religious aspects; and Sir Rider Haggard and Dr Marie C. Stopes of Imperial and racial aspects.

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Adventures in interviewing. il *$4 (4c) Lane 920

20–645

The book, the author tells us, grew out of a series of articles dealing with war-time interviewing. He believes in making a record of people and events while they are alive and when the interest in them is keenest and he has met many of the commanding figures of the day. He introduces the reader to them both by word and picture. All the most prominent contemporary journalists, statesmen, military men, novelists and actors pass review along with the history of the launching of many a popular book and touches of personal friendships with the author. The contents are: Watterson and the early days; New York and the world’s work; A great American editor; The art of interviewing; Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; The real Lloyd George; Northcliffe, the king-maker; Haig and other British notables; Kerensky and the revolution-makers; Pershing and Wood; Foch and Clemenceau; The Wall street sphinxes; Some literary friendships; Other literary associations; The story of “The jungle”; Plays and players. There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.

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+ =Ath= p751 Je 4 ’20 120w

+ =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice

+ =Bookm= 50:562 F ’20 1550w

“Mr Marcosson’s book is good reading for the general reader and a good text book for young writers and young newspaper men.” J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 440w

=Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 260w

“This is a rarely readable volume. It is also excellently illustrated; the photographs with which its pages are generously adorned are exceedingly well reproduced, and the volume takes on value, therefore, as a popular portrait gallery.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:26 Ja 18 ’20 1200w

“It is packed with big personalities described in a most entertaining way by a man who has a genius for interviewing and has had rare opportunities for its exercise.”

+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 50w

“The style is already familiar to hosts of readers—popular, fluent, rapid, pointed, occasionally showing irritating haste and carelessness, yet never losing the good journalist’s knack of telling his story interestingly and vividly.” E. M. Brown

+ − =Pub W= 97:181 Ja 17 ’20 220w

“A book of many limitations. Mr Marcosson is not even an observer, he sees only the most obvious features in a man’s face and the most conspicuous qualities in his mind. Nevertheless his book is interesting. He sees little, but he sees clearly; and, again, he writes barbarously, but he writes clearly.”

+ − =Review= 2:135 F 7 ’20 360w

“Mr Marcosson seems to have been especially fortunate in his intimacies with writers.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:333 Mr ’20 120w

“Unfortunately, Mr Marcosson has not the gift of revealing his personality in his writing, nor do any of the famous men whom he describes emerge from his pages bright and clear-limned. His book, indeed, is a pedestrian piece of work. But though its sole interest lies in the various subjects presented to the reader, that interest is substantial and well recompenses one for the momentary boredom produced by certain appallingly vapid statements.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:589 Je 26 ’20 650w

“A bright, racy and interesting account of interviews with a host of notables. From start to finish the personal pronoun ‘I’ looms up with great frequency. This detracts much from the delightfulness of the book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 150w

=MARDEN, ORISON SWETT.= You can, but will you? (Marden inspirational books) *1.75 (1c) Crowell 170

20–9415

A collection of the author’s essays on right living. Among the subjects are: The new philosophy of life; The new idea of God; Facing life the right way; Winning out in middle life; How to realize your ambition; The web of fate; The open door; Do you carry victory in your face?

=MARKHAM, EDWIN.= Gates of paradise, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811

20–7451

This is Edwin Markham’s fourth volume of verse. It is made up of short poems arranged in eight groups: Van-couriers; At my lady’s window; Wings for the spirit; Deeper chords; Finger-posts for the highway; Echoes from the world war; Memorable men; Songs to the supernal woman. There is a frontispiece portrait of the author.

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+ − =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“Is, at its best, rhymed moralizing: eloquent, sincere, restrained, but withal too absorbed in immediate domestic and sociological interests to touch the deepest mysteries of the heart of man.” R. M. Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 100w

“‘Gates of paradise’ is pleasant for its simple yet technically capable lines only. The thought contained therein is as old and hackneyed as ham and eggs for breakfast. If he is not careful the mantle of Ella Wheeler Wilcox will descend upon him.” H. S. Gorman

− + =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 150w

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

=Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 420w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Many Junes. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–6431

Something stronger than himself had always dominated over Hugh Lelacheur even from infancy. First it was a strong-willed father that interfered with his destiny at the death of his mother. Later a too well disciplined reasonableness always triumphed over his strongest desires to make him give up what he liked best for the second best. The best things came too late and kept his life a lonely one with few high lights and many shadows. The shadow’s turn into bitterness and a hardening of the heart when on a memorable June day, given over to memory and a reliving of his past life, it comes to him that he could offer his unloved wife a measure of spiritual companionship, as the only remaining second best thing that he had so far withheld.

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=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“Reaching us twelve years after its first appearance in England. ‘Many Junes’ reveals the constant quality of Mr Marshall’s genius. It might as well have been written yesterday, as far as internal evidence discloses. To ‘Many Junes,’ therefore, we may turn for the reading of a novel in its writer’s best and most characteristic manner.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 1200w

“Archibald Marshall has told the story pleasantly and neatly enough to hold one’s interest; and yet he fortunately does not make one take the book seriously enough to object to some of the incredibilities in the plot.” J. C. L.

+ =New Repub= 22:428 My 26 ’20 220w

“Mr Marshall’s new novel is something of a departure from his customary type of fiction. This new book is in a different vein, one more serious and more sorrowful.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 1100w

“The present novel has the same attractiveness with the exception that it lacks that pervading humor which made some of Mr Marshall’s earlier books so delightful.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 240w

“‘Many Junes’ is a rambling, disjointed series or sequence of episodes in the life of an extremely disagreeable Englishman. Hugh Lelacheur is a prig, a snob, and an egotist.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 250w

“The characters all are vividly portrayed flesh-and-blood people. Altogether the story is admirably conceived and developed, and will afford agreeable entertainment to Mr Marshall’s readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 600w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Peggy in Toyland. il *$2.50 Dodd

20–18754

A story about a little English girl and her two favorite dolls, one of them made of wood, one a very handsome person known as Lady Grace. There is a teddy bear too, and one night in her dreams the three of them conduct Peggy to Toyland where she has many strange adventures.

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“The illustrations have the charm of the narrative; a child would like both story and pictures.”

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p836 D 9 ’20 170w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Spring walk in Provence. il *$3.50 (4½c) Dodd 914.4

20–17745

The original preface to this book is dated August, 1914, but events immediately following that date delayed its publication. In an added word the author says: “I have been over the manuscript again and made a few alterations here and there, but have altered nothing that shows it to have been written five years ago.” Among the chapter titles are: Hills and olives; Flowers and scents; In old Provence; Aix; Les baux; Mistral; Saint-Remy; Avignon; The palace of the popes; Vaucluse; Villeneuve-sur-Avignon; Arles. There are illustrations and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“A volume of finished excellence, written without affectation, but with due regard for the stateliness of English prose.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 80w

“Mr Marshall’s journeyings through Provence inspire us with a desire to follow his footsteps.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 1350w

“The accompanying photographs are good.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p30 O 23 ’20 120w

“Mr Marshall has produced a book that is interesting and quietly entertaining, but it is not one that will add to his reputation as a writer of finished prose. The book bears the marks of hasty composition, of a haste that has resulted in an occasional slovenliness and a frequent awkwardness of expression.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 720w

=MARSHALL, EDISON.= Voice of the pack. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–26323

Dan Failing, the grandson of a frontiersman, has spent all his life in cities. In his twenty-ninth year he finds that he is far gone with tuberculosis and is told that he has but six months to live. He feels a yearning toward the mountain country he has never known except through his grandfather’s stories and he goes out to the Cascades. An old mountaineer who remembers the elder Failing takes him into his home, altho he cannot conceal his disappointment in this weak descendant of a mighty man. But Dan wins his host’s respect almost at once, for he is a natural born woodsman. He regains his health and later wins the love of Lennox’s daughter, a girl called Snowbird. There is much of forest and animal lore in the story.

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=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Again and again Mr Marshall leaves his commonplace style to indulge in some really good writing, but as often he returns to the dull monotone.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 260w

“The story in the main is merely a woodsman’s idyl, rich in poetic fancy—although stern in its fidelity to the truth as that woodsman sees it—and throbbing with reverent love for nature.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w

“Mr Marshall’s story runs close to nature’s heart. Thru a most engrossing and intimate presentation of forest life, develops a fine love drama.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 220w

=MARSHALL, F. HENRY.=[2] Discovery in Greek lands. il *$3.40 Macmillan 913.38

“Mr Marshall has written an attractive sketch of the chief results attained by excavations in Greater Greece since 1870. He treats the subject historically, starting with the age of Knossos and Mycenae, and describing under each period the main sites examined. He gives special chapters to temples, to the famous centres like Delphi and Olympia, and to isolated discoveries like the Sidon sarcophagi or the fine statues dredged up near Cerigotto in 1900–1.”—Spec

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“Though so highly compressed as to be little more than a skeleton review, his narrative is not without interest. The illustrations that accompany the text add much to its value.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 160w

“He provides a useful bibliography and a number of good photographs. As an introduction to a large and fascinating subject, the book is much to be commended.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 100w

=MARSHALL, ROBERT.= Enchanted golf clubs. il *$1 (3½c) Stokes

20–3577

At the war office he was “Major the Honourable John William Wentworth Gore, 1st Royal light hussars”; to his friends: “There goes good old Jacky Gore, the finest sportsman living!” But he despises golf. The beautiful American widow, Katherine Clendenin Gunter, with a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling, is an enthusiastic golfer. To win her he decides to play a match with a golf champion and enters into a compact with the ghost of a cardinal to use his enchanted clubs. With the ghost’s aid he wins the game, but not the lady.

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“Of course what the author describes in his shallow plot could not take place, for the book is admittedly a burlesque. But as a burlesque it is too extravagant to be funny.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 60w

=MARTIN, EDWARD SANFORD.= Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. 2v il *$10 Scribner

20–21406

“The reader will promptly discover that this life of Mr Choate is not so much a biography after the manner of Plutarch as a compilation. The chief contributor, by far, is Mr Choate himself, whose writings, public and private, make up four-fifths, or more, of the book.” (Introd.) The first volume opens with Mr Choate’s own story of his boyhood and youth, a fragment of autobiography dictated by him in 1914 while convalescing from an illness. The editor says further, “I have borrowed—whenever it could be done to advantage—from newspapers, commentators, and eulogists. A series of scrap-books, kept for forty odd years and covering more or less Mr Choate’s experiences as ambassador, supplemented the long series of letters which could be drawn upon.” Volume 1 covers the period to the nineties. Volume 2 covers the years of ambassadorship to England and the period of the war, closing with a review of his life. There are interesting illustrations and an index.

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“It is a difficult task to cover adequately the many-sidedness of such a man in a biography unless it is systematic and well rounded. The career of Mr Choate merits such a biography. It has not yet been written. When it is, Mr Martin’s interesting and richly filled volumes will be the biographer’s chief source book.” S. L. Cook

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 1450w

“The two volumes are a new thing in biography. They will constitute a classic in editing.”

+ =N Y Times= p6 N 14 ’20 1700w

“This is an ideal method of combining biography with autobiography.” R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

=MARTIN, EVERETT DEAN.= Behavior of crowds; a psychological study. *$2 Harper 301

20–20958

The book is somewhat of a critical enlargement on Le Bon’s “The crowd.” Its conclusions are based on the latest research in analytical psychology originated by Freud. The author holds that “as a practical problem, the habit of crowd-making is daily becoming a more serious menace to civilization. Events are making it more and more clear that, pressing as are certain economic questions, the forces which threaten society are really psychological.” (Foreword) As a remedy to this menace he suggests re-education along the lines of humanism expounded by such writers as James, Schiller, Dewey and others. Contents: The crowd and the social problem of today; How crowds are formed; The crowd and the unconscious; The egoism of the crowd-mind; The crowd a creature of hate; The absolutism of the crowd-mind; The psychology of revolutionary crowds; The fruits of revolution—new crowd-tyrannies for old; Freedom and government by crowds; Education as a possible cure for crowd-thinking; Index.

=MARTIN, GEORGE (MADDEN) (MRS ATTWOOD R. MARTIN).= Children in the mist. *$1.75 (3c) Appleton

20–11222

In a series of eight sketches the writer, who has lived with the negro in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in Florida, the Carolinas and Kentucky, shows him as he is, neither praising him as his over-zealous advocate, nor indulging in race hatred. It is an arraignment of the white race for keeping this primitive people so long in confusion, discouragement and ignorance. The stories cover the period from the emancipation to the present and are arranged in chronological order. The stories are: The flight; The blue handkerchief; An Inskip niggah; Pom; The sleeping sickness; Fire from heaven; Malviney; Sixty years after.

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“The stories are very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“The eight stories in this book are written with a commendable intention, but that intention does not after all extend beyond a limited field and a circumscribed aspect of the negro.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 S 8 ’20 600w

“Unfortunately, while Mrs Martin writes with the authoritative manner of one who has known the black man intimately, she has, as she concedes, laid no emphasis in her tales upon negroes who have, to use her phrase, forged ahead. The result is an obvious struggle between the complacence which comes of having met coloured people as servants chiefly, and the feeling that it is inconsistent to deny them opportunity and to charge their race with the consequences.” H. J. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 210w

“Mrs Martin avoids both sentiment and indignation; her tone is warm but quiet; she lets the stern implications arise in their bare and tragic force.”

+ =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 350w

“They are typical of the kind of studied work in short-story writing which carefully applies principles of preparation, suspense, contributing effect, and climax, and never achieves the dynamic impulsion and the artistic inevitability of a directly told unpremeditated tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 360w

“This book will prove her to have advanced in her art. Mrs Martin is too good an artist to let the purpose obtrude itself. It is there, none the less, and it gives her book a permanent value aside from its quality as fiction.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 1550w

=Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 60w

“A broad vein of humor runs through the tales, but invariably there is a serious note at the ending.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w

=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Schoolmaster of Hessville. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

20–16342

The schoolmaster of Hessville, a Pennsylvania Dutch village, was John Wimmer, fine and strong of character but with the cravings of youth in his young body. It was flesh calling to flesh that made him love Irene, the glowing beauty with the coarse instincts. She played cat and mouse with him and her wiles were finally responsible for John’s marriage to Minnie, Irene’s opposite. Minnie’s winsomeness never quite compensated John for Irene’s more sensuous charms and when a cruel accident deprives Minnie of her reason leaving John with two motherless children on his hands, the now, on her part, widowed Irene, offers her services as housekeeper and becomes John’s mistress. He has fallen an easy prey but in time his eyes are opened, and when a successful operation restores Minnie to him he blesses her breadth of view that can condone his lapse.

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“Not alone are the main characters well drawn, even the most minor minion is unforgettably sketched. The author has studied children and has thoroughly expressed her understanding of them.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w

=MARTIN, MABEL WOOD.= Green god’s pavilion. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes

20–14601

This novel of the Philippines shows in almost lurid colors the irreconcilable difference between the East and the West. It is symbolized in the figures of two women, one, Julie, an American of a fair and spiritual beauty who goes out to Manila as a teacher and with the spirit of a crusader. The other, a native woman, Isabel, the “Empress of the East,” with the fierce passion of life that stops not at evil. It is a tragic story of how the East breaks all who come to her with the best of intentions of uplift and improvement, except they miraculously rise from the dead for a second birth. It broke Julie and left her for dead among the plague stricken huts of the natives. It broke Barry McChord, the man with the “Excelsior” face, who fell a victim to the plague after his high hopes were gone. But something selfless in both finally triumphs over all self-deceptions, even over death. Much philosophizing and much gruesome realism are a part of the story.

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“Smoothly written and vivid tale of love and faith and hardship.”

+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 220w

“From its opening chapter, the reader’s interest is caught and held. Amy Lowell, herself, has done no more vivid color bits than this author has introduced in descriptions of Manila. Aside from the brilliancy of the local setting, she has woven a tale of exceeding interest and charm, and super-excellent quality in novels of today, its ‘third act’ is most engrossing.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 540w

“‘The green god’s pavilion’ may hardly be termed an extraordinary novel, for it is built too obviously for thrill purposes, but it displays an intimate knowledge of conditions in the Philippines and presents with frequency pictures of native life that are vivid and finely written.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 600w

=MARTYN, WYNDHAM.= Secret of the silver car. *$1.75 Moffat

20–5579

Another book of the adventures of Anthony Trent, master criminal. In an indiscreet moment while they were shut in a caved-in dugout in Flanders, expecting death at any moment, Trent had told the story of his life to his unknown and unseen companion. Both escape and with the war over, he sets himself to find this unknown “William Smith” who knows too much about him for his own safety. He meets “William Smith’s” sister, falls in love with her and for her sake resolves to give up his brilliant criminal career. In her service he goes out to the Balkans, becomes involved in international intrigue, has many hairbreadth escapes, but secures the papers that mean so much to Lady Daphne’s father and is rewarded with her hand.

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 300w

“Nor is this book mere swashbuckling. It is written always adroitly, sometimes humorously, and with the zest of the author’s own enjoyment.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 Ap 24 ’20 200w

Reviewed by M. K. Reely

=Pub W= 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w

=MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY=, ed. Recent developments in European thought. *$6.25 Oxford 901

20–17403

“This volume, which is a sequel to ‘The unity of western civilization’ (1915) and ‘Progress’ (1916), is, like them, the fruit of a course of lectures given at a summer school at Woodbrooke, Birmingham. The addresses composing it were given in August, 1919, and it traces the idea of progress in European history since 1870. Among the contributors, besides the editor, are Mr A. E. Taylor, who writes on ‘Philosophy,’ Dr F. B. Jevons, who writes on ‘Religion,’ Mr A. D. Lindsay, of Balliol, whose subject is ‘Political theory,’ and Mr A. Clutton Brock, who discusses ‘Art.’ Each article is followed by a bibliographical note as a guide to further reading.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup N 11 ’20

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=Ath= p509 Ap 16 ’20 1400w

“In spite of the difficulties of handling the vast intricate masses of still fluid material, the contributors have given readable and yet valuable summaries of the progress of thought. For the beginner, there could be no better introduction to the essential contributions of man’s recent achievement.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:114 O ’20 460w

“Naturally, the essays by different authors vary in value. The least satisfactory is the first, on philosophy.... The most brilliant essays are those dealing with the fields of thought most intensively cultivated by the last generation.... Compared with the treatment accorded history, the studies here offered of political theory and of economic progress are slightly disappointing.... Taken as a whole, the cumulative impression of these various lectures is greater than that of any one taken separately.” Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 1000w

“The personality of each of the twelve writers is given full expression. It makes the diversity more interesting than the unity.” H. W. C.

+ − =Nature= 105:607 Jl 15 ’20 500w

“The aim of the writers is to trace the progress and acquisitions of thought and give a general picture of the results obtained by modern knowledge; and they have succeeded in producing essays that are of a high quality and also thoroughly readable.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p247 Ap 22 ’20 2450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 N 11 ’20 110w

=MARX, MAGDELEINE.= Woman; tr. by Adele Szold Seltzer. *$1.90 (6c) Seltzer

20–11894

A translation of a novel that is said to have created a sensation in France. It is a record of emotional moments. The characters have no names, no appearances. They are only personalities. The “woman” of the story loves and marries and bears a child. While still loving her husband she takes a lover and then loses both husband and lover in the war. Out of these experiences she emerges invincible, with an undimmed capacity for life and an indomitable will to live. Henri Barbusse says in his introduction, “In no other book perhaps so markedly as in this has the integrity of an individual been more respected, and never has an imaginary character so consistently warded off whatever is not of itself. You don’t even seem to feel that this ‘woman’ talks or tells a story. You simply know what she knows.”

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Reviewed by Theodore Maynard

− + =Bookm= 52:75 S ’20 700w

=Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w

“To those in search of a well-written book, not to mention a contribution to real literature, Magdeleine Marx has nothing whatever to offer. The style is wordy, pretentious and empty, a disjointed collection of hollow phrases embodying all the platitudes of the so-called revolt of woman.” E. A. Boyd

− =Freeman= 2:43 S 22 ’20 960w

=Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 500w

“The story is frank and sincere and full of isolated perceptions that are both searching and beautiful. But it is also thin and scrappy and disjointed, and the complete shadowiness of all the characters robs its theories of the inner energy of a human content. In a word, Madame Marx has felt very deeply and reflected intensely, and those who agreed with her passionately have taken it for granted that she has written a great book. But that is taking for granted far too much.” Ludwig Lewisohn

− + =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 900w

“A very great deal of it gives the reader the impression of a mind out-stretching itself, to the point of dislocating all its joints, in order to perceive and express something that nobody else has ever perceived or expressed.”

− =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 850w

“The book is written in a resignedly magnanimous strain, and passages occur, which, taken by themselves, might affect us as noble. Yet as a whole its absence of elevation in the midst of calls to elevation is confounding.”

− + =Review= 3:347 O 20 ’20 750w

“‘Woman,’ if nothing else, is an interesting psychological study of the type of mind that dwells upon sex and psychoanalysis with a neurasthenic intensity, when the world is full to overflowing with real woman problems.” M. E. Sangster

+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:590 O ’20 260w

“It does seem to me that the book might more appropriately have been called ‘A woman.’ For the rest, the book is perfervid in a way that we do not quite like in America, perhaps because we are not wholly acclimated to it. It has pages of unusual beauty, and a high degree of unity and directness.”

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:350 N ’20 350w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Enslaved. *$2.50 Macmillan 821

20–13322

The long narrative poem of the title depicts courage born of love and begetting the brotherhood of man even in the untamed. A fair damsel is carried off by a pirate galley into the captivity of a khalif’s harem. Her lover follows into slavery to rescue her. He does so with the aid of a brother slave who must kill a traitor to accomplish their purpose. Recaptured and brought before the khalif they are set free because their tale causes human stirrings in the hawk breast of the latter. The other poems are: The hounds of hell; Cap on head; Sonnets; The passing strange; Animula; The Lemmings; Forget; On growing old; Lyric.

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+ =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 60w

“It seems to us that Mr Masefield’s first business is to regain control of his words; and that he can only do this by deliberately attempting a subject that bristles with psychological nuances, and insisting that his language shall accommodate itself to them. Otherwise we fear he will never succeed in expressing that elusive beauty which he sees, but which at present comes to us only in assertion or in fitful gleams through the interstices of an opaque style.” J. M. M.

+ − =Ath= p823 Je 25 ’20 2300w

+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“Mr Masefield is the single poet writing in English today who both in popular esteem and by the most exacting critical estimate legitimately belongs to the august line of poets who are among the chief glories of our race: to his greatness no journalistic cavil can add or take away.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 240w

“In this poem, [On growing old], as in so many aspects of the other poems in this volume, one feels the shadows of the world, deepened by the tumult of war, settling upon the radiance of a brave visionary spirit. The thrill, the excitement, the adventures of living are all now subdued to this key of sadness, in which the passion and beauty that was once a flame becomes an effable glow.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 2400w

“The whole thing seems bookish, remote, unreal. The characters do not become sufficiently interesting: seem, in fact, insufficiently equipped with a back-ground of flesh and blood experience.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:163 O 27 ’20 1050w

“One of the signs that the times are good in English poetry is the fact that Mr Masefield keeps on writing poems which tell stories.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 310w

“In his latest volume there are some serious offenses against rhyming, euphony, and scansion, but in the larger aspects, in the essential substance and indescribable quality of authentic poesy, he is more richly endowed than any other living writer.” Lawrence Mason

+ =New Repub= 23:340 Ag 18 ’20 1250w

“‘Enslaved,’ his latest book of poems, offers a peculiarly fine view of Masefield in all his variety. There is no poet in England, unless we except Hardy, who possesses keener insight into the hearts of men. It is this attitude toward life, this same fatalism that recognizes the worst, yet sees the best behind, that makes John Masefield one of the finest living figures in the whole field of English poetry.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Jl 11 ’20 2450w

“A volume which reveals anew the amazing power and versatility of that English poet.”

+ =Outlook= 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 450w

“‘Enslaved’ is a dramatic adventure tale. But ‘Enslaved’ is likewise a dreamy, semi-lyrical, murmurous, and caressing tale. It is Masefieldian in its power to be both these things at once.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:317 O 13 ’20 600w

“The book is extraordinarily rich, for it contains beside others, ‘Forget’ and ‘On growing old,’ two of the most beautiful poems that Mr Masefield ever wrote, and in this age of singers Mr Masefield remains our poet of greatest achievements.”

+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 500w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.=[2] Right Royal. *$1.75 Macmillan 821

20–18954

“In ‘Right Royal’ Mr Masefield celebrates in a narrative poem the story of a horse-race. The story of Mr Masefield’s poem is that of a horse with great points and virtues, for speed and endurance, but very undependable, having lost a number of races by going panicky from fear. He was bought by Charles Cothill, who believed that all his potential qualities as a winner could be developed. Cothill backed his own horse to the extent of all his possessions, which created a crisis in his love for the woman he hoped to marry. If he lost, his love was lost. In fact, it was win all or lose all.”—Boston Transcript

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“It will be acknowledged that the preliminaries of the race, the discussions in the stables, the professional tips and omens, the catalogue of the entries, are sandy soil for the growth of poetry. The best of the poem has no relation to the worst; the worst might have been sacrificed. Even in the best are imperfections, but we have learnt to swallow Mr Masefield’s longer poems without straining at the gnats.” E. B.

+ − =Ath= p692 N 19 ’20 600w

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“It is growing very trite to say that Mr Masefield does this thing or that thing better than any contemporary poet. He does the things that nobody else does and is thus in competition with himself. ‘Right Royal’ may not be as fine a poem as ‘Enslaved,’ but no one can dispute that it is the best narrative of a horse-race that has been written by any modern poet.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 1500w

“‘Right Royal’ is a bad poem, both intrinsically and because it fails to satisfy certain necessary expectations. It promised to be as good as ‘Reynard the fox,’ but it is woefully, incredibly worse.” Mark Van Doren

− + =Nation= 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 240w

Reviewed by W. B. D. Henderson

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 N 20 ’20 1650w

Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= p17 D 26 ’20 1700w

“The feeling that ‘Right Royal’ deserves to be placed below the earlier volume [‘Reynard the fox’] may be purely a matter of individual temperament on the part of the reviewer. In any case, it is a volume which occupies an enviable place in the field of modern poetry.”

+ =Outlook= 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 120w

Reviewed by G: D. Procter

+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 320w

“The weather—cloud, sun, wind, and shower—is given more prominence and is better conceived in ‘Right Royal’; but to balance this, the unsuccessful passages are decidedly worse than those in ‘Reynard the fox.’ Another fault it seems to the present writer to possess, which the incomparable ‘Reynard the fox’ does not: it is a little monotonous. As a ‘galloping poem,’ however, it is certainly one of the best in English.”

+ − =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 1200w

“He piles simile on simile and each simile is beautiful in itself, each is a patch of ornament stuck on, not woven into the fabric. Mr Masefield has told a brave tale bravely. If his courage had been like Right Royal’s, he would have dared to leave undecorated the beauty inherent in the tale.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p734 N 11 ’20 1050w

=MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY.= Summons. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–18656

Harry Luttrell had a strong sense of military honor and of the necessity for self-discipline. The first drove him to join the army, the second to tear himself away from the woman he loved and accept a post in Egypt. His friend and classmate, Martin Hillyard, had had a chequered career: as a sailor; in a three years’ struggle for existence in the port-towns of Spain; as an Oxford student and successful playwright; and during the war his knowledge of Spain serves him in good stead as a secret service agent. Stella Croyle, Luttrell’s one-time love, in his absence eats her heart out in neurotic, undisciplined longing and occasionally has recourse to the comfort of drugs. While on a leave of absence during the war, Luttrell meets Stella again without experiencing the old-time thrill and at the same time he meets and falls in love with Joan Whitworth. Poor Stella commits suicide under circumstances that throw suspicion on Joan. Through his experiences in the secret service, Hillyard is enabled to clear Joan and smooth the way for her and Luttrell.

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“An interesting variant of the modern detective story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21

“It is a splendid story which Mr Mason has written, based upon his experiences in the war, full of dramatic vigor—a real novel in every sense of the word—and permeated with the atmosphere of England, Spain, and Egypt.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 90w

“This novel is an excellent substitute for a modern detective story. Instead of possessing a single, unified plot it is composed of a rosary of minor plots which endows it with somewhat of the character of real life.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 250w

“One cannot help wishing that the important character of Joan Whitworth were less exaggerated and more likable, for she does more than a little to harm the book, but it is easy to forgive this shortcoming when one remembers Martin Hillyard and the picturesque José Medina, the very amusing Sir Chichester Splay, Millie, and several others among the varied figures depicted on Mr Mason’s richly colored canvas.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 660w

“Mr Mason, here as always, has an exciting and unusual story to unfold. This novel is hardly the equal of the ‘Four feathers’ or ‘The broken road,’ for the author attempts to ming a not very successful humorous vein with his natural plot-and-action type of fiction writing.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 60w

“The touch of melodrama in the last section of the book is well conceived and exciting. The best piece of writing in the book is the description of the night passed by Martin Hillyard on the shore of a river in the Sudan. This vivid picture of the life of the game-hunter in wild countries affords a striking contrast to the sophisticated chapters at the beginning of the book.”

+ − =Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 470w

“Mr Mason has shown better form than this.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 O 21 20 650w

=MASON, ARTHUR.= Flying bo’sun. *$1.75 (4c) Holt

20–19236

The narrative, the author claims, is of his own experience. It tells of the voyage of a sailing schooner from San Francisco to the Fiji Islands, of the superstitious sailors’ taking alarm at the alighting on the ship of the “flying bo’sun,” the bird of bad omen, the subsequent death of the captain, his haunting of the cabin and spiritualistic rappings. On the return voyage the Hindoo stowaway has a mysterious illness and is left in a state of coma on the captain’s bed while a terrific hurricane is raging. During a critical moment, when all seems lost, the frail little Hindoo is suddenly seen in charge of the wheel giving commands in the captain’s voice with the captain’s ghost standing beside him. With the ship safe and calm restored the Hindoo is found just coming to life on the captain’s bed. He disclaims all knowledge of commanding a ship but is still shaken by the memory of the hideous dream he has had.

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“The feeling persists that, with the exception of the spiritual phenomenon, the whole dramatic voyage actually occurred.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 90w

“As a story of the sea it ranks with the best of Jack London or Morgan Robertson, and as a story of the uncanny it is comparable with ‘Dracula’ and ‘The master of Ballantrae.’”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w

“In spite of the undoubted accuracy of Mr Mason’s idiom, however, the discriminating layman is likely to find less of the authentic or communicable essence of the sea in ‘The flying b’sun’ than in the spiritual reaction of Masefield, Conrad, Tomlinson and McFee.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 340w

=MASON, AUGUSTUS LYNCH.= Guiding principles for American voters. *$2 Bobbs 320

20–18679

“Mr Mason aims this ‘handbook of Americanism’ chiefly at the newly enfranchised women and at the young men about to cast their first vote. He analyzes the make-up of the government and argues for what he aptly calls a ‘re-dedication to those principles which have made America great’—i.e., a conservative application of the underlying ideas of the Constitution. He objects to radical methods of taxation, to too much government ownership, governmental price fixing, etc., and he sees ‘Socialism’ as a menace.”—N Y Evening Post

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“His arguments are cogently presented and supported by carefully examined data: an excellent brief for the preservation of a conservative republic rather than a radical democracy.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 100w

“Its purpose is to popularize an argument, and it has no other value.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 50w

=MASON, WILLIAM LESLEY.= How to become an office stenographer. (Just how ser.) il $1.50 Pitman 652

20–26543

“A handy book intended for the untrained shorthand student who is ambitious to secure a good position without previous experience.” (Title page) The book is adapted for use as a text in business schools and in high school commercial departments. There are thirteen chapters, entitled: Your attention, please! “Safety first”; What business men expect of a stenographer; Preparedness; Your “busy” day; Taking the business letter; Transcribing the business letter; Typing the business letter; Typing business forms; The use and care of the typewriter; Words: their use and abuse; Filing letters; Time-saving office appliances. There are two appendixes giving postal regulations and information regarding the civil service.

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=Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

=MASSENET, JULES ÈMILE FRÉDÉRIC.= My recollections. il *$3 Small

19–15403

“An autobiography telling the story of this modern French musical leader’s career, and especially of his many works. [It is] translated, by express desire of the author, by his friend H. Villiers Barnett. Illustrated.”—Brooklyn

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“Will be enjoyed by the average reader as well as the opera-goer and student of music.”

+ =Booklist= 16:79 D ’19

Reviewed by H: T. Finck

=Bookm= 51:171 Ap ’20 180w

“A charming autobiography.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 40w

“His narrative, like his music, reveals facility, grace, and charm, and is alternately gay and sentimental to the point of pathos. One is not very much wiser after reading the book, but one closes it with a certain regret at parting from such amiable company.” Henrietta Straus

+ − =Nation= 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 190w

Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

=Yale R n s= 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w

=MASSEY, MRS BEATRICE (LARNED).= It might have been worse. *$1.75 (6½c) Wagner, Harr 917.3

20–4452

An account of a motor trip from coast to coast taken in the summer of 1919, with notes on roads, hotels, and other matters of interest to travelers. Contents: The start; New York to Pittsburgh; Ohio and detours; On to Chicago; Through the dairy country; Clothes, luggage, and the car; The Twin cities and ten thousand lakes; Millions of grasshoppers; The Bad lands; The dust of Montana; A wonderland; Westward ho! Nevada and the desert; The end of the road.

=MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN.= Letters to X. *$2.50 Dutton 824

20–26887

“In ‘Letters to X,’ H. J. Massingham discourses on a great many phases of modern life and literature. There is hardly a modern English author of any consequence who does not come under the appraisement of his pen.”—Springf’d Republican

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“The book contains many excellences of detail, and reaches at times and maintains for a while a level notably above its average. Perspective is perhaps Mr Massingham’s outstanding quality.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p110 Ja 23 ’20 950w

“Familiar, rambling essays of a book lover that will please the ‘gentle reader’ with like leanings, particularly if he be fond of the Elizabethans and Carolines. Their exclusive bookishness will make them seem cold and remote to others.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

Reviewed by S. P. Sherman

=Bookm= 52:108 O ’20 1950w

“These are essays of rare quality in which the essayist is writing continuously of the alliance between literature and life.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 1100w

“Mr Massingham’s essays are delivered ex-cathedra and in a style both heavy and dense. He is a lover of dust covered books, but he seems widely read rather than discriminating, and though he ranges all the way from Richard de Bury’s ‘Philobiblon’ to John Gould Fletcher, he hardly does much to illuminate the names which he mentions. He declares many enthusiasms but lacks the gift of differentiation.”

− + =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 180w

“It is a pity that Mr Massingham has chosen to hide this wise, witty, companionably learned and most comforting book under the bushel of a title which not only gives no hint of its quality, but is actually dry and forbidding. Of the value of good literature, of the qualities which constitute it and of the laws of its making, he says some of the wisest, most pertinent, things written in a long day.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 8 ’20 2650w

“The word which fits his style exactly is one of the best adjectives in our language which the language is guilty of criminal negligence in permitting itself gradually to lose—the word ‘lusty.’ If it were dead instead of merely decaying, it might be recalled to life by the easy, careless, rushing vigor of Mr Massingham’s undaunted prose.”

+ − =Review= 3:172 Ag 25 ’20 360w

“Mr Massingham’s attacks on his own age, sharp, dipped in bitterness, aimed with truth though they are, do not really touch the monster. Bad though the age may be, he is too impatient and petulant with it; and he is divided in his desires.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:232 Mr 6 ’20 1050w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 40w

“Treating his work as art, susceptible to form, even in the rather strained sense of that word which he adopts, we find it deficient in that very quality, and especially in that element of form, tranquillity, upon which he so insists.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 15 ’20 1300w

=MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN=, ed. Treasury of seventeenth century English verse, from the death of Shakespeare to the Restoration (1616–1660). (Golden treasury ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 821.08

(Eng ed 20–10754)

“Mr Massingham has marked out as his claim the most characteristic part of the century in time, and has not excluded any kind except the dramatic. Most of his selections are naturally lyrical, but by no means all; and he has thus been able to find room for at least specimen fruits from the half-wilderness gardens of ‘Pharonnida’ and ‘Cupid and Psyche.’ He has also cast his gathering net unusually wide, and his readers will make acquaintance with authors who will pretty certainly be new to them, such as Thomas Fettiplace and Robert Gomersal. In giving uniform modern spelling throughout Mr Massingham may invite censure from some purists, but certainly not in this place. Whatever may be the case earlier, the printers’ spelling of the mid-seventeenth century is, as he justly says, ‘only externally archaic.’ Half its differences from present use are not uniform and are evidently haphazard. One may not perhaps approve quite so heartily his practice of excluding some beautiful things as ‘too well known.’ The authors are alphabetically arranged.”—Ath

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Reviewed by G: Saintsbury

+ =Ath= p40 Ja 9 ’20 1400w

“A fresh, provocative, beautiful little book. Palgrave’s volume was not a bit better gauged for Palgrave’s time than Mr Massingham’s is for ours. The purest twentieth-century principles are in operation here. Mr Massingham’s notes are lively to the end, though often they are cleverly irrelevant and gloriously slap-dash. It is as if Mr Saintsbury were twenty again.”

+ =Nation= 110:151 Ja 31 ’20 370w

“The completeness of the book makes it an excellent compendium for any one studying that era, although it is to be feared that many a general reader will be frightfully bored by the stiff artificiality that marks many of the poems, especially after they get past the Elizabethan era.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 170w

“The poems, as a whole, are excellently chosen, and the enthusiasm of the introduction makes pleasant reading. The notes, with their short biographical summaries, are especially valuable. But it needs a certain type of mind to appreciate seventeenth century literature, and if all readers are not stirred to the same joy in it as Mr Massingham, it is not his fault, but that of the period.”

+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 480w

“Mr Massingham’s introduction is a delightful essay written in a style that has caught something of the curious felicity of the poets in whose work he has steeped himself.”

+ =Spec= 124:212 F 14 ’20 1000w

“He claims, and with justice, that the ordinary reader will find here a whole body of poetry with which he has never before had the chance of making acquaintance. This is a service for which the student of English poetry will be heartily grateful to Mr Massingham. But if he be a lover as well as student he will probably find it hard to keep down some irritation at an anthologist who sets out with the resolve to give him as few as possible of the poems which he is known to like.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p129 F 26 ’20 3400w

=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Domesday book. *$4.50 Macmillan 811

20–19678

In this volume Mr Masters has told a long story in verse. The body of Elenor Murray is found by the river near Starved Rock in Illinois and the coroner, William Merival, sets out to assemble the evidence, the material evidence from the man who finds the body, the doctor who performs the autopsy and the spiritual evidence from those who had known the girl from her birth or her parents before her. The effect of these testimonies brought together is to throw light on the many-sided character of one human being when all secrets are laid bare and to show how one life, however humble or pitiful, affects countless other lives, its influence radiating like ripples in a pool when a stone is dropped.

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“If Masters can rid himself of his oracular airs and the bad Browning-Shakespeare patois with which he wearies his staunchest admirers, there are few limits to his possible achievements. ‘Domesday book’ is too diffuse and prosy to be a masterpiece of poetic fiction, but it contains the seeds and strength—and the hope—of one.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Bookm= 52:363 Ja ’21 550w

“The great American poem of the war has come in the ‘Domesday book’ and come from the hand of the poet who laid the foundation in the synoptic Americanism of the ‘Spoon river anthology.’ The latter was a great work; ‘Domesday book’ is greater.... ‘Domesday book’ is a great national topic of America’s soul symbolized in the character of Elenor Murray.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 1900w

“The trouble with ‘Domesday book’ is chiefly that it thins this raw material out until it becomes hopelessly prosaic. The realism of ‘Spoon river’ had the virtue of selection and of epigram. In his latest work, Mr Masters has become extensive without any corresponding enlargement of the imagination and the power behind his broader canvas.” O. M. Sayler

− + =Freeman= 2:357 D 22 ’20 600w

“The total effect is often crude and heavy, now pretentious, now hopelessly flat; and yet beneath these uncompleted surfaces are the sinews of enormous power, a greedy gusto for life, a wide imaginative experience, an abundance of the veritable stuff of existence—all this, and yet not an authentic masterpiece. ‘Spoon river anthology’ still has no rival from the hand of its creator.” C. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 470w

“For all its largeness of intention, all its vitality and forcefulness, ‘Domesday book’ is not, to my mind, finally articulated. It seems to me unfinished. I do not mean that the poem is not brought to a conclusion. It is concluded, and, I believe, appropriately concluded. But it has parts that should have been cut away or have been more wrought over.” Padraic Colum

+ − =New Repub= 25:148 D 29 ’20 1700w

“It could have been produced nowhere but in America and nowhere so justly as in the Middle West. The epigrammatic compactness of ‘Spoon river anthology’ is lacking in it, but it takes on a huge strength that the former book lacked.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ja 16 ’21 840w

“If there be any one who does not clearly realize that life is infinitely complex, that it is in the last analysis practically impossible to assign responsibility for evil, that much good may be where convention sees only evil ... if there be any one who is not convinced of these things already or cannot learn them from his own observations and the daily papers, he may derive great benefit from reading Mr Masters’ book. But those to whom these things are commonplaces will perhaps not care to wade through the poem.”

− + =No Am= 213:286 F ’21 900w

“The Edgar Lee Masters, whose ‘Spoon river anthology’ blazed a new trail thru American literature, returns with ‘Domesday book.’ Perhaps he is less sardonic now, but the vision of ‘Domesday book’ is broader and it is, happily, gently suffused with a very human tolerance and forgiveness.” G: D. Proctor

+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 430w

“The first part is very interesting, and the whole book is readable. Its essence is prosaic, though a back door is left open through which poetry can let herself in in a neighborly fashion, if she chooses. Her visits are infrequent.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 4:15 Ja 5 ’21 1350w

=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Mitch Miller. il *$3.50 Macmillan

20–17009

Mitch Miller’s story is told by his friend Skeeters Kirby. It is a story of boys and a boy’s town written for adults. Mitch has read “Tom Sawyer” and Tom is to him a living personality. The two boys hunt for buried treasure and try to repeat all of Tom’s exploits. They dig for treasure in Old Salem where Lincoln lived, and an old man who knew Lincoln talks to them of a different kind of treasure. They run away intending to visit Tom Sawyer but are brought back home. Later their fathers take them on a journey to Hannibal, Missouri, where they meet life’s first disillusionment. Mitch is something of a dreamer and a poet. He is killed stealing rides on the cars, and in the epilogue, written thirty years after, the author can say that he is now glad that his chum did not live to face the shattered idealism of the present day.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“The best boy’s story in our generation of American authors has been written by Mr Masters in ‘Mitch Miller.’” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 9 ’20 1500w

“Those who have neatly ticketed Mr Edgar Lee Masters as a cynic will be obliged after reading ‘Mitch Miller,’ to change their label—if they must have labels. There is, to be sure, a sub-acid quality in the epilogue. But the mood of the book is one of dedication rather than of challenge. Its tone is sunny and fresh and sweet; its beauty quiet and unobtrusive. ‘Mitch Miller’ comes close to being a masterpiece with its breadth of interpretation, and the fineness and singleness of its mood. It is complete, even to the tragedy at the end.” C. M. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 250w

“The narrative is tangled in a snarl of moods. Its movement is often thick, its wings gummed and heavy. Only in flashes does the powerful imagination of Mr Masters shake itself free and burn with the high, hot light which so often glows in the ‘Anthology.’ There are touches of admirable comedy and strong strokes of character and some racy prose; but as a whole ‘Mitch Miller’ falls regrettably between the clear energy which might have made it popular and the profound significance which might have made it great.” C. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 480w

“If fidelity to nature were the whole of art, Mitch Miller would be a perfect book, or almost perfect.... The defect in the author’s method comes out in the end of the book.... Is there nothing in American life significant and interesting enough to make it worth while for a boy like Mitch to grow up? Perhaps there is not; but if that is true, it is an artistic problem to be faced, not evaded through a petulant dismantling of a stage well set.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Repub= 24:276 N 10 ’20 1250w

“Mr Masters’s novel is put down with mingled feelings. It has many faults, but it has quite as many virtues. There is so much to the book that it leaps into the mind to advise the author to write novels henceforth and forevermore and let poetry rest.”

+ − =N Y Times= p20 N 7 ’20 980w

“The book is unusual and captivating.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w

“We are in the habit of looking to Mr Masters for clear-cut character drawing and for sympathetic, if sometimes ironic, understanding of the motives of men but we have often felt regretfully, that he seemed to be too much interested in the morbid side of human nature. ‘Mitch Miller’ comes as a grateful answer to that doubt.” Marguerite Fellows

+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 300w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 630w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 70w

=MASTERS, EDGAR LEE.= Starved Rock. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

19–17050

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

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“Perhaps the poet’s first worthy successor of ‘Spoon River’; but while displaying something of its sardonic spirit the present collection is of far wider range.”

+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20

“He is at his ripest and surest in such mordant and merciless analyses as Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori, The barber of Sepo. They’d never know me now, Oh you Sabbatarians! and that profound disquisition on Poe, Washington hospital. And the man who wrote Sagamore Hill, that incomparable portrait of Theodore Roosevelt; who wrote Chicago and I shall go down into this land, manifests an intimate understanding of the American heart at its noblest.” H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 250w

+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 20w

“In ‘Starved Rock’ there is little music but much food for thought.”

+ =Ind= 104:165 O 9 ’20 40w

“It is beginning to be apparent that Mr Masters neither can nor needs to depart from his original tone and method. He cannot do so profitably and there is no need, since the vein which served them seems inexhaustible. There are not lacking here the old familiar notes of sour, practical tragedy, of hoarse, heroic scepticism, of good, round, pagan, Chicago fleshliness. But [the reader] is sorry for a certain strenuous complacency which has been growing in Mr Masters over a considerable period and which is particularly objectionable in the present volume.”

+ − =Nation= 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 550w

“Unfortunately, Mr Masters frequently fails to sing because he fails to simplify. He is a thinker, first of all, and the thinker is naturally more discursive than the singer. And now a word for the best of the book. It is a poem about Roosevelt, called At Sagamore Hill. Here is a poem which has in it truth, dignity, vision, vitality.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 1100w

“In ‘Starved Rock,’ the reader will not starve, though he will scarcely feast. There are the usual monologues, of which only two are slimy. There are bulky and hazy philosophies, cosmicisms, idealisms, feeble sedatives for bitter griefs. There is an excellent bit of journalism, self-described in the title, Sagamore Hill. There are landscapes of an alluring but unsatisfying picturesqueness. There are instances of that lyric pliancy and invitation which surprise the ear among the ruder notes of Mr Masters, and there are rare moments of true inspiration.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 650w

“Mr Masters is the same versatile narrator who builds poems of facts rather than of fancies, and who presents carefully analyzed characters and situations in a cold, direct and fearless way. He is still at his best as an analyst or narrator, and he is still unsatisfactory and unconvincing when he wanders from matter-of-fact or satirical verse.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 20 ’20 850w

=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH.= Argonauts of faith: the adventures of the “Mayflower” Pilgrims. il *$1.50 Doran 974.4

20–10629

In this book for boys and girls, with a foreword by Viscount Bryce, there is a prologue comparing the embarking of the Pilgrims on their quest for liberty to the ancient Argonauts’ quest of the Golden fleece. The epilogue suggests that the Pilgrim fathers had their counterparts in the heroes of “Pilgrim’s progress,” and that they laid the keel for a new Argo—the ship of state of a new commonwealth. The stories told are: On the great north road: The stormy passage; The land of threatening waters; The house with the green door; The ship of adventure; The adventures of scouting; A clearing in the waste; Builders in the waste; Greatheart, Mr Standfast, and Valiant-for-truth. There are a chronology, an index, illustrations and maps.

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“The story is so well told that it is a pity not to have had it accurate in details.”

+ − =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 190w

+ =Booklist= 17:37 O ’20

“Follows history with admirable care, presents an excellent atmosphere, and tells an absorbing story.” W. H. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w

“Of all the books relating to the Pilgrims, ‘The argonauts of faith’ by Basil Mathews has the best dramatic form and the most suggestive content for the story-teller, teacher, or librarian.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 100w

“It is a very readable account and the impression it leaves is an accurate one.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 140w

+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 50w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 60w

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“Basil Mathews has written an old story in an interesting way.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 80w

=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH=, ed. Essays on vocation. *$1.75 Oxford 174

“The purpose is to inculcate the importance of vocation as distinguished from mere profession or making one’s living, and the spirit of the book is ethical and idealistic. One of the essays, Vocation in art, by H. Walford Davies, is an inspiring piece of literature. The other essays are: Vocation and the ministry, by Edward Shillito; Vocation in law, by Sir E. Pollock; Vocation in the home, by Emily E. Whimster; Commerce as a vocation, by W. H. Somervell; Vocation in industry, by A. Ramage; Vocation in education, by J. Lewis Paton; The career of an elementary school teacher, by Fanny Street; and Sir William Osler’s Vocation in medicine and nursing.”—Ath

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=Ath= p1081 O 24 ’19 100w

“As one might expect, a book of essays on vocation edited by Mr Basil Mathews, with contributions by such people as Mr Edward Shillito, Mr Lewis Paton and Sir William Osler could hardly be anything but good. But a good book on vocation is not good enough. It should possess, especially at such a time as this, a certain prophetic quality. It ought to be constraining, irresistible. But this is just what Mr Mathews’s book is not.” R: Roberts

+ − =Freeman= 2:236 N 17 ’20 840w

=MATURIN, EDITH (CECIL-PORCH) (MRS FRED MATURIN).= Rachel comforted. *$2.50 Dodd 134

20–16938

The authenticity and truthfulness of these “conversations of a mother in the dark with her child in the light” (Sub-title) are vouched for in a preface by W. T. Stead and a note by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The conversations between the author and her dead son were carried on by means of a planchette over a period of years and the mother asserts that she retired from the world and gave up herself, her health and her life to them and that the one essential condition for such communications are a perfect love on both sides. The object of the

## book is to comfort other bereaved parents.

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=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 23 ’20 420w

− =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 220w

=MAUGHAM, REGINALD CHARLES FULKE.= Republic of Liberia. il *$6.50 Scribner 916.6

20–26544

“The author, Mr Maugham, knows much of Africa, has written on Africa, and, when he completed in 1918 the pages which are now published, he had had for some years personal experience of life in Liberia as British consul-general at Monrovia. He deals with Liberia from all aspects, with its geography, history, administration and institutions, its climate, races, birds and beasts, plants and trees. The words and the music of the Liberian national anthem are supplied, and a very clear account by a practised pen is made more attractive by a number of excellent illustrations and an adequate map.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“His study of Liberia tries on the one hand to say pleasant things concerning Liberia, and on the other hand to show British merchants that now and here is their chance to exploit a rich land.” W. E. B. DuBois

− =Nation= 111:350 S 25 ’20 330w

“All through the book Mr Maugham gives evidence of genuine sympathy and understanding for the Liberians and their problems.”

+ =N Y Times= p6 O 10 ’20 660w

“An excellent account of Liberia.”

+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 180w

“This is a timely, interesting and valuable work, giving a fairly complete description of the Negro republic. It is written in a kindlier tone than has sometimes been employed by other writers on the country.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 320w

“Of this republic the present book tells us all that is to be told, and tells it well. Owing to difficulties and delay in publication, the

## book is a little complicated by two prefaces, and the editing or

revision has not been immaculate. But, taken as a whole, it is a most interesting and informing book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1450w

=MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET.= Land of the Blessed Virgin. il *$2.50 (5c) Knopf 914.6

A20–1263

In this book the author gives his recollections of Andalusia in a series of sketches—the land ablaze with sunshine, opulent with luminous soft color, with cities bathed in light, desolate wastes of sand, dwarf palms and the flower of the broom. The character of the country he finds typified in the paintings of Murillo and the colors of his palette—“rich, hot, and deep”—the typical colors of Andalusia. Some of the sketches are: The churches of Ronda; Medinat Az-Zahrā; The mosque; Cordova; Seville; The Alcazar; Women of Andalusia; The dance; A feast day; Before the bull-fight; Corrida de Toros; Granada; The Alhambra; The song.

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“Its objective descriptions are full of rich and vivid color, its travellers’ tales are intimate and charming and its records of the impressions made upon the mind of the author, though not without touches of affectation, are so individual as to be far more interesting than most chronicles.”

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“If the reader of ‘The land of the blessed virgin’ is not anxious to visit Andalusia after reading these pages he is impervious to the picturesqueness of the scene and to the rare qualities of Mr Maugham’s style.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1300w

+ =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 340w

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w

=MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET.= Mrs Craddock. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–26573

This is one of Mr Maugham’s earlier stories now first brought out in America. It is a story with one central interest, one woman’s passionate love for a man, its change to hate and gradual cooling to indifference. Bertha Ley, of Court Leys, falls rapturously in love with a handsome young tenant farmer on her estate and marries him in the face of his lukewarm response and the disapproval of everyone else. She is mistress of her own fortune and has but one relative, a keen-minded acerbic aunt who believes in standing aside and letting others follow their own courses. Bertha gives everything into Edward’s hands and Edward proves a model English squire. But as he rises in county estimation, Bertha’s love for him wanes and her abject devotion gives place to distaste. She leaves him, has a brief love affair with a quite different type of man, and comes home again to settle into a state of apathy and indifference from which his death, under the very circumstances she had once imagined with such poignant pain, does not rouse her.

* * * * *

“An unusual character study.”

+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

“The merits of ‘Mrs Craddock’ as a story are no less than its high qualities as a character study, and it should have been offered to American readers long ago.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1000w

“It has some subtlety, but moves rather heavily and joylessly.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w

=MAULE, MARY KATHERINE (FINIGAN) (MRS JOHN P. MAULE).= Prairie-schooner princess. il *$1.75 (2c) Lothrop

20–15508

A story of the crossing of the plains and the settlement of Nebraska. The Peniman family, Quakers from Ohio, are going west in a prairie schooner when fate throws little Nina Carroll into their hands. Her father has been killed by an Indian arrow but there is reason to believe that it was a white man not an Indian who was responsible. Valuable papers relating to the little girl are stolen and nothing can be learned of her family connections. She is adopted by the Penimans, altho they know that she has enemies who for some reason wish to gain possession of her. Because of their Quaker principles they treat the Indians with kindness and justice and at several crises in the story they are rewarded by the timely aid of their Indian friends. The children grow up, the boys take part in the Civil war, the mystery in Nina’s story is cleared away and Nina and Joe Peniman and two other pairs of young people set up new homes in the prairie state.

* * * * *

“This story of the West has all the atmosphere of the region it describes—that is to say, it is flat, monotonous, and dry.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 60w

=MAUROIS, ANDRÉ.= Silence of Colonel Bramble. *$1.25 (3½c) Lane

20–4463

This light-hearted war book is an interpretation of English, Irish and Scotch character from the point of view of a witty Frenchman. During the war the author acted as interpreter with a Scotch division, a position occupied by Aurelle in his story. It is composed largely of a series of mess-room conversations in which the different characters are allowed to reveal themselves. The translation is by Thurfrida Wake, with translations of Aurelle’s occasional verses by Wilfrid Jackson. The originals of these verses are given in an appendix.

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“The humour of the story is somewhat less enjoyable in the translation than in the original; but the reader is still able to appreciate the incisive delineation of the gallant officer who fills the title-rôle.”

+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 100w

+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 30w

“The volume is interesting for its portrayal of the way a Frenchman sees the English race.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 480w

“Those who have been the guests of British officers at the various staff and brigade headquarters will recognize every scene and every character in the pages of this book. It is distinctly a man’s book—a trifle risqué at times from a Puritanic point of view, but always witty and artistically delicate.” F: T. Hill

+ =N Y Times= 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 800w

“‘The silence of Colonel Bramble’ is the wittiest book of comment on warfare and our national prejudices that we have yet seen. The rendering now published is well done on the whole, but it cannot equal the original.”

+ =Sat R= 128:226 S 6 ’19 850w

“No more sympathetic, and at the same time penetrating, appreciation of British character has appeared than this modest collection of sketches, which, by the way, include passages of unexpected tenderness and restrained power.”

+ =Spec= 123:771 D 6 ’19 1350w

=MAXSON, CHARLES HARTSHORN.= Great awakening in the middle colonies. *$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 277

20–7587

A study of the religious revival of 1740 as it affected the middle colonies, supplementing Tracy’s “Great awakening,” (1842) which dealt mainly with New England. Writing so many years later the author found himself “more in sympathy than was common in Tracy’s day with the catholicity of Whitefield and with the democratic tendencies of the revival which were so largely responsible for the destruction of the ecclesiastical system of New England.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction, and pietism in Pennsylvania; Frelinghuysen, and the beginning of the revival among the Dutch Reformed; The Tennents, and the beginning of the revival among the Presbyterians; George Whitefield, and his alliance with the New Brunswick Presbyterians; The year 1740, the great awakening at high tide; The schism in the Presbyterian church in the year 1741; Period of expansion and organization; Whitefield the pacificator; Triumphant evangelism in an age of unbelief; Conclusion; Bibliography (seven pages).

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Reviewed by F. A. Christie

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:105 O ’20 730w

“This little book is a worthy treatment of a most interesting and important movement.”

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:160 S ’20 250w

=MAXWELL, DONALD.=[2] Last crusade. il *$7.50 Lane 940.356

20–20028

“With 100 sketches in colour, monochrome and line made by the author in the autumn and winter of 1918, when sent on duty to Palestine by the admiralty for the Imperial war museum” reads the informing sub-title of this book. The author further informs us that hostilities were over when he reached his destination and he had to hurry up with his pictures and get over the ground as quickly as possible. He thus obtained glimpses of things and places from every point of view without rhyme or reason and found, in sorting out his drawings, that he was much better off than he would have been with more leisure. The pictures with his diary and explanatory notes make the story of the “Last crusade.” The contents are: Over old roads; Pisgah Heights; The streets of Askelon; Chariots of iron; Abana and Pharpar; The glory of Lebanon; The coasts of Tyre and Sidon; Sea-plane ships; The gates of Gaza; Armageddon; The valley of death; In terra pax.

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= For better, for worse (Eng title, Remedy against sin). *$2 (1c) Dodd

20–8240

A story based on the injustice of the English divorce law. Feeling herself unloved and unwanted in her own home, Claire Gilmour marries Roderick Vaughan. She knows nothing of marriage and the feeling of admiration and affection which she had confused with love quickly dies. Roddy is a spendthrift and a brute. He squanders all of Claire’s fortune he can lay his hands on and bullies her into giving him more by threatening to take her child from her. She endures every indignity, but the members of her family, who had disapproved of the marriage, are set absolutely against divorce. Roddy goes to America and Claire learns the meaning of peace. He returns and consents to a divorce, but withdraws his consent when Claire inherits money and brings a counter charge of infidelity against her, quite false but easily proved true in court. Roddy and Claire are both declared unfaithful and hence forced to live in wedlock. Claire takes the one way open and goes away with the man who loves her and whose career has been ruined by the divorce scandal.

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“The author who sets out deliberately to write a novel with a purpose must content himself with being a little less than an artist, a little more than a preacher. In ‘A remedy against sin’ Mr W. B. Maxwell has chosen to obscure his talents under a wig and gown that he may deliver a tremendous attack against the monstrous injustice of our present divorce laws. Up to a certain point we must admit that ‘A remedy against sin’ is a great deal better than the majority of novels.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p543 Ap 23 ’20 780w

“The end is one that few novelists would have the courage to record, but it is a logical end, although it is not one that readers who seek for a novel with a ‘high moral purpose’ will approve. But since Mr Maxwell is writing the truth about life, he has made convincing the culmination of the tragic tale of the marriage of Roderick Vaughan and Claire Gilmour.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 1300w

“One of the strongest pleas ever made against the existing law in England. As a work of art the novel suffers little from the evident propaganda, because of the clearness of characterization, and the gradual working out of an inevitable crisis in an intolerable situation.”

+ =Ind= 104:384 D 11 ’20 130w

“One thing about this new novel cannot, in view of its subject, be too strongly emphasized, and that one thing is this: it is absolutely clean. Admirable in its construction, sane and realistic in its development, intensely interesting from beginning to end, this new novel by W. B. Maxwell is a thoughtful, conscientious and notable book, a book worthy of the man who wrote ‘In cotton wool’ and ‘Mrs Thompson.’”

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 1100w

“A more moving fiction character than Claire is not often drawn—and all the more so that the author refrains from forcing the note of pathos. There are a few passages in the book that may offend taste by their baldness of statement, but the impact and purport of the novel are the reverse of immoral.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w

“The character drawing is vivid and satiric. As in other books of Mr Maxwell, the tale unfolds with flawless logic—it has the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.”

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w

“Mr Maxwell’s novel with a purpose is entirely free from that suspicion of dullness which, not always with justice, attaches to this type of fiction.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:393 Ap 24 ’20 540w

“The story is told at great length and with considerable attention to detail, but it is difficult to feel great interest in the heroine, whose anæmic personality pervades the whole atmosphere of the book and increases its dreariness.”

− + =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 120w

“The narrative is well handled—related with force and yet with restraint. The book will, perhaps, excite more curiosity than corrective resolution. But it is at least reasonably lifelike and convincing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 300w

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= Glamour (Eng title, Man and his lesson). *$1.75 Bobbs

20–3060

“The hero of this story is a writer of popular plays who, after being jilted by a very prominent beauty in favour of a duke, marries a more common-place young woman, with whom he is exceedingly content. Unfortunately his old love whistles him back, and his fall so preys on his mind that he is about to commit suicide, when the war breaks out, and he reflects that the enemy can probably ‘do the business’ as expeditiously as he himself. His final redemption of character and his wife’s forgiveness are effectively described.”—Spec

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=Ath= p948 S 26 ’19 900w

=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1450w

=Lit D= p120 Ap 17 ’20 2050w

“It is a good and satisfying book, full of the stuff of life, beautifully told.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 1100w

“Not a new story, you surmise, only the eternal triangle. But Maxwell has seen it from a new angle.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 360w

=Spec= 123:478 O 11 ’19 90w

“Mr Maxwell presents his characters with an imaginative intensity and emotional fidelity that win the reader’s sympathy with them in their dilemmas.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 320w

“In this latter part of the story there are some fine descriptions of phases of the Somme battles; moreover, the change in Bryan from selfishness to altruism and nobility of outlook merging into war-weariness and a more wholesome selfishness, is excellently given.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 S 11 ’19 650w

=MAYNARD, THEODORE=, comp. Tankard of ale; an anthology of drinking songs. *$1.75 McBride 821.08

20–18409

In his introduction the author bewails the triumph of the teetotaller and the fact that “perfect social reform casteth out conviviality.” “In this book,” he says, “I have tried to offer to my readers practically the whole cream of our convivial songs. But ... I tried to omit everything that was not English in its spirit and in its authorship.... I have compromised to the extent of admitting poems by Scotsmen and Irishmen, while excluding their work when in dialect.... There are some good American drinking songs, but a prohibitionist nation does not deserve to be represented in the jolliest book in the world.” Only a few modern songs have been included, for the author holds that they lack spontaneity and appear to have been written out of pleasant affectation or in order to point a moral. There is an index of first lines.

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=Ath= p1385 D 19 ’19 180w

=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

=Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 120w

“The collection is sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently gay for all practical and abstemious purposes.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 260w

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w

Reviewed by B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 800w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 150w

+ =Spec= 122:116 Ja 24 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 80w

=MAYO, KATHERINE.= “That damn Y”: a record of overseas service. il *$3.50 (2½c) Houghton 940.47

20–9934

Katherine Mayo, originally prejudiced against the Y. M. C. A., went to France, so she says, on these terms: as a free agent, paying her own expenses, and only receiving from the Y. M. C. A. the right to wear its uniform and to examine its records. Her manuscript was not submitted to any member of the Y. M. C. A. for criticism or approval. The title she has given it she considers a disguised tribute: “They both wanted and expected to find the Y everywhere.... So, as naturally as breathing, always and all the time: ‘Where’s that damn Y?’” She renders a high tribute to Edward Clark Carter, “the head and shaper of the whole Y effort overseas.” The chapters giving her impressions include: The point of view; The key man; Christmas with the A. E. F.; The post exchange; Hot water, by gosh! Never dare judge; The way the people’s money goes; How can we thank them? Contributing facts. There are an index and two appendices: A. Partial lists of overseas Y secretaries killed and disabled in service and decorations and citations; B. Financial statement.

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“A very timely and readable book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

“The fullest, completest and most interesting account of Y. M. C. A.

## activities which has yet appeared.”

+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 320w

“She tells her stories remarkably, with a crisp, dramatic style and with vivid, forceful words. The judicial quality is not often found mated in books with fire and force and vividness, but Miss Mayo has achieved their commingling, in most of her work, with very great success.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:9 Je 27 ’20 2600w

“Miss Mayo’s narrative is of many-sided interest; in style it is both sprightly and intense; it expresses deep feeling and at the same time shows an extraordinary grasp of facts, figures, situations. Every sentence, stinging, appealing or probative, makes its impression.”

+ =No Am= 212:283 Ag ’20 1100w

“It would be difficult to imagine a more complete vindication of the work as a whole than it affords. As to the book itself, it is brilliantly written, with a vivid style, and it is full of humor and pathos. Taken altogether, it is one of the very best war books that has appeared.” F. H. Potter

+ =Outlook= 126:66 S 8 ’20 2450w

“We hope that no one who contributed to the Y. M. C. A. war fund will be deterred by the title from reading this book; for in it will be found the most complete account of the ‘Y’ work in France that has yet been published as well as the ablest defense of its management. It is truly an inspiring story.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 180w

“The book is frankly personal, emphasizes personalities, and in its generous hero- and heroine-worship sometimes fails to do justice to the less spectacular phases of the collective effort that made possible the achievements recorded.” J. D. Spaeth

+ − =Survey= 45:72 O 9 ’20 1000w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p792 D 2 ’20 950w

=MAYRAN, CAMILLE.= Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten; tr. by Van Wyck Brooks. (Library of French fiction) *$2 Dutton

20–11072

“Although this series of translations from the French is described by the publishers as ‘illustrating the life and manners of modern France,’ the first of the two exquisite tales which make up the present volume has to do, not with France, but with Flanders. It relates the history of the bellringer’s motherless daughter, christened Marguerite, but always called Gotton Connixloo, telling of her pathetic childhood, into which there entered few caresses and little play, and of her love for the lame, red-haired smith, Luke Heemskerck, who for her sake deserted his shrewish wife and five little children. Very delicately, very surely, does the author trace the slow development of remorse and of that consciousness of sin which at last, when the German inundation swept over the countryside, caused Gotton to become a martyr, ransoming by her sacrifice the lives of all those in the village. ‘Forgotten,’ the second of the two tales, is also a story of the German invasion, but a story of a very different kind, and of a very different class of people.”—N Y Times

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“The first story is told with a penetrating appreciation of lowly life. The appeal of both stories is to those who appreciate artistic workmanship.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“As delicate as two brooches, they are as appealing to the heart as they are fragile to the eye. Set in English by Van Wyck Brooks they constitute an unusual ornament to the library of Franco-American literature.”

+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 60w

“The sympathetic quality, the deep, strong feeling, the lovely style and fine artistry shown by these two simple tales make the volume a welcome and a notable one.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 640w

=MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE.= Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854. il *$5 Lane

21–207

In the introduction E. F. Richards, the editor of these letters, gives a short sketch of the career and character of Mazzini with their historical background and describes the various members of the English family, the Ashursts, to whom the letters were written. The value of the letters themselves, she says, lies in their exhibition of Mazzini’s character, his great and tender heart, never yet adequately shown. Explanatory paragraphs by the editor, throughout the book, help to unify the contents. The book contains several portraits of Mazzini and of the Ashurst family, and an index.

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“The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the Mazzini legend in all its magic.” D. L. M.

+ =Ath= p433 O 1 ’20 1750w

+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 700w

“A notable addition to the Mazzini literature.”

+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 700w

“Mrs E. F. Richards, as editor of the ‘Letters,’ has done her work with a refreshing enthusiasm tempered with a rare conscientiousness and a notable grasp of the events as well as the personnel of her period.”

+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 760w

“The letters do not add much of importance to Mazzini’s biography, but they help to show why he was beloved by his friends. The editor has taken great pains with the introduction and the commentary to these interesting letters.”

+ =Spec= 125:446 O 2 ’20 180w

“The world can never know too much of a man so noble as Mazzini. His life is at once an inspiration and a warning to the world in its present condition. Almost every page is a warning to those idealists who have not learnt that the very alphabet of the art of politics is to act gradually, step by step.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 Ag 12 ’20 1900w

=MEAD, ELWOOD.= Helping men own farms. il *$2.25 Macmillan 334

20–10715

“A practical discussion of government aid in land settlement.” (Sub-title) The author is professor of rural institutions in the University of California, and he devotes himself chiefly to the methods and results of land settlement in California, that state having taken the lead in this form of agricultural development. He also draws extensively on Australian experience. The chapters are: State aid in California due to economic and social needs; National carelessness in the disposal of public lands; Australia’s influence on the land policy of California; State aid in Italy, Denmark, Holland, and the British Isles; Methods and results of state aided settlement in Victoria; The practical teachings of Australian state aided settlement; The defects of private colonization schemes as shown by practical results in California; California’s first state settlement; Aid to farm laborers in the Durham settlement; Social progress through coöperation at Durham; The capital required by settlers; The lessons of the Durham settlement; Homes for soldiers; The function of government in social and industrial development. The California land settlement act is given in an appendix. There is no index.

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=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20

+ =New Repub= 23:180 Jl 7 ’20 840w

+ =N Y Times= p13 O 10 ’20 1050w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 60w

=MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD.= Great menace: Americanism or bolshevism? *$1.25 (4c) Dodd 335

20–6569

A sensational appeal to the people of the United States to arise and combat the great menace of “ultra-radicalism.” Contents: The great menace; The relation of the people, labor, and capital in the impending revolution; Conditions favoring bolshevism that do not right themselves; and reasons for faith in the people; The new patriotism; Vital messages of religion for today; Appendix: a citizen’s working creed.

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− =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 50w

=MEADER, STEPHEN WARREN.= Black buccaneer. il *$1.75 Harcourt

20–16856

The story of a New England boy of colonial days who is kidnapped from an island off the Maine coast by pirates. Among the cruel and bloodthirsty crew he finds one friend, Job Howland, a New Englander who is ready to abandon his reckless career. After a terrible sea fight the two make their escape but Jeremy is recaptured and there is every reason to believe Job dead. His life is now more filled with danger than before but a companion is brought to join him, young Bob Curtis of Delaware, who is held for ransom. In the meantime Job, who has escaped, joins Bob’s father in his search for his son and the two boys are rescued. The pirates are captured, Jeremy returns to his home and the buried treasure for which the pirates had sought is found on the very island from which Jeremy had been taken.

=MEARS, DAVID OTIS.= David Otis Mears, D. D., an autobiography, 1842–1893. il *$1.50 (2½c) Pilgrim press

20–9024

The autobiography is an incomplete record of Dr Mears’ life, written for his children. It is edited and supplemented with a memoir and notes by H. A. Davidson. The whole commemorates the career of a successful minister who was “preeminently a man of vision, of decision, of action.” (Editor’s note) The book falls into two parts: The autobiography, 1842–1893; and the Chapters by the editor. The appendix contains appreciations and resolutions and a list of publications written or edited by Dr Mears. There are five illustrations.

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“As a piece of agreeable autobiography the pages by Dr Mears are unusually interesting.”

+ =Bib World= 54:651 N ’20 100w

“The biography has many interesting features.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 320w

=MECKLIN, JOHN MOFFATT.= Introduction to social ethics. *$3 (1½c) Harcourt

20–8267

In defining democracy the author holds that equity is more fundamental to it than popular sovereignty and that the insistence of equality must be limited to equality of opportunities. “Deeper than the notion of popular rule or of equality is that of fraternity, of spiritual and moral like-mindedness.” On this basis he looks upon the development of a social conscience as the task of democracy. Part 1 of the book which is Historical and introductory contains: The problem of democracy; The religious background; Calvinism; The triumph of individualism; The great society; Our uncertain morality. Part 2. Psychological, contains: The organization of the moral sentiments; The social conscience; Public opinion and the social conscience; Limitations of the social conscience; The problem of moral progress. Part 3, The social order, contains: The rôle of the institution in the moral economy; The individual, and the institution; The home; The ecclesiastical ethic; The school and the social conscience; The ethics of private property; Mechanism and morals; The worker and the machine process; The ethics of business enterprise; The problem of the city; Political obligation in American democracy. There is a bibliography at the end of each chapter, with a list of magazine articles and there is an index.

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“Professor Mecklin’s book, like every other that is vital, contains many provocations to controversy, but from beginning to end it moves in a healthy atmosphere. It is an educative book, not a package of predigested dogmas.” A. W. Small

+ =Am J Soc= 26:245 S ’20 550w

“Largely theoretical; will appeal to the reflective reader.”

+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20

“For a treatise on ethics, it is exceptionally interesting; it is unusually well written; it is peculiarly free from the conventional jargon of the schools; in short, it is a very readable book. The main criticism to which he exposes himself is that he does not go far enough, and that he stops short of the natural conclusion of his own logic.” R: Roberts

+ =Freeman= 1:596 S 1 ’20 1450w

“The book offers much good material for college classes and the references at the end of each chapter make it still more useful in this respect. It is a welcome sign of broader ethical interest by the teacher and a contribution to further development of the field.” J. H. Tufts

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:111 O ’20 750w

“The book is excellently written and will be enjoyed by moderate liberals, who will find in it abundant matter with which to buttress their liberalism. To the more radical-minded the book will make little appeal.”

+ − =Nation= 111:381 O 6 ’20 610w

“‘An introduction to social ethics’ is one of the most interesting and valuable [volumes dealing with the subject] that have appeared recently.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 220w

“The chapters entitled Mechanism and morals and The workers and the machine process are particularly good. The chapter on Public opinion sounds somewhat less in touch than the other chapters with the realities of today through its omission of the hurtful effects of the various kinds of war propaganda and wartime coercion. The best thing about the book is its repeated insistence upon a positive and creative conception of democracy.” H: Neumann

+ − =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“A comprehensive and useful survey of its subject.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p879 D 23 ’20 160w

=MEES, CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH.= Organization of industrial scientific research. *$2 McGraw 601

20–5221

“‘Conceding the value of a research laboratory, the head of a large manufacturing firm will ask: “What will it cost?... Where shall I get the men?... What should it do? What may I expect to get from it, and when?... What should be its organization?” It is to answer these questions that this book has been written.’ The discussion is based on an extensive study of laboratories both in this country and abroad.”—Booklist

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+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

“The scope of the book and the method of presentment employed in its preparation are excellent, and both industrialists and scientific workers will find it interesting and informative. It is thought, however, that most of its readers will regret that the author has given such brief treatment to certain of the aspects of the subject, that no attention is accorded to the co-ordination of research, and that more space is not devoted to the systematic collection and distribution of scientific information.” W. A. Hamor

+ − =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 23:641 S 29 ’20 270w

“The scope of the book and the sequence of chapters are admirable. Many readers will doubtless wish that the author had gone further into detail than is the case in many chapters. In general, however, the book bears the marks of experience throughout, and will well repay perusal.” A. P. M. Fleming

+ =Nature= 105:771 Ag 19 ’20 650w

“Clearly, forcefully, tersely written, this book merits a wide reading in professional and business circles.” O. T.

+ =New Repub= 23:260 Jl 28 ’20 650w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 150w

=MEIGS, CORNELIA.= Pool of stars. il *$1.60 Macmillan

19–18455

“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post

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“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the ‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”

+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20

“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 50:381 N ’19 40w

“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives color and life to that period of our history following the war with the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main narrative.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 51:91 Mr ’20 150w

“The style is vague and indefinite.”

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w

+ =Cleveland= p80 Ag ’20 50w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 220w

“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 100w

=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7

This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended, both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun and Thomas H. Benton.

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“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 550w

“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the subject, though it is not without value for the general reader. Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S. Corwin

− + =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 300w

=MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER.= Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall 378

20–18040

The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college. The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in educational theory; The curriculum.

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“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare strength and clarity.” H. T. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 260w

“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse, well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 440w

“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 780w

“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 1400w

“It is written in a clear, earnest, straightforward, and convincing style, never abstruse and never platitudinous, but always fresh and always interesting. In spite of the author’s professed fondness for inviting misunderstanding, the book is throughout lucid and single in its aim.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 11 ’20 1150w

“Dr Meiklejohn’s discussion maintains a high level practically throughout the book. He meets many of the criticisms that have been brought against the college and liberal education.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 660w

=MEIKLEJOHN, NANNINE (LA VILLA) (MRS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN).= Cart of many colors. (Little school-mate ser.) il *$1.65 Dutton

19–19357

“It is the tale of a small Sicilian lad, dowered with artistic gifts and aflame with desire to make the most of his talents who, at the instance of his wise and indulgent mother and through the kindness of an uncle who recognizes his possibilities, accompanies the latter to Florence, there to study art. The greater part of the story is concerned with his life in the cultured family with whom he makes his home in the beautiful Tuscan town, and through whom he is given opportunity to see Rome, Siena and other cities of note. Its earlier chapters, however, have to do with his happy days in the midst of his own people in Palermo.”—N Y Evening Post

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+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20

“A well-written story of life in Italy. We have seen nowhere so informing and so humanized an account of Italian life in America as Miss Converse gives in her introduction.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 50:33 S ’19 240w

“Though throughout the tale much stress is thrown on description both of places and customs, yet there is sufficient incident of a simple sort to focus its interest upon the fortunes of Nello and his associates.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 300w

“Pictures with insight and sympathy the life of children in Italy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 180w

=MEISSNER, MRS SOPHIE (RADFORD) DE.= Old naval days. il *$3 Holt

20–20090

The author of these sketches from the life of Rear-Admiral William Radford, U.S.N. was the latter’s daughter and her record abounds in reminiscences, private and public. The admiral began his naval career in 1825 as midshipman on the “Brandywine” which conducted Lafayette back to France after his visit to America. He served through the Civil war and was retired in 1870. The book is illustrated and has an appendix.

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=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 80w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of burlesques. *$2 Knopf 817

20–26583

“The present edition includes some epigrams from ‘A little book in C major,’ now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole contents of the book appeared originally in the Smart Set.” (Author’s note) Contents: Death: a philosophical discussion; From the programme of a concert; The wedding: a stage direction; The visionary; The artist: a drama without words; Seeing the world; From the memoirs of the devil; Litanies for the overlooked; Asepsis: a deduction in scherzo form; Tales of the moral and pathological; The jazz Webster; The old subject; Panoramas of people; Homeopathics; Vers libre.

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“Mr Mencken is a clever and witty satirist, with an encyclopædic knowledge of the latest crazes and imbecilities.”

+ =Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 160w

=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20

“The great difficulty about this book is that it will not irritate the intelligent and none but the intelligent can be amused by it.”

+ − =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 100w

“Satire at times extravagantly and cheaply cynical, but also at times keen and entertaining is to be found in ‘A book of burlesques.’”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 200w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Prejudices: second series. *$2.50 (4c) Knopf 814

20–20969

In the present volume the author continues his tirade on American letters, generalizing on his theme in the first essay, ‘The national letters.’ In spite of the prophetic optimism of such men as Emerson and Whitman and, to some extent, even the pessimistic Poe, we have so far achieved nothing but a respectable mediocrity which he attributes to the absence of a cultural background, and of a civilized aristocracy. The other essays of the book are: Roosevelt: an autopsy; The Sahara of the Bozart; The divine afflatus; Scientific examination of a popular virtue; Exeunt omnes; The allied arts; The cult of hope; The dry millennium; Appendix on a tender theme. There is an index.

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=Dial= 70:232 F ’21 80w

=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 290w

“As for his second series of prejudices, they are even as his first; his prejudices have not changed; nor his manner of hurling them at the fat heads of us Philistines. Some of his missiles are true dynamite, some—in my humble opinion—are duds; but not one of them is discharged at random.” L. W. Dodd

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 880w

“Nothing is sacred in his hands, and by the same token is he interesting and unreliable. His style is as vigorous and bold as his ideas. It is a little hard to keep up with Mencken, but at any rate you will not be bored if you try.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’21 480w

=MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND.= Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331

20–17254

“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times

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“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy the existing unrest.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 31 ’20 230w

“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 200w

=MERCER, JOHN EDWARD.= Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2 Dutton 236

“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt; but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Int J Ethics= 30:113 O ’19 100w

“Though it is doubtful whether either scientists or philosophers would heartily endorse all the positions taken by Dr Mercer, it is pleasant to read a book written with good temper and rationality, without appeal to the prevalent superstitions of mediums and table-tipping.”

+ − =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 300w

“Bishop Mercer pursues an extremely interesting and richly suggestive line of inquiry. It is one distinctly removed from that involved in psychical research. It is the purely religious inquiry of an eminent scholar and thinker who is familiar with all modern scientific thought, and whose wide culture and liberal mind endow him with vision.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 700w

=MERCIER, DESIRÉ FÉLICIEN FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, cardinal.= Cardinal Mercier’s own story: prefatory letter by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$4 (3½c) Doran 940.3493

20–5912

The book consists chiefly of Cardinal Mercier’s correspondence with the German governor general in protest to the latter’s régime as imposed on the Belgians. The work of collecting and editing these letters has been delegated by the Cardinal to Professor Fernand Mayence, of Louvain university, who has supplied them with an explanatory preface. Most of the correspondence is with Baron von Bissing and Baron von der Lancken and some with Baron von Falkenhausen. The correspondence on the Belgian deportations is of special interest.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w

+ =Cath World= 111:390 Je ’20 1150w

“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”

+ =Ind= 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w

Reviewed by Muriel Harris

+ =Nation= 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w

“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact with a really great personality, and will be the better for the feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’ The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a story for the young as it is for the old.”

+ =No Am= 212:139 Jl ’20 1500w

“A serious omission which ought to be supplied in any new edition is the lack of any index.” Lyman Abbott

+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 2450w

+ =Spec= 125:146 Jl 31 ’20 1550w

“The correspondence, always written in the lofty tone and closely reasoned manner of state papers, is interesting throughout; but the most engrossing pages of the book are those which deal with the deportations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p392 Je 24 ’20 950w

=MEREDITH, MRS ELISABETH GRAY (LYMAN).= Terrier’s tale. il *$1 Houghton

20–19080

“Although of a retiring disposition, I have always known that I am a person of importance, but recently I have become a person of note, and I have been asked to write my memoirs.” Thus the terrier begins his tale and it is full of interest and excitement and some wise reflections. It contains: Early days; Domestic life; Concerning baths; Sport; Travel; On being left behind; Fatherhood; Guests; Social life; As to cats; My great adventure; Through the window; Conclusion. The illustrations are by Mia E. Rosenblad.

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=N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w

=MERIAM, JUNIUS LATHROP.= Child life and the curriculum. $3.60 World bk. 375

20–8866

A work by the professor of school supervision and superintendent of university schools, University of Missouri. That the subject matter of modern life should be used as the means of instructing boys and girls is his thesis. “In working out the details of this curriculum the effort has been, not, as some critics have erroneously judged, to get away from the traditional curriculum, but, on the positive side, to get as close as possible to the lives of children as found in the home and in the larger community.” (Preface) The book is divided into five parts: Point of view; The traditional curriculum; Principles in the making of curricula; The contents of a curriculum; Methods and results. Supplementary readings are suggested at the end of each chapter, and special reading lists, as well as lists of songs, games, etc., are given in appendices. In addition there is a general bibliography of fifteen pages, followed by an index.

* * * * *

“Not a course that can be adopted in a moment or by any school, but a virile, well presented point of view which has something of value for every elementary teacher.”

+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“The reader may be unable to agree with all of the conclusions of the book, but it furnishes material for critical thought, and will be of interest to those dealing with courses of study. The manner of presentation is somewhat tedious at times, and one feels that occasional condensations would serve to emphasize the content.”

+ − =El School J= 21:150 O ’20 680w

“One may find some of his conclusions from well-known studies in the field of education surprising; and may be unwilling to see measurement deferred until after the attainment of seemingly impossible conditions. Nevertheless he will recognize in the book and the experiment it reports a contribution to the great effort to provide a curriculum more closely related to life.”

+ − =School R= 28:552 S ’20 560w

=MERLANT, JOACHIM.= Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence (1776–1783); tr. by Mary Bushnell Coleman. *$2 Scribner 973.3

20–7496

“‘Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence’ is an account of the part played by our allies during the Revolution, written by one who participated in the world war. The author is Capt Joachim Merlant, assistant professor of the faculty of letters in the university of Montpellier, who, after a few months with the territorials, joined an active unit as infantry officer. Severely wounded in 1915 he never fully recovered, and being unable to fight resolved instead to write and talk for his cause. Thus he came to America, and from January to May in 1916 he lectured throughout the country. And through his gratitude toward America he decided to investigate the Franco-American alliance of 1778–1783 and retell the story of Rochambeau and LaFayette.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 420w

=MERRICK, HOPE (BUTLER-WILKINS) (MRS LEONARD MERRICK).= Mary-girl; a posthumous novel. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8792

“Ezra Sheppard is a man with a consuming ideal. A devout Quaker, it is his dream to build a seemly meeting-house instead of the dilapidated barn where the Friends have hitherto met. The lavish terms offered for the services of Mary in nourishing the Earl of Folkington’s heir would convert his dream into real stone and lime. So he lets Mary go. Mary, poor girl, with the best will in the world, finds when her year is up that the life of a working gardener’s wife is not so pleasant as it used to be. And Ezra behaves badly about it, too. He repents, it is true, and realizes that his idol has cost him too dear, but not before Mary has been brought to shame, and his repentance takes the form of attempted arson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“‘Mary-girl’ deserves something better than so foolish and inept a designation. If it were merely one among a thousand sentimental romances, its title would be unobjectionable, but it is something more than that, and it is a pity that it should be so misrepresented. As a whole, it is a notably truthful record of a soul conflict and an absorbingly interesting story.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 800w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“A delightful human and unpretentious story, well written and very interesting, the tale has realism without pessimism, sentiment without sentimentality. A delightful book, vivid, human, dramatic at times and always entertaining, is this story of ‘Mary-girl.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 11 ’20 750w

“The late Mrs Leonard Merrick was endowed with the rare gift of being able to write a thoroughly sentimental story with undoubted charm. The episode of Mary’s downfall is the least satisfactory thing in the book. It is false to the character, and for all its disguise is mere ‘novelette’ in essence.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 250w

=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Hills of Han. il *$2 Bobbs

20–6286

“Betty Doane, the heroine, daughter of a missionary, returns to China after six years in the United States. On the steamer she meets Jonathan Branchy, author, explorer and newspaper man and a somewhat unromantic love affair develops between them. The development of their emotions is interwoven with the dangers threatening all foreigners in China from a new society, a recrudescence of the old Boxer organization, known as ‘the Lookers.’ The chief item in the creed of this society is the extinction of all ‘foreign devils.’ Betty’s position becomes increasingly difficult and complicated through the intolerance of her father’s missionary coworkers, and through a want of a sense of humor on the part of her lover. The adventures of the principals attain a climax at the headquarters of a French mining concern; this form of foreign activity excites the particular antipathy of ‘the Lookers.’”—Springf’d Republican

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“Both the story and the setting hold the reader though one dislikes the pictures of the mission teachers and the incidents are melodramatic. Some people will object to this.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“As for the Chinese atmosphere and personnel of the story, one may accept them as sound—if that matters in a story of this kind, and if atmosphere and personnel can be sound when the action is unsound or patently artificial. All this, you may say, is the breaking of a butterfly on the clumsy wheel of criticism. ‘Hills of Han’ is not a butterfly; it is a sort of gilded bat with the butterfly label.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 320w

=Dial= 69:320 S ’20 60w

“Samuel Merwin has written better novels than ‘Hills of Han,’ but it offers agreeable entertainment for an uncritical hour.”

+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 70w

“While neither as entertaining nor as vivid as some of Mr Merwin’s earlier romances, the story is an interesting one and has some dramatic moments.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w

“There is good fiction stuff here, but it is clumsily put together.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w

“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel writing.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w

“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the story holds the reader’s close attention.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 700w

=MERZ, JOHN THEODORE.= Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192

(Eng ed 20–10637)

“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science. The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the method used in studying the development of the race, going back to primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values, the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each, the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript

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“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 850w

“Admirable both in clarity of style and depth of matter.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:63 Ja 17 ’20 900w

“The treatise, small as it is in bulk, fragmentary as it confessedly is, is a worthy crown to a lifetime of devotion to the task of instructing and enlightening the mind of its author and his numerous readers as to the history and nature of themselves and the world they live in.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p97 F 12 ’20 2000w

=MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Masks. *$1.60 Holt 812

20–8218

Here are six one-act plays of modern American life all more or less satiric and all with the same implication as the title play. In “Masks” we are introduced to the shabby home of a hitherto unsuccessful dramatist at the moment of his first success. While he is musing at his desk over the change in his fortune he is haunted by two of the characters of a former, rejected play, which now having been remodeled is making him rich and famous. They are the bitter reflections of one who knows that he has killed the real artist in himself in courting public favor. The other plays are: Jim’s beast; Tides; Among the lions; The reason; The house.

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=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“The present volume not only maintains the high level of those preceding, but contains some work that challenges comparison with anything done earlier, while suggesting a new vein. This is

## particularly true of the title-piece. In all the six plays the trained

hand of the practical theatre artist is evidenced in the stage directions and the conductment of the action.” R: Burton

+ =Bookm= 51:472 Je ’20 700w

“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader, and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its title seems a bit forced in treatment.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 380w

“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes

− + =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 120w

“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”

+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 350w

“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little folk-speech.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w

“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.

+ − =New Repub= 24:26 S 1 ’20 500w

“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 880w

“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton, this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”

+ − =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 300w

“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir James Barrie at the end.”

+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and ‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are better than the others.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 80w

=MILES, EUSTACE HAMILTON.= Self-health as a habit. il *$2.50 Dutton 613

20–6058

“Self-health, according to Mr Eustace Miles, is mainly an affair of balanced (vegetarian) diets, good cooking and mastication, no alcohol, but habitual sipping of hot water, deep breathing, and ‘sensible exercises’—more particularly the ‘daily stretch.’”—Ath

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=Ath= p62 Ja 9 ’20 40w

“While experts will probably not agree with all that Mr Miles teaches, his advice is stimulating and helpful.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 180w

“That he has a great deal that is extremely sensible to say about the individual’s life and habits, both physical and mental, all will admit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 80w

=MILIUKOV, PAVEL NIKOLAEVICH.= Bolshevism: an international danger; its doctrine and its practice through war and revolution. *$3.75 Scribner 335

(Eng ed 20–10286)

“In view of the fact that most of the criticism of bolshevism that we are privileged to read comes from non-Russian sources, we should welcome this attempt of a great Russian scholar and statesman to appraise both the doctrine and the practical outcome of bolshevist rule from an international standpoint. Professor Miliukov, who will be remembered as the leader of the first government formed after the revolution of 1917, here traces the progress of bolshevism through war and revolution into a practical experiment in government and exposes the bolshevist propaganda in other countries, showing that its leaders are aiming at nothing short of a world-revolution.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“An informative study to be recommended to the well read, discerning type of reader.”

+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“When finally he traces the coal-strike and the steel-strike to Moscow, we regretfully set his volume on the shelf, in its alphabetical order, next to Baron Munchausen.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w

“Beyond any doubt, he here renders a great service to the bolshevist cause by using ‘propaganda stuff’ which is so easy to refute. One might expect from a man like Miliukov a sounder criticism of Bolshevism, because it can and must be criticized from an entirely different angle.”

− + =Nation= 111:sup423 O 13 ’20 1150w

“The book is too detailed and assumes too much knowledge of details to be available for the general reader, but it is for this very reason the more valuable for students.”

+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 120w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 100w

“M. Miliukov’s eminence in Russian politics and his first-hand knowledge of conditions in Europe and the United States make him a sure guide to those engaged in public affairs; his masterly handling and clear exposition of so complicated a subject render the reader’s task not only easy, but pleasant.”

+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 110w

“An instructive account.”

+ =Spec= 124:725 My 29 ’20 1300w

“His facts are wonderfully correct. No honest man reading this work on Russian politics ... can come to any other opinion than that M. Miliukov’s work carries conviction, not only because it is well compiled, but because it is—at times almost painfully—correct in every detail.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Je 17 ’20 1200w

=MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE.= Sportsman’s wanderings (Eng title, Wanderings and memories). il *$5 (5½c) Houghton

20–26324

The author fired his first gun (and almost his last) at the age of six. At school his ornithological obsession repeatedly brought disgrace upon him, but he lived to become one of the most versatile of sportsmen and naturalists, as the book shows. The tropics and arctic ice are alike familiar to him and with the motto “The great thing in life is to live,” he has found being a “Jack of all trades” the most interesting existence. “In turn I have been soldier, sailor, a British consul, artist, zoologist, author and landscape gardener.” His desultory accounts include a description of his father the painter, and their family life, and of many distinguished personages. The illustrations are from drawings by the author and from photographs. Contents: When I was young; Some early experiences in shooting; Travels in Iceland, 1889; All sorts and conditions of men; Arthur Neumann, pioneer and elephant hunter; Scottish salmon-fishing; One African day, 1913; The Lofoden Islands, 1915; An arctic residence, 1916; Fealar, 1918—highland deer-stalking.

* * * * *

“A story that is interesting, varied, and well spiced with anecdotes.”

+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 330w

“Here is a readable blend of lively reminiscence and first-hand observation, without verbal or scientific excess baggage.”

+ =Dial= 68:666 My ’20 50w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 220w

+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 1250w

“He ought to be able to write an interesting book, and he has done so. His reminiscences are disjointed, as—one imagines—his life has been; but they are alive with his own enthusiasm for describing live things.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1000w

=MILLEN, WILLIAM ARTHUR.= Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the newer Ireland. $1.50 Stratford co. 811

20–8530

The author of these poems is an American of Irish descent who lived eight years in Ireland as a student and who believes that the National university of Ireland will be the salvation of the country. With his love for the land of his fathers and sympathy for the “Newer Ireland spirit” he combines great faith in Ireland’s men of learning. The book falls into two parts: At the dawning; and Echoes of Erin.

* * * * *

“Mr Millen is obviously pamphleteer rather than poet. One cannot help feeling that he would be more pleased at winning converts to his cause than at winning laurels for himself.” F. E. A. T.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:357 F ’21 200w

=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Beauty and the bolshevist. il *$1.50 (7c) Harper 20–18254

Ben Moreton, the radical editor of “Liberty,” runs off hastily to Newport to prevent his brother’s marriage to Eugenia Cord, daughter of a multi-millionaire. He is too late to do that but he does something else, he falls in love with her sister. Crystal finds the common ground that will unite her irate conservative father and her radical lover and brings the story to the right ending. It appeared in Harper’s Magazine, May-July, 1920.

* * * * *

“Not so good as some others by the author, but amusing.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“A clever and paradoxical comedy full of repartee.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w

=N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 210w

“One has come to expect clever conversation from Alice Duer Miller, and ‘The beauty and the bolshevist’ does provide that, but it is far from being as pleasing as some of Mrs Miller’s earlier novels.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 110w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 80w

=MILLER, ARTHUR HARRISON.= Leadership. *$1.50 Putnam 355

20–8069

“In the schooling of officers no course was included nor lectures given in leadership as a human science or in its relation to military success as a morale factor in peace or war.” (Preface) It is the object of the book to standardize the acknowledged methods of leadership in the army, and, for the sake of brevity, the methods and “formulae,” merely, are given without their psychological reasons. Contents: Foreword by Edward L. Munson; Leadership and morale; Character and personality; The leader and the soldier; The leader and the organization; Index.

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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w

=MILLER, LEO EDWARD.= Hidden people; the story of a search for Incan treasure. il *$2.50 Scribner

20–16498

“The hair-raising adventures of a couple of shipwrecked college boys among the wild Indians, ‘monkey men,’ reptiles and gorgeous birds of South America, especially their adventures among a remnant of the old Incan civilization with their horde of gold.”—Cleveland

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=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 40w

“A scientific novel for boys, a really sound study of a remnant of an ancient South American tribe in interesting natural surroundings.”

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w

=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 80w

“Neither youth nor age need form a barrier to the enjoyment of ‘The hidden people.’ Mr Miller is particularly fortunate in the way by which he applies his local color.” Kermit Roosevelt

+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1150w

“Is the kind of book that will appeal to all lovers of adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w

“Those who follow his fascinating story, gain also a knowledge of the birds and beasts, the volcanic mountains and other interesting things that a scientific observer may see in South America.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 80w

=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Ring-necked grizzly. il *$1.50 (2½c) Appleton

20–7922

A hunting story for boys. Sid Colvin is recovering from typhoid and his father decides to give him a year in the open and sends him, accompanied by his chum Scotty, out to the Rockies where the boys are taken in charge by Big John, a trusted guide. They spend a winter in the mountains and the story tells of their adventures and exploits, which include, in addition to the killing of the ring-necked grizzly, other hunting and fishing experiences, snow-blindness and an encounter with outlaws. Mr Miller is author of “The boys’ book of hunting and fishing” and other works.

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=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w

=MILLIGAN, HAROLD VINCENT.= Stephen Collins Foster; a biography of America’s folksong composer. il *$2.50 Schirmer

20–9485

By a careful sifting of material the author has sought to present an authentic account of Foster’s career, taking special pains to dispel some of the legends that have grown up around his later years and death. The early chapters give an interesting picture of American pioneer society and suggest the state of development of music in America at the time. The concluding chapter gives an estimate of Foster’s musical attainment and an analysis of the influence of his environment on his career. Contents: The family; Boyhood; Youth; First songs; Ambition; Drifting; Tragedy; The composer. Among the illustrations are several facsimile pages from Foster’s manuscript book.

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=N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w

=MILLIN, SARAH GERTRUDE.= Dark river. *$2 (2½c) Seltzer

(Eng ed 20–4268)

Human destinies rather than events form the interest of this South African story. Of the three men and three women that figure in it, John Oliver and René van Reede bungle their lives through defects in character. George Buckle possesses the substantial social virtues that make good in this workaday world and even enable him to take his rebuff in love philosophically. The three women, sisters, untouched by feminism, are more passive instruments in the hands of fate and are reduced to watchful waiting for the right man. Alma’s marriage to George is frustrated through the untimely interference of the flighty René, who goes off and forgets. Hester, feeling youth slipping away from her, marries the regenerate John, to her sorrow. Ruth, the youngest, eventually becomes the happy wife of George, although Alma’s shadow occasionally flits by.

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“To read ‘The dark river’ is, after so much wind and brass, to listen to a solo for the viola. Running through the book there is, as it were, a low, troubled throbbing note which never is stilled. Perhaps a novel is never the novel it might have been, but there are certain books which do seem to contain the vision, more or less blurred or more or less clear, of their second selves, of what the author saw before he grasped the difficult pen. ‘The dark river’ is one of these.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 380w

“So well does the writer of this story know her South Africa, and more

## particularly the diggings, that she has not attempted to add the

glamour usually found in tales of these regions. In fact, so clearly defined has been her purpose to tell ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ that the story would be rather depressing in its sombreness and worse than drab details were it not enlivened by bits of real humor and by a delightful background of local color.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 270w

“‘The dark river’ is well written, in a clear and vigorous style, it is interesting, it gives that sense of reality which makes us feel that we are actually observing the lives and fortunes of a group of living people. Moreover, it has the rare quality which distinguished Arnold Bennett’s ‘The old wives’ tale’—it gives an effect of the passing of time. ‘The dark river’ is a notable novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 780w

“Outside of Hardy it would be difficult to find a setting which affords a more harmonious background for the characters whose sombre destiny is recorded in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s ‘The dark river.’” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 310w

“It is written not unpleasantly, but with a serious simplicity, and the characters introduced are well and distinctly drawn.”

+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 5 ’20 90w

=MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.= Adventures of a nature guide. il *$3.50 (5½c) Doubleday 508

20–2049

“Storm, sunshine, night, desert, stream, and forest are crowded with waiting attractions and moving scenes. To have the most adventures and the greatest enjoyment in a given time, ramble the wilds alone and without a fishing-rod or a gun.” (Preface) This is the author’s advice to nature lovers. He calls the wilderness the safety zone of the world and declares its experiences less dangerous than staying at home; while the hunter, armed and killing, multiplies dangers and enjoys less variety and fewer adventures. The book gives a solitary and unarmed camper’s adventures in the wilds of the continent. Contents: Snow-blinded on the summit; Waiting in the wilderness; Winter mountaineering; Trees at timberline; Wind-rapids on the heights; The arctic zone of high mountains; Naturalist meets prospector; The white cyclone; Lightning and thunder; Landmarks; Children of my trail school; A day with a nature guide; Play and pranks of wild folk; Censored natural history news; Harriet—little mountain climber; Evolution of nature guiding; Development of a woman guide. The many beautiful illustrations are from photographs by the author.

* * * * *

“Boy scouts will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20

Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers

=Bookm= 51:103 Mr ’20 1450w

“The humor with which he relieves a tense situation, and his keen observations on the habits of the wild life of the mountains add to the interest of the book. A number of remarkably good photographs.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ja ’20 80w

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 40w

“It is altogether a fascinating book; and its best title to recognition is that it approaches nature study from new angles, and with an unflagging and ever new interest.” Phillip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 96:1697 D 27 ’19 380w

=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 70w

=MILLS, JOSEPH TRAVIS.=[2] Great Britain and the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 327

20–9352

“An English scholar’s critical review of the historical relations between the two countries. The book is made up mainly of extracts from lectures that were delivered to various units of the American army of occupation in Germany in May and June, 1919. The author naturally takes the ground that in the family dispute of 1776 ‘Britain’s policy was logically defensible, however unwise her action.’ In other words, he contends that there really is a British ‘case.’”—R of Rs

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“His audiences considered, Mr Travis Mills was outspoken indeed, and there must have been some shaking of wise young heads over the Kiplingesque patriotism of this Britisher. No harm is done, however, by a ‘straight talk,’ and the lecturer advanced a sound argument when he contended that want of understanding, rather than the intention to oppress, produced the rupture between the American colonies and Great Britain.”

+ =Ath= p12 Jl 2 ’20 370w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 80w

“Much of it will probably be new to English readers, whose notions of the American revolution are derived from text-books with a strong Whiggish bias.”

+ =Spec= 124:659 My 15 ’20 220w

=MILN, LOUISE (JORDAN) (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Invisible foe. *$1.25 (1½c) Stokes

20–11300

This story, adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, is based on the possibility of communication with the dead. Helen Bransby is loved by two brothers, Stephen and Hugh. Thwarted in his love by Hugh’s success with Helen and smarting under a business failure as well, Stephen commits a crime which he contrives so that Hugh is blamed for it. The only person to discover the true state of affairs is Helen’s father, and the shock of it proves too much for his weak heart and he dies before he can right the wrong. Helen is positive of Hugh’s innocence, and as time goes on she is made more confident by the impelling feeling that her father is trying to get some message thru to her from the other world. The crisis of the story comes when she actually receives the message, and the hiding place of the paper that clears Hugh is psychically revealed to her.

* * * * *

“‘The invisible foe’ could easily stand on its own merits as a crime story without the aid of the spooks.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 650w

=MILN, LOUISE JORDON (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Mr Wu; based on the play “Mr Wu” by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes

20–7524

Wu Li Chang, one of the richest, most powerful of Chinese mandarins had had an English education and was an Oxford man. His daughter, Nang Ping, whose mother died when she was born, and who was reared in the utmost Chinese luxury, was betrayed by a young Englishman. How Wu, the father punished his daughter’s transgression in the time-honored Chinese way, by killing her, and how he took revenge on her seducer through the latter’s mother makes an impressive tale. It abounds in vivid descriptions of Chinese social customs and traditions and reflections on the habits of Englishmen in China, that are not much to the credit of our western civilization.

* * * * *

“It differs from most novelized plays in that the bones are not visible or even suggested. Mrs Miln must have put into it sufficient of her own personality to make the story quite her own. It is probable, moreover, that all three authors contributed something to the impression we have of being for the first time actually in the heart of China.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 420w

“Though the vengeance of Wu Li Chang’s forms the climax of the book the best and most interesting part of it is the introductory portion, closing with the tragic fate of poor little Wu Nang Ping.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w

“Poignant emotions and a portrayal of oriental manners and customs combine to make ‘Mr Wu’ of more compelling interest than the ordinary run of adventure fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 330w

=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= First plays. *$2 Knopf 822

(Eng ed 20–12856)

A volume of five plays, written during 1916 and 1917. They are not, the author says, “the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.” The first, “Wurzel-Flummery” is a one-act comedy in which two distinguished members of Parliament are offered an inheritance of fifty thousand pounds—on condition of accepting the name Wurzel-Flummery. A two-act version of the play was produced in London in 1917. “The lucky one” is a three-act play. “The boy comes home,” a comedy in one act, is the one war play in the volume. “Belinda” is a comedy in three acts that has been performed in London and in New York, where Ethel Barrymore played the title rôle. “The red feathers,” the final piece, is an operetta.

* * * * *

“The lightness and irresponsible gaiety of Mr Milne’s dialogue are equalled by his wit.”

+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“They are intelligently amusing and have all the quality of admitting a thousand technical imperfections and carrying them off with wit or the grace of nice human relations.” Gilbert Seldes

+ − =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 140w

“Throughout all these ‘First plays’ of Mr Milne’s the word whimsical haunts us. It is the trademark of the school, the school of Barrie; and as in so many plays in the Barrie manner the form has taken the place of the substance. What these plays show is simply that no glamour of pictorialism, no colouring of language can atone for an indifference to the fundamental requirements of drama.” J. C. M.

− + =Freeman= 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w

“No young continental artist, discovering himself to be a playwright during the very years of the war, would have written with this sobriety, good humor, and straightforward realism. Such an artist would, no doubt, have written more profoundly and imaginatively, but also more obscurely and, in no low sense, less usefully. Mr Milne, to be sure, is capable of being both trivial and sentimental. But his dialogue is deft and natural, and his observation of human nature cool and sane. His best play, The lucky one, is an admirable piece of dramatic writing.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 280w

“Mr Milne’s plays belong to what might be termed the Barrie school of drama. It is the idea of whimsicality raised to terms of life. Situations that in the hands of another would be either broadly comic or broadly depressing are made by this school of dramatists into a fantastic realism. While these plays are extremely diverting to read, one will sometimes doubt their adaptability to the stage.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 550w

“The others are excellent entertainments, they abound in high spirits and good nonsense, but ‘The lucky one’ cuts deeper. They are all excellent fun, superficial, naturally, but thoroughly sound and wholesome of its kind.”

+ − =Spec= 123:477 O 11 ’19 750w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 360w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 S 18 ’19 70w

“They are delightful parlour-games, all five. They do not affect, like the newest of Mr Shaw’s parlour-games, to be fantasies in the Russian manner. They are modestly and tactfully and good-humouredly in the English manner.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 700w

“‘Wurzel-Flummery’ is what high comedy should be—satirical yet not bitter, amusing yet not farcical. The reader of a play is perhaps too apt to dwell upon its style; but, other qualities being equal, a play is really none the worse for being well written. And Mr Milne writes well.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 240w

=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814

20–13982

“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be ‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the seasons.”—Review

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“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w

“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer than ‘Not that it matters.’”

+ =Review= 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w

“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his writings for the pages of a book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 500w

“There is the satisfaction of knowing that wherever you may dip into this book you will be amused. So much of modern literature is only rough hewn that a finely finished work—even on goldfish—is welcome. In that respect ‘it’ does ‘matter.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 680w

=MINNIGERODE, MEADE.= Laughing house. *$1.90 (3½c) Putnam

20–18258

Laughing house is another name for Shirley House, the ancestral home of the Shirley family in Shirley, Connecticut. It is packed with family lore and tradition, which Francis and Mary Elizabeth love and respect. There they have a happy childhood, whose joys are shared by Newell and Isabelle Rushmore and Billy Vane, who are almost as much at home at Shirley House as the Shirleys themselves. When the children grow up they are still the best of comrades. In fact, they know each other so well that all their future relations are taken for granted and it is tacitly understood that Mary Elizabeth is to marry Billy. But then a stranger comes into their midst, a nouveau-riche neighbor who tramples on their traditions and upsets all their calculations. But altho her methods are a trifle ruthless, she opens the eyes of several people to their real feelings toward various other people. Billy suffers most, but deservedly so. Mary Elizabeth does not marry him, but Newell, and Isabelle who had fancied herself in love with Billy, too, finds it is Francis after all.

* * * * *

“When Mr Minnigerode is dealing with this family he is altogether charming. Perhaps he cannot write of ugliness: when he brings in a member of the nouveau riche, and introduces us to a vulgar and ‘designing woman,’ his skill departs.” W: L. Phelps

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 380w

“There is a pleasantness about the tale, and the reader will relish the quiet old Shirley homestead, the quiet of the village and surrounding hills, and the principal characters. The story is natural in its telling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 120w

“Slight both in matter and in length, and not free from preciosity.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 50w

=MIRZA, YOUEL BENJAMIN.= When I was a boy in Persia. (Children of other lands) il *$1 (3c) Lothrop 915.5

20–7997

The author is a young man of Persian birth who served in the United States navy during the war. He begins his story with an account of his parents’ marriage, thus giving a glimpse of the Persian caste system as well as of marriage customs. Subjects covered in other chapters include: The birth and care of a child; Schooldays; Persian games, amusements and massalie (stories); Persian fasts and festivals; Persian rugs and rug-makers. The final chapter, Preparations for a far journey, tells of the departure for America.

* * * * *

“An unaffected sincerity and a ring of truth and intimate knowledge are the fascinating things in this story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

“This is a delightful book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 360w

=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w

=MISCELLANY= of American poetry, 1920. *$2 Harcourt 811.08

20–16870

“This volume is as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most recent work of eleven American poets. These eleven form no particular group, illustrate no single influence, constitute no one ‘movement.’... Each poet has been his own editor. As such, he has selected and arranged his own contributions.... The poems that follow are all new. They are new not only in the sense that they have not been previously issued by their authors in book form but, with the exception of seven poems, none of them has ever appeared in print.” (Publisher’s foreword) The eleven poets are: Conrad Aiken; Robert Frost; John Gould Fletcher; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; James Oppenheim; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Carl Sandburg; Sara Teasdale; Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.

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=Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“Some of the poems have come out in magazines; and, what is really important, most of them are below the author’s level. For a first number this volume might pass. But the next should be made to count by the contributors looking ahead and planning for it. Otherwise it is only a pleasant venture.” Stark Young

+ − =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 550w

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1200w

“An eminently sane and revealing experiment, and one which justifies itself in the results.” Lisle Bell

+ =Freeman= 2:213 N 10 ’20 490w

“Containing whatever it does, it vindicates with unusual accuracy the critical preferences which seem to prevail just now and so embarrasses the reviewer who would like to declare something newer than that John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg are better than other poets today.”

+ =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 840w

“The most interesting thing about this volume is the curiously stratified cross section which it offers of contemporary poetry in America.” J: L. Lowes

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 25 ’20 2200w

“Here are all fashions, from free verse to the most conservative lines, and all done with exceptional finish and comprehension of poetic values. The book suggests in its general scheme those excellent Georgian anthologies. But a difference must be noted between these books and this American miscellany. In the American book is a wider range, the dissimilitude of the poets included is far greater than that of the Georgian group.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 D 5 ’20 1250w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 2:292 O 6 ’20 350w

=MITCHELL, ROY.= Shakespeare for community players. il *$2.50 Dutton 822.3

20–3019

“Mr Mitchell’s authority as director of the Hart House theater of the University of Toronto and former technical director of the Greenwich Village theater, New York, is unquestioned. Taking Shakespeare as his text, he teaches the fundamentals of stagecraft which are applicable to community production, starting with the choice of a play, and discussing organization, rehearsal, stage-setting, furniture, dresses, lighting, make-up, music and other important elements.”—Survey

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=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

+ =St Louis= 18:227 S ’20 40w

“His advice is sufficiently detailed to permit a clear grasp of all that is required. His principles are sound and scholarly.”

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 220w

“Many a professional man of the theatre could learn something from Mr Mitchell’s book. The ordinary amateur actor will find it full of ‘tips.’ To the community theatre it will be necessary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 5 ’20 700w

“Suggestions on acting and stage-directing, and full illustrations covering every phase of the text, round out the volume as one of the most helpful of the many recent contributions to what may be termed the practical literature of community drama.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 300w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 80w

=MIX, JENNIE IRENE.= At fame’s gateway. *$1.75 (1½c) Holt

20–6128

Josephine Prescott was a musical prodigy in her little town of Parksburg and the admiration of her townspeople made it possible for her to continue her studies on the piano with a famous teacher in New York. There her personal charms secured her many friends among musical and literary people whose Bohemian life she shared. A great violin virtuoso chose her for his inspiration and she loved the man in him while the artist left her indifferent. Her teacher, the great Brandt, dubious about her artistic testing, tried her out; one year, two years. In the third year he tells her that, with all her talent, she will never be a great artist, for she lacks understanding. Despondent and with all her hopes shattered, she again hears the great violinist and suddenly awakes to the realization that she understands and thrills to his music, that she no longer loves the man but the artist. And outside of the hall on the sidewalk romance stands waiting for her.

* * * * *

“Although conventional, the well-sustained suspense and the pleasant characterization give it an interest that will appeal to women and girls.”

+ =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The illuminating discussions of temperament, technique and the larger understanding necessary to genius, should prove valuable to many seeking a career in music, or indeed in any of the arts.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w

“A moral tale but interesting, it has a lot of musical good sense and is highly to be recommended to the concert-stage struck girl.”

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 50w

“The book lacks character development. The novel drags badly at times, but some of the scenes are well written. Brandt’s speeches are usually good, and as a whole it is a conscientious piece of work with an excellent moral.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 180w

=MOELLER, PHILIP.= Sophie. *$1.75 Knopf 812

20–13983

Sophie Arnould, famous Parisian singer, actor and wit of the eighteenth century, is the heroine of this comedy in three acts for which Carl Van Vechten writes a prologue giving the historical background of the play with a brief sketch of the life of Sophie Arnould. Although it is based on history, says Mr Van Vechten, the historical facts of the play are negligible while the author has “lighted up the atmosphere and the period, and re-created character. Sophie lives in this comedy, lives as she must have lived at the height of her career.” We see her as a triumphant lover, get glimpses of her as the superb artist, as the kind-hearted woman, but chiefly as the resourceful wit who cleverly outflanks her enemies.

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“Philip Moeller, the creator of ‘Madame Sand’ and of ‘Moliere,’ has developed in ‘Sophie’ more searchingly his gift of satire and sparkling repartee. The lines of his play are closely interwoven in thought, and their significance is often multiple. In the repartee and in the rapid interplay of ideas lies the individuality of Mr Moeller.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 450w

“The play fails not because its plot is unreal, its ‘morality’ frankly unmoral, its characters exaggerated. All this is true of many of those great comedies ‘which are in the best traditions of the English stage.’ It fails because it is not good of its kind.”

− =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 200w

=MONASH, SIR JOHN.= Australian victories in France in 1918. il *$8 Dutton 940.394

20–11507

“The part played by the Australian corps under Lieutenant General Monash in France during the closing months of the war is recorded in this volume. The corps commanded by Lieutenant General Monash was the largest on the western front, and while the body of his troops were Australians it contained some imperial divisions and the 27th and 30th American divisions. These troops went into action in the defence of Amiens when it was menaced by the great drive of the ‘Kaiser’s battle,’ and fought up to the taking of Montbrehain on Oct. 5.”—Boston Transcript

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“Not only a valuable document but a human chronicle that adds distinctly to the literature of the war.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 730w

+ =Spec= 124:244 F 21 ’20 1050w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 850w

=MONEY, WALTER BAPTIST.= Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. il *$2 Lane 827

20–16287

Mr Walter Herries Pollock in the introduction to this book of reminiscences pays tribute to the author as clergyman and cricketer. The book itself is a collection of anecdotes and stories, part of the accumulated store from thirty years of work as a parochial clergyman.

* * * * *

“Mr Money’s anecdotes are good, but one has the tantalizing feeling as one reads them that the printed version is only the palest reflection of the real thing.”

+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 140w

“Embedded in Mr Money’s book of anecdotes there are an extraordinarily large number of really delightful stories; but the book on the whole suffers, as do most books of good stories, in being too long.”

+ − =Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’20 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 490w

=MONKHOUSE, ALLAN NOBLE.= True love. *$2 (2c) Holt

20–13704

A psychological novel with special emphasis on the psychologic reactions of the war on its characters. Geoffrey Arden is an introspective journalist and playwright in love with Sibyl Drew, an actress. The war finds him on neutral ground and his comprehensive view leaves small room for narrow enthusiasm. Nevertheless the patriotic appeal wins out and he enlists. On proposing to Sibyl he finds that her stage name covers a German ancestry and that she is German to the core. They make a compact to be “chivalrous enemies” and lovers at the same time and in this lies the gist of the story: that to intellectually honest, well meaning people the war has presented two phases—the one the international human aspect, the other the national and patriotic.

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“Mr Monkhouse is a professional novelist, quietly confident, carefully ironical, and choosing always, at a crisis, to underrate the seriousness of the situation rather than to stress it unduly. Admirable as this temper undoubtedly is, it nevertheless leaves the reader a great deal cooler than he would wish.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1259 N 28 ’19 800w

“‘True love’ adheres to a course as conventional as its title, unrelieved by plot invention and unredeemed by emotional significance.”

− =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 50w

“But those who like much fine and high feeling and good talk and whose interest in character study is strong will find it very satisfying. There is in it a great deal of clever, sometimes brilliant, and always interesting, conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 600w

“As fiction the book is not appealing, but it is keenly and sometimes brilliantly written.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w

+ =Sat R= 128:589 D 20 ’19 400w

“‘True love’ is an interesting and painfully engrossing story, in which the author practises a most artistic self-effacement.”

+ =Spec= 122:733 N 29 ’19 750w

“His style is careful, neat and polished. His skill at play-writing has taught him how to make his novels dramatic, and the book advances in a good, orderly well-drilled fashion. Mr Monkhouse has given us a most readable novel.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 620w

=MONTAGUE, JAMES J.= More truth than poetry. *$1.75 Doran 811

20–19075

A volume of reprinted newspaper verses, many of them for or about children. Irvin Cobb, who writes the introduction, confesses that his favorites are “Healthy” and “Thoughts on pie,” of the Doughboy ditties, and “The Sleepy-town express.” Other poems are: The evening suit; Around the corner; The pictures on the panes; Why the katydids sing; Peter Pan; The mine sweepers; The road to success; The farmer’s idle wife; In behalf of the movies.

=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= England to America. *$1 (14c) Doubleday

20–8625

A reprint of a short story that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in September 1919. It is the story of an American soldier on leave who visits his English friend’s family in Devonshire. The strange reserve of his hosts puzzles him and he interprets it, as coldness towards himself or his country. On the last day the truth comes out and he learns that for his sake they have been concealing the tragic news that had just preceded his own arrival. John Drinkwater writes an appreciative introduction. The story was awarded the O. Henry memorial prize for the best American short story of 1919.

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+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 40w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w

=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. *$1 (11c) Doubleday

20–11895

A short story reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. The old southern mountaineer known as Uncle Sam, for his likeness to that national figure, has carried the fervor of the Civil war patriotism all through his life. In that spirit he gives up his only son and receives the tidings of his death in France without flinching. After the war he is heart and soul for the treaty and at the news of its rejection by the Senate takes his own life in the mystic belief that he is offering atonement for his country’s failure. The story has been commended by President Wilson.

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=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w

=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 30w

“The simple, homely, genuine appeal of the central figure of Miss Montague’s parable makes a much needed call to the better spirit of the country, the real spirit of the great masses of the people.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 600w

“It is one of those rare, great little books that all patriotic people will read eagerly and pass on to their friends, just as sixty or seventy years ago people read and passed on ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 220w

=MOODY, JOHN.= Masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street. (Chronicles of America ser.) per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 332

19–19139

“In the course of the forty-first volume in the Chronicles of America series, Mr Moody discusses the necessity and value of capital as an accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use in the production of more wealth, and he outlines in a series of nine chapters the leading factors in its development. His starting point is the rise of the house of Morgan, and thereafter he chronicles briefly, in scarcely more than two hundred pages, the development of American railroads, the rise of the ironmasters and the Standard oil company, with successive chapters on The steel trust merger, Harriman and Hill. The apex of ‘high finance,’ The panic of 1907 and after, and Wall street and the world war.”—Boston Transcript

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“Both books are written from the Wall Street standpoint. However, Mr Moody has given us two interesting, authoritative, and impartial narratives describing dramatic and not unimportant episodes in our economic history. And his firm biographies and stories of great financial deals—accompanied as they are by a constant flow of informing comment—enable an understanding reader to deduce more than he specifically tells.” V: S. Clark

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w

“The entire story of the development of American capital and capitalists is picturesque in itself and especially romantic as told by Mr Moody.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 1250w

“One of the most fascinating volumes in the entire series.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=MOODY, JOHN.= Railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 385

19–19138

“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and corporation securities.’” (St Louis)

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Reviewed by V: S. Clark

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w

“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:158 S ’20 250w

“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself at the present time.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 70w

=St Louis= 18:100 Je ’20 30w

=MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD.= Local government in ancient India; with a foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford 352

20–4025

“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all sources of information. The systems of self-government, which communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare, were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations, which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term ‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern Europe.”—Eng Hist R

=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w

“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:260 Ap ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p433 Ag 14 ’19 1050w

=MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL.= Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5

20–20904

Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman. Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books; Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in the text.

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+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s reading.”

+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 150w

“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”

+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 110w

Reviewed by Annette Wynne

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ja 8 ’21 520w

“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 100w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w

=MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.=[2] West and East. *$4 Scribner 266

(Eng ed 20–12838)

“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919 increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures, setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.” (Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page from a multitude of footnotes and references.”

+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 210w

=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to Professor Moore’s book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 S 2 ’20 2000w

=MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT.= Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710

20–19679

The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world, past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the author and his family are reflections on historical, literary, artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.

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+ =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 90w

“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight value as information.”

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”

+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 220w

“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 800w

=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 30w

“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 820w

“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and reflection with their gardening and their reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 40w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 90w

“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently recommended.”

+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 270w

“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:109 Ja 31 ’20 950w

=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday

20–5120

A party of three Americans hire a schooner in Manila and go out in search of an island of gold, on the say-so of a crazy ex-captain. The captain of the schooner and the crew, with a few exceptions, are a criminal gang who are bound to come to their reckoning whichever way the trip turns out. The island is reached but no gold is found, except the gold of love between Marjorie Locke and Robert Trask. The wicked captain and crew are outwitted, after a trial of strength, and the party returns safely to Manila.

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=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Sailor girl. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton

20–5774

A tale of adventure in the China sea. Eleanor Glendon, sole owner after her father’s death of a fleet of ships, has reason to believe that all is not well with her affairs in the Far East and she goes out to investigate on her own account. With a friend, Harriett Wade, she arrives in Manila to find that the “Coral Queen” is on the point of sailing for Hong Kong, and without warning to the captain, goes on board. She finds that the first mate is one John Strang, accused of complicity in a recent daring piece of piracy, and on hearing rumors of a plot to sink the ship readily connects him with it. But she is to learn that he is not the culprit, and following a series of stirring events, the truth comes to light and there is a reorganization of her company with a new man at its head and a wedding in prospect.

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“A satisfactory adventure-comedy-romance, stirring enough but never distressing.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 80w

“The reader will probably feel that the love story is perfunctory, while the adventure story is hair-raising enough for anyone.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 300w

=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Siberia today. il *$2 Appleton 915.7

19–19482

“As one of a number of intelligence officers dispatched by the United States to Siberia in the summer of 1918, Mr Moore had opportunity to see something of the diplomatic and political conditions of that distracted country, as well as much of its peasant life. His volume is a lively narrative devoted rather to description than to analysis.” (N Y Evening Post) “He has much of interest to tell about the people, the prisons, the Cossack chiefs, the work of Bolshevists, and the German propaganda, and there are a great number of photographs.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“A breezy account with serious convictions set down in journalistic style.”

+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 320w

“Captain Moore has a good journalistic sense, and he has enlivened his criticisms by many vivid and lively pictures of life in Siberia today.”

+ =Cath World= 111:682 Ag ’20 480w

=Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 60w

“An interesting journalistic account.”

+ =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 60w

“It is an easy, chatty chronicle that Mr Moore writes, filled with apparently insignificant details, the cumulative effect of which is to create an arresting portrayal.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 650w

+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 60w

=MOORE, GEORGE.= Avowals. *$8 priv ptd Boni & Liveright 801

19–15898

“A literary criticism in beautiful prose, much of it in the form of imaginary conversations between Moore and Gosse in which they discuss achievements in English fiction. Another conversation between Moore and an American gives the author an opportunity to state his opinion of censoring literature according to standards of morality, instead of according to art. Discussions of Tolstoy, Tourgueneff, Kipling and Pater, whom he admires greatly. A lecture in French on Shakespeare and Balzac is reproduced, together with Paris impressions.” Booklist

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=Booklist= 16:196 Mr ’20

“With all its side-issues, its personalities, its portraits, its wisdom and wit and perversity, ‘Avowals’ is fundamentally an essay on the English novel of quite extraordinary subtlety and of rare charm and stimulating power.” S: C. Chew

+ =Nation= 110:239 F 21 ’20 1000w

“Mr George Moore’s ‘Avowals’ is one of the most companionable books of criticism I know.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 440w (Reprinted from New Statesman)

“Here is Mr George Moore talking about books, and giving us the most delightful example of printed talk that we can remember to have met with in English.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 O 30 ’19 2100w

=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY=, comp. World beyond. (World Bible ser.) *$1.50 Crowell 208

20–12826

The compiler has selected passages from oriental and primitive religions bearing on life, death and immortality. The selections are arranged under three headings: The world beyond; The higher knowledge; Life.

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+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 430w

=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, and HOUSTON, CHARLES A.= Problems in business law. (College of the city of N.Y. ser in commerce. civics and technology) *$2.50 Appleton 347.7

20–9488

The present volume confines itself to stating all the various problems of a legal nature that a business man has to deal with. It is a case book, pure and simple, designed for use in classroom discussion and quizzing, giving carefully selected cases, that have actually come up for decision in court, without the answers. It is intended for business colleges, corporation training schools, commercial high schools and universities where business law is a subject of study. After giving a table of the cases cited, the subjects are grouped under: Contracts; Quasi contracts; Sales; Personal property; Chattel mortgage; Lost property; Pledged property; Bailments; Agency; Carriers; Master and servant; Suretyship and guaranty; Negotiable instruments; Checks; Insurance; Partnership; Corporations; Bankruptcy.

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=Am Econ R= 10:829 D ’20 30w

“This is perhaps the most interesting and excellent case book of commercial law ever published for use in the classroom.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 150w

=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Little school. *$1.50 Harcourt 821

This is an enlarged edition of the book by the same title, and contains children’s poems on subjects of everyday life and of special interest to children as some of the titles show: Beautiful meals; To cook; Leaf-land; A song of cleanness; Picture folk; Nursery enactments; The house we built; The wild cherry; A child muses; Snow.

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+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20

“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w

“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”

+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w

“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 250w

“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown, ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w

“Strange to say, he is successful in several of the poems. For the most part, though, he does not quite hit off the elphin twist and whimsicality of de la Mare.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 190w

=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Some soldier poets. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.09

20–17758

A series of essays on a group of young poets who are associated with the war, concluding with an essay on The best poetry, written for the Royal society of literature in 1912. Contents: Julian Grenfell; Rupert Brooke; A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon]; R. E. Vèrnede; Sorley; Francis Ledwidge; Edward Thomas; F. W. Harvey; Richard Aldington; Alan Seeger; The best poetry.

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“Mr Sturge Moore’s volume is interesting because it contains, besides much acute and serious criticism, an illuminating summary of the poet’s artistic psychology.”

+ =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 570w

=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w

“Within a fixed circle, Mr Moore’s criticism is honest and impassioned, but his vision is limited by the horizons of the nineteenth century and he abhors anything modern or irregular.”

+ − =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w

“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 860w

“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here praises.”

− =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 560w

“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He is also a master of the comparative method.”

+ − =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 720w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’20 80w

=MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE.= Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960

(Eng ed 20–22707)

The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2) Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation and reform.

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“Mr Morel writes in a clear, hard style, without prejudice or sentiment, and it will be impossible for any normal human being of white origin to read these two hundred and forty pages without a feeling of profound shame.” Llewelyn Powys

+ =Freeman= 2:522 F 9 ’21 1100w

“His attitude toward the black men is that of the liberal Englishman: that is to say, he is opposed to the past atrocities and wants Africa helped in every benevolent and philanthropic way. He has, however, no conception of a self-governing, independent black Africa.” W. E. B. Du Bois

+ − =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 640w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 280w

“The book can be judged on its merits. The merits consist in recalling and setting forth undoubted and glaring injuries inflicted upon Africa and the Africans by European individuals, companies, and governments, and in warning against the danger of repeating the injustice and wrong. The warning is needed at the present time. On the other hand, like other books of the kind, it lends itself to criticism both in detail and on general grounds. Though the author can discriminate and does, when he likes, discriminate, there are wholesale and one-sided statements and generalizations which are far too wide.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Mr 25 ’20 1200w

=MORELAND, WILLIAM HARRISON.=[2] India at the death of Akbar. *$4.50 Macmillan 954

“The opening of the seventeenth century—the period selected by Mr Moreland—was a critical epoch in the history of India. It was immediately antecedent to the appearance of new forces destined to influence India profoundly, and may be described as the close of the medieval history of India and the beginning of its modern history (it was in the year 1608 that the English ship Hector reached Surat.) For the economic story of the next three centuries substantial sources of information are available, and Mr Moreland’s aim is to supply an introduction to the study of that period. List of authorities, 5pp.’—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“Certainly no one could accuse Mr Moreland of forcing from the facts a too confident conclusion. His judgment is so cautious, so balanced, so hesitating, that if the one object of his book had been a definite comparison in material wealth and prosperity between 1605 and 1914, a captious critic might complain that the results arrived at hardly compensate for the sedulous care lavished on the inquiry. There are many shrewd reflexions on matters political and financial, the outcome of independent study and an original survey.” P. E. Roberts

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:455 Jl ’20 950w

“Mr Moreland’s excellent study of the condition of India in 1605, at the death of Akbar, shows how the subject should be approached. If we are to determine whether India has advanced or declined in wealth, we must have some standard by which to measure the changes.”

+ =Spec= 124:794 Je 12 ’20 1650w

“It is pleasant to record a further advance in the study of Indian economics. All scholars will be delighted that Mr Moreland has resisted the obvious temptation to defer publication until the sources of our information had been more fully explored. No pioneer can hope to write the definitive work upon a subject of this magnitude, and Mr Moreland may reasonably hope to earn the more enviable distinction of founding a school and seeing others build upon his foundation.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p360 Je 10 ’20 1550w

=MORGAN, ANGELA.= Hail man! *$1.25 Lane 811

20–86

With a few exceptions—which include the title poem, reprinted from the New York Times—the poems of this book appear here for the first time. They are arranged in eight sections: Symbols; Man in light; Man in darkness; Enchantment; Contrasts; Fancies; Tributes; Man tomorrow.

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+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 30w

“Her note is ecstasy con fuoco; her exaltation is unremittingly fortissimo. Often on the point of a crashing success she fails because of this very too-determined vigour. Miss Morgan can and has done far better than this. Gifted with an ease and fluency, she lets her rippling sentences run on till they become a mere babble of words.” L: Untermeyer

− + =Dial= 68:529 Ap ’20 250w

=Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 30w

“The best things in this book are the shorter and less pretentious poems, ‘Common things,’ ‘Steam’ and ‘Gardens.’ Many of the others have the energy and feeling essential to the making of poetry, even the imaginative touches, occasionally, and the love of natural beauty, but lack the masterly touch of proportioned art which might make of these spiritual conflagrations a serene and permanently shining light.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 360w

=MORGAN, ANNA BLUNT.= Little folks tramping and camping. il *$1.75 (3c) Lothrop

20–17826

A bird book for children with information presented in story form. The Marsden children learn about birds from an uncle who is an enthusiast. Their study begins in the winter with tramps through the snow to the haunts of cedar waxwings, grossbeaks and other winter habitants, and for Marshall, the eldest, who is an invalid, a feeding shelf is arranged outside the window to attract nuthatches and chickadees. The expeditions are continued into the spring and early summer and in July the children are taken on a camping trip where they learn more about wild life and where Marshall grows strong and well. The birds studied are those native to Wisconsin.

=MORGAN, BYRON.= Roaring road. *$1.75 (3c) Doran

20–9273

Stories of automobile racing, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. The titles are: The junkpile sweepstakes; The undertaker’s handicap; The roaring road; The hippopotamus parade; Second-hand ghosts; The bear trap. The same characters appear in all the stories.

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“A chain of stories, that stir the blood and keep the attention in a manner that is sometimes called ‘breathless.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 15 ’21 290w

“Mr Morgan’s style is perfectly suited to his matter; the sharp staccato of his sentences is like the clean-cut crash of a flaming exhaust, and the sustained, compelling flight of his narrative matches the speed of the plunging, pounding cars of which he writes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 450w

=MORGAN, JOHN DAVID.= Principles of electric spark ignition in internal combustion engines. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 621.43

(Eng ed 20–12283)

“During the past few years a large amount of research has been carried out on ignition problems, and the object in the following chapters is to bring together the main results which are of direct value to designers and students interested particularly in the patrol[petrol] engine. Discussion of design and constructional details of ignition apparatus has been excluded, for the reason that the need for information of this kind is already well supplied.” (Preface) Contents: Gas characteristics; Spark characteristics; Interaction of spark and gas; Spark plug and test gap characteristics; Spark generator characteristics; Index. References follow the chapters and there are thirty-nine figure illustrations in the text.

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“A wide circle of readers will feel grateful to the author for providing in this convenient form an account of the more important work along these lines, and for the reference which he provides to the sources from which information in fuller detail may be obtained. Mr Morgan puts them still further in his debt by the lucidity with which he writes.”

+ =Nature= 104:372 D 11 ’19 340w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ja ’20 30w

=MORGAN, WILLIAM THOMAS.= English political parties and leaders during the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (Yale historical publications) *$2.75 Yale univ. press 942.06

20–7448

“In this book the author embodies the results of many years of painstaking and fruitful research. He has carefully studied ‘the new evidence that has become available in the last thirty years’—in the archives of England and Holland, in the recent reports of the Historical manuscripts commission, as well as in a mass of pamphlets and periodicals—and has reread, with a keen eye, all the older literature on the period, including the materials on which it has been based. He has been able to show that Queen Anne was a much more assertive person than is commonly believed, and that, from the beginning, the Duchess of Marlborough exercised much less influence on the policy of her sovereign than most writers on the period have assumed. On this perplexing period when personalities counted for so much, and when cabinet and party government were still in such an inchoate state, new lights are thrown; moreover, much fresh vivid detail is presented on the iniquitous methods of conducting elections which had come into vogue.”—Am Hist R

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“Building on such secure and broad foundations he has succeeded in constructing a sound and enduring work.” A. L. Cross

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:132 O ’20 600w

“The author has been able to gain access to a large amount of hitherto inaccessible material which has enabled him to produce a critical discussion of this era of much value to the historical student.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 540w

“Mr Morgan has written ably for scholars, and has performed just that sort of task which it is incumbent upon contemporary scientific historians to accomplish.” J. W. Krutch

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 30 ’20 780w

“The book is extremely interesting, too, for its sketches of the leading politicians, as illustrated from their correspondence. Mr Morgan would have added to the value of his numerous citations from unpublished papers if he had dated them. It is sometimes difficult to follow his argument for lack of the dates of the letters to which he refers.”

+ − =Spec= 125:340 S 11 ’20 1450w

“Professor Morgan has his merits, but he takes himself very seriously. His predecessors on the same voyage are swept aside with minute omniscience. He seems to us to mistake the phases of influence for the permanence of character, and to be indiscriminate in the party labels he applies. But in the process of his criticism he has rendered a real service to history.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p628 S 30 ’20 1850w

=MORGENSTERN, JULIAN.= Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. il *$1.50 Union of Am. Hebrew congregations 222

19–11743

“This book is addressed to two publics: teachers in Jewish religious schools, that their instruction may be more authoritative and effective; and non-professional students of the Bible, to help them in getting a first-hand knowledge of Judaism. The author stands squarely on the assured results of thoroughgoing critical scholarship, recognizing clearly the presence of myth, legend, and tradition in Genesis, and relative little authentic history, but he is not content to stop with analysis. Whereas most scholars wholly ignore the motives and ideas controlling authors and editors in the process of producing the book as it now stands, the investigation of these motives and ideas is the point of departure for Rabbi Morgenstern, for whom Genesis is ‘a Jewish work, written by Jewish authors, and edited by Jewish thinkers, the product of Jewish religious genius, and a unit of Jewish thought and doctrine,’ hence to be interpreted from a positive Jewish standpoint.”—Bib World

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“The author selects his materials wisely, and his comments, critical and practical, are discriminating. Rabbi Morgenstern has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his purpose.”

+ =Bib World= 54:315 My ’20 300w

=Booklist= 16:258 My ’20

=Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 390w

=MORISON, JOHN LYLE.= British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–1854. *$2.50 Oxford 342.71

“In ‘British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–54,’ Professor J. L. Morison of Queen’s university, Kingston, Canada, makes an interesting study of the manner in which imperial ascendancy and colonial autonomy were reconciled in the years of early Victorian Canada. He emphasizes the thought that the evolution of colonial Canada into a self-governing dominion was the wisest and best solution of the great problem that confronted the British and Canadian statesmen; through it, he holds, there was great gain to all concerned—gain to the empire as well as to the people across the Atlantic. That it caused no weakening of the tie between the mother country and the daughter land was demonstrated, we are reminded, by the magnificent conduct of Canada in the great war with Germany.”—N Y Times

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“The volume is indeed thrice blest; it is felicitous in expression, scholarly in treatment, and broad-minded in its interpretation of public affairs. Notwithstanding its limitations, this volume easily stands out as the best contribution to Canadian history in recent years.” C. D. Allin

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:531 Ap ’20 900w

=Ath= p963 S 26 ’19 140w

“By far the most important contribution of the volume is the series of vitally human studies of the four Canadian governors-general from 1839 to 1854—Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and Elgin. Apart from the personal equipment of the author in scholarly training, fair-mindedness, absence of racial prejudice, and attractive literary style, his work has the great advantage of a first-hand study of documents, hitherto unavailable, or but slightly employed by writers on Canadian history. The closing chapter, The consequences of Canadian autonomy, is much the least satisfactory.” Adam Shortt

+ − =Canadian Hist R= n s 1:77 Mr ’20 1450w

“In thanking Dr Morison for a very able and stimulating volume one may be allowed to enter a caveat against the attitude of somewhat contemptuous superiority assumed towards past statesmen.” H. E. Egerton

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:145 Ja ’20 1000w

+ =N Y Times= 25:254 My 16 ’20 160w

“Excellent book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 O 2 ’19 1300w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Hide and seek. *$1.50 Doran 811

20–19297

A volume of Verses, Sonnets, and Translations from the Chinese, varying from the broadly humorous to the whimsical and tender. The “translations,” the author frankly states, are based on a rather rudimentary knowledge of the language gleaned from laundry slips. The poems are reprinted from the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Life, and other periodicals.

* * * * *

“Christopher Morley is not quite so successful this time. He still tries to blend sugary light verse with even more sugary lyrics. He is at his best in the lowbrow translations from the ‘Chinese.’” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 120w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 160w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Kathleen. il *$1.25 (5c) Doubleday

20–5771

The story is an Oxford undergraduate prank. The Scorpions, literary club, agree to write a serial story on shares. In lieu of ideas they make up a tale around certain names mentioned in a letter accidentally found and signed Kathleen. They work themselves up into some romantic fervor about their heroine and eventually go on an expedition to find the real Kathleen at the address mentioned in the letter. She is all their fancy has painted. Under various disguises they gain entrance to her home and after an orgy of mystification, Blair, the Rhodes scholar from Tennessee, makes a clean confession and carries off the palm of victory.

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“A slight and amusing tale.”

+ =Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 10w

“‘Kathleen’ is forced from beginning to end. ‘Kathleen’ is a warning to all writers who ignore the fact that there are difficulties even in the construction of a trifle designed for an hour’s entertainment.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 260w

+ =Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 160w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Pipefuls. il *$2 Doubleday 817

20–20442

“Pipefuls” is apropos of the brevity of the sketches in this collection compiled from the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and other journals. The author characteristically declares: “These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits.... And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living?” (Preface) In one of the sketches, Confessions of a “colyumist,” in which he expatiates on the task of conducting a newspaper column, he thus parodies Wordsworth:

“The meanest paragraph that blows will give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for sneers.”

The illustrations are from drawings by Walter Jack Duncan.

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+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“Short crisp amusing papers with the mellowness and pungency which are characteristic of this fluent author’s work.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:348 D ’20 30w

“Mr Morley is like a painter who converts the commonplace into a work of art.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 Ja ’21 30w

“In other words, if one wants to believe things honestly worth while, despite unquestioned difficulties, if one wants to walk in the reflected sunshine he sheds on the ‘sunny side of Grub street,’ if one longs to see the ultimate value of unconsidered trifles, if, in fact, one asks for a lifting grin at the bad crossings, or only some fun, humanwise, by the way, read Christopher Morley.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 1000w

“Mr Morley, one is glad to see, seems to be shaking off the sugar-crystals which were threatening to encase his style; and in this volume one rejoices in passages of real charm, the product of an alert and sensitive imagination.”

+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 180w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Travels in Philadelphia. il *$1.50 (2c) McKay 917.48

20–5213

In his introduction to this collection of sketches, originally printed in the Evening Public Ledger, A. Edward Newton says: “Where else shall we find simplicity, the gayety, the kindly humor, and the charm of this gentle essayist? Who, other than Morley, could make a walk out Market street of interest and a source of fun?... Who, but he, could find in the commonplace, sordid, and depressing streets of our city, subjects for a sheaf of dainty little essays, as delightful as they are unique?” Some of the titles are: Little Italy; Meeting the gods for a dime; Trailing Mrs Trollope; The Ronaldson cemetery; Chestnut street from a fire escape; The recluse of Franklin square; Up the Wissahickon; The Whitman centennial; Anne Gilchrist’s house; Penn treaty park; At the mint; Madonnas of the curb; On the sightseeing bus; Putting the city to bed. The illustrations are from drawings by Frank H. Taylor.

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“These articles combine a happy, not too studied description with pleasant humor into a congenial guide book to Philadelphia.”

+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

“The book is here for everybody to read and take pleasure in whether or not they have ever seen Philadelphia. Perhaps some day Mr Morley will come hither and give us a like book about Boston.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 29 ’20 650w

+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 110w

“To an old Philadelphian the insight of Mr Christopher Morley is really wondrous.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:284 My 30 ’20 550w

=MORLEY, LINDA H., and KIGHT, ADELAIDE C.= 2400 business books and guide to business literature. *$5 Wilson, H. W. 016

This is a revision of the work called “1600 business books,” compiled by Sarah B. Ball and published in 1916. It has been prepared by Linda H. Morley and Adelaide C. Kight of the Business branch of the Newark public library, under the direction of John Cotton Dana. “The sub-title ‘Guide to business literature’ is added to make it plain that the book is far more than a list of 2400 volumes. It is an index to the contents of those volumes; that is, it lists, in alphabetic order, under 2000 different headings, the subjects which are treated in these 2400 books. These headings are in addition to those entries which give the names of the writers of the 2400 books and in addition to the entries which give their titles.” (Introd.) The entries are arranged in one alphabet, with a publishers’ directory at the close.

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=Booklist= 17:136 Ja ’21

=MORRIS, EDWIN BATEMAN.= Cresting wave. *$1.75 Penn

20–4440

“An American story of a young, successful, but unscrupulous, financier, giving a picture of society financial markets, and the conflict of business methods and the passion of love.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

“Edwin Bateman Morris’s preceding novels have prepared us for moderately good tales from his pen, and ‘The cresting wave’ is no disappointment.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 160w

“The author here has taken a safe course in his novel of more than four hundred pages, and if he presents us with nothing especially new, at least he does no violence to no tradition and does not attempt to paint his hero in impossible colors.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:330 Je 20 ’20 400w

“‘The cresting wave’ is built upon one of the very oldest of ideas or morals: namely, that it is better to be decent than successful, better to serve than to grasp. Perhaps my gratitude to young William Spade for neither trying to write a novel nor spouting free verse nor hanging about cafes and studios in search of ‘life’ prejudices me unduly in his favor.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 250w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 240w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p285 My 6 ’20 50w

=MORRIS, HARRISON SMITH.= Hannah Bye. *$1.75 Penn

20–7646

“The Quaker life and character is sketched in this simple and sweet story of Hannah Bye. The scene is in a Quaker community and the characters are varied. Here is Deborah Bye, cold, harsh, uncompromising, whose conscience forms her whole character and whose personality rather than her religion, forms her conscience. Her daughter, Hannah, the heroine of the story, is a far sweeter character and one which appeals strongly to the reader. Ruth Blake, her nearest friend, makes the acquaintance of a city visitor to the country, of whom Hannah warns her without success. The fall comes and Hannah, in her effort to keep and save Ruth, draws upon herself her mother’s anger. The peaceful home is shattered but Hannah in the end restores its peace.”—Boston Transcript

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“The story is restful, with here and there a dash of humor, but one which will appeal to all in its quiet delineation of character, which appears to be drawn from real life.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 150w

“Mr Morris’s descriptions of the country are sympathetic and reveal an artist’s eye; he has handled the Quaker jargon with some success, but not exhaustively or to the complete satisfaction of the insider. Any Quaker will, certainly, take exception to the hard, domineering character attributed to Hannah’s mother, Deborah Bye. The Quaker meeting for worship is also incongruous, and the dance and its sequel are inappropriately melodramatic.” W. W. Comfort

+ − =Nation= 111:621 D 1 ’20 500w

“The picture of a little rural community centered about the quaint meeting-house of the society of Friends is delightful.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 150w

=MORRISON, ALFRED JAMES.= East by west; essays in transportation. *$1.50 (3½c) Four seas co. 382

20–26869

“A commentary on the political framework within which the East India trade has been carried on from early times, starting with Babylon and ending very near Babylon.” (Subtitle) The book begins with the twentieth century before Christ describing the avenues of trade to and from Babylon, “formed by position for a seat of empire and commerce,” and falls into two parts, part one ending with Venice as the great commercial center in the fifteenth century. Part two begins with the trade ascendancy of Portugal, at the time of the discovery of America, and ends with the Bagdad railway and “The great transportation war.” An edition of the book was published by Sherman, French in 1917.

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“The book was probably not designed and is certainly not adapted to fit the needs of a serious student, but may attract the casual reader by its rapid movement and informal style.”

+ =Am Hist R= 26:138 O ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20

+ =Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 140w

=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 220w

“Some of the remarks seem but remotely connected with the subject of transportation.”

+ − =Review= 3:626 D 22 ’20 380w

“The underlying causes which caused the movements of civilization are dealt with in a lively style, which is not often found in books of this kind.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 120w

=MORSE, EDWIN WILSON.= Life and letters of Hamilton Wright Mabie. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd

20–20980

A biography of a distinguished author, editor and lecturer, quoting liberally from his letters and from the letters written to him by others. There are chapters on: Ancestry, boyhood and youth; At Williams college in the ‘sixties; Recollections of Dr Mark Hopkins and Emerson; In the uncongenial law; On the staff of the Christian Union; Associate editor of the Christian Union; A memorable decade; Non-professional activities; Literary honors; The middle period; Ambassador of peace to Japan; The world war; The last year; Editor, author and lecturer; Character and personality. There is an index of names and places.

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+ =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

“Mr Morse’s ‘The life and letters of Hamilton W. Mabie’ is conceived and carried through in the spirit of its subject. It is clear, sympathetic, and convincing.” H: Van Dyke

+ =Bookm= 52:355 Ja ’21 1150w

“Mr Morse has performed his task excellently, with sufficient fulness and good judgment in selection of his material. The book is also well illustrated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w

“The reviewer does not mean to suggest that Mr Morse’s volume is dull, but is far from exciting. The subject of it led an uneventful life, in the sense that there were few dramatic happenings in his life.”

+ − =N Y Times= p20 Ja 16 ’21 1950w

=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 90w

“Shows careful and sympathetic study of an influential American.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 600w

=MOSHER, MRS ANGE (MCKAY).= Spell of Brittany. il *$3 Duffield 914.4

20–21069

This volume by an American woman who had lived long in Brittany is devoted largely to its history, traditions and folklore. There are chapters on Madame de Sévigné; Folk-lore and Jeanne de Pontorson; Mont St Michel and its legends; St Malo and Chateaubriand; A folk song of St Malo; Dinard, Dinan and excursions; Félix de Lamennais; The legend and pardon of St Yves; Breton wedding; Brest and the adjacent islands; Audierne, and the legend of Ys; Saints and fairies; Nantes and Anne of Brittany, etc. Among the illustrations are reproductions of paintings. There is an index. The introduction by Anatole LeBraz is in the nature of a memorial to the author, who died in 1918.

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“Good print and make-up.”

+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 80w

“Exceedingly bright and fascinating are these chapters out of the life of a lovely woman who made the study of these people her avocation, if not her actual vocation.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 580w

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 270w

=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 50w

=MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA.= Finding a way out; an autobiography. *$2.50 (4½c) Doubleday

20–10075

In writing his story it was the hope of the author “that the telling of it would serve a useful purpose, especially at this time, in helping to a clearer understanding of the hopes and aspirations of my own people and the difficulties which they have overcome in making the progress of the last fifty years which has been so frequently described as ‘the most remarkable of any race in so short a time.’” (Preface) Contents: Out of Africa; On a Virginia plantation; Through reconstruction; Doing and learning; A touch of real life; Ending student days; Black, white, and red; With north and south; From Hampton to Tuskegee; At Tuskegee; War activities; Forward movements in the south; Index. The author succeeded Booker T. Washington as head of Tuskegee institute.

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“This autobiography not only impresses one with the worth and dignity of its writer but charms and amuses the reader with the sense of humor and the sweetness which the author has carried with him.”

+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

+ =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 110w

“If not so romantic as the autobiography of his predecessor, Dr Booker T. Washington nevertheless this story of the life of the present head of Tuskegee, is a document of vital interest. The chapters on From Hampton to Tuskegee and At Tuskegee are among the most important of Dr Moton’s autobiography.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 730w

Reviewed by M. W. Ovington

=Freeman= 1:500 Ag 4 ’20 800w

+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 50w

“We wish that this volume might find its way into every public library in the United States and into every school and church library in the South.”

+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 280w

“His book deserves to be read on his own account, and also for the side lights that it throws upon negro conditions and problems.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w

“It is easy to read and is highly informing and inspiring regarding the career of one of America’s outstanding figures in contemporary affairs. It is bound to be read, especially by those who enjoy an unusual autobiography.” F. P. Chisholm

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w

=MOTTELAY, PAUL FLEURY=, comp. Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim; knight, chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, etc. il *$2 (4c) Lane

20–13086

Biographical facts are set forth in a foreword by the author. This is followed by an introduction by Lord Moulton. The body of the book is then devoted to the inventions of Sir Hiram Maxim, with chapters on: Electric lighting; Maxim automatic gun; Powders; Explosives; Erosion of guns; Fuzes; Gun for attacking Zeppelins; Lewis gun—Madsen gun; Flight of a projectile; Aerial navigation; etc. There are seven illustrations, appendixes and index.

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=Ath= p604 My 7 ’20 700w

=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w

=Spec= 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 180w

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

=MOULTON, JOHN FLETCHER MOULTON, 1st baron.= Science and war. pa *80c (7½c) Putnam 509

(Eng ed 19–15830)

This small volume contains the Rede lecture for 1919, at Cambridge university. In beginning his enumeration of the debts the war owes to science Lord Moulton, without apparent ironical intent, points out that science made the war possible. He shows that the war represented “the results of the totality of scientific progress” from the beginning and then devotes himself to the more recent developments of science and invention that determined the character and extent of the war. In conclusion he warns that the next war may mean not only the end of civilization but the self-destruction of mankind.

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=Ath= p786 Ag 22 ’19 340w

Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg

=Nation= 111:104 Jl 24 ’20 160w

+ =Spec= 123:284 Ag 30 ’19 90w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 180w

=MOULTON, RICHARD GREEN=, ed. Modern reader’s Bible for schools; the New Testament. *$2.25 Macmillan 225

20–5983

“‘The modern reader’s Bible’ is not a new translation. It is the ordinary Bible (revised version), without alteration as to matter or wording, but printed in such a way as to bring out to the eye the full literary form and structure. This literary form and structure refers to such things as the difference between story, song, drama, discourse, essay: the distinction between verse and prose, together with the delicate variations of verse which make such a large part of the effect of poetry.” (Introd.) In addition to the general introduction each of the three parts, Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation, has its special introduction. Some forty pages of notes are arranged at the end and there is an index “designed to give assistance in the more systematic reading of the New Testament.” There is also a frontispiece map.

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=Booklist= 16:355 Jl ’20

“On the whole the book seems admirably adapted to the purpose intended—to provide a text of the New Testament with explanations adequate and truthful yet thoroughly adapted virginibus puerisque.”

+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 200w

“Professor Moulton’s ‘Reader’s Bible,’ good as it is, does not please everyone because he varies the order of the canon, and because he adopts the revised version. However, we are glad to see his simplified edition of the New Testament. It is far easier to read than any ordinary Testament.”

+ =Spec= 125:540 O 23 ’20 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S 30 ’20 120w

=MOWAT, ROBERT BALMAIN.= Henry V. il *$3.50 Houghton 942.04

“Henry V in his day was held to be the pattern of a chivalrous knight: round his name has centred the romance of medieval England; in his person Shakespeare found already expressed the glory of the Elizabethan age, the symbol of our national aspirations. The character of Henry V has many of the faults but all the virtues of his time; ... his kindness and good fellowship; his bravery and sense of justice; his unremitting industry; his piety.” (