Chapter 1

: “I am blind—but no blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s

## part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.

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“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of the Czar are especially interesting.”

+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 100w

“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 900w

“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as

## bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually

fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”

− + =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w

“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors, its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 270w

“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 260w

=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327

(Eng ed 20–12064)

The present volume was originally a part of a larger unpublished work. The chapters of that work dealing with Japan’s internal affairs were published in 1917 under the title “Japan at the cross roads” while the chapters dealing with Japan’s foreign affairs compose the present book. It records the rapid imperialistic developments in Japan and its Chinese policy and hints at the possibility of a war between America and Japan in the making. Contents: Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliances; Japan’s real policy in China; The first revolution in China, 1911–12; The second revolution in China, 1912–13; Japan, America and Mexico, 1911–14; The twenty-one demands; Japan’s commercial expansion, 1914–18; Note.

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=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 750w

Reviewed by A. P. Danton

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 31 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

=Review= 3:474 N 17 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w

“In the present work special knowledge is manifest, but its value is vitiated from the outset by the violence of the author’s unconcealed hostility. His book is a sweeping judgment, and, like all sweeping judgments, unjust. There is evidence of this kind of haste throughout the book, from the literary as well as from the critical point of view.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p462 Jl 22 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

=Yale R n s= 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Rachel Fitzpatrick. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–11899

The heroine is an Irish girl who spends two years with wealthy relatives in London. The Fitzpatricks belong to the gentry but are very poor and gladly accept the offer that means two years of education for Rachel. At the end of the two years she goes to Germany. The war finds her there alone with her aunt’s German husband, who takes advantage of the situation to make love to her. She runs away and after many difficulties reaches Ireland. The course of the war and the Irish attitude are touched upon and the story ends with Rachel’s marriage to her sailor lover.

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“The authoress’s naive Irish heroine is skilfully and naturally drawn.”

+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w

“If there is a fault to be found with this story, it is that enough is not made of the big scenes in the life of the charming heroine. Yet, this does not, somehow, detract from the pleasure of the book, which is charmingly written in a style that is too rapidly passing. A good part of the pleasure derived from the story is due to its clever characterizations.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 550w

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w

“A novel which is neither better nor worse than hundreds of others.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:455 My 15 ’20 140w

“What is perhaps the chief merit of quite a readable story is the pictures of Irish life and character, of which the author has an intimate knowledge.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 150w

=POPENOE, WILSON.= Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Rural manuals) il *$5 Macmillan 634

20–15789

“The author is an expert, employed as agricultural explorer for the United States Department of agriculture. On his title page he announces his design of excluding the banana, the cocoanut, the pineapple, citrus fruits, the olive and the fig.... He begins with the avocado, which many people in the regions where it grows often call the avocado pear. He displays his scientific knowledge by giving first a botanical description of the avocado, its history and distribution, its composition and its uses.... The story of the avocado is followed with similar considerations of the mango, the date, the papaya and its relatives, the loquat, the guava and its intimates, the litchi, kaki, pomegranate, breadfruit and a great variety of other fruits of lesser fame, about which few of us have heard.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 300w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 320w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 100w

=PORTER, ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (MRS JOHN LYMAN PORTER) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Mary Marie. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton

20–8035

Her father had wanted to name her Mary, her mother Marie. Mary Marie was the compromise. But there had come a time when compromise seemed no longer possible, followed by separation and divorce. Mary Marie spends six months of the year with her father, six with her mother, and she tells about it in her diary. In one house she is Marie. In the other she tries to be Mary. But after awhile things get so mixed up she doesn’t know which she is, for she finds her mother trying to make her into a staid, dignified Mary, while her father seems to be encouraging the Marie side of her. And then she is the means of bringing the two together, and the book closes with a postscript that gives a glimpse of Mary Marie’s grown-up story.

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=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“The book is very readable, and occasionally amusing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 420w

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 4 ’20 600w

“The story falls short of what we expect from Miss Eleanor H. Porter.”

+ − =Spec= sup p782 D 3 ’20 60w

“Beneath the light tone of the narrative may be observed a serious moral. The frequent misfortunes of divorce, especially where there are children, are pointedly apparent here. But Mary Marie will be loved for herself alone, for her quaint observations, for her unspoiled character, and for her earnest efforts to understand life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S30 ’20 30w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Egan. *$1.90 (2c) Dodd

20–15701

When Bronson Egan came back to Plainfield, Ohio, after four years of service in France, he found his status very different from what it had previously been. He went away the only son of a wealthy father, and practically engaged to one of the city’s most attractive girls. He came back to find his father dead, their business wrecked, and the girl reengaged to a stay-at-home. With characteristic determination he set himself to gain back what he had lost. It was not all plain sailing, however, for he had keen rivals in business as well as love. But he had staunch friends as well, and the end of the story finds him re-established in business on a firmer basis than before, and happy in the love of a girl who is more worthy of him than the fickle Mary.

* * * * *

“The business element is particularly well developed.”

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“Aside from occasional lapses, Mr Hall’s style is well adapted to his material, which is in part new.” C. K. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 530w

“It is the substantial characterization which makes the book finally so satisfactory. Its fresh and rapid story-telling ought to win for it a large general audience.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w

“There is no letup in the interest, and the business element is especially well handled.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w

“The present story is worthy of praise especially for the consistency and humanness of young Egan. Perhaps the financial and business sides of the book are a little too much to the front, but, as a whole, the novel keeps the reader’s attention on the alert, and it includes some exceedingly good character depiction.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 170w

“The novel exists for its narrative, which is neatly conceived and marks Mr Porter’s further growth in the art of story-telling. It flows along with agreeable humor, and the reader’s interest is sustained without recourse to theatricalities.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 580w

=PORTER, REBECCA NEWMAN.= Girl from Four Corners. il *$1.75 (2c) Holt

20–6861

A California story with scenes laid on a lonely ranch and in San Francisco. Margaret Garrison, disappointed in the man she loves, yields to Frederick Bayne’s sudden wooing and goes to live on his ranch in Mendocino county. The marriage is unhappy, but with fine courage she makes the best of it and trains her little daughter, Freda, to be true to the highest ideals. Most of the story has to do with the career of this daughter, who after her mother’s death goes to San Francisco where she passes thru many experiences, some of them tragic, and finally finds happiness and love.

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“The story is entertainingly told, and toward the end a dramatic touch is thrown in.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 120w

=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Mystery at the Blue villa. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton

20–1695

Seventeen dramatic short stories by the author of “Uncle Abner.” The settings in these stories are selected from many fascinatingly remote, and also familiar places. In the title story the action takes place at Port Said, a refuge for human derelicts, “the devil’s halfway house,” where through cleverly playing upon a guilty man’s fear of the supernatural, a dying sculptor gets money enough to die in the way it pleases him. “The great legend,” narrated by a semi-French, semi-oriental gentleman sitting beside a fire made of bleached bones, on an undulating, moonlit desert of sand, takes us to the underworld of Paris. “The miller of Ostend” is a tale of Belgium. “The pacifist” is a story of the United States and a German spy. Other titles are: The laughter of Allah; The witch of the Lecca; The new administration; The Baron Starkheim.

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“Though somewhat overdramatic and artificial, the plots are clever and interesting.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 40w

“The stories are well told and the people have much more character and individuality than is usual among inhabitants of mystery tales.”

+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 140w

“They have variety and freshness, and, if occasionally overemphasized, they are never trite.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“In the matter of untangling a crime or running a mystery to its lair Melville Davisson Post can give even the immortal Holmes himself quite a brush. His latest collection in no way falls short of the Uncle Abner tales.” E. C. Webb

+ =Pub W= 96:1694 D 27 ’19 240w

“All have the merit of sustaining the reader’s interest up to an unexpected conclusion.”

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

=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Sleuth of St James’s square. *$2 (3c) Appleton

20–18613

A book of mystery stories. There are sixteen in all, and in each of them Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal investigation department of Scotland yard, figures. He is not the Sherlock Holmes type of detective, for mystery and solution seem to run side by side, instead of being spread out like a pattern before him. Some of the tales Sir Henry reads from the diary of an ancestor. The titles are: The thing on the hearth; The reward; The lost lady; The cambered foot; The man in the green hat; The wrong sign; The fortune teller; The hole in the mahogany panel; The end of the road; The last adventure; American horses; The spread rails; The pumpkin coach; The yellow flower; A satire of the sea; The house by the loch. Many of the tales journey far afield from St James’s square for their setting. Some have already appeared in short story form in popular magazines.

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+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“The stories are short, piquant and cleverly maneuvered, though the mechanism which moves the puppets is sometimes a bit too evident and there is great lack of originality in the gestures made by them either when they pause or start up again.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 500w

“They are not only unusual in construction; they are very well written, and with but few exceptions, close with a twist which will surprise even the skilled and habitual reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 D 12 ’20 380w

“The author’s method is unusual and some of the tales are remarkably good.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 130w

=POSTGATE, R. W.= Bolshevik theory. *$2 Dodd 335

The book is a sincere attempt to state what Bolshevism is and what it is not—to clear away “the atmosphere of a dog-fight which surrounds this subject.” (Introd.) The author claims for it that it is neither pro-bolshevik nor anti-bolshevik. “It is a mere exposition. It is true that a certain amount of intelligent sympathy is necessary for the understanding of a point of view. The marks of some such sympathy may be traced in this book. This is inevitable, for it is merely the reflection of the author’s belief that bolshevik theories are neither inhuman ... nor logically ridiculous.... If these assumptions are not correct, then Bolshevism is not worth considering.” (Introd.) The contents are: What is Bolshevism? Controversies; The dictatorship of the proletariat; On dictatorship; The two roads; The pedigree of Bolshevism; Extracts and comments; Syndicalism, Blanquism and Bolshevism; Karl Kautsky; Industrial pacifism; The soviet; The future of the soviet. There are appendices and a bibliographical note.

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+ =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 190w

Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin

=Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 210w

“R. W. Postgate has set forth in a clear and concise manner the facts about Bolshevism.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 2 ’21 220w

=Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 140w

“His historical allusions are not to be depended upon. Many of the rest of Mr Postgate’s references to the Bolshevists, past and present, and to General Denikin and other anti-Bolshevists, are equally unreliable.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 1200w

=POTTER, MIRIAM CLARK.= Rhymes of a child’s world. il *$2 Four seas co. 811

A book of little verses for children. It is a collection of poems about the everyday things, child fancies, and lullabies. There are three groups of poems: In the house; Outdoors at play; Twilight songs. The illustrations are by Ruth Fuller Stevens. Many of the poems have appeared in the Youth’s Companion, St Nicholas and Little Folks.

* * * * *

“Such quaint imagery greatly appeals to the dreamy child. The illustrations by Ruth Fuller Stevens are especially charming and nicely adapted to the text.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 160w

“Deserves to be noted for its naturalness and fidelity to childish moods. It has a strong appeal to both old and young.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 70w

“Both verse and illustration have the subtle quality of imagination, even when their theme sounds realistic. These poems are amusing to children and well worth the attention of their elders.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 90w

=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay on the Chinese written character. *$3.50 Boni & Liveright 814

20–8532

“A collection of criticisms and essays, with an essay by Fenollosa on the Chinese written character, edited by Pound. There are short sketches of the modern French poets with quotations; a detailed appreciative criticism of Henry James and his works; another on Remy de Gourmont; a group including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot Wyndham Lewis, Lytton Strachey, the new poetry; essay by Jules Laforgue, an amusing commentary on Genesis, a discussion of Arnaut Daniel and some sharp raps at Greek translators, including Browning.”—Booklist

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+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“An important point, however, about Mr Pound’s critical writings, which has been generally neglected, is this: they do satisfy two very conspicuous demands of the American public; the demand for ‘constructive criticism,’ and the demand for ‘first rate school teaching.’” W. C. Blum

+ =Dial= 69:422 O ’20 900w

=Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 550w

“The ‘Instigations of Ezra Pound’ have this virtue—they badger and bully us out of a state of intellectual backwardness.” Padraic Colum

+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 650w

− =N Y Times= 25:293 Je 6 ’20 1300w

“Stimulating and provocative statements provide an intellectual shower bath.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 320w

=POWELL, CHARLES.= Poets in the nursery. *$1.50 Lane 827

20–19194

To this collection of parodies on well-known poets, John Drinkwater writes an introduction to the effect that although parodies are usually a defilement of poetry and contemptible, these never outrage our love of poetry but exercise it in a very friendly intimacy. Mr Powell, he says, invariably catches his subject’s external manner with easy precision, the underlying spiritual force never evades him and he measures himself successfully against the poet’s impulse as well as against its formal expression. While Mother Goose furnishes the subjects the poets are: G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Alfred Noyes, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, William Watson, Austin Dobson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, W. E. Henley, D. G. Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyám, Francis Thompson, Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson.

* * * * *

“John Drinkwater’s introduction to ‘The poets in the nursery’ leads us to expect work of high distinction, and though we find traces of burlesque now and then, our expectations are realized.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 200w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= New frontiers of freedom, from the Alps to the Ægean. il *$2.50 (5c) Scribner 914.9

20–7665

The author has traveled by motor car and by sea “from the Alps to the Ægean, in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Rumania, Hungary and Serbia” and gives his impressions of what he saw in these countries during the year succeeding the armistice while they and their people were in a state of political flux. “To have seen millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty like cattle which have been sold—these are sights the like of which will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our children” and, the author thinks, may serve to illustrate an important

## chapter in history. Contents: Across the redeemed lands; The

borderland of Slav and Latin; The cemetery of four empires; Under the cross and the crescent; Will the sick man of Europe recover? What the peace-makers have done on the Danube; Making a nation to order. There are numerous illustrations from photographs.

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+ =Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

“Major Powell gives an excellent description of d’Annunzio. He has brought the same keenness of observation and ease of style to the other portraits in this volume, which range from picturesque peasants to exiled royalties. His treatment of the political situation in the countries he visited is marked by clarity and fairness.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 500w

“This narrative is spirited and colorful throughout.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 80w

“A book as interesting as it is instructive.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 250w

=POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON=, ed. Social unrest. 2v $2.50 Review of reviews co. 308

20–1056

“The two volumes entitled ‘The social unrest’ present the best current thought of leading authorities as now focussed on the industrial and social problems of the day. The opinions of President Wilson and ex-president Taft are set forth side by side with those of Karl Marx, Morris Hillquit and Sidney Webb. All schools of opinion have here at least the privilege of utterance. The material has been edited and coordinated by Dr Lyman P. Powell.”—R of Rs

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=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 60w

+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 60w

=R of Rs= 61:223 F ’20 200w

“We fear the editor’s somewhat hesitant attempt to link up these pieces into something looking like a methodically arranged whole has not been successful—at least we are unable to tell what the plan of that arrangement really is. But it is the collection itself that counts, and this is of great interest.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 280w

=POWER, RHODA.= Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. *$2 McBride 947

20–2711

“A record of domestic experiences in a bourgeois household in Rostov, on the Don, during the old régime, the revolution, and the Bolshevik occupation.”—Brooklyn

=Boston Transcript= p8 N 22 ’19 500w

=Brooklyn= 12:71 Ja ’20 30w

“A lively and readable little book.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ’19 30w

“An intimate, readable account of Bolshevism is presented in this volume. The book is free from theorizing and statistics, but it tells of the practical effect of Bolshevism on people who lived through the first days of this sinister experiment.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:465 S 14 ’19 240w

“Miss Power has given us a series of vivid sketches. They are impressionistic and full of power, but they must not be accepted as descriptive of general conditions.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:204 Ag 30 ’19 120w

“An extremely vivid and interesting account of certain phases of the Russian revolution from the pen of an eye-witness. One would like to know how far this family, of the rich bourgeois type, was representative of its class. If there were many others like it, the appalling violence and bloodiness of the revolution cease to be matter of wonder.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p224 Ap 24 ’19 700w

=PRATT, JAMES BISSETT.= Religious consciousness; a psychological study. *$3.50 Macmillan 201

20–10634

“Professor Pratt’s point of view in the present volume is avowedly scientific. He aims to describe the religious consciousness as it presents itself for observation to the modern psychologist, that is to say, without any attempt to press behind phenomena into the realm of the unknown or the unknowable. An interesting feature of his treatment is a constant use of the results of recent questionnaires sent out to ascertain the present state of the religious consciousness among various classes of Americans. He has studied the forms of Protestantism in America. Roman Catholicism he has studied in Europe and at home. Finally, he has made his pilgrimage through India, Burma, and Ceylon, seeking initiation into the letter and the spirit of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism in mosque and shrine and temple, from peasants, teachers, priests, and holy men. The last five chapters of the book deal with mysticism.”—Nation

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“‘The religious consciousness’ is a very good book. Dr Pratt knows his subject and he knows how to write about it. There is hardly a dull page in the nearly five hundred of this volume. Perhaps the most valuable quality of the book is its quiet sanity.” R. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 360w

“His account of phenomena is remarkably fresh and instructive; and it differs commendably from some of its predecessors in emphasizing rather normal than exceptional types of experience.” S. P. Sherman

+ =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1550w

Reviewed by G. E. Partridge

=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 250w

=PRENTICE, SARTELL.= Padre. *$2 Dutton 940.476

19–13304

“[This book tells the] experiences of a Red cross hospital chaplain of the Dutch Reformed church, principally in Base hospital 101, at St Nazaire and in Evacuation hospital 13 where wounded were received straight from the battlefield. [It is] full of anecdotes revealing the bravery of individuals, and the gratitude of the French people toward Americans.”—Cleveland

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=Cleveland= p16 F ’20 50w

“There is nothing particularly new in the narrative, although the fact that it comes first-hand from one who saw and lived the awful scenes he describes gives it a value of its own which cannot be gainsaid.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:516 O 5 ’19 500w

=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Silver Shoal light. il *$1.75 Century

20–16502

When Miss Joan Kirtland, who has left town very suddenly after a disagreement with Mr Robert Sinclair, finds that the Harbor View house cannot take her in, she is at a loss for a place to spend the night. Captain ‘Bijah Dawson comes to her aid and suggests that the light house people may take her in. As Captain ‘Bijah assured her, they are “cur’ous folks,” Jim and Elspeth Pemberley and their little son Garth, but their presence in this unusual situation is explained and Joan, who had meant to stay a night, then a week, remains all summer. Joan, who had thought she did not like children, is captivated by Garth and at the end of the summer learns that Mr Sinclair is his Uncle Bob. Jim Pemberley has aspirations toward the navy and there is a German spy episode in the story.

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+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Us and the bottle man. il *$1.50 Century

20–14292

The story of three delightful children who play pirates and send out a message in a sealed bottle that brings a surprising answer and leads to a pleasantly mysterious correspondence. And then events take a serious turn. What had been play becomes reality and the “three poore mariners” become castaways indeed for the length of one dreadful night. Their rescuer is no less person than the Bottle man himself and a war-time romance is at the same time brought to a happy culmination.

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“Although somewhat adult in point of view, the mystery and adventure will interest children from ten to twelve.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= On the path of adventure. il *$3.50 (5½c) Lane 940.48

20–11661

The author was war-artist correspondent for the Illustrated London News. The present work is a record of his adventures in the early months of the war, before the existence of war correspondents had been “officially admitted.” The book, he says, “does not in any way claim to be an addition to the formidable array of books on the technical side of the war. It is, on the contrary, merely a narrative compiled from the notes in my diary of a period during the early days of the war when I was ‘out’ to get all the material I could.... As my wanderings were entirely within the zone of operations, it is obvious that the incidents I have described were always more or less connected with the theatre of the war—but they were happenings rather behind the scenes than on the actual battle-front.” The book is illustrated with drawings from the author’s sketch book.

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=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w

“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.

+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w

=Sat R= 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 50w

=PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH.= Sniping in France, with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44

(Eng ed 20–12124)

“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while from the point of view of _moral_ to maintain an efficient body of specialist snipers.”—Spec

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“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as any detective story.”

+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 180w

“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general reader.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 220w

“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader, but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to military science.”

+ =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p293 My 13 ’20 900w

=PRISONER of Pentonville=, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821

20–8220

Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol” is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York, writes a foreword.

* * * * *

“The emotional sincerity which constantly contrives to break through a crust of indifferent and often absurd verse makes this series of prison meditations a very interesting and moving human document.”

+ − =Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 950w

=PRITCHARD, MYRON THOMAS, and OVINGTON, MARY WHITE=, comps. Upward path; with an introd. by Robert R. Moton. il *$1.35 Harcourt 810.8

20–16516

The foreword to this collection of readings for colored children says: “To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, the compilers have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product of our negro writers.” All of the contributors to the volume are negroes, among them Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and others who have made names in literature. In addition to these there are the less familiar names of negro educators, social workers, ministers and lawyers, and there is one explorer, Matthew Henson, who was with Peary at the Pole.

* * * * *

“The selections in it are ably chosen and present a great variety. But more important is the fact that it must accomplish its intent. For while giving pleasure, it will foster the love of tradition, and from the evidences of past accomplishment, an honest racial pride.” M. E. Bailey

+ =Bookm= 52:305 Ja ’21 140w

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 360w

“A collection of stories and poems by negroes—many of them very good. Perhaps whites can gain as much from it as can the blacks. The book would be suitable for junior high schools.”

+ =English J= 9:549 N ’20 60w

=Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 170w

=PRYDE, ANTHONY.= Marqueray’s duel. *$2 (1½c) McBride

20–7060

Marqueray, to all appearances, was a globe-trotter and a sportsman. In truth he was a secret spy in the employ of the British foreign office. His knowledge stands him in good stead against a certain Lord Marchmont, a millionaire Jew, implicated in illicit transactions in South America. The latter has allowed a poor innocent Irish girl, in reality Lady Marchmont, to consider herself duped by him and to be a “fallen woman,” after he had turned her adrift. Phyllida is found and rescued by Marqueray and his friend and cousin, Aubrey West. A romance grows up between Phyllida and Marqueray, who naturally wants to horsewhip Marchmont and free his beloved entirely from his clutches. Before this can be done a political election and much intrigue, involving West, intervene. In the end Marqueray is wounded by a shot from Marchmont who himself succumbs to his vicious morphia habit. Some fine touches of friendship and loyalty among men make one of the features of the story.

* * * * *

“The story drags somewhat in places; but ... the book as a whole may be read with a fair amount of satisfaction.”

+ − =Ath= p414 My 30 ’19 120w

“Very good work. Readers who liked Stephen McKenna’s ‘Sonia’ will probably like this.”

+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“It is evidently Mr Pryde’s first novel, and it is far and above the majority of ‘first novels.’ He writes with a good deal of style, and his characterization is excellent to the least important actor on his London stage.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 540w

“The book is exceedingly well written, with a steady succession of incidents, always logical and never loosening their hold on the interest. The book is a long one, but it never becomes tedious.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Isabel Juergens

+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 260w

“A very clever romance.”

+ =Sat R= 128:346 O 11 ’19 100w

“It is decidedly melodramatic, but the melodrama is well done.”

+ =Spec= 123:154 Ag 2 ’19 30w

“The author displays much ability for character portraiture. As a romanticist he is not so capable.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w

=PRZYBYSZEWSKI, STANISLAW.= Snow. *$1.50 Brown, N. L. 891.85

20–4039

“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic, would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained interest.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 220w

“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish original, are somewhat lost in translation.”

+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 50w

“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But

## action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The

characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and love and die equally without motivation.”

− + =Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w

“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 100w

“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of power.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 230w

=PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.=[2] Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed. by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt

20–22545

The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist, archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and those portions of the original work have been selected that are most interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 130w

=PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P.= Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.43

(Eng ed 20–18166)

“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended to present an account of the main considerations which control the design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system; Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure illustrations.

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 80w

=PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER=, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il *$2.50 Putnam 902

19–16001

In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events subsequent to August 1, 1914.

=PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).=[2] It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–19578

Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches” does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting course, true love runs smoothly at last.

* * * * *

“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 80w

“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 9 ’21 650w

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w

“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street, Boston, are much the best of the book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 140w

=PYLE, KATHARINE.=[2] Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little

20–19078

This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are: White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech; Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The twelve months—Czech.

Q

=QUENNELL, MARJORIE, and QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE.= History of everyday things in England. v 2 il *$4.50 (v 1 and 2 in one volume *$9) Scribner 914.2

(Eng ed 19–6495)

“The second volume of a history which applies real historical research to the making of children’s books. As in the first book the authors have described changes in building, furniture, dress, and games as ‘history in stone, wood, and fabrics.’ It is their desire to present work as a ‘joyous sort of business’ which shall give boys and girls the desire to take the pains with their labors which distinguished the craftsmen. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 90w

“Charming volume.”

+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20

“This second part is not nearly so good as its predecessor. Its authors have been spoilt by success, and the latter pages of the book in particular show, to put it mildly, signs of haste. The first chapter, on the sixteenth century, is the best.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 1150w

“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be given.”

+ =Spec= 124:145 Ja 31 ’20 1000w

=QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.=[2] English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29 Broadway, N.Y. 817

20–6982

“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of Poe’s style.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 260w

“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody. Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every collector of Dickens or of Poe.”

+ − =Nation= 111:382 O 6 ’20 410w

=N Y Times= p9 Ag 1 ’20 2800w

“Unfortunately, the attribution of the work to Poe is sustained by neither internal nor external evidence.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ’20 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 160w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 S 16 ’20 600w

=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS (Q., pseud.).= On the art of reading. *$2.75 Putnam 028

20–16869

The spirit of the volume can perhaps best be illustrated by two extracts from the preface: “The real battle for English lies in our elementary schools, and in the training of our elementary teachers. It is there that the foundations of a sound national teaching in English will have to be laid, as it is there that a wrong trend will lead to incurable issues,” and “that a liberal education is not an appendage to be purchased by the few; that humanism is, rather, a quality which can, and should, condition all our teaching; which can, and should, be impressed as a character upon it all, from a poor child’s first lesson in reading up to a tutor’s last word to his pupil on the eve of a tripos.” Contents: Apprehension versus comprehension; Children’s reading; On reading for examinations; On a school of English; The value of Greek and Latin in English literature; On reading the Bible; On selection; On the use of masterpieces; Index.

* * * * *

“We find it as hard to conceive that undergraduates did not enjoy hearing these lectures on ‘The art of reading’ as that ‘Q’ did not enjoy delivering them. The elements of an ideal professor were always in him. To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport, save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to few. ‘Q’ is among them.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p234 Ag 20 ’20 2000w

“Especially useful to elementary teachers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 50w

“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly, so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the pedagog.” M. J. Moses

+ =N Y Times= p5 Ja 2 ’21 2650w

“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the subject characterize the volume.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w

=Sat R= 130:219 S 11 ’20 1500w

+ =Spec= 125:472 O 9 ’20 1050w

“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King Edward VII professor?”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 6 ’21 570w

“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their printed form.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 S 2 ’20 3350w

R

=RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE).= New children; talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4

20–15392

The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis; The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson; Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children; The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.

* * * * *

“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the

## book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually

sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not necessarily final.”

+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w

“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative. Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite wanton and unnecessary.”

+ − =Spec= 124:619 My 8 ’20 900w

“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey

+ − =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 510w

=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI, pseud.).= Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920

20–9932

These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the

## book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and

Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the

## book is well illustrated.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 350w

“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the American reader.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 18 ’20 490w

=RAEBURN, HAROLD.= Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796

“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The

## book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering;

Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles. The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and index.

* * * * *

“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn

+ − =Ath= p579 O 29 ’20 1050w

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 250w

“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment. The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes with conviction and refreshing candour.”

+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 900w

“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and mountaineering.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 Ag 19 ’20 820w

=RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA=, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces. 4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7

20–18302

A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof, Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin, Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.

* * * * *

“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 500w

“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the collection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 180w

=RAGSDALE, LULAH.= Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner

20–11498

“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter, were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in

## action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of ‘light reading’ for a summer day.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 390w

“An excellent story for young people.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.=[2] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–19181

This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners, whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here. There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for the deserving.

* * * * *

“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest

## scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just

the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 190w

“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w

“The story has ‘punch.’”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton

20–6711

A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war. Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen, gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the winning of Ramona.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w

“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn material.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w

“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 100w

=RAINSFORD, W. H.=[2] That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane

20–20431

Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn and it ends well.

* * * * *

“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a trifle.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 240w

“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much description.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w

“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip Gray.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 510w

=RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR.= From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373

20–2288

The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy

## activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly

trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval; Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home trail; Appendix.

* * * * *

“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is the antithesis of war.”

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 850w

+ =Cath World= 112:116 O ’20 370w

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 200w

“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear, expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in books about the war.”

+ =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 460w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 170w

=RAMSAY, ROBERT E.= Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659

20–2516

A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title)