Chapter one
describes a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part 2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.” There is an index.
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“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:228 Ap ’20
“His style is easy and readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 220w
=RAPEER, LOUIS WIN=, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner 379.17
20–4557
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and contains articles by leading specialists and successful workers in this field. Its object is to elucidate the general aim of the consolidated school: social efficiency, with its subordinate aims of vital, vocational, avocational, civic, moral efficiency. It shows how the new method fosters cooperation, and socialization, how children may be physically and mentally changed by suitable methods and how the consolidated school can furnish opportunity for a school farm, homes for teachers and a community centre. The first chapter, National and rural consolidation, and many of the subsequent chapters are by the editor, Louis W. Rapeer. Other chapters are: The American rural school, by Philander P. Claxton; Community organization and consolidation, by Warren H. Wilson; Rural economics and consolidation, by T. N. Carver; The growth of consolidation, and Transportation of pupils at public expense, by A. C. Monahan; A visit to a consolidated school, and The country girl and the consolidated school, by Katherine M. Cook; Methods and facts of consolidation, by W. S. Fogarty; The difficulties of consolidation, by L. J. Hanifan. The book is indexed and has a bibliography.
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+ =Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
“The book is to be commended on its attempt to use the problem approach to the various topics.”
+ =El School J= 21:231 N ’20 450w
=School R= 28:796 D ’20 240w
=RASHDALL, HASTINGS.= Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Bampton lectures, 1915) *$5.50 Macmillan 232.3
20–9571
“Mr Rashdall traces the history of the doctrine of the atonement down from its pre-Christian origins through the New Testament, and then by way of the Apostolic fathers, the Latin theology, the Schoolmen, and the Reformers down to modern times. His main interest lies in the controversy between the subjective and the objective types of atonement doctrines.”—Nation
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“Even so competent and scholarly a discussion as this of Mr Rashdall’s carries with it a suggestion of belonging to a stage which we have left behind us. Those who are acquainted with Mr Rashdall’s work will find the sincerity and thoroughness of discussion which they have learned to expect from him.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“This is one of the most important theological works that have appeared for more than a generation. Its quality is scientific.”
+ =Spec= 124:311 Mr 6 ’20 1750w
“It is probably the most important constructive treatise on systematic theology which has been published by an English divine during the present century. Parts of it will be found difficult by readers who are not experts in theology, for it deals with problems of great complexity. But it is both subtle and lucid; it is a unity and not patchwork; and, as compared with the reticence of some fairly recent work, it is remarkably outspoken.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 Ap 22 ’20 1550w
=RASKIN, PHILIP M.= Songs and dreams. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
20–9428
In a foreword the author tells something of the conditions under which his poems have been written. He learned English after the age of nineteen, published his first book of verse in English, with an introduction by Israel Zangwill, in London in 1914, and has since come to New York where he now makes his home. The poems are in five groups: Love and longing; Autumn flowers; Echoes of exile; Chequered shadow; The dawn of a nation. Some of the poems in the third group, such as To free Russia (1917), The Torah and “No news” are racial in theme, but the one purely Jewish section of the book is the concluding one, devoted to the Zionist ideal.
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“Despite Israel Zangwill’s opinion that ‘the best of Mr Raskin’s poems might have been written by Robert Browning,’ there is much in them that is merely ‘pretty work’—though the same thing might be said, heaven knows, of the famous Victorian poet. In fact, the first of this volume, dealing, as it does, with love, is fairly puerile. But toward the end of the volume we happen upon a collection of poems entitled ‘The dawn of a nation’ which contains one or two verses worth while. The one poem which makes the collection notable is that called ‘After the British declaration.’”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w
=RAVEN, CHARLES E.= Christian socialism, 1848–1854. *$6.50 Macmillan 335.7
“This work is based on the Donellan lectures delivered by the author, who is dean of Emmanuel college, Cambridge, at Trinity college, Dublin, in May, 1919. It traces the ‘Christian socialist’ movement from its origin in the reaction against the ‘laissez faire’ principles of the early 19th century to the apparent failure of the effects of Maurice, Neale and Ludlow in 1853, after the passing of Slaney’s act, which gave recognition to the cooperative movement. The concluding
## chapter deals with the ‘Foundation of the working men’s college’ after
the breakdown of the earlier hopes of the Christian socialists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The volume as a whole is a genuine contribution to English economic history and will doubtless be received as such. Mr Raven would have been a little more convincing in some parts if he had been less profuse in praising his heroes and at the same time had shown more charity for Mrs Sidney Webb and other critics of the Christian Socialists.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup247 F 9 ’21 410w
“Mr Raven’s contribution to the history of economics is valuable, and has obviously entailed much research. But he does not go deeply enough into the philosophic and historic interrelation of things, such as the relation of socialism to liberalism, or to anarchism, or to naturalism and supernaturalism.”
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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 100w
“Mr Raven has found a good subject for a book and has studied it industriously. The best part of his book is his account of the men who made the movement, especially of Ludlow, a man far less known than he deserves to be. But it is a pity that he tries to exalt his heroes by depreciating every one else.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 S 16 ’20 2100w
=RAYMOND, E. T.= All and sundry. *$2.25 (3½c) Holt 920
(Eng ed 20–6135)
The book consists of a collection of striking pen pictures of prominent contemporaries in politics and letters, as seen through a brilliant and witty man’s eyes. The author’s avowed object is to show the “accredited hero,” as he really is and not in the effulgence of a halo. Among the sketches are: President Wilson; Georges Clemenceau; John Burns; G. K. Chesterton; Sir Eric Geddes; Dean Inge; Rudyard Kipling; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Smillie; Harold Begbie; Lord Robert Cecil.
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=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 60w
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“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
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“He is particularly good in his vivid sketches of John Burns, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Smillie, and Lord Robert Cecil.”
+ =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 150w
“The inside analyst should be in a class by himself, and generally is. Mr Raymond demonstrated that he was one of the leaders of that class in ‘Uncensored celebrities,’ and ‘All and sundry’ is merely the second volume.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 S 12 ’20 2200w
“His second volume of character sketches is a worthy companion of his first. No one will maintain that the portraits are all equally successful, that all are speaking likenesses.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 1450w
“Entertaining and chatty essays.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 130w
“A mind full of ideas and a flowing pen are as exhilarating a combination as a wet sheet and a flowing sea. But they tend to run away with one. ‘All and sundry’ does—or do—not escape this danger. Nor does it altogether escape the contagion of war-time opinion. But it is a refreshing volume.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 1100w
“No man can seriously pretend that he is able to write with equal authority on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, the Bishop of London, Mr Hilaire Belloc, Sir Thomas Beecham, and Mr Frank Brangwyn—to take only a few names at random. Another unfortunate thing for Mr Raymond is that in his ‘Uncensored celebrities’ he had picked out the largest plums. However, even here Mr Raymond has his effective flashes, for he is a clever draughtsman with the pen, especially upon political subjects. There is real humour, as well as observation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p729 D 11 ’19 950w
=RAYMOND, E. T.= Life of Arthur James Balfour. il *$3 Little
20–20922
“Most distinct as an individual, Mr Arthur James Balfour belongs to an easily recognisable type, represented both in England and France by a number of statesmen who owe their fame less to any specific performance than to the impression created by their intellectual brilliance.... He has always been credited with an indefinable superiority over his performances. They have been notable; but it is vaguely felt that the man is more notable still; in the midst of his greatest failures he was more interesting than other men in their most triumphant success. With others the “might-have-been” is a reproach: with men like Mr Balfour it is a tribute: they please in disappointing.” (