chapter IV

of his earlier work, dealing with slavery.” D: Y. Thomas

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:84 Je ’20 600w

“It seems invidious to speak in any tone of disparagement of a work of Mr James Ford Rhodes, who has given us the classic interpretation of our history from the compromise of 1850 to the close of the reconstruction period. And yet competent judges must feel grieved that the ‘History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley’ is added, as an eighth volume, to the classic seven. It is as thin as the lean kine that followed the seven fat ones in Pharoah’s dream.”

− + =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 350w

+ =Spec= 124:624 My 8 ’20 250w

“He has industry and a judicial temperament which, though not always quite unbiassed in regard to individuals enables him to survey contemporary politics without evidence of partisanship. He has, moreover, a lucid narrative style and a happy gift of choosing apt and trenchant phrases. Not all his authorities are first-rate; but he uses them nimbly. It is very much to be regretted that a book which represents so much sound labour and has so much permanent value, in the assistance which it will be to all future writers on this period, should be so marred by petty faults.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 Jl 15 ’20 1500w

=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE), and RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Turn about tales. il *$1.90 (8c) Century

20–16343

There are ten short stories in this book, five by Cale Young Rice, and five by his wife, Alice Hegan Rice, arranged alternately. Mrs Rice’s contribution includes Beulah; The nut; A partnership memory; Reprisal; and The hand on the sill; while Mr Rice’s are entitled Lowry; Francella; Archie’s relapse; Under new moons, and Aaron Harwood. Some of the stories have appeared in magazine form.

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“This volume of stories should hold its own with any collection likely to be published this year. They cover a wide range of emotion, background, and subject, and are of high literary merit.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 170w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 150w

=RICHARDS, MRS CLARICE (ESTABROOK).=[2] Tenderfoot bride. il *$1.50 Revell

20–21005

“A cultured eastern woman with a delight in new things and a sense of humor describes events on a Wyoming ranch.” (Booklist) “When the ‘tenderfoot bride’ arrived it was still a lawless, pioneer land, with cattle, cowboys, and desperadoes. Then came a pastoral age: sheep and Mexican herders, followed by the farmer. Her record covers but sixteen years, yet the earlier phases are as extinct as the Pharaohs. She has caught them all in passing, and portrayed them to the life.” (Bookm)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“She has given us more than a bit of current history, for one senses the writer’s personality,—a growth through the delights and trials of existence among elemental conditions to a broad vision of life and its responsibilities. Therein lies the rare charm of the book.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 140w

=RICHARDS, CLAUDE.= Man of tomorrow. new ed *$2 Crowell 174

“A discussion of vocational success with the boy of today.” (Sub-title) The author believes that there is special need of attention to vocational guidance today. “Following this great world war, civilization will take on an aspect of general reconstruction, and hence the man of the future will need an equipment that will fit him to take his place in a society with difficult problems to solve and big tasks to perform.” (Preface) The book is divided into seven parts: The need of vocational guidance; The importance of specializing; The need of a broad foundation; Choosing a vocation; Representative vocations; Avocations; General conditions of vocational success. An appendix contains a word to the counselor and there is an index. The author states that while the work is intended primarily for men there is little in it that does not apply equally to young women.

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“An excellent vocational guide-book. Its tone is high and the little ethical teaching that it contains is safe and sound.”

+ =Cath World= 112:120 O ’20 220w

=RICHARDS, GRANT.=[2] Double life. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–18767

Olivia Pemberton was the wife of a semi-commercial, therefore fairly successful novelist. She was all that a wife and mother should be until her two children were away at school, when she became bored and restless. Half apathetically she accompanied her husband to Newmarket one day where he went in quest of racing atmosphere for a new novel. It ended with a tentative, very small and haphazard bet on one of the horses. From now on Olivia secretly takes to reading sporting papers and making greater and greater ventures, even ordering a trainer to buy and train a horse for her. She goes thru all the stages of the gambling fever, sometimes on the verge of a breakdown. Twice her horse wins and when she is dreaming of the triple crown at the Derby with honored publicity to herself, her trainer informs her that the horse is broken down and will race no more. But with her winnings and the sale of the horse, she is enabled to accompany her confession to her husband with a goodly sum of money and her complete renunciation of gambling.

* * * * *

“The technical details will be found interesting even by neophytes, and the whole produces that effect of coherence and facility proper to a practised pen.”

+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 120w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 120w

“The book will prove entertaining, but hardly more than that.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 5 20 460w

“To put it bluntly, Mr Grant Richards is not an artist. ‘Double life’ has some power to please, partly because it conveys double the number of sensations enjoyed in the ordinary routine of life by that never realized type—the average, everyday person.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 400w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Honor Bright. il *$1.65 (3c) Page

20–17823

The story of an American girl’s school days in Switzerland. Honor is an orphan and the Pension Madeleine is the only home she knows. She speaks in the quaint French-English of her teachers and is very happy with her school-girl companions. While on an expedition into the mountain, she slips and sprains her ankle and is kept a prisoner in an Alpine cottage for a time. It is a delightful experience and Honor thereafter dreams of spending her life in the Alps, making cheese and tending goats. But an unknown cousin from America comes to take her away to a new and strange world.

=RICHARDSON, C. A.= Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. *$4.50 Putnam 192

(Eng ed 20–7073)

“Mr Richardson, a disciple of Professor James Ward, sets himself the task of elaborating, on purely metaphysical lines, the case for the ‘spiritual’ and theistic pluralism which formed the basis of his master’s ‘Realm of ends: pluralism and theism.’ Incidentally he undertakes to answer the neo-realists in general and Mr Bertrand Russell in particular. He accepts Mr Russell’s conclusions as valid with limits, i.e., the limits of reality considered as objective. But, Mr Richardson urges, Mr Russell and his school, with all their ingenuity, do not account for the subjective reference, whereas spiritual pluralists can account for it without detriment to the positive results of the neo-realists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“The book is written with great care and much subtlety. There is, however, a tendency to rely too much on arguments from concepts, without due inquiry into their meaning and source. In general, I think the book would gain cogency through a larger use of empirical material.” D. H. Parker

+ − =J Philos= 17:611 O 21 ’20 1100w

=Nature= 105:773 Ag 19 ’20 70w

“To speak bluntly, Mr Richardson is excessively difficult reading, and some part of the fault lies with himself, and not with the subject. As a provisional guess, one would suggest that he has thought mainly about the general philosophic attributes of his universe, and has not sufficiently pondered, not only the position but the capacity and attributes of the individual who exists therein. This part of his work, it seems to us, he will not get right until he dips down more thoroughly into the grand question of consciousness.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:253 Mr 13 ’20 840w

“It is not easy to justify a pluralist metaphysic on intellectualist grounds, and one cannot help feeling that, as against Mr Russell on the one hand and Mr Bradley on the other, Mr Richardson is ‘playing the odd’ all the time. But he plays with spirit and no mean dialectic skill.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p15 Ja 8 ’20 580w

=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Interim. *$2 Knopf

20–9715

“Fifth in the long series of volumes published under the general title of ‘Pilgrimage,’ Miss Dorothy M. Richardson’s new novel, ‘Interim,’ continues the history of that young woman, Miriam Henderson. So closely connected with its predecessors as to be a part of them rather than a separate book, ‘Interim’ would probably be almost unintelligible to any one not possessed of a close acquaintance with the earlier books. When ‘The tunnel’ came to an end Miriam Henderson was apparently on the verge of leaving Mrs Bailey’s house, but we find her still living there when we meet her in ‘Interim,’ despite the coming of the boarders. Among these boarders there are several young physicians from Canada, and one of them, bearing the unattractive name of von Heber, supplies the suggestion of a plot, which is the only thing of the kind the book contains.”—N Y Times

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“She leaves us feeling, as before, that everything being of equal importance to her, it is impossible that everything should not be of equal unimportance.” K. M.

− =Ath= p48 Ja 9 ’20 150w

“We prefer our novels as novels, and not following the technique of Chinese chess explained by a politician in yachting terminology. There are pages and pages of drivel, too.” C. W.

− =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 250w

“From no point of view could ‘Interim’ be called easy reading, and a method of sometimes almost ignoring punctuation and printing dialogue in solid pages does not tend to make it any the easier.”

− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 550w

“There lies the secret of Miriam’s appeal. Nothing seems to escape her. She is never dull or unaware; she never ceases to live and to respond to stimulus. And thus life, seen through her eyes and felt through her emotions, comes to be an exciting business, and the world an infinite stretch of inexhaustible delights.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 750w

=RICHARDSON, NORVAL.= Pagan fire. *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner

20–21002

Anne Rennell was quite contented and happy as the wife of an American politician in Washington. Franklin Rennell, too, was contented as United States senator. He took his work seriously and was of the eternal-boy sort of type, honest and plodding without intellectual brilliance. The first disturbance came when political intrigue put the flea into Anne’s ear that she was cut out for an ambassador’s wife in Rome. Rome it must be, henceforth. Anne feels that she has a right to her own life and happiness and that Franklin’s career must give way to it. In Rome she blossoms out, the romance of it enters her blood and with it an infatuation for Prince Cimino. The latter ends with a night with the Prince at his castle in the Campagna. After that Anne has something to live down, which, the reader trusts, she will be able to do with the aid and the sacrifice of two devoted friends.

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“The most human and most logical character in the book is that of Senator Lelong. The story is pleasantly told in the slow analytical style of the English novel.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 290w

“While Norval Richardson’s well-written novel ‘Pagan fire’ is far from uninteresting as a story, the greater part of its claim on the reader’s attention is derived from its quite fascinating setting.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 460w

“The interest of the novel is derived less from the actual story than from the glorious settings of the drama.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w

=RICKARD, L. (MRS VICTOR RICKARD).= Cathy Rossiter. *$1.75 (1c) Doran

20–772

Cathy Rossiter, by birth of the English aristocracy, was a modern woman who, without breaking her old ties, became interested in all sorts of progressive movements. Her personal charms make her a favorite in every circle from the aristocratic drawing room down to the half-starved strikers in Sabury road. Her most intimate friend is Dr Monica Henstock, a successful practitioner and her opposite in character and temperament. At her house she meets John Lorrimer who is about to propose to Monica when Cathy’s beauty and personality intrigue and side-track him. In time Cathy marries Lorrimer and through a complication of circumstances Monica’s and Lorrimer’s emotions and ethics both become befuddled and Cathy after an illness is locked up in an insane asylum on a flimsy pretext. Her experiences at the asylum and her rescue by some of her old friends make a thrilling tale.

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“Mrs Victor Rickard has here achieved, without directing her energy towards any lofty or even wayward ambition, a marked success. The story is sheer melodrama from beginning to triumphant and happy end; but melodrama tempered with sound observation of character.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 340w

=RICKARD, THOMAS ARTHUR.= Technical writing. *$1.50 Wiley 808

20–7844

“Mr Rickard has served as editor of three leading mining periodicals and has written several well known professional works. He laments the carelessness shown by engineers in the preparation of reports and papers and has brought into this work the expansion of five lectures which he delivered in 1916 to engineering classes in the University of California. The many faults of composition and errors of vocabulary are discussed and illustrated by many examples of bad writing (with corrections) gleaned mainly from mining books and periodicals.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

“Mr Rickard’s exposition is vigorous and broad-minded.”

+ =Ath= p352 S 10 ’20 150w

“It is well worth discriminating perusal, the chapter on style being

## particularly good. Violations of present-day typographical orthodoxy

mar nearly every page of his book. They suggest the amateur. They are not classic. Also, in a work of this sort, it is only reasonable to expect that the author will observe his own precepts.” W. N. P. R.

+ − =Engineering & Mining Journal= 109:1326 Je 12 ’20 780w

“The lay reader should also get much from the volume.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p40 Ap ’20 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 S 9 ’20 80w

=RIDEAL, ERIC KEIGHTLEY.= Ozone. *$4 Van Nostrand 546.2

The author begins with the Early history of ozone and its general properties, and continues his treatment of the subject with chapters on: The natural occurrence of ozone: Chemical production; Thermal production; The electrolytic preparation of ozone; Production by ultraviolet radiation and by ionic collision; Production by means of the silent electric discharge; The catalytic decomposition of ozone; Industrial applications; Methods of detection and analysis. There are two indexes, to names and subjects. The author is professor of physical chemistry in the University of Illinois and the book is published as one of the series, A treatise on electro-chemistry, edited by Bertram Blount.

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“The author deals with the whole fascinating subject in a manner which should appeal to most readers.”

+ =Engineer= 129:653 Je 25 ’20 300w

“The author has been distinctly successful in his effort to collect and correlate the various references to ozone which occur in chemical literature, and his monograph will be welcomed if only for that reason. In addition, it contains a valuable summary of what is known about ozone, and by indicating problems which remain to be solved should also serve to promote investigation.”

+ =Nature= 106:77 S 16 ’20 300w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p52 Jl ’20 120w

=RIDEOUT, HENRY MILNER.= Foot-path way. *$1.90 (2c) Duffield

20–6491

A story of the Far East. Dan Towers, the hero, is an American adventurer who has decided that it is time to go home. Fate brings him across the path of an old friend, Parimban, an Arabian merchant. Parimban is murdered and Towers is left with Leda, his friend’s beautiful young daughter, on his hands. He finds a refuge for her with a religious order and goes on his way, accepting the dangerous mission he had earlier made up his mind to refuse. He has many adventures, some in company with a religious fanatic, called Hury Seke, from his habit of writing gospel messages on walls and rocks, all beginning “Hury Seke Jehovah.” To others he is introduced by a gay young troubadour, Runa la Flèche. In the end the beautiful ward, who had once shown uncomfortable signs of falling in love with Towers, is more suitably mated with Runa.

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+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“I turn the last page and lay down the book with the sense of having enjoyed a modest work of art instead of having been merely diverted by a pretentious bag of tricks. I like his story, but I like still more his way of telling it, his freedom from the slipshod smartness now fairly encouraged as normal by editors still getting pay-ore from the vein (or the tailings) of the Kipling-O. Henry tradition.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:581 Jl ’20 380w

=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 50w

“The tale is entertaining, swift-moving and romantic, and gives a colorful picture of adventurous lives.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 700w

“This is not of a genre that all novel readers care for, but those who do will find this book an excellent example of it, exciting and amusing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 240w

=RIDGE, LOLA.=[2] Sun-up; and other poems. *$1.50 Huebsch 811

These are free verse, imagiste poems. In the group “Sun-up,” the poet sees the world through a child’s eyes and gives us glimpses of a child’s soul. All the poems express modernity, a free spirit and a turbulent world. They are grouped under the headings: Sun-up; Monologues; Windows; Secrets; Portraits; Sons of Belial; Reveille—the last group containing lines to Alexander Berkman, to Emma Goldman and to Larkin.

* * * * *

“No adult knows what little girls think about, but one is willing to believe that it is approximately what he finds here, where Freud rather than Plato is read back into the infant mind.” D. M.

+ =Nation= 112:sup244 F 9 ’21 340w

“The series of poems from which the book takes its name are vividly poignant renderings of the child-mind, intimate in their apperception and flaring forth in arresting magic and color at times. Her method is free verse, but it is a distinct free verse. It is the sudden throwing of vivid phrases before one that conjure up limitless thoughts.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 520w

=RIDSDALE, KNOWLES.= Gate of fulfillment. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam

20–6634

A story told in letters. Margaret Bevington, a very charming and brilliant widow, answers an unusual advertisement calling for a secretary for an invalid. The invalid, who is also a misogynist, sends her a caustic reply declining her services, but a correspondence develops out of the incident. Later, learning that the secretary he had preferred to her had proved incompetent, she applies in person under an assumed name and is engaged. She then leads a double life, as staid, prim Martha Pratt and as witty Margaret Bevington, and the misogynist finds himself falling in love with two women. The tonic good sense of one and the mental stimulus of the other do their work. He is restored to health to learn that the two characters who have meant so much to him combine into one person.

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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:586 Jl ’20 200w

“This is a very commodious, even lazy, way of writing a book; and, unless the letters are uncommonly brilliant, the result is generally disappointing. In this case, however, Mr Ridsdale has turned out a worthwhile correspondence in developing an ingenious though rather slender plot. ‘The gate of fulfillment’ will be read with interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w

“It is a piquant situation, and some of its possibilities are well realized. But it wants a light, tactful, restrained treatment of which the author knows nothing. The letters of every one concerned are as fulsome, as precious, and as humourless as they can possibly be; and their prolix affectations become painfully tiresome long before the end is reached.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 150w

=RIHANI, AMEEN F.= Descent of bolshevism. $1 (9c) Stratford co. 335

20–6355

A small book written to prove that bolshevism is of oriental origin. The author goes back to fifth century Persia and has chapters on: Mazdak and Mazdakism; The Khawarij; The Karmathians; The Assassins; The Illuminati.

* * * * *

“Mr Rihani’s little book ends suddenly and without a satisfactory conclusion. His statements must be read with great caution.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 560w

“He tells his stories roundly and underlines his morals blackly; but his essential facts are sound.”

+ =Review= 2:682 Je 30 ’20 200w

=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Hidden treasure of Rasmola. il *$1.75 (5½c) Houghton

20–19674

This story of the digging for a treasure is a true story and a personal experience of the author’s. The scenes portrayed are real phases of the life of the common people of Syria and the people

## participating in the enterprise were real. The psychology, beliefs and

mode of life of the people concerned are also depicted and the thrilling part of the story is that the treasure too, to all probabilities was real although it eluded the grasp of the diggers thru the machinations of a clever rogue.

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Affinities. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–9275

A volume of short stories. The first is the story of a group of married people who decide on an affinity picnic, with husbands and wives left at home. The affair comes to grief and when the parties concerned learn that the other set of wives and husbands have been carrying out a similar idea there are mutual recriminations and forgivenesses. The other stories are in like vein. Contents: Affinities; The family friend; Clara’s little escapade; The borrowed house; Sauce for the gander. The stories were copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company and date from 1909 to 1915.

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“Entertaining, but several readers say not up to her usual standard.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 300w

“Delightful tales each with a snap at the end.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w

“Mrs Rinehart always writes entertainingly and she tempers humor with rare human sympathy and common sense. These stories are just the thing for hammock reading on a lazy afternoon.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 80w

“Each one as unexpected and as amusing as the others, stories that keep you laughing and interested, stories full of the little absurdities of human nature and the queer tricks of fate.”

+ =Lit D= p97 S 4 ’20 3050w

“If laughter really does promote health, Mrs Rinehart should take her place among the great physicians of the age.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:295 Je 6 ’20 480w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 420w

“The studies of English life and manners would strike most English readers as imaginative, and it is hard to believe that life in America exactly tallies with the authoress’s description, though it may really be like this. Anyhow it makes cheerful reading.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 120w

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Poor wise man. *$2 (1½c) Doran

20–17961

The time of the story is immediately after the war and the circumstances social unrest, strikes, plots, political campaigns, mobs, riots, bombs, wise vigilance on the part of the Department of justice and timely interferences of the American Legion. The romance is supplied by Lily Cardew, granddaughter of the richest man in town, just back from her war-work and much changed, and Willy Cameron, a poor drug clerk who had been Lily’s pal in camp and is one of nature’s noblemen. Soon after her return Lily is ensnared by the wiles of an arch anarchist and all-round fiend. She even marries him but at that very crisis is rescued by Willy. Many are the adventures and hairbreadth escapes of both before their final reward.

* * * * *

+ =Bookm= 52:252 N ’20 360w

“The story is well told, but our hearts are not touched by the romance of the impossible hero and heroine.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 150w

“Mrs Rinehart gives us a very thrilling story, and a sense of disappointment with her method need not obscure the good points and readable character of this ‘novel with a purpose.’”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 200w

“The novel is alive and vigorous.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w

“The book is exceedingly timely. It states the problem between labor and capital fairly and proves the futility of mob violence. And it states it in the lives of very actual people.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w

“A story well worth reading.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).=[2] Truce of God. il *$1.50 Doran

20–21966

In the days of chivalry and when the church had decreed a “truce of God,” from Thursday of every week until Monday morning, during which time all fighting must cease, a young French overlord had put away his wife because she had borne him no son and because, heirless, upon his death his estates would fall to his cousin and arch enemy, Philip of the Black Beard. That the lady took refuge with this same Philip, enraged Charles still more. But it came to pass on a Christmas day that the truce of God entered the heart of Charles when he came to the castle of Philip in search of his runaway little daughter, Clotilde. As he goes to the bedside of his wife to ask her forgiveness he finds that a son has indeed this day been born to him.

* * * * *

“The story is told interestingly and with effective simplicity, and successfully reproduces the mediæval atmosphere; but the author leaves the impression of having put an undue strain upon plausibility in order to reach a desired conclusion.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 220w

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 370w

=RIPLEY, GEORGE SHERMAN.= Games for boys. il *$1.60 Holt 790

20–21483

A collection of games for players of the adolescent and post adolescent age. The compiler says: “Properly played games develop courage, initiative, generosity, cooperation, cheerfulness, loyalty, obedience, alertness and sense of honor,” and in selecting the games he has based his choice on these qualities. Contents: Circle games; Opposed line games; Tag games; Quiet games; Miscellaneous games; Relay and other races; Stalking and scouting games; Camp stunts and water sports; Mimetic setting-up exercises; Contest and exhibition events; Camping notes.

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+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 80w

=RISING, LAWRENCE.= She who was Helena Cass. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–17649

Jay Sefton, a rising young novelist, acted a novel when he constituted himself a secret detective to find Helena Cass, dead or alive. Three years previous, her mysterious disappearance had set two continents agog with rumors and surmises. Jay Sefton had once met her socially, been greatly impressed by her personality and now the fever of the search had entered his blood. In disconnected accounts the story pieces itself together, and clue follows upon clue, revealing the rich possibilities of an undisciplined impulsive young girl; her tragic side-step from the conventional path; her all but murder in a Spanish inn; her refuge in a convent; temporary return to a world that had known her; her second escape to the convent; her motherhood and her final discovery in a secluded rural retreat in Spain by Jay Sefton and his wooing of her.

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“It’s well told, too, with a slightly French touch and an intriguing style.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 200w

“From the standpoint of style the book is decidedly jerky. It possesses many faults, many inconsistencies, but we are obliged to remember that the author has subordinated everything to the weaving and unraveling of his mystery. The first is ably done, and the second is accomplished with commendable ingenuity.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 270w

“The novel is full of Latin color, some of the descriptive bits being powerfully photographic. All the characters are real and intensely individualized. The development of Helena Cass from a self-centred, selfish girl to a fine, broad, lovable character is a fine bit of psychological analysis.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 180w

“The book is full of Spanish color, and some of the descriptive passages are striking.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 140w

“The story is original, but its literary quality is not particularly good.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 110w

Reviewed by L. M. Robinson

=Pub W= 98:1196 O 16 ’20 320w

=RITCHIE, ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) lady (MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE).= From friend to friend. *$2.50 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–8889)

“‘From friend to friend,’ a little volume of recollections by Thackeray’s daughter, Lady Ritchie, edited by her sister-in-law, Emily Ritchie, has just been published. Lady Ritchie met many of the most interesting people in England in the course of her long life, which covered the period from 1838 to 1919, and in this little book she has ranged far back into the past and given glimpses of her father, of Tennyson and his wife, of Mr and Mrs Browning, of Adelaide Kemble and many others. There are anecdotes of Thackeray in his younger days, when he was beginning to write and wishing rather to paint, and later on when he was in the full tide of literary production.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 40w

“If at times, in spite of its delicate artistry, the narrative grows a little prim, there is usually a twinkle of humour to light it up again before many lines are past. Our old-world hostess is too skilful to let us get dull.”

+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 420w

=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 60w

“This little volume is slight but pleasing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w

“It is more enjoyable than many books of reminiscence. Lady Ritchie abounds in good-humor.”

+ =Review= 2:522 My 15 ’20 200w

“Lady Ritchie interests and amuses us without falling either into the distortions of malice, or the sentimentally which dwells on the ‘dear old days,’ and leaves us as cold as if we were listening to a canting preacher.”

+ =Sat R= 129:189 F 21 ’20 750w

“Charming little book.”

+ =Spec= 124:54 Ja 10 ’20 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 120w

“Lady Ritchie knew what was interesting and what was not; she lived intensely in her memories, and she can take her readers to live in them with her.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 8 ’20 1100w

=RITCHIE, ROBERT WELLES.= Trails to Two Moons. il *$1.75 (3½c) Little

20–17007

The story is of the Wyoming cattle country at the time when the struggle for existence was on between the cattle rangers and the sheep-raising homesteaders. Little by little the latter were encroaching upon the former’s grazing lands. Three figures stand out in the tale, Zang Whistler, the cattle-thieving outlaw, Original Bill Blunt, inspector for the Stockman’s alliance, and Hilma Ring, a sheepherder’s daughter, a dazzling but heartless beauty. A lonely life of hardship and struggle had cut her off from all femininity and hardened her heart. It is the taming of this shrew that tempts both Zang and Original. Amid killings and rough horse-play, during which Hilma has her fill of terror, loneliness and despair, nursing her hatred for Original, the latter’s character and power finally subdue and awaken the woman in her. Even Zang, whose wild career is but an offshoot of his inherent integrity, receives Hilma’s recognition of his loyalty and devotion.

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“The story possesses a sort of crude strength besides exciting incidents; its characters are fairly well individualized; its descriptions are vivid, and its fights colorful. However, we cannot say that the conversion of the heroine’s hate for the hero to love for him is convincing. The strings that pull the character hither and thither at this point of the story are altogether too evident.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 110w

“The story is ultra-romantic and the characters not essentially of flesh and blood—mere types and caricatures. But the setting in which the story occurs is painted so very vividly that it lends the air of reality to ‘Trails to Two Moons’ which the characters themselves and their vigorous actions lack.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 320w

=ROBBINS, CLARENCE AARON (TOD ROBBINS).= Silent, white and beautiful; and other stories. *$1.90 (3c) Boni & Liveright

Short stories by an author who makes a specialty of the gruesome. Contents: Silent, white and beautiful; Who wants a green bottle? Wild Wullie, the waster; For art’s sake. There is a preface by Robert H. Davis.

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“If these grotesque and morbid tales were just a bit better, they might even be great! But failing of greatness, they are so horrible as to be occasionally funny.”

− + =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 100w

“The horror of the truth in daily life is greater than the horror Mr Robbins seeks in his imaginative and improbable wanderings among murderers and spirits.” R. D. W.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 350w

“Genuine horror requires a certain inner logic, a subtle plausibility not discoverable in these stories.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 170w

“There is no doubt that he has an eerie fancy, great fertility of invention, and not a little psychological insight. But he is unequal to the point of eccentricity. Two of his four narratives, ‘Wild Wullie, the waster,’ and ‘Who wants a green bottle,’ are simply inept. ‘Silent, white and beautiful,’ on the other hand, has an original and strangely vivid central idea.”

+ − =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 230w

“Frankly tales of terror, built upon most improbable foundations, they would be revolting in the hands of a lesser artist.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w

“The author has dipped his pen in blood while steeping his literary ego in diablerie, and the outcome is a feast of melodrama and morbidity that leads logically to nightmare.”

− + =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w

=ROBERTS, CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON.= Poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821

20–1006

This collection of poems falls into three parts: Poems; The dark years; and Other poems. John Masefield writes a preface to the collection and says of the author: “When I think of the poems, I feel that he must be young; not young enough perhaps to have been carried away, or destroyed, by the recent great events, but young enough to see them clearly, to respond to them, and to realize that the tragedy of them has been the tragedy of the young, the blasting of the young, for the benefit and at the bidding of the old.... That, in the main, is the tragedy of Mr Roberts’ latest and best poems, in the volume here printed.” In another place he says of the poet: “He has a quick eye for characters, a lively sense of rhythm, and a fondness for people, which should make his future work as remarkable as his present promise.”

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“Will be liked by those who enjoy conventional poetry touching on a note of sadness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

“These labored verses move us not at all. The book is full of echoes and infelicitous imitations. The book, in short, is full of clichés of thought and phrase.” H: A. Lappin

− =Bookm= 51:213 Ap ’20 100w

“The experience which has made Mr Roberts ‘old’ to his friends, has by a curious paradox kept him gloriously young in his dreams and visions. These poems, even embedding such grim interludes as is represented by the ‘Charing cross’ poems, are the poems of youth; but of a youth who has been trebly stored with the ancient wisdom and ways of the world.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 24 ’20 2150w

“Delightful poems chiefly on Arcadian themes.”

+ |=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

=Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w

“It is not enough to be high-spirited, and warm-hearted, and quick-witted, and brave and sensitive—and this poet is all these. To feel splendidly is one thing, to shape the feeling another. Mr Roberts at present is apt to throw off his feeling into rhyme without due concentration, as though assuring us of his exuberance and bidding us be content with that.” J: Drinkwater

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w

“The many lyric poems are a flower-garden in which the reader can spend a long time, and to which he will want to return. Mr Roberts writes gracefully and melodiously, and is never elaborate or artificial.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 700w

=ROBERTS, RICHARD.= Unfinished program of democracy. *$2 Huebsch 321.8

(Eng ed 20–6572)

“‘The unfinished programme of democracy.’ by Dr Richard Roberts, readily divides itself into two parts: the first three chapters in which the author sets forth what he considers to be the causes of the present crisis in democracy, and the rest of the book in which he specifies in detail and supports with argument the measures and changes that would, in his view, fulfil the democratic ideal.” (Freeman). “The main lines of practical doctrine on which the discussion is conducted are—a national minimum and a secure standard of life universally enforced and provided for; the limitation of profits; the elimination of the ‘social parasite’; the economic independence of women; the abandonment of the dogma of ‘State sovereignty’ and the recognition in the organization of government of the geographical and the vocational unit; the growth of the spirit and practice of social fellowship; a democratic world knit by a federation of democratic nations.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“Mr Roberts’s work is one to be read and inwardly digested.”

+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 130w

=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

=Brooklyn= 12:125 My ’20 30w

“It is only the first part of the book, in which Dr Roberts states his social theory, that in the view of the writer of this note exposes itself to criticism.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant

+ − =Freeman= 1:428 Jl 14 ’20 1100w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

“The book is both refreshing and heartening and deserves a wide reading, not only for the soundness of its ideas but for the distinction and charm of its temper, and the vividness of its style.”

+ =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 620w

“He writes with force and charm; and he gives evidence of wide reading and of serious reflection. But when he comes to